Why do you use 'reading goals'? I mean, counting how many books you read. Recently I got fed up of never reading books at all (studying for a PhD can do that to you) so I decided to approach things differently. I picked one book from my unread shelves, the book that called out to me, and now I'm reading it slowly from the front page on. Getting a lot from this book.
for accountability. i got burned out after undergrad from reading, as you did with your phd, so for the longest time i didn't read. and then i found every excuse in the book (ha) not to read because i was "busy". i made it a goal a couple years back to read twenty-four books in a year (even though i wasn't really reading that much, i was still buying books). i found that twenty-four books was a bit much, so i scaled it down to 12. i end up reading somewhere between the 12-24 each year now.
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1) as a way to push myself into reading as I love to do it but sometimes let other things take over and I want to give myself a reason to.
2) to act as a record of what I have read so that I can remember what I have read and why I did/didn’t enjoy it.
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