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What gets in the way of your reading?
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Jul 15, 2023 06:27AM
checking Goodreads for notifications, annoying people who talk while I'm reading, friends
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Watching videos on YouTube and TikTok on books lol
school, family, procrastination, and mostly pinterest
work, long tv series that I have to binge, phone notifications and mood
phone, school, family,sleep,food,pee,noise,mood, headache
studies, assignments, sleep, classes, extracurricular activities, phone... most importantly my roommates ;(
work, school/studies , sleep, chores......*sigh..*
University! And stress because I have so many unread books and books that I'm currently like halfway through and that stresses me even though I did it to myself :)
A reading slump. Unfortunately, I've been in one for a little while now.
A reading slump, I was in grad school and working so at the end of the day I just wanted to collapse and not read anything lol
literally everything, school, hw, work, tv shows, and currently in a reading slump :(
My brothers sports games, school, drawing, watching TV
Just life and the inability to keep a steady reading regime.
My pet demon
school, life, no motivation to actually read even tho I want to
Exams, assignment deadlines, and family
WOW I only just got back into Goodreads because I can't login to my original account (moved countries and lost phone number)...I had no idea how many people commented! Thank you all :)
Since posting, we've been working on an app to help cultivate lasting reading habits. The idea is to help you build a personalised plan based on the behavioural science and implement via the app.
We're testing it atm, if you want to try it out (free) then can sign up here: https://forms.gle/Bz4mgEDA3WEZ87UB9
We've coded it ourselves (and taught ourselves how to a few months ago) so its not a professional app yet!
Jasmine wrote: "school, life, no motivation to actually read even tho I want to"I am interested to hear more in terms of no motivation despite wanting to. Do you find when you get to reading it feels boring?
One of the things we've tested out that worked really well for people is starting tiny. So instead of trying to read for 30mins, just open your book.
It is building the habit of showing up. What really matters is also getting the right cue to remind you to read at the appropriate time.
I find that environmental cues are best, like putting something in the environment that reminds me to read. Generally, the more out of place the object, the better it works. For example, to build a habit of doing cold showers, I left a wine bottle in my shower. Because it is so out of place, I saw it each morning, and it reminded me.
ryley wrote: "I love books and reading in general but at times I get caught up in watching book based videos or TikTok’s and never actually read books 😐 I’m currently working on getting myself back to reading at..."It is worth trying starting a lot smaller and getting consistent on a small reading habit that builds.
Choosing the right book that you enjoy reading of course is helpful too! But we've found what mattered most was starting really small but regularly, then building.
So for example, we had 3 groups of 30 people who didn't read at all but wanted to. The habit they did was opening their book, after 3 weeks 90% of them were reading on average 30 minutes a day. The habit just snowballed...to our surprise as well!
6 months on, we checked in, they are all still reading their desired amount but stick to the habit of simply opening their book on their low motivation days so that the habit of showing up doesn't disappear
raichu wrote: "my phone.. it js distracts me 😭"Have you tried putting it on black & white mode. You can schedule it so each day it goes into a black & white colour, which makes every app feel a lot more boring and so reduces the stimulation of being on the phone.
Equally putting on auto focus mode or do not disturb to remove notifications and noises helps a lot :)
My phone as well. I look at yt shorts and book memes thinking I'll only be on there for 5 minutes then im on there for a freakin hour! TnT (But also school ;-;)
When people are texting me and also school work/studying >:/
whatever song is playing in my head non-stop at the moment
School. Sleep. Homework. Family. People wanting to be social with me
When I try to read the book but I need to change the music every time to make the scene more alive LOLLL
Teaching and other noise in the house (TV, music, etc.)
seizure clusters + brain fog + visual snow + short attention span
I’m usually busy with many other things, but realize reading should always have a place. Maybe I’ll try devoting to it at least 1 hour per day.
