Sem break's gonna come to an end and halfway through my reading challenge this year, I discover within myself that to make reading more interesting and enriching. I don't recommend this way for people who only got started to cultivate a reading habit though since to adopt a long-term habit, it must be an enjoyable experience till the end so at early stage, stick to the readings that won't keep your eyes away.
However, after a considerable amount of books, I do believe that we need to have a change of pace to keep the reading's culture alive, that is to read books that dive outside our interest pool. Why? Because new things excites our mind. If we only read the same type of book, it's like living the same dull routine of daily life, it may seems different with each piece but we may sooner pick up the gist of the rest of the story. A beginner's mind always gets motivated because he is experiencing new things, not things he already knew.
I'm only suggesting to switch to another genre every once in a while between books that of your interest, not to drop them down completely. My interest mainly caught up in Psychology and Philosophy, but I have benefited so much with other genres such as Sci-fi, Biographies, Classics and History to make each read feels much more meaningful.
In the history of knowledge, if we never challenge or question the current ones that we already knew from different perspective, how do we suppose to expand our understanding of the world and come to what we have achieve today? I believe it's the same with ourselves, we won't know what else might interest us unless we took the first leap into the ambiguity and explore it.
Forrest Gump said "My momma always said, Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." I think re quote it by replacing 'Life' with 'Book' conveys the same importance.
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