What to Do If You Hate Reading Was Sie tun können, wenn Sie das Lesen hassen Qué hacer si odias leer Que faire si vous détestez lire ? O que fazer se detestar ler 讨厌阅读怎么办 如果你討厭讀書怎麼辦

- I've got a question from a reader a few days ago - Recebi uma pergunta de um leitor há alguns dias

that I really want to address.

I really want to read more books,

but I dislike reading.

What do I do?

And as somebody who definitely enjoys reading,

but also who has gone through periods of life mas também que passou por períodos de vida

where reading hasn't been the biggest thing

that I want to do, I wanted to address this question,

especially since the answer is very simple,

and very easy.

First thing you're gonna want to do is read

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kaheman.

It's a very, very light, easy breezy read, É uma leitura muito, muito leve, fácil e descontraída,

only about 497 pages of research findings,

and after that you're gonna want to follow things up y después de eso querrás seguir las cosas

with The Owner's Manual for the Brain

by Pierce J. Howard Phd.

Again, an easy read, only about 1,097 pages,

and once you read these two books,

you're going to understand your brain,

and you're going to be able to change it on command, e vai poder alterá-lo à vontade,

and just tell yourself to like reading.

Sound good?

Alright, video over. Muy bien, video terminado.

Okay.

I do kind of wish that I could end the video like that, Gostava de poder acabar o vídeo assim,

because it would be pretty funny.

But as it turns out, Mas, ao que parece,

I do have some actual tips that will be helpful

if you want to become the kind of person who likes to read,

or at least the kind of person

who doesn't absolutely dislike reading,

and who can get through the occasional book once in a while. e que consegue ler um livro ocasional de vez em quando.

So let's get into it. Então, vamos a isso.

So the first thing that I want to mention here,

which is something that comes from

my own personal experience,

is that reading is a habit that gets easier to do, é que a leitura é um hábito que se torna mais fácil de fazer,

and more pleasant to do the more you do it.

A couple of years ago,

I made a bet with my friend Martin

that I was gonna read 25 pages a day,

every single day for three entire months,

and to really force myself to stick to this bet. e forçar-me realmente a manter esta aposta.

I told him I was gonna give him $100

if I failed to read those 25 pages even once,

and during the first month.

Sticking to that goal was difficult. Cumprir esse objetivo foi difícil.

And the threat of losing that money,

and being embarrassed was my main motivator,

but about a month into the challenge,

I started to notice something profound,

which was that I found it easier to start reading,

and I also found it easier to keep reading for longer,

and longer periods of time.

So I discovered through this challenge,

that reading is very akin to working out actually. que ler é muito semelhante a fazer exercício físico.

When you start doing it, it's very tiring.

It's exhausting, it's not a lot of fun,

but when you get into the habit of doing it, mas quando se adquire o hábito de o fazer,

it gets easier to do,

and it gets more enjoyable.

That being said,

I'm not just gonna leave you off of the tip

to brute force a reading habit a la fuerza bruta un hábito de lectura para forçar um hábito de leitura

by making a bet with a friend,

because there are definitely some other things you can do,

one of which being to start with material

that's easier to get through,

and I do have a few suggestions.

So on the really easy end of things are comic books, No lado mais fácil das coisas estão as bandas desenhadas,

and stick with me, y quédate conmigo,

even if you're not typically into comic books,

because these can really help you get into

the habit of reading overall.

Comic books are number one,

usually very easy to finish in one sitting.

And issue of a comic book is not very long.

And because of all the art on the page,

there's really not a whole lot of room for a ton of text.

Now if you walk into your average comic store, Agora, se entrarmos numa loja de banda desenhada normal,

you're gonna see a lot of stuff on the shelves,

and you're probably not going to know where to start.

So let me give you a couple of recommendations here.

First, and foremost, Primero y ante todo,

I'm gonna recommend the Avatar Last Airbender comic series,

which actually pick up right where the series left off. que en realidad continúa justo donde terminó la serie. que, na verdade, começa exatamente onde a série parou.

Avatar is one of my favorite TV shows of all time.

If you haven't watched it, you probably should.

And the comic series

is just as good as the television series,

so that would be a great place to start.

Also, there was an app called Comixology,

which I believe is owned by Amazon now,

and they have a ton of different comics for Marvel,

DC, Dark Horse, lots of Manga as well.

And one thing that I discovered after I went,

and watched Alita Battle Angel in the theaters,

and wanting to read the Manga afterwards,

is that you can get a free 30 day trial with basically

unlimited reading,

without even putting a credit card into the app.

So that's a great way to at least start doing things.

You didn't have to go to a comic book store,

and buy paper comics.

You can just read them on your computer,

and that can get you into the habit of reading.

You don't even have to stick with comics afterwards. Depois, nem sequer é preciso ficar com a banda desenhada.

It just builds that habit.

Now, if comics just aren't your thing,

there are definitely other options out there

that don't come with a whole lot of pictures,

one of which being short story anthologies. uno de los cuales son antologías de cuentos.

So one of the things that I have found has been

sort of a roadblock

to getting back into my reading habit at times,

is the fact that books are usually very long.

And if I stop in the middle of a book,

I often feel like I have to go back,

and read the entire thing again

just to figure out where I was,

and that can be discouraging.

So the great thing about short story anthologies

is that again, you can sit down,

and you can usually finish an entire story in one sitting.

And that feeling of accomplishment,

that feeling of sitting down,

and finishing something can encourage you

to keep reading in the future.

Now just as with comics, Tal como acontece com a banda desenhada,

there are a ton of short story anthologies out there,

and you might not know where to start.

So I do want to give you at least one recommendation

in this video,

and that is going to be for the anthology called Rogues,

which was edited by George RR Martin,

and which actually contains a brand new

Game of Thrones story alongside other stories

by authors like Patrick Rothfuss, and Neil Gaiman.

And again, just like with comics,

treat these as an entry point tratá-los como um ponto de entrada

to building your reading habit.

You don't have to always stick to short story anthologies, Não é necessário limitar-se sempre às antologias de contos,

or comic books.

They can just get you back into that daily habit

of reading books, and then you can move on to bigger,

and possibly better things,

one of which would be fiction books that are still novels,

but that are written for easier consumption.

So the one book that comes to mind for this tip

is The Hunger Games,

because a few years ago

I remember reading an article by the blogger,

Jeff Goins about why the hunger games was so successful.

And one of his main arguments

is that the book uses very short packed sentences. es que el libro usa oraciones empaquetadas muy cortas. この本は非常に短い文章を使用しているということです。

It doesn't use crazy frilly prose. No utiliza prosa loca con volantes.

It's kind of written for today's Está algo escrito para hoy.

more easily distractable audience.

Here's just a quick snippet

of what he said about her writing.

Collins writes short sentences that pack a punch. Collins escribe oraciones cortas que tienen un gran impacto.

They are disturbingly terse,

like a Hemingway novel. como una novela de Hemingway.

This way of writing builds the suspense,

which works perfectly with the culture

addicted to constant interruptions.

Now, some people might interpret that as a criticism

against her writing, but I see it a little bit differently.

Yes, it's not the most amazing pros ever written.

It's not war, and peace.

But Suzanne Collins knows her audience,

and she knows that choosing to write in this way

is gonna help them get through the books more clearly,

and keep coming back for more,

and to a somewhat lesser degree. y en un grado algo menor.

I've noticed this in the books that I've had an easier time

getting through as well.

For example, I binge read the entire Miss Bourne series Por ejemplo, leo en exceso toda la serie Miss Bourne

by Brandon Sanderson, and while that series is amazing,

the writing is little less complex

than other series like The Name of the Wind

by Patrick Rothfuss,

or especially anything by Neil Stevenson,

both authors that I really, really enjoy,

but who have had a little bit of a harder time getting into

than with Sanderson's work.

Now, I do want to stress that I'm not advocating you avoid

more complex books, but if you are the kind of person

who believes that you dislike reading,

or the kind of person who has been out of the habit

of doing it for a while,

starting with easier, or more digestible books is again,

a way of building that habit, building that base,

and once you have that base,

then you can branch out into the more difficult material,

and in addition to that more difficult material,

realize that you could also branch out

into areas that you don't think at first glance are for you.

For instance, young adult novels,

or middle grade fiction novels.

I remember a few years ago I was on goodreads.com,

and I noticed that Patrick Rothfuss,

the author of The Name of The Wind,

and Wise Man's Fear had reviewed,

and given five stars to a children's book called

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship

of Her Own Making,

and due to his positive view, I went and read the book,

which I found to be fantastic.

I also found it to be full of a lot of vocab words

that I did not understand,

so not quite sure how this made it

into the children's categorization,

but that should just be more evidence

that books that are considered to be for children,

or for teenagers might be for you as well.

The categorization is to help people who are in those groups

to find more things that they might like to read,

or that might be at their level,

but it is not meant to exclude people

who are outside of those groups.

So from all that,

I want to move on to talking about something

which may potentially have killed your love of reading

at an early age,

and you might be able to guess what it is,

because it's school.

I remember back when I was in high school,

I used to have English classes,

and composition classes,

and reading classes where I was assigned reading,

sometimes fiction reading where we were assigned

specific chapters every single week.

And were actively discouraged from reading ahead.

Now I get what the teachers were trying to do.

They were trying to keep the entire class at the same pace.

But here's the thing, Pero aquí está la cosa,

if you have 50 kids in the classroom,

not every single one of them is going to fit

into this same exact specific mold

for how they should learn to read.

And yes,

we should be teaching people how to read analytically,

how to critically think.

But more importantly we should be teaching

a love of reading.

So if your experiences in school made you kind of

not like reading like they did for me in certain cases,

then realize that there are other ways of reading,

and the the way they force you to read in school

isn't the way that you have to read yourself.

So give it a try again.

And one last, but important tip that I want to share here,

which I think is gonna apply to a lot of you,

because it definitely applies to me,

and it definitely applies to my best friend Martin,

who helped me write this video,

is to ditch your TBR, your to be read list, es deshacerse de su TBR, su lista para ser leído,

if it is becoming an obligation.

I know that on many occasions in the past,

I have seen a really interesting book

on the bookstore Shelf, or a library shelf,

and thought, I really want to read that,

but I've already got a bunch of books on my to be read list

over on good reads that I got to read first.

So I dutifully put that book on the bottom of the list,

and then proceed to, of course never read it.

So instead of doing that,

instead of holding yourself to this really

nonessential obligation to go through books,

and the order in which you discovered them,

follow your interest,

if something looks really interesting right now,

then pursue it, read that book now, 그런 다음 그것을 추구하고 지금 그 책을 읽고

and go to the TBR later. 나중에 TBR로 이동하십시오.

Don't put it at the bottom. 바닥에 두지 마십시오.

You have to remember that interest

is really tied up in emotion, está realmente atado a la emoción,

and emotions are really tied up in the moment,

and it's kind of a delusional belief y es una especie de creencia delirante

to think that you can just put a book on a to be read list,

and conjure that same level of interest,

that same level of emotional attachment later on

when you get down to that position on the list.

So realize that while the TBR concept

is not inherently bad thing,

and that it can be useful in some circumstances,

it can really hinder your emotional attachment

to things that you are interested in right now,

and if that's the case,

then you should probably ditch it at least temporarily.

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