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View submission: Drop Everything And Read: Week 1
Day 7 (I made it!)
Date: 28 March 2018, Wednesday
Time: 7:00am to 8:00am
Book: Brain Rules for Baby by John Medina (43% to 49%)
This reading session, though an hour long, didn't cover so many pages, because I kept on taking photos of the book pages and underlining them and sending them to my friends. I'm not sure if that's breaking the rules, but if this "cheating" halves your time as penalty, then I'm still good for 30 minutes.
This kind of book (non-fiction, packed with science) also doesn't lend itself well to a breezy read. I found myself flipping back to re-read to review the key points of the chapter. Making notes on Goodreads also helped. I just try to pretend someone just asked me "so what's it about?" and I try to ELI5 it to them. I think that really helps for me to remember and process the info.
At the end of the (reading) week I was starting to feel lazy and I considered declaring a rest day for reading, but maybe I'll just allow myself a low read day.
What I learned about myself through this activity: 20 minutes is doable most days. Then on the days I can just do 10 minutes, that small something is still better than nothing. It also helps to have a few books which I can cycle through, just to mix it up and prevent myself from feeling like it's assigned reading.
There's nothing here!