December 2018 – Belle Can Read

A couple months ago,

I got tired about moaning about being in a book slump and complaining about how far behind I was on my reading goals. Around that time, booktuber Ariel Bissett released a video entitled “i tried reading before bed every day for a week” where she conducted an “experiment” with three rules:

At 10 P.M., she had to put her phone away and read.
It didn’t matter what she read—she could read anything.
After finished reading for the night, she could not go back on her phone.

She claimed that she had “forgot how to read consistently” and hoped that following the three rules for a week would help her develop that habit again. Watching the video and hearing about her positive results from the experiment inspired me to recreate it for myself. I ended up taking the trial a step further by adding a fourth rule:

4. Instead of using social media to pass time when I was killing time (i.e. standing in line, waiting for a teacher to show up, etc.), I had to read.

By the end of the week, I successfully achieved the objective of reading consistently every night, but not without making a few adjustments.

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