ruby_jones•28d agoMost Upvoted

Heard a guy at the library say he reads one page a day and it blew my mind

I was at the downtown library last Tuesday waiting for my hold to come in and overheard this older guy tell a friend he reads exactly one page from a textbook every single morning. He said after six months he had finished a 180 page book on soil chemistry or something. I always thought you needed to sit down for an hour to get anything done with reading. Now I'm trying it with a history book I've been avoiding and I'm actually getting through it. Anybody else use tiny habits like this that actually work?

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mark43627d ago

A buddy of mine tried doing one page of a novel each night before bed and somehow after three months he had finished the whole thing. He told me that the trick wasn't the page itself, it was that some nights he'd read two or three because he got curious. And other nights he'd just close the book after that one page and feel good about it. So I guess if you get hooked you might push past it naturally, like that pushup guy could have gotten there anyway.

knight.dylan28d ago

Honestly, I tried this with pushups once and after a year I could barely do five in a row because I never actually pushed past that one rep. Consistency is great but you gotta sometimes double the page to build real momentum.

miller.rowan28d ago

Hang on, is reading one page a day really that big of a deal? People are acting like this guy just cracked the code to life or something. It's a page, not a miracle. Seems like common sense more than some groundbreaking strategy. Maybe we're just overthinking how to read a book.