Book Reading: The dip curve

I don’t know why it happens like this: Whenever I read a book, I just get stopped after 1 or 2 chapters maximum. I don’t read it till the end.

There are various reasons for this:

1) Sometimes, I don’t find it interesting enough. Ex: by Scott Adams
2) I don’t read it with the purpose. I just pick it up when I feel a certain feeling, not to complete it.
3) I don’t have any fix schedule in my day when I have to just read the book.
4) And my book reading pattern is also a lot like Dip Curve, first I got excited, read up to 1-2 chapters with excitement, then it gets boring and I quit at this moment and stop reading it.

Dip Curve
Dip Curve

It’s all because of shiny object syndrome.

I have to fix all of these. I want to and as well as I have to read the book.

So, what can be done?

First of all, find out the books that you find interesting enough to read. Below are some of the names:

1) The elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler, and Robin Hanson
2) Indistractable by Nir Eyal
3) The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
4) What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works by Ram charan

Here are a few of the steps I’m taking to solve this problem:

1) Fixing a time of my daily life to just read. It will be in between my learning and implementing tasks, in breaks. 1 hour a day. Current book: Indistractable.

2)Log your feeling before reading the book: Why you wanna read the book?

Why Indistractable? One reason: I want to discover more about why we use digital gadgets like crazy. I believe it’s not the problem of digital gadgets, It’s problem at our side. We can not manage to control and acknowledge our emotions,moods, and feelings like boredom, overwhelmed and we end up using the smartphone to hide or override them which essentially accumulates this problem more.

3) Log your feeling during reading books: Is the book serving that purpose? Or the writer is just exaggerating to convert the blog post into a book?

I will update it as I will read it.

Let’s see how it goes and feels free to contact me if you also face this problem and looking forward to discussing it or if you’ve found this article useful.