66 days to learn to love reading again: ‘Ten pages in and my brain is twitching with fatigue’
How long does it take to change a habit? It varies, but one paper suggests it takes an average of 66 days. We asked writers to change one thing in their lives within that timeframe … and tell us if it works
There was a time in my life that reading books felt as enjoyable and obvious as coffee in the morning. I lugged bags full of books across continents, read on friends’ couches, in bed, at cafes, in parks and on every sort of transport you could think of.
Then came children, social media, the smart phone and – the final death blow to my once robust bibliophilia – the pandemic. I hardly noticed it happening in real time but before I knew it my fractured attention had been spread so thin, it simply couldn’t bear the weight of even the easiest of reads in print.
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