Having resolved to not obtain any new books for the first half of 2015, I’m keeping a list of topics I’ll want to read about. I can curate this list, removing topics I lose interest in, or which are satisfied elsewhere in the interim, and come July I should be left with a list comprising only of subjects I’m sufficiently motivated to study.
I’m not sure six months is the best level of granularity for this, but that could just be my impatience talking.
A related observation, now I’m not distracted by whichever new book tickles my fancy, is that many of the books I’ve been putting off reading are books I’m very keen to read, but was somehow intimidated by.
Having resolved to not obtain any new books for the first half of 2015, I’m keeping a list of topics I’ll want to read about. I can curate this list, removing topics I lose interest in, or which are satisfied elsewhere in the interim, and come July I should be left with a list comprising only of subjects I’m sufficiently motivated to study.
I’m not sure six months is the best level of granularity for this, but that could just be my impatience talking.
A related observation, now I’m not distracted by whichever new book tickles my fancy, is that many of the books I’ve been putting off reading are books I’m very keen to read, but was somehow intimidated by.