Thursday, March 24, 2011

How to Love Reading?

Ever since a young age, I hated reading. I remember in elementary school when I told other to read for me during SSR. I also remember that I enjoyed buying books from Scholastic, but never read the books. I wasn't a terrible reader, I simply didn't enjoy it for some reason.

Reflecting back, it was probably the elementary school that I went tho. The teachers didn't really push for us to read so no one read. Going to a crappy elementary makes the world of difference. I really wish I read more.

Recently, I've been trying to read more, books and magazine, but even so, it's tough. I have so many magazine subscriptions and here's a list of them:

Wall Street Journal (newspaper every morning delivered)
ESPN
GQ
Men's Health
Wired (I think this expired)
Newsweek
Time Out New York

Of those, I barely skim through the pages. I have two outstanding books that I started but never finished. There's a stack of HBR articles at work as well as a library of WSJ under my table. I keep asking myself: How can I start reading all of this?!?! Inside me wants to, but when I pick up the material, I don't want to anymore.

Is there a way at this age to fall in love with reading? Is it too late to break bad habits? Dang, gotta find a way!

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