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Why I Hate Reading Research Paper

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"I HATE Reading!"

I have yelled, whispered, written and even thought this simple sentence a million times in my life. For as long as I could remember, I've always hated reading.

I hated reading assignments, books from school, books mom made you choose from the library... I hated reading anything.

Why?

It was a waste of time.

I craved experiences and figuring things out on my own. Reading got in the way of that. So I did my best to avoid reading as much as possible. But it wasn't easy, the older I got the harder it was to get around reading.

You see, my mom used to quiz me on the books I had to read for school. I often thought I could flip through it, and from looking at the pictures, and headlines figure out the story enough to answer …show more content…

Sometimes two or three different books at a time. Not to mention blogs, e-books, audiobooks and anything else I can get my hands on.

All of a sudden, I can't get enough.

What Made the Difference?

At first I didn't know what caused my desire to start reading. I honestly thought I had just found a couple books and blogs that I enjoyed reading and that it would stop there. But it didn't. I kept craving more. That's when I realized. It wasn't the books, or the authors style of writing.

I wanted to learn and even more so I wanted to grow. I was tired of being the same old me. I was tired of doing the same things expecting different results. I realized that as smart as I thought I was, I couldn't think my way through everything. I had to enlarge my knowledge base. I had to learn about different perspectives and broaden my own. Basically, I needed some new ideas and found them every time I opened a book.

As I became more engrossed in reading, I also learned that many of the great people in history were avid readers. Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt were all avid readers. Roosevelt is known for reading a book a day when he was busy, and 2-3 books a day during his downtime. Even Barack Obama is a veracious …show more content…

I also joined a few online book clubs, just to get suggestions for books to read. One of my favorites is Ryan Holiday's Reading Recommendation List, it's completely free.

Every month Ryan posts an update about the books he read and recommends that month. I also write down books that are mentioned in other books, and add them to my list. So inevitably, when I check off a book from that list, I add several more, never making any headway on the list, but that excites me.

It lets me know that there is always more to learn, more to gain, more to be added to my life.

In all likelihood, the list will never stop growing. But it’s not something that has to be accomplished. It’s something to experience, to take in, digest, and explore through your own eyes. I now believe there is something to be taken from each book. Something that can be applied to your life, either as something to embrace and weave into your personal fabric or something that perhaps you see in yourself that needs to be eliminated for a better you. Or perhaps the book just offers another opinion, a different angle on a question, event, or experience for you to consider to broaden your

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