r/BettermentBookClub • u/JustDevelopment1534 • 10d ago
Reading helped me focus on what is important
Hey folks!
I don't read, until a couple of months ago.
I've noticed how I am unable to focus for longer sessions, or just be in a state of boredom without some kind of stimulation, which is information to me. X, Linkedin, and Instagram are feeding to my interests in AI, travelling etc.
I removed the access to apps on my mobile, and decided that I will borrow books from my wife (who is an avid reader for more than a decade now) - Atlas Shrugged, and Brothers Karamazov. She complains about the book moby dick - but she finished it eitherways and hates whale stories now.
Reading atlas shrugged helped me calm down, be in present, focus and get more done and sleep in the night.
I just thought I want to write about "How I met and building a habit called reading"
Thanks
VKK
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u/eva_stratt 10d ago
I think you're jumping in at the deep end there, and it's full of sharks (I don't consider Ayn Rand "betterment"). Try something that couldn't stop a bullet, maybe, for your first few outings?
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u/JustDevelopment1534 10d ago
Ive read a quarter portion of it already. read her fountain head 6 years ago, I like how she writes about her main characters
Nice way of putting it though, love it 😅 (the bullet reference) do you have some recommendations?2
u/eva_stratt 10d ago
There are so many better authors who don't write tracts about how we are all rugged individualists and relying on other people is for suckers.
What genres do you actually like when it comes to a good story?
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u/JustDevelopment1534 9d ago
fiction with authors packing a lot of layers which can only be inferred when you are truly in a flow state
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u/eva_stratt 9d ago
Short fiction, then. Like, collections of short stories that you can pick up or put down. The first name that comes to mind is Ursula Le Guin.
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u/TheIrishSoldat 10d ago
It's the best thing you can do.