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New author
calm growth 20 min +45 XP
Start book by author you've never read
Why this matters
Every author you haven't read is a way of thinking you don't have yet.
What to do
Take an author you've never read, and preferably not the fashionable one: ask a friend whose taste differs from yours, or pull something off a library shelf. Read for twenty minutes from the beginning, without skipping to the middle. Give the book at least twenty pages before deciding, the first pages almost always feel foreign. Mark one sentence you liked, with a pencil or a bookmark. If after twenty pages it still won't go, put it down without guilt and take a different author. Decide whether you'll keep reading, and put the why in one line.
Afterwards
How long has it been since I read something nobody recommended to me?
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