This article was written 2024/01/01
Happy New Year everyone! Today marks a very special day for me. I have officially been, for 2 full years, reading books every single day (No, not an entire book every single day). Whether it be fiction or not, it doesn’t matter. But this has been an important habit for me, and reaching 2 years without a miss feels like an important milestone to me. (It should have been longer, but unfortunately I got really sick two years ago on New Year’s Eve and couldn’t manage to read on that day).
So, why am I bringing this up? Well, I figured some of you might wonder if I’ll keep up with my photography challenge and keep taking pictures daily. Unfortunately, this is the end of that one for now, although I’ve definitely learned a lot from it (more posts to come regarding that). I’m still planning to take pictures on my own time, and maybe share them here, but I won’t continue with the daily challenge for now. In particular, I feel like it’s been negatively affecting my eyesight, likely due to my use of manual focus, thus often looking at an unfocused scene (whether or not I was aware of it).
But while I might not go on with the daily photography challenge, I’m still planning to have a daily challenge. For a while, I’ve been wanting to learn speed reading, and today feels like an appropriate day for this. I’m planning to spend some time everyday for the next few weeks following the guidelines of Tim Ferriss’ blog post on speed reading and see how I progress (Disclaimer, I know nothing of Tim Ferriss. This blog post was simply recommended to me as a good resource for speed reading). My daily plan is to:
- Measure and record my reading speed/comprehension with a site like swiftread.com
- Go through the 20 minutes exercise to practice speed reading
However, I don’t expect to need to make daily progress updates on this challenge, since it’ll mostly about gathering statistics. It might be a weekly update instead, giving me some time to catch up a bit with my December in Photography posts.
Take care everyone, and have a lovely new Year!