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| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
It strikes me as the wrong reason to be reading. If you're making yourself read or you're becoming sick of reading or you're simply not doing it because you genuinely enjoy it then you're approaching it from the wrong angle. Books are not a chore.
Besides, people who read lots of conceptual non-fiction or "proper" literature because they think they're supposed to are pretentious and probably insecure about their intelligence. |
I see what you mean now. But I think this is a different thing altogether. You can see something as a vessel for self-improvement while genuinely enjoying it, or in fact it can be so specifically because you enjoy it. You could apply that logic to other kinds of hobbies that have potentially productive outcomes. For example, you have people who work out alot because they have a passion for a particular sport which they see as a means of improving themselves. Likewise you have people who will perform the exact same workout routine because they think they have to, and suffer through every minute of it.
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