100 Days!

[kareina]

Back in June of last year I realized that I was simply not making time to read geologic articles often enough, so I set myself the goal of reading 1,000 words a day, either in journal articles or text books, or other things related to my field of study. I managed that goal for 55 days, and then forgot to read one day, so I started over, and managed 28 days before forgetting again. The third time I managed 84 days before forgetting, and the fourth time a pitiful 12 days. Today marks the 100th day in a row of reading my 1,000 words this time around. I hope I can keep it up without forgetting to read again. It is amazing what a difference it has made in my understanding of the concepts I need for this PhD project, and it really doesn't take much time. Heck, if you only read 1,000 words at a sitting, it takes several days to finish a normal journal article. Fortunately, while I have set the goal to read at least that many words, it does often happen that I read more than the required amount!

Comments

[katerit.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a great plan for getting reading done and keeping up with important subject matter. I will have to adopt the technique.