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People who can’t finish a book they aren’t enjoying aren’t lacking discipline, they’ve quietly figured out that the years remaining are shorter than the years behind, and finishing things out of obligation has stopped feeling like virtue
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To the person doing it, it feels closer to arithmetic.
Finishing a book you aren’t enjoying, purely so you can say you finished it, is extrinsic motivation at its purest.
A bad book isn’t just a bad book.
But on a Saturday afternoon, alone with a book that isn’t working, the reflex has nowhere to hide.
The quiet partPeople who can finally put down a book they aren’t enjoying are not, mostly, people who have gotten worse at commitment.