Set your summer reading goals

Life Kit

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🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Trying to read more can be a hard habit to stick to. If you want to read more, try setting a goal to get you motivated. To make a goal that works for you — consider setting a genre or page count goal rather than just counting the number of books you read.

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0:00.0	Last year, over 20,000 people joined the body electric study to change their sedentary screen-filled lives.
0:07.5	And guess what?
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0:20.3	You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.
0:27.0	Hey what's up everyone.
0:30.2	Andrew Limbaugh here and from Mary El Segera. I swear this is not a shameless plug but I write the NPR
0:36.4	Books newsletter and you know every week we chit chat about books and reading and all that fun stuff.
0:41.1	Now back in January I asked people to write in
0:44.5	about their reading goals for the year,
0:46.8	because the type of person who reads a book's letter from NPR
0:51.1	is probably also the type of person to have reading goals.
0:55.2	And we got a lot of responses about either wanting to read some classic books that they never
0:59.4	got around to or reading more non-fiction.
1:02.0	I mean, most folks just wanted to read more. But none of
1:06.7	those goals really mean anything if you're not working towards them, right?
1:10.4	NPR's Monzi Karano wrote a piece for NPR about how to set a reading goal, one that you can actually
1:16.9	accomplish, which is what we're going to cover on this episode of Life Kit.
1:20.7	Moncie's on the pot to talk about her piece and our conversation got more existential than I thought
1:26.3	it would because it's more than just about reading.
1:29.2	It's about how we treat our hobbies, how they serve us, and what's the line between a healthy
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