16th
Social Pressure So I Won’t Slack :: Competitive Reading Group
I am afraid of the giant slacker within me.
I’m so afraid of my capacity to slack that I set absurd, and often unrealistic, goals. One of those is trying to read 120 books a year or 20,000 pages a year.
Last year I only managed 56 books worth 12,522 pages. Not so great, at least, not what I was hoping for.
So a couple dear friends and I put our thinking-reading brains together and started a little competitive reading group. There are lots of rules (and we already have a “Holy Texts” ammendment), in fact, one of the people we invited to join us quit after reading the rules (not before asking if reading all the rules could count toward her page total).
Anyway, the 9 survivors from the first quarter have all posted their reading totals and it’s pretty impressive.
I’m in first place for books completed at 17 but in second place with 3,237 pages.
I got some real competition. Which isn’t a bad thing.
From January 23 (that’s when the competition started… it seriously took us 3 weeks to work out the rules) through March 31, the group of 9 managed to read (complete) 96 books worth 21,512 pages.
Not bad.
I’ll keep you posted on how this goes down and how it ends.
