I know I've been working pretty diligently at growing and becoming the best me I can be, but it recently hit me. One of the simplest things I can do I've not.
As a reader, books have really shaped who I am as a person. But I rarely step outside of my comfort zone of sci-fi/fantasy. Don't get me wrong, I do read other things every so often. But it is always fiction.
The last nonfiction book I read was for college. I've been out of college for... Almost four years now. Wait. No. I read Stephen King's On Writing a couple years back. But didn't finish it.
So each month this year, I plan to read a nonfiction book. Subject doesn't matter, although the first one is going to be a history book. On my Facebook, I recently asked people for their favorite choices and if I can get my hands on them, I'll likely read the options.
I do want to read a couple self help books, but there are so many I've no idea where to start. But I've got an idea I want to pursue with that (but I'll talk about that if I do actually wind up doing it).
It's such a simple way to break out of my shell and take a step out of my comfort zone, I've no idea why I haven't thought of it before.
If you have any suggestions of your favorite nonfiction book, please feel free to comment on here!
Until next time,
Shelby
I've been cruising through your blog, skimming your posts, and I smiled a bit because there's many aspects of you that remind me of me--the self-reflection, analyzing habits and approaches, exercise, dogs, self-experimentation to see the effects and what works best... I'd be interested in seeing what your personality type is.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, one of the nonfiction books I constantly return to is The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. I wasn't a fan of his other book, The 4-Hour Work Week, but that's mostly because I found him skeezy.
I've seen his books come in pretty consistently and keep meaning to pick one up to flip through at least.
DeleteI believe my Meyer-Briggs type is INFP. Or J. I can't remember which XD
What is yours?
I'm an ISTJ myself.
DeleteI find Tim Ferriss a bit full of himself in his books, but I do like all the self-experimentation he did with exercise and diet. I think the only other non-fiction books I keep going back to are writing related, such as Save the Cat!.