The Reasons to Always Finish Reading a Book
The small everyday triumphs that matter
The Count of Monte Cristo is a massive book. It is also a masterpiece. Many of us will pick it up and throw in the towel halfway through. It will go to join the other books with the remaining dog-eared pages at the bottom of the shelf.
Much like the half-finished books lying around, other remnants of started but never completed plans and projects litter the room and so fill the empty spaces of your mind.
The follow-through is wanting.
The consequences of failing to fulfill a project to its end might appear self-evident; indeed, it might well be a pattern that repeats itself in other areas of your life. But might a change in everyday behavior transform this pattern into something better? So allow me to introduce an analogy: A person has a choice each time they routinely run around their local park:
- Choose to run down the hill.
- Choose to run up the hill.
- Choose to do something different.
Generally, each of these systems demands a different level of effort respectively:
- Least Effort
- Most Effort
- Creative Effort
