Sometimes reading can look like clearly a thick forest with a handyman's cutlass.
I mean... that's torture in disguise.
The eminence of the green trees will automatically caution you to a deep slump except you're reading for the right reasons.
Right reasons?
Well, yeah. Some folks read books because of FOMO (fear of missing out).
Doesn't that sound rad?
Probably not.
The fear of missing out is the feeling of anxiety and uneasiness around missing out on information, events, or experiences.
It has become increasingly common and can cause serious stress.
If it can affect just about anyone, it can affect readers too.
Readers that experience FOMO read books under stress and anxiety, this is anti-health and not learning-friendly because it affects overall wellness which eventually leads to a lack of motivation, fatigue, burnout, and performance issues.
The books begin to look like thick forests, your energy becomes quantum and then you slump but when FOMO and its look-alikes are absent, you take the forest one step at a time.
We've been there at a point in our lives, in a slump just fantasizing about reading and not reading at all.
But hey,
These ideas can get you out of a reading slump
1. One of the basic ways of getting out of a slump is reading your favorite book again.
2. Asking for recommendations that have been vetted by people you respect and admire can get you back on track.
3. Join a book club: A community can encourage reading again but make sure to read from a place of motivation and not FOMO.
4. Create time for reading: this makes your reading goal oriented and triggers the energy that brings about achievements.
5. Go audiobooks: you can replace reading with sight for reading with ears. Listening to someone read for you can nourish your reading again.
6. Try a new genre
7. Read somewhere new: trying out a new location can awaken the reading spark.
8. Get off reading for a while. Take a break and do something fun or different at your usual reading time when reading starts causing you stress. Take a walk, engage in family time, do sports, try a new recipe, anything at all then try reading afterward.
9. Try reading graphical contents.