Goodreads toxicity is a real thing
Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images As a kid, I could tear through tens of books every month. Today, at age 23, I struggle to find the time and motivation to sit down and actually read a book cover to cover.
Halimah Begum from London, the literature editor of The Everyday magazine, gets it. “Tracking my reading does motivate me to read more, particularly because I find it quite satisfying to watch the percentage of what I have read go up. But there is definitely a downside to it,” she says. “I am often worrying and pressuring myself to read more so that I can keep up with my reading goal, which at the moment is 60 books for the year, and so far I’ve read two.
I can definitely identify with that — as in, sometimes I find myself scrolling back through my step counts from months ago to just, like, see how far I walked on October 18. I did 20k steps! I shouldn’t really care, but looking back does instill some sense of pride in those morsels of achievement. The social aspect of apps like Goodreads doesn’t help. While it can create a sense of camaraderie to have the same interests as your friends, or have a channel to share recommendations with like-minded people, it can also add to the pressures to hit a certain goal.
“When it comes to relaxing hobbies and goals, it’s important to ask whether or not the goals support or get in the way of the intended relaxation,” says Villegas. “If the goals or intentions encourage you to prioritize time to do the hobby you enjoy, it may be worth keeping them. If the goals add unnecessary stress to the hobby you’re doing for fun, it’s time to reconsider them.”
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