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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That may be as close as we can come. You keep using the words "never feel the slightest need to challenge myself" as though you feel that's what I'm doing. But I don't consider what I do to be "challenging" myself. I consider it not limiting myself to what might have worked for me yesterday. I'm not the same person I was last week--let alone when I first starting reading. So why would I seek to live, behave, and read in a manner that would only appeal to a former version of myself?
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I don't exactly get what you're saying here. What do you mean by not limiting yourself? Seeking deliberately out books/genres/categories you dislike, because reading only your favorite genres is limiting? If so, then yeah, that kind of thinking is pretty alien to me. I don't generally feel the need to seek out things outside my comfort zone. Which doesn't mean that my comfort zone never changes - it does, and I may read or do something tomorrow I never did before. But I don't force myself to do it deliberately - it just happens when I feel I want to do it. As you said, organically, more or less, not deliberately.