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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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.
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Perhaps you should start by not using words that I'm not saying/typing? Focus hard on what I'm saying rather that what you seem to want hear?
I would never seek out something I dislike. What would be the point? Rather, I often seek out something I have no idea whether I'm going to like or not. That's not the same thing. And if take a chance and don't like something, I have no qualms about dropping it like a hot potato. I'm not into self-torture at all.
And again: I did not use the words "
outside of my comfort zone". I said I'm open to the notion that my comfort zone
may have expanded. Can you really not tell the difference between what I'm saying and what you're thinking I'm saying?
Once again, you seem to have attributed to yourself, the exact same things I've said about myself. But with the aggravating habit of suggesting that I said something else.
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
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.
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I'm pretty sure we're saying the exact same thing.
I'm not "forcing" anything either. I think I just might "feel I want to do it" more often than you do. And since when is "when I feel I want to do it" not deliberate, anyway??