The "disgustingly well read" trend won't make you well read.
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If you're like most people, "disgust" is not an emotion you want to feel, and you probably don't want to make others feel it. So why would you want your education and reading skills to be disgusting? The "how to be disgustingly well read" book recommendation trend has been making its rounds for a hot minute now, and doesn't show signs of stopping. But the problem is--it's not can't deliver on its promise. Today we're exploring what's going on here, why it's a problem, and how to approach reading instead.
✒️ My essay on reading motivations: https://thoughtcouture.substack.com/why-are-we-still-doing-this
🤓SOURCES🤓
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3189352/
https://www.simplypsychology.org/cultural-capital-theory-of-pierre-bourdieu.html
https://www.simplypsychology.org/differences-between-extrinsic-and-intrinsic-motivation.html
📺The Twilight Zone "Time Enough at Last," free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200256133/s01-e08-time-enough-at-last
00:00 Intro
02:11 DISGUSTANG
04:20 Thank you to Scrolly!
04:50 On Cultural Capital
08:10 Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation
13:18 An Anecdote and a Question
17:09 Outro
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#selfeducation #readinggoals #studygoals #readinglife #booktok #studytok #bibliophile #commentary #literaryescapades #literarytalk #booktube #bookstagram become well read, become well educated, become highly educated, how to be well read, how to read more, how to be a reader, reading goals, reading motivation, study motivation, self education, lifelong learners, lifelong learning, bookish aesthetic, dark academia Close description
If you're like most people, "disgust" is not an emotion you want to feel, and you probably don't want to make others feel it. So why would you want your education and reading skills to be disgusting? The "how to be disgustingly well read" book recommendation trend has been making its rounds for a hot minute now, and doesn't show signs of stopping. But the problem is--it's not can't deliver on its promise. Today we're exploring what's going on here, why it's a problem, and how to approach reading instead.
✒️ My essay on reading motivations: https://thoughtcouture.substack.com/why-are-we-still-doing-this
🤓SOURCES🤓
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3189352/
https://www.simplypsychology.org/cultural-capital-theory-of-pierre-bourdieu.html
https://www.simplypsychology.org/differences-between-extrinsic-and-intrinsic-motivation.html
📺The Twilight Zone "Time Enough at Last," free on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200256133/s01-e08-time-enough-at-last
00:00 Intro
02:11 DISGUSTANG
04:20 Thank you to Scrolly!
04:50 On Cultural Capital
08:10 Extrinsic vs. Intrinsic Motivation
13:18 An Anecdote and a Question
17:09 Outro
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#selfeducation #readinggoals #studygoals #readinglife #booktok #studytok #bibliophile #commentary #literaryescapades #literarytalk #booktube #bookstagram become well read, become well educated, become highly educated, how to be well read, how to read more, how to be a reader, reading goals, reading motivation, study motivation, self education, lifelong learners, lifelong learning, bookish aesthetic, dark academia Close description