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> Once you start caring about the progress bar, you’re hooked! Your dopamine-driven brain sees each book as a little trophy of the mind and you want to keep goi
by liendolucas 3y ago
> Once you start caring about the progress bar, you’re hooked! Your dopamine-driven brain sees each book as a little trophy of the mind and you want to keep going.
I don't understand the need to go to GoodReads, pick a read challenge to be "hooked" and collect "little trophies". It's absurd. For me reading is the exact opposite experience of the author. Take time to pick your book, take your time to read it (not eat it) and above all enjoy it, but reading just because you have to finish the GoodReads "homework", nope.
- rufus_foreman 3y ago>> Your dopamine-driven brain sees each book as a little trophy of the mind and you want to keep going Really? I've been addicted to chemicals before, but that's not what's going on with people who like to read books. It's getting really ridiculous. People see dopamine behind everything now.
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoBooks just take too damned long to finish for me to care about a progress bar. And I say that as someone who has played and leveled many characters in MMORPGs over the years (to my regret).