3 Types of Readers (And Why They Fail)

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(1) The Idea: The Three Archetypes That Are Holding People Back

I started teaching reading on the internet back in 2019, and along the way, I’ve noticed three recurring problems most people face:

·      1: Patchy reading habits that start and stop & they can’t seem to finish anything cover to cover.

·      2: Burning out after an obsessive period of reading a lot, then reading nothing for months.

·      3: Getting stuck permanently with a reading/comprehension level without any growth.

All our reading challenges, I would argue, come down to a mixture of these three problems. And when these problems become ingrained reading habits, they start to resemble one of three reader archetypes: