Reading goals that are based off number of pages tend not to work. “I’m going to read 50 pages each evening” sounds like a good plan… Until your day gets away from you and you can only fit in 20 minutes. Bam: out the window goes the math. Instead, begin with the minutes available to […]

You bought a heavy novel with good intentions. It spent three months on your nightstand as you scrolled through your phone in bed. Then one day, you finally sat down and discovered that it’s harder to finish then expected, because nobody told you just how long it would take. “The difference between people who start […]

There are three hundred pages to go. The deadline is in two weeks! Panic sets in.” The problem isn’t that there’s 300 pages left; it’s that surviving is a matter of math. Common wisdom says: take the number of pages left, then divide by the number of days til deadline. Seems reasonable enough, right? Except […]

If you pick up a book with a deadline in mind (say, two weeks from now), and aren’t sure you can finish it, then you’re going to be panicked. Most people estimate how long it will take by counting number of pages. That’s a terribel way to do it. Why? Because page counts vary like […]