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Libraly Journal ›› 2024, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (395): 85-90.

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21-Day Reading Habit Cultivation: Tracing the Source and Reflections on the Practice

Zhang Huijun, Zhai Zhonghui (Xi’an Jiaotong University Library)   

  • Online:2024-03-15 Published:2024-04-01
  • About author:Zhang Huijun, Zhai Zhonghui (Xi’an Jiaotong University Library)

Abstract:

This paper traces back the source of the “21-Day Habit Cultivation” trend, as it has become a popular reading promotion activity in libraries. Through literature retrospective, we found that the idea of “21-day Habit Cultivation” originated from Maltz’s Psycho-Cybernetics. There is a cognitive bias between the popular belief in “persist for 21 days to form a new habit” and Maltz’s “it requires a minimum of about 21 days for a new mental image to jell”. The study also provides a comparative analysis of 21-day reading habit cultivation activities and offers thoughts and suggestions on library’s reading promotion.