Howard McEwen, CFA

I use to read bunches of fiction including one long holiday weekend freshman year of college when the campus was deserted and I blew through Madame Bovary, but for the last 15 years, I’ve read it less and less and now I just can’t make it through an average size novel.

It began after college when I started studying for the Chartered Financial Analyst exam.   That took 5 years of intensive study (I should have only taken 3 but I failed two exams twice).  Reading fiction seemed a bit pointless.  I couldn’t motivate myself to stick with it.  Now it seems all gone.  I’ve spoken with a couple older writers who said they went through the same thing and it came back to them at about 45 or 50 but I’m not sure.