Identify an unfamiliar genre, name a specific reason it has been avoided, and select one title to deliberately try it.
Most readers gravitate toward one or two favorite genres and rarely leave them, not because other genres are worse, but simply out of habit. This week is about noticing that habit and deliberately stretching past it. Common genres include realistic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, biography and memoir, poetry, science fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction or informational writing -- a genre wheel worth returning to whenever you are choosing a next book.
The goal is not to abandon your favorite genre forever -- it is to name, specifically, which genre you have been avoiding and why, then choose one real title to test that avoidance against actual experience rather than assumption. "I do not like poetry" and "I have not read much poetry, and I assumed it would feel slow" are different, more useful starting points -- the second one can actually be tested.
Mastery looks like: They can name a specific avoided genre, a specific testable assumption about it, and one real title chosen to test that assumption.
Common stumbles: Naming only a vague dislike ("I don't like fantasy") without a specific, testable assumption or a specific title chosen to test it.