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Perhaps a good question you should ask yourself is what do you want to feel, and under what circumstances?
For instance, take racist literature, young earth creationist literature, and political opposition literature. It is entirely plausible that you would not have the same new reaction to reading those three things, even though you are probably ideologically opposed to all three.
By breaking it down, you can take an approach that notices that when you read literature A, you react differently when you read literature B. Maybe literature B is less revulsive and literature A is almost instantly revulsive. So you can think "Alright, I want to treat literature A more like literature B."
This allows you to make your goals more specific, while also making it into smaller goals which may be more achievable.