/lit/ - Literature

>>23137029
Well I for one am just glad you felt the need to share that insight with us instead of finding something to read and trying again. Please, turn this board to garbage.

>>23137029
stop being a faggot and will yourself to power

>>23137029
>Just watch Wendigoon video! You really don't need to read the original book because of his summary is so great!

>>23137029
it's hard. as gay as it sounds, sitting with your emotions and settling is helpful. I have unbelievable attention issues, often can't get through a page. I've found that in moments of emotional release or resolution, focus returned a little bit.

Also, your reason *why* matters. I'll struggle with homework, and then find focus for something I don't need to read, or for an argument online. Similarly, when I'm very curious about something, it becomes easier to read.

I recommend this: 1. Let it become an activity, don't put undue pressure on yourself, just read whatever strikes you as interesting and maybe take a small amount of notes to feel like you're really doing something. 2. Read before bed, establish a routine, make it something chill and straightforward and you will gradually get better. 3. Antidepressants. You will become stable and will read a little more normally, but at the cost of a significant personality change. You will be a normie

are zoomers ok?

>>23137029
Try reading along with an audiobook.

>>23137029
I like to read standing up or pacing around, stops yourself nodding off or reaching for your phone

>>23137161
Who ever wrote the thing in the pic is a p-zombie.
No actual imagining power in their heads, none at all.
>>23137029
You're not a p-zombie, are you? You can imagine what an delicisious apple would smell, look, feel and taste like, can't you?
If so, just find something you're intrested about and read about it.
That's literally all there is to it.

>>23137158
Very nice response. Everyone with these problems has the ability to overcome them. But they need to take the time to sit through their emotions and distractedness, and ask themselves why they read. Or why they do anything.
Almost all people (I estimate 99.999%), even smart people, do not do this, and that is why they have problems, even though they are very smart.

>>23137029
>undisciplined short attention zoomer brain
Nice excuse, faggot. You don't wanna read because it's not something you enjoy. Move on.

>>23137029
Then discipline yourself

>>23137029
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTdZ97H6JlU
For me, it's Cippangu or Antilla

>>23137672
That's a dumb reason to move on

>>23137636
what's a p-zombie?

>>23137158
>Antidepressants
Holy fucking shit you're retarded

>>23139051
A philosophical zombie. Someone who has all the characteristics of a person but is not consciousness (experiences no qualia). It's a thought experiment put forward by David Chalmers in his thesis on the Hard problem of Consciousness.

>>23139659
Is not conscious*

>>23137770
Would you discipline me?

I just get really tired after reading anything for 40 or so minutes. Like i have to lay down for an hour or more after I read. Maybe I should start drinking coffee while I read or something I don't know

>>23139659
We just call them NPCs here.

>>23139905
lmao just remembered this absolute gigasimp with shield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycInHad5R44

>>23137029
Eliminate distractions. I only use a flip phone, and sold my video games and gaming computer. I use a $50 chrome book now as my only source of internet connection, and my focus and concentration has never been better. Demosthenes practiced and lived in a cave while composing several orations to eliminate distractions. If your stupid like me, you have to do it.

>>23139898
That's your brain healing you fuckwit. You're overstimulated by electronics.

>>23139930
what absolutely zero pussy does to a mf

>>23139905
It's quite possible that guy really believed orange man bad and was just being double ironic.

>>23137029
>undisciplined short attention zoomer brain
Never stopped me. Just turn off the electricity of your house.

>>23137029
ADHD is being treated with B1 supplementation. That's what gives you the shakes with too much caffeine, sugar, alcohol stripping it (and difficulty falling asleep).

Screen text has different tracking by the eyes compared to physical paper, requiring some transition between the two. Limit screen time and use the blue light filter app to moderate eye strain, especially late afternoon to early evening.

Pick 5 reading queues by topic, genre, whatever. Structure what you want to read. Switch between fiction/non-fiction ones so your mind has time to ruminate on the non-fiction in the background.

Avoided cardinal center: prematurely voided concentration.

Disintegrated traces: uncultivated concentration.

>>23137029
just read more

>>23139898
This happens to me too. Its like I've been walking uphill and need to stop and catch my breath.

>>23137029
Make the mind quiet and then listen for the whispers of the little birds. They'll tell you what to do. Sometimes they tell me to read. Maybe you're not a reader.

>>23143610
>Make the mind quiet and then listen

Tinnitus bros...

>>23137161
No we are fucked bro

>>23137029
I'm a zoomer who has ADD, and this was a weakness I eventually conquerored. It's pretty much a willpower issue. You have to try as hard as you can to focus, comprehend, and eventually it becomes easy. A book is like a treadmill for your imagination, especially when we're talking about stories that demands close attention in order to envision a particular scene. Perhaps you have it worse than me though. Stuff like this is probably on a spectrum.

>>23139905
Highest transcendence is being able to be a switch

>>23145375
You take meds for it anon?

>>23139898
Happens to me too when reading books in my 4th language.

>>23137029
Shut your electronic devices off, go to a place with no such interference or to another room in which you can sit comfortably and focus on the book, open it and just read. Works for me, and I faced the same issue and often take long pauses between reading (something I am getting better at improving), and I also tore through Dosto's The Idiot in about a week or two this year.

Block websites; physically prevent or make it difficult for you to do time wasters. You're not going to get anywhere just by trying to mentally guide your brain. Discipline is a physical tactic.

>>23137429
Your lower back called. He said to tell you thanks.

>>23145375
It's not just ADD, same for everyone who gets distracted by phones and video games. Just gotta re-train your brain to concentrate, sometimes you don't want to and it's uncomfortable at first, but it's like physical training, most of it is discipline and motivation.

Also ignore pop-science like "you burned out your dopamine receptors", it's not important what the chemical cause is, because you can fix it without knowing anything about that.

>>23145851
>Just gotta re-train your brain to concentrate, sometimes you don't want to and it's uncomfortable at first, but it's like physical training, most of it is discipline and motivation.
True