How do I fix my short attention span? - /lit/ (#24512716) [Archived: 622 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:19:34 AM No.24512716
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I’m trying work on my writing and finish a fucking manuscript, but frankly I can’t even do day to day tasks without getting distracted anymore. My life and brains are an oozing pile of shit, and I can’t unclog it, /lit/. There are flecks of pure gold in the pile, but I don’t know how to pull them out.
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Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:27:10 AM No.24512728
>>24512716 (OP)
take walks daily for at least an hour, NO PHONE
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:32:41 AM No.24512738
Hard reset will do it. Not everyone is in a position to do this easily (or at all), but it works. Take three days off. Completely off. No responsibilities, keep some food in the pantry/fridge. Meditate (or if you don't like that, then simply sit and do nothing) for a half hour each morning, for one hour each midday, and for a half hour before bed. In the intervening time, no screens, no games, just books and writing and cleaning and sitting and thinking.

By the third day you'll know whether you're a writer who needs less distraction or a dreamer who admires writers. Both can be good people.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 1:42:53 AM No.24512888
>>24512716 (OP)
separate yourself from all technology, if you can't do that at least keep your pc off and your phone hidden for 30 mins-1hour each day
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 3:06:22 AM No.24513090
In addition to what others have said, therapy. Good Jungian stuff, not CBT shit. Being depressed absolutely FUCKS your cognitive abilities. Once I cured mine I realised I'd been operating on like 2% for years.
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Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:03:06 PM No.24513922
>>24512716 (OP)
Read a book? Surely that’s the best way.
Anonymous
7/2/2025, 12:32:43 PM No.24513968
>>24513090
How do you find the proper Jew to do real therapy on you? They seem like a dying breed.