>use all my might
>read 20 minutes
>2 hour break watching incendiary political/philosophy youtube videos or 4chan
>read 20 minutes
>>24513147 (OP)Good job little buddy! You‘re reading 20 minutes more out of every 140 than most of your peers. Maybe next year you can get it up to 30.
>>24513147 (OP)40 minutes a day still surpassed almost all of the population
>>24513160One book a year surpasses most people’s reading around the globe; it’s not much to brag about, though.
>>24513147 (OP)Rookie numbers, but are they going up?
Use a modified pomodoro, starting with small 5 to 15 minute reading periods, gradually increasing.
Create a space to read in that isn't distracting.
>>24513578How? Is there like a phone app I can use. Free and open sores hopefully.
>>24513147 (OP)Listen to audiobooks. I read like 30min to an hour a day but if I can listen to audiobooks for more than 10 hours while doing some other stuff, even while playing mindless vidyas. I hate how disgustingly easy they are. I only use them for historical books thoughever because I just want the knowledge and nothing else
>>24513147 (OP)Try resting your eyes and lying down for thirty instead of using the internet, then when youre done do some push ups, drink some water, drink some coffee, eat some nuts and try again, try to use the internet when youre done for the day because it will kill your focus and make it harder to get back into it, its a really enjoyable habit to build
"Using all my might" I can do like 4-6 hours, with a couple bathroom or water breaks.
Try resting your eyes and lying down for thirty minutes instead of using the internet, then when youre done do some push ups, drink some water, drink some coffee, eat some nuts and try again, try to use the internet when youre done for the day because it will kill your focus and make it harder to get back into it, its a really enjoyable habit to build
My brainfog and fatigue is so bad it makes it troubling to read. How may I fix this?
>>24513582you feel like you learn shiet?
>>24513625I do learn shiet. I might not remember all the tiny details but I get the full picture. Don't really need more than that
>>24513147 (OP)Quit consuming politics content its all slop and none of it matters
>>24513580There's a thousand of those apps but all you need is a timer, clock or watch..
>>24513582I'm listening to a history book on my walks but I need to rewind about once every 4 minutes
>>24515196I do this too but one sentence every few minutes isn't the end of the world
>>24513147 (OP)I can't really make myself read at home but I started to carry my e-ink reader with me so I can get a couple of hours of reading in after work when the weather is nice and there're no people occupying my favorite bench in the tiny "forest" near my home.
Of course it works with regular books but that requires more forethought on what I want to read instead of just storing my whole library on the device. The reader was expensive (I got the larger ones for reading A4 PDFs without scrolling too much.
If you're reading only epubs I guess a smaller device is even better as its size makes it more mobile.
I got a dumb phone, packed away my desktop, and installed a barebones slackeare Linux build on my laptop, then I made it so that I have to type a randomized 256 character password, with lots of symbols and a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters if I want to start the X graphics server in order to use GUI applications, like a web browser. Takes about 4 minutes to type, which is long enough to sort of temper the impulse. Just acts as a simple annoyance barrier which is enough to drastically limit the time I spend doing mindless surfing/rabbit hole delving/endless scroll drooling/video content consumption.
I still have email, telegram, a text-based browser for news and such, chatgpt and various other apps in the terminal so that I can complete my daily tasks without any hardship, but in such a way that limits distraction and the whole dopamine hit thing you get from general Internet usage.
>>24515384Obviously this is an attempt to reclaim my attention span so that I can actually read again. When I was a teen or early 20s I would routinely knock out a book or three a week, now I can't read 5 sentences before getting sidetracked.
However I am weak, because I spent 4 minutes typing that password a half hour ago so that I could waste time on 4chan.
>>24513147 (OP)I would not have the patience to watch an entire youtube video
>>24513147 (OP)You actually didn't use all your might though. You used a little bit and then you didn't want to anymore.
If you don't actually like reading why do you insist on doing it? Reading isn't supposed to be self torture. It's looking at words on a page anon.
Remove youtube from your life. It's more hazardous to your time than video games.
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>>24513147 (OP)find something more interesting to read
>duh
>>24513147 (OP)maybe treat the break like a reward that you can only do after reading
>>24513580I use Forest, you can set a timer and even block some apps during the time you're reading
>>24513147 (OP)you don't have to read if you don't want to anon. It's fine to do something else.
