How do I get rid of TikTok brain? It's interfering with my desire to read. Just getting myself to sit down and read one chapter is a pain with my shortened attention span. I had never even owned a fricking cell phone until I was 28 and now I'm addicted.
I'm considering replacing my current phone and buying a lousy phone for just talk and text so I can start devouring more books like I've been wanting to. It really feels like social media is destroying hobbies such as book reading and living and going out/learning more about life.
I'm also interested in writing short stories on the side and working hard for a long time until I can perhaps get one published in a magazine, and would like to have a better attention span and interest in writing them.
Any advice IQfy?
I don't know anyone with age above 30 that uses TikTok, zoomer.
I watch Youtube shorts a lot, and browse my phone scrolling, hours on end. However I'm just refering "tiktok brain" as it's more relevant today. It's akin to the millenial term "MTV Generation attention span" from back in the day.
My father is a 50 year old veteran and I constantly see him like tiktoks with monkeys and cats.
the only possible use of the platform
the fastest growing userbase are over 30s but sure bud
>I don't know anyone with age above 30 that uses TikTok, zoomer.
I know more over-30s than under-30s that use tiktok.
It's like how Facebook started out being used exclusively by college students and got gentrified by bots and the elderly. It's happening with tiktok too.
>It's like how Facebook started out being used exclusively by college students and got gentrified by bots and the elderly. It's happening with tiktok too.
Oh shit. Where are the youths headed to next? I wanna put my money in it FAST!
take medical meth. that'll fix it
Ritalin did nothing for me. Is Vyvanse better?
It's not the phone shortening your attention span. You're just using it as a coping mechanism. If you didn't have a phone, you'd use something else to distract you from your responsibilitiesand stress. You need to adress the underlying issue.
Wrong. Before my phone I'd read 2 books a week.
homosexual.
If you use an Android, just keep it in Ultra power saver mode 24/7.
If iPhone, see if there's an app that can block or lock other apps behind a password. Write the password down, and put it somewhere safe, but make it long and complicated enough, that you're not gonna remember it, so if you're out in public, you will be unable to use frivolous apps.
People might give you a range of tips like adding internet filters and uninstalling apps and that helps, sure. Ultimately it’s just about routine and habit though anon. Seek minor improvements daily, exercise and try to keep your phone in the other room when doing stuff, like watching an entire movie without scrolling. It does add up. Just like you incrementally lost your attention span, you’ve gotta build it back up. Like learning to run a 5K.
Just delete your social media accounts and uninstall the apps. Stop using them. It is that easy.
Anything else is a cope.
The secret is coffee and ritual
This is extremely effective: On your phone, turn off colours, which will make the screen black and white. You can google how to do it, it's simple. It's nowhere near as entertaining, our brains crave colour
this, also it’s stupidly simple but either delete these apps, block websites like twitter, or set time limits (less effective because you can simply extend it)
Say TikTok out loud, keep repeating it. See how stupid it sounds? Well, not only is it stupid, but it is a direct reference to the moments you waste every day doing absolutely nothing. And at the end of all the Tiktokking, you literally die. Your choice.
I’m sure this suggestion will get shit on, but read 19th century literature incessantly. To make any sense of it your brain will have to shape up. It will feel like work for a while. Don’t give up a quarter way through your first book. Plough on.
It’s my theory that the vast majority English speakers 25 and under couldn’t make through a single
>Dickens
>Henry James
>Hardy
>…
due to the damage done by smartphones
Have you considered just taking brief breaks in your reading? If you can only read for 10 minutes, then maybe read 10 minutes before walking your dog or something and then read another 10 minutes. At 20 minutes a day you aren't breezing through books, but you are making progress. Also, drinking tea or coffee while reading can give your hands something to do. Or if it is a body at rest kind of thing, then you can read in a chair that can rock. Sometimes it's the small stuff that makes the biggest difference in your reading experience. I am very ADD, so I do all of these things.
I second this.
Something I've started doing to claw myself back from the brain rot pit is reading before bed, and right after waking up. It gives me something to focus on and comprehend before starting/ending my day.
I also struggle with severe anxiety / panic disorder, so this might not work for everyone.
You're not seriousness enough to fix this problem. I know that because you're asking frogposters for answers. homosexual. May you have TikRot until you become serious.
>How do I get rid of TikTok brain? It's interfering with my desire to read. Just getting myself to sit down and read one chapter is a pain with my shortened attention span.
>If i don't finish the book in 1 or 2 sittings, I will never finish it.
I will always fondly remember over a decade ago, when I was a budding newbie, making dogshit posts like this, and people would call me a summergay, and I would have to look at my shitty posting habits, and evaluate my level of idiocy, and lack of self-awareness, and realize that in order to keep up with the level of discourse, I would have to intellectually shape up.
Every week, I see garbage posts like the ones I would have made over a decade ago, and the problem is they're starting to outnumber the quality posts used to inspire me. It's like sliding back into a high school, but worse. IQfy needs to get a bouncer at the front door to check ID's.
I stopped reading mid second sentence.
have a nice day.
>reddit spacing
You need to go back.
STFU about spacing. Of all boards, you're here too? Obsessed with fricking reddit. So gay.
I fundamentally don't get tiktok as a thing. What's so engrossing about very short meme format videos? I find them annoying.
Put your phone away. Practice being bored. You'll find that just sitting and looking out the window can be refreshing.