How many hours a day do you read? Is it worth the opportunity cost? It seems to me reading is something you should heavily in your adolescence and then do sparingly after that. Discuss
How many hours a day do you read? Is it worth the opportunity cost?
>unironically using the word "opportunity cost" on 4chinz
bruh
Is this post and being on here in general worth the opportunity cost?
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I effortpost more than I read but I defo know what you're talking about. Reading wasn't a chore when I was 13.
Nowadays usually around 30 minutes to an hour.
bump
Look if you're poor and need to work all the time then go do that instead.
>It seems to me reading is something you should heavily in your adolescence and then do sparingly after that.
Elaborate on that; why do less after adulthood? What are you doing instead that seems better?
Isn't it a waste of time to read the Greeks as a 28 year old? I mean what's the point?
complete nonsequitur ignoring the posts you replied to. if you don't read, are you actually doing anything productive instead? or are you going to just sit around and jerk off for the 17th time that day? as for the greeks specifically, there's value in there, just as there is in lots of classic literature, but probably not enough value to be worth forcing yourself to do it if you're not genuinely interested.
The point is that if you read invest the time to reading stuff like that as an adolescent, it can actually mold you and affect your personality and trajectory. Whereas as a grown up, you don't really get the same effect out of it
>Whereas as a grown up, you don't really get the same effect out of it
the shit I read on this website god damn. you will shit on therapy while being unable to move forward with life
What? Is it not true that you are more moldable as an adolescent? Also therapy and psychiatry are bad for you.
I was with you up until you tried to shill the representatives of the troony industry
I guarantee that most teens who read Plato barely understand it
> opportunity cost
You should only be reading if you enjoy it
i read in bursts. a month where i consume multiple books then a 6 month drought of nothing.
I do struggle with the opportunity cost delusion.
audiobooks help, but then I get the idea in my head that im not reading the book properly and am pleb-izing my brain
varies, I don't have a consistent habit. Probably half of days or more I don't read anything at all. A quarter of days 45-75 minutes. Another quarter of days 2-3 hours, sometimes more.
>opportunity cost
people can't be productive every waking hour of their day. I use reading to replace time I would already be wasting on doomscrolling or watching movies. you can do the same and it will cause 0 reduction in your productive time while turning completely unproductive entertainment time into a semi-productive and much more enjoyable and worthwhile experience.
When i get invested, i can read 24+ hours straight, when come to paper books, only making breaks when i need to go to toilet. For example i finished Stormlight Archive main four released books in around 10 days.
But as i rarely buy books, it's look like peridic spikes on timeline.
life is short enough as it is, what is the point in worrying about opportunity cost when you know, almost certainly, that your use of that time would be fruitless no matter what you do? Might as well do things that are enjoyable.
If your argument is that reading is a poor substitute for actually "living", then I would tend to agree; experiences trump reading after a certain point because your sense of self is solidified, and no amount of lecturing by an author will change that.
https://twitter.com/monitoringbias/status/1697982308584747244
People here claiming they read 1000+ books. I just can't take this seriously.
Well I found a convenient solution to that problem. I am using open source shadow libraries such as Anna's archive (https://annas-archive.org/), I then export the pdf/epub to an e reader.
that's not what opportunity cost means dum dum
but yes, Anna is a good gal
>Learn only to create
Thoroughly and intensely in bursts, then a good time to ruminate before doing another round.
It’s funny to me that OP posted to IQfy trying to work out if it’s worth it. If this thread sways you, let it tell you that you should read for enjoyment. That enjoyment is valuable itself
~three hours. I read on lunch break, before cooking dinner, and before bedtime. tbh someone who works around 40 hours a week and without children really has no business saying they have no time for [thing]
That's alot of reading do you have any other hobbies?
I read because I need to disassociate from American society as much as possible so it’s honestly an hour or two a day