I can't sit down and read. Porn and social media has fried my dopamine receptors
What do I do?
I can't sit down and read. Porn and social media has fried my dopamine receptors. What do I do?
I can't sit down and read. Porn and social media has fried my dopamine receptors
What do I do?
You might just be reading the wrong stuff. Find something you actually want to read, try some fantasy or scifi, whatever you are into.
Also just focus on building up slowly over time, aim for small goals, 10 pages a day, build up from there.
>I can't
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Try putting aside time everyday dedicated to reading one chapter or even just a few pages, and gradually increase the amount you read each sitting, or just fricking have a nice day
Go for a jog or walk before reading. Helps with getting rid of some of that nervous energy
This is why I run every morning before work and walk every day during lunch. After that, I’m calm and level-headed and have basically no excuses.
Any advice? I love running and I really liked when I could run 10+ miles 3-4 times a week but I kept injuring my knees or Achilles tendons. Should I do strength exercises to build up resistance? Cycling, supplements? I have a lot of stamina and can push myself, but maybe that’s why I would over exerted myself?
You're probably hitting the ground too hard. Run barefoot a bit, you'll see how you cannot heel stomp barefoot, which is what causes your knee pain
I make a conscious effort to do a mid strike whenever running, and I overpronate on my right knee which either makes me overcompensate on my left knee or over correct and hurt my right hip. I get that we all have a natural running form, but I’m actively trying to correct bad habits and getting hurt in the process.
Also, I’ve tried doing slower-tempo runs while keeping my heart rate in the lower zones to improve my stamina, but I find my endurance wears down fast when my foot is making too much contact with the ground. Suddenly my knees are feeling the rounded pressure from the strike, my tendons are having to tense up longer, and I push off too much with my ankles.
Same
nofap day 3. Ama.
Aren't you afraid of nocturnal pollution? You're not at that stage yet, but in a few days you will
Yes that happened to me before after a week, but apparently it only happens once and then your body adjusts to not cooming. So once is worth it
I guess we're built different then. When I tried going nofap I ended up cumming in my pants on a daily basis (sometimes even twice in a single night). I dropped it after 20 days (the nocturnal pollution started around day 8-9).
Now I jack off once every 3-4 days, and never on porn. I find it very manageable, and this regimen seems to offer the same kind of benefits offered by full nofap.
Maybe you could train your dreams. Sometimes I start having sex dreams and then manage to resist it inside the dream.
>nocturnal pollution
wat
you mean emission?
*nocturnal pollination
Get older
I am probably the oldest guy browsing the board.
Blah blah blah shut the frick up moron, just put down your phone for a week. Exercise, walk around, look at bugs. Then read something.
> being mean on the internet
Sorry i just got bit by a skeeter and was honking mad. I killed it so I'm chill now.
Try listening to audio books while doing something mundane that doesn't require much thought or focus. During my work day I'll listen to audio books and it's helped me catch up on my reading.
Treat it as an addiction and start tapering off.
Personally I have your same problem, Ive found out that leaving your phone/tablet in another room does wonders.
Also try to get used to jack off on fantasies.
Just read a page a day and see if you can work up to more. If you're enjoying yourself, increase the amount little by little.
It's not difficult to cram a few pages a day. You'll be surprised with how much you can read if you transferred that time spent on social media and watching porn.
You also have to grab a book that has your interests.
i read at least two pages a night. sometimes four. man, proust is good, but i just don't care about the the day to day of french high society THAT much ok.
When you jump into something as deep as a puddle, you will probably find exactly what captivates your attention is something people don't want you do read regularly.
Just read shit like nipponese fiction until you can stand literary fiction. And no picture books doesn't count.
Yeah dude you can just blame it all on pornography
That's it, you're done and there's nothing you can do about it!
God that evil pornography, it should be banned! Satan has his claws in us all brother!
>it should be banned
This is how most people think unironically
Im 99% sure it would improve society so im all for it. Plus getting to see all the thots seethe about having to find a job after doing porn would be so fricking funny.
they'd be literally the ones profiting off of a porn ban the most because free porn on the internet is their biggest competition while they themselves can easily make even more money in that situation by just selling SFW stuff that would be exempt of the theoretical anti-porn law.
dopamine detox. There is no other secret trick that actually works. You just have to do it and replace bad habits with good habits.
man i totally forgot people out there pay for sfw shit
Do you dance around alcoholics mockingly with a beer in hand, too? Is this a game you play?
>Do you dance around alcoholics mockingly with a beer in hand
He didn't post any porn
Unironically go on a ten day meditation retreat
>be me in highschool
>spend 10 hours a day playing league
>fap daily
>be able to read 1 or 2 hours a day
>nowadays I read 2 to 3 hours a day
You are using this modern excuse to convince yourself that you can't.
You need to make it a routine, turn off your computer and your cellphone and read. Try reading something easy first; something short or written for children.
moronic question. You know what to do. Cut out the porn and stop using social media. Go ahead. You won't.
>lust provoking image
Maybe you're the sick one.
yeah tf OP, just trying to talk about books not get a hardon
fantasize you are reading to impress a hot teacher or something
do this as an exercise for half a year and see the difference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1690&v=H-xku7EjpUQ&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&embeds_referring_origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com&source_ve_path=MTM5MTE3LDI4NjYzLDM2ODQyLDM2ODQyLDI4NjYzLDI4NjYzLDIzODUx&feature=emb_title
look at it as a way to recalibrate the nervous system rather than a religious system (which it is not, as some zen scholars will argue)
take uridine
Watch this:
This vexes me, in fact the person vexes me. I can understand a text perfectly well without having to summarise at such a pointlessly regular interval as the paragraph unit. There are some texts for which this simply would be a waste of time, not to mention utter superficiality in some cases to believe that a paragraph could be summarised. If this helps people, fine, power to them, but the whole idea of “how-to-study-efficiently” tips tend to irk me because often it is a highly personal thing, dependent on the type of intelligence you have. And the type of people who suggest it in my experience tend to be great at gaming the academic system, technically great but lacking passion that inspires people outside the classroom. The greatest sin of all is that their methods usually manage to suck the fun out of reading and learning, except perhaps for themselves somehow, blissfully content with their never-ending summaries, flashcards and mnemonics.
OP is a zoomer who can't concentrate. Rigid routine is exactly what he needs.
I fap to porn like 3 or 4 times a day and i still eat like 50 pages a day. You either just dont like what you are currently reading or dont like reading at all
"i can't read"
i get it, it's funny. why do doctors run shit into the ground?
Start doing some simples stuff to change. Here's some I tried that worked for me:
>delete social media from celphone, only use them on desktop
>have 20min/day to lie in your bed and just think about your life, without any external stimuli
>exercise (don't need to be working out tho, can be anything you like)
>take vitamin D and omega 3 supplements
>stop eating while using your celphone/pc
>limit 90% of your gaming (preferably 100%)
What you're gonna want to do is get rid of opportunity. Im serious stop having me internet at home I'm serious. Cut your wifi chip out. Go to the library/work if you need Internet otherwise download shit to read and leave it. It's not a matter of habit anymore you fricked up on that front, just avoid access amap.