Please teach me how to read more. I've completely fried my brain with internet and porn addiction for well over a decade now. I sit down to read and get extremely bored/tired after just 5 minutes. How do I overcome this? I want to be able to read for hours.
Destroy your headphones, delete your porn and music and any movies or whatever you have saved, and turn off your internet for 2 weeks after downloading the complete works of Plato and Shakespeare. First calm the oscillations of your mind by becoming comfortable doing nothing for long periods of time.
slowly work it up anon
if you can only do 5 mins, then do 5 mins. But next time do 6 or even 10 if you're feeling particularly brave.
>I want to be able to read for hours.
quit lying to yourself. youre an idiot. you dont know what you want but im telling you it aint reading. its over. stick with porn. you will never be a well read person.
>I sit down to read and get extremely bored/tired after just 5 minutes. How do I overcome this?
By reading. Just like you overcome being tired after 5min running, overtime, by running. Your addictions are habits, most likely.
First you need to find books that are actually very interesting and hold your attention. Your attention span, speed of reading will only increase with every book that you get through making it easier to read more and more. IMO
good advice right here
find a book that has a movie made after it that you liked
you will probably like the story and it will keep you engaged, good introduction to just the habit of reading
don't get ahead of yourself, nothing wrong with being less intelligent if you admit it, build yourself gradually and don't choose books to read based on elitism
Start with the Greeks. Also, stop - most of them completely - with the zoomer habits: tiktok, instagram, twitter, youtube twitch, video games, netflix... well, all 21st
century bullshit.
Just read in the morning. Don't listen to any of these losers.
I jerk off daily, browse IQfy religiously, tune in to my favorite vtubers whenever they're up and play two daily hours of video games at the minimum. The whole neuroscience thing is just a stupid scam that equates consequence with causality and sweetly justifies imbeciles in the tragedy of their laziness.
Just make an earnest effort of actually understanding what it is you're reading. If the book says something then chances are you'll find it interesting, and that interest will fuel your attention. If you make an habit out of it and enjoy the simple act for whatever reason (expanding your vocabulary; having a sensibility for prose and sometimes visualizing it; theorizing and understanding as you read into each line) then you'll enjoy a healthy addiction to one of the most unhealthy and meaningless hobbies in the modern world. Your life will not be any better for it; if anything it will be worse.
But if you don't feel the need to then there's absolutely no reason you should.
Do a dopamine detox then do regular dopamine fasts
Look up stolen focus by Johann Hari
Read the ultramind solution
Learn concentration meditation, even just 10 minutes a day helps.
Stop jerking off to porn
>Do a dopamine detox then do regular dopamine fasts
This is embarrassing, IQfytier bro-science. The internet's discovery of "dopamine" as the be all and all of every single problem has made us all stupider.
There is some truth to it. Taking a break from brainjunk will help you, even if it's for bro-scientific reasons.
Porn on the other hand is poison for your soul and brain and should never be consumed.
>Porn on the other hand is poison for your soul and brain and should never be consumed.
Why?
Cuz sex is le bad
Your body knows you're not having sex you dumb c**t
On a spiritual level, it's clear why.
There is research to back up my claims, but I don't really care about that.
I know it ruins my ability to focus and lowers my will to read or go outside.
It's enough for me to not do it.
My drug is alcohol, I don't need porn.
alcohol is worse than porn
True, but porn is more pathetic
read porn
don't bother with shit like dopamine detoxes and all that nonsense
just find something on the internet that you enjoy reading enough to stick with, then gradually start working your way to more difficult material
eventually you will reach a point where you need an actual book in your hands to learn anything once you are sufficiently challenged
Is it really true there are people who can't sit for more than 5 minutes and read a book? How mentally moronic are you to be unable to sit and read for at least 1 hour? Like leave your mobile somewhere else and just do it. At first reading comprehension will be bad but it gets better with time.
tl:dr?
>I've completely fried my brain
op something to note is that adults can still learn and experience neuroplasticity throughout their lifetime. although the brain changes the most when it's still cooking (sub-25) that doesn't mean adults are just moronic and don't ever learn. they do, research backs this up, and you'll be ok as long as you eventually do get started on the right track. and you're already one step there since you recognize this issue.
dopamine fast
I watch tons of porn and spend tons of time on here and imo the thing that’ll help you is to literally go down in reading levels and then work your way back up. don’t try to pick up a philosophy book right away, just pick up some light reading like a genre paperback or a YA novel like Ender’s Game or some shit. you won’t get stuck reading only those kinds of books, but they tend to be written in a “frictionless” way that makes it easier for ppl who have fallen out of reading. when you’re done with that read The Great Gatsby, or Kurt Vonnegut Jr. always has nice short chapters and quick pacing, just something popcorn-y, and then like I said just kinda turn up the complexity as you get through the books
or not. reading is supposed to be fun, anon. so read what you enjoy
>I watch tons of porn
Why? Out of habit or do you like being virtually cucked?
>zinc because you fap it all out with selenium for absorption; or just eat meat
>B1. Nerves need it, gets depleted by alcohol, caffeine, shit diet. Used on ADD spazzes.
>1 chapter a day minimum of something.
>screen blue light reducing app; text tracking between screens and IRL is different enough to bamboozle your brain and you don't need any extra eye strain on top of that funking with your sleep rhythms.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3471841/
You're doing the human equivalent of watching the bull Orangutan Chad dick down the entire monkey troop. The face fold expression makes this easier to read in the orange monkeys, but is absolutely operating with you and porn.
If a thing is free, you are the product. You should be spooked on several levels at this point
You have no purpose, you don't see how reading is worth anything. You need to read Nihilism by Fr Seraphim Rose (50 pages).
Once you accept orthodoxy you will read like never before. You will find real worth in reading. Me and others who were t total degenerate hedonist never read a book in our life, suddenly started reading book after book. Of course, you shouldn't join Orthodoxy so you can read books, but rather, because it's the Truth.
I picked up reading again by reading in the train/bus and the like. Every empty timeframe outside is a good opportunity to get you into it. If you like it enough you'll soon switch out the porn for a book maybe.
You've got to fish your shit man. I say that as someone who is currently (responsibility) high on met. I've written more in past 2 days than I have in the past 2 years. I thought that maybe it was gone for good this time.
Ironic that I had this many typos in a post claiming that I am high in a responsible fashion lmao. You know what I meant.
It's interesting to me how people can sit in an office and finger their keyboards doing the same motion for 8 hours straight but they can't read a book for 30 minutes.
>I sit down to read and get extremely bored/tired after just 5 minutes
Pick a different book. 99% of books are fricking garbage, including many "acclaimed" ones, and you merely haven't deluded yourself otherwise.
Try reading one page, then the next day read 2 pages, then 3 and keep going until you're satisfied with how much you're reading. Just work your way up to where you want to be.
Commit a small crime and get sent to jail. Nothing to do there but read.
Stop being a little whiny c**t and read every line of in-game text and turn subtitles on for porn. No fricking skipping any of it.
read when you just get up
Pay attention to how you feel, ask yourself what hardest part is about reading a book.
Do you get distracted while reading? Place yourself in an environment where you can't be distracted.
Do you find it hard to first pick up and open the book? Make it a habit to sidestep having to consciously whip yourself into it.
Is the book boring? Read different books, there's no such thing as "correct books" or "wrong books".
Is it difficult to understand? Read at your own level.
The only thing you need to understand is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for reading more. You need to ask yourself why you're reading and what's getting in the way of achieving that goal.
It's a very simple concept but a lot of people get lost in the details and forget the most important and simple things.
I have only recently started to read books as a 20 year old. I relate to this and I can tell you that it does get better. my mind felt fried to the point where i felt like i had early onset dementia. I could "read" pages and pages before realising nothing went in. You will read like this for a while until eventually it all starts to go in. just push through and it gets better. Now I read loads of pages and not miss any info.
I've been making myself read for an hour every day. I just turn of the TV, open up Pandora and play some music, then just make myself read. The first few days is was a pain in the ass, but very quickly my brain adjusted and accepted that this hour is for focusing on reading.