How do you cope with the fact that there is too much to read, too much to learn, yet not enough time and energy?
One of the things that could help me is text-to-voice options in books but my ADHD makes this very hard to understand.
I still read more or less one book each week on average but it is still not enough.
Do you know any way to get out of this curse or am I fricked?
I've yet to come up with a 'strategy' but honestly I'll be happy so long I know at the end that I tried.
How do you cope with the fact
that there is too much
to read,
too much
to learn,
yet,
not enough
time
and
en er gy ?
One
of the things that could help me is
text-to-voice options in books
but
my A D H D
makes this very hard
to understand.
I still read
more or less
one
book each week, on average,
but
it is still
not enough.
Do you know of any way
to get out
of this curse,
or
am I fricked?
I don't get it
calm down ee cummings
I don't need to learn everything. I don't need to read every book. I learn and read because I enjoy it, not because my meme disorder forces me to.
You don't.
there isn't enough to read
Obviously you can't read everything ever but I never found that there was too much and I could never read it all, I know what I want to read and I know it's reasonable for me to be able to read it. I find new things that I want to read, no point being stuck on the hypothetical perfect books I don't know about
1) carefully determine what you're interested in
2) find books that match your interest
3) make a list of them
4) read them
5) realize no one will punish you in the afterlife for not having read x amount of books and that you're just a neurotic victim of achievement, self-improvement culture
Even if you are neet and spent almost the entire day reading everyday there still wouldn't be enough time. You just gotta accept it
>How do you cope with the fact that there is too much to read
Is there? I struggle to find a book that really grabs my interest rather than just filling time.
I am interested in history, esotericism and spirituality. I don't have your problem.
What are some books you plan to read soon?
The Multi Orgasmic Man is one of them
Also The Passion Of The Western Mind, Richard Tarnas.
I was actually reading this last week since someone mentioned it here. Well, skimming it, really. It seems to mostly cover material I was already mostly familiar with.
The only thing you need is to read Schopenhauer's On Books and Reading, basically your own thoughts and writing and craft is more important then reading. When you read, read only the time attested greats (Lindy's law may apply)
coping with the fact you can't know everything? despite having every kind of knowledge available to you just an internet-search-away? worry not anon, you simply realize that nobody needs to consume content like some fattening farm pig. Just narrow down you interests and start small, and KEEP it small. NO HOARDING useless crap you will never look at again. "ignorance is bliss", 200,000 years of human existence and less than 200 years of that have we existed in the information age. Hope you find the comfort you seek
It's actually a better scenario than not having enough to read, when you think about it
One at a time and you have a lifetime in which you’ll never run out of books
I relate but the answers you're getting are pretty much right. There's no final point of "arrival", you'll have moments of realization along the way but none of them will be Absolute.
No need to cope about anything!
I like not only to have read but to read as well, and there's an endless stack of books to choose from!