/lit/ - Literature

Practice meditation is my suggestion, I used to be the same way but now I'm a fair bit faster now.

Do a simple lil mantra meditation, on your inhale think "Saht" and on your exhale think "Nahm". The hippy dippy meaning of these word can be irrelevant if you want to here if you don't like that kind of stuff. It's just to occupy the verbal parts of your brain. Look up some other guides from people who can explain it better than me too.

Eventually it will get easier to not get swept up in the internal chatter. I would still recommend getting into a little relevant internal chatter, since that's obviously part of active reading