/lit/ - Literature

How is this not the superior form of reading nonfiction?
>Treat books more like 4chan: skipping the uninteresting parts and going straight to the interesting.
>Jump around the pages until you find something relevant to you. Nothing is sequential.
>Drop bad writing; find better writing
>Drop the uninteresting; seek the fascinating
>Skim the boring parts; slow down on best parts
>Read where curiosity leads you
Truly, is this not the superior form?

What point is there to reading a nonfiction book to it's entirety? Before, I had a hard time reading because I forced myself to continue reading a book, despite it being more like suffering as I continue. Now, I can't help but read all day because I continually read simply where my curiosity lead me.

>>18781384
I would disagree. Thanks for bringing it up, though, because now that I think about it, I will add a new section to the Life Algorithm: Suffering.

suffering = desire
> desire = that which you want to achieve but yet cannot achieve

I'm not too sure on how to expand from this. However, I do believe suffering and desire are important aspects of a life worth living. Suffering and desire show to us what we want to achieve but yet cannot. It's through this acute suffering and kindling desire that either propels a man forward or pummel a man to the ground. Indeed, the way I see it, it's not happiness that pulls you forward but the desire and suffering that leaves you no choice but to fix the pain. Anons talk about their vices and habits, and how their lives are miserable and no one cares about them—they then talk about how they themselves go to fix their problem but ultimately fail. They tried This or That—and despite their efforts—they failed. To them, perhaps what they need is even more suffering and mind-rending desire so that they are incredibly disappointed and incredibly disgusted in themselves that, utterly, they have two options left: fix it or suicide. The best way to visualize this is through a burning home: you either escape through all your might, having your flesh singe the more you continue or you simply burn to death.

The source of all greatness is not the happiness one seeks from achievement—the proof being is that the happiness itself is not permanent; happiness is ever-changing and becomes boring the same way one's taste of things change and evolve. The source of all greatness comes not from happiness, but through the suffering and desire that leaves you no choice but to become great.

>What is greatness?
I have no clue. But I do know one thing: academics cannot define it nor can dictionaries because both can only speak of the definition. Not its significance.

What else am I missing overall in this life algorithm?

>>18638527
>inb4 the obvious choices: rene girard, machiavelli, old books written about the future, conspiracies