/lit/ - Literature

My biggest issue, the single cause of my endless suffering, which leaves me either paralyzed to begin or frustrated by the inability to internalize the material, is my lack of adequate notetaking. And i know what you'll say, to just get out a book and pen 'lmao', and yes, i am aware of this. But then i suffer from how to take notes. For example, in a geometry textbook, do i bother writing down obvious postulates, such as two points define a line, or would this be a slog to fit everything barely-reworded into a notebook while passing through the primary stages of this topic at a snails pace? What do i choose to integrate into my notes? If it is not meant to be me reorienting the topics and concepts into a smaller or more personalized version in my notebook, then what is the point of these notes? Will i look back on them, as opposed to the book? Or do i focus on both? Furthermore, once I have these different notebooks strewn about, I feel like they should be further consolidated into some 'master' text, the ultimate source of reference for the boiled-down knowledge i slowly gain through time. Well, what format should these notes take? How should they be organized? How could you adequately organize a dozen or more disparate topics as well as hundreds of years of literature into something cohesive and manageable? Does digital work better, or physical? Do i use specific programs or just one, do i type everything on my typewriter and organize individual sheets into folders or do i keep a master notebook and keep filling from start to finish as my singular source? I tremble as these thoughts leave my fingers, will they ever stop their haunt and just let me work effectively?

>>19787961
>just one weekend a month
im proud of myself when i get it to just one day a week. am i fucked lads?

>>19785339
Please, don't remind me...

>>19763584
I wish the best for that poor man.

>>19739904
>this nigga is REALLY POSTING JORDAN B PETERSON

johnnie walker black, on the rocks

>>19203941
i dont drink to be comfortable i drink to be drunk
>>19203970
i cant type

Is there even any hope of being published today?

I want to embark upon a great project, I mean I probably will anyway just for fun, but it is demoralising to know that there is barely a pathway to success anymore.

>>17287301
i know

>>16242382
i have an English degree and now every day of my life is an internal battle between my will to live and the tantalizing allure of suicide. i recommend to all my /lit/ bros that they get a degree that will land them a job. yeah money isn't everything but neither is unemployment.

You turn me into a bookworm, fuck you /lit/

>one shot at uni
>didn't study philosophy
FUCK why did I have to fall for the stem meme?

>...a drug dealer on Thirteenth Street who offers me crack and blindly I wave a fifty at him and he says “Oh, man” gratefully and shakes my hand, pressing five vials into my palm which I proceed to eat whole and the crack dealer stares at me, trying to mask his deep disturbance with an amused glare, and I grab him by the neck and croak out, my breath reeking, “The best engine is in the BMW 750iL”

fucking love this book

>9pm
>still zero pages read today
in fact I haven't read in a week

Any other long term NEETS completely incapable of writing because your brain is starved of interaction and experiences?

>>10743488
>"Sure. It’s been hopeless for a long time, from the very beginning. You will never represent, Raphael, a young girl’s erotic dream. You have to resign yourself to the inevitable; such things are not for you. It’s already too late, in any case. The sexual failure you’ve known since your adolescence, Raphael, the frustration that has followed you since the age of thirteen, will leave their indelible mark. Even supposing that you might have women in the future - which in all frankness I doubt - this will not be enough; nothing will ever be enough. You will always be an orphan to those adolescent loves you never knew. In you the wound is already deep; it will get deeper and deeper. An atrocious, unremitting bitterness will end up gripping your heart. For you there will be neither redemption nor deliverance. That’s how it is."

How do you deal with the fact of your own soul crushing mediocrity, /lit/?