/lit/ - Literature

>>11966179
Your hypersexual which redirects your dopaminergic pathways to serve sexual motivations rather than intellectual pursuits. The desire for sex intrinsicly induces hypofrontality to ensure the task is completed. Total abstinence is what you need.

Retention is a lot more important than reading speed. Just read more often and use a dictionary more for words you don't know

>>11966179
I’m the same. I see people saying they can read like 50-100 pages an hour and I’m fucking astonished.

Depends on the book. My wife made me read the Guernsey Literary Society and the prose was so basic and I was chunking it so quickly I finished the book in like 2 hours. Anything tricky maybe 30-50 pages

>>11966179
You are a brainlet
>>11966185
everyone under 25 wants sex all day long anon

>>11966179
Bad feet, wouldn't bang.

>>11966179

i bet she reads like a jet fighter

>>11966179
Damn where can I buy that?

>>11966190

They skim over the unimportant parts. 25 pages it the average for a normal person I've seen that number quoted in studies previously.

>>11966212
Do they want sex or rather does a part of their brain wants sex, a part which was corrupted and reinforced in the interest of seeking pleasure? There is a distinct difference between desires arising from faculties associated with reason and the lower ones associated with base pleasure.
Pornography and habituation are the largest driver's of sexual frequency. It is increasingly being shown that there is a behavioral component to sexual frequency rather than it being purely deterministic based on individual hormones, as is shown by ΔFosB induction. You can reduce the frequency by taking deliberate effort to remove stimuli from your enviroment and purge the mind of any sexual thoughts that may arise. My longest period of abstinence was about a year total around age 22.
As for age being the sole determinant of frequency, you are wrong, I did it once a week when puberty began, if that. By the end of the teenage years it was daily and by the 20s it was even more frequent. The worst was around age 24, 25 and 26 where I fell back into the habit, at times quitting it again and at times again regressing. I will tell you one thing, it was much easier to quit this pernicious habit at will during my teenage years and early 20s than the mid 20s. This is no surprise because the neuroplasticity of the brain in many areas begins to cease, and your thoughts, actions and behaviors are largely habit driven at that point. You are deluding yourself if you think putting it off to you are older is going to solve anything. It is only going to make matters worse and place you in even greater bondage to serving carnal desires.
Only low IQ people wish to be held captive to this and do not of the physiological consequences that arise from its indulgence. They are unable to connect the dots and unironically believe there is such a thing as a biological free lunch, much less for the most evolutionarily important function, capable of propagating life itself. You can show them papers on prolactin rising, you can show them altered neurochemical parameters, you can show them evidence of increased sensitivity to non sexual reward, and it's all meaningless. They don't care. They want that burst of pleasure more than anything else in this world. It controls, dominates, pervades and infects all other aspects of life and reduces the grandness of the human mind and all it's manifold dreams to a one-track-brain-dick where all other pleasures, ambitions dreams are just hassles that get in the way. That's why they're so lackluster with all other aspects of life, that's why the majority of people are so dull and mediocre. This isn't autonomy. It's heteronomy.

>>11966249
Her name is Jojo and she’s an announcer for WWE.

>uncle tries to conscript me to read a book for him and write a summary
>frames it as a learning exercise for me
>I'm attending college and work full time, so tell him I don't have time
>'you don't need to read every single word, just skim it for the important parts'
don't be like him. retention is more important. understanding is more important.

>>11966319
>retention
Obviously more important but when you work 9 hour days and get little time to yourself it becomes pretty annoying taking forever to read a book.

>>11966319
What was the book he wanted you to read?

>>11966179
here's my contribution to this cock comparison post
really really really really slow even tho i read at least 50 pages per day of my main book and usually few more pages from side books/short stories and poetry. i don't know how many time i spend per page or how many hours i read per day, it just depends on my desire, somedays i don't read at all
I ALWAYS read at least 4 full books per month

>>11966186
i think that marking the words u don't know and looking up in dictionary after finishing the chapter/book is better, it helps you to try to imagine what this word means and to understand the sentence even if you don't know a specific word.

>>11966611
also is damn boring stopping your stream of focus, feelings and thoughts to search words in the dictionary

>>11966271
what

>>11966185
i don't understand how kids these days started to be so freaking stupid and falling for every old pseud-science/fake news, damn
education is dead for real
do you even read bro?

>>11966639
>mostly

>>11966644
I blame Fortnite

Doesn't it depend completely on the text though? Some texts take me that pace, others I can do 100 pages/hour
I feel like it takes me ages to get through Kafka, not because I don't like it, but because I'm constantly pausing to process, but I just whizzed through Hunger for first time like nothing. Genre lit is usually even faster.

>>11966644
shut up retard. Porn addiction is real

>>11966715
Porn addiction is real, not this crap i can't never ever masturbate or watch porn again bc shit bla shit pseud-science

>>11966179
You need to develop pattern recognition, you ever been listening to a movie's dialogue and without having heard it before manage to anticipate a character response to some quip? No matter how original a writer's ideas may be they will inevitably fall back on cliche and idiom to make the work accessible to an audience. Some writers strive for perfect originality with every sentence, attempting to paint with hues never before seen on canvas, startling contrasts, ingenious poetry, for the most part writers, like most craftsmen, use the traditions of the trade and aren't out to reinvent the wheel, when you read for extended periods of time you can begin to recognize a certain cadence or rhythm to the language, if you allow your eyes to dart across the page rather than pause on each word you can glean the meaning of a sentence or entire paragraph without necessarily capturing each inflection of the voice of the author. At the end of the day reading, like any recreation activity, should be done for pleasure and not competition, just read at your own pace and enjoy yourself.

>>11966733
This is completely true,
I'm >>11966709 anon, and I think the reason Kafka takes me so long is because he throws off my pattern recognition. It's like navigating small twisting alleyways as opposed to a clearly visible open path - it's not more difficult per say, but just takes longer to cover the same distance.


>. At the end of the day reading, like any recreation activity, should be done for pleasure and not competition, just read at your own pace and enjoy yourself
I'd partly agree, but I'd say that when reading not just for entertainment but intellectual growth it's important to also challenge yourself. But there's a balance to be found between enjoying what you're reading and intellectual discovery.

>>11966179
>It takes me on average an hour to read about 20 pages
Same. I like reading at this pace though

>>11966185
chaste and breadpilled

>>11966179
never thought i'd see jojo on /lit/
shame bray made her fat

>>11966729
>addiction is real
>but not the empirical markers for addiction

>>11966185 pretty much just described how addiction rewires the brain

make up ur mind

>>11966644
I proposed a mechanism for everything. Just because you are ignorant of medicine in general, does not make it pseudoscience. You also say that it's "old" but most of what I've proposed draws heavily from recent neuroscience.
What is pseudoscience is people who assert that sexual activity is free of any biological cost or penalty. A biological free that can be had ad libitum.
>>11966729
>porn addiction is real but the habituation that it induces isn't
Brainlet.jpg

>>11966965
>>11966879
it's like drinking/eating sugar, if you do so and on, you don't get addicted at the first time, shithead

I can’t wait until all the Catholics finally leave this board

>>11967005
Everyone I know who faps faps regularly. Everyone I know who smokes and drinks sugary drinks also does so regularly. Few people do these things "on and off"

>>11967062
>lmao what is anecdotal evidence

>>11967005
The reward of orgasm is as strong as opiates and cocaine on fMRI scans and abstinent drug users exhibit stronger sexual urges than drug cravings. It isn't sugar. It's especially hard to return to occasional indulgence once habituation has crystallized.
Indeed, we seldom see people deny that indulging in sugar yields a physiological response, and the suggestion from that is that it should at very least be moderated. Yet people shut their ears and eyes when told that sexual activity too has consequence for its indulgence, and even more so when told it's more profound than practically any other natural endogenously arising activity, even arousal itself leading to undesirable effects such as deficits in working memory.
>>11967047
If religion is false, these implications of how primitive much of the human brain is and are even more alarming. Losing agency over your very mind, confined to be a slave to this primal instinct for the rest of your days.

>>11966271
I just wanted you to know that I added this post to my diary. The best I've ever done with nofap is 3 weeks. Time to start again.

>>11966325
If you're enjoying a book, why do you need to finish it quickly?

>>11966572
pic related. we also once got into an argument over whether human rights were real or not, and suggested that I "learn some stuff about John Stuart Mill and John Locke, I think it'll really revolutionize your worldview."

I could probably do 30 in an hour, but I get very distracted so I will just stop halfway and do something else

>>11966186
The speed at which my semen would no longer be retained with her is high.

>>11966307
Is she also a part time hotel thot?

>>11966271
>Do they want sex or rather does a part of their brain wants sex, a part which was corrupted and reinforced in the interest of seeking pleasure?
Everyone has a natural desire for sex
>But that desire is a corruption
Corruption entails process, which would be creation and birth. You are an insect in your own ideology lol.

>>11967437
>If religion is false, these implications of how primitive much of the human brain is and are even more alarming. Losing agency over your very mind, confined to be a slave to this primal instinct for the rest of your days
Shit up retard. There are scientists in China who are in the beta stages of mind control.

>>11966179
It greatly depends how long it takes you to take all the info on the page inside you.
You're probably reading at a speed in which your mind is able to process all those words you are reading allowing you to actually understand what you are reading.
Sure I can blast through a 1200 page novel in a day, but will I actually understand anything that I've read ? Probably not since I don't allow my mind a chance to process any of the stuff that I'm reading. This is especially so when you're reading difficult novels or older texts (Shakespeare comes to mind) that you kind of have to translate internally so your mind can process it.
As long as you fully understand what you are reading then 20 pages is pretty good and the more you spend reading the better it's going to get.

>>11967047
I can't wait till we can have another holy war and finish what we started Ahmed.

>>11966179
Fuck off Jezebel poster