/lit/ - Literature

I used to be able to read no problem. Now I am a coomer and can't focus for shit.

>>14997621
Textbook authors are payed by the word, and will be structured to say things as inefficiently as possible -- as you read, strike out the syntactic redundancies

>>14997628
I crank it on the daily and focus is not a problem for me. You have other shit going on, mane.

>>14997634
not only that, but they're intentionally as inaccessible as problems. I once talked to a guy whose brother wrote textbooks- and some of them were rejected because they "were too easy to understand". Academia is a boy's club.

>>14997326
why do you write in devil scratches

>we pay attention to what we enjoin, find a pain to do what we don’t enjoin
What a discovery! Scientists need to study this find!

>>14997651
Sounds like you never experienced life without it. I have. I used to do it once a week at most. Then it became daily. Now my brain is scattered and foggy.

>>14997663
we can all beat the coomer addiction together bros!!! we chad alpha kings, are we not?

>>14997671
Die in a fire COOFER

You have to be absolutely ruthless with textbook selection. The thing that must be remembered is that university administration is made up of parasitic worms that aren't fit to lick the dog-shit off your shoe. Ignore the recommend textbooks and stick to well regarded classics of the field.

What subject are you studying?

>>14997717
Cinema. I'm using Boardwell & Thompson's Film Art an Intro to get terminology down so I can better understand Arnheim, Bazin, etc.

>>14997663
>>14997715
I just meditate and exercise and things are fine. I feel emotionally content, in general and can focus. This is with daily smackin' of ol' one eyed jack.

I'm thinking that there is just some fundamental difference in how people are wired up, to where it just doesn't negatively effect me, whereas taking the growing number of people who talk about this sort of stuff seriously, it starts to look a lot like some people just can't handle porn. Maybe like how coffee just turns some people into nervous wrecks but for myself it's like jet fuel I could drink by the barrel.

>>14997914
Daily vigorous exercise is something every brain needs.

>>14997717
How do I know if it's a good textbook when I don't yet know the subject? ;_;

>>14999276
and where would one go about finding out this info? google search just gives me results asking for login info.

the sweat pledge

>>14999555
Those universities will have pages with professor contact info and directories. Usually those professors will put that stuff on their personal website,which can be found either through the university page or by googling their name. If all else fails, send them an email and ask. It seems time consuming, but not nearly as time consuming as flipping through 400 pages of "Film Theory 101 for dummies". You can also read reviews on amazon and goodreads of different books. Lots of the textbooks that get passed around will be nothing more than a collection of lecture slides written, chopped up, and reassembled in order to squeeze as much money as possible out of naive college students.

>>14997621
It may not be possible. The cognitive load of the textbook is much higher than that of fiction. It makes sense that 5 pages of abstract algebra is more difficult to comprehend than 5 pages of Harry Potter.

I would say take a 15 minute break whenever you get mentally fatigued, preferably doing meditation or physical exercise. Something that allows your brain to recover while also oxygenating it.

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>>14999721
Sounds like a slave mentality

>>14998726
https://opensyllabus.org/
http://www.doradolist.com/, this one if you are interested in CS/Electrical Engineering.