/lit/ - Literature

>>6837597
I have a job and a mortgage to pay so I can't sit around in mom and dad's basement all day brooding and reading like you

>>6837597
i'm too busy writing them, faglord.

Is reading Self-Help books everyday the equivalent of reading nothing at all?

>>6837605
You jelly?

this clown made a video explaining he doesn't even read books, but only skims them for 15 minutes because 'all books are 90% filler'

I do I signed up for his "book a day" reading list and he emails me summaries with the one (1) most important thing about the book a day and since I have been getting all the important things from those I don't even bother with the old way anymore, too inefficient.

I've become happier, healthier and richer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_hh0i6PML8

>implying i already don't

I have clinical depression and the only thing I can bring myself to do is shitpost on a Malaysian puppet show forum.

>>6837597
I can't get properly immersed without at least an hour, which isn't possible with the amount I'm interrupted.

That's why I read in the middle of the night.

>>6837915

This is true for me as well. I could read anytime but it feels wrong to read without dedicated sessions without interruption.

>>6837707
I can't tell if he is being serious or not

>>6837707
This can't be real.

>>6837707
>skim a paragraph every 10 or so pages
>reading

>>6837707
Seems like a pretty big waste of money to even buy a book if you're going to read it like that. Why not just jump directly to documentaries and Wikipedia articles?

>>6837610

Basically.

>>6837605
It's hilarious how normie wagecucks think having a goyloan etc makes them superior to glorious NEETs. It truly is sad and pathetic.

>>6837707
>actually rick rolls people 2 minutes into the video
jesus

>>6840036
what's so glorious about living in your parents basement though?

>>6837597
I used to, but now when I'm actually attempting to write along with studying at uni I don't really have time anymore. I miss it, though.

>>6840149
>implying I don't live in my own apartment provided by the government

I'm too innocent for this world. This world doesn't deserve someone as innocent as myself.

>>6840166
where do you live?

>>6840166
>wanting to leech taxmoney to uphold your "superior NEET lifestyle".

You are the literal scum of society. Worse than crimials.

>>6840177
Europe

Because I'm a slow reader with a short attention span.

>>6840190
Lel, are you a gypsy, a "refugee" or do you have some sort of "disability"?

>>6837707
Now, now, Johnny. Thinking like that is dangerous.

>>6840189
>m-muh taxmoney

It is literally incredible how upset the average wagecuck gets when confronted with someone who has transcended the desire to sacrifice himself for the vague notion of "society". Plenty of tax money is wasted each year on obscure overseas aid projects, failing banks, corporations registered to tropical tax havens, to name just a few. The fact you only become upset when you see someone choosing to resist the work-sleep-work lifestyle and live a life of freedom and creativity shows that the source of your anger isn't a desire for justice but an intense feeling of jealousy. Also you misspelled "criminals". Maybe you should catch up on your sleep. Good workcuck.

>>6840202
I have "autism" and asensitive disposition.

>>6840206
Oh yes, it is very strange people get mad when other people take advantage of the welfare system while contributing absolutely nothing to the society. What a bizarre concept!

>>6840218
I contribute my virtue and calm demeanor to society. Monetary contributions are beneath me.

>>6840222
Now I'm not sure whether you're trolling or not. You're an autist, after all.

>>6840229
I'm not trolling at all, and your incredulity only reinforces the fact that wagecucks are so close-minded as to the potential of the human individual that all they think a person is fit for is to work, sleep and attain material goods. Truly, truly sad.

>>6840190
which country gives you a free apt to live in? i need to move there

>>6837597
Because some books take longer than one day to read.

>>6840245
A civilized country. Though I occasionally correspondent with an individual living in the United States (Flagstaff, Arizona) who receives similar compensation as I do (free apartment, spending money and so on), though he had to fake several epileptic seizures until those at the regional welfare office gave in to his demands.

>>6840206
literal retard logic
>other ppl are bad so i am 2!!XD iz k
you somehow want to remove yourself from the social contract of society yet, simultaneously, want to benefit from it. do you see the contradiction here? no one is asking you to sacrifice yourself to society if you don't want to. just go live as an actual hermit in some shithole.

>>6837707
He's part of Mensa.

>>6840240
8/10

You had me up until this post.

Cause I'm watching Seinfeld

>>6840258
Where did I say I was bad? I am by no means bad. I exist in a state of pure innocence and virtue untouched by the plague of office chatter, unethical work procedures and the moral stupefaction inflicted by overwork. My moral superiority is one of the primary reasons I avoid lowering myself into the mire of "working life".

>>6840254
This is exactly why we shouldn't have a welfare state. There is no incentive to keep someone like you alive.

>>6837895

>>6837597
I watch a movie a day.

>>6840269
sorry, you compared yourself to a waste of tax money, my apologies, you're waste. again, no one is asking you to stoop to us lowly moral beings if you don't like to. you can enjoy being a superior moral being in a shithole outside of society because you're so above it.

>>6840254
nigger, why are you being coy, just state the country.

>>6840279
There is little reason to keep the state itself alive if it is maintained by individuals as resentful and callous as yourself. You should consider yourself lucky that people like myself exist, as throughout history we have been the ones who are turned to in times of moral and intellectual decline.

>>6840287
Regardless of your sarcasm that is exactly what I intend to do.

>>6840302
I'm not being sarcastic. and when I say outside of society, I actually mean outside of society, outside of its benefits, welfare, roads, etc because you're not interested in its social contract. you're above it. so why should it matter

>>6840334
Again, as an animal is innocent due its inability to act in a rational manner, I am innocent due to my inability to act in a way which degrades my sense of dignity or undermines the high standards to which I have always and will always aspire. Therefore I benefit how I please from the social contract, I simply refuse to write with blood my own signature, able as I am to see its countless flaws and vices. My being "above it" grants me permission to use it as I please without contributing to it (and thus adding to its misery and corruption)

>>6840250
/thread

not all of us are reading YA novellas that can be read in one sitting

I am a really fast reader and I usually can't get a book in faster than two days. Usually the first day I can get 100-200 pages in, and the next day (assuming it's at most 500 pages) get the rest. If it's 500+ then I might take 4-5 days, for example The Recognitions took me a workweek. Then I might take the next day off of reading to rest my eyes and just think about what I read, while trying a few sentences in the author's style in an attempt to better understand their craft.

As for poetry books those sometimes take me weeks to finish, I can only read maybe a few poems a day

>>6840361
if you want to be treated like an animal, then commit a felony and get yourself locked up.
anyways, you keep repeating the same trite line, like a teen who's just read dostoevsky without finishing the ending.

>>6840386
The declining quality of your attacks on me only highlight your lack of cognitive ability. Then again I'm not surprised, staring at spreadsheets all day takes a lot of mental energy. Also I've read almost everything Dostoevsky has written, beginning with Poor Folk. I'd enjoy discussing his works with you but I wouldn't want to keep you up past your bedtime.

>>6837597
Why am I suddenly seeing this guy all over 4chan? I have no idea who he is or what he did but the way he's just suddenly exploded on 4chan is uncanny.

>>6837707
tl;dr - It works only with practical books and if you know how to do it right.

First of all, I don't like this guy. To me, he is an embodiment of vanity, psedointellect and materialism.

But...

There is some truth in what he's saying, BUT it only works for certain type of books. Also claiming that you can do it in 10 minutes is just plain stupid.

I believe that you can learn to read a practical book(including self-help*) in 1-4 hours, depending on length. This method will not work on anything else. I've read only few practical books, so I cannot speak for majority, but usually the author makes a brief summary at end of each chapther. If that's the case I think it might work.

I remember How to Read a Book had few chapters on this. It put more emphasis on reader than you might expect. You'd have to ask yourself, before you even open the book, what do you want from the book; what is the authors main objective/message/idea; how much time is the book actually worth to you; and so on. I'd say, he does get the bit about focusing right. It's more about knowing where to focus your attention in the book rather than just speedreading it.

*- To me, it seems that he only reads this type of books, thus he can make a claim like that, but ignoring every other type of book is just plain ignorance.

>this thread

>>6837707
30 seconds into his Ted talk and I feel like Im getting Sam Hyded

>>6840476
He's a based successful intellectual. What's not to like?

I just finished reading Gravitys Rainbow in 10 mins thanks to based Tai.

Because when you take out time for sleeping, eating, shitting, etc., plus work, plus time drinking/being drunk/hungover, that leaves me only a few hours each day, sometimes less.

>>6840533
>shitting
>taking longer than 5 minutes

>drinking/being drunk
>not reading while barely conscious

Top pleb, tbh.

>>6837630
lel, his point was that books only have like two good points in them and that they only write the rest in order to make you feel less bad about buying it and to sell you the book.....

>>6840533
>>6840623
>Not taking your books to the shitter with you

>>6837597
Because the more I read the more I want to kill myself

>>6840860
lol enjoy reading for "points" pleb

>>6840623
>Not enjoying a good long shit.
I have read many a novel upon the porcelain throne.

>>6837597
Because every day I write the book. No time to read.

i read a book everyday though. i never had a day on which i didn't read a book.

>>6840206
Yes, you have truly transcended society, as evident by your shitposting on Croatian Genocide Forum.