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Lit how does one succeed in dedicating their days so dutifully to study and learning?

Are there any anons that would be able to share their genuine advice for realising such a motivation and state of mind? To be able to just dedicate hours upon hours on study, or learning history or a language without distraction or the slightest desire to be not doing so? How exactly do you instil such an admirable internal philosophy?

>> No.14897787

>>14897774
Stop looking for motivation and just do it.

It’s like /fit/, the best reason to use to motivate yourself to keep lifting is to have no reason. Just lift like you’re brushing your teeth.

Just read like you’re brush your teeth. Read every day for a certain amount of time and just make it per of your life. Motivation will always wax and wane, but habits, once built, become nearly second nature.

>> No.14897801

>>14897787
Does this really work? I only ask because I'm wary that brute forcing things sometimes only works in the short term but are withered down by your subconscious resistance.

Sounds great if it really is so simple as to un-thinkingly will it into your psyche

>> No.14897828

>>14897787
>i dont brush my teeth
Yes, im fucked in the head.

>> No.14898045 [DELETED] 

>>14897774
stop
you're probably not meant to do it
scholars are a different type of people
just read translations

>> No.14898080

>>14897774
Set a timer. It works. Trust me, I'm on the internet. Seriously though.

>> No.14898098
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14898098

>>14897774
Enjoy.

>>14898045
Defeatist elitist. How repugnant.

>> No.14898131

>>14898098
As in just focus on enjoying the process then?

>>14898080
Will give it a go

>>14898045
Not even just for learning greek and the likes, but such focused study just in a general academic (or non-academic even) sense. Somewhat egotistical maybe, but kind of imagining the kind of mindset that would enable me to use time so that one may rise above the common standard and achieve an impressive amount of knowledge or any other aspiration

>> No.14898200

>>14897774
Manic depression and different drugs

Some days I exercise hard as fuck, some days I study hard as fuck, other days(most of them) I'm rendered useless by the substances

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14898201

>>14897774
It's called discipline. You wouldn't know anything about it. You just make it a habit. You don't think about it. You just commit to it and do it.

>> No.14898283

>>14898201
discipline seems to me to be a bit of a meme concept, personally found that it's an unthinking idea that fails me as soon as I seriously ask "Why?", so don't know if "just doing it" is the most sustainable approach, will give it a try though as a previous anon said it quite well

>> No.14898303

>>14898098

>Defeatist elitist

Hey, that rhymes

>> No.14898305

>>14898283
>personally found that it's an unthinking idea that fails me as soon as I seriously ask "Why?"
never gonna make it

>> No.14898348

>>14898200
damn sorry to hear that anon, sounds like a tough state to be in indeed

>> No.14898353

>>14897774
don't be a wagie

>> No.14898361

>>14898305
>NGMI
This isn't fit, do really think that saying other people aren't going to achieve something that you are? Indeed, sorry to disappoint but saying things like this is probably more symptomatic of a character unlikely to "make it" as you said.

Just looking for something beyond mere "discipline" alone (which seems to produce more mediocrity than anything else) if you see what I mean, the likes that will take one beyond the limits of mere discipline and "will power" alone

>> No.14898369

>>14898353
Currently in education, so not there yet fortunately

>> No.14898381

>>14898369
Being a student is better than being a wagie

>> No.14898506

>>14898361
You never asked to go past discipline and willpower alone. Success takes talent too, but you never asked for success overall. You asked to
>succeed in dedicating their days so dutifully to study and learning.
Dedication and duty = discipline.

>> No.14898865

>>14898506
>Are there any anons that would be able to share their genuine advice for realising such a motivation and state of mind?

and

>without distraction or the slightest desire to be not doing so

Does this sound exactly like discipline to you? Perhaps diligently would have been a better choice than dutifully, suppose really just looking to foster a sense of keen curiosity and interest and from there to, as you said, be able to dedicate days to study and learning

Perhaps this is too personal a question to be hoping anons on the internet to have gone through a similar issue, but I never really know