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I used to read a lot as a kid. Nowadays I only shitpost on 4chan and watch youtube

>> No.17895674

Pick either the hour at the start or end of the day and commit to that hour. The rest of your time can be a free for all for now and a lot follows from having either a good end or a good beginning to a day.

>> No.17895680

Choose a time slot and force yourself to read for 20 minutes every day. Usually, once you hit that mark you are so into it that you want to continue.

It is just like how you would go about running more. The hard part is not the running, it is to change clothes and put on your shoes. Once you are outside, the running usually takes care of itself.

Also, read multiple books at the same time (I usually have 1-2 fiction + 2-5 non fiction books laying around at all times) so that if you get bored of one, you can switch to another book instead of going back to your computer/phone.

>> No.17895712

Start by reading manga, then move on to Plato.

>> No.17896191

Find a book you like and read it. If your phone-smooth brain can't handle that stick to Twitter

>> No.17896223

>>17895666
Read when eating some guy made a thread about a few months ago. Books fly by

>> No.17896254

You have to realize that reading, especially something like fiction, is the same as being on your computer. So instead of 3 hours of shitposting, do 1 hour of reading then 2 hours of shitposting. Slowly youll realize that reading is a lot more fun than wasting your life on this site and youll completely replace it with reading.

Non-fiction reading, in the hope of learning, takes a lot more mental involvement, where youll be taking notes as you go along. Thats gonna be like studying.

>> No.17896643

>>17895666
Firstly, why do you want to read more?
Yeah, this site is mostly shit posting, but most books are analogous to shit posting (in the same way that most of anything is shit).
You could vlbe indulging in any of the free courses available on the internet and learning things, but you're here because you enjoy this.
You'll do the same with reading. The difference is that a shit book will take up much more of your time than a shit post.

For example, I got shilled into reading Central Banking and the Enslavement if making. I'm half way through and have been reading it for hours. I'll finish for completion sake. If it were a post, it would simply be "I hate Jews and they ruined the world" and I would have processed it in seconds.

>> No.17896651

>>17895666
>read a book
>finish that book
>start another book
>finish that one too
>repeat process ad nauseum until you die
>??????
>Profit!

>> No.17896661

>>17895666
Just choose to read instead of not reading
Get the books you want to read or queue them up on your e-reader and have it around, and whenever you're doing dumb shit, think "I should be reading" instead.

Soon you'll be reading and you'll authentically like it better than going on the computer.

>> No.17896734

People's experiences with reading differ by a lot. I think the most important factor is how much you enjoy a book, since it will be easy to keep reading if you're very engaged. If (like most books) the book you're reading has its moments but puts more of the onus on you to keep reading, then you can't just rely on pure enjoyment -- nor should you just read books that are "fun" to read at all times.

In my experience, the two other important factors are 1) having a dictionary nearby and 2) reading as quickly as I can understand the text (not as fast as speedreading techniques, but faster than oral reading). The goal is to create a smooth reading experience, where you're pumping as much attention as you can into the text and what it means. This hopefully creates something like a flow-mode, where you get lost in the book, and if you're successful, you'll seek out that feeling again and again, even if the books you read aren't the most engaging.

>> No.17896792

>>17895666
It's like exercise, you have to add progressively more to each set.
I was in the same boat as you. I started by setting aside only 10 minutes a day of uninterrupted reading. The following week increased it to 15 minutes a day etc. Soon enough you'll be reading again

>> No.17896854

>>17895666
You've got some good advice already; my only input is that redemption is indeed possible. When I was a kid I used to fall asleep reading every night, but after discovering vidya at age 13, I don't think I finished a single book for the next 15 years. I always had the idea in the back of my mind that I'd get back into reading "some day" but doubted whether it was possible.
Then for some reason I started reading epubs on my phone. That suited my new lifestyle and it became a compulsion rather than a chore. I read over 60 books that year, the next year I read over 100.
I'm still a screen-addicted fuckup who spends hours surfing 4chan and porn every day, but it's easy to fill in the gaps with reading.
We're all gonna make it, bros.

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17896939

Tips for success:
-Read what interests you (don't start with the fucking Greeks)
-Setting monthly or yearly reading goals really helps. You've spent years cultivating the neural reward circuits that make stat-farming in video games so satisfying; now you can use those exact same circuits to drive your reading habit.
-Read in bed at night, read a couple pages every morning before you open your computer

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>>17895666
>Those trips
Like anon said above just set aside 20 mins a day to read. Then slowly increase that to 1 or 2 hours a day, and you’ll be reading more than 99% of the population.

>> No.17896978

>>17896854
>4chan and porn
Is it actually possible to stop these two habits or are you just doomed after a certain point?

>> No.17897007

If your gonna read after spending over 30 minutes on the internet a day I would meditate before reading. The internet is so fucking overwhelming for the mind that switching to a book immediately would be hard.

>> No.17897153

>>17896978
I'm pretty sure we're all doomed. But I just did the math and if you read the average number of words per minute, you only have to read for 34.2 minutes every day in order to finish an average-length novel every week. Should be easy to sustain any number of unhealthy addictions if you can set aside two 17-minute reading blocks every day.

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>>17897153
>average-length novel
Seems like a pretty small novel desu. But ideally I’d like to read an hour a day

>> No.17897350

Download the 2020 top 100 chart and read from beginning to end. Even if you only read 5 pages per day, remember most people read zero pages so you're still progressing

>> No.17897361

>>17896978
I first doscovere 4chan with j was in my early teens.I thought I'd grow out of it, but I'm 31 and all that's changed is that I don't visit /b/ or /r9k/ anymore.
I like this site though. It's my favourite place on the internet forum-wise.

Porn I can sort of take or leave.

>> No.17897368

>>17897361
15 years trapped here and counting. We are doomed forever bro.

>> No.17897378

>>17895666
Read them.
Now.