/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21446316]

>tfw no motivation to read

[Anonymous No.21446364]

>>21446316
Iktf. I think too much internet use and pornography has messed up my brain

[Anonymous No.21446369]

>>21446316
I've started turning my computer off from noon to 2pm. Maybe try that.

[Anonymous No.21446381]

>>21446369
how could i possibly do that when i have a 175 word essay due 2 weeks from now?

[Anonymous No.21446393]

>>21446381
Plan your day out better. Pick a time for study and pick a time for your own reading.

What's the essay about? I usually write things that short up the day before they're due.

[Anonymous No.21446404]

Reading before bed for an hour or so helps me sleep. I usually don’t read until I have nothing left to do that day. Kind of a reward for doing the shit I’m supposed to be doing, I guess.

[Anonymous No.21446413]

>>21446316
(This might be too specific to my own experience to make sense to anyone else. But whatever.)

I think committing to reading is difficult because it requires you to have faith in something abstract. In contrast, for something like porn, you know you're getting something concrete.

By concrete I mean you already know the exact feeling that porn will give you. You crave it, and porn realises it for you. That's why it's comforting. You know that you can click on the video and achieve a specific state.

But with reading, you can never anticipate how it's going to make you feel beforehand. That's why it's valuable: it kind of expands you. When you read a good novel it's like travelling to somewhere you've never been before, or having one of those Big Nights that you feel enlarged by, if you've ever had one of those. You're in contact with alien forces. Like when you meet someone and think 'I had no idea people like you even existed before tonight'. (And books can also just be meaningless words to you, and feel like a waste of time -- there's no way to know in advance.)

So, to commit to reading a book, you have to commit to the abstract sense that 'something unknown might happen', you have to have faith in a future potential version of you that you can't concretely identify with, instead of trusting in the guaranteed vending-machine logic of getting a predetermined output for your input. Which is why reading is both difficult and valuable.

[Anonymous No.21446505]

>>21446413
>or having one of those Big Nights that you feel enlarged by, if you've ever had one of those. You're in contact with alien forces. Like when you meet someone and think 'I had no idea people like you even existed before tonight'
Elaborate on this, please.

[Anonymous No.21446724]

>>21446364
Then quit porn and limit your internet usage

[Anonymous No.21446805]

>>21446724
Easier said than done

[Anonymous No.21446811]

>>21446805
>turn off the computer
>sit in your chair with nothing to do
>wow I'm bored, I want to stimulate my mind somehow
>hmmm maybe I should read

It's literally that easy, just turn your computer off fag

[Anonymous No.21446833]

>>21446316
>tfw i can't read all books during my lifetime
reading is really infinite

[Anonymous No.21446857]

Do a dopamine/internet fast my man.