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21649267 No.21649267 [Reply] [Original]

how to fight reading fatigue aside from taking stims??

>> No.21649297

>>21649267
Practise combined with abstinence from more low effort sources of passive entertainment.

Basically turn off your devices and make it so that you can only do things in meatspace or read. You will find a lot of hours in the day when all the obligations and chores and socialising are done (and your life will be way more well organised without the internet to distract you) where your choice is to either stare at your bedroom wall for hours or pick up a book. Books then become the least boring option instead of the fourth least boring option after internet, tv and vidya. You will find yourself reading for hours a day and realising it is a way more gratifying use of your leisure time than the informational junkfood you were consuming before.

And then at some point you will go back to the internet and ruin everything again and glance up from your screen somewhere in the night and wonder where the day has gone.

>> No.21649349

>>21649297
>meatspace
Is this another world for irl?

>> No.21649354
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21649354

>>21649297
>And then at some point you will go back to the internet and ruin everything again and glance up from your screen somewhere in the night and wonder where the day has gone.
Stop. It hurts too much.

>> No.21649372

>>21649297
I agree with all that, but even without internet I'll end up wandering off to doodle or take a walk or something, not bad distractions by any means but id still like to be able to read much more in one sitting than Im able to, I guess thats where the practice comes in thouhg

>> No.21649373

>>21649349
Yes.

>> No.21649378

>>21649267
Read in a place without distractions and more importantly reqd books that interest you.

>> No.21649379

>>21649373
Im stealing that

>> No.21649395

>>21649379
Be my guest, it's actually an older phrase than irl I think, pretty sure it goes back to Gibon's cyberpunk novels.

>> No.21649516

>>21649372
doodling and taking a walk are healthy distractions at least. the more you make reading a habit, the less distractions such as those will fuck your attentiveness towards reading.

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21650048

>>21649267
i've managed to overcome short-term reading fatigue, but i've now found myself struggling with long-term reading fatigue.
over the past month i've read 500 pages of tolstoy's "war and peace", and i feel as though i'll never be done with it. there are many other long texts on my shelf which i would like to read, but my motivation is stagnating.
what must i do to rejuvenate myself?

>> No.21650237

>>21649267
40 days of desert

>> No.21650271

>>21650048
why are you struggling to continue reading it? did you lose interest? did you enjoy it at all throughout the first 500 pages?
i usually commit to a window of time where i can read without interruption when finding myself less passionate or when i’m getting less enjoyment from my reading and simply push through it. only in the case where the book in question is a book i find worth doing such disciplined reading.
if it’s a book that i find little importance in, i will just drop it and find something else.

there’s no sense in forcing yourself to read if you find no reason or enjoyment in continuing whatever it is you’re reading. maybe you just need to take a break from war and peace and pick up a guilty pleasure book to refresh your brain. science fiction usually does this for me.

>> No.21650324

>>21650048
Personally I always try to read one to three different things at the same time, preferably a novel, a work of non-fiction and optionally some poetry or short stories. Having variation means you're less likely to get bogged down in one work.

>> No.21650425

>>21650271
>maybe you just need to take a break from war and peace and pick up a guilty pleasure book to refresh your brain.
i have thought about this myself.
i certainly haven't lost interest, i've found war and peace to be a very wonderful and sublime reading experience thus far.
it's not something i can read too much of in one day, however.
thank you for your words.