/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9578894]

>want to read
>can't concentrate
>go on phone to shitpost
>end up playing video games

[Anonymous No.9578908]

>>9578894
>want to read
>can't concentrate
>go on /lit just for a minute
>an hour has passed

[Anonymous No.9578910]

>>9578894

>Want to read about Medieval Europe
>Can't because I have to study for the bar
>Forget about Medieval Europe
>Start studying for the bar
>Start going through phone
>See hot pictures of girlfriend
>Masturbate
>Go downstairs to eat

[Anonymous No.9578941]

>>9578894
>want to play videogames
>realize video games are shit
>end up reading

[Anonymous No.9578954]

>>9578894

>have to read 10 pages and write 250 words on them
>take 2 hours to get through the 10 pages (in between breaks)
>write nothing
>take a nap for 1.5 hours
>waste another 5 hours doing I'm not even sure what

Haha

[Anonymous No.9578985]

>>9578941
This so much.

[Anonymous No.9579011]

>>9578894
>not even sure if I want to read
>project the intention to read
>pick up a book
>struggle to remember where I left off and what the content of the chapter was
>find my place, begin reading
>30 seconds later get the urge to watch something on youtube
>set the book aside
>do something else for the next 3 days
>it is absorbed into the general disorganization of my unkempt room

how do I regain my ability to concentrate

[Anonymous No.9579023]

you just prefer the idea of being a reader than actually reading; it's not an issue of concentration, but an issue of honesty

[Anonymous No.9579036]

>>9579023
This is true, I'm a Pseud who reads Wikipedia pages and namedrops postmodern french authors to assure dominance in social procedure and water cooler talk

[Anonymous No.9579107]

>>9578894
>Two exams due in two hours
>Want to study, but have been procrastinating for the last 5 hours
>Well, I'm here, boys

[Anonymous No.9579120]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpHyLG-sc4g

[Anonymous No.9579225]

>>9579023
>it's not an issue of concentration

no, my brain has been wracked by decades of porn, internet and drug use

[Anonymous No.9579253]

>>9579225
oh yes it's never your fault is it. You're just a poor tortured reader

[Anonymous No.9579259]

>>9579253
well i am poor, and the things i've seen from my many years on the internet have tortured, even scarred me

all i'm saying is the attention span of a suburbanite will not be as fresh as that of a kazakstani sheep herder

[Anonymous No.9579267]

>>9579259
all I'm saying is boo-hoo, read a book if you enjoy reading it, if you don't then find another book

stop making excuses for your failure to fit your faulty schema of ideal self

[Anonymous No.9579272]

>want to read
>get stoned and jack off to erotica

[Anonymous No.9579273]

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[Anonymous No.9579283]

>>9579273
>want to read

No you don't you want to browse /lit/

[Anonymous No.9579444]

>>9579036
had a warm laugh of recognition
but seriously though, we might be doomed to misery

[Anonymous No.9579464]

>Sometimes spend all day reading
>Sometimes spend all day playing vidya
>Sometimes spend all day jacking off, shitposting or watching cable news or some other shit
>can't manage to maintain a healthy balance

[Anonymous No.9579531]

>>9578894
had the same issue till recently just set a small goal of pages to read a day then keep increasing this as you go you will enjoy it much more than vidya after a while

[Anonymous No.9579613]

>want to read
>open the book and start reading the words
>turn the page when i've read all the words
>after finishing a few chapters put the book away for the day

[Anonymous No.9579635]

>want to read
>don't

[Anonymous No.9579641]

>want to read
>don't
>buy book