how do i increase my attention span and gain reading comprehension
>>24680445Cancel internet. Stop browsing chan boards on your phone
>>24680445Start with the greeks
>>24680445flog yourself. eventually your brain will get it.
>>24680445Exercise and reading. Both at the same time if you wish.
Turn off your phone and put it where you can't reach or see
>>24680445Programming.You will gain attention and reading comprehension but also uncontrollable ticks, rage, sometimes you will want to throw your monitor across the room but that's just minor things you will gain for actual power.
>>24680445honestly just read, you'll get better at reading comprenshion. I actually recommend reading something far above your reading comprehension (it would be a slog I know but push through) so that when you do read something easier, it's much more understandable.
>>24680921Unironically this.Then pick up a fucking book and read you illiterate fuck.
You can’t it’s over for you. Give up!!!!!!
>>24680852Suggestion
thanks guys I read Alexander Popes translation of the Iliad and though it took me like 4 hours to get through book 1 it took me only 2 today to get through book 2.
>>24680862This is good advice. It's one of the reasons I like reading in a rocking chair, pacing around the house, at my standing desk, or on the walking treadmill at my other standing desk. Exercise in general, particularly endurance exercise, has a noticeable positive effect on my ability to focus throughout the day.
>>24680445read more
>>24680445After a particularly rough stretch of life where I lost the ability to focus on and finish books I took up reading graphic novels. When your short form content brain needs a break from words you can look all around the page at the pictures and still be progressing through the story. At the end you get to feel like you finished a "book" instead of short form content. I did this for a while then started reading short books and then long books again.>read more>put away your phone>exerciseare all good advice
>>24683362is that real??
>>24683472It seems to be. He wrote a lot of letters from prison.
>>24683472>>24683680anyone has more letters?
>>24683707>by far the closest handwriting to mine I've ever seenWhat does that mean
>>24683362His handwriting is so neat. A couple years ago I set out to make my handwriting neater, and I'm very proud of the results. It's not as good as Ted's but people have commented on it.
Just read. When you feel getting bored or losing focus, stop and then do it later. Maybe carve out explicit times with a timer. It is like a muscle, it gets better the more you train it.
>>24680445Read more. Knowledge is connecting ideas. The more you read, the more you'll go "This reminds of X." The more ideas you've processed, the easier this process will become, since you'll have a bigger sampler size.
I couldn't finish a 4-year degree without Ritalin yet I've never had a problem with reading. what gives?
>>24681510>>24683315>>24683358>>24683924>>24683926What's a reasonable "amount" of reading stamina one can expect to cultivate after being an avid reader for awhile? My ideal goal would be to where I could sit down for, say, 8 hours, with occasional little breaks, and read/learn all day every day.
>>246840022-4 hours a day. 8 hours is retarded.
>>24684002Depends on what else you have going on. I've spent days reading, stopping only when hunger or the need to use the toilet became too uncomfortable or I passed out for the night from fatigue. Is that "reasonable"? Probably not. >>24684011I haven't spent more than your 2-4 hours/day reading a single text recently because I've had to juggle too many other tasks. I would agree that this range is a reasonable goal.
>>24683937college has been diluted to graduate idiots and take their money
>>24680645It really is as simple as this. And sometimes it doesn't even take willpower, you just start hating every moment you spend online until eventually you develop a genuine distaste for reading random bullshit that really fucking doesn't matter being discussed by a bunch of retards online.Hit this point and you're free. You don't even need to stop using your laptop or your phone. You just carry books in them and gravitate there naturally. You start doing, living, reading, and stop posting gay ass frogs or letting them take over your mind.
>>24683707https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/ted-kaczynskihttps://www.thetedkarchive.com/node/primary-source-documents-on-ted-kaczynski/the-second-half-of-teds-life/teds-prison-correspondencehttps://archive.org/details/h.-prison-letters-by-and-to-ted-kaczynski/H15.%20Friends%20on%20Bombers%20Row.pdf
>>24683362>I don't have time to attempt full answershe's in fucking prison, solitary confinement for 23 hours, what does he mean he doesn't have time
>>24684306He spent his days working out, reading, writing, and listening to the radio. There's only so much time for reading and writing in a human lifespan. You, too, will leave things unread and unwritten. >According to Kaczynski’s letters, he wakes up before dawn — around 6 a.m., when his breakfast tray is slid through a slot near the door of his cell. An hour later, in the warm months, he’s let outside for roughly an hour of recreation time. “I cover about five miles running back and forth in one of my tiny areas that we’re allowed to exercise in,” he wrote in a February 2000 letter, in which he recounted his daily routine.>Back inside, he reads or writes letters or essays until lunch is served, between 10 and 11 a.m. After lunch, he sometimes exercises in his cell — “push-ups, sit-ups and so forth” — before going back to writing. Sometimes he takes a nap. Dinner is served between 4 and 5 p.m., after which Kaczynski turns back to reading and writing. For a while he was focused on improving his foreign language skills, studying Russian, German and Italian dictionaries at night. He goes to bed around 10 p.m., sometimes listening to a classical music show on a radio station based out of nearby Colorado Springs.>Though he has no access to the Internet, Kaczynski does read the daily newspaper — often the Denver Post, though at one point he had a subscription to the Los Angeles Times, courtesy of his former attorneys Judy Clarke and Quin Denvir. He also subscribes to a variety of magazines, including the New Yorker, Time magazine and the New York Review of Books. Between that and letters from his extensive list of pen pals, who send him articles printed from the Internet, Kaczynski appears to maintain a close eye on politics and current affairs from his prison cell, constantly opining on current events in his letters.>In July 2009, Kaczynski responded to a letter asking him about prison life. “I’m an atypical prisoner in an atypical prison,” he wrote. “Prison life is probably boring and monotonous for most prisoners in a maximum-security prison like this one, but it is not so far for me because I have too much, rather than too little to keep me occupied.”https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-unabomber-s-not-so-lonely-prison-life-210559693.html
>>24680445You cease posting here and open a book. Shrimple as that
>>2468044521 Rules for the mind by DescartesI read one rule each day in the morning and it helps me to think clearly. I will now shill this tactic on here. It is a basic primer for logic and includes breakdowns of all sorts of things from math questions to riddles and jokes.
>>24684450Have you been learning the Latin or do you just read an English translation?
