How the ACTUAL FUCK do you have the time/energy/consistent uninterrupted mental space to be well-read and to write these days?Even if you aren't hustling and have an average 9-5 job, it feels nearly impossible given the sheer amount of distractions, the frantic pace of the world, and the amount of bullshit you have to deal with on a daily basis. Are we "cooked" as the retarded kids say?
I simply pretend I am and make vague allusions that everyone else can't handle me, that way I never have to prove anything
>>24795852It's easier now than it ever used to be. Most people don't read that much so being "well read" really just entails superficial familiarity with popular contemporary authors and a smattering of older influences.
there were only like 40 books in the 1940s, anon.
>>24795852Become a NEET. Bin all your electronics. Start reading.
>>24795852If you start replacing time you spend on social media and other time wasters you'd be surprised at how much you can read.
Put down your phone and stop doomscrolling. Most people have like 6+ hours of screen time per day, sacrifice a couple of those hours to reading
just be a neet
>>24795852Just replace your bullshit with reading. The time it took for you to browse 4chan, make this post and check back for replies? Read.The time it takes you to aimlessly watch youtube, tiktok, scroll inane shit on your phone? Read.The distractions will always be there. Even alone in a monastery you would find distractions as long as you are committed to distracting yourself and thinking it's the outside world doing it.But nobody can fix this for you. Only you yourself can cultivate discipline and focus. It takes active work and effort. No video will get you there.To get you started, you could try simple meditation. Just sit for any amount of time, completely motionless, and focus your mind on one single thing, your breathing, an object, a simple geometric shape in your mind's eye. Simply by doing that, and taking the time to do it, you may hit upon the nature of the problem.
>>24795852>not being able to front load it in your youth is a problemThere's too much in general. Reading around until you find your particular taste is the main thing. Can't FOMO about it, or you'll stay paralyzed agonizing over it.
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>>24795860This is just mid wit iq ruling over room temp iq
>>24795852Just face the fact that books are a fairly obsolete medium of transmitting information, which is what faggots like >>24796791 always miss. They will persist due to being easy to produce for every social class and being relatively resistant to politics, rather than being efficient (efficiency here representing time spent vs information retained), but they'll be (or already have been) largely degraded to passive archival references than stuff that people ever actively read. They're passive consoomption of textual (about 100x less efficient than pictorial) information without the opportunity to engage in a proper dialogue with the author, all of which has been addressed by modern media.
