Need some insight from other people who had raped attention spans. I have a pretty bad one and for the past month I have nearly (there's relapses every so often) removed all external stimuli from my devices (social media, music, videos, etc) in the hopes of bolstering my reading comprehension and endurance.However, my progression is very slow, arguably nonexistent. Every 5 or 7 days I slip back into old habits for about a day or two, which is frustrating considering I do spend ALL of my day reading/studying (unemployed uni student), so to see that my endurance, speed, and comprehension hasn't improved after a month is frustrating.My sleeping habits are okay I guess. My cognitive performance at night (sunset) increases substantially, which makes it difficult to sleep as I have racing thoughts all night, and when 6-7am rolls around my anxiety keeps me awake since I have the many things that I want to do (study) but my cognitive performance then til the afternoon is extremely terrible in comparison.Is my timeline for progress naive insofar as this process takes more than a couple months? Am I just mentally fatigued? Or just simply low IQ? I have no ADHD diagnosis and am capable of focusing for extended periods of time, I am inquiring more into whether these periods where I am just simply incapable of reading or studying will ever go away or if I'm overestimating the habits of those intellectuals in the past. Ideally, I want to be able to read all day (or if time permits) every day (with breaks of course, but not to be forced into a break for 2-3 days due to fatigue).
>>24885837These meme makers follow me around on God. Whether it's the WALKER or the COOL GUY or the knowledge guy here or even the Islamic Nazi meme of that K-on chick with the commie flags in the background.They just take snapshots of my mental state of minds at certain points and make memes of them
>>24885885Or people aren't complicated and are a lot less unique than they think themselves to be.
>>24885896Or people have varying degrees of uniqueness based on their traits, abilities, and characteristics.
>>24885885The walker is the only one that’s LITERALLY me
>>24885837Nicotine pouches
>>24886045Not getting addicted
>>24886077Why are you afraid of getting "addicted" to something that's cheap, has no health risks, and helps you think more clearly?
>>24885837Maybe obvious, but you should be writing a journal. Never believe yourself a forgone conclusion, even if it’s true - that’s how you relapse.
I managed to stop looking at my phone. I keep notifications off, and deleted pretty much everything that wasn't phone/sms/browser. Eventually I'd like to limit myself to reading, films and music as my only forms of entertainment. I'll probably have to leave my laptop at work or something and stick to physical books, DVDs and records for a while until I have the discipline to not doomscroll twitter, compulsively check the news, and shitpost here.I should go full Walden for a few months when my lease is up.
>>24885837you just need to be beaten for being a pedantic faggotjoin some fight club to get your ass kicked and get a low end job to reset the homosexuality within yourself, a couple of months in you'll be as good as new
>>24886439t. repressed faggot who doesn't know what pedantry is
>>24886442i would've given you a whooping by the second paragraph, you pampered momma's boy
>>24886439Like Francis Bacon
>>24885837get on a schedule
>>24885837i always say i'm gonna quit then come on saying it's just to check on a post i made yesterday..then i make a new post and the cycle repeats but I do really want to be done..
>>24885837Look, you're not going to just will yourself into having an attention span. These phones are made to be addictive and if you're already stuck in that mental rut no amount of self control or sleeping early is going to change that. Also, you're stressing yourself out which is creating a mental block that impairs comprehension.Next weekend you need to take a tent up into the woods and just set it up way far away from anyone else. Bring a notebook and a pen and nothing else. Spend some time collecitng your thoughts, journaling, and sketching plants. Leave your electronics at home except for maybe a flashlight. Build a fire, watch the sun travel across the sky, skip some stones in the water. Do this for three days (Friday evening, Saturday, Sunday) and come back to your normal life. The next weekend, do the same thing. When you have some time off school, try to spend a whole week or two up there.
>>24885837the only light is Jesus
>>24885885It seems like "the NPC" is probably the one that fits you the most.
>>24885837thiamine, nigga
>>24886087Cope for your dependence
>>24886781Sounds pretty willed to me
>>24886944Sure, but only for the first hour while you hike out in the woods. Afterwards you're pretty much stuck there, so it's not like you have any choice.And that's a good thing. Don't give yourself the choice of being addicted to your bad habits. Just go up in the woods and listen to the birds sing. At absolute most take a single book for entertainment. Don't give yourself options. It forces you to focus on what's in front of you, instead of letting your mind dart from one tab to the next
>>24885837Aerobic physical exercise is really important (also fun and anxiolytic) in my experience. - look at how many steps you walk per day (should be at least 7000, better are 12-15.000 in my experience, but 20.000 are not too crazy if you're very active) - try walking every day, especially in the mornings, maybe set an arbitrary goal like 10.000 steps per day first, and maintain that; try to get faster, too- if you don't exercise already (aerobic exercise), start. find something you enjoy, I enjoy running and run 3-4 times per week. follow a plan like couch to 5k if you're a beginner, no need to overcomplicate it as long as you take exercise at least 2-3 per week - strength exercise is probably really important (but I neglect that as well, so I can't give recommendations here)- also get an eye exam, maybe new glasses help. - have at least two "projects" at the same time so you can procrastinate by switching between those two projects- don't be too hard on yourself, but try to keep honest with yourself, accept when you mess up for 1-2 days>I have no ADHD diagnosis and am capable of focusing for extended periods of timeI have an actual ADHD diagnosis (and even was medicated for it for a while) but I was capable of that as well I'd say, ADHD for me was more like not being able to choose what to focus on, being impulsive, and neglecting everything else when actually focused on something to the point of not going to the toilet/eating/drinking. Long-term focus (such as finishing a degree, maintaining friendships) or focusing on things I should focus on, or am forced to focus on, were the bigger problem. >>24886087>has no health risksIt can make anxiety worse (which anon seems to suffer from) and is not exactly helpful for cardiovascular performance. I've been using nicotine pouches for a while and they are fun short-term, but really easy to get addicted to, expensive, and after a while you need them just to not feel nicotine withdrawals. It's like caffeine on crack but won't even make you run faster. I'd rather start amphetamines again.
>>24886984NTA, but while I'd like to do things like that, I do not have the appropriate knowledge, skills, or money.My beater sedan is not making it out into the wilderness, nor do I know a good spot, nor do I have a tent, nor can I afford one on a lark. You see my rhythm here?A lot of people have barriers that stop them from pursuing this ranger shit. Monetary and social barriers.Be thankful for the merits of the lifestyle you have, just recognize that we can't all participate in it.
>>24886791Huh?
>>24885837You're not seeking knowledge, you're seeking an escape from reality in what is essentially fantasy. You can gussy it up with buzzwords all you want, but there's little difference between you and any other burnout loser who winds up obsessed with, say, Star Trek.Your knowledge is borderline worthless except for the entertainment value it provides. It's just a distraction for the mind, you use it to bedazzle and distract yourself from facing the real world.
>>24886045>>24886077Don't do nicotine pouches. Go to Walgreens or CVS and get nicotine lozenges, 2mg. The larger the better. Break them up into quarters. Let them melt in your mouth as "time release", and stagger out your consumption throughout the day. You could consume 2mg or less *a day* for years and never get addicted, especially if you take weekends off and never chase the rush. You'll just get clean focus and mood improvement, and the low dose won't hurt your cardiovascular system much either.>>24885837Read things that are more interesting to you. Break it up into a ratio that works for you. 80% interesting, 20% not interesting but good for you. If everything you read is not interesting enough for you to stay focused, even with extreme measures to prevent distraction, then you're not cut out for the topic or even the art of reading. Keep in mind, being focused 5 days a week and goofing off 1-2 days a week is a VERY good ratio. In fact, I'd say that that's successful and realistic. You need time to relax. So I would go back to the drawing board and recontextualize those "goofing off" days as rest & relaxation days. They're essential to long-term productivity, and you can use work days and rest days to motivate each other (I did a great job this week, let me have some fun... okay I had enough fun, let's earn the next goof off day with more studying).If you want to be more productive than that... honestly I don't think that's realistic unless you get seized by a muse or have a manic episode, and those phases aren't sustainable for obvious reasons. 5 on 2 off is great.
>>24887126I can guarantee that I'm poorer than you you whiney miserable faggot. The reason I got into camping was because my family was such a bunch of abusive sociopaths that it was easier for me to just take a tent into the woods and disappear for two or three weeks at a time than deal with that shit.A tent costs what, twenty dollars on craigslist? Literal homeless people have tents. Pick anywhere with running water and bring a bottle of iodine to purify it for consumption (you can do what I used to do and shoplift this from any drug store you pathetic fuck). Every other skill you need you're going to learn by just putting yourself in that situation where you'll need to, for example, start a campfire.Kill yourself you hapless bitch. Holy fuck I can't even put into words how much I hate people like you.
>>24887650By the looks of it those woodland adventures haven't brought the serenity of mind which you endeavored to acquire, you emotionally unregulated autistic train wreck
>>24887128the only light at the end of the tunnel in the quest for knowledge is your eventual surrender to Christ... once your dataset is large it enough it all becomes very provable
