I think maybe noise level has a lot to do with finding the motivation to read.My apartment was being renovated so I lived in a temporary apartment for a year. In that apartment there was no ventilation near my desk, so it was very quiet. I had a lot of motivation to read when I lived there. Now I've moved back to my apartment and there's ventilation right next to my desk and I can't do anything about that. I didn't even realize how loud this motherfucker is until I spent a year in the other apartment. I have not had motivation to read since moving back and I think it's this noise from the ventilation that's doing it. If your home doesn't have a quiet place you're not going to find that motivation.
>>25397746Noise motivates me because I have to actually focus on what I'm reading. There's no room to space out or relax, it's either read or nothing.When I'm in my studio, surrounded by thousands of books and absolute silence (except for the autistic man next door shouting from his window) I can't read a lot.
>>25397746Had a problem with noisy ventilation in my last apartment too, just ended up getting ear plugs for sleeping/quiet time.
>>25397753wtf does that image have to do with the topic fucking retard kys littering nigger
>>25397756Oh no, an image on an image board!
>>25397759kys degenerate subhuman littering nigger
>>25397746Boomers that run leafblowers 24/7 need to have their skulls caved in by steel toed boots. There is nothing more worthless than a boomer than ruins a neighborhood's peace and quiet, unceasingly, truly unceasingly, in order to "keep property values high." Do you think living in a place that is as loud as a fucking warzone constantly will help maintain property values, faggot? Total boomer death now.
Can someone link OP to that Seneca essay about this exact thing except Seneca calls OP a pussy
You can blame the NIMBYs for that. Every NIMBY is a narcissistic chatterbox and they sneakily find ways to increase the baseline environmental decibel level through HOA or code enforcers until it matches their average decibel level to promote comfy NIMBY vibes. If you ever have the misfortune to work in an office with NIMBY chatterbox faggot sluts they just talk talk talk all day in a frequency that makes you want to kill yourself. If you live in the same house as a NIMBY they stomp when walking around and slam doors and toilet seats. Everything for them needs to tend toward their favorite 66.6 decibels or they will feel uncomfortable. Submit or get deported from my backyard!!
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>>25397761scared? you are, aren't you
counterpoint: I made a silent room in my house for reading infinite jest but it just made me fall asleep all the time while reading it
>>25398378does nothing you fucking faggot retard>just let people walk all over you and bow your head in submissiondieI lived in a neighborhood full of NIMBYs and the best way to combat them is to scream at all hours at the top of your lungs. They can't handle people daring to fight back, their entire lives no one has ever told them no.
>>25398372Huh. Thats the exact opposite of NIMBYs that I've ever experienced. Usually the community finds a solution for a problem, and the NIMBYs shoot it down if it in any way negatively affects them. Let's say the problem is skateboarders, people will suggest building a skatepark so kids can hang out there and not fuck around in public spaces with non-skaters. Easy solution, right? Well the NIMBYs will freak out and say "I don't want to hear boards smacking concrete all day, and I don't want groups of kids walking by my property. No skate park, not in my backyard!"They constantly halt progress. They'll bitch endlessly about the problem, but will not concede. It's their way or the highway.Curious what kind of area you live in. I don't doubt your experience, but Ive always associated low noise levels with NIMBYs, for better or worse.
>>25402153I don't know what would classify as a nimby or not but boomers that are obsessed with "muh property values" are HOA fascists and make life literal hell by doing things like hiring landscape crews to come blow dust around with brain-rapingly loud leafblowers for eight fucking hours every other day all year round without cease. Yes this actually happened to me. It never stopped, the renovations, the machines, the noise would not cease and it was all for the sake of muh property values. I was legit really close to actually fucking murdering someone over it, imagine living next to an air raid siren that sounded for eight hours every other day and there was nothing you could do about it other than move. These boomers hate you and want you dead. They'd rape the Earth if it meant getting to fuck one person over.
>>25397746Kant has written a treatise on The Vital Powers; but I should like to write a dirge on them, since their lavish use in the form of knocking, hammering, and tumbling things about has made the whole of my life a daily torment. Certainly there are people, nay, very many, who will smile at this, because they are not sensitive to noise; it is precisely these people, however, who are not sensitive to argument, thought, poetry or art, in short, to any kind of intellectual impression: a fact to be assigned to the coarse quality and strong texture of their brain tissues. On the other hand, in the biographies or in other records of the personal utterances of almost all great writers, I find complaints of the pain that noise has occasioned to intellectual men. For example, in the case of Kant, Goethe, Lichtenberg, Jean Paul; and indeed when no mention is made of the matter it is merely because the context did not lead up to it. I should explain the subject we are treating in this way: If a big diamond is cut up into pieces, it immediately loses its value as a whole; or if an army is scattered or divided into small bodies, it loses all its power; and in the same way a great intellect has no more power than an ordinary one as soon as it is interrupted, disturbed, distracted, or diverted; for its superiority entails that it concentrates all its strength on one point and object, just as a concave mirror concentrates all the rays of light thrown upon it. Noisy interruption prevents this concentration. This is why the most eminent intellects have always been strongly averse to any kind of disturbance, interruption and distraction, and above everything to that violent interruption which is caused by noise; other people do not take any particular notice of this sort of thing. The most intelligent of all the European nations has called “Never interrupt” the eleventh commandment. But noise is the most impertinent of all interruptions, for it not only interrupts our own thoughts but disperses them. Where, however, there is nothing to interrupt, noise naturally will not be felt particularly. Sometimes a trifling but incessant noise torments and disturbs me for a time, and before I become distinctly conscious of it I feel it merely as the effort of thinking becomes more difficult, just as I should feel a weight on my foot; then I realise what it is.
>>25397746Then invest in really good headphones. There's a sennheiser that has insane sound-blocking. All I remember is that it's grey though. You'll probably be able to find it easily if you search for it.
>>25398246>>25398372>>25400075The very concept of an HOA makes me want to fucking puke. Just another reason the thank god I don't live in an American shithole.
>>25402450HOAs are literal fascist cults a lot of the time and if you buy or rent a home that is already in one you cannot get it out so no matter where you move you have some tyrannical boomer narcissist raping your life and your peace and your time because of "property value." You can choose to buy or rent a property that's not in an HOA but these are increasingly harder to find.
