guys, how do you increase your attention span? I always feel myself losing focus while I'm reading. I was just trying to read steppenwolfe and I only got past like one page and no matter how hard I force myself to read, it's just like my brain gets all pouty and it just refuses to go any further. When I first pick up the book though I read really fast and it's no big deal. I don't know why all of a sudden I just become unable to focus and it feels like a chore all of a sudden. I feel the same way when I'm doing homework to be honest (which is probably why I got less than a 2.0 grade point average.
adderall
Watch less TV/Play less games
Read more books
Do math/something challenging regularly
also, if you are new to reading, don't start with hard books. Just read something that you like, don't care if it is pleb tier OP.
I enjoy reading. That normally does the trick.
Why do we get threads like this so often? Is this really such a ubiquitous problem?
>>8408507
Probably is for people who spent half their youth here.
>tfw grew up before the internet really took off
meditate
then read books by nicholas carr, which will make you leave the internet
how do you guys deal with the urge to re-read a paragraph or phrase? Sometimes is necesary but sometimes it isnt but i do it anyway.
help
>>8408550
Re-read it
>>8408466
read better books
>>8408558
but if i don't do that i can read twice as many books in the same time.
Meditate
Get off the Internet (try having a day off, you'll be much more focused)
Live a healthy lifestyle
Read better literature
>>8408466
Get offline for a period of time, no cheeky phone time, no googling answers to your questions. Maintain a schedule or at least a routine. Get married. Have a kid or two.
>>8408578
Do you want to complete books or enjoy and understand them?
Unplug your internet.
Read Byung-Chul Han.
The Digital is a shallow mode of Being. You are overdosing on information and impressions.