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Every time I get myself to read something, it almost immediately bored my to death and stop reading it. Either rhat, or the overly-detailed writing styles of older books just require too much effort to read. But I wanna read things. I wanna read catcher in the rye despite it being boring as hell. I wanna read Meditations and AsoIF despite them being pretty long. I wanna read a bunch of books, but I just lose interest.
It's probably my ADD, desu, but how do I get the will to earnestly get into reading?
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read something you enjoy, start with King if you have to, seriously. Meditate, seriously. Limit yourself to a computer screen in any way that you can, seriously. Maybe allow yourself to browse the internet or play video games or talk to people on Teamspeak only after you read 50 pages. Go to the gym. Start thinking for yourself.
Or don't, whatever.
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realistic answer - its hard to will yourself to like to read books you don't want to read. My advice would be not to try and tackle intense books and just stick with what actually interests you and read out of that pile... There is not much room for people who don't want to read literature yet try and read literature with no interest...
methods that helped me focus and read include -
- setting a goal that could actually be reached by me (I started with 30 pages a day, which was perfect cause each book of The Iliad is about 30 pages) and then I worked my way up or at least stayed at my original goal
- immersive yourself in stuff that goes with what you are reading, (my examples are mostly going to be about my experience reading The Iliad because I wasn't very motivated to read it) I watched the movie about The Iliad which prompted me to find out the differences between the book and the movie, I read about Greek Mythology, etc.
- As for your ADD if you don't want to use prescription drugs to numb that shit use recreation drugs is what I have heard.... Some people say reading while high is better then without...
- Also this post might be a meme but if it isn't hope you can find the motivation
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>>8434280
>Meditations
>long
hee haw I guess I should have caught the joke before this point
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I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
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>>8434305
>this pasta
to be fair it's not that bad of advice
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>>8434280
You must not be reading stuff you actually like. Try reading some book you are interested (or easy) in even if its the Plebbiest tier shit ever and set yourself a time everyday to read. After a month or so it will become natural to read daily and you wont struggle to get through longer books that are a slog sometimes
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