How can you concentrate on reading/writing with all that noise

>>9336568

I live in my parent's comfy isolated basement where it's peaceful and quiet and not a shithole urban hell.

You'd be surprised at what you can get used to.

>>9336568
My outside is quite, but if yours is loud you could stay inside when you want to read.

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>living in a city

>>9336572
I don't actually live in NYC, my city has only 100,000 people but it's still loud outside.

I intentionally removed my sense of hearing for this exact reason. I also removed my sense of smell, but that was for another reason.

ear plugs?

idk i sometimes read to techno and i'd hesitate to call it multitasking

I actually live in the middle of a corn field. noiseless except for nature

although today was plowing day, so there were tractors. not that noisy though desu.

>>9336625
>plowing day
how is it a corn field if there's no corn in it?

>>9336641
i said 'corn field' for clarity's sake. there isn't anything planted now, and they're probably not even going to plant corn; they planted soy beans last year. 'soy bean field' rolls off the tongue much worse than 'corn field,' though.

>>9336568
I bought ear protections, those that construction workers use, they look like headphones but they just block the noise.

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>>9336568
Do meditation and learn to create a comfy sphere around you.

I was reading Odysseus in a pub last week with a pint of beer.

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just bring one of these to the cafe

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>>9337739
>I was reading Odysseus

>>9336572
>leaf

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>>9337755
It is l'Odyssée in French, I tought it was Odysseus in english.

I was wrong.

>>9336568
I put on my headphones and listen to classical music. It's funny I couldn't listen to it while driving, but if I'm reading or playing vidya it just feels right.