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 No.13356>>13358 >>13370 >>13382 >>13386 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

I'm not a nigger, so I already read regularly, but I would like to be able to retain more information from what I do read.

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 No.13357>>13389

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1. Kill your television

2. Read much more slowly and reread every sentence you do not fully understand

3. Use a dictionary constantly to check every word you do not fully understand its usage

4. Spend at least half an hour daily reading books written more than 100 years ago

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 No.13358

>>13356 (OP)

Read outloud to yourself. Read short stories to practice comprehending a whole subject. Read off of paper, instead of on a screen (it actually makes a difference) Read things that are important to you, or that you will use in your daily life.

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 No.13370

>>13356 (OP)

read to understand and not to flip to the next page.

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 No.13382

>>13356 (OP)

>tfw going to use this line regularly, even when stating i aint a darky is completely irreleveant

>or is it??

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 No.13386>>13389 >>13392

>>13356 (OP)

Think about what you're reading. Refute the stupid shit in your head as you read, incorporate the good stuff into your worldview, note the facts that just don't fit into your narrative at all and make them a topic of further inquiry, and so on. If it helps you, make notes or write down what you have learned after every fifty pages.

Figure out at which points and under what circumstances your brain tries to shut down. When that happens, read more consciously and thoroughly and lower your pace, and consider going back a few paragraphs or more to figure out where you lost your train of thought. Your eventual goal should be not to have to go back at all, but of course, that's an ideal.

As you acquire more self-esteem, consider that who you're reading may just be a redundant, confused and overcomplicated asshole. Not gonna name anyone specific, but goddamn John Rawls. To be fair, though, I also had that impression when I started reading Anthony de Jasay, but then halfway through began to like him. So don't take a shitty writing style as an excuse to just stop engaging the book at all.

Reading is more interactive than you may think. It's more interactive than most lectures, in my experience.

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>>13386

>>13357

How do you improve attention span? How do you avoid things like internet and vidya and devote time to reading?

I'm currently reading Mein Kampf and a book about the Katyn Massacre. Didn't finish Evola's "Ride the Tiger" because it was kind of esoteric and went in out and out of abstractions, at least while I tried to focus on it.

I enjoy things like Thomas Pynchon and DFW fiction-wise.

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 No.13390

>>13389

Me, I didn't really "devote" time to reading. In university, I've read on the bus, in between lectures, and often another hour later when I was home. I've split my reading up and just focused on the page number, which gave me a benchmark to work for. My aim was one textbook per week. How exactly I allocated my time to it wasn't important as long as I got everything done.

This may not work for you, but you can give it a try. Just set a goal and reach it. Doesn't matter if you read in between loading screens, on the bus, or while cooking, you just get it done. Eventually, it will become a habit. Then all you have to do is ensure you also understand what you're reading, but I talked about that above.

>I'm currently reading Mein Kampf and a book about the Katyn Massacre.

That's decent for a start. Just remember to go out every once in a while to read something you believe you will fundamentally disagree with. That may be extremely painful, but it's immensely valuable. Playing devils advocate this way isn't necessary often, maybe once every three books in the beginning when your views are still fresh and once every ten when they're reinforced against criticism. That's a rough guideline, of course. An 800-page treatise will likely be more illuminating than five smaller books, and books also aren't the only source of wisdom and personal conviction, so don't treat them as an accounting tool. I do that sometimes for the sake of expediency, but you shouldn't. Trust me on that.

>Didn't finish Evola's "Ride the Tiger" because it was kind of esoteric and went in out and out of abstractions, at least while I tried to focus on it.

Well, reading is a skill like any other. Train it, and work on your knowledge base, and then you can come back to Evola.

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>>13386

>Figure out at which points and under what circumstances your brain tries to shut down.

For me, a good heuristic is when I start to lose the rhythm and meter of what I'm reading. It's around this point that I start to gloss over words and eventually entire passages. It's probably not a great idea to force yourself to mentally verbalize everything you read, but I use it when I have trouble processing something I'm reading.

>>13389

Ride the Tiger is a bad place to start Evola. You have to get a handle on the esoteric first to really understand him.

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