internet addiction

[Anonymous No.14849478]

Do any of you have any experience with overcoming internet addiction so that you may finally actually read books?

The stacks just keep getting bigger while I waste time online. How do you make yourself actually read?

[Anonymous No.14849483]

read e-books

[Anonymous No.14849486]

I like reading so I always find time for it. There is always the feeling that I could be reading more, but I don't think that will go away no matter how much time I dedicate to reading.

If you're having trouble just start with some small goals. It's easier to continue reading than it is to start reading.

[Anonymous No.14849493]

>>14849483
but that would only trigger my web browsing habit even more
Im fell for the neet meme and cant get out of my pathological lazyness, I waste my precious with vidya/web browsing/anime and cooming

[Anonymous No.14849496]

Go pick up a book and read it for 2 minutes, and then put it down. Anyone can do anything for just 2 minutes.

Make it a habit to do this every day. Even if it's just 2 minutes, do it every day. You can do 2 minutes, no matter how shit or fucked your day has been. If you can't, do thirty seconds. If you can't even do that, just get up and walk over to your bookshelf and then come back.

Then step it up. Do it as infrequently and as minutely as you need to to make sure that you keep doing it. If it takes you five years to go from reading a book for 2 minutes to reading a book for 20, that's fine. It's a marathon, not a sprint. In five years time you'll still have a lot of life left.

Just do anything. Anything you can. No matter how small. Just do it every day. Every day it gets easier, but you have to do it every day.

[Anonymous No.14849503]

>>14849478
I always have Internet Explorer (edge) open in the background with 5 books I can read a page of and hope to be engaged longer. It usually only works when I have internet trouble. You should be able to signup to your ISPs for intermittent internet outages for weeks and months - kind of like how gambling houses can refuse problem gamblers.

[Anonymous No.14849505]

Also I have massive concentration issues and it seems that my attention span is shot
I cant even get past the first few pages and im always grabing my iphone to browse some useless shit

could adderall help? I want to enroll into a university degree programme but I need to fix myself asap

[Anonymous No.14849512]

>>14849496
Based

cringe for citing Bojack though

[Anonymous No.14849516]

>>14849512
The real cringe is knowing it's from Bojack.

[Anonymous No.14849518]

>>14849505
Are you sure it's not just shit willpower? Taking drugs is a rather extreme step and will not fix the (likely) underlying reasons behind your failings.

Try putting your phone in another room and trying to overcome the initial period where you're not quite focused on the book

[Anonymous No.14849525]

Try reading something with very short passages. Something you can read in a minute or two each day and be done with.

Diaries, essays, and letters can be good for this. If you have no idea where to start try reading Boswell's London Journal

[Anonymous No.14849557]

>>14849518
Im trying to fix myself since months but I always relapse back into my bad habits
been a neet since 1,5 year but it has been an absolute desaster for me, Im constantly tired, have a non stop brainfog and avoid any effort

meanwhile my colleagues from school are 2 years into university and they are moving forward in life, I could have been there
Now sitting down and doing some basic math is already a difficult task for me because

[Anonymous No.14849687]

>>14849505
You don’t have concentration issues. What you have is a drug in your hand that is designed to prey on your senses and draw you in. If you had candy on you 24/7, it would be all you eat. Ditch the phone. Ditch the computer. Spend some time alone. You’ll fix your concentration problems.

[Anonymous No.14849879]

>>14849516
>>14849512
Bojack is stoner cringe

[Anonymous No.14849891]

>>14849478
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

[Anonymous No.14849936]

>>14849496
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.

[Anonymous No.14849949]

>>14849496
Also just be yourself

[Anonymous No.14849950]

>>14849478
I joined the Peace Corps and had no internet. That’s how I overcame it.

[Anonymous No.14850077]

>>14849478
Sell your smartphone. Cancel your internet

[Anonymous No.14850149]

Tbh, I have this issue and I have just started to read outside in the sun, makes it much more bearable desu. I hope I come to love books since I'm in training in the navy, and long deployments at sea mean I'll be forced to read my accumulated stacks.