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Apr 3, 2021

by Azathoth

Ytlaya posted:

I have trouble with audio books because I generally have a hard time with briefly losing concentration constantly.

When I read a book, for example, I frequently read sentences/paragraphs multiple times in a row, just because I'll realize that I forgot what I just read. It's hard to explain. Not like ADD, but more like it takes energy to keep my mind active and it's default state is to revert to complete nothingness, so I'll read a sentence on autopilot and realize that I didn't actually process it. With audio I can't easily go over the same passage multiple times like that. (This is also an issue when conversing with people, and I'm just lucky enough to have a job where most important communication can be in writing.)

I’m the same way, and it drives me nuts sometimes. I have lifelong ADD, stopped reading for 10 or so years after high school due to working like a slave, and now I’m getting back into it again. But I don’t remember the distraction/attention deficit being this pronounced back in the day; I guess I need to read full-time in order to absorb information better? I’ve been eating non-inflammatory foods for the brain and it’s helped a lot. I still love reading even though I have to reread paragraphs multiple times to understand what is being conveyed more than I’d like to.

A good examination on modern society’s collective attention deficit in the last 20 or so years — and how to overcome it — is detailed in Hari’s book Stolen Focus: Why you can’t pay attention — and how to think deeply again. It’s really dope and it made me feel like I wasn’t alone with this problem or going insane.

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