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The author conflates two things that are only half related. This sentence is a big hint to why he's not reading books: > "And it’s exhausting. I was usually as
by tinco 12y ago
The author conflates two things that are only half related. This sentence is a big hint to why he's not reading books:
> "And it’s exhausting. I was usually asleep halfway through sentence number five."
Reading books isn't exhausting, you can read books 16 hours per day. If you fall asleep after reading 5 lines, that means you are dead tired and shouldn't even have opened that book in the first place.
And maybe the reason why you're too weak to keep yourself from checking your information sources every 5 seconds during all the other activities you (or your boss) care about is because you're tired during the day as well.
The author suggests 5 solutions, I think that's a bit extreme. If you just do 3 and 4, you'll get more sleep and everything will probably be better. Coincidentally that advice is what you'll find everywhere for sleep related issues: "No computers 2 hours before sleep".
- danneu 12y agoAll my life, within a chapter of text, I'm either falling asleep or lulling at the cusp of it. Moving my body or locations temporarily wards it off like a snooze button, but the struggle also keeps me from losing myself in a novel. To this day, if you fast-forwarded a video of me reading on my couch, I'd like look a fish flopping out of water to stay awake until the next chapter. My best solution so far has been to read more in the morning with my coffee before I begin my work, which also happens to be a good time to read in general: it's before the barrage.
- vlasev 12y agoWhat if you read while standing? Do you have trouble doing other activities while lying down, like using a computer?