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How do I read? [Serious] (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by lobaa@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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OK the title is a joke but the question is serious. A bit of backstory:

My parents failed to make me love books, because they also introduced me to a PlayStation 2, and I decided that I like playing vidya games a lot more than reading stuff. School didn't make me love books either because the literature they force you to read in my curriculum, is, in my opinion, better suited for adult reading.

Fast forward to now, I am a freshman in a prestigious university, but it turns out that it requires me to read a lot of stuff, but I don't really have enough willpower to sit through academic literature for more than an hour a day. And the fact I'm noticeably behind my peers in amount of books read makes me feel like I don't belong.

So my question is how to learn to love reading books, get immersed or enter flow state or whatever, and also retain information? Is it some kind of talent or superpower? I know a few of my peers who don't stop reading books and seem to not distract themselves with tiktoks and video games, and attend optional lectures in their free time which is kind of insane to me, but I respect it a lot and want to become like them.

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Find yourself something fun. Just get sloppy with it till you get better at it. It's a learned skill that you'll level up over time. If you gotta start with a bunch of YA stuff that's fine, fucking Goosebumps or Fear Street series if that works for ya. I've been rather fond of Dungeon Crawler Carl lately. Bout a guy and his talking cat that get caught up in an alien invasion reality tv game and he becomes a bomb making anarchist. Fun shit! Other stuff worth checking out: Discworld, Murderbot Diaries, stuff by Becky Chambers, SMUT!