/lit/ - Literature

>This game got me intro literature
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I think procrastination is caused by a conflict between two distinct parts of the mind: system 1 and system 2. One is fast, automatic, unconscious and the other is slow, deliberate, conscious. What happens in procrastination is that a person decides rationally that they should do some task or activity through system 2, but they cannot carry out the task without significant willpower and friction because system 1 has arrived at a different conclusion.

In order to solve procrastination, you either need to put in the significant effort to push through internal friction, or find a way to transform system 1 by engaging with lower level processes. When you observe yourself in this state, it's easy to notice how despite your best rational interest, the activity "seems" difficult, boring, unimportant, lacking any potential, essentially not worth it. In order to transform system 1, you have to engage with lower level processes like perception because it doesn't respond to verbal reasoning.

I can't describe a straight-forward way of doing this, but it roughly equates to an act of discerning a different image of reality. The goal is to make the activity/task "appear" different, to make it "seem" like it's not difficult, like it's rewarding, fun, engaging and so on, which naturally makes it compelling and allows you to do it without friction. Transforming perception like this is an act of intuition, trying to see the world differently and fundamentally experiencing it differently, disrupting the automatic way you've learned to experience it up until now.

For instance, someone that reads books regularly is usually someone that finds the activity compelling. He can probably list all of the rational reasons he reads, but it's ultimately a lower level process which makes it so attractive. Reading simply appears fun, engaging, worth the effort to these individuals and they usually don't have to force themselves, likely because of previous experience that has taught them to perceive books in this way. Someone that hasn't had much positive interactions with books likely will not be able to see them in such a way unless they transform that habitual perception.

Being born is the first tragedy that befalls men

>>14952202
If evading wasn't so easy no one would post on 4chan.

Stop coping by reading books. You will still be desperate anyway.

Please leave this board and never return if you agree with any of the following sentences:

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors)
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

Giovanni's Room is the modern Symposium

We've got our tribe here and we're sticking more or less together to face the terrible hand we've been dealt. No one is genuinely lonely here, our existential dread is shared inside this community of outsiders we involuntarily created after being shunned by society. Furthermore normies also have strategies to cope with their miserable existence, they cope by drinking and partying and indulging in casual sex, whilst we cope by feeding our minds with the wisdom of the ancient and the modern, an activity which is neither harmful nor pointless in every sense of the word.

Giovanni's Room is the only love story you need to read.