/lit/ - Literature

>>9012370
conciously remind yourself not to

>>9012370

Take extensive notes.

>>9012370
Write while you read. Only way. Anyone who says "wow if you can't pay attention without making notes you're retarded" is retarded. Don't listen to them.

>>9012390
>>9012375
What kind of notes? How do you structure it for remembering.

>>9012370
Adderall

Go through and read it once while underlining sections just purely for the content. Then rest on the information a while before going back. Once you return to the text read through mainly just the underlined passages and highlight the most important pieces of information.

>>9012452
points

buddhism

Find the misunderstood word and clear it.

>>9012602
source?

>>9012589
lol what? Tell me more, use some additional words.

>>9012602

>>9012606
>source?

Some science group. I can't remember.

>>9012615
Not very helpful.

>>9012602
This is from scientology anon

>>9012370
I'm sitting on con law right now. Everybody has been telling me to skip the emanual outlines and just use the E&E's to practice.

>>9012622

Try it out and you'll be surprised at how well it works.

I'm currently reading a really long and pretty dense book at the moment and I'm not sure if it's difficult or I'm simply not enjoying it.

I am only reading about twenty pages a day, if that. My mind keeps wandering. I don't want to stop, but I still have over 1000 pages to go.

meditate everytime you feel distracted until it doesnt happen anymore. or adderall

>>9012630
I am assuming he means that without the source he can't examine the system as a whole, and it is therefore of limited use to him.

>>9012629
E&Es?

>>9012370
>>9012629
He has trouble understanding Constitutional Law and finds it "dense and complicated material"

>>9012606
www.scientologyhandbook . org/study/sh1_1a.htm

>>9012819
Not sure why you are sharing some meme religion with me.

>>9012370
Take short breaks.

>>9012843

/lit/ is a Scientology board.

>>9012709
Examples & Explanations, published by Aspen. Having gone through law school, I thought it was far and away the best supplement for most classes.

>>9012869
Thanks. I'm planning on taking the LSATs and applying to a few law schools soon. Any other advice or readings you would suggest for me?

>>9012370
My mind wanders with simple material.

/fedora

>>9012913
E&Es arent going to help you with that. I used powerscore bibles and did practice tests from 20 on. Got a 172, not perfect but good enough for where I wanted to go

>>9013036
I should have specified I was looking for general texts.I will have a small gap between my undergraduate degree and law school so I was tried to get a suggested reading list starting.

>>9013059
Oh, gotcha. I would honestly suggest not reading anything for law school, other than understanding the basics of how government works. It won't get you any further ahead, and you'll burn out more quickly.

Read for pleasure until law school starts. The biggest problem about law school reading is that you don't genuinely care about it.

>>9012370
lots of adderall

>>9012843
It's the source retard

>>9013143
That is what reading for pleasure is for me though.

bump

>>9012452
Bulletpoints with page number reference

>>9012370
I have the same conlaw casebook
if you seriously cant skim the 20 pages per class per day that you're assigned to survive getting cold called I'm truly sorry.

Who is the author on the larger middle book? The picture is slightly blurry so I'm having trouble making the detail out.

>>9014001
We get assigned 60 a class brah.

>>9014220
That's all?

>>9014242
Oh shit, I forgot to mention the 200 other pages for that day too. Man, I suck at this law school thing. Better just kill myself.

>>9014252
Do it then? 260 pages still isn't much to complain about dude.

>>9012370
law books are hella expensive, I bet that's close to $1,200 right there

>>9014746
I am! I was just trying to find advice on how to read and manage learning that much information. If there were any tips that I didn't know.

>>9014777
You are doing it? I was talking about your sarcastic comment on offing yourself.

I'm interested in the one or two people who suggested Buddhism as an answer to your ills

>>9012607
L. Ron Hubbard

"Reading" dense/complicated material for the sake of reading is a waste of time. If you aren't focusing and consciously attempting to integrate and understand the material, you are wasting your time and might as well not have read any of it, or read a summary.

Take notes while you read. Use the Cornell method of note taking. Again, if you are reading dense material and you're not actively trying to understand it, you're just wasting your own time.

http://lsc.cornell.edu/study-skills/cornell-note-taking-system/

>>9014853
The note system even appears to indicate it is designed for lectures.

>law
>complex
top kek

>>9014746
260 pages takes several hours.

>>9015145
Not sure if that is whining about it, saying it's nothing, or some moderate position in between.

>>9012370
I'm actually interested in the dense material I read.

>>9014746
We all think you're a genius, you can now feel validated. Congratulations!

>>9015163
Cringe

>>9015220
>>9015262
t. I am Bloom senpai and I read 1000 pages a day.

>>9012661
If you find yourself not enjoying a book, put it the fuck down. There are millions of books, don't waste your time with something that failed to grab your attention.

>>9012370
Attention is a trainable skill, so actively notice and redirect your mind when it wonders. There is a sort of metacognition involved in doing this, so it is best to practice various forms of meditation and then reap the fruits while you read. That is to say your mind wanders less and less while reading when you have been practicing meditation.

You don't. Studying American law is lobotomizing. You will never be anything more than a pleb.

>i got a 140 on my LSAT and i shouldn't be in law school, but i am anyway

>>9012602
>>9012607

what a load of shit

No doubt in my mind that you should look up words you don't understand, but the rest of this dribble is complete bullshit.

>>9012606
not the guy but...

Buddhists practice meditation, which is essentially sitting and focusing (on breathing and letting go of thoughts)

Helps calm the mind and eventually stops the mind from wandering

>>9012370
you be interested in it

if you're not interested then why the fuck are you reading it

you can either continue focusing on the text or put the book down and think about whatever shit is on your mind until you're bored of thinking then go back to read

>>9015163
>people have several (probably fucking 14) extra hours everyday
Glorified STEMsperg right here.

>>9015456
It took me awhile to accept this with music. When I went through all of my favorites I realized that every single one I loved from the very first track, yet I would continue to sit through albums after being bored by the first few songs.

>>9015456
I think the problem I have is that I am something I despise. The kind of person that feels the need to read classics "because I'm supposed to".

>>9013237
More power to ya then

stab myself in the cock

>>9012370
Smoke a cigarette