@JotaPalma
As someone with ADHD who struggles to just sit down and read for an hour, I find that setting a ridiculously low bar for myself helps. I set the goal of reading one page per day. Usually I end up reading a whole chapter, and somedays only a couple pages. What matters is having a non-zero day and making progress. I may not read 100 books a year, but I read more than the average american so I'm good haha
@anitas5817
No intro, no filler, just solid cogent useful content. Love your channel. Always good.
@neilmarais1912
One of the tips I would follow is very simple: Read a minimum of 1 page every day. This really helped me to read more. It only takes 1 - 2 mins to read a page so you can do it even if you're really busy. However, it forces you to sit down with the book. Personally, I find that one page is enough for me to get interested in the book again and I often end up reading a chapter or two instead of one page.
@k_i_k_ii
Some points that have helped me: -Interact with the book. Find quotes or passages that you like. Look up words and phrases that you don't understand. Write a journal entry. -Set goals. Read x number of chapters each day. Read for 30 minutes at this time of day and another at this time. -Follow along with an audiobook while reading. For sluggish reading sessions. -Put on ambient music. For ex. I put on a Hogwarts Library ambience video while reading The Hobbit. -Get active in a community (online or irl). Find some booktubers you like. Write a discussion post or just look around and make a comment once in awhile. Make reading take up space in your mind aswell as social feed. Remember getting back into reading will take time and patience. It's alright if some reading sessions are not as great as others as long as you're consistent and honest about your efforts. Day by day flip one page after the other and notice your reading muscle grow.
@RGencher
As someone with ADHD I’ve also had to learn that I have to read differently than other people. The idea of getting rid of distractions doesn’t work for me b/c my brain NEEDS to have a lot of input to focus, otherwise I will find other things to focus on outside of the book. Now I listen to classical music or white noise when I read to give my brain enough stimulation and now reading is MUCH easier.
@Merione
I used to read a lot as a kid, but for various reasons I had fallen out of the habit. Now I'm starting to slowly get back into it and one tip I can share that worked for me is to start by rereading not just any random book, but rather that special book that you read as a kid and has stuck with you ever since. For me it was a YA Spanish novel called "Grimpow - The Invisible Road". It's the first "real" book that I read as a kid (or at least the first one "with no pictures") and I have a distinct memory of my little self getting so immersed in this story that I couldn't stop reading it and not being able to shut up about it even long after I finished. I used to talk about it with whoever was willing to listen and I even wrote a small review of it in my school's newspaper. It was the book that truly sparked my love for reading, and even though it's definitely catered to a more younger audience and now I can totally see its flaws (those dialogues are cringey as hell), I'm deliberately choosing to start from this one because that's exactly what I need: to remind myself of WHY I love reading in the first place. I haven't finished it yet, I'm going very slowly and I lose focus a lot, but still, I've already read almost a third of it, and that's more than I've been able to do in years with any other book that I tried, so I'd say it's working so far.
@daviddesalvo623
I want to contribute a possible amendment to what you said concerning audiobooks. Something that I've found unique to my generation is astronomically low attention spans for those of us who spent our formative years on the Internet and social media with basically major corporations designing their software to keep us on their platforms or thinking about them constantly. I had found myself in this camp, remembering when I was in middle school and completely off the stuff I would read constantly and late into the night, and finding myself completely unable to do that anymore, I started audiobooking instead which was a lot more palletible especially since I could multitask while audiobooking. To audiobooking's credit, it has rekindled in me a love for literature and "reading," but I want to add that beyond that, it has not helped me in any way to start picking up physical books again. Reading physically really is a skill in attention and patience and focus that has to be trained, especially since audio is inherently more a receptive experience for us. I agree that audiobooking counts as reading, but it might be worth noting the extent to which it is helpful for those who want to acquire that skill of reading
@youtube-critic
I would like to give a rebuttal to your comment on not reading below your level. Since college I have found myself reading less and less. Then I started my family. In reading books to my kids I rediscovered my love of reading. Whenever I find that I'm watching too much TV I like to go back and pick up a Roald Dahl or V.E. Schwab (her young readers books (if you didn't know she wrote those, they are so worth it)) and remind myself of the joy. I now recommend to others who say they wish they could read or read more, that they start with klds books. The adventures of Toad and Frog may be well beneath the readers abilities, but the nostalgia and feeling like you really can finish a book cannot be overstated. I would ask that you try this yourself. I think it would change your mind about how to start reading again.
@genevievekhayat823
Reading on different formats definitely helped me get back to reading this year. I bought an e-reader this year and could read in bed again, without disturbing my partner who needs total darkness to sleep. I also started to listen to audiobooks last year, which allows me to "read" public transportation without the fear of missing my stop. It is also an excellent motivation for me to do house chores. Also, audiobooks got me back into reading after a depression. I didn't have the energy to read a physical book, but I was ok with listening to a story. Just these 2 changes allowed me to read so much more this year!
@ssmytheYT
I started using the immersion reading technique with a Kindle and Audible book combination. The Kindle has a visual word pacer mode when you have it play audio at the same time. This way, a grey bar starts highlighting words on the page to match the Audible book being read. I love it! I found an audio pace that works for me, and it really helps me focus on the book I'm reading. Of course, not all books have unabridged audio that goes with the text. Those I read the old fashioned way, but I do highly recommend immersion reading to those folks that want to focus more and enjoy reading again. It helped me a bunch! 😀
@chiyahoskere
it used to be a habit for me to read as a teenager, gobbled up 2 books a week, but it became a habit for me to not read for a full 4 years. Switched to phone addiction and the repercussions of this was so blaringly obvious. I could feel my brain become slower diminishing my attention span, unable to articulate myself well enough as I could before. I'm trying to reverse this habit. Feeling hopeful about it.
@sophiaisabelle0
Thanks for this video. I was a bookworm back in the day. Mostly spent the rest of my days as a child just reading nonstop.
@thelaurels13
It’s much more impressive to read one book and have it deeply impact you, than to read a hundred and not feel a thing. Quality over quantity every time.
@nannhatablet4299
I feels this whole hustle culture round how many books you read is a bad idea. People are running after numbers, picking smaller books, not enjoying books, have very little comprehension and zero retention. If you read 50 books a year for 10 Years you read 500 books. Do you really need to read 500 books (fiction or non fiction) to become wise? Or just 5 books in each field of your interest multiple times to develop depth and retention? I myself did this thing called book marathon and realized that I stopped enjoying books.
@notequalto5179
For my fellow ADHD humans, one thing I do every time I read is have on background noise or other stimuli. I can be in a bustling coffee shop, flying in a plane, or at home with ambient sounds. Books are not very stimulating alone so the extra added stimuli that's not distracting really helps. Give it a shot sometime and see if you like it.
@lindaharrison3240
Great advice. I read about 50 books a year, and my reading goals are constantly changing. It's no longer about the numbers; it's about quality and content now. One thing that I love is keeping a reading journal. I enjoy reading back over that even more than a lot of the books I read. It allows me to be as creative and honest as I want, and that has big value for the future, mostly because I crack myself up.
@tylerphalen4223
Step 1: stop watching youtube...
@lorenzomizushal3980
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on youtube anymore. Here's how I did it. -Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person -Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure -Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction. -It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't. -Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money. -Start with books highly discussed here or other places so you feel motivated to discuss.
@jeremychilds455
“If you have to read less in order to learn more, that is fine and good.” Opposite of the approach I learned in graduate school. I picked up some bad reading habits in grad school, and I’m still trying to unlearn some of them 10 years later.
@iamdunn1