I remember in fourth grade one of my buddies sort of bragged to our teacher about how he was reading 3-4 books at once and our teacher essentially shot that down saying reading multiple books at once dilutes your understanding of all of them. While I think there is some credence to that argument, I have found it to simply not be true in my experience. In the morning I read non-fiction related to my field of work for an hour before starting my day. At night before bed I read about enlightenment philosophy and eastern religions. I never burn out from either and I’m reading way more now than when I would slog through a whole day reading the same material.
different strokes for different folks. if it works for some people then it doesn’t work for everyone. idk why the teacher (and other people) get so snobbish about that.
That’s awesome! I’ve always read multiple books at a time and when I talk to other readers they frown at this or don’t see how I can do it but the switching from one book to another when you’re tired of the one or just in the mood for another is a great way to read more for sure! Great short.
I do exactly the same thing and I combine it with audio books in the dead time I have between activities like driving to work, I also keep a record of every book I finish in a notebook with the title author and date I finished it.
I already do this naturally. That's how I got through 250 books last year! (Ok ok, like 25 of them were manga/graphic novels but.... Brothers Karamazov, Augustine's City of God, the Pentateuch, and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel were also on that list, as well as many shorter fiction works)
Huh, I actually thought this was something that everyone does! I usually have 2-3 academic books in my field on the go, plus 2 "junk food books", and switch between listening to a fiction and non fiction book in my Libby app. At any one point I'll have about 4 books I'm reading. Physical books are treats to read with a cup of tea in the morning, a luxury even. Audiobooks are what fits into transit time on the bus or in the car from all the point A to Bs in my life.
It’s great to have a plan with your hobbies, I do want to do everything. But at the same time I am self destructive and I hate having a plan, so planning things out really is hard for me. It makes sense why I am going nowhere since I’m aimless and doing random hobbies mostly to ignore my suicidal thoughts and depression. I do feel like a failure and that pushes me to read, write, and make music but then I do feel as if it can be pointless since I was a late bloomer. At least I can try and enjoy learning new things before I parish into oblivion one day.
I do this a lot. I even have a name for what type of reading I am doing. I have books for casual reading outdoor, just in case I'll be vacant. Then I have books for casual reading indoor, which I read when I'm taking breaks from studying or when I'm eating (so I can entertain myself without going through social media). And lastly, the intensive serious reading lol. It's when I really make time for reading and I annotate and such.
What I do is I read one book at a time. I love starting books but I find it very difficult to finish them. So by making this one book at a time rule, I have to finish my current book before I can move on to the next one. The excitement of moving on to the next one motivates me to finish the current one.
I'm a philosophy student and honestly it takes me so long to read such a small amount, i need to get into the habit of turning my brain off for a while
I've been reading a bunch of web novels recently. Due to their chapter by chapter release format, I keep "finishing" my current novels, and then find another story to slap on the stack while I wait for the next round of chapters. I think I'm reading over a dozen of these novels concurrently at the moment... I should probably slow down.
First, please accept my congratulations to a man your age displaying such wisdom. Perhaps ¨desire¨ has to do with both our ambitions. I have been possessed with the demon of learning Modern Latin (Spanish) coming up on 3 years now. Whereas I did and still do have a sincere loathing hatred for English Literature, I’ve found an equal and opposite love for Castellano. I run out of ability before desire so, when the captive of my skull cage shrieks from monotony, I simply employ a completely different genre.
Bruh, you're like... Me. I do the same thing, have been for the past 6-7 years despite the fact that my parents and friends and family are always like, You shouldn't read too many books at the same time. 😂😂😂 I'm sending this to our family group chat. ❤
This can also translate to meditation. Sometimes we spend too much time sitting working so then we don't "feel like" sitting again to meditate. This is why standing and moving meditation exists... sort of
I have a motivational for the early morning. A fiction for leisure or fun. And some thing challenging or classic to train my brain I try to do one chapter or twenty pages of each per day.
I'm reading through the Ancient Greek tragedies right now and they're great -that's Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes etc... One of my favourite history books is 'The Trojan War' by Barry Strauss
Won't there be diminishing returns after while? Would it not be hard to absorb and retain the information or does it get easier? It makes sense that the brains capacity expands a little.
I think fiction is harder than nonfiction, I need to actively engage and pay attention to small cues and subtle changes in character behavior, nonfiction just straight up feeds you everything in a direct exposition dump kind of way
@@odysseas__ probably will be different for different readers and different reading styles, fiction requires more effort from me. Either way your point is valid, if you abstract the reading material to different categories of focus
Nice. I also do that sometime. But do u consider meditation to prolog your attention span and mental endurance to consume such ideas that are hard to instill?
I love this idea and I already do it to an extent, but what if you are consistently fatigued to the point where you are always grabbing the easy stuff?
Doesn't this just end up with you reading a comparatively large number of "easier" books whereas the goal was to read a significant number of "harder" ones?
Maybe, but if you switch to an easier one out of fatigue, it won't affect the time you spent on the harder one, which you wouldn't have kept reading anyway.
I remember in fourth grade one of my buddies sort of bragged to our teacher about how he was reading 3-4 books at once and our teacher essentially shot that down saying reading multiple books at once dilutes your understanding of all of them.
While I think there is some credence to that argument, I have found it to simply not be true in my experience.
In the morning I read non-fiction related to my field of work for an hour before starting my day. At night before bed I read about enlightenment philosophy and eastern religions. I never burn out from either and I’m reading way more now than when I would slog through a whole day reading the same material.
Exactly. Keeps things refreshing!
I highly doubt you’re reading philosophy as it’s meant to be read if you are doing it before bed.
@@user-hk5wb5qg1rwould you enlighten us, please, on the one correct way to read philosophy?
Best time to read philosophy. Go to sleep with those thoughts
different strokes for different folks. if it works for some people then it doesn’t work for everyone. idk why the teacher (and other people) get so snobbish about that.
I've done this for years. I feel validation now :)
Same
When I get tired of reading, I just listen to audiobooks, and I can still get through books. That Is just what works for me.
I do that when i'm on a reading slump!
@@kioumim same
That’s awesome! I’ve always read multiple books at a time and when I talk to other readers they frown at this or don’t see how I can do it but the switching from one book to another when you’re tired of the one or just in the mood for another is a great way to read more for sure! Great short.
Thank you!
Me: taking a break from rereading Percy Jackson by reading smutty romance books
This is something that I have done for a long time. I will have novel on the go and also a nonfiction book. Now I know this is book stacking.
Nice!
Steinbeck easier than how to win friends? 😂
Easier to read, but maybe not to understand..
Haha I was gonna say the same
I didn't know I've been doing this but actually I've been doing this.....Book stacking
then some content stacking (youtube video -> youtube short -> instagram story)
I thought it was just ADHD, lol.
I do exactly the same thing and I combine it with audio books in the dead time I have between activities like driving to work, I also keep a record of every book I finish in a notebook with the title author and date I finished it.
I already do this naturally. That's how I got through 250 books last year! (Ok ok, like 25 of them were manga/graphic novels but.... Brothers Karamazov, Augustine's City of God, the Pentateuch, and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel were also on that list, as well as many shorter fiction works)
Nice, that's amazing
I started doing this about two years ago. It's great.
Nice, always good to see tricks working in action
“something even easier, like a novel maybe” ahaha allrrright buddy. Lemme know how that easy reading of Gravity’s Rainbow goes
Yeah obviously not all novels
@@odysseas__ obviously
saw this a few months ago and started to implement it after remembering it. just found the video again and yeah this is highly effective
Nice... I kinda do this already but might do it more consciously
Huh, I actually thought this was something that everyone does!
I usually have 2-3 academic books in my field on the go, plus 2 "junk food books", and switch between listening to a fiction and non fiction book in my Libby app. At any one point I'll have about 4 books I'm reading. Physical books are treats to read with a cup of tea in the morning, a luxury even. Audiobooks are what fits into transit time on the bus or in the car from all the point A to Bs in my life.
Been doing this for a while to keep my streaks going. Currently have 4 books in rotation, *it works*
It’s great to have a plan with your hobbies, I do want to do everything. But at the same time I am self destructive and I hate having a plan, so planning things out really is hard for me. It makes sense why I am going nowhere since I’m aimless and doing random hobbies mostly to ignore my suicidal thoughts and depression. I do feel like a failure and that pushes me to read, write, and make music but then I do feel as if it can be pointless since I was a late bloomer. At least I can try and enjoy learning new things before I parish into oblivion one day.
Loved the tips! I agree because I'm a book blogger myself!
Damn that's a good trick.
I do this a lot. I even have a name for what type of reading I am doing. I have books for casual reading outdoor, just in case I'll be vacant. Then I have books for casual reading indoor, which I read when I'm taking breaks from studying or when I'm eating (so I can entertain myself without going through social media). And lastly, the intensive serious reading lol. It's when I really make time for reading and I annotate and such.
That does help a lot as I've definitely noticed different books take different amounts of mental energy.
Very nice. I saw the one book was "In Dubious Battle," I like to recommend that one.
Love his writing style
Reading philosophy is like riding a bike uphill
What I do is I read one book at a time. I love starting books but I find it very difficult to finish them. So by making this one book at a time rule, I have to finish my current book before I can move on to the next one. The excitement of moving on to the next one motivates me to finish the current one.
I'm a philosophy student and honestly it takes me so long to read such a small amount, i need to get into the habit of turning my brain off for a while
Sameee, college demands so much reading (and complex readings!) that its difficult to read other things on your free time
I feel like this is just the reels of reading
I've been reading a bunch of web novels recently. Due to their chapter by chapter release format, I keep "finishing" my current novels, and then find another story to slap on the stack while I wait for the next round of chapters. I think I'm reading over a dozen of these novels concurrently at the moment... I should probably slow down.
First, please accept my congratulations to a man your age displaying such wisdom. Perhaps ¨desire¨ has to do with both our ambitions. I have been possessed with the demon of learning Modern Latin (Spanish) coming up on 3 years now. Whereas I did and still do have a sincere loathing hatred for English Literature, I’ve found an equal and opposite love for Castellano. I run out of ability before desire so, when the captive of my skull cage shrieks from monotony, I simply employ a completely different genre.
Thanks, and nice approach to it
Instructions unclear I now have 3 stacks of unread theoretical physics books and 4 stacks of already read graphic novels.
crazy that i did this even without knowing that there's a term for it
Finally have a term for what I've been doing haha.
Bruh, you're like... Me.
I do the same thing, have been for the past 6-7 years despite the fact that my parents and friends and family are always like, You shouldn't read too many books at the same time.
😂😂😂
I'm sending this to our family group chat.
❤
This can also translate to meditation. Sometimes we spend too much time sitting working so then we don't "feel like" sitting again to meditate. This is why standing and moving meditation exists... sort of
I have a motivational for the early morning. A fiction for leisure or fun. And some thing challenging or classic to train my brain I try to do one chapter or twenty pages of each per day.
Hey Odysseas, Can you recommend some books of literature? I also need recommendations for history too.
I'm reading through the Ancient Greek tragedies right now and they're great -that's Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes etc...
One of my favourite history books is 'The Trojan War' by Barry Strauss
@@odysseas__ thanks!
Me but with AO3 tabs 💀
It has a name? 😂
Spadework for a palace! I’m reading that right now in that edition! Hope to make a video on it soon.
Sweet, I haven't heard of it but sounds cool
Bro pulls out John Steinbeck calling it really easy
Steinbeck is like 8th grade reading level . Classic =/= difficult to read .
I started this and it's the greatest discovery in humankind
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Did not realize there was a name for this, very cool.
Bros doing intellectual drop sets
Haha yeah basically
I find myself reading alot of wiki lore and articles more so than books. Reading is reading but I still should pick up a book again
Been doing this for years, I generally have 3 books going. A scholarly history, a political or philosphy, and light reading novel.
Nice, good to see it in practice
I thought I was odd because I always have multiple books in progress. Right now I have two James Joyce books and an e e cummings.
It's perfectly normal to have many running at once -keeps things interesting
Good idea 💡 👏
Thanks
Won't there be diminishing returns after while? Would it not be hard to absorb and retain the information or does it get easier? It makes sense that the brains capacity expands a little.
I suppose it would happen -you stop when you feel like it's no longer worth it, maybe after the second or third
I think fiction is harder than nonfiction, I need to actively engage and pay attention to small cues and subtle changes in character behavior, nonfiction just straight up feeds you everything in a direct exposition dump kind of way
That's a good point
@@odysseas__ probably will be different for different readers and different reading styles, fiction requires more effort from me. Either way your point is valid, if you abstract the reading material to different categories of focus
Holy shit I used to do this by accident because I’d get fatigued with one story xD
This is a great idea :o)
Dope! I’ll try.
You are so underrated
Thanks, really appreciate that
Nice. I also do that sometime. But do u consider meditation to prolog your attention span and mental endurance to consume such ideas that are hard to instill?
Not sure, but probably helps
And if thats too much you can double your reading again by reading childrens books. So smart.
Ehh not that far
I love this idea and I already do it to an extent, but what if you are consistently fatigued to the point where you are always grabbing the easy stuff?
Well even the easy stuff is better than nothing. Otherwise, I'd read the harder stuff before doing whatever it is that tires you out
Well it would make sense to find out WHY you are fatigued and don't have energy to smash the hard work.
Eu, um homem culto, lendo 10 ao mesmo tempo e não terminando nenhum👹
So at the end what you remember is a piece of shit by hopping from one book to another
No, it's not an excuse to read poorly
All these books when compared to Malazan
So the goal is just to read more words?
But why should you read more when you can't remember anything afterwards?
Are you reading both books at the same time?
One after the other
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Cheers, good to have you
You also recommend taking notes so, wouldn't reading 1 book while note-taking benefit the subconscious much more than book stacking?
You can do both at the same time
Quality over quantity
I have 5 books im only reading my fiction book more
I read your easy book and switch to diary of a wimpy kid after...what does that mean?
baby steps
Doesn't this just end up with you reading a comparatively large number of "easier" books whereas the goal was to read a significant number of "harder" ones?
Maybe, but if you switch to an easier one out of fatigue, it won't affect the time you spent on the harder one, which you wouldn't have kept reading anyway.
First, you have to kind of make this become a habit reading is more easy if you’re interesting in at first
Sounds like your motivation for reading is to have finished many books. Sounds like a waste of time if you don’t enjoy it.
It's not about not enjoying them, but how to overcome mental fatigue.
So you just switch to another book whenever ? Won't that get confusing? 😅
After you get tired of the hard one. The idea isn't to keep switching back and forth.
@@odysseas__ okay. I think I got it 😊👍 Thanks!
@@natas9967 You're very welcome
I do this with anime lul
How much do you read? Until failure
I aim for an hour a day, and most of that is writing notes tbh
Now we're readsmaxxing? 😭 in that case reading on our phones meet the quota if the content becomes irrelevant
It's only useful to a degree
isn't this just called reading more than one book at the same time?
Of different difficulty levels, yep
I like reading 2 books at the same time but you aint doubling shit. You can only read one page at a time
It helps you read for longer, that's all
I love your content and do this myself! But you lost me at the "something even easier, like a novel" part 🙄
They are typically easier to read no?
I have about 4 books right now, but all of them on about same stage, and Im listening to audio book (paused on the halfway) 🥲