Used to, but I've managed to keep it under control. For reference, I have ADHD, and due to my carreer and hobbies I spend most of the day in front of a screen. I've gotten the algorithms from sites and apps I use to favor media on the longer side and have no issues sticking to it, or reading for long periods of time. Since I started taking medication for ADHD, it's gotten even better still. Though I won't lie, when reading I often had to read the same thing twice or thrice because I didn't really read it.
It's a brain plasticity thing. Like any exercise, you have to keep it trained or you will lose your endurance and muscle memory.
Gotta cultivate the habits you want to keep, or else habits will form on their own that you don't necessarily want, not unlike weeds in an untended garden.
My attention span is shot, too, but I mostly blame my stressed-out lifestyle. If I try to read a book, I fall asleep on the first two pages and can't remember a word I read before I nodded off. But the few times aactually succeeded in sitting down with a book, I was absolutely surprised how relaxing it was reading from paper and not from a screen. There is a peace in paper I don't find on a phone.
What's stopping you from trying again? Treat it like working out: schedule 30 minutes per day in which you have to read the book, and you have to try honestly. It doesn't matter if you get distracted and have to start over all the time, just keep trying. After a while, your habits will change and it will come naturally.
I feel this is the way to get better. I have recently tried to start "living in the moment" and not be on my phone all the time. It's not bad. I feel a lot less stress trying to keep up with shit that don't matter and it is something you need to practice to get better at. Just like most things in life.
Used to, but I've managed to keep it under control. For reference, I have ADHD, and due to my carreer and hobbies I spend most of the day in front of a screen. I've gotten the algorithms from sites and apps I use to favor media on the longer side and have no issues sticking to it, or reading for long periods of time. Since I started taking medication for ADHD, it's gotten even better still. Though I won't lie, when reading I often had to read the same thing twice or thrice because I didn't really read it.
It's a brain plasticity thing. Like any exercise, you have to keep it trained or you will lose your endurance and muscle memory.
Gotta cultivate the habits you want to keep, or else habits will form on their own that you don't necessarily want, not unlike weeds in an untended garden.
My attention span is shot, too, but I mostly blame my stressed-out lifestyle. If I try to read a book, I fall asleep on the first two pages and can't remember a word I read before I nodded off. But the few times aactually succeeded in sitting down with a book, I was absolutely surprised how relaxing it was reading from paper and not from a screen. There is a peace in paper I don't find on a phone.
What's stopping you from trying again? Treat it like working out: schedule 30 minutes per day in which you have to read the book, and you have to try honestly. It doesn't matter if you get distracted and have to start over all the time, just keep trying. After a while, your habits will change and it will come naturally.
I feel this is the way to get better. I have recently tried to start "living in the moment" and not be on my phone all the time. It's not bad. I feel a lot less stress trying to keep up with shit that don't matter and it is something you need to practice to get better at. Just like most things in life.