Everything on this list is great advice, but non fiction books make me want to kill myself. I’ve found one tolerable non fiction. God help me if I ever have to read a biography or self help book again.
You aren’t obligated to finish every book you start. It’s okay to rage-quit in the middle sometimes. Some books are just written terribly or the subject just isn’t as interesting as we first thought. You can always come back to it later or try someone else’s take on the subject.
You can improve your attention span. It just takes putting effort into it.
Some things that will help:
Everything on this list is great advice, but non fiction books make me want to kill myself. I’ve found one tolerable non fiction. God help me if I ever have to read a biography or self help book again.
I usually feel the same. A few notable exceptions I have found:
May I recommend some David Graeber. He was a leftist and anthropologist who had a way with words
There are more non fiction genres than biographies and self-help
Yes, but those are my two least favorite.
Check out Bill Brysons books, they’re great and funny! You could start with A Short History Of Nearly Everything.
Forgot that on ny short list but I did have Mother Tongue.
I like True Crime. Or how-to’s… learning about a subject. Science is great. An easy source of interesting non-fiction is https://arxiv.org/ . ;-)
I’ve done all of these things. But damnit step 4 is the hardest one. I have been trying to finish this book on Chinggis Khan but in struggling.
You aren’t obligated to finish every book you start. It’s okay to rage-quit in the middle sometimes. Some books are just written terribly or the subject just isn’t as interesting as we first thought. You can always come back to it later or try someone else’s take on the subject.
I’ve never rage quit a non fiction book, I just get bored. I have quit reading a bunch of non-fiction though.