How do I stop being a brainlet?

I wish I didn't smoke so much weed when I was a teen

Should I just kill myself now?

Oh shit nigga, what are you doing? Don't do that, OP.

Do you actually *think* about what you read while you are reading it? Or do you just consume words without comprehending their context and meaning?

kek

maybe its just boring

This stuff is boring, its not easy to read. Just take it slowly, I'm enjoying reading capital gradually, when you take it in pieces its not so daunting.

it's about being focused. try reading stuff you have interest in, instead of forcing stuff you probably don't enjoy, even if it's children's literature or fiction

once you start reading for real, it will grow into you

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Bottomore's is the only really good one, but having a few more options won't hurt. Keep it open whenever you're reading a Marxist text. Read the entries for terms you don't don't know or don't fully understand, so you get a firmer grasp of what they mean.

Whatever field you're struggling with, you can find a dictionary or encyclopedia about it and make it all a thousand times easier to understand. Google and Wikipedia have replaced encyclopedias and dictionaries for most people, but if you're dealing with something that involves technical jargon you need a more specific tool for reference. For philosophy plato.stanford.edu/ is a good one.

Second, if you're reading something that is heavy on context, that is, it requires a lot of understanding of the historical circumstances and the prevailing debates of the time, biographies can offer a good entry point. They're easier to read and will probably guide you through want you need to know before engaging primary sources.

Marxist literature can be particularly painful to read without understanding the historical context, because the authors were often just reacting to the political events and trends of their time. To give you an example, in a letter written on the subject of historical materialism late in his life, Engels complained that people often misread his and Marx's historical theories, because when the main texts were written there were still prominent philosophies out there that completely denied the role of economic and material forces in shaping the course of history, so in order to properly critique them, they had to put a lot of emphasis on a more economic interpretation of history. When a new generation, decades later, approached these texts without understanding this context, they read far too much into their claims, and arrived at an economic determinism that was nearly fatalist, and which Engels completely disagreed with. Understanding who and what theorists were reacting against when they wrote something can give you a better idea of how exactly you should be reading it.

Third, about you being an idiot in general, the only you can do here is apply the universal principles of self-improvement and hope it works: systematically expose yourself to a challenge and force your body and mind to adapt. Write down how many pages you've read in a day, and the next day force yourself to read a few more. If your minds keep wandering as you read, try to keep total focus for a few pages at first, before you start reading on a normal pace, and increase the amount every time you start reading again.

My memory is also terrible, and I think Anki has really helped with that. Whatever I want to remember I throw down there, and I do many mini sessions several times throughout the day. I think my actual hability to remember things, without assistance, has improved as I spent hours autistically doing flashcards and memorizing the names of different bodies of water and stupid shit like that.

Buy a kindle or something like that if you don't have one, but don't try to read 600-page theory books in the subway because you'll forget everything. If you're reading something dense, you need to take notes, and if you don't do that on your computer you'll waste a lot of time. If you tend to get sick of a subject before you're done reading a book, get something like Instapaper and send a bunch of random articles and essays you stumble upon online there, and read those instead as a break. You have to get used to the act of reading, even if you lose interest on one particular book or topic (but try to finish it later). Don't try to stay completely away from distractions, but tell yourself you'll read at least X pages before you check Facebook again. And remember that having unhealthy habits in general is also bad for your brain. And don't try to read 6 books at once you faggot

You can't. Most of your Autism Level is inherited. You gotta do with what you have. Sorry.

Reading can be comfy as fuck and make you feel very good. You just gotta get in the zone.

IQ is a bad metric and it can actually change significantly based on environmental factors only.

You need to take notes especially if you are going to focus on economic/philosophical reading. I know that from personal experience it is never good to just read or else it can be easy to forget.

Fuck outta here with your genetic determinism.
Maybe OP has to do a bit more work but he can understand Marx too.

This.
Make notes on paper, with page numbers. Write down questions, things you dont understand, things you think are interesting, your own ideas.
Just reading and highlighting means its just going to be forgotten the next day.

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I bet you are a vegetarian, vegan, or stuff yourself with sugars / carbs

Also it's about finding the time to sit down and get properly engrossed in what you're reading. i.e. cutting out the waste from your life, whatever it may be that you waste too much time on. I used to spend hours listening to and finding music, and by and large it contributed very little to me as a person and absolutely nothing to improving the state of the world we live in.
Now I've by and large cut it out except for the occasional modern classical or dub reggae, v. rarely. I went through similar motions with visual entertainment and reading far-out fiction; i.e., I'm not puritanically cutting it out cold turkey, but I'm greatly limiting it and not doing it for the sake of doing it "just becuz". There is no value to entertainment for the sake of entertainment, I feel.
I'm right now trying to cut out porn.
Also, if you make your mind and body generally healthier you'll become better at mental comprehension- excercise at least bi-weekly, try and meditate every day.
Obviously these are very lofty goals, so built up to them.
I wish you luck OP.

some people get bored/tired easily when reading.
I can relate,reading boring philosophical essays is shit for some people. here's what you should try from best to worst-but-still-ok:

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not OP but i have this problem too, how the fuck do you get in the zone? whenever i try to read i lose my attention and get lost in my thoughts about what i've read, basically i can into the zone by thinking but can't do it while reading, how the fuck do you guys do it?.

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Eat meat and animal fats you fucking wimp

OP, you'll never be able to read well without first being motivated to read. I can tell you're interested in learning, but the material itself bores the shit out of you. The solution to this is to start to take notes on what you believe. Make up your own theories, and when you read take notes on how the book helps you to develop your theories. You'll feel like a retard at first and the things you write will be stupid, but that's OK. The goal here is to develop the ideas you have.

If you even feel that you've written something good make a blog post on it and share it here! It'll help other people learn and you'll be able to get constructive criticism from this community about your ideas. Everyone starts out as a brainlet, and even if you have a low ＩＱ you'll still be able to learn. ＩＱ is something that you can change if you practice thinking critically.

How does that help?

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i asked how will that help me reading, ok i get it i'm an underweight fag but i don't get how that affect my reading abilities.

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nope, Post modern medicine humans have higher life expectancy, though idk about what agriculture did to life expectancy

Humans didn't eat that much fat and meat though. Most of what they ate was foraged shit

You might have adhd or add. Try taking modafinil. It's a kind of stimulate without all the negative effects of say adderal

you clearly have issues with your thinking user
meat + fat diet is the ultimate nootropic
also meditation + green tea

Modafinil causes alopecia though (baldness), and literally the only significant effect is removing sleepines. It does NOT aid in concentration. It only allows you to stay awake.

Depends incredibly on where you lived.
Different populations of humans evolved to accommodate their local food staples.
Those in sparsely vegetated drylands ate more meat and fat than those who lived in places with plenty of fruit and starch.

Treating human diet as one monolithic entity is retarded. We are omnivores for a reason, its why humans are everywhere.

You should trust nutritional science, not idiots who claim "x and y is better because muh ancestors and muh nature".

Not the guy you responded to btw

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