Tips on how to start reading

yessirbro · Dec 9, 2025

Hey guys, I’m here asking you if you have some tips on how to genuinely start reading and absorbing the information provided. I bought some self improvement, mindset and money related books a long time ago and they are still sitting on my shelf as I can’t even start reading tem. I started reading “The psychology of money”, finished the book in half and never came back to it. I remember that I was an enjoying a bit reading it as I went to the beach sometimes alone to read it (also to get some time alone and help with my mental health). Now I just putted it back in my shelf and have another one in my bedside table waiting for me to have the courage to start reading it. I don’t know if it is my ADHD (just assuming I was never diagnosed) or my fried dopamine levels that I sometimes get lost reading or just don’t have the will to read large texts (that happens with tiktok slideshows or even here) as well as I notice that I don’t absorb and store as much information on the book (or anything in general). Also as I write this I was getting a bit lost and my eyes were all switching back and forth.
I really wanted to implement the habit of reading in my life since I know that I cannot talk or write pretty well (as you guys can tell).

SettingSun77 · Dec 9, 2025

yessirbro said:
Hey guys, I’m here asking you if you have some tips on how to genuinely start reading and absorbing the information provided. I bought some self improvement, mindset and money related books a long time ago and they are still sitting on my shelf as I can’t even start reading tem. I started reading “The psychology of money”, finished the book in half and never came back to it. I remember that I was an enjoying a bit reading it as I went to the beach sometimes alone to read it (also to get some time alone and help with my mental health). Now I just putted it back in my shelf and have another one in my bedside table waiting for me to have the courage to start reading it. I don’t know if it is my ADHD (just assuming I was never diagnosed) or my fried dopamine levels that I sometimes get lost reading or just don’t have the will to read large texts (that happens with tiktok slideshows or even here) as well as I notice that I don’t absorb and store as much information on the book (or anything in general). Also as I write this I was getting a bit lost and my eyes were all switching back and forth.
I really wanted to implement the habit of reading in my life since I know that I cannot talk or write pretty well (as you guys can tell).

Have you tried audio books?

Rufai · Dec 9, 2025

Reading books is one of the things I love and enjoy the most. Yet I still have books that I haven't read past chapter one. Nowaday, I don't read as much as I used to do probably because I have so much going on plus too much distractions.

SirTop · Dec 9, 2025

SettingSun77 said:
Have you tried audio books?

Actually, even before I started reading books, audiobooks were what really got me into reading

It was always easy to have an audiobook playing in the background especially while working. I did that for a year before I eventually preferred reading physical books.

I also lost all my audiobook files when my Windows PC crashed a couple of years aago and I had so many back then. So I don’t even have any audiobooks anymore.

OP you could really start with this. It helped me in the long run to get into reading after I stopped using audiobooks.

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