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user-inactivated  ·  4067 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How do I increase my attention span?

What do you want to be doing instead of reading when you're reading an article? What do you end up doing? Presumably surfing the web.

Diminish your distractions. Turn off your computer. Read entire books; in small pieces if you have to. Or try sitting on your bed listening to an album in the dark, without doing anything else, for 45 minutes. Who knows, you may just enjoy it.

What are your interests? Can you read an entire article on something you enjoy learning about? If so, you have the attention span -- you just need to work on translating it to subjects that don't immediately grab you.