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walk it off, take the book with you. running machine while you read. audio books are good too. someone said weed and it works if you can avoid smoking yourself too dumb to read.
just find a way to burn that energy off while you read it or before.
i wonder how many people get this type of zoomies from emotionally intense stuff.
Dude you're totally right, it is absolutely a form of the zoomies.
Box breathing is literally how the cia death squads handle their feelings. It works.
nah.. being a theorycel is wild
I've been mostly abstaining for years after reading a few articles
we need /c/notheory to help guide these souls away from sin, complete with increasingly esoteric advice on how to practice abstinence and the superpowers that come with not reading theory
Think it all through. Tell other people (if they're available). Then, read two more lines, get excited again, repeat...
Going through really good stuff takes me a long long time
Maybe slow it down? 10 pages a day, adjusted to what works for you?
1 page a day feels like too big of a rush of excitement. Even an article as short as a long comment feels like that. I can feel my brain doing huge skateboard tricks.
Have you tried reading theory that's more boring or impenetrable? I've not had this problem before so I'm just spitballin
I don't know wjat you mean exactly, but i need good smooth storytelling, which is why I love Parenti's essays and speeches so much.
Why do you need good, smooth storytelling? Isn't that what is making you manic? What about Hegel or Kant? Have you read those?
I need it because that's pretty much the only reason I read. Maybe I should try other kinds of stuff. Are there any works by Hegel or Kant that you find enjoyable?
No.
I take edibles and I run
It's the two good things about my town
Affordable cannabis and a spacious park with a paved track
I take edibles and I run
Do you do both at once? That's interesting. Ive never heard of someone doing that. What do you like about it?
Make YouTube videos?
Why make them? I kind of know nothing.