How to stay focused while reading? That is the question. Whether it’s because you think you might enjoy the hobby or because your college is forcing you to read the endless droning of whatever-their-names-are, you might find that it’s hard to get past a single section or chapter before your mind starts wandering, and it feels like you’re reading the same words over the same words over the same words over and over and over again. Again...

So what can you do about it? How does one stay focused while reading?

FIVE TIPS FROM ESMARTR:

• Read only in a comfortable, happy environment. Seriously, environment is everything, as everyone who has tried to study on the bus on their way to an exam will unhappily tell you. Trying to read in the wrong environment can lead to distraction from any number of external forces,¹ all of which are conspiring to steal your attention and put it somewhere else.
• Know what you’re reading first. If you’re having trouble focusing, you can get a head start on the whole how to stay focused while reading thing by not going in blind for a change. Read the back of the book. Is it an academic paper? Read the abstract, then the conclusion. Know what you’re getting into. You won’t feel as lost, which will help you to keep focused.
• Work with a routine. Don’t read at dinner time. Don’t eat dinner at 11:00pm. These are simple rules that keep our lives running on some kind of order. In the same way you get hungry just in time for dinner, if you create a routine out of reading, your mind will be in a good place to absorb information when you begin. Same place, same time – make as much as you can the same. Your brain is easily fooled that way.
• Take notes. Doesn’t matter why you’re reading, writing stuff down makes remembering stuff easier. Not only that, but if you do lose your place in the text, you won’t have to start from the beginning because you weren’t paying attention as you went! Even if you’re reading for fun, try taking the occasional note as you go, after each section or chapter. 
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