I've already read a couple of books, but they were all light reading or straight to the point. Today I started volume 1 of Capital. I read for about 2 hours and I realized I feel like I can't do this; it's very dense and abstract. Are there any habits, thoughts, or other helpful things that keep you focused?
just gotta sit down and do it, tbh. With things that I'm having trouble parsing or absorbing, I will force myself to stay with a paragraph or a page until I've really parsed it, even if it means re-reading a few times. Though if you aren't firmly in the habit of reading for comprehension, jumping straight from light reading to Capital is probably pretty rough, especially a blind read with no context. I also think for something as dense as Capital, taking notes or highlighting important sections is probably important, but I'm not good about actually doing that myself
I may as well highlight things I don't think are important at this point and save some ink
I always buy used books, and my first copy of Caliban and the Witch came 90% yellow lol