How can people fully absorb what they're reading when they read on the bus or other public transport?

How can people fully absorb what they're reading when they read on the bus or other public transport?

By not having ADHD

The same way they do it anywhere else.

The bus is loud, your body moved around because of traffic light and bus stops, people are talking loudly on their phones, you have to keep an eye out for your stop.

Completely different to reading in a nice quiet environment at home.

Autism

I lived all my life next to a highway, and i got used to it. That made me capable of ignoring sounds pretty easly, and for university i had to study in the bus so now i can concentrate practicaly anywhere

I can't read on the bus, but I have a 40 minute train commute, so I may as well fit in some reading.

It works if you have a good pair of headphones and throw on some white noise.

I'm more worried about someone seeing what I'm reading and judging me for it desu.

>The bus is loud
Background noise

>your body moved around because of traffic light and bus stops
Never bothered me.

>people are talking loudly on their phones
This one is genuinely distracting

>you have to keep an eye out for your stop
Not a problem if you're familiar with the bus route.

I know what you mean. I mostly just have a hard enough time not falling asleep

>He doesn't listen to classical music on public transport

>classical music

pseud spotted

You got me!

Actually I tend to fidget a lot and the constant motion of the bus makes me feel extremely comfy. I'm not kidding, turns, bumps and loud sounds keep me calm. I usually need around 5 minutes to adjust and I'm good.

>bus
no, the metro is the patrician choice
>tells you what stop is next so you don't have to keep looking up
>has all the comfy upsides of the bus without the downsides like traffic noise and the sudden movements
But I mostly just listen to music and think.

Good headphones, hope it's not busy. Top deck.

I prefer trains. Reading on a comfy virgin train from Manchester to London on a quiet day, losing total track of your own time and location is 2 hours of bliss.

I always read when I'm on the El. I just find the train car with the least amount of people in it. Once I tune into a book, it can fill up and get loud and it doesn't matter because I'm already engaged with the book.

Its possible once you overcome the constant need to check your phone

They can't. It's just as bad as watching a movie while somebody is talking

Your pic looks like its from an Iranian film. Do you know the name? Trying to get more into Iranian cinematography, more than the trickle down we get in the West anyways.

This

Actually I find it's the opposite. Because there are so many distractions I find myself overcompensating for a perceived lack of focus and as a result hyper-focusing.
I read very well on the subsub

Oh, I was talking about trains. I get most of my reading done while commuting.

Yeah, I can't read on buses. I could probably handle the distractions, but if I try to read for more than a few minutes the jerky motion makes me feel kind of ill.

You have to bring a bucket of water to soak your pages in, and a big sponge.

It helps to have a towel to dry yourself off with but isn't required

I can read in perfect quiet, and in places with loud public noise, but not in the middle.

Once there's enough general noise around me that it blends into a drone, my brain ignores it easily.

What breaks the chain of thought is when quiet becomes loud or when loud becomes quiet. Like people talking loudly on a phone makes spikes of noise so my ear keeps waking my brain up and forces me to acknowledge it.

It can be distracting sometimes. The terrible hygene of the homeless and their acrid smell, the train cars or seats themselves can be dirty, loud cellphone talkers that need everyone to know how important their conversation is, the engine or rail noise, but generally these are not overwhelming. You can concentrate if need be, and if you cant then it might be an issue of your particular form of transport being terrible all of the time or your attention span not being great.

>Reading on a comfy virgin train from shithole to larger more islamified shithole

I can do it like 90% of the time but not when there's a homeless person or urban youths or a gaggle of tech bro colleagues or a murder of junkies, none of those groups ever shut up

How do I do this

I can only do light reading on the bus

>urban youths

>t. Poor provincial fag

I used to ride the bus; you wait forever for it to arrive. You may have left the house dry and well dressed but in a hard rain you will inevitably become disheveled and soaking wet long before the prole wagon arrives. Once on the bus you will find yourself immersed in colored immigrant hell. Hopefully you'll find a seat but probably not. The bust stops almost every block to pick up and let off passengers. The bus stops at every light it seems, and even every corner.

I can walk downtown as fast or faster than the bus that stops in front of my place.
What a prodigious waste of time and energy.

Thank god I have a car. I never want to ride on a fucking bus again.

Look at that ugly cunt in your image there. A muslim.
What is she reading? The implacable laws of Islam as pertaining to muslim women?

It’s the only place I can read, desu.

Where it anywhere else, I’d be too tempted to do other shit.

This.

Music, food, video games, eating shit with friends, porn, movies, drawing. I get easily distracted if I try to read at home, public transport is a sort of disciplinary surrounding where I'm forced to concentrate. works out since I can get a solid 4 hours of reading.