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Daily reminder to abandon academia and become an autodidact instead. Discover the intellectual conversation for yourself instead of regurgitating a distorted perspective from degenerative universities.
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1. SORT YOURSELF OUT.
2. LEARN THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE.
3. EXPLORE!
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Devise a simple routine and practice it without reservation. Learn how you can "order" your day, saving it from the natural of chaos internally (laziness, depression, etc.) and externally (poor environment, no resources, disorganization, etc.) to make yourself as productive as possible. Worry promoting antifragility in your routine against sudden events after you understand how order in life is created. Hold yourself accountable. This is your life, nobody else's life, and this is your one shot to make things happen.
Once this happens, you can cultivate the state of mind necessary to understand intellectual discourse: ts contexts, its purpose, its direction, and its tools. An autodidact should strive to secure the intellectual foundation necessary to explore more complex fields without outside help. i.e., math, history, and philosophy in order to understand economics; a survey of philosophy to prepare for in-depth exploration of its various topics, etc. This guide is meant to serve as the beginning, not the end, of all autodidact pursuits.
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SORT YOURSELF OUT
>SORT YOURSELF OUT
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1. Eat well. Limit simple carbohydrates in favor of complex carbohydrates, healthy fats with balanced omega 3, protein. Consume plenty of vegetables and some fruit.
2. Exercise daily. At least 20-30 minutes of moderate cardio to improve memory, energy, and thinking. Lifting optional for /fitlit/izens.
3. Sleep well. Establish a consistent sleeping schedule and do your best to never deviate from it. 7-8+ hours, preferably in intervals of 1.5 hours (7.5 hours, 9 hours, etc.) are optimal for adults. If you work hard and limit brightness at night, this should be no problem.
4. Establish good working habits to promote flow state. Pomodoro timers, StayFocused app, earplugs/noise-canceling headphones, discarding smartphones, going to libraries, etc., whatever it takes to concentrate and stop procrastinating.
5. Keep a journal. Start with making a simple task list in the morning and commenting about your day in the evening. Progress with more and more thoughts as you continue your habit.
6. Meditate daily. At least 5 minutes of mindfulness meditation per day in the morning and evening in order to reduce stress, improve concentration, and regulate emotions.
7. Keep order. Keep yourself clean, keep your working space reasonably ordered (after use), and ensure that everything has its place. A good organizational system pays dividends in projects with many moving parts, like when attempting to synthesize large amounts of information together.
8. Pick up a practical hobby or skill. Learn an instrument. Become a hiking expert. Learn to cook. Fix your own house. Being involved in the world is a perfect chance to apply your newfound knowledge and remain connected with reality. Immerse yourself in a foreign language. We learn to solve problems, among other things, so keep this purpose in mind.
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LEARN THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE
>LEARN THE TOOLS OF THE TRADE
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>AUTODIDACT CORE:
How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler
The Trivium - Sister Miriam Joseph
>AUTODIDACT CRITICAL THINKING:
Creative and Critical Thinking: W. Edgar Moore
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing - Thomas S. Kane
>AUTODIDACT LIBERAL ARTS:
Atlas of World History - Patrick O'Brien
The Interpretation of Cultures - Clifford Geertz
Western Philosophy: An Anthology - John Cottingham
The Story of Art - E.H. Gombrich
The Art of Fiction - David Lodge
The Bible (KJV/NKJV)
Music In Theory And Practice - Bruce Benward
Pre-Calculus - C. Stitz & J. Zeager
How to Think Like a Mathematician - Kevin Houston
<any introductory-level college textbook on fundamental natural science, either physics, chemistry, or biology>
>AUTODIDACT SOCIAL SKILLS:
Improve Your Social Skills - Daniel Wendler
No More Mister Nice Guy - Robert Glover
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
How to Speak, How to Listen -- Mortimer J. Adler
>AUTODIDACT SELF-IMPROVEMENT:
The Discourses - Epictetus
A Primer in Positive Psychology - Christopher Peterson
>NOTE: Not the only definitive list. Many other possible lists exist to fulfill this role.
>NOTE: If one book provides a challenge, then find something more basic and work your way to that milestone.
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EXPLORE!
>EXPLORE!
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Now that you know the /autodidact/ basics, stop doubting yourself and start tackling dense material with your newfound analytical abilities. Read the entire Western Canon, or all Stoic philosophy! All in all, you now have knowledge and tools at your disposal to guarantee success in developing a well-rounded perspective. By this stage, you'll know what you want, and you should have the confidence to handle whatever is thrown in your way. Good luck!
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MAX THATCHER JEN is a short story about two boys who are adopted by a woman who ties them up with rope. I found it on deviantart, it's written by an autistic man, back in 2009. He is 27 years old now.
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MAX THATCHER JEN
jen go to the adoption center she sign some paper then she go and pick up max and thatcher so she can took them home with her be for she took off she put
them stiller then took them to her home when she get in side she then
took them off if the strollers and tied max and thatcher up in rope form the ankles
to the shoulders what she tied up siad max i cant move siad thatcher you boys.
need to be good no now lots go we dont want to be like this ok fin now i show
you boys what i do to any who dso not do what i ask them she un ties them.
and then put them in baby outits changes thee then put pwoder on them and put
apples in there motuhs mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmphphm said thatcher max.
wil boys i i hoop you like be tied up suff i wont lot you go til you do what i ask you
to do now then siad jen as she pick up thatcher and max then put them in there
room in a cirib there you boys cna stay like that you want get free form there
ropes i made sere they wont lot you get lose ok wil boy i need to go pick up.
some suff ok so i be back but when i come back i want you two boys to be in here
i find out you get free and are not here i make sere i get it then wil sse soon.
boys ok max think to him slaf as he and thatcher try to get free thatcher say to
him salf i gvae up we cant get free we jsut hvae to stay like this then said the boys
wil it nice to see you boys are here like i you are to be now i get put my suff way
so be good i may un tie you ok said jen there i get lal my suff put way now for the
boys wil you have not be ncie you two need to do as i say form now on ok now
when the time comes i wil lot you free ok wil see you soon boys ok bye i need time
to my slaf.
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>>9374587
I'm bumping this shit, you guys need to read this
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what
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>Is this book good?
>Why is it so memed here on lit?
>Why was this shit mandatory for high schools since there are so many better books?
>Was he into pedophilia and incest?
>Is this an illuminati book? ( http://postflaviana.org/a-pedophile-fantasy-in-the-rye/) ?
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Yes.
It's a very controversial book no matter where you look. This is most likely due to the conduct of the main character.
Reminder that American high schools read only American literature, barring a few English ones such as 1984. There really are no better American books at a high schooling reading level to read.
No.
No.
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Its a good book, however, don't go into it expecting a traditional beginning, middle and end as its more of a voyeuristic adventure into the mind of the protagonist.
Its referenced, not just on here, but in Western culture a lot because of its depiction of youth and apathy in a capitalist driven society.
Not American but I would make a guess that it has something to do with its popularity and the fact that it relatable to teenagers.
Not that Im aware of.
Don't understand this question.
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This book killed me. It really did.
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Should I wait until I'm older/better read/more experienced to read him? What's the best translation? If you've read him, what did you think?
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>>9374167
Moncrieff's translation is the best by far. Just go ahead and read him now if you're interested in how work. It's not a particularly difficult work to make your way through, just long. In Search of Lost time is definitely one of my favorite works of literaure--Proust's descriptions are just godlike. If you think you'd enjoy beautiful descriptive sentences that last for pages, then go ahead.
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How difficult is the original French text? I'd like to think my French is pretty good but I don't think I could handle a French Melville.
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>>9374208
i think hes easier than flaubert for sure
t. read madame bovary but also read like the first 20 pages of a cote du chez swann or whatever one night b4 bed
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What are some essential psychology books?
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You don't need books to understand the mentality and minds of people. Take the redpill and see what women and men's true natures are
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Sex and character
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Psychology, especially modern psychology, is absolute trash. Science is cancer.
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What a fucking awful book.
What a fucking do-nothing, go-nowhere romp of a novel.
What a time-wasting, mind-numbing, yawn-inducing drivel of shit.
This was really the best work of fiction in the year it came out? This is consider top shelf?
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>>9372861
i thought McCarthy was a hack for years after reading this, until I read Blood Meridian which has moments of unbridled genius. The Road is god-awful though
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Rate the first sentence of my novel 2017-04-12 06:23:03 Post No.9372478
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Rate the first sentence of my novel
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>It took the consumption of countless hours of internet, fantasy novels, music, and t.v., to finally understand that this thing we call real life is the most absurd existence of them all
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>t.v.,
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>>9372478
I don't know how I feel about your sentence but the smug anime girl makes me feel deeply insecure and anxious
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>>9372478
>consumption
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Consume
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ITT:
Last three books you read
Secretly insane thing you do
Number of people you have had sex with
>Concrete Island, J.G. Ballard
>Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
>Money, Martin Amis
>when no one is listening say stuff like "fart on yourself you dumb Jew" in high-pitched Mickey Mouse voice
>5
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Baudrillard's The Perfect Crime
Virilio's Negative Horizon
Part of the CCRU archive
Sometimes when I'm alone I mutter phrases like "reptile rapist", generally there is some alliteration. I have no idea where I get these phrases.
3 people sexed with me
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> Blink - Gladwell,
> Book of Talent - Coyle
> Devil's Detective - Unsworth
(please don't judge my choices, they are all free from my wife, she works at Penguin)
> Believe the holocaust is a hoax
> 21
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>The Forever War
>Altered Carbon
>Contact
>Arson
>sex
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French author Michel Houellebecq predicted the r9k/incel phenomenon in 1994 2017-04-12 02:45:39 Post No.9371639
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French author Michel Houellebecq predicted the r9k/incel phenomenon in 1994
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Houellebecq is a famous French author. He wrote mostly on nihilism, individualism and sexuality.
In 1994 he predicted the current "incel" predicament in his novel Whatever. Whatever is about his own experiences in a I.T. company. The two heroes are salarymen; one is 28, very ugly, and still a virgin.
Houellebecq reflects that in any free market, there are winners and losers.
More than that: there is a Pareto principle mimicking the law of universal gravitation (the top men have sex with an unlimited number of partners, the lowest men have none at all).
At the end of the book, the ugly hero kills himself after having seen a white girl kissing a black dude in a nightclub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever_(novel)
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"The thesis is that the sexual revolution of the Sixties created not communism but capitalism in the sexual market, that the unattractive underclass is exiled while the privileged initiates are drained by corruption, sloth, and excess."
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Interesting
Keep your chin up chap
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How important is it to graduate Oxbridge if you're British and want literary lifestyle?
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Reminder: Orwell never went to college.
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>>9371361
Like you?
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>>9371361
But he did go to Eton.
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Do you believe in God?
Why lol
You have no proof he exists
Faith is not evidence of God
Speculation of where we came from is not evidence of God
Church is not evidence of God
Leap of faith is not evidence of God
"Open your heart to God and you will know" is not evidence of God
A book written by sandniggers is not evidence of God
Give me one (1) piece of demonstrable evidence and I will change my mind.
ONE. That's all I ask
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this thread was posted by an /x/ christian, DO NOT reply to it
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>>9370351
ad hominem
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The label "pseud" is interesting, because, while it is often used to discredit via ad hominem the efforts of French poststructuralism, since the latter is usually interpreted as a destabilization of meaning and the opening of philosophy to unrigorous, interested argumentation, it is therefore assumed that it *enables* this mode of argumentation to pass for truth, instead of seeing this indeterminacy as a crucial, if not the only, philosophical problem remaining, a problem which has, of course, been there from the beginning. But when that problem is assumed to be unsolvable, it becomes easy to suggest that people claiming to have a workable solution haven't done their homework. Those people, who trot out arguments borrowed from the eminent philosophers (because, on a forum, it's really impossible to do anything more than borrow from the past), are then called pseuds: as if to bring in actual philosophy somehow asserts that one cannot be taking it seriously enough to know that it is "unsolvable." So the irony is that using pseud to attack postmodernists actually implies that you deeply believe their fundamental thesis as you see it, which is that it ultimately doesn't matter what you say at all.
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Stop talking like pseud, pseud.
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>>9370282
i remember being in high school and writing stuff like this trying to sound smart
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>>9370336
It's sad how desperate some people are for validation.
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Have you put your favorite author through the face app. Imagine if he was this sexy. He never would have killed himself.
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>>9368431
David Fuckboi Wallace
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>>9368433
I just came
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>I'm having trouble concentrating while reading, and I usually get distracted by my thoughts whenever I read. What are some ways I can remedy this?
>I'm a slow reader and I have to read over the last few sentences to get my head around the ideas. Is there any way I can increase my reading speed?
>I'm having trouble writing. I have all these great ideas but when I get round to writing them down I feel I don't know how to say it. Does anyone else have this problem?
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You actually have these problems or does your picture indicate your mocking those who do?
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>read a chapter of something
>read the sparknotes summary to make sure I didn't miss anything
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Write a story in 10 words.
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Once upon a time, OP died while choking on dicks.
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>>9365594
scene: a rainy cemetery
Dicks, groaned zombie OP. Need...dicks...
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>>9365589
they met. they fell in love. she died, he followed.