What did you do for your /braingains/ today /fit/?

>>37228876

/his/ here senpai, don't believe Mr. Diamond's lies.

Currently reading Plato's Republic

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I try to spend at least 30 minutes per day learning or reading.

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Same thing as I do every day.

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Kinda fun for me and my wife.

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I try to read 2 hours a day, one after waking up and one just before going to bed. Currently alternating between Cambridge's History of Japan and diverse Chronicles and Poetic Anthologies of the 8th century, and the Earthsea novels.

So much e-statting going on in this thread.

>>37228876
Get that Marxist shit out of here

Sent from my iPad Pro

>>37229037
>I just can't comprehend people spending a small part of their day on personal development

taking a physics course that is 4 weeks long, and have a test tomorrow, shits tough

>>37228876
it's a bit early for North Americans

Not books, but have been spending time learning to play the piano.

>>37229110
>weed

degenerate

>>37228876
Wow, 'Guns, Germs, and Steel,' is absolutely rife with inaccuracies and misgivings. You didn't make brain-gains, you made Marxist gains and logic losses.

>>37229110
>no gains

>>37229110
>weed and eastern mysticism

Do you wear sandals and a necklace with a purple crystal on it?

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It doesn't taste very good, but I've been having one as a snack every morning and I do feel a slight cognitive enhancement. What genre would you say has the most neurons per kcal?

>>37228992
D E G E N E R A T E
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The final book of this author.

It's a painful read, considering how many mistakes were made in that forgotten war.

>>37229120
>posting on /fit/
degenerate

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>>37229150

>>37228876
studying for the july bar exam :(

>>37228876
>jared diamond
Pretty much the equivalent of going to the gym to eat chocolate bars

>>37229170
>current year
>not eating a whole anthropology textbook for every mean
C'MON

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>>37228876

About to begin studying for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam (ECE). Scheduled to take it October 29. Five months to study is pretty healthy. Got the study manual already.

>>37228876
that's a horrible, horrible book. He is not a historian.

>>37229192
how many scoops do you add to your texts?

>>37229184
Yes! That for example was a hugely incorrect conjecture on Mr. Diamond's part. I would wager most of his arguments based on relativist or otherwise anti-empericist arguments were baloney. Pure baloney.

Do you have the image where an anon goes through and disproves a few?

>>37228876
/pol/

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>>37229120
>>37229151
>>37229153

>hurrr reading books makes you more intelligent

Hit your book HARD while I watch SPONGEBOB with my gf SUCKING on my HAIRY balls.

>Jared Diamond
>brain

Haha oh wow

>>37229219

I tried reading high once, all I could think about was pussy and food. I read 8 chapters, just read, I literally learned nothing and wasted my high reading when I could've went out and got something to eat and flirted with the cute cashier girl.

>>37229232
You hit your books HARD while QUENTIN watches SPONGEBOB with his gf SUCKING his 150 MENSA IQ

>>37229211
nah, sorry m80, but yea, many of his arguments were 'X wasn't done, therefore X couldn't be done'

>>37229219
>Terrence McKenna and Aristotle

What a contrast. Aristotle would've put McKenna in a sleeper hold for peddling that nonsense. I'm pro-psychedelics, but there's no great spiritual truth to be found from them. Fuck all that new age mind/body dualism bullshit.

>>37228876
Terrible book universally panned by anthropologists.

>>37229277
Need to read a bit of everything to understand everything man

>>37229232
>>37229265

You hit your books HARD while CHAD watches SPONGEBOB with his gf doing his TERM PAPER.

>>37229297
>I need to give equal time to demonstrably wrong ideas

You shouldn't build an echo chamber, but you shouldn't read complete and utter nonsense either.

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Stop kidding yourselves. All of you, just stick to lifting weights and shitposting on /fit/, without a classical education you're not making any "braingains" just picking up a book.

>>37229312
Ehh, maybe I'm being a little too harsh. I love me some Joseph Campbell, though much of his work is based on the assumption that consciousness is something other than a function of the brain.

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Read on my iphone because physical books are for plebs.

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Here's a heavy book (honestly he should have stopped after the WWII part, he really does not sell his case after that point).

From an uber-controversial author.

>>37229319
If you want to get laid, party and hang out with the safe-space crowd, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

>>37229355

You sound like a dropout senpai not senpai

>>37228876
GGS is widely acknowledged to contain misinterpret and outright incorrect information.

>>37229444

Which is why it's perfect for practicing something called critical analysis.

In other words, using your mind to disapprove arguments laid out before you.

>>37229420
I am. Never made it past the 8th grade.

What's your claim, exactly? You can't self-educate? That it's pointless to read educational material without an instructor?

A classical liberal education is simply a framework, are you really implying that an individual can't follow those principals without the aid of others? The book is the instructor, and the material can be just as easily understood if care is given.

>>37229184
CFP Grey copied a lot of this book for two videos. Literally trying to guilt white people because the entire world was too stupid to domesticate animals.

>reading history and ancient philosophy
>gains
Sorry, but all you're doing with these is accumulating bits of trivia. Which is totally fine, if your goal is to make it on jeopardy some day. If you're after personal development and improvement however, you need to hit your lobes with science fiction, and write your poetry or create an original philosophy.

It takes 0 imagination to remember sone dates some things happened, or to know the latin phrase for some logical fallacy. This is the equivalent of lifting the same weight, with yge same reps, and same sets, every session. You guys need to push yourselves if you want to improve.

>>37229465
Except they are arguments which on the surface make sense because so much counter evidence is absent in the book. You need access to source materials to discredit his arguments.

You can't just reason away wrongness which is presented reasonably. You need to have evidence to hand contrary to the sources which produce erroneous claims.

>>37229487
>create original philosophy

under aged b&

>>37229489

Yes. That's part of critical analysis.

Studying.

You can't just say something is wrong, you have to prove something is wrong.

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Bible study + some Shakespeare
Starting out with Kierke's Works of Love soon

Anybody got some good conservative lit on women's roles?
Something like Way of Men but for women.

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>>37229487
>Forget reading Gibbons, just stick with Philip Dick

I really like Diamond's struggle to explain why white people came to dominate. It was great reading 400 pages of why it had nothing to do with being superior to niggers by every conceivable metric.

Currently reading Dune

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>>37228876

Just finished this. Been in my back log for a long time.

Really good read.

>>37229469


Na, just saying you sound like a dropout. Someone that wasted his chance at an education so now he compensates by reading books with no actual valuable end resource.

Sure you're smarter than the average person, so what though? Without credentials it's all just fluff. Btw do you even have anyone to talk about these stuff like in a student group setting or do you just play professor with your stoner friends who don't even wanna bother with that?

>>37229559
This
Also pretending that the Americas were genocided when it was hundreds of years before we knew how disease is transferred

>>37229727
>all this bitterness and conjecture about someone trying to gain knowledge

lmao at ur life

>>37229783
Get real, we killed a lot of them, and if we didn't have the good fortune of them dying off due to the inadvertent passing of disease, we would've waged a genocidal war against them until they either conformed or disappeared

>>37229346
>because physical books are for plebs
said the peasent

>I read books because they make me smart
Cringe.

>>37228899
>"""""history""""" books written by a jewish hack are full of shit
Wew.

>>37229901
knowledge =/= intelligence

Though you seem to lack both

>>37229727
Student spotted.

You know jack shit about the world around you. It is literally impossible to tell the difference between someone in the workplace with a degree and those without. I've worked along side technicians who are far more intelligent than management and guess which is twice as likely to have the degree.

Degrees get your foot in the door of the working world and offer you a chance to get a sense of independent life after school. Pretending they are anything more than that is stupid. University for some is a complete waste of time, for others it's a great experience and worth while.

>braingains

fuck off

>>37229807

Yes. In particular, the Spaniards waged a war of extermination that only ended when lust overrode wrath.

>>37229942
>>37229807
Just fuck off from 4chan if you're gonna spout lefty bullshit.

>>37229783
>>37229559
This is so fucking true. Fuck diamond. Whites were the best and still are - scientific fucking fact.

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>It's a book thread
Every thread until you answer this.
You know who you are

>>37229942
>>37229807
Go back to your leftist echo chamber. We don't want your kind here.

>>37229961
>implying i'm a liberal and don't believe that the conquest of the americas was a good thing

If you weren't an idiot, you probably could've concluded that from the "if we didn't have the good fortune of them dying off" part.

>>37229984
>we dindu nuffin, we wuz good boys

Don't be a nigger. We conquered a weaker race. Own up to it, faggot.

>>37229967
are shankar's books good? how about pauling's general chemistry?

Dear lord /pol/ gets triggered fast.

>>37229967
name some "respectable" books faggot

>>37228981
That's not a lot.

You could casually browse wikipedia for a little and accomplish that goal.

A book a week seems a lot better.

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>>37230031
Yes Shankar is standard. Also try at Townsend and Cohen-Tannoudji.
>>37230053
See pic + Hatcher after Munkres.

>>37230053
tfw you almost exclusively read historical non-fiction

>>37230044
I know, this thread is hilarious. I'm OP, never said I agree with what Diamond has to say, as someone else pointed out it can never hurt to study and critique another persons speculation/opinion on a subject. I wonder how many of the posters have actually read the book and are not just parroting what others are saying

>>37230053
Meditations

I'm kinda idiotic in that I barely read or study at all during college because I'm too busy fucking around on the internet and hanging out with my friends because living in the city is absurdly intoxicating to me (I treat being at college like a vacation where I don't do shit.), but every summer I move back in with my parents who live in the middle of nowhere with shitty internet, so I always have a huge blowout of literally nonstop fitness and reading the college textbooks I ignored while I was making C's in my classes. I'm not a retard, I just have virtually zero discipline and I can't focus on improving myself or my studies unless I'm under hermetic conditions.

Anyway, I'm getting ready to start my reclusive odyssey this weekend, wish we me luck.

Gonna start by memorizing everything worth memorizing in Sociological Theory 8th Edition by George Ritzer.

>>37228876
Tried to read my handlers doctorate thesis. It's very difficult to understand.

>>37228876

I did a very hard chemistry test that will determine my future

Btw that book is shit

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>>37230549
>handler

>>37228876
You can throw that book back into the trash were it belongs.

>>37228876
Read that book twice

if you actually sift past the bullshit, you see a man finding irrefutable evidence for genetic superiority and eugenics, and then how he tries to poorly argue and reason his way out of it

if you look at it from that perspective youre on key

>>37230637
English isn't my first language. What is it called?

Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed
by Ben R. Rich

>>37229344

(((Lewin))) and (((Goldstein))).

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>>37230667
"Handler" means you're severely clinically retarded so you need a caretaker with you at all times to prevent you from hurting yourself and others.
Maybe thesis supervisor or advisor is what you meant.

>>37230693
Hahaha maybe I meant handler?
My advisors paper then.

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>reading
Plato's Republic. I'm shit at committing to reading but I have too much free time in the summer so why not
>listening
pic related is backlog for a few days
Reminder to listen to something outside your comfort zone

>>37230655
This is correct.

>>37230700
What you studyin

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>>37228876
Its fiction but I pretend like it's teachingteaching me something because it's "historical" fiction

>>37230097
how legit is that list?

>>37230719
Mathematical statistics or more specific Spectral Distribution of Wishart matrices under Kolmogorov Conditions.

I don't understand alot now, but seems legit cool.

>>37230778
Spectral dist. meaning the distribution of the eigenvalues of the matrices I presume? What makes Wishart matrices special and what are some of the Kolmogorov conditions?
Any motivation for studying this?

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>>37230770
If you want to become an expert in TQFT and AQFT then yes.

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>>37228876
Just finished another MCAT practice test. Got 512, which is bad news since I got 515 on the last one. But still two weeks before the test day. Hoping to get at least 518 to become a good medfag

>>37230733
what's this about?

Learning HBSS.

>>37230808
in what? i dont know what those mean? does it have anything to do with pure mathematics?

>>37230711
i realize that's a jackie o album, but sacred harp singing is strangely soothing to me. weird as shit to experience it in person.

https://youtu.be/szuiPWgbN6I

>>37230799
Well I can't do LaTeX here but

Wishart matrices are W=XX* where X is overfitted (p>n or even p>>n). Kolmogorov condition is that p/n->(0,infinity).

Her thesis was to connect classical prob. theory with free prob. theory.

My thesis will be understanding hers and applying fuckhuge datasets from Intel and see if we can apply MIMO systems with this method. (I.e 4G or 5G systems).

It's my bachelors thesis.

My previous thesis was doing some crappy Optimal Control Theory on quadcopters to make them fly autonomously.

>>37230853
QFT = quantum field theory.
T = topological.
A = algebraic.

>>37230876
is being an expert in any of that good?

>>37230874
Are p and n the size of the matrices? Which one goes to inf?

>have to apply pure math results to boring real life shit
Iktfb. I had to do a shitton of numerics for my undergrad thesis even though my interests lie in the topology of many body quantum systems and not the observable consequences of the topology.

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>>37228876
>unironically reading (((Jared Diamond)))

>>37229961

The Spaniards didn't slaughter people left and right? Shut it /pol/.

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>>37230993
>he unironically believes the violence is bad meme
Top goy here

>>37230956
Both can go to inf if they want
Just p>n holds and p/n->(0,inf).
(p rows n cols (I think))

I'm actually quite thrilled about doing it applied because I get to do some theory, and if succesfull the application might be used and people might need me hehe

The theory is mostly algebra tho so it's quite fun.

tfw topology course was canceled because lack of students ;_;
Having math program at technical school is pain

Is it fun? What's your subject famalam? Topology? Any cool results?

>>37230146
Such as?>>37231073
The heck are you talkin about

>>37231073
>I'm actually quite thrilled about doing it applied because I get to do some theory, and if succesfull the application might be used and people might need me hehe
Yeah breh I got some citations on the publication that stemmed from my undergrad thesis so that's a jump start on my academic career. It's not all bad but the process is dry as fuck.

>Is it fun? What's your subject famalam? Topology? Any cool results?
I'm in condensed matter theory, specifically topolgical excitations. I study topological defects and symmetry breaking that leads to phase transitions in semimetals (i.e. anti-/ferromagnetism, superconductivity, etc.) You can see how diff. geo., alg. top. and physics intermingle in cond. mat.
I'm leaning more towards the math side but the lack of funding in math deters me from switching departments.

>>37231195
So mathematics is actually useful in physics huh, neat.
Everything in stats seems super funded (atleast at my school) and you get to work with some interesting algebraic problems. Maybe look into it if you wanna get your money grub on? ;)
Been nice talking to you, have a good one.

>>37231210
made me chuckle

>>37231210
/lit/ and /fit/ /lit/

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>>37228876
Shit book, Has been debunked by other Authors.

>>37231210
Right is sorta my goal

How not to be wrong by Jordan Ellenberg is pretty good.

>>37231261
Lmao I'd rather suck dick for a living than do stats research. Fucked hated it in undergrad because the courses are saturated with finance and engineering students, which dumbed down the material to applications of basic combinatorics.
You too man good luck with your research.

>>37229519
This. I need a gift for my sisters to stop their liberal feminist brainwashing.

>>37230528
Fuck George Ritzer. If you're gonna read about sociological theory, find a different book. James Farganis has one that's pretty good.

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>>37229023
Fuck man you're an example I've got to follow. I've had the Wealth of Nations for over four months and have barely breached fifty pages.

>>37229926

knowledge is literally half of the equation for intelligence.

but yeah ok.

knowledge no mean smart or someshit.

Why's it that /fit/ is populated with highly educated people?

You'd think fitness would attract dummies, kinda like the Misc or T Nation.

>>37231549
If you wish to understand economics, there's no reason to read WoN. Maybe try something written within the last 50 years...

Even if all of his theories had held up over time, you'd be missing out on so much due to the fact that our language has changed so much over the years.

The 48 Laws of Power

guitar m80
making all kinds of neural connection gains

>>37231583
4chan. weird sample of people. social outcasts of higher than average intelligence. not your typical gymbros. I hate everyone at my gym with a searing passion that burns hotter than the sun.

>>37231515
It was just the book that was required for my class, but I'm open to checking out the other guy's work.

What's the difference? Just writing style, or is there some kind of agenda Ritzer is gonna try pushing on me that I should be pissed off about?

>>37231590
The language isn't what bothers me, rather the relevancy of some of the chapters. He himself admits in the book that he rambles, but that he'd rather make things tedious than inaccurate.

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Currently reading pic related

I only read books over 3 kg for those brain + arms gains

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I so want to read this book.

It looks like a real life version of "Citizen Kane", except with a much less sympathetic protagonist.

From what I've heard, Robert Moses was a powerful ultra-jerk.

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>>37231677
His theory book isn't terrible, but Ritzer is basically just a very average sociologist all around. It's mystifying how he's gotten as far as he has.

>>37230917
No. There's literally no point to learning things.

>>37231761

He makes me think of the villain-protagonist from the series "Boss". All-powerful and ruthless.

"Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was a city planner who worked mainly in the New York metropolitan area. Known as the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, Rockland County, and Westchester County, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and was one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in the United States. His decisions favoring highways over public transit helped create the modern suburbs of Long Island and influenced a generation of engineers, architects, and urban planners who spread his philosophies across the nation. One of his major contributions to urban planning was New York State's large parkway network.

Robert Moses simultaneously held twelve titles (including NYC Parks Commissioner and Chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission), but was never elected to any public office (he ran only once, for governor of New York as a Republican in 1934 and lost to Herbert H. Lehman). Nevertheless, he created and led numerous public authorities that gave him autonomy from the general public and elected officials. Through these authorities, he controlled millions of dollars in income from his projects, such as tolls, and he could issue bonds to borrow vast sums for new ventures with little or no input from legislative bodies, allowing him to circumvent the power of the purse as it normally functioned in the United States, and the process of public comment on major public works."

>>37231815
Well, you seem to know your stuff, can I ask for some recommendations about people in the field that are worth looking into?

This is my major for Christ's sake, and I barely know jack about it because I've been fucking around doing the bare minimum amount of work and coasting on slightly above average intelligence all year, I really need to get my shit back on track.

>>37231994
Not him, but just open one of your textbooks and take a peak through the bibliography.

>>37229489
>>37229444
please sauce me on those counter evidence. I read it and it was great, many of my friends who are researching scientists read it and think it's great.
4chan say it's shit
until I see some sources I will continue to think that book is fucking balls to the wall awesome.
>>37228876
a fuck ton of engineering homework.
his other books are top tier as well.

>>37232104
There was a /pol/ post against it, but many of the points against it were refuted by people on /his/.

However there is a lot of criticism by actual anthropologists. I'm sure if you check the Wikipedia page there will be a section on criticism. I think the main criticism is that he places too much importance on geography.

>>37231994
What are some topics that interest you?

Sociology is by nature a very broad field, so first you have to narrow down a bit on what grabs your attention.

>>37231994

Also, sociology in the US at least is notorious for letting students get away with doing very little, which is a total disservice to our students. Unfortunately, most instructors are either uninterested in investing more into their students' education, or their hands are tied by higher ups in administration

>>37232104

A Troublesome Inheritance completely blows GGS out of the water. Jared Diamond is a crypto-Jew hack.

>>37228876
>reading literature jew


AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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>>37228876
Prometheus Rising
Industrial Society and Its Future
A Brave New World
1984

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>>37231615
>higher than average intelligence

currently reading "with the old breed". it's pretty fun.

>>37232192
Anything dealing with criminal justice, international relations, religion, and mental health would snap up my attention immediately as well as practical information about how to appropriately conduct research, but I'm mostly concerned with getting the basic shit I need to know down because I've been neglecting it like a lazy fuck.

>>37232209
Yeah, I would basically skip class a lot, write essays the day before they were due while quickly skimming my books for necessary information, and then get B's and C's.

I was actually disappointed I got away with it, I only real work well under pressure because of my lack of discipline, so I would have actually preferred the bare minimum amount of effort required to pass actually be a monumental undertaking so I would have actual learned.

>>37232238
>a troublesome inheritance
That book got even more scathing criticism than GG&S

>>37232349
4chan does tend to have an unnaturally high amount of intelligence owing to the fact that dumb people that believe in absurdly stupid shit get talked down and called autistic until they eventually leave.

Also, intelligence is often correlated with introversion and introversion will increase the likelihood that a person spends a lot of time fucking around on chinese puppet-show forums apparently.

>>37230055
A book a week is less than 30m a day though.

>>37229477
The only peolle who didnt are niggers and abos

>>37228876
Spent six hours trying to make Intuiface controls that a) Already exist in the app and b) Won't be used by my boss cause she's a fucking thunder cunt.

>>37228876
Read a report over climate change from the Royal Society.

>>37232573

International Relations: Check out Ulrich Beck and his concept of "risk society," which is about the implications of living in a society increasingly characterized by problems that are international or global in scale (example: global warming, or terrorism). Also check out "world-systems theory" formulated by Wallerstein.

Religion - The Protestant Work Ethic by Weber, and Durkheim's writings on religion are basic starting points for sociology of religion.

Mental Health - Erving Goffman is the go-to psychologically minded sociologist. His book, "Stigma," is totally excellent.

Crime - Alice Goffman, Erving's daughter, just released a book called "On the Run," which is about crime in a philadelphia neighborhood. It's been incredibly controversial in the field, so your professors might be impressed if you know a little something about it.

>>37231708
Economics... is a field of conjecture and sweeping generalisations.
Most of it isnt in any way verifiable

>>37232573
Also, look up the professors in your department and see what they research. Ask them for suggestions because 95/100 times they'll love to give some out.

But don't ask for "mental health" suggestions. Narrow it down by saying something like "I want to know more about how family members deal with psychotic disorders" or "how can i find out about the history of mental health institutions in the US over the last 50 or so years"

Also: If you like crime, Erich Goode has a textbook that gives a good overview of the area. Also check out the book "Moral Panics"

>>37229056
Has anyone read The International Jew? I remember managing to buy a copy somewhere and its lying in my parents house... apparently its banned? I never got around to readin it

>>37232573
One last recommendation for crime: Karen Halttunen's "Murder Most Foul: The Killer and the American Gothic Imagination." It's a historical analysis of the way in which the concept of a "murderer" has changed over the last 400 years.

>>37232595

Because it points to epigenetics and genetics as the divide between cultures. That shit is taboo - James Watson's legacy was completely destroyed for that kind of real talk.

>>37232822
A bunch of geneticists gave it a lot of flak. Apparently some of them published studies that the author referenced in the book.

>>37232698
>>37232749
>>37232803
I almost want to just start grilling you for information now, but I'll have some restraint.

Yeah, I read The Elementary Forms of Religious Life back in high school because I wanted to understand the underlying foundations of religion so I could come up with iron-clad cultures for a DnD setting, and that's what started me down this path in the first place.

That, and I was aware it was a broad field and therefore would allow my indecisive ass some wiggle room in potential careers later down the line. Same reason I played Druid in World of Warcraft.

What do you do for a living?

>>37232905
Right now I'm a lowly grad student at a pretty good PhD program in sociology, currently trying to decide between the academic route or going into government/think tank/non-profit/etc. type work.

Anyways, I'm happy to give more suggestions. Gives me a chance to try and flex some of my knowledge of the field as a whole.

>>37229469

>hurr i cant into college
>it must not be important

>>37229056
Never really got why people are so concerned with the IQ of people in the country they live

I would rather have an IQ of 105 and live among people with an average of 95, than have a 100 and live in a country with an average of 103

The dumber the rest of society gets, the easier it is for me to succeed. The uglier and fatter society gets, the better looking I am in comparison

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>>37230993
Not really, too few of them to do so. Most of the warriors who overthrew the Aztecs were natives on the side of the Spanish. The Conquistadors got dwindled down

>>37229173
We are the vast subgroup of the "Nerd lifter" or the "warrior poet", a uniquely male group of fit yet smart and curious people.

Unfortunately there are no girls to pair with, as fitness and nerdy introversion are mutually exclusive for females

>>37232939
I basically have a timeline set up for myself that looks something like this

>College
>Shit job at non-profit
>8 years of military as a Civil Affairs Liaison
>Easy street/grace period where I can do what I want
>Embassy work

Alright, let me think of more things I want to know about, the problem here isn't your knowledge of the field but mine.

I read Outliers a few months ago, do you know of anything would explain in more detail how the mechanics of achieving success work? Maybe not in the same vein of "The situation you came from and the parameters you're working within fucking matter" as Outliers talked about it, but more of how being "successful" is defined and encouraged by society at large.

>>37228876
>What did you do for your /braingains/ today /fit/?

>Jared Diamond
>Braingains

Top kek m8.

>>37231549
The Wealth of Nations is irrelevant unless you're interested in the history of economic thought

>>37231210

>there are 'men' that genuinely behave like the guy on the left

fuck

>>37233116
Hmm. Dan Pink has a book out that kind of sums up some recent research on what motivates a person to achieve certain types of task, which can be applied to career or life goals.

There is C. Wright Mills' classic book "White Collar" which discusses the idea of a white collar worker, many of whom would be considered "successful," why it was created, and some of the problems that arise out of the orientation of white-collar work.

"The Time Bind" might also be of interest. It discusses the changing importance of work and home life in providing a person with feelings of "worth."

Do any of these hit the mark, or too off base?

>>37228876
cmon pal i studied 10 hrs for my exams then lifted then ran 5k

>>37231506
They won't read it

My sister believes in ghosts and is religious so I bought her some Dawkins and Sagan books/DVDs for birthdays/christmas but she never opened them

>>37233360
>women
>reading and acquiring knowledge
Choose one

>>37233055
>We are the vast subgroup of the "Nerd lifter" or the "warrior poet"
Post body pic

>>37229188
Which state?

>>37229319
This. Reading books by themselves will not give you braingains.

Reading does not necessarily translates to understanding

DAE race and IQ?

haha jew meme haha hes a kike(diamond is a jew) haha

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>>37231210
>read stupid popsci/popmath meme book
>laypeople flock to me on the bus asking about it
>gives their unwanted musings and philosophies

>read actual technical text
>no one gives a fuck except for one grad student
>turned out he's a colleague, in the same department I'm in
>no other encounters like it since

>mfw

>>37233209
Which informs current economic policy. Yes, it's very interesting.

>>37231210
>reads Kant
>must be smart
kek

>>37233696
Basically this. All the books in these brain """gains""" threads are entry-level pleb-tier.

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>>37228876

>2016
>Not wanting a more JUST society.

I highly recommend Pedagogy. It's a Marxist class analysis of the relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed in public education systems worldwide.

Finished reading Catcher in the Rye. Reading Of Mice and Men, that shit is short. I'll probably read A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway next.

>>37228992
Weed or Tobacco?

>>37234021

>current year
>unironically Marx

LOL

>browse these braingains threads
>useless garbage
>literally just reading for the sake of saying you've read something
Then I realized I'm lifting not for function but for form.

>>37234233

You didn't like any of the books I recommended?

"The Coldest Winter", "The Power Broker", or "The War Of The World"?

>>37234233
Motherfucker read to learn. Not just for the sake of reading.

>>37234269
These are fine for entertainment purposes. These will not by themselves give me "braingains"

>>37234292
The problem with these threads is that it implies that mere reading will give you brain gains. They will not. Raw brain capacity is determined in childhood.

>read to learn
Which brings me to my second point about the books in these threads. So you know what Plato thought about stuff. Then what? Learning for the sake of learning without considering its application is retarded. Read about stuff that will help you gain in other areas that are important to you. Unless "appearing to be smart because I've read stuff" is important to you then go ahead.

>>37232604
>4chan does tend to have an unnaturally high amount of intelligence
Nope. 4chan THINKS it has an unnaturally high amount of intelligence. There's a difference.

>>37231210
>>37231285
This fit is lit famalamzam

>>37228876
not liberal trash, thats for damn sure.

for whom the bell tolls

>>37233055
kek, deluded self obsessed loser detected

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My current list

>>37234407
>Learning for the sake of learning without considering its application is retarded

This is what morons actually believe.

>>37232604
but we think your'e stupid and here you are.

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Good shit right here

>>37234517
it is pointless if you didnt go to college faggot youre all just compensating

>>37232942
>>37229901
>>37229319
>>37229232
>>37229037

>>37234619
stoner would've spent lots of time on r9k

>>37234635
He would've probably loved /lit/ if it didn't feature so much John Greenmeme and IJ shitposting

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>>37234628
There are reading courses in graduate programs for a reason mate. Not all materials need to be taught. It's not all college dropouts that read shit here.

>>37234659
you missed your shot. stop trying to make up for it. grow up and accept your fate as a minimum wage employee, tryhard.

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>>37231808

mi negrito

>>37234686
>implying a grad student has missed his shot
>implying your grapes aren't sour as fuck

>>37228876

I'm a shitigator so, as is common in my shit profession, I spent all day researching an issue of law I've never encountered and will probably only deal with once in my life.

Currently reading Aristotle's Politics and Jack Donovan's Becoming a Barbarian.

Politics is so damn elitist, but it's great. BAB is interesting, but I like the world too much to buy into the ultra nationalist tribalism. I wanna fuck girls while I travel in Tokyo, Copenhagen, and St. Petersburg, not hang out drinking with muscular men every night (sorry fit).

Recommend both.

ive been reading the brothers kamarazov or however its spelled. i have free time at work so ive been trying to knock it out. that and lookin at dank memes...

Also, built a fence around my mothers garden and planted 5 rows of plants.

>>37228981
Cialdini is a fucking idiot

>>37234922
Please elaborate. Do you have any suggested titles on the topic?

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>Reading Jared Diamond

Well I guess that's OK if you like totally unsourced material that essentially amounts to a plausible story.

I'll take actual science over it, though.

>>37234135
Weed.

>>37228876
Kek dadlit

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I've been enjoying this a lot. Have you read it /fit/?

>>37229073
Not on your level but taking a 6 week math class.

I assume you meet all week for like 3 hours a day?

>>37228876
>Europe was lucky because it's landscape had a lot of mountains and rivers, this forced nations to form and compete!
>China was unlucky because it's geography caused it to become one nation!

Geographic Determinism is retarded, and assumes modern animals such as pigs, sheep, cows ect are natural animals. they aren't. they were bred from wild, dangerous animals over 1000's of years.

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>dat one low ass score
I need a 75% average, i think i'm gunna be ok!

>>37236013
What class is this for?

>>37235853
My favorite book along with Dostoievsky's Idiot.

>>37232655
>The only peolle who didnt are niggers and abos
Actually, Aboriginals did domesticate animals and farm, but with Australia's geography and low amount of food per hectare their farms were enormous, many kilometers of bush was systematically burned in millennia old patterns.

Aboriginal farms are nothing like farms of any other culture, they were more part of the ecosystem than any other race of people have ever been. the mobs of kangaroos were herded, the bush was burned regularly to get the plants they wanted to grow to grow, don't compare aboriginals to Africans.

>>37236027
Teaching English as a Foreign Language, I'm going to go to Korea and get me some South Korean Boipussy.

I'm a 25 year old gay virgin, turn 26 in a few days, and i hate my life. so i'm giving up on this life, and making a new one.

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>>37236104
>teaching English in a foreign country
>mfw
Well you're probably gonna get arrested for molesting gookbois but good luck in your endeavors.

>>37236104
Korea hates gays though

>>37236141
Apparently there are a lot of gay guys in korea, they just stop "being" gay in their 30's and marry a kroean girl

>>37236133
>Well you're probably gonna get arrested for molesting gookbois
I prefer, you know, young adults

>>37236212
You're probably not gonna be anywhere near Seoul but if you are check out Itaewon. I'm sure you've already read up on Homo Hill.

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>>37228876
>GGS
>Braingains

>>37232990
What an awful, selfish view of life

>>37229150
its a political science theory.

so its just that, a theory. We've used it somewhat in some of my classes but only as a possible explanation

>>37229487
>implying history is about remembering dates
You have so much to learn.

>>37234021

>Paulo Freire in English

holy shit
Where r u from, comrade?

t. brazilian

>>37228981
What is program in pic?

>>37236302
he's just honest about his

Or you're still 16 or in college and haven't seen what life is like outside of your bubble

>>37231836
fuck you give me a legit response

>>37231841
dem ashkenazis

>>37229018
Fuck off reddit

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>>37237292
Why would I when you don't understand the concept of pursuing wisdom for its own sake? You should just off yourself if you think anything you learn have to serve an extrinsic purpose.

>>37236302
it's just a matter of opinion, collectivism vs. individualism, /pol/ is pretty collectivist in nature, no? being natsoc and all

>>37228876

Reread King, warrior, magician, lover.

>2016
>not reading this book once a month

Do you even want to become the strongest version of yourself?

>>37237203
Cropped screen shots of my local Google Drive folder and Google Play Books library website

>>37237836
you're right i should learn useless garbage so i can stroke your ego

>>37237926
Self-help bullshit artistry. No, thanks.

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>>37228876
>guns germs and steel
>gains

>>37237944
weak bait, or

>>37237944
Spoken like a true ignoramus

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>>37236104
Are you me?

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>>37228992
mirin that rolling, anon. mine always end up looking like a crooked dick.

I can't stop having the impression that people a hundred years ago were much more educated and literate than we are. I'm the one reading the kojiki translation from the late XIX century, and in the preface the translator states that it's meant to be used as a guide for students reading it in the original archaic japanese/chinese mix. He then proceeds to list like twenty (not exagerating) differing versions of the original, list five or so of them as essential reads (all in chinese or japanese of course) and detailed explainations of the differences and corrections in each one. I wonder what kind of superhuman that supposed student is.

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>mfw when the author reminds me every couple pages that I'm a scrub for reading only what is essentially a guide instead of being an average student and knowing the most obscure forms of asiatic language.

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>>37240235
You're on to something, but not in the way you imagine.

>>37231210
That's pretty funny

>>37228981
>Learn
>Trump
Pick one you absolute madman

>>37240308
Well I'm studying engineering but it's true that reading history and philosophy really broadens your horizons, gives you a real sense of how the world (especially societies) really work. In this kind of education, the modern world surely lacks.

>>37229188
that was me in 2 years ago, VA bar.

Smoked weed and worked out every day, watched every single world cup game, hardly saw or spoke to another human all summer. Felt wonderful.

mathematics exam today

does that count?

>>37240395
Only if you get an A

>>37240361
>Feel the Bern

>>37232117
noted.
>>37232238
>A Troublesome Inheritance completely blows GGS out of the water.
wow an actual source, better than I had expected. thanks anon, keep it classy
>Jared Diamond is a crypto-Jew hack.
on second thought, fuck you, and fuck 4chan as a whole.

>>37235939
lecture from 1-3 lab from 3-5 and a supplemental instruction session from 5-6:30

>>37235853
I'm reading it right now.

I'm having difficulty getting through it though just because I always get the urge to crack open a bottle of wine and read it on my porch, but I end up just relaxing instead.

I find it to be absurdly comfy.

>>37230282
>meditation

you know meditation is just a meme right?

>>37237800
?

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Reading this now, muh book stack is pretty meager though

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>>37229232
>mfw watching Prehiberation Week yesterday
>I found square bob!

Absolutely gold.

>>37240794
Pretty sure he's referring to Marcus Aurelius' Meditations friendo

>>37234722
>implying a grad student has missed his shot
It depends on the field. You might be a graduate student of Women's Studies or some soft science shit for all we know.

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any comedy fans here?

>>37229319
>basketball shorts in the gym

>>37228876
Finish my sociological research paper on why integrating muslim immigrants in western society is bound to bring up a heap of problems including rising assault violence, rising domestic violence and rising number of hate crimes against homosexuals, backed up by statistics about turkish immigrants in germany and how even after 3 generations young turkish germans are still disproportionaly criminal, especially with assault crimes

Cant wait for the hate of my fellow students and my Professor to set in (am german), giving me even more possibility to train my brain when i have to argue against them lel

>>37236062
I just finished that recently. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it also gave me the strangest combination of rage and sadness.

>>37241252
brofist for stanhope m8
I probably watched and listened everything I could find on youtube with him.
Any suggestions about other good comedians that resemble his style? (besides Carlin and Hicks)

>>37241325
>sociology
Why would you do that to yourself

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>>37241369
dave attell - skanks for the memories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGTwPBxfpRI

mitch hedberg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUyommeD0_8

and louis ck's earlier stuff was pretty good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrN9Ncl8kFk

btw all personal friends of stanhope

There's a huge amount of Dunning-Kruger in this thread. It always tickles me how quickly some denizens of /fit/ will emerge from their hovels to shit-talk others who enjoy reading or learning.

>you guys aren't smart because you read
>everyone on 4chan is retarded except me

Jesus Christ.

But to answer to answer the topic, I started reading War and Peace. I finished several nursing essays and I'm preparing for exams. I'd also like to start read The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin when I get the chance.

>>37241365
>>37236062
>>37235853
I tried once but couldn't get myself through the second half. The first part is thrilling af but once the tough fight for survival is over and the main character becomes just a vengeance freak, I get bored. It would seem that the captivity and hardships would've taught the character into a more carpe diem, enjoy-your-life, hatred-is-useless kind of mindset and free them from the burden of revenge, but he fails to be that wise and just ends up with a life dedicated to a void quest that gets him nothing.

>>37241387
Gave me a really interesting perspective on society and the world in general

Ive always pretty much been a bookworm, love to read and discuss academic topics, and University is free in germany.

Just sucking up that education & knowledge like a sponge.

Im pretty much done with my Bachelor though, currently writing on my thesis about why so many men are lifting weights nowadays, compared to say 20 years ago.

Seems like the image of an ideal man has changed, men caring about their looks isnt frowned upon anymore, throw that together with men fearing for their masculinity in a world where women gain more and more power and you have /fit

>>37241429
free him*

>>37241432
Must feel good to live in a country that's not shit. Here in Spain public universities still cost you more or less 1000 euro a year.

>>37241432
>currently writing on my thesis about why so many men are lifting weights nowadays, compared to say 20 years ago.
Sounds like something someone studying in the LIBERAL Arts department would write kek.

>>37241471
feels comfortable as fuck tbqh

But im kinda afraid syrian refugees will ruin this for us

>have already been beaten up by some refugees over them wanting to fuck a girl i brought home from a club
>never seen a physical confrontation before in my life
>dental cost is 2000€ (after what insurance pays)

JUST

>>37241432
I envy people like you who study what they like

>>37231740
Fuark nigguh, you got me a little motivated to get back into french. It'd be a shame to let it go to waste, but i get sick of consulting the dictionary every page. It makes for tedious reading

>>37241485
>gyms do not want to know how to attract customers

im doing my thesis in cooperation with a big fitness chain, if they like my work theyll maybe employ me

Not everyone has to work a job he hates and then has to direct that hate on people who went a unpaved path so he wont have to admit to himself he should have done what his heart told him

kill yourself

>>37240395
Depends. Is it proof based or just babby tier computations?

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any of you know how i could increase my memory, or simply learn something usefull for everyday life / work?

>>37241578
your brain is like a muscle, use it or loose it

in other words: get yourself that intellectual routine in and start doing memory reps CMON WHTEVER IT TAKES

>>37241578
Read. Period. A serious amount a day, 1-2 hours minimum. Don't obsess over practical content, even reading fiction will give you a broader lexicon and better mental agility. After a while you'll find out that you express yourself in a clearer way and hesitate much less when speaking.

All I do is lift work(engineering gig) then study till bedtime. Daily routine except weekends where I lift, ride my motorcycle, and study. People probably think I'm a loser but I live simple and am happy.

>>37241620
Would you say reading 4chan counts?

>>37241729
Id say reading 4chan significantly raises your brains ability to read things written by mentally challenged kindergardeners

Do you work with mentally challenged kids, anon?

>>37241752
Case in point.

>Read. Period
>Don't obsess over practical content
Wasn't exactly fantastic advice.

If someone reads they should read something that isn't shit.

You'll learn from anything, but you don't want to learn from idiots.

>>37241774
I meant books D: My point was: don't reject novels/history books/whatever to read exclusivelly work-related stuff or anything that has a direct impact in your life.

>>37241752
Like I just said, I meant books. Whatever you want to learn about the best source is almost always a book, even at this modern era.

>>37241432
are you pursuing a degree in it?
No offense, I think it's an interesting subject to learn. But to be more realistic, the job market for humanities majors is incomparable with STEM degrees.

>>37241602
Nope. Your mental capacity is largely determined in childhood.

>>37241424
Be sure to read The Cossacks

>>37241784
OP said braingains, not brainloss.

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Anyone in to Knausgård? So fucking good

>>37241874
Just because it's way too intellectual for you doesn't mean its bad. It's really given my braingains in my nofap journey; I can know understand how power works in this world.

>>37241925
Please be joking

>>37241851
What's "mental capacity"? What theory of intelligence is this? What evidence do you have to prove this?

>>37241925
It's shit.
You thinking it's got anything to do with explaining power, rather than being a book of ramblings of a morbidly obese man obsessed with the war of the roses just cements what I said about brainloss.

Go read The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir if you want an accesible book on how political power works during interregnum.

>I can train zebras to do cute tricks, OBVIOUSLY they were suitable for breeding on a massive scale, just look at all the zebra farms around today!

>>37241973
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_human_brain
>hurr durr wikipedia
It's sourced. Basically all the "brain gains" you will have you already had by the time you're 17. From there you just learn how to use what you've got. These books ITT will not give you more "processing power"

>>37242055
I don't think anybody here thinks that.

But this is a pretty shallow society.

For example, when a woman says "I like smart guys." she means "I like guys that are educated.".

It's in the same way that when someone says they strength, they really mean they like physical attractiveness.

Not to toot my own horn, but my IQ is 158. You think that matters at all, in any capacity, when I read a book once every two months and spend the majority of my time playing video games?

Fuck no, I feel dumb as a sack of bricks coming to this thread, which is why I'm here.

For brain gains.

>>37242103
>158
Did you pay for that IQ test?

>>37242112
I got recommended to do it by my counselor in High School, so I didn't pay for it, but my parents probably did.

I didn't just do some random bullshit one on the internet if that's what you're implying, though I'll admit the score may not be that accurate because it was probably weighted for my age group or something (I also have a low amount of confidence in the IQ scale in general.).

More interestingly, it always amuses me how someone inevitably gets all defensive when someone mentions a high number. Feeling insecure?

I was using it as an example, it wasn't the main point so don't latch onto it unnecessarily.

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>>37242183
If you paid for it then they'd likely inflate the score. It's simple marketing.
Good job getting a high number though, I'm sure you're an expert in taking IQ tests.

>>37241973
He is talking about general intelligence i assume. And there is plenty of shit to back that up. But you'd know that if you had even the slightest idea about what you are talking about.

>>37242260
I'm pretty sure it's the opposite way around.

The free online ones don't have any kind of oversight and are incentivized to give you a high number so that you'll buy their packages or whatever the fuck after you finish the test.

Meanwhile ones that you pay for are generally overseen by some credible institution, and they already have your fucking money by the time they give you the results.

"Word of mouth marketing" could be used to explain both of them, so it's fucking negligible and wouldn't make any difference either way, unless you decided to start telling me that every IQ test on the planet is scored higher than it should normally be because of greed.

Which, I wouldn't even care about anyway because I think the IQ test scale is shitty and useless in the first place and I only brought it up to help illustrate my other point. I don't give a shit about this conversation, I was just trying to talk about what people define as "smart" or "brainy" in modern society has nothing to do with actual intelligence, and is instead more focussed on "deepness" and "education", one of which a retarded stoner can posses and the other which can be obtained by any dumbass if he's raised right.

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>>37242338
What package do the online tests sell? This is news to me.
Also what institution oversaw your test anon? Perimeter? Advanced Studies?
Just asking a few honest questions here, honestly.

>>37242103
>Not to toot my own horn, but my IQ is 158
I am laughing at people falling for this.

>>37242368
I took it when I was 14 in some private highschool in the next town over and therefore I don't fucking know who oversaw it.

I just think you're attempting to hone in on some kind of explanation for it because you're insecure about your own intellect, which I don't feel like dealing with right now because I'm not your therapist.

>>37242424
Same goes for you, who even fucking cares? It was purely tangential and hamming up the incredulity only makes it look like you've got a chip on your shoulder about it, which is your own personal insecurity shit that you should deal with yourself instead of talking to me about.

>>37229056
Would you happen to have any more of these?

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>>37242454
Nope, just that you seem to be defining yourself with something you've accomplished when you were 14. I'm just teasing you for the fact that you still think it's something you can use to feel superior over others even though you've achieved nothing else that you think sets you apart in society. And besides, 158 is near Einstein's score as reported by the media, which makes your claim even more dubious.

Get back to me when you've done something notable with that 158 IQ of yours anon. If Feynman only had an IQ of 112 I can't imagine what you'd do.

>>37242454
>Same goes for you, who even fucking cares?
Who cares? Autistic fucks on a North Norwegian cod tongue cutting board, that is who.

But really, obviously you fucking care about it. You keep mentioning in your post how others are insecure about this and how we have a chip on the shoulder but you keep bringing it up. What the fuck is that about? And what the fuck is the deal with people on 4chan that comes out and says "Yeah IQ don't matter, btw i have mine is over 130 tested as a child" Its a fucking troll at this point.

IQ matters in life and matters a lot. It affects so much. What is even the point of downplaying that?

>>37242583
Oh, but you sure are right anon!

Your smug anime girls have "won" you this discussion, and I am defeated.

Seriously though, you're 100% right. I brought it up in a moment of weakness where I wanted to feel like a smug cunt because the number pleases me when I reflect on the fact that I haven't accomplished jack shit in my life yet, and that's why I'm getting so annoyed at you questioning it it.

I can be real about that, it's the truth.

But don't you think that the immediate, unquestioned dismissal on your part also says some negative things about where you're coming from too? If you also didn't have some kind of ax to grind about it, you would have just smirked to yourself and let it slide, but you didn't because for some reason you have a problem with other people claiming to be smarter than you.

If that rustles your jimmies enough for this conversation to even happen in the first place, we've both got some shit we need to work on.

>>37242690
Reading your posts you keep making "you this, you that statements" as if you know the person you are talking to and that persons intentions and thoughts. How do you know you are accurate in that? Is this a good time to bring up the projection card?

>>37242727
The core of this conversation is literally "I believe this about your intentions because of my own intuition" from both sides, which you would realize if you weren't factionalizing over this issue.

There's nothing objective going on here (Though I wanted to talk about some actual anecdotes before getting roped into this bullshit.), so you may as well just roll with it.

>>37242812
There you go again, "if YOU weren't". And i didn't say shit to you before that comment.

>>37242853
Don't bother anon. He's just another spoiled child who doesn't know how to handle dissent.

>>37243555
His grandiosity is probably why he is a fuckup