post them mental gains

I watch Frank Yang vids

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>>39827232

>>39827240
isnt he the guy who talked about how he rocked his baby brother to sleep on his crotch, got a boner and came?

>>39827232
One of the best books I've ever listened to.

It has helped me improve a lot in my job and in teaching my employees how to be more effective agents.

>>39827273
Have you actually read it?

I got half ways through it's dull and dreary to say the least.

>>39827302
>SAT practice
>mental gains

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>>39827297
nice, im about to pick up this book soon so i can stop solely relying on the 9-5 grind

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If you guys are interested, check out /his/ once in a while, a couple of days ago, this one dude shared his stash of pdfs, tons of great books on history and all sorts of topics, there was also like hundreds of books on learning languages, I think I have the link saved somewhere, I'll try and find it for you guys.

Anyway, The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli is a good read, I definitely recommend it

>>39827378
Thank you man pls share link

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how do you guys do it??

as a kid, I had a great time reading and would read novels for hours. then sometime during highschool I just stopped reading and ever since I could never get back into it. I just can't sit down and read anymore.

>>39827302
>I practice math too

Shit's interesting, wish I never wasted that time in High School now.

>>39827442
try audiobooks?

>>39827442
stop staring at a screen 20 hours a day

that should do the trick

Bryan Magees videos like this one, they scattered all over YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPNNmWLmH2E

>>39827442
Same here, except I was addicted to games/TV so books simply weren't stimulating enough. I've cut these out almost completely and I can focus on reading almost as well as when I was a kid.

>>39827378

For anyone who wants a good starter set of Old-world philosophy here's a shortlist of the top 5 things psuedo-intellectual fags claim to have understanding of and don't. So learn em and then read other stuff and you'll actually see how full of shit most humanitities dicks are.

>Prince (Machiavelli)
>The Republic (Plato)
>Meditations (Aurelius)
>Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
>Asthetics (Kant)

>>39827273

goddamn you are so funny, like are you a real human being? So funny.

>>39827297
is there something like this but unbiased?

>>39827378
>stash of pdfs
/diy/ fag here. Here's my source of pdfs, not humanities, but useful stuff.

survivorlibrary.com/?page_id=1014

>>39827442
I started reading a year ago, go to a library and pickup a short book that looks interesting, owning a physical book is harder for you to get distracted, while downloading a pdf you might read a a few pages, open 4chan and forget about it the next day. You can read while you are on the bus or something, drop the book if you dont like it.

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Might actually start reading this again today

Based Hesse

>>39827442
audiobooks

read is hard

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This, and Blood Meridian if you want some manly literature.

Any mental gains podcasts you'd recommend /fit/?

>>39827956
based is a dumb sounding word, but what does steppenwolf about

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All I need for mental gains is Zyzz papers: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19392397.2016.1190287

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>>39827232

>>39828065

Too hard to explain. Read it and you'll see

>>39827297
Crap.

t. economist

>>39827507
No, it's not an objective science. There are different schools of thought, and of course different normative goals. If you want the next best thing, read a book or two from all the major schools.

The Glorious path. Seth cooper

>>39827378
Thanks, I never would have found this. I need to visit that /his/ more often.

>>39827488
>descartes meditations
>nietzche beyond good and evil
>sartre being and nothingness
>anything by John Fowles or Marshall Macluhan

Should be on the list as well, esp. Descartes epistemology and Nietzschean ubermensch. Tragically misunderstood works.

>>39828306
I haven't read nietzche but every quote of his that people spam sounds like he's a nihilistic faggot who doesn't into purpose

>>39828319
Ikr. The truth is further from that than you could imagine. Nietzsche discusses meaning on a self evident level, and encourages a life devoid of meaningless suffering. Purpose is an individual examination and not a systemic prescription. He also discusses self mastery through an incredibly frank outlook on free will and his so called "will to power". "Thus spoke zarathustra" is probably the most existentially energizing work ive read, other than sartre and is HIGHLY recommended if you find yourself jaded with lifes apparent pountlessness.

Keep the mental gains rollin bois

>>39828380
> He also discusses self mastery through an incredibly frank outlook on free will and his so called "will to power"
I'll have to give it a read.

>>39828397
"Thus spoke Zarathustra" senpai. You will fuckin love it. "Nietzsche: human, all too human" also a great doccie if you ever feel like learning about his tortured existence. And be warned. Its extremely feely.

>>39828079

Can anyone post the full thing?

>/fit/ has even worse taste than /lit/
impressive

>>39828319
Anon below is right: Nietzsche hated nihilism, but also considered religion (and to some degree, politics) another form of nihilism, since it's based on fantasy and not something that actually exists ("Nihilist and Christian. They rhyme [in German], and they do indeed do more than just rhyme.").

Meaning is something one finds oneself, through the ubermench.

>>39827442
find something you actually like

I felt the same way, started reading a ton a nonfiction

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I don't read books b/ween sets but these are all meme-tier self help for normies and/or autists.

Pic related is what I am reading rn. Next up is Pax Technica by Phillip Howard.

>>39827488
Oh wow, aside from Aesthetics by Kant, I own all of those books.

I don't understand why these threads need to exist? Wouldn't it be better just to ask this on a board that actually knows about books?

>>39828306
>>39827488
where do i start if i'm to stupid for philosophy?

>>39828943
Here most people have a self-bettering mind set, so its a good place to ask.

>>39828978
a dummies guide to investment

>>39828983
>Here most people have a self-bettering mind set

lol

>>39828995
what mindset do you think most people have here?

>>39828943
>>39828943
how new are you?
>he doesn't realize that each board has a different make up of users and thus different opinions
>and boards catered to a specific topic just repeat the same stupid advice, which is usually based on a hivemind than actual thought
you do not ask /a/ for anime recommendations
you do not ask /tv/ for film and tv recommendations
you do not ask /adv/ for advice
you do not ask /lit/ for book recommendations
you do not ask /fit/ for fitness advice

>>39829011
>you do not ask /fit/ for fitness advice
I'm pretty fucking new but wat?

>>39829062
desu it makes sense in some circumstances
going to /v/ for videogames for example

>>39829009
>tfw no gf

>>39829082
I've been here for about 2 months and I haven't seen a no gf thread once, only memes about them.

I've seen mirin threads and musclegirl threads but I figured that was just fetish-posting for pulling dick.

>>39827232
whats that normie shit, /fit/ only has intellectual capacity to read something that vague, fuck you

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bretty good book

entertaining, somewhat informative, good for taking a break from heavy thinking.

>>39829104
It is a /fit/ institution that has been around for years. There's one right now >>39828797, even though he fucked it up

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I'm reading this right now, it's pretty nice.

>>39829124
ok

>>39828724
>through the ubermensch
Don't you become ubermensch by overcoming nihilism and religion by/and finding meaning for yourself?

>>39829206
epic book, theyre making a movie apparantly

>>39827295
>dull and dreary
Literally every leftist faggot that signals about having subjected himself to the torture of readding this opus says the same thing about it. Never anything about the content itself, the author, his motivations, the historical context or anything else. It's invariably a variation of "It drags on endlessly". Do you just parrot each other? has anyone of you actually read it?

>>39827232
this book is amazing wow. thanks for posting it

>>39829872
Have you ever considered that not only is that poster not a "leftist", but maybe they just didn't enjoy it?

>>39829872
I'm not a "leftist", but it is dull and dreary. Faggot.

>>39830288
>"leftist"
>quotation marks

you're a commie fag.

>>39827442
I read when I shit.

Finished like a 100 books like this.

>>39827342
have fun being homeless

>>39827239
is this lifechanging or worthless crap?

chess

>>39827232
This book was fucking stupid. It's nothing bot common sense and his bullshit stories about how he listened to some dude tell a story and in gratitude got a million dollars, a car, and his dick sucked.

>>39827442
Buy a kindle

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god i hate all that self help crap. This and Njal's saga were probably the most influential books ive read in the last 5 years

>>39831281
norse sagas are manchild shit of no literary value, the predecessor of shit genre fiction. the poetic eddas has some value for their kennings and portrayal of the gods reminiscent of antiquity instead of christard feardom but it's mired in juvenile shit as well.

>>39827232
Is this book really good?

>>39831341
>no literary value
nice argument faggot. I bet you show off a bookshelf full of untouched tolstoy as the mark of your superior IQ

>>39831403
it must suck to be too stupid for tolstoy but given that you like norse sagas, it makes sense that you've stunted your brain with all that pleb manchild shit.

>>39831403
Baghavad Gita > the da vinci code >50 shades of grey >>>> norse mythology >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your life story

>>39830402
Fountainhead is better imo

>>39831811

First and foremost this. Medidations by Marcus Aurelius is the starting point of becoming the stoic, rational alpha man you should be, Anons.

>>39828107
> Economics in One Lesson
> Crap

Go to bed Krugman. Nobody likes you anyway.

War and Peace
>tfw only 500 pages read so far
>tfw 700 left

Either/Or - Kierkegaard

>>39831811
It kills me that i'll never be able to thank him for Meditations. Also tfw I lost my bookmark and can't remember what page I was on

>>39828082
Great choice, anon.

>>39833761
If you don't remember where you stopped, just start again senpai. Will refresh the knowledge on your head.

>>39827493
>a book written by a man who turned Germany from a smouldering crater after WW1 into one of the biggest superpowers in the world before WW2.
>someone could only suggest it was good as a joke
I'm sorry to tell you that liberalism is a mental illness and you suffer from it

>>39833907
>copy from school library
I think i'm going to get one to bring with me everywhere

>>39833932
>a book written by a man who turned Germany from a smouldering crater after WW1 into one of the biggest superpowers in the world before WW2 and then turned it into a smouldering crater once again

ftfy

>>39833932
Boy, you drank the kool-aid and asked for seconds, didn't you?

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>>39830726
bump

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>dem drawing gains

No lie this shit is great and better than meditating

>>39827378
bump for the pdfs

>>39833965
Prior to the large influx of rapefugees, Germany was one of the only strong economic powers bailing out Spain and Greece. Sure was a smoldering crater.

>>39834104
you just skipped ww2 and jumped 60 years in the future
time doesn't work that way

>>39829417
Yeah.
Think of who you want to be in ten years.
Then think of a gradient of men between that man and you now.
Then be the man of tomorrow, today.

Another word for ubermensch is tomorrowman

>>39834060
Where's this?

>>39829872
Personally, i found it riveting.
Then again i'm actually after dem life-meaning gains, not just mining for things to deconstruct.
I also found Bakunin great.

>>39830313
Hi five

>>39833932
Germany was on a course to economic prosperity before hitler came to power and was like "lol let's put everything towards military power" Then bankrupted the fuck out of the state

>>39831341
>Ties balls to goat
>no literary value

>>39833761
"Hey someone stole your diary and I'me reading it. Its rad. Props."

>>39834216
>Debased currency.
>war debt
>prosperity

>>39828079
There's another one too that someone at my uni did lmao
I actually go to a good uni, sociology is just a joke

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Got this 4 xmas

>>39827232
I'm a chapter into this book.

The author loves to suck Abraham Lincoln's dick and spouts shit I already know. I'm going to keep reading but I'm very disappointed right now.

>>39827232
This book suck ass. It teaches you to be a literal little ass kissing bitch to have your way. And even so, maybe that shit worked in the 30s, but today it means jack shit. It's "interesting" but complete shit.

Obligatory Iliad&Odyssey
Might is Right
The 48 Laws of Power
The Prince
The Road to Serfdom
Brave New World

>>39834501
This, tbqh. That book is betaness101. No More Mr. Nice Guy is a better read for autists who want a better social life.

>>39827232

>how to win friends and influence people

You get that through talent and experience, not reading a self-help book. That book has literally never helped anyone who didn't have the balls to go out and build experience or have talent to begin with. It's worth less than toilet paper

>>39827342

Please stop before you throw away all your money

>>39828552
what edition of meditations is that there anon? do you rec?
i recently looked into it but bought an awful translation

>>39831811
do you rec the penquin classics edition anon? plz responf

>>39828552
Oh, hey, a radical traditionalist.

>>39828552
nice fantasy haul

>>39827623

Start with 'RE Joyce' by Anthony Burgess for better results.

>>39831800

Yup.

>>39831811
Fav book desu

>>39831811
>trying this hard

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genuinely the funniest book I have ever read

>>39827246
what is this?

>>39834725
Absolutely fucking not, I made the mistake of buying it and I regret it so much.

Buy any other version where the translator is Gregory Hays, DO NOT BUY ANYONE ELSE

>>39831811
Thanks anon .... i will add this to my reading list

>>39834906
is it like his youtube vids or something?

>>39835002
a lot of the same topics as his videos, but he gets way more in depth, and way more vulgar about them

>>39827457
This, I have a garbage attention span, and suck at reading. I just go for walks amd listen to audiobooks

>>39829872
>boo hoo he said mean words about that piece of paper - the damn leftist!!! :(
Cuck

>>39834915
Instead of buying it, you can read his blog by the same name.

>>39834452
I read a short blurb on this book and it sounds interesting. Have you started it?

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This is one of the most enjoyable books I've read recently. A great way to get a Marxist interpretation of history without all the normative slop that you would expect from a Marxist author.

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This man had an astonishing vision of what our future needs to look like. His encyclopedic knowledge of science and history ties his grandiose vision down into reality rather well rather than the fantasy land Jacque Fresco speaks about. His text can be quite verbose if not superfluous half of the time. As they say, reach for the stars and if you miss at least you'll be off this plague-ridden rock.

https://tripinsurancestore.com/4/grunch-of-giants.pdf

>>39834076
Really? I hated it. A lot of it was psuedo-science and the actual drawing advice it gives was covered better in other books. (most notably Keys to Drawing.)

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The blible. Niggers.

>>39835238
RedPill me brah

>>39830402
God damn.
Never felt more motivated than when Hank goes on an inner monologue

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>>39827232

>>39828064
Jocko Podcast
Stuff you should know/Stuff they dont want you to know

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>>39827378
Bump for stash link

>>39827442
You're just gonna have to read things you enjoy. If it's a good enough book, you can't help but read it!

>>39831811
Just finished the audio book, loved it. Want to get it in print now.

>>39835443
You're gonna have to do that yourself.
rationalmale (dot) com

>>39831811
>>39835569
I would recommend anyone interested in this book buy it in print so you can highlight/annotate. At the very least, keep a journal describing what you got from the book.

>>39827232
good thread

>>39835569
same ... buying the paperback now

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>>39827507
it is unbiased

>>39827342
economics in one lesson wont help you with that, but its worth reading anyway

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>>39828107

>>39830402
>tl;dr: the book

>>39834708
It's published by Everyman's Library. I have a couple books by them and they're great. You can find them on Amazon.

I have 1984, Foundation's Trilogy, Catch 22 and The Count of Monte Cristo

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I'm reading this right now, it's a treasure.

>>39827442

stop using up all your reading fluid by reading shitposts on 4chan for 8 hours a day, save your precious fluids for real books.

>>39828064

Lewis Howes
London Real
Tim Ferriss

>>39836176
This isn't some law of attraction bullshit is it? On par with "The Secret" ? what practical advice does this book give?

>>39836319

Not at all, it's a series of interconnected short stories about people living in babylon that impart practical advice on finances and how to think about them. Most of the wisdom is given through back and forth dialogue and teaches things like working for yourself and not for others, getting your money to create more money, the right way to think about debt and so forth. I'm serious when I say every page is packed with gold.

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>>39827232
Just finished this, a light read compared to the general theme of what's being posted ITT but a fantastic book nonetheless. It reads like any historical fiction novel but everything in it is a real event and all the characters are real people.

Not gonna lie I got teary eyed at the end, I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in WWII or tales of honour and chivalry in war

>>39836176
I like this book
>Started as pamphlets in the 20s to teach people about finances
>got so popular, they put it together as a book
It's lessons about money, earning, saving, having a cushion for emergencies, what happens when you come into money (want to spend it on yourself, on others, or something weird happens like you break a foot and get medical bills)

If anyone is interested in crime books here is my favorite ones:
My bloody life
The black hand
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Wise guys

>>39837158

The Black Hand by Chris Blatchford?

>>39837158
>The black hand
>crime books
>black people commit crime
Fucking racist little shit.

>>39827442
Stop redomg pleb-tier books that make you want to gouge your brains out, that might help. 99% of fiction is masturbatory biased bullshit, non-fiction is where reading becomes interesting and useful.

>>39828306
>tragically misunderstood
Maybe that's because most philosophers are hilariously shit writers who couldn't explain a concept clearly and unambiguously if their life depended on it.

Protip: if you're top retarded to explain your ideas properly you're too retarded for me to waste my time reading them.

>>39837334

the irony

>>39829062
try asking /fit/ for fitness advice and see what happens

>>39827378
The Prince is the European equivalent to The Art of War. Brutal and stunningly beautiful.

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You get 2 hours of Arnold reading his shit if you get the audiobook
But I enjoyed it

>>39837314
>99% of fiction is masturbatory biased bullshit, non-fiction is where reading becomes interesting and useful.

Non-fiction is written by people who have their own biases.

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>>39827232

>>39834216
>Germany was on a course to economic prosperity
Jew elites were. Or course the wealth would flow down to the plebs, but before they had a chance to see it Hitler came and ruined everything.

>>39834216

Is that why you needed a wheelbarrow full of marks to buy a loaf of bread? Is that properity?

How do you lot read self help books wothout feeling incredibly sad about yourself? Just wandering ibto the section at me local bookshop makes me depressed.

>>39837592
Anon this is for YOU, and YOUR gains. You realize pride is why a lot of people never make it because they don't want to look down on themselves.

Think of it as building yourself up, a continuing investment in something that you use EVERY FUCKING DAY. You and your life are the most important, treat yourself like it.

>>39837592

Buy them online if you're actually that much of a sad cunt

>>39837592
I feel sad about myself all the time, so there's no change there
Also 90% of it is 'just be yoursef, enjoy the moment' crap

>>39837623
Whats it about?

>>39837611

Name even 3 books that say this.

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>>39837654
I read the secret, how to stop worrying and you can heal your life (got it from my ex, one of the reasons we broke up), I doubt others are much different
If you want self help at least go pseud-science Jung based books, like Magician, Lover or the way of superior man
in the self help is cancer

>>39837679

jesus christ maybe dont get "self help" books from oprah's book club, most of the books posted in this thread are filled with excellent, practical advice.

>>39834456
gonna have to change that attitude if you want to win friends and influence people anon :)

in seriousness though like most wisdom if you read this with a cynical mind it'll all sound like common sense but if you openly absorb the material it could change your way of thinking and acting for the better

>>39827517
love your work

>>39827442
browsing the internet, playing games, watching movies, etc are all activities that deliver rapid novelty and stimulation for 0 effort cost and thus destroy your attention and focus. Do with this information what you will

>>39827506
got halfway through this and haven't finished it.
I'm thinking maybe the ideas presented here are overthinking things a little bit. Skimming is useful, taking notes is useful, not sure how useful the rest is over just straight reading books

>>39837185
Yes
>>39837207
Nice bait?

>>39828107
How much money do you make anon? Are there jobs out there for us?

t. economist in training

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Got this for Christmas as it was on my list, about to start reading it. Optimistic about its content.

You Americans make me sick with your self help shite. Did you lot not have fathers and brothers to raise you? Your "culture" deserves erasure.

>>39837952
Yeah its pretty cool

>>39838021

Isn't it 8am in america?

>>39827493
Kys faggot.

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>>39828978
You start with the greeks

>>39838293
gtfo pls

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>>39838585
>taking reading advice from someone who can't count

>>39837952

r/theredpill

Pathetic MGTOW tier

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>>39834186
oman

>>39837523
gtfo pls

>>39837334
>Hurrr, works that are admired by a consensus of humanity are too stupid for me
>Clearly I'm superior.

>>39838021
>>39838293
samefag

>>39830726
OP here, im on my 2nd read through and im currently incorporating the ideas from here on getting better sleep, one of the main being counting cycles instead of hours slept to gauge your 'sleep health' and better manage a schedule.

Mixed results so far, I have the problem of waking up around 2-3am each morning when i go to bed and try to ideally wake for 6:30.

I'm trying to find that book about cultivating a 100% unshakable mindset, where nothing can make you angry or sad.

It's been weeks but every keyword I try gives me generic self-help books and ocasional buddhist books. The book I mean is written by a dude and had a vaguely defiant aspect, like "let's see if THIS can shake me"...

>>39827295
>that
>best book you've ever listened to
>can't even read

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Not exactly mental gain but I'm a total beginner and I just read the sticky + this (it was recommended there) in a few hours. Although it's only 100 pages I'm happy about it because it's legit the first time I get my information of fitness through literature, and I'm usually the type of guy who never reads books or manuals or textbooks before I venture into something, I just get the basics from Youtube or whatever.

Right now I'm sizing up a nutrition textbook I have in my computer. It's short, 300 pages or so, and I think it will save me of a lot of headache later.

>>39840594
Just because somebody listens to an audiobook doesn't mean they can't read.

>>39828107
Yes, it is an objective science. Gersham's Law is to economics what the Newton's First Law of Motion is to physics. The laws of economics are no different from the laws of physics. I would love to hear how something like the law of demand is not scientific.

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>>39840572
Might be Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

A true classic of stoicism, the man was a warrior of the highest level. If you're familiar with "Mad Dog" Mattis, the unmarried Defense secretary and patron saint of the Marines, he carries around the book everywhere it goes.

>>39827232
Kill yourself.

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>>39828079
>We argue that ‘Zyzz’ is the aspirational ‘image’ that Shavershian himself embodied and expressed. Followers and fans of ‘Zyzz’ do not simply want his ‘body’, they want to live his aspirational bodywork project.

Fucking sociologists need to lurk moar. Zyzz is inspirational in addition to (if not instead of) aspirational.

How many people really consider "making it" to have Zyzz' life, instead of just want to get in shape and stop constantly spilling their spagetti?

>>39828107

>different schools of economics

In pop economics. Such divisions don't exist in academia.

>>39836047
Keynes is widely considered the greatest economist of the 20th century, Rothbard is largely a fringe figure only respected by Austrian cultists.

>>39840890
But he ain't got no life lieutenant Dan

>>39838713
greenpilled af

>>39827342
Don't quit your job anon, build your portfolio in your downtime. Keep using your job for that income to build your assets.

>>39834608
>The 48 Laws of Power
Literally "How to imitate psychopaths: the book"

>>39841414
>>39834651
>>39830560

Note the use of the word 'solely'; I am happy to continue in my analyst job in pharma but I want to be able to generate income from more than one source.

>>39829872
>gets super bootyblasted someone doesn't like some angry kraut's manifesto
>hasn't actually read it himself
it's a bad book. the only reason it's remotely popular is the author knew how to take advantage of an economic depression, and the subsequent wehraboos like to leave it on their coffee table

A friend recommend me one, i think its called "how to win influential people" or something like that, is it good or is it bs?

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if you guys thinking reading a book is equivalent to listening to the audiobook, you guys are fucking idiots.

>>39841601
Smart move that's what I'm doing too, yeah I didn't quite see that "Solely" part like others.

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>>39838686
cuck detected

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>>39837490
No that would be more Carl Von Clauswitz's On War. I liked The Prince but I feel it's more of a guide on how to be an paranoid autist in life.

>>39834906
you know that book was probably ghost written, right?

>>39834608
I'm reading 'Fatal Conciet' by Hayak, the first book in the series. No longer in print for some reason.
It's really good. He's explaining the development of 'the greater order' (capitalism) as directly analogous to evolution.

>>39835095
Papa Rudin is okay, but you'd probably gain more reading them as separate subjects. Folland for Real and Conway for Complex are both great reads.

>>39842095
While sometimes applicable, The Prince is focused on a specific realpolitik environment.

If you're looking for a similar consequentialist guide more focused on the concerns of the individual, check out The Art of Worldly Wisdom.

>>39827246
THIS

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Cigarettes, coffee, adderall and sometimes weed increase my mental gains. Without them I'd be practically retarded. Pic related is one of my favorite books though.

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This thread made me go out to the library to get Skunk Works and The Prince. I'm 50 pages into Skunk Works and it's very interesting since I'm a mechanical engineer.

>>39841940

>the sound of tony robbins' voice in 2016

what the fuck happened

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>>39838585

>Lattimore

>>39827239
Anybody got a link to a .pdf of that book? I'd like to preview it before spending any money on it (YES, I'll actually purchase it if I think it's not bullshit).

if im a complete scrub to this sort of stuff, what are the 3 books i absolutely need?

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This book really helped with my confidence.
I had always viewed my 'introvertness' as a defect.

>>39846074
Dude, introversion is a meme.

learned python

>>39846096
s-sorry

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Anybody got a link to a downloadable copy of this book?

>>39830726

worthlesscrap.txt

>>39846408
Bumperino Al Pacino.

>>39841881
>>39841881
I only listen to lmao dumb stuff on audiobook, like Stephen King. It's stuff I want to read, but if I'm gonna sit down and read, it's going to be quality stuff.

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>>39835095
THE BIBLE!

>>39828107
>Crap.

how?

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clean room, clean mind, clean lifts

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Ive read it like 6 times over the last several years
Always get something new from it

>>39840933
That's kinda the joke, that "the guy she tells you not to worry about" is a step down

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>>39841000
>greenpilled
What did he mean by this?

>>39834076
i get mixed reviews but this was one book that helped me break the symbol drawing curse

90% of the posters in this thread are bucket crabs recommending meme books. I'm surprised no one has suggested rich dad poor dad or Malcom gladwell yet.

>>39837334
>being this retarded
>making this broad a claim
>providing no backing other than your pseudo-intellectual opinion
>no examples
>no prescription of what good writing is
>no exposition on the value of aforementioned "goodness"
I think i know why philosophy is unintelligible to you :^)

>>39847156
Look up "greenpill memes" on google. Thank me later.

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Can't believe nobody mentioned this, but >>39827956 Steppenwolf is kinda-somewhat close.

Nietzsche is the best author when it comes to self-help. Anything else is useless drivel, especially Aurelius. Thankfully, nobody here has actually read The Meditations, otherwise it wouldn't get mentioned at all. For example look at these retards and laugh >>39831811 >>39831965 because they clearly have no idea what stoicism is about.

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>>39848304
>>39828319
>>39837334
>>39847755
Nietzsche is the most misunderstood philosopher out there, but mostly because he's hard to read. Not all that hard to understand, but the way in which he wrote his works is hard to get used to, so most people just find some shit and roll with it since it fits their worldview. However, his philosophy is literally the opposite of what memers on the internet make it to be, especially his later works like Zarathustra, EH and The Gay Science

>Courageous, untroubled, mocking, violent—thus does Wisdom want us: she is a woman and always loves only a warrior. You say to me: ‘Life is hard to bear.’ But wherefore would you have in the morning your pride and in the evening your resignation? Life is hard to bear: but do not pretend to be so sensitive! We are all of us pretty sturdy asses and she-asses. What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body? It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always a bit of madness in loving. But there is also always a bit of reason in madness.

>I have learned how to walk: since then I let myself run. I have learned how to fly: since then I will not be pushed before moving from my place. Now I am light, now I am flying, now I see myself beneath myself, now a God dances through me. May your love of life be love of your highest hope: and may your highest hope be the highest thought of life! ‘In your love let there be bravery! With your love you shall go after the one that fills you with fear!

>“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”

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>>39827232

>>39828319
Also, I if you need to ever shut some nihilist memer up, or someone who claims to have read Nietzsche, he literally tells people who think life is 2hard4them and depressed miserable cunts to kill themselves. He tells idealists, nihilists, ascetics and others who dismiss this life and worship the next or seek to live "virtuously" according to a certain moral code this

>They have not even become human yet, these terrible ones: let them preach rejection of life and themselves pass away! These are the consumptives of the soul: hardly are they born before they begin to die and to long for teachings of weariness and renunciation. They want very much to be dead, and we should applaud their wish! Let us guard against waking these corpses and damaging these living coffins! They come across an invalid or an old man or a corpse;* and straightway they say, ‘Life is refuted!’ But only they are refuted and their eye, which sees only one face of existence. Shrouded in thick depression and eager for the small accidents that bring death: thus do they wait and grind their teeth together. Or else again: they grasp after sweetmeats and mock their childishness in this; they cling to their straw of a life and mock their still clinging to a straw. Their wisdom says: ‘A fool is he who stays alive, but such fools are we! And this is just what is most foolish about life!’— ‘Life is only suffering’—thus say others and do not lie: so see to it that you cease living! So see to it that the life that is only suffering ceases!
And let the teaching of your virtue resound thus: ‘Thou shalt kill thyself! Thou shalt steal thyself away!

bump before I leave for my folks

also, on topic :
Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He's an ass, but he usually has a point.
Frank Herbert. Not all his stuff is good, and the stuff his son pumps out is definitely a solid 'meh', but it's usually entertaining, and a quick read anyway.

>>39848791
>dune
>a quick read
There like 4, 300+ pafe books there

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>>39827232
Got given this the other day

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>>39828591
Should be compulsory in schools.

>>39827239
>>39846012
I probably won't buy the book, to be honest. But I can confirm that it doesn't seem to be available on torrent sites. Anyone with better search skills?

>>39835268
Surprised this thread is still up. Yeah; I'm about 100 pages, or ~15% in, and the fixation is on QOL improvements for which there's no quantitative metrics. Bretty gud so far. I'm a history guy, despite working in the financial sector, so this book is a nice blend of both arenas.

>>39849197
>New York Times

Absolutely cucked

>>39829872
your safe space is this way >>>>>/pol/

>>39840933
this is not how that meme goes.
god /biz/ is autism central

>>39849403
>I only read stuff that doesn't challange my views
Absolutely degenerate

>>39840716
the difference is that while they're both objective laws, one describes reality perfectly while the other will never do

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>>39841940
I started listening to the audiobook of this, it was pretty great, not even that much shit that I already "knew", like most self help books. I even took notes because it had a lot of "practical" stuff
Too bad I stopped and my life went in the toilet

>>39831800
>>39835472
>>39836142
Proud of you /fit/.

If Atlas Shrugged doesn't give you a motivation to live your life to its maximum, you are a sad human being.

>>39827517
very nice thank you anon

>>39841558
You are saying it like it's a bad thing.

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Cuts the magic keeps the message

>>39846074
>implying that introversion is inherently bad
>implying social skills aren't something that you practice and aren't independent of where you lie on the introversion-extroversion spectrum

i take it you haven't met an extrovert with shite social skills. i tell you it's fucking horrible m8