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Pic related is a great book- from the guy that did the original 10,000 hour expert performer study. He explains how Malcolm Gladwell misinterpreted his study.

It's like The Tipping Point but not for retards.

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I love self help books from the 19th century. This is one of my favourites. Every page has a few quotable passages, I've rarely highlighted a book as much as this.

It's all about persistence and self discipline, the importance of being able to execute on a plan.

Anyone who says "oh I'm smart but lazy" needs to read this book.

>"One talent with a will behind it will accomplish more than ten without it, as a thimbleful of powder in a rifle, the bore of whose barrel will give it direction, will do greater execution than a carload burned in the open air."

>>9364795
>"He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, distanced, crushed; he who ceases to become greater, becomes smaller; he who leaves off gives up; the stationary is the beginning of the end--it precedes death; to live is to achieve, to will without ceasing."

>"It is," says Professor Mathews, "only by continued, strenuous efforts, repeated again and again, day after day, week after week, and month after month, that the ability can be acquired to fasten the mind to one subject, however abstract or knotty, to the exclusion of everything else. The process of obtaining this self-mastery--this complete command of one's mental powers--is a gradual one, its length varying with the mental constitution of each person; but its acquisition is worth infinitely more than the utmost labor it ever costs." "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education," it was said by Professor Huxley, "is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson which ought to be learned, and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson which he learns thoroughly."

>>9364745
Just remember that your superior to women who can't understand literature at all. at least your brain is wired to process complex thoughts like me

The greeks and my diary

>>9364745
Being a massive faggot. I hear that's the best one.

>>9364739
I only care about the awards when a nonwhite or non-male winner is announced. Then I get all worked up and post 500 threads on /lit/
>tfw already have 30 pasta threads ready for the next nobel prize for lit
really hopes it becomes a black woman

>>9364739
/lit/ certainly should considering Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for soviet propaganda that covered up the reality of the holodomor.

Pulitzers carry little weight, here (and every where else, for that matter).

Perhaps you meant the Nobel Prize in Literature?

jesus, literature? not even something with "writing" in the name?

>>9364693
Being a Starbucks Barista probably won't be too bad, anon.

This is one of the reasons that i'm going to put in the effort and get a law degree.

>>9364693
>a.s. in manufacturing and I'll make the same amount you owe in a year
>have more than enough time to read, write, and take more classes if I'd like to
a little bit of foresight goes a long way

>>9364690
take the redpill we must save whiteness through lord kek's meme magic :)

>>9364690
he liked trap porn

I guess he, as anyone did at the time, had a slight hope for the Internet and that it would give people access to education yadda yadda, but at the same time he predicted that it would just be a platform for more entertainment

project gutenberg

>>9364640
>project gutenberg
ty babe

>>9364639
libgen
bookzz
#bookz

>I don't like what I don't understand!

I think I saw this exact thread about a year and a half ago

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I wanted to like this book and a part of me actually does but I couldn't move past her inability to avoid falling back into cliche college girl sentimentality while pretending to be aware of it. I understand that it is ostensibly a memoir and she is trying to convey the devastation that comes with suffering from a horrifying disease as a young adult, but I honestly would have preferred she focus more on her catastrophic confrontation with the metaphors that inevitably accompany illness. It passes itself off as a subversive deconstruction that it isn't

Wisdom must be experienced, not taught.

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Keep your thought as pure as the water.

> Guys I just read 70 pages and I need a pat on the back.

Good job. Now read Steppenwolf

Poseur syndrome (also known as poseur phenomenon or pseud syndrome) is a concept describing low-achieving individuals who are marked by an inability to not exaggerate their accomplishments and a persistant refusal to accept that they are a "fraud".

So guys, I'm a brainlet who is afraid of being exposed as such, so I try to only talk about things I understand and keep my 2deep bullshit to myself. What do you call that? Plz respond it's important.

>>9364505
Describes nobody.

>>9364532
DFW, Stephen King, Bret Easton Ellis, Don Delillo, Jonathan Franzen, etc. etc. syndrome

>>9365807
Normal

right place right time. plus he's eloquent.

>>9364498

In a world of degeneracy these become novel things

really not surprising he's popular among a generation who were all given trophies, told judgment of all kinds is bad, and told that some people (read: "oppressors") shouldn't stand up for themselves

yeah, that's probably an oversimplification but you can't deny the coddling millennials have been through

>>9364498
https://youtu.be/mdA1vO2wYkE

>>9364369

take some prereqs and go to grad school for something useful you fucking retard

>>9364382
There's no such thing as a grad school where I live, burger
Uni or Trade school, that's it

>>9364369

I don't know where you're from, but doing philosophy for a bachelor's degree here still allows you to take pretty much any non-STEM graduate degree. For some reason, people with political science degrees (which I've always thought were a meme) make mad money here, about as much as lawyers and doctors.

I wouldn't do philosophy for a graduate degree unless I was so fucking good at it I was almost ensured a job at a university, but even then, academia as a lifestyle seems soul-crushing.

I have absolutely no idea why you'd study literature in an academic setting. Why did you do that? Did it enhance your enjoyment of it? Seems like it would suck the joy right out of it.

Same with literature in general. MFA culture has ruined the literary world.

>>9364331

Holy shit that is a terrible sentence.

>>9364331
>ten people

Gee, I wonder how he got this very specific figure.

Oh, wait. He thinks reductionism is a legitimate point.

Hang yourself by the throat you espouse turds from.

>>9364279
>Sierra Leone

prove it

>>9364279
i threw out all of my essays after graduation. i don't want to be reminded of those four years of hell.

>>9364289
This. Take a picture of your sierra leonian money looking out a window..

isnt it funny how every single book that comes out of eastern europe/east asia into the west is all about
>muh evil communists?

it's almost like government agencies and special interest groups selectively choose what to translate.

From my understanding the U.S. State Department was pretty open about sponsoring the publishing house that printed the original Korean version.

>>9364250
t. antifashionista

Putnam. Nabokov approved.

Spanish is the best because it retains the original idioms and sentence constructions and it's writen the way it was meant to be read, for the people it was meant to

>>9364495
>for the people it was meant to
The people the book was meant for died a couple of centuries ago.