Give me books to be a better man.

First, what is a man to you?

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Made some changes...

>>10003156

Someone confident, that is in control of everything, basically a alpha.

Alphas don't read books.

>>10003175
Add The Secret to the list. Changed my life. Culture of Critique is excellent too.

>>10003175
>>10003097
>shitty self-help books

welp

>>10003097
Models by Mark Manson is pretty good. Its basic idea is getting rid of neediness and attaining true-confidence. As well as making yourself vulnerable by forming emotional connections with people. It was a good read.

>>10003201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbS9jZOlQjc

>>10003097
Philosophy is the best form of systematic and wholesome self improvement one can find, but the type of people who read self-help books with an irritable thirst for a snappy quick fix don't have any affinity for philosophical discourse to begin with.

>>10003546
What is philosophy?

Fuck off back to /r/eddit
>better
Meaningless.

>>10003616
In the Platonic sense, a preperation for death so the soul can become divinized and achieve the end goal of our excistense, this being happiness. During this preperation, one explores the very constitution of human nature and how to a live a virtous life well amongst ones fellow men.

In the popular sense of the word, it means sophistic wankery.

>>10003653
Platonism is sophistic wankery.

>>10003668
ebin! xD

The Quran

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Baldassare Castiglione's "The Book of the Courtier" is all you're going to need.

Having said that, if you DO want to go a step further in badassery, also read Geoffroi de Charny's "A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry". It's all about the importance of prowess.

Of course, if you were a TRUE man, you'd realize that all that is chaff, that true peace and confidence comes from within, and that you can live a life of contentedness and just read the Tao Te Ching or anything by noted Stoics. That's philosophy with practical applications...

But it sounds like you'll be happier with that courtier book.

>>10003097
>>10003175
hahaha fucking spooked dude

>>10003097
Man's Search for Meaning