pls rec some high brow/literary self-help/self-improvement works

Unironically, start with the fucking greeks

>>9112417
Undoing Yourself with Energised Meditation and Other Devices

Not all "high-brow," but better than normal.

1. The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell
2. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
3. The Art of Happiness by Epicurus
4. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>9112420
fpbp

>>9112430
Adding to this, the Enchiridion of Epictitus. It will make you a man, if you have half a brain.

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

>>9112417
Whom the Gods Would Destroy by Richard P. Powell

>>9112417
No such thing, self-help books are a tool of the pleb.

>>9112506
we're all plebs here m8

if you weren't a pleb you wouldn't be on 4chan

>>9112509
This. Successful and creative people don't use the internet.

On Women followed by Boku no Pico

scratch that, watch Boku no Pico first and then again after On Women

>>9112506
all works of ethics are self-help books

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

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>>9112417

It's called religion.