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Hey /lit/,
In the US you're pressured around 16-18 to start making strong, specific decisions about who you're going to be/what you're going to do with your life. At that age I knew I was a dumbfuck and incapable of a good decision, so I "put it off" with some decisions I knew would be broadly applicable. I figured I'd decide when I was 23.
Now I'm 25 and it's well past game-time. I'm trying to read stuff to help myself develop a personal code and pick a life trajectory (career pursuit/family/travel/etc.) I've been through Marcus Aurelius' meditations, Plato's republic, Franklin's autobiography and I'm halfway through pic related.
Anything else you'd suggest?
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For you to pay for the spoon
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The Letters of Seneca are good if you liked Aurelius. Other philosophies I like are Leibniz and Descartes.
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why don't you read some actual self-help books instead of crusty bullshit from 2000 years ago
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>>9230151
Have you read much Ralph Waldo Emerson? Try his major essays, boo
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Thats a bit too late for you to be an airhead interested in meaningless shit written billion years ago. Get a fucking job, nigger
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>>9230174
Oh yeah! I read one I don't remember which. It was great, though basically the same guidance my parents gave of "just fucking do you, fuck other people don't worry about them."
I need a wee bit more structure. Examinations of how to enjoy, how to love, how to be discerning, how to be fair and so on. Republic was great, ethics has been a little difficult to parse so far.
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>>9230194
what is it with pseuds and their obsession with greeks
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>>9230208
dude u are the biggest pseud, kys my man
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>>9230166
Self help books are unanimously terrible, but you're right in that philosophy isn't much better for working out your career
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>>9230350
which ones have u read? oh, none? well no wonder ur such an authority
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>>9230151
I did pretty much the same thing and now I'm at law school
I don't even want to be a lawyer, it just seemed broadly applicable.
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>>9230392
there are a lot of ppl with law degrees who don't work in law, look at kellyann conway, she has a law degree, or peter thiel has a law degree, pretty sure that jewish boxing promoter who controls pacquiao has a law degree, etc.
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>>9230357
Right, because people who psychologically buy into the culture of so-called "self help" with their own money and time are also unbiased sources.
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>>9230166
>self-help books
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