I know self help gets a bad rep here and is dismissed as useless

that looks fucking awful, but what i've learned from pirating a billion self-help books is that you can't judge them from the title, some with cingey titles are amazing, and some with titles descent enough that you could read in public are total shit, so tell us any good take aways you got from it?

i heard a podcast called "overcoming nice guy syndrome" that was really good, maybe the author was one of those dudes? it sounds like it's going to tell you to be an asshole pseudo-chad, but it really was just like "don't be guilty for pursuing what you want" and basically helped dudes become unspooked by feminism, without explicitly stating that, very tasteful

>>9467786
It's less that they arn't useful, and more if you interested in the first place you're fucked. You either do philosophy, or you refuse philosophy and seek out ways of tricking yourself and/or others.

>>9467809
>thinking philosophy is going to help you in any way

wew lad

The War of art by Stephen Pressfield

>>9467814
No point in helping yourself if you refuse to see who you are.

>>9467786
That book was awful and repetitive tbqh, and read more like a eulogy to a dead kind of masculinity than self-help tbqh.

>>9467826
yeah because a lot of navel gazing bullshit about how do i know the sense experiences i experience aren't a computer simulation are going to help you see who you are, kys

>>9467819
"muh resistance"

it was ok but i dont remember anything actionable in it