ITT. Books

>>8845518
>Been looking for a while for pic related
>his life is fixed but can't afford a 12$ book on amazon

The Cause and Cure of Malocclusion
my life wouldnt be the same without it

>>8845535

>his life is fixed

But its not :(

>can't afford a 12$ book on amazon

12 dollars... converted to foreign currency... plus shipping... I have limited money anon.

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some of these might be useful if you feel like going the 21st century MOOC route
https://www.coursera.org/browse/personal-development?languages=en

>A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment
>De-Mystifying Mindfulness
>Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

>>8845544

I was taking a look at them. I mean... I guess I could lose anything?

Ever done any of these anon?

>>8845518
The kind of people who go looking for precooked self-improvement guides instead of actually doing something tangible with their time are not going to "fix" anything.

49 out of 50 times what's causing your discontent with your life and what you need to do to fix it is braindead fucking obvious.

>>8845572

I don't know anon I think I will fix my life

got some book recommendations?

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books that have caused a significant shift in my life:

teenager:
>The Good Earth - Pearl S Buck
>Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
>Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
>The Republic - Plato
>VALIS - Philip K Dick
>Godel, Escher, Bach - Douglas Hofstadter

adulthood:

>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume
>A Treatise of Human Nature - David Hume
>Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
>The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics - Martin Heidegger
>Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics - Martin Heidegger
>The Basic Problems of Phenomenology - Martin Heidegger
>Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

I sleep comfortably at night.

Science and Sanity, by Alfred Korzybski
The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, by Bruce Lee
Preventing Violence, by James Gilligan
Art of War
Freedom from the Known, by Krishnamurti
Language in thought and action, by Hayakawa
The Mechanistic Conception of Life, by Jacque Loeb
Le Petite Prince
Beyond Freedom and Dignity, by B.F.Skinner
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, by Luigi Pirandello

etc

>>8845609

you have to go back

>>>/pol/

>>8845613
what did he mean by this

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>>8845518

>>8845572
many people do not have a basis for how to examine their lives to actually find whats discontent or how to establish a systematic method of dealing with it.

That's honestly what even all the centuries-old self-help (pretty much buddhism and taoism) were. It provides a systematic basis for self-investigation and a way to move forward with it.

The Enchiridion