/lit/ - Literature

>>23361701
What do you guys actually want? It's not starting families. It's not being left alone to your own communities. It's not more whites being born. Like, I genuinely dunno what it is people with your ideology "want" besides "to whine and bitch about everything all the time."

>>23268363
>>23270996
>>23275295
Okay. So, let's say a bunch of guys from roughly the same background m all start up their own businesses in major US cities. Statistically, only 1% of them will have their businesses be immediate and exceptional successes. The type of things that become national or even an international brands. Another 4% won't see the same breakout success, but they'll be able to build something with similar respectacle strength and longevity. Something that could easily become a franchise. 40% will stay afloat for a while, only having moderate success and before eventually having to close up shop within a decade or so. The remaining 55% will fail almost immediately within the first 5 years of starting their business, with 20 to 25 not even making it to their second year of operation.

What grindset guys that >>23275108 is talking about it get wrong, is that they think the goal is being in the top 5% from the jump. That is ridiculous. Unless you're the only guy selling fresh water in the desert, the developer of some disruptive new technology, or you made a lightning in the bottle product that hit the market at just the improbably specific time for it to sell like gangbusters, the chances of you dominating any market from the jump is slim. This is surface level thinking and why the average person who looks at this shit think it's all a survivor/selective bias-based grift. The ACTUAL goal is to be the guy who can grind his why out of the upper 95% or who can endure and bounce back from the setbacks he'll encounter as part of the lower 95%. That's where "unshakeable self-belief" comes in. True success is rarely a sprint. Rather it's a marathon, that will often demand exceptional hardship and sacrifice out of a person. Success is a gauntlet. Most people who pick up self-help books or attend seminars (and honestly most people who write and give them) don't want to go through the gauntlet. They want to learn the trick that's gonna "make them achieve their dreams" without any of the effort and resoluteness that it actually requires.

>>20992449
>work with women
exactly how the anons described it

is spending a decade on learning japanese to read literature really "worth it"?

the japanese canon seems to be rather small because it is basically limited to modern literature and most of the relevant works usually have excellent translations anyways
some eroge are cool, but there is only a handful of genuinely amazing writers and works like muramasa already got translated
most manga are getting translated and there aren't that many good light novel authors either, except for maybe mareni, romeo, kawakami and so on

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