/lit/ - Literature

>>9953511

How to be happy:
>Adjust your perspective and mindset to generally be more positive.
>Focus on the present moment as much as possible, and appreciate it
>Don't be so controlled by vices
>Don't be so judgmental
>Don't give a fuck about what other people think of you

Books I recommend:
>In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust. Watch the School of Life video about Proust, and understand how to appreciate the present moment and how your ordinary life is just as validated in existence as the most perfect extravagant exciting life you can imagine.
>Flow by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi: describes how to use various activities to enter a meditative trance state, which makes life very fulfilling, and he includes how to make literature and philosophy a meditative activity. All of this is backed by scientific research.
>Main Stoic texts: Seneca's letters, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus' Discourses
>Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
>Zen Mind: Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
>The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson. It is actually a pretty good book.
>War of Art by Steven Pressfield

>>9925889
How long would it take me, a native English speaker, to learn French well enough to read the original French text of ISOLT?

Who are the top 5 authors you'd put into the God Tier? No particular order

I'll go first
>James Joyce
>Leo Tolstoy
>Shakespeare
>Dostoevsky
>Homer