/lit/ - Literature

to me 90% of that book is focused on and appliable to textbooks, not literature books, and it dragged way too much.
unironically it can be summed up in one picture

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nvm, it would seem as though YOU were the true retards all along

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>Imagine abandoning your family and not even trying to step in when your own brother is slowly ruining his life
Perhaps it's an American thing because I could never imagine just abandoning family. You're blood for Christ's sake. You stick together. I have some family members, cousins, etc that I don't like. But I put up with it because we're family.

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On another note, since you are on a /lit/ board, my recommendations come in the form of some self-help book. Other anons squirm and scream childishly at the mere sight of one, but they are helpful to the person that genuinely needs it. Not everyone has common sense, not everyone has the same life, we don't always understand where you are coming from under all those ad-hominems. Here are some I recommend.

>How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Neets and such don't always have the best social skills. Honestly, EVERYBODY should read this book anyways. It's relatively short, to the point, gives examples of how each rule can apply to different situations. But most importantly, it outlines good social behavior. Which is needed for most of life.
>Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad One's by James Clear
It outlines how to stop procrastination and being generally lazy. But most importantly, it teaches how to have the willpower to do something and stick to it.
>Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
Beyond great, and essentially motivates anyone to become fit. Mishima makes it very clear how important it is to not only to take care of your identity, but your physical body as well.
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Perhaps sometimes dragged down as stoicism is seen as generally bad, with the 4chan mindset of "why ignore pain when you can revel in it?" But id argue that Stoicism can help your average person through tough times.
>Discourses, Fragments, Handbook by Epictetus
I'd say Epictetus's ideas on stoicism is a lot more agreeable than Marcus's. But Marcus's book is a lot shorter, so it's a better introduction. Epictetus is truly in his own lane though.


I would also like to note, that all of these books are on Audible, so if you feel like he won't read them because he doesn't like reading. Set up an Audible account and get these books there. For most people that aren't into reading, audiobooks are a great way of consuming literature. And you shouldn't feel any lesser for it, especially since both physical and audio versions are the same.

Although it is to be noted, just because you hear or listen to something motivational, it doesn't mean you'll succeed. You have to put the principles in action.

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Nobody with any sense posts any details of their writing here. The odds are that literally hundreds of people go through these threads. The vast, vast majority will never, ever succeed as writers. The only people here are teenagers and young adults who want the status, or the identity, or the recognition of being a writer but don't actually write. If you post an excerpt and it's bad they'll shred it to feel superior. If it's okay, they'll still shred it because they hate and fear that someone else has actually written something, which they are incapable of doing; they will more than likely steal copious amounts from any excerpt you post, all the same. Most of the advice is meaningless, the blind leading the blind; the rare grains of good advice are the same banal platitudes found with a cursory google search and half a desire to take writing seriously. 'Get the first draft done'. 'Edit later'. 'Avoid passive voice'. 'Set aside time to write.' What do you expect? The absolute best thing I did for my writing was leaving these dreadful generals.

Do you take notes when you read?

I don't write to excess, but I've found it valuable to take chapter notes when going through non-fiction books, and I'll jot down a paragraph or two of impressions after finishing a work of fiction.

most of the stuff really just apply to academic text books.
the book is fairly well summed up by the pic related, desu.