/lit/ - Literature

Most of you guys have tried self-improvement shit over the years, I'm sure. Start a new hobby/routine, do great for 3-28 days, then you just stop caring and relapse into old ways.

But a few months ago, I tried something new: I made a youtube video about video games and shared it (not posting it here). Somehow people enjoyed it, and it got a few hundred views. So I made some more. Now when I upload videos, they get 100-200 views each and a small pool of comments. And it feels good, so I do it again.

And I realized this is what was missing the whole time. When I tried to learn banjo, or programming, or 3D modeling, the amount of pleasure these hobbies gave me just wasn't worth the effort. They weren't fun or rewarding, so I stopped. But when I upload a youtube video and see it get views, see the likes and comments go up, it feels genuinely good. So even though I quit all those other productive hobbies, I'm still making videos.

The addicting part is not chasing le youtube clout, but being praised, really just being liked. Do something -> get praise -> feel good -> do it again. Maybe it's dumb to you, but if this feedback loop causes you to become a better person, isn't that 10000% worth it? We need to figure out what our brain's reward system desires most deep down (Money, power, fame, respect, admiration) and play into it really hard. I'm convinced this is the only way self-improvement shit can work. I chased so many dead-end hobbies, not realizing praise is all I needed. But now that I know this, I can build everything around that.

If Jung is bullshit how do I cope with the fact that most great intellectuals of the last century accepted his ideas in some way?

>>16313837

Us beautiful people can take advantage of being or playing dumb.

>Yeah.....What's Wrong With The Way I Write....Meh.....orz

>>14781716
LMAO he the rich nigga bruh

I read Virginia Woolf specifically to spite you retarded, "everything must be intellectual," faggots.
>Why yes, I'm reading a short story about a woman falling asleep under an apple try. No, there's no deeper meaning.

>Why yes, the philosophical undertones of the Goosebumps series have been analyzed, applied to my life, and changed me for the better. How could you tell?

>>14663176
>Don't be hard on yourself. You're practically a god of nofap
Nice try, Lucifer.

>>14632076
Add in my name to that list as well.

Introductions are literally padding added to inflate page count and justify ludicrous price tags

>>14369901
>>14369904
This pill is at best, a placebo, at worst it will make things worse in the long run. This is exactly like putting a band-aid on a leaking pipe that is about to burst. Instead of attacking the root of the problem, you think making a pill that will numb the population into passivity and make Big Pharma rich is the solution.

>Dualism? No thank you.

>>14316865
>curses within the first 3 minutes
Into the trash it goes...

>prithee
>sirrah
>zounds!

That would be redwall

You should really ask yourself: do you want to become an alcoholic?