/lit/ - Literature

>>18247529
"Models" by Mark Manson was actually a great book for helping me learn to exit my comfort zone and do things like approach new people much easier. He was still affiliated with the PUA thing back then and the book was targeted towards men, but was not remotely like the fake "alphamale" bilge being published by idiots like RooshV. I first saw Models rec'd by somebody on Plebbit like 6 years ago, but put off seriously reading it until like 2018 when my best friend left my life, making me reckon with getting to know new people again.

After that book though, whether out of genuine goodwill or more marketability, he rebranded as a self-help guy on The Subtle Art. There are some kernels of good advice there and while better than a lot of people in that industry, its lack of personalized advice and the very generalized tone (now geared towards "everyone") which he adopted really left me cold.

"Models" is ever-so-slightly dated, but blasts any other book in that sphere out of the water. It's essentially about becoming more vulnerable to a point that you're able to confront whatever fears you have directly, and without faking anything. It's too bad Manson moved in that sanitized and de-masculinized direction (ironic considering the new titles) because his first one is the only self-help manual I can credit with actually doing its job.

Here's his old site BTW, some decent articles in the "best of": https://web.archive.org/web/20120802054902/http://postmasculine.com/))