/lit/ - Literature

>>20172328
>I've read a decent amount of these, including the ones you see recommended all the time like Carnegie, Peterson, etc. Maybe I get a temporary boost but it always resets.
Cause you're reading 4chan trash. No other way to cut it op. I started getting into self help in college when I had severe anxiety and depression but did not have health insurance so I could not see a doctor. So I went to the library and got some books, which started a multi-year journey through the genre and massive improvement in my life. But I wasn't reading trash from barely qualified obviously political figures like Peterson. Just because you're watching Disney channel does not mean that the Sopranos, Mad Men, or Game of Thrones does not exist, you're just being stupid about your choice of consumption.
>Are there any self help books that aren't like this.
Yes, they largely work functionally more as guides with exercises.
>Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
>Emotional First Aid
>How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety
>Intimate Connections
>The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (Don't really like this one, but if you're thinking HTWF is the peak of the genre, you should probably read this)
>The Erotic Mind
>The Charisma Myth
>The Lifechanging Magic of Tidying Up (and Spark Joy)
>How to Not Die(t) (Michael Greger in general for nutrition/diet)
>Nonviolent Communication
>Flow (not technically self help)
>This Naked Mind (for alcoholism)
>You Are A Badass (worst book in this list just heads up)
>Eckhart Tolle for spiritual development
>What Color is Your Parachute
>The Defining Decade

>/lit/ tells me to not reference pop culture in my writings
>the classics are filled with references to the pop culture of their times

>>7996711
>>fewer dfw, pynchon, bolaño or whatever meme author threads

Who is suppose to decide who qualifies as a meme author? I acutally really like Pynchon in a non-memeing way and ctrl f says Pynchon your's is 1 of 2 mentions of him in the catalog.

It is mostly just blatantly off topic threads and "I'm new here" threads that are killing this place.


>>ban "i started this book today, what do you think of it /lit/" posters
>>ban frogposters
>>ban butterfly

Agreed.

>>7180546
Nigga I'm just asking if he parrots Freud. I'm reading it regardless.

>Uther Pendragon was an escaped Romulus Augustus