/lit/ - Literature

Basically that. I decided to improve my life once and for all and I thought the best place where I could start is from here. Can you recommend some actual self-help books?
Preferably those which could cover a 20/30yo anon life on his social field (learning how to get your shit together, debating successfully, how to pick up women, being responsible, etc?

>dad says something
>point out the implications of what he has actually just said
>dad tells me that I'm like my mother because I always try to see to much in what other people say

Do people think that I am supposed to take whatever they say at face value?

What's the fucking point lads? If you miss out on investment banking / management consulting / big law jobs straight after graduation then you are literally fucked. I have had interviews for lots of great jobs but failed them all due to ugliness and bad social skills and now i work a shitty part time job while living at home and feeling like a giant loser.

Everything else is a meme desu. If you're not on "the track" then you dun goofed hard.

>inb4 entrepreneurship

You need shitloads of luck for that.

About me, i've been cold approaching for 8 yrs now, living in San Francisco/Los Angeles. My parents emigrated to america from Vietnam when i was 4 yrs old(i'm 5'5 vietnamese american, basically i look like any other average looking asian guy). I have about 50,000 approaches under my belt(could be more). I've also taken two bootcamps(1 from lovesystems and 1 from RSD).Basically, 50k approaches, BOTH day game and night game. MOst of my day game were at malls/beaches/college campuses, nightgame were at bars/high end clubs.

50,000 approaches and i started to notice patterns/tendencies of the feedback i received from women.

1. Majority of girls I approached were go-nowhere/BF objection/platonic conversations, and even IF i got her phone number, 95% of the time she will not respond, or she WILL respond but flake/make excuses about not going on a date with me

and yes, this is REGARDLESS if I was in "state"(aka came on confident). The only difference between being out of state and being in state is that the girls are more polite and won't reject you right away. Basically, if the girl doesn't see you as her type, no amount of "game" will get her to like you and flip the attraction switch. She still has to like you in a physical sense(the same reason YOU wouldn't want to date a fat/ugly girl even if she was funny). Majority of the girls i approach have a Boyfriend(Especially the attractive ones), and of the times where she doesn't have a boyfriend, anything more than a non-platonic interaction, she will make a shitload of excuses.

2. The "Rare" results i occasionally get, it was because of sheer volume/effort of approaching and has little to do with my "game". THe last few lays i had, the girls had a VERY strong preference with asian guys. And the girls i usually tend to attract aren't anymore better looking than me (they are about 5s or 6s). Basically, i was at the right place at the right time thanks to the "numbers game" i played.

don't forget, i still had to tolerate the shitload of go nowhere sets (BF objections/Day 2 flakes/platonic interactions) to get a small % of the results(i'll probably get a few lays a year from a sub 5/10 girl). Keep in mind though, majority of the girls i tend to approach are attractive white or mexican girls, i'm sure my hit rate will increase if I approached asian girls.

.3. what you basically learn when you take a bootcamp is basically "approach as much as possible" "be confident" "take care of logistics". That's pretty much the gist of what i learned. ANd IF i don't get the desired result, I am the one to blame/held accountable(but not the technique that was presented to me) for not "doing it correctly".
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OP I feel completely demotivated like you.

>graduated summer 2015 from degree I hated
>living at home, working menial part time jobs for less than 20 hours per week but still feel like a wagie
>waste shitloads of my time on 4chan

>receive interview for investment bank interview in a few days
>on paper it's the type of job I've always wanted
>zero motivation to prepare for it

Of course I see the benefits but I'll still be a wagecuck doing boring and pointless work. Even Elon Musk does essentially pointless shit and I am many many magnitudes worse.

>tfw you noticed life passing quicker within the past few months
>tfw driving around the city drinking coffee and gawking at the tip top slaggerinos
>tfw probably one of the final sunny days of the year

>yesterday
>hot and sunny day of the year (22 degrees Celsius)
>had breakfast as I drank coffee and listened to Blink 182 (nostalgia for the California life I never had) and browsed 4chan
>went for a walk at 1.30 pm
>walked through a park then along beach then city centre then went home

>today
>was mostly cloudy and didn't have coffee or spend a lot of time on 4chan
>leave house at 3 pm for a walk because it was slightly hot and sunny for a short time but became cloudy
>only walked to the park before being fed up with life in general (not that I wasn't yesterday, I was shitposting about it on 4chan non stop) and going straight home
>walked outside for less than an hour instead of hours

Does anyone else get that feeling where you try to recreate good memories yet it feels like a big farce? You know they aren't coming back and you feel pathetic for even trying.

How do you cope with the fact that everything is phony (inb4 dismissed for being like Holden)?

Literary theory is bs made up so that people can leech off of academia and get easy degrees.

Social scientists are idiots and weaponised by dishonest journalists as the new secular prophets telling people what to think / why they're shit.

Morality is never practised. A politician who kills innocent people is more popular than one who says politically incorrect things.

So many current novels are merely narcissistic barely disguised memoirs or written by people with zero life experience.

Science and maths are practised mostly within hideously subsidised and bloated academic institutions.

Sex and portrayals of success are shoved in your face wherever you go through songs and pictures. But you're not allowed to say you want any of it.

90+ % of jobs could be done by everyone and only recruit based on looks and personality.

Literature is not an oasis, not one bit.

>go for a walk on a sunny day
>existential crisis intensifies
>see secondary school kids going home and feel jelly that they have belonging
>walking around places that will be crawling with hedonistic sex having students later this year
>have potential to do stuff but too much FOMO stops me doing anything

Can ANYTHING be fulfilling? I don't know how to fill my time. It's all spooks as far as the eye can see.

I graduated last year with a degree I really hated. I've spent the past 14.5 months mostly wasting massive amounts of time on the internet, living with my parents, working menial part time jobs (less than 20 hours a week), and procrastinating instead of learning programming like I told myself I would. I don't even read books anymore. Also I have an existential crisis that I realise will never go away.

Has anyone been in a situation like this, constantly telling yourself that you'll work hard tomorrow? I feel like I have potential. I feel guilty when not working and I fear working only a medium amount and being guilty about not working more. When I get a full time job I know I will have no time to do anything substantial.

>see people on the internet talking about books that they enjoy
>tfw I don't enjoy books because I'm forcing myself through boring as fuck canon novels
>tfw they're garbage but someone might call me a pleb if I haven't read them
>tfw Victorian novels are really stodgy pieces of shit but people keep wanking over them
>tfw Plato was stupid
>tfw Dickens is like reading one of Grandpa Simpson's interminable stories
>Dostoevsky is just "DUDE GROW UP AND ACCEPT JESUS LMAO"
>tfw clearly see how the Munchhausen Trilemma allows me to disregard anything but I still force myself to read boring as fuck philosophical works
>tfw all the 50s to 90s post modern books are unfunny, long winded, lolsorandumb pieces of shit
>tfw Pynchon simply could not put together a coherent work ("Tee-hee, what is coherent? What is not? Look I'm so smart, my Wikipedia info dump chapters prove it! Now watch my mountain of nuthugging pseud fans defend me by appealing to the establishments that post modernism calls in to question!")
>DFW's this is water speech, even after years of Amherst grown (genuinely intelligent in an analytical way) intellectualism, folds immediately back in to the sea of trivial platitudes, indistinguishable from the most banal Mid West fly over state soccer mom self help, and DFW knew it all too well

On this hot and sunny day, at the age of 24, as I look around and see attractive young girls everywhere, how can I possibly cope with never having had a gf or any attention from females at all or never having done anything with them (except had sex with prostitutes) at a young age, where I know it would have been an authentic relationship?

Anything after university is just a laughable facsimile of the relationships of someone aged 22 or below

>tfw cant fucking tear myself away from the internet
>"happenings" and weird shit occurring all day everyday
>the slightest hint of a pattern sets my conspiracy detector off the charts

How do I take the long view? If history repeats itself then why care about the past? Why do we bother having art when the real world is weird enough?

And why bother putting effort in to life when I am a devout Spook fearing Stirnerite? I could sit back and watch stuff happen

>tfw can't even make myself eat healthily anymore due to existential crisis reasons ("Who cares, looking good is a spook" or "Procrastinating this won't mater, having low willpower won't matter" etc)
>tfw struggling to have any beliefs at all (whether to work hard or be lazy)
>as shown by my 4chan presence I just do whatever is lowbrow enough to manipulate me (internet, fast food)

wat do???

>tfw too intellectual to read fiction

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>no mentions of Cyrano under French