/lit/ - Literature

>>20292159
This can get you started. If your phone is the problem, put it on the other side of the room on Do Not Disturb mode so only emergency calls will get through. I have worries about missing an emergency call since one time my mom and I almost went overseas and she didn't have her phone. This method seems to work for me.

>>19667606
It's dull but speed read it and take notes. Currently doing this spread and loving it. I listened to Deepwork as an audiobook and I'm gonna reread it for notes.

It's pretty motivational especially with the new year coming in. Feels like I can tackle anything now with some slow but good learning set up here.

>>19554694
It's this then

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>>18826709
Here you go

>>18443652

I wish I had read these before I went off to college. I would have been so much more open to the ideas of the word and the vast scope of knowledge as an end in and of itself.

If I could do it all over again…

>>18432359
Stop thinking you are too smart to do simple things.

>>18410222
For the number of people on here that complain about writers block, adhd, and motivation you would think those books would help, but everyone always says they are “repetitious of the same thing and shouldn’t be books” but the problem with that is the people who need the message need it bashed into their skull repeatedly. Some of the most effective ways of learning are not simply understanding a concept, but having it massaged into your subconscious as to make any action work within the framework without realizing it.

What is the ultimate way to approach mastering the art of learning for someone who hasn’t made any effort to study anything school related?

>>18261072
>And I just cling to the vague hope that maybe someday something good will happen.
And that is your human nature. So either you rebel against it and kill yourself, or give into it and continue to live.

You seem to have already chosen the latter, so the next step now is embrace. Embrace living, stop hoping, and start working. Chance is fickle and uncertain, so seize control and start working towards what you want, or wish for in this life.

Identify your goal in this life, however pointless or arbitrary it may be, then identify how you would like to live your life and achieve said goal. It can be as simple and banal as a a house and a wife, or as grand as greatness and heroism. And you can live in absolute eudaimonia or complete hedonia, whichever you see fit. Remember, there are no absolutes, and life is what you make of it.

Pic related for practical shit you can implement in your journey

>>18247976
Also Aristotle’s rhetoric and Smart Notes.

Self help is good when it’s a book that teaches you a skill or a mental model. Self help that is “motivational” or “modern philosophy” is garbage.

>>18212973
I also wanted to add this and merge it with the two initial books shown. I would begin with Adlers ‘How to Read a book’.

>>18181877
Similar vein

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>>18143958

Perfect thread for a retarded chart for retards.