/lit/ - Literature

>>15518877
Stoic philosophy may help.
I say may because real change can never come from external advice. Only change can happen internally. Until you are able to make that internal change, no amount of reading on this planet will help you.

>>15518877

A book isn't gonna' help you. Ten books won't help you. What you need is discipline to crystallize the neural pathways that activate the work/result centers in your brain. Unironically get /fit/. Then come here to become /fitlit/ ascended.

>>15518877
nah you don't need books, you need to act. it doesn't matter what you do, even if it's some tedious wagie job. just fucking do something, anything.

>>15518892
Do you think people just magically become disciplined if they try really hard

>>15518892

And if you don't have the discipline to steady and command your body, you will never have the discipline to steady and command your mind. You will buy some shit selfhelp book, maybe read it but probably not, or at bested read it and never commit the words to heart.

>>15518877
The fun thing about the situation you are in is that you are so lazy if you simply make it hard to access 4chan you won't anymore.

Install cold turkey or another blocker on all your devices. Block every distracting website.

Cold Turkey is designed so that in order to enable access for a short time you have to input a thirty character alphanumeric string it generates for you, and as a consequence, if you do not actively desire to browse here and it's just habitual, you will instead find yourself blocked right as you derail yourself. I personally only allow myself access to distractions between 6:15 AM and 8AM, and then 7-9PM. During the interim period my internet is entirely disabled.

>>15518905

>Do you think people just magically become disciplined if they try really hard

Yes. Totally and completely unironically yes. When you pick up the heavy thing, and put down the heavy thing, and see your progress over the course of months, the neural pathways that crystallize the work/result centers in your brain are 'magically' making you disciplined. You are training yourself to command yourself. There is no easy fix for your problem, anon, but I am telling you this is the closest thing, and most direct route, to becoming 'magically disciplined' there is.

>>15518925
The other important aspect is to remove distractions. It's much easier to build a positive habit when there isn't anything else to do. Hence why so many people who go to jail simultaneously get ripped and read more books during their two year sentence for assault or whatever than they did in their entire life up to that point.

>>15518922
>Install cold turkey or another blocker on all your devices. Block every distracting website.
I've tried that. I have apps on my computer that block beyond just the browswer but I ended up just procrastinating with whatever other things I could find. Literally to the point where I would just sit on the couch and play around with a pen when there was no electronics in the house

>>15518905

>Discipline is hard work

Yes. That is why it is called discipline. Discipline literally means 'the practice of training'

>>15518952
What you seem to be implying is the same as people telling depressed people "just stop being sad bro"

>>15518961

You will never stop being sad. Everyone is sad. We're all dying. No one saves you. This is hell. Assuming you're OP, 'just stop being sad' is what every single selfhelp book you hope to find is going to tell you in so many words.

>>15519009
deep man you just cured depression just ended the pharma industry

>>15519056

If you think taking pills is the answer to your problems then go do that. I have no more advice to give. I do hope you can claw yourself from your malaise.

>>15519056

>muh brain chemistry depression

WORKING OUT FIXES YOUR BRAIN CHEMISTRY

WORKING OUT FIXES YOUR BRAIN CHEMISTRY

WORKING OUT FIXES YOUR BRAIN CHEMISTRY

WORKING OUT FIXES YOUR BRAIN CHEMISTRY

WORKING OUT FIXES YOUR BRAIN CHEMISTRY

ANON ALREADY TOLD YOU THIS AND YOU ASSUME YOU KNOW BETTER AND RATHER ARGUE ABOUT HOW SAD YOU ARE AND HOW IMPOSSIBLE IT IS TO GET BETTER FUCKING CRAWL INTO A HOLE AND DIE RIGHT NOW FUCKING DO IT YOU WON'T YOU'LL JUST CONTINUE TO EXIST IN A HELLSCAPE OF YOUR OWN MAKING BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO BIG OF A WHINY PUSSY TO DEDICATE A SINGLE IOTA TO THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING OTHER THAN HOW SAD YOU ARE

>>15518877
What do you want to do anon?
Read a bunch of books about at subject that interests you. Practical books. Not theoretical ones.
>>15518892
What good is discipline if he doesn't know what he's working towards?
>>15518903
>it doesn't matter what you d
Shut the fuck up.
Yes it does.
Stop taking your life advice from Nike advertising campaigns.
What you DON'T do is just as important as what you DO do.
>>15518922
>implying he wouldn't just switch to reddit or something else
He needs a goal or a project that most importantly he wants to do but has a low barrier to entry (even if it's a long term difficult thing). With easily measured progress or identifiable milestones (that doesn't mean to get to those milestones is easy, only that there's no ambiguity that he's on the right track - which means he can build confidence and not lose faith).
>>15518943
See, this