/lit/ - Literature

tranny jannitor will 404 this thread unless you call out their bullshit

>>16096857
>books that actually changed your life and how you behave?
The Qur'an.

>>16096857
If our lives where improved we wouldn't be on 4chan

>>16096857
The War of Art, good little book about the creative struggle. It taught me not to shun the feeling of disgust I feel at my own laziness but to instead turn it into energizing rage.

Obligatory Prometheus Rising mention (strongly recommend), it taught me that indeed people have vastly different reality-tunnels and that's both okay and good because you get to fuck around with them.

The Game of Life. Not actually a self-improvement book but it goes well with Prometheus Rising and elaborates on the 8-circuit consciousness model through a historic/evolutionary lens. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough.

>>16096892
Elaborate. What parts in particular and how did they help?

>>16096905
good point. thread adjourned.

>>16096905
>thinking it can't actually get worse
Oh what beautiful optimism

OH NOOOO! HE’S GOING TO IMPROOOVE! HE’S ALSO GOT A THREAD OPEN IN /FIT/ BRAGGING ABOUT THE JOG HE’S DEFINITELY GONNA TAKE LATER THAT WILL TOTALLY OFFSET THAT PINT OF BEN & JERRY’S! HOW DO WE STOP HIM BROS?

>>16096990
Archon shills BEGONE

>>16096857
Rich dad poor dad and Richest man in Babylon changed how I spend money.

Millionaire guide to the fast lane changed how I think about money

>>16096892
Came to say this.
>>16096921
It was like being saved from drowning. G-d be praised.

ZAMM, gave me a purpose to strive towards 'Quality' in whatever form that was accessible to me. Looking at a dirty room or half-assed assignment or shitty body made me realize that I was rationalizing all of these things and allowing them to happen for basically no purpose other than comfort

>>16096857
Personal finance chart for kids (or how to avoid being a 4chan janitor in your late 40's)

>>16097380
These look all so shit. Are they really worth reading?

>>16097387
don't judge a book by the cover
they are worth reading if you know next to nothing about it, the tax guide should be mandatory in college.

>>16097408
Alright then. I'm just super turned off by these kinds of
>I'm a successful person posing on the cover of my own book so you know how good it is
Type covers.

>>16097415
they aren't meant to make you rich but they have some useful tips and information overall, which is their purpose.

>>16096905
Speak for yourself.

>>16097000
Do these kinds of book teach you anything other than common sense? I have never read something like this but what does it say? See Timmy, Mr. Johnson never got Starbucks and now he lives in a beautiful McMansion. ???

>>16097380
Wanna know how to be a millionaire?
Don't buy new stuff. Max out a roth IRA every year. (use vanguard, buy VTSMX then switch to VTSAX after the initial 10k. they're the cheapest) and don't buy frivolous shit.
>a pizza every friday for a year
>average pizza is $13.25
>multiply by 52 weeks
>multiply that by 20 years
>realize you would spend $13k on pizza
>do this for everything
>stop buying useless shit
>invest the money you save
>profit
>>16097448
If you know nothing about investing they can occasionally be helpful as they explain what investments accounts you should open and what stocks to buy for a guaranteed long-term return. Pre-coronachan I was pulling 13%

>>16097511
Do they say anything about hot to get a gf?

>>16097511
>Thinks you can become rich by wage slaving and saving up.
Holy kek.

>>16096917
The Game of Life and How To Play It by Florence Scovel Shinn?

>>16097671
No, The Game of Life by Timothy Leary

>>16097160
Please go on. I'm actually considering Islam.

An anon here used to shill The Master Game

Reading Colin Wilson's Outsider cycle made me change my life unironically

>>16096990
>Anime poster

>>16097380
Which of these are applicable to non-americans (britbong here)

>trying to improve yourself
Huge mistake.

>>16098726
ummmm... much BASED

>>16098726
True and Zhuangpilled.

>>16098726
Reminder that nobody in the history of 4chan has ever posted anything about self-improvement that wasn’t ultimately all about self-improvement as a means to finally have sex.

>>16097380
all these books can be replaced by basic economics by thomas sowell
fuck you

>>16096990

>>16097548
this

>>16098891
And this>>16096990 and that>>16098786

I have improved dramatically since I started using energy psychology.

The Promise of Energy Psychology is a great start.

>>16097511
>wagies actually do this and think they are winning financially

>>16098938
Neat, I'll look into this

>>16097511
based VTSAX poster, mirin that expense ratio

Are there any books that will tell me how to escape 15 years of shut in neet-ness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc1e54YSFTc

>>16100180
doc thompson was incredibly based
>black belt in judo and karate
>english professor
>leave your job to become a street cop

>>16096888
>>16096892
>>16097708

thank you for your contribution

The only book you need

>>16096857
80/20 principle by Koch changed how i do anything that is important, e.g. helped me increase my studying efficiency by significant degree (pass a math course in 1 week, used to take me 1 month), what i focus on at work etc.

Other gems are the books by the stoics, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca etc. Changed how i interact with my life and people in it, made me a little calmer

>>16097511
but i want tendies NOW

>>16096917
>Obligatory Prometheus Rising mention (strongly recommend),

Did you do the exercises?