/lit/ - Literature

>>17473243
>just be assertive bro

I mean its good advice, but you don't need a whole book to tell you that lmao

Brothers Karamazov
Gravity and Grace
Models + Courage to be Disliked (for some reason they associate with each other in my mind, maybe because the main idea is the same)

bump

>>17473268
/lit/ is quite a slow board, friend.
I'd bump maybe in a few hours, but not every 15 minutes

Confessions

>>17473249
I actually did. I didn't realize that I wasn't putting myself first on a day to day. Have you even read the book you asswipe?

>>17473313
It was a good book.

>>17473243
If my stress tolerance was 3/10 reading this book and practicing its exercises for a year or two make my stress tolerance level to 8/10.
No other book has been to me as life changing as this.

>>17473243
One of the worst books I've ever read. But if it helps you, it means you were REALLY far gone, in that case I'm happy it helped you.

>>17473313
>Have you even read the book you asswipe?
I did when I was a teen, its okay, but it really just boils down to just be assertive bro

>>17473243
i could never adbusters seriously again after reading this

>>17473421
I think I started reading this book, but I slacked on the exercises. It definitely showed promise.

>>17473243
Best book I read, it changed me irl
I reread it a few years later and was so happy I was free of the behaviours the book talked about
I remember the first time I read it, it felt like the author knew me even though he never met me which was fucking insane

>>17473451
What's the synopsis on this?

Epictetus' Enchiridion and unironically the Quran and Riyad us Saliheen

>>17473457
Same I had the same experience. It was fucking crazy.

>>17473243
(keep in mind that i'm pic related)
- how to win friends and influence people - carnegie
- no more mr. nice guy - glover (like you)
those two were very useful in my early to mid twenties, 10 or so years ago.
- in sheep's clothing - simon
- notes from underground - dostoevsky
- anatomy of female power - chinweizu
and
- the black swan - taleb
- atomic habits - clear
the last two changed how i baheve but not in interpersonal contexts.

>>17473243
Robert Kino Glover

>>17473243
I can divide my life into two periods - before reading this book and after reading this book. That's how life changing it was for me. I can't put it into words but it's like I found a new religion.
This was written for the aspiring catholic intellectual who had heard their intellectual calling later in life than their teens or early twenties, there's a lot of Catholicism and God talk in it but I as an atheist absolutely adored every line.

Any books on releasing sexual inhibitions? Would prefer male focus over both sexes.
It seems like every couple months with my gf I'll have a night where I can't shake a sexual anxiety. I also would like to share some of my more perverse fantasies but it feels like there's some kind of plug in my mind that makes it impossible to speak.

>>17473457
>>17473474
Please tell me you're same fagging and there's not multiple people who think like this

>>17473243
Gravitys Rainbow taught me everything's a lie

American Pastoral taught me not to get worked up about things outside my control

America Psycho inspired me to work in finance

>>17473909
Why are you so assblasted about it? That's a better question.

>>17473243
Rational male trilogy. It basically turned my dating life upside down.

>>17473929
>America Psycho inspired me to work in finance
kek

>>17473909
I'm not samefagging, I agree today that it's mindblowingly stupid to think like a "nice guy" but before I read the book I really did. Even the author talks about how many men he meets who thinks like this, so unless you think he's a liar there's no reason to believe people are samefagging. It's a pretty easy trap to fall into, unfortunately.

>>17473243

>>17473249
This is why i hate self help. Most of them can be summed up in a page

>>17473243
I really liked "When I Say No I Feel Guily" by Manuel J Smith.

>>17473929
>America Psycho inspired me to work in finance
Based

>>17473421
Same. It's hard to convince people to read it because the title is kind of cheesy. But I read this book and it completely changed my life. I remember after like 4 months of doing it, I almost cried with relief when I could see how much my thinking had changed. I genuinely can't believe I lived so much of my life feeling that stressed out all the time. This is the only self help book that has ever truly worked for me, and the effect was astounding

>>17473459
it's all about the commodification of rebellion by late capitalism, written in the mid-2000's. pretty much zizek's riff about fair trade coffee being emblematic of a commodity that pretends to mitigate the deleterious effects of the commodity form itself (or sugar-free cola)

>>17474223
Im not depressed or sad but Ill give it a look since it made such a change on you

>>17473243
>how to win friends
>rich dad poor dad
>think and grow rich
>bhagavad gita
some self help books are great, don't know why most of you here think they are all shit.

>>17474268

I'd recommend anyone read it. You just have to actually do the exercises, and it works. There have been studies suggesting the book (as in this exact book) has an almost medicinal like effect on people. It was basically the book that popularised the now most common form of therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

>>17474311
So its cognitive behavioural therapy? I've already studied it, will I learn anything new from this?

>>17474311
The insurance industry popularized cbt

>>17474329

I don't know, to be honest. If you haven't done the exercised described in the book, then you will definitely learn something. If you have done that, or your interest in CBT is purely theoretical and you feel like you understand the broad strokes of the method, then perhaps not.

>>17474342
My nigga it could've been Goldman Sachs or Exonmobil, it still works

>>17473479
>The Black Swan
I'm halfway through. Taleb comes off as a bit arrogant, but enjoyable to read. I just have a hard time implementing his readings to my daily life. Since we as people think we know more than we actually do, should we be MORE conservative, or say fuck it and stop worrying about things we cannot control or even begin to fathom?

>>17474223
did you practice all the exercises or just the ones you needed?

>>17474138
The thing I hate more is how they read like a collection of blog posts.

>>17473243

>>17474401
should we be MORE conservative, or say fuck it and stop worrying about things we cannot control or even begin to fathom?
given that you're on 4chan, the latter. would probably say the opposite for a leftist though.

>>17474470
Or how they rebrand basic shit like changing your habits with some bullshit gay concept like "the McDonalds method"

>>17473256
I liked crime and punishment. Is brothers karamazov much better?

>>17473243
This is just judging from the synopsis, but I feel like the insight of this book are really things you pick up growing out of your early 20s and becoming actually more compassionate.

I mean since I started realizing that I don't have to try pleasing everyone and behave like a doormat to be moral/good/liked I've also started becoming more kind.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

>>17474569
Yeah, that is also one of his main points. "Nice guys" aren't actually nice at all, they're mostly just manipulative.

This book. I downloaded it when it was being offered for free on this site. As an aspiring author, I hope to replicate F. Gardner's success. Any tips for when I attempt to make 4chan ads of my own?

My diary desu

>>17474550
yeah
the rest of Dosto's "big 4" is better than C&P in my opinion

>>17473243
The Prince

>>17474304
it's because they're the epitome of 'this is so deep' for normies; it's like how for 90% of people, the "deepest" they'll ever get is saying "I love you, like I REALLY love you" to their boyfriend/girlfriend. Rich dad was a good read, I read it in early high school and it helped me get into the financial industry, but most of these books are just plain simplistic. I'm not even an elitist or anything, but their main purpose is just to sell more copies without being insightful, nothing wrong with wanting to make money, but at least give it a LITTLE bit of substance.

>>17473243
Anything in the book that you miss by just listening to the song?

>>17473249
>>17474138
If somebody has to be told "just be assertive" and it's actually good advice for them then they're probably going to need an explanation and examples.

>>17474347
>CBT
i know, i know... but i will never not laugh at this

>>17474401
i think the gist of it is that gambling for short term gains often comes at the expensive of long term losses, or in simple terms "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"

>>17473421
So i just started reading it, and although i admin im fundamentally depressed, one thing that really does make me hopeless is the political situation that i (believe) i'm in.

How do you "combat" that? How do i combat the fear of having no choice but to take whatever prototype cobbled-together vaccine the UK gov forces down my throat say, 6 months from now?
I know this is getting hot-potato political, but i don't fucking want it. straightforward vaccines against the flu have existed for decades, i have no problem with them on principle.

but here, they're dishing out some new vaccine based on new principles - as i understand it, AstraZenica does some cocaine DNA modification as opposed to just throwing a dead virus into your bloodstream and letting your immune system do the rest. I don't want to be the hamster in someone's "playing god" sandbox!
In any other time, i wouldn't be so negative. But the outlets prophesizing the "great new vaccine", are the very same news outlets telling me that i should be ashamed for being white, kids get to choose gender, and BLM are a charitable organisation.
how do i reason about this clown world??

>>17473243