/lit/ - Literature

>>17826430
A History Of Knowledge by Doren is a good intro to world history

>>17826430
>Pic related

>>17826430
>Gabriel Wyner
old news pal

The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (2011) - Gets you into the 20s self improover club

Butt do you actually use those skills?

C++ Primer

>>17826617
C++ Primer is bad.
http://inquisition.ca/en/philo/mauvais_livres.htm#s6
Check these out instead.
http://inquisition.ca/en/info/biblio_info.htm

>>17826430
Starting Strength - Mark Rippetoe
The Encyclopedia Of Bodybuilding - Arnold Schwarzenegger

>>17826430
bump this nice thread
I would like to know some book that could teach me how to listen to music in a critical way, I'm tired of saying just "I like/don't like this album".

>>17826637
First if you want to be a fat powerlifter with underdeveloped chest, second if you want to roid

Western Wind: An introduction to poetry

>>17826432
>>17826448
>>17826630
>>17826637
>>17826854
Nice recs, keep em coming

bump

>>17826430
I remember randomly deciding to get into philosophy and finding this at a second-hand bookshop and buying it and reading it straight through. Can't say I like Russell very much as a person (he hates Nietzsche for a start) but this provided a decent overview, from what I remember. (It was a long time ago though).

>>17826430
Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Last Superstition - Edward Feser: good introduction to philosophy and metaphysics for the clueless

>>17826854
Nice name

bump

>starting strength
>drawing on the right side of the brain
>make it stick
>deep work
>atomic habits
>how to read a book

>>17829216
>drawing on the right side of the brain

thanks anon

Eliade - A History of Religious Ideas

>>17830608
Lots of the science mumbo jumbo they use in that book has been proven to be silly, but the key point of it remains the same. It’s exercises and the stories the author tells teach you how to really SEE when drawing. It’s absolutely the first step to learning art as a skill.

God Delusion - taught me how to wear a fedora

>>17830624
Ok, would you still say that drawing on the right side of the brain is the best introduction there is, despite the disproven science?

>>17826430
Quick Arithmetic - Carmen for arithmetic and math in general

>>17830706
Yes. The exercises are some of the best, and when you meet other artists it becomes a point of reference.

My first book on efficiency: Book, William Frederick: Learning how to study and work effectively : a contribution to the psychology of personal efficiency
https://archive.org/details/b29814170/page/n3/mode/2up

>>17830815
What does this book do different than something like Make it Stick that was published like 100 years later? It looks interesting but I’d like to know a little more about it first. Also I’m not OP.

The Like Switch for social interactions

>>17830837
I haven't read Make it Stick so I cannot compare it with this one. This one gets a bit boring at times, many experiments conducted on students from a certain university, so you have some raw data at your disposal. At the end of each chapter there is an "experiment" or rather exercise you are expected to accomplish, like tracking your time, keeping a daily schedule etc. There are too many details when it comes to tweaking your external environment up to the room temperature you should have. Overall not a bad book.

>>17830622
Just about any of Mircea Eliade's books can change your perspective forever. They're incredible.

>>17831512
Nice, looking forward to reading him now

Japanese Chess - The Game of Shogi

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>>17826430
The Bible

>>17834691
What topic did it introduce you to?

>>17835497
Salvation

>>17830622
I started with The Sacred and the Profane which he calls an introduction, I really enjoyed and learned a lot from it

Hippolyte Taine: Philosophie de l’Art (1865–82)

Gaetano Mosca: Elementi di scienza politica (1884)

Napoleone Colajanni: Per la razza maledetta (1898)

>>17835829
Are these really the most approachable examples you can think of

>>17836636
English translations are easy to find; if entry-level information is what you're after, these are (relatively) easy to digest and useful after the fact.

>>17826430
>christs samurai

shimabara rebellion

>>17828231
it sucks

>>17826430
>How to read a book (Mortimer Adler) - Teaches you how to approach a text in a structured way and understand more of it than you would have by just reading it from start to finish.
So after finishing this one, should I immediately reread it to TRULY understand it with the knowledge I've acquired from reading it the first time? Does the insight of reading it a second time provide me with more knowledge that could be put towards understanding the text even better on a third run?

>>17826430
Making friends and finding a relationship without the mediation of an app (soul-crushing) seems so unlikely that I'm suspecting it'll never happen. I'm so lonely and have genuinely no idea how I'm meant to meet other people. At this rate I'm likely to go my entire 20s without ever having gone out with friends.

>>17837372
wrong thread, incel

>>17837287
The author actually encourages you to apply the things you learn in the book on the book itself. So basically, the short answer is yes.

On your first read, you might read it starting from the first page and then progress onwards. On your second read (or preferably still on your first read), you would identify that you should first study the table of contents. You should try to understand what the book is aiming to convey and plan your reading according to what would benefit you the most. You would not read it from the first page and onwards, but rather start with the summaries that can be found at the end of each chapter. And so on and so on.

>>17835528
Fair

>>17826430
Automatize the boring stuff with Python

>>17826430
This is obvious but don't forget that Wikipedia is a great starting point for getting into a topic, and you can always read the citations for more specifics.