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Hey so I know self help books get a bad rep, but what are the best that do exist. Business books welcome too. Pic arguably related

>> No.10285896

>>10285558
Maps of meaning

>> No.10286077

>>10285896
Is it still worth the read if I've already seen all his maps of meaning lectures?

>> No.10286109
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>>10285558
>War of Art by Pressfield
>Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink (based podcast too, and based new book)
>Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
>How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
>Influence by Cialdini (for persuasion)
>Flow by Mihaly Cziksentmihalyi
>The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (for the inevitable existential crisis associated with the insecurity of trying to "improve" yourself. And for the understanding that Dostoevsky died weeks after this earth shattering masterpiece, and if he procrastinated just a little while longer this godly work would've never graced the earth, and use this as motivation to get the fuck up and write)

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>>10285558
Its essentially an instruction manual to the human mind.

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>> No.10287615

>>10286759
Calm down David, OP is not rich enough to be a scientologist

>> No.10287703

>>10285558
The problem with literary self-help is that the books which can actually help you aren't labelled "self-help".

>> No.10289332

The Psychopath's Bible

>> No.10289734

>>10286109
>War of Art by Pressfield
Art & Fear by Bayles is better

>> No.10290043

>>10285558
The wisdom of psychopaths

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>>10285558
>Business books welcome too
fgucking plebs get off this board REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.10290183

>>10285558
"just bee yourself"
just live by those words and everything will be o.k.