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10644284 No.10644284 [Reply] [Original]

What books can you recommend me to toughen my convictions, whatever would they be? I want to stop being a doubting coward like pic related or I won't make any advancement on my path.

>> No.10644475

>>10644284
Then & Now, Eva Brann

>> No.10644509
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Doubt is the key to true research. A so called "thinker" has to embrace a certain degree of skepticism if he truly wants to "think".
Read some Sextus Empiricus.

>> No.10644548

>>10644509
I know, anon, but I'm doing it to such an extent it becomes unhealthy

>> No.10644598

>>10644548
Unfortunately, that's the basic existential condition of every human being.
You don't want to be a coward? Embrace it.

>> No.10644608

doubt yourself but always hold an active approach towards utwitting yourself rather than feeling a constant loser. when you learn something new be proud of your improvement rather than being ashamed of your previous self.

the answer to your question doesn’t lie inside literature, you can better reach it through meditation and religious text. religious text are awesome as many people wrote those after a life of doubt and sin. they understand all the wrong direction one might take and you have to know about the sins. self doubt is stagnancy and depression and desperation... monks dwell in it for years. lust, gluttony... very easy to overcome. renounce pride and understand you’re not a prescient demigod so it’s obvious that you’re a doubtful coward

>> No.10644901

>>10644598
I know I can't get rid of it, anon, you should have told from my prvs post that all I want is to diminish it.
All this doubt and no commitment isn't exactly what a thorough thinker should do.
>>10644608
I think it's dangerous to be proud of your improvements since this temporary pride may slip really fast into self-acceptance and that's just the opposite of the right mindset.
I don't strive to be a "prescient demigod" either, but a bit closer to a "fervent ideologue". Just a bit.
Also am I a brainlet or did you just advise me to "be proud" in the first paragraph but to renounce pride in the second one?
Will listen to what you said anyways