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Anonymous Sat Jun 23 23:13:34 2018 No.11366406 [Reply] [Original]

What books will motivate me to be a better man? Like the motivational quote picture threads we've been having, but for actual literature.

Pic related, the Stoics are great for this and the "get the fuck out of bed" passage from Meditations is exactly the kind of thing I want more of.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 23 23:14:23 2018 No.11366410 the front page of reddit

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 23 23:18:23 2018 No.11366419 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 23 23:26:20 2018 No.11366438 >>11366406 Any of these: https://www.google.com/search?q=self+help+books&client=ms-android-sprint-us&biw=320&bih=454&noj=1&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkr_2BrevbAhUKnawKHX3wCKMQ_AUIBigA#wgvs=e Start with Dale Carnegie

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 23 23:26:45 2018 No.11366441 File: 84 KB, 537x520, Wilbur-Smith-Advert-by-Pastiche.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] KJV of Ecclesiastes

>>	Anonymous Sat Jun 23 23:29:42 2018 No.11366452 Read Aristotle

Anonymous Sat Jun 23 23:31:22 2018 No.11366458

>>11366406
I think the bible but in the context of other books. I'm still researching but for secular portions: >>11366438
I haven't found a good book on manners yet that was mind blowing but it clearly is. You rarely find a person with clever manners and not that pleb open the door mindless drivel. Someone came up with that and the context of them doing it is more interesting than the stupid gaggle of democratic fucks who follow and leech off anyone's ingenuity. The aristocratic class was filled with the latter ingenuity so I'd check there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 24 04:12:17 2018 No.11367238 >>11366406 stoics are for redditors who want to turn not getting laid and being a worthless faggot into some kind of heroic gesture

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 24 04:13:31 2018 No.11367240 >>11366406 A strong will, without that nothing else will help.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 24 04:21:01 2018 No.11367263 File: 461 KB, 2137x1082, IMG_20180623_204323.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Read The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Letters from a Stoic by Seneca Discourses and Selected Writings of Epictetus

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 24 04:22:17 2018 No.11367267 >>11366406 Read the stoics but avoid everything red pill or some other virgin MGTOW shit. It will only leave you unsatisfied and empty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 24 04:33:59 2018 No.11367296 >>11366406 Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle War of Art by Pressfield Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 24 05:01:42 2018 No.11367342 >>11366406 I would say design your life such that you don't look at advertisements or hear advertisements because they are all anti-stoic

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 24 10:31:00 2018 No.11368106 >>11366406 The Foundation for Exploration by Goonan

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 24 10:45:30 2018 No.11368155 >>11367263 /thread

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