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Anonymous Fri Sep 28 00:57:02 2018 No.11854186 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: God tier self help and self improvement books

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>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 00:58:15 2018 No.11854194 Friend o'mine forced me to read "Models". Should mandatory reading for Incel motherfuckers.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 00:58:42 2018 No.11854197 literally The Bible

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 01:00:06 2018 No.11854200 File: 32 KB, 327x499, epictetus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11854186

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 01:01:34 2018 No.11854206 File: 225 KB, 768x768, p9qokyfhouo11.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] you fools!

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 01:10:36 2018 No.11854235 >>11854206 Both advies are made for people in different situations, the key is to find a balance. A good self help book teaches you when to look inward and when to look outwards. So nice maymay but no

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 01:15:35 2018 No.11854251 >>11854235 nice try self help shill

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 01:22:42 2018 No.11854270 File: 684 KB, 883x1181, KANTPILLED.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11854186 Immanuel Kant and sexual abstinence is all you need.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 01:33:58 2018 No.11854309 File: 90 KB, 480x320, kant-children-disclaimer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11854270 >Kant OH NO NO NO

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 01:38:07 2018 No.11854325 File: 258 KB, 1702x2560, 6C281353-ED9A-4D9E-8997-BA62E74B32E3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Yeet on the jews

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 01:40:14 2018 No.11854330 >>11854235 self help is scam. do you know why tony robbins is always smiling? it's because he made a shitload of money scamming depressed office workers

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 01:47:27 2018 No.11854356 The best book i've ever read

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 02:55:49 2018 No.11854563 >instead of self improvement they will read books about self improvement prophetic

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 03:32:42 2018 No.11854668 >>11854270 Where does one start with Kant?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 03:36:08 2018 No.11854677 >>11854309 which cucked publisher is this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 03:37:12 2018 No.11854681 >>11854235 they should have put the "it's about BALANCE" books in the middle for a more complete meme

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 03:37:14 2018 No.11854683 This rare and obscure work: >”Self-Help” has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Help_(book)

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 03:45:16 2018 No.11854717 >>11854330 >depressed office workers This is exactly right. If you're intelligent enough to realise modern life is shitty, there's no real way to brainwash yourself into thinking it's good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 03:55:54 2018 No.11854751 File: 64 KB, 636x247, schop.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11854186 Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 04:02:13 2018 No.11854776 Getting Things Done is the only book that has literally changed my life

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 04:04:46 2018 No.11854785 >>11854776 Same here not even joking

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 04:14:49 2018 No.11854829 >>11854776 >>11854785 Please elaborate a little bit lads.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 05:11:09 2018 No.11855004 >>11854186 Why is a finance major writing a psychological behavior book?

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 05:21:23 2018 No.11855031 >>11854186 I'd honestly be embarrassed to be seen reading a book with such an embarrassing title.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 05:29:13 2018 No.11855043 File: 17 KB, 282x252, 25fz2q.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11854186 >book claims you shouldn't give a fuck >censors the word 'fuck'

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 05:30:30 2018 No.11855050 >>11854668 Someone post the where to start with Kant chart.

Anonymous Fri Sep 28 06:14:43 2018 No.11855159

Not giving a fuck is why this world is so fucked. We don't need any more apathetic narcissists. "Not giving a fuck" in the way people romanticize comes from acceptance of yourself which can't be taught in a fucking 300 pg book. I liked models though maybe I'm judging too early

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 06:15:11 2018 No.11855162 >>11855004 Why not? He seems more successful at it than the average academic.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 06:20:54 2018 No.11855169 File: 533 KB, 946x2017, 1508506059322.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11854270 >>11854668 >>11855050

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 06:45:15 2018 No.11855242 >>11854186 wait, does /lit/ actually like self-help books now? Boo! Boo, /lit/! I thought you knew better! Fool!

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 07:14:17 2018 No.11855344 The Chimp Paradox

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 08:16:22 2018 No.11855507 >>11855159 The book literally opens with him saying you need to give a fuck about SOMETHING, and how you should focus on things that matter, i.e. give a fuck about ONLY things that matter.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 28 08:18:15 2018 No.11855510 File: 181 KB, 1473x1492, 1535528558141.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11854309 >trigger warning before philosophical work

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