Books to become less pessimistic?

[Anonymous No.13657180]

No self-help books, I need solid arguments to see the bright side of this world

[Soren Kierkegaard No.13657188]

>>13657180
There is no bright side

[Anonymous No.13657202]

>>13657188
is this hell?

[Anonymous No.13657211]

>>13657180
Tao Te Ching.
Takes your pessimism and tells you you're 100% right, which is why you're 100% wrong

[Anonymous No.13657215]

>>13657180
The Bible or bust

[Anonymous No.13657219]

you know what the book is called

[Anonymous No.13657220]

Whitehead will kindle a new sense of wonder in you anon.

[Anonymous No.13657238]

Plato's Symposium
Aristophanes in general
Goethe's Faust

[Anonymous No.13657462]

>>13657180
Your rationalism is holding you back. Cultivate faith. Abandon the devastating pursuit of truth.

[Anonymous No.13657530]

>>13657462
I want the truth

[Anonymous No.13657935]

>>13657530
The fking degeneracy of individualism. Look beyond just yourself.

The point of your existence: To be passed, to carry and to pass on the torch of humanity in time until the day we as a race either go extinct or achieve dimensional transcendence. We are each but miniscule cogs in a self-developing machine who are both very insignificant, yet absolutely vital. This should be the ultimate truth.

Everything, including life itself, is equivocal. Fire warms us and cooks our food but it can also burn. Water refreshes us but it could also drown us. Rain and snow can be very unpleasant but it also nurtures the crops and fills the fresh-water rivers vital for our continued survival.

Don't limit yourself to seeing just the negatives of the world you live in. Take all of it in. That's a first step to being less negative. The next step after taking it all in is being thankful for what's good.

If you have any further concerns over existence and death then in a self-conscious manner; for the sake of inner-peace, adopt a faith that promotes a good afterlife and places significance on your existence.

[Anonymous No.13657947]

>>13657180
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Discourses by Epictetus
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Sonnets of William Shakespeare
This is all I can think of at the moment, what is bringing you down?

[Anonymous No.13657974]

Leibniz

[Anonymous No.13658586]

>>13657180
difference & repetition

[Anonymous No.13658591]

>>13657180
read schopenhauer

[Anonymous No.13658607]

Fooled by randomness

It's mostly about markets, but will help you realize how huge luck is and how psychologically prepare yourself to deal with it. I remember one passage that likened price moves to mood swings. If the price drops 50%, you need +100% to return to the previous level. The general idea of that negative movement is weighted exponentially greater than positive movement, and that it is far more effective to avoid negative than it is to pursue positive. By focusing on avoiding negative, when positive does arrive you feel lucky, since you just stumbled upon it. Both positive and negative have a snowballing effect, and just keeping your negative snowball small will let your positive snowball roll

[Anonymous No.13658704]

>>13657202
Yes.

[Anonymous No.13658735]

Steven Pinker: Better Angels and Enlightenment Now.

[Anonymous No.13658737]

>>13658586
What the fuck
How

[Anonymous No.13658749]

>>13657530
(you) can't handle the truth!

[Anonymous No.13658752]

>>13657202
We are cast upon this hellish realm solely for the purpose of struggling and being in pain, so that we may rise stronger each day and carve the world in our image, so that we can finally manage the pain and be proud of ourselves, as the eternal game to ease the pain for generations after us continues.

[Anonymous No.13658756]

The Kierkegaard Trilogy

[Anonymous No.13658764]

>>13658591
pretty much just face the beast head on.

[Anonymous No.13658904]

>>13657935
>adopt a faith that promotes a good afterlife
How is this even possible? Either you believe it or you don't.

[Anonymous No.13659570]

>>13657180
To become less pessimistic is to realize the reason why you are pessimistic: (ir)religious existentialism might help you with this.
If you are religious, listen to what (>>13657935) has to say, but if you are irreligious and unfaithful, then don't let the temptation of an afterlife fool you, it is a dominant reason why unfaithful people have become pessimistic in the first place.