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[Anonymous No.14145972]

What are some self-help books that have actually helped you?

[Anonymous No.14145976]

Starting reading books at all helped me a lot.

[Anonymous No.14145995]

for me, it's Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe

[Anonymous No.14146000]

the rational male

[Anonymous No.14146006]

Taleb, >>14145995, and 3%

[Anonymous No.14146007]

Walden by Thoreau

[Anonymous No.14146017]

>>14145972
Mind illuminated

[Anonymous No.14146121]

>>14146017
Same.

[Anonymous No.14146136]

[Anonymous No.14146145]

why i am so wise, by alain de bottom

[Anonymous No.14146155]

seriously though, you should read Notes From Underground and then Why I Am So Wise as the latter feels like a direct response to overcoming the former

[Anonymous No.14146234]

>>14146145
Nietzsche?

[Anonymous No.14146282]

>>14146234
yep

[Anonymous No.14146296]

>>14146155
Okay I will try this.

[Anonymous No.14146569]

>>14146155
Explain.

[Anonymous No.14146601]

No more mr nice guy

[Anonymous No.14146617]

More memoir but Darkness Visible, William Styron

[Anonymous No.14146642]

>>14145972
Not a "self-help book" but Schopenhauer's essay The Wisdom of Life probably saved my life.

[Anonymous No.14146672]

>>14146569
dostoevsky
>I’m a sick man, i’m a spiteful man
nietzsche
>i am both decadent (sick) and beginning (vital)
dostoevsky
>i don’t understand a damn thing about my illness, nor do i know for sure what’s wrong with me. it’s because i’m spiteful that i don’t want to have any treatment.
nietzsche
>setting aside the fact i am decadent, i am also its antithesis. my proof is in combatting my sick conditions i always instinctively choose the right means, while the decadent always chooses means harmful to him
dostoevsky
>i have failed not only to become spiteful - but to become anything else for that matter: vicious or kind, scoundrel or honest man, hero or insect
nietzsche
>freedom from ressentiment, enlightenment over ressentiment. if anything whatever has to be admitted against being sick, being weak ... one does not know how to get free of anything, one does not know how to have done with anything - everything hurts ... resentment, born of weakness, to no one more harmful than the weak man himself

i could go on... dostoevsky is portraying the nihilistic man, nietzsche is attempting to transcend it. to go from ‘underground’ to ‘overman’

[Anonymous No.14146684]

The Game by Neil Strauss

Got more pussy than a cat clinic after reading it. Would be an incel loser if it weren't for this book. Now I have a girlfriend of three years and am a successful writer.

[Anonymous No.14146689]

>>14145972
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
The Worry Trick
The Gift of Fear
The Defining Decade
What Color Is Your Parachute

[Anonymous No.14146703]

>>14145972
unironically.

[Anonymous No.14146739]

"How to Win Friends and Influence People" has some excellent tips in it that have massively improved my social life.
While he is a meme, back when I liked Stefan Molyneux his ebook called "Real Time Relationships" was actually very insightful.
While it isn't "self help", Thus Spoke Zarathustra also gave my life a new dimension of meaning that I never thought of.

[Anonymous No.14146757]

>>14146672
This is a really good post, I wouldn't have thought to read that book by N otherwise.

[Anonymous No.14146841]

>>14145972
The Bible

[Anonymous No.14146872]

>>14146757
thanks! i feel like most people who read it and thought it was pointless weren’t as lucky as me. they hadn’t just finished rereading the Underground man

maybe worth mentioning i read it as part of the larger Ecce Homo autobiography

[Anonymous No.14146876]

>>14145972
For me, it was
Richard Sylvester: Non-Duality Questions & Answers

[Anonymous No.14147054]

>>14146672
Interesting. I’ve always observed an interplay between Dostoevsky and Nietzsche, but never have read it articulated like this.