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I'm looking for a book that talks about laziness, more precisely how to overcome it. Do you have any suggestion?

>> No.18807005

Bump for interest

>> No.18807037

>>18806947
the holy bible

>> No.18807047

>>18807037
Is there a specific part I should look at?

>> No.18807053

>>18807047
read the whole thing

>> No.18807237

>>18806947
Oblomov

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>>18806947
The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word sloth , however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness; in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. It robs a person of his capacity for joy and leaves him feeling empty, or void of meaning

Abbot Nault says that acedia is the most oppressive of demons. Although its name harkens back to antiquity and the Middle Ages, and seems to have been largely forgotten, acedia is experienced by countless modern people who describe their condition as depression, melancholy, burn-out, or even mid-life crisis.

He begins his study of acedia by tracing the wisdom of the Church on the subject from the Desert Fathers to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He shows how acedia afflicts persons in all states of life priests, religious, and married or single laymen. He details not only the symptoms and effects of acedia, but also remedies for it.

>> No.18807348

>>18807237
>>18807245
Will check them out, thank you!

>> No.18807405

>>18807237
Very cool rec ty

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>>18807237
>>18807348
>>18807405
See also the 'What is Oblomovism?' essay by Nikolay Dobrolyubov here
https://archive.org/details/pt2anthologyofru00wienuoft/page/272/mode/2up

>> No.18807713

>>18807515
This is great, I am excited to read it, thank you

>> No.18808900

nice recommendations, was looking for the same thing as OP.
Do you know any books that are more like self-improvement books on the subject? But no snake oil shit