/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19447158]

I'm suffering from inferiority complex, and it's getting worse pretty fast. Looking for books that can help, or maybe already helped someone.

[Anonymous No.19447170]

>>19447158
Turn into an overachiever to cope with your inferiorities, only real way. Trying to rationalize it is lying to yourself. I'm too intelligent to read books so I can't really give you recommendations.

[Anonymous No.19447190]

>>19447170
It's actually a very good advice, thank you.
My only issue is i can't stop thinking about others.

[Anonymous No.19447198]

>>19447190
Good, thinking about the fact that others see you as inferior is good if you can use it as fuel to be more active than them. A man with a broken heart cannot be stopped. This idea that men have to let go of all their insecurities and all that stuff is bullshit. Insecurities are what drive us. Self help tells men to mend themselves to the point they have 0 motivation to do anything at all.

[Anonymous No.19447213]

>>19447158
Picrel reminds me of how long I sought peace of mind in vague, new age meditation and spirituality. Never did nuffin. And then I read a literal logic textbook, and that alone has done more for me than anything else. I love western thought so much.

[Anonymous No.19447219]

>>19447213
Damn
Do you think that there is difference between eastern and western mind?

[Anonymous No.19447220]

>>19447198
It huts me badly, because my performance drops, and i start thinking even more, and my performance drops to zero.

[Anonymous No.19447221]

>>19447158
Why do you suffer from it? Because you feel inadequate at everything you want to be good at?

[Anonymous No.19447236]

>>19447213
I'm having the same problems right now, it feels bad to know that I'll never be able to seek help from western thought because I was born asian. Eastern spirituality and zen poems are good enough though, but they don't heal the wounds, just tend to them.

[Anonymous No.19447241]

>>19447221
Yes, and thing is, i'm not even bad, it's just my head messes me up. I start thinking about others, and not about the thing i should focus on.

[Anonymous No.19447255]

>>19447241
If these imaginary others keep you humbled, it's probably for the better. As the other Anon said, if you believed yourself the best at something, what reason would you have to keep improving?

[Anonymous No.19447256]

>>19447220
It's emotional residu. Start lifting. Other people don't really matter that much and what they think matters as much as nothing, it's what they do that should be analyzed.

[Anonymous No.19447259]

>>19447219
Yes there are differences, though a lot of the richness of western thought is owed to eastern influences. Egypt was in some ways Greeces teacher, of course there's Bible, though it's so dominant we don't think of it as being eastern.

[Anonymous No.19447270]

>>19447158
>Temptations in the Wilderness! Have we not all to be tried with such? Not so easily can the old Adam, lodged in us by birth, be dispossessed. Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle. For the God-given mandate, Work thou in Well-doing, lies mysteriously written, in Promethean Prophetic Characters, in our hearts; and leaves us no rest, night or day, till it be deciphered and obeyed; till it burn forth, in our conduct, a visible, acted Gospel of Freedom. And as the clay-given mandate, Eat thou and be filled, at the same time persuasively proclaims itself through every nerve,—must not there be a confusion, a contest, before the better Influence can become the upper?

>The painfullest feeling, is that of your own Feebleness (Unkraft); ever, as the English Milton says, to be weak is the true misery. And yet of your Strength there is and can be no clear feeling, save by what you have prospered in, by what you have done. Between vague wavering Capability and fixed indubitable Performance, what a difference! A certain inarticulate Self-consciousness dwells dimly in us; which only our Works can render articulate and decisively discernible. Our Works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible Precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, Know what thou canst work at.

[Anonymous No.19447284]

>>19447158
You need to zoom out. You are too zoomed in to your small perspective. You perceive people, but you forget to perceive yourself. You should take a broader look at your life. See your past life as a movie. What have you done thus far? What have you accomplished? What mistakes have you made? Only then can you begin to think about the future, make plans and work hard to achieve them. Life is about setting up goals and trying to achieve them.

[Anonymous No.19447294]

>>19447284
This is how americans unironically view life. They think their own life is a movie, starring themselves. Truly horrifying realization.

[Anonymous No.19447310]

>>19447294
What's wrong with telling someone to build themselves up when they have very low self-esteem? I'm obviously not suggesting that one should live their life like this, but it can help. It's a form of meditation. Also, I'm not American.

[Anonymous No.19447315]

Thank you anons, you helped me a lot, will try everything, see if it works, lifting too.

[Anonymous No.19447324]

also eat healthier, less sugar and processed foods, cut out liquor and soda, stop doing drugs
remember that most of us suffer as you do, you aren't alone

[Anonymous No.19447364]

>>19447324
I eat very healthy foods, and walk a lot, my bmi is low tho. Don't drink alcohol and drink soda couple times a year.
But now i have a plan, which is good.
You all really helped me.

[Anonymous No.19447381]

>>19447315
>lifting
I guess lifting is fine, but if we're talking about deadlifting then the pros don't much the cons. Deadlifting is very easy to fuck up. Slightly fucking up your posture can create serious problems to your back and legs. Stick with a bench. Or better yet, try running instead.
Also, if you really want to live a longer and better life, read "Eat to Live" by Joel Fuhrman.

[Anonymous No.19447398]

>>19447213
>Eastern spirituality
That's where you went wrong. You just picked the wrong religion. Sure knowing some logical formulas will help your intellectual ego feel good about itself, but it's all vanity and just feeding the Faustian archetype of the western man will will self-destruct - you're literally building your self esteem on bugman epistemology akin to the weak nerd being bullied on school and out of ressentiment builds up companies like Facebook that ruin human life just to prove his worth.

Pray to the Lord and Jesus Christ to save your soul. Your life will fix itself purely out of dedication to Him and the dedication thereof

[Anonymous No.19447399]

>>19447381
Terrible advice. Deadlifting is completely fine if you start light and take your time. Bench is more dangerous than deadlifting and mastering the form is harder for bench-pressing than deadlifting. Running is also bad advice, chronically raising your cortisol levels, damaging your joints and articulations, compressing your spine by running on a solid surface for long periods of time, raising your lactic acid levels over a long period of time. Bad idea. Sprinting would be far better and provides the same cardiovascular benefits, without the disadvantages.

[Anonymous No.19447410]

>>19447398
Studying logic lead me back to Christ. Also I'm not sure you understood what I wrote, where before I was trying out ''eastern spirituality'' (though I wouldn't dignify new agey stuff with the name), I then turned to reading the Greeks. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and it made so much more sense. From there I followed the train of western thought into Christendom.

[Anonymous No.19447449]

>>19447381
Running makes it worse. I used to run 4 days a week for 6 months. It sucks, because i like running.

[Anonymous No.19447513]

>>19447449
Running decreases your self-esteem? Why do you think that is?

[Anonymous No.19447519]

>>19447513
I dunno how it's related, but after i started running my anxiety became unbearable, feels like my heart stops, and it hearts, like i got a knife in the chest.
Before that it was just uncomfortable.
Did all heath checks, all great.

[Anonymous No.19447531]

>>19447519
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18787373/
That's why

[Anonymous No.19447537]

>>19447410
in that case we've had similar experiences and I take back what I said. Have a great day anon

[Anonymous No.19447583]

>>19447399
>>19447531
You don't know what you're talking about.