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Books for a 27-year-old male who spent the last 10 years not thinking about a direction for his future?

>> No.19898289

>>19898277
Graeber’s 5000 years of debt
Infinite Jest
Catch 22
The trial
Hyperion
Simulacra and Simulation
Manufacturing Consent
count of Monte Cristo

>> No.19898294

>>19898277
The Four Loves and then star watching vtubers

>> No.19898309

>>19898277
not thinking or not finding? why weren't you at least thinking about it, that's hard to believe

>> No.19898321

>>19898277
well, what are you doing in life right now

>> No.19898334

>>19898289
that's quite a random list of books but I've read them all and own a copy of each and I don't know what that says about me..

>> No.19898338

>>19898277
Slaughterhouse Five I suppose

>> No.19898347

>>19898334
It says we both have a similar taste in books and probably hate ourselves for not doing enough in a world without meaning.

>> No.19898354

>>19898277
Seconding this but also I'm more pathetic as I'm older.
As for you two >>19898309 >>19898321 I could never figure out what I wanted to do. I watch Youtube and play videogames. Sometimes some subject comes up and I spend the night doing light research on it for my own interest.
Programming is hard, design requires you to be forceful with your intent and to already have the ability to have a team underneath you, of which I have no experience and I don't have the personality to be some kind of content creator. Best I can do is lament doing basic factory work. With no proper ability to discipline or lead a team, especially when given resistance, I'm stuck.
The only thing I can come up with for what I'm actually good at is looking shit up and getting the right answer (the best this for that, best price for the job or thing I need the thing to do without going to the extreme high end), but data entry is another entry level job.

>> No.19899127

>>19898277
Un homme qui dort
will really make you think m8

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19899634

>>19898354
>I could never figure out what I wanted to do
Read Notes from an Underground Man
realize you are at least in part the underground man
realize the reason you have never committed to a specific path in life is because you're intelligence allows you to see yourself following many different paths and not being particularly drawn to any one of them by the forces that draw more limited people to said specific paths
realize you take a sick sort of pleasure in this calculating and weighing of your options and are placing yourself above these options as wells as other people, both in being able to calculate them and in thinking yourself too good for any particular one
realize that this sickness of the intellect has been the source of the inaction in your life and instead use this intellect to your advantage in most effectively pursuing the one of your choice
or something like that. Also a good chance that you can't escape this entrenched thought process. In that case just realize you aren't above effort and apply yourself to something that will manifest itself in the real world, even if its writing something few people will ever read

>> No.19899638

>>19899634
>>19898277
this goes for OP as well if thats not who I tagged in my post

>> No.19900758

>>19899634
>you're intelligence

>> No.19900841

>>19898347
>world without meaning.
I respectfully disagree with you gentleman. I have plenty of meaning and reason to be useful but im weak and i hate myself

>> No.19900866

>>19899634
Sounds like a cope. It's better to have focused potential than endless potential.

>> No.19900882

>>19899634
Not him but I think I'm just lazy, not that I'm so intelligent that I can't focus on a single path.

>> No.19901167

>>19898354
>The only thing I can come up with for what I'm actually good at is looking shit up and getting the right answer (the best this for that, best price for the job or thing I need the thing to do without going to the extreme high end)
literally me

maybe you could work at a niche store, do you have any interests?

>> No.19901180

>>19898277
Unironically, a basic self-help book like 12 Rules for Life. It's not high art and it's not incredibly deep, but it is written for people exactly like you. Pseuds will recommend you stuff like >>19898289, but if you're genuinely lacking in direction then spending the next year of your life familiarising yourself with postmodernism will not help that one bit.

>> No.19901233

>>19898354
>I could never figure out what I wanted to do.
https://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip

>> No.19901932

>>19900758
People on this board are dumb as fuck. Basic spelling errors like the one in the post you responded to are everywhere

>> No.19902520

>>19898277
Wait, are you me?

>> No.19902530

>>19898289
kind of a weird list but it also sorta works somehow?

>> No.19902588

>>19899634
I have spent literally 10 years, the last 10 years stuck in this loop where I need to follow my vocation so that I do not kill myself, I spend 1-2 years working at this hopeless thing, I quit and I become even more bitter/depressed. Depression makes me want to kill myself, so I must absolutely follow my vocation so that I do not kill myself. Rinse and repeat, and every year my overall energy is shaved off, the gap between attempts and suicidal spells is starting to get wider also, so my skills degrade and it's becoming more and more difficult to pick back up seamlessly, while the world also becomes more and more retarded and distant from me. I know I'm 200% fucking hopeless but it's all I have.

>> No.19903098

>>19898277
The Holy Bible (KJV)

>> No.19903133

>>19898277
>future

Pure ideology.

>> No.19903501

>>19898354
You could get a diploma in library science and become a librarian. It's like data entry but pays better.

>> No.19903529

>>19902588
I'm similar anon. I'm pretty normie as far as the people in this thread go but I still have no direction. I've made lots of choices in my time and each time I do it for a while until it starts to wear me down and I want to die. So I've basically done a million things by this stage, which I guess isn't all bad.

I think I have a restless spirit. I think about all the shit I could be doing and I quit to go pursue it and then quit again. I hate schedules and being told what to do etc. It's funny because that quality is celebrated in movie characters and book protagonist's but in reality it is exhausting and self destructive.

>> No.19903921

>>19898277
Fundamentals of digital logic text book lol

>> No.19904120

>>19898277
12 rules for life - jordan peterson

>> No.19904135

>>19898289
This but start with Camus' The Stranger

>> No.19904175

>>19898338
>>19898289
>>19904120
>>19903098
>>19904135
none of you are real humans.

>> No.19904710

>>19898277
How good are you at Mathematics?