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Here's the definitive list of the books you need to read in your 20s, /lit/. How many of them have you read so far?

>> No.20204537

>>20204520
I know this is a bait
but who the fuck read a book by fucking jeff bezos ?
fucker probably write really rough draft and a dozen of ghost writer do the rest

>> No.20204545

>>20204520
>all self-help shit
fuck you

>> No.20204726

>>20204520
Jesus... I was about to read Babylon and Meditations, but if they are at the same level as all that crap I think I'll pass

>> No.20204835

>>20204726
pretty sure richest man in babylon can be summed up as "save money. lend money and charge interest". the advice about saving up physical money just to feel the sheer weight of it is legit. It's so short you could read it in the bookstore aisle and put it back. Any book there has its merits, it's just people fall into the self-help trap and ONLY read self-help. It's nice to read occasionally just to refresh yourself on the language of being a go-getter

Meditations is not like the others. That one, you actually should have already read

>> No.20204897

>>20204520
I actually did read Outliers when I was about 20. I enjoyed it.

>> No.20204926

>peterson twice
>the rules of power by greene
GO BACK 2 REDDIT YOU ABSOLUTE SHITLORD

>> No.20204957

>>20204835
>pretty sure richest man in babylon can be summed up as "save money. lend money and charge interest"
i just wanted to see if the stories used as example were cool.
are they?

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>>20204957

>> No.20205203

>>20204520
I know this is bait but god damn I hate improovers. Anyway I've read Man's Search for Meaning, Siddhartha & Meditations aka the non-meme ones.

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>>20204520
> Here's the definitive list of the books you need to read in your 20s, /lit/. How many of them have you read so far?

>> No.20206066

>>20204957
not really

>> No.20206069

>>20204520
>"make your bed" between two peterson books
top kek

>> No.20206506

Just read Storm of Steel

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>>20204520
>Here's the definitive list of the books you need to read in your 20s, /lit/. How many of them have you read so far?

>> No.20206520

>>20204520
I read Siddhartha years ago, that's the only one

>> No.20206523

>>20204520
>Wagecuck opium

>> No.20206532

>>20204520
3

>> No.20206535

>>20204520
Really funny but was this joke really worth spending all the money, carrying the books home, and now having to throw them away

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>>20204520
Here's the definitive list of the books you need to read in your 20s, /lit/. How many of them have you read so far?

>> No.20206576

>>20204520
good list

>> No.20206662

Jay Shetty is the fucking worst lol, I didn’t really know who he was so I gave one episode of his podcast a listen and he talked about his “weekly sensory deprivation chamber sessions”

>> No.20206666

A couple of these books are good as long as you're not autistic about them.

>> No.20206670

>>20206666
Name 1 besides Siddartha and Meditations

>> No.20206674

>>20206670
I liked Mans search for Meaning, Atomic Habits, JBP and the Elon Musk book, but I'm a bit of a midwit. I did feel they had some good advice worth keeping in mind though. I think the average guy could find worth in them.

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>>20206674
Lol well memed my friend

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>>20206688
i was being sincere

>> No.20207837

>>20204726
Meditations is the only one worth reading here, but you shouldn’t stop there, read Seneca and Epictetus as well.

>> No.20207860

>Meditations
>The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck
>Siddhartha
>Atomic Habits
>How to Win Friends and Influence People
The only book on there worth reading is Siddhartha, and it's best read in your teens, not your 20's. Meditations too, as long as you're reading it as stoic philosophy and not as a heckin life-changing book written by a Roman Emperor. The rest is bog standard self help with advice that's either pretty obvious or useless. Like >>20204835 said, read one a year to refresh your mindset.

>>20204537
As a guy who works for Amazon corporate, I can tell by the title that it's going to be ~300 pages of deepthroating the leadership principles. However, that probably means that it was actually written by Jeff (or someone very close to him), because he treats those principles like commandments from God. He wouldn't trust an infidel to interpret his holy texts.

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>>20204520
someone actually bought or collected all those books just so they could take an ironic meme photo of them

>> No.20208036

>>20206515
Based

>> No.20208041

>>20204520
I will not read the self-help books.

>> No.20208108

>>20206662
lol wut

>> No.20208269

>>20204926
Why do people have an allergic reaction from jordan peterson? Even if you dont follow his politics you should still follow his life guide shit.

>> No.20208275

>>20204520
I've read the Elon Musk biography but that was in middle school.

>> No.20208310

>>20204520
Why the hell do people read so much self help crap? They're all the exact same.

>> No.20208323

I hate that stoicism is now solely associated with wagecuck self help garbage.

>> No.20208331

>>20204520
Actually if you're an adult you don't need to read any Jordan Peterson

>> No.20208341

Actual onions. Holy shit

>> No.20208368

>>20208341
Onions**

>> No.20208481

>>20206515
Absolutely based. Not enough Abnett tho.

>> No.20208835

>>20208323
Only Aurelius is. Seneca and Epictetus never recieved easily accessible modern translations with flashy cover art, so they're still mostly unknown.

>> No.20208848

>>20204520
One. Meditations.

The rest is for faggots anyways.

>> No.20209239

> How to win friends and influence people

Thats actually a piece of shit. I read that and its basically "How to act like a psycho to get your way"