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ITT: Self improvment Books Anonymous Wed Nov 16 23:17:19 2016 No.8732249 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 16 23:24:22 2016 No.8732266 /lit/erally have never read one

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 16 23:25:38 2016 No.8732268 +1 for Nathaniel Branden

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 00:02:29 2016 No.8732390 I'm about half way through with How to Win Friends and Influence People, it's a good book but can sometimes be a bit too heavy with the anecdotes. It's the first self improvement book I've ever read and I want to continue exploring the medium.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 00:08:46 2016 No.8732407 Literature itself should be self-improving. You don't need to read BS "How to get rich and be successful" books. Read philosophy or lit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 00:09:27 2016 No.8732411 >ego is the enemy spook'd

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 00:31:54 2016 No.8732471 >>8732407 But these books aren't mainly about getting rich. Only a couple of them. Most of them is about self esteem and ego. Like it or not, people don't know how to get rid of their ego. They don't know how to build self esteem.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 01:57:07 2016 No.8732693 - The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell - Flow by Mihaly Csiskzentmihalyi

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 05:18:02 2016 No.8732971 >>8732249 I work at a library and each time a sad, vulnerable, socially anxious person takes out one of these garbage books I die a little inside.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 05:22:35 2016 No.8732976 >>8732471 sometimes i think to tell to peolple like you, why build self steem?. but i know you gonna say self steem is necesarry to live ans shit like that, and i dont say anything.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 06:18:33 2016 No.8733054 File: 2.27 MB, 403x297, 1452263196095.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8732693 >Csiskzentmihalyi

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 06:35:31 2016 No.8733082 >self improve meme go to >>>/r9k/ or just kys or whatever just dont bring this trash here

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 06:56:55 2016 No.8733113 >>8732971 What would you recommend instead? Or maybe you are projecting something?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 06:57:36 2016 No.8733115 >>8733113 common sense

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 06:59:09 2016 No.8733117 >>8732249 >Rand >Ego is the Enemy Something here is amiss

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 07:01:15 2016 No.8733124 >>8733115 I would have said something like therapy. Consider that you might be projecting your own insecurities onto them.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 17 07:14:37 2016 No.8733154 >>8732249 >Meditations among all that waste Gee I wonder why /lit/ hates stoics