>fit + lit
Nigga I just read good books.
Recently finished: >Infinite Jest >House of Leaves >Spook Country
Recently acquired: >American Psycho >my Year of Rest and Relaxation >Crime and Punishment
Pretty basic taste but at least it's not self help snakeoil
>schizo tard thinks he's superior >kills 2 old women >feels bad about it >goes to jail
That book is so fucking overrated.
Also, the only differences between "crime and punishment" and Elliot Rodger is that the latter existed, had a bigger kill count, and ended his story more dramatically. So the next time you see someone praise that cringefest of a book, remember that they're basically gushing over a fictive incel and his bullshittery.
Go ahead, prove me wrong. You can't.
tard thinks he's superior
2 old women
bad about it >>goes to jail >That book is so fucking overrated.
It's about internal struggle and redemption of the human soul.
But since you as NPC don't have one you can't understand and tend to oversimplify things
I know it’s a psued/tryhard cliche to say the book > the movie but the American psycho book is actually better than the movie. It does a way better job painting a picture of the mental state of Patrick Bateman. If they acted out the murder scenes and sex scenes the way they describe them in the book, the film wouldn’t be allowed to be released. Both sex scenes and murder scenes are insanely graphic. There are sex scenes that go on for like 10 pages in the book describing every position lmao. The author had to actually be psychotic himself to write that shit.
Bret Easton Ellis is a fat gay guy who wishes he had talent. It doesn't take a psychotic to write his books. It just takes a chubby New Yorker with less talent than ambition.
I’ve never read any of his other books but there were some portions of the book where you have to have some sociopathic tendencies yourself to be able to think of it. And I’m not just talking about the murder scenes. It’s mostly about the way he describes how patrick bateman manipulates everybody in any situation he’s in.
It’s not really pseud. The books usually are better because they are: >good and popular enough to warrant a movie being made >much more time to become invested in the story
Only book I can think of that is both a great book and a great movie(s) is lord of the rings
American psycho is a boring unless you are interested in neckties described in greatest detail.
Crime and punishment may not be Dostoevsky's greatest book (pic related is) but it's great for beginners.
Yep. When commies took over Bulgaria the first thing they did after killing tens of thousands of innocent people without trial was to massacre the spelling in the same way they had done it in Russia some 30ish years before.
Making people less literate is always part of the revolution.
I've already read The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Just happened across a cheap, gently used copy of Crime and Punishment.
I know it’s a psued/tryhard cliche to say the book > the movie but the American psycho book is actually better than the movie. It does a way better job painting a picture of the mental state of Patrick Bateman. If they acted out the murder scenes and sex scenes the way they describe them in the book, the film wouldn’t be allowed to be released. Both sex scenes and murder scenes are insanely graphic. There are sex scenes that go on for like 10 pages in the book describing every position lmao. The author had to actually be psychotic himself to write that shit.
Interested in reading Ellis in general to get into the mindset of a closet homo who copes by trying to grapple for social status and physical fitness.
Oh, that's great. Expect something of the same magnitude. In my experience Crime and punishment felt more easily readable than the other books fromr the Pentateuch.
Another thing that helps is me reading them in slavic language and the names such as Mishkin or Razumihin or Marmeladov actually mean something to me without need to be translated or explained.
>to get into the mindset of a closet homo
In that case you need "rules of attraction" and not the psycho.
It's a book about college, drug abuse and gay/bi sex
I was taking a piss on the side of a rural highway and a police officer gave me a ticket for it.
Honest to god I wasnt even an asshole to him at all. Literal country road, no one around, no house nothing. RCMP officer drives by me, pulls a u turn and gives me a ticket.
No, I was initially baiting but I’m also not trying to derail the thread. There is a statistical probability that I do in fact mog them based on their response
perhaps I should try that then.. all I want is not for people to be overly rude. I recommended someone else to go there, she came back in tears because people were mean to her.
They do now that the more normal section of the population has drifted away from the churches and mostly what's left is people who need purpose beyond what god has already given them. I would say as whole coming back to it was a favorable experience but yeah you will encounter some people you wouldn't otherwise choose to interact with and there are cliques within congregations that you might not set right with you but that's going to be present in every organization that doesn't ToS people out for having odd beliefs or values. They're people and people aren't getting any more sane or emotionally stable.
>mostly what's left is people who need purpose beyond what god has already given them
Yes, people who wouldn't have anything else to do. There are people who just like to be in charge of stuff and to feel important and special. Without the church they would be losers but now they have the true knowledge and can feel superior.
>self help books >mental gainz
Lmao, I was reading actual literature today if that’s what you’re asking
kek, great job crabs, keep anons from improving themselves in any way aside from becoming homos only good at lifting weights. you are the same as litnaggers who have boobs and think they are better than anyone because they read pretentious books. KYS naggerS LOL.
If you want to make actual mental gains, find a topic you like and read about that single topic. Read authors with different perspectives, read authors with conflicting views, read deeply into that single subject.
Reading entry tier literature in different subjects pads your bookshelf but doesn't make you grow. You're not learning more than at most a few quotes or fun facts to flex at parties.
I know it's probably kool-aid but I try to buy older textbooks teacher eiditons and wookbooks when they're avaliable and just work though it on my own. There's just something satisfying about them even if they're not remotely optimal and a fictional adult could get through an entire year's course in less than 12 weeks. Simply because the books are better teachers than most teachers.
Many of those books are a complete waste of time. They sound great in theory, in reality life is just way more complicated. Maybe some good information in some of them, but you should build up your own habits based on your own experiences and how you feel like doing things. Similar to lifting programs in a way, people end up figuring out their own thing.
I came on fit today after a long time of abstinence and didnt expect to find something valuable here. Usually it's just fap bait posts and trolls. Thank you anon.
The problem with these kind of books for me is that they sound useful in theory, but I never actually learn anything from them. For example, I read the 48 Laws of Power, and the whole time I just was thining "I know this. I know this. I know this".
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Fair but there is always thing I take away from reading them.
This is a kind of over the top list but I have gotten use out of it.
Hope it helps you
Does anyone have that small infographic listing 4 basic books on learning
Two of them are [How to read and why] and [Make it stick]; don't remember what the other two are
Did for a while. Read most of the western canon, many greeks and a dozen other philosophers since. All of Freud, Jung, Adler, Rogers, and a handful of others. All of Steinbeck, most of Melville, Half of Dostoevsky, all of Camus, A shit load of Old scifi from Wells and CS Lewis' space trilogy, through Clarke and Herbert, all the way through Cixin Liu. Read almost everything ever written by Sagan, Dawkins, Asimov, Chomsky, and some beautiful nonsense by Terence Mckenna and Rupert sheldrake.
Oh and of course our whole fit reading list through rippetoe and the barbell prescription, a few brick textbooks on training physiology and kinesiology, along with just about everything every written about striking or grappling sport in all it's varieties.
After about years of binging literature I realized I was only making myself miserable and lonely for no reason because most people live unexamined lives and prefer to be barely conscious, and find your general skepticism and ability to scrutinize ideas to be offensive and hostile and they will do absolutely anything to drag you down to their level. I don't generally yield to social pressure but the truth is i'm not in college, i'm never going to write much of anything. I'm not a teacher, i'm a personal trainer and pharmacy technician. This was simply a lot of time and effort that I just can't seem to muster anymore. I'm much happier these days focusing on jiuitsu.
Put your phone in another room
This week I read ‘The Party’ on the organization of the CCP and ‘Confederacy of Dunces’, a comedy novel
I hate ads and I hate modern TV, so books are the optimal form of media - they just stick to one topic/story without interruption or billshit, enjoyable
>line up the only books in your house for a picture >imagine this retard standing on his tippy-toes with his android phone trying to take a photo
Man you're a fuckin' homosexual already, and your bullied-in-high-school teste in literature is the final nail in the coffin for you LMAO
what is with you people? pick one book and read it all the way through; I promise you’ll get more out of it than reading and forgetting the same 5 pages on 6 different books
Funny how many people here are throwing self help books because of the content.
naggers, the content isn't the point, it's the book making you THINK and TRY new mental models that can help you greatly. If a book doesn't spark any idea in your brain then it's useless.
jesus christ i used to be a pathetic homosexual like you
go on and read those witty books. start reading about philosophy and history afterwards though, because a lot occurs around these topics and you could kick knowledge at parties.
Self help books are ok, but getting deep into the genre is the literary version of chasing your own tail. Start actually learning something that interests you. Personally I picked up a math textbook and started with le Greeks.
I have been learning Russian the past 2 years. So now I read through/translate a couple paragraphs of The Brothers Karamazov in the original Russian while I do my cardio on the decline bike machine at high resistance for an hour each morning.
Has really helped me understand the language better and challenges me mentally.
>phone notifications: blocked >gf, family and friends: ignored >latest Mary Beard book: bought
Leave me alone this weekend plebeians, it's comfy reading time.
>female author
As a rule, Hard Pass. I was actually going to read her SPQR, but never committed.
I did enjoy The Guns of August by Tuchman and Frankenstein is great but no other literary works of value by women come to mind. James Tiptree Jr I guess.
>If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. - Commandment
>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. - Jesus
kind of but i read other kinds of meme books instead because i'm already sort of successful career-wise. currently reading pic rel. i have some other esoteric books on my bucketlist.
there is some wisdom in bible however you should not take it at face value. read between the lines and there are some nuggets of wisdom in there.
>reading self-help books instead of helping yourself >reading books about skill acquisition instead of acquiring skills
Kek, sounds like the average SwoleShack poster alright
>all those gay ass self help books
Nigga I’ll give you a secret. Go to Walgreens in their magazine section and buy a sudoku book and a logic puzzle book and make real gains not this antisocial schizoid shit
Highly recommend listening to a) Jim Rohne lectures b) Earl Nightengale lectures and c) reading Nevill Goddard books while you do your cardio and chores around the house. Incredibly stuff on actively changing yourself. Literally just will it into existence and make it happen
Read books like this for years and did nothing with my life. Started actually doing things and never have time to read anymore. Pure mental masturbation
>Dante >Milton
Did you already read Goethe's Faust or is it next after spring?
And good luck with Milton's ancient English. Tough but rewarding challenge
Hard to put into words, it just felt more genuine to me, more real world applicable.
Sun Tzu is more intellectual and strategic and while Mushashi can hold his own in that arena he comes across as more gritty, in-the-trenches type which makes him more admirable and relatable in my view.
Always hard to really judge when you cannot read works in their original language though.
Rape and sex and degeneracy is deep and cool!!! Hahaha and what did he see in the outhouse at the end? Right guys!? Its wild! Was he even real? Was he like muh heckin devilrino??? Woahhh!!!
holy shit you must be actual retarded for reading that muh power fantasy for idiots crap. where's your copy of rich dad poor dad hahaha homosexual shit out of here
If you think about it, reading books is for NPCs. You literally spend hours reading about some dudes imagination or thoughts. Like, lmao. Just think about things yourself. I bet you drink tea too LOL
>learn a new language >start reading the bible again >start reading more in general >learn AI skills so I can try to get a high paying job in AI
Out of all these I mostly want to learn a new language, starting with French. BUT I'm just fully braindead these days and I don't know what's causing it. I'm not being productive at work and when I'm not working I just browse the web aimlessly and scroll tiktok or this website. The only thing I'm grinding hard and seeing gains is gym, everything else in my life is not doing so well. I think my dopamine circuits are fucked. Whenever I should be doing some learning or reading I just rather watch a streamer or random youtube videos and turn my brain off.
I have no formal education and I'm trying to read Marx. It's literally hundreds of pages of economic theory that I'm struggling to grasp even at a basic level.
>I have no formal education and I'm trying to read Marx. > It's literally hundreds of pages of economic theory that I'm struggling to grasp even at a basic level.
You're unironically too intelligent for it, Marx just wrote a bunch of midwitslop. If you can't formulate your arguments into a book that retards can comprehend and come to the same conclusions you have then you have no argument. Such is the case with many political philosophers and most israelites. They obfuscate their exploitative motives and hypocrisy behind semantic bullshit and call themselves geniuses.
The labor theory of value is nonsense and the countries who have maintained a communist party in charge of their government are ones who have abandoned his economic theory (but kept Lenin’s organizational theory)
how do people need to read shit like this. if i want to learn something i learn it. if i want a skill i practice it. it sounds like a bunch of coping for being lazy and or stupid
I can understand reading one or two. Probably one on the kind of psychology and mechanisms of habits and reinforcement and theories about those kind of things. Then maybe one on the practical applications of that stuff. I don't think it's boring topic much like how you read something like "thinking fast and slow" or "the righteous mind" with no intrest in really applying that to your life or using it feel superior to anyone. Just understanding the animal you are a little better is kind of fun. But people will project all kind of things onto that because they think you're trying to get a leg up on them.
I'm a firmware dev by profession, i design circuit boards in my free time and write their firmware. I have recently started designing plastic parts for fun and just yesterday designed my first laser cut sheet metal knife as a gift for a very special girl (my sister).
The only thing i need are less basement dweller tier hobbies, i can't even tell girls about these hobbies because nobody knows what they are and nobody cares. I wish I liked something like dancing or singing or whatever
Better to enjoy the hobbies you have. If you're fit or attractive, women will just think your hobbies are interesting and smart. Same background as you
>Better to enjoy the hobbies you have. If you're fit or attractive, women will just think your hobbies are interesting and smart. Same background as you
Yeah I'm not about to force myself to dance or play an instrument just to get girls. My hobbies are for my personal enjoyment and i don't care what others think about them.
Although i do wish there were more girls into electronics and mechanical design. Normalfags keep telling me hobbies are important to get girls but they never consider that some hobbies are just done at home and don't interest most girls
Jackoff books are worthless. >Some jackoff's opinion on X topic
I read a few, sure, but any of that time would have been better spent learning shit for myself.
instead of reading words, i go outside, i look at the sky and the trees, the animals, and the water
and i stand in silence, and all the knowledge and wisdom, and all the answers i'm seeking come into my head very easily. i never have to read a book
>mental gains
>that schlocky shit for losers with a power fantasy
lol
>conviction letter
>diet cock
>monster
>conviction letter
>no timestamp
OP is clearly a troll
fuck off naggertard i bet you never even read one or them, you probably only read SwoleShack posts and anime dubs you pathetic weak homosexual
>Notice of conviction
speaking of which
you're gonna get your notice of eviction if you don't pay your rent on time kiddo, i know where you live
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Why do you say that as if you're making mental gains reading that self help garbage instead of textbooks about real subjects?
>self help books bad
You have been brainwashed by social media. Textbooks or whatever the fuck you're reading are useless trash
keep coping bro
Ok bro, keep reading your elementary school math class books. Maybe a woman will suck your penis one day
How is learning actual skills and knowledge useless compared to self help books that are just motivational bs
Kek
>fit + lit
Nigga I just read good books.
Recently finished:
>Infinite Jest
>House of Leaves
>Spook Country
Recently acquired:
>American Psycho
>my Year of Rest and Relaxation
>Crime and Punishment
Pretty basic taste but at least it's not self help snakeoil
None of those are good books except Crime and Punishment.
Bro I know right it’s like he doesn’t even know Dostoevsky
>schizo tard thinks he's superior
>kills 2 old women
>feels bad about it
>goes to jail
That book is so fucking overrated.
Also, the only differences between "crime and punishment" and Elliot Rodger is that the latter existed, had a bigger kill count, and ended his story more dramatically. So the next time you see someone praise that cringefest of a book, remember that they're basically gushing over a fictive incel and his bullshittery.
Go ahead, prove me wrong. You can't.
all fictional books are full of homosexualry
tard thinks he's superior
2 old women
bad about it
>>goes to jail
>That book is so fucking overrated.
It's about internal struggle and redemption of the human soul.
But since you as NPC don't have one you can't understand and tend to oversimplify things
I know it’s a psued/tryhard cliche to say the book > the movie but the American psycho book is actually better than the movie. It does a way better job painting a picture of the mental state of Patrick Bateman. If they acted out the murder scenes and sex scenes the way they describe them in the book, the film wouldn’t be allowed to be released. Both sex scenes and murder scenes are insanely graphic. There are sex scenes that go on for like 10 pages in the book describing every position lmao. The author had to actually be psychotic himself to write that shit.
Bret Easton Ellis is a fat gay guy who wishes he had talent. It doesn't take a psychotic to write his books. It just takes a chubby New Yorker with less talent than ambition.
I’ve never read any of his other books but there were some portions of the book where you have to have some sociopathic tendencies yourself to be able to think of it. And I’m not just talking about the murder scenes. It’s mostly about the way he describes how patrick bateman manipulates everybody in any situation he’s in.
Does it work like a book of tips? Could do with tips on manipulation
Kinda. He explains the thought process for all the shit he does in the book.
It’s not really pseud. The books usually are better because they are:
>good and popular enough to warrant a movie being made
>much more time to become invested in the story
Only book I can think of that is both a great book and a great movie(s) is lord of the rings
Don't forget books are all up to the reader's imagination. Even something as simple as how characters deliver lines, etc.
American psycho is a boring unless you are interested in neckties described in greatest detail.
Crime and punishment may not be Dostoevsky's greatest book (pic related is) but it's great for beginners.
My attachment
the pre judeo-communist spelling was so kino. unfortunate this gay world just hates good things
Yep. When commies took over Bulgaria the first thing they did after killing tens of thousands of innocent people without trial was to massacre the spelling in the same way they had done it in Russia some 30ish years before.
Making people less literate is always part of the revolution.
I've already read The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Just happened across a cheap, gently used copy of Crime and Punishment.
Interested in reading Ellis in general to get into the mindset of a closet homo who copes by trying to grapple for social status and physical fitness.
Oh, that's great. Expect something of the same magnitude. In my experience Crime and punishment felt more easily readable than the other books fromr the Pentateuch.
Another thing that helps is me reading them in slavic language and the names such as Mishkin or Razumihin or Marmeladov actually mean something to me without need to be translated or explained.
Working on learning Russian, will ask my Russian big tiddy wife to give me the tl;dr on names as they occurr.
>to get into the mindset of a closet homo
In that case you need "rules of attraction" and not the psycho.
It's a book about college, drug abuse and gay/bi sex
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Bro why you LONDONing me over my taste in books? I could be fat, or worse, a female.
>Bro why you LONDONing me
>I could be female
This meme sure has changed over the years.
That's the joke, I remember back in 2011 it was just "please be in london" to a girl but I'm saying this place is gay now
homosexual why are you reading myorar. that’s for mentally ill girls
Bases house slipper wearing R. Green reader.
What did you get sentenced to?
I was taking a piss on the side of a rural highway and a police officer gave me a ticket for it.
Honest to god I wasnt even an asshole to him at all. Literal country road, no one around, no house nothing. RCMP officer drives by me, pulls a u turn and gives me a ticket.
For "improper disposal of waste"
>For "improper disposal of waste"
what a prick
that's why you piss into a gatorade bottle then pour it out the open door.
noted for nexttime. Cheers
Why do you need to make and sell 100 poos?
yeah, you could say i've been studying the blade
>self help books
>mental gainz
Lmao, I was reading actual literature today if that’s what you’re asking
Thomas Mann isnt actual literature retard?
I saw atomic habits and the war of art and minimised the image
I have a piece of the berlin wall on my desk too.
Currently reading about Napoleon
give us some fun Napoleon facts, then
all those books are dogshit and you are retarded
>why yes, I do follow the best denomination of Christ, how could you tell?
>diet coke and the shittiest drug out there
You are a loser.
Post physique I absolutely dare you, even with my “shitty drugs” I mog you out of existence
you first brother
Everyone knows you're not impressive.
>getting this heated
Why? Did you sell a kidney for it?
No, I was initially baiting but I’m also not trying to derail the thread. There is a statistical probability that I do in fact mog them based on their response
Ex Roman Catholic here. Your denomination is literally just bullshit made up by rich people who wanted to fuck children and consolidate wealth
Do churches attract a whole bunch of weird, rude people? I like the spiritual side but whenever I interact with the people I'm appalled.
What? I go to Methodist sometimes and it’s almost all nice upper middle class old people
perhaps I should try that then.. all I want is not for people to be overly rude. I recommended someone else to go there, she came back in tears because people were mean to her.
They do now that the more normal section of the population has drifted away from the churches and mostly what's left is people who need purpose beyond what god has already given them. I would say as whole coming back to it was a favorable experience but yeah you will encounter some people you wouldn't otherwise choose to interact with and there are cliques within congregations that you might not set right with you but that's going to be present in every organization that doesn't ToS people out for having odd beliefs or values. They're people and people aren't getting any more sane or emotionally stable.
>mostly what's left is people who need purpose beyond what god has already given them
Yes, people who wouldn't have anything else to do. There are people who just like to be in charge of stuff and to feel important and special. Without the church they would be losers but now they have the true knowledge and can feel superior.
I've never been to a mass without getting into a fist fight
There are only a few selected countries in Europe that breed true catholic stocks, and I believe you're mutt. Your opinion goes into the trash
No good "Catholic stock" exists you creepy larping israelite. You and Nick Fuentes both should be shot in the head.
Nick “campus latino” Fuentes.
That's just weak ad hominem my anon.
At least learn to roll holy shit
> Gay Theology mixed with ~~*modernism*~~
RC in a nutshell. Become Orthodox.
>self help
HAHAHAHAHAHA
kek, great job crabs, keep anons from improving themselves in any way aside from becoming homos only good at lifting weights. you are the same as litnaggers who have boobs and think they are better than anyone because they read pretentious books. KYS naggerS LOL.
Three or four Duolingo lessons a day.
Nice Karen-tier meme books
If you want to make actual mental gains, find a topic you like and read about that single topic. Read authors with different perspectives, read authors with conflicting views, read deeply into that single subject.
Reading entry tier literature in different subjects pads your bookshelf but doesn't make you grow. You're not learning more than at most a few quotes or fun facts to flex at parties.
I know it's probably kool-aid but I try to buy older textbooks teacher eiditons and wookbooks when they're avaliable and just work though it on my own. There's just something satisfying about them even if they're not remotely optimal and a fictional adult could get through an entire year's course in less than 12 weeks. Simply because the books are better teachers than most teachers.
Many of those books are a complete waste of time. They sound great in theory, in reality life is just way more complicated. Maybe some good information in some of them, but you should build up your own habits based on your own experiences and how you feel like doing things. Similar to lifting programs in a way, people end up figuring out their own thing.
>Similar to lifting programs in a way, people end up figuring out their own thing.
This
I don't know how to read but my desk is clean.
I play duolingo sometimes.
>You are also making mental gains right anon?
Yes I enjoy improving my thinking
How to read a book is such a colossal waste of time. I feel like it would only benefit ESLs and people who dropped out of high school
I did my last two years of high school during covid online. So I might as well be a drop out, and it really helped me.
>The adult adhd tool kit
>The great mental model
>Solitary fitness
>Utralearning
These 4 had the biggest impact on me
>These 4 had the biggest impact on me
Thanks, I'll check them out.
This is a kind of over the top list but I have gotten use out of it.
Hope it helps you
I came on fit today after a long time of abstinence and didnt expect to find something valuable here. Usually it's just fap bait posts and trolls. Thank you anon.
>something useful
>it's not from fit
checks out
True
The problem with these kind of books for me is that they sound useful in theory, but I never actually learn anything from them. For example, I read the 48 Laws of Power, and the whole time I just was thining "I know this. I know this. I know this".
Fair but there is always thing I take away from reading them.
What book did you notice gave you the most direct improvement to your way of thinking?
Does anyone have that small infographic listing 4 basic books on learning
Two of them are [How to read and why] and [Make it stick]; don't remember what the other two are
I look through all of mine this the closest i could find
For me it's the esoteric ramblings of 20,000 Leagues
Did for a while. Read most of the western canon, many greeks and a dozen other philosophers since. All of Freud, Jung, Adler, Rogers, and a handful of others. All of Steinbeck, most of Melville, Half of Dostoevsky, all of Camus, A shit load of Old scifi from Wells and CS Lewis' space trilogy, through Clarke and Herbert, all the way through Cixin Liu. Read almost everything ever written by Sagan, Dawkins, Asimov, Chomsky, and some beautiful nonsense by Terence Mckenna and Rupert sheldrake.
Oh and of course our whole fit reading list through rippetoe and the barbell prescription, a few brick textbooks on training physiology and kinesiology, along with just about everything every written about striking or grappling sport in all it's varieties.
After about years of binging literature I realized I was only making myself miserable and lonely for no reason because most people live unexamined lives and prefer to be barely conscious, and find your general skepticism and ability to scrutinize ideas to be offensive and hostile and they will do absolutely anything to drag you down to their level. I don't generally yield to social pressure but the truth is i'm not in college, i'm never going to write much of anything. I'm not a teacher, i'm a personal trainer and pharmacy technician. This was simply a lot of time and effort that I just can't seem to muster anymore. I'm much happier these days focusing on jiuitsu.
Shut it homosexual
Niger
Just be careful about revealing your power level
Studying for the bar bros...give me strength
Bro wtf it's in a different language
>Bro wtf it's in a different language
Yes
du-te la stem bulangiule baga-mi-as pula in procesorul tabletei tale
when do you guys read and what setting do you put yourselves in? i have completely messed up my attention span
Put your phone in another room
This week I read ‘The Party’ on the organization of the CCP and ‘Confederacy of Dunces’, a comedy novel
I hate ads and I hate modern TV, so books are the optimal form of media - they just stick to one topic/story without interruption or billshit, enjoyable
I've done so much "self improvement" over the past few years I've forgotten how to even accept myself and enjoy my life
that means it’s working
>line up the only books in your house for a picture
>imagine this retard standing on his tippy-toes with his android phone trying to take a photo
Man you're a fuckin' homosexual already, and your bullied-in-high-school teste in literature is the final nail in the coffin for you LMAO
Only the best literature.
>Make 100 poo soles
What the FUCK did he mean by this?
>Save up $999 for Digital Economics
Cringe scam.
>Make Mom Proud
Extremely based thoughever.
>Read one novel
>Unchecked
Dis tha nigga tellin mes to read shieet
Rate stack
Almost halfway all of them
Not Nietzsche's best work. Most well known and artistic however.
Based on the Mushashi and Jung.
>Almost halfway all of them
Try finishing at least one of them.
what is with you people? pick one book and read it all the way through; I promise you’ll get more out of it than reading and forgetting the same 5 pages on 6 different books
Based Jung
Retarded demon possesed Nietzsche
I feel sad for you learning C++ and using acer
Funny how many people here are throwing self help books because of the content.
naggers, the content isn't the point, it's the book making you THINK and TRY new mental models that can help you greatly. If a book doesn't spark any idea in your brain then it's useless.
This, even fantasy books can make you smarter. You need to contemplate on what you're reading, not just skim through.
jesus christ i used to be a pathetic homosexual like you
go on and read those witty books. start reading about philosophy and history afterwards though, because a lot occurs around these topics and you could kick knowledge at parties.
>if I read this book I will finally stop being a loser and get pussy
lol
This is the one book you must read. I read a lot of books, this one is by far the best to get results in life
you sound like a guy who drinks a lot of cum OP
Self help books are ok, but getting deep into the genre is the literary version of chasing your own tail. Start actually learning something that interests you. Personally I picked up a math textbook and started with le Greeks.
I've been reading the news nonstop for the past 20+ years since 9/11
I can dog whistle so hard your ears bleed now
>make 10 poo soks
>make 100 poo soks
>finish one novel
>finish one book (checked)
What did he mean by this
I have been learning Russian the past 2 years. So now I read through/translate a couple paragraphs of The Brothers Karamazov in the original Russian while I do my cardio on the decline bike machine at high resistance for an hour each morning.
Has really helped me understand the language better and challenges me mentally.
I thought it was just me doing this sort of thing.
>post-reform orthography
>the original Russian
Go back to plebbit pls thanks
I do the same with Mishima and Japanese, except not while doing cardio because I'm not retarded
Already freely available
https://fedordostoevsky.ru/works/lifetime/karamazov/1879-1880/
https://fedordostoevsky.ru/works/lifetime/karamazov/1881/
Put this on your whiteboard [X] make one shitty thread on SwoleShack
AHH I'm IMPROOOOOOOVING
>phone notifications: blocked
>gf, family and friends: ignored
>latest Mary Beard book: bought
Leave me alone this weekend plebeians, it's comfy reading time.
>female author
As a rule, Hard Pass. I was actually going to read her SPQR, but never committed.
I did enjoy The Guns of August by Tuchman and Frankenstein is great but no other literary works of value by women come to mind. James Tiptree Jr I guess.
Cringe. She's pretty good.
Missing the most important one.
>israelite capeshit
/tips fedora
Christ is King! I forgive gay pedophiles but want to murder sexy women with fire!
>If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. - Commandment
>It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. - Jesus
*asks for forgiveness before being put to death*
> “Do not have mercy on them, but put them to death.”
Nice try Dillahunty.
kind of but i read other kinds of meme books instead because i'm already sort of successful career-wise. currently reading pic rel. i have some other esoteric books on my bucketlist.
there is some wisdom in bible however you should not take it at face value. read between the lines and there are some nuggets of wisdom in there.
>kjv
More like khv
The only book that matters on earth.
I study Spanish for Alma and Andrea and Augustina and Michelle and Sophia
>reading self-help books instead of helping yourself
>reading books about skill acquisition instead of acquiring skills
Kek, sounds like the average SwoleShack poster alright
>all those gay ass self help books
Nigga I’ll give you a secret. Go to Walgreens in their magazine section and buy a sudoku book and a logic puzzle book and make real gains not this antisocial schizoid shit
I wish I was an ugly ethnic and could get by on having a bowlcut
Highly recommend listening to a) Jim Rohne lectures b) Earl Nightengale lectures and c) reading Nevill Goddard books while you do your cardio and chores around the house. Incredibly stuff on actively changing yourself. Literally just will it into existence and make it happen
Read books like this for years and did nothing with my life. Started actually doing things and never have time to read anymore. Pure mental masturbation
What "things" pls I need ideas I already do karate which is great but I still have so much free time
>he has to read books to figure out the world
NGMI
what a shitty syrup swastika
It’s loss
Lurk more.
I can tell from your book selection that you're an insufferable naggerhomosexual
Current rotation, should last until late spring.
And the rest
>Dante
>Milton
Did you already read Goethe's Faust or is it next after spring?
And good luck with Milton's ancient English. Tough but rewarding challenge
You're trying too hard that it goes a full circle back to based. I wish you make it.
is book of 5 rings by miyamoto musashi SwoleShack approved??
Superior to Art of War, imo
>Superior to Art of War,
how? whats the differences? never read both of them
Hard to put into words, it just felt more genuine to me, more real world applicable.
Sun Tzu is more intellectual and strategic and while Mushashi can hold his own in that arena he comes across as more gritty, in-the-trenches type which makes him more admirable and relatable in my view.
Always hard to really judge when you cannot read works in their original language though.
War tactics for life
vs
Tactics for life and war
This a horrible simplified answered
Succinct and accurate
>Mental gains
>A bunch of brainlet tier "self help" books
ngmi
I am trying to escape brainlet status homosexual
You're not gonna accomplish that by reading cookie cutter normie books. You'll just end up being an NPC who thinks he's not an NPC.
We all know npc don't read
I’ve been listening to the audiobook of the power broker about city planner Robert Moses from early 1900s New York City.
fuck you read a real book homosexual
Thomas Mann isnt a real book you stupid pajeet?
most things written in the last century are fake and gay
tf you're talking about, retard?
I’m currently reading:
No Country for Old Men - audible version in the sauna
Trauma Stewardship - a book for burnt out healthcare workers
The Bible
Cormac is based. If you have not already, read Blood Meridian.
blood meridian is cringe and sucks
t. pleb
Rape and sex and degeneracy is deep and cool!!! Hahaha and what did he see in the outhouse at the end? Right guys!? Its wild! Was he even real? Was he like muh heckin devilrino??? Woahhh!!!
Black pilling nonsense
Will add it to the list. I hear The Road is a great book too.
He's gay
holy shit you must be actual retarded for reading that muh power fantasy for idiots crap. where's your copy of rich dad poor dad hahaha homosexual shit out of here
>buncha books I read it in highschool
>now 34 living with my parents
books won't help you, our lives our mapped out before we are born
I know all that shit. I just lack the motivation.
CONTINUE SELLING PHONES MO
Not one single real book
Stop taking literary recommendations from tik tok, it's not good fro you.
>RGVB
>diet coke
>above 15%bf
>6 books on desk
>only completed task is “finish one book”
If you think about it, reading books is for NPCs. You literally spend hours reading about some dudes imagination or thoughts. Like, lmao. Just think about things yourself. I bet you drink tea too LOL
I wish. My current life goals are
>learn a new language
>start reading the bible again
>start reading more in general
>learn AI skills so I can try to get a high paying job in AI
Out of all these I mostly want to learn a new language, starting with French. BUT I'm just fully braindead these days and I don't know what's causing it. I'm not being productive at work and when I'm not working I just browse the web aimlessly and scroll tiktok or this website. The only thing I'm grinding hard and seeing gains is gym, everything else in my life is not doing so well. I think my dopamine circuits are fucked. Whenever I should be doing some learning or reading I just rather watch a streamer or random youtube videos and turn my brain off.
AI skills are nonsense. Might as well get a degree in selling snake oil
Braindead cause you got vaxxored you faget lmaooo
Also fuck language learning, you already know a language u dumb retard
its caused by your loneliness. Your goals should be social in nature instead of your isolationist bs
OMFG
have a nice day ASAP
I have no formal education and I'm trying to read Marx. It's literally hundreds of pages of economic theory that I'm struggling to grasp even at a basic level.
I need to start brain roiding I think.
>I have no formal education and I'm trying to read Marx.
> It's literally hundreds of pages of economic theory that I'm struggling to grasp even at a basic level.
You're unironically too intelligent for it, Marx just wrote a bunch of midwitslop. If you can't formulate your arguments into a book that retards can comprehend and come to the same conclusions you have then you have no argument. Such is the case with many political philosophers and most israelites. They obfuscate their exploitative motives and hypocrisy behind semantic bullshit and call themselves geniuses.
That's anti-Semitic bro
The labor theory of value is nonsense and the countries who have maintained a communist party in charge of their government are ones who have abandoned his economic theory (but kept Lenin’s organizational theory)
what is mental about reading some words some israelite wrote?
self-help books don't help anyone
incel starter pack
Based book stack. Here's one more for you OP:
The Systems Mindset.
Great book.
Ill check it out
thanks king
how do people need to read shit like this. if i want to learn something i learn it. if i want a skill i practice it. it sounds like a bunch of coping for being lazy and or stupid
I can understand reading one or two. Probably one on the kind of psychology and mechanisms of habits and reinforcement and theories about those kind of things. Then maybe one on the practical applications of that stuff. I don't think it's boring topic much like how you read something like "thinking fast and slow" or "the righteous mind" with no intrest in really applying that to your life or using it feel superior to anyone. Just understanding the animal you are a little better is kind of fun. But people will project all kind of things onto that because they think you're trying to get a leg up on them.
I’m worried that lifting heavy is killing my brain cells. Put me at ease.
I am currently reading Catch-22 but I am not enjoying it that much tbh senpai.
>OP hasn't read a single one
all books are psyops
haven't read shit since 1998
I'm a firmware dev by profession, i design circuit boards in my free time and write their firmware. I have recently started designing plastic parts for fun and just yesterday designed my first laser cut sheet metal knife as a gift for a very special girl (my sister).
The only thing i need are less basement dweller tier hobbies, i can't even tell girls about these hobbies because nobody knows what they are and nobody cares. I wish I liked something like dancing or singing or whatever
Better to enjoy the hobbies you have. If you're fit or attractive, women will just think your hobbies are interesting and smart. Same background as you
>Better to enjoy the hobbies you have. If you're fit or attractive, women will just think your hobbies are interesting and smart. Same background as you
Yeah I'm not about to force myself to dance or play an instrument just to get girls. My hobbies are for my personal enjoyment and i don't care what others think about them.
Although i do wish there were more girls into electronics and mechanical design. Normalfags keep telling me hobbies are important to get girls but they never consider that some hobbies are just done at home and don't interest most girls
Clean your room u dirty sluut
redpill me on poo soles
if u read stuff, then ur trapped in the illusion that is words and you are ngmi ever
Jackoff books are worthless.
>Some jackoff's opinion on X topic
I read a few, sure, but any of that time would have been better spent learning shit for myself.
instead of reading words, i go outside, i look at the sky and the trees, the animals, and the water
and i stand in silence, and all the knowledge and wisdom, and all the answers i'm seeking come into my head very easily. i never have to read a book