/lit/ - Literature

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>>20184063
If you are not already lifting and doing cardio, then ignore everyone recommending smart boy literature. It is supremely difficult to think your way out of a depression. Most people who believe that you can are stuck in idiotic conceptual schemes inherited from the intellectual dark ages, namely Rene Descartes (a giant piece of shit, and the consequences of his thought have been a disaster for the human race).

Unlike what those who think you can think your way out of depression implicitly believe, your mind is embodied. If your body is in poor condition your mind will suffer. The ancients knew this. Thales writes that the chief element of happiness is a healthy body. The romans sloganized it with "Mens sana in corpore sano" - a healthy mind in a healthy body. Recent research into depression is questioning whether it may even be conceived as a "mental" disorder at all, since biomakers are being found for it - namely widespread low-intensity inflammation. Recall how you feel mentally when you have the flu to realize that the separation of mind and body is ridiculous.

Depending on severity, you may lift your way out of depression. It will likely nearly cure light depressions. It willalleviate moderate depressions. It wont do much for severe depression - if thats' where you are, pills are the answer, but severe depressions are comparatively rare. Books might do a bit for light depression, but will do jack shit for anything more severe than that, and even for light depressions, there's zero reason to believe they're better than lifting.

This is not idle speculation. It is extremely well-established.The effect has been studied and found significant in metaanalyses of randomized control trials. Lifting and cardio is the best you can do. Go lurk on /fit/ and get a gym membership.

>>19899071

/fit/ memes this a lot.

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>>14365437
unironically

>>10346259
off by one letter but i'll read it
fuck you still
daniel read this

>>10332126
Start with this one.

>>10281360
everyone will be swole

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>>9693208
/fit/ where only oone book is read

Does this book have any entertainment values?

/fitlit/ Recommend the equivalent to starting strength for any genre or subject.

>>15103

Pic related is a great book for baby mammals.

>>11436
>pic related

This is the only book you should be reading.