/lit/ - Literature

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>>11070161
So why do you even read?

Stoner
Symposium
Phaedo

>a-at least reading books improved your life
No! After reading Siddhartha I have ascended into the mental state. After I read it, I noticed that every time I went for a walk, I thought to myself "I am energy and am simply stretching my legs that do not exist in the mental state."
I began marking on the back of my non existant mind every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked it several dozen times. I was incredulous. My mind is now governed by metaphysical energy, metaphors and one is all. I am nothing now, I am all. I am Hermann Hesse like he is me.

>>11070350
>my legs that do not exist
>my non existant mind
>I am nothing now, I am all

>your brain on spiritual mumbo jumbo

>>11070492
>>stretching my legs
Decent b8

Unironically.

>>11070145
Everyone's gonna shit on me for it, but Chomsky's stuff about the news/media

Keep em coming boys! My life is shit. :(

>>11070333
>Implying

> This idiot’s only value is to write a self help book where he tells you to take care of yourself

Why do people follow this faggot again?

>>11070932
>write a self help book where he tells you to take care of yourself

i'm not really a fan of peterson, but have you read his self-help books? i have and that isn't what they've said.

>>11070603
What did it teach you?

>>11070145

Notes from Underground, Stoner, and unironically Infinite Jest as it prompted me to get sober. Every book I've read has had some effect on me though.

>>11070145
The Sot Weed Factor made me realize that by abstaining from a lot of things I'm just limiting my experiences and retarding my emotional growth. I haven't really changed anything though, so nothing's improved. I just feel guilty for the way I act now rather than proud of myself.

yes it did. i used to see my job as a waste of time, but now i see it as a way to make the world a better place. i try to make more out of every interactiom. i smile more. i keep my posture better. im losing weight. my writing is improving and so is my satisfaction

>>11071196
this was in reference to 12 rules for life btw.

>>11070670
It's not like reading a book is going to fix it.

>>11070145
The Gay Science. As much as Peterson gets shit on in here he was the one that introduced me to Nietzsche

>>11070350

>MIND BLOWN

>>11070145
This thread is a perfect example of why you should never visit /lit/

>>11071179
That's the way behavioral change works man. Google 'states of behavioral change'. If you want to change you're definitely on the right track.

>>11070350
This is one of the best shitposts I've seen recently and the fact that it went unrecognized is proof of /lit/'s downfall.

>>11072740
Yeah I'm new here was this board ever not an extension of r9k?

>>11070350
Underrated

>>11072679
>The Gay Science
I prefer as a title: The Joyful Wisdom.
Also it isn't even his best work.
On the genealogy of morality and Will to Power, are actually life changing books.

>>11072719
:(
All i wanted was: Title + life changing realization.

>>11072892
OP is fine I'm referring to the fact that such a thread couldn't happen due to
>muh Jerden Pedderson
>muh contrarionism
>you read wrong so im smarder
All of which are big reasons why this board is fucking garbage.

Rare case of everyone but OP is a faggot, including me because I keep coming back here.

There is no book that can change your life on its own. Take Meditations for example, you'll probably read it once, feel motivated / inspired for a week or two and then go back to your normal lifestyle. In this context for stoicism to work you have to read it over and over again until you know it by hearth and consciously apply it in your everyday life.

>>11072974
It doesn't have to necessarily change the way you act on a day to day basis. But you perseption and understending of life.
Examples:
Schopenhauer - The world as will and representation. Changed my outlook on the human condition, and the impossibility of finding a permanent state of happiness (specifically the 58 chapter of the second volume).
Pirandello - One, No one, One Hundred Thousand. Made me reevaluate my own sense of identity and the perception that others might have of me.

I used to be happy and content before I started reading. Now I don't know what to think.

>>11071123
How to post on /lit/

No More Mr. Nice Guy
Starting Strength
Models
The Mind Illuminated

>>11073250
Is there a meditation guide for the Hindu way instead, Hinduism precedes Buddhism.

>>11073250
>Starting Strength
kek

>>11070350
you sound like this girl twitter.com/lilyivymfc