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Books to overcome this?

>> No.13723693

Quran

>> No.13725013

>>13723643
The Campaigns of Alexander.

>> No.13725132

>>13723643
The Bible
Anything by Kierkegaard

>> No.13725219

>>13723643
Just get a new hobby. Language learning, weightlifting, and programming are all basic bitch tier and highly accessible. Start there.

>> No.13725265

>>13723643
Boy OP my noodles are mighty dry. Could sure use some sauce?

>> No.13725266

Capital by Karl Marx

>> No.13725297

>>13723643
Muh "doing x thing I like is worthwhile and meaningful but doing y thing I don't like is a waste of time"

>> No.13725313

>>13725265
Kaiji: Ultimate Gambler, something like that.

>> No.13725317

>>13723643
Any books like Kaiji? It's one of the best anime I've seen

>> No.13725321

>>13725297
Well, yeah. What's wrong with that?

>> No.13725325

>>13723643
Imagine not enjoying the mundane.

>> No.13725326

>>13725297
What does this mean? What’s your point?

>> No.13725329

>>13723643
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

>> No.13725344

>>13725313
Thanks bud

>> No.13725411

>>13725326
Not him, I think he is trying to say that the image can lead to a false dichotomy, imo is just a matter of perception, no matter how boring or shitty your life is, tell yourself you already started.

>> No.13725488

>>13725297
>>13725325
Imagine being enough of a brainlet that you can't even understand the point a Chinese cartoon is trying to make

>> No.13726390

>for this feel
So you want something to console you or make you feel that ?
If it's the latter then reading anything by Kafka (Trial is good start)

>> No.13726430

>>13725297

The point is that most people never make a concious choice about what they want to do, much less ever do anything that is worthwhile or meaningful to them.

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>>13725132
>The Bible

That will just make you even less autonomous than you were previously

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>>13725297
>Son, if you spent all your time and energy doing boring shit you're unenthusiastic about, instead of activities you enjoy and feel committed towards, you'd actually get a lot more done

Well Dad, no fucking shit.

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>>13723643
Unironically. They keep yelling at me for suggesting them, but they keep asking for the best way to overcome OP

>> No.13726505

>>13726499
Are you that kid who pretends to read books

>> No.13726518

>>13726499
Unironically this

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>>13726505
No, I’m the middle aged woman that actually does read books.

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>>13726576
Who also has the literature tastes of a 15yr old boy going through his "conservative phase".

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>>13726588
I was Christian conservative when I was 15. Read sci-fi fantasy and comic books back then. I grew out of all that, so I don’t know what you mean.