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What book has actually improved your life?

>> No.13226623 [DELETED] 

All of them :3

*slaps butterfly’s ass* GO jog or bicycle right now with my collar on

>> No.13226664

Meditations helped me with some of my most inane anxieties. Not solved them, but made them more tolerable.

>> No.13226776

>>13226623
, nice

>> No.13226797

>>13226618
The Bible

>> No.13226801

>>13226618
Tao Te Ching

>> No.13226960

>reading to improve your life
Not gonna make it

>> No.13227001

>>13226618
You must change your life

>> No.13227011

>>13226618
I would be dead without the Enchiridion, but really it's impossible to tell if any book has ever bettered me because my life sucks so much.

>> No.13227015

Feeling Good by David Burns helped me out of emotional ruts when I got into them

>> No.13227025

How could a book possibly improve your life?

>> No.13227049

>>13227025
>how can changing your ideas lead to changing your actions

7/10 made me respond

>> No.13227359

motley fool investment guide

>> No.13227421
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>>13226618

>> No.13227456

I’ll post a few:

>Bronze Age Mindset
Even though I’m no longer a right wing edgelord, the high energy ethos really kicked my ass into gear. Helped me overcome a lot of my existential sadness and lack of agency.

>The Hero with a Thousand Faces
I think much more deeply about spirituality now. The chapter on Apotheosis was inspiring.

>Crime and Punishment
Gave me a better handle on humility, on morality, on individual vs the community, etc...

>> No.13227510

>>13226618
Bible

>> No.13227522

12 Rules for Life. Should be required reading

>> No.13227526

>>13226618
Unironically Ride the Tiger

>> No.13227591

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata. I can't really describe how it improved my life, but it did.

>> No.13227602

The stoics and Plato more than anything.

>> No.13227624

>>13227025
Gravity's Rainbow taught me calculus :)

>> No.13227634

>>13226618
Pali Canon

>> No.13227644

>>13226797
This

>> No.13227730

>>13226618
The Mind Illuminated

>> No.13227748

>>13226801
This

>> No.13227772

>>13227522
What rule number was stand up with your back straight? I remember I tried that for a day and I was in crippling pain for days after. I think it was the first one, such a bullshit book

The works of Nietzsche, Leo Strauss, HL Mencken, Thomas Szasz, Albert Camus, and Shakespeare are consoling to my attempts through life. They produce confidence but not through trying to cast tricks and illusions on yourself.

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>>13226618
THE PILGRIMS PROGRESS

>> No.13228413

>>13226797
based, happy that grace has found you friend

>> No.13228448
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>>13227772
What rule number was stand up with your back straight? I remember I tried that for a day and I was in crippling pain for days after.

>> No.13228463

Machiavelli

>> No.13228484

Unironically... David Foster Wallace's works. They messed me up as much as they made me start to actually use my brain, but in the end it was well worth it.

>> No.13228506

>>13226618
Fear and Trembling
Pensees
>>13226797
this too

>> No.13228541

I'd say Catch 22, it was the first 'real' book I read and inspired me to read more.

>> No.13228548
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>>13226797
Based

>> No.13228657

The unique and its property

>> No.13228999

>>13226797
Amen

>> No.13229024
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Feeling good
psychology of self esteem

>> No.13229056

>>13226797
absolutely virtuous

>> No.13229304

Mastery from robert greene

Also p much all his other books, amazing guy

>> No.13229310

>>13227772

>my back hurts after l stand up straight for a day

I can tell from the authors who "changed" your life

>> No.13229358
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I know it's a meme

but on the road and dharma bums really did make me reflect on what it is I want out of life. Not that I want to follow in Kerouac's footsteps

>> No.13229400

>>13227011
Author? Multiple of that title.

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>> No.13229637

>>13229400
Not him. But it's most likely Epictetus.

>> No.13229667

100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)

Really makes you reflect how your parentage/origins affect you. Know thyself and all that

I'm from Latin America so maybe it made more of an impact on me, but I recommend it anyways

>> No.13229689

>>13226618
the upanishads

>> No.13229721

>>13227456
>if you belong to this certain ideology that is more interesting and not as bland and boring as mine you are an edgelord
not everyone is bland like you

>> No.13229742

>>13227772
>cant stand with back straight
GOLEM GET YE GONE

>> No.13229751

>>13226797
Based

>> No.13229756

>>13226618
Meditations

>>13229667
I found that book to be really sad, though it's been a long time since I read it.

>> No.13229775

>>13228463
delightfully devilish, anon

>> No.13229910

>>13226618
The Ego and Its Own

>> No.13229931

>>13227001
want to hear more about this book

>> No.13230902

Naked Lunch

Fuck all you self-help garbage guzzling retards

>> No.13230925

>>13226664
>To my uncle who sodomized me as a child, I feel thankful for teaching me it is better not to struggle when life gives it to you in the ass

>>13226797
>I made the world, believe in me, submit to me, and know in your heart that you deserve everything I make you suffer

Stoicucks really are the worst

>> No.13230991

Atlas Shrugged

>> No.13231317

>>13230925
Ok retard.

>> No.13231319

>>13226797
cringe

>> No.13231344
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>>13230991
Unironically this. I haven't developed a strong sense of personal self and concrete desires yet. I'm philosophically young, and need to learn a lot more to keep improving myself.

>> No.13231843

>>13226618
Augustus, everything I've read by Dostoevsky, Heart of Darkness, Shakespeare's work like Othello and Macbeth, and Lord of the Rings.

>> No.13231857

naked lunch got me a gf

>> No.13231976

>>13226797
Truth!

>> No.13231978

>>13226618
All.
Books makes me happy when I'm reading.

>> No.13232275

>>13230902
>>13231857

Care to explain how naked lunch help you?

>> No.13232316
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The Sorrows of Young Werther

>> No.13232427

>>13226618
Neech's philosophy

>> No.13232701

>>13226797
Bless this thread. God bless you all.

>> No.13232734

>>13226797
absolutely based

>> No.13232767

>>13226618
Plutarch
Seneca
Plato
Aristotle
The Bible
Homer
Dostoyevsky

>> No.13232798

>>13232316
You haven't killed yourself yet have you? Didn't a whole bunch of young people in the late 18th and early 18th century kill themselves after reading that book?

>> No.13233156

>>13227730
>>13227634
based and nibbanapilled

>> No.13233186

As I Lay Dying

Day of the Locust

Old Man and the Sea

Godel Escher Bach

>> No.13233228

>the fountainhead
>journey to ixtlan
>the black swan
inb4 memes

>> No.13233234

>>13227772
Holy shit you need to go to the doctor.

>> No.13233245

>>13226801
This made me a bit more relaxed

>> No.13233392

The Dark Tower made me reconnect with my father. I even asked him for his revolver that he carried as a police officer because of it.

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>>13226618
Dickens in general, really

>> No.13234070

>>13227359
put all your money into passive index funds, then wait 30 years. wow so complicated.

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>>13234070
and yet for the majority of people that is still too difficult.
about 60% of americans have no savings and couldn't cover an emergency expense of about $1000.
also
>all
not what it says at all

the TMF UK book got me interested in personal investing. now i'm a millionaire. i'd say it improved my life quite considerably.

>> No.13234382

>>13233186
>Godel Escher Bach
Why?

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>> No.13234773

>>13227772
Based Hunchback of Notre Dame

>> No.13235410

>>13227772
>The works of Nietzsche, Leo Strauss, HL Mencken, Thomas Szasz, Albert Camus, and Shakespeare are consoling to my attempts through life
lol, based. is this a joke?

>> No.13235422

>>13231857
>>13232275
especially u

>> No.13235434

>>13232316
that was retarded, and sorrows was lame. But thats just my opinion, no harm meant fwen

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Either pic related or Into Thin Air by Krakauer.

Really motivated me to try and run further and further. Still not doing any marathons, but I am getting better. If a 35 year old gook can start running, a 25 year old guy who has been running can still improve.

>> No.13235493

>>13226618
Koran

>> No.13235520

Ma nigga marx desu

>> No.13235570

none of them

>> No.13235580

>>13234382
Hemingway, West, and Faulkner all taught me about the attitude one asked have towards work and sorrow in life, GEB taught me how to better understand why people act the way they do.

>> No.13235634

>>13226618
Anything by Wodehouse. Its hard to explain what his writing does for me, but I think what it does is reminds me to have fun and be good humoured. I get pretty stressed about small things and I generally take thing pretty serious, sometime to my detriment, and his writing helps keep me balanced.

>> No.13235697

enquiry concerning human understanding

>> No.13235865

The Sound and the Fury allowed me to come to terms with the fact that I'll never be satisfied with the direction the world takes, and that there is beauty in the struggle of still living the way I believe life should be lived and in the way that my parents and their parents before them lived. I won't make the same mistake Quentin did and try to reconcile the old with the new despite knowing full well I'm unable to

>> No.13235881

I'm going to quit reading and only watch youtube book summaries to appear well read

>> No.13235882

Purity of Hearth by Kierkegaard. I read it in a week when I was locked up in mental hospital. The psychiatrist would make visits and aks questions about what I was reading. Shit was comfy.

>> No.13235923

>>13235881
What youtube book summary has actually improved your life?

>> No.13236346

>>13226797
end thread.

>> No.13236508

>>13226618
I do this all the time! But i feel bad if i do it on books with actual insight, so i usually just break and roll my weed on my mythology or fantasy books. Ulysses would be fine to do it on though, its totally for fucking pseuds and nerds trying to impress

>> No.13236933

>>13235634
I feel the same way about anything concerned with Lord Emsworth. The most comfiest stories on Earth.

>> No.13237005

>>13226797
Pathetic virtue signalling.