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Recommend me books, philosophical stances, poems and myths that might install in me a new more practical perspective towards taking responsibility, and acting professional.

I don't want advice, I want recommendations. Anything goes, when in doubt if it is related or not, post it.

Thank you, /lit/.

Three Little Pigs very fucking much related.

>> No.3382636

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling

>> No.3382672

>>3382636
Beautiful.

Kipling is the man.

>> No.3382737

bump

>> No.3382804

>>3382636
>If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

This is the hardest part

>> No.3382824

>>3382804
It's really not. Incompetent morons manage it every second of every day.

>> No.3382850

>>3382824
I'm not an incompetent moron, then. Maybe I should learn from them...

>> No.3382856

Read Cicero's 'On Obligations'

>> No.3382905

>>3382636
>>3382856
Thanks

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Bump for more

>> No.3383469

bump

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>>3383196
>that pic

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3383563

"Chomsky on Anarchism" by Noam Chomsky

"Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice" by Rudolf Rocker

"Homage to Catalonia" by George Orwell

"Anarchy Works" by Peter Gelderloos
>http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works

>> No.3383610

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg is good; also, I haven't read them myself, but I've heard good things about both The Willpower Instinct and Drive

>> No.3383672

>>3383563
Not OP, but thanks for the anarchist library link -- gonna go peruse that now :3

>> No.3383673

>>3383610
I'll take a look. Thanks.

>>3383563
Not exactly what I was thinking, but I did invited you to post and I'll definitely not miss them. Thank you too.

>> No.3383834

>>3382850
There is wisdom in this.

>> No.3383954

>>3383834
but he fucked up with the comma

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Bump for more recommendations, please.

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>> No.3386692

I'm sorry to bump this once again, but I was really expecting to hear more from you /lit/. This is very broad and the thread can be taken anywhere.

>> No.3386695

Sorry to bump this again, but I really expected more answers.

Subject is very broad and the thread can be taken anywhere.

>> No.3386704

>>3386695
The Bible

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>>3386704

>> No.3386722

Peeling the Onion - Gunter Grass
Meditations - Markie O'Reilly

These widened my perspective on things.

>> No.3386741

Mother goose. (hen?)

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>>3386695
Great Dialogues of Plato, Sayings and Anecdotes of Diogenes of Sinope, The Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic, 'On Duty' by Cicero, The Essays of Montaigne.

The Dhammapada, The Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita, The Lotus Sutra, The Heart Sutra, The Diamond Sutra.

>> No.3386764

>>3386750
Not OP, but do you recommend a specific English translation of Montaigne?

>> No.3387850

>>3386750
>>3386741
>>3386722
>>3386704

Thanks