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7296916 No.7296916 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best self-help books that are not shitty?

>inb4 the ego and its own

>> No.7296920

>>7296916

Good Old Neon

>> No.7296939
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If you're not depressed i.e. you're just trying to improve your life rather than overcome depression then this:

No bullshit, discusses real philosophical issues, complexes, amor fati and so on.

No saccharine floaty bs.

>> No.7296941

The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell

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>>7296916

>> No.7296944

>>7296941
>Berty Russy
lmao

>> No.7296946

>>7296944
don't listen to this faggot.

great book

>> No.7296947

>>7296941
>CHAPTER I
>WHAT MAKES PEOPLE UNHAPPY?
>Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but in the modern world they are not, at least in a great majority of cases.

Fucking Bertrand doesn't even start out asking "why should we want to be happy?"

Kek as fuck. Nietzsche is all OP needs, fuck Anglos.

>> No.7296950

>>7296946
>don't listen to this faggot.
don't listen to this faggot, everything Bertrand Russell wrote outside of mathematics is garbage.

>> No.7296957

>>7296950
nah

>> No.7296961

>>7296916
mfw when sophocles killed self help shittery with the closing speech in aedipus rex

>> No.7296964

>>7296947

He explicitly states that his purpose for the book is not philosophical in nature.

His goal is to simply catalog practical techniques, ideas, actions and outlooks which lead to happiness.

It's basically a treatise on being mature rather than immature.

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>>7296950
>he wrote about 20-30 books outside of mathematics and you read each one even though you hated them and just kept on going

>> No.7296979

>>7296964
>His goal is to simply catalog practical techniques, ideas, actions and outlooks which lead to happiness.
I can write a book on how to shit your pants.

>It's basically a treatise on being mature rather than immature.
lmfao

>>7296973
Yup!

>> No.7296980

>>7296947
It's good, actually.

>> No.7296986
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>>7296973
kek, more like 60

>> No.7297006

>>7296980
Not as good as Nietzsche.

>> No.7297009

>>7296916
Prometheus Rising is basically a self help book but it's also elder god tier.

>> No.7297010

>>7297006
yeh, Nietzsche was famously happy and mentally healthy

>> No.7297018

>>7297006
Are you saying that Nietzsche is a "self-help philosopher"?

>> No.7297047

>>7297018
No.

>>7297010
>happiness
>good
How happy he was in life doesn't mean a fucking thing. What matters is the books he left, which are awesome.

>> No.7297059

>>7297047
Are you saying Nietzsche was "an awesome philosopher"?

>> No.7297062

>>7296979

you're non/lit/ and it's time for bed anyway. go to bed please.

>> No.7297064

>>7297047
>which are awesome

not for self-help, the subject of this thread

plus
>happiness
>good

you really are a retard

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>>7296916
Try God's help, son.

>> No.7297093

>>7297064
If OP is a great person, then Nietzsche is self help. If not nothing can help him.

Happiness is for plebs and addicts.

>> No.7297095

>>7297062
Kek as fuck I've been a board regular for years.

>> No.7297126

>>7297086
*tips fedora*

>> No.7297153

>>7297093
>great person
>needing self-help
Beliefs of a slave.

>> No.7297167

>>7297153
that's not how that works.