Why do you guys hate self-help? Is there even a self-help chart from /lit/?I mean, you could learn about manipulation, creating habits, becoming better step-by-step everyday, masking your lack of empathy.That's a lot of very good stuff
>>24701082I don't need help
>>24701082Instead of self help books and therapy believe in god and have a strong family and run a homestead and have a community and tribe and nation and race and culture and heritage and tradition and glory and honor and live your life with the goal of dying in a blaze of glory.
>>24701107whats your secret
>>24701082>creating habits and becoming better step by step everydaySeneca>masking your lack of empathyThe Bible (iykyk)>manipulation Our own mothers
>>24701082In oratory, poetry, and every kind of literature, Emile will find the classical authors as he found them in history, full of matter and sober in their judgment. The authors of our own time, on the contrary, say little and talk much. To take their judgment as our constant law is not the way to form our own judgment. These differences of taste make themselves felt in all that is left of classical times and even on their tombs. Our monuments are covered with praises, theirs recorded facts. “Sta, viator; heroem calcas.” If I had found this epitaph on an ancient monument, I should at once have guessed it was modern; for there is nothing so common among us as heroes, but among the ancients they were rare. Instead of saying a man was a hero, they would have said what he had done to gain that name. With the epitaph of this hero compare that of the effeminate Sardanapalus— “Tarsus and Anchiales I built in a day, and now I am dead.” Which do you think says most? Our inflated monumental style is only fit to trumpet forth the praises of pygmies. The ancients showed men as they were, and it was plain that they were men indeed. Xenophon did honour to the memory of some warriors who were slain by treason during the retreat of the Ten Thousand. “They died,” said he, “without stain in war and in love.” That is all, but think how full was the heart of the author of this short and simple elegy. Woe to him who fails to perceive its charm. The following words were engraved on a tomb at Thermopylae—“Go, Traveller, tell Sparta that here we fell in obedience to her laws.”It is pretty clear that this was not the work of the Academy of Inscriptions.
>>24701082Once upon a time, before self-help, there was something called a "classical education", where people called humanists would educate themselves and the young through the greatest and most important texts in history to try to learn how to be a better human being. It was similar to self-help in a way, but the texts they read were a lot more beautiful and meaningful and weren't trying to sell you anything or turn you into a more productive wageslave.
>>24701180You also value what you hear from a great man more than the same advice coming from the mouth of a YouTube grifter or a New York Times bestselling fag author
>>24701082>Why do you guys hate self-help?Because is not helpful? People who get shit done don't need shit like this
>>24701180>people called humanists>NYT bestselling authors are fagsThat's not very humanist of you, anon.
>>24701118>iykykI don't know desu
>>24701131OP here. Pretty damn based I have to admit. I'll definitely read some historical stuff once I'm done with my current bookshelf.
>>24701114Basedbros, now THIS is redpilled!
