/lit/ self improvement books obscure edition. No Atomic Habits
>>24774469>Concentration >can't even paint her nails properly
>>24774478what are you some kind of fag
>>24774469I always wondered why there's books on quitting porn but what about self help books that help improve your masturbation game? That would be an interesting concept to write about.
Currently reading this one, and got more out of it than any modern self improv book.
>>24774536I think I have this on my amazon wishlist. Qrd? I want to know if I should pursue it or not.
>>24774537Written as a Thomistic work based upon Aquinas’ "Sixteen Precepts for Acquiring the Treasure of Knowledge".But whether you are a christian thinker or not, I found this book really helpful to come back to the absolut essentials of actually doing mental work.It goes over stuff like >creating silence and a distraction free environment (even has sections that basically talks about how your wife (>implying) should support your work and leave you alone when you are working kek)>getting to inner silence and stillness>cutting out a lot of bullshit works you could be reading (but shouldn't)>Focusing on the truth>and much more of courseI usually takes notes about passages from books I want to revisit and think about, and this one just fills me notebook up like crazy.Get it, shouldn't be an expensive book.
>>24774521- Palming. With lube only use your palm go stimulate the head.- Fucking your pillow. Mild stimulation, which is good. Unfortunately it’s also called prone masturbation and will give you ED. Try not to put your whole body weight into it, or do it sideways.- Tomax onahole. Best in class. Clean and dry thoroughly. Or you’re risking fungal infection, phimosis or worse.- Hip/torso/body onahole. If you buy one, get professional help.- Erotic audio. >>>/t/audio Certain scenarios/fantasies just can’t be filmed.
This but it probably filters 90% of lit
If you're interested in not being goy cattle
>>24774512You're the one asking for self-help recs, lol.
>>24776058touche
The catholic spiritual writings have been way more practical to me than any self help book i've read and i've read a tonhttps://archive.org/details/spiritualcombat04scupgoog/page/n90/mode/2upJust read the chapter on sloth (old translation the tan one is better)this 3 pages is better than most entire self help booksThe other writers like that (st. francis de sales, St. Alphonsus) are very usefulthis is probably the highest level one i've read thoughhttps://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Conflicts-Modernity-Practical-Reasoning/dp/110717645XKind of develops the theme of the living artist or just how we use narrative as a function of reason in engaging in our lives. He's approaching it from the perspective of we are basically people without a culture now, how do we cope and act morally and this is his book attempting to establish that. I'd also include gay science i guess, macintyre has several other specific books going over this. Edith Stein is basically him trying to do it with her life. This is also good but not as good https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Hope-Ethics-Cultural-Devastation/dp/0674027469on something similar (by a psycho analyst + aristotelian scholar) I also think this has a good self improving effect but may be a bit inaccessible https://www.amazon.com/Called-Thinking-Harper-Perennial-Thought/dp/006090528X >>24774536this one is good
>>24777208Sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar.Are there any books about how to regain attention? I can't even read anymore. Years of internet addiction have left me with the attention span of a gnat. I guess I should just throw my electronics away and don't really need a book.
I read Easy Peasy, but relapsed on day 8. Any advice on how to consistently improve?
>>24774536>>24774988Downloaded.>>24777236I've become the same way. Not quite as bad as you, but I have trouble reading for more than 30 minutes or so. I've been a bit better the last month or so, but it's kind of scary how bad my attention span has become. I'm curious if anyone has any good recs as well. I'll check after work (I'm a bookstorefag). I still read more than most people, but not even 10% of how much I used to read when I was younger.
>>24777236>>24777275>asking for books on how to improve concentration in a thread where the OP image is literally a book called "concentration"Come on now.
>>24777293that book appears to be on meditative concentration and was obviously written long before the era the constant mental bombardment, but ok
>>24777208I never knew the Shah of Iran was an author.
>>24777293If it's not obvious that's some 1970s new age yuppie woo woo, then you're beyond hope, retard.
>>24774469My diary, desu
>>24777297It actually has tons of decent exercises that are totally mundane and help with general concentration. >long before the era the constant mental bombardment, but okThere's self-help books from a hundred years ago that already make fun of people who constantly fiddle around with the radio while trying to read the newspaper, have breakfast, smoke and attempt to to talk to their wives all at the same time. There's nothing new or unique about being an overstimulated retard with a poor attention span. >>24777434It's actually a reprint of a book from the 1910's written by an Englishman that lived in India and spent time studying untranslated yogic source texts. Nice one though retard. Also, what else are you hoping for? If you want a book on concentration training you either get pop-psychology "drink more water bro", or you get this sort of spiritualist stuff.
>>24777517>it's actually not new age woo, but new age woo
>>24777589>I was wrong but actually that makes me right!Also, the see the last sentence of my previous reply.
Don't think this is obscure but it is atleast somewhat schizo
>>24777595Next tell us how Herman Hesse and the drunken ramblings of Alan Watts changed your life, Mr. White-Yogi-Ain't-Woo
>>24774469i feel like the recent self-improvement revival is inferior to the old self-improvement world, there haven't actually been any advancements in psychology and such since the 70s or arguably way earlier, but now its also a much more massive industry. in the past you had brian tracy using as few words as possible to tell you how to write down your goals, break them down, and get started, now you to slog through 50 pages of Dr. Faggot's personal story of TraumaTM where he had XYZ realization and study B that shows comparing yourself to celebrities harms your confidence. NLP techniques were also way far ahead of their time and are just the norm now for trauma therapy and motivation and confidence, but martin seligman is a jewish glownigger who tortured dogs and rats for defence to come to the same conclusion decades later so he gets a tedtalk and trillion selling book telling you to do the exact same shit in an obtuse and gay way. there was also a really grim period where 4chan was a bit ahead of normies with this and would recommend everyone random shit like the art of war and the prince to stop being a virgin.
>>24775024>Proceeds to post goyslop
>>24775024>you don't wanna be goycattle>posts a book by a Jewish author
>>24774988Glad you mentioned Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason is currently helping me overcome the bout of depression I'm in. In particular, the part on Adorno made me realize that I had done a similar thing with my own life, I've always assumed pain a priori and thus conducted myself as a masochistic faggot. I think I'm getting better after realizing how much time I was wasting in that effeminate routine, and I have to thank Sloterdijk for helping with that breakthrough.
>>24777754>there was also a really grim period where 4chan was a bit ahead of normies with this and would recommend everyone random shit like the art of war and the prince to stop being a virgin.Election tourists jerking themselves off over Meditations was a low point for this board
>>24777984i'm talking about before the 2016 election, meditations and stoicism is actually very applicable and decent, its just been been clubbed to death into meaninglessness by npc's.
Posted this in another thread. You can apply the principles here to anything you do. Amazing book.
>>24777984I wonder if the Romans had any great works about jerking it that Christcucks refused to copy down in their seething monasteries.
>>24777971I haven't read Cynical Reason but now I'm very interested. Thanks for your comment
>>24777971Does I need to read Nietzsche, or Kant or something before taking on ol' Slaughterdick
>>24774988Pic related is a good short companion to that one
This books reignited my love of philosophy
>>24779790Or if you prefer a more esoteric take...>captcha: 4P00N
>>24779790>>24779792Or if you prefer a more anal take (get it?)
>>24774469>Ernest WoodYup, just found my porn star name
>>24777236I would say that deep reading is the best antidote to the internet-induced scatterbrain. But the reader needs to focus on quality of reading, not the quantity.
>>24779814>open book>read 3 sentences and immediately close book and go watch a movie or doomscroll>just read better stuff bro
>>24779818Just dont watch a movie or doom scroll. Turn it all off and put it away. Set aside 30 min, set a timer if it helps, and just focus on the book. It may take 10-15 minutes to get into that deep immersive sensation.
>>24774478Poorly painted nails are actually a green flag, indicating a woman cares about appearance but is also willing to do things herself. Those are the type of chick that will go thrifting and start a farm with you?
>>24779790Great book but what a gay cover jfc
>>24777754counterpoint, the guy on the right didn't spend 10 years just eating salads.
>>24778755yay the stupid people bible
>>24774469>kek>>24780966>>24780970
>>24779847>thrifting>green flag
>>24777239Keep a daily journal with a streak counter detailing your struggle to quit. Every day I woke up I got a bit of excitement (dopamine rush) to add yesterday to the streak. It may take you a while but I'm currently on day 35 and by now the thought of going back disgusts me. I assume this method can be applied to any bad habit/soft addiction.
>>24774469https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/enrico-manicardi-free-from-civilizationSome truely eye opening takes on modernity / civilization, can help you lose ego.
>>24782151It is only this unending race to isolate ourselves from everything and everybody that makes life appear today so unattainable, hard, and empty. But life is not unbearable in itself— it is the mindset with which we have led it for ten thousand years that torments us. The world is not insupportable, but the authoritarian and toxic device we have been overlapping on a free and wild existence is. Civilization has always taught us that the only remedies to the existential suffering it generates are endurance, distraction, and uncon-sciousness, or giving vent to one’s urges. But fully enjoying our existence is the opposite of being confined with a need to let out one’s frustrations. What we need is not more power, more money, more prestige, more things, more services, or an indefinite horsepower in our engines. What we need is our world, the sphere of affections, feelings and desire. We need the ability to feel and to be self-sufficient in life, and not to be at the mercy of a plug that can be pulled out of its socket. We need the passion of a deeply-felt existence that makes us wish to dive into someone else’s warmth, or else to idle away our time, contemplating the sky, the sea, the mountains and the woods. We need the ability to have an intense relationship with Earth, to joyfully feel it, touch it, smell it, and be inside it as her partners rather than as “masters”. We need our sub-jectivity, the possibility of feeling human and not just simple useful elements; of feeling that we are human, not biological matter to be studied, controlled and aggregated within a fixed framework of social assignments. We need, in sum, the freedom to be what we feel we are, to do what fulfills us and to live in a universe of spontaneous relationships that is not founded on subjugation and abuse. “Having more never compensates for being less”, John Zerzan reminds us.[301] When a member of the high aristocracy commits suicide, we always tend to think that her gesture did not make sense. “She had everything!” the reasoning goes. Money, power, influence—she didn’t need anything else! That’s right: she had everything, apart from what is absolutely necessary for living…-- Enrico ManicardiFree From Civilization
>>24777984>Election touristsYawn
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