Books to stop being a wimp?I can't take this shit anymore and I'm ready for anything necessary in order to spark some life in my soul.
people who get their sense of confidence from books are easy to spot. either the strength comes from within or it's worthless
>>24942035Books might be part of the problem here. If you live in your own head, the remedy is precisely to get out of it - contact sports, powerlifting, dancing, adrenaline... anywhere you have a chance to cultivate what Jung would call your "shadow". Whether any shadow-work self-help books are worth considering or not, I cannot say. But I would go for those rather than embarking on a Jungian deep dive and read thousands of pages of his symbolic ideation.
>>24942049Good advice anon. I do admit I've been living in my head more than usual.I was thinking about something that could help me find a higher meaning or at least spark some passion. I don't really fancy self help books and their cookie cutter advice.My problem is not being unable to act but not finding any joy in doing so.
>>24942035check out DH Lawrence's short stories The Prussian Officer and The Thorn in the Flesh. they're the first two stories in this gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301501h.html. doubt they'll inspire you to transform yourself into the ubermensch but they're interesting sketches of 'the wimp who snapped'.
>>24942732I don't know about joy, but passion does flow a lot more freely when you live in your body instead of your head. If self-help books are too cookie-cutter, get a therapist. That's what I did and she recommended, among other things, that I start kick-boxing. It did absolute wonders for me, though I'm sure dancing or climbing would do it for some others. She also made it clear I'm not to read too much, which turned to be good advice because walking like you got a fat nutsack is a question of perspective, not propositions, and to change the former just by the latter is impossible.
>>24942035Read nietzche
>>24942035You're a monkey.A monkey who through an evolutionary accident learned to think symbolically.If you goon, eat to excess, live comfortably with the thermostat set exactly at 72, if all of your basic instinctual needs are satisfied, you're not going to have the energy/drive to "achieve" something by redirecting those urges toward some symbolic gratification. You're not programmed with the urge to write a magnum opus.You have to repress yourself on one of these counts. You don't need to be nofap or /fit/ specifically, the instinctual urge you repress doesn't matter, but you'll need to pick one and deny it to yourself.
>>24943350"Achievers", criminals, are all contingent on material excess, down to morbidly high birth weight, and commit crime precisely as a replication of this morbidity, and never to "achieve" anything.
>>24942049After years of MMA I rationally know I could beat up most people i talk to, but I still can’t help being shy and non confrontational when outside the gym
When i did sports and self.improvement bs it made me want to troon out so i'm back to daily disassociation. 100% convinced kikes shill all of this bs to make you gay anyway.
