Any non-fiction book that taught you valuable and concrete things that you were able to use in real life?For me it was picrel, I am a social retard and these books enhanced my social awarness
>and these books enhanced my social awarnessAHAHAHAHA I think you need to get your money back op
>>24959651> I think you need to get your money back opwho said I had paid anything?
>>24959644Textbooks on math and textbooks on programming
>>24959644All the 100 pages you'll ever need in your life
>>24959644I will throw you a bone airportcorefag since you're clearly an autist in need of social skills.That is the only book you'll ever need by the man who made Ford a success. You'll have to get it printed on demand, but that is the book on which all those other books are based//plagiarizing.
Still the best. Charlie Manson took a Dale Carnegie course while in prison and used its precepts to start a cult.
>>24959644>Breath by James NestorMy nose isn't blocked most of the time. And over the years my face shape changed a little (to the better). And some cool breathing techniques I do from time to time. >How to win friends a influence peopleGo over the basics of communication and deepen some of them. The feedback from people went from 'You have some form of autism, right?' to 'You don't say much, don't you?' after reading this book. Its a little win. >What every Body is sayingNot much actual value but its interesting to be able to tell simple things about body language.>Deep Work by Cal NewportHelped me to get a little more quality work done in the same time. You probably could get most of the info from a YouTube video, but this books deepens it a little more.>The Trouble with Being Born by CioranMakes me incredibly calm when I am worried about something. >>24960394Can you recommend reading it when I haven't read anything from Schopenhauer? I have a basic understanding from other books talking about him, but nothing very deep.
French for Reading by Karl Sandberg is the only one I can think of
>>24960602nta but the wisdom of life was compiled to be marketed as a self help book for people who don't care to know about schoppy. it's all bloomer advice in there nothing about his usual philosophy so it can't even serve as an introduction to his system.
>>24959644I studied how to make self help book and sold them.... for a while. Earned decent. If you want money it is the best thing to write.
I'm gonna try how to win frinds & influence since it's a book that got quoted multiple time in this thread
>>24960394+1 he is the father of psychology after all.
>>24963346I like the ambiguous blood stains
>>24959644Fearless Creating by Eric MaiselArt & Fear by David BaylesThe Courage to Be DislikedMeditations on the TarotBible (cliché but true)Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry
The Art of Worldly WisdomGracián's style, generically called conceptism, is characterized by ellipsis and the concentration of a maximum of significance in a minimum of form, an approach referred to in Spanish as agudeza (wit), and which is brought to its extreme in the Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia (literally Manual Oracle and Art of Discretion, commonly translated as The Art of Worldly Wisdom), which is almost entirely composed of three hundred maxims with commentary. He constantly plays with words: each phrase becomes a puzzle, using the most diverse rhetorical devices.
I'm still in the process of reading this but I've been internalizing the idea that our last freedom is to choose how to feel given any circumstance.It's been helpful when work's stressful or when I've had to deal with crummy people in recent memory.
>>24960532I'm sure it helped Manson's charisma but I doubt Carnegie had anything to say about LSD and hypnosis.
>>24960532Also the most useful book for me as an autist. It's not a meme.
>>24960532You guys are seriously overrating this. Unless you are a hyper autist that needs to be told that smiling gives others a good impression of you.
>>24965841It's value has only increased in the current day where so many young people have trouble interacting with others in person.
>>24965847Be that as it may. Half of it is anecdotal stories from people who attended his classes, there is some gold in those but still.
