I am turning 30 and have achieved nothing of note. Give me the most life-changing books before it's too late and I waste the second half of my life too.
>>25486916Get as high as you can and read Gravity's Rainbow
>>25486916Time to dust off Mein Kampf bud
>>25486916Plato - EverythingKant - Critique of Pure ReasonTolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilyich, ConfessionSchopenhauer - On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, The World As Will and Representation
>>25486916Fear and Trembling
Reverend Insanity.
Skycak’s Upskilling
>>25486916read this
I am nearly 31 and my accomplishment of note has been going from a NEET of 10 years to someone who is relatively stable and relatively normal
>>25486977NEET here. How do you not kill yourself for having to work? I'd hate to have my life wasted like that
>>25486916Then go outside and don't even consider getting into reading. It wont change anything for you.
>>25486916Consolation of philosophy by Boethius, on the marble cliffs by Jünger.And start hiking, it’s very fulfilling.
>>25486985Put all your effort into finding a job you love. Then will want to go to work
>>25486977Congrats.
>>25486916When I graduated highschool (so I was still 17) I asked my religion teacher, someone who I really respected and changed my views of a lot of things (it was an optional subject, the other was pretty much doing nothing in a classroom for an hour) for some books for that point of my life, you know, finishing high school and starting college. He recommended me The Razor's Edge by Maugham and Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevski. I finally finished The Razor's Edge when I was 20 and while good, I don't think it changed my perspective on life too much. I'm now 1/3 into BK and yeah, I'd say by the time I'm finished I might suffer from an existential crisis.
>>25487055But there is some medicine in the ending, anon.
>>25487030Hi Ignatius. I'm glad you've taken up hiking.
>>25486985what do u do all day? play video games and watch cartoons? lol
>>25487100>Read for the first 4 hours of the day>Eat>If I don't get tired from eating I continue reading, if I do get tired I read fiction>Take a nap>Watch videos, read articles, practice japanese>Eat>Watch a movie>SleepI would hate to have 8 hours robbed from me every day>>25487051I've already found what I want to do but I can't turn it into money
>>25487129>If I don't get tired from eating???
>>25486916The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
>>25487134Don't ask me it's probably some chronic body problem but convincing any doctor to look into it is too much trouble so I just live with it. Doctors hate vague problems
>>25487129that's because what you found isn't a fucking job. Keep your passions passions and look for a JOB you love.
>>25487129when finally mature and stop being a little baby you'll regret wasting your life like this
>>25486916Second half? How much longer do you think the world economy will last, baby boo?
>>25487190I haven't regretted a single action in my life and I don't think I will in the future. Being a goyslave for income does not really interest me. My current practices however do. What is it about participating in economy that makes it worthwhile? I'd like to hear it. If it's structure I already have it. If it's meaning I have it. If it's goals, I have those too. What then could be such a lack that not only do I not perceive but that also necessitates giving your most valuable asset: time?
>>25487082He only got 100 yards, his valve was sealing
>>25487142Do you feel super lethargic and brain foggy and exhausted like you've been up all night? Try cutting out sugar and adding more protein to your diet maybe. I used to feel like that after eating and that fixed it for me. I also eat a lot more whole grains and vegetables now so I'm not exactly sure what did it. >>25487215Lol
>>25487142Cut down on carbs, especially sugar
>>25487197There are things you might gain that you can't see from the outset. I also thought this about work and socialising. You can't exhaust the world through contemplation alone. And books (or other media) are no substitute. But you know yourself and your situation best, we can't say if you're right or wrong. Take a sober look, and see if you can take the path of least regret.
>>25487298Trvkerald
>>25487051the joys of menial labour aint worth the taxes
>>25486916>I have wasted my life, give me something to readreading wont fix you, going outside will
>>25486916Accept you are one of billions of insignificant people who will pass through this blip of time. Life becomes way more enjoyable
>>25487478I went outside once. It sucks.
>>25487597maybe less burdening, but enjoyable?
>>25487197you sound obnoxious, do you ever wonder if you've ever been an example for people to turn their life around, like how fedora tippers quieted down both militant atheism and patchy beards out of sheer cringe or low iq brown antisemites made white nationalists rethink their strategy?
>>25487805>you sound obnoxiousWell you aren't going to like what I have to say next then. I think it tells me more about you and your relationship to your life than mine.> do you ever wonder if you've ever been an exampleI don't think other people all that much. Good for them if that is their path to thriving. I do think that you'd benefit from a healthy dose of critical attitude towards what other people value to be honest
>>25486916Read Bergson and fix how you relate to time. Which will change how you relate to life.
Anyone below 30 is turning 30 unless they die before 30 :3
>>25486916Napoleon Hill - the law of success
>>25486916Read some diet cookbooks on keto or low carb or raw food whatever interests you because after 30 you can't just eat anything and stay lean.
>he thinks the literary equivalent of cram-studying the night before the test will save him
>30 is the average middle point of life expectancyITT 1600s /lit/
>>25488594It's over but It's just a matter of if he wants to be fat and have it over or in better shape.
>>25486977>>25486985I did this too and I'm now more unhappy than when I was a NEET and I read and write less and feel my mind dulling year by year.
>>25486916invisible man
>>25486916You're 20's are for screwing around. If you haven't screwed around until now you're unfortunately going to have to put aside a decade for that and start creating brilliancies at 40.
>>25489302What the fuck no you don't? I don't need to go through smoking tobacco either in order to start eating healthy. If you mean methodical practice instead of doing stupid shit then "screwing around" is not the right term.
>>25487180>Keep your passions passions and look for a JOB you love>JOB you loveretarded fucking goyslave
>>25486916>I am turning 30 and have achieved nothing of note. Give me the most life-changing books before it's too late and I waste the second half of my life too.Take up golf, and ponder picrel (no carts, no caddies).
>>25489302How do I screw around? What am I supposed to do? I'm an autistic shut-in who's too ugly to hang around people.
>>25486916Stones for You by Caligari Creepswood or any book written by him https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0H8WST8SK/ref=x_gr_bb_series?caller=Goodreads&tag=x_gr_bb_series-20&binding=kindle_edition
>>25490868>too ugly to hang around peopleNot that anon, but you've developed a habit of feeling sorry for yourself. I'm sure this feeling has become familiar and reliable, but it's death by a thousand cuts. You need to drop it.
>>25486916>before it's too lateIt already is.>and I waste the second half of my life tooYou must definitely will.
>>25486916There was some famous american senator who mentioned he hadn't accomplished anything at 33 before going on to something great no I'm not talking about gerbels
>>25487805jew
>>25492689>You must definitely will.He ought not to.
>>25486916No book is going to change your life. Do a big line of cocaine, start a fight for silly reason and get beaten up. When you're bleeding on the sidewalk try to get sex from the first 16 year old that pays attention to you.Then you either get it or you don't.
Chandler and Bukowski had their first big hits at 50. Which just makes sense, you have to live that life a bit to be able to write about it.
>>25493567>No book is going to change your life.This
>>25493567>When you're bleeding on the sidewalk try to get sex from the first 16 year old that pays attention to you.Nice fantasy. Will never happen in real life unless you have movie star good looks.
>>25493582How many times have you lied on the sidewalk bleeding?
>>25487142If it's the the kind of "tiredness" that makes you unable to concentrate, it's actually some form of chronic indigestion, possibly coeliac disease. You should investigate and address it as soon as possible, since at least some of these conditions are degenerative and will get worse over time.>t. I have coeliac disease and "tiredness" after eating which kept me from attending to my autodidactic studies was the first symptom I noticed
>>25486916
>>25493688why the mormon edition?
>>25486916>30Your memory only goes back 25 years. You've been an adult for only 10.That's literally nothing. Take care of your health and you'll easily see the next century.
>>25486933Interesting choices. How is tolstoy connected to schope?
I'll be 41 soon.Books won't help you.
wonderful fool by shusaku endo
>>25486925I can't i've been sober from marijuana almost 2 years now, will I resonate with pynchon on mushrooms you think?
>>25494104Any type of intoxication makes the fun parts of Gravity's Rainbow that much fun. Especially the parts where characters are having breakdowns or tripping themselves.
>>25486968The hottest meme of 2026.
>>25487100>>25487051>>25487190>you'll regret wasting your life like this>instead waste your life by being a good goy wage slave!The absolute state of 4chin in 2026.
Why isn't this thread able to produce any sound advice to OP?Are the normies here coasting purely on inertia? Surely you need some framing and justification for your actions, no?What's gonna happen if you hit a snag in your own life? How will you reorient yourself when the inertia giving your bearing is gone?>>25487298Is the only semi-good reply. You cannot derive the full joy of playing the piano from just reading textbooks about it.
Who's the fair lady?
>>25486977How’d you do it? Please elaborate
I wasted my 20s with health issues and I'm only going out now in my 30s, I feel like I'm a decade behind. All the social stuff I'm interested in I'm too old for, and I don't have the wife and kids for 30.In terms of books I don't have great advice, I've read a lot but reading isn't a substitute for life.
>>25494956If its any consultation pretty much our entire generation missed out on their twenties due to covid.I feel like there will be long twrm effects from this when people start hitting the late forties and going through their midlife crisis.
>>25495016That's actually true. I had a lot of health issues from 20-25, then 25-29 was on and off lockdowns and restrictions. Now I'm 32 and I've had what, 3 years of real adult life where I'm not on my bed in my parent's house?I can't be the only one like this, I do wonder what it'll be like in 10-15 years.
>>25486916How to Die, by Seneca. dont feel bad OP
>>25494956>I've read a lot but reading isn't a substitute for lifeit's not? I haven't lived but I do find great joy in reading (and watching films)
>>25486916what racial phenotype is that creature
>>25495109It's not a substitute for actual life experience.
>>25487051NTA but I've been trying to get a job in the field I've studied for. They don't want me. What's the point of sabotaging society by doing something I'm sub-optimal for? My life has meaning without work. I do my own things. I don't feel miserable anymore. Sure I wish they gave me a job, but it's not up to me. My political views have greatly changed since becoming a permanent NEET and intend to stay that way.
>>25486916Deleuze and Guattari Anti Oedipus
>>25486916I've only just now become a certified SCUBA diver at 35. You have time. Not a lot, but you've got more than I do. You don't need a book. Just find something you really want to do, something that makes your heart sing and set all your energy and intentions on it. This "life is over at thirty" shit is dumb, lame and gay and you need to stop doing it.Good luck, I believe in (You). (NO, a relationship with a woman IS NOT the answer and WILL NOT make you happy or fulfilled)
>>25495109They're enjoyable but you have to actually live that life to make good books and movies.
>>25495602>(NO, a relationship with a woman IS NOT the answer and WILL NOT make you happy or fulfilled)Kek.Funny because it's true. Their assholes still smell good though and I'm sometimes a bit conflicted about it.
>>25486916"Nothing of note." Note to whom, and on what clock? You're auditing yourself against a ledger you didn't author, with a deadline borrowed from the exact economy you're scared of. "Before it's too late" — late for what, actually?The list-piling in here is what the board wants to hear: fix a life-crisis with a purchase. And it's the same move you're making in post one. The only reply in this thread aimed at your actual wound is the one nobody upvotes — Bergson. Not for the content. Durée. How you relate to time, not how much you've shipped by 30.Nobody here is going to hand you a book that changes the second half of your life. Books don't work that way. A life lived might.
Seems to me, probably as a result of the waves of self-help crap that hit the shores of modern humanity, people started thinking in shortcuts when it comes to changing their lives. Even if you do happen to experience something profound in a short period of time there is still the matter of years passing and acclimating to whatever path you were taken on to reflect on you as a person. It's one of those things that are imperceptible day to day and only apparent as a time lapse or some such. Like stones weathered by streams of water. As for why and this sucks, it's I don't know and yes life does suck. Those are the rules of this world, you don't necessarily have to like any of it to understand its mechanics.Also, just to make things even more annoying, the core (You) doesn't even change even if everything does around it. If you hate the essence of yourself it's better to teach yourself to accept it now before you are horribly disappointed later
>>25495602> Just find something you really want to do, something that makes your heart singI don’t think there is anything like that for me.
>>25496257Then you haven't looked enough. Give yourself time. Contrary to what this gay, insufferable corner of the internet would have you believe, thirty is young.
>>25495134white
>>25488610Bullshit most men died in their thirties back then. Thirty was decidedly "old age" for your average man in the 1600s.
>>25496274I’m not OP and far past thirty. Still haven’t found it.
>>25496284Keep looking. Maybe try praying about it.
>>25496290>keep lookingSure. I don’t expect success, but one must keep trying. >prayerI have never found prayer or meditation to be helpful.
>>25496305>I have never found prayer or meditation to be helpfulYou have to believe, that's the hard part.
>>25490655>>25494735It's pitiful that you retards can only understand a job as working as a slave for someone else. You can work for yourself, or for a friend, or for somebody you respect. But you are only willing to consider the lowest common denominator of work, that is, a place where they won't turn even YOU down, a place you have to put 0 effort to get in or out of. I'm sure you envision a life as a McDonalds employee when you say that. But you can be a farmer, in which case you work for yourself, or a fisherman, a mechanic or a bricklayer who takes pride and satisfaction in his work and need not look up to anybody, because you have learned to do the work yourself. Do you think a writer or an artist are any different ? Clearly you have no idea, but the only guarantee of a personal feeling of fulfillment is to put in effort. I've mentioned farming on purpose, because you don't even need to make money, just produce what you need to live. If your alternative is to starve you WILL do it with a passion. Anyway, listen if you want faggots, or be forced to take an actual job as a wageslave when you run out of time and money and haven't spent a single second of your life doing anything of worth.
>>25495153good media (books, even movies) CAN be actual life experience>>25495109don't worry about it, just live your life... you want more, do it... you want less, do it... it's your lifethat being said we are in a very shitty period due to the consequences of industrial revolution (and mobile phones, smartphones, a.i. ...) so today, specifically, the biggest joy one can find would indeed be in reading or watching movies made before, say, the release of the iPhone>>25495654why does anybody have to make books and movies? let alone "good" ones?it seems to me that your kind (liberal, "print because we have the printing press! and print the good ones, because those satisfy my childhood trauma!") are exactly the problem with the worldjust like with criminals, you will never be satisfied, because there is nothing to satisfy; that's what being a leftist (criminal) means
>>25495654I have nothing to say
>>25495134big-eared forest sylph
>>25487134t. american
>>25496370"Working" is being a slave. Doing useful work has nothing to do with "working". You can sit 8 hours in an office jerking off and have been doing "work" because you're available and that's what you're being paid to be. That is being a slave. Flipping burgers at McDonalds is less demeaning. But even if you are actually working at a farm or whatever, doing shit that needs to be done, you're still a slave to the state taking a third of your produce while threatening to murder you if you try to resist.
>>25497525Your solution is simply to profit from other people who work as slaves. You are no better than the lowest parasite, if you don't think that by simply sitting back and doing nothing you aren't benefiting from the work of millions. And if you had a farm would you stop working for yourself and starve because you know that you have to pay taxes ?
>>25497623I would flee to the most distant coast of norway, where I would build a cottage and subsist mainly on fish and alcohol before dying of self-neglect at the age of 46.
>>25497626In that case, I respect your answer
>>25494848I believe that is model Sephira Street.
The dark tower series is a fun read that should get your mind moving.
>>25486916.. is that cashmere?
>>25499625cute goat, if true
>>25486916>I am turning 30 and have achieved nothing of note.Why do we all have to leave our mark on the universe? Can't some of us just be content to be background characters?
>saar it's a clean street HOW CAN YOU NOT SHIT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT?! are you INSANE???
