Which books radically changed your life for the better?

The kybalion

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Alegbra by Serge Lang. You want to make sure you have basic mathematics down don't you?

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Unchallenged „nonviolent communication“

And i‘ve read them all. This is the most important one.

century of the self documentary film

I can tell this is fucked already lol.

I think this thread would have been better if you asked for the reasoning behind people's choices, OP

No, it has been a great thread so far.

Outside of my own? Pretty much none.

The action guy is right though.

>Outside of my own? Pretty much none.

Based schizoposting.

I agree with you, just curious what some would have said.

defining twenties
didn't really help much as far as how to fix a straying life or one without focus but at least it gave me perspective and helped me realize i needed to focus in on goals for my future

thus spoke zarathustra

The book of Jow Forums

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No longer depressed. I read Meditations by Aurelius and felt “good” for a week or two, but that faded away. Stoicism is pretty weak and empty. But I’ve been much happier for months after reading Pascal

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Starting strength

The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy

You just don’t understand it my friend.

It’s basically a refined concept of cynicism except you just deal with whatever life throws at you.

Stoicism is a how-to guide for idiots who can’t control their emotions. There’s nothing deeper to it. Anyone who calls himself a capital ‘s’ Stoic is a moron. It’s a vague and gray philosophy.

Stoicism needs to be practiced.

Every intelligent person already practices it

That's not even close to being true, though.

Uhh let me think
The Iliad
Plato's dialogues, especially The Apology
The History of the Peloponnesian War
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran
Stories of Cuchulain and the Red Branch Warriors
Metamorphoses

its more practical than life changing but i was depressed and Feeling Good by David Burns taught me CBT to deal with it and I improved. You're more likely to be better off finding good books for specific skills that gradually add up over time than one cure all magic book

Anyone have any books that can help me get out of depression? Im tired of not caring for anything. Im tired of not feeling anything.

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CBT is absolute horseshit. I've no idea how anyone finds it useful. Probably cunts who weren't depressed in the first place.

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

has absolutely nothing to do with the movie of the same name

also Prometheus Rising, The Fifth Discipline, and The Diamond Age

I started with Spiritual Machines. It's dry as fuk but it excited me and made me optimistic for the future

Hahaha you're dumb

Jordan Peterson's 12 rules of life

>Juden do it alone Peterson

I think it gets a couple of things right.
never read aurelius books but I think Seneca's biggest mistake is that he didn't practice it enough to pierce it
Zen is where it's at, though

>Stoicism
Literally degenerate stoner tier philosophy.

So you're not even looking to discuss it, just call it names. Nice.

>Debating a stoic
The thing about stoicism is that they just keep reasoning and 'accepting things as they are'.
Tell me fren, what meaning does a stoic have to make his life bearable?
'be calm'?
Fuck being calm.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things, it's a side-story novella for the Kingkiller Chronicle, but it's not meant for understanding so it doesn't really matter if you don't have any context. Read it and you'll feel like shards of the world suddenly start forming a whole despite its many missing pieces.

FUCK
OFF

I don't read a lot, but here is my small list.

>The Three Day Promise: A Korean Soldier's Memoir (Donald K Chung)-- inspires me to continue on the med school track

>The Things They Carried (Tim o'brien)

>The Man in the Maze (robert silverberg)

>Redwall (brian jacques)-- was a childhood book I admired a lot, no other reason.

>a 90 page rant (about being an elitist regarding gun knowledge and feeling like a social outcast and massive failure to my parents) that I handed into my AP Literature teacher during senior yr of h.s. Always feels good to look back, cringe, and remind myself to never fall back into that rut.

>Portnoy's Complaint-- laughing at the mc in this story when I read it in hs, not realizing that I was just as pitiful

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Where is Waldo

Evangelion changed my life much more than any book i've read.

The subtle art of not giving a fuck

Oh dear, one of the most overrated self-help books of all time. The fact that it became a new york times bestseller is reflective of how most American twentysomethings are stupid cunts who are impressed by unnecessary swearing and amateur philosophizing by some bellend blogger who read a few books.

It started off alright with some good points. I think a lot of people could benefit from understanding that they really aren't special, and to rail against perfectionism

Later part of the book went off the rails though

Nietzche's Genealogy of Morals. It taught me to embrace my emotions and not run away from them, and to toss away ideals that are nihilistic.
Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson is another good one. It showed me how much potential each human being has.

Read bukowski. And dont listen to the massive faggots of /lit/

The courage to be desliked.

I think it gives an interesting perspective on self improvement leading to better community.

Stop reading fiction, Jew.

Underrated post but if too many people follow his lead this websight will die.

Which ending do you prefer: The End of Eva or the last two episodes of the series?

Sex and Character by Otto Weininger

not him, but the last two episodes help me out with understanding that other humans have feelings and can think anything they want of me-- and I can't do jackshit about that but improve myself or stop caring.

I also like listening to the congratulations in korean because I imagine that's how my parents would sound if they were proud of me

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Unironically Plato and the Bible

The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, or anything stoic for that matter.

Technically, the Lord of Time trilogy by Louise Cooper.
Not that the books changed me or how I act, but they got me into fantasy books, which got me into roleplaying, which helped me out into becoming more social and meet a lot of different people, eventually leading up into meeting a girl online to whom I'm married now.

The secret.

I think the writer is retarded. But given you are driven enough to put thoughts into action, the book can be quite the motivator.

Same. I read The Age of Spiritual Machines (read it in 2004) and that transformed my entire outlook, introduced me to futurism, transhumanism, made me more optimistic about humanity, etc.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life is pointless and random, which is what makes it so great.

Not a real book but things nice little thing here:

bookofpook.neocities.org/

I've a few very interesting books afterwards, mostly about self-help, individualism and spirituality, and many of them had great overlaps with what that dude wrote on a slightly-different-from-the-rest pickup forum. it's fucking fascinating to me, to say the least. in the end it's all about life, living and being an free and independent adult, and you really don't need any fancy or wordy philosophy to understand that and live it.

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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales. The Jews are always wicked, and considering the world we live in nowadays, can't be further from the truth (Well, not all Jews, mostly Zionists). Disney should make a movie about The Jew Among Thorns. Cheers!

The Road to Serfdom. It made me understand that the government can't step in and solve all your problems while still preserving the fundamental freedoms built into Western Democracy.

>western democracy

If you think it’s Jews, look a bit deeper into things. You’re almost there.
See the olde Revelations 2:9/3:9