We need a Jow Forums approved books thread. What would you recommend for an official Jow Forums approved reading list, both for gains and life in general?
I'd recommend the following to anyone:
Fitness 1. Beyond Brawn by Stuart McRobert 2. The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding by Arnold Schwarzenegger 3. The Underground Steroid Handbook by Dan Duchaine
Life 1. Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell 2. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene 3. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
>Reading self-help books Those things makes you feel inspired, but doesnt actually work
Blake Robinson
>Your First Hundred Million by Dan Pena Goes into self-help seminar culture. And I used to be a seminar junkie sometimes spending $2,000+ on courses.
Dylan Jackson
My friend, did you ever get 2000 worth of value from them? You must have known there isn't anything a man could say in 2 hours that would ever be worth that much
Lincoln Garcia
This was age 16-20. I was very naive about getting rich. Believed anyone. If anything I got even more losses. Especially on the stock market courses which are designed for the sole purpose of making you go bust in the shortest amount of time possible upon opening your trading account before you catch on to the scheme..
Zachary Hall
Did you ever go to a tony robbins one? You gotta tell that story if you did
Bentley Ross
I too would be curious about a Tony Robbins lecture.
Jackson Rogers
fpbp
Elijah Ramirez
>trying to get 2000 dollar lectures for free tsk tsk tsk
Thomas Brown
I don't want the full lecture, I am more curious as to whether it is like a cult or revivalist type of meeting where people do weird, crazy shit. People have accused Robbins of being a cultist in the past.
Gabriel Robinson
>Secularism Please GTFO
Required reading: Plato - The Republic Neiztche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra Marx - Capital
Brandon Foster
I've been to most of the big guy's seminars.. •Tony Robbins •Eckhart Tolle •Kevin O'Leary •Robert Herjavec •Random nobody courses
I missed Grant Cardone's first 10x event in Las Vegas which I actually regret bc it was so close to me..
I could tell you the legit courses from the fakes..at least some of them.
Luke Jenkins
It was in Los Angeles few years back. He went through goal-setting and talked a little about NLP. I still have the tapes... They're in my car though. He is legit. Just hated by my co-workers bc they really hate the lack of authenticity which NLP is. Basically a way to lie and manipulate people. Grant Cardone teaches the exact opposite.
>He went through goal-setting and talked a little about NLP. That's what he does in his books on tape. I'm curious why people pay thousands of dollars to see him live when he's just repeating the shit he says on audio books.
Kayden Parker
the very hungry caterpillar
Colton Richardson
Lemme guess: fakes: O'leary, herjavec, Eckhart
Real: Tony
Parker Wright
>literally teaching kids to eat big in order to get big
Ryan Watson
Imagine packaging goal-setting and lying then selling it for 2000 dollars a pop. That's the real get rich strat
Christian Martin
I don't believe there are any legitimately great books on fitness, but there are some pretty decent /fitlit/ options in regards to lifestyle.
Owen Turner
I'd say the fakes are those who use schemes to take massive amounts of $ teaching you either faulty methods or methods designed to purposefully make you go bust.
•Eckhart Tolle charges an upfront fee around $200 to hear him talk and go into the NOW
•Kevin O'Leary is partnered w 2 seminar corporate entities I know of-1 sells a real estate course(I never bought so I wouldn't know) 1 is a very basic stock market course filled w thousands of hours worth of videos and a trip to their trading center(I would not fucking buy!) They use this scheme. m.youtube.com/watch?v=L7G0OfJUON8&t=43s
•Robert Herjavec is partnered with the same real estate company Kevin uses. Honestly it doesn't seem too bad. Just go into the lower tier course. It basically allows you to use OPM-other people's money to buy real estate but most people just buy the course and never take action. From face value seems legit.
•Tony Robbins like other user said was just a speaking seminar. So you pay upfront and can buy course material which is actually really good...
Justin Bailey
The Holy Bible of course
Aaron Carter
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Oh shit! t.Seminar Guy here again. I forgot to tell you about the Scientology stuff I got involved with back when... If anyone's interested..
Ayden Diaz
I've been reading Zen poetry and I find it quite nice, got me into meditation too For life in general I'd recommend it
Jaxon Bennett
>a guide to the good life >enchiridion >meditations
Your fortune: Bad Luck
Ryan Nguyen
I'm down. I didn't know they did seminars
Logan Reyes
I'll be honest, you don't really need fitness books. Just find a good routine, know what exercise works which muscle groups, get a grasp of progressive overload and learn proper form, all of which can be easily found online. Jeff is a treasure, and you'll get a better grasp of proper form by actually watching it. Same goes for nutrition. If you really want to read a fitness book, read starting strength, and that doesn't mean "do ss". Life... that's a weird one to pinpoint. There is some merit to a few self help books, but again, they're a waste of time, you can get most of their worth from asking for advice. It's important to create good habits, learn to be disciplined, set goals, be positive, determined and realistic. There, summarized in one sentence, you can look up more about each, and don't waste time reading book after book about each of these steps. Time is a finite resource, the most valuable one you have. Read books that you can get something out of, read Dostoyevski, Mishima, Camus, Hemingway, Tolkien, for novels of ideas read some great classic sci fi. As for philosophy, you should read it, and the selection of The Republic and Thus Spoke Zarathustra is very useful, anything on top would be more suited to being a well rounded intellectual but i think those 2 are enough for general life. I haven't read Das Kapital, and frankly i don't intend to anytime soon, it's a daunting 3 volume book and seems a bit excessive for simply challenging my world view , i've read "capitalist" books tho.
Jose Bennett
How to win friends is a trash book. It's all anecdotes from betas and copes.
Alexander Flores
Camus is perhaps my favorite baugette author, and I'm plowing through Notes from Underground now.
Chase Sanchez
I read some Dora the explorer book and learned some new words nigga
Brandon Allen
yo nigga sauce the dora nigga
Cooper Parker
Can't hurt me by David Goggins, get the audiobook, its has comments from david after each chapter. If you've never heard of him, check out his 2 joe rogan podcasts to ge the basic gestalt
Cameron Nelson
This is it my nigga I would highly recommend this novel
Start reading Camus and Freud. Both were true chads, helped to uncuck me when I was an undergrad. Bonus that both will give you a perspective that is totally antithetical to the ethos of the bitch-boi world we live in today
it really is. i always recommend it in these threads. i lend it to a friend months ago and he still hasn't finished it. im just hoping i'll get it back eventually.
Matthew Fisher
stfu. you know nothing about books.
Nolan Cruz
what do you mean
Nathan Young
the text is small and the resolution is pretty low, on my screen anyway
Ayden Watson
'Rich dad poor dad' and 'the mystery method' are pretty based too.
Caleb Bennett
Dude keep getting praised everywhere I look so downloaded it after reading this
It should be in the sticky but no joke read or listen to the Power of Habit. It's not a self help book. It breaks down how habits are made and how to either stop or create new habits. References real events or studies. Not feel good crap.
If you want to make a habit of fitness, read it. Want to stop your habits of eating too much or goofing off, read it.
