/SIG/ - Self Improvement General

clean water and clean food are priceless

factory farmed genetically modified industrial meat full of hormones, antibiotics, and raised in horrific conditions is particularly bad. "you are what you eat". you eat zombie animals, that's what you become.

clean water is hard to find these days; most tap water is contaminated. filters don't get everything out, plus it's in your shower/bath too. plus, filters also get rid of the good minerals

go to a place with clean water and eat right; then you're well on your way

anyone's internet been really slow lately?

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Why people wander in the other worlds if not to escape reality and real problems? Can't you endure a short period of time without escapism? Couldn't you instead during this period focus on non-fiction? Sure, some of them are good, yet the point is to focus on "this-worldliness" instead of wandering in other realities. The role is not mine btw.

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>learn a foreign language

Explain how this isn't meme tier advice. All the good first world countries and trip destinations have english speakers there to help you.

>I seem to think it's more efficient to do things solo
This is an excuse to not face your insecurities and talk to people. Take interest in other people's lives, ask what they did on the weekend or what their plans are coming up. They will respond in kind and if you two find something you mutually enjoy, you can do those activities together.
Yes it's that easy

learning a new language makes new neuron connections in your brain. helps keep your brain active and young. use it or lose it after all.

plus english is very limited, the more languages you use the more concepts you can think and apply words to. a one world government would want just 1 language, one where there are no words for certain concepts that the elite don't want you talking aobut

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Is it okay to smoke weed occasionally? After a day at work I tend to relax, smoke a joint, and write in my journal.

Work out how much you spend on weed a year and what that is as a percentage of your total yearly income. Then decide if the creative benefit it gives on your writing (as well as what you do with the writing itself) is worth the time and money you invest in getting high.
I've tried weed at parties a couple of times, never personally had the urge to indulge since then. I do tend towards the Jow Forums straight edge attitude that it's a complete waste of time/money and overall bad for you and for society but I've never noticed any of the creative "benefits" either.

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>(((Meditate))) at least once a day
Yes goyim, sit around doing literally nothing for extended periods of time each day! It will magically expand your mind.

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Indulging your schizophrenia isn't /sig/

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i'm stuck at tier 2 guys, what do?

>Don't cook at home, get delivery!
>Answer 1 email a minute!

I see (((they've))) finally got a grasp on how destructive to their agenda this movement is. It's going to take even more work for this to take root.

I see this is now a daily thread like it used to
Nice

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Ever spend a long time planning something deeply that effects the totality of your life?

successfully returned to nofap, a week today and hopefully never again will i falter

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I quit 8.6 days ago (I have an excel spreadsheet counting the time). If you can manage to keep it around and only use it every so often, I don't imagine there's much harm in it. But, I don't have that willpower, so I went cold turkey.

I try to look at these threads like this: when was I happiest in my life? Honestly: 5th grade. Why? Well, I suppose one could rightly assume it was riiiiight before puberty, so I was old enough to know how the world works, but young enough to not have hormones pumping through me. But, when puberty started, I also started tugging it. Then started drinking caffeine a year or so later. Then weed in 8th grade. Then drinking in high school. And I kept it all up for a long time. So now, trying to reverse all that, is hard. But I strive to recreate my energy from my youth.

And I gotta say, I feel good.

>Why do those people spend their time on philosophy in their fantasy lands and bake some damn bread

Reminder to keep yourself from wasting energy

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Yeah I don't get some of the advice there
Everyone should be buying cheap, organic local food (if not growing their own) and meal prepping.
No idea what the email thing's about.

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>tfw looked at porn a lot yesterday and edged
>it was to shit more degenerate than I ever looked at when
Why did nofap make me more degenerate
Anyways I hope I don't look at that shit again, every time I edge I feel physically ill afterwards

How the fuck do you guys can pull this off while posting here with these fucking shills posting porn 24/7? I tried so many times but always fail because I see something here.

Hows it going user? I was on nofap to some success for a while and even had a 44 day streak and all was well. After that, however, I dropped the ball slowly but surely until July 2018 where I've been doing 2x a day. During the descent I also lost almost every single one of my friends.
Did not yesterday, and haven't yet today, so I'm back on track hopefully.

Does anybody have any go-to guides or tips for making a better Resume? I'm trying to get through the "better job" stage

Inb4 "just connections dude be yourself"

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What's it called where you believe nihilism but hate self-proclaimed nihilists? If all things and actions are meaningless, why is the action of doing nothing so much more preferable to the action of doing something? I believe that, because nothing exists outside of perception and all things perceived are inherently meaningless, I have less than no reason to be the most superior being within perception. Nihilists aren't truly nihilistic because they perceive pain and suffering to be real so they avoid it as much as possible, which is why they are often choose to seclude themselves from perceiving many things.

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Yes we need this

The holy trinity brother:
Body, mind and soul.
Body: eat right, groom right, exercise right.
Mind: Exercise the brain, read all the books listed in threads like this, gain new skills, meet new people/expose yourself to new ideas, etc.
Soul: Religion, meditate, sleep, stay away from vices, etc.

All are interchangable, all lead back to the source. Constant improvement in all areas leads to growth in all areas. It's a simple process in theory, but incredibly difficult in practice.

But honestly: it is the entire point of your existence, so why not do it?

Would anyone NOT want to be the person of whom they say: "look at that man of god: so clean cut, well dressed, healthy; so knowledgeable about all, and cultured; yet so poised, and dignified--what are his thoughts on the world?"

(((SHUT IT DOWN!)))

>Meditation
>Journaling
what the fuck is that gay shit

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Because you are filled with the creative essence of the universe, and it's bursting at the seems to explode from you. When you go that long, an ugly girl's smelly sock will become the most erotic item in the world. That energy is looking for a release. Give it one: in the form of exercise, or creative writing. Pen your manifesto. Go for a walk. You're not no-fapping if you're fapping to porn, you're no cumming and building a new, weird fetish completely opposite to the intent of the exercise. Don't THINK about sexual release, think about creativity and impregnating the world with your essence.

Ride the Tiger is also a recommended book

Hope this is of some use. I've got lots of self improvement infographics saved and can dump a few others on topics that don't usually crop up on /sig/ threads.
Financial prosperity through work, savings, investment and entrepreneurship are all important aspects of self improvement as well. This is especially so for prospering the liberal capitalist society we currently live in (although properly implemented fascism would still cultivate individual growth, hard work, entrepreneurship etc).

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Why the hate for meditation? Genuinely curious. It's not about silencing the mind, it's about focusing the mind. Ending the constant feedback loop of modern living. Driving can be meditative; eating can be meditative; showering can be meditative. It has a host of health benefits, and it leaves you feeling refreshed. I mean, if you're only experience with mediating is imagining putting on yoga pants and chanting ommm, then yeah, tis pointless for a faggot like you to try it.

And journaling? It's an activity that every great mind throughout history has engaged in. For starters, look up bullet journaling.

But then again, you're such a faggot, you'd probably journal about your new yoga pants that you bought to meditate in.

Go away.

I skipped step 2
Did I fuck up

Post your resume with identifying information removed. We'll critique

Alright lads how do I talk to women without sounding like a beta cuck? I don't know how to flirt and end I up friendzoning myself.

>Inb4 just bee urself

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>Financial prosperity through work, savings, investment and entrepreneurship are all important aspects of self improvement as well. This is especially so for prospering the liberal capitalist society we currently live in (although properly implemented fascism would still cultivate individual growth, hard work, entrepreneurship etc).

I would lump financial success under power of the mind, as dedicating oneself to a craft or knowledge will confer a degree of expertise that can be used for financial game, and then said finances can be invested with knowledge gained from learning about what to do with money. It also flows from the essence of the soul, as many eastern philosophies (such as feng shui, the black hat school) teach that the universe will give you what you need when you need it, and being at peace with that process helps eliminate the stress of "not having enough" to buy material garbage.
And obviously a healthy, good looking, well groomed person is far more likely to be professionally successful than an unkempt shut in.
Money is just a score card number--don't focus too much energy on it, I say, as it will come naturally as a byproduct of living a well rounded, healthy life.

just imagine yourself from an outside perspective, how pathetic you look and how much of a loser you are when you fap. then remember the second after, when you gained nothing but a single moment of fleeting satisfaction followed by a constant feeling of guilt
i found porn addiction to be 2 dimensional - mind and body. you fap when your body craves it, and you fap when your mind craves it. when you manage to disconnect the connection between them, it'll be easier to control. i found that it's possible entirely to be unresponsive to body cravings with enough discpline - meaning you can view a picture of a naked woman, think to yourself she's attractive, get a hardon, but not be forced to fap. the hardest thing is when the mind craves it, it's something beyond sexual desire but akin to an existential need. when your mind tells you you're fapping, you're sure as fuck going to fap. these are the times when i fail.

the way to stop responding to your body craving fapping is to disconnect it from the brain wanting fapping. realize you're not an animal and you can control your urges by recognizing when they come and identifying that they won't leave you any better by being satisfied.

Fuck you, Jew. Of course you fucking kikes want people to speak nigger languages.

Started cycling to work.

Fucking hell I'm so unfit and weak. My legs have been like jelly all day.

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Practice

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>eating healthy and avoiding chemicals in water is schizophrenia

stay braindead, moron

Being yourself doesn't mean being yourself WHEN talking to women, it means being yourself and ignoring women to focus on being yourself. They will come to you, and talk to you, because they will be intrigued. I fucking cringe at the thought of some dude going up to a chick and saying "hey, i like pikachu, nintendo switch, and i have 3000 reddit karma points", or whatever the fuck.
Trust: if you be yourself the way things are outlined here, they will FLOCK to you.

Just keep dropping spaghetti until all the half decent women are taken?

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Not looking for anyone to gas me up just feeling proud and need to share. Live with mom still, last summer I only went into the backyard once to attempt to clean it or put it into working order. Of course it overgrew into a jungle. This spring I also let it get out of control, but a week ago I decided I had had enough. I really thought I didn't have to tools to accomplish it, but I went out and just started winging it, got down on my knees and just started plain ripping weeds out of the ground with my hands. You guys know the big lawn clipping paper bags? I filled almost 10 of those this last week. Now the backyard is looking real nice and I don't have much left to do. I feel like it's too late to try growing anything, not that I have any experience doing that. Live in Southern Ontario Canada, anyone know of some stuff I could plant that would finish before it started getting frosty out?

Wow you are pathetic...

Cycling is bad for your sperm production and it wouldn't surprise me if it lower t levels through the same mechanism (repeated low impact pressure around the testes/taint). Notice how most hipster soibois are also hugely into bikes.
If you want to get your legs stronger and improve their endurance then a combination of full body strength training (read starting strength or the Jow Forums sticky) and sprinting would be ideal.

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>Cycling is bad for your sperm production

Was this before or after men of the past who had no car and either had to cycle or walk also had 6 kids?

wear magnetic bracelets when you sleep. It fucks with the iron in your blood and aligns it in some way.
I sleep deeper and take a massive satisfying shit in the morning.

Google it

I mean it was only a basic practice for some of the most intelligent people that have ever lived, but what did those faggots know. Everyone should keep a commonplace book.

Is noporn (fantasising romantic sex with imaginary wife only) beneficial at all, or is the physiology of fapping the real problem?

>Dad how can I be as strong as wise as you?
>roll for it you little fagget

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Here's an easy rule: Is it productive?
Fapping? No
Fantasising? No
If it doesn't pass this test, it isn't worth doing. If you have to release tension, meditating and chatting with a friend are my gotos.

Walking and horsedrawn carriages were far more widespread than bikes in those days. Lower sperm count != infertility either but it certainly isn't desirable.

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I guarantee my sperm count is lower due to unavoidable chemicals and omnipresent pollutants than will result from 8 miles of cycling a day.

Yeah I definitely won't disagree with you on that, endocrine disruptors are rampant in the modern West.

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Task lists were really useful for me, something like EverNote or GoogleKeep. Once I'd been using it for about a year I couldn't believe I'd lived without it for so long. I get so much more done and good ideas don't fall through the crack anymore.

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pathetic

Nobody is ever going to write an article about how Jow Forums is full of losers who need threads like this. Why waste your time?

>self improvement is wasting time
You're not even trying goldberg

Meme flag = kike shill.

Looks like meditation is important boys.

YES

Good to know. I use EverNote as well, but I mainly use it for recording ideas on the fly.

Can confirm. It really is as easy as just starting a conversation. Most everyone just wants an excuse to empty their mind of their thoughts. Provide them that avenue and they'll slowly warm up to you.

You're just lazy!.... and so am I.... but once I stop procrastinating I'm going to learn Arabic or Swedish.

Does anyone here have experience beating addiction? I can't stop creating porn collections. I'll download tons of porn and create an elaborate archive, start to feel guilty and delete it all, then get horny and start over. How do I break the cycle of addiction when it's so good?

i personally don't see anything wrong with fantasizing, nor do i believe you can actively do anything against it. but generally, fantasizing leads to action, whereas watching porn keeps you from doing anything.

it's not political. At all. This is just blackmail. Look at all the fake posts and "roll" comments that do nothing but keep it bumped.

Nobody is ever going to write that article.

What do I do if my life is ok (comfy, albeit meh paying job) and I don't want for much, but I'm still dissatisfied and have no idea where to begin?

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My friend, you have become a Nietzschean. I recommend reading chapter 9, "What is noble", from beyond good and evil.

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You're stuck in cycle of failing to temptation and then guilt tripping yourself over and over again. It gets a little worse every cycle and in time it will slowly destroy your perception of self worth.
Two things you will need ,first is some kind of calendar where you can cross days and note advancements

Second is a kick. Same as with impulsive alcoholic you need something to snap you out of temptation and remind you to keep on track.

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>you need something to snap you out of temptation and remind you to keep on track.

Like what?

>How do I break the cycle of addiction when it's so good?
That's why you're addicted
Think about this
Do you want to be 45 someday and still addicted to porn?

Truth is that Jow Forums is full of autists who try to sort their lifes out, if this thread helps them, I'm all down for that. If they make news about how bunch of autismo kids try to get better at life then who really loses, kids who try to self improve or idiots who try to laugh at them ?

If you think there is shortage of such people look at how big of bestseller 12 rules of life was

>Do you want to be 45 someday and still addicted to porn?

Yeah but what if I quite and between now and age 45 I discover that life sucks and there was never any reason to quit? Then I have decades of missed porn.

I think the greatest help for me was folder with Jow Forums motivation. I made a rule that each time I want a pizza I had to go through the folder, each time I realised it's not worth it and kept it on the track.

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i agree roll posts are cancer, /sig/ is better when it's 300 posts of anons detailing their struggle and offering advice

>i have learned how to accurately shit into various containers one can find around the house
>this is an improvement

Where is the fucking inspirational music?

>Can't you endure a short period of time without escapism?
Why should anyone ever not read some classic? You realize that we tell the same moral tales as the old greeks did, but we got books and worldwide connection.
Not reading classical literature is a sure fire way of seeing civility fall.

Buy some kefir grains and make milk kefir for good gut health. It has all sorts of good bacteria and is way cheaper than buying probiotic capsules

Google: Kefir

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Accept Alice/Celty3D into your life. Everything else will fall into place.

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>basedboy mod moves thread to trash board nobody gives a damn about
This is how you knew we've been infiltrated. Better not let those anons improve themselves, lest they start being a threat. They're so bad at hiding how afraid they are.

bump

Based.

Does anyone else get frustrated when you’re on a family vacation and your improvement habits are stalled because of it?

I’ve been away for over a month and I can’t really catch a break with all the stuff we’ve been doing. This also means I haven’t been able to regularly pursue my normal habits that I feel would lead me to improving my life because of all the activities.

Because of all this, I feel like I’m mostly on a hiatus from improving involuntarily despite me really wanting to improve. On top of that I feel like I have to wait until I get back home to even start anything worthwhile. The good news is that I’m home in a few days, I guess I’m just venting, but it really is frustrating to have this mindset of improving in many different ways and not feeling able to do it for a set period of time. In my case, I’ve felt this way for the past month.

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