Drop your self improvement sauce, and nothing the basic things like how to win Friends, but something that really changed your life
Drop your self improvement sauce
Drop your self improvement sauce, and nothing the basic things like how to win Friends, but something that really changed your life
You already know what you should be doing differently. Self-Improvement books are at best seeking external permission to do something about it under the guise of constructing some personalized narrative or system to adhere to.
Atomic habits and deep work offer genuinely good advice.
All their advice can be boiled down to: break down your goal into small steps and remove distractions from your environment when working. Everyone knows this. The problem isn't how to be productive or any of this shit, it's figuring out what is actually worthwhile, what goal is actually worth enduring the tedium necessary to accomplish it.
100 years ago such goals were in abundance, whether you were a businessman, scientist, engineer, artist, etc. Now we live in a world where charlatanism and disingenuity is the default. Go ahead and name a worthwhile goal in 2023. There isn't one.
Nice excuse loser
Building a house in the woods and raising a family in it.
That's my goal
this cannot be done in 2023, I am sorry
land is the birthright of the rich frickers who lord over us, we are cast out
Literally not true
That's not the bottleneck. The bottleneck is finding a woman willing to raise children in the woods in the modern age.
Touching grass. Accumulating 2.1BTC. Having sex.
T.
Kafkas collected writings ie not his novels are a great way to screw your head back on
Lift weights
Self help is kind of a popular religion that is very empty.
The reason it is empty is because it is limited in scope. They may have some good advice about scheduling, for example. But will you follow it?
The kind of changes we want to make have to do with very deep, very complex and very hidden forces within the self. Usually we are battling things from childhood or very difficult world circumstances, or we may have mental or physical health issues. These are the forces that really drive our sense of "being held back." But we think it is the surface level stuff (I can never schedule my time right!).
It comes with life, knowledge and age and it never ends, we never figure out exactly who we are.
Read lots, try hard, ask the scary questions and do not be afraid of the truth. You need age, not self help, and age comes with time to all.
Strangely wise words to find in a place like this. Maybe Kieerkegaard was onto something however.
Fritz Perls - Gestalt Therapy Verbatim
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Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
Objectivism: the Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff
You need spirituality. Read the Bhagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, the Ashtavakra Gita, get into Vajrayana Buddhism.
Self-improvement, psychological approaches are like trying to untangle the Gordian Knot. Spirituality is actually taking your sword out and slicing it apart, just like Alexander the Great.
While you're doing this, learn to dance, a real dance, like salsa. Great excuse to talk to women, and it's a real confidence builder to walk up to a cute girl and asking her to dance.
Emile, on Education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
get off of IQfy
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha (1st edition)
What went wrong with the 2nd?