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Good self-help literature?

sexarchitectmosby · 2023-04-18T22:51:41+00:00

So, assuming that all Robert Greene-esque books are bad, what literature should I go to to improve myself and my life? Also, which books have benefited you the...

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April 18, 2023

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Title	Good self-help literature?
Author	sexarchitectmosby
Upvotes	3
Comments	5
Date	April 18, 2023 10:51 PM UTC (3 years ago)
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[–]ShelbySecretary 1 point2 points3 points 3 years ago* [recovered] (1 child) | Copy Link

[–]Soft-Neat8117 -1 points0 points1 point 3 years ago (3 children) | Copy Link

[–]sexarchitectmosby1 points 3 years ago [recovered] (2 children) | Copy Link

A couple of years back, I laughed at people who read them.

To my sophomorically intellectual mind, reading anything other than philosophy was for fools - or a chore.

But there’s a gap of understanding between them — they address different questions in life. Philosophy won’t address the behavioral questions, the good kind at least doesn’t say much about how to navigate relationships, not get exploited, achieve success, be the person who is and seems attractive to most.

Maybe these are not worthy pursuits — but after several harsh life lessons, I appreciated the writings which teach you more about life, and do so directly, unlike ambitious literature from the XIXth Century, so to say.

I think that when I acknowledged there was a lot to learn about how to be better at life, not philosophically but practically, and it demands humility, don’t get me wrong, I appreciated these books. Maybe you don’t need to learn any of these lessons — I found pieces of wisdom even in those books written for losers and dimwits, whether by Greene or Glover.

Hope that makes sense — wrote it in a hurry.

[–]Soft-Neat8117 0 points1 point2 points 3 years ago* (1 child) | Copy Link

To my sophomorically intellectual mind, reading anything other than philosophy was for fools - or a chore.

If that's what you're taking from my comment, that's not true. Where did I say I read philosophy, because I don't. I barely read books at all. But I have read self-help books in the past.

I do look down on many self-help books, but not because I think I'm intellectually superior. It's because I have read some and found that most of it is either generic advice propped up by a lot of fluff or endorses dangerous cult-like behavior (Funny how you mention Robert Greene, I remember reading his Art of Seduction book and I couldn't even get through the first chapter. It was clearly encouraging dark triad traits). Yes, sometimes there's some genuinely meaningful advice in there, but it's not usually worth sifting through all the crap to find it. Eventually, you get to the point where reading more self-help books is useless. Apparently you haven't reached that state yet.