/shg/ - SELF HELP GENERAL

[Anonymous No.20769745]

ITT we post the best self help books you've stumbled across.

My personal favorites include:
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris.

What are your favorites? Recommendations? What are the most effective improoovement concepts?
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Question of the day: What is the best Tony Robbins book?

[Anonymous No.20769880]

>>20769745
Self help books are just mastubartory in nature, they tell you what you already know along with a lot of falsehoods and misconceptions.

[Anonymous No.20769882]

>The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris.
What color's the bottom of that barrel, OP?

[Anonymous No.20769897]

Any books on being productive that aren't written by some blogger whose main accomplishment is writing a book on how to be productive?

[Anonymous No.20769899]

>>20769880
welp this is obviously cope, I'm sorry that reading so much literary fiction that you cannot make use of what you read

>>20769882
i too thought it was going to be cheesy rubbish, but i really liked it in the end. gave me a different perspective in a way. i liked that unlike most of these books it really argues against hustle culture and against self optimizitation as such

[Anonymous No.20769904]

>>20769897
why would you want that? most succesful people dont really know why theyre succesfull and if you ask them they come up with some stupid stuff that is survivorship biased af.

id rather ask someone who really tried to figure exactly this out

[Anonymous No.20770811]

>>20769745
Unlocking the emotional brain - Bruce Ecker

In my experience
Hard science > popular culture rule of thumb

[Anonymous No.20770830]

>>20770811
interesting, can u give a qrd?

[Anonymous No.20770853]

>>20769899
not that anon but how is it cope?

most people know how to actually live good:

study, work out, sleep right, eat right, socialise. its that simple. in fact you should paypal me 10$ for that alone

[Anonymous No.20770875]

>>20770830
qrd = how to physically change your brain. There are two types of neuro plasticity, most techniques only trigger the less powerful one.


This video gives the qrd in detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJrfsjT35UE

I highly recommend going deep on the topic, it will change your life especially if you have reoccurring behaviours you can't seem to change.

https://www.thescienceofpsychotherapy.com/memory-reconsolidation/
https://www.thescienceofpsychotherapy.com/sop-5-bruce-ecker-and-the-science-of-memory-reconsolidation/

[Anonymous No.20770906]

Pic related absolutely turned my life around. I managed to limit my visits to this board to 1-3 hours per month (which is quite a success coming from someone who used to waste 5h+ hours daily here). I got back into reading again and finally found motivation to do something with my life. However this was a month long process and I studied and sticked to the exercises in this book as autistically as I could. Generic bestseller books might be a good start but if you want genuine behavioural change, you need to put in a lot of work.

[Anonymous No.20770970]

>>20769745
Most self-help books are filled with useless anecdotes nobody cares to read about. Almost all of them could be cut by 75%, but they choose to fill the pages with worthless garbage. That's why I don't read self-help books.

[Anonymous No.20771342]

>>20770853
do you have cashapp? please do the needful and give me your paypal address good sir

>>20770906
thanks

>>20770970
good thing you decided to post ITT then