Can you improve yourself with self help books if you apply the knowledge or is it mental masturbation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU1q0iZiS-s
The latter.
>>8203819
No you can't. If you do manage to, you were so terribly flawed in the first place that the little help you did get probably only helped lube up your ego.
The only self-help book worth reading is the one by Smiles.
>>8203819
HUNNA DOLLA BOOKMARK
>>8203819
that poor girl seems like a corpse
what did he do to her?
Any good book is a "self-help" book, if you are treating literature the way it's supposed to be treated.
And there are legitimately good self-help books around, like The Conquest of Happiness by Russell
>>8203915
They both look pretty empty inside. And that's how I know hedonism and materialism are ultimately empty roads
>>8203915
He sucked out all of her nawlidge
>>8203935
i think you have to be a special type of person (not necessarily a hedonist or a materialist but probably a materialist) to brandish expensive sports cars, money and "miss kentucky" all over the internet to apparently incite envy in others
>>8203915
her only job since birth has been to shut up and look pretty. she has made a career of it.
>>8203915
>what did he do to her?
rent her for a half hour
let's not misestimate this turd's power
he's a huckster who rents signs of success an hour at a time to tell people they can have these things too if they buy his sponsored self help books and give him some of the royalty
dude is probably upper middle class at best. he's an internet skeezer
>>8203915
nah that's just what the modeling/beauty industry does to women
Yes, but there's very little chance you would actually “apply the knowledge”. Self-improvement titles almost always fall in two categories, as far as I read; either they propose little changes to your life, and you improve yourself in a way it makes no discernible difference, or they build a ridiculously utopian man nobody can fit to, and you can't do anything but fail to comply with the requirements. In both cases it gives little help and will more likely be harmful and discourage you. Improving is a slow process, it requires years, dedication, and an overall healthy lifestyle. You need education, good manner, a sane social life. There's no tricks or short-cuts to be a better person.
>>8203935
Sure is summer
>>8204048
Sure is a lack of argument
>>8203935
I think Tai Lopez legitimately has a good life. While he's obviously fronting pretty heavily, he IS somewhat wealthy and gets to spend time with beautiful women
>>8204056
>he argues with people on a Polynesian wood carving bbs
>>8204002
no way is a legitimate beauty queen a prostitute
girls that hot in the US usually don't stoop that low, they can make more money modeling or marrying rich
>>8204065
>he IS somewhat wealthy and gets to spend time with beautiful women
That doesn't equate happiness. If only it was so easy...
>>8204070
You are quite innocent, have you never heard of luxury escorts? Many model are high-brow prostitutes, and many make much more money selling sex than modeling. It's an easy way to get a huge cash bonus whenever you want.
>>8204070
where did you read prostitute???
he hires her to be in his video for 30 minutes so it looks like these are the people he hangs out with
>>8204115
Fuck I remember that guy. I don't know how anyone ever thought he was anything but dead inside.
>>8203819
He encapsulates all things vulgar and offensive in American culture.
>>8204079
A good friend of mine from high school moved to Chicago and is a companion. She's one of those girls who has it all, looks, beauty, and talent. It's hard to become high end, but when you do you make stupid money for doing nothing but hanging off of a guys arm while wearing nice clothes and being able to hold intelligent conversation. Of course, she fucks them on occasion but very few want it, they just take her dates.
>>8204056
I recognize that gay blowjob.
>>8204149
>talent
>>8204079
>Many model are high-brow prostitutes, and many make much more money selling sex than modeling.
[citation neeed]
Depends on the book, and how precise it is. Lots of self-help books (especially the ones like "become a billionaire in 5 easy steps" or "how to make your life super awesome in just ONE MONTH!") are manipulative garbage taking advantage of miserable / lazy people who think they can fix their life being told exactly what to do from start to finish.
>>8204065
>mfw wealth has no correlation with income, apart from relative wealth
>mfw being rich makes you no more happy than being middle-class
>mfw we are still so deluded by the linear wellbeing correlation meme (aka inability to be satisfied) that we fail to see the happyness we already have
>mfw this fucks the rich up the most, because they "know" they SHOULD be more happy and try to force it, ultimitely throwing them into existential depression
>>8204220
Stoic philosophy was one of the few "self help" books (well collection of books) that actually helped me be happier for basically this reason, it's to make you aware that getting rich and living an excessive lifestyle won't satisfy you anyway.
There's a lot of merit in teaching yourself to be content in a society that idolizes unending ambition.
>>8204220
Living without adverity means all your troubles are you own fault. Realizimg tha isn't very pleasant if you suck at life, though I'd cerrainly choose it over being poor.
>>8204220
On the one hand:
>"Money may not make you happy, but it at least lets you suffer in comfort."
On the other:
>"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man." - GBS
I'd err in favour of the latter. In my experience, having dealt with possession, there is no real noticeable 'comfort' to be found in material things if you're legitimately suffering.
>>8204184
>gay
>>8204329
>feminine penis
>>8204240
>>8204248
You only need enough to make sure you and your family are healthy and have just enough comfort as to not be distracted from actually living and giving your children the chance to develope themselves freely. (And no, this does not mean spoiling them. That would be detrimental.)
And preferrably you have earned that necessary wealth in a way that does not harm your fellow man or future generations. And not in a way, which distracts you from actually living.
I don't see how you could need any more than that.
This whole "slave away (away from your family) so you can live it up when you retire" delusion is sad.
cars are fucking retarded. i would never befriend someone who talks about their fucking retarded car
>>8205091
Bookworm loser detected.
>>8203819
What does this dude sell, anyway? Does he have a product?is he the product?
>>8205709
He reviews self help books?
