No.20075
We have the social skills advice, fit threads and what not but I want a general purpose thread for encouraging comrades to get ahead.
How to be resilient in the wake of capitalism, READ READ READ, discipline, batina and such other things, how to help those around you. Also share inspirational stories
https://wikiless.org/wiki/Rakhmetov?lang=enThis even if fictional was pretty inspiring for Lenin, he read the thing 5 times in a summer
No.20079
>>20075Anon I know you mean well but… USE THE MOTHERFUCKING CATALOG
>>3525 >>10732 No.26259
Bump of interest
No.26260
I don't like the term "self-improvement".
No.26261
Dudes how do I sit down and read theory I struggle to complete books, do I just start small like 30mins a day then increase it slowly?
No.26262
>>20079Tbh those threads are dead and also really shit
Plus OP is specifically asking for commie self-improvement
No.26263
Did you make this thread because of that /leftypol/ thread regarding self-improvement?
>Revolutionary Catechism
Holy based
No.26264
>>26261Read for as long as you can handle, be it 30 minutes or an hour, but make sure to make a habit out of it. Also, make sure to take plenty of notes, helps me digest what I'm reading a lot better.
No.26265
>>26261Yeah just do it bro, there's no easy answer. Try to do just 10 minutes of reading, without checking your phone, zoning out, build from there.
No.26275
>>26261What matters is reading consistently; turning it to something that starts to fit into your agenda, rather than reading many/few pages at a time.
Instead of grabbing a phone when bored, pick up your book, which you should carry out whti yourself.
No.26276
>>26275>whti Meant "with".
No.26307
revolutionary catechism is a complete meme
No.26308
i want to read books but i abhor reading it on my laptop
any ways to make it better without buying shit?
No.26309
>>26308>any ways to make it better without buying shit?Without buying anything you'd need to change things like how bright the screen is, what colours are displayed etc. I even put on the night light mode sometimes as I find it's easier on the eyes
If you dont mind spending a little? Buy an E-book ASAP
That said, you'll never beat having a physical copy of a book tbh
No.26310
>>26309>E-bookan ebook reader I mean. I have a kobo and it's okay but might upgrade to something more.. responsive? soon. It's a bit laggy
No.26502
Based thread OP, sure there will be some fags who think "muh Self-Improvement" is le fascist cause some gymbro called him a fag once, seriously Hitler thought drinking water was nice, that doesn't make water is bad
No.26503
>>26502It's really is fascist guilt tripping "muh bootstraps" bullshit tbh
No.26504
fascism is when there's a self tbh
No.26509
>>26508Self-improvement is when the government does stuff
No.26510
>>26509Self-improvement sometimes has to be forced, usually by your parents and if the parents are too soft do it then the state has to step in, maybe not force it but encourage(which is what China seems to be doing)
No.26511
>>26510I think you are confused, it is not "self-improvement" if it is forced by someone else. The whole point of "self-improvement" is that it is self-directed. That's why it is "self-improvement" and not just training.
No.26512
>>26511not everyone has the drive, for a society it has to become part of the norm
No.26652
>>26651>Patriot Frontlmao
No.26655
>>26652I know trash, but still I'm talking about certain methods about training is something we need to apply
No.26659
>>26655I don't think that 'just get fit lmao' is really gonna appeal to anyone on the left that isn't already fit tho
No.26660
>>26651In Europe there are antifa MMA clubs but they are too based for /leftypol/.
No.26667
as a useless anxious little freak how can i "get" the mindset needed to go to the gym, i dont like being surrounded by people and i dont like pain either
No.26673
>>26667you don't have to go the gym bruh, my uncle is 52 years old and the fittest guy I know(can run 5 miles easily, do over 150 push ups, benches 100kg) and he works out at home only
I know I'm not gonna sound like a reddit user by quoting bojack horseman, you gotta start out small, gradually increase your workouts and It gets easier, everyday a little its easier, but you gotta do it everyday that's the hard part, but it gets easier
No.26674
>>26660>In Europe there are antifa MMA clubs but they are too based for /leftypol/.yeah, I'd believe it
No.26746
>>26744uhhhh sweetie fashion is both form and function not form over function
No.26782
>>26745>>26746Whatever fags they look great and you can die unfashionably mad
No.26831
>>26793The fact that I couldn't tell the difference between arabs and people who were supposed to be French, maybe a good indicator that Nazi ideology might not be the best fit to France
No.26832
>>26831the sheer burgerity emanating from this post
No.27050
>>26832I'm Pakistani and most of them look swarthy and brown, for us white is white northern europeans
No.27547
What does this thread think of Semen Retention? Is there a reason why most religions discourage masturbation and encourage sexual abstinence/control?
No.27635
>>27547I don't believe in any of the mumbo jumbo of magical powers, but over masturbation is bad for your brain and you can start cooming to some disgusting shit, my solution is keeping some nice vanilla porn downloaded on my laptop
No.27636
>>27547Masturbation can be a coping mechanism for other parts of your life not being good. Otherwise it seriously doesn't matter. Abstinence can help you be more mindful and practice restraint, which can help you be more open to delayed gratification. There are more immediate ways to improve your life more significantly than semen retention. Don't fall for that shit.
No.27660
Is there a non-bread alternative to the burger bun?
Also wasn't there some /fit/ thread but full of twinks? Feel like I'm going crazy trying to find it since that was the most active fitness thread on the site.
No.31102
>>26651Aren't 90% of people on the far right under the age of 40 either morbidly obese or extremely skinny wimpy 29 year old neets who shit their diapers if their moms tell them no chicken tendies tonight ??
No.31103
>>31102the same could be said of the left, fat LARPers are present in both camps
No.31109
>>31108How's your room looking?
No.31110
>>31109like jordan peterson's. i had the slight urge, then it passed shortly after
No.31352
>Meditation by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Check out this book, highly recommended.
No.31358
>>31352Awful meme book
>>31355Based and Marx-pilled
No.33976
>>31102no its actually 95%
No.33977
in my experience gardening can be great form of self improvement
>exercise
>care for other living things
>literally touch grass
>creates schedules
>socializing with the gardening community(v nice people)
>way more in touch nature
>also literally improves the land and ecosystem
No.33978
>>33977Agree with everything except that last line. I mean it's technically true but it's on such a small scale. Also most "gardeners" are the exact people maintaining the pesticide-riddled monoculture we currently live with
No.33985
>>31354Post core Seneca and other Stoic meme texts pls
No.33988
>>33982
>nothing that humans do will ever come close to natural succession.
Not true at all lol. If you understand even pretty well how succession works there are a lot of things you can do to speed it up. Nature can only do as well as what has evolved, and evolution can't come in and design things. Humans can. (ignoring that humans are part of nature lol) For example you can massively accelerate the formation of soil by pre-mulching biomass that normally would have to take years to rot first.
No.33990
>>33989
Dig the mulch through the soil retard bury some wood bone and charcoal in with that shit
No.33991
>>33982
yeah ig I overlooked that when garden its explicitly for habitat restoration and I only plant natives
No.33996
>>33978That's not true. Dont be so pessimistic. Even one house can be a haven for rare birds and insects to help maintain the population
No.34018
>>31354 >>31352The more I got into the stoics the more I realized it was the most cucked philosophy to exist because of its insistence of living according to the logos. The idea that you can only control your reaction to things and not the things in themselves is
mostly right, however the whole "don't worry about pain just bear it, the universe is in harmony and remember that everything is as it should be :)" encourages you to not thing about
anything, to just give up on influencing the world around you. Is it any surprise that an emperor would be a fan of a philosophical system that claims his high status in society is just the state of nature? And for Epictetus, a former slave, it's perfectly understandable that he would find in Stoicism a way to justify his suffering in a way that makes it easier to bear, not too different from what eventually became the Christian response to living in misery. "Oh, I might be living horribly now, but that's just because God is testing me, everything is as it should be. I must be strong, for the reward in Heaven is great." It's a perfectly understandable thought process, though for a communist that understands the world is not in an immovable, eternal state and that suffering
does have a cause you can address, it is mostly useless.
With that being said, I am convinced absolutely no dudebro peddling "Stoicism" nowadays has ever read a word of the Stoics beyond quotes they found placed on pictures of landscapes on google. I think it might be just because being "stoic" is considered a manly quality and the dudes just want to be considered manly. They take the whole "be in control of your emotions, learn to bear the pain" part because they think it's cool, but completely divorce it from its theological and philosophical basis that the Stoics used to justify it in the first place!
>>31355Marx and Nietzsche approved, read this instead. I still have some hope in my heart that someday, somewhere, they're going to find some intact copies of his writings buried in a cave somewhere or some shit instead of the fragments we currently have to work with, together with Heraclitus' works. I cry everytime
No.34226
>>26261Reading is a learned skill like anything else. It takes time and dedication to get good at it. To read faster, to retain more information, to imagine the content of the message, all are things that take time for your brain to adapt to getting better at. this is why /lit/ has the meme “read more” but in actuality, it’s more nuanced than that. To get to a point where you can burn through capital or rhetoric or phenomenology of spirit, generally speaking, you’ll want to work up to it. Not only by making it a habit every day bit by bit, longer and longer, but also in the complexity of the work you read. There’s a reason an entire generation is stuck on YA, it’s because it’s easy. Those people read as much as others watch TV, but because they don’t push themselves to more complex works they never work their way up. As far as theory goes there are plenty of easier works to get through before tackling the big dogs. David Graeber comes to mind. His writing is modern, his prose is solid, and he weaves anecdotes in to keep you interested. His books are long and it will take many days to get through, but reading is more about the journey than it is the completion of something. Every word is more information than you had before. I’d also suggest getting into fiction if you are struggling to read every day as a way to build the habit and grind stats, so to say. Catch 22 was one of the funniest books I’ve ever read, and I kept going back to it simply because it was fun to read. You may also want to check if you need reading glasses. Reading without eyes that work is off putting and will subconsciously Pavlov you into not wanting to do it. When you finally get to reading those thick books I’d suggest you use the methods from How to Read a Book. Where you use the table of contents and outside sources (like Wikipedia) to quickly understand the scope and general idea of the work. It’s much easier to travel when you know the destination.
>>26485I highly suggest the book Make It Stick. Written by psychology researchers focused in memory who use their knowledge of the field to boil down the tactics and misconceptions of learning to a readily applicable form.
>>26667This is something completely about you that we cannot properly give specific useful advice on. I can try, but I think you need to do some contemplation on your self image kinda thing. When I first started going to the gym I hated how fat and weak I was and didn’t want to be around others. But I started reading books and watching tutorials on how to do things and when I looked at routines I started seeing the increase in weight as leveling up. That it was material physical fucking progress I was making. I loved it. I finally had an effect on something. Then, over time, I started looking better in the mirror. My weight didn’t change, but my composition did. It was a big boost to my confidence and helped with other parts in life, but it was the actual gamification and the post workout high that made me keep going back. I started learning from others and started sharing with others too. It was an awesome little community of people wanting to see each other get better. I know that’s a hurdle, and maybe you should just start doing easy stuff at home. Get some cheap free weights and see what curls tris and flys can do for you. Kettle ball squats maybe? I don’t really know. I hope you find the thing that psychologically unlocks your potential, because I’ve learned that physical activity is fun once you get over the hump of being an out of breath and out of shape loser. Maybe join a fencing team? Stabbing people is fun and it’s like physical chess.
>>27660Corn tortillas, street size. Cut the patty in half. Now it’s a lil baby taco.
C’mon, comrades. Self help threads are just people sharing personal experience and info they have found that helps them become better at the things they thing are important. What is important is defined by your ideological predispositions. We are all comrades, we want to be smart and strong for all those that can’t be.
No.34228
>>31355Really interesting shit! I'm reading the wiki article. Apparently he believed in an "atomic swerve" that meant that the universe wasn't deterministic which allowed for free will. This is something that people have argued today, regarding quantum mechanics. I disagree and think that physical determinism is compatible with "free will", but seeing the argument made eons ago is really something! Also everything he says about how to achieve a nice life, my god! Very good shit. I will need to read this.
No.34229
>>34226>Make It Stick.pdf/.epub?
No.34234
>>34226Great post. Thanks.
No.34235
>>34229I don't have a copy on my computer, but I assume it's on libgen or something.
>>34234Gambatte, Senpai. Anything you have found helpful over the years or have current issues with?
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