/SIG/ Self Improvement General What positive thing did you do this weekend edition

Talk is Jericho

Sounds like a lot of work my man. You're basically saying in order to improve you need to have/do more.

Why?

Become a Fascist and understand Fascism and you will be successful.

fourhourworkweek.com/2016/03/23/josh-waitzkin-the-prodigy-returns/

Read Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

should having a psychadelic drug experience be on this list?

>What positive thing did you do this weekend
I worked
Started 3pm Friday and I finish 7 am monday
It's free to live here but damn I want to go to the gym at 5 in the morning

This channel has shit tons of university materiel for sure check it out:

youtube.com/user/nptelhrd/playlists

Also check out /lang/ over at /int/ if you want to learn a language

Last podcast on the left

Paranormal and horror topics talked about in a semi serious semi joking matter by three bro-tier middle-aged(?) guys, all of whom I think are professional comics

Where's the best place to pirate audiobooks? Or at least buy them cheaply?

I had a look at Audible but fuck paying £7.99 a month for one measly book token

myanonamouse.net/inviteapp.php

Used to be good a few years ago when I was using.

Whoever you are, you're cool.

I was posting these and when they stopped us I exiled myself from Veeky Forums....
Almost 2 years now.

Now I only check it every once in a while.
Did today... and wadaya know.

There's also this:
4chanfit.wikia.com/wiki//sig/_sticky
I don't have access to it, I think Financebrah created that one.

This is a good thing. Keep it up everyone.

Also, this image is
>Image Related

Save it, use it.

Oh man, I'm reading shit I wrote back then...
>Right now, I'm doing fairly well.

I'm doing awesome.
I'm thankful to Veeky Forums, because with lifting discipline I was able to 'unlock' the path to improve my life all around.

I've never been better.

We're all going to make it.

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How do you dream m8? I completely agree with everything you said and I do my best tof continuously improve but I am just missing that dream.

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i like the idea but most of those books aren't very good

visit the Veeky Forums wiki instead

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already can use manual

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this is books for self-realizing middle-aged women

Checked LIT sticky and didnt find anything in particular regarding the subject

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In last year I finished uni, went from fatso to skeleton to well-built, fixed my discipline, relaxed myself, and finally rose above family drama and issues that plagued my life before.
Coincidentally last few months things improved in family too.
Got a job starting January.
Overall I fucking grew up, maybe a bit late at 23 but in my region/country and seeing many other examples, it's not so bad.

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Oh and I totally lost the sloppiness I had before. Now I do things properly, I'm aware, don't know how to explain it.
Lifting helped me a lot in regards to all this.

Aphoristic literature is in the Veeky Forums wiki, and go to other boards for their recommended books, e.g. Veeky Forums, Veeky Forums, /g/, /ic/, /p/, /diy/ etc.

Most self-improvement boils down to this:

- Get fit and healthy (diet, sleep, exercise, meditate)
- Read and learn
- Develop some sort of positive thinking feedback loop (various authors have their own models and frameworks)
- Cut out bad habits, replace with good ones

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lifted, fucked my GF instead of cheating on her like I want to

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Roll me mother fucker I want to be a man

Learn to type using all your fingers.

There are a lot of courses, even specific to programmers.

TypeRacer is the best, in my opinion.

If feels powerful to write fast using all your fingers. Best skill investment I've done.

great googley moogley, looks like I need to get muh smoke one

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Recently, I've started dieting. I used to be a fat-ass, but I've wanted to improve myself and my own body-image on the road to true fitness. I've gone down from 210 pounds to 204 in 2 weeks, and I won't stop until I lose enough weight to feel attractive

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Just fucking kill me already

Wtf i'm no shape to ask a bitch out

What's your calories and marcos?

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Das Rollen

time to man up

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lets do this shit

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Rollin for the beer

First just want to say thanks this resource is on Veeky Forums didn't know these threads existed on here at all. Now as a question, lets say you are working on yourself but what about those bad days where you just fall back to alchol or weed?

>4chanfit.wikia.com/wiki//sig/_sticky
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I was looking through an old archived /SIG/ thread, and had just opened that goat picture when my gf asked what it was. I told her that I was looking through some old discussions I've had online and some stuff I contributed in the best motherfucking discussion place on the internet. The community in these threads was always amazing.

Then she asked about one of the goats in the picture.
> Blame world for selv vs. blames self for world.
Which reminded me to post this shit.

I just forgot to put it on there.

">Right now, I'm doing fairly well."
>I'm doing awesome.

Fuck yeah. How have you improved your life in the past year or two?

Has anyone taken a job in a new place away from all your family and friends?

I'm graduating and there are no jobs in my field where I live. I feel like if I uprooted myself to a new place I'd die of crippling loneliness eventually.

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Good on you man

Have you considered learning dvorak or whatever the other new one is called? If you want to put in some effort to type faster or with less effort.

Just do one thing early in the day, and do that one thing well for 1-2 hours. Also, meditate. It helps the most when it feels like things are toughest.
fourhourworkweek.com/2013/11/03/productivity-hacks/

Woops.
Here is another solid books recommendation, review, and notes list: sivers.org/book

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I came to this thread to post exactly this. This annon is 100% right.

IMO an essential reading list includes:
The Book of Pook
>mandatory for all males, this is a guide on male sexuality and contains essential information that almost all young males are (intentionally) not exposed to these days
Starship troopers
>An easy short read. A guide on morality and patriotism thinly veiled as a sci-fi novel.
I will teach you to be rich
>Semi outdated book on personal finance by a meme author. Main message is that you have no excuse for being an uneducated bitch about your finances just because you are young and weren't taught any life skills in high school.
The millionaire next door
>People who think/pretend they are rich are much different from actual rich people. This is a bitter red pill on wealth.
The fountainhead
>This can be a hard read due to the writing style. You will get severely triggered if you take the radical philosophy or actions of the characters too seriously.
Atlas shrugged
>The expert level version of the fountainhead. Read it but don't worship it. It's a parable, not dogma.

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I'm in cocoon mode and my only slightly social aspect of my life is when i go boxing 5 nights a week.

I usually train everyday sometimes twice a day simply because cocoon mode has given me tons of free time.

I'm fitter than ever; I work 48 hours a week and then have 4 days off with tons of time. Cocoon mode is the way forward.

Nice job user, just remember not to become limited. Isolation is the enemy of self improvement

I have no choice but isolation now Phampai; nothing else is enjoyable to me anymore. Grills disappointment and my friends and I don't connect unless I drink alcohol with them.

My dream is to fight in another country; I just missed out on fighting in america this year but next year I think I'll get taken over with my club.

I believe when i do meet THE GRILL; she'll be someone from down boxing; I need someone with decent old fashioned values rather than a party whore. I've had party whores and they're all boring beyond the obvious sex; but sex isn't worth the effort it takes to obtain.

Isolation breeds dispair. Cocoon mode is a meme that rationalizes unhealthy behavior.

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Joe than experience, I will admit some of the podcasts have tag guests but you can take your pick. Examples are pro MMS fighters like Jon Jones, or lifters like Louie Simmons.

It is also kinda not good for your health
We evolved as social species, like it or not

I fully expect a shittorrent, mainly to the tune of "fucking millennials..." but I'm still going to see if anyone can be so kind as to help a stranger.

>Anyone get over a quarter life crisis?

23yo britfag, got A levels in Accounting, business studies and maths, got accounting degree, worked as an assistant accountant for a year, quit 15 months ago and haven't done a single productive thing since.

The job itself was exactly as I expected it to be, had been expecting for years in fact, I just always hoped it wouldn't be as bad as I thought it would be. It was immensely dull and full of ass licking to keep people happy.

I've been really put off accounting as a career. I genuinely don't want to do it anymore. I fantasise about engineering, I'm a tinkerer, but I wouldn't know where to even start switching careers, and if I think about it I know I'll be in the same position but with added debt. I also fantasise about being an officer in the army, but I'm neither physically nor psychologically strong enough for it. I have all the right qualities in theory, but actually doing it would be a major issue.

I'm pretty much immobilised because I don't know what my next step is. If I went back to work after 12 months since my last job, I could have blagged that I took my last chance to finally get a gap year out of my system. Young, have a small amount of savings, between jobs, it would have been a perfectly fine excuse. Now the longer my break goes on, the more concerned employers will become. I don't even know what to go back to.

Only thing I can be proud of is I never took neetbux, I'm not a spender so all my earnings went into my bank, and I've been living off it since. It's obviously going to run out eventually though. I kind of wish I could use an exit bag and get it over with, but I don't want to hurt my family, and I'm the sort of clown than can never commit to a decision.

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Can't join the fit guild, says it don't exist or I don't have access to it. also arcitea.com/ in OP doesnt work

It's pretty obvious what you should do but you're just deceiving yourself.

Go back to work as an accountant. If you're truly unhappy, go back to school and figure out what you want to do. There's no debt if you pay for school as you go. Yes, you'll lose a ton of your time but that's better than being a neetfag.

I know you're right, I guess I just don't want to accept the inevitable.

Do you think it's worth seeing a GP? It's "free" in the UK, so wouldn't cost me anything. I don't want to be prescribed pills that fuck me over, but who knows, I might be prescribed something that takes the edge off my depression and lets me get on with life. I've never told anyone about my depression, nor seen a doctor about it.

Are there any options to go study engineering in the military? Those often give kickass experience and teaches discipline (which it seems you are wishing your).

Also, if parts of your degree was in math, how about programming? Which often doesn't even require a degree if you actually do the self study, though going to uni to study that isn't a bad choice either.

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What about psychology, is that free too?

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I looked into this when I initially quit my job. In fact it was one of the lesser driving forces for quitting. I wanted to use my time off getting up to army fitness standards and preparing myself for the interviews and what not I'd have to go through. That plan immediately went to shit though. If I were to aim to go into the military, I'd be basically barred from seeing a doctor about my mental health issues. You can't join if you've had depression in the last few years, I've never declared mine to anyone, not even my family, only anonymously online. There's a few things putting me off joining, reading other people's experiences dispel a lot of myths I fantasise about, I don't mean I'd be worried about being hurt/killed or anything, but in the army, there's even more boredom, and a tonne more ass kissing than my last job. I think it'd wear me out even more than my last job, except I'd be locked into a 4 year service contract minimum.

I don't think I'd be a good programmer. I have no creativity, I do most things by the book, like an accountant should. I've heard (mostly from /g/) that programming and tech jobs are really bad in general. I don't like the sound of that.

Thank you for your points though! I need to stress I don't want to just disregard advice and argue against it, you've given me some great things to think about. But the two specifics you've given I've already had long hard thinks about (you obviously couldn't have possibly known this), spent the last 15 months thinking about the army and put hours and hours of research into it, but I don't think it's for me. It's not that I want to disregard your advice, but I do have my worries/concerns about it. It's nice to have someone to talk things through with I guess.