yeah yeah whatever

>>24479762 (OP)
Yes, though not for eighteen hours a day. Men like this fill themselves with other people's lives and never end up being or doing anything on their own. Reading is valueless if it doesn't inform your future actions.

>>24479762 (OP)
This is the best instruction guide on how to destroy your life I've ever seen

Guys like this get destroyed by anyone with half a wit that's had some beer. It's much more useful to learn how to drink.

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>>24479807
ngmi

>>24479819
go back to your studies and stop posting on 4chins

>>24479772
>>24479781
t. just gonna scroll on 4chan anyway

>>24479840
You're right here with us.

>>24479762 (OP)
Hmm no. Think I'll stick to reading my 40 pages a day of genrekino.

>>24479762 (OP)
I wanna see the “competence” of a guy trying to fit in Goethe and “early 20th century medical textbooks” into a conversation. Clearly they’re jobless so it would have to be online I guess.

>>24479880
I genuinely can't tell what reason there could be besides personal interest to read premodern instructional biology/medical writing.

>>24479880
>conversation

lol, lmao. Here's what you do, just start talking about anything you've read. If you're good at it and know what you're talking about very few people will be able to break away. You don't need them to reply.

>>24479762 (OP)
Cuckold clown

>>24479939
It makes complete sense that an autist who thinks this is good advice would be unable to tell macabre fascination and polite silence isn’t the animal magnetism he’s been reading about.
But go on bro, regale us with one of your impromptu lectures on Goethe that people find so irresistible.

>>24479762 (OP)
>18 hours a day
Do you even retain information over that period? I thought modern studies on this sort of thing showed that learning in bite sized amounts aids retention.

>>24479939
Had someone do this to me over dinner a little while back at a family get together. Left me feeling exhausted and barely remembering what he was talking about by the time I got home.

>>24479990
All the benefit is to the speaker using you as a tool for his memory and speech. Pretty based

>>24479880
Probably a lunatic who thinks all modern medicinal science is fraudulent and we must look to 20th century textbooks for help

>study 18 hours a day
>reflect 0
He should've read Schopenhauer's 'On Education', 'On Reading' kek

>>24479762 (OP)
I've noticed that competence is its own thing. Apart from intelligence, wisdom, and even practice. It seems to be closer to a personality trait, rather than something accrued. Sure, sure: intelligence and practice is what gives competence its motion, but the essence itself is much more subtle and fixed.

i'm getting fucking competent. its so hard being competent consuming primarily abstract intellectual books rather than like instruction manuals but I have to make it happen

>>24479762 (OP)
No. I read for fun. I read fantasy books and sci-fi classics. Sometimes I read a philosophy book like Meditations or Art of War. If my casual reading ever becomes "study" please throw me in the nearest sewer.

>>24479992
So based dude everyone you ever interact with thinks you're an insufferable autistic retard (you are) and you don't actually do anything meaningful with your life because you are too busy memorizing tomes. I bet you'd have lovely times conversing with the sperg who likes to rattle off airplane specifications for hours on end, or maybe the guy who is an expert in extended universe Battlestar Galactica lore. You can all talk over each other with your insipid obsessions. Lovely!

>>24479762 (OP)
>"sharpening your mind on nietzsche" is like trying to polish a stone with instant Ramen noodles.

>>24479762 (OP)
Maybe a little ketamine now and again, then back to 48 hours a day of Carl Gustav Carus in the original german

why would you study outdated medical textbooks

bump

>>24480415
Does he look wise to you?

>>24479762 (OP)
he has not read any of the authors he mentioned.

>>24481490
its called vibe reading

>>24481650
what does that even mean

>>24481657
you explore books and thinkers based on their vibes more than every single little sentence/chapter written

I would have needed to do something like that a decade ago for it to work. It's too late for me now.

>>24479762 (OP)
>“At twenty years of age, I had already learned everything I needed to know.”

Just give up if you arent competent already.

>>24479762 (OP)
>Early 20th century medical textbooks
Why? I don't need textbooks that tell me that the lobotomy is a miracle cure

>>24479762 (OP)
yes and no

>>24479762 (OP)
>Law
If you actually do law, you already work those hours.

>>24479887
The fact that modern medical education is extremely compromised and counter to the true facilitation of health doesn't ring a bell?

>>24479880
>>24479887
Landshark is a bulgarian faggot medical student. He's talking about competence IN UR FIELD. He also didn't mention bringing it up into conversations at all.

>>24483809
No, that's a schizophrenic opinion that doesn't bear consideration.

>>24479990
>>24479992

you need to build your defenses against autistic/egotistical social parasites, anon. Escalate to low-key meanness and rudeness to short-circuit them and stop them talking.

>>24479807
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>>24483964
retards, all of you have been filtered.

>>24484192
t. Fagshart

>>24484192
>filtered by the clearly tongue-in-cheek post that isn't literally asking you to do any of this

>>24479772
>"Reading is valueless if it doesn't inform your future actions."
>I must put into action everything I read
>Therefore I mustn't read for the sake of reading
>Therefore I must be very selective that I only read that which can be put into action
This is what normies think and this is why they read Rich Dad Poor Dad and the 48 Laws of Power

>>24480415
it's black luke smith

>>24479762 (OP)
nofap? just coffee and shitposting ?

>>24484093
I spot the low-keyness and pretend I didn't. It excites my predator instinct – I am now El Candido, a wolf in sheep's clothing. This is how I proceed to rape your mind and your time with my ramblings. I even get a few insights about myself out of this. You get stripped of everything, including your dignity.

>>24485221
I don't mean it like that. It's not a strict tool, I just that if you're not using reading purely as escapism from misery you need to leave time to live your life.

>>24485221
You are totally off the mark and I confess im also having a hard time grasping my way around what you just said
>>24479772
>valueless if it doesn't inform your future actions.
this plays with semantics in an odd way but the point is that it illustrates well how if you keep reading books like that loser in OP's pic your own perspective of yourself or literature turns into a powerpoint slideshow. How do you interpret this as not reading for the sake of reading? are you sure you agree that reading for reading's sake means reading 18 hours a day? reading and deeply enjoying an important book at an important time, so lets imagine a transformative experience, can often lead you to put down the book and immediately be aware of how the world has changed. That is part of what reading for the sake of reading is; you interact with art, you get inspired, and then you do things, out there, in the world. It doesn't directly 'inform', but it does guide your following actions.
Now by the way you replied it is quite clear that you would rather idealize the idea of grinding 18 hours a day so here i ask you to look again at
>valueless if it doesnt inform your future actions
isnt the way you treat books under the preestablished governance of your system and your approach to books that tells you that once you finish reading this book you put it on your goodreads and then you tweet about it?

but perhaps you would instead listen to the firelink shrine ost in ds3 while reading Yvain and then when you re done with it you climb up the ladder and place it on the medium to highest shelf in your scriptorium and you forget that you start interacting with knowledge only after you kick down the ladder.