Resting Up for the Week Edition

>What is SIG?

Self Improvement General started years ago as a means to help people achieve their dreams and to stop being helpless. We share knowledge, resources, and above all a commitment to be the best versions of ourselves.

>How do I participate?

Easy! You become a regular in the general. Adopt a posting style, a character you associate yourself with, and then hop in the general whenever you see it to update us on your progress!

>What should I improve?

Anything! Talk about fitness goals, finance, talk about your book, college, dating, ect.

I'm trying to get disability for being retarded but I'm not retarded how else could I self improve?

HEY WE STILL NEED BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! RECOMMEND A BOOK YOU FEEL LIKE HAS INFLUENCED YOUR LIFE AND WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So far we have
"Never Split the Difference"
"7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
"Stoner"
"American Psycho"
"Sun and Steel"
"the ScrewTape Letters"
"Love That Dog"
"Facing the Dragon"
"Wonderful Fool"
"Man and His Symbols"
"Zarathustra"
"Bhagavad Gita"
the Holy Bible
"Myths to Live By"
"Home Repair and Improvement Bible"

>>81816739
How old are you? Do you live at home? Do you have any work experience?

>>81816739
If you move into a halfway house you can claim homeless and get welfare and foodstamps. In california your health insurance has to pay for a halfway house so if you still have your parents insurance you can do this

Tomorrow the exam for my driver's license. Please wish me luck, Anons.

For the rest of my day, unfortunally I wasn't very productive. My father is gone for the next week and without him (living on the arse of civilisation) I am not able to get to the gym in next town without conducting a longer march I didn't feel motivated for. So I was stuck at home scrolling through social media and feeling melancholic as always because my retarded mind forgot I wanted to do at least a few pushups and pull ups (with the table) at home. Looking at the bright side, I didn't touch any of the video games I have for weeks now, so at least my video game addiction can be considered cured now.

Ordered a book tough which deals with the deconstruction of certain notions inside the ,,Western academic" community regarding colonialism. So when it arrives, at least I'll be distracted from my phone once.

>>81816776
hiiii this is my current reading list!!
Beyond Good and Evil
Politics
Groundwork for the Metaphysics of
Morals
How to Think About the Great Ideas
The Iliad
The Brothers Karamazov
Historical Books of the Bible
The Prince
The Concept of the Political
Discourses on Livy
Democracy: The God That Failed
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Men Among the Ruins
The Meaning of Conservatism
The Managerial Revolution
The 48 Laws of Power
Violence and the Sacred
The Art of War
The Book of Five Rings
Bigger Leaner Stronger
Sun and Steel
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Road to Character
The Art of Violin Playing
Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
Sexual Personae
Iron John
The Way of Men
The Aeneid
The Divine Comedy
Faust
Coriolanus
The Secret History
Pale Fire
The King in Yellow
The Magic Mountain
Runaway Horses
Ficciones
Self-Made Man
The History of Sexuality
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess
Civilisation (Clark)
Art and Revolution
The Renaissance (Pater)
The Decline of the West
The Consolation of Philosophy
Letters to Lucilius
I Am Code
The Fifty Year Sword
The Ego and His Own
The Bhagavad Gita
Kama Sutra
The Educated Imagination
The Abolition of Man
Revolt of the Masses
Leisure the Basis of Culture
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Tarnsman of Gor

>>81816863
Good luck on your exam tomorrow, Etzel! :3

What are you improving for, Jazz?

>>81816875
No reason, no getting put on the list!
Sorry Anon, I know you mean well but the point isn't to just copy /lit/'s required reading list (could just ask kilo for that), the point is that the actual people in the list bring personal books that have already impacted them!
Wanna try again? Give the title AND the reason

>>81816899
My goal was to revive the Self Improvement General on /r9k/, and I did!!!!!!!!!! :3
My life's pretty great to be honest, wanna get better at certain lifts and do more cardio

>>81816879
Thanks, I'm not particularly optimistic, but I'll try my best. And if it fails, there is always another time. Don't have much at hand currently anyways.

>>81816908
wow! you're an enormous bitch!

>>81816945
You seriously can't recommend ONE book straight from the heart? At all?

>>81816977
The musashi novelization. It's episodic like monte cristo and it has lot's of good lessons. You will also see the story archetypes were all used in anime and movies. For example there is a yojimbo/fistfull of dollars chapter.

>>81816926
my goal is to marry jazz!

>>81817053
I'll add it to the list! Thanks for taking the time to think :3
>>81817057
I'll kill you!

>>81816726 (OP)
>Self-Improvement General
>continues to use AI instead of learning how to draw

>>81816977
One book I personally enjoyed reading was ,,Woyzeck" from Georg Buechner. A stageplay, unfortunally unfinished, but the open ending actually works in its favour dealing with the Protagonist's descent into madness (in Germany it also often gets jockingly compared to Works like ,,American Psycho" or "Falling down" because of the similarity in themes). I don't know if there is an English version out there, if you insist, I can search for it. There is also the movie adaption which faithfully (altough with some historical inaccuracies which are irrelevant in the larger scheme of things) translates the story between the different mediums.

Alternativly, there is also ,,The Visit" by Friedrich Duerrenmatt. Also a German stageplay, but nonetheless very nice to read. To my knowledge there is an English Version for free on the internet.

>>81817130
Yeah, I'm not really interested in art!
I teach middle school health and athletics so a lot of my time is spent keeping up with all that good stuff :3 if I wanted to be an art teacher I'd go study it!

>>81816726 (OP)
What if you don't want anything?

>>81817162
It's an interesting question.
Have you ever just given up? Completely? Laid face down on the ground/dirt/your bed and just completely stopped everything?
You can for a while, eventually your animal brain will kick in and desire for the raw basics. You'll have to piss, you'll have to shit, you'll have to eat, you'll want to clean yourself, ect. You came out of the box with all of these sort of "non-negotionables".
So at a minimum you'll always choose to do that stuff. It is a /choice/ by the way, you can /ignore/ the biological needs with your higher brain sort of saying "No" but eventually that "no" WILL become a yes.
It's the same thing with suicide. Actual suicidal people just do it, y'know?
Do you mean, what if you don't want anything MORE than basic survival stuff? You could totes just be "a guy" who works at a diner and lives in a hole-in-the-wall apartment and has a bad car and no hobbies and just blasts weed/drugs/alcohol until he has to go live in government assisted housing before death.
Is that want you want? Genuinely? Then go for it! It's not really the hardest life to obtain lol
I thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink you want more though. Somewhere, deep inside you, is that little boy who had dreams :3 what did you want to be when you grew up?
If it was just "alive" then great job!!!!!!!! You made it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now what?

>>81817255
>Actual suicidal people just do it, y'know?
I know, I was caught because I tried to go downstairs, passed out and made a hell of a ruckus falling off the stairs waking everyone up, I was retarded but I wasn't trying to get caught

>>81817311
If I told you I was happy you were here, would you believe me?
Would it even matter?

Guess I'll introduce myself ITT in case I post more
I'm a 24 year old loser trying to fix myself, I've usually never been able to do anything unless forced because I severely lack confidence. My goal is to have my own place but I don't have a job, drivers' license, or any real life friends besides my counselor, so it's pretty rough.
For now, I'm focusing on building confidence beforehand however possible. One way is hoping to find a girl through a dating app who can be a friend (I don't have any decent hobbies for meeting people normally, my only "talent" is playing vidya)

>>81816726 (OP)
brute forcing the debugging of my project with AI because I haven't coded for a decade as I had to tackle more urgent stuff
purists seething, meanwhile I'll have AI explain the code to me thoroughly so I will be able to understand and program it on my own anyway

>>81817352
What games do you like to play? My mom plays CandyCrush & Pokemon Go, I play friendslop with my friend on Discord but he always kicks my butt :P
I'd love to follow your journey here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What area of your life are you gonna tackle first?

>>81817429
AI is great! I use it for my lesson plans at school (just the formatting lol, I do all the concepts by hand)
Do you have a lot of people in your field who hate AI?

>>81817352
start with your license, and start it asap, it will make everything else easier and give you a confidence boost on top, gl anon

>>81817546
are u worried about any of ur pupils becoming r9k robots or fembots

>>81817546
worldwide - yes.
locally - no. half the guys programming better than me are AImaxxing. they're a bit secretive about it tho, for obvious reasons.

all the sensible global pro concerns are around when security and sensitive data is being outsourced to AI code generation without understanding even the risks. nobody cares if a service had boilerplate code generated if its customer and password access ended up being done properly.

> (just the formatting lol, I do all the concepts by hand)
good, since it always IS best to reach a level in the field/niche/mindset/principles that AI never even suggests about unless promoted, first. otherwise one WILL have AI, not themselves, as both the crutch and the spearhead. many such cases. such are risks of the menial labor expert systems

>>81817328
Not at all but I'm also not suicidal, I did that shit years ago and never tried again, they successfully spooked the shit out of me when they drive me to a mental hospital and made me speak with the director who told me they would lick me up there if I ever tried to kill myself again
I have enough money to not have to work and that money will double after my inheritance trial is done (about 3 months) I'm also getting my father's savings and new truck which I'm going to sell
I'm an oldfag (32) and I regret not having the life I wanted even tho it wasnt my fault, I was fucked from the start, I see young people around and I wish I could have had the life they are living but I can't turn back the clock
So I don't want anything because I just want to be young and happy and I can't get that anymore, nothing could ever make it up for me, nothing can ever be enough to make me forget how I was forced to live my life

>>81817642
>worldwide
and I mostly mean just some leetcode virtue signalers or old snobs who don't even know you could run an LLM locally without additional security risks

>>81817615
Not really. I think the era of /r9k/ being primarily dedicated to robots and robots in general are a dying breed. I think it was a unique blip in United States culture.
There's just too many resources out there to lift yourself up out of the darkness. Looksmaxxing, endless fitness posts on social media, everyone sharing the most insanely easy to make cheap & healthy foods, ect.
I think people are more superficially connected than ever with social media but obviously we're all pretty fundamentally alone at the end of the day. I've been only teaching a few years but I think the age of social outcasts will be over in a few generations.
Is that dumb?

>>81817509
>What games do you like to play?
TF2, some racing games recently, and also whatever my online friends convince me to try pretty much.
>What area of your life are you gonna tackle first?
Finding a support network or at least someone to confide in is what I'm going for. But it's hard for a weirdo like me who always avoided social interaction.
I don't know when committing to the actual tasks I need to do is going to feel less terrifying, but all I can do is hope I make it.
>>81817606
Alright. Just sucks that I need to rely on my parents letting me drive with them to practice.

>attention whore general

>>81817710
Oh no ahhhhhhhhhh the boisterous tomboy is giving everyone 5-8 sentence replies per post and is engaging with everyone ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh someone save me

>>81817710
Wouldn't this be the opposite of an attention whore if she's just replying to everyone very enthusiastically?
Keep it up Jazz

>>81817730
>>81817749
>simping for the avatarfag

>>81817710
Actually, it's a self improvement general!
Did you know that the year is more than 52% over? How are you gonna spend the later half of 2025?

>>81817684
thats what your parents are for, get the basics down with them and then just do the little things, like grabbing takeout or doing a shopping trip etc, you can do it, and youll be fine, also your family is your support network, theyre stuck with you regardless and if theyre not complete shit theyll want to see you succeed

>>81817684
motivation protip: move out and cut any contacts with family. no safety network gets you to face reality quick

>>81816726 (OP)
I'm fat so I went for a long walk earlier even though it was hot. I also shaved my head, changed my bedding, and collected my laundry. Small wins. Cheers all.

>>81817837
My father doesn't believe in me at all and is pretty much the reason why I've never had confidence in the first place. He failed as a parent, he's the kind to look at more successful young people and blame me for not being like them
>>81817861
That's what I want. I am tired of living so dependently on them. Problem is that I entirely rely on others to even get to that point where I can

>>81817872
How fat are you?
After a month of dieting and light exercise and old shirts starting to fit I finally decided to check, I'm 260 at 6'0.
I wear it well, almost no double chin at all or George Lucas esque neck look.

>>81817920
I'm 6"1 and weigh about 300lbs. My kryptonite is junk food, Monster, donuts, pizza etc. I love it all. Exercise has always been a part of my routine, but am a proper junk food addict.
>George Lucas esque neck
lol I can picture what you mean
Idk why anyone would shave their beard that high up when their neck looks like that

>>81817674
i think there will always be ppl who will fall through the cracks ;(

Is there a vent thread on 4chan? I thought /r9k/ would be the most appropriate place for one, but I couldn't find any in the catalog.

>>81816776
>>81816879
>>81816908
>>81817328
You're very cute, AI-slop nona. I'll keep coming to these threads just for you.
>HEY WE STILL NEED BOOKS
I bet the The Myth of Sisyphus (or any other book by Camus) would resonate with a lot of anons. However, probably the "books" that have helped me the most are shitty fanfics that kept me entertained and distracted during some dark years. So I'm in debt to those grannies from the 70s that shipped Spirk or whatever.

>>81818245
>mfw I read the stranger, the road, the bhagavad gita and both jurrassic parks (again) in rehab

>>81817710
Oh no! She replied to everyone but you? Don't worry, here's your (You).

>>81818280
Incredibly based book list. You have to mix some Jurassic parks/fanfics as a form of sparkling mineral water to cleanse the palate between courses.
How's life after rehab going?

Even though I wouldn't call Christianity a "self improvement" guide, at least not primarily, it does seem to impress itself upon me anytime I read the Bible, pray, fast, give alms and attend the divine services and thus gives way to self improvement, somewhat naturally.

>>81818458
I'm at like 17mos. About to finish a second bachelors because my first was a liberal arts degree and was worthless. Hoping to start job hopping up the ladder and making adult money now. My favorite mccarthy book I've read was all the pretty horses.

I have a lot weighing on me right now, I lost my job and need top get back to my career. I have been working out and lost 50 lbs in the past year so that is good but I still have 50 more to lose. I do have a lot in savings and want to move out of the US.

>>81816776
I don't read a ton but probably Birthmarked by Caragh M. O'Brien. I love dystopians, they rip my heart to shreds!