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If you feel bad about your life, that's not a bad place to visit.

Is bruv still living in genteel poverty in Ibiza?

Not sure everyone would consider all of these "self-help" genre, but I liked these:
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - a must read
Willpower by Baumeister - pretty good, some fun anecdotes
Mastery by George Leonard - a must read
"On Killing" and "On Combat" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman - must reads (in my unexperienced opinion)
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales - a must read
The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb - Taleb comes off as a huge conceited prick in his books and online, but good.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Is bruv still living in genteel poverty in Ibiza?

How would I know?

Consider some atypical suggestions as well:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Night-- Elie Weisel
Up From Slavery-- Booker T Washington
Autobiography-- Malcolm X
Wise Blood-- Flannery O'Connor
Chosen-- Chaim Potok

Worst case-- you'll have read some great literature.

This book is great. The UK IGXers will probably know Geoff Thompson.

Warrior-Geoff Thompson http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Geoff-Tho ... 1906727910

"On Killing" and "On Combat" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman - must reads (in my unexperienced opinion)

Nathan Wagar on Facebook goes off on Grossman in ways that are hilarious.

I'm into Stuart Smalley lately

I'm digging the Antidote. Lesson one learned from audiobooks, though, is that I'm going to have to listen to them twice - I have a tendency get off on my own train of thought and miss multiple paragraphs.

Turdacious wrote:Consider some atypical suggestions as well:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Night-- Elie Weisel
Up From Slavery-- Booker T Washington
Autobiography-- Malcolm X
Wise Blood-- Flannery O'Connor
Chosen-- Chaim Potok

Worst case-- you'll have read some great literature.

Autobiographies safely fall in this category, in my opinion.

TomFurman wrote:

"On Killing" and "On Combat" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman - must reads (in my unexperienced opinion)

Nathan Wagar on Facebook goes off on Grossman in ways that are hilarious.

I looked them up. Funny, yes, and probably fair.

I thought Grossman was pretty up front about the fact that he had never been in combat or killed though. He makes the comparison to a bunch of virgin scientists talking about sex in "On Killing", I think. When I first read that, I thought "Damn, it's just like the fitness industry! A lot of f---ers that have zero experience being athletic telling everyone else how to become elite..."

Boris wrote:Not sure everyone would consider all of these "self-help" genre, but I liked these:
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl - a must read
Willpower by Baumeister - pretty good, some fun anecdotes
Mastery by George Leonard - a must read
"On Killing" and "On Combat" by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman - must reads (in my unexperienced opinion)
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales - a must read
The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb - Taleb comes off as a huge conceited prick in his books and online, but good.

+1 on Man's Search for Meaning and Deep Survival. Both are great.

Practicing the Power of Now- Tolle

Gav wrote:This book is great. The UK IGXers will probably know Geoff Thompson.

Warrior-Geoff Thompson http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Geoff-Tho ... 1906727910

Lord God, you have got to be kidding me. Read the Amazon sample and it looks to be the absolute worst tripe of a "help" book. Were you joking, Gav?

buckethead wrote:

Gav wrote:This book is great. The UK IGXers will probably know Geoff Thompson.

Warrior-Geoff Thompson http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Geoff-Tho ... 1906727910

Lord God, you have got to be kidding me. Read the Amazon sample and it looks to be the absolute worst tripe of a "help" book. Were you joking, Gav?

No, I wasn't. Maybe the warrior stuff puts you off but there is a lot of good info in there. There were a few things I'd not come across in most other self help books.

Gav wrote:

buckethead wrote:

Gav wrote:This book is great. The UK IGXers will probably know Geoff Thompson.

Warrior-Geoff Thompson http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Geoff-Tho ... 1906727910

Lord God, you have got to be kidding me. Read the Amazon sample and it looks to be the absolute worst tripe of a "help" book. Were you joking, Gav?

No, I wasn't. Maybe the warrior stuff puts you off but there is a lot of good info in there. There were a few things I'd not come across in most other self help books.

OK, fair enough. Would you be so kind as to itemize a couple?

I am a fan of Getting Things Done. The book is over 200 pages but could be distilled down to 40 high quality pages, but who shells out money for a 40 page book? It is an organizational strategy built around lists. If you are big into writing lists it might be good for you. If you think writing lists is the dumbest thing ever it would be a waste of time. I also recommend getting it from the library rather than buying it.

I haven't read a single self-help book and I'm fine.

T>1200 wrote:I haven't read a single self-help book and I'm fine.

buckethead wrote:

Gav wrote:

buckethead wrote:

Gav wrote:This book is great. The UK IGXers will probably know Geoff Thompson.

Warrior-Geoff Thompson http://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Geoff-Tho ... 1906727910

Lord God, you have got to be kidding me. Read the Amazon sample and it looks to be the absolute worst tripe of a "help" book. Were you joking, Gav?

No, I wasn't. Maybe the warrior stuff puts you off but there is a lot of good info in there. There were a few things I'd not come across in most other self help books.

OK, fair enough. Would you be so kind as to itemize a couple?

One of the things I liked was what he calls 'control of the palate'. Basically watching what you eat, drink, read, watch and are influenced by. This may seem obvious but I liked the way one rule could have so much influence on many areas in your life.
Another was what is below your 'level'. He mentions gossiping, talking badly of others etc and to notice when you are doing it and tell yourself that it is not constructive and to raise your level.
A lot of things you'll find in the book are classic self help/Napoleon Hill type stuff. For someone who hasn't read many of these types of books there is a lot you can use to get your life going in the right direction. The whole warrior thing probably appeals more to those into martial arts.

The man in black wrote:I am a fan of Getting Things Done. The book is over 200 pages but could be distilled down to 40 high quality pages, but who shells out money for a 40 page book? It is an organizational strategy built around lists. If you are big into writing lists it might be good for you. If you think writing lists is the dumbest thing ever it would be a waste of time. I also recommend getting it from the library rather than buying it.

Agree that it's a good book but disagree that it can be distilled down or that you shouldn't buy it. (Not you) but everybody online I've seen who has "adapted" GTD has left out large portions. I like the whole book better than any particular portion. It's something that I re-read or at least refer to each year.

You GTD'ers might like TOT or as I like to say, T1T. http://www.the1thing.com/

It's like applying Pareto's Law to GTD.

Thought i'd add Geoff Thompson's 'Warrior' as its a free book, but noticed it mentioned above.

Anyhow here's the link to get it for free on his website...
http://geoffthompson.com/_warrior_.pdf

I have spoken with Geoff and he is a great bloke.

milosz wrote:lack of focus

This is me right here. That's why I've been trying to find some sort of 'racetam to hep with it. My problem is I get kind of bored doing what I do at work and the internet is right there so I start surfing. It has become kind of a problem and really cut into my productivity. I really started trying to cut it out Friday and have done a decent job so far. It is a problem at home as well. I'll surf for an hour plus after working out and putting the kids to bed. So many better things I could be doing with my time. Instead of surfing at night I need to start reading again.

Damn FB, instagram, tumblr and mountain bike sites!!!

Btw, I really like Constructive Living as well as The Power of Now. I'll take a look at GTD and TOT.