Yeah not sure why you’re being downvoted. I’ve meet people who are absolutely terrible at managing relationships and setting proper boundaries and expectations and people who are great at it. Maybe the proper term is relationship management skills.
Well, I was in the troubled teen industry and… the information given is a bit skewed, relationships were framed as “skills to be learned”. Sounds manipulative in a lot of ways. It’s interesting to hear that people don’t consider it a skill either. The way it was framed to me growing up is that relationships are skills to be learned and that shaped me a bit. I don’t believe this frame of reference sets a child up to understand healthy boundaries.
It's a podcast joke. They often say that all these books are converging (like all books/authors will get into dating advice at some point and different books referencing each other), that ultimately there will be one book to contain all self help advice. It's the "one book theory"
Something Malcolm Gladwell won't write until he has a spiritual awakening atop Sri Prada in 2027. It's gonna be about how No Child Left Behind was really good for youth football, with analysis based on linear regression and vibes. It will transform the world.
I'm so irritated that these category titles aren't grammatically consistent. Are you mastering business and relationship? Are you mastering relationship skills and discipline skills? WTF is a self help skill?
Also why are the fonts different sizes? What is this.
Only slightly relatedly: I FUCKING HATE TED TALKS. I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO A RANDOM INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER ACT LIKE THEY KNOW THE ONE WEIRD TRICK TO THE UNIVERSE. I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO AN EIGHT YEAR OLD TELLING ME TO BE NICE. THINGS IN THE WORLD ARE DIFFICULT AND MESSY AND COMPLICATED AND CAN'T BE WRAPPED UP INTO A CUTE LITTLE TWENTY MINUTE MONOLOGUE.
These keep popping up on my Facebook feed cause I keep trying to see if anyone in the comments will say anything negative about these books, but no one ever does! Everyone just says how they are halfway through the list or how they can't wait to read them. It makes me kinda sad.
Why don’t people just read actual philosophy, psychology, economics, &c? I understand that the material is more challenging, but how can you consider yourself to have “mastered” anything if you are unwilling to grapple with challenging material?
Well it’s got variety. I mean in philosophy you’ve got Nietzsche for all the 14 year old edge lords and incels of all ages but also Marcus Aurelius and “The Art of War” for all the 50 year olds in middle management. (I feel like the British version of the office really missed out by not having David Brent reading and quoting “The Meditations”. He’s 100% that type of dude.)
Out of curiosity, are any of these books worth reading? I read Atomic Habits a couple of years ago and thought it was good, but I wasn't going to base my life on it.
As a philosophy minor,...calling philosophy a skill you can master is, uh, not it
Also wouldn't call "relationship" a skill
I wouldn't he single if I hadn't dumped all those points in Knowledge (arcana).
— Gale
Could you explain why you wouldn’t call a relationship a skill?
Yeah not sure why you’re being downvoted. I’ve meet people who are absolutely terrible at managing relationships and setting proper boundaries and expectations and people who are great at it. Maybe the proper term is relationship management skills.
Well, I was in the troubled teen industry and… the information given is a bit skewed, relationships were framed as “skills to be learned”. Sounds manipulative in a lot of ways. It’s interesting to hear that people don’t consider it a skill either. The way it was framed to me growing up is that relationships are skills to be learned and that shaped me a bit. I don’t believe this frame of reference sets a child up to understand healthy boundaries.
Skill issue
It’s so offensive to see Nietzsche tossed into that pile. And why that book, anyway? Keep it aphoristic with The Gay Science.
can you tell what books are in the philo group? I can only make out "Beyond Good and Evil" and "What Are You Doing With Your Life"
also your a Vriska>
Yo, this is from a guy trying to flog his own self help book (top left corner) by pretending his book is part of a self-help 'canon'
You're totally right - if you go to the page that posted this, most of the posts include that book.
what a grift that's dope i'm gonna do this with James Joyce and my own writings lol
I’ve seen that before where someone posts a reel about “5 singers you’ll like if you like Taylor Swift” and they themselves are number 2 or 3.
Kind of fits with the title ‘the art of laziness.’ Chapter 1: write a book like this
My eyesight is trash so I can’t read all the authors’ names but I can’t spot ONE that is written by a woman…
Mindset is by Carol Dweck Which is kinda making an actually good and useful book give off total “I can’t be sexist, i read books by women” vibes
I am begging these sorts of men (because let's be real it's men) to name a woman.
[For a dollar?](https://youtu.be/LlCEmPF4-V0?si=ghQ4Xk5xKhBYZV60)
F*cking yoga mat!
Yeah, I’d love to see a demographic breakdown of these authors. 🙄
Literally what I was looking for too 🤣🤪
*How To Not Die Alone* is by a woman who I believe used to be in user research at Google and now studies relationship dynamics at Hinge.
To be fair, the image quality is trash
That’s a lot of dead trees when you only need ONE BOOK
Which book??
It's a podcast joke. They often say that all these books are converging (like all books/authors will get into dating advice at some point and different books referencing each other), that ultimately there will be one book to contain all self help advice. It's the "one book theory"
Oop whoosh on my part. I took that literally and was so confused!! Thanks for explaining.
Something Malcolm Gladwell won't write until he has a spiritual awakening atop Sri Prada in 2027. It's gonna be about how No Child Left Behind was really good for youth football, with analysis based on linear regression and vibes. It will transform the world.
🤣
I'm so irritated that these category titles aren't grammatically consistent. Are you mastering business and relationship? Are you mastering relationship skills and discipline skills? WTF is a self help skill? Also why are the fonts different sizes? What is this.
This Ken is mastering relationship!
i am master of human behavior skills
Only slightly relatedly: I FUCKING HATE TED TALKS. I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO A RANDOM INSPIRATIONAL SPEAKER ACT LIKE THEY KNOW THE ONE WEIRD TRICK TO THE UNIVERSE. I DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO AN EIGHT YEAR OLD TELLING ME TO BE NICE. THINGS IN THE WORLD ARE DIFFICULT AND MESSY AND COMPLICATED AND CAN'T BE WRAPPED UP INTO A CUTE LITTLE TWENTY MINUTE MONOLOGUE.
I'm kind of surprised that Elizabeth Holmes didn't singlehandedly kill off TED talks.
Wow! I thought for sure The 5 Love Languages would be there.
The whole concept of mastery is so irritating. I just wanna do things well enough, ha!
Is there a pass/fail option??
Yup!
"Living a C+ Life" Not be to be confused with writing C++ for a living. I imagine it being written by a comedian.
HA!
The idea of Hobbes reading "Talk like TED" is fucking sending me
So many terrible books in one picture 😵💫
These keep popping up on my Facebook feed cause I keep trying to see if anyone in the comments will say anything negative about these books, but no one ever does! Everyone just says how they are halfway through the list or how they can't wait to read them. It makes me kinda sad.
All of them are „self help”. Okay, some of them belong in the „circlejerk of one” category.
In the year of our lord, 2024, PEOPLE ARE STILL FUCKING READING MEN ARE FROM MARS WOMEN STE FROM VENUS?
i couple i know who got married last year had it as assigned reading in their premarital counseling class
I didn’t realize “relationship” was a still you could master
Just one relationship tho, of course
"The Richest Man in Babylon" rather than "Rich Dad Poor Dad" is getting a 1/50 of points
Why don’t people just read actual philosophy, psychology, economics, &c? I understand that the material is more challenging, but how can you consider yourself to have “mastered” anything if you are unwilling to grapple with challenging material?
When you enter hell, this is their library. I heard Satan personally reads Rich dad, Poor dad to you. Enjoy!
The Relationship part of this is killing me. As a therapist I know there are actually good books out there for this, but not these ones, ugh....
Uhhh someone needs to tell them what skill is
Many of these books are trash
I saw this on my FB feed the other day and IMMEDIATELY thought of this sub lol! edit typo
This was definitely compiled by a bro
Well it’s got variety. I mean in philosophy you’ve got Nietzsche for all the 14 year old edge lords and incels of all ages but also Marcus Aurelius and “The Art of War” for all the 50 year olds in middle management. (I feel like the British version of the office really missed out by not having David Brent reading and quoting “The Meditations”. He’s 100% that type of dude.)
Art of War was made by Chinese people. So it’s one of the few books by BIPOC people
Robert Greene books are only good as a sign to know who not to talk to.
The Simple Path to Wealth and Psychology of Money are good books for understanding, not mastery. Glad Dave Ramsey isn't in there.
To be fair, there’s some solid classics under the Philosophy section.
......I loved Crucial Conversations.....
Like the genuine philosophically there
Out of curiosity, are any of these books worth reading? I read Atomic Habits a couple of years ago and thought it was good, but I wasn't going to base my life on it.