>>12761205In Search of the Miraculous - PD Ospensky
Summary: Humans are mostly NPCs, so your goal shouldn't be to care what they do. Rather your goal should be to stop being an NPC.
Bronze Age Mindset - Bronze Age Pervert
Summary: Intro to the masculine ethos. How to escape the prison you've been born into.
Gulag Archipelago - Alexandre Solzhenitsyn
Summary: How the Soviet Union took over Russia and ideological structures of the time looked and felt like. It's 400 pages of screaming in terror, very hard to read for that reason.
Days of Rage - Bryan Burrough
Summary: 1000+ bombs were set off by the Left in the 1970s, but it's been totally forgotten. The Left we see today is the child of this era, so you get a much better understanding of their ideological underpinnings. Don't read this if you don't care about modernity.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Summary: the exploits of Richard Feynman. It's well written and interesting and gives you a good perspective on the idea that you should do what you enjoy in life and stop taking the whole thing so seriously.
Atomic Habits - James Clear
Summary: you're not to treat yourself as a machine, so your motivations do matter; however, there are things you can do to introduce good habits into your life. This book lays out the best methods to slowly launch yourself higher.
PMO Hackbook
Summary: how to stop looking at (((porn))) and jerking off. The most effective anti-smoking literature adapted to porn and masturbation.