How have you improved yourself this week/month/year? Lifting isn't life, a well-balanced human being is productive and charismatic, has hobbies, pushes him/herself to succeed, and strives to live the best life they can. Share your successes, failures, methods, and everything in between.

Videos:
http://youtu.be/b-a1jXgAsQI
http://youtu.be/3Ao7rZ8-HWo

Reading material:

> http://pastebin.com/x7BbYimv
More reading material needs to be added

> arcitea.com/
The Way of The Seal
The Code of the Warrior - Rick Fields
The Story of Civilization - Will Durant
The Story of Philosophy - WIll Durant
Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein 1959 (actually has a lot of really powerful character building stuff in there)
Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNab
Immediate Action - ^
Seven Troop - ^

>Mentally Tough - James E. Loehr & Peter J. McLaughlin
>Antifragile - Nassim Taleb
>The Brain That Changes Itself - Norman Doidge
>The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

That Art of Manliness blog was originally included in this OP, but the only people that read it are neckbeards that fetishize things that happened 100 years ago so I took it out. The pastebin for this post is http://pastebin.com/3n1RuYBL