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I won't read nigger, kike, incel, perpetually online, wall-of-text, app-addled, muh dick, please think for me and decide what way my life should go, I'm sooo lazy, I have no motivation, what course do I pursue?, is it over, be me 18-80 is it too late?, subhumans who can't or won't do a search on FAQs, whining about muh feewings, goofy yellow fever nerd, basket case with laundry list of woes, how do I get picrel, threads. General reply to all such: no!, go outside, or register with the local euthanasia center and wait for the cremation van to collect you.

my friend introduced me to a girl and I think she's cute and I like her personality but idk how to go on dates and or speak to them idrc about sex or stuff like that I just wanna have someone I can trust and talk to and love but idk how to talk to her and i wanna try going on a date but how and its not that she not pretty and I'm not interested its just idk if u can date for ref imp 19 she's 18 turning 19 in June both go to same uni and enjoy similar activities i just don't know how to setup a date or go on 1 i have slept with people before but they were just hook-ups and I've never been in a proper date or flirt with anyone

Picrel is the tldr big reveal of this longitudinal study of thousands of people born in 1970. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV2PQjXbtXA for a more extended summary. A second point worth noting is the main reason given for not reading (long-form material such as books) was "social media." The effect on cognitive ability, career success and even longevity was huge. But we kinda already knew this. That is why NEETs who whne about being stuck deserve no sympathy. They invariably fuck around on their computers all day.

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𝑆𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 by John T. Reed. This is a book I wish I'd been given at about 16 years of age. It is a very comprehensive compilation of advice for getting started in having a fantastic life.

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This is a common request, an eff ay cue. You can easily and quickly retain what you learn by linking each new fact to something you already know. Note similarities, parrallels, relations and differences. Note how a word or name might sound funny. Create a narrative about the new facts and things you already know. Eaxmple: Who was the first to calculate the size of the Earth? It was Eratosthenes, who, I suppose, didn't give a rats, or a toss, what people thought of his strange-sounding name. Eratosthenes was the head librarian at Alexandria, the sort of comfortable job you get if you're a genius in those days. Anyway, his method of determining the size of the Earth was to note the angle of the Sun at midday in Alexandria, and to find out the angle of the sun at midday in Athens 944km North-East of there, on the same day. With those two angles and the distance, he could calculate the radius of the Earth using (that thing some people hated in school) trigonometry. He was a friend of Archimedes (now, that's someone I know a lot about). The world was sparsely populated in classical Greek times, and there was no Internet or even a phone system, so Archimedes in Sicily and Eratosthenes in Alexandria had to write letters to each other in order to have an intelligent conversation with anyone and brag about what they'd discovered. Discoveries such as Eratosthenes famous "sieve," which he would use to fish for prime fishes in the harbour. That's how it is for geniuses. One particular letter from Archimedes described his secret "method of mechanics" that he used for solving geometry problems involving areas and volumes. It was as close to discovering calculus as anyone got before Newton and Leibniz two thousand years later. Eratosthenes was so impressed he added the letter to the library's collection, where scribes made copies of anything important (nearly two thousand years before the printing press) which is how we know about Archimedes method of mechanics.