Arcitea Rede/sig/ned

Transform Yourself: A Guide to Self-Improvement. Brought back to life by /sig/

4,0 - Mind

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats

4,1 - Reading

Language is what gives us our intelligence and humanity. Without it we would be dumb animals no different than chimpanzees. But even now when we speak and think we can only draw on those things that we've previously seen or heard before, so we are mentally limited by our current experiences and vocabulary. With each new book we read, we grow in sophistication and knowledge. With each new book we read we 'level up' like you would in a video game.

Recomended fiction

  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Duma
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
  • The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
  • The Aeneid by Virgil
  • A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  • Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
  • The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  • The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Les Miserebles by Victor Hugo
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  • Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
  • Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  • Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  • Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  • Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
  • Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • The Crisis by Winston Churchill
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac
  • The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
  • Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  • A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Recomended Non-fiction (ill fix this later)

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
  • How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
  • Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
  • Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
  • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
  • The Power of Intention by Wayne Dyer
  • A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
  • Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell
  • The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  • The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
  • The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson
  • Cosmos by Carl Sagan
  • Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
  • The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
  • Walden by Henry David Thoreau
  • The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
  • The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
  • The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
  • Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
  • Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind by Graham Hancock
  • The Republic by Plato
  • The Politics by Aristotle
  • Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
  • A Mathematician's Apology by G. H. Hardy
  • The Believing Brain by Michael Shermer
  • How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich
  • A Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einsteinv
  • The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
  • The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss
  • The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
  • Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini
  • The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy
  • The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz
  • The Power is Within You by Louise L. Hay
  • The Master Key System by Charles F Haanel
  • Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Ecker
  • A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
  • The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
  • The Food of the Gods by Terrance Mcenna
  • The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
  • The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence by Carl Sagan
  • DMT: The Spirit Molecule by Rick Strassman
  • The Reign Of Napoleon Bonaparte by Robert Asprey
  • The Wobbling Pivot, China since 1800: An Interpretive History by Pamela Kyle Crossley
  • Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics [1,2,3] by Richard Feynman
  • The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
  • The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris
  • The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
  • Genome by Matt Ridley
  • Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean S. Carroll
  • Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade
  • The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
  • The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson
  • A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  • Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Colberi
  • Connections by James Burke
  • The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke
  • The Discoverers by Daniel J. Boorstin
  • The Seashell on the Mountaintop by Alan Cutler
  • Remarkable Creatures by Sean Carroll
  • The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
  • The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel
  • The Boy who Harnessed the Wind by Brian Mealer

4,2 - Watching And Listening

Recomended Documentaries

Recomended Sites to watch documentaries