What books would you recommend for a bookish teen, to move him into not only concentrating on his intellectual growth but also towards physical excellence?
>ib4 Sun and Steel
We need to go deeper.
Maybe even the nietzschen and kalokagathian philosophy behind weakness and ugliness vs morality and goodness.
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Not read a single lifting book. Also want recommendations anons ty
>sun and steel
Don't give that shit to a teenager you fricking groomer, that's openly homosexual bullshit written by an Asian dyel.
Recommend something less gay, Socrates.
Iliad
>give
OP is talking about himself
Nah, I'm talking about my son. It's hard to understand what might best inspire a young lad as an autismo mother. He got my bibliophilia but doesn't need my chicken wings as well.
>mother
damn, your son has two moms?
Nah, but dad is also a brainiac and stopped lifting after our honeymoon. Sad. Many such cases.
Ask IST at this hour anon. Enjoy the constant IQ schizos.
No books will help me…my demons… are too strong….
Bullshit. Your demons don't even lift homosexual.
>demons
fricking americans, I always laugh when someone says "I'm fighting my inner demon, bruh" Kekz
It's like the early internet emo memes
The Bloody White Baron. Read biographies of interesting people and try to be as bold and courageous as them.
>What books would you recommend for a bookish teen, to move him into not only concentrating on his intellectual growth but also towards physical excellence?
Don't fall for the le books make me smart shit bro. It takes all of 3 minutes on lit to see how unbearable it makes a mfer and it's impossible to discuss literature irl without coming off as a pseud and or pretentious.
Based
>Getting "le list of the smart books I will read and be the smart"
>"Why yes sir I did read le smart books, I now am le sophisticate"
>"Grrr I am the big troll who protect bridge to land of smart people, I will ask you three riddles and only then can you pass"
>*Le flip*
>"Wow you are so smart please enter"
Yeah no doesn't work like that.
In any event it's far more efficient to read a summary, then commentary of a field, rather than slow walking through some initial treatise.
I know that makes you sad since you can't get your achievement unlocked gym badges for clearing a book but whatever.
So you can't name even one?
He's already into heavy lit, might as well use it.
I have no idea what you're about. My library is already above four digits big and he looks like his will be too, but I also do not want him to just become a lanklett bookworm considering his potential.
Just recommend something or be gone, brainlet.
Meh, it's far too much about being meak and about ones inner world instead of what the classical world emphasised. Not disregarding it, just not wanting him to disregard his temple. After all, if our body is gods temple we should strive to look after it like one. Instead of chiseling marble statues for gods honor, we have to work on our bodies till they resemble an awe inspiring sculpture as a glory for god, eh?
>that pick
Warhammer 2k
>ruining a man financially for plastic figurines
I mean, yeah, Starship Troopers might be a good pick.
I'm talking about books that call your body a temple of the Holy Spirit, and words of wisdom from a man that are often about strength and hard labor, also an ancient king > anyone posting on this board.
God damn IST is schizo town. I only discuss books with people who specifically ask me about them or with other readers. I do think they make you a bit smarter, or idk maybe they just clean all the coomer zoomer junk shit out of your system to optimise brain function. I went into a massive thread on IST where a guy was critiquing one of my favourite books that he hadn't even read because he had 160 IQ and replied to about 80 comments. Was nuts.
What book?
Blood Meridian. I'm much more sci-fi but probably in my top 20 fiction.
DW anon it was an experience. Schizo actually had me in tears at his insults & passion for books.
Sorry
you can say the same about fit
New Testament
Proverbs
>paganism
No thanks
I was about to roast you but if it's for someone you're mentoring I'd say go for the Iliad & the Odyssey. Abridged Iliad ok if you read it yourself. Maybe start off with the Odyssey since its the breezier read then proceed with the Iliad. For the Iliad in particular you should be comparing Achilles & Hector and asking the young man who he thinks is more virtuous. Especially when Hector faces Achilles, a demigod, alone.
Ah a Hector fanboy I see. Are you still salty about that little chariot incident? Why don't you run around the city walls a few more times.
Frick off, Achilles most overrated piece of Achaean trash I've ever seen. He did almost as much damage to his own guys with that tent skulking bullshit, not to mention he'd have slain Agamemnon and ended the entire siege in year 9 if Athene Herself had not intervened. Stop dickriding an overwrought spear slinger with the emotional maturity of a teenage catamite and try emulating a real hero like Aeneas--now there was a fighter!!
Thanks, but I think he read both already. I was thinking of something more in your face about why physical strength is not an option but neccesity to becoming a man, a duty towards yourself and god. Maybe something like Blys Iron John or similar initiation rite themes? As I said, I would like it to put a premium on striving to be strong and physically "beautiful" as a means to becoming a good man.
The guy who is functionally illiterate, has never read a book for fun, and is at the gym right now listening to Avenged Sevenfold has a better idea of mind-body than the IST b***h hunched in a recliner reading Sun & Steel
The lengths to which brainlets will go to justify why they only stimulate their muscles without thinking about their meat computer. If what you write would be the case, it would have been so easy for you to type down the essence of your wisdom.
Just don't overdose on books and become a communist troony for frick sake.
This.
A lifter should absolutely read. IST and IST get along more than most boards because they are both virtues. But there is absolutely no way that the average IST user is in-tune with his own physicality. Worshipping at the temple of Iron and realising what a pathetic hunk of flesh you are, as well as the chiselled marble you can become, is the strongest way to build a bond between body & mind. Practice beats theory, though one should learn both if he has time.
why are you asking for books in recommendation to a bunch of larpers?
>What books would you recommend for a bookish teen,
I'd take away his books and tell him to become an athlete
Unironically The Fountain by Ayn Rand for self reliance and uncompromising morals.
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse is a good spiritual book. It's short and enjoyable and provides some simple lessons.
Book of the Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi is decent. It's a compilation of stoic principles much like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, which is also good.
Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung is also good.
Those are all the philosophical books I've read. To be honest though, any decent fiction novel usually contains philosophical elements. Mistborn, Wheel of Time, Dune, Amber, are some good series.
siddharta is waste of time
>things pass, people get old, be nice, think about other people feelings, don't be a dickhead. What comes around goes around.
There, summarised life of fictional sir traveling through india. 0 mentions of poos shitting on the streets.
Because every home in India had toilet before British bastards came
>toilets before the british came
My sides Pajeet, my sides. You sure could build a shitter in your day that's for sure.
Hermann Hesse is a homosexual and nothing good can come out of a deserter. Why the frick do mutts constantly talk about this effeminate moron? It's one of the most boring german authors and he is completely misplaced when talking about physical strength. At least recommend Jünger.
Either way, I think you missunderstood the topic, it's not about making him read philosophical books, he's far further down the line, it's about recommending him books specifically so that he embraces his bodily temple as he does his mind.
>He's further down the line than Philosophical Books
What a stupid gaygo-
>Books about his bodily temple are ahead
My mind is now so conflicted that I cannot form an opinion. Well played anon.
The Bible.
We're already SSPX Catholics.
Danté’s Divine Comedy
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (memebook but so common in this young male starter pack that you might as well)
I recommend reading textbooks about a subject you are interested in, like forestry or solar panels, etc., as this will give you actual interesting functional knowledge and wont make you a worthless melodramatic teenage loser
i can tell you that once i stopped wallowing in centuries-old self help books I felt much better and started drowning in pussy
>reading about solar panels
Anon, did you even read my intentions for that teen?
Anything specific in regards to the goal?
I like Plutarch's writings
Studying philosophy won't get you shit except for being even more confused and lost in this world.
That's the real pill. And if you don't believe me, go ahead.
Granted you're not just sticking to one branch like a autist
Agreed. Won't stop me though
filtered
don't start with that attitude
andrew tate listeners
The best advice you will get is to read from direct sources and get a good understanding of the history of metaphysics as early as possible. There is no one end all be all book or philosopher that can do this but there are better places to start than others. Heidegger's Being and Time and Spengler's The Decline of The West are good places to start. Also don't study philosophy at uni in any capacity.
Start with the Greeks
I know this is going to sound crazy but the two books that changed my life are The Art of the Deal by GEOTUS and Trump Style Negotiating by his attorney, George Ross. Trump style negotiating saved me 30k the weekend after I bought it and probably saved me from going into bankruptcy.
I went to the top uni in my country for a double-major in physics and math. I stopped trying in my last year and basically just slacked or cheated, because I got demoralized as frick. GPA dropped from a 3.8 (when I was trying and still hopeful) to a 3.4 (after a year of being completely checked-out mentally).
I was very disappointed with the quality of education I got, ESPECIALLY for a 50,000USD price tag.
I assumed that: "Hey ... at least elite universities must still be good, and protected against the decay and rot and marxist hysteria ... right?"
Nope.
University is now the modern DMV. It is a credentialism factory that just grinds people on how much workplace stress they're able to handle. That's all GPA is now - not a measure of genius or IQ, but a measure of "how much bullshit can this person successfully put up with, without snapping or failing in his productivity."
I'm now engaging in some self-education with myself and my wife.
On top of regular weekly Bible study where she educates me on the Bible (she's a Christian who did a double-major in Medieval French lit, sociology, and then another degree in comparative religion), we also study the classics in Latin and Greek.
I also intend to put myself through the original curriculum that older universities used to put students through. The list in picrel contains some of it. I want to basically put myself through a self-administered extra-Bachelor's-degree over the next 3 years.
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Good job and good luck
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