We live in a fun era. There are pickup artists, manipulators, leaders, managers, vegans and last but not least bloggers among us. What should we do if everyone around us is cool and we're hillbillies?
In today's sinful age, the concept of "today I'll be better than yesterday" is very popular. Therefore, every yesterday's drunk goes jogging this morning, then has some paleo for lunch, and of course spends the evening with similar radiant dudes.
Then he sees you and says - well hello, you're kind of fat and sad today, try mindfulness with yoga, it's awesome.
You go home and read that fucking talmud. And it says you should eat well, sleep and work hard. Try hard, dude. Well thanks for the advice, I wouldn't have understood it myself.
And again you'll watch youtube and eat. And outside someone's puffing.
But all these are necessary things in an adult's life. You see it everywhere and you don't even listen to people much anymore, they're assholes with their mindfulness, right?
But in the end I recently started doing all this and I recommend it to you too. Not because you're fat and not because you're stupid and not because you'll be number one employee.
When I was little, I tried karate. After a month I asked my Jackie Chan - hey, so when will I punch that kid? Sensei answered - Fedor, this is a self-defense course, dude. It's not about you punching him. It's about him not punching you.
And I remembered this when I started reading books about how to manipulate, how to be a leader, how to seduce girls and how to become efficient.
I think every girl should take a seduction course. Because once she hears the familiar scenario, she can talk to the pickup master just for lulz.
Every junior has to read a book about how to make someone work, even if they never plan to do it. And when they hear "you're really great at your monkey job, can you do it tomorrow or today?", they can unexpectedly say "wow, I agree and I'm glad you finally saw my effort. What do you think, can I handle a 25% salary increase or better just 20%, so nobody envies?". Usually wannabe boss only mastered one chapter yesterday and hasn't prepared for this yet.
In conclusion - read everything that's trendy and sexy today. Never use it actively, it's exceptionally for self-defense. But if you see or hear a person doing exactly what's described in the book - time for getting some lulz.