An intelligent man but born poor. Has ambitions but acknowledges the large lengths he has to go to make it all happen. His life is generally unfair but he doesn't break under the weight of it. The book ends on the protagonist getting closer to achieving his dream(s) in a meaningful manner.
I am looking for a book with this premise. Something that cheers me up and helps me in carrying my own burden.
1984
fiction
Doesn't sound like any book I read so far.
Maybe you could read the biography pf some author/intellectual/scientist that started from the bottom.
Biography is a good idea. How should I look for people that really started from the bottom? I don't want to read about fake "tough" lives if you know what I mean.
Intelligent man born poor. Life is unfair. People are cruel. Manages not to kill himself. Tries to mind his own business. Cute girl tricks him into believing she has feelings for him. Happy for once in his life. Finds out she’s lying. Tries moving on. She and her friends begin bullying him, suggesting he is a faggot. Tries his best to ignore them. Isolated himself. Continues with life. Afraid to make friends. Reads more. Makes his own lunch. Works graveyard shifts. Manages not to kill himself. And so on...
ambitions for what? status? fame? wealth? power? what a waste that is...
dude, get a property near the wilderness and live wild. live wild or die.
Also read "Technological Slavery" and "Anti-Tech Revolution"
People that started humbly are more than the ones that came from a privileged condition.
See some people that are of inspiration to you and trace their origins.
OP here, I am trying to be a character artist so anything close to it would be perfect but I don't want to limit myself, so any story about overcoming the odds is good.
The Lord of the Rings.
Unironically.
How would you differentiate a fake tough life from a real tough life?
Don’t flatter yourself, you’re a middle class midwit like the rest of us
success is wholistic. most people make the mistake of focusing only on the skill they want to master, at the exclusion of a number of life skills and experiences that would be much better to get to their goal. So, my recommendation is you start running regularly. Read about running and training for marathons, and build up slowly to it. That will build discipline and focus and drive and it will get you in shape and flood you with endorphins, which will make you more resilient and harder working and focused in other areas.
Clean your room, and generally establish a routine of military discipline in your life.
Wake up very early--most all successful people do. For example, George Lucas, when making his early movies including Star Wars, would wake up at 4:30-5:00 every day, work on his film and then go to bed no later than 9:00 and repeat the process.
if it turns out that you have too much free time with that schedule and you are bored, try to find part time jobs--any part time jobs or activities that are just marginally related to your goal.
Open your mind to other jobs and activities that will hone your understanding of human nature. ven if you are with a furniture moving company or work in a factory part time, this will enhance your understanding of human nature and society, which will later make your art unique and powerful.
You get the idea. the point is be disciplined, and open your eyes to alternate pathways toward your goal. No ONE. I MEAN almost NO ONE, achieves greatness traveling in a straight line.
An unoriginal man born rich. Has dreams but no ambitions, fears the lengths he would have to go to make something of himself. His life is generally comfortable but he doesn't find any pleasure in the ease of it. The book ends with him alienating himself from his family, being unable to form any social bonds, and working a dead end job waiting for those dreams her used to have come true like they were always supposed to. . .
based. Son of a Servant as well.
Unironically, A Confederacy of Dunces.
Not everyone wants to be a hermit till the day of death.
Only accurate to the extent Hobbits are basic caricatures of optimists.
That's the story of my life.
Crime and Punishment somewhat
Bel-Ami.
Lotta self importance you’ve got there boyo.
I always enjoy the more charitable take on Ignatius. He’d honestly be right at home with his favorite Dark Age theologians or with some boujie professors, he was just born in an incompatible time and circumstance. That and a lack of basic discipline.
The cult of success is a scam designed to destroy this world
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Berserk; the story of a charming young hero named Griffith, with big ambitions to become a king, despite being born a commoner. Follow him and his ragtag group of friends as he does absolutely nothing wrong.
sacrificing all his soldiers to satan was understandable but raping his only friend's gf in front of him while he cuts his own arm off in rage was a bit much. I don't see a defense to that one
Be someone.
Nothing. Wrong.
Nice blog post Jordan
what does that do for me
Crime and Punishment
why don’t you write that book yourself you stupid fucking idiot?
the world is a scam designed to destroy success
I would recommend Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton
'Tough life' is a trope that everyone attaches themselves to. It was always present but I think with the commercialisation of niggers and a fake culture invented around them being propagated to the whole world, it has become insufferably pervasive. I would say most cannot have a real one. Maybe some Chinese factory worker from a poor province can.
There is no way to differentiate because it's hard to describe solely materially. So self-absorbed nonsense reinforced by popular media means you can't tell.
Le Rouge et le Noir, by Stendhal. Sorel is the precise description of a character you are looking for.
Crime and Punishment.
The idea of the pre-industrial cabin in the woods is a simulacrum; a copy without an original. A historicity lost to our modern symbolic order. There is no way to retrieve it in full. The modern symbolic order saturates our minds; we see nothing but the industrial.
High IQ post.
Ah another smart but lazy lad
Best translation?
Hi when can we start worshipping dumb but hardworking characters instead of OP-irl self-important pseuds?
Absolutely yes.
However I didn't expect that ending...
>dumb
>hardworking
So the protagonist is a woman
>women
>hardworking
Almost user
t. son of a whore
Hi when can we start worshipping dumb but lazy characters like ur mom?
I have been dabbed on
Burton Raffel
feynman was quite charismatic and came from humble origins. theres probably some good stuff out there on his life and ideas
ummm....no. I've lived in the woods myself for more than a year in Alaska. And it was AWESOME.
so......
gives you a fulfilling, joyful, tranquil, and wonderful life, free of care. Quite apart from maximizing pleasure! It will lead you to nirvana.
"The Pirahãs show no evidence of depression, chronic fatigue, extreme anxiety, panic attacks, or other psychological ailments common in many industrialized societies." p. 303
"I have never heard a Pirahã say that he or she is worried. In fact, so far as I can tell, the Pirahãs have no word for worry in their language. One group of visitors to the Pirahãs, psychologists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Brain and Cognitive Science Department, commented that the Pirahãs appeared to be the happiest people they had ever seen." p. 305
-Daniel Everett, "Don't Sleep There Are Snakes" (2009)
One could go on and on and on....
Crime and Punishment.
Sounds like any novel that follows the hero's journey arc
How do I live as a hermit in the woods? That really sounds like my ideal lifestyle
Define a tough life, some might say that being on the lower end of working class in Britain is tough but that pales in comparison to poverty stricken people in Indian for example.
You need at least $40k. Then you need to scourt property up north. Preferably in montana or alaska. But you need to be totally prepared, and you also need to set aside another $40k for basic foodstuff to last the rest of your life. You'll be living on $1k per year plus whatever you can grow. So yeah, you need money. Otherwise you can try to just wing it and go into BLM land...but then the risk of starvation and death is greater.
live wild or die.
Most vastly successful people both academically, financially or whatever come from relatively humble beginnings because it gives them a very different work ethic than children of rich families.
Malcolm in the Middle