the pilot and the mosh pit // reasons to read
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- what's a book that spurred you to some kind of action, and what action did you take?
check out the rest of the reasons to read here: • reasons to read
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if you're interested in any of the books referenced and want to pick up a copy for yourself, here are some links! (I'm not affiliated with thriftbooks, although with how often I buy from them maybe I should be):
-Flight to Arras by Antoine de St. Exupery: www.thriftbooks.com/w/pilote-...
-The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-lit...
-Essays by Sir Francis Bacon: www.thriftbooks.com/w/essayes...
-A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-midsu...
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-adv...
-Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand: www.thriftbooks.com/w/atlas-s...
-20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: www.thriftbooks.com/w/twenty-...
-The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-win...
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timestamps:
0:00 book-life balance
0:43 paul & the punk show
2:33 the french pilot
4:33 participate!
#booktube #antoinedesaintexupéry #reading #moshpit - Zábava
The Lord of the Rings trilogy inspired me to write a themed murder mystery that all of my friends had to participate in (in costume, of course). I’m sure some of them weren’t as excited to dress up and embrace their given character (like I was), but I appreciated that they still participated and enjoyed trying something new.
my favorite part was Paul in the Legolas wig. By far
My dad took me on a camping trip floating down the Suwanee river for a couple days after we read Huck Finn.
what an awesome idea. thanks Paul for inspiring the whole episode !
i seriously thought you'd have thousands of views and subscribers... this was one of the most impactful videos i've watched in a while, i can't wait to see how far you'll go.
thank you so much! :) I’m very much enjoying sharing my thoughts and it’s been so great to hear that they’re resonating with people. this is #5 and I’ll see how many more I have in my system. thanks for the encouragement!
thanks for a timely video. recently, i've been feeling isolated by my own hand, and i'm struggling to take action in my life. in small ways i've been working on facing fears and forcing myself to engage with the world. a book i consistently reflect on in this vein is A Gentleman in Moscow, with the quote: “if a man does not master his circumstances then he is bound to be mastered by them.”
the main character is bound to spend the rest of his life in a hotel, yet he still maintains his dignity and quests for meaning. i need to remember i am not limited so much by my environment as i am myself.
thank you for sharing and for engaging with this video! you got this :) remember too that engaging really can be small actions or even just presence, it doesn’t have to be mosh pits!
i really really really, REALLY like this video. excited to watch the rest now
hey thanks! :) I really really appreciate it!
This video was so inspiring to me. I've lived most of my life with debilitating social anxiety and seeing this gave me some inspiration to talk to people today, so thank you (:
wow that makes this whole process worth it for me. I’m glad for you! and also don’t forget that participation doesn’t always mean extroversion so don’t feel like you need to perform. but I’m very glad it encouraged you :) thanks for sharing!
The Solace of Open Spaces and Sailing Alone Around the World both fell into my lap via public "take a book, leave a book" boxes in different states. Read em both last spring/summer in the most difficult season of my life and they were instrumental in teaching me the importance of solitude and exploring-- getting out of your comfort zone!!! (oh let's buy a plane ticket on a thursday and fly to TN on a saturday to pick up an old van and drive it to FL!)
those both sound terrific. might look at sailing alone around the world - sounds inspiring! love how books don’t have to be directly instructional to instruct you in your own life.
I am not a musician, but I LOVE to play music. When I was a teenager, I heard Jimi Hendrix and wanted to play that music. So I bought a white Strat, just like Hendrix, and taught myself how to play. When I was in my 40's, I happened to hear "Take Five" while waiting at a counter in a store. I JUST had to play that!! So I taught myself how to play drums, to be like Joe Morello. Then started applying my guitar stuff in the Jazz realm, learned some theory and began to see the beauty of the whole enterprise. But, then, I started to hear things in Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie that had previously made me a little ill (!!) and all of the sudden, I just had to play some Bird stuff on a horn. So picked up a cheap clarinet for 6 months, got my embouchure together then got a cheap Alto which I have been playing ow for about a year. The point? Loving a "thing" from the sidelines only goes so far. You have to DO that thing in order to truly love it. Because only then do you actually begin to understand it, be overwhelmed by it, want to quit, but keep pushing ahead because the beauty and appeal is now REAL to you. It can't be denied. This only scratches the surface. The depth of the love goes only as far as the depth of the thing which is loved. My children. My wife. Christ Jesus. Only in DOING the thing, experiencing the thing, does love become real. Thanks for this series, great work here.
you sure sound like a musician to me! I see where Paul gets it from :) yeah doing things is the way to go if you really wanna “get it”. thanks so much for sharing!
what if you love so many things from the sidelines that you dont know which thing to start with! I have so many "things" I would love to do, but I dont want to close my options and dedicate myself to one craft. I know i will probably like it, but I want to be sure of what I wanna go after and chase it with my all. Its a question ive been battling for a while, but a fun one and im enjoying the journey of discovery. But your statement "loving a thing from the sidelines only goes so far" really stuck out since thats what ive been doing for a while. I dont want to immerse myself in what im not sure of when I have so many other passions and ideas, but I know I cant research every possible venue out there. I would love an answer to this dilemna and possibly if you relate to it, id love hear the story, thanks :).
thank you for (probably) changing my life stranger
that makes me so happy to hear. thanks for participating with me!
Its awesome the way you express the idea of participating in life. Some things can be scary or maybe you are not sure if you are going to like it, but just the willingness to try to participate in something opens you up to a lot more things and enjoyment from life. Being someone who has gone to hundreds of metal shows and rock concerts it's hard to look back at what it was like before participating in a mosh pit or just being allowed and aggressive concert. But after the first time you get in there it gets a lot easier and you realize how much fun it actually is, and you have some experiences where maybe it's a little more rough than you would expect and maybe you come out with a bruise or two but you survived, you did the thing, and for the most part you had fun. I'm glad that you could get so much from this book about participating in life and it's cool that the participation you took part in was just being in a mosh pit, it doesn't always have to be some grand life-altering experience sometimes it's as simple as just move in your body to some music, or playing human pinball with other sweaty people. Great video!
thanks for watching and your thoughts! I’ve been told there are much more aggressive mosh pits than the one I was part of, so jury’s still out on whether I’ll attempt another. But metaphorically, I’m all about the mosh pit now :) Yeah it doesn’t have to be a giant experience! Maybe even trying a new restaurant instead of the same thing every time. Thanks for watching!
The book "I called him necktie" made me appreciate the calmness in life just a little more.
as someone who likes calmness I might have to grab that book. thanks for watching!
@@timdemoss It is def a great read. Very heartfelt. It has a lot of chapters, as the chapters are sometimes as short as a page or less. Arguably not much happens, but it is so captivating and moving. I hope you check it out and enjoy it
CZcams has been recommending me all your videos, and I think they're great! I'm a teen reader that loves making art based of different scenes and quotes from my favourite books so I can add to the conversation from people who love them too. :) Most recently, I did a painting inspired by The Handmaid's Tale and displayed it at an art show.
thanks so much for the encouragement! That’s so cool that you’re channeling it into more art. keep it going & thanks for watching!
So grateful to have found your channel. Reading Norwegian Wood at the moment and the way you put this video together is absolutely moving. Thank you
Thank you so much for letting me know :) enjoy your reading!
I love your content! Very quick touching stories that bring both value and soul. Would definetely enjoy long form from you!
book: Piranesi from Susanna Clarke, gave me enough inspiration and wonder with the world to help me go through a tough design project.
thank you!! I try to condense them a little bit but maybe I’ll venture into longer stuff sometime. If you’ve got ideas let me know & I’ll be happy to experiment. Love the word wonder - I’ll check out Piranesi!
One of the most impactful videos I've seen in a while. Hope you get as far as you deserve. Thanks mate, really!
hey thank you so much! I appreciate it!! thanks for the encouragement & for watching :)
Beautiful storytelling & perspective - I haven’t read a book in years but will see you in the next video anyways
thank you! we’ll see ya then :)
Excellent recommend by the algorithm, loved the vid!
I remember reading "At the existentialist cafe" by Sarah Bakewell in the midst of some of the worst that 2020 had to offer. And I don't know that it made me take a particular action so much as consider my mindset and all future actions. Reading and understanding how people endured and overcame the massive challenges of Europe in the 1930s-1940s and how some philosophers chose to embrace the absurdity of life and lean into breathing in every experience. Idk man, it just really pushed me to challenge how I was living through my own troubled times.
Very excited to enjoy more of your musings ✨
thanks for the well thought out response! haven’t read that book but like how you mentioned it might not inspire a specific action in the moment, but is fuel for your future actions. glad to have you around!
Wow I’m loving this reasons to read series! Ive been getting back into reading after several years of not reading and it’s been great. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
I’m so glad! Happy reading!
after completing shoe dog i was in awe. i got myself a pair of nikes and started doing marathons.
well that is a pretty rock solid result! thanks for watching!
Hello Tim! I've serendipitously stumbled across this video of yours today. Hello from another participant :) This was a lovely video to come across, as this is a question that I've been pondering in the back of my mind for a while now. As to your question, I think the author who always makes me want to engage with life is Ursula K. Le Guin, without question. I am a philosophy student and writer, so her approach to writing engages me in two ways at once. I'm currently rereading one of her works, and my favourite book of all time, The Dispossessed.
There's a moment in which the narrator of the book, Shevek--a theoretical physicist in search of a general temporal theory--speaks to a crowd of angry workers. A particular passage strikes me each time. "We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give."
So glad you stumbled across it! I feel like I need awhile to unpack that quote and would love to read it in context. Thanks for your thoughts and for participating!
your channel is great. sharing my experience, reading infinite jest, specially because of the character of hal incandenza, made me start to smoke marihuana more frequently and to stop talking to people about my feelings. heh
I’ve only heard crazy things about this book, and this adds to the intrigue…hope you found some other books that encouraged you to open up more eventually! thanks for watching !
I had the EXACT same experience at a concert I went to, I went for the opener who was not at all a hardcore punk artist, so when the first chord played and I got swept 20 feet forwards and 20 feet back I was completely out of my element, but I was laughing like a maniac because it was just so funny. I left because I had a fragile camera, but as I left I realized I should've found a place to store the camera and go participate. This is an awesome video
wow that really is the exact same experience. glad to know I’m not the only one. and I maybe should have put my phone away instead of filming … pretty sure there was a high risk of dropping it and losing or breaking it. But I wanted the footage to show how it felt so I risked it. Didn’t know I’d make this video then, but the footage sure came in handy. Thanks for watching & I hope you enjoy the rest of the series! (Even the ones that don’t have music references!)
A huge mosh pit and book enjoyer, this is so true
The Trouble with Poetry - Billy Collins inspired me to try writing a poem. After years and years of not "getting" poetry, I finally found some that I enjoyed in his collection of poems. And the trouble with poetry is that it makes you want to write more poetry 😂
that is the trouble with poetry isn’t it? I’ll make a video on this someday. thanks for watching!
I am deeply enjoying your videos and this series! the storytelling, visuals, and intentional choice to choose one idea to express all these elements are captivating from beginning to end. your videos are inspiring entertaining and educational in the philosophical self-reflective kind of way.
Thanks so much! I’m glad it’s coming across well :)
Thank you so much for this video, Tim! I adore the idea of reading as participation, and I've added Flight to Arras to my reading list :)
glad to hear it Ron! welcome to the channel :)
I found the quote you cited in French, in the original text: "Le métier de témoin m’a toujours fait horreur. Que suis-je, si je ne participe pas ? J’ai besoin, pour être, de participer.". Literally, it means "The witness' occupation/role has always horrified me. What am I, if I don't participate? I need, in order to be, to participate." I love comparing translations so I thought you might be interested to know what the original quote sounds like in French! 😊
oh I do love that. What a terrific way to say it. Thank you so much!!
@@timdemoss Thank you for your videos! 🤗
Instructions unclear, i am now on a no return mission to mars after reading the Long mars
sick video, i was hooked immediately :)
wow thanks! getting better with practice so glad to hear you enjoyed!
great video man
thank you! I appreciate the encouragement
I clicked, no real expectation...why I'm getting so emotional listen this 6:42 videos? Actually, Epictetus teach me how to stop participating into what is not my concerns. And its a lot, mentally.
you only die once so why not live it.
You should have mentioned earlier that you're a Mountajn Goats guy so people know
The mountain goats are appreciated by all who enjoy good writing :)
all i want to say is thank you, kind stranger 🤍 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson got me to pursue my passion for writing through journalism, and I am now enrolled in university as a journalism major haha
hey good luck in university! keep reading & writing!