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In today's video I pronounce Friedrich Nietzsche's 10 guiding tips for writing effectively.
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Nietzsche changed my life. The second book that I read was beyond good and evil, I was 13 and started to understand what was life and what was being human, I was really afraid of death and did not understand how so many people could believe in god, his ideas about amor fati, eternal return and the way he explains religion, philosophy and human behavior really ressonate with me. Nietzsche was more then a writer, for me it was almost as a friend who could clarify things to me. Now I'm 22 and every time I read his books again I find something new.
Same here, although I do believe in God Nietzsche helped me understand my beliefs on a much deeper level. Also made me feel understood while navigating the scarier parts of my own mind. I can't imagine understanding Nietzsche at 13 tho hahah I'm having trouble at 20 lol
Well in that case you need to read On the Genealogy of Morality at the end Nietzsche understood you cant have morality without the higharchy far more better than those new atheits like sam Harris Christopher Hitchens aaron Richard dawkins yuval harari at least Nietzsche understood the real crisis
@@tonyparkerr1 I read all his books, and now I understand why people believe in a God created in the iron age, this was not my point ...
The thing I AM most confused by.
How did you get to read IT at 13.
I don't believe it was a good idea to read him as a 13 years old.
I'm 18 and still I'm afraid to read his books.
#9 is pure nietszche, his writing to me seems to brim with an excitement, yet exacting and sensual. Its weird how he borders poetry and then not.
He also wrote poetry. His relatively few poems belong to the best things he ever wrote. See for instance czcams.com/video/GZ4MtSIvK_4/video.html. The translation in the subtitles is less than perfect, but better than none at all (the actual title is "The Drunken Song"). This is one of the most famous, primal, archetypal poems ever written in the German language. The unidentified youth orchestra is remarkable, and the video is awe-inspiring!
Yes. I think he follows this in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
Bro I was just thinking the other day in my head imagining if I could get writing tips from the man himself, Nietzsche. This is huge! Big supporter, mate
I give you the goods! Enjoy 😂
Nietzsche's Top 10 Writing Tips for Dummies:
1. Your writing style should be a living thing.
2. Taylor the writing style depending on who you're writing to.
3. Figure out exactly what you want to say before you start writing.
4. Writing should be expressive in tone and "speak" in some way, somewhat like speech itself.
5. Be sensitive to the "gestures" in writing: length of sentences, interpunctuations, pauses, etc.
6. Periods have a stylistic effect showing how closely ideas flow together and the duration of breath.
7. Style should show your belief in and feeling of your ideas, not just that you think them.
8. The more abstract your idea, the more you must involve the reader's senses.
9. Good prose has a certain rhythm and tone, like poetry, without obviously being poetry.
10. Leave it to the reader to state your biggest insights in their own words.
If you have to figure out exactly what you want to say before you start writing - you'll never start writing.
Love this. I'm far from a philosopher, but I am writing something. I happen to use some of his points just by intuition, and when you learn to write fiction, you will find the, "show, don't tell," rule, which kinda hits on his last point as you show the reader instead of tell the reader so they will fill in the gaps themselves.
I also actually tried to write poetry at one point and it turned into rhyming prose lol...
It's strange that creators don't feel the need to offer any commentary, analysis, or elaboration of these tips. If you google "Nietzsche writing tips" you will find dozens of articles and blog posts with content almost identical to that of this video: a brief introduction, followed by the list of 10 tips, and nothing else.
Nietzsche has the weird (by the standards of both his contemporaries and by the modern writer) ability of making "any commentary, analysis, or elaboration" only necessary for the purposes of comprehension, everything else usually becomes a active hindrance to his work.
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@@artofthepossible7329 Firstly, no, that is false. Secondly, you just commented on the work of Nietzsche - shouldn't you avoid doing this, since it is an 'active hindrance' to his work?
CZcams is an assembly line not a lecture.
His thought about the period resonated with me a lot. A prematurely placed period has always been bothersome to me and I never quite knew why. Interestingly enough, short sentence structure is the prevailing style of writing in today's world. It is more than likely that the adaptation of short and snippy sentences was brought about by the collective shrinking attention span. In any case, I unconsciously went against this trend and tend to write longer sentences than average.
I think the short attention span we see today has been reinforced by the short sentence structure (aka overuse of periods) so prevalent but not fundamentally caused by it. Perhaps the roots of this mental affliction are more deeply founded in the technological transformations of our communication interfaces. I claim that these new interfaces, when situated in the schema of human power relations (social reality), lend themselves to shorter, choppier sentence structure - bullet points being the gold standard. Really I'm trying to synthesize Nietzsche with Marxist and Psychoanalytic critiques by which I mean that the use of short sentences is being socially rewarded more than ever; long structure is left to eccentricity.
To foster a stable attention span, and thus, engaging well and preferably with longer sentence structures is simultaneously an act of rebellion, a healthy coping mechanism, and a simple pleasure. This is seen when one is asked what they like to read for "pleasure", an utter bastardization of such a profound word. They mean to say, "What do you tend to read when it is not for an easily defined purpose?".
Open-prose dialogue has a relationship to time which is not compatible with being a modern capitalist subject. Your duty is to jump from one libidinal impulse to the next until you have a mental breakdown and need to take medication in order to cope. Short sentences and bullet points allow one efficient subjects to coexist in a sort of church-like communion where they all can coexist in their shared lack of attention span.
Needless to say, the Buddha was way ahead of his time with his emphasis on building an infinitesimally stable attention span coinciding with an immensely powerful sense of peripheral awareness. Meditation is the shit. You should try it. Capitalism is trying to commodify it like christmas is to christianity, but it is unable to so because to do so would necessitate its elevation from the fringes.
I agree. It drives me crazy. Complex ideas require complex sentences. In school my main hurdle in academic writing was the short sentences required. My solution was to lean heavily on the semicolon.
Nick Crider personally, I have a fetish for the semi-colon. I have to remind myself when it’s appropriate to use it.
Hegel’s 10 Tips on Writing Clearly next
"Be careful of periods." Those who have read him know that wrote very long run-on sentences sometimes. It contributes to a sense of breathless enthusiasm that is contagious, so for him, it worked. But in the contemporary English speaking world, run-on sentences are not very popular, and it is easy to get confused and make grammatical errors while using them. So, be careful of a scarcity of periods, too.
McCarthy is great with this. Sometimes his sentences are 5 words, sometimes a whole paragraph, either way it reads like powerful poetry.
Good point. In french, we have conjugations and rules to grant verbs and adjectives to the subject. Hard to learn, but that helps a lot to understand the meaning. I recently read Michel Onfray, and I noticed that some sentences were only understandable by the way the endings of the words were spelled.
That allowed Proust to write looooooooong sentences.
I should take lessons in english, I'm often confused by the (apparent ?) simplicity.
I am an admirer of "Big N" but sometimes his sentences were life-sentences.
I've only read Nietzsche in translation, but I never recall encountering a run-on sentence in his work. He does write a lot of long sentences, but they're always beautifully controlled, both grammatically and as acts of communication. I don't always agree with what he says, but his work always stimulates thought--and often laughter.
Read Correction by Thomas Bernhard. There are sentences that last several pages. What's interesting about it is that they do not drone on. "Run on" doesn't describe them accurately. There is a sort of obsessive flow that is created and your mind just races through the sentences.
A caveat regarding that book is that it is somewhat toxic. The writer does such a good job at representing the thoughts of an obsessed person that it is kinda easy to become infected by that way of thinking. However, I found, at the time, that it helped with writing. I could get into the flow of writing much easier, but the style was kind of obsessive.
Number 9 hit the nail on the head. I was always attracted to this kind of writing and I try to adopt this strategy in my essays. Now I know why.
Love the videos you make! Nice to see you in the comments :)
@@ThoughtsonThinking Thank you brother! Likewise. :) I foresee a meteoric rise for your channel. All the best!
Can you explain number 9? What did he mean
Ok, these are really good.
I've read a lot of Nietzsche but this gives a glimpse of the style of his speeches. I learnt a lot from this.
A good writer also builds a tempo into the words and images that almost is musical, but not. Like a symphony the good writer pairs the rhythms and tenors of the syntax in a magnificent melody.
Was just looking for something like this the other day. Thank you.
Could you make a reading guide for Nietzsche, for those who haven’t read much philosophy before but love your videos 🙂
Would recommend Ecce Homo to start with. It was the last book he wrote and he also talks about his other books in it so it should give you some perspective. And it's entertaining as hell to boot
I've seen the Geneaology of Morals proposed as a good entry point as it is his most systematic work, so if you're more accustomed to reading whole essays rather than aphorisms, it should be a touch easier going. I started with Beyond Good and Evil, and it was very difficult to try to do alone, and I had the ability to regularly confer with a Nietzcshe scholar at my uni about how to interpret his writing.
Start with the Greeks
@@Finn959 well said! In fact, I would not recommend touching nietzsche before you have read at least Plato's Republic, Aristotle, Hume and Kant.
Jacob Pej Heraclitus is more important for understanding Nietzsche.
Thank u for this, being an author I'm always trying to improve
#5
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#9
are bloody excellent.
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Thoughts on Thinking a Lovely and useful video, have you considered subtitling your videos? Would be very helpful for those that are not native English speakers, greetings from Mexico
Yes, I usually to do so until someone reminds me, I turn subtitles on when I get round to it, thanks!
Thoughts on Thinking I could help you subtitle your videos if you want. I have experience in subtitling
Man u should make a discord, only old people use Facebook ⛄️ would love to talk to people interested in these things
@@ThoughtsonThinking Can you do a video on the philosophy of Buddhism?
Perhaps as a comparison between buddhist and stoic thought.
I just subscribed, thank you for your great content!
If only the many books on creative writing could be so concise! Many of the books on this subject I have are either self indulgent autobiographies or vague essays - with a chorus of "Write every day...come what may".
Well, it is comforting to know that even Nietsche did not know everything.
Nowadays, packing, densifying, short cutting is needed to get the message through. There is so much information around us now. On the other hand we have new tools for the information stream. Reading and writing skills are getting thinner.
I think Ernst Hemingway’s instructions are more concrete and applicaple today.
Ohhhh
That's gonna be usefull to me as of now.
Danke thank you.
I thank you for what you have done
My biggest problem is simply sitting down and writing in the first place. My work is rather menial, so I get plenty of time to think; and will often come up with decent writing ideas. However once I get the time I often fail to actually sit down and put those ideas on paper. It's very easy in this distracting world to avoid tasks (like writing) which take focus and effort. So hopefully this video can serve as the imputus to get me writing again!
For me the secret to getting down to write had nothing to do with writing but everything to do with exercising. When we exercise our brain is flooded with BDNF which acts as miracle-gro for the brain. BDNF forms new neural pathways in the brain, so exercise literally builds a better, more resilient brain. My willpower and creativity skyrocketed after a few HITT sessions a week. It is exercise and running which gives me the staying power to sit down and write. Don't focus on the task at hand. It will overwhelm you. Focus on one word and that will inevitably lead you to the next. If you find yourself being distracted remember WHY you sat down to write. Better awareness will lead to better results. You can do it!
Thanks for this!
clicked because this wasn't ten+ minutes long
how do you study philosophy ? how do you prepare/research for videos? Very good content !!
could you tackle the steps a little bit further.
an example in Nietzsche's works perhaps
Thank you for sharing these. I came to this video with suspicions. They were quickly dispelled when I learned these came from a letter to Lou Salome. Nietzsche giving writing advice to unknown readers did not make sense to me, but giving such advice to a friend and one he may have been in love with does make sense to me. For this reason, as I hear and read his advice, I take into account his second tip "Style should be suited to the specific person with whom you wish to communicate." In other words, these are the specific tips he wrote for Lou Salome ... Had he known any of us here, he may have had different tips or said them differently .... Keeping that in mind, I think, would make these tips more beneficial. In any case, a brilliant video which gives further insight into Nietzsche and how he chose to express ideas ....
Good video. I've written some short stories, but I am critical of myself. I like to keep a notebook where I just write stream of consciousness stuff. I like James Joyce quite a bit. Don't know what Nietzsche would make of that. I heard Jung psychoanalyzed Jim and his daughter Lucia. Upon reading Ulysses Jung was convinced Joyce and his daughter were both schizophrenic. The difference being she was sinking, and he was diving.
I didn't know that about James Joyce. Where did you find this ? I read Jung a lot, and was more interested by what he said in his autobiography about Freud.
Being a former psychiatry worker, I have a hard time with Nietzsche. Fantastic writer, but he watches himself writing a little too much, while Jung is just clear.
@Mohamed Momtaz I'm familiar with them. I like their world views. McKenna might be a little too woo for me though. I admire his liking for Joyce. But he goes on about psychedelics a bit much. Mind you I've experimented and had some fun. Sadly I have a copy of Watchmen (the graphic novel), and have not read it. Moore also is a bit woo, but I like his views on anarchy. I've dabbled in some Aleister Crowley and Robert Anton Wilson stuff which is kind of fun, but these days I'm more into philosophy.
definitely took inspiration from Poe
Can yall help me with the last one . I didn't understand it .
I'm far from understanding Nietzsche myself, watched the Academy of ideas series on him and am looking to get a few books. What is meant by #9? lol
Nietzsche is a hilarious writer, a lot of awe inspiring comments and thought provoking ideas behind his childish dismissal of other thinkers and edgy humor.
no Nietzsche hate intended but he is incredibly witty and tongue & cheek
Nietzsche is someone you have to love to hate, or hate to love.
Tip 1: Don't write like Nietzsche!
Tips 2-10: See above
I think that is implied in his rule 1 & 2, in that if you emulate Nietzsche you are communicating with the dead (his contemporaries).
The principal principle of writing is:
Less words counts more because more words counts less.
Simple is beautiful.
Simple, but not too simple.
Simplicity is de ultimate form of sophistication.
I think you are over-simplifying the choice of writing style. And yes, this is both a pun and my opinion. I think it depends on both the writer's ability to apply complex imagery and tools skillfully, and on the reader's ability to identify and appreciate these techniques 😊
Sometimes, when I ready particularly complicated works for the first time, they make little sense to me, but when I re-read them later on, I realise how ingenious and beautiful the writing actually is. Obviously though, many writers can't adeptly write complex pieces, so in their case, simplicity is certainly key.
Lou Salome was an absolute maneater, Mahler, Rilke, Nietzsche. She actually destroyed Nietzsche. Whether intentionally or not, I know not. Nietzsche imagined a life with her. When it fell through he went to pieces. Salome (Apt name) lived into her 80s, going from man to man. Noel
Subbed.
I could really use some writing tips
How does writing make us independent from all other things in the world ? Every thought depends on what we've learned throughout life, the development of language, the environment we find ourselves in... could you expand on that ?
I'm working on my writing skills
Aren't we all here ?
I wonder why Nietzsche does not have a rule on editing and rewriting since every writer reviews the manuscript many times.
He did, that was rule 1. If you edit too much, you can squash the life out of your writing making it too technical. Mistakes, in terms of spelling errors, grammar mistakes or not enough structure can incumber communication, however too much perfection renders a text dead.
@@albertbrennaman5605 Thanks. What you say makes sense. Aiming for perfection adds artificiality and sucks life out of the text.
Intro music is a bit too loud imo
If I ever found a book I think you would like and I sent it to you would you read it?
Yeah
ngl I think it would've helped his works if next to his poetry he would've included something more akin to analytic philosophy, very clear premisse-premisse-conclusion like points
I love the Neech but I think a good one would be, "Don't write out your ideas in a language most people won't understand." Going through "Beyond Good and Evil" gets tiring when you are trying to look up French and Latin translations every other chapter...
just read ' the Complete Plain Words' by sir Ernest Gowers, no need for all the compexity and mystery, simple descriptive nouns as in Chaucer last for centuries, in other words use the exact word that says exactly what you mean: dont try to impress with big ones ... you will soon be found out.
Probably would have been better if you explained with examples
Video starts at 1:21
Reflecting upon older reflections is a mind fogged and weary, acting as an emissary of TRUTH is a foolish plaything of DADDY love me.
Great punctual list. Who is the artist by the way?
You not Joking? Assuming you're not a poeing Frederic Nietzsche is probably the most influential thinkers of the near end of the last millennium having influenced Jung, Freud, Marx, Mussolini, Hitler, Rand & even Jordan B Peterson to name but a few. In fact, even if you've never heard of him his thinking has likely had some influence (even if just to refute his ideas) on whoever's ideas & ideals you subscribe to.
Some of the main concepts you'd recognise that he's known for is the idea of a will to power, the "death of God" & the mess finding a replacement would (& did) cause & the idea of the overman or ubermensch. I'd suggest looking into him if you want to try & grasp how & why a great part of the ideas that underpin modern thought is the way it is, though apart from being an indisputable genius writing itself was not his main thing.
There are people who are easier to grasp & more to the point if you just want creative writing tips though...
Studley Manhorse the heck are you talking about. I’m referring to the drawing bro
I’m well aware of who Nietzsche is.
Hello, can anyone name me the source of these 10 rules? I would like to read it in the original german wording :)
I think he said in the video that these rules are talked about in a series of letters to Lou Andreas-Salomé. You just have to find those letters in german, I think.
@@daedricdragon5976 yeah I know, a more precisely reference however, like which letter in which collection for instance, would be helpful. I couldn't find anything, even mentioning it in german
@@liubei7276 I searched for them for a while and I think I found them:
This is the english version of his letters (I believe in 1882?):
www.thenietzschechannel.com/correspondence/eng/nlett-1882.htm
This the german (specifically number [45] and [109] that are his writing tips):
www.thenietzschechannel.com/notebooks/german/nachd/nachd1.htm#45
@@daedricdragon5976 Oh, thanks alot!
What are the ghostly images fluttering in the background? Are they meant to keep people’s attention? For me they are distracting, but I enjoy your videos.
What ghostly images?
Hellstone
They only show on the first ten seconds of this video, but appear to me throughout the following video:
czcams.com/video/94czt9t9yro/video.html
Nietzsche had TWO right brains and ZERO left brains
Ha, nice to see you here! ;3
Boyoalert!
He kind of mastered the mechanism to make both brain hemispheres act as one and the same.
@Mohamed Momtaz He has analitically controlled the intuitions of the right hemisphere to the point he masters them. Then he presents his mastery intuitively to us. He is like an art critic that is not talking about art, but about human existence, after analyzing it critically and deeply, but his results are exposed artistically and intuitively.
yeaa.. and btw the right part of brain being for creativity, and left one for logical reasoning is bullshit...
where are these from?
Nietzsche's letter(s) sent to Salomé on rules for writing and style, it might take some time to dig out the original letters from the internet.
Thoughts on Thinking Can you make a video explaining the übermensch, and how to be one
You can't be an Ubermensch, it is a continuous ambition that is never a reality.
Thoughts on Thinking I’ve thought of it AS what he named his self (jungian self) AS he said, «one became Two»
@@ThoughtsonThinking a la Jung's circumambulation
Great video. To me, videos have become like books
I hope not, make sure to READ THE BOOKS.
@@ThoughtsonThinking Hello, I have dyslexia so it's hard for me to read and being on the spectrum of dyslexia,it is very severe. For me audio books have given me the opportunity to read books that my learning differences prevented me from reading. I was able to finish the Bhagavad Gita in one day by watching this video
czcams.com/video/eQVCd7-u-Xw/video.html
Yeah I understand, I am supposedly also to be on the dyslexia spectrum but I don't find reading or writing difficult exactly so I don't think it is true. Such a label was always a negative self fulfilling prophecy for me in my school days.
Glad these videos are helpful for you and for many!
I'm writing a book about the individuation . Can you propose some books about the psychology of society and conformity to the herd?
Emerson's self-reliance is a great criticism of conformity.
Mass psychology of fascism (Reich)
You can read the 14 points defining fascism by Lawrence Britt, it's not a book, but as a former psychiatry worker I study the far right and that nails it. Umberto Ecco also wrote 14 points. Could give you some tips on how to avoid individuation !
Emerson's self is quite good . I could use a lot of resources . Like criticism of democracy, social boundaries . And mainly how to function in the solitude resulting from the individuation process.
@@amano4657 Socrates has some good critiques of Democracy
@@amano4657 hook me up with a copy of your book when it's published lol
Many philosophers are very longwinded. They appear to be thinking up new ways of saying the same thing over and over in case you the reader didn’t get it the first time.
Thinking and overbaking everything leads to insanity ! Obviously.
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Lou Salome wasn't actually a love interest, it's an overwhelmingly popular story but the sole evidence for that is Lou Salome's autobiography in which every man she'd ever met was after her
Okay, that does sound suspect.
@@sasha6454 if she was the woman that hanged out with nerds, it sounds logical.
El: She was a love interest to him, in the sense that he was in love with her. But it did not go well for him. The two of them hung out together and with another guy. Then, Lou suggested that all three of them consummate the relationship with what some people call "a devil's triangle" AKA, a threesome. Nietzche did not like the idea and said no, so she ran off with the other guy. Nietzsche's love life was not a happy one. He was an old school incel. He seems to have fallen in love with two women in his life, Low Salome and Richard Wagner's wife, Cosima. He never sealed the deal with either of them and would have been a virgin for life except for infrequent contact with syphilis. Nevertheless, he got syphilis from those encounters which, sadly, drove him insane, then comatose, then dead.
@@milascave2 There is some evidence to suggest romantic affection for Cosima, but not so much for Lou Salome. When Nietzsche spoke of Lou Salome it was out of interest in her potential as a sort of disciple, and I believe the only romantic context that Nietzsche put words to was to say that she was not romantically appealing.
Also, the elevated way in which Nietzsche speaks of sex would seem to indicate that he had indeed been around to some degree. Nietzsche was a profoundly lonely soul, but that mostly seemed to have been an inability to cross the distance of differences between himself and others. It's not that he was unable to have people in his life, people found him likable and had a fairly sociable early life. He just withdrew further and further over the course of his life.
Now I'm not sure exactly what you mean with the syphilis, but it's most likely that Nietzsche's madness and death were borne by an inherited neurological condition that had also taken his father.
@@milascave2 It is widely accepted that it was not syphilis, but a disease called CADASIL that plagued him. He inherited this from his father who passed away from it at the age of 36.
You reed something that pressed you and you Ofer your take on it….like nietsche did when he read Dostoyevsky
Homie i have an iq of 2 but I appreciate the videos nonetheless :)
My take on writing is all abaut using less words to order more levels of life world mapping meanings flows states between moments of truths revealing feeling functions following upfront forms derived out straight from Heartstone thinking through Headspace Lightening Connections hidden intent behind arts movements subjective acts where living gives voices to silenced dead of the past projecting new birth of futures shelves along with others as a lost found X-Files Story of Individual Soul Unified ground surface deep Transformative Journey reflecting reality, Identity, memory and history belongingness being be merged within the whole universal spirit eventually becoming center of divine Self-Image manifesting supreme diety, supernormal entity, heavenly body to human animal Controlled activity styles linked energy sources tuned Frequency ranged feedbacks loops modeling geospatial biopolitical new media spheres influencing economy, industry and social technology monitoring evolutionary Ecology development pathways for management cybernetics.
Helps to be batshit crazy.
This is helpful if you’re interested in halfway decent syntax combined with hopelessly prolix conceptual drivel.
You embarrass yourself! You are describing the "syntax" of English translation not of Nietzsche's German, which apparently you are entirely ignorant of. Heraclitus scooped you 2500 years ago: "Dogs bark at what they don't understand."
8 is my fav, the rest appear banal
Don't worry google spell check will make sure you're not writing reflectively.
I found one of these tips worth paying attention to and only because I had already arrived at it long before watching this video.
The rest if these tips are weak.
Nice vid though.
What was the one tip?
@@daedricdragon5976 Number 8
@@TheRedverb Would you mind elaborating on that point, since you seem to have understood it before? I have a feeling that I know what he means, but am nontheless curious to know what you think of it.
@@daedricdragon5976 I'll try to provide an example from a short story I wrote called, Five Hundred and Sixty Seven Rabbits.
The abstract idea behind that story is misanthropy but the idea was surrounded by the very familiar "courtroom drama" setting which further enticed the senses by involving an older comfortably voiced southern gentleman as the judge/narrator, and a main suspect as a young sociopathic top-hat magician figure, all that surrounded by the image of a theater full of people who by all accounts appeared to have been turned into hundreds of fluffy white rabbits.
@@TheRedverb That's a fascinating idea! Also thank you for providing this example. Do you think there are techniques which can be utilized to better take advantage of this tip or is it just an intution? One that may be strengthed by practice, perhaps?
He. Was. Wrong. About. Periods.
Ab.so.lute.ly.
sounds like my president, i am mexican.
Next up: How to write like Hegel.
If there weren't such strict grammar and syntax rules, everyone would be better writers
This is absurd. If language wasn't as complex and exquisite as it is, everyone would probably be more competent at writing, sure, but the level of beauty and depth of meaning that could be conveyed through words would also suffer significantly, and I'd rather live in a world in which very few are able to reach the pinnacle of such an exquisite art, than having everyone be proficient at a mediocre one.
@@nicolasarriaza7614 you know some of the best writers in history constantly broke grammar rules?
@@ericreingardt2504 This has nothing to do with your previous statement. It is one thing to break grammar rules for style and it is a whole other to dumb down language so people can write more easily.
How to NOT write effectively: take 1:22 of a 3:39 minute video to introduce the topic before even starting on the first of ten items. Follow this up by simply reading a list the viewer could have googled and offer nothing in the way of example or explanation.
Point #1 is on point , If you are making a tutorial for a young audience you have to be quick; If it's for babyboomers you migth as well teach as if talking to a blind tortoise.
anyone who has read the genealogy will know not to take writing advice from Nietzsche
I'm sorry, but am I wrong to say that N. was not a very good writer? Every time I've tried reading Zarathustra I've been repelled by the ugliness of its form and the bluntness with which it expresses its ideas. It makes sense to express his thought in aphorism, but his approach to fiction lacks any implicit spontaneity and makes me wonder at the end of every paragraph why he even bothered using parable.
I don't know how he translates to English, but I couldn't think of a greater stylist in German. I didn't like Zarathustra though.
Zarathustra is messy in many parts but also beautiful in others, at the moment I am reading Twilight of the Idols and I find that condensed structure of philosophical writing much more rewarding for not only the reader but also for Nietzsche to demonstrate his ideas.
I havent read nearly the whole thing but its like he chose to put blunt philosophical statements into parable for the sake of sounding more profound rather than his thoughts coming out spontaneously in parable
Lol no you are just not able to read it
I guess it depends a lot on taste, Zarathustra is my favorite book ever written
Nietzsche: God is dead!
God: Nietzsche is dead!
no shit.