Thinking About The Future
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- čas přidán 25. 11. 2020
- A video essay about the future of this show from now on.
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About your first point: "Be a philosopher, but in first case, be a man." - David Hume
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
@@rubeng9092 your quote really emphasized his 1st point perfectly
@@rubeng9092 Absolutely brilliant quote. Thanks for sharing
honestly your mind is so wonderfully complex and beautiful that i'd never *not* watch whatever content you put out.
I second this.
Same
This entire comment is the picture of Dorian Gray simplified. Change my mind.
same.
YES
There is a freedom in not having to know everything
Develop a healthy relationship with life and ideas: The key is in planning here, imo. Keeping a strict schedule. But, it's really hard and I often get lost in ideas, neglect to eat and all that jazz. It's a part of our wiring as idea people I guess. What I do, is meditating and playing a musical instrument (piano), that really grounds me. Also, cooking can be a grounding experience as well. Although I mostly just eat two salads a day and go on walks and stay in shape that way.
I got an interview date for Cambridge a few days ago so I want to thank you for helping me be my best academic self! I probably won’t get an offer but still I consider this a personal achievement! Love this channel!
Hey that's awesome! That's a huge accomplishment by itself! I hope it goes well!
@@laurelhayes186 Thank you! Me too although I’ll be happy studying my subject anywhere!
@Martim Thank you!
Good luck! Have faith in yourself, you never know- they may be looking for someone just like you:)
Awesooome! Good luck!!!!!
In the start of the video when he said that his subscribers subscribed for reading books and the older videos but I'm over here thinking that I subscribed bc I enjoy seeing ur perspective and learning about how u think about stuff bc I have a pretty weird thinking too
@_maha lol didn't expect anyone to even notice my comment so thx!
exactly he talks about things which i think about and its interesting to watch them
Hi sir, I am a 9th grader. Found your channel recently. And I am quite encouraged by your videos and love how you explain stuff. I became quite interested in reading and philosophy after watching your videos. I mean you explain things better then some of my teachers.
Wishing you best of luck.😊
Greetings... 10th grader here. I was likely in 8th grade when you posted the comment.
Waldun is the kind of person who makes me feel like I'm too dumb to be friends with them.
As a student who major in pedagogy, I can't thank you enough for reviving my interest in learning. Looking forward for your future videos
Dear Robin, you might be one of the reasons why i still believe in this generation. Through your interpretations of lit and philosophy, you absolutely taught me how to reflect them on my daily life. Super excited for your new projects( P.S. you're more alive than you think you are, and your intentions already reached us even though you spoke about them with more awareness in this vid. Good luck with your writings! You are much loved and appreciated
he has the face of a 15 year old, the voice of a 30 year old and the brain of albert einstein
And he iqs 20
But... Albert Einstein is dead
Because he's memorized the quotes of Einstein
I´ve been having so much trouble focusing on one video at a time. I believe it´s hard for me to find the kind of content I genuinely enjoy. Apart from that I think I´m experiencing dopamine excess and it´s so frustrating but your videos always help me to hold my attention. You seem like a really nice and smart person. Every time I finish one of your videos I feel so refreshed and full of interesting ideas, so thanks.
Having one foot in "reality" and the other in "ideas" can be a lonely road sometimes. Wish you all the best.
Btw you could talk about pizza and i would still enjoy it.
Imagine if you got it in you to be the most read person in the world. You read all day, every day. Then slept. Then you woke up an old man and realized you forgot to live. Where was the break even point?
I've read over four thousand books 📚
haha, but isn't you reading those books, living? is what we count as living, defined by ourselves, or by society? 😁
@@yesjo1456 Fair enough
@@yesjo1456 I think it is more about different kinds of "living". So by overly focusing on one you may lose the chance to experience another. You don't even have to live all of them, but somehow, the deeply disturbing yet totally familiar idea of the person who walked too narrow a path and forgot to look at other directions seems very relatable to most people.
I do not believe this one is a case of "defined by society" views. It seems to natural to be that kind of notion, put into our heads by others.
And how many of them have gone through you?
@@shantnukumar1090 WoW, if you meant by them "the books", it is a very interesting way of looking at it.
Maybe you have gone through a 1000 books but how many of them have gone through you?
That's so good! I've always had this idea in my head and havd looked for ways to express it but so far haven't seen a sort of impactful "one-sentence" that could conceptualize the heart of this idea so well.
"This is how my brain works it's hyperactive when it shouldn't be hyperactive and it's half way broken when it should be working"
*I* *have* *never* *heard* *something* *more* *relatable* * than* *this*.😔😔
I think you're exploding and coming to truly embrace life. I'm going through the same process right now. I just realized that there's still so much left, that I will live. That I will experience and do. I just want to get out there and give life one big hug!
I've gone through it maybe a year or 2 ago. I used to be addicted to knowledge and books, spending most of my time reading while my friends are out there living their lives to the point where I became more and more introverted, when I meet them I feel like an alien lol immersed in my own world of fiction wether books or movies/series and what's ironic is how I can't even discuss these things with anyone because we don't have the same interests. Until I woke up with a slap to the face.. I started to do other things, I see reading as a normal hobby now I'm not obsessed as before because any form of addiction is unhealthy. I do many fun things now even cooking or walking outside breathing fresh air can be fun.
Sometimes I feel like I should be a clearer version of myself and some books just shape me up in the authors' ways. What if we lived our lives without complexity and did things according to our intuition? Trial, error and learning lessons.
I love how your process of thinking goes just like mine, I too tend to deconstruct and reflect on every detail of things, and also I am trying to live in a middle point between the ideas world and the physical world, you could say. Keep up the good work!!
i literally just stumbled upon your channel and im just mesmerized by your thoughts. it feels so relatable and familiar, like every video you post unlock feelings in my head that i always had but coudnt actually describe. anyways, just overwhelmed. love from brazil!
I am loving watching you dealing with life and mind. It's like watching the sun break through trees by the sidewalk in a busy city. (I dunno, it is what it is) It's such a beautiful journey at this stage of life. Not one of those processes that you need to complete before you see the good things in it. You see it as you go forward, and it's the best thing ever.
Hi Robin. 1st year uni student, growing up, what do I like, where am I going, what is Life all about, and How do I get there ? When I crossed the bridge from being a wayward boy, into manhood, I was 34 years old. I had a few tragedies in my life prior, and I survived them. When I got sober a second time, at 34, life opened up to me, in ways I had not imagined. 53 now. and Life has surely thrown curve balls at us, for sure. Hang in there. Life is all about exploration. Take your time, stop and smell the roses, and don't obsess over little things, because it is always the "little things" that trip us up, like the broken shoe lace. Yes, I watched the video to the end too.
Love your channel honestly! Sometimes when you upload these kinds of videos and I see them in my recommended, it's like coincidence because I was lost in thought with the same topic you upload. Anyways that aside, great video!
I totally saw this video coming, I am pumped that you got here in your life, and am excited to see where you go next
Damn, I feel so attacked (but in a good way), especially when you started talking about living life. Dude, that's all I've been thinking about today; how am I living life? Is what I am doing right now worth doing, but then again does it matter?
I almost went back into my monotonous and almost suffocating lifestyle. And in a way you just sort of gave me a wake up call, reminding me not to fall into my 'comfort trap' and just live, but also think about the future. Setting that balance and sticking to it is so stupidly difficult for me.
Thank you for uploading today!
I love that I've found your channel at this point in life because I feel like I can listen to someone who gets it. I am excited for the future of this channel and life as a whole
If you ever feel like something is really terrible or you just really hate life, just think about the fact that there's probably a beautiful poem out there about exactly what you're going through
You're one of my new favorite CZcamsrs. I always love hearing your perspective!
man... somehow through this video you just remembered me how beautiful are the simplest things in life, thank you i really needed it
when ADHD kicks in:
my brain is hyperactive when it shouldn't be hyperactive
halfway broken when it should be working
Literally same hahah so many things distracted me from this video
Same I literally don't even know what to do about it just ugh
@@cosmonauthoney try making new routines for yourself no matter what it is just stick to it
and if it really is a problem discuss it with your therapist :)
@@fadiorsth3907 Thank you, I will do my best.
You always post exactly what I need at the moment. Thank you.
I love that you’ll bring writing in! So excited for the future!
"i cant believe you're still here watching this video" of course i am, i love your contents.
Take time and live. Try to love and emerse ypurself in the struggle of being alive. Without fresh perspective you will forget that other views, other feelings, other life goals and pursuits are in grasp, and it takes a few steps to get there.
I have probably realized this awhile ago when I started getting interested in reading great books but I didn’t find the right words to explain it. Thank you for articulating this and best of luck to your channel! I really admire your content.
Love your mentality, thanks for continuing to make these videos; they're extremely interesting and engaging
Yo bro ima forever watch you, your videos automatically invite me to this type of energy
I have to say that it is really fascinating to observe how you are maturing through time. Keep it up!
Recently your videos were always popping in my recommended, so I watched and let me tell you your video are amazing and keep continue doing it. As a new sub I am cheering you!
So relatable! Ideas vs. Practical life things- it feels as if I am stuck at home with ideas all the time these days
Love it! Appreciate the idea of not getting too lost in the ideas. There’s just as much a practical element to life as there is an artistic or philosophical one.
Remember to visit "the forest" often lest you lose the path. Also, don't be afraid to travel so far that you come full circle. Standing where you've been after a long journey helps you appreciate the past experiences with a deeper understanding, and you'll pick up novel things the second & third times around. There are concatenated interests and phases through my life that I've been going on through overlapping cycles, and my anxieties about such things have been dwindling and are being replaced with a sly grin and excitement; I am becoming more and more keen on understanding and experiencing and expressing things the further I explore the contents of the cosmos and my mind.
Having stumbled across your channel gives me a renewed appetite for more formal intellectual pursuits after two years of work, "living", and anarchistic intuition regarding worldviews, philosophies, and schools of aesthetics.
I am glad to have found your videos- you are very insightful, and your content will enrich my mindset in the coming months. Hope you don't mind this meandering comment too much 😂
Cheers!
Your first 'direction' is basically what make me realise in 1st year at uni that I wouldn't want to do a PhD / be an English academic. One of the most fascinating ironies for me are lit professors who can comment beautifully on how poetry conveys love, human relationships and other emotional sundries, and yet are completely hopeless in their personal lives.
Your second 'direction' is my honest self speaking out. There's always a little piece in me that feels as if 'forcing' myself to read, say, David Foster Wallace / Djuna Barnes is more out of a 'medal-collecting' mindset, than of any genuine interest in their works. This chasm between 'what I want to read' and 'what I 'ought to' be reading' is certainly interesting. For instance, I love John Updike, but there was a point when I literally felt like something was 'wrong' with me for enjoying WASP-y lit more than de Beauvoir / Audre Lorde. As if being a female reader somehow means I have this unspoken moral obligation to love 'feminist lit' (much of which I do, especially re Woolf and Plath - just not all).
:)
Thank you, your ability to make me have so hope in the future is so foreign it kind of scares me but I love it.
this video is amazing! Can't wait to see where your journey takes you!
As a senior in college Im so glad I discovered your channel and blog and everything, aahhh, you're SO INTERESTING!!
I'm really happy of the statements and changes that you are making, I was having trouble with this things too, so I'm excited Thanks
I'm excited for your journey! I'm here for your perspective and ideas, not just book recommendations.
hey i judt want to say that makes me happy that i found your channel
this evolution sounds interesting : )
You're so captivating; I'm looking forward to your upcoming content!
Conversations like this about getting a bit too involved in intellectualism always remind me of this great poem by Bukowski, "Friendly advice to a lot of young men". Seek it out, there is even a great oral version on YT read by Bukowski himself!
To put it simply, I love your videos. I'm a senior in college right now and I am beginning to recognize the same things you are right now. Keep doing what your doing.
I absolutely love your videos, great food for thought
i subscribed because i really liked the video about ebooks and hard copy books also the one about learning how to learn again (i forgot the title)
i really like the vibe and editing of your videos too :) keep it up :) i appreciate you making this video too
Sometimes, we start a process of sincerity in our life, it is a integral sincerity that goes beyond what we say. It is to be transparent in every way. It’s very nice to see how you share to us your thoughts, i know you will do very well. Greetings from Venezuela.
This is so incredibly relatable. I myself have been down the same path of neglecting my health in terms of pursuing ideas and neglecting the mundane life to put ideas and intellectual pursuits on a pedestal but I think I also want to try looking beyond that and trying to enjoy and amass experiences in life. On that note, I also started a daily log recently that is based on the idea of giving importance to moments in my life that I would generally disregard and forget.
I genuinely relate to your curiousity and figuring things out which in someway connecting to some of us who are lost or finding their wayy
Looking forward to seeing these new ideas come to life in your next videos. I think this is very promising. Keep it up! Cheers.
this is awesome in words i can't even put.
Uff so true. When I told someone I like writing short stories and horror, they began asking me the similar questions, "Have you read this book? What about this author? Why not? They are popular in this field. Bla bla bla." Why SHOULD I read this or that? Shouldn't I choose what I want to read? I read books that I find interesting, not just because they are popular.
To quote Stephen King: "Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around."
Loved the cuts to Melbourne!! Great editing, and excited for the future.
Thanks, Madeleine! (Still, your cooking show shall continue)
@@RCWaldun 👀 on va voir
I’m so excited for your upcoming videos ✨
"and... Yeah, I've been living a lot, that's kinda weird statement"
I just adore the way u express yourself
I wasn't really agreeing to this until you talked about writing. Honestly I love how smart you areee
You know, David Foster Wallace did something quite similar. He mostly read Avante-Garde fiction from the 80's, and then the main ideas he stuck with were Wittgenstein's.
Who wants to just stay in the world of the classics? You'll end up being an extreme critic like Harold Bloom, or maybe not and you end up like Luis Jorge Borges.
Alex Grey is an artist, but if you read "The Mission of Art", one would be awoken to some of his conjectures on the purpose of trying to transcend the ideas of the past.
I love your channel so much. Thank you.
I can’t wait to see how you develop your channel! Good luck :)
Luv, I’m 50 years old with a lit major and have read A LOT and I still haven’t tackled Camus or DFW yet.... go be young. I have walked all the streets of Melbourne CBD and explored alleys and hidden gems and have a plethora of writing material just from that. If I could do it all over again, I would do it the same. Capture your snippets! Enjoy 😉
Wow I really relate to this haha I’ve been in this loop of intellectual pursuit with all these big brain books lately and it’s getting tiring. Nowadays I’m enjoying graphic novels the most and just people watching in the streets. I love how you’re so curious about the overlaps between these philosophical ideas and the everyday. I am super glad to witness your realisations, feels like I’m growing as a reader/person right alongside you haha thanks so much for sharing this weird phase with us and being so upfront about it!! The world is indeed so big and I’m excited for you to explore it 🙌
You got this! 👍🏾 I can't wait to see your channel become more organic. Exploring things is always cool :)
Yes, this is what we want! Great energy
Excited for what's to come ❤️
Honestly Turkish rolls and rôtis are the future
Keep it real, and don't entirely give up on the Canon. Pretty much all those great, though lesser-known writers, you'll be reading are going to be familiar with the great books that came before them. For me, the literary Canon is a doorway to reading widely. And I'm glad to hear you're not using it exclusively to inform yourself about the world.
I do rlly love this channel 🙏
I like your content because you have a lot to offer to your audience, so it doesn't mind if it changes, we support you🔥
5:50 i really like how you mentioned them both as “your taste” and “borderline not your taste” as to respecting them all
I forgot who said, "To any lesser evolved species, science is indistinguishable from magic." Science, especially quantum theory, fascinates me. I have read quite a few books on it, but the prerequisite is that there is no math in them. I'm an idiot that looks at this stuff with awe because i don't underdstand it. There is obviously an awe to it for those who do underdtand it. But that neck of the woods will for ever be out of bounds to me. So it's just magic from my perspective. I am reveling in my cluelessness. And i love it.
I am so happy for you. Living life in books is enlightenment. Living life in reality is experience. Combine them both and you get a wholesome, well rounded life. Best of luck on your new journey. I am definitely sticking around to see how it turns out :D
You mentioned "learning how to drive" twice so far in the video and it's really hitting a spot with me.
I knew you not along ago from a video about reading slowly, and although it wasn’t really something i was looking for or interested in, I watched it and then I was really intrigued and curious about your content and your personality in general. And now I’m watching my 3rd or 4th video of you talking, and I’m looking forward to new videos!
You may not know this character from Riverdale but you remind me of jughead so much...
I'm absolutely looking forward to your new content :) I love the focus on the process and finding meaning in the small things in life. It's something I had to deal with as well (and I'm still dealing with everyday). I guess it's part of intellectual maturity haha.
There's a subtle but irreplaceable beauty in everyday life, we probably cannot get anywhere but from our own phenomenical experience of the world. When you actually get to it, life becomes so much richer.
Also, feel free to be as weird as you can ;) and make as many mistakes as possible
(Sorry if I mispelled something, I'm not a native speaker)
couldn’t have said it better myself 😊 so well put :)
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" was introduced to me by my future wife.
I highly recommend his "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail" collecting Hunter Thompson's reporting for Rolling Stone of the 1972 presidential campaign.
More power to you! ♥️
hey have u ever done TED talks
point 1 just hit me. I have been dealing with this since my freshman year. Looking forward to your new vids :).!
Something made you contemplate too, huh? Everybody goes through those, my man, I know I did!
And as a fellow human who is also captured by the 'thought' of writing, I understand.
I literally cannot go as vague as possible about what I'm talking about here but, here- virtual hug.
I've been thinking about the same things for a couple of days ago. I was so peaceless. Because my brain hates me xd. This video really made my mood.
Hey man I love your content! I don't know if this help but To your problem at the beginning of the video: try and do the pomodoro technique (inform yourself if you don't know it) when trying to focus on something, write down your ideas and play with them and/or apply them (this apply when your brain is creating tons of fun ideas, while you try to go to bed/taking a poo/shower). The brain creates these things always in the defused process (doing tasks at home, being on the toilet or under shower), while in the focused process you are retrieving or putting in information. Now to the most important part: while taking a break/letting the brain defuse don't destract your mind with stressful situations /things. Try to calm it.
Imagine: Working in the textile industry, in a poor country 70 hours a week. I prefer to read literature all day, every day. I don't think it's wasting your life.
@asher You are right, to have the possibility to read everyday literature IS a privilege.
One amazing video once again..
Actually I am so excited for the changes. It sounds so interesting. It's so important to try out new things. In the end that's how you grow. Sry for my bad english...
I. Fucking. Love. Too see this channel grow, great work, dude
You're really reading my minddd
You're brilliantttt
I think this video proves that people can grow for best, for happiness in their own journey.
Wow... you makes such videos that I'm always curious about!
Dude. I really loved that intro
THE SENTENCE ABOUT HOW YOUR BRAIN WORKS- that's my brain 😂😂😂 I would like a video from you "How I organize my thoughts"...can you create one like that? I have a plan to create that kind of video for my channel and I am happy I am not the onky one with that kind of brain...it's exhausting sometimes, but also gorgeous at the same time :-) I love your energy , your storytelling is wonderful...Storytelling..books...deep meaning of things ...those are the things I adore.
De verdad puedo decir que te entiendo. Yo misma estoy recomenzando mi carrera como escritora. Espero lo mejor para vos. Tus sandeces son inspiradoras.
The pain of constantly feeling the pressure to document everything is so fucking weighing. I'm happy I'm done with that.
So fucking true man, feel bad about the whole /lit/ spam and stuff. Seems that in this video you really got back down to earth. You've earned my respect in this video.