Will Rosenzweig | How To Practice The Art Of Wu-Wei

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  • čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
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    William, the founder of the Republic of Tea, gardener and entrepreneur, tells us how not doing will allow everything to fall in to place.
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    Will Rosenzweig is a mime, magician and master gardener.
    As his day job, he serves as a partner of Physic Ventures, the first venture capital firm dedicated to investing in keeping people healthy. Will has been involved in growing more than 20 companies.
    This year he is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Republic of Tea, where he was Minister of Progress and founding CEO.
    Will served on the faculty at UC Berkeley for nearly a decade teaching social entrepreneurship and in 2010 was honoured with the Oslo Business for Peace Award, “the highest distinction... in the area of ethical business.”

Komentáře • 47

  • @higgsfieldinthefield9916
    @higgsfieldinthefield9916 Před 5 lety +14

    As a musician I sing my songs by heart, if I think of what I am doing I make mistakes, If I just 'do' without thought the music is good, and 'if the music is good the audience will linger. Here lies Wu Wei.

    • @marksavoia3687
      @marksavoia3687 Před 2 lety +1

      Wu Wei of The Way
      "I can of mine own self do nothing”
      John 5:30

  • @hugmonger
    @hugmonger Před 8 lety +17

    "I am a venture capitalist"
    "My father was a rocket scientist"
    You really just off the bat set this up to be hard to relate to.

    • @mylesphillips8548
      @mylesphillips8548 Před 6 lety +1

      lmao

    • @brainstalk4577
      @brainstalk4577 Před 2 lety +2

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @ChubbyArcanine
      @ChubbyArcanine Před rokem +1

      …. I grew up in South California during the largest economic and informational expansion in history, just be like me!

    • @Mark1Mach2
      @Mark1Mach2 Před rokem +1

      And look I've a million business cards. Now all I do is do nothing. LMAO.

  • @veeveeleo
    @veeveeleo Před 4 lety +2

    I can feel the warmth and love of that trip. What an accomplishment ❤

  • @oldproji
    @oldproji Před 3 lety +6

    Stop fighting the universe and go the way of nature. All things work out the way intended and do not need forcing. Doing nothing is not being lazy, it is recognising that much more can be achieved without taking control.

  • @saketg5954
    @saketg5954 Před 8 lety +15

    I like non doing, but he should have done something about the volume of this video.

    • @HugoHenriqueGrah
      @HugoHenriqueGrah Před 4 lety +1

      Lol, I even download a software to boost the pc volume to hear.

    • @LoIi
      @LoIi Před 3 lety

      i hear it fine

    • @naosfls
      @naosfls Před 3 lety +3

      @@HugoHenriqueGrah His non-doing made u more interested to his speech by having u to put effort in order to listen hehehe

  • @wisher6455
    @wisher6455 Před 6 lety +4

    great lecture, I don't know how it has such less views.

  • @PcBguitarLibrary
    @PcBguitarLibrary Před rokem +1

    I keep telling my boss Im doing it by not doing it

  • @srtaraveleyra
    @srtaraveleyra Před 8 lety

    Thank You!

  • @clairmontlodgesurvivorsclu4521

    He "didn't" have me at, "I'm a venture capitalist." If he's talking about Wu-Wei, why does he sound like he's so hard at doing it?

  • @georgediamond5309
    @georgediamond5309 Před rokem

    I think you've missed the whole point of what Lao Tzu was trying to relay. ...

  • @user-vs9sl2nz8h
    @user-vs9sl2nz8h Před rokem

    16:30

  • @narayanaraoks4090
    @narayanaraoks4090 Před 9 lety +19

    Lord Krishna told to do all things without aiming for its results

    • @user-ju7ze9to4k
      @user-ju7ze9to4k Před 7 lety

      ks narayanarao that's what I was thinking too.

    • @heethjain21
      @heethjain21 Před 3 lety +3

      Thats the point, these concepts are all universal truths, discovered by different people in different timelines expressed in different forms.
      The deeper we understand religion, the more we realize, that all of them are saying the exact same thing, just in different representations!
      Like in Taoism, they say Tao is uncomprehendable (we cannot define it).
      If we consider it in some other religion, its just a representation of GOD there, as we cannot truly define God, understand the decisions and actions of God, we can only experience/feel it

    • @AlokAsthana1954
      @AlokAsthana1954 Před 2 lety

      Basically, Krishna told Arjun to kill his cousins, without compunction. Quite a teacher! Good lesson in non-violence, so passionately claimed by Indians as their culture.
      In any case, there is a difference between doing without the motivation of result and doing without thinking too much. World of a difference.

    • @AlokAsthana1954
      @AlokAsthana1954 Před 2 lety

      @@heethjain21 - Sorry, Taoism has nothing to do with religion and god. It is about nurturing society, not self.

    • @themacocko6311
      @themacocko6311 Před rokem

      @@AlokAsthana1954 Nurturing Society?! The entire book is "bashing" society and its ruling and rulers/government.

  • @MySatora
    @MySatora Před 9 lety

    Nice lecture. Anybody know what translation of the book he is using?

    • @mdruss7
      @mdruss7 Před 7 lety +1

      Looks like the Stephen Mitchell translation

  • @higgsfieldinthefield9916
    @higgsfieldinthefield9916 Před 5 lety +4

    Maybe he should have meditated on 'Not doing' this lecture till he gets his facts and quotes right and understands the concepts.

    • @AzfarHussain84
      @AzfarHussain84 Před 4 lety +2

      What are your suggestions for approaching non-doing? Any resources on change and non-doing are welcome. Thanks.

  • @d0nj03
    @d0nj03 Před 8 lety +6

    Kind of slow, boring and meandering way to explain it. Should've got to the point faster.
    And the quote from the beginning of the Dao De Jing was wrong: it's "the name that *can* be named" (not "can't").

  • @MassiveLib
    @MassiveLib Před rokem

    I cannot practice wei Wu wei, that is the paradox. But as there never was an i to start with all of life there has only ever been wei Wu wei

  • @user-ve1pr3wq8l
    @user-ve1pr3wq8l Před 8 lety

    the volume :/

  • @douglasallen9225
    @douglasallen9225 Před 9 lety +1

    Stephen Mitchell.

  • @user-vs9sl2nz8h
    @user-vs9sl2nz8h Před rokem

    14:02

  • @higgsfieldinthefield9916
    @higgsfieldinthefield9916 Před 5 lety +4

    I don't think this guy really understands Tao, you can't have ''team'' wu wei. it just doesn't work like that.This is a very, very American misinterpretation.

    • @zacharybloo9884
      @zacharybloo9884 Před 2 lety

      Tell that to the literal thousands of daoist temples around the world practicing communally

  • @higgsfieldinthefield9916
    @higgsfieldinthefield9916 Před 5 lety +3

    This guy gets it all wrong yet he has written a book teaching something he don't understand? how typical.

  • @higgsfieldinthefield9916
    @higgsfieldinthefield9916 Před 5 lety +3

    This guy just gets everything wrong, It is pronounced ''dow de jing'' and means the way of change, and He gets his quote completely wrong and it makes no sense. There are so many people getting up in front of audiences and talking about things they don't understand, it's becoming an epidemic of idiots.

    • @zacharybloo9884
      @zacharybloo9884 Před 2 lety +2

      I had this substitute teacher that had recently immigrated from Korea one time. Super nice guy. Took all but three mispronounced words for the douchebags in the class to start making fun of him for his accent and not listen to a single word he said after. That's YOU right now.

  • @sanjayram1101
    @sanjayram1101 Před 2 lety +1

    What a load of bs!

  • @higgsfieldinthefield9916
    @higgsfieldinthefield9916 Před 5 lety +1

    Nice lectern, pity the 'do' sign looks like it was made by Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.

    • @ratonL
      @ratonL Před 5 lety

      Higgsfield In the field
      🤭🤣🤣😂

  • @higgsfieldinthefield9916

    You would think he would at least made an effort to pronounce the words correctly. The 'w; is silent, as anyone with the slightest notion of Tao could tell him.

    • @zacharybloo9884
      @zacharybloo9884 Před rokem

      Lao tzu said that a man who seeks knowledge gains something everyday, while a man who seeks the tao, loses something everyday. So his not having textbook knowledge of the philosophy is actually much more in line with the tenets of the philosophy itself than your douchetastic nitpicking

  •  Před rokem

    Nop.

  • @ultrablue7477
    @ultrablue7477 Před 2 lety +1

    Be suspicious of someone who talks about profound things, but took the time and effort to create a logotype.