discovery, not homework // reasons to read
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- čas přidán 29. 06. 2024
- what's something you learned from a book that you didn't expect?
-check out the rest of the reasons to read here! • reasons to read
-walden, thoreau, & chatGPT: • thoreau, walden & Chat...
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if you're interested in any of the books referenced and want to get 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):
-Walden by Henry David Thoreau: www.thriftbooks.com/w/walden-...
-The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-hob...
-A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle: www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-wrink...
-How To Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie: www.thriftbooks.com/w/how-to-...
-The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin: www.thriftbooks.com/w/way-to-...
-The Wager by David Grann: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-wag...
-Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott: www.thriftbooks.com/w/scotts-...
-Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday: www.thriftbooks.com/w/ego-is-...
-Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: www.thriftbooks.com/w/travels...
-The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-moo...
-The Common Rule by Justin Whitmel Earley: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-com...
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timestamps:
0:00 learning accidentally
1:40 some examples
5:37 the pages that changed my life
8:00 castles in the air
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#booktube #walden #books #reading #study #learning - Zábava
In behavioral psychology, we have the term Psychosocial Moratorium. The simplified meaning is to give up on the commitment one has to their identity in order to search for a new identity. It's a skill that we have to learn, many people never do. Trollope gives such a beautiful recounting of his experience of that suspension and search.
it seems like a hard thing to learn…thank you for sharing! :)
is there a specific book for this?
@jasonb111222 I learned about it by reading Erik Erikson's "Identity: Youth and Crisis." I don't know any modern authors who have written about the concept.
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” H.D. Thoreau
That’s bars.
I did not expect to learn that today, but I totally did. If you got a pie in the sky dream, it doesn’t have to float away and die. This summer I’m going to build a staircase to a castle in the sky - God willing I’m going deeper on jazz guitar.
Thanks Tim!!
thanks brother! :) let me hear that jazz guitar!
I have watched all of your videos on reasons to read around 3 times. I dont know what it is, i really cant pin point it but the way you talk about reading and books and everything about it is just so fascinating to me. really, you are probably one of the main reasons I picked up the bell jar again after a 2 week break of no reading. so thank you, really, for giving me my love of reading back
wow. thank you so much for letting me know. I’m so glad you’re enjoying reading again!! thank you for the encouragement!!
The idea of a passage changing your life is something you can't describe to a non reader, and every reader has their own set of 'foundational passages' so to say. Pieces of wisdom that you just keep to yourself
true true - some things stick differently with different people!
hope you keep going with your channel. it's original and amazing
I agree. Ran into it this past week and really enjoyed this series. Looking forward to more content
well thank you so much! I plan to keep it up :) trying to stay consistent. I appreciate the encouragement!
I just finished Travels with Charlie in Search of America by John Steinbeck. From that book I learned a very comforting fact: all people harbor a deep desire to travel and adventure. He talks about how when he was young he wanted to travel and get away and people told him that fire would dissolve as he grew up, but he makes clear it did not. Me, being in my early 20’s, was extremely happy to hear this. That book is so deeply relatable to me and I’m so happy my lust for adventure was confirmed. I’ll end with a quote I quite liked. “I was born lost and I have no pleasure in being found…”. Also I after reading it I am genuinely sorry to my dad who told me to read Steinbeck for years and I put it off until now, but
I really do think I read this book at the perfect time in my life haha.
wow I’m going to put this on the to be read list. I have read a few things by Steinbeck but not this one, but this description makes me want to try. thanks for watching & for sharing!
I love the chill and down to earth vibes yoir videos have, I really enjoy your way of thinking as well
thanks so much! :) I appreciate the encouragement!
I felt this way with vagabond. Picked up for cool samurai and left with a deeper and more complex understanding of purpose and strength
isn’t that just how it goes: came for samurai, got something profound. wonderful to hear :)
Bro... just binged your reasons to read series and i've finally started reading again and am loving it. Thank you!
hey I’m so happy to hear it! :) thank you for letting me know!
Thank for sharing! I’ve been annotating a collection of poems I bought to make it feel more accessible to me, and it has felt like discovery. By the end, I have a formed interpretation/takeaway. I really recommend annotating to anyone that feels intimidated by the work they’re picking up.
I’ve recently come to love annotating and use it all the time - it does help a lot with retention & enjoyment!
I’m reading a book called Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and I learned that the metal tip on bottom of a cane is called a ferrule.
This author also mentions a lot of occult books that have existed, people in history that have existed etc. The author is incredibly specific and intersperses a lot of historical and cultural facts in her books. Also, there is a little Espanol in the book too. So I have been looking a lot of the words up to pick up more Spanish vocab. Don’t know how much will stick, but still it helps make the story even more complete.
what a fun hodgepodge of ideas and facts in a single book! :)
The brothers karamazov is a book I love and learned a lot from. It really taught me to become more forgiving and take ownership of my actions
this has been recommended to me and I’m very interested - now I’m even more interested. Thanks for watching!
@@timdemoss please read it! the brothers karamazov also changed my life. ive read it twice. such a great book!
@@juanse12k it will be done. (If I remember I will come back here and let you know when. give me a little time I've got a list)
I found this series today and you've inspired me to get back into reading. I went out and bought Catcher in the Rye, as I feel like it got a bad rep from being a required highschool reading, and plan to start today. Thanks :)
damn, great video man. looks like i gotta read more thoreau hahaha. it's a great passage you picked, and i think it applies to things other than just regular life changes. a lot of the time i feel silly jumping from interest to interest, but it's a cool perspective, sometimes you get what you need from an interest, feel fulfilled by it, and move.
i also think that this is super applicable to fiction. we both just finished east of eden, and that one seems like an obvious example of learning an approach to life without setting out to look for it. i just wanted to read a great story about a family's history, but left learning a whole new way to experience day to day questions lol. great vid as always haha
great point about it applying to hobbies and interests - maybe I’ve got many interests to pursue and I can’t spare any more time for ______. love it.
and yes east of Eden - I had no idea really what I was expecting but I ended up with a lot of questions and answers about the nature of good and evil and choice … it was amazing. thanks so much for helping me get into it!!
That's one beautiful passage i must say.
they’re so good aren’t they??
Thanks for making these videos Tim. I read The Little Prince last night after watching one of your videos. I plan to keep up with my reading and dreaming more. I excitedly look forward to more of your stuff :)
thanks so much! and the little prince is just so good. Love it so much. :)
First of all, thanks for your videos, I'm loving your style as it's not your typical indfluencer style.
I have started reading classics which are free on kindle, as English wasn't my main language growing up; I wasn't aware of English literature until I got much older. And while reading Frankenstein, I came across a few words which seems to have disappeared from vocabulary! So I ended up learning a few new words and I haven't even finished the whole book yet.
On another note more related to that Walden paragraph at the end, I grew up watching all the sports under the earth and was playing one competitively as well. Then around when I was 31 I got into photography and art world and stopped following sports cold turkey (to surprise of my friends, which I made during playing the sport).
And down the line if I move on from photography as well, I think I should be fine.
thanks so much :) glad you enjoyed it! and love that real-world application of the Walden quote. thats such a great example of doing things well and being present but not identifying those things as your entire life or your entire worth. Thanks for watching!
thank you for making consistently great and inpsiring videos
☺️ thanks for watching!!
“Now put the foundations under them”…. *Mind Blown* sounds like I found my next read. Keep at it Tim. This one hit home. Really blows my mind that even as I look around my world and feel so much like an outlier, someone born 200+ years ago wrote something that feels like he’s speaking directly to me. Super inspirational.
isn’t it wild how little really changes? I’m so glad I read that far into the book… I wasn’t expecting to find that but I did.
Also it’s a terrific read with gems like that, but also be aware there are plenty of pages just about beans and squirrels - took me a little while to eventually get through all of it. :)
Finally finished watching all of your video in an hour + including taking inspiration and notes from videos. I thought i was the only who thinks of this "certain thoughts" but after hearing you speak so confidently, my confidence have boosted up too. Thank you so much for these precious videos. I hope you will continue creating videos like this.
Love from Nepal 🇳🇵❤
wow - I’m honored you enjoy them & I’m also so glad they’re helpful! Love from the USA
You never fail to deliver. You inspire me. I like you Tim.
Also, great job with your views. I was sure you'd go viral, and it seems like I was right, the algorithm likes the videos you are putting out
thanks so much for the encouragement and for the faith in me! the process is all I can control - the views will come or not, it’s OK. But it has been fun for sure when CZcams seems to like a vid!
in love with this series, astounding work!
thank you so much for watching & for the encouragement!
so im almost done reading war and peace and i had an idea for a while that free will doesnt really exist as we think of it. After reading War and Peace this book really cemented into my brain that free will does not exist.
well. now I have to read it. this is one of THE questions of life, isn't it?
Such a lovely channel. This video was a joy as per usual. Thanks for another reason to read!
thanks so much for watching!! :)
Thanks for your peace of mind
thanks for watching :) I’m glad to share & glad it’s helpful!!
These videos are great! I love them :)
thanks so much for watching & for the encouragement!
love this!
thank you!
You deserve more subscribers. Great video!
thank you! numbers are just numbers - they’re awesome to have, but I’m mostly just glad when people like you watch and enjoy and let me know. thanks so much for watching!
Thank u❤
thank you!
This was amazing.
thank you! I thoroughly enjoyed making it :)
ure so cool i love this series
thanks so much for watching! glad you’re enjoying!
I was like, omg is that a Daft Punk reference??
ha actually total accident! :) But thanks for pointing it out! (And for accidentally teaching me something!)
I am become death x)
Amazing video! Wondering if you have a GoodReads account to follow
thank you! I use it to track certain things but I’m not active or public on it - but maybe that will change someday!