For some reason, after hearing "Sisyphus 55" I always tell myself "Syphilis 69". But that's probably just some evil alter-ego, but one must imagine syphilis happy.
At 9:16 when you mentioned aura, this is a similar feeling when consuming homemade food vs fast food. The aura, attention and consideration of the food being created isn’t there much in fast food. I’ve started making my own meals at home as I can put my thoughtful intentions into it and thus creating a satisfying masterpiece.
Hi Sisyphus! 👋🏾 I'm a long time viewer and greatly enjoy how you deconstruct philosophical ideas through a modern lens. I particularly love your analysis on Camus and suicide. I'm a few minutes into this and I can already tell this will be one of the best videos of yours to date (to me). I've been grappling with this same question of creation for almost a year now. I have no intention to bore you so I'll sum this up. I write poems and create music to express my thoughts. I don't want to create for the sake of profit, I feel that will dull the result infinitely. I want to capture emotions, experiences and wisdom through my work. What I create is the only thing that I feel gives my existence any value. I intend to enjoy the creations as much as a stranger would. To do that, I need to be unrestrained and as pure as possible for my audience. I want to make something that shows I've not only put in effort, but I'm experimenting and pushing a creative boundary for the sake of discovering something new. I want to inspire and heal and I think your video will help me be closer to this realization. Thank you for all that you do. You may never know much you impacted this stranger's life but I'm grateful. Be well and be safe 🙏🏾
As I reach my elder years (can’t even believe I just said that) and I witness things that I actually managed to internalize long ago, they remind me, of meaning, purpose. It’s fascinating as well, that we often forget, fundamental lessons that once learned, we always thought would be at the front of our thoughts. In this, I categorize your channel and content as “Head Food” and regularly share with friends, old and young, the need, to put good head food, in ones head, each and every day. Your channel went on that play list, immediately. Your work, is very meaningful and quite valuable to me. My mother, was a narcissistic sociopath, who was unable to connect with anyone in a meaningful way. She was quite difficult to even be around for any length of time. However, she, was a creative and when she was elbow deep into creating (didn’t matter what, she had quite a few outlets), she was at peace and actually quite a joy to be around. I learned very early on, you can take any medication, to mask or help you get through tough times however, an easier path is to throw yourself into creation, actively endeavoring to “make” and the outcome will be worthwhile in more ways than are apparent in that moment. The problem with TikTok, FaceBook, Instagram, TH-cam, isn’t the content itself in as much as it’s taken a large portion of society and placed them into passive audience mode. While this is in all of us, and serves it’s purpose in so many ways, it’s my belief that you have to equally, if not more, portion your time in active pursuits that generate flow and an abundance of so many other worthwhile emotions and thoughts. These are the things that heal us… Music, saved my ass as a teen. Looking back, without it, I would’ve been beyond lost. Later in life, as I pursue the things that bring me wholenes I remember my mother, and realize, the single most valuable lesson she taught me. Create. Can you monetize your creations? You bet, she made significant money off of hers however, as I had a front row seat, that money was the cherry on top, not the reason for doing so in the first place. When we put the money first, our creations lack the depth and meaning that we set out searching for from the start. Don’t lose yourself in the pursuit of money. Lose yoursel in the pursuit, of what it is you are pursuing. Each and every time I do this, the results are phenomenal. I’m humbled by your pursuits and the depth you posess at such a young age. You, are in your path, fully young man, and it’s a joy to consume what you create and always gives me pause for thought and reflection, and quite a few times has taught this old guy, new things. Thank you so very much.
Hadn't realized you were a researcher at McGill. Tried to look up your research and came across what I think might be your recent first-author paper in the Journal of Happiness Studies. If so, congrats!
This is a great talk. As an architect by day, artist by night, this content summarizes a lot of the thinkers' ideas that continue to inspire my practice
Some time ago I came to a fundamental realization that the meaning of life is ultimately a creative question. The life is a canvas, you make of it what you will and what you can. Why create though? Because it instinctively feels great. We enjoy reflecting ourselves, our internal world on the external world, leaving a part of ourselves to live on in our creations. The fact of our mortality gives additional meaning to creation. Ultimately creation is an act of denying death. Yet you cannot meaningfully create without inspiration. If you create something without inspiration it would feel empty, meaningless. That's why many people find themselves lost, depressed, unfulfilled in life. Many can get stuck in something like a "writer's block" towards life with no idea why and how to proceed. People need inspiration to live meaningfully. My advise is to pay interest to philosophy, science, history, art, literature from the young age, they can be a great source of inspiration.
100 % I've been thinking about this recently because of a joe rogan podcast I've listened to with David Goggins, and he something along the lines of. Most people think I am absolutly misreable but I am the happiest person in the world. All whilst constantly pushing his body to to limit. And I think one of his happiest moments in life or happiest was after he was was pissing blood after potentially leading himself to kidney failure in a race he shouldn't have raced, and how he was in the bathroom in pain and he just wanted to enjoy the pain not numb it. Most people no mater how materially sucessful they are, still have problems. and the thing I take away from what he say's is you should enbrace the suffering in your own life and find beauty in the prospect of pushing yourself.
For me, and maybe for some others, the sense of meaningfulness comes about when one is successfully pursuing an important role in a positive grand project with effects larger than themselves and their lifetimes, and is recognised as such by others. The more success, the more important, the grander the project, the longer lasting and more positive the impact, the more acknowledged, the deeper the sense of meaning. The issue is that any real degree of those things in the modern world is reserved only for a tiny number of humans. Most people are never going to play an important role in any grand project, let alone be successful or acknowledged for their contribution. The smarter and more self-aware one is, the more they recognise their relative lack of importance or the temporary nature of their impact, and therefore the less meaningful they feel their lives to be. I have the felt loss of an absence of meaning because I have no realistic capacity to be anyone important or valuable in any worthwhile project larger than myself, and I am aware enough to know this and feel it acutely.
Been watching your channel for 2 years really got me into philosophy I've read a handful of neitzhe and Descartes I'm listening to history of western philosophy by bertrand Russel. I'm so glad I found your channel absolutely agree with the sentiment of the video.
As an artist, or now post artist ig, this was and still is the problem I run into with art. No matter what it is I draw, paint, animate, it will never be the thing that represents exactly what people need or want to experience to transcend the bullshit of our world. It’s simply because that just doesn’t exist in this reality. It only can live in your own mind. So no matter how mystical or magical I make the piece, I won’t reach the level that every artist desires. This is the artists dilemma.
@@KalebPeters99 And you can clearly see over these past few months Sisyphus has been using a lot of language that is congruent with that corner of the internet. And that's real exciting
This is a great presentation, but even after the topic was long gone, I was still thinking about that 'aura'. I disagree with that view of the world. Assigning art itself some kind of meaning based on how we experience it is fine - contemplating art on a deeper level can allow us to more deeply engage with the intent behind the work, if there is one. But tying that kind of experience to a specific physical action is wrong in my opinion. Now, I think I understand what that 'aura' refers to - a state of quite focus and contemplation over a specific work of art in order to more deeply understand it. I would wager a guess that it's most often experienced in an environment like a museum or an art exhibition, but that doesn't mean it's the only place where it can be experienced. The medium through which we experience art can be limiting (for example, a too low resolution can make appreciating art practically impossible), it's still possible to fully experience a piece of art even through one's smartphone. The thing is, the context in which we encounter these pieces of art influence our mindset. In a museum, due to both the atmosphere and the physical limitations (walking between exhibits) you're much more likely to admire a single piece for much longer than if you were scrolling through TikTok or Instagram. Furthermore, the mere act of going to a museum changes your mindset into one much more receptive to appreciating art. After all, you don't go to a museum for no reason - you go there to appreciate the exhibits. On the other hand, a smartphone is designed to deplete your attention span and keep you glued to it for as long as possible with a steady drip of new content with every scroll. Furthermore, with the basis of your argument, the cynical and absurdist view that there is no inherent meaning to our existence and that even creating art is a cynical action, assigning an inherent meaning to the way we experience art is quite strange. Sincr art is merely adding to the inherent chaos of existence, why would the way we interact with it matter? We should just appreciate and interact with art in any way we like. While scrolling mindlessly, an art piece may catch your eye and lead you to contemplate it for a bit, deriving some wisdom from it, or you might just ignore it. Or, you might scroll through your feed and analyse every single thing you come across, scouring it for any meaning you can gleam from it. Both ways are fine. Do what you want. Create what you want.
I'd say it would be quite difficult to pinpoint that as the parts of the new testament have different views of Jesus. Every apostle has its own ideological point and the Paul letters are also portraying Jesus and his teachings from a different point as well. There are some good videos on the subject, I think religion for breakfast has one I quite liked.
I kind of disagree. Yes, creating for its own sake can be good. But I think it would be better if you created something because it would be useful or valuable in the real world, not just a digital one. It may be a bit more difficult, but it's actually meaningful in the real world, not just in your head.
I think these aspects of philosophy are specifically about your personal journey of self fulfillment though, ie if you feel a piece missing that can't be filled with desires or faith. We all have a duty to our fellow man; any decent person with empathy shouldn't need much convincing on that point. However, you're much more useful to your fellow man as a happy, active person with a rich inner life than as someone overwhelmed with existence. Of course this isn't the end all be all, but I believe placing emphasis on enjoying life in the face of suffering is only going to become more and more relevant as we age, and we can't discount self satisfaction just because it isn't immediately netting a profit (literally and figuratively).
For some reason, after hearing "Sisyphus 55" I always tell myself "Syphilis 69". But that's probably just some evil alter-ego, but one must imagine syphilis happy.
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@@tomasvasutiu2275 Pissyphus*
I keep reading his user name as sifelis
This seems very impactful in all aspects. Seems like this channel's mission is to inspire others and empower them all the way.
He is very generous with his wisdom
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At 9:16 when you mentioned aura, this is a similar feeling when consuming homemade food vs fast food. The aura, attention and consideration of the food being created isn’t there much in fast food. I’ve started making my own meals at home as I can put my thoughtful intentions into it and thus creating a satisfying masterpiece.
I love that angle on it! Cooking is a magical process if you let it be ✨
Hi Sisyphus! 👋🏾 I'm a long time viewer and greatly enjoy how you deconstruct philosophical ideas through a modern lens. I particularly love your analysis on Camus and suicide.
I'm a few minutes into this and I can already tell this will be one of the best videos of yours to date (to me). I've been grappling with this same question of creation for almost a year now.
I have no intention to bore you so I'll sum this up. I write poems and create music to express my thoughts. I don't want to create for the sake of profit, I feel that will dull the result infinitely. I want to capture emotions, experiences and wisdom through my work. What I create is the only thing that I feel gives my existence any value.
I intend to enjoy the creations as much as a stranger would. To do that, I need to be unrestrained and as pure as possible for my audience.
I want to make something that shows I've not only put in effort, but I'm experimenting and pushing a creative boundary for the sake of discovering something new. I want to inspire and heal and I think your video will help me be closer to this realization.
Thank you for all that you do. You may never know much you impacted this stranger's life but I'm grateful. Be well and be safe 🙏🏾
As I reach my elder years (can’t even believe I just said that) and I witness things that I actually managed to internalize long ago, they remind me, of meaning, purpose. It’s fascinating as well, that we often forget, fundamental lessons that once learned, we always thought would be at the front of our thoughts. In this, I categorize your channel and content as “Head Food” and regularly share with friends, old and young, the need, to put good head food, in ones head, each and every day. Your channel went on that play list, immediately. Your work, is very meaningful and quite valuable to me. My mother, was a narcissistic sociopath, who was unable to connect with anyone in a meaningful way. She was quite difficult to even be around for any length of time. However, she, was a creative and when she was elbow deep into creating (didn’t matter what, she had quite a few outlets), she was at peace and actually quite a joy to be around. I learned very early on, you can take any medication, to mask or help you get through tough times however, an easier path is to throw yourself into creation, actively endeavoring to “make” and the outcome will be worthwhile in more ways than are apparent in that moment. The problem with TikTok, FaceBook, Instagram, TH-cam, isn’t the content itself in as much as it’s taken a large portion of society and placed them into passive audience mode. While this is in all of us, and serves it’s purpose in so many ways, it’s my belief that you have to equally, if not more, portion your time in active pursuits that generate flow and an abundance of so many other worthwhile emotions and thoughts. These are the things that heal us… Music, saved my ass as a teen. Looking back, without it, I would’ve been beyond lost. Later in life, as I pursue the things that bring me wholenes I remember my mother, and realize, the single most valuable lesson she taught me. Create. Can you monetize your creations? You bet, she made significant money off of hers however, as I had a front row seat, that money was the cherry on top, not the reason for doing so in the first place. When we put the money first, our creations lack the depth and meaning that we set out searching for from the start. Don’t lose yourself in the pursuit of money. Lose yoursel in the pursuit, of what it is you are pursuing. Each and every time I do this, the results are phenomenal. I’m humbled by your pursuits and the depth you posess at such a young age. You, are in your path, fully young man, and it’s a joy to consume what you create and always gives me pause for thought and reflection, and quite a few times has taught this old guy, new things. Thank you so very much.
Wow. Thanks for sharing. Beautiful read and great insight
Hadn't realized you were a researcher at McGill. Tried to look up your research and came across what I think might be your recent first-author paper in the Journal of Happiness Studies. If so, congrats!
Do you have the doi?
This is one of my favorite channels. Thank you. Have a great day.
This is a great talk. As an architect by day, artist by night, this content summarizes a lot of the thinkers' ideas that continue to inspire my practice
Some time ago I came to a fundamental realization that the meaning of life is ultimately a creative question. The life is a canvas, you make of it what you will and what you can. Why create though? Because it instinctively feels great. We enjoy reflecting ourselves, our internal world on the external world, leaving a part of ourselves to live on in our creations. The fact of our mortality gives additional meaning to creation. Ultimately creation is an act of denying death.
Yet you cannot meaningfully create without inspiration. If you create something without inspiration it would feel empty, meaningless. That's why many people find themselves lost, depressed, unfulfilled in life. Many can get stuck in something like a "writer's block" towards life with no idea why and how to proceed. People need inspiration to live meaningfully. My advise is to pay interest to philosophy, science, history, art, literature from the young age, they can be a great source of inspiration.
100 % I've been thinking about this recently because of a joe rogan podcast I've listened to with David Goggins, and he something along the lines of. Most people think I am absolutly misreable but I am the happiest person in the world. All whilst constantly pushing his body to to limit. And I think one of his happiest moments in life or happiest was after he was was pissing blood after potentially leading himself to kidney failure in a race he shouldn't have raced, and how he was in the bathroom in pain and he just wanted to enjoy the pain not numb it. Most people no mater how materially sucessful they are, still have problems. and the thing I take away from what he say's is you should enbrace the suffering in your own life and find beauty in the prospect of pushing yourself.
Watched in entirety and don’t regret it one bit. Hit on so many points I’ve contemplated when overthinking my own art and ”content”.
47:24 this story is incredible
I found this channel some months ago and I’m amazed at every upload
For me, and maybe for some others, the sense of meaningfulness comes about when one is successfully pursuing an important role in a positive grand project with effects larger than themselves and their lifetimes, and is recognised as such by others. The more success, the more important, the grander the project, the longer lasting and more positive the impact, the more acknowledged, the deeper the sense of meaning.
The issue is that any real degree of those things in the modern world is reserved only for a tiny number of humans. Most people are never going to play an important role in any grand project, let alone be successful or acknowledged for their contribution. The smarter and more self-aware one is, the more they recognise their relative lack of importance or the temporary nature of their impact, and therefore the less meaningful they feel their lives to be.
I have the felt loss of an absence of meaning because I have no realistic capacity to be anyone important or valuable in any worthwhile project larger than myself, and I am aware enough to know this and feel it acutely.
Woah, this is extremely insightful. I learned a lot from this video and took a ton of notes. Thanks for sharing man!
Definitely check out Vervaeke's channel too then!
@@KalebPeters99 ay will do, thanks man
He must’ve made the best powerpoint slideshows as a kid
i appreciate this being talked abt sm.
I am the one who knocks
Ok walter
@@kdot78 how'd this get the most likes while being completely irrelevant to this channel and the topic 💀
Jesse, we need to cook
You keep me going. Life is difficult already but I think I'll keep creating to make my life a little bit meaningful
Been watching your channel for 2 years really got me into philosophy I've read a handful of neitzhe and Descartes I'm listening to history of western philosophy by bertrand Russel. I'm so glad I found your channel absolutely agree with the sentiment of the video.
thank you! this helped me a lot, it was definitely a meaningful creation :)
Oh, wow, I think this is the first time I've seen your face, Sisyphus55! Greetings 👋😊
As an artist, or now post artist ig, this was and still is the problem I run into with art. No matter what it is I draw, paint, animate, it will never be the thing that represents exactly what people need or want to experience to transcend the bullshit of our world. It’s simply because that just doesn’t exist in this reality. It only can live in your own mind. So no matter how mystical or magical I make the piece, I won’t reach the level that every artist desires. This is the artists dilemma.
Twas cozy to be listening to
Needed this, thanks ben
Cant wait till your full video on John Vervaeke. His work has been such a fount of wisdom for me for the past 2 years.
Same here!
@@KalebPeters99 And you can clearly see over these past few months Sisyphus has been using a lot of language that is congruent with that corner of the internet. And that's real exciting
I just want to know how to Do that creation
I'm curious about your affinity for the number 55. What associations does it invoke in your mind?
This is a great presentation, but even after the topic was long gone, I was still thinking about that 'aura'. I disagree with that view of the world.
Assigning art itself some kind of meaning based on how we experience it is fine - contemplating art on a deeper level can allow us to more deeply engage with the intent behind the work, if there is one. But tying that kind of experience to a specific physical action is wrong in my opinion.
Now, I think I understand what that 'aura' refers to - a state of quite focus and contemplation over a specific work of art in order to more deeply understand it. I would wager a guess that it's most often experienced in an environment like a museum or an art exhibition, but that doesn't mean it's the only place where it can be experienced.
The medium through which we experience art can be limiting (for example, a too low resolution can make appreciating art practically impossible), it's still possible to fully experience a piece of art even through one's smartphone.
The thing is, the context in which we encounter these pieces of art influence our mindset.
In a museum, due to both the atmosphere and the physical limitations (walking between exhibits) you're much more likely to admire a single piece for much longer than if you were scrolling through TikTok or Instagram. Furthermore, the mere act of going to a museum changes your mindset into one much more receptive to appreciating art. After all, you don't go to a museum for no reason - you go there to appreciate the exhibits.
On the other hand, a smartphone is designed to deplete your attention span and keep you glued to it for as long as possible with a steady drip of new content with every scroll.
Furthermore, with the basis of your argument, the cynical and absurdist view that there is no inherent meaning to our existence and that even creating art is a cynical action, assigning an inherent meaning to the way we experience art is quite strange.
Sincr art is merely adding to the inherent chaos of existence, why would the way we interact with it matter? We should just appreciate and interact with art in any way we like.
While scrolling mindlessly, an art piece may catch your eye and lead you to contemplate it for a bit, deriving some wisdom from it, or you might just ignore it.
Or, you might scroll through your feed and analyse every single thing you come across, scouring it for any meaning you can gleam from it.
Both ways are fine. Do what you want. Create what you want.
He should be in a ted talk 🥹
Unrelated question for the viewers: Is Bobby Cai the guy from the mythology channels? He has a really soothing voice.
Ngl, i thought this was a deep dive into Nausea
😏 a swoozie fan
Your name is Ben :D
is that one of those pay to participate networking groups?
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Why this video is so long .
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@@jordanlangstieh840 gonna be a banger
Samesies 👋🏾
Yo, just do a video on Damion Echols already. He would fit in perfectly on your channel
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Have you considered “the philosophy of Jesus”?
I'd say it would be quite difficult to pinpoint that as the parts of the new testament have different views of Jesus. Every apostle has its own ideological point and the Paul letters are also portraying Jesus and his teachings from a different point as well. There are some good videos on the subject, I think religion for breakfast has one I quite liked.
I kind of disagree.
Yes, creating for its own sake can be good.
But I think it would be better if you created something because it would be useful or valuable in the real world, not just a digital one.
It may be a bit more difficult, but it's actually meaningful in the real world, not just in your head.
utilitarianism vs kantianism
I think these aspects of philosophy are specifically about your personal journey of self fulfillment though, ie if you feel a piece missing that can't be filled with desires or faith. We all have a duty to our fellow man; any decent person with empathy shouldn't need much convincing on that point. However, you're much more useful to your fellow man as a happy, active person with a rich inner life than as someone overwhelmed with existence.
Of course this isn't the end all be all, but I believe placing emphasis on enjoying life in the face of suffering is only going to become more and more relevant as we age, and we can't discount self satisfaction just because it isn't immediately netting a profit (literally and figuratively).
@@rustyshackle917 Good point! :)