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The video advocates for a form of hard determinism. This is a similar position to the one Sam Harris holds when stating that we don’t have free will. This position would make sense if physics were to stop at the atomic level, where particles follow the standard model and you can pre-determine everything. But thoughts occur at the quantum level. They do not obey to a deterministic model. So you can’t disprove free will and conclusively you cant disprove that your decisions have an impact in determining your success. I am with the author of this video up to a point, but the hard determinist view it fosters, it’s just a recipe for nihilism “who cares to break a sweat for anything if it’s all pre-destined anyways?”
The fact that the Hare actually had the self-awareness to listen and take in what was being said instead of entering a violent state of denial (as most people like the hare would) is pretty incredible lmao
Yea, I think the "Hm, but what made HIM (grandfather) that way?" makes most reallife rabbits go: "Can you stop asking stupid questions? Let's get this over with."
Regardless- Maybe the Hare needed to lose the race -- the Tortoise taught him an important lesson and in return, the Hare now has a greater desire to want to race again (which he did)
@PC Gamer DttV Genetics is a thing even in the same species edit: The video is a parallel how much hardwork matters to luck in the game of success. Some people work hard but never get successful - some people were born into a good set of circumstances and just inherited everything from their parents and some people work hard and get successful. You can see the same parallels in the example you gave of running - every pro runner works hard everyday, trains learns to adjust their form for optimal running but in the end some runners have a better build and genetics for running . Can you really say Usain Bolt doesn't have really good genetics that outclasses others that helped him break the 100m world record? Can you say that the millions of runners around the world that train hard and didn't make it was the fault of them not working hard enough?
“Being a hardworking person is also a product of chance.” Yes this hit so hard. I was working my head off until I got emotional illness and then became too exhausted to do even basic daily tasks. Luckily I got better now.
@@massimo4307 For most people, I agree. Though sometimes mental illness is something you can't control, but even so, is it worth being miserable forever.
Mental "illness" aside, it also depends on your situation. Some people are born into a tightknit, intelligent, wealthy family, who provides their children with the financial, social, and emotional encouragement to go after what they want. Other people are born into broken families where wanting to do something outside of the norm is treated as ridiculous. The first person strikes out and tries something. They have people supporting them, guiding them, and helping them. On top of this, they happen to have luck on their side and do well on their first try. Success right out of the gate. The second person strikes out with no support, no one to guide or help them, and happens to have horrible luck, failing miserably on their first outing. Which of these two people will be more likely to continue trying new things and going after what they want?
Great lesson here. No point in nationalism when you didn't choose which country to be born in. No point in racism, as no one chose the color of their skin. Any type of pride falls away as people realize they are products of a birth lottery. Even a shred of self awareness can redefine our notions of success and failure.
@@pooroldnostradamus Yes very worrisome, accountability could be under heavy scrutiny with this line of thinking. The initial comment was just being positive though, we can never know what is in people's heads.
@@codec2046 I see your worry. I think we are able to define a type of acocuntability without reliance on free will. For example: The declaration of accountability lets everyone see your stance. You are able to realize your value. You are able to change something. You are simply being transparent about what you ought to do. Even if that thing which you decided to ought to do, is so by chance. Even if that is by chance It is still something you would do in that sitatuation. A commitment. There are some things you are not able to do without such a commitment. In those cases its a trade. You basically sell an activity for commitment. Lets say a community lets you work on an project, but only if you commit to doing it.
I'd say yes and no. Natianalism can be useful because different people have different cumtures, thus making it useful for a group of people to define a place they can live out their culture. National shovinism is a whole other story. Racism is unneccecary.
Reminded me of the absurdist philosophy of Albert Camus, life may be meaningless but humans should still pursue meaning (pushing the rock up the hill) to become absolutely free.
so it means u do have free will if u can choose to live as if u have free will. if u have no free will, then you cannot even choose how to live or anything to begin with 😂 this is a paradox. it cannot be proven nor disproved.
This video's message is something that most successful people refuse to accept. I know for myself, as a person who has medium success and been more down than up, I have always known it was luck. It's helped me to worry too much less during my life. Even when I am worrying, deep down I am not. There's a certain feeling of freedom knowing that it is all luck. Free will not existing is the ultimate freedom.
I don't know if "free will not existing is the ultimate freedom". It sounds like freedom from responsibility, which is not a good thing. It sensible that being bogged down in worry or regret are not helpful, but going through life as merely a passenger, or an instrument for some force (even if it merely be genetics) is reasonably not going to produce the best results.
@@smallworldbigworld-yi3xw the conventional understanding of "irresponsibility" sounds scary, but the intuitive realization/understanding that free will is an illusion provides one with incredible peace. The possibility to unload all responsibility from your ego and trust in your body is in fact an incredible source of freedom
Both oppurtunity and preparation are ultimately the results of good luck. If you prepare, that means you've had the luck of having realized that it's needed and having good enough health to do so.
As an ancient stoicist Seneca believed that people should not be affected by their negative emotions. In relation to luck that means that he believed if people ran into a spat of bad luck they shouldn’t be bothered by it. That’s extremely hard to do. I disagree wholeheartedly with Seneca’s philosophy.
The story about the Hare and the Tortoise is a classic fable that has been used to teach a valuable lesson about the dangers of arrogance and the benefits of humility. The video seems to suggest that success is a combination of both luck and hard work. While it is true that working hard can increase the chances of success, luck also plays a significant role. The Hare's success had made him arrogant, which blinded him from the possibility of losing to a seemingly inferior Tortoise. The Tortoise, on the other hand, was not as successful or popular as the Hare but had the humility and determination to challenge the Hare to a race. The Hare's overconfidence caused him to lose the race, even though he was faster and more talented than the Tortoise. The Tortoise's hard work and perseverance, combined with a stroke of luck, led to his victory. In my opinion, success is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that cannot be attributed solely to hard work or luck. Both factors play a crucial role in determining the outcome of our efforts. However, it is important to acknowledge the role of luck and other external factors beyond our control. Success is not always a reflection of our abilities or character, but it is also affected by social, economic, and historical factors. We should strive to work hard and develop our skills while also being humble and aware of the role of luck in our lives.
Even if a self made billionaire was actually self made, it's still luck. But it's usually not only because they're hard working or have rich parents, it's usually because they're intellectually gifted.
Choosing the word Hare make it feels like a word play for the word Heir both, in the story, means that they were lucky to inherit greatness from their forefathers
I have to say I can only agree 50% as valid. As a buddhist, I am convinced that luck plays a large part in success or failure, but also that we have a free will to choose how to use good luck or bad luck, and that we create our own good or bad luck through our choices and actions. We do have free will and we do have control over how we want our lives to turn out to a certain degree, and in the larger picture over many life-times.
The hare's speediness and the tortoise's methodical propoganda both have no single cause, but from dependent origination emerged from all that has ever occured before. As the wheel turns, in another life Tortoise will find himself bamboozeld and Hare will find himself outrun.
Agreed. One can do drugs, commit crimes, take high risks and while it may be luck that nothing happens, sooner or later bad luck will finally catch up as they roll the dice more and more with each bad choice.
I tried talking to some family about this concept and got labelled pretty quickly as negatively minded - it’s easy to see how strongly people hold onto their ego and refuse to accept any of their successes as anything but self originated hard work and planning, for me reality seems far from plannable, we ‘choose’ to roll the dice but we can never be sure what number will show or what that means in the bigger picture. Often an experience with a negative connotation may lead to a positive or vice versa forming a long sequence of universal chance. No matter how much you set your mind to something was it really originating organically from you and can you always predict where the next stepping stone will take you? I’ve often felt that i am walking a path of hidden steppingstones submerged undar fastflowing water which has on numerous occasions swept me clean off (Job situations, health issues, relationships etc) and all It seems I can do is continue to play the game, to be part of the unfolding of an inevitable future all whilst trying to pretend I am the master of my own ship.
i agree 100% thats how i feel some told me when i was down and homeless that life is an adventure i thought about that and how you dont know what is gonna happen next that made me feel so much better. i also never liked the question where do you see yourself in 10 years. i have no clue no one really does
Humans aren’t biological made to be successful. Only the most entrepreneurial minded, hardworking, disciplined humans become successful. It’s not chance. You don’t inherit successful traits.
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I had this very thought just yesterday. That we are often a product of circumstances and not just a product of choice. Having choices at all is a privilege. Edit: I should add 'within reason.' My point was about childhood and opportunities a person may or may not get because of their upbringing. It is not an excuse for laziness and self-victimization well into adult hood.
@@johncrow5552100% true, i know someone who doesn’t want to cook because of her mental illness, yet she’s capable of working. Every time, she uses her illness as an excuse.i tried to be understanding at first but later on im just tired of listening to the same excuses.
@UneMelodie i dated a woman like that, it didn't last long. Always an excuse why she couldn't get a job, why she couldn't do anything but watch movies and be on twitter all day.
The most useful part about living as if we have free will is what that gains us but the most useful thing about knowing that we don't actually have free will is that we don't *have to* assign blame anymore. To others, or to ourselves. We can live as if we have responsibility for the things we can still change while viewing the past as without blame.
Perspective is a beautiful thing. I wish humanity and society could better embrace the dualism and complexity of existence. We’d all be able to live in a daily environment that’s more graceful and understanding. Maybe there’s hope, generations from now?
Finally a video that attempts to be honest. Success isn’t just hard work if that were the case we’d have so wash more successful people. I’m a college student and I’ve been grinding hard but I still come up short for exams I studied so hard for it hurts. It makes me question my existence especially when I recount all my past failures in my life of twenty years. But I guess all we can do is move forward and keep working until we get lucky.
Two different individuals, put the same amount of effort onto a task, yet one succeeded and the other one failed. The difference was actually something that is totally out of their control in the first place. Such is life. Some have it lucky they don't even know it, some have it bad they don't even know why...
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. You’re never going to learn what you don’t want to know. What can go wrong? Narcissism, deception, greed, sadness, isolation, disorder, procrastination, and laziness. Up or down the axis of fortune, the anguished look 😦 of not succeeding is relatively common. Your stumbling blocks are your stepping stones. Do more of what gives you joy as long as it isn’t harmful to anyone, especially yourself, or illegal. 😃
I am simply a passenger in the game of life watching my character navigate through the world and observing how he feels as he is simply a result of time and matter reacting to the previous actions of the universe.
By most standards I was successful years ago and most my life, but now that I'm even more successful on my own terms I realize I was focused on a sick society definition previously.
Thank you for this. I have tried to verbalise these very feelings/thoughts over the years and have often questioned myself when challenged. The spin you put on it being '"luck" resonates with countless personal experiences in my own life and trumps my use of the word "fate" when I have tried to lay out my own thoughts...often to justify what I believe to be personal failure or lack of success. The paradox is, of course, the thought of free will and, therefore, (as others also do) I love the phrase "You have to know you that you have no free will, but live as if you do".
@@Sheeeeshack did the video you watched had a story like, a Tortoise laughing/taunting at an Hare and other animals for being fragile and defenseless against other predators while being ignorant about his inherent privlege of having a massive protective shell?
Probability does its job of rewarding you, only if you stay in the game. And I bealieve, we all are blessed with our own unique edges. We're all good at different things, just the thing is...many are unable to recognize it, and the ones who do, aren't able to find the right thing to deploy it into, which yields the desired results. I personally, don't bealieve in luck. Your actions decide the Probability of your success in anything. And someone would agree that it's luck, but for me, it's process of making mistakes, learning from them, and keep adapting, and as time passes by, the Probability of success will eventually increase, as there aren't many failures left, cuz you've learnt and improved a lot from em, only thing left now is to succeed. So, that's my recipe to winning in anything
But how do you get these ideas, that lead to your actions, that turn out to be a mistake or success to you? And how did the experiences, what- or whoever it was, that taught you those ideas, come to be? Learning and adapting is happening for everyone at any given moment, and what everyone individually learns or adapts to is not inherently helpful, as the choice of word might suggest. There's always more questions to be asked, and the closer you look, the more the level of complexity heightens. That everything and everyone is a product of "chance" or "luck", as claimed in this video, is an expression. It does not mean that things happen randomly, but rather, that they happen on a level of complexity, which ultimately defies the human capabality of understanding. Things do happen though according to the laws of nature. If they wouldn't, you surely wouldn't be able to read this right now, on a piece of technology that totally works according to 'humanity's current understanding of nature'. And you would think that, given the incredible knowledge that is gathered in all kinds of scientific fields at an exponential rate, that people would also look at themselves and ask, what natural processes their own thinking and actions stem from - and in extension, everyone else's as well. The answer might not be possible to the full extent, as you would need every information that ever existed. You don't need 'all' the information though, to make an assessment of what has had an effect on your life as well as how your decisions have an impact on the life of others. The simple acknowledgement, the idea, that everything and everyone has a natural reason, to be what or who they are, and to do what they do, makes a world of a difference when it comes to decide what is actually, not only best for you, but for your fellow human beings as well.
@@lebigmacke123 Nisargadatta ha già detto tutto quello che c'è da sapere sull'essere. Il confronto con la realtà farà capire dove siamo in ogni attimo di proiezione
This story reminds me of how we celebrate people like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates. They just happened to be at the right place at the right time. So many things aligned just perfectly for them to succeed. What they accomplished is amazing, but if they were born today...they would never be able to repeat it!
Yeah but people need to realize that success =/ a good life. If you have a secure income than making money is probably the least effective ways of making your life better. With a secure income you have the choice to enjoy where your at and create a life and career that’s fulfilling with a good support system (easy). Or wasting the next 30 years of your life in a job you hat to make shitloads of money to then realize that none of it was worth it and that all of the money in the world is worthless compared to a life where you make an impact that you are truly proud of with friends and family that truly care about you. And then you finally start enjoying life with that realization
The point is not to diminish hard work’s importance to success as well. It’s not “just” right place/time. Zuck/Gates made sacrifices, as the hare does, to succeed. But these sacrifices alone are not enough.
Yes even if they were born in a some poor country . Like I am from India , bill gates would never even had an access to a computer . All these guys were simply lucky
Based on the current evidence it doesn't. However we know so little about the universe and how it works that it would be arogant to conclude that we don't.
If you think you're less lucky compared to somebody, just know that someone else also thinks you are luckier than them. It's not that bad. Not that bad at all.
Things could be FAR worse for most people. When you look at the atrocities humans have done and continue to do, natural disasters, plagues, etc. most of us are doing pretty darn good.
While that may be true, it does not help the problems that I currently dealing with. If I have indigestion and someone else has crohn's disease it does not mitigate my own pain.
This story shows how Meritocracy is a myth and causes so much useless misery, bitterness, & resentment in society today, as all the credit or blame for success & failure is placed squarely on the individual.
We all have genetics. You can't do beyond what is coded in you. The codes have 2 states: dormant and active. We still need hard work and passion to activate those codes in us.
I know the story of a tortoise, bullied by a hare, one day the tortoise said he wanted peace and invited the hare for some drinks, he then laced the hare's whiskey and dragged him out of the bar with the excuse his friend had drunk way too much after he passed out, driving an old pickup truck with the hare in the back the tortoise reached a beautiful rural area, it had beautiful trees and patches of flowers, but mostly important it was isolated. The tortoise tied the hare hands and feet before it woke up and dug a deep hole, then he pushed the hare there and covered him up with dirt. Now the hare can't be fast anymore, can't be cocky anymore and can't bully anymore. And the tortoise lived happilly ever after, well, until the pigs started to investigate the disappearance of the hare and the tortoise had to move to Spain. Btw this is jjust a fable involving animals, please ask me nothing
"But I worked hard my entire life" yeah and if you had been born with or were unlucky to have chronic pain or a disability, or no support system, or no cheap living quarters, or no job opportunities to save for college, sick relatives to care for ohysically or financially, a driving license, or even have access to decent food or a good bed so you wake up feeling somewhat energized in the morning
I realize this is why I keep including “my brain and my body” when I’m writing gratitude, things that I won on the “birth lottery”. Even if some circumstances of my life were difficult, a brain that craved learning, and a body that craved movement, helped me go on and survive. I work hard for what I have so it was really humbling to hear that even that trait is by chance.
I was fortunate enough to realize this when I was still a young man. I never thought of it framed quite like this before, but from the simple observation that I, and most people, have survived a number of coin flips throughout our lives that we had zero control over which could have ruined us.
They will refuse to accept this. Instead they will tell you how many hours they worked etc whilst refusing to acknowledge that their very existence as a human being is luck. Imagine if their Mother chose planned parenthood and not to go ahead with their birth? Or they were adopted by abusive parents who denied them access to education?
Those born into privileges deceive themselves into believing that they are successful due to hard work on their part, but the fact is that they are primarily successful due to the circumstances of their birth and upbringing.
I think you can create your own luck based on the way you live your life. How many people get lucky sitting around doing nothing all day? With that being said, there’s also a lot of people who work hard and have nothing to show for it. You can also make the argument that all of the qualities we have are due to either good or bad luck since we have no control over our genetics or the type of environment we grow up in. I believe the best course of action is to develop a strong work ethic without putting too much pressure on yourself. Try not to place too much expectation on the end result. If you aren’t successful in achieving something you desire, you can always take that work ethic you developed and apply it to something else. This is much easier said than done but going about life in this way will allow you to let go of expectations and give yourself a reason to wake up in the morning. Appreciate anyone who took the time to read this and good luck to you all ❤
Here's how I see it. Luck determines your ceiling. Hard work determines your floor. Someone who works hard will always have a better worst case scenario than someone who is lazy. Someone who is Lucky will always have a higher ceiling than someone who is unlucky
@Flux_40 They can win the lottery sure, but did you know that close to 80% of lottery winners go bankrupt in 5 years? Why? Because those people are lazy and don't know how to handle their new wealth
And when you understand _Price's Law_ , it makes even more sense. My wife, bless her naïve heart, is in the small (high performer) wedge of the pie chart (or far end of the good part of the asymptote) and doesn't understand why most can not be like her. She tries to help them, but they still don't perform anywhere near her level. Certain people have a _knack_ . It sounds like an old-fashioned, uneducated, explanation but it's totally true. Familiar evidential examples are when an organization e.g. a company or sports team has an outstanding performer and reckons that they can put that performer into a position to somehow transfer/replicate their success to others. It fails (perhaps reflected in the _Peter Principle_ ). Mozart (W.A.) had students and even a child that live until adulthood...but they never came close to composing like W.A. Mozart. No one knows why _Price's Law_ works; that is no one knows why some people have a knack for something.
Yeah, makes sense. At the core, success is luck. I knew this beforehand though. I've always been seen as smart, and that is due to my dad at a young age. Proof came from non-blood children he watched exhibiting similar characteristics. Because of this, I virtually always did good in school. I got through it without much struggle, and even graduated college not feeling like I accomplished much of anything because I didn't feel challenged. Every time someone calls/called me "smart" I struggle to accept it because I was just lucky enough to be raised well, at the start at least, and don't feel like I did anything to warrant such a title. It makes me cringe a little when someone calls me something like that. In the end though, I just did what I did, drifted through school, and it was luck. Sure, I did the work, but if I wasn't born in this specific way, I may have been worse off. (Though I sorta wish I could have had the experience of struggling in school.. I feel like it made me a bit lazy and quick to give up.) Maybe I'll accomplish something I'm truly proud of some day, but I'll never become arrogant because of it.. because in the end, a big part of it was luck.
Yup. 1 can't choose our own parent 2. can't choose our new CEO 3. can't choose falling in love with some one and all of this really influence how success one could be.
@@mediacenterman8583 Yeah, that's what I and the video said lol Both are usually needed though. You can be born lucky, and wind up with nothing if you don't put in any effort. Depends on just how lucky you are though too lol
Yep it's true. There aren't many things in this world we have control over. Success is one of them. That being said if you'll never try you'll never know if you can succeed. Who knows maybe you'll get lucky
Success is not just all luck, this is a poor lesson to teach people and especially kids. This thinking can turn the successful complacent and the unsuccessful into superstitious victims. Though luck can be a big part; Success = skill + will + chance OR Success = ABC (abilities, breaks, and courage). You can keep back thinking and contemplating it all, but there is a time and place for everything including hard work... P.S. Though if "who you know is more important than what you know", it gives good argument to this video...
Some people can't simply accept this fact, they think they're something totally separate from reality. It's impossible. We're humans, we're part of the universe, we're in it, we are it, there's not a single thought or action we make that's not intimately related to all the rest. In this sense, it's not "us" living, it's the universe, life itself living through us. Just like the water metaphor, everything follows its natural path, there can be no dissonance from that. Accepting that requires certain humility (it's not about "I" or "me") and is somewhat liberating, because all we have to do is accept what it is. There's no struggle. That's Wu Wei, that's accepting the present moment, that's letting go of ego.
If success is all based on luck, isn’t evilness as well? Just like people are successful because they were lucky enough to be borned into life conditions that allowed for their success, can we not argue that people do evil things due to life conditions that made them the way that they are?
What I learned from this video is "Success is an outcome of hard work circumstances and luck". One person might be hard working but sometimes the circumstances don't allow him to do his best . Well that's what I understand 😅
I am hard-working and work harder than anyone I work with. However, I was also born with ADHD and Autism. It limits my capacity to move up in my field. Sucks but that is life
@@SunnyBeeRandomTuber 100% agree. You can work your ass off with no real result, or you can be lucky once and all your financial problems can be resolved; winning the lottery, inheriting a fortune or getting knocked up by a billionaire.
This tale could very well be interpreted as a version of _why even bother_ , bad advice especially for younger people in an emotionally vulnerable state, who have to fight and take risks for oppurtunities to improve their lives, hence maybe losing whatever aspiration, motivation and ultimately potential they initially had.
@@hrinn Hmm. You're right, it does. Watched it only half heartedly the first time. Still I get the overall impression of a quite depressing viewpoint on life, which imo does more harm than good for young people.
This is not a personal problem, it is a philosophical question. Our lives are both predestined and they are not. Both yes and no. And both answers are true for all questions about life. In a way, everything is predetermined. Whatever is physical in you, material, whatever is mental, is predetermined. But something in you constantly remains undetermined, unpredictable. That something is your consciousness. If you are identified with your body and your material existence, in the same proportion you are determined by cause and effect. Then you are a machine. But if you are not identified with your material existence, with either body or mind - if you can feel yourself as something separate, different, above and transcendent to body-mind - then that transcending consciousness is not predetermined. It is spontaneous, free. Consciousness means freedom; matter means slavery. So it depends on how you define yourself. If you say, ”I am only the body,” then everything about you is completely determined. A person who says that man is only the body cannot say that man is not predetermined. Ordinarily, persons who do not believe in such a thing as consciousness also do not believe in predetermination. Persons who are religious and believe in consciousness ordinarily believe in predetermination. So what I am saying may look very contradictory. But still, it is the case. A person who has known consciousness has known freedom. So only a spiritual person can say there is no determination at all. That realization comes only when you are completely unidentified with the body. If you feel that you are just a material existence, then no freedom is possible. With matter, no freedom is possible. Matter means that which cannot be free. It must flow in the chain of cause and effect. Once someone has achieved consciousness, enlightenment, he is completely out of the realm of cause and effect. He becomes absolutely unpredictable. You cannot say anything about him. He begins to live each moment; his existence becomes atomic. Your existence is a river-like chain in which every step is determined by the past. Your future is not really future; it is just a by-product of the past. It is only the past determining, shaping, formulating and conditioning your future. That is why your future is predictable. Skinner says that man is as predictable as anything else. The only difficulty is that we have not yet devised the means to know his total past. The moment we can know his past, we can predict everything about him. Based upon the people he has worked with, Skinner is right, because they are all ultimately predictable. He has experimented with hundreds of people and he has found that they are all mechanical beings, that nothing exists within them that can be called freedom. But his study is limited. No Buddha has come to his laboratory to be experimented upon. If even one person is free, if even one person is not mechanical, not predictable, Skinner’s whole theory falls. If one person in the whole history of mankind is free and unpredictable, then man is potentially free and unpredictable. The whole possibility of freedom depends on whether you emphasize your body or your consciousness. If you are just an outward flow of life, then everything is determined. Or are you something inner also? Do not give any preformulated answer. Do not say, ”I am the soul.” If you feel there is nothing inside you, then be honest about it. This honesty will be the first step toward the inner freedom of consciousness. If you go deeply inside, you will feel that everything is just part of the outside. Your body has come from without, your thoughts have come from without, even your self has been given to you by others. That is why you are so fearful of the opinion of others - because they are completely in control of your self. They can change their opinion of you at any moment. Your self, your body, your thoughts are given to you by others, so what is inside? You are layers and layers of outside accumulation. If you are identified with this personality of yours that comes from others, then everything is determined. Become aware of everything that comes from the outside and become non-identified with it. Then a moment will come when the outside falls completely. You will be in a vacuum. This vacuum is the passage between the outside and the inside, the door. We are so afraid of the vacuum, so afraid of being empty that we cling to the outside accumulation. One has to be courageous enough to disidentify with the accumulation and to remain in the vacuum. If you are not courageous enough, you will go out and cling to something, and be filled with it. But this moment of being in the vacuum is meditation. If you are courageous enough, if you can remain in this moment, soon your whole being will automatically turn inward. When there is nothing to be attached to from the outside, your being turns inward. Then you know for the first time that you are something that transcends everything you have been thinking yourself to be. Now you are something different from becoming; you are being. This being is free; nothing can determine it. It is absolute freedom. No chain of cause and effect is possible.
Great video! Of course, when you talk about the best, luck will have more influence than we think. But I think this becomes less true the less you have. Imagine everyone has a spectrum of possibilities given their luck. The less you have the more difference a marginal change in this spectrum will make in your life. Meaning that hard work and dedication for poorer people will have a huge impact, because their work will easily overcome the little luck they had in their lives.
Hey I'm having difficulty understanding when you are referencing a person's economic state, state of luck, or breadth of opportunities in your comment. I'd like to understand though. Could you elaborate?
@Meh He means that the success brought about by luck are in bands or spectrums. For example 2 people might be lucky to become successful musicians, but after they attain the initial success, the one that puts in more hard work will be more successful.
Same applies to poor people that are not as lucky. Out of 2 'poor' people, the more hardworking one will still be a little bit more successful that the other one. And at that level, that little difference is very significant.
@@ridewithidristhat’s not what he meant. He meant to say that comparing a poor person and a normal person, assuming both worked hard at the same intensity, the improvement seen is more in the poor person compared to the normal person. That’s why all the rags to riches stories are so amazing because of the huge improvement in circumstances.
Ability is given by luck LMAOOOO, and effort too is given by luck/chance since you have to be born in certain environments and conditions to have the placing to work hard in something. TLDR the ability to work hard or work at all in and of itself is pure luck.
This is helpful to keep from feeling like it's all on you.....but what you do from whatever starting point you had still is up to you....it ends the same, it's still on us to improve our circumstances even if not all our fault.
I've been pondering about luck and privilege and freewill for the longest time, and it's disturbing, even more so now that I've watched this video. Is luck the only thing absolute in the human experience? Do we not have a degree of control in some areas of our lives? How do we reconcile this with neuroplasticity? What about learned helplessness? What about educating all human beings about the concept of neuroplasticity so they can get a better chance at improving their situation? I swear, this is one of, if not, the most existential crisis-inducing videos you've ever made.
Luck is very far from absolute my friend. We have limited control in most areas of our life, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make changes or have ambitions.
@@timetraveller2818 if I can choose to live like free will exists even though I know it does not then it indicates that free will exists. It's like a paradox
@@danielwells774 We have zero control. Everything is by design. Water thinks it's free flowing and then it turns to frost, ice and snow. Every single action you have done or will do in life was predestined.
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." - George Orwell
It's actually a quote from the book Ecclesiastes in the Bible, attributed to Solomon that another book in the Bible says was the wisest of all mankind.
If success is luck then so is failure. That kinda means it's not all me as to why I have face-planted so god damn freaking hard in life. It's not bias toward one side, this absolutely goes both ways.
I call this sober syndrome. Imagine driving drunk, narrowly avoiding collisions, not wearing a seatbelt, but making it home safe? Then someone else is teetotal, wears a seatbelt, observes the speed limit and then still has an accident? Life can punish the innocent person. Sober syndrome is real....also known as ''No good deed goes unpunished'
Having parents from once third world countries who made their way to a westernized country often humbles you to the fact that you being born in this western country, (because of a decision they made by the way) gave you a golden ticket. My abilities “perhaps” came from some genetic factors, but I can definitely say a lot came from having proper nutrition, having good mentors, having a good family with strong culture, a good society, and many other factors because of that one choice my parents made. It’s more that, than any skill or natural talent our ego would have us believe.
I agree with this. I'd argue that success consist of 30% hard and smart work and 70% luck. Belive me, I've done it all and been through it all, and most of the time you just have to get lucky by being the right guy at the right place at the right time. It sucks but this is the truth. That's why you never ever leave a job until you actually have a new one.
But the argument is that it is 100% luck, because you are lucky to have had the genes and the upbringing required to MAKE you smart and hard working in the first place.
@@aliquida7132 Everybody can work hard and smart, and those who claim otherwise are just full of excuses. Now, if we're talking about talent such as some are born to be singers and some are not, then that's totally different. You still have to be somewhat lucky in life to get what you want even if you do everything right. Because so those everybody else. That's why you should never ever take rejections personally in life. It's just business, no hard feelings.
@@True38 Looks like you completely missed the message of this video. If you have no free will, then you can't take credit for working hard or smart, as it wasn't _your_ will to make that happen.
@@aliquida7132 No, the truth is that this video is complete utter bullshit which only tries to make excuses and justifications for not doing the work required to be successful. Now, like I said, there is SOME truth to this video in the sense that luck is often involved in achieving success but you mean to tell me anyone who have became a successful Doctor, Laywer, Business man or Entrepreneur is there simply because of luck? Of course not, the world is not black and white. Nobody is just born successful and claiming to have no free will is also just ridicolous. This is just a typical whining video about those who have actually made it and became successful. Mind luck, you're not going anywhere in life without doing the work required. You want proof? Ok, I started out as a Cashier when I was 14 years old and worked plenty of different jobs before I pursued higher education. Now I'm an Entrpreneur with two companies and I graduated from the best business school in my country with top marks as a Civic Economist. I'm also an Investor who have planned my own financial freedom. But I guess you could just disregard all of my hard and smart work as "luck" and "having no free will" to justify your own existence. People like you make me sick. Have some self-respect and dignity and actually improve yourself through hard and smart work instead. Much easier to be a lazy coach potato and point your finger at those who have actually EARNED their success. I got one word for that: Coward!
@@True38 call it excuse or whatever but there are people who're born with impairments and disabilities, so it's also luck. And it is also luck if one of those unlucky people is discovered by an influential person to be put on the success ladder.
As always, thank you for watching.
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Sarebbe possibile tradurre in italiano i vostri video interessanti, anche con i sottotitoli
Grazie
@@dixroby I'm part Italian, northern, southern, and Greek. Hehe.
@@dixroby ChatGPT4 is free to summarize now. Hehe. They should translate one of the biggest languages, Italian.
@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked I’m familiar with our lack of free will….that Shoepenhauer quote was new and very enlightening. Thank you.
The video advocates for a form of hard determinism. This is a similar position to the one Sam Harris holds when stating that we don’t have free will.
This position would make sense if physics were to stop at the atomic level, where particles follow the standard model and you can pre-determine everything.
But thoughts occur at the quantum level. They do not obey to a deterministic model. So you can’t disprove free will and conclusively you cant disprove that your decisions have an impact in determining your success.
I am with the author of this video up to a point, but the hard determinist view it fosters, it’s just a recipe for nihilism “who cares to break a sweat for anything if it’s all pre-destined anyways?”
The fact that the Hare actually had the self-awareness to listen and take in what was being said instead of entering a violent state of denial (as most people like the hare would) is pretty incredible lmao
Yes, it’s a very modern take on the Tale. The hare understood
You are sharp
Yea, I think the "Hm, but what made HIM (grandfather) that way?" makes most reallife rabbits go: "Can you stop asking stupid questions? Let's get this over with."
Dude I was thinking the same thing and when I scrolled down to comment on it I saw yours
@@rbn1111 no you don't
The Turtoise literally made the Hare experience existential crisis just so that he could win the race...
What a classic maneuver!
Ahhh not really though i believe tortoise wants to wake hare and see the reality
James Tortoise Kirk. "It is... POSSIBLE that... there's no... meaning at all??"
You won at internet today.🎉
Regardless- Maybe the Hare needed to lose the race -- the Tortoise taught him an important lesson and in return, the Hare now has a greater desire to want to race again (which he did)
This was a fantastic take on a classic tale.
Makes me think of Aesopus but with a more philosophical and deeper meaning.
@PC Gamer DttV Genetics is a thing even in the same species
edit: The video is a parallel how much hardwork matters to luck in the game of success.
Some people work hard but never get successful - some people were born into a good set of circumstances and just inherited everything from their parents and some people work hard and get successful.
You can see the same parallels in the example you gave of running - every pro runner works hard everyday, trains learns to adjust their form for optimal running but in the end some runners have a better build and genetics for running .
Can you really say Usain Bolt doesn't have really good genetics that outclasses others that helped him break the 100m world record?
Can you say that the millions of runners around the world that train hard and didn't make it was the fault of them not working hard enough?
This guy is so smart and amazing
I wish he would have taken a bigger acknowledgment on the fact that's some people are better in different ways and no one is good at everything
@@cashapphambagel the turtle won over the rabbit with intelligence. he broke him, for hours, so he could win the race. he won the intellctual race.
“Being a hardworking person is also a product of chance.” Yes this hit so hard. I was working my head off until I got emotional illness and then became too exhausted to do even basic daily tasks. Luckily I got better now.
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Same happened to me. Funny how your life changes in 1 month
This type of thinking is really sad and pathetic.
@@massimo4307 For most people, I agree. Though sometimes mental illness is something you can't control, but even so, is it worth being miserable forever.
Mental "illness" aside, it also depends on your situation. Some people are born into a tightknit, intelligent, wealthy family, who provides their children with the financial, social, and emotional encouragement to go after what they want.
Other people are born into broken families where wanting to do something outside of the norm is treated as ridiculous.
The first person strikes out and tries something. They have people supporting them, guiding them, and helping them. On top of this, they happen to have luck on their side and do well on their first try. Success right out of the gate.
The second person strikes out with no support, no one to guide or help them, and happens to have horrible luck, failing miserably on their first outing.
Which of these two people will be more likely to continue trying new things and going after what they want?
Great lesson here. No point in nationalism when you didn't choose which country to be born in. No point in racism, as no one chose the color of their skin. Any type of pride falls away as people realize they are products of a birth lottery. Even a shred of self awareness can redefine our notions of success and failure.
But you can still "win" at the birth lottery and yet give no effort. The birth lottery does not guarantee success.
This feels like a worrisome slope to go down
@@pooroldnostradamus Yes very worrisome, accountability could be under heavy scrutiny with this line of thinking. The initial comment was just being positive though, we can never know what is in people's heads.
@@codec2046 I see your worry. I think we are able to define a type of acocuntability without reliance on free will. For example:
The declaration of accountability lets everyone see your stance. You are able to realize your value. You are able to change something. You are simply being transparent about what you ought to do. Even if that thing which you decided to ought to do, is so by chance. Even if that is by chance It is still something you would do in that sitatuation. A commitment.
There are some things you are not able to do without such a commitment. In those cases its a trade. You basically sell an activity for commitment. Lets say a community lets you work on an project, but only if you commit to doing it.
I'd say yes and no. Natianalism can be useful because different people have different cumtures, thus making it useful for a group of people to define a place they can live out their culture. National shovinism is a whole other story. Racism is unneccecary.
I died laughing when the hare layed back and started contemplating his existence 😂
Relatable 🤣🤣🤣
With a relatable reason to lose the race. Too caught up in existential crises, lost the sense of time. Lol.
I die crying when I lay back and start contemplating my existence 😅
@@laaaliiiluuu one tiny spark in a universe of light
I do that too I relate to hare when my dad starts lecturing me 😂
This is brilliant. Should be a companion to the original story.
How did the turtle beat the hare?
Pursuit of wonder: by giving it existential crisis
"You have to know you that you have no free will, but live as if you do" Love how you phrased that 👏
Really. Brilliant narration!
Its difficult as fuck
Reminded me of the absurdist philosophy of Albert Camus, life may be meaningless but humans should still pursue meaning (pushing the rock up the hill) to become absolutely free.
so it means u do have free will if u can choose to live as if u have free will. if u have no free will, then you cannot even choose how to live or anything to begin with 😂 this is a paradox. it cannot be proven nor disproved.
@@benzpinto haha by what means
This video's message is something that most successful people refuse to accept. I know for myself, as a person who has medium success and been more down than up, I have always known it was luck. It's helped me to worry too much less during my life. Even when I am worrying, deep down I am not. There's a certain feeling of freedom knowing that it is all luck. Free will not existing is the ultimate freedom.
Arrogance/ego, the original sin
I don't know if "free will not existing is the ultimate freedom". It sounds like freedom from responsibility, which is not a good thing.
It sensible that being bogged down in worry or regret are not helpful, but going through life as merely a passenger, or an instrument for some force (even if it merely be genetics) is reasonably not going to produce the best results.
@@smallworldbigworld-yi3xw the conventional understanding of "irresponsibility" sounds scary, but the intuitive realization/understanding that free will is an illusion provides one with incredible peace. The possibility to unload all responsibility from your ego and trust in your body is in fact an incredible source of freedom
@@daimsaeed what is an original sin again?...
@@smallworldbigworld-yi3xw what are the best results?
So basically, if you string along your opponents consciousness into an existential crisis, you can win in spit all odds.
No winning...no losing
@eric boh
Yes, but the game of life begets all play. Right now, as I am typing this message out, I need to in play. Not paused. Not queued.
@@Meepzilluh how does need to play justify victory or loss?
The best way to win any race is to give your opponent an existential crisis
A wonderful adult version of the children's tale. With a moral worth thinking about. Amazing!!!
Yeah.. i thought It'd be the same old story
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca
Luck is luck. It just happens.
Both oppurtunity and preparation are ultimately the results of good luck. If you prepare, that means you've had the luck of having realized that it's needed and having good enough health to do so.
As an ancient stoicist Seneca believed that people should not be affected by their negative emotions. In relation to luck that means that he believed if people ran into a spat of bad luck they shouldn’t be bothered by it. That’s extremely hard to do. I disagree wholeheartedly with Seneca’s philosophy.
But what is luck, maybe God?
@@lucasbruno8102 no.
The story about the Hare and the Tortoise is a classic fable that has been used to teach a valuable lesson about the dangers of arrogance and the benefits of humility. The video seems to suggest that success is a combination of both luck and hard work. While it is true that working hard can increase the chances of success, luck also plays a significant role. The Hare's success had made him arrogant, which blinded him from the possibility of losing to a seemingly inferior Tortoise. The Tortoise, on the other hand, was not as successful or popular as the Hare but had the humility and determination to challenge the Hare to a race. The Hare's overconfidence caused him to lose the race, even though he was faster and more talented than the Tortoise. The Tortoise's hard work and perseverance, combined with a stroke of luck, led to his victory.
In my opinion, success is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that cannot be attributed solely to hard work or luck. Both factors play a crucial role in determining the outcome of our efforts. However, it is important to acknowledge the role of luck and other external factors beyond our control. Success is not always a reflection of our abilities or character, but it is also affected by social, economic, and historical factors. We should strive to work hard and develop our skills while also being humble and aware of the role of luck in our lives.
A self-made billion-hare, I see. "You're all poor because you're lazy, not like me who's willing to work and has very rich, business-savvy parents."
Even if a self made billionaire was actually self made, it's still luck. But it's usually not only because they're hard working or have rich parents, it's usually because they're intellectually gifted.
I just want to say that Robert Pantano is one of the best creators in this whole world. I read his "Hidden story of every person" and it's so great
One of my favourite channels, you made me start writing and you were one of the channels who made me interested in philosophy, so thank you very much.
Writing like what brad
Choosing the word Hare make it feels like a word play for the word Heir
both, in the story, means that they were lucky to inherit greatness from their forefathers
Interesting observation
Better to inherit greatness from a forefather than weakness from a foreskin.
Not really as heir is pronounced 'air'.
I have to say I can only agree 50% as valid. As a buddhist, I am convinced that luck plays a large part in success or failure, but also that we have a free will to choose how to use good luck or bad luck, and that we create our own good or bad luck through our choices and actions. We do have free will and we do have control over how we want our lives to turn out to a certain degree, and in the larger picture over many life-times.
The hare's speediness and the tortoise's methodical propoganda both have no single cause, but from dependent origination emerged from all that has ever occured before. As the wheel turns, in another life Tortoise will find himself bamboozeld and Hare will find himself outrun.
Agreed. One can do drugs, commit crimes, take high risks and while it may be luck that nothing happens, sooner or later bad luck will finally catch up as they roll the dice more and more with each bad choice.
Lesson: Get rid of bullies by giving them existential crises
Can you please elaborate it a bit more?
@@mohitnagpal Start slowly at first, so they don't catch on before it's too late, when their mind is already starting to implode.
Bullies would have to be smart enough to understand abstract concepts. Often times they are not. But it’s not their fault I guess.
I tried talking to some family about this concept and got labelled pretty quickly as negatively minded - it’s easy to see how strongly people hold onto their ego and refuse to accept any of their successes as anything but self originated hard work and planning, for me reality seems far from plannable, we ‘choose’ to roll the dice but we can never be sure what number will show or what that means in the bigger picture. Often an experience with a negative connotation may lead to a positive or vice versa forming a long sequence of universal chance. No matter how much you set your mind to something was it really originating organically from you and can you always predict where the next stepping stone will take you? I’ve often felt that i am walking a path of hidden steppingstones submerged undar fastflowing water which has on numerous occasions swept me clean off (Job situations, health issues, relationships etc) and all It seems I can do is continue to play the game, to be part of the unfolding of an inevitable future all whilst trying to pretend I am the master of my own ship.
So brother where you from? I feel the same way
i agree 100% thats how i feel some told me when i was down and homeless that life is an adventure i thought about that and how you dont know what is gonna happen next that made me feel so much better. i also never liked the question where do you see yourself in 10 years. i have no clue no one really does
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Humans aren’t biological made to be successful.
Only the most entrepreneurial minded, hardworking, disciplined humans become successful.
It’s not chance. You don’t inherit successful traits.
remember that Its also just lucky that you are not holding onto your ego like the rest of your family.
This is literally my new favourite channel I've been watching your videos back to back and I think this channels really a treasure trove. Thanks a lot I really appreciate your efforts
One of the biggest tragedies of life is that those who have the chance doubt their abilities, and those who don't, believe in themselves.
I had this very thought just yesterday. That we are often a product of circumstances and not just a product of choice. Having choices at all is a privilege.
Edit:
I should add 'within reason.' My point was about childhood and opportunities a person may or may not get because of their upbringing. It is not an excuse for laziness and self-victimization well into adult hood.
true, but don;t use that as an excuse not to succeed.
That is true
@@johncrow5552100% true, i know someone who doesn’t want to cook because of her mental illness, yet she’s capable of working. Every time, she uses her illness as an excuse.i tried to be understanding at first but later on im just tired of listening to the same excuses.
@UneMelodie i dated a woman like that, it didn't last long. Always an excuse why she couldn't get a job, why she couldn't do anything but watch movies and be on twitter all day.
@@unemelodie1328 The truth is she doesn’t want to cook, idk why she just can’t say it sheesh 🙄
The most useful part about living as if we have free will is what that gains us but the most useful thing about knowing that we don't actually have free will is that we don't *have to* assign blame anymore. To others, or to ourselves.
We can live as if we have responsibility for the things we can still change while viewing the past as without blame.
Perspective is a beautiful thing. I wish humanity and society could better embrace the dualism and complexity of existence. We’d all be able to live in a daily environment that’s more graceful and understanding.
Maybe there’s hope, generations from now?
Finally a video that attempts to be honest. Success isn’t just hard work if that were the case we’d have so wash more successful people.
I’m a college student and I’ve been grinding hard but I still come up short for exams I studied so hard for it hurts. It makes me question my existence especially when I recount all my past failures in my life of twenty years.
But I guess all we can do is move forward and keep working until we get lucky.
Extra work is always lead to burnout...smartwork is better than unnecessary hard work...
Two different individuals, put the same amount of effort onto a task, yet one succeeded and the other one failed. The difference was actually something that is totally out of their control in the first place. Such is life. Some have it lucky they don't even know it, some have it bad they don't even know why...
plz watch the movie , 'sliding doors' .
gwynith paltro , you can thank me later
Education is a system of imposed ignorance. You’re never going to learn what you don’t want to know. What can go wrong? Narcissism, deception, greed, sadness, isolation, disorder, procrastination, and laziness. Up or down the axis of fortune, the anguished look 😦 of not succeeding is relatively common. Your stumbling blocks are your stepping stones. Do more of what gives you joy as long as it isn’t harmful to anyone, especially yourself, or illegal. 😃
@@krokodyl1927 that 'illegal' in last line is pure comedy 😂
I am simply a passenger in the game of life watching my character navigate through the world and observing how he feels as he is simply a result of time and matter reacting to the previous actions of the universe.
God what a depressing loser mentality.
Yes. Way too many events have happened in my life for me to not realize that I am in a basic simulation where everything is by design.
@@mediacenterman8583 Ya same and since this i dont believe that you rlly have a choice. Your path is already preselected.
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By most standards I was successful years ago and most my life, but now that I'm even more successful on my own terms I realize I was focused on a sick society definition previously.
That's nice.
You either choose to be successful to yourself, or to the eyes of complete strangers, who don't really care that much about you.
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer Life is a cruel joke indeed!
Thank you for this. I have tried to verbalise these very feelings/thoughts over the years and have often questioned myself when challenged. The spin you put on it being '"luck" resonates with countless personal experiences in my own life and trumps my use of the word "fate" when I have tried to lay out my own thoughts...often to justify what I believe to be personal failure or lack of success. The paradox is, of course, the thought of free will and, therefore, (as others also do) I love the phrase "You have to know you that you have no free will, but live as if you do".
Whether intentional or not this is for me one of the best description of the Tao. Thank You, it makes a difference.
Thanks for reinforcing my belief of predetermined destiny.
Common Einstein L
you are very lucky to have a 2.3M+ subs channel, and luckier for having parents that taught you how to make one.
What do u mean?
@@Sheeeeshack did you watch the video?
@@Sussyphis I sure did
@@Sheeeeshack did the video you watched had a story like, a Tortoise laughing/taunting at an Hare and other animals for being fragile and defenseless against other predators while being ignorant about his inherent privlege of having a massive protective shell?
@@yshrn___ that too is lack of Free Will.
The most philosophical version of The Hare & the Tortoise
Probability does its job of rewarding you, only if you stay in the game. And I bealieve, we all are blessed with our own unique edges. We're all good at different things, just the thing is...many are unable to recognize it, and the ones who do, aren't able to find the right thing to deploy it into, which yields the desired results. I personally, don't bealieve in luck. Your actions decide the Probability of your success in anything. And someone would agree that it's luck, but for me, it's process of making mistakes, learning from them, and keep adapting, and as time passes by, the Probability of success will eventually increase, as there aren't many failures left, cuz you've learnt and improved a lot from em, only thing left now is to succeed. So, that's my recipe to winning in anything
But how do you get these ideas, that lead to your actions, that turn out to be a mistake or success to you? And how did the experiences, what- or whoever it was, that taught you those ideas, come to be? Learning and adapting is happening for everyone at any given moment, and what everyone individually learns or adapts to is not inherently helpful, as the choice of word might suggest.
There's always more questions to be asked, and the closer you look, the more the level of complexity heightens. That everything and everyone is a product of "chance" or "luck", as claimed in this video, is an expression. It does not mean that things happen randomly, but rather, that they happen on a level of complexity, which ultimately defies the human capabality of understanding.
Things do happen though according to the laws of nature. If they wouldn't, you surely wouldn't be able to read this right now, on a piece of technology that totally works according to 'humanity's current understanding of nature'.
And you would think that, given the incredible knowledge that is gathered in all kinds of scientific fields at an exponential rate, that people would also look at themselves and ask, what natural processes their own thinking and actions stem from - and in extension, everyone else's as well. The answer might not be possible to the full extent, as you would need every information that ever existed. You don't need 'all' the information though, to make an assessment of what has had an effect on your life as well as how your decisions have an impact on the life of others.
The simple acknowledgement, the idea, that everything and everyone has a natural reason, to be what or who they are, and to do what they do, makes a world of a difference when it comes to decide what is actually, not only best for you, but for your fellow human beings as well.
@@lebigmacke123 Well said
@@lebigmacke123 Nisargadatta ha già detto tutto quello che c'è da sapere sull'essere. Il confronto con la realtà farà capire dove siamo in ogni attimo di proiezione
to have that mindset to not give up is lucky if only all people where born like that
Nice existential spin on a classic... well done!
the hare bullying the tortoise was the funniest thing that i didn’t know i needed holy crap
Oh. My. God.
Another mind-blowing, epic, mesmerizing & emotional video from PoW.
I love you guys.
This story reminds me of how we celebrate people like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates. They just happened to be at the right place at the right time. So many things aligned just perfectly for them to succeed. What they accomplished is amazing, but if they were born today...they would never be able to repeat it!
Yeah but people need to realize that success =/ a good life. If you have a secure income than making money is probably the least effective ways of making your life better. With a secure income you have the choice to enjoy where your at and create a life and career that’s fulfilling with a good support system (easy). Or wasting the next 30 years of your life in a job you hat to make shitloads of money to then realize that none of it was worth it and that all of the money in the world is worthless compared to a life where you make an impact that you are truly proud of with friends and family that truly care about you. And then you finally start enjoying life with that realization
The point is not to diminish hard work’s importance to success as well. It’s not “just” right place/time. Zuck/Gates made sacrifices, as the hare does, to succeed. But these sacrifices alone are not enough.
Mark Zuckerberg was born to a privileged family who groomed and supported his talents. Many parents don't realise their children's talents
Yes even if they were born in a some poor country . Like I am from India , bill gates would never even had an access to a computer .
All these guys were simply lucky
Now I'm convinced that tortoise is not an ordinary one.. He is master oogway
I'd like to know why this creator is so confident that free will doesn't exist.
His character is. We don't know from this video it's the narrator's own philosophy or if he just told us the story.
Based on the current evidence it doesn't. However we know so little about the universe and how it works that it would be arogant to conclude that we don't.
If you think you're less lucky compared to somebody, just know that someone else also thinks you are luckier than them. It's not that bad. Not that bad at all.
I also thought the same thing...
Things could be FAR worse for most people. When you look at the atrocities humans have done and continue to do, natural disasters, plagues, etc. most of us are doing pretty darn good.
yeah feel my pain but dont feel sorry for me,cause theres kids in Somalia with nothing to eat. - young buck-
While that may be true, it does not help the problems that I currently dealing with. If I have indigestion and someone else has crohn's disease it does not mitigate my own pain.
This story shows how Meritocracy is a myth and causes so much useless misery, bitterness, & resentment in society today, as all the credit or blame for success & failure is placed squarely on the individual.
Everything about this video was excellent. Made my day. Thanks.
We all have genetics. You can't do beyond what is coded in you. The codes have 2 states: dormant and active. We still need hard work and passion to activate those codes in us.
But luck don't need hard work
A bit inaccurate, but I think I get what you mean
@@jeromedevecais2751 luck is just the baseline. It is up to you to work with what you were given.
@@Gandhi_Physique maybe
~ “Holy Shit”
Said the Hare
Lmao
You are higher because there are somebody lower than you. If you are alone, then you are nowhere in between.
I know the story of a tortoise, bullied by a hare, one day the tortoise said he wanted peace and invited the hare for some drinks, he then laced the hare's whiskey and dragged him out of the bar with the excuse his friend had drunk way too much after he passed out, driving an old pickup truck with the hare in the back the tortoise reached a beautiful rural area, it had beautiful trees and patches of flowers, but mostly important it was isolated.
The tortoise tied the hare hands and feet before it woke up and dug a deep hole, then he pushed the hare there and covered him up with dirt.
Now the hare can't be fast anymore, can't be cocky anymore and can't bully anymore.
And the tortoise lived happilly ever after, well, until the pigs started to investigate the disappearance of the hare and the tortoise had to move to Spain.
Btw this is jjust a fable involving animals, please ask me nothing
I like how you metaphor-ed cops as pigs. Just perfect
Great video thats sums up determinism in a very comprehensive way!
"But I worked hard my entire life"
yeah and if you had been born with or were unlucky to have chronic pain or a disability, or no support system, or no cheap living quarters, or no job opportunities to save for college, sick relatives to care for ohysically or financially, a driving license, or even have access to decent food or a good bed so you wake up feeling somewhat energized in the morning
The turtle was pretty lucky the hare even listened!
Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
I realize this is why I keep including “my brain and my body” when I’m writing gratitude, things that I won on the “birth lottery”. Even if some circumstances of my life were difficult, a brain that craved learning, and a body that craved movement, helped me go on and survive. I work hard for what I have so it was really humbling to hear that even that trait is by chance.
that ass smart turtle won the race by existential crisises a rabbit what a hero
I was fortunate enough to realize this when I was still a young man. I never thought of it framed quite like this before, but from the simple observation that I, and most people, have survived a number of coin flips throughout our lives that we had zero control over which could have ruined us.
Yep. This needs to be said to everyone who thinks they succeeded through hard work, and to everyone who did not succeed despite hard work.
They will refuse to accept this. Instead they will tell you how many hours they worked etc whilst refusing to acknowledge that their very existence as a human being is luck. Imagine if their Mother chose planned parenthood and not to go ahead with their birth? Or they were adopted by abusive parents who denied them access to education?
@@mediacenterman8583
Well, that's really up to them to acknowledge or not, right?
Those born into privileges deceive themselves into believing that they are successful due to hard work on their part, but the fact is that they are primarily successful due to the circumstances of their birth and upbringing.
Also, a good thing to say to those who think they can succeed trough hard work.
@@titobungo01 watch the video again... its not up to them.
"alright rematch then"
turtle: "ah shit..."
this is so deep.I just want to show this to all channels who pretends they know the secret of sucess.
Epic video. I like all your videos but I found this particularly good. Thank you
I think you can create your own luck based on the way you live your life. How many people get lucky sitting around doing nothing all day? With that being said, there’s also a lot of people who work hard and have nothing to show for it. You can also make the argument that all of the qualities we have are due to either good or bad luck since we have no control over our genetics or the type of environment we grow up in. I believe the best course of action is to develop a strong work ethic without putting too much pressure on yourself. Try not to place too much expectation on the end result. If you aren’t successful in achieving something you desire, you can always take that work ethic you developed and apply it to something else. This is much easier said than done but going about life in this way will allow you to let go of expectations and give yourself a reason to wake up in the morning. Appreciate anyone who took the time to read this and good luck to you all ❤
Why you think by own luck ? you created it
I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it
Working hard is also a matter of luck.
Here's how I see it. Luck determines your ceiling. Hard work determines your floor. Someone who works hard will always have a better worst case scenario than someone who is lazy. Someone who is Lucky will always have a higher ceiling than someone who is unlucky
@Flux_40 They can win the lottery sure, but did you know that close to 80% of lottery winners go bankrupt in 5 years? Why? Because those people are lazy and don't know how to handle their new wealth
And when you understand _Price's Law_ , it makes even more sense. My wife, bless her naïve heart, is in the small (high performer) wedge of the pie chart (or far end of the good part of the asymptote) and doesn't understand why most can not be like her. She tries to help them, but they still don't perform anywhere near her level.
Certain people have a _knack_ . It sounds like an old-fashioned, uneducated, explanation but it's totally true. Familiar evidential examples are when an organization e.g. a company or sports team has an outstanding performer and reckons that they can put that performer into a position to somehow transfer/replicate their success to others. It fails (perhaps reflected in the _Peter Principle_ ). Mozart (W.A.) had students and even a child that live until adulthood...but they never came close to composing like W.A. Mozart. No one knows why _Price's Law_ works; that is no one knows why some people have a knack for something.
“We all make choices. But in the end, our choices make us.”
Andrew Ryan, Bioshock
There's is no choices said just chance
very defeatist attitude. Sure that will get you far in life.
Success and luck are a desire of an outcome, that is why a man's trash is another man's treasure.
Yeah, makes sense. At the core, success is luck. I knew this beforehand though. I've always been seen as smart, and that is due to my dad at a young age. Proof came from non-blood children he watched exhibiting similar characteristics. Because of this, I virtually always did good in school. I got through it without much struggle, and even graduated college not feeling like I accomplished much of anything because I didn't feel challenged.
Every time someone calls/called me "smart" I struggle to accept it because I was just lucky enough to be raised well, at the start at least, and don't feel like I did anything to warrant such a title. It makes me cringe a little when someone calls me something like that. In the end though, I just did what I did, drifted through school, and it was luck. Sure, I did the work, but if I wasn't born in this specific way, I may have been worse off. (Though I sorta wish I could have had the experience of struggling in school.. I feel like it made me a bit lazy and quick to give up.) Maybe I'll accomplish something I'm truly proud of some day, but I'll never become arrogant because of it.. because in the end, a big part of it was luck.
Yup.
1 can't choose our own parent
2. can't choose our new CEO
3. can't choose falling in love with some one
and all of this really influence how success one could be.
Luck> hard work
@@mediacenterman8583 Yeah, that's what I and the video said lol
Both are usually needed though. You can be born lucky, and wind up with nothing if you don't put in any effort. Depends on just how lucky you are though too lol
WOW! Great advertisement! I did enjoy the show but the advert at the conclusion had the best production content. Very good re-tell. Bless.
Yep it's true. There aren't many things in this world we have control over. Success is one of them. That being said if you'll never try you'll never know if you can succeed. Who knows maybe you'll get lucky
Success is not just all luck, this is a poor lesson to teach people and especially kids. This thinking can turn the successful complacent and the unsuccessful into superstitious victims. Though luck can be a big part; Success = skill + will + chance OR Success = ABC (abilities, breaks, and courage). You can keep back thinking and contemplating it all, but there is a time and place for everything including hard work...
P.S. Though if "who you know is more important than what you know", it gives good argument to this video...
“Holy shit” - The Hare
the tortoise was smoking crack before the trashtalk
Some people can't simply accept this fact, they think they're something totally separate from reality. It's impossible. We're humans, we're part of the universe, we're in it, we are it, there's not a single thought or action we make that's not intimately related to all the rest. In this sense, it's not "us" living, it's the universe, life itself living through us. Just like the water metaphor, everything follows its natural path, there can be no dissonance from that. Accepting that requires certain humility (it's not about "I" or "me") and is somewhat liberating, because all we have to do is accept what it is. There's no struggle. That's Wu Wei, that's accepting the present moment, that's letting go of ego.
If success is all based on luck, isn’t evilness as well? Just like people are successful because they were lucky enough to be borned into life conditions that allowed for their success, can we not argue that people do evil things due to life conditions that made them the way that they are?
exactly
u get it
Correct
Oh lord this was absolutely amazing 😊
Yes it’s comforting.
Mind blowing. Thank you this is the great story on how we operate. Thank you
I've always had nothing but respect for that turtle, that guy rules!
Love your videos! I also like your narration and the animations!
What I learned from this video is "Success is an outcome of hard work circumstances and luck". One person might be hard working but sometimes the circumstances don't allow him to do his best . Well that's what I understand 😅
I am hard-working and work harder than anyone I work with. However, I was also born with ADHD and Autism. It limits my capacity to move up in my field. Sucks but that is life
Exactly.....i would raise my hand as a testimony to the "No matter how hard o work, without luck or fate there is no success" category
You don't need hard work if you are lucky and that is the recipe for success. Just be a trust fund baby!
@@naisyjohns We have the same conditions, very limiting. But I have accepted the cards I have been dealth
@@SunnyBeeRandomTuber 100% agree. You can work your ass off with no real result, or you can be lucky once and all your financial problems can be resolved; winning the lottery, inheriting a fortune or getting knocked up by a billionaire.
This is what I imagine all the wildlife doing while no one is watching.
This tale could very well be interpreted as a version of _why even bother_ , bad advice especially for younger people in an emotionally vulnerable state, who have to fight and take risks for oppurtunities to improve their lives, hence maybe losing whatever aspiration, motivation and ultimately potential they initially had.
Agreed. This can surely backfire
then the tale wasn't absorbed fully, in that case. the story at 6:30 touches on the *why even bother* mindset, and clearly opposes it.
Exactlt. It gives peeps an excuse and gives peeps a reason to support c0mmunism.
@@hrinn Hmm. You're right, it does. Watched it only half heartedly the first time. Still I get the overall impression of a quite depressing viewpoint on life, which imo does more harm than good for young people.
It's not "bad advice" you just have a shit take
This is not a personal problem, it is a philosophical question. Our lives are both predestined and they are not. Both yes and no. And both answers are true for all questions about life. In a way, everything is predetermined. Whatever is physical in you, material, whatever is mental, is predetermined. But something in you constantly remains undetermined, unpredictable. That something is your consciousness.
If you are identified with your body and your material existence, in the same proportion you are determined by cause and effect. Then you are a machine. But if you are not identified with your material existence, with either body or mind - if you can feel yourself as something separate, different, above and transcendent to body-mind - then that transcending consciousness is not predetermined. It is spontaneous, free.
Consciousness means freedom; matter means slavery. So it depends on how you define yourself. If you say, ”I am only the body,” then everything about you is completely determined. A person who says that man is only the body cannot say that man is not predetermined. Ordinarily, persons who do not believe in such a thing as consciousness also do not believe in predetermination.
Persons who are religious and believe in consciousness ordinarily believe in predetermination. So what I am saying may look very contradictory. But still, it is the case. A person who has known consciousness has known freedom. So only a spiritual person can say there is no determination at all. That realization comes only when you are completely unidentified with the body. If you feel that you are just a material existence, then no freedom is possible.
With matter, no freedom is possible. Matter means that which cannot be free. It must flow in the chain of cause and effect. Once someone has achieved consciousness, enlightenment, he is completely out of the realm of cause and effect. He becomes absolutely unpredictable. You cannot say anything about him. He begins to live each moment; his existence becomes atomic.
Your existence is a river-like chain in which every step is determined by the past. Your future is not really future; it is just a by-product of the past. It is only the past determining, shaping, formulating and conditioning your future. That is why your future is predictable.
Skinner says that man is as predictable as anything else. The only difficulty is that we have not yet devised the means to know his total past. The moment we can know his past, we can predict everything about him. Based upon the people he has worked with, Skinner is right, because they are all ultimately predictable. He has experimented with hundreds of people and he has found that they are all mechanical beings, that nothing exists within them that can be called freedom.
But his study is limited. No Buddha has come to his laboratory to be experimented upon. If even one person is free, if even one person is not mechanical, not predictable, Skinner’s whole theory falls. If one person in the whole history of mankind is free and unpredictable, then man is potentially free and unpredictable. The whole possibility of freedom depends on whether you emphasize your body or your consciousness.
If you are just an outward flow of life, then everything is determined. Or are you something inner also? Do not give any preformulated answer. Do not say, ”I am the soul.” If you feel
there is nothing inside you, then be honest about it. This honesty will be the first step toward the inner freedom of consciousness. If you go deeply inside, you will feel that everything is just part of the outside. Your body has come from without, your thoughts have come from without, even your self has been given to you by others.
That is why you are so fearful of the opinion of others - because they are completely in control of your self. They can change their opinion of you at any moment. Your self, your body, your thoughts are given to you by others, so what is inside? You are layers and layers of outside accumulation. If you are identified with this personality of yours that comes from others, then everything is determined.
Become aware of everything that comes from the outside and become non-identified with it. Then a moment will come when the outside falls completely. You will be in a vacuum. This vacuum is the passage between the outside and the inside, the door. We are so afraid of the vacuum, so afraid of being empty that we cling to the outside accumulation. One has to be courageous enough to disidentify with the accumulation and to remain in the vacuum. If you are not courageous enough, you will go out and cling to something, and be filled with it.
But this moment of being in the vacuum is meditation. If you are courageous enough, if you can remain in this moment, soon your whole being will automatically turn inward. When there is nothing to be attached to from the outside, your being turns inward.
Then you know for the first time that you are something that transcends everything you have been thinking yourself to be. Now you are something different from becoming; you are being. This being is free; nothing can determine it. It is absolute freedom. No chain of cause and effect is possible.
Yes just what i needed
The beauty about this is that, the same argument can be made for hardwork beats talent using almost the same logic.
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Great video! Of course, when you talk about the best, luck will have more influence than we think. But I think this becomes less true the less you have.
Imagine everyone has a spectrum of possibilities given their luck. The less you have the more difference a marginal change in this spectrum will make in your life. Meaning that hard work and dedication for poorer people will have a huge impact, because their work will easily overcome the little luck they had in their lives.
Hey I'm having difficulty understanding when you are referencing a person's economic state, state of luck, or breadth of opportunities in your comment. I'd like to understand though. Could you elaborate?
@Meh He means that the success brought about by luck are in bands or spectrums. For example 2 people might be lucky to become successful musicians, but after they attain the initial success, the one that puts in more hard work will be more successful.
Same applies to poor people that are not as lucky. Out of 2 'poor' people, the more hardworking one will still be a little bit more successful that the other one. And at that level, that little difference is very significant.
@@ridewithidristhat’s not what he meant. He meant to say that comparing a poor person and a normal person, assuming both worked hard at the same intensity, the improvement seen is more in the poor person compared to the normal person. That’s why all the rags to riches stories are so amazing because of the huge improvement in circumstances.
It means that the more you work and focus on the thing you want, the closer you would be to the Lucky spectrum if that makes sense.
"We're all just pawns in the universe's sick game, tricked into carrying out it's grunt work"
Everyone gangsta till the cheetah eats everyone
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luck, effort, and ability are often indistinguishable - mieko kawakami
you need all 3 to reach the top. But don;t use this as an excuse for your failures.
Ability is given by luck LMAOOOO, and effort too is given by luck/chance since you have to be born in certain environments and conditions to have the placing to work hard in something. TLDR the ability to work hard or work at all in and of itself is pure luck.
This is helpful to keep from feeling like it's all on you.....but what you do from whatever starting point you had still is up to you....it ends the same, it's still on us to improve our circumstances even if not all our fault.
I've been pondering about luck and privilege and freewill for the longest time, and it's disturbing, even more so now that I've watched this video.
Is luck the only thing absolute in the human experience? Do we not have a degree of control in some areas of our lives? How do we reconcile this with neuroplasticity? What about learned helplessness? What about educating all human beings about the concept of neuroplasticity so they can get a better chance at improving their situation? I swear, this is one of, if not, the most existential crisis-inducing videos you've ever made.
Luck is very far from absolute my friend. We have limited control in most areas of our life, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make changes or have ambitions.
@@danielwells774 very true. You have to know that you have no free will but live as if you do.
@@danielwells774 'You think that's air your breathing' Morpheus. Your very perception of control is an illusion
@@timetraveller2818 if I can choose to live like free will exists even though I know it does not then it indicates that free will exists. It's like a paradox
@@danielwells774 We have zero control. Everything is by design. Water thinks it's free flowing and then it turns to frost, ice and snow. Every single action you have done or will do in life was predestined.
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." - George Orwell
It's actually a quote from the book Ecclesiastes in the Bible, attributed to Solomon that another book in the Bible says was the wisest of all mankind.
If success is luck then so is failure. That kinda means it's not all me as to why I have face-planted so god damn freaking hard in life. It's not bias toward one side, this absolutely goes both ways.
I call this sober syndrome. Imagine driving drunk, narrowly avoiding collisions, not wearing a seatbelt, but making it home safe? Then someone else is teetotal, wears a seatbelt, observes the speed limit and then still has an accident? Life can punish the innocent person. Sober syndrome is real....also known as ''No good deed goes unpunished'
Great, now we need to know how to improve your luck!
Just beautiful as always
Virgin Hare vs. Chad Tortoise
Having parents from once third world countries who made their way to a westernized country often humbles you to the fact that you being born in this western country, (because of a decision they made by the way) gave you a golden ticket.
My abilities “perhaps” came from some genetic factors, but I can definitely say a lot came from having proper nutrition, having good mentors, having a good family with strong culture, a good society, and many other factors because of that one choice my parents made. It’s more that, than any skill or natural talent our ego would have us believe.
I agree with this. I'd argue that success consist of 30% hard and smart work and 70% luck. Belive me, I've done it all and been through it all, and most of the time you just have to get lucky by being the right guy at the right place at the right time.
It sucks but this is the truth. That's why you never ever leave a job until you actually have a new one.
But the argument is that it is 100% luck, because you are lucky to have had the genes and the upbringing required to MAKE you smart and hard working in the first place.
@@aliquida7132 Everybody can work hard and smart, and those who claim otherwise are just full of excuses.
Now, if we're talking about talent such as some are born to be singers and some are not, then that's totally different.
You still have to be somewhat lucky in life to get what you want even if you do everything right. Because so those everybody else. That's why you should never ever take rejections personally in life. It's just business, no hard feelings.
@@True38 Looks like you completely missed the message of this video.
If you have no free will, then you can't take credit for working hard or smart, as it wasn't _your_ will to make that happen.
@@aliquida7132 No, the truth is that this video is complete utter bullshit which only tries to make excuses and justifications for not doing the work required to be successful. Now, like I said, there is SOME truth to this video in the sense that luck is often involved in achieving success but you mean to tell me anyone who have became a successful Doctor, Laywer, Business man or Entrepreneur is there simply because of luck?
Of course not, the world is not black and white. Nobody is just born successful and claiming to have no free will is also just ridicolous. This is just a typical whining video about those who have actually made it and became successful. Mind luck, you're not going anywhere in life without doing the work required.
You want proof? Ok, I started out as a Cashier when I was 14 years old and worked plenty of different jobs before I pursued higher education. Now I'm an Entrpreneur with two companies and I graduated from the best business school in my country with top marks as a Civic Economist. I'm also an Investor who have planned my own financial freedom.
But I guess you could just disregard all of my hard and smart work as "luck" and "having no free will" to justify your own existence. People like you make me sick. Have some self-respect and dignity and actually improve yourself through hard and smart work instead. Much easier to be a lazy coach potato and point your finger at those who have actually EARNED their success.
I got one word for that: Coward!
@@True38 call it excuse or whatever but there are people who're born with impairments and disabilities, so it's also luck. And it is also luck if one of those unlucky people is discovered by an influential person to be put on the success ladder.
You are lucky to be a hard worker who never gives up. Most people arent lucky enough to become dedicated