thanks for watching! :) if you enjoyed, feel free to check out the rest of the reasons to read HERE: th-cam.com/play/PLZpKwDwO5HwPrGyF9_Py_-BHcxbp_Co2c.html
thank you! I'm slowly finding that it really is true - even when I'm being original, it's only because I'm stealing from a really big number of sources. and luckily, books don't expire like food does, so your fridge can just keep getting bigger!
There was a study which discovered that people who read books immerse themselves in the experience so much, that their brain thinks that the plot is happening to them directly. So your brain basically lives through the story and enriches your experience by those fictional situations!
it really really does feel immersive doesn’t it? my guess is that it’s because your brain has to do so much work to visualize what’s going on, it’s like a dream. as opposed to watching something where the visuals are created for you. thanks for sharing!
Personally, I imagine every single story I know as happening to me, regarless of medium. I often find myself pausing just to contemplate how I would react, how I would go about things, to the point I often don't feel like continuing the story because I've gotten too immersed in my own head.
For me it leads into real life problem. When people tell me their life story i get into their shoes too much i feel too emphatic for every problem they had. It makes me want to help them to the point that i exhaust myself. These days i just don't talk to people that deep anymore.
Not only will your thought life become more knowledgeable and enjoyable, but reading books gives us time to process and chew on what we are about to swallow. Books don’t give us the instant gratification other forms of modern media give us. We need to take time to receive the fullness of a book. Having the time to process, explore, and think about what was just consumed is what’s lacking in most media today. 5:30
Speak for yourself. It takes me 5 hours to watch a 1h30 movie because I need to pause to process what happened. Likewise, you can completely skil through a book not thinking about it too much, perhaps not even understanding what the author wanted to communicate since tone is much harder to convey through text. I think people put too much importance on the medium and not on the quality of the story and character writing itself, or on the work you need to put in as a consummer. There are games, movies and series whose story line has lived rent free in my head for years because you can spend hours pondering on them. I've heard people say they prefer having someone read some awfully badly written 300 something pages of excuses to write p*rn rather than not reading at all, as if reading it would bring any intellectual fullfilment that watching it on a screen couldn't bring. Mediocrity is mediocricty, wether it's in a book or not. Likewise, a good, thought provoking story doesn't loose any value from being communicated through imagery and dialogue rather than through text. In short, I think the importance of stories lies in the content and in the way it is consummed rather than the medium, and people who pretend otherwise are just pretentiously trying to feel better about themselves.
@@uMaudtrue. I love many books, and yet Yorgos Lanthimos movies are the best. I can spend days analysing what the author of the book or film wanted to say. But sometimes it takes 10 minutes, because the work is shallow.
Thoughts on stocking the fridge -read a book by or about someone you dislike and disagree with -read across all the major genres -dont waste time reading bad books, there are so many good ones, dont be afraid to not finish a book
Love it. I hope to make a video on reading books that you explicitly disagree with in the future - feel like that would be a fun topic. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
@@timdemoss Tim, I think reading is one of the most, if not the most powerful tool for personal growth there is, so i bet it would be hard to find enough that we disagree on to make a video 😂. Keep up the good work making videos that help and challenge people to grow
@@mishynaofficial yah plus there's lot of content in classics which we would disagree generally like rasicm, homophobia, sexism , I get so mad but I bear with it
"you can only cook with whats in the fridge" applies to so much, its a great line. I'm immediately thinking about skillsets, or physical capabilities as well as knowledge
This metaphore of the fridge is really precise in every single aspect: if you give a fridge with, let's assume, the same 100 ingredients to 100 diffrent persons and you order to cook something, you will end up, probably, with 100 diffrent plate.
100 dishes coming from 100 cooks using 100 ingredients isn't that impressive. I mean, if I gave *one* cook 100 ingredients I'd expect WAY more than 100 dishes to result from his efforts. You're not even thinking additively, much less multiplicatively, which mixing obviously is. If I gave one intelligent chef a mere four ingredients (e.g. butter, flour, milk, eggs) I sure wouldn't expect only one dish in response. Or four. Or five. I'd expect dozens at least. Obviously mostly because those are highly variable ingredients, but hopefully you get the point. Stacking ingredients multiples the number of possible results. It's just weird that you suggest 100 ingredients and 100 cooks = 100 different meals as if that's an impressive output. 100 dishes coming from 100 cooks and 100 ingredients suggest that each dish was made from just one ingredient by one cook. That would be absurd. For the sake of the argument you were trying to make, why not say 10,000 dishes (100 x 100)? That would be closer to the likely reality: each cook is going to combine each ingredient in so many ways that the result is much, much large than the number of cooks or ingredients alone. Obviously.
@@johnrogstad1278 thanks for your comment; i wrote mine in a few minutes, so i didn't think about this aspect, but you're right. I think, however, that the example works.
loved this video, I also read a study, that showed how people who read fiction,have better empathy... Exposure to fiction in early life , makes people more conscious of taking perspective of other people's realities.
same - it’s weird how that is…like it takes a great youtube video or short to make me not regret being on my phone, it takes a decent movie to make me not regret watching a movie, but there have been very few books where I felt like “man I shouldn’t have spent that time”. Weird, right? Welcome to the channel & I’m glad you’re enjoying the series!
I'm learning English on my own, and one of the best way to learn and understand this lenguage is reading. Now I can read many books that before I couldn't. therefore, improve my confident and vocabulary.
I am a Spanish teacher with a profound love for the english language. I teach English to my students with the aim of sharing this passion that I have. Honestly, I have nothing but respect to what you’ve done in this video, it encompasses the beauty of not only reading, but also learning new languages. New subscriber, right here. Much love
This could’ve been ‘overproduced’, over the top, and heavily stylised with a kind of classic TH-cam/TedX style, but I enjoyed this more because of its authenticity and candidness. Good stuff :)
you are the product of your environment. I’m an engineer and w/ machine learning this fact is so evident that the model is only as good as it’s training data “garbage in, garbage out” hence why it’s important to clean the data and make sure it’s useful to produce good results. So funny how analogous this all is to how human brains work.
I've been feeling off with my personality this past year, I stopped reading, worried about my screentime, and journaling and making art less. This video kinda clicked something in my brain, made me feel like myself again a bit. Thanks man
I’m so very glad to hear it! (also randomly by the way I ended up watching your “you should hire my sister” video and while I don’t have a need to hire anyone the video made me smile and I thought it was sick, so thanks! XD)
Reading has drastically improved my lexicon. I feel that I can express myself with more depth and clarity. It's like always having the right thing to say. Or in terms of the fridge analogy, there's always something to eat.
the fact that you could put your thoughts so eloquently in the way you conveyed the message for this video essay really shows how you made such a great point. i mean, it was so well thought/phrased for such a simple - yet good - idea. good job dude! really looking forward the other material from your channel :)
Absolutely love these videos. I think it's really important to show people what benefits reading brings, and you're doing exactly that. You've brought a smile to my face and given me lots to think about. Thanks!
ive been in a reading slump for years, since the pandemic actually, and honestly this video has been pushing me to get back to reading again, especially as a hobby to take up while studying philosophy in college. the natural, genuine perspective you have is so refreshing, thanks for giving me a reason to read again!
They was you think and express yourself through this video is such a testament to the exact idea expressed within this video. The way you string together different thoughts, ideas and express it visually is just inspirational:)
I always get recommended small youtuber videos that are mildly of my interests and I almost never click them. I'm glad I clicked on this, some good quotes, advice, and generally good vibes. Great video!
I remember trying to become a reader back when i was 14-15 and my parents shaming me for it. They didnt see the point in me reading anything that wasnt a textbook and they basically ruined the hobby for me. Im trying now at 26 to get back into it
Woah, this blew my mind. We have very similar tastes. I was just listening to Kendrick the other day, also being good kid m.a.d city. And yeah the that between the sheets like the Isleys bar is insane. He pays homage to his influences while paving his own lane in music. Amazing video, and yeah it makes sense there’s so many question you tend to ask yourself when reading especially fiction. This happens all the time with well written characters. “Why can’t I go on a bike ride across Europe too.” You start to ask yourself things. The ending segment of you are a mashup really put the nail in the coffin for me, that’s what I was missing, confirmation. I would often doubt if I should read a book I found tedious and boring, and go pick up another story i’ve been itching to dive into. Boring books feel as if a chore before during and after. The books that settle down in your psyche are the ones that you tend to enjoy reading, pulling you into itself, binding you to it forever as if it were a black hole.
thank you for making this video. lately ive been thinking "why hadn't i read this before? it could've helped me while doing xyz thing" and you really just put it into words. this is such quality content, cant wait to see more of it :)
great question. I’m definitely oversimplifying it. like, for example, you could invent something in your mind and then find out someone else had already also invented it independently. That definitely happens. But it’s sort of like trying to imagine a new color - hard to do without thinking in terms of the colors you’ve already seen and know exist. (I’m no scientist so I’m sure this color analogy isn’t perfect but it helps me visualize). Thanks for watching!
Amazing narrative on creativity dude. Thank you 🙏🏼 P.s. I’m sitting next to my book shelf and a lot have gone unread. Now I have a compelling reason to pick them up 😅
thanks so much for watching, glad it was helpful! :) and my shelves are full of unread books too - it's a good thing, they can be there for when you're ready!
great video! sometimes i have moments where i recognize or know something but have no idea why i know it, and then i stop and realize it’s because i’ve read it in a book before. i love these moments when information that i take in from books comes to me like memories. also, building my mental library (or as you call it, mental fridge) has been so essential in getting me back into writing after losing my passion for it for so long. going to continue to expand my mental library this year and learn more new things :)
when i was just a boy i loved to read a whole lot. i could easily digest english language text and dialogues very easily. thanks to being left alone by age 5. progress in later years have disabled me from reading regular books. instead i read a whole lot of what very many people put out in social media. and LOL most of the time. many of what people put out is funny and at times hilarious. the silly ones are ugh !!
2:15 "Stripping their vocabulary down." My main motivation to read books is to learn vocabulary. I used to read books in English for that reason because English is my second language but eventually, I reached a point where my vocabulary in English was similar to my vocabulary in French (my first language). These days, I'm reading adult level books in German and Spanish and I'm starting to reach a level where it isn't challenging anymore.
that’s a terrific reason to read books! even if you’re not trying to learn a new language, still helpful. But I imagine immensely more so when you’re picking up a language :) thanks for watching!
Love this video. Coincidentally I’ve just finished a book which was totally “out of my comfort range” and I can’t remember why I chose it..: and it was fabulous in so many ways. It’s too easy to follow a genre or an author, but that’s not the way to learn as much. Ps the book was “In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World” by Pádraig Ó Tuama
On the book steal like a artist and the fact you create what your influenced about; you have to realise creativity isn't just creating art. In the book Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly also explains that you can have personal creativity and domain creativity. Domain creativity is creating new things in a field like painting or science. But personal creativity is the way you live a unique life. So reading books can help you look at your life and live a life no one else lived before, like seeing yourself as the creative object. Fun fact though the people who created the most unique ,and things we see as super creative, lived the most boring uncreative lifes. Wearing the same clothes everyday, eating the same food, never going out etc. This way they kept all their creativity for the domain they were focused on.
It's funny that I was listening to another podcast, saying the exact opposite! He was saying that you shouldn't feel guilty of not reading books, but do it in a way that make the most out of it. Be selective, purposeful and take notes, write in your own way, and etc.
the opposite of good advice can sometimes also be good advice :) totally agree with what he said. (if you're curious too, this is the first video in a longer series which covers some other takes on reading. but thanks so much for commenting!)
lmao 1:59 rule number 1 of life should be, "everything always circles back to 1984.' after reading it recently (second time, but brain was broken last time, long story), i'm always seeing people (appropriately) reference it. and i'm always referencing it. you're so right. when we can't express ourselves, we have disconnect. and i just noticed, with your example of 'good,' not having a linguistic way to express yourself could really cause depression. imagine living in a world where stuff is just 'good' 😨
I heard someone recently reference a variant of this idea as "crayons in a box" - if you've only got the 8-crayon box, you're not going to be able to properly render the world. you need the big 120-crayon box to do that. (actually found the timestamp and video if you're curious: th-cam.com/video/_GFk2xx2nEI/w-d-xo.html)
Another thing that works is story-based games like Disco Elysium that use the reading and interactivity in tandem as part of play. There are also segments of play where faroff events are described in detail, so you as the player can still be immersed without having to witness personally every last thing. So you get immersion of books and video games at the same time!
First things first, good work on the video. I appreciate you putting it together for us. That said I’m going to challenge the premise directly. The implicit thrust of this video seems to be a) “ you should read books” because b) “the limit of thought is based on you’re personal storage of information”. My form of escape as a child was consuming fiction, and later in life I was a literature student in college. Reading has been a source of joy, entertainment, and a technical challenge that has broadened my vocabulary and exposed me to countless ideas and scenarios. And that said I’ll say this - there is no implicit value to reading as a skill or to the collection of information in memory through reading. One thing to get straight is this, words are not the actual thing, they are only flimsy representations. Ideas understood intellectually are only ideas - they mean practically nothing floating around inside our heads. What we know we know actually (in actuality) through our embodied existence (LIFE), not through intellectual inquiry. Take it this way if you like… I’m sure you’ve come across this idea that a book can have entirely different meaning when read or reread at different points in a persons life. We so often see this phenomena through the lens of ‘personal growth’. We often find revisiting a novel later in life that what we thought of it initially may have entirely missed the mark and now we see it clear and new through different eyes. Or so we imagine. Of course, the text hasn’t changed but somehow each of us have changed over time and we see things differently. But how do we know if perhaps what we saw then was actually more accurate than what we see now. We can’t know, because we don’t actually see ourselves. We imagine that the ideas swimming through our minds constitute who we are but at the centre of all those thoughts and impressions is a black box beyond which we cannot see, and somewhere in that darkness is a notion of self we do not have access too. Psychologically speaking, there is no knowledge, no understanding and no real learning to be had in the realm of thoughts. Sure we can play around with thoughts in the air and imagine we know. But when we engage in actual reality, in life, with what’s actually in front of us (not someone else’s prescribed ideas), life will show us what we know, and teach us what we need to learn. It does no good to bring out preconceived ideas along with us, they can only serve to tint the world the colour that we are most conditioned to see. The same goes for reading, we see some fractal reflection of ourselves through the pages of a book, but that book can only show you your yourself back to you as you already understand yourself (which at the core of your being you have no real grasp of). So, through the act of reading, you see your precollected and recollected ideas shown back to you and feel validated and gratified in the process. It’s nothing wrong with it - reading is fun - but let’s not get moralistic about it and suggest any one ought to read, or that theres some inherent value in collecting ideas to play around with, I refuse that notion. There are innumerable angles from which to approach the truth, but for my 2-cents, I’d hazard to say muddying your mind with more and more half-baked notions errs more on the side of delusion than seeing clearly. We can engage effectively with what’s in front of us not by bringing to the table a myriad of ideas, but by emptying all of that slop and simply listening, observing, responding to what’s right there before us in our daily lives. Reading is a fun and entertaining activity, don’t let me turn you off to it if you love it, but take it for what it is - one way of engaging with life, not necessarily the best way. If you want to learn, listen. Observe. In an unbiased manner receive life as it comes to you in whatever form or aspect and respond with compassion to the best of your ability. The ideas and beliefs you cling to will only hinder you if you hold on to them tightly. Words may encapsulate many fragments of what we call life, but we feel and experience so much that language cannot approach or describe with any integrity. Be present with life and you will learn, whether that involves reading or not. If reading enlivens you then do it, but there is no obligation, no need to read whatsoever to live fully. Thanks for the video brother, it was fun riffing on your video essay here. Cheers, and best luck with the rest of the series.
Thanks for watching! A lot to unpack here and I can't address it all, but thanks so much for your thoughts. In terms of a response (or continuation of the conversation) I think this video I made a little while ago might fit: th-cam.com/video/FR5w49rSOoo/w-d-xo.html Thanks again for watching & for sharing your thoughts :)
@@timdemoss Thanks Tim, thanks for taking the time to read all that. As I say I'm just riffing and enjoying the opportunity your video presented me with to write a few things down. I saw the overwhelming agreement in the comments (rightfully so for a well made and thoughtful video like this) and simply felt the urge to offer a bit of an opposing perspective that stood out to me. It was fun. I'm sure we're not all that much at odds, when it comes down to it. Thanks for the supplementary material, I'll check it out as soon as I have the chance to sit down with it and maybe I'll say something more, if I have anything else to say. All the best with the TH-cam vids going forward!
You’re correct about the connection between your internal world and how you experience your environment. I’ve seen in my community people so obsessed with money and their degrees that they lack any receptiveness to beauty. They don’t look beyond the apparent. To them, and this is no lie, Avengers Infinity War is a cinematic masterpiece, when it’s actually more akin to an amusement park ride.
Hi thanks a lot for your video it’s great . Knowing myself I probably will completely ignore your great points but you made my morning tram ride way better and started my whole day on a good note. Thanks
i study literature, but i don’t read books ever in my spare time. i used to love it when i was younger, but i fell out of the habit. i might give it another try now :) thank you
thank you! :) this style was a fun experiment / happy accident & I ended up liking it - I've stuck with it for the rest of the series so far. thanks for watching!!
Fantastic video, it felt very authentic and original in concept + execution. It's not that I needed this video in order to want to read more, but extra motivation is always welcome. Subbed :)
i appreciate it! and I figure my target audience for this series will be a mix of people who want convincing, people who want reassuring, and then people who are already reading and just like watching book related videos :) welcome to the channel!
I love this, however, the sentence isn't entirely true, if it were we would still be in the Stone Age. But enriching that pool of reference is the best way to hone critical and creative thinking, which i agree with completely
you’re totally right, it’s an oversimplification. although a lot of the new “ingredients” we have to cook with that we didn’t have in the Stone Age, come from those basic ingredients that we did have. if that makes sense :) but yes you’re right!
To add to Kleon's ideas, I have been noticing a really big difference between my brother and myself. (He is in the middle of his teen years, while I'm much closer to the end of my teens.) He often plays games with friends that are about his age (mostly shooters). While he's playing, I constantly hear him loudly shouting at his friends. You suck, get good, don't fucking mess up- all of that, and worse. Only a year ago, he wasn't anywhere near this cruel to other people. It's his friend group, the people that he surrounded himself with, that encourage that behaviour. They encourage it, effectively making it the only way he's capable of interacting with others while gaming. It's bled into his interactions with other people very clearly- he plays together with our stepfather and -brother often, and since he's so used to shouting and being angry, that's all he does when playing. I, on the other hand, have been making conscious efforts to surround myself with certain things. Online, a lot of my interactions consist of a worldbuilding group I'm a part of. We'll discuss ideas, brainstorm together, and generally have a lot of creative fun. And one of the most important things in that group is kindness. We encourage each other to speak up, tell each other to never be afraid of mistakes, and love each and every idea that comes out. Just in the way we both interact with the world and with social relationships, I can really tell that our mental fridges look very different from one another. Sometimes I wonder how these two people have been raised by the same parents, to be honest. I can see their DNA in both of us, but sometimes it feels like my brother was raised in a different household than my own. One where it's okay to shout and scream, and slam your fist on the keyboard. While I understand that a lot of his behaviour is simply rooted in being a teenager (I was also moody just a few years back, although I don't think I was that bad), I'm still somewhat worried that he won't grow out of it any time soon. It definitely won't do his social skills any good.
Sir! This line that you just cooked wasn’t in the fridge; in fact, it wasn’t even in the whole market. (I believe that cooking things often from the food inside your fridge can sometimes enable you to bring things to the table that are truly unique and independent from all the stuff you have stored. It's just... artistic.)
I don't read books but the woman I like mention 1 book to me, "The midnight Library", I started to read it, and man, I felt like I was having an awakening, I got my dictionary with me to understand things, and an mental image starting to play as I read the book, it feels like I am watching a movie with how I perceived the characters and their depiction,
I don't think that the mental fridge is ultimately an argument for reading books. Just about anything you do, watch, listen to, or talk about with other people can fill up your fridge - ie give you ideas and knowledge. The question then becomes - which activity is best for doing that? It may or may not be reading. It would probably depend on your reading speed and enjoyment. I would argue that most people would absorb new ideas much faster from modern mediums such as video, which combine language with visuals and sound.
While I definitely agree wouldn’t this same principle apply to most media? A good book is more likely to convey an experience than say a decent show or video game but not inherently so. Some of the best most story dense games I’ve played were much more enriching than plenty of good books I’ve read. Books are simply the densest way to pack and deliver pure information which will always be the most efficient form but sometimes enrichment comes from more than just textual information.
I totally agree and would even go further as to say it applies to pretty much every area of human experience - cooking, birdwatching, exercise, making friends, anything. so (hopefully) this series is to encourage people to add reading to their list of experiences they want to be a part of, not to encourage them to only read and neglect all other forms of media. :) this series is ongoing (this video was the first) and I talk about a lot more of these nuances in later videos, so if you’re curious & check those out, I’d love to hear your thoughts on them as well! thanks for watching :)
thanks for watching! :) if you enjoyed, feel free to check out the rest of the reasons to read HERE: th-cam.com/play/PLZpKwDwO5HwPrGyF9_Py_-BHcxbp_Co2c.html
No clue why this came across my feed. But. I’m putting TH-cam down for the night and picking up The Little Prince. Thank you bud!
that's what we like to hear!!! thanks for stopping by. happy reading!
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I’m also have to pickup little prince
starting off light let's goo
My favorite of all time
“You can only cook what’s in the fridge” was such a lightbulb moment for me. Wow.
so glad to hear it. thanks for watching!
let him cook
i paused the view immediately
Genius. I instantly got it and was mad that it never dawned on me until now. Thank you.
this was a very lovely video, “you can only cook with what’s in the fridge” is a great line
thank you! I'm slowly finding that it really is true - even when I'm being original, it's only because I'm stealing from a really big number of sources.
and luckily, books don't expire like food does, so your fridge can just keep getting bigger!
Yes very great
There was a study which discovered that people who read books immerse themselves in the experience so much, that their brain thinks that the plot is happening to them directly. So your brain basically lives through the story and enriches your experience by those fictional situations!
it really really does feel immersive doesn’t it? my guess is that it’s because your brain has to do so much work to visualize what’s going on, it’s like a dream. as opposed to watching something where the visuals are created for you. thanks for sharing!
Personally, I imagine every single story I know as happening to me, regarless of medium. I often find myself pausing just to contemplate how I would react, how I would go about things, to the point I often don't feel like continuing the story because I've gotten too immersed in my own head.
It sounds like drugs
@@uMaudA book that takes someone a week to finish would take me twice or thrice as long because I do the same thing as you lol
For me it leads into real life problem. When people tell me their life story i get into their shoes too much i feel too emphatic for every problem they had. It makes me want to help them to the point that i exhaust myself. These days i just don't talk to people that deep anymore.
Not only will your thought life become more knowledgeable and enjoyable, but reading books gives us time to process and chew on what we are about to swallow. Books don’t give us the instant gratification other forms of modern media give us. We need to take time to receive the fullness of a book. Having the time to process, explore, and think about what was just consumed is what’s lacking in most media today. 5:30
Totally agree! (You’re skipping ahead to reason to read number four or five…don’t give too much away)
Speak for yourself. It takes me 5 hours to watch a 1h30 movie because I need to pause to process what happened. Likewise, you can completely skil through a book not thinking about it too much, perhaps not even understanding what the author wanted to communicate since tone is much harder to convey through text. I think people put too much importance on the medium and not on the quality of the story and character writing itself, or on the work you need to put in as a consummer. There are games, movies and series whose story line has lived rent free in my head for years because you can spend hours pondering on them. I've heard people say they prefer having someone read some awfully badly written 300 something pages of excuses to write p*rn rather than not reading at all, as if reading it would bring any intellectual fullfilment that watching it on a screen couldn't bring. Mediocrity is mediocricty, wether it's in a book or not. Likewise, a good, thought provoking story doesn't loose any value from being communicated through imagery and dialogue rather than through text.
In short, I think the importance of stories lies in the content and in the way it is consummed rather than the medium, and people who pretend otherwise are just pretentiously trying to feel better about themselves.
@@uMaudtrue. I love many books, and yet Yorgos Lanthimos movies are the best. I can spend days analysing what the author of the book or film wanted to say. But sometimes it takes 10 minutes, because the work is shallow.
Thoughts on stocking the fridge
-read a book by or about someone you dislike and disagree with
-read across all the major genres
-dont waste time reading bad books, there are so many good ones, dont be afraid to not finish a book
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Love it. I hope to make a video on reading books that you explicitly disagree with in the future - feel like that would be a fun topic. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!
@@timdemoss Tim, I think reading is one of the most, if not the most powerful tool for personal growth there is, so i bet it would be hard to find enough that we disagree on to make a video 😂. Keep up the good work making videos that help and challenge people to grow
I do this by reading only classics, cause they're the collection of tried and tested high quality books of different genres.
@@mishynaofficial yah plus there's lot of content in classics which we would disagree generally like rasicm, homophobia, sexism , I get so mad but I bear with it
"you can only cook with whats in the fridge" applies to so much, its a great line. I'm immediately thinking about skillsets, or physical capabilities as well as knowledge
it could definitely be applied in all those ways too :) thanks for watching!
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I hope big brother watches this video
@@timdemoss He sees every video.
or at least it's best to assume he does
This is one of the gooder videos on YT
wow... this is going to my "favs" playlist ☹️🤌🩷
wow thanks! this is the first in a (hopefully) long series - thanks for the encouragement
This metaphore of the fridge is really precise in every single aspect: if you give a fridge with, let's assume, the same 100 ingredients to 100 diffrent persons and you order to cook something, you will end up, probably, with 100 diffrent plate.
hadn’t thought of it like that but wow that’s a great point. we’re all combining the ideas in new ways. thanks for watching!
100 dishes coming from 100 cooks using 100 ingredients isn't that impressive.
I mean, if I gave *one* cook 100 ingredients I'd expect WAY more than 100 dishes to result from his efforts.
You're not even thinking additively, much less multiplicatively, which mixing obviously is.
If I gave one intelligent chef a mere four ingredients (e.g. butter, flour, milk, eggs) I sure wouldn't expect only one dish in response. Or four. Or five. I'd expect dozens at least. Obviously mostly because those are highly variable ingredients, but hopefully you get the point. Stacking ingredients multiples the number of possible results.
It's just weird that you suggest 100 ingredients and 100 cooks = 100 different meals as if that's an impressive output. 100 dishes coming from 100 cooks and 100 ingredients suggest that each dish was made from just one ingredient by one cook. That would be absurd.
For the sake of the argument you were trying to make, why not say 10,000 dishes (100 x 100)? That would be closer to the likely reality: each cook is going to combine each ingredient in so many ways that the result is much, much large than the number of cooks or ingredients alone. Obviously.
@@johnrogstad1278 thanks for your comment; i wrote mine in a few minutes, so i didn't think about this aspect, but you're right. I think, however, that the example works.
loved this video, I also read a study, that showed how people who read fiction,have better empathy... Exposure to fiction in early life , makes people more conscious of taking perspective of other people's realities.
I can 100% believe that. thanks for sharing!
reading is one of the only things in my life that i have never regretted doing. Always a good time even if its hard. Very inspiring video thank u!!
same - it’s weird how that is…like it takes a great youtube video or short to make me not regret being on my phone, it takes a decent movie to make me not regret watching a movie, but there have been very few books where I felt like “man I shouldn’t have spent that time”. Weird, right? Welcome to the channel & I’m glad you’re enjoying the series!
I'm learning English on my own, and one of the best way to learn and understand this lenguage is reading. Now I can read many books that before I couldn't. therefore, improve my confident and vocabulary.
so glad it’s helpful for you!! good luck on your English learning journey!
I did it by watching videos in TH-cam and arguing about politics lol
@@hansmohammed5486 wow man, that's insane!
I am a Spanish teacher with a profound love for the english language. I teach English to my students with the aim of sharing this passion that I have. Honestly, I have nothing but respect to what you’ve done in this video, it encompasses the beauty of not only reading, but also learning new languages. New subscriber, right here. Much love
thanks so much for the encouragement, I appreciate it :) good luck with your students!!
This could’ve been ‘overproduced’, over the top, and heavily stylised with a kind of classic TH-cam/TedX style, but I enjoyed this more because of its authenticity and candidness. Good stuff :)
thank you! the style works for me and has been enjoyable to produce :)
you are the product of your environment. I’m an engineer and w/ machine learning this fact is so evident that the model is only as good as it’s training data “garbage in, garbage out” hence why it’s important to clean the data and make sure it’s useful to produce good results. So funny how analogous this all is to how human brains work.
what a great technical example :) thanks so much!
I've been feeling off with my personality this past year, I stopped reading, worried about my screentime, and journaling and making art less. This video kinda clicked something in my brain, made me feel like myself again a bit. Thanks man
I’m so very glad to hear it!
(also randomly by the way I ended up watching your “you should hire my sister” video and while I don’t have a need to hire anyone the video made me smile and I thought it was sick, so thanks! XD)
Reading has drastically improved my lexicon. I feel that I can express myself with more depth and clarity. It's like always having the right thing to say. Or in terms of the fridge analogy, there's always something to eat.
Right now I feel the exact opposite way
Reading book (that contanin ideas) it's like putting strange item in your inventory. You may don't know the function of it, but it may useful later
exactly like that!
the fact that you could put your thoughts so eloquently in the way you conveyed the message for this video essay really shows how you made such a great point. i mean, it was so well thought/phrased for such a simple - yet good - idea. good job dude! really looking forward the other material from your channel :)
thank you so much! I appreciate it! glad you found the first one in the series first - hope you enjoy the others! -tim
Absolutely love these videos. I think it's really important to show people what benefits reading brings, and you're doing exactly that.
You've brought a smile to my face and given me lots to think about. Thanks!
hey thanks so much for letting me know! :)
THIS SHOULD MAKE YOU VIRAL. Extraordinarly catchy and inspiring. Thank you
wow thank you!! I hope it does some good in the world. three episodes in now - we’ll see how many I’ve got in me :) glad to have you here!
@@timdemossI binged this entire series today and im obsessed
ive been in a reading slump for years, since the pandemic actually, and honestly this video has been pushing me to get back to reading again, especially as a hobby to take up while studying philosophy in college. the natural, genuine perspective you have is so refreshing, thanks for giving me a reason to read again!
so glad to hear it!! thank you for watching :)
They was you think and express yourself through this video is such a testament to the exact idea expressed within this video. The way you string together different thoughts, ideas and express it visually is just inspirational:)
Thank you :) I appreciate the encouragement!
“The more you read, the more things you will know, the more you learn, the more places you will go” Dr. Seuss
which book? love this
@@timdemoss An odd, short book called “I can read with my eyes shut.” 😊
I always get recommended small youtuber videos that are mildly of my interests and I almost never click them. I'm glad I clicked on this, some good quotes, advice, and generally good vibes. Great video!
Thank you! the first of a series of undetermined length. Currently on #4… we’ll see what runs out first - my reasons to read or my energy. :)
im getting a fridge tattoo now , thank you , truly.
glad to be of service. welcome to the channel!
Is it done??😂
Why the spaces?
Dude I can't tell you how much just "You can only cook what's in the fridge" has done for me these last 3 days. Thank you for this. Awesome video.
I’m so glad to hear it! Thanks for the encouragement!
Great stuff. Thank you
Thank you! :)
Everyone needs to hear this.
I’m gunna use that line in my daily life now, thank you
thank you for watching!
I remember trying to become a reader back when i was 14-15 and my parents shaming me for it. They didnt see the point in me reading anything that wasnt a textbook and they basically ruined the hobby for me. Im trying now at 26 to get back into it
as a fellow 26 year old, I believe in you! thanks for watching :)
Love this video so much. The way it's illustrated mirrors my thought process and I love reading related content. Going back to my books now.
so glad to hear it! :)
Woah, this blew my mind. We have very similar tastes. I was just listening to Kendrick the other day, also being good kid m.a.d city. And yeah the that between the sheets like the Isleys bar is insane. He pays homage to his influences while paving his own lane in music. Amazing video, and yeah it makes sense there’s so many question you tend to ask yourself when reading especially fiction. This happens all the time with well written characters.
“Why can’t I go on a bike ride across Europe too.” You start to ask yourself things.
The ending segment of you are a mashup really put the nail in the coffin for me, that’s what I was missing, confirmation. I would often doubt if I should read a book I found tedious and boring, and go pick up another story i’ve been itching to dive into. Boring books feel as if a chore before during and after. The books that settle down in your psyche are the ones that you tend to enjoy reading, pulling you into itself, binding you to it forever as if it were a black hole.
welcome to the channel! :) at the end of the day we’re all mashups of what we choose to let into our lives. thanks for sharing!
thank you for making this video. lately ive been thinking "why hadn't i read this before? it could've helped me while doing xyz thing" and you really just put it into words. this is such quality content, cant wait to see more of it :)
you just never know when something will come in handy! thanks so much for watching :)
I love this analogy, so powerful, well explained, just making the example of the message you are giving us. Thank you.
thank you so much! :)
Incredible! I have been reading lots and you put my unconscious reasoning to light!
I’m so glad to hear it! :)
"You can only think things that youve been introduced to." Is this really true though? Its interesting to think about
Not really, you can think in a mix of things that you have been introduced to. So it's something unknown created from the already known stuff
great question. I’m definitely oversimplifying it. like, for example, you could invent something in your mind and then find out someone else had already also invented it independently. That definitely happens. But it’s sort of like trying to imagine a new color - hard to do without thinking in terms of the colors you’ve already seen and know exist. (I’m no scientist so I’m sure this color analogy isn’t perfect but it helps me visualize). Thanks for watching!
another amazing video!
i feel like this also ties into a lot about how fiction affects reality-such an interesting topic to me!
thank you! excited to do one about fiction specifically soon too for sure
FIRE TIM
please no 😭 I really need this job
you’re funny
Idk why this end up in my fyp but thank you man this is a piece of art. You are prooving what you are saying by doing this video.
I’m so glad you found the series! welcome :) thanks so much for the encouragement!
you're such a wonderful person for this, gonna restart my reading journey
hey I’m so glad to hear it! :) good luck and happy reading!
Amazing narrative on creativity dude. Thank you 🙏🏼
P.s. I’m sitting next to my book shelf and a lot have gone unread. Now I have a compelling reason to pick them up 😅
thanks so much for watching, glad it was helpful! :) and my shelves are full of unread books too - it's a good thing, they can be there for when you're ready!
great video! sometimes i have moments where i recognize or know something but have no idea why i know it, and then i stop and realize it’s because i’ve read it in a book before. i love these moments when information that i take in from books comes to me like memories. also, building my mental library (or as you call it, mental fridge) has been so essential in getting me back into writing after losing my passion for it for so long. going to continue to expand my mental library this year and learn more new things :)
100% agree and relate. thanks so much for watching!
when i was just a boy i loved to read a whole lot. i could easily digest english language text and dialogues very easily. thanks to being left alone by age 5. progress in later years have disabled me from reading regular books. instead i read a whole lot of what very many people put out in social media. and LOL most of the time. many of what people put out is funny and at times hilarious. the silly ones are ugh !!
don't get me wrong but your voice is soothing...
Thanks! Just the nudge towards all the Dusty good stuff on the shelf I've been putting off for too long that I needed. Subscribed.
welcome to the channel! and I need the nudge myself - got books stacking up!
2:15 "Stripping their vocabulary down."
My main motivation to read books is to learn vocabulary.
I used to read books in English for that reason because English is my second language but eventually, I reached a point where my vocabulary in English was similar to my vocabulary in French (my first language). These days, I'm reading adult level books in German and Spanish and I'm starting to reach a level where it isn't challenging anymore.
that’s a terrific reason to read books! even if you’re not trying to learn a new language, still helpful. But I imagine immensely more so when you’re picking up a language :) thanks for watching!
Love this video. Coincidentally I’ve just finished a book which was totally “out of my comfort range” and I can’t remember why I chose it..: and it was fabulous in so many ways. It’s too easy to follow a genre or an author, but that’s not the way to learn as much.
Ps the book was “In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World” by Pádraig Ó Tuama
thanks for watching! and congrats on finishing the “out of your comfort range” book!
On the book steal like a artist and the fact you create what your influenced about; you have to realise creativity isn't just creating art. In the book Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly also explains that you can have personal creativity and domain creativity. Domain creativity is creating new things in a field like painting or science. But personal creativity is the way you live a unique life. So reading books can help you look at your life and live a life no one else lived before, like seeing yourself as the creative object. Fun fact though the people who created the most unique ,and things we see as super creative, lived the most boring uncreative lifes. Wearing the same clothes everyday, eating the same food, never going out etc. This way they kept all their creativity for the domain they were focused on.
personal creativity - love it. that’s so fun. Thanks for sharing!
The quality of this video was really high. I really appreciate it.
thank you so much!
Thank you! going to the library now to get a book I've been wanting to read.
terrific! hope you enjoy!
what a beautifully made video, I love your short essay and how you used illustrations/mind maps to explain your thoughts! instant sub.
wow thank you for the encouragement! & welcome to the channel!
It's funny that I was listening to another podcast, saying the exact opposite! He was saying that you shouldn't feel guilty of not reading books, but do it in a way that make the most out of it. Be selective, purposeful and take notes, write in your own way, and etc.
the opposite of good advice can sometimes also be good advice :) totally agree with what he said. (if you're curious too, this is the first video in a longer series which covers some other takes on reading. but thanks so much for commenting!)
This is beautiful. Thank you for existing 🫶🏽
thank you! :)
lmao 1:59 rule number 1 of life should be, "everything always circles back to 1984.' after reading it recently (second time, but brain was broken last time, long story), i'm always seeing people (appropriately) reference it. and i'm always referencing it.
you're so right. when we can't express ourselves, we have disconnect. and i just noticed, with your example of 'good,' not having a linguistic way to express yourself could really cause depression. imagine living in a world where stuff is just 'good' 😨
I heard someone recently reference a variant of this idea as "crayons in a box" - if you've only got the 8-crayon box, you're not going to be able to properly render the world. you need the big 120-crayon box to do that.
(actually found the timestamp and video if you're curious: th-cam.com/video/_GFk2xx2nEI/w-d-xo.html)
Thank you, great message and presentation. You are a wonderful speaker!
thanks so much! It definitely helps when I edit myself down :)
Another thing that works is story-based games like Disco Elysium that use the reading and interactivity in tandem as part of play. There are also segments of play where faroff events are described in detail, so you as the player can still be immersed without having to witness personally every last thing. So you get immersion of books and video games at the same time!
sounds like a blast!
Brother this might be the best video I have ever seen
wow. thank you so much! this has been such a fun series to make & the encouragement helps a lot! :)
great vid!!!
hey thanks! :)
I swear smaller channels always produce the best content on here, great video on artistic and intellectual influences
thanks so much! hopefully the quality stays good if/when the channel grows :)
@@timdemoss I hope you continue the "reasons to read" series
thank you! I have been - this was the first one but I’m about eight in now actually :)
First things first, good work on the video. I appreciate you putting it together for us.
That said I’m going to challenge the premise directly. The implicit thrust of this video seems to be a) “ you should read books” because b) “the limit of thought is based on you’re personal storage of information”.
My form of escape as a child was consuming fiction, and later in life I was a literature student in college. Reading has been a source of joy, entertainment, and a technical challenge that has broadened my vocabulary and exposed me to countless ideas and scenarios. And that said I’ll say this - there is no implicit value to reading as a skill or to the collection of information in memory through reading.
One thing to get straight is this, words are not the actual thing, they are only flimsy representations. Ideas understood intellectually are only ideas - they mean practically nothing floating around inside our heads. What we know we know actually (in actuality) through our embodied existence (LIFE), not through intellectual inquiry.
Take it this way if you like… I’m sure you’ve come across this idea that a book can have entirely different meaning when read or reread at different points in a persons life. We so often see this phenomena through the lens of ‘personal growth’. We often find revisiting a novel later in life that what we thought of it initially may have entirely missed the mark and now we see it clear and new through different eyes. Or so we imagine. Of course, the text hasn’t changed but somehow each of us have changed over time and we see things differently. But how do we know if perhaps what we saw then was actually more accurate than what we see now. We can’t know, because we don’t actually see ourselves. We imagine that the ideas swimming through our minds constitute who we are but at the centre of all those thoughts and impressions is a black box beyond which we cannot see, and somewhere in that darkness is a notion of self we do not have access too.
Psychologically speaking, there is no knowledge, no understanding and no real learning to be had in the realm of thoughts. Sure we can play around with thoughts in the air and imagine we know. But when we engage in actual reality, in life, with what’s actually in front of us (not someone else’s prescribed ideas), life will show us what we know, and teach us what we need to learn. It does no good to bring out preconceived ideas along with us, they can only serve to tint the world the colour that we are most conditioned to see. The same goes for reading, we see some fractal reflection of ourselves through the pages of a book, but that book can only show you your yourself back to you as you already understand yourself (which at the core of your being you have no real grasp of). So, through the act of reading, you see your precollected and recollected ideas shown back to you and feel validated and gratified in the process.
It’s nothing wrong with it - reading is fun - but let’s not get moralistic about it and suggest any one ought to read, or that theres some inherent value in collecting ideas to play around with, I refuse that notion. There are innumerable angles from which to approach the truth, but for my 2-cents, I’d hazard to say muddying your mind with more and more half-baked notions errs more on the side of delusion than seeing clearly.
We can engage effectively with what’s in front of us not by bringing to the table a myriad of ideas, but by emptying all of that slop and simply listening, observing, responding to what’s right there before us in our daily lives.
Reading is a fun and entertaining activity, don’t let me turn you off to it if you love it, but take it for what it is - one way of engaging with life, not necessarily the best way.
If you want to learn, listen. Observe. In an unbiased manner receive life as it comes to you in whatever form or aspect and respond with compassion to the best of your ability. The ideas and beliefs you cling to will only hinder you if you hold on to them tightly. Words may encapsulate many fragments of what we call life, but we feel and experience so much that language cannot approach or describe with any integrity. Be present with life and you will learn, whether that involves reading or not. If reading enlivens you then do it, but there is no obligation, no need to read whatsoever to live fully.
Thanks for the video brother, it was fun riffing on your video essay here. Cheers, and best luck with the rest of the series.
Thanks for watching! A lot to unpack here and I can't address it all, but thanks so much for your thoughts. In terms of a response (or continuation of the conversation) I think this video I made a little while ago might fit: th-cam.com/video/FR5w49rSOoo/w-d-xo.html
Thanks again for watching & for sharing your thoughts :)
@@timdemoss Thanks Tim, thanks for taking the time to read all that. As I say I'm just riffing and enjoying the opportunity your video presented me with to write a few things down. I saw the overwhelming agreement in the comments (rightfully so for a well made and thoughtful video like this) and simply felt the urge to offer a bit of an opposing perspective that stood out to me. It was fun. I'm sure we're not all that much at odds, when it comes down to it.
Thanks for the supplementary material, I'll check it out as soon as I have the chance to sit down with it and maybe I'll say something more, if I have anything else to say.
All the best with the TH-cam vids going forward!
this helped me out of my reading slump. thank you
I’m so so glad to hear that! welcome!
You’re correct about the connection between your internal world and how you experience your environment. I’ve seen in my community people so obsessed with money and their degrees that they lack any receptiveness to beauty. They don’t look beyond the apparent. To them, and this is no lie, Avengers Infinity War is a cinematic masterpiece, when it’s actually more akin to an amusement park ride.
This is life changing advice. Thank you!
thank you! I appreciate the encouragement!
kendrick also samples “That Lady” by the isley brothers in “i”
I’m always shocked by how common sampling is…the more I look the more I find. Thanks for the tip!
Lovely video
Thank you! :) (And isn't it nice to be able to say "lovely" instead of just "good"?)
What an amazing phrase! You can only cook with whats in the fridge 🩷
thanks! :)
Great video man, that actually just inspired me. Keep the content going.
thanks so much! and will do :) thanks for watching!
Hi thanks a lot for your video it’s great . Knowing myself I probably will completely ignore your great points but you made my morning tram ride way better and started my whole day on a good note. Thanks
hey so glad to hear it :) very happy it made your ride better! hope your day went well!
Thank you Tim.
of course :) thank you for watching!
i study literature, but i don’t read books ever in my spare time. i used to love it when i was younger, but i fell out of the habit. i might give it another try now :) thank you
I’m so glad to hear it :) thank you for sharing!
Thanks man. This actually made me pick up a book😊
yes! nailed it :)
Came across your channel, wow what a gem 💎
wow thank you! :) I appreciate it a lot!
Thank you tim
thank you!
Thank you for this great video!
thank you for watching!
Great little video! I appreciate how short and to the point it is! You’ve got my sub 👍🏼
thanks so much! welcome to the channel & I hope you enjoy the series!
Subscribed. This is an excellent and worthwhile idea for a video series
thank you so much & welcome to the channel! :) this series has been so fun to make for me honestly - I’m glad you enjoy the concept!
Great production and video design, with great content to match. Great job!
thank you! :) this style was a fun experiment / happy accident & I ended up liking it - I've stuck with it for the rest of the series so far. thanks for watching!!
Video was really amazing and left me pondering for a while 😅
so glad to hear! :) thanks for watching!
Are there any happy books available certainly not the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy.
Fantastic video, it felt very authentic and original in concept + execution. It's not that I needed this video in order to want to read more, but extra motivation is always welcome. Subbed :)
i appreciate it! and I figure my target audience for this series will be a mix of people who want convincing, people who want reassuring, and then people who are already reading and just like watching book related videos :) welcome to the channel!
a new perspective, thanks man.
so happy to hear :)
Simple, I love it.
thank you! :)
Great work. Thanks
thanks for watching!
I love this, however, the sentence isn't entirely true, if it were we would still be in the Stone Age. But enriching that pool of reference is the best way to hone critical and creative thinking, which i agree with completely
you’re totally right, it’s an oversimplification. although a lot of the new “ingredients” we have to cook with that we didn’t have in the Stone Age, come from those basic ingredients that we did have. if that makes sense :) but yes you’re right!
Thanks for this video man! I'm gonna start with Atomic Habits by James Clear today!
love it! thanks for watching!
this video is seriously underrated
thank you! :) it was the first in the series & I'm honestly really thankful people are finding it helpful!
To add to Kleon's ideas, I have been noticing a really big difference between my brother and myself. (He is in the middle of his teen years, while I'm much closer to the end of my teens.)
He often plays games with friends that are about his age (mostly shooters). While he's playing, I constantly hear him loudly shouting at his friends. You suck, get good, don't fucking mess up- all of that, and worse. Only a year ago, he wasn't anywhere near this cruel to other people. It's his friend group, the people that he surrounded himself with, that encourage that behaviour. They encourage it, effectively making it the only way he's capable of interacting with others while gaming. It's bled into his interactions with other people very clearly- he plays together with our stepfather and -brother often, and since he's so used to shouting and being angry, that's all he does when playing.
I, on the other hand, have been making conscious efforts to surround myself with certain things. Online, a lot of my interactions consist of a worldbuilding group I'm a part of. We'll discuss ideas, brainstorm together, and generally have a lot of creative fun. And one of the most important things in that group is kindness. We encourage each other to speak up, tell each other to never be afraid of mistakes, and love each and every idea that comes out.
Just in the way we both interact with the world and with social relationships, I can really tell that our mental fridges look very different from one another. Sometimes I wonder how these two people have been raised by the same parents, to be honest. I can see their DNA in both of us, but sometimes it feels like my brother was raised in a different household than my own. One where it's okay to shout and scream, and slam your fist on the keyboard. While I understand that a lot of his behaviour is simply rooted in being a teenager (I was also moody just a few years back, although I don't think I was that bad), I'm still somewhat worried that he won't grow out of it any time soon. It definitely won't do his social skills any good.
I play shooter games with my friends and we always stay chill. It might just be us, so suppose it really depends on the people.
Sir! This line that you just cooked wasn’t in the fridge; in fact, it wasn’t even in the whole market.
(I believe that cooking things often from the food inside your fridge can sometimes enable you to bring things to the table that are truly unique and independent from all the stuff you have stored. It's just... artistic.)
wow thanks! :) everything’s a combination of ideas, glad this combination was helpful for you!
Super awesome video that was clearly meant to help and inspire. Thank you!
I don't read books but the woman I like mention 1 book to me, "The midnight Library", I started to read it, and man, I felt like I was having an awakening, I got my dictionary with me to understand things, and an mental image starting to play as I read the book, it feels like I am watching a movie with how I perceived the characters and their depiction,
books feel like movies sometimes, love the mental imagery!
that was so inspiring dude!❤ thanks from Egypt👋
so happy to hear it! thanks from the USA :)
I don't think that the mental fridge is ultimately an argument for reading books. Just about anything you do, watch, listen to, or talk about with other people can fill up your fridge - ie give you ideas and knowledge. The question then becomes - which activity is best for doing that? It may or may not be reading. It would probably depend on your reading speed and enjoyment. I would argue that most people would absorb new ideas much faster from modern mediums such as video, which combine language with visuals and sound.
totally fair - for example I’m making this series on TH-cam instead of writing a book about it and I think that’s the right choice :)
I can't wait to read more during the semester break! and I just added winnie-the-pooh to my list!
it’s such a refreshing and wonderful set of stories :)
this is such a beautiful video, thank you ❣️❣️
thank you! :)
i am a mosaic of everyone i have ever loved
While I definitely agree wouldn’t this same principle apply to most media? A good book is more likely to convey an experience than say a decent show or video game but not inherently so. Some of the best most story dense games I’ve played were much more enriching than plenty of good books I’ve read. Books are simply the densest way to pack and deliver pure information which will always be the most efficient form but sometimes enrichment comes from more than just textual information.
I totally agree and would even go further as to say it applies to pretty much every area of human experience - cooking, birdwatching, exercise, making friends, anything. so (hopefully) this series is to encourage people to add reading to their list of experiences they want to be a part of, not to encourage them to only read and neglect all other forms of media. :) this series is ongoing (this video was the first) and I talk about a lot more of these nuances in later videos, so if you’re curious & check those out, I’d love to hear your thoughts on them as well! thanks for watching :)
I liked the title. It made sense right there.
well thanks! glad you enjoyed it! :)
@@timdemoss This video is spot on. I have forwarded this to important people in my life. BEAUTIFUL how you've summer it up.
Super awesome video thank you for creating!
thank you!