you can only cook what's in the fridge // reasons to read
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
- this video is the first in a series! if you're curious, here's the rest: • reasons to read
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if you're interested in any of the books referenced and want to pick up a copy for yourself, here are some links! (I'm not affiliated with thriftbooks, although with how often I buy from them maybe I should be):
-1984 by George Orwell: www.thriftbooks.com/w/ninetee...
-Cycling Home From Siberia: www.thriftbooks.com/w/cycling...
-Wind, Sand, and Stars by Antoine de St. Exupery: www.thriftbooks.com/w/wind-sa...
-Flight to Arras by Antoine de St. Exupery: www.thriftbooks.com/w/pilote-...
-The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-lit...
-The Complete Tales of Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne: www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-com...
These links are to new copies:
-Steal Like An Artist by Austin Kleon: austinkleon.com/steal/
-Keep Going by Austin Kleon: austinkleon.com/keepgoing/
-Show Your Work by Austin Kleon: austinkleon.com/show-your-work/
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timestamps:
0:00 you should read some books, maybe
0:51 kendrick & co.
1:47 your mental fridge
3:09 three books
4:35 you are a mashup
#booktube #books #reading #steallikeanartist #antoinedesaintexupéry #thelittleprince
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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
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.
“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
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!
DESSINE MOI UN MOUTON!
I’m also have to pickup little prince
starting off light let's goo
My favorite of all time
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
Real
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
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
"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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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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
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!!
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)
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 :)
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 :)
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
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
im getting a fridge tattoo now , thank you , truly.
glad to be of service. welcome to the channel!
Is it done??😂
Why the spaces?
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. :)
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!
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!
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!
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! :)
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 love this analogy, so powerful, well explained, just making the example of the message you are giving us. Thank you.
thank you so much! :)
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 video man, that actually just inspired me. Keep the content going.
thanks so much! and will do :) thanks for watching!
Thank you, great message and presentation. You are a wonderful speaker!
thanks so much! It definitely helps when I edit myself down :)
Thank you! going to the library now to get a book I've been wanting to read.
terrific! hope you enjoy!
This is beautiful. Thank you for existing 🫶🏽
thank you! :)
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!
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!
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!
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!
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 :)
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!
Super awesome video that was clearly meant to help and inspire. Thank you!
Everyone needs to hear this.
I’m gunna use that line in my daily life now, thank you
thank you for watching!
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!
don't get me wrong but your voice is soothing...
This is life changing advice. Thank you!
thank you! I appreciate the encouragement!
wow... this is going to my "favs" playlist ☹️🤌🩷
wow thanks! this is the first in a (hopefully) long series - thanks for the encouragement
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
Hey I really enjoyed this!. I subscribed to you. Already feel like wanting to watch a couple of other videos of yours.
Have a nice day, man. All the best.
hey thanks I’m so glad to hear it. :) I hope you enjoy them if/when you get around to it - would love to hear your thoughts. Have a great day too!
this is such a beautiful video, thank you ❣️❣️
thank you! :)
this helped me out of my reading slump. thank you
I’m so so glad to hear that! welcome!
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!
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!
This was on point and I'm subscribing to you❤
thanks so much! welcome to the channel - hope you enjoy the series!
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!!
The quality of this video was really high. I really appreciate it.
thank you so much!
“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.” 😊
Thanks man. This actually made me pick up a book😊
yes! nailed it :)
Great stuff. Thank you
Thank you! :)
yes!
Thank you for this great video!
thank you for watching!
Super awesome video thank you for creating!
thank you!
that was so inspiring dude!❤ thanks from Egypt👋
so happy to hear it! thanks from the USA :)
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.
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 :)
Came across your channel, wow what a gem 💎
wow thank you! :) I appreciate it a lot!
thank you for the lovely video it was sooo motivational. btw what font did you use on the thumbnail of this video?
thank you! And the font is Athelas
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!
a new perspective, thanks man.
so happy to hear :)
FIRE TIM
please no 😭 I really need this job
you’re funny
Thank you tim
thank you!
"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!
such a cool video man lol especially the Kendrick breakdown
thank you! :)
Great work. Thanks
thanks for watching!
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!
Thanks for this video man! I'm gonna start with Atomic Habits by James Clear today!
love it! thanks for watching!
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!
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!
Amazing video! Do you have a list of the books you’ve read? Really liked the books you recommended
thank you! I don’t have a comprehensive list but if you skim through these videos you can find some more books I’ve read / recommend: reasons to read
th-cam.com/play/PLZpKwDwO5HwPrGyF9_Py_-BHcxbp_Co2c.html
Also in the most recent Reasons to Read, there’s a link to a Substack where I send out recommendations once a month :) it’s just started up so not sure exactly how it will look but thought I’d let you know!
This video inspires me as an artist, especially the part about creative influences and remixing. You cannot add your own touch to or get inspired by something that is not there in the first place. I really like the format of this video. What program are you using to write and draw on? And to edit?
thanks so much! and I write my notes just with pen on paper, then use Photoshop and Premiere Pro to turn them black & white & time it up with the audio. :)
@@timdemoss 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
I’m so glad to hear it :) thank you for sharing!
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! :)
Godspeed mate
amazing and enriching content bro...
thank you! :)
Simple, I love it.
thank you! :)
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 :)
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!
Great video. This was inspiring.
thanks so much! :)
"Just be kind" Kurt Vonnegut.
simple and to the point. Love it
I related so much to everything you said! Subscribing immediately
so glad to hear it & welcome to the channel! :)
great vid!!!
hey thanks! :)
I always wonder what that line in kendricks song means. Thank you for clearing this up lol, Kendrick rlly is amazing. I also love just reading through lyrics and starting to dig deep what they even mean. Good video thank you :)
thanks for watching! :)
What an amazing phrase! You can only cook with whats in the fridge 🩷
thanks! :)
You're great bro
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 :)
Great stuff man👍
thank you! :)
Are there any happy books available certainly not the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy.
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!
Give us some book recommendations.
might make a video on this soon! thanks for requesting!
just dropped a video this morning that includes some. :) thanks for watching!
Lovely video
Thank you! :) (And isn't it nice to be able to say "lovely" instead of just "good"?)
Beautiful video
thank you!
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Last night is were some youtuber convinced me that its about quality of learning (anything) not about the quantity
Love it!