I finally found friends like that but it's so late in life n it's 2020(quarantine year) n we were all lonely with unappreciative friends for so many years. Missed out on so many years of each other's awesomeness. Still. It's pretty great. Thank humanity for the internet.
@@dysfunktional6537 You are not mistaken. It's weird how some people want to correct others when the communication was perfect. It's like telling someone they pronounce their own name wrong.
"When you look at beautiful autumn colors, you are looking at stress. But the bigger the fight the trees put up, the more energy they put into their defenses at the very end, the more brilliant their colors will be. Winter will eventually come, but scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors... come from not giving up, too easily or quickly." One of the best and most motivational quotes I've heard in my life
I think Vsauce is becoming now more than just science, it's also philosophy. And it's cheering to the heart, it's appeasing and give this feeling that life is such a great thing you shouldn't waste any of it. I love this channel, and I really want to thank you Micheal for all this amazing work you've done over the years !
It started out with just cool facts and funny pictures and meme's, now it's this sprawling compilation of philosophy, science and literature. It's good to see that TH-cam can be something more than a breeding ground for make-up tutorials and endless Annoying Orange spin-off's.
ElectronikHeart That’s what I like about Vsauce. It presents physics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, chemistry, and more in an unorthodox yet entertaining fashion; in which the video doesn’t typically stick to a certain subject all the way through.
@@umanglunia2194 so religions just go and kill people? Didn’t know ideas had that power and here i am thinking humans did it this whole time guess guns just go and shoot themselves at people to
@@TaigiTWeseDiplomat--Formosan calculus at a low level might not seem that important, but it's the foundation for many complex subjects, including space travel! If that text had survived, it's possible we'd have a 2,000 year headstart on that stuff
idk why but when i was 15 or something and i watched the ending of this video when michael talked about the brightest colours for leaves in autumn come from stress and not giving up- it hit so hard i cried. I downloaded this whole video onto a USB afterwards and put that song on my playlist too. back here as a 22 year old now and I won't lie, it didn't hit as hard as I hoped it would considering I haven't seen this in like 8 years- but it still warmed my heart and means all the same to me. what a video. never give up.
Don't worry, that's just your early 20s diminishing things. Happens to us all. Go another 8 years and come back again. It will hit hard at 30 again, I promise.
You prove how true the video is. It left a scar, even if it's a good scar. And 8 years later, you've changed and this video is now a smaller part of everything that makes you who you are.
Already was surreal watching this as an adult when I originally watched this when it first came out when I was in highschool. But hearing you mention ze frank 8 years before I even heard of the guy is even more surreal.
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. The title of this video is misspelled in honor of mistakes. Mistakes are everywhere, they surround us like air. To err is human. Faults, flaws, faux pas, fumbles and fallacies are as much a part of who we are today as the stuff we've gotten right. For instance, if a knight knocked your knuckle or knifed your knee, why would there be so many "k"s? Well, the "k"s are silent by mistake. The original old English forms of these words were pronounced with "k" sounds. K-nife, k-night, k-nee. But that's a bit of a mouthful to say and because reading and writing weren't as common hundreds of years ago, people just pronounced words the way they want to do, regardless of spelling. Spelling is fun. Warren G knows what I'm talking about. In the fourth verse of his "What's Next", he asks what's next. What's next, what's N-X-E-T. Spelling isn't the only thing we get wrong. The history of science is a graveyard of dead an abandoned ideas. Fritz Machlup coined the phrase "Half-life of knowledge". The amount of time it takes for half of the knowledge within a field to be superseded by new, better ideas or to simply be shown untrue. Donald Hebb famously estimated that the half-life of knowledge in psychology is just five years. Humans are awesome, don't get me wrong, but we tend to believe that what we currently think we know about the universe is reasonably correct, even though statistics aren't on our side. Previous generations incorrectly thought the exact same thing about what they used to think was true. My favorite examples of the ubiquity of mistakes are production errors in popular songs. They're like humbling Easter eggs, just waiting to be found. For instance, Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth". 26 seconds in the "be" in the lyric "beware" is clipped, as is the "p" in "people" at 1:24 minute. Once you hear the mistake, it's tough to unhear it. In "Hey Jude" Paul McCartney misses a chord. And if you listen closely you can clearly hear him say "F**ing hll". Seriously, it's in the actual song. Go listen to it. In fact, there's an entire website that chronicles mistakes in Beatles' songs. Take a look at this 700-year-old prayer book. A monk wrote it on fresh, clean paper. I'm kidding, of course. He scraped the ink off an older manuscript, cut the pages and rotated them before writing all over them. A mistake? Well, kind of. Recent multispectral images of the prayer book have revealed that the old manuscript he erased was a previously unknown copy of a work by Archimedes. It was called "The Method" and laid out the heart of calculus thousands of years before Newton and Leibniz. If that one monk hadn't erased that one book, would we be hundreds, thousands of years mathematically and technologically more advanced today than we currently are? It's hard to say. All that is certain is that we would continue to make ridiculous mistakes, like the Mars Climate Orbiter. This 327.6 million dollar expedition burned up in the red planet's atmosphere because when calculating flight maneuvers NASA used the agreed-upon metric units while Lockheed Martin used the imperial system. This is Neil Armstrong taking humankind's first steps on the Moon. It's about the best footage we have. The original tapes containing the highest quality recording of that moment have been lost. They were probably recorded over by later test missions. Ten years ago Sergio Martinez became lost in the woods while hunting outside of San Diego. Hoping to attract the attention of rescuers, he lit a small fire. But that fire quickly got out of control and became a giant Cedar Fire. It destroyed 300,000 acres of land, 2,322 homes and killed 15 people. The man carrying a wounded soldier in this painting, based on a photograph taken during World War I, is Henry Tandey, an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. Four years after the event in this image Tandey caught a wounded German soldier in his gun sights. But rather than kill the man, Tandey took pity on his wounded state and spared his life. The German he allowed to live was this man. Later the man whose life he spared wore his mustache shorter but still had the same name, Adolf Hitler. In 1918 did Henry Tandey miss a chance to kill Hitler? Detailed researchers found that the exact days their units were in the same location don't quite match up. The story is apocryphal but what is known is that Hitler owned a copy of the painting of Tandey, and in 1938, when meeting with Neville Chamberlain, Hitler pointed to Tandey and told Chamberlain: "That man came so close to killing me in 1918 that I thought I should never see Germany again." So, who's wrong? Maybe Hitler confirmed the story merely because he hoped to make up extra evidence that providence had kept him alive to pursue his goals. Either way, someone is mistaken. Missed opportunities are a bummer. Obsessing over them is not healthy but regret is a powerful emotion. How do you deal with regret, with guilt? Can you? In the early morning hours on a bench outside a hotel in Anaheim this summer Ze Frank told me something I am going to paraphrase. I love this metaphor. Stuff in your past is like a carving on the bark of sapling. Over time, the scar, the carving won't go away. Because of the way trees grow it won't go up or down much either, it'll just stay right where it began. It might even get darker. But it won't get bigger. You, however, can. You can keep growing, doing more things, more branches, being more things. The wound won't get smaller but you can make it a smaller part of who you are. Maybe regrets are like that. They stick around forever like arborglyphs. Or maybe they make like a tree and leaf. A red or purple leaf in the autumn. As days get shorter and chlorophyll production decreases, the yellow and orange carotenoids, which are always in leaves, appear as the green fades. But red and purple leaves are the interesting ones. As winter approaches it would seem to be a good time for trees to conserve energy but some trees do the opposite. Instead of giving up, they spend extra energy producing anthocyanins to turn their leaves red and purple hues. These colors protect their leaves from sun damage before their nutrients can all be used and may also be a defense against insects looking for a parasitic home. A way for the tree to tell the insects: "Yes, I am in part dying but not without a fight. I am still very much vital." Drought and even tourniquets applied by man can bring about these colors prematurely. When you look at beautiful autumn colors, you are looking at stress. But the bigger the fight the trees put up, the more energy they put into their defenses at the very end, the more brilliant their colors will be. Winter will eventually come. But scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors come from not giving up too easily or quickly. And as always, thanks for watching.
It's been many years and I still find myself coming back to watch the ending of the video where Michael is playing in the snow. The combination of everything just gives me such a good feeling that I can't explain, it sums up how Michael and this entire channel has influenced me over time, and there won't ever be anything like this any where else on TH-cam. Thankyou for everything you've made for us over the years, I want you to know that you are one of a kind and appreciated by many.
Thank you for the sentiment. I say thank you because few people online want to talk about this stuff, but I understand the feeling of just loving something online. I personally have a fair bit of sentiment when it comes to this one channel that went to another at the end of 2020.
Yep. A combination of goofiness, fun and intellectual content of substance that makes for all-around/full-fledged feel-good intellectual videos, which I've loved since childhood (I'm in 11th grade now.... hehe)
Michael ran off, and was never seen again. But some say they see him, running around, playing in the snow, and spreading his knowledge to the trees. Might we see him again? Only time will tell. Edit: it's been two years and I can now tell that TH-cam has the worst algorithm for everything that may or may not need an algorithm. seriously, what to heck? I understand wanting to give newer comments recognition, but that's what sorting by new is for. you can find comments with over 1k likes below comments with 1 like and it doesn't make any sense.
+Vertti Seppälä Some of us see a man playing in the snow like a child, exemplifying the stated goal of achieving more, getting fun despite adversity, etc. as discussed in this video. . . Other see an asscrack. . I'm very glad to have not seen the asscrack.
“Winter will eventually come. But scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors come from not giving up too easily, or quickly.” Beautiful
I regret not seeing my great grandmother on the night of her passing, I had the opportunity to but chose not to, it has haunted me since, and that tree analogy helped me, thanks Michael's friend.
Trick question, the answer is obviously no-one. No-one really wins. From the beginning we are doomed with a limit and, when it arrives, you stop being you. However, the world, the planet, the *universe* still goes, until it won't. But you'll never know, you'll never see, you left far before that to never be conscious again, to cease existing. Not a single reminiscent of your identity will still be there, nothing will *be* at all. So stop focussing on winners, losers, success or failure, none of that matters. Or *maybe* it does. *Maybe* I am in the wrong here, and maybe I'll know that someday. But will you? Will anyone you ever meet know the answer? Will anyone really discover the *truth* we seek? Prbbly not tbh tho, have fun.
Michael's greatest trait is how both knowledgeable but empathetic and kind he is. He's not cold, clinical or egotistical like most people who are very knowledgeable. He manages to take mundane or strange topics and re-contextualize them in such a way to give the viewer a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Facts may not care about your feelings, but Michael always does.
I've been struggling for months now. Today I seriously considered giving up. I don't know why I stumbled on this video, but the message at the end had me raising my chin. Thank you Michael.
@@damianolandi5003 Great! That's improvement, cause life is full of ups and downs, like a rollercoaster, but you can just leave the roller coaster while it's still going, it has to finish
This is easily my favorite video ever by Vsauce, 7 years later and it still hits home. That ending is awesome and lets all go together by Zach Mccoy is an amazing song.
Dude, I remember watching this when I was 13, or 14. I'm 21 now. With everything that happened between now and then, the ending genuinely made me tear up. I know I'm still young and have many mistakes yet to make, but this video felt like Michael patting me on the shoulder and comforting me, that everything will be okay just so long as I keep moving forward. Sounds cheezy, I know, but it's the truth and you know it! :DDD
My first love broke my heart in 2008. I’m single, never felt anything near what I felt with her. Her nickname for me was Tree. So I have been returning to this video for years now.
I don't know your situation and I kind of hate to say this, but perhaps it might be time to try to move on? 16 years makes a real difference in who you are and what's out there for you. You probably will never feel anything like what you felt with her, but that's because you were two unique people way back then and it would be impossible to replicate. But that doesn't necessarily mean there's nothing out there worth feeling anyway
You know what, I was in the same spot, around the same time, it took me years to find myself, and fall in love with myself. Then one day I rescued myself and saw everything clear as day, and just like that the switch flipped. I cried, not because I was sad, but because I was finally happy, and now wherever I go people around me are happy and everything is much easier. Hold onto yourself, learn to love yourself, respect yourself, and if that day hasn't come for you, just hang on because one day it will :)
6:30 started getting too real for me. And all that stuff about trees fighting hard and producing wonderful colours right before the cold of winter... hit me right in the feels. I got rejected from 4 jobs this week lol
@Neil Warren see ma'am, colour is subjective. blind people cant see colours. even humans cant see certain colours. this isnt a white van ma'am. this is a transparent object which you cant see in order to see it, let's measure the distance from the sun to the earth!
Micheal is a liberated man. He is not limited in ways many of us are...i am happy that i have a mobile with a wifi connection to watch this amazing person saying amazing things from some other corner of this blue planet
This tree carving metaphor is literally one of the wisest things I have ever heard. It's been almost ten years since I first heard it in this video and since then this thought has been supporting me in the darkest moments of my life. I wish more people heard it, maybe it would've helped them too. Such a simple thought, but so precisely put, it's just wonderful.
Dude Michael Vsause has some of the best video essays ever - I hesitate to call them video essays, they're more like speeches. Edutational speeches. I'm so glad I liked these videos as a kid. They enlightened me, filled me with random facts that I could annoy people with spontaneously, and most importantly birthed in me an insatiable curiosity. These videos need to be put in a vault somewhere for safekeeping.
Stuff in your past is like a carving, on the bark of a sapling. Over time the scar, the carving, won't go away. Because of the way trees grow it won't go up or down much either, it'll just stay right where it began. it might even get darker, but it won't get bigger. You however, can. You can keep growing, doing more things, more branches, be more things. The wound, wont get smaller but you can make it a smaller part, of who you are.
Vsauce is the best "normal conversation" destroyer
but a welcomed one
but hey at least i get to use that "its misspelled in honor of mistakes" excuse when i fail spelling bee
it's like the opposite of an icebreaker lmao
*Vsauce theme plays*
I think you mean “Enhancer”
Whenever I watch a Vsauce video, I kinda sorta forget where we actually started.
I sometimes have to look at the title to remember what I'm watching.
Right?
facts
Kind of like a dream
Same.
imagine having a friend like michael to just tell you cool facts all day..
I'm like that and nobody appreciates it. Michael probably had the same thing, thus created VSauce to talk to a larger audience
@@schopenhauer5427 wish your friends would appreciate it
Then I can be a perfect friend for you, but none of my colleagues like to hear those things for instance it's not that great.
I finally found friends like that but it's so late in life n it's 2020(quarantine year) n we were all lonely with unappreciative friends for so many years. Missed out on so many years of each other's awesomeness. Still. It's pretty great. Thank humanity for the internet.
Imagine having a friend :(
Scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colours come from not giving up to easily or quickly.
- That line is purely beautiful!
Exactly..
Color*
@@CrippledAutist both spellings are correct. Colour is just European if im not mistaken
@@CrippledAutist COLOUR
@@dysfunktional6537 You are not mistaken. It's weird how some people want to correct others when the communication was perfect. It's like telling someone they pronounce their own name wrong.
seeing him rolling in the snow made me really happy
Yea :)
Your profile pic doesn’t, i know what that is.
oyasumi punpun was a mistake
I feel nostalgic seeing that. *NOW* *I* *MUST* *REWATCH* *HIS* *VIDEO* *ON* *NOSTALGIA*
Good old time when we didn't have global warming
he finally snapped at the end... happens to the best of em
There's a reason why he's in that FilthyFrank video.
DevaKitty lmaooooooo
TPD 100th like
TPD 😂😂
He rolled on dogpoop.
9:14
you may not like it, but this is the male human body at peak performance.
I like it
??
i love it.
catterdays bruh
Lol...
"When you look at beautiful autumn colors, you are looking at stress. But the bigger the fight the trees put up, the more energy they put into their defenses at the very end, the more brilliant their colors will be. Winter will eventually come, but scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors... come from not giving up, too easily or quickly."
One of the best and most motivational quotes I've heard in my life
e
Stay colorful my friend
Raw beauty. Never give up and keep going.
I want 30 minutes of Michael playing in the snow with that song in the background
That would a mistake mate 😂
Same the background song is really smoothning
DoomsDave Gaming cool
10 hours*
the waffle house has spoken, phase 2 initiated
I think Vsauce is becoming now more than just science, it's also philosophy.
And it's cheering to the heart, it's appeasing and give this feeling that life is such a great thing you shouldn't waste any of it.
I love this channel, and I really want to thank you Micheal for all this amazing work you've done over the years !
It started out with just cool facts and funny pictures and meme's, now it's this sprawling compilation of philosophy, science and literature. It's good to see that TH-cam can be something more than a breeding ground for make-up tutorials and endless Annoying Orange spin-off's.
I never even considered him a "science" channel in particular.. more like a thought-provoking channel. And a really really good one...
ElectronikHeart That’s what I like about Vsauce. It presents physics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, chemistry, and more in an unorthodox yet entertaining fashion; in which the video doesn’t typically stick to a certain subject all the way through.
It's a cult
Philosophy is also a science you punk!
Archimedes: writes some complex & useful calculus stuff
a random monk: This is worthless!
Many scientists: trying to get facts right and explaining science
Religious orthodox: im gonna end this man whole career...
Ah yes some religious bullshit slowing down humanity's progress... Never heard that before -_-
@@umanglunia2194 so religions just go and kill people? Didn’t know ideas had that power and here i am thinking humans did it this whole time guess guns just go and shoot themselves at people to
I know calculus but I'm not sure why it's that important and search for it...
@@TaigiTWeseDiplomat--Formosan calculus at a low level might not seem that important, but it's the foundation for many complex subjects, including space travel! If that text had survived, it's possible we'd have a 2,000 year headstart on that stuff
idk why but when i was 15 or something and i watched the ending of this video when michael talked about the brightest colours for leaves in autumn come from stress and not giving up- it hit so hard i cried. I downloaded this whole video onto a USB afterwards and put that song on my playlist too.
back here as a 22 year old now and I won't lie, it didn't hit as hard as I hoped it would considering I haven't seen this in like 8 years- but it still warmed my heart and means all the same to me. what a video. never give up.
Here to say I'm 22 as well, lol!
Don't worry, that's just your early 20s diminishing things. Happens to us all. Go another 8 years and come back again. It will hit hard at 30 again, I promise.
You prove how true the video is. It left a scar, even if it's a good scar. And 8 years later, you've changed and this video is now a smaller part of everything that makes you who you are.
@@darkphoenix2damn 🥲 it was my birthday on january 11th and i’m 23 now. this comment is great :) thank you
22 check 😭
9:10 I love this man
Currently rewatching all his old videos as I don't have premium 😥
Get premium bro, mind field alone is worth it, honestly the only reason I have premium
Me too man
Look up “DONG” on youtube and you will find a ton of videos by him just talking about random things! It is amazing!
Same!
not availlable yet in my country
Imagine erasing the concept of math.
Lmao
Hecc. Now everything is messed up
*to write down prayer 😂😂😂😂
youd basically erase reality and all we know
@@DynamixTV what does that even mean?
There’s something innocently beautiful about the ending of this video. My favourite ending to any of these videos.
its cuz playing in snow is a mistake due to your chances of becoming sick...
for real. i may be looking into it too deep but it kinda sounds like a metaphor of mental illness.
In tears, what a ending
miskate lol. intentional? maybe
9:12 Only the most logical course of action after giving everyone an existential crisis.
Or when you tried coffee for the first time
Haha yeah
Godzilla 123 Actually be inspired us
Godzilla. I think he was doing a little sneaky reference to Zefranks video "if you live in a shell" where the sapling quote came from.
Beep
We don't make mistakes just happy little accidents.
-Bob Ross
Filip Van Wonterghem
Your a happy accident
You're
Thats what your mum said to you lolololol
no u
not when the condom breaks
Not gonna lie, those ending metaphors with the trees keep me coming back to this one, even if only for motivation.
the waffle house has spoken, phase 2 initiated
Same
Me toooo
same i also keep coming back, it's a masterpiece
Amen
Already was surreal watching this as an adult when I originally watched this when it first came out when I was in highschool. But hearing you mention ze frank 8 years before I even heard of the guy is even more surreal.
What
@@maccaswam i want to fight
Micheal playing in the snow is honestly the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen this year.
More like ever
Period
Not even his newborn baby?
"Mistakes are everywhere, they surround us like air"
*looks at the class while presenting this video*
Took me a second to get it
@@AJ5 oh just that? it took me 694201337 years
It’s could be mispronounced by err.
Err is the first 3 letters of error.
Error means mistake.
Coincidence?
That's kinda mean since recent studies are showing 110% of children are mistakes
shkotzim bacon
Technically as a child, I can say this is 100% true and that mostly every child is EDGY including me. I am shaped like a knife.
Michael: After I tell these people that some soldier saved hitler and that leaves are pretty because of stress I shall go flop around in the snow
You just made me choke on my cereal
Alina S. That was a mistake.
TH-cam was a mistkae
Peter *Or was It?*
TheMineEmerald what the hell
Actually such a powerful video with a powerful message about how mistakes happen to everyone and how you can overcome them. Love it!!
Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. The title of this video is misspelled in honor of mistakes. Mistakes are everywhere, they surround us like air. To err is human. Faults, flaws, faux pas, fumbles and fallacies are as much a part of who we are today as the stuff we've gotten right. For instance, if a knight knocked your knuckle or knifed your knee, why would there be so many "k"s? Well, the "k"s are silent by mistake. The original old English forms of these words were pronounced with "k" sounds. K-nife, k-night, k-nee. But that's a bit of a mouthful to say and because reading and writing weren't as common hundreds of years ago, people just pronounced words the way they want to do, regardless of spelling. Spelling is fun. Warren G knows what I'm talking about. In the fourth verse of his "What's Next", he asks what's next. What's next, what's N-X-E-T. Spelling isn't the only thing we get wrong. The history of science is a graveyard of dead an abandoned ideas. Fritz Machlup coined the phrase "Half-life of knowledge". The amount of time it takes for half of the knowledge within a field to be superseded by new, better ideas or to simply be shown untrue. Donald Hebb famously estimated that the half-life of knowledge in psychology is just five years. Humans are awesome, don't get me wrong, but we tend to believe that what we currently think we know about the universe is reasonably correct, even though statistics aren't on our side. Previous generations incorrectly thought the exact same thing about what they used to think was true. My favorite examples of the ubiquity of mistakes are production errors in popular songs. They're like humbling Easter eggs, just waiting to be found. For instance, Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth". 26 seconds in the "be" in the lyric "beware" is clipped, as is the "p" in "people" at 1:24 minute. Once you hear the mistake, it's tough to unhear it. In "Hey Jude" Paul McCartney misses a chord. And if you listen closely you can clearly hear him say "F**ing hll". Seriously, it's in the actual song. Go listen to it. In fact, there's an entire website that chronicles mistakes in Beatles' songs. Take a look at this 700-year-old prayer book. A monk wrote it on fresh, clean paper. I'm kidding, of course. He scraped the ink off an older manuscript, cut the pages and rotated them before writing all over them. A mistake? Well, kind of. Recent multispectral images of the prayer book have revealed that the old manuscript he erased was a previously unknown copy of a work by Archimedes. It was called "The Method" and laid out the heart of calculus thousands of years before Newton and Leibniz. If that one monk hadn't erased that one book, would we be hundreds, thousands of years mathematically and technologically more advanced today than we currently are? It's hard to say. All that is certain is that we would continue to make ridiculous mistakes, like the Mars Climate Orbiter. This 327.6 million dollar expedition burned up in the red planet's atmosphere because when calculating flight maneuvers NASA used the agreed-upon metric units while Lockheed Martin used the imperial system. This is Neil Armstrong taking humankind's first steps on the Moon. It's about the best footage we have. The original tapes containing the highest quality recording of that moment have been lost. They were probably recorded over by later test missions. Ten years ago Sergio Martinez became lost in the woods while hunting outside of San Diego. Hoping to attract the attention of rescuers, he lit a small fire. But that fire quickly got out of control and became a giant Cedar Fire. It destroyed 300,000 acres of land, 2,322 homes and killed 15 people. The man carrying a wounded soldier in this painting, based on a photograph taken during World War I, is Henry Tandey, an English recipient of the Victoria Cross. Four years after the event in this image Tandey caught a wounded German soldier in his gun sights. But rather than kill the man, Tandey took pity on his wounded state and spared his life. The German he allowed to live was this man. Later the man whose life he spared wore his mustache shorter but still had the same name, Adolf Hitler. In 1918 did Henry Tandey miss a chance to kill Hitler? Detailed researchers found that the exact days their units were in the same location don't quite match up. The story is apocryphal but what is known is that Hitler owned a copy of the painting of Tandey, and in 1938, when meeting with Neville Chamberlain, Hitler pointed to Tandey and told Chamberlain: "That man came so close to killing me in 1918 that I thought I should never see Germany again." So, who's wrong? Maybe Hitler confirmed the story merely because he hoped to make up extra evidence that providence had kept him alive to pursue his goals. Either way, someone is mistaken. Missed opportunities are a bummer. Obsessing over them is not healthy but regret is a powerful emotion. How do you deal with regret, with guilt? Can you? In the early morning hours on a bench outside a hotel in Anaheim this summer Ze Frank told me something I am going to paraphrase. I love this metaphor. Stuff in your past is like a carving on the bark of sapling. Over time, the scar, the carving won't go away. Because of the way trees grow it won't go up or down much either, it'll just stay right where it began. It might even get darker. But it won't get bigger. You, however, can. You can keep growing, doing more things, more branches, being more things. The wound won't get smaller but you can make it a smaller part of who you are. Maybe regrets are like that. They stick around forever like arborglyphs. Or maybe they make like a tree and leaf. A red or purple leaf in the autumn. As days get shorter and chlorophyll production decreases, the yellow and orange carotenoids, which are always in leaves, appear as the green fades. But red and purple leaves are the interesting ones. As winter approaches it would seem to be a good time for trees to conserve energy but some trees do the opposite. Instead of giving up, they spend extra energy producing anthocyanins to turn their leaves red and purple hues. These colors protect their leaves from sun damage before their nutrients can all be used and may also be a defense against insects looking for a parasitic home. A way for the tree to tell the insects: "Yes, I am in part dying but not without a fight. I am still very much vital." Drought and even tourniquets applied by man can bring about these colors prematurely. When you look at beautiful autumn colors, you are looking at stress. But the bigger the fight the trees put up, the more energy they put into their defenses at the very end, the more brilliant their colors will be. Winter will eventually come. But scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors come from not giving up too easily or quickly. And as always, thanks for watching.
Dude....how
Y da flip
R.B.G. I think the better question is why.
thanks for the subtitles
deaf people be like 🤔🥺😍
It's been many years and I still find myself coming back to watch the ending of the video where Michael is playing in the snow. The combination of everything just gives me such a good feeling that I can't explain, it sums up how Michael and this entire channel has influenced me over time, and there won't ever be anything like this any where else on TH-cam. Thankyou for everything you've made for us over the years, I want you to know that you are one of a kind and appreciated by many.
Damn
Thank you for the sentiment. I say thank you because few people online want to talk about this stuff, but I understand the feeling of just loving something online. I personally have a fair bit of sentiment when it comes to this one channel that went to another at the end of 2020.
it makes me tear up..
Thank you michael
Yep. A combination of goofiness, fun and intellectual content of substance that makes for all-around/full-fledged feel-good intellectual videos, which I've loved since childhood (I'm in 11th grade now.... hehe)
And as always, thanks for watching
**has a seizure**
Oh god i laughed so hard at this comment
REEEEE
i don't even know what this means but i'm laughing so fuckinf hard
Hahahahha this made me laugh very hard!
Beans182 nice
Cant believe this video is 10 years old. I didn’t want it to end. We need more content like this today. Miss you Michael. Vsauce forever!
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude
- Anne Frank
404 likes no replies ????
@@Justin60693 404 replies not found
isn't she the delusional girl that had imaginary friends during the war
@@armalite6837 Pls stop if u haven't read her journal
@@AbhishekSingh-jx2zn you mean the one her father published without her permission? yes i did read it
Michael: *flops and spins in snow*
His neighbors: dafuq he doing over there
@DoomsDave Gaming h
@Kire *_Yeet_*
@DoomsDave Gaming h
Being
@DoomsDave Gaming h
Michael ran off, and was never seen again. But some say they see him, running around, playing in the snow, and spreading his knowledge to the trees. Might we see him again? Only time will tell.
Edit: it's been two years and I can now tell that TH-cam has the worst algorithm for everything that may or may not need an algorithm. seriously, what to heck? I understand wanting to give newer comments recognition, but that's what sorting by new is for. you can find comments with over 1k likes below comments with 1 like and it doesn't make any sense.
... J-L
+Dildo Swaggins *"Might we see him again"* xD
+Dildo Swaggins Isn't it "Dildo Saggins" instead?
Samuel H. Kim It's what ever you want it to be.
Dildo Swaggins Fair enough. I'm used to hearing...err, rather, saw it as Dildo Saggins.
9:25 love how serious he looks after that
He saw the kids in his basement escaping through the cellar door he forgot to lock before filming
So nice to see you being all goofy in the snow at the end. Constant seriousness is a mistake.
But seing how some snow made its way into his asscrack makes me feel...uncomfortable
+CorSec Shazam identifies it as "Let's All Go Together" by Zach McCoy
+Vertti Seppälä Some of us see a man playing in the snow like a child, exemplifying the stated goal of achieving more, getting fun despite adversity, etc. as discussed in this video.
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Other see an asscrack.
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I'm very glad to have not seen the asscrack.
+Marvin Kitfox what have been seen cannpt be unseen
Being goofy is good
“Winter will eventually come. But scientifically, the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors come from not giving up too easily, or quickly.”
Beautiful
Winter is coming
You know nothing Funny Fox.
And you have much to learn, Milton Marques.
*from
i think you're talking about afterwards
This has always been my favourite Vsauce video, Michael Rolling in the snow to that song in the end is beautiful really
Duude same
jajlertil it is enough to make a grown man cry
@@James-zp4ce and thats ok...
He looks like a little kid again
My favorite video from him was "How to count past infinity".
I've listened to his last statement (8:39) about five times now and it honestly hasn't failed to send me into tears
I regret not seeing my great grandmother on the night of her passing, I had the opportunity to but chose not to, it has haunted me since, and that tree analogy helped me, thanks Michael's friend.
*Hugs*
Get over it lol
@@nicolasmedina8207 What an asshole.
@@fetyrol7108 nice
Shut yo bitch ass up
Who would win?
A genius mathematician philosopher.
One moncc boi
Trick question, the answer is obviously no-one. No-one really wins. From the beginning we are doomed with a limit and, when it arrives, you stop being you. However, the world, the planet, the *universe* still goes, until it won't. But you'll never know, you'll never see, you left far before that to never be conscious again, to cease existing. Not a single reminiscent of your identity will still be there, nothing will *be* at all. So stop focussing on winners, losers, success or failure, none of that matters. Or *maybe* it does. *Maybe* I am in the wrong here, and maybe I'll know that someday. But will you? Will anyone you ever meet know the answer? Will anyone really discover the *truth* we seek? Prbbly not tbh tho, have fun.
Manu ARC ho.. wa.. bruh
Manu ARC
Thinking you’re cool because of nihilism. Lmao.
@@Bebolife12345 glad it made you laugh
@gapple * thank you.
Vsauce, homeless here. Holy shit 3yeRs later and 11k likes? Never saw this coming lol
Vsauce, Robbery here.
Vsauce, Scrub here.
Pvt.Smart Alec Vsauce, Courtroom here
Vsauce, White House here
You made a m͏̺͓̲̥̪í͇͔̠ś̷͎̹̲̻̻̘̝t̞̖͍͚̤k̥̞à̸͕̮͍͉̹̰͚̰ẹ̶̢̪s͏̨͈̙̹̜͚̲ ̛̬͓͟
Michael's greatest trait is how both knowledgeable but empathetic and kind he is. He's not cold, clinical or egotistical like most people who are very knowledgeable. He manages to take mundane or strange topics and re-contextualize them in such a way to give the viewer a warm, fuzzy feeling inside. Facts may not care about your feelings, but Michael always does.
FINALLY, an explanation of the Canadian flag's symbolic red leaf.
Wow
lol
Nepals flag
Dude shut up u r bias
@@rakhshandaqadeer8146 hehe
I can’t tell if this is a science channel or philosophy channel now
DarkChocoSpy Why not both? It's also a math channel and history channel.
Just think of it as the channel of "enlightment"
this is a channel where comment sections are toxic
@@flatmarssociety4614 Yes cause some people don't like idiots
Now? This video is years old.
0:21
THIS MAN JUST DROPPED THE SICKEST BARS OF THE 21st CENTURY
***SHEER HEART ATTACK HAS NO WEAKNESS***
This is suddenly jojo
@@spartacus778 hahahahaha you thought i was a random guy on youtube... BUT IT WAS ME, DIO, ZA WAAAARDOOO
Guido Mista I HATE ALL OF YOU EVERYTHING IS JOJO WITH YOU HAHA JOJO REFERENCE SHUT THE FUCK UP
@@jebby8090 haha it won't stop haha caps are so scary haha insulting people on the internet haha haha
I've been struggling for months now. Today I seriously considered giving up. I don't know why I stumbled on this video, but the message at the end had me raising my chin. Thank you Michael.
Are you Ok now?
@@northamericangoose7443I am less not ok
@@damianolandi5003 Great! That's improvement, cause life is full of ups and downs, like a rollercoaster, but you can just leave the roller coaster while it's still going, it has to finish
Crazy
This is easily my favorite video ever by Vsauce, 7 years later and it still hits home. That ending is awesome and lets all go together by Zach Mccoy is an amazing song.
same! it really resonates with me and i love Zach’s music along with it.
How people disappear is a strong contender for me
Same m8
When you commented it was way closer to 6 years ago.
Dude, I remember watching this when I was 13, or 14. I'm 21 now. With everything that happened between now and then, the ending genuinely made me tear up. I know I'm still young and have many mistakes yet to make, but this video felt like Michael patting me on the shoulder and comforting me, that everything will be okay just so long as I keep moving forward. Sounds cheezy, I know, but it's the truth and you know it! :DDD
I feel very much the same
I share that sentiment :) 21, turning 22 soon and I haven't figured out my life at all.
You're 23 or 24 now.
Same... I come back to this one when I need a good reminder to keep going.
I _agree_ except the sheesy part. It's actually a deep sentiment,.my friend. Thank You.
should have started with "hey michael, vsauce here"
lithium 1817 guess he made a ~M I S T A K E~
lithium 1817 if he started that way on purpose it wouldn't be a mistake then would it.
he made a mistake by not making a mistake. MIND BLOWN
lithium 1817 OR IS IT??? *music starts*
I thought he was gonna do that, lol.
My first love broke my heart in 2008. I’m single, never felt anything near what I felt with her. Her nickname for me was Tree. So I have been returning to this video for years now.
try again friend
I don't know your situation and I kind of hate to say this, but perhaps it might be time to try to move on? 16 years makes a real difference in who you are and what's out there for you. You probably will never feel anything like what you felt with her, but that's because you were two unique people way back then and it would be impossible to replicate. But that doesn't necessarily mean there's nothing out there worth feeling anyway
you can find another love
You know what, I was in the same spot, around the same time, it took me years to find myself, and fall in love with myself. Then one day I rescued myself and saw everything clear as day, and just like that the switch flipped. I cried, not because I was sad, but because I was finally happy, and now wherever I go people around me are happy and everything is much easier. Hold onto yourself, learn to love yourself, respect yourself, and if that day hasn't come for you, just hang on because one day it will :)
This man is a treasure of humanity we must protect him at all costs
We must protect his forehead from HowToBasic!
@@mennedeklir5926 XD I love this comment
yes
This man is a treasure of humanity we must bury him at all costs
If he disappeared, the world would continue with less more Michael in the world
Beginning of Video: Mistakes
End of Video: Tree Determination and going insane in the snow
Dragonfury 15
I thought the child like excitment of micheal running to the snow behind him was wonderful
"we don't make mistakes. Just happy little accidents"
~ Bob Ross
So that time I went hunting and accsidently shot someone instead of a dear was a happy little accsedent?
@@themightyeagle21 meat is meat
@@themightyeagle21 you get his possessions :)
andreas rasmussen babies are meat
That's what my parents said to me.
I come back every once in a while just to rewatch and remind myself that beautiful part about autumn leaves and to see Michael playing in the snow...
Same, this might be my favorite Vsauce video, the ending is so weirdly calming, the song choice was excellent
6:30 started getting too real for me. And all that stuff about trees fighting hard and producing wonderful colours right before the cold of winter... hit me right in the feels. I got rejected from 4 jobs this week lol
I feel you, man. Hit home for me too. I really needed to hear that, especially these days...
Winston Huang Don't give up, never!
that just means that eventually you will be shining brighter than ever my friend, never give up.
Become a tree, it'll help
Winston Huang good luck, you can do it!
I don't know what it was about you rolling in the snow but it made me smile ^_^ I love you dude
:') same! NO HOMO!
I think he's a Gillingham fan like me, judging by his hat
agreed
Will Carmack it made me realise he's not completely dead inside which is nice
Will Carmack
Simile*
Edit: AAAAAAAAAAAA
that munk just became hated by many
but praised by more...
Monk... you just watched an educational video. Try to educate yourself further,
Did you ever stop to think maybe he misspelled it on purpose like the title of the video?
xI2adiationx thank u
Sir Slapa Ho how so?
this single youtube video keeps me alive
That ending was the best ending that has ever happened in the history of mankind.
I thought you were talking about the leaf stuff, then I scrolled up...
"Mom, the weird neighbor is playing in the snow again."
“Hey vsauce, michael here. Does your child want candy?”
@@themushroom2130 This is a white van you're standing in... or is it? *cue music and eybrows*
@Neil Warren see ma'am, colour is subjective. blind people cant see colours. even humans cant see certain colours. this isnt a white van ma'am. this is a transparent object which you cant see
in order to see it, let's measure the distance from the sun to the earth!
@@themushroom2130 Not just any candy . . . *brain candy!*
😂😂😂 LOL
"The brightest colours come from not giving up"
What a great quote
,
Seeing Michael frolicking in the snow made me extremely happy
“Son, the condom broke. You’re a mistake”
VSauce:
But how do we define a mistake? Or better yet, an accident. Perhaps, we can start with your given name?
Or are you?
Plot twist: Your secret middle name is “Oopsies”
Micheal is a liberated man. He is not limited in ways many of us are...i am happy that i have a mobile with a wifi connection to watch this amazing person saying amazing things from some other corner of this blue planet
Well you could always get curios about things and look it up
Michael Stevens is among the most enlightened humans alive. Sincerely, he’s enlightened.
michael is a god for me...
haha meme
Toe Knee yes they do
i love that maxmoefoe's vlog brought me to an actual vsauce video.
Tino r same
Notice it's the one about mistakes
The DustWalker same
This tree carving metaphor is literally one of the wisest things I have ever heard. It's been almost ten years since I first heard it in this video and since then this thought has been supporting me in the darkest moments of my life. I wish more people heard it, maybe it would've helped them too. Such a simple thought, but so precisely put, it's just wonderful.
9:20 the man of science in his habitat.
Magnificent.
don't stop making videos Michael. it's always so amazing what you do!
God damit monk.
@@charliechips257 fuck off
Chucky 257 fuck off you’re too young to be on youtube
Chucky 257 fuck you
Jesus Christ you guys, calm down it’s just a kid. Imagine being so insecure you have to bring down a five year old.
I thought he was joking...
0:19 yes, so DON'T BE ONE, THIS WAS A MISTAKE, I'LL TAKE MY LEAVE
WEE WOO ‼️‼️‼️‼️
Michael: H E Y V S A U C E
Me:Tf Michael, scared the shit outta' me.
I fucking love your emblem
Oh shit waddup
here come dat boi
Watch him rolling watch him go
MooseTheSyrupMan he be rolling down the street
"We don't make accidents, only happy mistakes"
-Rob Boss
msitkaes
@@goutamboppana961 m͏̺͓̲̥̪í͇͔̠ś̷͎̹̲̻̻̘̝t̞̖͍͚̤k̥̞à̸͕̮͍͉̹̰͚̰ẹ̶̢̪s͏̨͈̙̹̜͚̲ ̛̬͓͟
I imagine Bob Ross looking all tough carrying a fricken huge paintbrush about to turn you into a happy little tree when you say Rob Boss.
i guess i'm a happy mistake-
It’s the other way around. “We don’t make _mistakes,_ just happy little _accidents_
"...the brightest, deepest, most remarkable colors come from not giving up too easily or quickly." 9:03
-Vsauce micheal 2013
Okay?
Winners never quit and quitters never win
@@alimohsin496 You didn't get that inspiration boner?
Hits ya in da feels when you’re talking about regret lol and he slides it in outta no where lol
Dude Michael Vsause has some of the best video essays ever - I hesitate to call them video essays, they're more like speeches. Edutational speeches. I'm so glad I liked these videos as a kid. They enlightened me, filled me with random facts that I could annoy people with spontaneously, and most importantly birthed in me an insatiable curiosity. These videos need to be put in a vault somewhere for safekeeping.
Who knows how many people Michael saved from "giving up too quickly" just by watching this video.
"Mistakes in popular songs" England is my city
Bartosz Chojnacki that wasn't a mistake
Bartosz Chojnacki "Mistakes in popular songs" "England is my city"*
The whole song is a mistake
Jake Paul was a mistake
Team 10 was a mistake
I swear he comes up with the weirdest forms of clickbait ever.
the greatest form
and yet they're tru to the video
The one and only clickbait where you get *more* than you expected.
but them clickbates do tell something about vid...
so its just a rly intrensting title
Worthy clickbaits.
I always find myself coming back just to watch the ending of this video. Thx Michael
Roses are red
Violets are blue
You can’t find this video
It can only find you
I got here by typing "F bomb in Hey Jude"
Not only roses are red, but leafz, as well.
Or can it
I searched it up
I'm like number 69
*nice*
Why is watching Michel play in the snow so wholesome?
People who disliked this video made a mistake.
Or did they think that because they liked the video they made a mistake by not disliking it.
Just Yaoi you mean a mistkae
No they were the mistake
Eromanga sensei was a mistake.
yes V̸̧̨̱̆̊s̸̩̒a̴̞̔̎͘ṵ̸͍̰̇s̶̠͐̍̕ë̶̫̳̽͂ would be mad
One of the few Vsauce videos ending with optimism instead of existential dread.
Me when michael goes from talking about adolf hitler to talking about trees: **visible confusion**
these vsauce endings always get me emotional ;-;
Me: Oh a new video!
*looks at publishing date*
Me: what
Me to
T H E A L G O R I T H M K N O W S
@watergod 83 so did ur account lol
Mandalorian Effect
@@maoma0o_o7 more like most
6:47 VSauce you were mistaken. This phrase is a simile.
0:08 Holy fuck I just flew out of my chair
VPanda lmao
🏃
same lmao
shat in*
**airhorns**
Stuff in your past is like a carving, on the bark of a sapling. Over time the scar, the carving, won't go away. Because of the way trees grow it won't go up or down much either, it'll just stay right where it began. it might even get darker, but it won't get bigger. You however, can. You can keep growing, doing more things, more branches, be more things. The wound, wont get smaller but you can make it a smaller part, of who you are.
Thanks dude, I was looking for this to share with my friends
In an alternative universe:
Human: *stress intensives*
Tree: that human looks so pretty!
Tf is intensive
@@retsreinyrelgeinthrelaveri1456 Those classes you take when you fail a grade
I would be very pretty in the alternate universe
When we get flustered or embarrassed we too turn red
If a tree saw me play any computer game, I would be beautiful indeed
This is my favorite video about mistakes. Feels like a therapy session. I watch it when I need to remind myself to not give up.
that ending was perfect
The metaphor about trees and regret was beautiful. Thank you for that.
I think that metaphor was used in an episode of Lost.
god that monk really fucked up
Freddy Thornton when i heard that, i was pretty upset.
But noone found the book until he overwrote it in ~1300. Calculus was invented by Newton in ~1500, so we wouldn't be much more advanced.
Tim Schläppi we would be 200 years more advanced...
Well 200 years more advanced in 1300 science rates. Not much when compared to how much now adays we can do with 200 years
it was written in 200 BC, the real mistake was archimedes not publishing it or else we would be over 1700 years more advanced
“ The Brightest, Deepest, most remarkable Colours Come from Not Giving Up too Easily Or Quickly. “
Think about it. It’s *not* only about leaves.
That is probably the greatest Vsauce video Michael has ever produced :)
Everybody says and thinks that, in every Vsauce video. xD
Krohsis Dovah
Haha, maybe. I especially love the silly bit at the end :P
If is the best
indeed
Greatest till the next upload :D
when he plays at the snow :D he looks so human,i love this guy!!!
I didn't know people could play *at* the snow, always thought it was playing *in* the snow instead.
Well yeah, he's a human lol
i bet you he did it for the miskaes
Maybe one day he will be a human...
I just simply love this man. Thank you, Michael.
It has now been a full life of the knowledge of psychology since this video has released.
Seeing run off into the snow just made me so happy Vsauce will always have a special place in my heart
0:08 dont jumpscare me
It was a mistake.
+maxxdblade u know what’s a mistake?
my spelling and me.
It was a misatke
@@maxxdblade its was actually a m͏̺͓̲̥̪í͇͔̠ś̷͎̹̲̻̻̘̝t̞̖͍͚̤k̥̞à̸͕̮͍͉̹̰͚̰ẹ̶̢̪s͏̨͈̙̹̜͚̲ ̛̬͓͟
Same
Vsauce is one of the best things to ever happen to me.
It's one of the most remarkable videos I ever saw.