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JV Harbin Enduring strife doesn’t just mean surviving. It means tackling your problems head on and going for the win instead of giving up and moping about in self pity. If you give up, you will die, maybe not physically but emotionally. If you fight onward you give yourself a chance of success, and even if you die, you will have gone down in pride not depression. That is true strength, not physical toughness but emotional toughness to keep on fighting against this cruel life. As for wishing to have an easy and happy life? You might as well try to win the lottery by buying only ever buying a single ticket. It will do absolutely nothing. Life is cruel and full of suffering. Not preparing for this means you will be hit by l waves of tragedy completely unprepared and will be demolished. It is better to create your own happiness instead of waiting for life to give it to you. Basing your happiness on chance means you will have a rare and inconsistent form of happiness, but if your happiness comes from within you will have a dependable and never ending form of happiness.
Nilson Rodriguez this guy is taking it too literal. He’s a lost cause, in my opinion. Also he can say Bruce Lee’s “philosophy” is incorrect, but people will always remember the legend Bruce Lee. Not someone hoping that no one does them any wrong. Sounds like a victim waiting to be had.
You ever have to rewind the video over and over because the last topic/quote had you go down a spiral of thoughts, and by the time you come to, you realize you haven’t paid attention to the next 30 seconds of the video?
“Hi creepy face”. But I prefer to say “hi, did the creepy face eat its feet and upper chest?” U cant rewind and remember all by your self. With all that you consumed your high. Meaning all the sensations confronted to u at every moment, it’s natural u can over look the depths of one sensation. I like to believe there is no perfect person, a genius or #1 top model. But working together we can only achieve the top character of a heart of gold or easier said god like,,, .... if I wasn’t here u would assume you lost your head. But I can tell you it’s nothing but a profile pic u set up. 2 party or 3party or every one as a party. Only then can we make god like history. I love my world. And every creepy head in it. .... wait !! Don’t forget. To love your world and every creepy head in it.
Most people ignore philosophy, It just is not of its importance, on the one hand I'm happy because that would bring a lot of toxicity and on the other it makes me sad because people don't care about this type of material that is worth consuming.
Thank you. Just recently got off pills and weed, and sobriety has been a daily struggle. Your videos always come at the perfect time in my life. Thank you again for all the work you guys put into this channel. It's really changed my life in ways you can't imagine.
The Ghost Of TH-cam That’s awesome! Your true identity is found in your weakness. How else will you find compassion and forgiveness for others? We are all driven by the same motivator....condemnation.
what are some of your challenges ? mine is simply reducing and battling my social anxiety. sitting on a packed bus or a train gives me hard anxiety but i keep fighting and pushing myself to keep going in these situations
@@Oakland510 - I know what are you talking about, i have been through that when i was in depression a long ago. Going to a place when there is many others peoples give me an anxiety. The way i beat it is by learning to be myself; learning to look peoples into their eyes.
@@Oakland510 right now, im dealing with it SA too. So far what ive learn is, i got anxiety when i think too much about myself and what i might do wrong (overthinking) even tho im doing fine or even quite good, so put more focus on your surrounding instead of yourself will help a lot. Also the more you do it the less anxiety you got, it basically exercising mental muscle. 'Fighting' yourself might be not the right word to use on yourself. Try 'encourage' yourself more, because courage only come when you realize you have fear and still do it willingly knowing the action has risk, but also the reward you seek (overcoming social anxiety).
The older I grow, the more I realize existing without a broken spirit is challenging. This philosophy of embracing challenge instead of being broken by it really does add some spice to life. You're always being stressed - life doesn't get boring! Stepping outside of your comfort zone often seems to make existence substantially more thrilling!
I feel what ur saying on that. And i've never been a fan of "art". I like to draw and i have an appreciation for the talent. But, as i've been listening, i've paid attention to the artwork that coincides. And, as weird as it is, i've been developing an appreciation for it. It forces me to analyse to picture and recognize the motivation for it. I can "almost" say that i get art, now. And it's far more beautiful that the picture itself...
“But time teaches only the willing” Since you’re generally so diligent about citing sources, I’m going to assume that’s not a quote or a paraphrasing of such; given that, I have to say that I absolutely love it and I think it’s a perfect, distilled example of the phenomenal writing that lies at the foundation of this channel - the original work that ties the disparate writings of these great thinkers into such cohesive exegetical narratives that genuinely blow me away every time with how seamlessly they’re woven together and how powerful they are in their effect. Thank you, Academy of Ideas, for all of the stellar work you’ve done; even if I do often feel like you’re watching me or something given the eerily serendipitous timing of my encounters with so many of your videos haha
I believe the updating of philosophy is better to understand now compared to 10 or 20 years ago now if we could just get people to grasp pieces of life by geometric formulas we'd have an abundant supply of robots that don't fail.Archipelago and Hume.
"The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue." -Walt Whitman
I am a critical point in my life where I am facing significant challenges but this video made me realize that avoiding obstacles isn’t the answer. I’ve considered suicide or more the idea of it but realized I was playing victim and didn’t want to take responsibility of my life.
dbsk06 ding ding. Was in the same position brother...or sister. Had to take a good look into the mirror and accept responsibility of my life. Things will get better. One step at a time.
Full into the wind for the exhilarating rush. YOU cannot change the wind - but you CAN adjust your sails. Taste the clean salt air as you begin again as have so many otherers! FREEDDOM!!!
My bestie took his life back in October I’m 28 he was 29 and we’ve been friends since I moved to Alaska from Oklahoma back when I was just 8 years old. We never lost touch, and we didn’t always talk everyday but when we’d go months without talking and we’d catch up it was like we’d never had a pause to begin with. He talked me out of suicide on more than one occasion, I will forever be thankful for that, but part of me can’t help feel angry for him doing what he prevented me doing and left me alone here in this world without him anywhere to be found, and now I don’t have anyone to turn to like I did have on him.... I wish he gave me a longer chance to shove self actualization information and knowledge down his throat so I could of watched him become his best self... Sorry kinda off topic or reasoning for my comment injustneasntedbrinrkek you thank you for choosing to live! You were not born by mistake everything is in perfect timing and even the worst of experiences lead to the brightest of futures and adventures. Never defined by the expedited themselves but exactly how we handle them regardless of the amount of pain we feel is inflicted onto us. We choose to suffer majorly of the time. Suicide isn’t getting rid of the pain, it’s just passing it along to someone else who may or may not be able to handle it like those who do take their own life or they might can turn it into the learning experience it’s existence is solely based upon.... sorry for the random jibber jabber I haven’t been myself.. these videos are helping me remove my Masks and uncover what relies within this meat sack vehicle. Stay beautiful! Stay inspired! Stay lifted! If you ever ever ever need someone to talk to I would be more than happy to be that fried for you! You got this!
It only made you stronger and appreciate pain , adversity and fear and every emotion we experience. It's let's you know you're alive . I used to get suicidal thoughts back then . Then I realized I'm going to take my valuable life away over temporal grieve or issues . Hell no. Rationalize your thoughts and emotions
Excellent video as always. To those practicing the Stoic premeditation of future evils, I say don't get overly caught up in preparing for only the worst and most unlikely of scenarios but practice the smaller and more frequent evils as well if not more. I equate it to training like a strong man and being able to lift a lot of weight but not being able to do very many calisthenic movements or cardio (both of which focus more on a longer endurance with smaller effort). Imagine that your milk will be spilt, that a driver will cut you off aggressively, that your colleagues at work will underperform, etc as much as you imagine the extremes like your family dying, the world at war, or humanity's extinction. Have a good one
Yes, I completely agree with that and the bonus of thinking and preparing for the smaller, day to day challenges of life is that you get the chance to deal with them more often.
Yea sometimes I do believe that my phone freezes but upon closer examination I find that something just turns my volume all the way down .being on a parallel network you get that.
I absolutely love the direction that you've found with your channel. Best of youtube man. The minute I can support you I will! Your videos are by far my favorite
Adopt competitive attitude towards our existence Approach all your domains w goal of excellence Meditate upon darkness and evil at times Cultivate resilience, strength, and wisdom
This was solid gold and coincidentally very relevant to some things I've been thinking about lately. The quality of videos this channel puts out is extreme. You should be very proud. Wow. Thank you.
One of my best pals just turned me on to this space, this place. Whewwwww brilliant. Much thanks! Subscribed and will support once again working. You are worth it!!!
Without a doubt, what your channel offers in these trying times is focus and effectiveness. Truly, changing ourselves and not other's makes the world one person at a time. Thank 👏
Everything in moderation. Too much stress is bad. Too little or no stress is also bad. A tree that experiences no wind will have zero root system & fall over from the rain. Conversely under a constant hurricane will never thrive
Of course, i suppose this lesson means to be strong to survive the adversities that inevitably just happen to you. Once these storms pass, you come out stronger and with more experience to endure. But that does not mean you have to go out and look for bad things to happen.
That's right! Trees lean away from the wind and towards the Sun. Pine cones only drop their seeds when heated by fire or Sun, Life seeks an environment to thrive not to look for difficult challenges but to move towards opportunity. I think this channel is unhelpful in it's guidance based on extremely selective quotes that seem to have been chosen to support an agenda to promote competition and place blame. It seems shadowy to me while pretending to be enlightened and it sure finds a home for the victims pretending not to be victims as they line up, Thank you sir, can I have another! I'm so inferior, thank you for telling me kind sir!!!
@Ligeia D.Aurevilly "... Life seeks an environment to thrive not to look for difficult challenges but to MOVE towards opportunity." Should the pine cone open in the dark? I think our interests are our path and on our path is found opportunities. If we should choose to walk the path shown to us by another then all we find our challenges. This is the meaning, imo, of the wages of sin are death. There are two paths one guided by Fear and the other Love. Those who invoke the emotions derived from Fear in order to achieve personal gain are not being helpful to others or themselves. Insidious pretense is the hallmark of Evil, it spreads like a cancer resonating and energizing the structure within the cell that is tuned to the sound that informs competition over cooperation. Competition is the mindset that earns the wages of Death. Cooperation is the mindset that we see in all that flourishes and competition in all Life that struggles. I believe all of these things to be literally true and not at all analogies.
Love the videos with amazing art works and they are so insightful in regards to philosophy, the content is amazing and truly soul-uplifting, there is a certain sense of clamness and a great therapy listening to these videos. Keep up the incredible work mate.
This video was fantastic and quite pertinent to our current state of affairs. Please keep up the tremendous work. The practical wisdom spoken in this piece, taken from thousands of years of knowledge, is of tremendous value at this time in our civilization!
Excellent. I appreciate the slower pace at to make it more digestible and discernible. Thank you. Your channel is definitely a classic and as such is not to be proven popular in spite of my wishes that it would. 🙏🏻
Being consciously aware that you have a genius inside of you that’s dying to express itself; dying to take on the pursuit of self-mastery in order to share a gift that is uniquely yours... handed down to you by the Gods just waiting for you to wake up and activate. And yet finding yourself not being able to. Being so scared of yourself that you constantly find ways to suppress it. Trying to make your inner critic a little less loud - knowing you’re living a life in which you are disgracing yourself. That my friends, is true hell. *a message to myself as someone who is struggling with a drug addiction, trying my best to break free from the hell I’ve created for myself...*
The best way to endure trials and tribulations is to have faith in the most Wise and most Merciful. He knows indeed which positive effect any difficulty has on our soul.
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The Google play link is not working
It's working for me. I think you have to be logged in.
@@academyofideas no, I think I know why, it's because I don't have a Google play subscription nevermind I followed you on Spotify.
Awesome.
Awesome video. Definitely made me think. Thank you.
"Don't pray for a easy life, pray for the strength to endure a harsh one." Bruce Lee
Its what i pray for the last2 years
@JV Harbin the point still stands. How do you define strength. If you can
JV Harbin Enduring strife doesn’t just mean surviving. It means tackling your problems head on and going for the win instead of giving up and moping about in self pity. If you give up, you will die, maybe not physically but emotionally. If you fight onward you give yourself a chance of success, and even if you die, you will have gone down in pride not depression. That is true strength, not physical toughness but emotional toughness to keep on fighting against this cruel life. As for wishing to have an easy and happy life? You might as well try to win the lottery by buying only ever buying a single ticket. It will do absolutely nothing. Life is cruel and full of suffering. Not preparing for this means you will be hit by l waves of tragedy completely unprepared and will be demolished. It is better to create your own happiness instead of waiting for life to give it to you. Basing your happiness on chance means you will have a rare and inconsistent form of happiness, but if your happiness comes from within you will have a dependable and never ending form of happiness.
Nilson Rodriguez this guy is taking it too literal. He’s a lost cause, in my opinion. Also he can say Bruce Lee’s “philosophy” is incorrect, but people will always remember the legend Bruce Lee. Not someone hoping that no one does them any wrong. Sounds like a victim waiting to be had.
@JV Harbin the point is that strife is inevitable living on this earth. would you rather be prepared for it or swept away in your idleness
“Things that were hard to beat are sweet to remember.”
~ Seneca ~
You ever have to rewind the video over and over because the last topic/quote had you go down a spiral of thoughts, and by the time you come to, you realize you haven’t paid attention to the next 30 seconds of the video?
Yep. That means it’s working
“Hi creepy face”. But I prefer to say “hi, did the creepy face eat its feet and upper chest?” U cant rewind and remember all by your self. With all that you consumed your high. Meaning all the sensations confronted to u at every moment, it’s natural u can over look the depths of one sensation. I like to believe there is no perfect person, a genius or #1 top model. But working together we can only achieve the top character of a heart of gold or easier said god like,,, .... if I wasn’t here u would assume you lost your head. But I can tell you it’s nothing but a profile pic u set up. 2 party or 3party or every one as a party. Only then can we make god like history. I love my world. And every creepy head in it. .... wait !! Don’t forget. To love your world and every creepy head in it.
Yep me that
Yes, quite often. Just the same when I read really good books on similar subjects.
IG: baltimark every time I hear a video of his
This is the most underrated TH-cam channel. I absolutely love the content.
Most people ignore philosophy, It just is not of its importance, on the one hand I'm happy because that would bring a lot of toxicity and on the other it makes me sad because people don't care about this type of material that is worth consuming.
Christian Doretti I couldn’t live without the works of Nietzsche, Camus, and Aristotle, to name a few.
Check out Caspian Report if you’re interested in geopolitics. Seriously underrated.
J D I will check it out. Thanks for the suggestion, J D.
I tell everyone about this channel,and I share it often on Facebook.
Thank you. Just recently got off pills and weed, and sobriety has been a daily struggle. Your videos always come at the perfect time in my life. Thank you again for all the work you guys put into this channel. It's really changed my life in ways you can't imagine.
The Ghost Of TH-cam
That’s awesome! Your true identity is found in your weakness. How else will you find compassion and forgiveness for others? We are all driven by the same motivator....condemnation.
The Ghost Of TH-cam I feel exactly the same.
Congrats! Keep on the right path, friend.
Keep strong! Im on some type of situation to!
Keep it up!
The greatest glory of life is not to never have fallen down, but to always get up every time I fall;
the greater the challenge= the greater glory!
The highest cliffs lead to the most beautiful views
what are some of your challenges ? mine is simply reducing and battling my social anxiety. sitting on a packed bus or a train gives me hard anxiety but i keep fighting and pushing myself to keep going in these situations
@@Oakland510 - I know what are you talking about, i have been through that when i was in depression a long ago.
Going to a place when there is many others peoples give me an anxiety. The way i beat it is by learning to be myself; learning to look peoples into their eyes.
StupidityKiller - even going out of your way to stare at random people ? Also how far would you say you have come in overcoming SA ?
@@Oakland510 right now, im dealing with it SA too. So far what ive learn is, i got anxiety when i think too much about myself and what i might do wrong (overthinking) even tho im doing fine or even quite good, so put more focus on your surrounding instead of yourself will help a lot.
Also the more you do it the less anxiety you got, it basically exercising mental muscle. 'Fighting' yourself might be not the right word to use on yourself. Try 'encourage' yourself more, because courage only come when you realize you have fear and still do it willingly knowing the action has risk, but also the reward you seek (overcoming social anxiety).
The older I grow, the more I realize existing without a broken spirit is challenging. This philosophy of embracing challenge instead of being broken by it really does add some spice to life. You're always being stressed - life doesn't get boring! Stepping outside of your comfort zone often seems to make existence substantially more thrilling!
Sometimes, but not always thrilling. Over time, excessive stress becomes exhausting.
@Ligeia D.Aurevilly Maybe.
I often listen to the audio only of your videos, and that is worthwhile, but when I do sit down and watch, I really love your art selection.
I agree
I feel what ur saying on that. And i've never been a fan of "art". I like to draw and i have an appreciation for the talent. But, as i've been listening, i've paid attention to the artwork that coincides. And, as weird as it is, i've been developing an appreciation for it. It forces me to analyse to picture and recognize the motivation for it. I can "almost" say that i get art, now. And it's far more beautiful that the picture itself...
Yeah its pretty cool
Yeah I make a point of watching them only, never just listening
“But time teaches only the willing”
Since you’re generally so diligent about citing sources, I’m going to assume that’s not a quote or a paraphrasing of such; given that, I have to say that I absolutely love it and I think it’s a perfect, distilled example of the phenomenal writing that lies at the foundation of this channel - the original work that ties the disparate writings of these great thinkers into such cohesive exegetical narratives that genuinely blow me away every time with how seamlessly they’re woven together and how powerful they are in their effect.
Thank you, Academy of Ideas, for all of the stellar work you’ve done; even if I do often feel like you’re watching me or something given the eerily serendipitous timing of my encounters with so many of your videos haha
TheAgentJesus space is also code
Billy I taut. I saw a putty.tat
This man knows many words.
I believe the updating of philosophy is better to understand now compared to 10 or 20 years ago now if we could just get people to grasp pieces of life by geometric formulas we'd have an abundant supply of robots that don't fail.Archipelago and Hume.
same.
"Ruin and salvation have their source within you." I'll remember this when I fail and succeed.
"The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue." -Walt Whitman
James Botwina You learn a lot more from failure than Winning interestingly enough.
I am a critical point in my life where I am facing significant challenges but this video made me realize that avoiding obstacles isn’t the answer. I’ve considered suicide or more the idea of it but realized I was playing victim and didn’t want to take responsibility of my life.
dbsk06 ding ding. Was in the same position brother...or sister. Had to take a good look into the mirror and accept responsibility of my life. Things will get better. One step at a time.
Full into the wind for the exhilarating rush. YOU cannot change the wind - but you CAN adjust your sails. Taste the clean salt air as you begin again as have so many otherers! FREEDDOM!!!
John Baker haha love this!
My bestie took his life back in October I’m 28 he was 29 and we’ve been friends since I moved to Alaska from Oklahoma back when I was just 8 years old. We never lost touch, and we didn’t always talk everyday but when we’d go months without talking and we’d catch up it was like we’d never had a pause to begin with. He talked me out of suicide on more than one occasion, I will forever be thankful for that, but part of me can’t help feel angry for him doing what he prevented me doing and left me alone here in this world without him anywhere to be found, and now I don’t have anyone to turn to like I did have on him.... I wish he gave me a longer chance to shove self actualization information and knowledge down his throat so I could of watched him become his best self...
Sorry kinda off topic or reasoning for my comment injustneasntedbrinrkek you thank you for choosing to live! You were not born by mistake everything is in perfect timing and even the worst of experiences lead to the brightest of futures and adventures. Never defined by the expedited themselves but exactly how we handle them regardless of the amount of pain we feel is inflicted onto us. We choose to suffer majorly of the time.
Suicide isn’t getting rid of the pain, it’s just passing it along to someone else who may or may not be able to handle it like those who do take their own life or they might can turn it into the learning experience it’s existence is solely based upon.... sorry for the random jibber jabber I haven’t been myself.. these videos are helping me remove my Masks and uncover what relies within this meat sack vehicle. Stay beautiful! Stay inspired! Stay lifted! If you ever ever ever need someone to talk to I would be more than happy to be that fried for you! You got this!
It only made you stronger and appreciate pain , adversity and fear and every emotion we experience. It's let's you know you're alive . I used to get suicidal thoughts back then . Then I realized I'm going to take my valuable life away over temporal grieve or issues . Hell no. Rationalize your thoughts and emotions
"For both ruin and salvation have their source within you."
Thanks.👍
Excellent video as always. To those practicing the Stoic premeditation of future evils, I say don't get overly caught up in preparing for only the worst and most unlikely of scenarios but practice the smaller and more frequent evils as well if not more. I equate it to training like a strong man and being able to lift a lot of weight but not being able to do very many calisthenic movements or cardio (both of which focus more on a longer endurance with smaller effort). Imagine that your milk will be spilt, that a driver will cut you off aggressively, that your colleagues at work will underperform, etc as much as you imagine the extremes like your family dying, the world at war, or humanity's extinction. Have a good one
Yes, I completely agree with that and the bonus of thinking and preparing for the smaller, day to day challenges of life is that you get the chance to deal with them more often.
This is a good thing to remember, thank you!
That your phone will constantly freeze as the crappy processor struggles to keep up with basic functions... Lol.
Yea sometimes I do believe that my phone freezes but upon closer examination I find that something just turns my volume all the way down .being on a parallel network you get that.
2 videos in 1 week, dont mind if i do
We've been blessed
"For both ruin and salvation have their source within you" - love this one.
Simply *be* undefeatable, and you cannot be defeated.
Effort + Difficulty = Growth
I absolutely love the direction that you've found with your channel. Best of youtube man. The minute I can support you I will! Your videos are by far my favorite
Cheers!
Adopt competitive attitude towards our existence
Approach all your domains w goal of excellence
Meditate upon darkness and evil at times
Cultivate resilience, strength, and wisdom
This should be shown to everyone on their 5th birthday.
True mate the earlier they begin to grind the lesser will they regret later on in their life !
‘What do all these big words mean’
Justus Wilcox and then on every subsequent birthday...
useless if not put in action!
cautare pvp duh...
This was solid gold and coincidentally very relevant to some things I've been thinking about lately. The quality of videos this channel puts out is extreme. You should be very proud. Wow. Thank you.
“The most critical problem of life is how to remain strong and affirmative amidst life’s many burdens and blows.” -Academy of Ideas
Sick quote
i loved the background images, complemented the dialog very well. good job .
One of my best pals just turned me on to this space, this place. Whewwwww brilliant. Much thanks! Subscribed and will support once again working. You are worth it!!!
Without a doubt, what your channel offers in these trying times is focus and effectiveness.
Truly, changing ourselves and not other's makes the world one person at a time.
Thank 👏
Thank you for making this. I really needed it. You do a true service for people, I really do mean that.
Beautiful synchronization of art and ideas!!!!!
They always drop the videos on at right time
This is one of the BEST channels on TH-cam by miles.
I never click faster than when a new Academy of Ideas video comes out (uploaded 8 minutes ag in this case)
Out of all the videos of your creation that I have viewed, this perhaps was the most practical. Bravo.
Everything in moderation. Too much stress is bad. Too little or no stress is also bad. A tree that experiences no wind will have zero root system & fall over from the rain. Conversely under a constant hurricane will never thrive
Nice.
Of course, i suppose this lesson means to be strong to survive the adversities that inevitably just happen to you. Once these storms pass, you come out stronger and with more experience to endure. But that does not mean you have to go out and look for bad things to happen.
That's right! Trees lean away from the wind and towards the Sun. Pine cones only drop their seeds when heated by fire or Sun, Life seeks an environment to thrive not to look for difficult challenges but to move towards opportunity. I think this channel is unhelpful in it's guidance based on extremely selective quotes that seem to have been chosen to support an agenda to promote competition and place blame. It seems shadowy to me while pretending to be enlightened and it sure finds a home for the victims pretending not to be victims as they line up, Thank you sir, can I have another! I'm so inferior, thank you for telling me kind sir!!!
Not gonna forget that!
@Ligeia D.Aurevilly "... Life seeks an environment to thrive not to look for difficult challenges but to MOVE towards opportunity." Should the pine cone open in the dark? I think our interests are our path and on our path is found opportunities. If we should choose to walk the path shown to us by another then all we find our challenges. This is the meaning, imo, of the wages of sin are death. There are two paths one guided by Fear and the other Love. Those who invoke the emotions derived from Fear in order to achieve personal gain are not being helpful to others or themselves. Insidious pretense is the hallmark of Evil, it spreads like a cancer resonating and energizing the structure within the cell that is tuned to the sound that informs competition over cooperation. Competition is the mindset that earns the wages of Death. Cooperation is the mindset that we see in all that flourishes and competition in all Life that struggles. I believe all of these things to be literally true and not at all analogies.
I cannot even begin to express my gratitude the founders of this channel. It has seen me through the darkest times of my life.
Be a Savage
Not a Cabbage
Nuff said!
Wise words from a wise man.
I love the video and the content, but also love the art-work that goes with it, thank you.
I now show your videos to those who need it most in my family.
Excellent, presents the problem theoretically, but at the same time gives practical advice
I just spent the whole day doing studying boxing paintings yesterday and now this video comes out. Pretty insane I’d say
This is so in tune with my current growth!
The best time of the year to talk about Resilience before deadlines and university exams. Thanks
So beautiful and well timed the fact that I happened to watch this right now. I really needed this. Thank you!
Love the videos with amazing art works and they are so insightful in regards to philosophy, the content is amazing and truly soul-uplifting, there is a certain sense of clamness and a great therapy listening to these videos. Keep up the incredible work mate.
TH-cam is not worthy of such profound content
Thank you
I’ll be subscribing to your patreon
AOI is great. The narration is great. The audio mix is good and the overall experience is great. Keep them coming. Thanks AOI
This video was fantastic and quite pertinent to our current state of affairs. Please keep up the tremendous work. The practical wisdom spoken in this piece, taken from thousands of years of knowledge, is of tremendous value at this time in our civilization!
I just want to say that I appreciate the knowledge shared here. Thank you so much to the people who put this together.
he always nails it with the last quote
Excellent. I appreciate the slower pace at to make it more digestible and discernible. Thank you. Your channel is definitely a classic and as such is not to be proven popular in spite of my wishes that it would. 🙏🏻
Each one of these is so well done,. Thank you for your good work.
You talk about my favorite philosophers and show beautiful art. What more could I ask for? I wouldn't charge anything about this channel.
So much wisdom and insight in these bits. I learn from, read and seriously consider the ideas (of) so many thinkers introduced here. Thank you!
This has to be one of your greatest video. "La crème de la crème"
PLEASE do a psychology of social anxiety video.
Love the slide show of art works you used in this video. It goes well with Stoic quotes.
Thank you.
Need these videos now more than ever!!
This channel is so good. Thank you so much for the excellent content!
How have I only just found this channel?!? The content is amazing, thank you!
This is wonderful, the quotations, the analysis, the attitude. Thank you.
❤ Ready to think ❤
The willing. Very important to WANT help. Excellant
Excellence withers without an adversary. Gad damn that is ice cold.
for both ruin and salvation have their source within you.
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Ahh, I soo needed this! Thanks @Academy of Ideas you all are amazing and genuine stalwarts to many that seek authenticity is a sea of hypocrisy
I tell everyone about this channel, It is absolutely brilliant!
Wow, you are on fire, 2 videos in on week, you rock- Thanks a lot.....
love your videos. They just get better and better
Being consciously aware that you have a genius inside of you that’s dying to express itself; dying to take on the pursuit of self-mastery in order to share a gift that is uniquely yours... handed down to you by the Gods just waiting for you to wake up and activate. And yet finding yourself not being able to. Being so scared of yourself that you constantly find ways to suppress it. Trying to make your inner critic a little less loud - knowing you’re living a life in which you are disgracing yourself. That my friends, is true hell. *a message to myself as someone who is struggling with a drug addiction, trying my best to break free from the hell I’ve created for myself...*
This channel is the best .
So much like the art of mindfulness. Truth is truth
Your videos evoke so much wonderful thought, I thank you
“For both ruin and salvation have their source within you”. Thank you
Absolutely LOVE this channel
Thanks bro. It gives me courage to face the challenges.
Some serious studying of life....I love it great work 🥇
Love your content man, thank you for your hard work! Cheers from south america!
Wow I really needed this right now!!! Great ideas and great video everyone should watch this.
Wow this is so timely
love your content keep uploading every week
"That which does not kill me only makes me stronger"......👍
Thank you for adding Arabic translation! Appreciate it 💖
Thank you for sharing such high quality content!
Hey man keep up the great work, this channel is incredible and has personally helped me!
I am a simple man, I see a new academy of ideas video, I upvote
Excellent video, thank you very much.
“Excellence withers without an adversary” - and why suffering, if we work through it, seems to bring forth the best within us.
Brilliant video, thanks for all of them!
love this channel & all its subscribers ❣❣❣❣
"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better"
Jim Rohn
Thank you, I really needed to be reminded of this.
Absulutely love your content
another great video!
Amazingly good content. Thank you!
Classic artworks as well as this channel is fantastic
Personally I prefer running around in circles flailing my arms. Works every time..
Thank you for the lesson.
The best way to endure trials and tribulations is to have faith in the most Wise and most Merciful. He knows indeed which positive effect any difficulty has on our soul.
Missed the bus to work this morning so I watched this video
I think its more than suitable for you to make a podcast.
Please consider it
Thank you for these videos. I mean it.
I wasn't expecting 2 uploads in a week