Socrates | How to Change the World with CONVERSATIONS
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Should be mandatory viewing for politicians, main stream and social media companies at least once a week.
That’s kind of you to say. Although I don’t think it would do them much good. If the advice of Socrates is going to be any good to them, they would likely cease to be politicians, corporate overlords, and talking heads. It’s like a person who is unwilling to change his diet going to the gym. Not much would change.
But it is not, because the masses don't watch it either, so there is no one to make their champions watch it.
So grateful to have found you. You are definitely going to become a success and change many hearts through this channel 💛
I cannot believe this hasn´t more viewers :o
This is 10 times better than anything Self-help related. You don't dance around the topic of what's to be done, but you give it straight up in a great and intriguing way. Often times the problem with Self-help comes from the fact that it's based on a money making model. The focus lies on marketing it for the masses. So, in turn, you have to make it appealing for everyone, you add a bit of hand holding and back patting, and you'll be sure to get an audience. Who in all actually are willing to change, but is given the wrong information. These people have a fire in their hearth, that quickly gets extinguished by boring and unhelpful teachers of Self-help. This has created an environment where soulless books can thrive.
You really have to become weary whenever something becomes popular, lots of times it's not down to luck, rather what sells the most, whilst also being the easiest/cheapest to produce. Another example other than Self-help would be Polyunsaturated fatty acids, pure poison, that's sold and eaten all over in the developed world because it's cheap to produce. But it reeks terrible havoc in your body.
Most of the times there's something good to be found in the self-help literature; but here lies the problem; there's maybe a gold nugget here and there, but that's all. It feels like a waste of time reading a complete book, when there's only a page worth of information that's necessary to understand the topic at hand. The way I see it, self-help books is just a very dry and uninteresting way to do 'practical philosophy'. It's the equivalent of buying a book of quotes from a famous writer instead of reading one of his actual books
It's 99% trash. There's a pretty quick and easy test to see if it's even worth looking at: does the person writing it actually have a position you would want (and didn't get it through nepotism)? Or is the author a scholar who conducted/reviewed replicated scientific studies? Even then it can still be hit or miss because some people interpret things the wrong way and some people don't recognize the amount that luck played a role in their life. The ones I find most valuable are specific to certain fields though maybe those would be closer to reference books than self-help. So unless you find a book for the particular thing you are interested in, and know that you have that same lack of knowledge on the topic as the average person.
Here's my advice, it's sort of based off Schopenhauer's "eternal dissatisfaction": If you can find happiness in progress over product, then you will always be satisfied. It's not about reaching a goal, but loving the motion of just moving. Our society has this real obsession with "being" someone, something fixed and perfect. I can see why. They fill us with an idea of security where we have none. But fixed perfect things do not exist - they're either Platonic or nothing. What we are, is messy, we're Zeno's arrows darting about all crazy, in endless spirals of abstracts and flux. This, generally, is seen as terrible, and we spend most of our lives avoiding this confusing sensation of self in deadening hobbies, and it explains our great attraction to simplicity, and it explains our total insatiability. Thankfully, that psychology means we are flexible, and we can bend what we like and dislike. If you could savor the taste of hunger, you would never be hungry again. And if you could be emotionally anorexic to the point of loving this terrible condition, then you will be two things; a) content; b) always better. It's not easy however.
I know the video at hand isn't specifically about Self-help, but I just had it on my mind and wanted to get it out. I hope to see you continue making videos, as for me, they've been great; I feel as if I'm learning something rather than just passively consuming an unhelpful video. Thank you again for sharing
Great thoughts: you summed up my own opinion of self-help perfectly. There is good in self-help, but it’s mostly diluted to the point of uselessness. Have you thought of making videos or writing your thoughts on a blog/website? You’ve certainly got material here for it, if you wanted to. In any case, I’m glad you articulated your thoughts here. I think you’ve inspired me to get into Schopenhauer. I have him on the bookshelf and I’ve been meaning to read him, and I think your comment has nudged me to finally dig in. Thanks for the kind words! I’m so glad my videos have been meaningful for you.
@@EmpireoftheMind Yes, I have though about it, but have my priorities set else where at the moment. I feel it would be fun since I love creating. Example: I've actually written a self-help book. I feel that's the way you should have contact with self-help, through your own wisdom and random tips found from people who you'd want to be like. But I would never publish it in its entirety since it's meant for me.
About video making: I've also though about this, seems fun to go through the creative process of creating an entire video. I have the outlines for a video in my mind, mainly thinking how I'd want the æsthetics to look like. I wanted to create a video where I talk about my favorite fiction books, why I love them, what they meant for me, what I got out of them. It would be nice to hear from you what your favorite fiction books are.
That’s cool. Reminds me of how Montaigne wrote his essays: only for his own edification.
I hope you make that video some day. My only regret is that I didn’t start sooner.
I’ve been thinking about doing some videos on my favorite fiction, but didn’t know if there was any interest in it. I might try to work in a top 10 video, or something in that vein...
You, friend, have such words of power. You inspire.
You speak so well. Your content is wonderful. Thank you.
Bravo!
Thank you!
This video made me think of the Kerouac quote about the mad ones.
You make a lot of great and interesting videos! Thank you
Just discovering your channel, I like it :)
Great stuff once again.
Amazing video
truly inspiring
Your stuff is fantastic.
It's a shame we do not have a functional equivalent to the Classical Greek agora.
If Socrates was alive today twitter would ban him.
I enjoyed your analysis and explanations. Great video. New sub 👍😽
Much of what we attribute to Socrates is really Plato using Socrates as a character to express his own ideas. We have from Diogenes Laertius that Socrates himself objected that much of what Plato wrote about him was completely fabricated. Plato had a much larger and more long-lasting effect than Socrates did.
That would explain why he kept quoting 'socratic' stuff but which was underwritten by Plato. Made me suspicious.
Generally the essay omits a couple detailed truths in favor of grandiose, absolutist statements. Frequently he later says something that clashes with his former statements, too.
Socrates was the Joe Rogan of his day
Socrates' dialectic was the death of great theatre and the beginning of decadence.
Who are you?!
Never have I heard someone say "Genghis Khan" correctly on TH-cam before.
how the fuck does this channel have so few views
0:01 Who, not whom.
He talked to people? Yeah, you are describing public lectures. ... And he didn't even write a book, but you are talking about the power of words. Books are words, too. A conversation is like a book: You need to establish a certain medium to exchange information two-way.
And it is maybe a bit naive to claim it was merely his style of conversation and not maybe the many other personal career determining life variables. (How did he fund his lifestyle?)
You sometimes make grand/absolutist statements and then later refute yourself, like here when you eventually mention the importance of friends in such endeavors.
2:20 The Socratic method is AcTuAlLy named after Socrates? ... NO WAY!!! I thought it refers to Sow Crates. 😉
2:33 Yeah, iconic recipe for pissing people off. … On that point, a sarcastic quote from Dr. Dolittle: _"You should never believe anyone who goes around telling the truth. They're not to be trusted."_
Seems a lost art.