Really miss Ze's videos. I watched them when I was a young teen and (as is to be expected) was pretty miserable and struggling a lot, and was convinced I must be the only person in the world to feel that way. Ze taught me that I wasn't, and for that, I am grateful.
I can't believe how you, in every single video, manage to hit my feelings as precisely as you do. It's like you climb into my head on beforehand and look for all the things stuffed into the corners, and then talk about them. It's like a punch in the heart, or a long hug. Or both. I can't thank you enough, Frank.
Thanks. I often feel that I am adapting to things around me, more than changing. In many ways it makes me feel like I retain more of myself, but also feels like I have less input or control over my own world. Looking on the bright side, fear of change within oneself could show that you like who you are now and don't want to loose the best parts of you.
Ze, I want you to know that I feel like we're the same a lot. Like we've confronted the same issues and you just have a couple of years on me. Like an older version of myself is trying to reach back and tell me things will be alright. I hope that when I grow a little bit older I grow into someone like you. You've comforted me when I've been down fallen and I want to thank you for that. And no matter what I'm facing, your videos always seem to put me at ease. Thanks, Ze. Keep them coming
Your words are timeless Ze. I've watched your content since I was a teen to now an adult. And wow you still make an impact in how I feel, which is understood and accepted. Thank you
Thanks Ze. I lost everything last year, but 4 months ago, I decided to change. I'm 100 pounds down, and I'm writing my novel, which I hope to have finished by June. I just wanted to let you know that you were a part of that, and always on my 'Motivation' playlist when I'm out trail-running now. I don't know what I'm turning into either, but whatever it is, it's better than where I've been. Keep it up.
I spent a decade in the slow change trying to crawl my way out of a deep depression and finally came to the rapid change last year. Made peace with the things holding me back, realized the depression was something I was made to believe in, lost 105 pounds in ten months and I am still changing. Now that all the change has happened I worry about losing the parts of me I had come to love even in hate.
I first saw this video about 2 years ago, I was going through some hard times and it really made me think and helped me through that time. I recently broke up with a girl I'd been dating for 5 years. I remembered this video and have spent several days looking for it. I'm glad I finally found it because it still makes me think about who I am and who I want to become and how I can get there. Ze thank you for making this. I hope you will be able to be more active in the future.
Ze, you are fertilizer that helps my emotional tree grow around it's injuries. I would say you're the sunshine, but I like the nutrients in the soil better. Dark and cool and hidden. You give it a jump start when it's sick or stagnant. Thank you, as always, for this.
Watching again after watching it 6 months ago. I've gone through several changes in my life since (ones that I really wanted to make). This video is really inspiring. Especially the end bit.
1.) Amazing shirt. 2.) I agree, change is a huge part of life. I've witnessed/gone through both progressive and rapid change. It's startling, but you always have to remember to learn from it. Thank you, ze. You are one of the few people in this world that prove to me there are others that see the world like I do. Always stay out of the box, it's way more fun over here in the sphere. :)
Thank you for sharing the quote, and your friend's version of it. I really like the idea that are wounds shrink relative to our growth. It's a nice way of acknowledging that they'll never go away, but we don't have to be crippled or defined by them.
Ever considered vectorial change? A small change, pointed toward the direction you want your life path to take. Multiple small changes over time that propagate to much larger course changes. Be gentle with yourself. Your posts here and on your creative channels are amazing. Be well.
The process of change has been on my mind a lot lately too. I have been hurt deeply. I have been raped, hit by lightening and when I turned 18, my father had been dead for 2 months. I was a freshman in college, a homeowner, and dealing with financial and legal stress way beyond my maturity level. At 19 I am so CHANGED from those experiences. Some things are the same but how I understand life and treat myself, and others has changed and will KEEP changing and I dont know how to feel about that
I miss you Ze Frank. You've taught me its okay to talk about pain, and its okay to have individuals around you who hide away and neglect to talk about their share of pain. Recently, I have experienced people who consider me as a threat just because I am interested in their lives, wanted to be friends with them and was curious about getting to know them, which is just bizarre and hurtful. I have moved to a different city, and I can't unsee the individualistic culture here. I think people are afraid to trust others these days which makes me look stupid, because I trust, I get hurt, and do it all over again thinking I won't be hurt this time. I seem to not fit in here, leaving the people back in my country who knew me, who loved me. However, I choose to continue. I choose to keep coming back to you. I always come back to your saying, "Don't expect too much of new relationships, you may be trying to fill a void that they might not be able to fill." Still working on that. Thank you!
To be a great creator, one must be sensitive to all the details and subtle nuances of a craft. Hurt will always be one of the most natural methods of acquiring the necessary sensitivity.
I want to know how you consistently release content perfectly timed with what I am experiencing. The day I meet you, I think hugging you will be first on my list.
I am happy to look at the person I am now, look back at the person I used to be and see that there is a real measurable change between them, and it's a change which I feel is the right one. I remember how, back then, that person wanted to be someone else, someone not too different from who they were, but more friendly, more intelligent, more open minded, but mostly more comfortable. And when I think at what the person would think if they see me now, I smile and realise that I'm getting there.
I've been missing Ashow on your other channel and I got worried that you'd stopped making those sort of videos. Glad to see them again; they truly mean a lot to me.
When I was in school, in secondary school, my teachers used to say " You can only change yourself. Don't expect others to do something, lead example." Obviously it was about shutting people up in the class, but my quiet being listened. It's very true words, but makes it feel injust sometimes... Why should you if others don't? Yet changes always start from somewhere. It's not about others, it's about you, as long as you feel happy with you, screw others.
See it's videos like this one that are a great example of why I love this guy. It's one thing to progressively go through the healing process (after emotional turmoil) and see the progression of it and understand how that gradually modifies how you see things instead of outright changing who you are. It is quite another thing to have that concept articulated/validated by someone else. To know that I am not wrong in working towards emotional balance and maturity. helps me achieve it more quickly.
i love this video. something similar happened to me when i was still in elementary school that i still haven't forgotten and i don't know why. instead of saying "live your life" like he was supposed to, someone said "live your love." I just really like that, and have been trying to do so ever since
I think we are mostly afraid of change, because we feel that we need to leave what we like and love aside to make room for other stuff, instead of making a mix of both... And also thank you for reminding me that when everything seems to get serious and thoughtful, a little humor can go a long way!
Hello me, I am you 9 months in the future. I have forgotten about this comment and am here to tell you that you have fallen in love and earned your master’s degree. 🎉
I like my memories better than my experiences of the same things. During the experience, my mind is always racing, I feel like I should be doing something different, saying something, being somebody else. But when I remember those events, that is mostly absent (until recently, anyways). Lots of worry and fretting over worrying and fretting, feeling I need to change my behaviour for changing my behaviour. These videos are a really interesting thing to hear, another perspective. Thanks a lot, dude
Holy crap, my mind is blown. I'll be a college freshman in fall, and today this strange thought came to my mind and made me feel very uneasy about the future. The thought was that somehow in this new environment, I'd become someone else. That's scary. Would I be able to recognize me? I like me now! Will I have the same passions? What if the qualities about myself I value the most gradually disappear? I log onto TH-cam and this video is at the top of my subscription list. I feel more at peace.
I've been experiencing slow change for the past year, recovering from a bad few years, and I just want to be a better 'me' RIGHT NOW, but it's a process. We're all for you, ze, and are very grateful for the things you create, even if you're going through a rough patch.
Ze, as a nearly (1 week from today- eek) graduated college student who has already sat through a sort of practice graduation. I have a taste of commencement speakers and the advice they give but your videos as I've been watching them recently, they are likely what I'll look back on more. If I were ever in a position to suggest speakers for a graduation or other commencement , you would be absolute top of my list.
I have watched this video before but after watching this again (with my heart more open) it really helped. I pleaded support from you a while ago and all along it was right here. I just wasn't able to absorb with my heart so broken. In any case thank you Ze. I'm growing around my wounds and feel a little stronger.
Thanks Ze. You always put hard to talk about things into easily digestible, emotionally hitting tidbits. You change the lives of people everyday, just by posting stuff like this. You've helped me more than once and I'm sure you'll continue to do so! Thanks for being so awesome. You seem like you 'd be a true friend to anyone.
Zefrank, I happened on your channel because meekakitty liked a video of yours last week or so, I have watched so many videos of your since, and I have found ways to cope with my anxiety and growing up and becoming this new person I have never experienced before. Thank you.
I kinda want to change into that perfect version of myself that does all of the things it's supposed to (like take care of his body and mind) without changing any aspects of myself and my experience of the world. Having watched this video I realize that this is how I thought about this, but I guess changing your habits without changing who you are is impossible.
The incredible thing about AShow is that the majority of people, myself included, look up to Ze as almost demi-god. We see him as a practically perfect being, an ideal to aspire towards. And then when he talks he shows us that no matter where your life takes you and what you accomplish in the end everybody is human. Thank you for that.
So many good videos related to this topic recently on youtube. I love it. It's definitely like therapy to watch them, as a soon-to-graduate-from-college-person.
Zefrank, I always stumble on to just the right video, at just the right time. Are you magic or something? Please never stop being the wonderful wizard you are. :) (I had a big long story to tell but alas youtube only allows for so many characters)
lol at Monkey Balls! Ahhhh the couch! The happy sinking pit of my negativity where I can sit on my ass and watch the TV and escape every responsibility I have. To forget about all the self help I desperately need to move forward from the depression I have. That damn couch was the reason why I decided to get back to finding myself again and forcing myself out of my "grief hole". A year ago today I started a daily journey and today I have come back to that same journey. xo Thank you Ze :)
Ze you are one of the most inspiring TH-camrs I've ever had the privilege to watch. I only started subscribing to your channel a few weeks ago but in that time I've become completely addicted to your videos. It is so refreshing to see someone be so vulnerable and so honest about so many uncomfortable thoughts and emotions. It makes me feel so much less alone because I've had those same thoughts and emotions as well. Thank you so much and please don't stop doing what you're doing.
Ze, I admire your hauntingly wise truths. With each video I see on this channel I know it will be thought provoking.... and well... life-evaluating... if that makes any sense. I find it absolutely amazing that you can share these experiences and revelations that you like to share with us. Every video, although gloomy at times, always finds a way to cheer me up. Keep up with the amazing videos. You are a great person. - John
You speak in a way that i find unik..you speak in a really real and personal way and based on experience. this video and many of your other videos has me nodding agreeingly(dont know if thats an actual word) because alot of the things you say, down to the smallest detail i can relate to. Your a facinating person!
Ze, like many others, I enjoy your thoughts and wisdom. I have been making a conscious effort to incorporate many of these things into my life and job. I am a police officer, so most wisdom is lost on my clientele, so I started helping out at the schools. A lot of your ideas have now been passed on to young impressionable minds by word and action. Now, I have even had the pleasure of catching students quoting me (you, really) to others. Thank you.
I really like that quote, both versions of it. We can grow to be healthy trees even with our injuries of our past inside us. I'm trying to go through a change, involves being more mindful about how I spend my time, so I have a post-it with "WHY?" in my bathroom. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
You push on, because you won't find out what you'll end up being if you stand still just thinking about it. I'm trying that one out for myself. Even though I'm trying to push myself in 5 different directions, each step in a different direction isn't wasted time, its realizing that more about myself, my limitations, and strengths, the things that make me happy, and things that hurt me, even while making me happy. Life.
definitely experiencing one of those scars right now (feeling like a failure where I'm at and unsure if I should stay or leave), and it's hard not to focus on it because how I react to this scar will have such a profound impact on the "me" I'm going to be. growth is hard ...
I like that quote (and it's alternate) a lot. I like to think of change by looking at the multiple universes theory (or at least a simplified form of it). There are an infinite number of me's, all doing different things, and each decision I make, pushes me into a specific universe. So I aim to become one of the best version of me that I possibly can, and I can only do that by making all the decisions to that point. So that keeps me motivated, because I'm still me, but I'll decide which one I am.
Although Jung did do amazing things for our perception of ourselves, I really like the carving idea more. Mostly because as the tree grows, the scar stays the same. It is always the same size even as we grow bigger than it. It can go from defining us to being a very small piece of who we are. Thanks Ze :)
Rapid, sudden change... I have that a lot medically. While limited compared to a "change of self" Ze discussed it's still relevant. And It's a rather rough experience. I liken it to being acclimated to one culture/manner of being and suddenly, sometimes in a matter of minutes to hours, being thrust into its polar opposite. No matter how familiar you are with the polar opposite it's a huge shock to the system to do it/have it happen so quickly. You adapt. And sometimes that involves the stake/carving like injury and growth around said unwanted parts of the change.
I just love the Sport Racers. You guys are amazing. You are so willing to admit things make you feel many feelings, good and bad. I wish I actually knew some of you guys, you seem so inspiring. Oh and thank you Ze for creating this community, it's pretty incredible
Here's what I've done to help decrease my fear of rejection: Fail in harmless ways to people that support you. Don't neglect, but try something that you don't know how to do and unintentionally do it wrong. Examine the mistake and figure out how to do it correctly. Start failing in larger but equally harmless ways. With experience, people get better at things. A blacksmith is good at forging metal. One who fails often is good at coping with failure. Being good at coping will lead you to success.
I like the idea of slow growth, allowing for change, injury, a past. I think even the moments of sudden state change are only a momentary disturbance, a course correction, and you end up back with slow growth. We should be so lucky as to become something like a tree when we're done.
But aren't we different from the trees in a sense that a lot of us need to pay a lot of attention, effort, mindfullness to our growth? We need the intention, the willngness to change and grow. This so so hard sometimes and it's easy to envy the plants for doing it instinctively and in an optimal way. Saplings either do it the best way they can or they wither. People in their changes are always caught up somewhere in between. Sometimes we fail sometimes we don't. Constant process. Thank you,Ze
I think I'm kinda in a place right now where I want to change, but I'm not sure how to get started. I'm okay even with a slow process; just the getting started is so daunting and worrisome. Anyway I liked the video Ze, keeps me thinking about these things so I don't let them slip away in apathy. :)
I love the videos that you do on animals, but I really miss YOU. Maybe you changed into someone who doesn't do these videos anymore for whatever reason. I'd love to see you again though, you've been a real inspiration.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin Right now, it is harder for you to open up than to remain closed. I do believe though, with time and regret, we do open up and risk failure for a beautiful goal.
I don't how true it is, but the other day I learned in my Jainism class that every cell in your body gets naturally replaced every 6 or so years and it made me really hopeful that the universe wanted me to become someone else even if I couldn't.
Sometimes you gotta change what you did a while back in order to start growing again in the now. I think they're the hardest things to change. Going back on yourself can be difficult especially if you've put time into something you inevitably have to change in order to grow.
I'm definitely learning about this, and sometimes it seems like I'm moving backwards. But other times I see the forward movement, too. Most important, I think, is to try. Just to change one thing a day, or one thing a week. I started making my bed every morning. I started taking a walk every day. I started doing the dishes without being asked by anyone. Maybe tomorrow I'll add something else. It's awfully hard, though.
So, my boyfriend and I were introducing your "True Facts" videos to two of our best friends recently. Neither of them are as big into TH-cam as we are so we were trying to describe you. We ended up at the title of 'the Godfather of TH-cam'. You make the funniest funny stuff and you make the most thought provoking things I've ever watched. You're a lot of people's favorite for that reason. TH-cam wouldn't be the same without you, and I'm thankful for that.
you know i was inspired to make videos years ago. and i fell out of it. but now recently ive been getting back into it. and i wonder alot of these same feelings. you are marked by what youve done but im also still wondering where the growth will take me. even now im watching this video and i see myself looking back to the past to remember my successes and inspiration.
My point being YOUR IDEAD ON GROWING IS GREAT GO WITH IT, STAY WITH IT it's wonderful! (Just puzzled, I thought you'd already have heaps of passions, you have heaps of talent!),
Really miss Ze's videos. I watched them when I was a young teen and (as is to be expected) was pretty miserable and struggling a lot, and was convinced I must be the only person in the world to feel that way. Ze taught me that I wasn't, and for that, I am grateful.
Love this dude 😆
I've been watching them now.. really helpful
I had the same experience, these videos really shaped how I view the world and I return to them more often than I would have expected
Please come back
I can't believe how you, in every single video, manage to hit my feelings as precisely as you do. It's like you climb into my head on beforehand and look for all the things stuffed into the corners, and then talk about them. It's like a punch in the heart, or a long hug. Or both. I can't thank you enough, Frank.
Beautiful. I am in tears from the relief of knowing that someone else thinks about these things too.
Still here. still trying to grow. Thank you for this channel, it's good company late at night
These talks feel so raw and truthful. I feel privileged to be even a small part of them.
Thanks. I often feel that I am adapting to things around me, more than changing. In many ways it makes me feel like I retain more of myself, but also feels like I have less input or control over my own world. Looking on the bright side, fear of change within oneself could show that you like who you are now and don't want to loose the best parts of you.
Ze, these videos cut right to the heart. Thank you for that.
Ze, I want you to know that I feel like we're the same a lot. Like we've confronted the same issues and you just have a couple of years on me. Like an older version of myself is trying to reach back and tell me things will be alright. I hope that when I grow a little bit older I grow into someone like you. You've comforted me when I've been down fallen and I want to thank you for that. And no matter what I'm facing, your videos always seem to put me at ease. Thanks, Ze. Keep them coming
It's been 10 years. I think this video deserves an update.
Monkey balls
that's it, another one you just comforted my inner peace with. you just rubbed my anxiety monster's back to sleep. thanks buddy.
God damn, I love this human
Your words are timeless Ze. I've watched your content since I was a teen to now an adult. And wow you still make an impact in how I feel, which is understood and accepted. Thank you
Every now and then I go back to your videos, and I find a lot of comfort in your words. Thank you Ze!
It's becoming more frequent to find Ze again. Life isn't being nice and I need to remember the Sports Racers
This really could have saved me six months ago.
Somehow, it still helps.
I love you, Ze.
Thanks Ze. I lost everything last year, but 4 months ago, I decided to change. I'm 100 pounds down, and I'm writing my novel, which I hope to have finished by June. I just wanted to let you know that you were a part of that, and always on my 'Motivation' playlist when I'm out trail-running now. I don't know what I'm turning into either, but whatever it is, it's better than where I've been. Keep it up.
It's been 10 years...
Have you surpassed your goals?
If Ze Frank was like.... my big brother. Or uncle who hung out with me all the time... I think I would be alright with that
I want to read a book on just the wisdom this man has to offer. Just his everyday thoughts on life
I spent a decade in the slow change trying to crawl my way out of a deep depression and finally came to the rapid change last year. Made peace with the things holding me back, realized the depression was something I was made to believe in, lost 105 pounds in ten months and I am still changing. Now that all the change has happened I worry about losing the parts of me I had come to love even in hate.
I first saw this video about 2 years ago, I was going through some hard times and it really made me think and helped me through that time. I recently broke up with a girl I'd been dating for 5 years. I remembered this video and have spent several days looking for it. I'm glad I finally found it because it still makes me think about who I am and who I want to become and how I can get there. Ze thank you for making this. I hope you will be able to be more active in the future.
Thank you for this whole series of videos!
This man is truly the most under rated person on TH-cam. Please continue with all of your fantastic work, I for one really need it.
Ze, you are fertilizer that helps my emotional tree grow around it's injuries. I would say you're the sunshine, but I like the nutrients in the soil better. Dark and cool and hidden. You give it a jump start when it's sick or stagnant.
Thank you, as always, for this.
Omg your voice is so comforting wow
Watching again after watching it 6 months ago. I've gone through several changes in my life since (ones that I really wanted to make). This video is really inspiring. Especially the end bit.
1.) Amazing shirt.
2.) I agree, change is a huge part of life. I've witnessed/gone through both progressive and rapid change. It's startling, but you always have to remember to learn from it.
Thank you, ze. You are one of the few people in this world that prove to me there are others that see the world like I do.
Always stay out of the box, it's way more fun over here in the sphere. :)
Thank you for sharing the quote, and your friend's version of it. I really like the idea that are wounds shrink relative to our growth. It's a nice way of acknowledging that they'll never go away, but we don't have to be crippled or defined by them.
I love how you can help people through tough times and help out so much like you did to me. 👍
Ever considered vectorial change? A small change, pointed toward the direction you want your life path to take. Multiple small changes over time that propagate to much larger course changes. Be gentle with yourself. Your posts here and on your creative channels are amazing. Be well.
The process of change has been on my mind a lot lately too. I have been hurt deeply. I have been raped, hit by lightening and when I turned 18, my father had been dead for 2 months. I was a freshman in college, a homeowner, and dealing with financial and legal stress way beyond my maturity level. At 19 I am so CHANGED from those experiences. Some things are the same but how I understand life and treat myself, and others has changed and will KEEP changing and I dont know how to feel about that
Im still watching these . I love these videos💜
I miss you Ze Frank. You've taught me its okay to talk about pain, and its okay to have individuals around you who hide away and neglect to talk about their share of pain. Recently, I have experienced people who consider me as a threat just because I am interested in their lives, wanted to be friends with them and was curious about getting to know them, which is just bizarre and hurtful.
I have moved to a different city, and I can't unsee the individualistic culture here. I think people are afraid to trust others these days which makes me look stupid, because I trust, I get hurt, and do it all over again thinking I won't be hurt this time. I seem to not fit in here, leaving the people back in my country who knew me, who loved me. However, I choose to continue. I choose to keep coming back to you.
I always come back to your saying, "Don't expect too much of new relationships, you may be trying to fill a void that they might not be able to fill." Still working on that. Thank you!
To be a great creator, one must be sensitive to all the details and subtle nuances of a craft. Hurt will always be one of the most natural methods of acquiring the necessary sensitivity.
I want to know how you consistently release content perfectly timed with what I am experiencing. The day I meet you, I think hugging you will be first on my list.
Yes absolutely
This has helped me far more than I had imagined it would. Hmm... Thanks.
Just subscribed to your channel and I love it! Its quirky and thought-provoking, my two favorite things.
I am happy to look at the person I am now, look back at the person I used to be and see that there is a real measurable change between them, and it's a change which I feel is the right one. I remember how, back then, that person wanted to be someone else, someone not too different from who they were, but more friendly, more intelligent, more open minded, but mostly more comfortable. And when I think at what the person would think if they see me now, I smile and realise that I'm getting there.
I've been missing Ashow on your other channel and I got worried that you'd stopped making those sort of videos. Glad to see them again; they truly mean a lot to me.
When I was in school, in secondary school, my teachers used to say " You can only change yourself. Don't expect others to do something, lead example." Obviously it was about shutting people up in the class, but my quiet being listened. It's very true words, but makes it feel injust sometimes... Why should you if others don't? Yet changes always start from somewhere. It's not about others, it's about you, as long as you feel happy with you, screw others.
this video came at just the right time, thanks for the thoughtfulness
See it's videos like this one that are a great example of why I love this guy. It's one thing to progressively go through the healing process (after emotional turmoil) and see the progression of it and understand how that gradually modifies how you see things instead of outright changing who you are. It is quite another thing to have that concept articulated/validated by someone else. To know that I am not wrong in working towards emotional balance and maturity. helps me achieve it more quickly.
What a helpful metaphor. I love the idea of keeping your past self with you even as you grow and change.
i love this video. something similar happened to me when i was still in elementary school that i still haven't forgotten and i don't know why. instead of saying "live your life" like he was supposed to, someone said "live your love." I just really like that, and have been trying to do so ever since
The end was perfection. There was a heavy deepness in the room.
I think we are mostly afraid of change, because we feel that we need to leave what we like and love aside to make room for other stuff, instead of making a mix of both... And also thank you for reminding me that when everything seems to get serious and thoughtful, a little humor can go a long way!
I’ve watched you in high school, college, and now as an adult. I wonder who I’ll be when I watch this video next time. Thank you Ze
Hello me, I am you 9 months in the future. I have forgotten about this comment and am here to tell you that you have fallen in love and earned your master’s degree. 🎉
I like my memories better than my experiences of the same things. During the experience, my mind is always racing, I feel like I should be doing something different, saying something, being somebody else. But when I remember those events, that is mostly absent (until recently, anyways). Lots of worry and fretting over worrying and fretting, feeling I need to change my behaviour for changing my behaviour. These videos are a really interesting thing to hear, another perspective. Thanks a lot, dude
Holy crap, my mind is blown. I'll be a college freshman in fall, and today this strange thought came to my mind and made me feel very uneasy about the future. The thought was that somehow in this new environment, I'd become someone else. That's scary. Would I be able to recognize me? I like me now! Will I have the same passions? What if the qualities about myself I value the most gradually disappear? I log onto TH-cam and this video is at the top of my subscription list. I feel more at peace.
I've been experiencing slow change for the past year, recovering from a bad few years, and I just want to be a better 'me' RIGHT NOW, but it's a process. We're all for you, ze, and are very grateful for the things you create, even if you're going through a rough patch.
Ze, as a nearly (1 week from today- eek) graduated college student who has already sat through a sort of practice graduation. I have a taste of commencement speakers and the advice they give but your videos as I've been watching them recently, they are likely what I'll look back on more. If I were ever in a position to suggest speakers for a graduation or other commencement , you would be absolute top of my list.
I like these talking videos. They make me feel so calm.
Zefrank I really miss you 😭😭😭
I have watched this video before but after watching this again (with my heart more open) it really helped. I pleaded support from you a while ago and all along it was right here. I just wasn't able to absorb with my heart so broken. In any case thank you Ze. I'm growing around my wounds and feel a little stronger.
Thank you, Ze. That last part really hit home.
Thanks Ze. You always put hard to talk about things into easily digestible, emotionally hitting tidbits. You change the lives of people everyday, just by posting stuff like this. You've helped me more than once and I'm sure you'll continue to do so! Thanks for being so awesome. You seem like you 'd be a true friend to anyone.
This is amazing, please, please, please bring these back.
Zefrank, I happened on your channel because meekakitty liked a video of yours last week or so, I have watched so many videos of your since, and I have found ways to cope with my anxiety and growing up and becoming this new person I have never experienced before. Thank you.
Ze. We all love you. Thank you oh so much.
It is watching videos like this, and being involved in the discussions that got me involved in youtube. Thanks Ze, you are a fantastic creator.
Your videos always seem to pop up at the moments I need your words the most. Thank you.
I kinda want to change into that perfect version of myself that does all of the things it's supposed to (like take care of his body and mind) without changing any aspects of myself and my experience of the world. Having watched this video I realize that this is how I thought about this, but I guess changing your habits without changing who you are is impossible.
The incredible thing about AShow is that the majority of people, myself included, look up to Ze as almost demi-god. We see him as a practically perfect being, an ideal to aspire towards. And then when he talks he shows us that no matter where your life takes you and what you accomplish in the end everybody is human. Thank you for that.
So many good videos related to this topic recently on youtube. I love it. It's definitely like therapy to watch them, as a soon-to-graduate-from-college-person.
Zefrank, I always stumble on to just the right video, at just the right time. Are you magic or something? Please never stop being the wonderful wizard you are. :)
(I had a big long story to tell but alas youtube only allows for so many characters)
lol at Monkey Balls! Ahhhh the couch! The happy sinking pit of my negativity where I can sit on my ass and watch the TV and escape every responsibility I have. To forget about all the self help I desperately need to move forward from the depression I have. That damn couch was the reason why I decided to get back to finding myself again and forcing myself out of my "grief hole". A year ago today I started a daily journey and today I have come back to that same journey. xo Thank you Ze :)
Ze you are one of the most inspiring TH-camrs I've ever had the privilege to watch. I only started subscribing to your channel a few weeks ago but in that time I've become completely addicted to your videos. It is so refreshing to see someone be so vulnerable and so honest about so many uncomfortable thoughts and emotions. It makes me feel so much less alone because I've had those same thoughts and emotions as well. Thank you so much and please don't stop doing what you're doing.
Ze, I admire your hauntingly wise truths. With each video I see on this channel I know it will be thought provoking.... and well... life-evaluating... if that makes any sense. I find it absolutely amazing that you can share these experiences and revelations that you like to share with us. Every video, although gloomy at times, always finds a way to cheer me up.
Keep up with the amazing videos. You are a great person.
- John
You speak in a way that i find unik..you speak in a really real and personal way and based on experience. this video and many of your other videos has me nodding agreeingly(dont know if thats an actual word) because alot of the things you say, down to the smallest detail i can relate to. Your a facinating person!
FRANK, we want more video like this!!!!
Ze, like many others, I enjoy your thoughts and wisdom. I have been making a conscious effort to incorporate many of these things into my life and job. I am a police officer, so most wisdom is lost on my clientele, so I started helping out at the schools. A lot of your ideas have now been passed on to young impressionable minds by word and action. Now, I have even had the pleasure of catching students quoting me (you, really) to others. Thank you.
I really like that quote, both versions of it. We can grow to be healthy trees even with our injuries of our past inside us.
I'm trying to go through a change, involves being more mindful about how I spend my time, so I have a post-it with "WHY?" in my bathroom. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
You push on, because you won't find out what you'll end up being if you stand still just thinking about it.
I'm trying that one out for myself. Even though I'm trying to push myself in 5 different directions, each step in a different direction isn't wasted time, its realizing that more about myself, my limitations, and strengths, the things that make me happy, and things that hurt me, even while making me happy.
Life.
definitely experiencing one of those scars right now (feeling like a failure where I'm at and unsure if I should stay or leave), and it's hard not to focus on it because how I react to this scar will have such a profound impact on the "me" I'm going to be.
growth is hard ...
I like that quote (and it's alternate) a lot. I like to think of change by looking at the multiple universes theory (or at least a simplified form of it). There are an infinite number of me's, all doing different things, and each decision I make, pushes me into a specific universe. So I aim to become one of the best version of me that I possibly can, and I can only do that by making all the decisions to that point. So that keeps me motivated, because I'm still me, but I'll decide which one I am.
I love Ze's videos, because they attract other deep thinking people, like you! :D Thanks for spreading the Awesome.
Although Jung did do amazing things for our perception of ourselves, I really like the carving idea more. Mostly because as the tree grows, the scar stays the same. It is always the same size even as we grow bigger than it. It can go from defining us to being a very small piece of who we are. Thanks Ze :)
I think therefore I am.
My scars are not me, my pain is not me those things are only a part of my history that makes my story worth reading.
good question :)
Wow, your voice is so soothing
Rapid, sudden change... I have that a lot medically. While limited compared to a "change of self" Ze discussed it's still relevant. And It's a rather rough experience. I liken it to being acclimated to one culture/manner of being and suddenly, sometimes in a matter of minutes to hours, being thrust into its polar opposite. No matter how familiar you are with the polar opposite it's a huge shock to the system to do it/have it happen so quickly. You adapt. And sometimes that involves the stake/carving like injury and growth around said unwanted parts of the change.
I just love the Sport Racers. You guys are amazing. You are so willing to admit things make you feel many feelings, good and bad. I wish I actually knew some of you guys, you seem so inspiring.
Oh and thank you Ze for creating this community, it's pretty incredible
Here's what I've done to help decrease my fear of rejection:
Fail in harmless ways to people that support you. Don't neglect, but try something that you don't know how to do and unintentionally do it wrong. Examine the mistake and figure out how to do it correctly. Start failing in larger but equally harmless ways.
With experience, people get better at things. A blacksmith is good at forging metal. One who fails often is good at coping with failure. Being good at coping will lead you to success.
You always put up videos at the perfect moment.
I like the idea of slow growth, allowing for change, injury, a past. I think even the moments of sudden state change are only a momentary disturbance, a course correction, and you end up back with slow growth. We should be so lucky as to become something like a tree when we're done.
But aren't we different from the trees in a sense that a lot of us need to pay a lot of attention, effort, mindfullness to our growth? We need the intention, the willngness to change and grow. This so so hard sometimes and it's easy to envy the plants for doing it instinctively and in an optimal way.
Saplings either do it the best way they can or they wither. People in their changes are always caught up somewhere in between. Sometimes we fail sometimes we don't. Constant process.
Thank you,Ze
This was beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you.
I think I'm kinda in a place right now where I want to change, but I'm not sure how to get started. I'm okay even with a slow process; just the getting started is so daunting and worrisome.
Anyway I liked the video Ze, keeps me thinking about these things so I don't let them slip away in apathy. :)
I love the videos that you do on animals, but I really miss YOU. Maybe you changed into someone who doesn't do these videos anymore for whatever reason. I'd love to see you again though, you've been a real inspiration.
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin
Right now, it is harder for you to open up than to remain closed. I do believe though, with time and regret, we do open up and risk failure for a beautiful goal.
I don't how true it is, but the other day I learned in my Jainism class that every cell in your body gets naturally replaced every 6 or so years and it made me really hopeful that the universe wanted me to become someone else even if I couldn't.
Sometimes you gotta change what you did a while back in order to start growing again in the now. I think they're the hardest things to change. Going back on yourself can be difficult especially if you've put time into something you inevitably have to change in order to grow.
I'm definitely learning about this, and sometimes it seems like I'm moving backwards. But other times I see the forward movement, too. Most important, I think, is to try. Just to change one thing a day, or one thing a week. I started making my bed every morning. I started taking a walk every day. I started doing the dishes without being asked by anyone. Maybe tomorrow I'll add something else. It's awfully hard, though.
Between Ze and Beau, the world can become a better place for the little guys.
So, my boyfriend and I were introducing your "True Facts" videos to two of our best friends recently. Neither of them are as big into TH-cam as we are so we were trying to describe you. We ended up at the title of 'the Godfather of TH-cam'. You make the funniest funny stuff and you make the most thought provoking things I've ever watched. You're a lot of people's favorite for that reason. TH-cam wouldn't be the same without you, and I'm thankful for that.
Hello Ze, I would love to see more of these videos from you.
Beautiful, as always!
you know i was inspired to make videos years ago. and i fell out of it. but now recently ive been getting back into it. and i wonder alot of these same feelings. you are marked by what youve done but im also still wondering where the growth will take me. even now im watching this video and i see myself looking back to the past to remember my successes and inspiration.
My point being YOUR IDEAD ON GROWING IS GREAT GO WITH IT, STAY WITH IT it's wonderful! (Just puzzled, I thought you'd already have heaps of passions, you have heaps of talent!),
3:33 I love this!!!!!