I’m not sure how well that experiment would work for me because the second I am not studying, on social media, or reading (or out with friends, which is rare), I am daydreaming. I daydream a lot, especially if I have music, but it happens regardless. My daydreams often play out like fantasy novels, and I theorize that this is because during the worst/ most “traumatic” part of my life, I was a huge fan of fantasy novels (which I read quite rarely now). Does anyone else do this?

Ok nerd

What does #6 mean in some more detail?

I really wish they where cheaper, it’s like $1k in Australia for one with a pen etc

How ironic it is to watch a video about Byung Chul Han's philosophy and be fed an advertisement of Skilshare.

I‘ve lived my whole life with technology and the internet, i cant imagine living without it even though i know how bad it is for me and my mentality. Trying to cut it all out slowly but surely and finally start living. It’s gonna be tough tho especially cause of my boring job, where i can‘t even make it through one day without watching youtube on the side or something, because there’s nothing engaging to do, just doing mundane bs, being surrounded by uninteresting people and waiting for my shift to end.

Proust is not a book, Robin :(

"...humans can use their self-awareness to combat instinct." - Dune

When I hit a reading slump, I always pull "The Catcher in the Rye" off the shelf and read it in one day. It always gets me back on track

Not Freud being over enthusiast when it comes to closeness with mother.💀

honestly this is one of the best channel i've come across on youtube.

im listening well but i cant help but gush bec you're hella attractive 😂😂 i found your channel again after like losing contact for like a year

I thought this was a lesbian woman

Survive a degree?? That makes no sense.

You look exactly like a nerd I had imagined.

In what world is an honours thesis 1500 words? I'm in undergrad and my honours thesis is 5000 words😭😭😭😭😭

Even though I'm not attending university, as of yet, I'm planning on this event to be brought to fruition soon enough, I feel as if I must thank you for what may be, unwittingly not known, the fact that there are other humans in this realm of reality who also enjoy literature, writing as intensely & as much as I do, causes me to feel far less strange as well "out of sink", than with the rest of the world. So having a kindred spirit, allows me to be inspired with a surge of energy to continue my pursuits without abandon. Wholeheartedly with just a touch of the required recklessness needed, to out shine any quotidian levels of dedication far easier than thought possible. With this in mind I thank you.

just found this account and your videos are so well articulated. you can tell this guy knows what he’s talking about! SUBSCRIBED💪🏽💪🏽

I watched the whole clip just for this advice:"don't look up every word at the dictionary" and "practice the language in it's real world context". 9 minutes are way to long for these 2 points, and the second one is stupid, I have no idea what it would mean to pratice a language in it's real world context, does it meam you read only news? Or you only talked to people? Should I watch another 9 minutes clip for the answer?

28 years, I started to read. My younger life, was an auto mechanic which I would read car manuals Today, I read three books a month. Yes, taking your time of reading my books at Portos bakery in downey California. I live in Downey California which no one likes to read. They don’t know how much they are missing. I worked in sheperville kentucy, Jeffersonvill Indiana , for 14 years. I returned home.. I am free thanks.. Frank Martinez Downey California

Ughhhh. Now I have to fight kids in Goodwill and favorite thrift shops as a seamstress!! "Get off my lawn" and go play with a video games you whippersnappers!!! (😂) [I am happy kids are reading again ...some as a trend only, I'll take it]

Thank you for the video! I'm interested in history, especially of my country, to know what led to such consequences we have now, but I have problems with both remembering and understanding information I consume as I forget it quickly and feel miserable and inferior in the moments when I can't recall facts I tried hard to memorize. Your speech made me feel inspired and much less desperate, thanks a lot again!

Pray for everyone here God bless you all in your lives Amen❤

Any app you guys recommend for the centopticon? Where you can handrwite to text and tag your notes with subjects and it can search it by tags and can hopefully import your kindle notes?

You leave Chopin alone 😊💙. Beautiful video 🙌🏾

You are absolutely correct, it is absolutely necessary to separate the Art from the Artist.

This format is a lot more helpful and approachable.

2:06 i pointed at myself when I heard this

ok this electronic piece of paper is so weird lmao. its soooo weirrrd!!!

Thank you!

"... there are stupid older people out there *checks if the coast is clear*" you are so right, I took a lot of detrimental advice from such older people only to realize I'm just perpetuating their screw ups lol, I gotta say unsolicited advices are the symbol of their advice. Funnily enough, I come from a Christian background, where its common for old people to emphasize this, but having a word with my father of confession. He softly said, the commandment is to honor thy father and mother, not obey. As in heed all and any instructions. The semantics of this wording blew my mind.

This is me. I had the messages like your teacher and it led me to deny who I wanted to be by trying to be what I saw others being in the fields I dabbled around in. This is the encouragement that I needed to hear to continue change this year.

Love that this took you over a year to complete. ❤️

Such a great vid. Thanks for adding such authentic value to the world.

Thanks for this! I just recently started reading Byung-Chul Han (have read Burnout Society, Psychopolitics, and Transparency Society) and one term his translator uses a lot is "dispositive" and I'm not 100% clear on what this means other that some vague idea of it maybe meaning something like "the resolution of a legal issue". Any ideas?

video starts at 10:53 thank me later

The story transcends the words, but then again, rich language, like a Faulkner, is entertaining in itself, and tells another story.

Of course the narrative is concocted to sell a book. There was never a chance Wittgenstein and Ayers would kill philosophy and was never revived. It's just a concocted story put together by exaggerating the impact of Witrgenstein and Ayers. Their position is quite retarded, actually. Any ways story was concocted to write a book. So unethical.

i need to get off, thank you Robin

It was a down top learning and now it is a top down learning

Thanks for the great video Robin! I'll be writing my bachelor's thesis in philosophy next semester and am a little bit scared. Still, I feel like the hardest part is to find a good research topic. I've got so many ideas that I want to write about but then I find myself questioning whether they're even suitable for an argumentative research thesis and whether they're too broad or narrow, and so on. So for me the biggest struggle is where to start? I already have a professor in mind I want to ask to be my supervisor, but again, I want to approach him only once I have a rough topic or at least direction I want to go into. Do you have any tipps or words of encouragement for such a situation? Thanks in advance and best regards! <3

Pro tip: On your way to becoming a polymath figure out how to pronounce Walter Isaacson's name.

I mean tbh,if i didn't have a phone and get a ipad just to play talking animals or even playing games,instead of reading books or even playing with toys like barbie -it would still be fun-i still have my imagination -i mean just because everyone have their phone,even my classmate,friends,all of them have it,i only have a brick style phone,i mean i don't even need to have brick phones,i just need to cut the whole internet ,i mean there are tons of activity that i found it fun 😅

Whoo boy, I am a Tsundoku who has "bought a cover" many many ... many times. 😅

"Excellent video I found on the internet! Now, it really makes sense to me to mark at least after a quick read. I tried reading and marking at the same time with my first-ever reading book, which was Atomic Habits. Trust me, it was horrible. Now I will surely try these tips in my third book, which is 'The Art and Business of Online Writing.'"

God I hate how you speak. You think you’re such an intellectual don’t you? Speak like a normal person

Wonderful video! I'm kinda afraid to even write one but it's a challenging pursuit

i think i disagree to view this ability of divided attention with a negative view, this after all just emphasizes our different focusing abilities, whether it be divided or not, having divided focus does not make a man a mere wild animal, i would like to view it in fact as an appreciation to its ability to cater to different tasks at once. the negative side i guess, is when a man is ALWAYS having divided attention - as it now shallows the mind

amazing video, thank youu!

Cheers 🥂