David Foster Wallace on Boredom's Secret Benefits

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3 ай бұрын

How did David Foster Wallace feel about boredom? Well, today we will hear Wallace discuss boredom at length, and then discuss how we can implement his ideas in 2024!
Discover over 400 of David Foster Wallace's favorite books and the three books he wrote with by his side below
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@itsallgoodman4108 3 ай бұрын

As a young teenager i was at a park with family playing softball and got bored and went out to the fields and layed down in the shade. I just paid attention to the wind in the grass and the clouds and then next thing i knew i was talking to the wind. I asked questions and the wind would blow in a conscious response. This was my first experience with meditative stillness in nature, Ive since read about inanimate matter most likely having a conscious just like us. Silence allows us to speak to our setting

@blazehall8086 3 ай бұрын

Isn’t it profound when the wind starts picking up when you’re finding peace?

@DiogenesNephew 3 ай бұрын

Are you saying you think the wind is conscious?

@blazehall8086 3 ай бұрын

@@DiogenesNephew no I don’t believe they are in that sense, but rather present and spiritual in a sense. Higher dimension connecting back to us.

@zacnewford 3 ай бұрын

not me playing this video while eating cuz i can’t eat in silence.

@tmerk4292 3 ай бұрын

💀 same

@Vivepedia 3 ай бұрын

Man, I'm in bathtub.....

@mazolab 3 ай бұрын

Ain't nothin' boring about that mid video shirt change. Dopamine overload. Suprise lit bros, All the Pretty Horses T to pale blue leaf pattern button up in your face!

@edemont333 3 ай бұрын

Will you please do a fundamentals course on english. Cover the basic mechanics that every one should know. Help us out.😊

@hamzasaid3368 3 ай бұрын

I’d check out the book, The transitive Vampire. It’s short and it’s a good launching pad for books like, Artful Sentences, or, Garner’s Usage Dictionary.

@kentjensen4504 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful work, as always. You're my favorite liberal reactionary philosopher athlete. I suspect you might one day be one of my favorite writers. One thing, though; you have way too few basketball analogies. Please do way more basketball analogies. I can also work with golf or cross-country skiing analogies. Your call.

@drunken87 3 ай бұрын

Sitting here at 2 am, not valuing silence and boredom

@aanuoluwanikolawole6082 3 ай бұрын

Bro, I'm in the exact same situation.

@OneHitAway 2 ай бұрын

Meaning is not fixed but created through words and symbols and continuously constructed via our own ever-evolving interpretations

@WriteConscious 2 ай бұрын

Yes!

@ainslie187 3 ай бұрын

“Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul. Whilst the eternal generation of circles proceeds, the eternal generator abides. That central life is somewhat superior to creation, superior to knowledge and thought, and contains all its circles. For ever it labors to create a life and thought as large and excellent as itself; but in vain; for that which is made instructs how to make a better.” -Emerson

@RoguePlanetSounds 3 ай бұрын

Appreciate the late-night upload!

@racine1967 3 ай бұрын

The updated Wallace reading list is amazing - thanks!

@tmerk4292 3 ай бұрын

Great content bro. It's really comforting to know there are others on a similar path. I found your channel because I'm a huge DFW fan and I'm staying because we have very similar mindsets and goals.

@NeoCoriolanus 16 күн бұрын

Comforting is a great word for it. Cheers. It’s Soothing.

@MrsSurrealista 3 ай бұрын

I had a dejavu rn

@enriccoc7794 3 ай бұрын

from what I've read we engage in dopamine heavy activities because it suppresses our emotions, which makes sense if you also believe that the modern world is bombarding us with news and advertising that is designed to make us feel bad and afraid. I'm hoping the solution is to try to create a world for yourself where you can cultivate positive emotions and then you won't crave the dopamine behaviours. if anyone has tricks that work I would love to hear them.

@cstacksineedthat 3 ай бұрын

I feel like I'm in the same boat: I've learned about how all the ways dopamine and modernity is fucking is up dopamine-wise through porn, social media etc., stopping or minimizing that stuff. I'm also now trying to figure out what to do to "change my life" as it were. And everything I'm reading and watching is saying now: you have to actually do something. And what that is is probably pretty simple. I think for me, it will be reading more books, getting more into hobbies, and trying new things. Its small things, but they make up your life. E.g., I'm going to go to Barnes and Noble tomorrow instead of ordering a book online. Maybe go for a walk in the evening. Super banal stuff, but I think its about just getting out of a comfortable routine and having experiences in the real world, actually feeling alive etc. I'm reading this blog post that explains all of this modernity (as he calls it, I think most people would call it post or post-postmodernity): jdemeta.net/2019/09/15/exiting-modernity/

@light1908 3 ай бұрын

I love how you’ve been bringing up “the Trivium” lately, it’s absolutely crucial learning, and boy is Aristotelean Logic a slog! but well worth it.

@afromattt 3 ай бұрын

I've always thought that the balance worked the other way. Like we get a pain tolerance, where the pain has to get more and more to balance out our normal dopamine. That's why the pain is so intense and it feels insurmountable and makes you depressed.

@isawamoose 3 ай бұрын

Love this channel.

@apokalupsishistoria 3 ай бұрын

I was also into McLuhan but when I got into Shakespeare studying, turns out he had some interesting stuff to say on Thomas Nash and Gabriel Harvey, deep rabbit hole.

@light1908 3 ай бұрын

My number one retort these days to most things political, “Have you studied Aristotelean validity and soundness, let alone some basic philosophy when it comes to logical fallacies?!” The response is usually silence, a blank face, or some dig against my intelligence, as god forbid!

@cyberburnzy 3 ай бұрын

Two examples of sitting with silence. Sitting at a campfire with your dog watching the coals burn and shimmer. Working underneath an SUV and taking a break and just lay there doing nothing.

@rusedorange 3 ай бұрын

Fascinating! I think you have explained they keys to fulfillment here. I'm thinking about tying my kids down and making them watch this over and over. But it's for me I know. Attraction rather than promotion. I LOVED this video!

@sclr 3 ай бұрын

Strangely enough discovered the power of silence when skipping high school my senior year

@blueshades_mu 3 ай бұрын

Absolutely insane thumbnail

@jackson633 3 ай бұрын

I had a concussion and was into drugs when I read Infinite Jest, DFW seems to attract a type lol

@samwise6644 3 ай бұрын

Damn, this is a great one. I feel like you really nailed a lot of topics from media saturation, to relationships with yourself, meditation, addiction, and of course silence, which is the wellspring of creativity. I think you should explore these topics more, especially silence and solitude. Bukowski called isolation "a gift." Keep up the good work, my friend.

@edemont333 3 ай бұрын

Just out of curiosity, how many books of Harold Blooms cannon of classic literature have you read?

@pelleaskagain 3 ай бұрын

Guys and gals - is there a Write Conscious Discord, or something like it?

@light1908 3 ай бұрын

A number of years ago I heard a lecture from George Steiner on silence, and ever since then I try to seek out a bit of silence each day. I usually find it in my truck when driving for work, though it’s hardly silent, as strangely enough I have found that absolute silence is impossible to find, as even the planets are sending off a slight vibration, even my refrigerator is humming, that damn clock is ticking, or the fish tank in the corner is percolating! That’s why mediating is so interesting to me, as when I meditate I aim for silence of the mind, I work hard to stop all thought, and for those moments when it happens, it’s quite glorious! Anyhow, I could go on, but I’ll leave it here.

@rusedorange 3 ай бұрын

Even in most forests traffic noise is audible.