Dostoevsky - Walk Your Own Path, Face Your Errors

[@Aboriginal_Alien]

“going your own way” is much more difficult than it sounds. People often think they are thinking for themselves but in fact they are just being influenced by everyone and everything around them and not really relying on their own reasoning and objective observation of all data available.

[@Nahril]

Its not hard. All you got to do is admit to your own faults, failures and shortcomings. Accept this and take responsibility for yourself. Mea Maxima Culpa

[@minimushrom]

To start thinking for oneself, one needs to first aquire knowledge to base their decisions on. Reading books by people smarter than you or surrounding yourself with those people is very important. It is impossible to not be influenced. You need to learn how to judge and sort the influences you encounter.

[@Aboriginal_Alien]

@@minimushrom and can we define this sorting and judging you describe? In the end dose this sorting and judging render you uninfluenced by others so you can think for yourself? Is that even possible? All of this requires a lot more examination to truly understand what it means to think for oneself. I think of it as clarity as the highest form of resolution. When the background is completely silent the sound is the crispiest and when the stage is motionless the dancers movements are most clear. I do believe in originality but paradoxically is requires submission to the God, to the eternal now. It is an act of submission rather than doing because it is our own masks, our own egos or ideas about ourselves that colors the background of our choices and direct our foreground decisions. Thinking for ourselves happens of it’s self so, but first we have to get out of our own way.

[@freshliving4199]

Do you think you have free will?

[@RYO-dy8rk]

Thing is, in the end you are really thinking for yourself no matter if you’re being influenced or not. Still comes down to your own choice that you made. We all have choice. But i do get your point though and its interesting. I dont think you can ever not be influenced to some degree at any moment in life.

[@TEAforMIND]

This reminds me a mindful quote from Dalai Lama: "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road does not mean they are lost." Thanks for sharing 🙂

[@The_Riot]

A beautiful quote. Thanks for sharing 👍

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

Thanks for sharing this

[@JohnDoe-iu5xi]

This excuses bad behavior. Imagine a drug addict telling you he's following a different road by injecting heroin into his veins... Even their road can lead to a cliff or a forest. Telling someone they are walking in confusion should be heard.

[@The_Riot]

@@JohnDoe-iu5xi “roads seeking fulfillment AND happiness.” That’s obviously not referring to self destructive behaviors of which the Dalai Lama has already said plenty about. Stop nitpicking to nitpick.

[@JohnDoe-iu5xi]

@@The_Riot Who are you to say that? What if that brings them happiness? Just because they are not on your road does not mean they are lost. And how dare you say to stop nit picking. What if this brings me happiness? I am not lost. I am on my own road. Do you see how absurd this is?

[@Mika-ue4mc]

how timely, I just saw a post online saying "the eyes only sees what the mind is prepared to comprehend"

[@valerierogers9609]

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's" That'll be best quote of my year.

[@deadheadwsp705]

A lot of people could use this advice today. Too many people, including myself sometimes, would rather be ignorant in your own world view because it helps you simplify and rationalize the world around you. It makes you feel safe, but there is no growth, and it makes it easier to see others as wrong when maybe they just have a different perspective. Great video

[@feitanthegoat]

When sometimes I don't feel like reading, I just watch a couple of your videos. It is so rich in knowledge and wisdom. Thank you, keep up the good work.

[@napoleanbonapetite4087]

Hey I just wanted you to know I started watching your videos in 2016 back when you had 5k subs. I really liked your content, and also commented on one of your videos, to which you replied a good answer. Just wanted everyone watching his channel to know this is what hardwork, passion, and most importantly consistency does to your life.

[@skinnytimmy1]

I was just thinking about this earlier today. When we take accountability for all our actions we give ourselves the most power over our own lives.

[@jamiewilliams8107]

A friend of my partner constantly comes to us with her sorrows and bad news it doesn't help that she is a miserable person but at the end of the day its her journey.

[@self-inflictedphilosophy]

When you look back at the well-trodden path, the typical path, the all too boring and predictable path of the passive and fixed state of being human, your breath catches in your chest in sheer amazement at how you somehow could not see that choosing your own way was just a leap of courage away.

[@तारा-ब4र]

I have today decided that this is one my favorite channel. I really admire what you're doing and it enriches my life positively ❤ I want this channel to continue forever with this content

[@smaranraju]

It is better to perform one's own duty imperfectly than to master the duties of another

[@stevendalloesingh1214]

Glad that topics like this are being documented. No mumbo jumbo, straight truths.

[@aimeejane_writings]

Life is so fascinating though. It’s like a movie, you have to be your main character but also stop sometimes and observe from the outside. No one knows what is going to happen which just makes it so exciting to experience. There’s no point worrying about anything, just simply take it all in like a breath of fresh air.

[@MisterShimizu]

These are great videos! I also love how engaging and thought provoking the comment section is, for the most part. Cool stuff!

[@arwenundomiel6761]

@FreedomInThought : love that you're reflecting on this theme and that you have synthesized this to share with us all! It really speaks to me and the internal Renaissance of soul I'm going through.. Also love the beautiful souls who've commented on this thread...really uplifting to see that there are so many of us reflecting and working to more authentically follow our own unique paths through life

[@PopeCop]

You make this so easy to process through those dialogs! Thank you!

[@giorgimodebadze1869]

this is a video which I will show my children when they grow up.

[@high8871]

I CARVE MY OWN PATH YOU FOLLOWED YOUR WRATH

[@MrMarktrumble]

Thank you

[@qualiangelica]

Wish I had been raised with stuff like this

[@nhanphan1001]

This video just changed my mind

[@iamjust1normalgirlfromindi446]

I've always tried to take my own path. But.... 1. Sometimes i didn't admit to my mistakes. I was arrogant & wasn't conscious about it. 2. Sometimes, I've been rude to my elders, teachers, parents. 3. Until last year, i used to think that the people who are not on my path, were going in wrong direction. But thank god 🙂 I'm better than yesterday 😁

[@thefrustratedneetaspirant7777]

I was going to like this comment but i hate emojis

[@iamjust1normalgirlfromindi446]

@@thefrustratedneetaspirant7777 🥴

[@iamjust1normalgirlfromindi446]

@@thefrustratedneetaspirant7777 btw.... A trusfrated former jee aspirant here!

[@carpediem12380]

Exactly what I needed. Thanks.

[@G.F.SF55]

Wow, amazing

[@donte6830]

Perception is one crazy “thing”.

[@User-19273]

As much as I love the dialogue, I love the calming background music

[@roel7768]

By any chance do you know what song it is ??

[@guardianbo]

PERSPECTIVE

[@TienNguyen-us8nh]

I made a decision last year that I'm starting to regret now. But I wonder if I could've made a better decision as I was ignorant back then.

[@robinsonner5461]

mate you are killing it

[@BeStillandKnow0000]

I love this. Thank you for sharing 💘

[@sandycaptaincool420]

Willing to go wrong is perfectly okay. To be on someone else's path being right in their eyes while you know it is wrong traps your soul. I'll rather die than follow the trends of weak modern politics. Thank you for the video.

[@ManushyaAcademy]

Great summary of important fundamental concept.

[@Rusya-P]

2:18 to 7:12 This reminds me of this argument with my boyfriend on dishes. He asks me to neatly stack dirty dishes in 1 section of the 2 sinks so that it's easier to use the space around it. I disagreed with him. I don't see a reason to stack dirty dishes. If it's annoying, wash 'em. If you need the other sink to wash and prep food, cram the dishes into the other sink somehow. I don't mind if I accidentally move the running water into the full sink and get splashed from an angled bowl. As long as the dishes are not placed in a way where they can fall off the sink, it's all good. But I'm at a loss if I should do his way or find some sort of compromise. There was also an argument on slanting the plates at an "optimal" direction on the dish rack. Boyfriend places them in one preferred direction while I usually put them in the other direction.

[@MrHarryc727]

I am honored.

[@billymcintyre3887]

Amazing episode...

[@OA2605]

This was so informative and easy to comprehend. Thank you so much. All the questions the kid had, i had the same in my mind and you answered them all. Thanks alot

[@markogacevic9427]

Awesome video!

[@keenancheatham3619]

Thank you, really. Taught me lots.

[@friedricey]

This is critical thinking applied to life.

[@imvivekgaming4126]

Took me to deep thinking of my errors

[@andreiduminica5726]

Superb, brillian content! Thanks!

[@rafaelcosta9172]

The error's and the path's are already given by the society to you, thinking that you create them.

[@suchitra4710]

Hi sir Good morning sir. I trust and surrender universe. I don't know what is right and what is wrong. Om shakti para shakthi. I know the judgement of whatever it may be I just surrender to my mother universe. My Divine etc.

[@shelz5855]

Very nice

[@Why-nv2js]

It’s like a toddler and parents, toddler gets advice on how to walk. When the toddler can able to walk it goes to its path weather it’s right or wrong.

[@johnnyblaze2716]

I really enjoyed this. Thanks.

[@chooselifechoosetravel224]

Excellent video 👏thank you very much.

[@phillipngongo7398]

It's better to fail unconventionally than to fail conventionally. - Keynes

[@4pedul]

Good video!

[@risefromthedark]

I like him how he's now giving advice while mentioning that it's he's understanding of xyz theory. What I learne from this is that with all this knowledge and research he puts in his work he still open to anomaly and brave enough to accept others people understanding even if it is wrong or unwise.

[@nickdefrancesco330]

This is why I trust Waze and not Apple maps

[@yohohoyo5639]

Really good content. Thank you.

[@nureddinbasti6276]

great topic

[@passangdorjeelepcha5565]

oh that was good

[@shentashiko120]

When your a bungou stray dogs fan and u cliked this video because of the Dostoevsky.... That's literally me and i like this video ngl✨🌟✌️

[@patrickconnolly2654]

The real problem is whether or not your Knowledge gets better (or worse) over time.

[@jesterc.6763]

Matt Dillahunty should take notes. this is awesome.

[@MohamedEllebody--]

super amazing

[@atifzaheer190]

7:11 But why do we need to be in agreement when we can disagree and walk our own ways regardless of whether they are wrong.

[@HenryCasillas]

💜

[@rldluz]

Is it Razumikhin who says that? I remember he saying something similar to Raskolnikov when they are coming back from a party at his new place...

[@anirudhrox8839]

I know it's quite late.. but I'd like to contradict.. this brings us back to that cliff the grandpa asked you to jump from.. how would you know if you'll die or get injured if you jump? it is because you've seen others do it and you learnt from their mistakes.. you can't always keep making mistakes to learn.. sometimes, you have to learn from other people's mistakes.. coz you repeating them may be scarring or even fatal.. science has always been like that.. we didn't reinvent gravity or relativity.. we took Newton's and Einstein's theories to move forward and develop space shuttles based on those theories... if everybody keeps making mistakes to learn, humanity won't progress..

[@pickst3373]

How can you reach truth from errors when having limited time to live?

[@Ppooh002]

Well said. Keep it up

[@asif.mahmud]

❤️

[@mschrisfrank2420]

Great video…despite my dislike of Crime and Punishment.

[@glavniyshaman752]

such a cool channel :0

[@Kin-l4n]

Very life supportive video ,but are you interpreting your video to other languages because it is essential that you serve the nutritious dish I mean assuming the languages as different nutrition .

[@i_i_capncrunch]

How do I know whether to trust this priest or not???

[@action16x2]

Yes yy

[@action16x2]

Trust nobody

[@CalmCollector]

HOW CAN U TRUST ANYTHING, HOW DO U KNOW WE ARE NOT LIVING IN A SIMULATION, HOW CAN U KNOW IF ME IS REALLY ME?

[@rajashrighosh2829]

Exact sloke is there in the Bhagavad Gita.

[@JoeMama-np8vi]

ABILITY: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

[@jakubwrona2040]

What's the music in the background ?

[@carlosreyessanchez322]

I watched the whole video without realizing I own the book he’s talking about 🤣 I haven’t read it I’m reading meditations at the moment

[@dibbyochakraborty1829]

Can I replace apples with people,opposite gender or friends? Like after long feeling "Girls are like this only"?

[@Aldronsho]

Brilliant. Just one supplement, it doesn't work on lazy people who don't wirk hard on pursuit new knowledges and proactivly open to anomaly new ideas or facts .

[@fatmanur8452]

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[@ehsantj1935]

I completely understand it but there is something that I am seriously skeptic about: what is it that makes us believe we are approaching the truth through the errors? I do not think that there is any strong evidence for justifying that belief. We just learn to be in hamony with the world's dynamic nature; it does not mean that we are going to reach the truth.

[@Mo-or3so]

What exactly is the ‘truth’? Life is something to be experienced it’s a journey and the way I see it the only truth is that you’ll end up dead and buried eventually. A bit of a pessimistic view but it’s the only thing promised to you in life but that doesn’t mean we have to be gloomy about it. It’s crazy I’m currently on my own path and I’m constantly struggling to overcome my bad habits and my anxiety and fears. I’m improving but what’s shocking is every time I encounter a ‘truth’ about something I realised that’s it was never the truth just a concept and illusion of it that was warped by my own thoughts and emotions. It’s like a never ending rabbit hole the further I go in the more I see things for what they really are and that’s great.

[@pleasebiteme9823]

Best example for this wise words. U do homework. U don‘t know the answer. 1. U copy your friend Or 2. U try it urself and take the risk. 🙏

[@darkskinwhite]

teacher guy smoked that shit lol

[@paulsaunders3767]

What's the background song?

[@LS-cs9rq]

So Raskolnikov walked his own path, right or wrong, and killed the old lady. This can be avoided if he walked someone else’s ‘right way’. Does that mean we shouldn’t be blindly act at our will regardless of the outcome?

[@koruspring1519]

Following this advice I have achieved something my peers had not. I had intercourse with both women and men, I tried drug, I stole money from my boss, and killed a man. I learned many things my peers had not. I'm looking forward to the day I can be out of jail and implements all I have learned.

[@grimsobad8545]

But then again trusting someone is going your own way, because you decided to trust them which makes a paradox

[@0ld_Scratch]

So should I follow his advice and walk my own path or should I walk my own path and ignore it?

[@Mo-or3so]

‘ Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both marble and the sculptor’ - Alexis Carrel

[@niellessacharya7932]

Believe me, either it was the scriptwriter or the actors in the roleplay were high on WEED!!!

[@jhonmalen9356]

Even though, you said anomaly more than 10 times I kept forgetting it, this is a comment to help remember. Also very delightful and most informative video.

[@sonamdeki6888]

The Messy decision we make with life

[@karentonks7581]

Like the black swan..people thought there were only ever white swans until the day they discovered there were black swans

[@dibeos]

Beautiful, but you went wrong in your own way. Dostoevsky did not say that. He said “To lie in your own way is almost better than truth told by a stranger” in Russian. The English translation is totally off.

[@zenzeno1652]

This is powerful information brother. You have a great gift for spreading your message!🧩✅💚

[@swapnasunder2152]

Life can be so confusing.. It amazes me to know there are people who are able to cut through that information or chatter in your head to sentences or concepts that make sense.. Thanks🌹

[@rhythmdroid]

I agree! If you want the sharpest knife of all, it's Dr. Jordan Peterson.

[@forfucksakecomrade]

@@rhythmdroid nah lmao

[@donthurtanyone]

What makes life so confusing?

[@Bigbentwoten]

just like u did!

[@deepu4665]

@@donthurtanyone overthinking is the cause

[@andrewcleverly1322]

"I will tell you how to become rich. Close the door. Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful". Invest Now.

[@andrewcleverly1322]

@John Alfred crypto investment, but you will need a professional guide on that.

[@andrewcleverly1322]

@John Alfred Mark J. Ramsey

[@pablogh1204]

Genial! 7:25 👏👏👏, i quote: "To walk your own path is to realize that you are always acting on your own knowledge. Even when you're getting directions from someone else, you choose to take their advice based on your own understanding of the world" I love that insight!😎 Gives a lot to think about 🤔 Then as consequence 7:38 : "And when you realized that all of your actions always come back to your own knowledge in some form, and you decide to take responsability for that, and you decide not to blame anyone else for your actions, then you're walking your own path".

[@pablogh1204]

One way of thinking that Dostoyevsky phrase would be that one does not "learn" from the solutions of others but with our own effort, that the tree only bears fruit after it grows, that we have to discover things for ourselves, that we will never know which is the "correct answer" because we always avoid the problem looking for the solutions of others, that only in security and certainty do we lose the effort that life entails, growing up. All understanding is discovery, without understanding the solutions are not ours but fleeting.

[@636Knight]

@@pablogh1204 well thought out and written 👏

[@bobdillaber1195]

What you have written there is what I have come to believe over my 8 decades. If I had read what you wrote in my 4th decade I wouldn't have known what you were talking about.

[@arrow1042]

So beautiful. And if you're following and deciding on your own knowledge, even if you went wrong, you're still on the right path.

[@Treverbarlow]

This follows the same reasoning as to why I stopped telling anyone what to do or what I would do. Even if they ask me directly. I found so much more peace in my mind when I stopped judging others for not doing the "right thing" or "not doing it the way I would do it". Now whenever I have conversations about a tough situation someone is having and someone is deciding between A or B, we just talk about both options. Usually they will do what they were already leaning towards anyway and they will "make their decision based off their own knowledge"

[@kelseytm6715]

Exactly! I used to get offended when someone asked me for advice and didn't act on it. Now I don't even bother. I've also come to cherish my agency more than anything and try not to judge people anymore.

[@nikhilkumar6736]

Honestly, I am still struggling with that if someone is doing something that doesn't relate to my understanding, I just regard it as wrong and start judging them for being wrong. Also about giving advice to others!!

[@rezapahlevi3493]

Yup, that's true! The more we walk on our path the more we realize that everyone has their own path too with different knowledge & opinion to the world. The more i try to understand myself the more i understand people are different and need to walk it's path whether they wrong or not and it's their right to upgrade the knowledge.. We just need to use different knowledge in different places and time i think this is what the meaning of time and place is relative (philosophical saying)

[@mechailreydon3784]

Man I stopped trying to tell people what they should do for about two years now. At first it feels like you have nothing valuable to tell the person but then you learn to listen properly. Generally speaking I find that people are much more willing to open up to me now. And it’s like we’re exploring their problems together.

[@voidspirit111]

I think it depends on the case and just giving up on trying to make things better or helping ppl is worse than putting up with having your advice ignored. Just accepting that everyone has it's own path and that you should leave them alone can cause issues for you at some point. An example would be with politicians.. by your reasoning we should just let them do whatever, no accountability from the public. Or not try to correct and make ppl more informed about certain issues and as a rrsult their desinformation and ignorance leads to systemic problrms that also affect you. On the other hand, if you have a friend that just wants to go and blow al hiis money on sweets and other stuff and not care about the future then , yes you can let him.ho his own path My point is to accept that ppl are going their own way but not stop trying to make things better. Note: If you don't care how things will be later and take things as they are and, as long as you don't have regrets or get in a situation where there is no escape ( had you tried to communicate more or had you convinced some ppl that a trend is bad, maybe things would not have ended up like that) then i guess it worka out for you.

[@vladyslavanufriiev1224]

"I may not always be right, but I'm never in doubt" Whoever said that

[@havenbastion]

There's a quote about leadership, something like, You can be mistaken but you can never be uncertain.

[@socialmediaalliance]

Dan Pena

[@crosstolerance]

Man, i adore that quote!

[@mehakverma7043]

thats bad. Nietzsche says doubt everything. Question, and be inquisitive. Only then will you learn anything.

[@crosstolerance]

@@mehakverma7043 "Acceptance is clear to the one that challenges all others." Take everything at face value until you've exhausted all known possibilities.

[@work-in-progress]

I often forget how powerful facing our fear and unconditional self-acceptance is. It's also my b'day today, not that it matters much, but a gift to myself is honouring the above two with a growth mindset no matter how difficult the current circumstances are. Thank you :)

[@sans4124]

Happy birthday Buy a cake

[@antonelimgenco5716]

Happy Birthdayy wishing you all the best !!

[@M_is_lost]

Happy birthday 🎉

[@kidkinnu1993]

Belated Happy Birthday 🎂🥳 Of course your birthday matters, it was the day a new universe came into existence 🙂

[@xorqwerty8276]

Happy birthday!

[@abhijitbhushan]

Another aspect about going your own way, even if it's wrong, is about learning. Going the wrong way or failing, gives one the opportunity to learn from one's mistakes. We learn to learn. Going the right way when it's someone else's way, robs us of the opportunity of experimenting and finding out why the right way is right or vice-versa.

[@havenbastion]

Nothing is a complete loss if you learn something from it.

[@Gwunderi25]

Exactly my understanding.

[@memazov6601]

The school system is completely screwed because of everyone is expected to do good all the time

[@manveersingh6927]

Bro im feeling stressed goin college everyday man we are given work from beginning of the yr. i just wanna do my own thing man

[@memazov6601]

@@manveersingh6927 In order change a system you must rebel for good of all

[@manveersingh6927]

@@memazov6601 im rebellious by nature but im afraid of what might happen

[@memazov6601]

@@manveersingh6927 Sometimes you have to take risk in order to expect change

[@rhythmdroid]

I think the school system is screwed also because we tell every single child that they are a magical unicorn and "amazing" right from day one, for absolutely no reason. By the time they get to college they are anxious, confused, eager to go along with the crowd, and self-entitled as fuck.