Is Life Too Short? Liveaboard Cruising and The Human Brain | Sailing Balachandra E076

[@MedicFlyer]

This was one of my favorite to date. Facinating subject and lots of good video snipits. Plus ofcourse it was different from the travel log routine. It is great to see you guys out there keeping your brains healthy. :)

[@calmauric8218]

That was excellent 😁 thanks mate. Very insightful.

[@DougVarble]

I do agree with your philosophy, but I believe in Casey Neistat who made a video on a similar philosophy, stating if you are 5 one year is 20% of your life but if you 10 one year is 10% of your life and if you are 50 one year is 2% of your life. This gives all of us the feeling our life is going by more quickly as we age. Live everyday 🏝

[@sailingavocet]

WOW! Great video you guys. Keep it up!

[@ToddDuplerDUPDAWG]

Preach! 👍🏻👊🏻❤️✌🏻

[@MrRourk]

Good philosophy and spend that time well out there on the blue.

[@liamstone3437]

I think you have forced me toward an epiphany. I will have to rethink my priorities and stop pleasing everyone but myself - especially when their desires lead to my enslavement until the day I die with no hope of retirement. I am old now and getting tired. Too old to keep pace with unrealistic expectations. If I can be happy with less - then the key word is that I will be happy.

[@gabrielmoreno1592]

If l am in the Caribbean one day I will come to greet you, I always follow you, greetings from Argentina

[@tybowman6946]

Agreed... AND life is too short. I’ll tell you what else is too short, your Raspberry Pi project. (I was a programming and electronics junkie.)

[@Easylife103]

This video blew and opened my mind to a new way of seeing life! Thank u 😊 🙏🏼

[@zencrasailing5732]

Excellent take on our lives, well done Dan.

[@mikegardiner335]

You have helped me understand something that has perplexed me for years. I am in the later years of my life, the last thing I want is my brain on standby - handling repetitive tasks.Thanks for your insight.

[@paultaylor6294]

Watch to the end !, it will stick with you for awhile

[@openwindow9680]

I agree with you 100% Thanks for your videos Nuno Portugal

[@EmilyAndClark]

Really great perspective on life and cruising. This is why Clark retired at 36, and why I stopped working in my 30s too. -E

[@ketchingmy2ndwindsvchopsticks]

Very interesting & well done!! 😎⛵🥢

[@SaltyEscape]

Loved this episode! We are about to buy our own Cruiser.... So hoping our perception of time will slow down, just as you have described! Corey and Becky (Salty Escape)

[@stevenr8606]

🤙 Island time 🏝 , ah yes Hawaiian time. That's worth remembering. Mahalo/Thanks 😊

[@MalloyUnfiltered]

#INTERESTING.

[@EventRentalSystems]

What a great perspective. In retrospect I agree. We’re in the process of finding our live aboard boat now. I very much hope to confirm your observations in the near future.

[@sailingavocet]

right??

[@L5man]

As a neuroscientist and psychologist for the last 40 years........what did you say?

[@notwhatiwasraised2b]

Not sure where you're going with this channel but I want to know everything you're thinking about sail plans and trim in weather. If you can mount some cameras on the fore stay or back stay and narrate after the fact (cause you'll be busy in weather) I'd be obliged

[@billhanna8838]

Been sailing , Cruising & racing for 60 years & the one thing i've learnt is this = Life is not a rehearsal - Enjoy. Fair winds my friends .

[@johnestep]

I'm curious if you have a psychology background? As this makes perfect sense to me ;)

[@sailingavocet]

also questioning that

[@johnestep]

@@sailingavocet Hey I follow you too! lol

[@sailingavocet]

@@johnestep awh! well thank you :)

[@SailingBalachandra]

My (Dan) ex-wife is a psychologist. Learned a lot from her- also big into watching lectures about conciousness and perception.

[@roythomas9376]

Far Niente Was also wondering about psychology background. Thanks. I’m 61 and debating retiring @ 64 or 67. I think I have my answer. Maybe cruiser years are like dog years in reverse. 1 cruiser year = 7 work years.

[@WillN2Go1]

"Keeping a journal." Focus on this a bit more, especially as a KZbinr. What I've noticed this week is that there seem to be dozens of Cruising KZbin Channels. Some of which seem to fit me more perfectly than others. However, they're story telling skills are weak, there are too many montages of just really not shots that don't communicate anything. Then there are channels like yours, that are not a close fit to who I am and how I hope to sail. However, you're more part of the conversation of video, writing, photography; information and discussion. That's because you do a great job communicating what you are doing, thinking and discussing the ideas around sailing and cruising. What I've discovered is that the first five years or so of writing journals, you're not that good at it. This probably dovetails with your point about the 9 to 5 world. A great way to jump start that first five years of journal writing is to do something interesting and write about it. Cruising? Terrific way to start. But again a lot of the early stuff will be detailed accounts of going through customs, frustration over some repair that isn't going right... After a while you'll realize that buying a 6mm rope somehow seems impossible on three islands isn't about the state of Caribbean chandleries, it's about some aspect of who you are and your relationship with the world or some part of it. Back to the first years of journal writing. Often this happens when you're a teenager or it never happens. So those first journals are all that obsessive middle and high school nonsense (isn't most of being a teenager about being obsessed about nonsense, and being annoyed, bored, offended, and disappointed) Those early journals if your kid brother gets a hold of them and reads them out to your friends: total embarrassment. But after those early years something happens. You become one of your own favorite writers. And if you travel, or cruise, and keep a journal, when you read those passages later you'll discover that thanks to the process of writing about it, then the density of information in those entries that your mind didn't remember, you experience a richer, deeper memory of part of your life. Want to live longer? Live deeper. Mean, stupid, bigoted, cruel people I don't think ever write journals. They might keep lists, though. "Good day. Kicked a dog. Shoplifted three things. Scrawled on a bathroom wall." Hopefully this bit of unedited nonsense supports what I got out of your video, and maybe some young person reading this will start writing a journal. And hopefully you'll see how writing makes your thoughts and thinking broader and more complex; hopefully more interesting.