Unlock Your Intelligence with Stephen Fry | The ‘Work In’ Podcast

[@jacquelinejane903]

Stephen Fry is a multi-talented, compassionate, intelligent, elegant man. He's funny too! We need more thoughtful men like him who have the emotional intelligence to navigate this complex world.

[@DD-lc8ei]

Hi beep beep

[@jasonsampson1301]

U don't say🙄... pathetic..

[@lynetteedwards2713]

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[@azadrasheed497]

He was brilliant in Black Adder

[@DonnaSuva]

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[@НатальяЯворская-п1р]

A 4-minute intro is simply impolite towards the guest...Mr Fry is gorgeous, as always. Thank you.

[@labradormcgraw]

Listening to Stephen Fry is so calming. No wonder he narrates so many audio books; one can listen to his voice for hours. A national treasure for sure! Thank goodness there are still people like Stephen Fry in the world.

[@zcphilip1919]

Very calming

[@Goosetube12345]

All day long. All day long, I could listen to Stephen Fry talk.

[@mx_ppv]

Stephen’s reaction to the introduction is priceless :)

[@polyphem4841]

Haha, i thought the same already watching the first time. Then read your comment, watched the beginning again just focusing on stephen and couldn't stop laughing!!

[@jaitjacob]

wtf he just went on and on and on...

[@bcscotland]

Yes Stephen is a major skeptic and hates woo.

[@GeeEmming]

@@bcscotland he's very clever, of course he's skeptical haha

[@fransmith3255]

He's expression mirrored my thoughts... Who's the moron presenter? He needs a lecture on how to be a presenter.

[@lukematousek9201]

S F articulates the nuance of the human condition in a way that elucidates and humbles simultaneously. Full of wonder and hope.

[@Liutgard]

One of the highest points on my bucket list is the opportunity to have a nice long talk with Stephen Fry...

[@cicadaluk4186]

Stephen’s way to formulate things in depth but simplistic is truly amazing

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

Stephen may be able to simplify complex ideas, but is never simplistic (simplistic is over simplification, which loses information or the point of an idea).

[@juliaomelchenko1132]

Reading through comments I see once again that the world is in desperate need of programs to develop mental health and emotional intelligence, empathy, kindness. Critical mind can be a powerful tool in kind hands and a terrible exhausting burden when we use it to put people down. People need to learn how to improve silence and make the world better. Mental health charity is a great idea! Thank you, Dan! You did a great job with this interview.

[@YourHeights]

That is such a comprehensive, intelligent and emotionally intelligent response, really do appreciate the kind words! We're a new startup that launched in the pandemic and have been blessed to have real high quality customers back us and believe in us so we've tried our best to bring their wisdom and insights to the public too. So thrilled you enjoyed it, every pleasant comment like yours really does make a difference to us (we're humans reading the comments after all!) ♥

[@toforgetisagem8797]

I am with what you say with just one little quibble. Silence can make a great weapon. When someone refuses to talk it is hard to know what is going on for them. Silence when protracted in the sense of no noise can drive people crazy. To have a completely silent room can cause hallucination, Just plain quite can make me feel very lonely. My view is silence should be used carefully,

[@juliaomelchenko1132]

@@toforgetisagem8797 I agree. What I meant is that silence can be improved by good, kind, wise words. People shouldn't stay silent and apathetic. They should speak out but only to improve not to destroy.

[@toforgetisagem8797]

@@juliaomelchenko1132 Oh sorry. I misunderstood. I now completely agree. There is no need for snarkiness.

[@annamia0307]

I am German, and I really adore and listening to this interview. I am impressed by Stephen Fry's "down on earth" and kindness.

[@wakajawaka44]

Andy Roo Presumably this lady speaks very good German. I am English and I would love to speak German as well as she speaks English!

[@annamia0307]

@@wakajawaka44 Thanks a lot :-)

[@annamia0307]

@Andy Roo aha :)

[@annamia0307]

@Andy Roo precociousness I would say :-))

[@magnusthearts]

The One reason above quite a number of other reasons I love this man, Stephen Fry, is that he answers Dan's first question in some depth and then, when he has reasoned for a bit, Stephen does what every curious, intelligent, compassionate people do. He asks Dan what his opinion is on the subject matter and he really wants to know. That is very nice. :)

[@johntavers6878]

Fry uses language so much better than the rest of us, and I feel this is also a large component of intelligence. Whenever he talks I need to pause and listen again 2 or 3 times. He says so much very succinctly and poetically.

[@johntavers6878]

@serendipidus1 This really isn't about any specific language. For example, if he were a native French speaker instead then I think he would still use it very well and sound intelligent. The language center of his brain is somehow superior.

[@emmanuelkoutsoudakis4614]

@@johntavers6878 well said

[@neorich59]

I can never get enough of listening to this wonderful Human Being. Amazingly humble in his brilliance!

[@MarxistKnight]

I could literally listen to Stephen talk about paint dry, somehow he would make it a beautiful and intelligent thing.

[@xxxenricop]

Paint, if for paint you mean a pigment steeped in a solution that might be desiccating albeit slowly and gently shriveling gently in the sun... I totally agree 😂

[@RuthShultz47]

Stephen Fry is absolutely lovely! Smart, Imaginative, and bravely able to learn by allowing himself to fail his way to success. He is a kind, funny man as well.🙂

[@TheCptJackie]

What a long way Mr Fry has come since his first TV interviews, when he seemed so shy and nervous! I think he is probably a reincarnation of Oscar Wilde, whom he played so brilliantly in the biopic. I could listen to him all day.

[@paulszymanski1005]

Great interview- more people like Stephen around and the world would be a better place

[@savetheplanet2982]

Absolutely love Stephen Fry, one of my idols

[@jimboyle6974]

Anything with Stephen Fry in it, I'm going to watch

[@angeladawn805]

Well Jim, lucky for us, he's doing lots of audio books.... He's awesome - both as an actor, and in this forum, getting us to open our minds :)

[@jimboyle6974]

@@angeladawn805 yes Angela, his memoirs are a hoot

[@claudiascott6654]

Love all things Stephen.. from the mythology series to his rational and educated views on religion. Thank you, Stephen

[@jessicabrownlow2467]

Such a wonderful conversation, I adore hearing Stephen talk! I also really enjoyed the questions Dan selected from live feed! Brilliant!

[@YourHeights]

Thank you so much for the feedback, we're really grateful for the kind words and your support, we're new to youtube but hopefully just getting started!!

[@josefschiltz2192]

@@YourHeights Is it right for the majority - the so-called neurotypicals - to make autists feel suicidal? Going through a difficult time at the moment.

[@michaelstuart3593]

So happy Stephen answered by question about philosophy👍 Thank you for this wonderful conversation

[@MeMyself-jz9ms]

Reall nice job, especially as it’s your first try! Really impressed with this podcast. What a coup to get SF on your first video! Such a well designed conversation. A list of bookmarks for the different points covered would be awesome..and maybe don’t keep him waiting while you do a long preamble. But I think that comes with experience.

[@Dug6666666]

1:02:00 "Are you aware of the flynn effect?" Stevens reaction is priceless, as someone who devours learning new things.

[@whirlwhind666]

surprised to see him talk about centrism so positively? Maybe he has a different definition that i do

[@keatsgipsy9991]

So happy to see Stephen Fry 🌟

[@doctorbenway2840]

He’s such a nice person. A man of good will, as Jules Romain would say, a humanist to and through.

[@mariajosefanjul6105]

Nobody is completely material or spiritual, we are a mix of both and it's best when we see it and accept it for who we are, so that we open the doors of enquire further.

[@hayleyannamathieson7261]

Great interview. I adore Steven Fry. 🤗

[@tigranmikayelyan3963]

Really, utterly wonderful Stephen Fry!!!

[@nextworld9176]

Fry's insight about alcohol--that two people might have extremely different responses to drinking it, compares this to a medication which might have completely different affects on different people. That's made me smarter instantly.

[@redmed10]

It's always best to leave the final question to the end.

[@brynyard]

Concerning taking taking care of yourself, I once got an "advice" from a friend that "If you don't like yourself, how can you expect anyone else to like you?"

[@YourHeights]

Such incredible advice from your friend! Something we all need to live by.

[@barbarasmith2693]

Delightful! I enjoyed this so much.

[@julir3754]

"Allá those corporate people willing to piss in every corner"...💥 What an accurate and ingenious characterization!

[@graemejack9040]

I love listening to Stephen speak about any subject. I love how honest and open he's been about his life. I can't stop listening/watching him, Jordan Peterson, Brett Weinstein, Sam Harris etc. So fascinating.

[@victordkv8525]

"the drive to find out" - nice. also, I learned the word 'junk thoughts' from the comments. I suffer from them too. what a topical term.

[@tintintintin]

What an incredible and inspiring man!

[@topperdepop]

Interview starts @4:04.

[@Yuki-nz5xy]

I would like to see dr. Gabor Mate talking to Steven. It would be a brilliant and mind-blowing exchange of knowledge.

[@hdholl9696]

Is there any background for a ZOOM-dialogue that is more inspiring than a library full of well aligned books in hard cover?

[@alisonmcshannon1196]

fat and diseased 😭 I am in the toil and reward loop... at 52 there's been plenty of health warnings. I measure myself against my inner landscape of what have I been doing to myself and the world today? I am what I am in this life... and I observe that as divine knowledge ❤️

[@anuradhainamdar8967]

Such a wide grasp of subjects, literature, philosophy, psychology,writing, comedy acting,radio chronicles recital, love of cricket and nature since he lives in country side Norfolk, makes a very popular personality of him though he agrees that he suffers from bi - polar disease.

[@xxxenricop]

How odd. Stephen said he would have been diagnosed with ADHD as a child and yet he said before he was able to concentrate for long periods of time at a young age and read books avidly as a child. I am a secondary school teacher, and have yet to come across a child diagnosed, or even "on the "spectrum", that reads avidly or concentrates for long periods. Would love to hear more about his and your thoughts about this and today's "early diagnoses" in general.

[@korbnmcdonald1304]

So you knew he did come. And drinks vodka like water

[@korbnmcdonald1304]

Sorry, Coke

[@wvhollargirl7549]

Stephen Frye. A treasure to this life. ✨️. If you read this Sir Frye, thank you and Carl Sagan to giving this skinny little coal miners daughter a taste of a world view. You and Mr. SAGAN as well as many others a great chance to participate in our short life in a greater capacity.

[@alangreenway6695]

I guess we can use intelligence gain knowledge about a subject or theory or practise and entirely understand it, but there is another intelligence in the ability to apply that knowledge to work or situations in our own lives. Whether that be knowing a word and using it correctly at the right time, or understanding the workings of physics and maths and use that knowledge to invent the device that solves humanities problems. Because what’s the point of being clever if you don’t use it?

[@arricammarques1955]

Informative conversations.

[@redmed10]

Just in case you couldn't hear exactly what Stephen said "They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

[@michaelscott6880]

Man you have to do these advertisements before you have these VIPs on... It is just disrespectful.

[@YourHeights]

Hey sorry you feel like that but this was a live interview and we were giving some context to what we're about, especially as we're a startup in a pandemic, we like to think people are supportive of startups, like stephen who's our customer, has been. And fortunately they have been 👍

[@michaelscott6880]

@@YourHeights Concise if that's the case! Or after the video! You have a great idea going, I sent an inquiry to your website about your supplements.

[@francaperotti5934]

Stephen's ADHD was very noticable at the beginning.

[@shirleyporter9025]

If my brain was made from velvet.......Stephen smooths it down.

[@korbnmcdonald1304]

The REAL story behind S. Try starts @ 29:29. It's like a confession of something. I've never heard this information!?! Anyone else!!!

[@elizabethk3238]

Stephen is a lovely person...

[@ameoana1258]

saptamana viitoare a fost foarte obositoare :)

[@redmed10]

"Spunked my intelligence against the wall" . Wonder how many people outside the UK understood what he said there.

[@Not_a_number_]

Haha yea, I thought that could have gone over some heads.

[@colinnuttall9579]

I love Stephen Fry’s comment about ‘falling between two stools,’ when attempting to describe wisdom. This one had never previously crossed my bows. Only I didn’t think it to be between two occasional breakfast seats, and I t suddenly seemed a much more fitting thing. Mr. Fry’s comments about intelligent people being happy to define themselves by the things they don’t know seems about right to me. It’s always a pleasure to watch Mr. Fry’s comments on anything, he is eminently watchable.

[@toforgetisagem8797]

To put in the drive and the opportunity. This often equivequates to time and money. Those with money to buy a good education are those who often have the public position to define what intellegence is . Those who do not have that time and money are often to caught up in keeping the roof over their head and food on their plates to have the good fortune to have their intellegence tried out and bothered about.

[@gamenation9485]

Only if everyone had this overall understanding of intellect, silence is a weapon & Stephens a gatling gun sailing on a ship that has the power to restore values.

[@ameoana1258]

after all... admission of facts...is perseverance

[@janinebjorkman5540]

What is the hairy thing on Stephen Fry's left?

[@michaelpalmer2149]

You have Stephen Fry on and you want short, 'snappy' answers? Who did you think you were talking with? Nobody wants short answers from Stphen Fry! :D

[@prof-es]

💙 Stephen Fry 💛

[@thomaslutro5560]

Stephen: I do go on, don't I? Me: Do go on, Stephen!

[@thegraphicsfactory]

Great stuff

[@Nicole-fp9cy]

I have schizophrenics very different to bipolar disorder, and in South Africa if you have tried to take your life, and get put on a Disability Grant you become a ward of the state, which pretty much means. You don't have a say in your disability. And its very discriminating in South Africa.

[@Nicole-fp9cy]

My best friend is 80 years old and he is the only person that its important for me to know , just him what I have done, can you help.

[@jennifercox576]

Strange comment. Do not understand it at all. What am I missing??

[@ameoana1258]

respect...life...forms

[@lorettamertz2800]

Mr. FRY SEEMS LIKE A VERY PLEASANT CHAP

[@susancarolan153]

Does this mean that I would have to stop all the other prescribed drugs for my mind, my brain and all the rest of my poor old body if I took these expensive supplements. ?? Getting old is really horrible. Ask Shakespeare xxxsusan 👍🤞⚖🔮🌈🙏🏻

[@ameoana1258]

...it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be...

[@danieljones741]

...i threw the blunt piano at the out of tune lawn mower, they found solace.

[@ameoana1258]

supercalifragilistic (:) danke

[@franciscowalker5104]

too heavy and long an introduction

[@Gwen2010ish]

But good listening skills afterward.

[@fransmith3255]

Exactly! And it wasn't an introduction. It was a lecture!

[@xxxenricop]

Especially as he mentioned the ted short sharp format, while droning on....😀 Still a very good session all things considered 🔥

[@delportps84]

Stephen looked bored 😀

[@willmpet]

Critical not Skeptical

[@daxattwood3917]

Stephen, my cousin Nicole likes you and has an uncle named Shuiab

[@markgaffney8064]

Exactly

[@ardentynekent2099]

Samyogita Hardikar --over there, has a great question if time allows. -------------------------------------->

[@TinaJesse859]

Stephen was great (as always). Shame about the amateurish host. Especially having Stephen sat there as the host does his promotional stuff. Someone needs to explain to him that you should let the host go before you start doing all that. I felt embarrassed for Stephen trying to look interested.

[@rustypiece2549]

Art, in times of crisis, is nothing more than a gold watch

[@ameoana1258]

likewise

[@AllyPerrott]

Soooo, Karl Pilkington was right 🧐

[@ardentynekent2099]

Hahaha! Laughing and crying. The Monte Blanc pen, the grey suit. He was an MP! Bit odd... to paraphrase. I am not laughing at Stephen's painful childhood, but he is a humorist. The rest is simply tragic.

[@Nicole-fp9cy]

I don't have a Disability I have an ability.

[@kiwitrainguy]

Everyone is good for something. If we lack in one area we make up for it somewhere else.

[@danieljones741]

...what's becoming increasingly pertinent is that satyrists are talking about the more stable ideas regarding a healthy society and that the delegated crowd, the elected are falling over each other in their stampede to the ridiculous.

[@ameoana1258]

reasonable enough :)

[@ryanfitzgerald9833]

I wonder if he remembers what centrists are in the United States versus the rest of the world.

[@kryori]

I do adore hearing Stephen Fry's thoughts but by the 5 minute mark this had hit so many insincere or overwrought notes that I just couldn't continue any further. Keep it short and simple.

[@davidwilkie9551]

Intelligence and Wisdom?, received and integrated, combinations of intuitive experience and concept recognition. The sort of thinking about computing purposes and techniques required to make it work, maybe. If there's a self-defining temporal superposition identification of intelligence in all forms meditated on then it's recognition-realisation of being here-now-forever at this metastable proportioning probability cause-effect, instantaneously consciously aware of the centre of Time Duration Timing Conception-Singularity. The Experience is rarely in tune holistically with the re-presentation circumstances, and tends to oscillate, if not high and low emotionally, then rough and smooth intellectually according to content and context of life in general. You're on your own, trust nothing and nobody, learn by doing Intuitive thinking for yourself, while not permanently believing anything you have not checked. (And don't take advice from the internet?) There IS the infinite difference between Philosophy that recognises Act-uality and Magical Thinking that hopes to recreate relevance +&-. "Be still and know"... that what, how and why "I am you and you are me and we are all together" in Totality.., in which "true forgiveness", cause-effect.., means given before now, implies fate-consequence accomplished, all-ready too late for questions involving judgement of "Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so". We are the "Ghost in the QM machine" of Time. When all else fails, read the instructions.., it's Totality all around you.

[@mfw1936]

If you want to watch Stephen Fry, start this 4 minutes in. This Dan person yacks and sells his product for that long before we see something worth watching.

[@alangardiner872]

intelligence has no relation to where you are born, perhaps you mean the education you receive. Intelligence is an inbuilt ability.

[@tigertruth543]

After that introduction i would have walked out. It was too long and therefore rude. Well done to Stephen Fry for recovering his will to live, and rising above that rude cheap sell of the host...who is he???

[@fransmith3255]

LOL! I came here to listen to Stephen Fry, not some guy doing a non-stop 4 minute introduction lecture!! Good grief! He's not a great presenter!

[@YourHeights]

Hey Fran, this was a live event for thousands of people so we were giving context to those watching live whilst also giving people the opportunity to join late without missing yoo much of Stephens words. The hope is people like you either have 4 minutes of patience to hear what a startup does in case you're in a supportive mood but if not you can just skip. We were prioritising our live audience 👍

[@fransmith3255]

@@YourHeights Hehe, perhaps so, but it came across like a lecture, which is never the best way to introduce a video, nor is it the best way to elicit people's interest, live or not. I wasn't the only, or indeed the first, person to notice or comment about this, so I noticed post-comment. Look below. And you also might look at the video and notice the look on Stephen Fry's face - he wasn't exactly enamored of the introduction either - in fact, the look on his face actually make me laugh. Someone else ALSO commented about that too. Perhaps consider these comments as productive interviewing and video feedback, and consider more effective ways to achieve similar results...

[@YourHeights]

@@fransmith3255 for sure, we were just explaining but thank you for the feedback 👍

[@fmapls]

Jay Shetty? 🙄

[@mitenka222]

Сколько книг).... Давлюсь от зависти)

[@Nicole-fp9cy]

He is dead, a d has a foul mouth but I saved his life, he used to be an advocate.

[@ADyingFaith]

KZbin The Zeitgeist Movement Moving Forward to see how we can transition from a monetary system to a natural law resource based economy!

[@danielj2653]

I think it's kind of disgusting how Heights entices Fry to flog its supplements

[@YourHeights]

Hey Daniel, we neither entice him nor pay him, he's a happy and loyal customer benefiting from very real outcomes and is kindly willing to be honest about it. You can see the many lovely testimonials from our customers that were helping on trustpilot where we're the number 1 rated supplement because we try really hard to make the best product in the market that will help people with improved mental wellbeing. Sorry if you think that's been misconstrued but simply put, we put a lot of effort into making a quality product to help people and think it's really lovely and wonderful that people like Stephen are willing to be honest that they continue to have a good experience with us. Surely that's what all good customers do for brands that improve their lives!? So we're grateful to Stephen and our many customers for sharing the positive benefits with the world, and hope you might give us a try with an open mind too, but if not, no worries, we make lots of content for free with great people to hopefully educate, entertain and inform people too so we can live our values and share the benefits of braincare with more people!

[@patriklindholm7576]

Flogging nonsense lowers the standard achieved.

[@markrichter2053]

God the intro is sooooo booooring!!!!!

[@STICKITINYOUREAR]

I would love to have Stephen post a list of books or authors that he feels are good to read.

[@arricammarques1955]

Stephen list will differ from your preferences.

[@Irelandwithoutborders]

They would be best sellers after he named them!

[@barborasolanska3997]

He mentioned few in a video, damn it I can’t remember all of them. There was definitely The Great Gatsby and Beware of Pity (Stefan Zweig)

[@chongkim-fh4zp]

Stop trying to be wise with me. Why are you competing to see who is wiser. You're not such a vain person, are you Stephen

[@jansignal668]

What a terrible diatribe to begin !

[@YourHeights]

Hello, sorry you felt the need to say that, this is Dan, it's my diatribe 👋. This was my first ever KZbin live, I was a bit nervous, and it was during the pandemic and we'd just launched and I'd been given some advice to spend 3 or 4 minutes doing an intro for the live guests not to miss out. Sadly, that's not aged well but hopefully you've enjoyed the rest of the interview at least!