One thinks one can, all he can do is think that he can and nothing else.

@@shazam3513 That sounds like a limiting belief to me.

More like actualizing its essence

Wow, look at all you cringe, pseudo-profound fucks.

@@kaylacarpenter272 Wow look whats been actualised

Yeah School of Life is good just less in depth explanation. This channel rules.

Agreed this is the best channel I've found so far for this kind of material and presentation.

becauseiamworthless The School Of Life is just the musings of one man, Alain de Boton, with whom I fundamentally disagree on many things. This chanel is a veritable smorgasbord of ideas.

This video is a great comfort to me

School of life tries to backup their content with (decent yet cheap) animation while waiting THEIR NARRATOR paraphrases a philosopher. This dude sets his quotes up well enough that then words of the Philosophers themselves knock you straight on your ass.

I appreciate it! I'm very grateful for all the views, comments, and feedback I've received so far. I don't plan on stopping any time soon so I'm sure the channel will only continue to grow :)

Although the supply is there, there is little demand in regards to the population who have access to the WWW. Which is unfortunate as these videos are very informative.

Maybe because, like the quote in this video, "only a small proportion of the human population gets to the point of [even being interested in?] identity, or of selfhood, full humanness, self-actualization" So congratulations to those of us who have made it this far? 😉

yeah, few people are questioning their lives enough to stumble upon a channel like this.

Academy of Ideas what’s your name?

Brother I am 20 too & it’s so sad that people our age don’t know about these philosophies & philosophical movements. I have learnt & will keep on learning until the day I die.

Spread the word, my young friends. And may God bless you both always.

@@shadowsdad903 Life breaking you in some way seems to be the prerequisite for thinking about the meaning of it. 24 years old, and I got friends with above average, average and traumatic childhoods. The only ones who are interested in these kinds of topics are the ones with traumatic childhoods, the rest make fun of me for opening discussions about these things. I'm curious how life will pan out to most of us.

I am 19 and see the way of the world with war, suffering and restrictions on freedom and see that most ADULTS do not see this It really can lead to feelings of loneliness and powerlessness I'm trying to deal with this by thinking 'I cannot change the world, but can change my world and the world of those I love'

Some operate better on chaos ragnarok,, yes.

Its been a long time, i know, but could you elaborate on the loss of childhood faszination. I dont see how it relates.

@@EpicSchizophrenium I'd guess he means that realisation that you gain in the transition from childhood to adulthood that life isn't fair and it isn't that great a lot of the time. Also your growing reluctance to engage with a lot of life because you know it will be painful. But you also learn that shit happens and will continue to happen, and that you can get through life regardless of those facts.

I see it happening right in front of me to my friends. Makes me sad

Honest question and not being a grammar nazi... shouldn't another comma go after, "not fear"? Aren't commas like a pause or seperation of thoughts within a sentence?

I only thought children and extremely fortunate people feared death.

@@dbros2656 although not everyone fears the notion of one day dying, to fear death is as a human reaction as sneezing from pepper. Everyone fears death, those that claim they don't are just sheltered gentiles.

@@MikeGolfLima why fear nothingness? do you remember not being born?

How are you now

Turning my students on to this channel.

Are you a college professor? You are extremely intelligent and incredibly insightful. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge with us. You have enriched and influenced my life for the good.

I feel this to my core, take care

+Ed Matos Thanks for watching! More content is on the way.

IT IS.

He had to make it to prevent his viewers from going into depression from watching his other videos on nihilism and existentialism. XD

It's all part of the process. You need to go through that to attain a higher state.

For me too.

+cjfield123 Nice that's great to hear I'm glad you're enjoying them!

+Madeleine Definitely! He's one of my favourites.

Totally agree...they kept distracting me from the words

@@academyofideas Hi, I was just thinking myself that I love the art you use in all your videos. Are there any other artists you use a lot of, or a source you use to find all of these? Also, your content is amazing

how ru holding up

"Crushing freedom" is a great way of putting it.

That's seems shallow to me, if one examines all arguments and comes to the conclusion that we live in a deterministic universe, they will likely still suffer in the way you describe. It's one thing to accept the likelihood of a theory, but we are driven by our biology

See now?

+Udai Deori You're very welcome!

+theendlesssuffering Awesome, thanks for sharing!

Same! I'm sorry I'm behind! Why isnt this able to be heard by more people? 10 years ago or more philisophical thoughts and ideas sprouted in my head. When I searched out for guidance everyone around me told me to forget about it and do small deeds if you want to help people. I tried, as a concerned humanitarian and critical thinker to discern all this alone. The writings of these older, wiser teachers of the past are very difficult to sift through with no guidance and a demand of my peers to fit in and use my time. I buried my head into the first opportunity for something other than a life of struggle, and I tried to do small deeds everyday consciously. In the end feeling time is being majorly wasted. Just days ago a wave of philisophical insights came rushing in again and I asked out for guidance like never before. I got the sound of crickets in return. So, I started doing my own research through youtube trying to find someone talking about what I was thinking, and here you are so elegantly elaborating and summarizing these schools of thoughts. I just really wanted to take a moment and offer you a thank you first and foremost. I hope we can all really and truly start making this place better for ourselves and more importantly the future of mankind. I left the cave and came back with raised eyebrows from my peers. However many people ARE starting to leave the cave and eyebrows are leveling out. What if we all leave the cave finally! I do have a question. What can I do to help more? Do I keep throwing this in the faces of people, shout it from roof top, or should I allow people to come to these conclusions like I have now completely through my own will and search? I'm just concerned the powers that be will shut this down and hide the knowledge even more. Also, curious about the strength, the current of all this, ran through me the days before finding your channel. Is time running out? do we have enough people awake to this? I don't have enough critical thinkers around me, and I'm in a very miniscual position of power, so people I employee aren't always the most honest with me. I like the hard truths and I always have. My parents tell stories of my 3 year old self asking questions they never heard a child ask about existence and life. I'm here for a reason. I was guided here, now, to you my friend. I guess my question is how can I help you, and how can I help people get to these wisdoms faster without scaring them away? Much, much, much love and respect.

Death anxious, I guess