No one: KZfaq at 3 am: How to waste your life & never be happy

“Comparison Is the Thief of Joy” - Theodore Roosevelt

I forgot who told me this, but it has stuck with me since a teenager, "Comparison is the root of all evil".

"One loses joy and happiness in the attempts to possess them." - Masanobu Fukuoka

The only difference between noah and me is, at the end he got everything he wanted.

If only his parents simply got him his Gameboy. Lol Signed, Bill Gates

I rather be miserable but rich than miserable and poor. Having financial decisional power relinquishes suffering.

Just a Korean casually walking by all these videos, this one hit me hard the most. I've been living so hard just to desire harder. Thank you for the video. This was a turning point to me of my 20's

Money cannot buy happiness but life’s much more miserable without money.

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less" - Socrates

This was me for years. 51 now. And seeing live through different glasses. It’s never too late. If you can still recognize where you came from. I’m excited about the future. ☘️

This is one of those stories that people would tell their kids without knowing if the "lesson" at the end is necessarily true

Me: ‘how to waste your life and never be happy’ i guess that’s interesting “This is Noah” Me: well... shit

It’s legit 3am and I’m having small existential crisis

There's nothing wrong with wanting to live a common, decent life.

I love how at every stage of Noah's life, "he wondered what he was like to be that happy." So relatable.

-How to waste your life -Watching 10 min video about how to waste your life

I wonder how it must be like to have a youtube video with that many views. I wonder how it must be like to be that happy.

I've been married better than 25 years to the same wife. We have 5 kids. My wife has multiple health issues, which began about 17 years ago. We live in a modest house we call home. My kids love their "home," and my children who no longer live with us love coming home. It hasn't been easy being married with 5 kids. Nights were very long with little children, especially with an unhealthy wife. I spent plenty of time being a mom and a dad...that was not easy. I bathed my kids, changed diapers, cleaned children and their bedsheets loaded with vomit in the wee hours of the morning, got them ready for school, braided hair, cleaned the house, cut the yard, and cooked many meals. Then came teenagers...especially teenage daughters with a whole new set of challenges I could never have imagined. Some career aspirations were sacrificed or put on hold for the benefit of my family. We bought our kids slushies instead of milkshakes; we went to the "dollar" theater instead of fancy cinemas; our vacations were short, two-hour excursions; sometimes we just stayed home. There were times when I wondered how I could go on. Sometimes I wished for a different life with more money and career success, but no one should ever spend much time on "what might have been." But this much is absolutely certain... ...my wife and children have given me the happiest times of my life. What could be better than that?

Can I just say while Alex has to continue painting and grinding the rest of his life or until he hits a solid break, now Noah has all the time in the world to find a passion and devote all of his money and time into it. When he feels like he’s overdoing it he can always take a step back and stop , money gave him that option, where as alex has to continue with his passion weather he’s burnt out or now.

The key take away is to never compare yourself to other people's lives.

“Every man is happy until happiness is suddenly a goal”

Great video. Such a reminder to be grateful with what we have. You can chase a dream until it becomes a living nightmare

Beautiful video. The last phrase,”Noah I just didn’t look so hard” it says it all.

Alex: Did you do it? Noah: Yes Alex: What did it cost Noah: Everything

Noah sold his company for 15 million dollars, then he saw a man jump into oncoming traffic and wondered if he could ever be that happy

I love this story. You look at Hollywood and other rich and famous and on the outside it looks glamorous but their lives are filled with drugs, multiple divorces and problems.

Sums up life of millions on this planet. Beautiful beautiful animation, editing and Storytelling. I love it.

That’s so scary. My name is Noah and my brother is called Alex.

"He didn't know what he wanted to do, but he knew he wanted to make a lot of money" well there's your problem

Wow. What a powerful story. Really one must learn to be content with what one has, and valuing the little things. Such a beautiful, heartbreaking, and powerful story.

I was really thinking that I had very big problems in my life but now after reading some comments, I realised that my problems were nothing as compared to other people but they are still striving and hoping for the best. That is one lesson which I learnt.

NOAH : Not Obtaining Any Happiness.

Money probably can't buy happiness but I can tell you for sure that the lack of money can buy you misery

Everyone should and deserve to be treated good. That is so moved😭😭😭Hope all of us can be what we want to be without regrets

Excellent story brother. All evil thoughts start with comparision as one wise man said.

"how to waste your life & never be happy" *recommended for you*

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Ain’t sure exactly who said it.

I liked the message this story tells. I hate the way "success" is always measured by ones income and their possessions. Shouldn't one's success be measured by their true happiness. I see people who are committed to succeeding and never stop long enough to enjoy life. These people are rarely truly happy and wrongly believe it's because of unobtained success. Truly sad. THAT is a wasted life.

Finding the path to true happiness can be a real challenge. It's something I still struggle with today.

*someone gets shot in the head* "noah wondered what it was like to be shot in the head"

You don't search for happiness, You create it.

Oml thank you for this video I feel better watching it. Gonna keep watching it when i feel down too.

Thank u for this vid. God bless

I wonder how it must be like to be a bored millionaire.

I don't need this how-to video. I'm perfectly capable of wasting my life and never being happy all on my own. But thanks anyway.

i have spent too much of my life thinking i could only be happy in other relationships. guess what. i was miserable all the time. happiness is from within, NEVER from someone else, or any amount of money or things. I promise you.

I think I needed to see this today, it’s easy to miss what’s in front of you.

In reality Noah didn't want the toy. Noah wanted to be accepted among his peers by possessing the toy & car. Since his family couldn't afford it he felt the discomfort of economic alienation and sacrificed a majority of his life to relieve it.

Never take life too seriously, you're never getting out alive!

This one hit home

Great video Life changing. Thank you

If there weren't people like Noah, no one would be buying Alex's art.

Noah's friend: I got cancer... I will be dead soon... Noah wondered what it must be like to be dead and suicides :(

Your videos are so insightful, many of these things are very obvious. Yet I feel like I need some reminding every now and then, thanks!

Thank you Pursuit of Wonder, thank you so much for giving us so much wisdom. I wish I would know all this in early ages.

Moral: If u want something in life, just wonder what it would be like to have it.

Be aware of survivor bias in this story. The artist-brother could just be lucky. Most artists fail as they don't earn their living through their craft. For every successful story, where people followed their dreams and succeeded, there may be thousands of people doing the exact same things, not succeeding. However: If you seek personal growth, without comparing to anyone else, it might lead to a higher level of fulfillment.

Thanks, I needed this

Loved the video. I can get a lot by this. 1. You’ll waste your life comparing yourself to others and what they have. 2. Money can’t buy you happiness. 3. You can spend your whole life wanting this and that. Sometimes once you get it you still find yourself not satisfied with something. 4.Happiness is a choice and is free. It cannot be bought by material possessions or money and status. I really needed to see this!

Happiness is only temporary. Just like most emotions. They all come and go at some point. Sometimes you laugh, sometimes you cry.

Somehow most people in the world have the things Alex has but are as unhappy as Noah.

This is beautiful, thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the tutorial! 👍

When Noah became a teenager, him and his family suddenly became Asian.

Moral of the story: Become an artist and camp a lot and you'll be happy

Being an artist brings me such joy

This video is definitely for me right now 😭😭😭😭 When I graduated from high school, most of my friends got a nice job, and they made tons of money, they bought a new phone, a new motorcycle, they helped their parents financially. And I was still jobless, or I changed jobs quickly, but mostly jobless. I was wondering what it was like to be that happy. Both my parents sent me money every month. I should have been grateful for that. While my friends had to work hard to provide their old parents, and work hard to buy expensive things, I didn't have to. Even though I was jobless, I had a lot of money to buy expensive stuff. I got a new phone, I got a new motorcycle, I didn't suffer. The only thing that made it feel hard was, that the neighbors and family members couldn't accept that I was jobless, and I spent money everyday. I was a bad person to them, I was monster, a disgusting human being, all because I couldn't find a job that suit me. But I was still very young. I wasn't mature. I just graduated from high school. I was still a teenager. Years went by, I finally got a good job, I made tons of money, I had my own apartment, I didn't need my parents to help me financially. I could finally get myself together. But I was not happy... All my friends were getting married, and I... Since I graduated from high school, never been in a real relationship. I only had online relationships, that never made it to the real world. I was lonely. Everyday I was depressed, and I was jealous of seeing people looking so happy with their boyfriend/husband. I was wondering how it felt to be that happy. Years after that, I finally found my soulmate, someone whom I love more than everything. He's from a different country so far away, but he managed to save up money to come and visit me and we got married. I finally have what I've always wanted, a loving husband. Yet I still cry everyday, because my husband has to go back to his country and there are reasons why I can't go with him at the moment. And everyday I cry, wondering when the next time I'm gonna see him again. I miss him so much. Everyday I would worry about him. Worry about our future. I should be grateful that at least we are doing fine...

How to waste your life: Go to college for something you never wanted to do in the real world and spend the rest of your life paying your debt off.

How to waste your life: spend your time on youtube watching videos like this one on a daily basis.

it's not about what you have, it's about how much you appreciate what you have- contentment is key

Great video; thank you for sharing!!

It's simple: The happiest man is not the man the has the most; it's the man that wants the least.

Oh no! Noah got new airpods, he cant hear Alex!

Fabulous channel...glad I found you.

So I always walked on the right path. Good to know, must not praise myself so I won't get swayed.

I just wasted 10 minutes of my life. This video actually works!

Noah is financially free, doesn't ever have to work for anyone again and has the time to figure out what he is passionate about and do it - sounds like a home run to me!

I love these videos! They really speak to me!!

Thank you very much. Very informative and useful story!

"Comparison is the thief of joy." - Roosevelt

"[E]very life story is a story of suffering [...]" -- Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. I (Fourth Book), § 59

Thank you for this. So much realization

Moral of the story: Never compare yourself to anyone. Focus on youself and be better every day.

"Later on as he went home, Noah started crying in his new limited edition Lamborghini and drove home to cry some more in his rooftop hot-tub."

Be warned: the artist life is far from ideal. It’s a struggle and depression is real.

I just watched this very high. Just what I needed

Chase aspirations, not money. Your success is subjective and based on what you were trying to a achieve. A happy life doing what you like daily and making enough to sustain yourself is a successful life in my eyes.

How to Waste Your Life and Never Be Happy: watch youtube all day, every day.

“Noah wanted to become God”.

I feel like this is from the perspective of a rich person. If you don't have money everything feels even more forced upon you. I thought it was going that way at first (when he was a boy) but it didn't. I think if you're poorer it's in many ways worse because it's literally forced upon you. It's not like you can change your position, not like you can spend money on holidays or time with your family or doing something meaningful with your life because most of that stuff costs money. Those who say you should work hard don't understand either, it's not that easy.

I’ve just subscribed to this channel few hours ago watched few of your videos What a Channel Thanks for amazing clips 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Happiness is internal. If you try to seek it externally, it will lead to unhappiness long term.

"Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life" - John Wooden

I wanna appreciate sadness because it feels like I'm not gonna feel it anymore

Great video thanks

tldr: don't compare yourself to others. Strive for more, yes, but also be happy with what you have.

Money may not buy happiness but it sure as hell helps.

Just the guide I was looking for

Simply being grateful for what u do have will give you much better results than always wishing your life was better.