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Aidan Helfant
Добавлен 10 май 2014
As a kid, I was addicted to video games and RUclips like a fish is addicted to water.
Every day after school, I would sprint to my room faster than Usain Bolt and boot up the computer, sometimes playing for upwards of seven hours a day. Terraria, Minecraft, Civ 6, you name it I played it. However, in college I learned to channel my passion for games into making learning the most fun game imaginable. Let's do the same for you.
P.S. I’m graduating this spring 2025 from Cornell with a degree in Human Development and am beginning the exciting job search. If you are or know someone who might be interested in hiring someone with an extensive background in content creation, course creation, public speaking, teaching, writing, and research, please reach out to aidan@aidanhelfant.com. My resume is linked here: drive.google.com/file/d/1PzaTN8FSot4uekE7GpRlTqHw0ZtCdpbY/view?usp=drivesdk
Every day after school, I would sprint to my room faster than Usain Bolt and boot up the computer, sometimes playing for upwards of seven hours a day. Terraria, Minecraft, Civ 6, you name it I played it. However, in college I learned to channel my passion for games into making learning the most fun game imaginable. Let's do the same for you.
P.S. I’m graduating this spring 2025 from Cornell with a degree in Human Development and am beginning the exciting job search. If you are or know someone who might be interested in hiring someone with an extensive background in content creation, course creation, public speaking, teaching, writing, and research, please reach out to aidan@aidanhelfant.com. My resume is linked here: drive.google.com/file/d/1PzaTN8FSot4uekE7GpRlTqHw0ZtCdpbY/view?usp=drivesdk
So, I Learned Poetry In 30 Days
In this video, I take on a 30-day challenge to learn and understand poetry, breaking down common misconceptions and showing how anyone can appreciate and create meaningful poems. From demystifying poetry's essence to practical writing techniques, join me as I transform from a poetry skeptic to someone who actually gets it. Featuring poetry standoffs, writing tips, and real attempts at creating powerful verses. Perfect for students, aspiring writers, and anyone who's ever been intimidated by poetry.
🪶Full Poems From The Video: docs.google.com/document/d/1phKX-OuYd_61bEtpiZEdwIqvgAqDaX1RzOoFL78bydo/edit?usp=sharing
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🪶Full Poems From The Video: docs.google.com/document/d/1phKX-OuYd_61bEtpiZEdwIqvgAqDaX1RzOoFL78bydo/edit?usp=sharing
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What To Do When Self Improvement Stops Working
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Can Video Games Be Used For Self-Improvement?
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How To Stay Focused While Self Learning
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How To Learn Anything Terribly
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Before You Learn Anything, Don’t Start Learning
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I Learned Pixel Art For 30 Days
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Two Meta-Learning Mistakes Which Cost Me Hours Of Time
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4 Step Guide To Building A New Identity
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The Consumption Box Of Death
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I tried writing a poem but I couldn't find a rhyme for Nantucket.
The tragedy of rhyming.
This is an exquisite video. As much as I've enjoyed reading poetry, I've rarely enjoyed learning about it. I think I learned more about the workings of poetry in your video than in all my past classes because of your careful attention to structuring your teaching points, storytelling, and comic relief. Absolutely beautiful.
That’s so kind Chris! If you ever write any poetry from this please me share it with me.
Beautiful video. May I ask which software did you use to write the poetry?
I used Claude the generative AI. And the notetaking app I wrote it in was Obsidian.
I watched the last 10 minutes and it whas the best 10 minutes of my day, thank you Aiden i love Your video’s , keep it up 🔥
Lovely, thanks for the comment Pim!
Bro pls provide the vault in the video
In my system of taking notes, it's tag based, but it's obsidian form of taking notes seems to be page based. So in order to change the much more common markdown format, I'm going to have to interoperate between my tag form and the page form. In Obsidian, you have a page that links to a bunch of other pages and that functions as a central source of knowledge. In my system, every single page already has a tag in it and uses a search function that goes through all the notes and pulls them together to have a certain tag. I could essentially do the same thing as my tag system by having all the pages link to a page that's titled the tag name. In my system, the first thing you write down is which moc or tags the note belongs to. There are several incidental features, too. In my system, everything is based on tags. So all the five levels are represented by different tags, Different tags have different levels of meaning. And I'm sitting in everything's bi-directional. Which means a tag could essentially be a link to a page Which then has an internal backlink that goes back to the original page. My system has the ability to do complex queries. But using a tag-based system that uses backlinks, I'm not sure how that'd be possible. "+adv rtn -del" Would find everything about routines, necessitating advice and removing deletions. ||rtn|Sometimes following a routine is very boring. ||rtn env adv|Life design is about optimizing a perfect average day. ||rtn del|You just stick to your routine and never deviate. I'm not sure how I'd this in obsidian. Since tags were also their own specialized objects in my system, I had a way of grouping all the tags together. My system could pull out all the tags at once and essentially, again, create a proto moc. So if I wanted to go over my entire system, I could just read all the tags that I have a wrote and pick out the ones that are relevant to the problem I'm trying to solve. Since Obsidian has a note-based note-first note-centric kind of paradigm, I'm not sure how I do that when it doesn't have separate tags. One of the reasons I designed my system with tags as a first class citizen was because I wanted to be highly analogous to analog notebooks. My system started off as a single sheet of paper which then grew into a notebook which then had to get digitized. I want to keep that back operability. Having a system of interlinked specific notes would kind of ruin that back operability because it requires an advanced indexing system. Since my notes are literally defined by the tags that create them, file naming is also a problem. Some of the notes are literally single sentences. And so there will be an absolutely inane number of small files. The decision I must make now is should I import my tags into Obsidian system using their tag-based system or using their link-based system? My main reason to switching to markdown is my own format is very specialized and I'm essentially vendor locked to myself. So I'm single-handedly programming an entire note system when I just want to take nodes. It's exhausting and I can't possibly wear all the features that I want. If I just import it into another project that's much easier. The first step of importing is changing the format of the notes. And it's going to be mark down. The alternative is LogSeek and Orgamode, but they have this awful fucking closet open-source superiority. I can do it if I just use a five-step technical process mentality, So I'm going to switch to mark down. Now that I switched to Markdown and I know I'm going to switch to Markdown, the question is, what's the most popular flavor of Markdown for PKMs? And that is Obsidian flavor. Now that I know I'm using Obsidian flavor mark down, I have to decide between tags or links. Tags probably have complex search queries in Obsidian, but links allow for rich metadata.
(links:"health") AND (links:"exercise") AND (-links:"old")
Too many ways of thought only results into a burn out. That's just my opinion
Fair enough, but I don't think that invalidates the work of looking. Most philosophies deserve at least a little looking into.
@aidanhelfant Studying them is fine but implementing all of them just creates confusion
Your constant effort in making this series of videos is so amazing!
That's really sweet! Thanks so much.
why are you doing those videos? like who do you really help? I think this self-improment videos are so cringe
Looks like your Focusing (eh, eh see what I did there) on making other people feel bad for putting themselves out there. 😎
@@aidanhelfant I want to start by apologizing if I may have offended or hated on you. I want to change my attitude and sincerely apologize. Keep up the hard work and helping others-I appreciate your effort. <3
1 year later update??
Not a bad idea! I'm still using it. Perhaps I'll make on in the future.
@@aidanhelfant Could you please try Amazing Marvin if you haven't already? I'd like to see a video on it
1,4/200 dislike ration is crazy for a good video
I think people are overwhelmed by my energy lol
Western philosophy is incredibly boring
Sometimes!
Awesome video. Keep up the good work👍
Thanks!
Mate the video was a bit too slow, and distracted. Had to play it at 1.5x speed.
Fair enough.
Ive studied Luhmann for years cuz im in sociology, so its so cringe for me to see it spelled wrong (one n only)
Ya, that was an oof.
While the video is kind of interesting, your live and interest are filled with very strange things. It really confuses me.
My interests only seem to get weirder as I grow older 🤣.
I've never watched a video that said so much yet explained so little.
I've never read a comment that dissed so much but resulted in so little.
My nightmare :)
Hopefully, you woke up without screaming.
I thank you for this overlook of Obsidian. It showed me that I really do not need it.
That's great! Just as good to realize you don't need something by watching a video.
@@aidanhelfant True story
Great video!
Thanks, really appreciate it.
Great video! Pro tip for people: instead of buying obsidian sync if youre strapped for cash you can get your google drive on your desktop and download the onsidian files to the drive folder. This will sync it to the cloud, then on mobile you can downolad google drive, google drive sync, and then sync the obsidian folder with google drive sync. Google drive sync has a "pay once have forever + no ads" 5 dollar option if youd like to sync other things too!
Obsidian guide without actually opening Obsidian. Think most of us would need it to be more visual than this
Fair.
I don't get it , ltags are much more powerfull , you can build lists from any composition of them , dinamically; so why essting time in editing this mocs manually adding removing links ?
You can more easily move them around and jump into them as individual notes. Tags aren't notes in themselves.
I didn't figure this out until 50 minutes ago, but you can do the same thing using advanced search queries. (links:"health") AND (links:"exercise") AND (-links:"old") Assuming that there are pages that link to health, exercise and old.
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@@dp6943Thanks for sharing!
Notes
Yay!
Ok. So links. 😀
Indeed!
May I ask how it is you get the "up::" and "tags::" sections to show up above the title of the note? I've tried doing so but Obsidian won't allow the :: marks in the title of the note and forces me to put everything below the title of the new note. I've tried using the Templater plugin but I still can't get it to work. I've tried using your Library MOC as inspiration for setting up my own Vault and MOCs, but the formatting of everything seems far more complicated than the tutorials I've seen go into because everyone assumes we already know what they know.
The reason I'm able to do that is because I had inline title turned off which makes it so that you can put the title anywhere you want in the note. So I put my title was below the up and down sections. However, since the video was made I have it turned back on because i was tired of having to change the title of the note AND the title I manually put in in the note. With Obsidian properties though you should be able to include a tag section and up section above the note if you put them in the properties of the note itself.
Watch at 2x
Did you watch this video at 2x?
@@aidanhelfant yes
we have to also understand why and how eastern politiks works because it seems they dont care about democracy or to some extend unlike the western where the west put so much on individualism where the easter focus on collectivism and hirachy thats why the chaina or even japans political system has only one party that do all your work but inside the party they make all the decision while in the west every individual have the power to do something
Agreed!
Good video. But I'm thinking of a new title, what about "After Years of Self-Improvement, I Finally Discovered What I Truly Want" or something like that?
Great idea! The title right now is a little ambiguous. I changed it up using inspiration from you to be better.
Your videos are fun and insightful!
I appreciate it!
all those notes you'll never see again, impressive
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1:24 proverbs 2:18 schemas 4:30 5:18 generative metaphor 6:22 7:18 Unexpected edness 11:20 11:38 Concrete Make it vivid and relatable Credible 17:08 Sources Details Statistics19:00 Emotional 21:37 Indentible victim effect Story 24:30 21:55 conclusion 26:41
Nice notes!
Stop it with the autistic commentary bro
I had three books and 3 weeks to read them before I have to check back in with the library. After reading 100 pages in the past couple of days, and watching this video I think I might apply some of these. Shoot for a book every week and a half (ontop of school reading)
Great action items! Love to hear it.
Homie, the methods you detailed were skimming, analysis, and research. That’s exactly how they teach you to read in school. And most of the video was a copy and paste from Mortimer Adler (who was kind of a hack). You seem like a smart kid, and I’m sure you can come up with good ideas that are valuable. I’d focus on those rather than summarizing someone else’s ideas.
I agree some of the methods are shared in school but the idea of linking books together was never talked about for me. Perhaps our schools were different.
Thanks for sharing, you inspired me to eat more peanut butter.
One more PB lover in the works is a win for me
This was very well put together. I remember coming across your gamified life notes in your obsidian videos and being curious about your takeaways. Thanks for sharing!
Very glad you liked it. Cool you came from my obsidian notes.
Thanks for sharing!
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Like before I even watch!
Dedicated 😂
Very promising video! Just started watching! I'll update my comment with my rating. EDIT: Video is filled with insights and actionable items! I highly recommend people watch this! I think Aiden could be the note-taking guru of 2024!
Thanks!
ass video
Haha this is more like "how people create RUclips videos by reading it from script" Thanks a lot for the method :)
Lol, you got me
MOCs are just a digital index which naturally would be a collection of links to notes and you can make multiple of them, nothing special about them. Nick Milo. and all his zealots hyping MOCs, made me quit taking notes.... Its funny how everytime these zealots talks about MOCs it sounds like a jehovah's witness sales pitch telling you that its the ONLY way to organize and the only things they ever take notes on are either how to use MOCs inside MOCs Inside MOCs, or some topic you need to be on shrooms to be thinking about like "what is insight", "Is my hand really my hand?", constant fuzzy subjects never a real study or project. Another downside to MOCs are no one else uses it, so if you ever have to share with colleagues or friends they have no idea what's going on so they start scrolling for days to find what they were looking for, where any other folder structure is instantly understood, and doesn't need a seminar to explain how to set up mocs and add to them
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Your video is great and as a suggestion your skin type is warm and some of your clothes don't match with your warm skin tone so they make you look yellow. You can change your wardrobe to more warm colors by time if you wish to. And for more specific color palette, i think you're true spring.
Thanks for the suggestions! Hopefully it looks better in more recent videos.
Your channel deserves WAY more views and comments!! This video is incredible, well explaned, entertaining... Congratulations 🔥
I appreciate that a ton! At the end of the day as long as I'm having a great time creating, helping some people, and learning I'm satisfied. Although I would love some more views on this video as I think it's the best I have made.
Totally judged the video before watching and so glad I decided to watch it anyway. Your video is legit and you did a fantastic job. I am so impressed and thankful you made and published a video like that. Thank you for your work and your excellent teaching!
This is super kind and thoughtful, thank you.
how did you create the template for the MOC? I can't do any of the commands
<% await tp.file.move("Atlas/MOCS/" + tp.file.title) %> ## Related MOCs ```dataview list from #🗺️ and [[]] and !outgoing([[]]) sort file.mtime desc ``` ## Related Concepts ```dataview table Status from [[]] and !outgoing([[]]) and !#🗺️ sort file.mtime desc ```
so the answer is... links!
Indeed!
7:36 I was not expecting the rice purity mention 💀super epic video idea and love the execution :)
Glad you liked it John!