Caveat: if you're depressed or burnt out, things will not always suck this much. There will be ups and downs, lots of prioritising, but feeling anything along the lines of it would be easier to not exist - that is a fixable temporary state. Connecting with someone else such as a therapist or friend with some personal experience is a good place to start.
Yeah, even something like running a mile or speaking conversational Spanish gets easier once you've done it enough times. Exercise, practice, habits and learning all allow things to get easier, so I'm not sure what he's talking about that doesn't. EDIT: Actually I think this is just bad advice. If you get a better job and work on your career, then life DOES get easier (i.e. higher pay) - that's just one example. If you believe that things will always be hard, then why try? Why not just give up?
Hmm. There have definitely been times in my life when nothing felt okay and everything felt impossible. I'm not even saying that nothing was okay or that anything was impossible...but it felt that way. I don't feel that way today, which is great. The things you mentioned helped. I think what he's going for is the idea that, "When I get my kitchen painted," or "when my kid stops needing diapers," or "as soon as I finish ... this degree...or project...or paying off this car" or whatever, "...my life will be so much easier!" Sometimes it is...for a few minutes, but as soon as you deal with/master/complete whatever issue you're facing, there will be another one. And another one. That's just life :)
I feel its probably like, theres always gonna be struggle, but you could be happier while you struggle than you are now. Even a hard life dosnt have to be miserable. The original point being true in that life doesnt just automatically switch into easy mode at some point, at least not normally.
I just learned you're not supposed to scoop flour directly with the measuring thing, cause it'll be packed too tight. Gotta pour it into the measuring thing so it's fluffy. Now my pancakes aren't always too dense. Learning IS cool 👍
Its surprising how big of a difference it makes. Scales help pin it down. Another peice of wisdom, is bake the thing till its baked. All cook times are approximate, and ovens can be hugely different, so it helps to learn signs of done-ness so you can find the right time for your kitchen, and get the result you want.
@@wellhellothere6347true, but if it's more densely packed then more would also fit into the scoop, ergo the ratio/recipe would be off... Hence recipes often say "1 packed cup of brown sugar" (random example) if it requires you to cram more in for that ratio to be spot on.
I needed to see this video so badly. Last year, I took on my own Fear of Failure by running for office. I did everything I could, literally injuring myself by knocking on so many doors and switching to phone calls the same day. I'm proud of what I've done, I came very close to unseating a deeply entrenched incumbent while sticking to my values. I lost by 3% and I've been struggling to find motivation to get back up for the past month. You're right about the drunk driver having the right of way. I had to endure vicious personal attacks on myself and my family. Horribly unjust stuff. I was able to take it in stride before the election because of the possibility that it would all be worth it, but I didn't win after all. I never felt entitled to or guaranteed a victory, especially as a first time candidate, but I've really been struggling with the injustice of having to greet those drunk drivers in public spaces, knowing what they've done. This is a great video. Thank you for speaking of these harsh truths. I've really been struggling with that one. 😮
This is why having a friend or partner or therapist that pushes back on your excuses is so important. Some don't need it but many, overtime, will forget that these excuses are just hypotheticals and it will become real to them. A few times in my life it has taken a loved one going straight for the jugular of my excuses to snap things back into focus.
The natural universe is neither fair or unfair. However, the MANMADE systems we live under are definitely mostly unfair and exploitative for most of the people in them.
Dude I used to love your videos back when I was in highschool in 2010 lmao your name randomly popped into my head the other day and I'm so glad to see you're still around making great, funny videos. :)
Wait Craig!! What "Feel useful and relevant."?? ??! 🤯🤯 I thought your ultimate goal was "to become the All-knowing All-Seeing space baby at the center of the universe!!" I got my bidet, I cut back on alcohol, I got my excercise, sleep, steps in, had beans for breakfast, run from geese, and NOW you tell me it's all for naught??! SHIRT!
The idea that learning should always be fun is one of the biggest myths around. Learning a little about a topic can and should be fun. However, learning to gain expertise is often difficult, scary, and (horror of all horrors) boring. There are just some bits that you got to suffer through. Nice flannel by the way! It looks really well made.
"Here lies the body of Thomas Grey, Who died defending his right of way. He was perfectly right as he sped along, But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong."
Here's another truth that works well with the ones you mentioned: You get more of what you focus on. This is mostly about perception bias, but it isn't just an illusion you create with your mind's preconceived notions, your perceptual focus will actually guide you towards noticing and experiencing more of whatever it is you're focusing on. Y'see, the universe just Is, yeah with a capital "I". There is no bias in the universe, good, bad, indifferent, it all happens in random amounts without any preference. So... this means nothing really occurs more than anything else, except... your own biases can skew the result through self-selection. Lemme use an example, let's say you believe all rude people wear plaid shirts. Since you are already expecting the next plaid shirted person to be rude, you'll either notice them more and remember them more when randomly a plaid wearing person happens to be rude, and you may even view innocent things a non-rude plaid wearing person says as being rude. Conversely a rude non-plaid wearing person may not be remembered for whether or not they wore plaid as it didn't match your expectations, you may even misremember them as having worn plaid, or reinterpret their statements as not being rude. Anyway, this fictitious example aside, my point is that your assumptions will colour your perceptions. Also, your attitude will draw you towards experiences which match. Again, example time. Lets say you believe all Mondays are inherently worse than any other day of the week, even though you work shift work and sometimes you work straight through from Friday to Tuesday. So, you may share this belief with others who agree with you, now there's a group of you all hating a specific day. Existing and functioning during your most hated day will of course feel worse to you than on any other day, so when your boss asks you to do that thing you hate on a MONDAY of all days, you feel it all the worse because of the hatred of the day you were already feeling, so you may think to yourself. "Of course I'm asked to do that thing today, it's Monday after all!." Thereby reinforcing in your mind that Monday's are the worst. Of course it's still that thing you don't like when you're asked to do it on a Wednesday, but do you lessen your hatred of Mondays every time you do "that thing" on a day outside of Monday? Of course not! Those days are just normal days. So now you're in a cycle of self-reinforcing perceptual bias where the only influences you acknowledge towards your opinion of Mondays are the negative ones as they are the ones which support your belief. Like a Hallmark platitude though, this effect also works on positive things too. If you believe all people simply want to be good or kind or generous or whatever, deep down in their core being, no matter how negatively they may be presently behaving, the desire is still there, yearning to be released, then you'll view people differently, you'll react to them differently, you'll gravitate towards like minded people, thus experiencing more of this belief. Your belief and the altered behaviour it engenders may even encourage people to be nicer to you since you're always so nice to them. Now, I don't mean the axe-murderer down the street won't murder you with an axe if you come over for tea... and axe murdering. However, your attitude may make you avoid wandering down dark alleyways next to his house, or randomly shouting out "any axe murderers around? I'm feeling like getting axe murdered today!" Y'know, sensible things like that.
2:20 the thing I want to mention re this point, though, is that part of the reason why it always feels hard is because if you grow and become more resilient within your struggles, you wind up using your extra “capacity” to do something newer/harder. Kinda like how the stock market may have ups and downs but the ten year trends it’s always up, and if you keep putting in the money, your retirement will grow. Like parenthood; once you finally figure out the baby phase, your kid’s a toddler. I’ve found that when I seriously reflect on what I was capable of two years, five years, ten years ago, there are things I am capable of doing now that I wasn’t able to do before - things that made my life measurably better and gave me space to do the hard things I WANT to do. *Buuuut* something always does tend to fill in the gap. Even if I wanted to “take it easy” for a while, idk it would happen. If I don’t actively choose it, it will be chosen for me.
Always good to hear. I swear when I was younger that even when I heard good advice, it was rebellious and didn't want to listen. For no good reason. Now, that I'm older I try to listen as much as I can, turns out people who take the time to tell you something often care enough to share and really do hope to save you a bit of pain.
Some really good advice I got is to choose your hard. Yes, life will always have problems, but if your particular life has problems that you really really hate to deal with, then you gotta change something. That being said, you're trading problems you hate and can't handle for new problems that just don't bother you quite so much. The problems will always be there, but you can trade problems until you find a balance that works for you. A little less harsh than "It will always be this hard." More like, "there will always be something hard, but it could be a hard that's more of a character building challenge than something that makes you wanna quit life." Yeah. 👍
I'm in the middle of writing 3 university assignments due in the next 48 hours and this was incredibly helpful I also look towards this channel for a way to understand myself and the world around me a bit better. Thank you for posting this today. A lot of us needed it. Hopefully, by tomorrow afternoon I can come back and update you that I finished the assignments I'm struggling with.
There's some irony in the sponsor of this video being a tool for cheating one's way through university writing assignments. Good on you for (seemingly) not stooping to that!
Something i learned from making music that can apply to your dream of making a movie. You can't polish a turd. I had to learn to move on to the next song, and the next one. Each one is a little better. So. That means. Your first movie likely can't be good. You have to practice the whole process. Learn to like the process. So stop stressing that you need to make the perfect script first. Make it as good as you can make it right now and then go. It will probably be pretty bad, but that is ok. I'd say start with short films to practice. Then when you like what you write more, go for a feature if you want. Thanks for all the laughs throughout the years!
True that... Also remember what a hit The Blair Witch Project was, despite it being awful and basically no budget. *_Anything_* Craig writes will always be infinitely better than that! 😂
Craig, I'm so glad you're still here and still you. Your humor and editing style has, miraculously, been exactly aligned with my sense of humor over the years. It's like we have the same brain cell sometimes. And somehow, I needed this video. I've been putting my favorite things off for "when it gets easier", except by putting them off it inherently will never get easier! Not like anything gets easier anyway, it just requires less active effort as you memorize the tasks needed. But today, you have helped me convince me to throw my "good" excuses in the trash and actually try to paint tonight, for the first time ever, because I'll never gain confidence in my skills if I don't try until I'm "ready". Ready is such a cop-out and I am annoyed that I rely on it so hard. Anyways. Thank you for being you, and for being here, and for being like the cool older brother I don't actually have (which means I'm actually more likely to listen to you because you're not literally my brother). Love you and Chyna and Ada, and since I don't comment often, I hope you all have an excellent 2025.
On #1: Acknowledging that you don’t know a lot feels unsexy at first - until you realize that everyone is ignorant and everyone follows their own incompetent decisions, rather doubling down than admitting one is wrong. Being honest with your lack of knowledge will give you a huge advantage in a world of imperfect humans - and that is, indeed, quite cool.
Sure, you should have a baseline mood... You can work on that with habits, but we do have an innate baseline. I have a young child though, so I know there'll be a day when I've had a week of sleeping through the night. Like 5-7 days where I get like 6+ hours solid. It'll be amazing. I also never got sick as much as I have this past year with daycare... I'm not sick today. It's amazing. Other things may not be, but at least I'm not super sick. For motivation, you just got to know how deep your willpower pool is and what's exhausting it and know what will fill it back up or at least what will get you a tiny bit closer. Maybe thinking what's the smallest next step you can do or what's the smallest next payoff you're looking forward to. *Thank you for posting this video. Thoughtful parasocial "conversation" is all I got for intellectual discussion these days.😅
I just came back from a much needed vacation very far away from home and now acknowledge that I’m tired of underachieving. You reach a point where you need to put yourself into new situations and decide for yourself what you want. I listened to much to older family members who had good intentions but didn’t understand my career interests since it is uncharted territory in my family.
6/7 years.... it's been 6/7 years since I subscribed, and just now your video popped up in my feed. It was (even if it sounds quirky, it's still true) like a breath of fresh air. Like I just teleported into the past and suddenly I was there mentally as well.... Missed you old friend 💝
What a rollercoaster going from "thanks for the endless joy!" to "oh no everything sucks forever!" But for real, the eternal struggle is why my long term plans have always tended towards reducing my responsibilities. I'll still feel stressed about something, but at least I'm better able to focus on addressing it. End of the day, it's about liking what you have rather than getting something you like.
2:20 This is actually a misconception. Perfect Georg - who has no undiagnosed or untreated chronic physical or mental illnesses - must contend with the hedonic treadmill as their primary obstacle to eternal contentment. For the vast majority of normal people, diagnosing and treating their underlying physical and/or mental illnesses will actually massively improve their general quality of life.
thank you for your advice craig! always nice to hear your perspective, it is honest and direct and often comes from reflecting on your own experiences. I like to amalgamate other peoples' advice, and i regularly find myself coming back to you. cheers!
Anyone else find yourself click around this one a couple times before finally watching? Love the content and find it both funny and useful. I hope you make your movie!
no freakin joke. I have ADHD and growing up I was made fun of and called dumb all the time. I had like all the quirks xD red hair, blue eyes, left handed, adhd, dyslexia, and 2 X chromozomes. I found power over others through learning xD. So it started out as a vindictive need to be right and be smarter to make up for my lack of ability to pronounce new words and have some way to show people how the adhd affects me. It's not always a curse, haha. My most recent obsession has been with an old 1910 map of my town I found with soil compositions at that time and the bodies of water. It was fun overlaying that on the town today and realizing we have Dunkirk Loam under my yard which is like prime farming soil. I discovered a new breed of cat, the Turkish Angora (i want this now)....and recently i learned how to trim goat hooves, don't ask... Anyways, learning is everything, learning is power. Knowledge makes you confident, able to hold deep conversations with many people. It helps build empathy and deeper thought, and honestly, the greatest feeling is when you can find the similarities between things like knitting and binary coding haha.
Spot on! Exactly, listening to someone else read ancient Greek or Russian writers takes me somewhere else & I learn how to pronounce those names. Win, win.
I'm sorry your Marxist schools convinced you that having power over others should be your goal. Keep working on the empathy building, though. If that wasn't a joke, that is.
I am one of those infinitely curious beings. But I wasn’t always like this. I gradually nurtured that curiosity by first only researching what I was interested in. And then I discovered 40K. I dove headfirst into the lore and its stories and characters. 3 years later, I am much more skilled at doing research. Which now allows me to learn about nearly anything that piques my interest. Even if it isn’t something I’d personally do. But my newfound knowledge is something I can share with someone who would be interested, but lacks the time, will, or skill to research it!
Thanks Craig, helps a lot. I mean it might not sort out every problem right now, but it might sort out every problem across the remainder of my life, and that helps a lot!
“The umpire of the universe is unfair and I’m not going to just kick sand at him and get my shoes dirty.” You are a hoot! And I really needed to hear that sentiment. Thanks.
Whenever i need some GOOD CLASSIC RUclips, I can always turn to Craig! It's such good knowledge that even if you know it on the most complete level it's good to be REMINDED of it, with jokes! Thank you, Michael!
One simple sollution that will make your life instantly better is "stop talking about what you DON'T want. Talk and think about what you DO want. Then try to make that thing happen". Other people also love helping you if you tell them what you want.
I did need to hear that it's always going to be this hard. Cuz that means there is no point in waiting around for things to feel easier. Until I somehow become the person who does not struggle, who can just do it all, no problem. Thank you
Hi Craig, I agree with your harsh truths and the need to accept them on a practical level, and I disagree profoundly with some of your underlying philosophy. Thanks for sharing your thought words for me to ponder in my thinky brain. Have a great day!
Thanks, Craig. I thought the video was pretty relatable - I was thinking about the challenges of conceiving, organizing, and running FolksCon, particularly when you mentioned the desire to make a movie and the reasons not to.
9:30 OH MY FUCKIN GOD. with the listening. A majority of my students just do not listen. I don't know what the issue is (i have conjectures). Listening and following orders doesn't make you subservient. Just listen, evaluate and follow
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"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life." - Picard, Star Trek
“I busted him up.” - Lieutenant Commander Data
That’s Captain Picard, thank you very much!
@@seancoombes5542 😍💖
Caveat: if you're depressed or burnt out, things will not always suck this much. There will be ups and downs, lots of prioritising, but feeling anything along the lines of it would be easier to not exist - that is a fixable temporary state. Connecting with someone else such as a therapist or friend with some personal experience is a good place to start.
I hate to disagree. So I won’t.
Yeah, even something like running a mile or speaking conversational Spanish gets easier once you've done it enough times.
Exercise, practice, habits and learning all allow things to get easier, so I'm not sure what he's talking about that doesn't.
EDIT: Actually I think this is just bad advice. If you get a better job and work on your career, then life DOES get easier (i.e. higher pay) - that's just one example. If you believe that things will always be hard, then why try? Why not just give up?
Hmm. There have definitely been times in my life when nothing felt okay and everything felt impossible. I'm not even saying that nothing was okay or that anything was impossible...but it felt that way. I don't feel that way today, which is great. The things you mentioned helped. I think what he's going for is the idea that, "When I get my kitchen painted," or "when my kid stops needing diapers," or "as soon as I finish ... this degree...or project...or paying off this car" or whatever, "...my life will be so much easier!" Sometimes it is...for a few minutes, but as soon as you deal with/master/complete whatever issue you're facing, there will be another one. And another one. That's just life :)
I feel its probably like, theres always gonna be struggle, but you could be happier while you struggle than you are now. Even a hard life dosnt have to be miserable.
The original point being true in that life doesnt just automatically switch into easy mode at some point, at least not normally.
ironic, because life is indeed a fixable temporary state
I just learned you're not supposed to scoop flour directly with the measuring thing, cause it'll be packed too tight. Gotta pour it into the measuring thing so it's fluffy. Now my pancakes aren't always too dense. Learning IS cool 👍
Or use a scale and flour weight
Its surprising how big of a difference it makes. Scales help pin it down.
Another peice of wisdom, is bake the thing till its baked. All cook times are approximate, and ovens can be hugely different, so it helps to learn signs of done-ness so you can find the right time for your kitchen, and get the result you want.
I love this, thanks for more tips!
Sifters are a thing.
@@wellhellothere6347true, but if it's more densely packed then more would also fit into the scoop, ergo the ratio/recipe would be off... Hence recipes often say "1 packed cup of brown sugar" (random example) if it requires you to cram more in for that ratio to be spot on.
Armor. The helmet for the rest of your body is called armor.
But "bod-et" has such a clever ring to it.
Armor is for your arms, Torsor is for your torso
@@naarmy I cannot un-hear "torsor" in his voice now.
It's a bodice
@@naarmy I conceal my armies in my sleevies.
I needed to see this video so badly. Last year, I took on my own Fear of Failure by running for office. I did everything I could, literally injuring myself by knocking on so many doors and switching to phone calls the same day. I'm proud of what I've done, I came very close to unseating a deeply entrenched incumbent while sticking to my values. I lost by 3% and I've been struggling to find motivation to get back up for the past month.
You're right about the drunk driver having the right of way. I had to endure vicious personal attacks on myself and my family. Horribly unjust stuff. I was able to take it in stride before the election because of the possibility that it would all be worth it, but I didn't win after all. I never felt entitled to or guaranteed a victory, especially as a first time candidate, but I've really been struggling with the injustice of having to greet those drunk drivers in public spaces, knowing what they've done.
This is a great video. Thank you for speaking of these harsh truths. I've really been struggling with that one. 😮
This is why having a friend or partner or therapist that pushes back on your excuses is so important. Some don't need it but many, overtime, will forget that these excuses are just hypotheticals and it will become real to them. A few times in my life it has taken a loved one going straight for the jugular of my excuses to snap things back into focus.
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Pushing back yes. And at the same time from a place of kindness and understanding. Else it could be counterproductive.
I guess I don’t have friends. People just say blah blah make you feel better with how it is.
Yeah, that’s when women leave and find a knockoff of u that allows them for bullshit.
@@dreamervanroomgreat observation
The world isn't fair, or unfair. It simply does not care you exist. Which means there isn't anything out to get you.
What that actually means is that everything is out to get you 🤨
Yes
The natural universe is neither fair or unfair.
However, the MANMADE systems we live under are definitely mostly unfair and exploitative for most of the people in them.
say that next time you hike and bear starts chasing u
So true. Some people just have more luck than others.
Dude I used to love your videos back when I was in highschool in 2010 lmao your name randomly popped into my head the other day and I'm so glad to see you're still around making great, funny videos. :)
I used to love his videos, i still do, but i used to aswell.
@@jjcoolj949RIP Mitch
They had highschools in 2010?
The government students watch his old crash course videos at the high school I teach at.
"People wanna matter on all rungs of the ladder" is very profound.
I’m glad you think that. Thank you.
3:50 Oddly, it actually says "latter" not "ladder"
@@martymoo Which one is correct?
.... what if that rung 🪜 wasn't there for you to try on ?
I discovered that most of my conclusions were based on assumptions that I couldn't remember making.
This discovery is currently also under suspicion.
Wait Craig!! What "Feel useful and relevant."?? ??! 🤯🤯 I thought your ultimate goal was "to become the All-knowing All-Seeing space baby at the center of the universe!!" I got my bidet, I cut back on alcohol, I got my excercise, sleep, steps in, had beans for breakfast, run from geese, and NOW you tell me it's all for naught??! SHIRT!
Nope. Still true. I just need immediate goals, too. Space Baby or bust!
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Best comment ever, made my day! XD
The idea that learning should always be fun is one of the biggest myths around. Learning a little about a topic can and should be fun. However, learning to gain expertise is often difficult, scary, and (horror of all horrors) boring. There are just some bits that you got to suffer through. Nice flannel by the way! It looks really well made.
"Here lies the body of Thomas Grey,
Who died defending his right of way.
He was perfectly right as he sped along,
But he's just as dead as if he'd been wrong."
I love a good Haiku.
@@ThePancakeJedi
Thomas Grey
Trust in moral highway
Sudden stop
Here's another truth that works well with the ones you mentioned: You get more of what you focus on. This is mostly about perception bias, but it isn't just an illusion you create with your mind's preconceived notions, your perceptual focus will actually guide you towards noticing and experiencing more of whatever it is you're focusing on. Y'see, the universe just Is, yeah with a capital "I". There is no bias in the universe, good, bad, indifferent, it all happens in random amounts without any preference. So... this means nothing really occurs more than anything else, except... your own biases can skew the result through self-selection. Lemme use an example, let's say you believe all rude people wear plaid shirts. Since you are already expecting the next plaid shirted person to be rude, you'll either notice them more and remember them more when randomly a plaid wearing person happens to be rude, and you may even view innocent things a non-rude plaid wearing person says as being rude. Conversely a rude non-plaid wearing person may not be remembered for whether or not they wore plaid as it didn't match your expectations, you may even misremember them as having worn plaid, or reinterpret their statements as not being rude. Anyway, this fictitious example aside, my point is that your assumptions will colour your perceptions.
Also, your attitude will draw you towards experiences which match. Again, example time. Lets say you believe all Mondays are inherently worse than any other day of the week, even though you work shift work and sometimes you work straight through from Friday to Tuesday. So, you may share this belief with others who agree with you, now there's a group of you all hating a specific day. Existing and functioning during your most hated day will of course feel worse to you than on any other day, so when your boss asks you to do that thing you hate on a MONDAY of all days, you feel it all the worse because of the hatred of the day you were already feeling, so you may think to yourself. "Of course I'm asked to do that thing today, it's Monday after all!." Thereby reinforcing in your mind that Monday's are the worst. Of course it's still that thing you don't like when you're asked to do it on a Wednesday, but do you lessen your hatred of Mondays every time you do "that thing" on a day outside of Monday? Of course not! Those days are just normal days. So now you're in a cycle of self-reinforcing perceptual bias where the only influences you acknowledge towards your opinion of Mondays are the negative ones as they are the ones which support your belief.
Like a Hallmark platitude though, this effect also works on positive things too. If you believe all people simply want to be good or kind or generous or whatever, deep down in their core being, no matter how negatively they may be presently behaving, the desire is still there, yearning to be released, then you'll view people differently, you'll react to them differently, you'll gravitate towards like minded people, thus experiencing more of this belief. Your belief and the altered behaviour it engenders may even encourage people to be nicer to you since you're always so nice to them. Now, I don't mean the axe-murderer down the street won't murder you with an axe if you come over for tea... and axe murdering. However, your attitude may make you avoid wandering down dark alleyways next to his house, or randomly shouting out "any axe murderers around? I'm feeling like getting axe murdered today!" Y'know, sensible things like that.
2:20 the thing I want to mention re this point, though, is that part of the reason why it always feels hard is because if you grow and become more resilient within your struggles, you wind up using your extra “capacity” to do something newer/harder.
Kinda like how the stock market may have ups and downs but the ten year trends it’s always up, and if you keep putting in the money, your retirement will grow.
Like parenthood; once you finally figure out the baby phase, your kid’s a toddler.
I’ve found that when I seriously reflect on what I was capable of two years, five years, ten years ago, there are things I am capable of doing now that I wasn’t able to do before - things that made my life measurably better and gave me space to do the hard things I WANT to do.
*Buuuut* something always does tend to fill in the gap. Even if I wanted to “take it easy” for a while, idk it would happen. If I don’t actively choose it, it will be chosen for me.
Always good to hear. I swear when I was younger that even when I heard good advice, it was rebellious and didn't want to listen. For no good reason. Now, that I'm older I try to listen as much as I can, turns out people who take the time to tell you something often care enough to share and really do hope to save you a bit of pain.
Some really good advice I got is to choose your hard. Yes, life will always have problems, but if your particular life has problems that you really really hate to deal with, then you gotta change something. That being said, you're trading problems you hate and can't handle for new problems that just don't bother you quite so much. The problems will always be there, but you can trade problems until you find a balance that works for you. A little less harsh than "It will always be this hard." More like, "there will always be something hard, but it could be a hard that's more of a character building challenge than something that makes you wanna quit life." Yeah. 👍
Legitimate excuses are called REASONS! I've been saying this forever. TY.
I've been saying something like that too. "There's a fine line between a reason and an excuse."
"Ask why and how a lot." is some of the best advice I think anyone could ever give to anyone. Thanks!
You were the first person I ever subscribed to when I was 12 years old. I’m now 26. Thank you so much for making great content
I'm in the middle of writing 3 university assignments due in the next 48 hours and this was incredibly helpful I also look towards this channel for a way to understand myself and the world around me a bit better. Thank you for posting this today. A lot of us needed it. Hopefully, by tomorrow afternoon I can come back and update you that I finished the assignments I'm struggling with.
Awesome. You might want to search for ‘other ways to procrastinate’ next. Adieu mon chien.
Update?!?!!?
There's some irony in the sponsor of this video being a tool for cheating one's way through university writing assignments. Good on you for (seemingly) not stooping to that!
Something i learned from making music that can apply to your dream of making a movie. You can't polish a turd. I had to learn to move on to the next song, and the next one. Each one is a little better. So. That means. Your first movie likely can't be good. You have to practice the whole process. Learn to like the process. So stop stressing that you need to make the perfect script first. Make it as good as you can make it right now and then go. It will probably be pretty bad, but that is ok. I'd say start with short films to practice. Then when you like what you write more, go for a feature if you want. Thanks for all the laughs throughout the years!
True that... Also remember what a hit The Blair Witch Project was, despite it being awful and basically no budget. *_Anything_* Craig writes will always be infinitely better than that! 😂
100% agree!!!
Hrm, excuse me, sir, but I polish my turds every day, so I'd like to dispel that statement.
Unless you're steely dan. Then you spend hours moving high hats by fractions of a second. 😂
Thanks for dropping this video during the holidays. I appreciate these reminders during what feels like a high-emotions season for me 😌
Craig, I'm so glad you're still here and still you. Your humor and editing style has, miraculously, been exactly aligned with my sense of humor over the years. It's like we have the same brain cell sometimes.
And somehow, I needed this video. I've been putting my favorite things off for "when it gets easier", except by putting them off it inherently will never get easier! Not like anything gets easier anyway, it just requires less active effort as you memorize the tasks needed. But today, you have helped me convince me to throw my "good" excuses in the trash and actually try to paint tonight, for the first time ever, because I'll never gain confidence in my skills if I don't try until I'm "ready". Ready is such a cop-out and I am annoyed that I rely on it so hard.
Anyways. Thank you for being you, and for being here, and for being like the cool older brother I don't actually have (which means I'm actually more likely to listen to you because you're not literally my brother). Love you and Chyna and Ada, and since I don't comment often, I hope you all have an excellent 2025.
Been watching since the early days. Still find these so useful and entertaining. Love you forever Craig
Great video! You were gone for a long time, and I missed your videos. Glad to see this one pop up in my feed. Always a joy to see you there.
I wasn't gone! I was just gone from your feed!
*Bashes the algorithm and rings the bell again*
... Yep, I'm playing catch up too!
@@HannahRainbow88 Or use the subscriptions tab, all videos from your subscribed channels are there
On #1: Acknowledging that you don’t know a lot feels unsexy at first - until you realize that everyone is ignorant and everyone follows their own incompetent decisions, rather doubling down than admitting one is wrong. Being honest with your lack of knowledge will give you a huge advantage in a world of imperfect humans - and that is, indeed, quite cool.
Thanks!
Sure, you should have a baseline mood... You can work on that with habits, but we do have an innate baseline.
I have a young child though, so I know there'll be a day when I've had a week of sleeping through the night. Like 5-7 days where I get like 6+ hours solid. It'll be amazing. I also never got sick as much as I have this past year with daycare... I'm not sick today. It's amazing. Other things may not be, but at least I'm not super sick.
For motivation, you just got to know how deep your willpower pool is and what's exhausting it and know what will fill it back up or at least what will get you a tiny bit closer.
Maybe thinking what's the smallest next step you can do or what's the smallest next payoff you're looking forward to.
*Thank you for posting this video. Thoughtful parasocial "conversation" is all I got for intellectual discussion these days.😅
I just came back from a much needed vacation very far away from home and now acknowledge that I’m tired of underachieving. You reach a point where you need to put yourself into new situations and decide for yourself what you want. I listened to much to older family members who had good intentions but didn’t understand my career interests since it is uncharted territory in my family.
The joy of curiosity is a powerful force!
Saw Thumbnail "It'll always feel this hard"... goes to comments to my surprise that there is no "That's What She Said!" jokes.... yet
who said what now?
@@wheezywaiterthat's what "she" would say, with all these accusations about her words constantly 😜
I came here looking for that joke.
6/7 years.... it's been 6/7 years since I subscribed, and just now your video popped up in my feed. It was (even if it sounds quirky, it's still true) like a breath of fresh air. Like I just teleported into the past and suddenly I was there mentally as well....
Missed you old friend 💝
So glad to see you back in my feed! ❤
What a rollercoaster going from "thanks for the endless joy!" to "oh no everything sucks forever!" But for real, the eternal struggle is why my long term plans have always tended towards reducing my responsibilities. I'll still feel stressed about something, but at least I'm better able to focus on addressing it. End of the day, it's about liking what you have rather than getting something you like.
2:20 This is actually a misconception. Perfect Georg - who has no undiagnosed or untreated chronic physical or mental illnesses - must contend with the hedonic treadmill as their primary obstacle to eternal contentment. For the vast majority of normal people, diagnosing and treating their underlying physical and/or mental illnesses will actually massively improve their general quality of life.
"People wanna matter on all rungs of the ladder"
That's something I'm gonna print out for my cubicle at work
So happy I stumbled on your channel! I'm sad it took me 17 years! Meaningful messaging, great humor, and fantastic editing. Cheers!
Damn Wheezy, I've been watching you this whole time. thanks for sticking around.
So many ways of saying "go with the flow"❤
I honestly I had a horrible day and I clicked on your video and I haven’t stopped laughing. Thank you. You’re the best.
Loving the content every time! Thank you! ☺
Catching this video on the first minute of upload and combining it with “exactly what I needed to hear” is unbelievable!
Great video. Thanks for continuing to do what you do
Thank you Craig, I needed to hear this. Again. Seriously, thank you. ❤
Why do I laugh EVERY time you say something with the (shirt) input? lol 😅
Harsh Truth #6: You will never be Craig Benzene.
wait
Harsh Truth #7: Wait, what?
Just dream of a snake eating its tail. Then you'll be benzene.
Thank you Craig
10:19 I really thought he would make a joke about Luigi's solution to back pain
Sometimes the world is unfair, Brian knew that better than most 🤷
3:48 what about the rungs of the former???
First vid I watch in perhaps a decade. Glad to see you're still around and kicking (ass)
I absolutely loved this vid. Thank you Craig, greetings from Argentina!!!
Legit thought this was Vsauce until u pointed it out. Thanks.
2:03 "Sometimes your being fibers don't have your best interest in mind" Loved that...and VERY introspective
thank you for your advice craig! always nice to hear your perspective, it is honest and direct and often comes from reflecting on your own experiences. I like to amalgamate other peoples' advice, and i regularly find myself coming back to you. cheers!
I feel like you were just on it, this video! I laughed a lot and the advice was great. Thanks Craig!
Wheezy, thanks for all you've offered over the years. Your humor has always resonated with me!
Would never have considered calling issac nuton chuckle f**** to be hilarious
But!
I found it hilarious, absolutely hilarious
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Love it - always enjoy your videos. Perfect blend of funny and poignant. Also you're a Wisco dude which wins you at least a couple extra points.
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your videos stopped popping up on my feed a while ago, glad this one did! 😂
Good for me that I'm curious about everything. I'm never bored. Just sometimes overwhelmed.
Anyone else find yourself click around this one a couple times before finally watching? Love the content and find it both funny and useful. I hope you make your movie!
no freakin joke. I have ADHD and growing up I was made fun of and called dumb all the time. I had like all the quirks xD red hair, blue eyes, left handed, adhd, dyslexia, and 2 X chromozomes.
I found power over others through learning xD. So it started out as a vindictive need to be right and be smarter to make up for my lack of ability to pronounce new words and have some way to show people how the adhd affects me. It's not always a curse, haha.
My most recent obsession has been with an old 1910 map of my town I found with soil compositions at that time and the bodies of water. It was fun overlaying that on the town today and realizing we have Dunkirk Loam under my yard which is like prime farming soil.
I discovered a new breed of cat, the Turkish Angora (i want this now)....and recently i learned how to trim goat hooves, don't ask...
Anyways, learning is everything, learning is power. Knowledge makes you confident, able to hold deep conversations with many people. It helps build empathy and deeper thought, and honestly, the greatest feeling is when you can find the similarities between things like knitting and binary coding haha.
Spot on! Exactly, listening to someone else read ancient Greek or Russian writers takes me somewhere else & I learn how to pronounce those names. Win, win.
Lol you're now like the coolest person i know. Keep going!!!
I'm sorry your Marxist schools convinced you that having power over others should be your goal. Keep working on the empathy building, though. If that wasn't a joke, that is.
Thank you grandmas everywhere
I am one of those infinitely curious beings. But I wasn’t always like this. I gradually nurtured that curiosity by first only researching what I was interested in. And then I discovered 40K.
I dove headfirst into the lore and its stories and characters. 3 years later, I am much more skilled at doing research. Which now allows me to learn about nearly anything that piques my interest. Even if it isn’t something I’d personally do.
But my newfound knowledge is something I can share with someone who would be interested, but lacks the time, will, or skill to research it!
Thanks Craig, helps a lot. I mean it might not sort out every problem right now, but it might sort out every problem across the remainder of my life, and that helps a lot!
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for this video. I really needed to hear some of these truths today.
I needed this so much today. Thank you!!! ❤
Amazing video! Perfect balance of entertaining and informational. Instant like and subscribe!
“The umpire of the universe is unfair and I’m not going to just kick sand at him and get my shoes dirty.” You are a hoot! And I really needed to hear that sentiment. Thanks.
Love these videos! Thanks
I am so glad to see a new video from you! Thank you. 😊
Whenever i need some GOOD CLASSIC RUclips, I can always turn to Craig! It's such good knowledge that even if you know it on the most complete level it's good to be REMINDED of it, with jokes! Thank you, Michael!
Curiosity was taught to me by my father. But it is hard to learn outside of my curiosity. I only learn enough to satisfy my question and go.
When will you dig the alligator pit? Or build a polar bear cage? Or set a Elmo trap?
Your videos are great man. Always funny and entertaining
Thank you for saying the things that we need to hear!
For sure. I was confused because I thought he was bizzaro Vsauce
Fantastic Video!!!
Finished this while enjoying my morning routine coffee. This was the video I needed to push myself harder in the gym shortly. 🎉🤜💪
One simple sollution that will make your life instantly better is "stop talking about what you DON'T want. Talk and think about what you DO want. Then try to make that thing happen". Other people also love helping you if you tell them what you want.
I did need to hear that it's always going to be this hard.
Cuz that means there is no point in waiting around for things to feel easier. Until I somehow become the person who does not struggle, who can just do it all, no problem.
Thank you
The truth is looth!
Hi Craig, I agree with your harsh truths and the need to accept them on a practical level, and I disagree profoundly with some of your underlying philosophy. Thanks for sharing your thought words for me to ponder in my thinky brain. Have a great day!
Thanks for the poem tip! Sounds interesting
"I have just provided you endless joy, you're welcome." Thank you.
Thank you! You solved all of my problems! Now I'll be happy... for a while.
Careful with the whole learning about figs, though. You may never eat one again.
RIGHT?! 😅
Thanks for the video Craig
I can play with myself?! That's all I needed to hear. Thanks Craig.
"Sometimes your being fibers don't have your best in mind"...excellent point!!
This video has solved so many problems for me. Thank you for sharing your hard-earned wisdom.
Thanks, Craig. I thought the video was pretty relatable - I was thinking about the challenges of conceiving, organizing, and running FolksCon, particularly when you mentioned the desire to make a movie and the reasons not to.
2:04 "sometimes your being fibres don't have your best interests at heart" get that sh*rt on a mug pronto 😂😂
"My ultimate goal is to feel useful and relevant all the time." I felt that
3:07
"You can't even really measure something like happiness."
_BHUTAN has entered the chat_
Great advice. Great quotes. Life is hard. Gotta keep on keeping on
9:30 OH MY FUCKIN GOD. with the listening. A majority of my students just do not listen. I don't know what the issue is (i have conjectures). Listening and following orders doesn't make you subservient. Just listen, evaluate and follow
Hey we’re just a dog rn
“Sometimes your being fibres don’t have your best interests in mind.” That’s the truth
"Other people's money" is the way to go with those projects (the movie). Unless you're trying to make low budget film only your friends will care for.
This is the first video of yours I have come across, and you are hilarious.