Why We Need More Simon Cowell
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2024
- Nothing has done more damage to Millennials and Get Zers than ‘The Self-Esteem Movement:’ the insane belief that you praise someone first and do the work second. It has created two generations of young Americans who, in the main, are utterly convinced that they are amazing at everything. You can’t hope to get any better at something if you are taught from birth that you began at the top, and so Simon Cowell is not simply the mean guy on the talent-show panel: he is an avatar for a quaint but fading concept called THE TRUTH.
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It comes down to: You can't learn from your mistakes if there is no penalty for making them.
The title of this video should have been: “More Cowell Bell.”
“More Cowell Bill.”
@@drysori "More Cowell, Bill"
My favorite band is Blue Oyster Cult. The fact they may be remembered for that one phrase instead of all their great music is OK with me. As long as they're remembered.🙂
There have to be steaks.
Now I'm hungry.
I hope you were making a pun.
Every time I see that beard, I feel sorry for all the other beards in the world. Just gets more glorious every day
And I think just the opposite! Go figure.
When you're told all your life you're wonderful, then get criticized by the real world, you simply don't have a clue how do deal w/ real life. The parents who say that nonsense to their kids are the problem.
Often times those people will lash out and hurt people who try to give them the "ugly truth".
They need to learn that the truth can sometimes hurt but it is necessary.
Lindsey Stirling is actually an example of someone Simon criticized and is still popular today.
I've been to one of her concerts. She referenced that.
Never heard of her.
Bill's not entirely correct about not one American Idol rejection becoming a star. At least one did: Lindsey Stirling. 😎
I miss watching Simon
"You can be anything you want to be!" Wrong!! You can *try* to be anything you want to be. As you're trying, find someone who's honest enough to tell you if you can, or cannot do this thing!
I happened to see an interview on a college campus where the interviewer asked some girl to name three countries outside the U.S. Her answer was Colorado, Florida and Montana!
Bill must've seen it too! Dumb as a box of rocks.
Like the song says "You gotta be cruel to be kind....."
In the right measure.
Being unwilling to tell people that they aren't good at something (or that they're only average) sets them up for future failures.
It may be increasingly archaic, but I think honesty is the best policy, enhanced by a firm grip on reality and clarity of truth.
Tell the truth, even when it hurts.
This mantra of "You can be whatever you want to be" has always been bogus.
The colloquial term for the Dunning/Kruger Effect is the word "Smugnorant." It perfectly sums up the modern woke/lefty activist. Oh how I wish I had coined this term...
The law and order SVU episode "Dissonant Voices" is a perfect (if extreme) example of the dangers of the "self-esteem" movement.
William Hung makes more of an impact as an analyst for the LA County Sheriff's department than he ever made as an "actor".
One of Thomas Sowell's books points out that it's not always Jews, or not just Jews. Any group of people with an identifiable characteristic can be "othered". If you think that it could not happen in the USA, you are wrong. They already tried it. The United States Federal Government tried to do this with people who would not take the mRNA shot. A few more judges leaning a different way and they would have succeeded.
Simon Cowell... Synonym for parent, teacher, coach, mentor... the list goes on and on.
Some people won't get better with time and practice but they won't accept it.
It would do us well every once in a while to have someone lovingly tell us that we simply do not have the skill or the talent to accomplish what we have set our hearts on doing.
They could have Simon Cowell on every street corner as well as Handy from Brave New World
We never know what will help the most. I was raised where most in my family honestly WERE at the top of their class in everything (no, not me- the single hold out) and tended to push such wrong teachings on my kids simply by force of habit. But I have always been handicapped in many areas, and they HAD to learn reality as it would hit us. Praise God- as they are all incredible people!
Love me some DK! Many people especially politicians have this unconscious incompetence! Some who are older and should have moved to a better level still remain in their blissful incompetence! two of the criteria we must use to evaluate our politicians are 1. Cognitive tests. 2. Have you ever been involved in a business for more than 3 years? There are more but these two seem critical.
"You can be anything you set your mind to."
I eventually grew to 6'3", 225 fighting weight. Regardless of how much I might have liked horses, by the time I was 12 there was no way I would ever ride a Kentucky Derby horse. No amount of training, effort, dreaming, exercise, nothing. Which is not the same as saying I couldn't own a horse, train a horse or be around horses. As Thomas Sowell says: "There are no solutions, only tradeoffs."
With the exception of Lindsey Sterling but she was nice about it. Later she said it was the best thing he had done for her since she didn't get caught up in a shitty contract. Or Ellen Petersen of The Petersens did well on the show
Best meme I've ever seen: The first rule of Dunning Kruger Club is, you don't know you're in Dunning Kruger Club.
Dear Gents,
What you describe encapsulates the sophistry behind the maxim of 'fake it till you make it.' There are times when just 'trying harder' isn't enough.
Frank.
This was a great episode. You hit the nail on the head.
Scott's been replaced by Santa.
Wow, William Hung was 20 years ago, and he's still the bar to meet.
The point made by Bill's acting professor sadly illustrates one of the BIG problems in so many pre-Chosen Christian Studio movies, or films by Conservatives: The actors simply CANNOT ACT. And we're supposed to accept it anyway, as "the alternative" to Hollywood--like we're all OBLIGATED to accept that crap...because it's "OUR" crap. (Heck, I saw the comments section of a Christian site's negative review of God's Not Dead FILLED with people accusing the reviewer of opposing the spread of the Gospel!)
Yes that show has gotten rave reviews, my sister's family loves it for sure. I bet I'd like it, even as a non-godderite. The amateur/cheesy quality of typical Christian productions, now that I think about it, HAS been what keeps many people from having any interest in it. Reckon I'll check it out :)
p.s. I wonder how it handles the angle of following THE doctrinal/accepted story, because there are many diagreements there...how does it walk the line? Because you have to take SOME liberties in a show or a movie. The Passion of The Christ caught some flak for inserting apocryphal (I think) catholic-tradition scenes for example.
Imposter syndrome is a real thing. I spent 20 years doing residential electricity and every time I did a job I dithered over it because I felt unsure that I was doing it correctly and to Code.
For many, 10,000 hours will still not be enough.
Oh my!
Don't forget Jennifer Hudson, whom Simon blasted when she was eliminated, and who went on to win an Oscar in Dreamgirls.
What do you figure the odds are of those two psychologists having the same names as the effect they discovered? That's incredible.
This was the problem with the draft in Vietnam. We shanghaied thousands of young men, and there was absolutely no way that all of them would be cut out for the life of a soldier. But that drill sergeant is so convinced he can beat, insult, humiliate and PT you into a lethal killing machine--because that's his job, you know--that he will just keep trying until he either succeeds or you just die. They recognize failure when they see it, certainly, but they always see that failure as just another hurdle, just another obstacle on the way to success. And to be fair, sometimes that's what it is. But they don't seem to recognize when the failure is an innate natural barrier, that results from who and what you are. You belong somewhere else, but they will not see that. That's how you end up with Private Pyle.
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Discourage everyone. If they have what it takes, they'll stick with it. If not, they'll move on to other things.
A huge part of this reticence to criticize is the concern for hurting someone's feelings and that hearing honest criticism will discourage and demoralize them. But that concern supposes that you are in control of another's feelings. That is an incorrect supposition. You have no control over another's feelings. You can _try_ to influence someone's feelings, and depending on their self image, you may or may not succeed. But there is no certainty. Because people are responsible for their own feelings, whether they admit it or not. You don't _make_ a person experience a feeling. If the reverse were true, then ALL poets, priests, and politicians would be successful. All sculptors, novelists, musicians, actors, directors, etc. hope to move you emotionally and the vast majority of them fail. To make matters worse, society has devolved to a position of blaming others for whether or not they 'feel' safe. Ludicrously, 'feeling' safe is meaningless; being safe is what matters. Anyone can believe whatever they like _effortlessly_ ; knowledge requires effort.
When I was in elementary school. I tried out for the class choir. After my audition with the choir director. She looked at me and said this is a joke, right.
wasnt that the role of the court jester? to deflate the ego of the king?
13:44 “The less you know about a field, the more highly you rate your ability in that field.. the more you know about a field, the lower you rate your ability in that field..”
“So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground
And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.” (John 8:7-9)
Maybe there is hope for my Christian life after all..
I think parents are to blame for this.
Howdy, jerks. Isn't one Cowell one too many?
Bill, your description of the Dunning-Kruger Effect is very close, but needs a bit of clarification. You said; "The less you know about a field, the more highly you rate your ability in that field." A more accurate statement of the effect would be: The less you know about a field, the more incorrectly ABOVE REALITY you rate your ability in that field. Conversely and perversely, the more you know about a field, the more incorrectly BELOW REALITY you rate your ability in that field. Those who are most ignorant have the least understanding of how much they don't know, resulting in overrating themselves. Those who are least ignorant have the greatest understanding of how much they don't know, resulting in underrating themselves. "The wise man understands the depths of his own ignorance."
8:00 - Simon Cowell has never been wrong - That's bull. He's missed plenty of stars over the years. Probably the biggest I can think of is Lindsay Sterling, a girl who played electronic music on the violin while dancing a combination of modern and ballet. She hosts sold-out concerts regularly and has put out nearly a dozen albums. Dude was dead wrong on her. And he's been wrong on others as well, so let's not act like he's God. He's got an eye for talent, but it's a specific type of talent, primarily pop singers that he's good at finding.
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Simon for better or worse is trying to be honest on air. He is part of selecting these people and should tell more of them to get lost before they make the show but on air he tries.
Has anyone ever told Simon Cowell his plastic surgery is hideous?
HE CHANGE TOO, HE GOT SOFT
(channeling Simon Cowell) the beard gets ever more distracting. Shave it off Scott!
If "it always starts with the Jews", an introspective people might ask themselves, why? Why does this keep happening?