Gaining CONFIDENCE to be Truly CREATIVE | Orson Wells, Citizen Kane & the Art of Ignorance
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- Опубликовано: 24 фев 2019
- You have two choices in life: be confident or be timid, fearful, doubtful, unsure of yourself, and (eo ipso) unhappy. Surely confidence is the superior mode of existence, but we face a problem. The natural flow of things works against confidence. Being confident it like swimming upstream against the current. The more we analyze, the harder it is to be confident; in fact, the more intelligent a person is, the less confident they tend to be. At the highest echelons of thought-academia, science, philosophy-confidence is actually decried, while doubt, skepticism, and tentativeness are praised. I think this is unfortunate. In reality, confidence is the burning core of a unified, healthy personality and the optimal mode of existence.
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I believe that the surest way to become more confident is to be humble. If there is no need to prove yourself and to show that you are the smartest guy in the room, there is no need to feel uncertain about anything.
One can be humble and lack confidence. Humility is particularly the state of not expecting much from the world or from yourself, not aiming for bold endeavors to achieve greatness.
Confidence also is not inherently conductive to success. It can lead to failures, which can erode confidence in the world or in yourself or both.
There are situations where truth rightfully erodes confidence.
(The video didn't even make the distinction but equated confidence with self-confidence.)
This is soooooooo TRICKY. When judging yourself, there is always the SEEMING truth of how you were treated by peers in childhood, which your home-life/formative-parenting, may have determined for you.
Yes. And yet, even after a long life, any sustained confidence remains elusive.
Confident people tend not to be thoughtful and vice versa. It's great when those two qualities align
Uniting the best of two worlds seems to be master class, yet it is an essential practice, much-neglected, thus humankind is in such peril.
Because when we do not try to combine the best aspects of different things, we fall into partisan mindset, defining through opposition. What then happens is for example that capitalists and environmentalists become a nightmare team for ruining everything, both serving fear by acting in superficial opposition.
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And the term Kapitalist was invented by Demonic Depopulationist Environmentalists ...(Marx, too was a Rothschild, on assignment for his Banker bloodline as he wrote that destructive work)
Proceed without doubt, don't over analyze yourself, assume that you will be successful...and then hope you're actually talented and not just a fool.
As you pointed out, too much confidence, and you have the Dunning Kruger effect. Welles' point about ignorance is tempered by his passion for story play and experience with production. He was no imbecilic genius. His accomplishments lay on the same path tread by pioneers of all walks and lives. It reminds me of the Pareto principle that 80% of consequences derive from 20% of circumstances. Derivation: 80% of success is the product of 20% of the effort. He put great effort in that 20% to take full advantage of the 80% luck that fueled his early success as a filmmaker.
Apparently, there is truth to the statement that imitation begets reality.
The Beatles wrote songs because they knew nothing about writing songs.
Welles' most stunning achievement in film isn't Citizen Kane*. It is the opening sequence in Touch of Evil. One long single shot.
*Kane is one of those films that is both good and bad. A stunning achievement technically. It none the less fails to get you engaged in the story. If the studio hadn't cut it al, to hell I think Welles would most be remembered for The Magnificant Amberson's
I recommend a video on RUclips, "Orson Welles: The Genius Who Couldn't Do Anything." You'll see why.
I knew at an early age, self defense was critical in my life, I was taught how to fight, and I never, ever had a problem with confidence, knowing that you can physically beat someone up, gives you true power over other people, not that you have to use it, like some Bullies do, but knowing that when a Bully hurts your friends, you can hurt him back, plus you can always tell the difference between people who have real confidence, and the fakes who use their status, or money.
This is essential in eastern martial arts: character building. Inner power calms the soul, external (borrowed) power excites it further, in part because it can be taken away, and then you have little internal power to prevent that.
The philosophy half of those teachings is important and challenging, because it counters the temptation to use the power attained, instead having the wisdom to understand what profound benefit it has in a dormant, unmanifest state.
This also ties into abundance vs. scarcity and what capitalism does to humankind's psyche. It is a huge agenda for pampering lack of confidence. (Which is also why cocaine is a lifeblood of capitalist business. People yearn for more borrowed confidence to cope with the machine that keeps implanting lack of confidence.)
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homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto. Few would be willing to interpret it closely. I AM SO GLAD I GOOGLED THIS... THEN AGAIN. NOW I LOST IGNORANCE.
Awesome video. I hope you make more such videos.
This confidence blabla really ruffles my feathers. I gained a lot of confidence over the last years but that also depended on outer circumstances. If your surroundings are opressive or you are traumatized or something you can't just decide so now I'm confident and act like it.
Also every single person is unsure of death. Non - existence is just not imaginable to living beings so no one can be sure of everything and the more you think the more such factors come to mind. To me true confidence should include exactly that, to also be aware of the limits of your confidence and also how your confidence can be used for darker purposes.
The Nazis were very very confident. Few people are really happy about their "achievements" nowadays.
Yes, the video does not distinguish confidence and self-confidence.
We learn things about ourselves and about the world, and that affects confidence respectively, and since we live in this world, there is always a degree of dependence.
One of my personal spiritual teaching essences for some clarity:
_Confidence sits at the root, hope sits at the crown. Both combine in the heart as faith._
Hope without confidence makes meek and weak, dependent, enslaved.
Confidence without hope makes cruel and crude, meaningless, ugly, empty.
I.e. faith is when you are confidence that your hopes can be fulfilled. Hopes are heartfelt visions, so faith adds richness and beauty to the world. Without them we are merely cogs in a machine, ready to be used.
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Amazing how so many are still so confident attacking the memory of what they imagined national socialism to be....
without lasting words of censure for what communism (hundreds of millions slaughtered) proved to be....
In my own experience I'm confident because I'm almost always the smartest guy in the room.
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Former President Obama: "If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room."
at the end of the video it says check out this video but i dont see any video linked
Confidence rises out of competence in the way a soccer player has kicked a ball 20,000 times and the player is composed when performing any act so practised. One needs to determine what the act is and it's needs but that too can be practiced and learned in life, in body and mind. There is another aspect that has been overlooked of inspired performance. On any given day a person can perform beyond expectations and previous form because, I am guessing, chemistry and motivation synchronise with trait and logic as never before but also no guarantee of able to be sustained.
When one matures to be their true self they understand the difference between a gamble and a calculated risk and as evolving will always look at horizons rarely if ever introduced before. Humans have always evolved by chance or design to change, better or economise things in all genres of life.
This person would also have feet on the ground to accept in advance any consequence of their action and be fully reconciled before hand. For example (a) I did a play at school of a basic life story including some issues. Firstly I averaged the age of parents and in the abck ground had instrumental tunes from the time when they were courting but when an issue was being performed the music with apt lyrics would blend into to scene and then..... (b) As those topics unfolded would black out the stage and light up firstly a mentor sitting high above stage on the left to comment and then across to the right for another mentor for contrary comment.
However both comments were merely presented as options and aspects to consider. NOT judgement calls. You know if we do this then we must handle that. Parents expected Les jeux sont faites in its traditional format but I wanted to highlight the issues and options Pierre and Eve could have taken if they could have forseen assuming they had the apt intellect / perception. Left would say yes they should have done x and Right would say but their upbringing inhibited that.
This innovation was not born out of ignorance and Orson was merely patronising the public with his pseudo modesty as top athletes and performers do... ( As an athelte I beat a hot shot, once, and when asked I merely stated that he lost the race more than I won it and ability obviously did not come into it.
I knew the play and thought up somehting much more entertaining for the audience than a same old same old... further at 2 or 3 intervals included in the act times when actors would pour wine and a couple would take drinks out to the audience at random during the dancing merriment scene without detracting from the flow of the story.
Hollywood et al are full of folk pampered all their lives to present something that sells with no depth or imagination, relying on gimmicks, accute camera angles and super stars to make the film a success. Evidently Off The Mark ....
I had no idea I was so smart.
Talented people really should be more ignorance. But I never be so regret for telling one of my friends she should be confidence on her outlook, after sometimes she suddenly thinks she is really pretty, which I thought it was a good thing, but then she became angry at the guys for not being her simps, and tried to hurt those guys and a lot of shits happened...
What does the greek sentence at the end say? That has piqued my interest...
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Aren’t you contradicting yourself there? The bits and pieces make sense, but, if I’m not mistaken, you come to the conclusion that ignorance is the road to truth. How can you judge yourself truthfully, if you are ignorant? There are confident people that build their confidence on ignorance, yes. But they don’t do it by choice. Being ignorant and choosing to ignore an aspect of reality is not the same. The latter needs the ability to see at least some truth. Yes, you can choose to ignore the matrix, but you have seen it and living as if you haven’t is not being true to yourself. And no, that’s not pessimistic, if someone reads it like this. It’s realistic, which means that it’s not static. Accept that there are things you can’t achieve at this moment in time. Then do something about it. Like Orson Wells. Don’t ignore that you can’t achieve it and grind yourself into a frustrated, sorry, HAPPY zombie by trying over and over again. And to end my rant: Taking a leap of faith it not ignorance either.
The music is very distracting... Hard to think... Are you trying to make us confident?
It became particularly annoying to me when he talked about silencing the background chatter through meditation.
im not gonna undermine your analysis, but im sorry Welles was a expertly liar, you think he went to make Citizen Kane in a state of complete ignorance? hmmm dont think so...he was a very intelligent and acute man and a great analyst of other great directors (for the making of Citizen Kane he studied Frank Capra, René Clair, Fritz Lang, King Vidor and the greatest John Ford), if you go to interviews (with colaborators) or any work he did with in the past like his Radio Show about War of the Worlds he read A LOT, he knew the classics of literature and Theater, and he demanded working with the best technicians (Gregg Toland), he was 25 yes, but a 25 year old young man hungry for more knowledge. Taking my case its totally the opossite, i find ignorance unbearable, i always feel confident if i know the "how to", even if you go to pick women on the street, its not confidence its more like bravado, like "not giving a fuck about that voice inside) in the case of Welles it is the same, he was intelligent, but a brave intelligent man...thats why he made great films and is a legend in cinema.
Interesting video but I must make a negative comment about the racket going on in the background, which, coupled with your soft spoken delivery, makes it really hard to take on board.