Thank you, we don’t *teach* but we do learn. Receptionists are able to receive with kindness, not force. The skill of a receptionist is understated. Perhaps we don’t teach receptionists, but demand it? A collection of references is not a quality of understanding. Understanding translates from the heart, it is not robotic. Survival has not been interested in surviving, but existing within a system of confusion and ambiguity. To be tested, is to be conditioned to the ‘appropriate’ not the ‘wild’. With lecture, there is little conversation. Converse argument and the words used. Journalism is an art of no conclusions, the reader has an opportunity of differences. (Individualism is the curse) So far in meeting with terror, is to meet an author with little to no answers or memory of their writings. The world is definitely abstractions from the effort to escape gravity, rather than to just settle for its beauty. I’ll continue to argue ‘fittedness’ is a foundational word sped up for an economy of ‘fitness’. Those who wrote the dictionary, dictated the future we are mired in. Knowledge is knowing where to find it, not to store it.
Thank you for writing! Your notes about knowledge, openness, and receptiveness are important. It's interesting how the task of reception is outsourced and externalized-The main contact person doesn't receive directly. "Reception" becomes another job, and whoever is doing that does not really fulfill the main point of the meeting.
@@DavoodGozli yes, my thoughts are that in a group of three, reception is at an optimal level, despite the ‘world of differences’. I can only say that as a practice, it works, even if the third appears unintentionally distracted if things go into lecture modality. Conversation goes ‘let me stop you right there, I am not sure I understand, politeness goes ‘I understand everything’ and it’s good enough to be in the scroll. Of company.
I really enjoyed watching this video. You've made some crucial points about the importance of literature by sharing your reading experiences and discussing how to build a healthy relationship with this literary world. I’ve come across situations where the idea that “literature answers questions by showing” really rings true. I often find myself turning to literary sources to make sense of things. Recently I had a discussion with my cousin about why some societies or groups accept injustices and inequities as if they’re enjoying it. My cousin pointed out how Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot illustrates this accurately. The character Myshkin, who embodies honesty and transparency, is labeled as an ‘idiot’ by the society around him, while the rest of the society, steeped in its flaws, believes it’s on the right path. People who were listening to our conversation were not literature lovers, but this example was good/simple enough for them to understand some aspects of these societies.(Maybe you already have a video on that 🤔 ) Thanks again for sharing your thoughts with us!
Thank you very much, Sarwa! I appreciate your input and the thought on The Idiot (which I haven’t read yet, but would like to). Something else that I appreciate about your comment is the note about discussing literature with others-bringing it into the medium of conversation-and the possible consequences of that. That’s probably why the idea of book clubs appeals to us, because they can add another layer to our experience of the texts. Hope you’re well.
I found you through your “It Ends With Us” review. I never read it, so I was looking for someone with a fair perspective. I was impressed by your tone through the entire video, because although you said you wouldn’t recommend it, you didn’t seem to come from a malicious place. That alone made me think “This guy genuinely cares about the craft of literature.” I clicked on your channel where I found this video, and it confirmed my suspicions! As for my own answer to “Why literature?” I write myself (almost done with the first draft of my book, woohoo!) and I would describe my passion for writing as a passion for the human heart. To articulate the growth a soul goes through in a story is immensely fulfilling, because to me, writing (or reading) is an exercise in empathy. To me, literature is a love letter to the highs and lows in life. Its power to reach its reader and cradle their emotions has always impressed me beyond words. That’s why I committed myself to learning how to wield that power. I also loved your talk on style. Of course, style can be defined in a multitude of ways, and one way I define it is by attitude. How an author talks about their writing, their book, and its readers, it’s very telling how they went about their work. It will bleed into how much care they carried when handling their harder topics, or how much empathy they show to characters stuck in whatever circumstance. I hope I didn’t misinterpret the question, but that would be my answer! I very much enjoy your easy-going cadence, and I’ll certainly look into other videos!
Thank you for your beautiful and sympathetic comment! I am so glad to hear my videos are viewed by such thoughtful individuals who have a self-conscious (artful) relationship with language, experience, and thought. Let me know once your book is published and good luck with the rest of the process.
Thanks you for this video! I like the way you think, and it makes me want to reawaken my own dormant mind 😊🙏 Many people who read a lot, or grew up reading, talk about a good book being good company… perhaps much better company than the people around them. Whether you write well or badly, there’s something about putting pen to paper that requires an intensity of attention, focus, and presence which is distilled into the words and sentences that are written. Perhaps this quality of presence is what’s being communicated to the reader, apart from any thoughts, ideas or storyline… I’m thinking of a wonderful book I read several years ago (An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine), and how reading about the very solitary main character somehow took away my own loneliness, almost more than another flesh and blood person could have.
Thanks for your comment! I recently heard about An Unnecessary Woman from another RUclipsr and have purchased it on Kindle. And I completely agree with your statement about the quality of attention-it contains so much, and it is (in my opinion) one of the key skills we cultivate through literature and art.
@@DavoodGozli Thanks for your reply 😊 I’m delighted to hear that you’ve acquired An Unnecessary Woman. It’s definitely a book that deserves to be better known! And I agree with what you say about art and literature. For a long time I’ve been conflating having/cultivating refined sensibilities with a kind of snobbish posturing, but I’m beginning to realize that they’re really two different things… and come from completely different places.
Hello, I am a big fan and listen to you often. I don't want to contrdict what you said on the topic, but the lady saying that she wrote the book for dummies need some appreciation, because today's dummies are tomorrow's better able pepole because they read her book, which aram them to understand more complicated ideas.❤
I'm very happy you expressed your disagreement. We wouldn't learn without criticism and exploring our disagreements. I think there are different ways a person can write for a general, non-specialist audiences. There is definitely a way to do so without condescending to the audience, and believing that they will always remain in that status. What you allude to is a faith in human growth, which I think influences the work of a writer in positive ways. Also, a minor note: Quite interestingly, you spelled "arm" as "aram", which in my language (and several other languages) means "calming" and "comforting" the readers. That might a task of a writer who addresses a generalist audience, too. Thanks for writing and for your kind remarks.
@@DavoodGozli Oh my God! You not only read my comment, but replied to it as well. You have no idea how much that means to me. The only intellectual person in my life that took the time to connect with me. I am over the moon right now. I misspelled arm😂 and I am so happy that I did, because.... My name is Lily living in the States originally from Ethiopia.
That’s very kind of you, Lily! It’s a pleasure to meet you. The reason I make videos for RUclips is to connect with others and hear from them (i.e., you). I want to be less like an “intellectual” and more like a “social.” Thanks for replying.
Why literature? As a young neurodivergent person, how could I have had the context for understanding living in my head. The easy answer is, I didn't like being bullied by my brother... lol. 😊
Thank you for your answer. It's strange how literature opens up that space where the peripheral, ignored parts of our experiences-as individuals and collectives-can become visible, examined, and liberated from. Bullying, being bullied, is indeed a recurrent theme in literature. Giving it voice and visibility can be a first step in (hopefully) being free from it and discovering the hidden self that can exist in that freedom.
Thank you for your comments and for sharing the names. I enjoy the short stories of Borges, though I haven't read anything by Palahniuk, Grisham, or Crichton.
I like your genuine and unshowy presentation, a nice antidote to the OTT style of many RUclipsrs. Thanks!
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Thank you, we don’t *teach* but we do learn.
Receptionists are able to receive with kindness, not force.
The skill of a receptionist is understated.
Perhaps we don’t teach receptionists, but demand it?
A collection of references is not a quality of understanding.
Understanding translates from the heart, it is not robotic.
Survival has not been interested in surviving, but existing within a system of confusion and ambiguity.
To be tested, is to be conditioned to the ‘appropriate’ not the ‘wild’.
With lecture, there is little conversation. Converse argument and the words used.
Journalism is an art of no conclusions, the reader has an opportunity of differences.
(Individualism is the curse)
So far in meeting with terror, is to meet an author with little to no answers or memory of their writings.
The world is definitely abstractions from the effort to escape gravity, rather than to just settle for its beauty.
I’ll continue to argue ‘fittedness’ is a foundational word sped up for an economy of ‘fitness’.
Those who wrote the dictionary, dictated the future we are mired in.
Knowledge is knowing where to find it, not to store it.
Thank you for writing! Your notes about knowledge, openness, and receptiveness are important. It's interesting how the task of reception is outsourced and externalized-The main contact person doesn't receive directly. "Reception" becomes another job, and whoever is doing that does not really fulfill the main point of the meeting.
@@DavoodGozli yes, my thoughts are that in a group of three, reception is at an optimal level, despite the ‘world of differences’.
I can only say that as a practice, it works, even if the third appears unintentionally distracted if things go into lecture modality.
Conversation goes ‘let me stop you right there, I am not sure I understand, politeness goes ‘I understand everything’ and it’s good enough to be in the scroll. Of company.
I really enjoyed watching this video. You've made some crucial points about the importance of literature by sharing your reading experiences and discussing how to build a healthy relationship with this literary world.
I’ve come across situations where the idea that “literature answers questions by showing” really rings true. I often find myself turning to literary sources to make sense of things. Recently I had a discussion with my cousin about why some societies or groups accept injustices and inequities as if they’re enjoying it. My cousin pointed out how Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot illustrates this accurately. The character Myshkin, who embodies honesty and transparency, is labeled as an ‘idiot’ by the society around him, while the rest of the society, steeped in its flaws, believes it’s on the right path. People who were listening to our conversation were not literature lovers, but this example was good/simple enough for them to understand some aspects of these societies.(Maybe you already have a video on that 🤔 )
Thanks again for sharing your thoughts with us!
Thank you very much, Sarwa! I appreciate your input and the thought on The Idiot (which I haven’t read yet, but would like to). Something else that I appreciate about your comment is the note about discussing literature with others-bringing it into the medium of conversation-and the possible consequences of that. That’s probably why the idea of book clubs appeals to us, because they can add another layer to our experience of the texts. Hope you’re well.
I found you through your “It Ends With Us” review. I never read it, so I was looking for someone with a fair perspective. I was impressed by your tone through the entire video, because although you said you wouldn’t recommend it, you didn’t seem to come from a malicious place. That alone made me think “This guy genuinely cares about the craft of literature.” I clicked on your channel where I found this video, and it confirmed my suspicions!
As for my own answer to “Why literature?” I write myself (almost done with the first draft of my book, woohoo!) and I would describe my passion for writing as a passion for the human heart. To articulate the growth a soul goes through in a story is immensely fulfilling, because to me, writing (or reading) is an exercise in empathy. To me, literature is a love letter to the highs and lows in life. Its power to reach its reader and cradle their emotions has always impressed me beyond words. That’s why I committed myself to learning how to wield that power.
I also loved your talk on style. Of course, style can be defined in a multitude of ways, and one way I define it is by attitude. How an author talks about their writing, their book, and its readers, it’s very telling how they went about their work. It will bleed into how much care they carried when handling their harder topics, or how much empathy they show to characters stuck in whatever circumstance.
I hope I didn’t misinterpret the question, but that would be my answer! I very much enjoy your easy-going cadence, and I’ll certainly look into other videos!
Thank you for your beautiful and sympathetic comment! I am so glad to hear my videos are viewed by such thoughtful individuals who have a self-conscious (artful) relationship with language, experience, and thought. Let me know once your book is published and good luck with the rest of the process.
Thanks you for this video! I like the way you think, and it makes me want to reawaken my own dormant mind 😊🙏 Many people who read a lot, or grew up reading, talk about a good book being good company… perhaps much better company than the people around them. Whether you write well or badly, there’s something about putting pen to paper that requires an intensity of attention, focus, and presence which is distilled into the words and sentences that are written. Perhaps this quality of presence is what’s being communicated to the reader, apart from any thoughts, ideas or storyline… I’m thinking of a wonderful book I read several years ago (An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine), and how reading about the very solitary main character somehow took away my own loneliness, almost more than another flesh and blood person could have.
Thanks for your comment! I recently heard about An Unnecessary Woman from another RUclipsr and have purchased it on Kindle. And I completely agree with your statement about the quality of attention-it contains so much, and it is (in my opinion) one of the key skills we cultivate through literature and art.
@@DavoodGozli Thanks for your reply 😊 I’m delighted to hear that you’ve acquired An Unnecessary Woman. It’s definitely a book that deserves to be better known! And I agree with what you say about art and literature. For a long time I’ve been conflating having/cultivating refined sensibilities with a kind of snobbish posturing, but I’m beginning to realize that they’re really two different things… and come from completely different places.
Thanks!😊
Thank you for your support!
Hello, I am a big fan and listen to you often. I don't want to contrdict what you said on the topic, but the lady saying that she wrote the book for dummies need some appreciation, because today's dummies are tomorrow's better able pepole because they read her book, which aram them to understand more complicated ideas.❤
I'm very happy you expressed your disagreement. We wouldn't learn without criticism and exploring our disagreements. I think there are different ways a person can write for a general, non-specialist audiences. There is definitely a way to do so without condescending to the audience, and believing that they will always remain in that status. What you allude to is a faith in human growth, which I think influences the work of a writer in positive ways. Also, a minor note: Quite interestingly, you spelled "arm" as "aram", which in my language (and several other languages) means "calming" and "comforting" the readers. That might a task of a writer who addresses a generalist audience, too. Thanks for writing and for your kind remarks.
@@DavoodGozli Oh my God! You not only read my comment, but replied to it as well. You have no idea how much that means to me. The only intellectual person in my life that took the time to connect with me. I am over the moon right now. I misspelled arm😂 and I am so happy that I did, because....
My name is Lily living in the States originally from Ethiopia.
That’s very kind of you, Lily! It’s a pleasure to meet you. The reason I make videos for RUclips is to connect with others and hear from them (i.e., you). I want to be less like an “intellectual” and more like a “social.” Thanks for replying.
Why literature?
As a young neurodivergent person, how could I have had the context for understanding living in my head. The easy answer is, I didn't like being bullied by my brother... lol. 😊
Thank you for your answer. It's strange how literature opens up that space where the peripheral, ignored parts of our experiences-as individuals and collectives-can become visible, examined, and liberated from. Bullying, being bullied, is indeed a recurrent theme in literature. Giving it voice and visibility can be a first step in (hopefully) being free from it and discovering the hidden self that can exist in that freedom.
1001 Arabian nights... does it present a possible path to infinity? Hmm. 😊
The frame story.
Concerning rhetoric...
Chuck Palahniuk
[Beautiful monsters]
Jorge Luis Borges
The garden of forking paths.
Authors I enjoy.
John Grisham
Michael Crichton
Thank you for your comments and for sharing the names. I enjoy the short stories of Borges, though I haven't read anything by Palahniuk, Grisham, or Crichton.
It might be more of an exercise in style. Popular novels are that way for a reason.
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