My Methodology of Analysis (200k SUB SPECIAL!)
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0:00 - intro
1:09 - ask all questions
4:13 - the most important rule (ask what not why)
14:30 - analysis goals (brown throated thrush)
26:20 - 6 effective questions
35:56 - forget the facts (mercury’s orbit)
46:54 - qualities of great theories (invisible soccer ball)
56:09 - overanalysis?
1:01:51 - contradicting past theories
1:02:28 - ego attachment to ideas
1:04:11 - dont agree/disagree
1:04:49 - dissenting opinions
1:05:51 - impossible questions
1:06:55 - separate points
1:09:06 - name ideas
1:09:59 - compare everything
1:10:28 - 100% confidence/humility
1:12:50 - think
1:13:56 - the sammy method 
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Hope everyone enjoyed!! I haven't done this previously, but in the spirit of usefulness (and also because I didn't use as much on screen text because the video was so long), here's the complete script:
docs.google.com/document/d/1eH_Vr6FFaSo_HwnEclbkgvf9xf3JUpjKBgB0RcaDDmk/edit?usp=sharing
I think it would be awesome if you posted the script for every video. I like having a text version because it's easier to come back to, search and quote (and your videos are good enough that I often want to do that).
Thanks!
There's so many ideas that I already had that you explained in a way that helped me understand them better, and so many new ideas that you introduced to me that feel like they fill gaps in my ability. Thank you so much.
I need to do media analysis for uni for the first time right now, this video came at the perfect time for me! Thank you so much!
Thank you for including a script! I am writing notes so I can retain the information and use this for my own analysis and I find writing from text much easier. I was trying to notate from the video with subtitles but the script will be more effective.
“I’m just a random guy on RUclips making videos about TV shows.” Please don’t diminish your work. Almost everything in society today tells us that having opinions either means your right or your against me, and that’s not the case. Being able to analyze something and find the nuance in it is normal and what a lot of people want. I just listened to your “Masculinity” video and I appreciate the end of the video where you take a minute to break down where your view could be skewed or uninformed. It’s important in the world, so don’t undervalue what you’re doing. I promise you the majority of your viewers don’t.
Yes. Schnee's ability to consider all sides of an issue and invent new sides as need shows that he is an intellectual of both humility and merit. Our intellectual culture would surely be much improved if the people responsible for guiding discourse on serious issues behaved with the same thoughtfulness and evenhandedness with which Schnee discusses Netflix shows.
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It's fascinating, _truly_ fascinating how often it is as such people assume naïvety in those who are critical of opposition. As dangerous as it _can_ be to truly open your ears, I honestly _just _*_don't_* see _any_ alternative to the rampant division of today's and tomorrow's world... save the deaths of millions at best...
Only Schnee could deftly analyze _his own videos_ - and we're all still here for it! ❤🎉😂
I think the key difference between a 'why' question and a 'what' question mostly comes down to a matter of intentionality and specificity. 'Why' questions more than anything tend to be very generalized, vague, and just establish that there is a lack of knowledge on the topic; they can also be very easy to just answer with "I don't know." A good 'what' question will focus in on more detailed aspects of the subject, and once they are asked, and you take the time to think about them, you can come to SOME kind of conclusion just from the nature of how they are structured.
yes i agree here, i was doing on nelson mandela and i kept asking why nelson was a good leader, but if you instead ask what makes a good leader, and then work backwards you can get much further, this is why 'why' questions arent bad questions they just cant be your final question. If you question is a why question you need to dig deeper, why questions are focus questions.Anyway idk
Kind starting with general why questions to identify mysteries or areas of discovery, and then redefining the why question into multiple specific what questions. Is that kinda what he means?
The greatest thing you can ever do when it comes to analyzing the world’s things is to consciously choose to ask yourself why not as much as you ask why. Please spread the word about choosing to ask why not about things we judge.
I want to be in a place where just //thinking// is socially acceptable. Like yeah, just sitting, staring off into space, thinking real hard about something, my kind of Friday night
You are really speaking to me right now, I feel the same way.
God this is so useful for me as someone studying. We've been covering film analysis but we've not really covered how to actually analyse beyond simple allegory. I've been watching your stuff for a while and I've loved every video. Thanks dude.
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God, I’m sorry! I think film analysis teaching really tends to suffer, because it’s a visual medium, and all it’s masters are going to be experts at saying things visually. It’s really hard for someone to then turn around and explain with words what’s almost subconscious as a visual. It’s like an extra layer to that classic problem of experts in something being really bad teachers sometimes.
I “made it” through the entire video.. not a struggle at all, Schnee. Every word was endlessly appreciated. You’re wonderful, thank you for providing this for us ♥️
I struggled because of frequent mental disconnexion with his rythme because still thinking about 10 minutes ago hihi
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"All the difficulty of Philosophy seems to consist in this- from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena."- Issac Newton
Can't wait for my high 5
I'll be waiting! But wait, you're gonna have to explain that quotation to me 🧐
@schnee1 basically Newton is saying that all of science comes down to understanding the universal laws that govern everything (for him it was the conservation laws) and from there once you know that you can explain any other seemingly unrelated phenomenon. At least I think that's what he means, admittedly I'm not great at understanding old English
@@HxH2011DRAin simpler term, if you understand the the form the foundation takes, you can figure out what is and can be build on top of it.
this is the kind of video i absolutely need to see right now, been wanting to get into making my own analysis but always feel like im falling short of explaining what I've seen so im excited to learn more here ^^
I feel like this applies to so many different things in my life. I took away knowledge about analysis, writing, software engineering, game development, being an empathetic listener, how to learn better and faster, and how to ask better questions.
I'm probably gonna need to rewatch this a couple times and take notes to fully retain this. Thanks for putting this out into the world, Schnee. You're awesome, keep doing what you do.
1:19:00 One of the most significant statements I live by is something my mother (an english major) told me about five years ago. “You will always be your harshest critique.” To hear from someone who is graced by such an amazing academic background, analytical skills and undeniable passion that they are always looking for different angles and flaws of their own creation is refreshing. It really is amazing how the path of knowledge can spread its seed from professor to pupil and so forth from centuries beforehand. It’s truly a testament to your channel achievement, congratulations to 200K and I look forwards to the future of Schnee’s content as he continues to forge his craft.
Including the recordings of your teachers and stories of how you learned feels like my favourite part of the video. Awesome insight in the journey you must have traveled to get to these methods!
I'm a philosophy student. I've been strugling with my final project for my aesthetics class, but you just gave me an amazing toolbox for tackling my material. THANK YOU SO MUCH! KEEP DOING GREAT!
Truly an intellectual *slaps table*
Is not confused *slaps table*
Made a great video with precise points *slaps table*
He WHO could define an analysis *slaps table*
*SLAPS TABLE*
As someone who likes watching analysis to improve my skills in art and writing, but with no knowledge of how to do it myself, this is insanely helpful, and I hope more people see this video and learn from you!
That why/what portion at the start already had me pulling out notebooks to get this down, thank you for marking such a large video!
22:45 This part really hit me. I've been wanting to do an analysis video about my favourite villain, and one key word I needed to define was "nemesis" and my way of defining it was to ask people I perceived as smarter than me (at least in the field of literary analysis) how they defined it.
Absolutely worth doing! But yes im always a fan of giving it a shot yourself first
@@schnee1 I'm quite happy with what I've come up with myself. Would you like to hear it?
@@AtomBacon sure, let's hear
@@schnee1 so I started with the basic description of "An antagonist with personal significance to the hero"
And from there looked at characters I felt embodied that and started to notice patterns. I ultimately created 4 subclasses (for lack of a better term).
Note these are not mutually exclusive per se. Some can be a mix of 2 or more, and sometimes you can have characters who are each other's nemesese but in different subclasses.
Type 1: Doppelganger
The nemesis who is a variant of the hero. Whether in a literal sense like an evil clone or the like, or a more symbolic sense like a dark mirror or narrative foil. (You can have a doppelganger who isn't a nemesis, but there is noticeable overlap)
Example: Asch (Tales of the Abyss)
Type 2: Trauma
A nemesis who had a severe negative impact on the hero's past that left them emotionally and/or physically scarred. Often but not always the inciting incident.
Example: Ridley (Metroid)
Type 3: Legacy
The nemesis who did not have start off as a personal foe (or was of minimal personal significance) but grew into nemesis status through long-lasting and/or repeated conflicts.
Example: The Joker (Batman)
Type 4: Hard Counter
The nemesis who is the walking embodiment of the hero's flaws and weaknesses and is able to exploit them to make the hero struggle more than any other foe.
Example: Syndrome (The Incredibles)
"Jargon is not ideas. [...] If you don't come out of the process knowing more than before, you wasted your time." - This is one of the most important realizations for me in this video. And there are tons more here. Great job!
I absolutely needed this, I've been wanting to make analysis videos for my favourite cartoon.
good luck!!
@@schnee1 Thank you. You actually have been a big influence on me. You're amazing analysis of Arcane and other videos, along with other content creators have really pushed me into trying this. I'm still in the planing phase but I'm getting there soon. And this video definitely helps. Thanks for encouragement, it personally means a lot. PS, I love your webtoon, definitely would love to see more.
@@schnee1 I love to analyze things so this will help me alot
as an aspiring author, I've found that in good writing, EVERY DETAIL is intentional, and aim to do so in my own craft
42:08 this explains the way I’ve always plotted my fiction! I was never able to sit and make a detailed framework for my stories. I’d get the bare bones, and then just start writing and wait for the characters and world to bring the rest of the details to me
The timing on this is the most incredible thing 😂 after deliberating for a while, I literally _just_ started watching a Film Making for beginners course on the basis that "I want to learn how to analyse the things I watch" - and I had you as the main inspiration for starting that journey. Cannot wait to work through this!
Hey, I'm an profession working artist and I think its really great that you are sharing part of your education as this great resource! I mention my job because it is very difficult for me to find information and resources that are relevant to the next part of my journey. you know, I have a job doing this so i'm not a beginner but i wouldn't call myself a master by any means, so i'm at this stage where it just seems impossible to find information on how to level up my skills and take that next step towards masterhood. just from a first watch, i can already tell that this information is gonna be a major help in the process. I'm so thankful that you went threw the effort to share it, truly!
Thanks to this video and the arcane depth video, I consider your channel the best visual writing channel nowadays and among the best of all time. The amount of information you pack into your video make me a better writer each time I see. I’m forever in your debt thanks to your knowledge!
the love I feel having found this, and the sadness of not having had it before... I need a moment
This video is magical. I've always enjoyed thinking deeply about stories, but I don't think I've ever stumbled across a video that got into the methodology of how to be *intentional* about analysis. Not only do I feel like you've provided a pathway into a deeper world, but it's one I feel actively excited to explore. Thanks for the inspiration; I'll be rewatching it again for sure.
Thank you, Schnee, for this. No joke, this is hands down the most influential video I've ever seen. Point 4 in the brown throated thrush section literally helped me recraft and reorganize a chapter and my overall dissertation (in Sociolinguistics) into something more coherent and cohesive. Thank you!
Oh no. I'm going to watch this over and over again!
This is golden!
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Bro really pulled out the ttl for this
it was indispensable for the video, one might say i had to had to
@@schnee1I’m all for it
I happened upon this video literally two days before restarting school for art history. You have a lot of good ideas and points I will take with me when my classes start, Monday. Thank you!
Thank you so, so much for this video! I can only imagine how difficult it must've been to write (and the imposter syndrome, ahhh!), and you did it despite knowing it's not very RUclips friendly and probably won't get as many views. Respect.
Also, besides the fascinating stuff about analysis itself in this video, I want to thank you for something else. I'm a Secular Jewish Israeli, an atheist, and the discussion about religion here is often so hostile and toxic and belligerent. You helped me see another part of Judaism I'm don't see often, and it helped open my eyes in a certain way. I appreciate that.
That's it, really. You've been one of my favourite RUclips channels ever since I first saw you more than a year ago, you've thought me a lot and I'm sure you'll continue to. All the best for you and contgrats for 200k (:
תודה רבה!
@@schnee1 בדיוק היום ראיתי את הספיידרוורס החדש וחשבתי על הסרטון הזה. יש לי הרגשה שזה יקרה לעוד הרבה זמן, גם כשאני רואה מדיה וגם כשאני רואה ניתוחים של מדיה. אז תודה לך (:
@@itayschool4544 lol כבר ראיתי את זה פעמים, בע"ה תשמע את המחשבות שלי בשבוע הבא
@@schnee1 מצפה בקוצר רוח!
Love this video! This is basically a lesson in Rationality. Reminds me of Eliezer Yudkowsky's writings. If you ever feel like making more videos like this please do!
I was thinking the same! Love the different perspective on a lot of ideas / vibes that I've mostly encountered in the rationalist blogosphere. Would be super interesting if someone compared the two in detail, specific overlaps and differences etc (meta meta analysis ftw)
1:17:16 I’m so mad I did the exact thing you said not to do like less than ten minutes beforehand-thought ‘he’s literally just saying analyze analysis, wouldn’t I be funny asf if I commented that and condensed the whole thing down’ but then thought ‘no that’s not what he’s going for, I must be stupid’ AND LO AND BEHOLD-
THIS VID SAVED ME OH MY GOD 😭 I am so grateful for your channel! It’s helped me so much for my HSC major work I can’t thank you enough!
28:00 I find this interesting, because I've come across a lot of contradictions with some characters I've been analysing, and I'm about 98% sure it's because of bad writing. But, I wonder if this could be used to reverse-engineer a good character out of a poorly-written one...
Thinking is an underrated hobby.
I just got off your other essay videos trying to pick a suitable content for a school project. I hope you feel honored by this or just anything really..😊
I love your work
Holy heck, I didn’t come into this expecting him to fully lay out the core values and principles I approach literally everything in my life with. This video in and of itself is one of those closer-to-the-truth structures for me. It perfectly encapsulates years and years of conversations and attempts to bridge the gaps between my internal world and what the people in my life see… wow. Frick. I’m stopping to write this an hour-ish into the video, just sitting, paused, to try and process what this means for me… my brain is doing all sorts of complicated things, frick. Adding this to the list of things to show the people in my life ig 😅
Edit: Man. having finished this, the whole “thinking about the process of thinking” thing explains a lot about me as a person, especially in contrast to others. I’ve been actively thinking about *how* I think since I was maybe 10? I didn’t and still don’t see how understanding the process of generating ideas would ruin it, because it can only lead to generating more ideas, and ideas about ideas, etc.
(This isn’t me saying i’m better or smth lol. I’m just autistic and ADHD, so I couldn’t shut my brain up even if I wanted to. Plus, there were HUGE shortcomings to my approach to things, both at that age and onward- it just happened to point me in the right direction long-term.)
This video is longer then my classes at school an yet it kept me invested for longer. I learn an abundance of new skills and techniques, I know these will help me for year to come. Thankyou you are truly an amazing RUclipsr better than most teachers I’ve met to be completely honest.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I know it must've been really hard for you. I'm in highschool and I aspire to study cinematography, and your videos have made quite a big impact on me, they've made my love for movies and shows grow, you've encouraged me to learn more and more about writing and analysis, every one of your videos have tought me something new and I can't thank you enough. Lot's of love!!!
I love how a Great TV show (arcane) helped a great channel to grow
Love that studio
the old one was better :/
There's seriously just something ingenious and mystical about how you order and present your ideas, cant get enough of it
This is SO COOL. I'm just at the end of the Analysis Goals section and now I'm debating whether I develop my own model of analysis before listening to the rest of yours - I think your video is doing its job.
Thank you very much!
Honestly, I think we could all benefit with not just learning to think, but also how and why. This has been immensely helpful, thank you.
“Why is the rum gone? -> What is rum?” - Schnee, 2023
I got immense value from watching this, both new and affirming, but 1:13:04 just felt like permission and I didn't know I needed that
i just wanted to say i found the authorial intentions part in the overanalysis section really compelling. i've often had the exact train of thought you described for the last 10% of people (even about my own theories) and the way you argued the value of the analysis and how much of art is subconscious was really persuasive for me.
This is an outstanding introduction to analytical thinking. I wish I had more familiarity with the literary and anime references so I could appreciate those allusions. But even without that, what a wonderful overview of how to think.
god I wish I had had this type of education, I love staring into space and thinking.
“Questions are your only tools to understand anything” I love this quote mainly just because of how true it is. You can’t ever truly understand something unless you ask questions. You can get what someone is saying with no question asked, but to understand what someone MEANS with no questions is simply impossible. Questions are essential to figure out the true meaning of something. “Why did Powder vomit the firelight?” “Why did she ask if they were still sisters?” “Why did she make two chairs?” Questions are the golden ticket to answering questions and understanding the simplest of things on the deepest level. Well stated :)
Schnee you're doing great things buddy 👍❤️
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My Langague GCSE is tmw and your videos have been so helpfull to me so this is like a godsent right before my exam. Thank you so much for your videos. :)
This is such a hilarious video to a yeshiva bachur 😂 like which basic svaras you pull from Gemara and which are left behind because they are too Gemara specific is so interesting. Great job
if my history and english teachers covered even half of this, i wouldn't have a B in either of them
Some the best (10 minutes short of) hour and half I've spent on RUclips. Thanks for packaging all this.
I'm about half way through your videos and I got to the part of the process where to get past being stuck, you have to Forget about the Details.
And I thought of a great analogy.
Using the details to get you past a block is like staring at your directions when you're lost, hoping they'll lead you to a different place.
So stop looking at the directions.
Look at the map.
This is the second time I made it all the way through and this time is because I'm stuck on my school project and don't know what to do, I think I have smth to go on now but I also see myself coming back in the future for more help and reinforcement, now all I need is to bump into you in real life and ask for those high fives you promised🤣
It's wild how some of these things are things I've implemented in bits and pieces when I'm like, explaining why I am (in terms of political belief) an anarachist, or why gender is a colonial construct, or infodumping about an album I like, or ranting about something in a tumblr post or discord DM. Like, examining your own biases and stepping back away from what you know, forgetting the facts, that's something I've been doing a lot with my political opinions and understandings of social issues, and even my relationship to my own queerness. Being confident until proven wrong, and being humble when flaws in your own ideas become apparent, are incredibly important to discourse and discussion and coming to a greater understanding with your peers. Absolutely sending this video to like, everyone i know who can stomach how dense and abstract it is
grateful for this truly learned a lot and will definitely keep coming back to this 💜
"Why is all the rum gone? - What is rum? (jk)" made my day not gonna lie.
Great Video btw.
I just wanted to say thank you for this amazing video. Although you mainly focused on writing, as you mentioned, the techniques and ideas you shared can be applied in other areas too. Actually, I've been feeling stuck lately, and I was looking for the "thing I am missing" to progress further. Uh-oh, who would have thought! I'm missing analytical thinking skills~
Your video not only helped me realize this, but you also laid out a wealth of strategies and examples that really hit the mark. I usually don't leave comments, but man, I really wanted to say thank you.
By the way, you've got some awesome teachers! :)
This has helped me get so many 10/10 on my analysis questions for acc English when I would always gets 7/10s, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I’m currently taking a complex system and I find it so interesting how forgetting the facts 37:00 parallels to the concept of reductionism and the pitfalls of applying it in scientific methodology. We just talked about in class how when applying a heavily reductionist approach you can get so lost in looking at the details isolated that you miss any emergent properties that can occur when those individual parts interact. My viewing of this video came at such a perfect time, what a crazy coincidence.
Oh my gosh, this is one of the most helpful videos/resources I have ever seen, period. I have never watched anything where I felt this much information developing into my brain and at the same time validating a few of my already established methods of my own!
I’m working on structuring a lyrical analysis class to peer-teach at my school, and went here as a first resource as I wanted to build a general understanding of the field, and because I absolutely adore your fiction analysis. This has been a million times more helpful than I ever expected; wow.
Thank you so much for putting this out there! Along with your other videos. This feels so packed with information but at the same time very digestible and on top of that I found it lovely and entertaining. As an analysis nerd in training this is like heaven lmao
Amazing work!!
Thank you so much for making this video!!! I loved hearing more about your process and perspective in analysis, and I hope to apply some of these principles to my own thought process!
Thank you so much for this video. I've been yearning for a "fundamental system to apply to asking questions for a furtherance of understanding" for over a year now and your Spiderverse videos alerted me to it.
Freshman in college and I'm coming back to this video to learn how to create an ellegant research question. Thank you Schnee :)
That was amazing and my brain feels tickled in all the best ways ❤
Yooooo first comment love the Channel mate
1:03:58 I'm not into photography or anything, but this looks good as hell.
I paused the video when I saw how big the sun looked, but then I noticed that everything in this shot looks great.
Love the video. I tried using some points and giving examples to myself while watching. So for example lets ask why. Chainsaw man related part 2 spoilers!!! Why has the story slowed down/gives the feeling of slowing down. Ok, here are what questions. What is our MC doing, our MC wishes for a normal life, he wishes for a normal life as it's his dream. Normal life is slow sometimes and boring, which is being shown via the story slowly moving.
That was a random example I came up on the spot, but it works for me. Great video and thanks, as I enjoy analysis as a process in general for stories especially.
been here since the first arcane vid. so glad youve come so far so quickly
Thank you so much for this video!! I started watching your channel when I saw your analysis of Vi and Caitlyn’s relationship and was blown away-this video was so good, I feel like I have learned more about analysis in this video than I did in the entirety of my undergrad English degree. Lol. Thank you, and congrats on 200k!
I love this! This video has greatly helped me in trying to nail down more pointed hobbies I have wanted to start!
Thank you for explaining al this so condensed. You are a briljant guy, with a briljant background in many ways. My advice is: don't undermine that.
I find it brave that you speak out that you get uncomfortable with many people wanting to know how your brain works. But man, thank you for sharing it like this.
So, I do understand you... I play guitar for 20 years now, but any well practiced student would be at my level in a couple of years, I'm not that 'skilled' or 'practiced', but I am very experienced and music is just in my heart and soul. But analysis and storytelling as well, and you have been such an amazing source to listen to!
And now learning your backstory and a bit of character arc ;) haha
But seriously, I understand your discomfort, but you must realize how amazing your mind seems to be for most average people.
You look up to your teachers and so many others.
I consider myself pretty intellectual compared to my peers, but I would consider you a teacher for sure.
When I play guitar, sing or dance, you might think that I am good... and that is just because you would not truly know what you are talking about.
But I know where I stand, and I look up as well.
My teacher would say to me, when I ended first place in competition: it is not because you were that good, the rest was just a lot worse, buddy
The right kind of love to pass on to you now I guess ;) Look at in from all sides
You have helped me a lot with this video. It is like listening to myself 5 years from now. I was just listening to my own rhetoric for a part, but you have gave me quite some more pieces of the puzzle, understanding and clarity.
Iam a social science humanities student (political/history writing & rhetoric) and analysis is certainly one of the difficult things to do. so I appreciate this video. I will certainly refer back to this video as i research my topics
29:10 Thank you schnee's brother
A very simplified form of analysis that I see you follow is the 5 common topics. It follows the form of definition, comparison, circumstance, relationship and testimony/authority. I suggest everybody give it a quick look. It’s a model that when implemented, gives you a structure for critical thinking.
These have a lot of similarities to analysis tools used in engineering (my profression).
For finding the root cause to problems we use the "5 Whys" technique in which we ask "why" about a problem and then ask "why" again to each subsequent answer atleast 5 times. The hope being that the deeper you look the simpler your solution can be and you can potentially fix other problems you didnt even know you had.
Too often I see people stop asking "why" too soon and they miss the opprtunity for more impactful solutions.
The importance is just to ask recursive questions. It doesn't matter if its a "what" or a "why". "Why" is just more relevant to engineering since we're looking at causality.
I will teach my kids this kind of thinking. Thats how important I thinl it is
this video is literally everything ive wanted from you since i found your channel thank you :)
I think intentionality when it comes to overanalyzing depends on the creators behind a creation; some creators do things subconsciously (say some Stephen King works), some don't care about it at all, and some are very deliberate (Phil Lord/Chris Miller or Neil Druckmann). This is where knowing the creators, actors, animators, etc. make things easier. I like a blind playthrough/watch before looking at creator's intended meaning or how deliberate they are with the creative process.
Bit of a comment on the subject of this video: I think what Mr. Schnee is talking about here is actually more about interpretation than about analysis. For me, the word analysis implies that there is one underlying explanation or solution, and you just have to find it. While interpretation is still an act of meaning-making which relies on logic, but the number of valid interpretations is open-ended. When it comes to narrative pieces of art, there often isn't the one right explanation, there's several which would make sense.
Man what a marathon 😅. I haven’t thought that hard for that long in quite a while😂
Okay, I will demand a high five, if we ever meet. 😁Awesome video. And congratulations on this incredible milestone.
This was extremely valuable to me. Even though it didn’t get many views compared to your other videos, this one hits less broadly but much deeper. Changed how I think about understanding and motivates me to go deeper with my thinking.
Thank you :)
(On my second watch through in two days now)
Thanks for this. Made me feel better knowing that you have a very thorough analysis method and that it comes from years of Talmudic study. I thought I was just really, really stupid. How am I not seeing any of this and how does it make such perfect sense! A feeling that was compounded by how blown away I was by all the theories in your videos. Can't wait for my two high fives.
Anyhow, thank you for the lesson, Rabbi.
Dude, thanks for your humility, and also for your work at making your videos good! Analyzing how we think, and how to improve our thinking is the way I believe people can be taught to overcome their struggles and inprove their lives
I've always wondered what the difference between "why is" and "what is the purpose of" is. "Where" and "what place", "how" and "what process"...
Y'know I'd actually be incredibly interested on your opinion on videos by MatPat aka Game Theory, Film Theory, etc. Im here (51:55) after you tell the invisible ball story and you're explaining how people try and make things more complicated thru analisis and confusing and that just reminded me so much of some of his theories and how frustrated he can get when making them, especially his FNAF ones. I have no idea if what you explained is actually happening in some of his theories but its the first example that came to my mind after that part. Have you ever watched any of his theories? What do y'all think?
MatPat's approach is interesting, definitely worth defining. The why of the theories on that channel is pretty straightforward: entertainment, but the what they zero in on actually mirrors something I talk about in that same soccer ball section of the video: transformativeness. Even though those theories are not looking to be well supported (on purpose), they always end up producing a version of events that's completely different than the surface level picture -- and the more radically different the better. It mirrors that awesome feeling of reaching that deeper level of reality where everything looks different... but its just the feeling of that, not the reality. It would be like coming up with a bunch of alternate "theories of everything" in physics that aesthetically look and feel like general relativity, just to have fun bending your brain that way. (And i do think those theory channels are intentionally just theory-playtime. They're not trying to get to any actual real meaning, it's just fun.)
Fascinating. I recall learning the bits before 14:00 was basically the reason the scientific method transformed humanity around the 15th-16th century, and it was just _mystifying._ I'm glad this is being disseminated like this, and as much as I'd like to say that this video _isn't_ actually too dry, I'm disappointed with the turnout 😅
Also, hate to """"accuse"""" someone of being humble, because of how hard it can be to deal with myself but... 55:40 _you _*_sure_* it's not as specific. That was _quite_ on the nose there, G! 😁
_Also,_ also, 1:13:00 fortunately, I actually seem to do that _too_ often, or rather, I did it too often without having a proper basis on which I was thinking. Not _terribly_ off base in many, but still, yeah. I like to say "I think, therefore, I think some more"...
I myself did not watch all the way through i enjoy coming to my on conclusion but i don't spend to much time on it and enjoy hearing what others think but one section i was really wanting to hear was the overanalysis section. Although i myself never analyze too much, I always get mad when people get mad at people who do. Let people enjoy media the way the want to as long as it isn't hurting anyone. When you do go into deep analysis into stories there's a certain point you should recognize where your starting to stray away from the authors intent but that's fine and as long as you recognize it it shouldn't be harmful to authors . I mention this because plenty of authors like tatsuki fujimoto were put under alot of stress from these deep conclusion people drew to that he had no intention of writing. I couldn't agree more with the first point you made about how analysis isn't always overanalysis. Tatsuki wrote a short story about the pressure and stress he was being put under and when people went on to explain it many people kept saying there were taking things to deep when they just explained the message. thx for reading this youtube rant if you did.
Great stuff. I think criticism is in a sense the deconstruction, or maybe better the reverse engineering, of someone else's creative process. In my own creative process I am quite aware of a cycle of analysis and synthesis. In the synthesis phase (in this context when you are formulating theories) I think it is really important to suspend adopting a judging mindset. You touched on this in your "forget the facts" rule. I really think this is crucial to prevent you from short-circuiting yourself. I really believe the postponement of judgement and the creation of a sense of intellectual and creative space is maybe the most important part of the method for me. Thanks for all of this interesting stuff you are producing. Appreciate the editing and density of the content as well. Cheers.
This is incredible, thank you. If your teachers have videos on RUclips, could you possibly post some links? I loved the excerpts and have some interest in Judaism/Jewish law. Thank you again for this.
I suspect the low viewcount on this video, 7 days after its release, shows im not the only one being slightly intimidated by an 82 minute video. I was waiting for a moment where I had enough brain power left
I'm already hooked 3 minutes in. This is great.
Thank you for all the time and thought you put into creating this. I always feel like I learn something new from your videos, but these tools I can take with me and apply for the rest of my life. It's so fascinating to see all the teachers and lessons that helped you become the person you are today and to know you're continuing on that cycle by sharing what you've learned with all of us. I'm excited to keep learning from you as I continue on in my own writing journey 💜
Awesome. You speak quickly, but that was a very impressive, broad perspective of how to think properly. I have no idea who Vi is, but it's amazing to see the Brisker method applied to literature.
I mean hey I had no idea who the mannings were and it was just as impressive to see QEMT 😆
Question though: Would you actually characterize this as the brisker method applied to literature? I've been trying to think of whether I would say that's accurate, and I was especially thinking of it after I heard you also say in the intro ep of your podcast that you used the brisker method in finance. Part of me just sees it as using the rigor and clarity necessary for brisker learning, but not the brisker method itself -- which is a specific type of inductive categorization. But then maybe that's essentially what the brisker method is? Is it just any inductive categorization with rigorous standards of clarity? Or can you really call it the brisker derech if its not gemara/halacha? Is this question just semantics? I dont know, what do you think?
@@schnee1 Teacher #5 has told me in the past that the Brisker method is just proper thinking and can be applied to every area. I am certain that I have fruitfully applied it in physics (like we do on our podcast "Physics to God"), and it's telling that a lot of the examples in your video were from physics. Your video has made me wonder whether when I analyze the World of Medrash (stories from the Torah) if I'm just applying the Brisker method to narratives (something similar to what you're doing). That being said, there are certain aspects of the Talmud and science that don't translate to literature, but I'll think about whether I can define exactly what they are. Very thought provoking...
Ok whoa "brisker method is just proper thinking" is a WILD thing to say in my opinion -- do you agree with stating it that way? assuming you wouldnt say 2 + 2 = 4 is brisker method, how would you understand his statement? (i think i have an idea, but i want to hear your take)
@@schnee1 I don't think he meant all proper thinking is the brisker method. I think he meant that the brisker method is a universal method of proper thinking, and can therefore be applied to any area.
So, even in the case of 2+2=4, if you were to try to analyze the conceptual underpinnings of arithmetic and simplify it until you found its basic principles, that would be an instance of applying the brisker method. (I think it famously took Russel and Whitehead until page 379 of the Principia Mathematica to prove 2+2=4 from basic axioms. So even that has much depth.)
Moreover, I think Teacher #5 was also implying that the Brisker method is just trying to define how the human mind works when it deeply analyzes any area using conceptual categories. i.e. Aristotle was using it long ago. Additionally, part of the novelty of Reb Chaim Brisker was in formulating this universal method of proper thinking in modern categories and giving it precise terminology.
I'd like to hear your thoughts. Teacher #5 very often lends himself to various interpretations.
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ohmygod thank you