The Lost Genius of Roald Dahl
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Let our sponsor BetterHelp connect you to a therapist who can support you - all from the comfort of your own home. Visit betterhelp.com... and enjoy a special 10% discount on your first month.
Everyone knows Roald Dahl’s stories, and several generations have grown up on Willy Wonka, Matilda, and more. But lurking behind the Oompa Loompas and the giant peaches is the life of a scientist, an inventor, and a medical pioneer so important that his work has saved thousands of lives worldwide -- and Dahl did his best to make sure you didn’t know it.
The bizarre life of Roald Dahl is a true story full of twists, turns, and tragedies. He survived his own traumatic brain injury in a World War II plane crash, and it might have done him a bit of good as a creator. But years later when his infant son was hit by a taxi, Roald harnessed his surprisingly deep medical and scientific knowledge to help create a cerebral valve that would benefit generations of children… all while keeping his own involvement quiet.
His most significant contribution to medicine may have come after that when his wife Patricia Neal suffered a series of strokes. Roald Dahl wasn’t a neurology expert, and he had no special expertise in brain injury or stroke recovery. What he did have was a creative mind, and the regimen he invented to rehabilitate Pat’s brain and body became the standard for our treatment of strokes.
Was Roald Dahl a fantastic artist, or was he a talented scientist? The answer is… yes. And that begs the question: is there even a difference?
#roalddahl #neuroscience #neurology
Let our sponsor BetterHelp connect you to a therapist who can support you - all from the comfort of your own home. Visit betterhelp.com/vsauce and enjoy a special 10% discount on your first month.
Please never work with better help. They're genuinely terrible for everyone and have done some heinous shit. Do your due diligence in the future and don't allow better help to get away with their shit.
I expected more from you, but I guess I shouldn't have.
@@aqua-bery
I signed up for online therapy and looked up my therapist before starting. It was a good match for me; the process was simple, and the therapist's guidance and personality were very helpful. I learned a lot. It's not as black and white as you state.
Shame on you
Heartbreaking to see one of the very few people I respect on the Internet sell out and claim they're unaware of the vile practices that betterhelp has been time and again proved of doing.
Shame 🔔 shame 🔔 shame 🔔
This also goes beyond the artistic vs scientific mentioned here.
But extends to scientific vs philosophical/theological, though the line here is more blurred. An example to my point is Blaise Pascal, creator of the Pascal system of measuring pressure and of Pascal's wager regarding whether God is or isn't real and following the tenants therein.
You should drop BetterHelp asap. That Company has a history that is more than just shady.
EVERYONE COMPLAINING ABOUT BETTERHEALTH LOOK UP THE BETTER HEALTH RUclipsR SCANDAL, ONE OF THOSE INCLUDING PEWDIEPIE AND MEMEOLOGY, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE, I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE ON RUclips BELIEVE THEY AREN'T SHEEP 😂AT LEAST THEY HAVE TO BE CHASED INTO THEIR PEN 😄😄😁🧐.
A lot of youtubers who pay attention to their sponsor's doings have already dropped them too.
He probably can't. Someone as informed must know, but he is most likely bound by contract.
He just did, and made an apology on his community posts
He doesn’t care
Remind me of something a college professor told me when I was doubting myself. “ genius doesn’t come from the most intelligent people, rather it comes from crazy people who are smart enough to make it work”
I feel really sorry for Road Dahl for having an unexpected, non-anesthetized adenoidectomy. I had mine removed for the same reason a few years back, and even with pain meds my throat was still somewhat sore for a few weeks afterwards. On the bright side I did learn that I was in fact not HIV positive as my doctor feared when he saw on CT that I had massive adenoids that turned out to be the largest adenoids he'd ever seen.
Bet your sinuses feel better.
A bullet missed is a bullet missed
Don’t, he was a nazi
I feel for him as well.
Well, I was six when they did it to me with no warning and anesthezia. 1991. Had many cases of severe tonsillitis with high fever before the procedure. It helped, but was traumatic as hell.
I adore your mini-docs, Kevin. This one is extra special for me, though.
In the 90s, my parents visited the UK on a tour. They toured Dahl's home, which is a museum now. They heard a portion of the info in this video. My mother became obsessed. She brought my partner and I copies of books she had bought there. She tried to tell us all about what she'd seen and the stories behind the books, but it all came out mixed up, so we just didn't quite get it.
Now I understand some of what she was trying to to tell us. I really wish she was still around so I could tell her that, and have her watch this video. She would have loved it.
Bless you. Maybe she planted the seed and it finally grew, just perhaps the way she saw it all along
betterhelp detected
EVERYONE COMPLAINING ABOUT BETTERHEALTH LOOK UP THE BETTER HEALTH RUclipsR SCANDAL, ONE OF THOSE INCLUDING PEWDIEPIE AND MEMEOLOGY, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE, I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE ON RUclips BELIEVE THEY AREN'T SHEEP 😂AT LEAST THEY HAVE TO BE CHASED INTO THEIR PEN 😄😄😁🧐.
I prefer bestest help.
Opinion automatically rejected
He just wrote a community post owning up to the mistake
*Patrick booing* 👎
23:04 Fun fact- Pat Neal’s Oscar nomination after her speech therapy was for The Subject was Roses, which is the same movie that Jack Albertson won an Oscar, only three years before he played grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory
I have hydrocephalus and have therefore needed a shunt to drain my brain fluid from a young age, so although he definitely was far from a perfect man, I have to give him props for helping me not be dead.
I 2nd this unless 2nd has already been taken lol .
He was out spoken but had alot of care
I've got a shunt too. Last revision in 1991 and I'm 44 now, so thank you Mr Dahl. I wish you hadn't been such an arsehole and antisemite
:)
I have loved Roald Dahl for as long as I can remember. When I was younger, his books were the only books I would read rather than skim. I've read Boy, but I had no idea that the rest of his life was so incredible! What a guy. Truly a man to remember.
i highly recommend reading Going Solo. this video barely scratches the surface of how utterly wild his adult life was it's insane
@@BellaBoo0002 That was the one book of his I never ended up reading haha. I own it, so I'll defiantly read it.
Unless you're against Nazis, in which case you will find Dahl a detestable person.
Better help is awful! Research your sponsors!
I remember there being a betterhelp controversy about 7 or 8 years ago for all these youtubers promoting an unhealthy service.
Do you know of any good alternatives? BetterHelp seems to be the only one getting pushed
as someone else said, he is probably bound by contract
I love how the scope of your topics has increased yet you keep an approachable and friendly vibe ty ty ty
Absolutely phenomenal video. The fact that this doesn’t even have 100k views yet is a travesty. So much work clearly went into this video. What an incredible man who lived through so much loss
Some people are artistic as well as have good technical interests and/or understanding capacity. That does not mean that the two go hand-in-hand. All the examples given were cherry picked, and for each one a person could give many examples of people who did not have such interest or capacity/potential in the other domain.
What a wholesome human Roald Dahl was. Really appreciate all your research & bringing to the forefront our underappreciated heros. Huge fan of your work...
Not so wholesome when you realize he was a known antisemite.
@@GaiaVedai show me one wholesome person who has not the slightest dark side. Dahl may have had multiple, but does that disqualify him?
@@GaiaVedaiso extra wholesome then
@@GaiaVedai He wasn't a antisemite, he was anti zionist, and as Israel has shown he was right to be.
@@GaiaVedai He was not an antisemite, he was anti zionist. Israel does NOT have the right to exist, nor it is a real country (it doesn’t even have any culture). Have a problem with that?
Please look into dropping better help.
"him explaining betterhelp"😇😇😇 "betterhelp actually"💸💸💸👿👿
Please drop betterhelp. You dont need the negative attention they give you
True
EVERYONE COMPLAINING ABOUT BETTERHEALTH LOOK UP THE BETTER HEALTH RUclipsR SCANDAL, ONE OF THOSE INCLUDING PEWDIEPIE AND MEMEOLOGY, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE, I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE ON RUclips BELIEVE THEY AREN'T SHEEP 😂AT LEAST THEY HAVE TO BE CHASED INTO THEIR PEN 😄😄😁🧐.
This was a beautiful telling of a story. It a great video that made me nearly cry of happiness and sadness. Thank you for this rollercoaster of emotion and for a future discussion where I attempt to tell his story half as good as you
In high school I got caught jaking my dioddles after gym class once. It was so embarrassing. They had to call my mom in to get them back out!
One of those random days where a video like this is perfect. Haven't been back to Vsauce in quite a while and glad to see you guys still striving and making videos that give me the amazing feelings that are wonder and inspiration.
Keep it up, Kevin!
Thanks for informing me more about the man who wrote the book for my favorite movie ❤ as Fantastic Mr. Fox would say, "We're all just different." And if we can get through being different, the tremendous things we can do.
Wow I've had a shunt since 1995. I'm glad I learned something about something that has been a part of my life for almot 30 years .
Incredibly well produced and what a story! Thank you for the video~
I love your videos Kevin! Thank you for your research, interest in interesting topics, and your storytelling. I look forward to all your videos.
This was such a well done video. Amazing story telling and an amazing story
This guy has always been my favorite author. His creations are like no one else's. This is fascinating to learn about his invention and scientific mindset and skills as well. What a uniquely special human being
Fantastic video showing us the difficult life Roald Dahl had, with that he grew stronger and now we know what some of the inspiration was for his stories. Honestly it was very emotional and sad to watch, it's incredible how many positive changes he made including the invention to help other babies with the same health condition.
I am personally going through brain discombobulation myself after being misdiagnosed and put on antidepressants which made me worse and was then put on more hard core stuff to deal with the rare side effects misdiagnosed as something else again which has messed me up so much, it's much like trying to recovery from brain injury without any visible damage. Coming off the meds was so damaging to my CNS that I was in and out of hospital multiple times over 2 years. They don't want to say it for what it is, but it's basically PAWS, same as or similar to those with addiction suffer once they are sober, it lasts for years and sometimes decades and I am 3 years in and live home and often bed bound due to the excruciating pain and symptoms that come from my brain trying to recover.
There doesn't exist any rehab or therapy for those injured by common psych meds handed out by doctors.
I feel I lived a similar life to Roald, medical issue after medical issues and family members die from rare diseases, many of which myself and others in the family have were neurological in nature.
That’s awful, I always felt lucky that I could quit cold turkey, but this reminds me how damaging antidepressants, antipsychotics, anti anxiety, or seizure medications can be damaging to someone who just needs someone to talk to.
It sounds like you should get a good lawyer. There are so many people who've been harmed by the psych industry. Don't suffer in silence. You were a victim of almost deliberate malpractice. You don't have to tolerate that. Try to talk to someone. You deserve compensation!!
Consider researching all available natural methods that might help you detox and find yourself again. Even some of the more extreme ones could be the key that unlocks your healing. You won't know unless you try. I promise you can get better, the key is out there somewhere.... maybe psilocybin, maybe RNA drops, maybe vitamin D3 and K2 maybe carnivore diet, maybe cannabis maybe kratom- I honest to god don't know. I believe there's a natural treatment that can help everyone. But you have to do the online research and consider what might work for you.
One of your best videos yet, Kevin. Very moving. Thank you
Roald Dahl is my favorite author ever! My middle name is Dahl because my parents loved Roald Dahl’s books so much! And I love his books!
interesting this was recommended to me while i'm doing an essay on PIH (on a completely seperate account & device)
The speech thing is what my grandparents their parents had and my father has. We swatched a lot of words and kept using it in the family. My father uses it a lot but mainly says (roughly translated) thing-a-ma-what. He sees, knows and understands what he wants to say… but he cannot say it. He’d start writing in his hand, going past every letter of the alphabet until he finds out which letter(s) it had in the word/name. It’s funny at times, but i cannot understand how hard it is for him.
A genius book about the great similarities in artistic and scientific thinking is "The Runaway Species" by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt.
A really great book. Big recommendation!
I used to buy and collect his magazine, nobody bought it after the hype so people didn't stock it. I had to go to Asda for the one copy that was always on the shelf but that stopped too, I learned it was discontinued soon after😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
as someone who is in love with both science and art, yes! Every aspect of the world is intertwined and our attempts to disentangle them is limiting our growth in all aspects of our lives.
hard agree!!
never knew any of this what a great dude always enjoyed this dudes work now have even greater respect
1) what happened to his son? did he survive?
2) as someone who is "left-brained/right-brained", I don't see why you can't be both logical and creative. I was an A+ honor roll student, who is now an accountant, and I draw, paint, and write in my spare time.
This is the best video you’ve uploaded for years. Really great video. Thank you. 🙏
This is soo great !
One of my fav author is also such important person in field of medicine, and I am also studying medicine 😅
Not Better Help again!!!
EVERYONE COMPLAINING ABOUT BETTERHEALTH LOOK UP THE BETTER HEALTH RUclipsR SCANDAL, ONE OF THOSE INCLUDING PEWDIEPIE AND MEMEOLOGY, THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE, I CAN'T BELIEVE PEOPLE ON RUclips BELIEVE THEY AREN'T SHEEP 😂AT LEAST THEY HAVE TO BE CHASED INTO THEIR PEN 😄😄😁🧐.
If you ever want to read some truly inspirational books, check out Roald Dahl's books Boy and his other book Going Solo. Boy is about his childhood and Going Solo is about his life as an adult. They're both real page turners and will clue you in to just how amazing a guy he was.
In college I felt I had to choose between art and science or I’d look confused. Later while getting my masters in educational psychology I learned that there’s a whole group of learners whose mind is both scientific and artistic. No teacher in that program was surprised
I had never heard of him before, which now seems crazy, because Roald Dahl looks like one of the greatest minds to have ever lived. It is one thing to be the best at something, and another to be extremely good at so many seemingly (and sometimes practically) different things. Unfathomably incredible achievements.
All categories, all distinctions and divisions are just in our minds. Reality is continuous and whole, everything a part of everything else.
Dude I love this!!!!! Im a scientist studying biology and I started painting 6 years ago after visiting Europe!!!! Sweeeeeet. VSAUCE
loved the final message!! i get pissed whenever ppl say i have a "scientific mind" bc of my studies. i LOVE the arts. why aren't we allowed to be capable of both?
Stop better help
«Where the world ceases to be the stage
for personal hopes and desires, where we, as free beings, behold it in wonder; to question and to contemplate, there we enter the realm of art and of science.
If we trace out what we behold and experience
through the language of logic, we are doing science; if we show it in forms whose interrelationships are not accessible to our conscious thought but are intuitively recognized as meaningful, we are doing art.
Common to both is the devotion to somethingbeyond the personal, removed from the arbitrary.»
Hey Kevin. Thank you for all you have taught me. I thought you could do something with the concept of "being both the match and the candle" something said in popular cartoon show adventure time, in a reference to the Dunken candle problem. If you do or don't, I'll still appreciate what you do. Kind words, sincerely, a loving mick
This was such an interesting video to find! I really love neuroscience and find neuroscience and psychology just so fascinating. Its pretty amazing to know that the author that brought so much joy to my childhood was able to help so many otheres with this amazing discovery! Thanks so much for the deep dive. I truly enjoyed watching it and will definitely be sharing this and telling others now! Its sad that these aremt more well known facts..
Alright, I'm gonna go smoke an oblogon.
I'll sum up a long list of things i loved about this video with one wrote...
Amazeballs!
I could watch these all day.
Roald Dahl - What a legend!
Your films are always amazing and inspiring! Thank you.
It’s always great to see Kevin!
the man's a genius and a legend, wonderful vid
re: fork with sharpened edge for cutting steak with one hand. his dad carried one al all times. macgyver, you has a lesson to larn.
Never underestimate the powers of creativity, cleverness and Networking.
Kevin this one was really well put together man, bravo!👏👏
This was an amazing video, I thought I knew about Roald Dahl but I barely knew anything - thankyou for creating it!
Sorry Kevin, can't support BH. Hopefully see you in the next one
What's wrong with it?
They sold patient information about mental health to companies like Facebook. They also employed therapists who weren't licensed. A quick Google of better help and FTC will get you the lawsuit
Thank you
You're missing out on a fascinating video
Watching the video doesn’t support the company which must not be named, just don’t pay for their crap and watch the video
Wow! Now that's a story
Thank you for creating this video. I had no idea about any of Roald Dahl's history. It was fascinating.
so many barriers in this world
Creativity drives innovation. People who have a more rigid approach to things can only replicate what others have achieved
An incredible story told by an incredible storyteller. Thank you, Kevin keep up the good work.
0:45 Why Not Both?
“The more you know about reality, the better you can twist it”
Great Quote!
5:30, So that's why having your tonsils removed is considered a pretty standard and harmless procedure for kids? They just atrophy to almost nothing in normal cases anyway?
Drop BetterHelp :(
What's wrong with it?
@@TheSummonerjust google
@@alataadvenavod I know BetterHelp is awful but simply directing to Google is not an effective solution.
@@TheSummonerMost of the therapists aren’t licensed and are unqualified
@@TheSummonerThey sell your data to insurance companies and then insurance companies raise your rates.
He was lucky in one way, that being people and doctors listening to him. in my life, there have also been tragedies caused by doctors, as well as two of my children close to death.
One due to drowning at the age of 2, the other a cerebral hemorrhage caused by an AVM at 28. In the first instance I had to make doctors aware of something they should have known, and the second case was a real problem and doctors and medical people would not listen to me. Some of the things were plain common sense, the others due to me researching things and noticing things were not being done as they should. My child would be way better today had they listened, instead of basically saying "you have no letters after your name, hence you know nothing". These days I would sooner go to a Witch Doctor.
You really took a great direction with this channel over the years Kevin, you videos often make me feel better about humanity 😊
listening to dhals afflicted wife almost brought too mind a story of his though i couldn't picture witch one, very interesting dahl being trunchable and their friend being that nice teacher ms honey iirc too matilda lol and bfg too
Where is the Lut? I came here looking for Lut
Thank you Kevin for some of the most quality education thats out there.❤
One of the very best authors ever, possibly THE best!
Gosh, imagine what would happen if there was a world wide pandemic. I bet they're finally going to get it right
That’s why we are pushing the term STEAM - Science Technology Engineering Arts Mathematics as a thing, btw… Although be it more of a renaissance mode of thinking about fields.
medicine still has a long way to go, and like then, it is still largely a matter of individual doctors not knowing what to do rather than whether or not someone in the world has yet invented some more effective diagnostic or treatment. It doesn't matter how much anyone knows if you can't get treatment from one of them.
im a simple man. i open the description, i see "betterhelp", i wince, i dislike the video
This is the way
as you should!
Wow, what a brave and courageous stand you're making
yay, Vsauce2 upload
I'm bout to jake my dioddles rn
Absolutely fascinating!
This was incredible, something I didn't know I needed but am so glad I have❤
A lovely piece on one of my favorite authors, Roald Dahl. He may have been vilified recently for being a human being, yet he was a genius who has given joy to so many. Thanks very much for this great episode!!!
"vilified for being a human being" is an odd way to spin "was obsessively, breathtakingly anti-Semitic"
@@djpheeze oooh... I didn't know that
“There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.” -Roald Dahl
@@AmandaTheStampede as ever, some people will try to play the "sTaNdArDs Of ThE dAy" card, but the guy died in 1990 and there was basically NO point in his lifetime where those views were acceptable. He literally defended Hitler by default, because by his reasoning, Adolf simply MUST have had a good reason.
He was beloved during his lifetime, and I loved his books as a kid, but he's not missed now. Like Enid Blyton, and for similar reasons.
@@djpheeze I miss him. Noticing patterns is vilified now
Yeah not everyone is good at stuff okay. It’s fine to not be exceptional too. That’s most of us. Nothing to be ashamed of being normal and unremarkable. You’ll be happier in the long run if you don’t worry so much about trying to be great and just focus on being good enough!
Based. I'm exceptionally unexceptional and I'm exceptionally okay with that.
I just try to do good for people and I feel pretty good about that.
Man this was excellent. Great job!
made me cry
I liked the video, but i really felt the text quite confusing, specially in thr end
Wow, that was genuinely fascinating ...........
Truly someone who cares about his fellow humans for the sake of caring for humans. Thank you for sharing the info!!!!!!! Wouldn't have ever thought to look at Mr. Dahl in this light.
Unus Annus music spotted 13:19
praising the openly racist and antisemitic guy and promoting betterhelp? not your greatest video kevin
I like to think it’s a family trait. 😂
Not to mention a great achievement of being an early opponent of PC culture.
This was a cool video, but I have to admit that I found it to be a bit confusing.
One of your best videos. Thank you. I had no idea. Humans often become their best in adversity, and Dahl certainly did.
He also predicted Chat GPT's rise with his story the Great Auto Grammatizator
Shame on you for promoting "BetterHelp"
Cry him a river buddy 😭🙏
Could you elaborate, please? idk what this means.
@@kentyoung3157I’m pretty sure there’s some drama going on with better help. Idk tho 🤷♂️
They were caught selling their customer's mental health information to 3rd parties.
Research something before you have a go at someone, and understand people are using their services Clearly or there would be no better health and that's all you got to say after such a remarkable sad and incredible story Shame on you!.
Better help. 🤦♂️
Such an interesting video. Thankyou.