I think self-improvement books are just like self-help books. They're like over-the-counter medicine you take but not deeply fixing anything. Non-fiction is like nutrient dense foods where they feed your cells in your body. But the classics are exceptional. Like Marcus Aurelius and others. That's why their ideas still last for more than a hundred years.
I feel like it's useful to look a little bit into pharmacology and anatomy. That way, when you go to the doctor, you can actually have detailed conversations with them, have better knowledge of your treatment options, and ask more direct questions. You're also not at the complete whim of your doctor (who may not have thorough knowledge of what you're dealing with) and will have a better idea of when to seek out a second opinion.
Yeah, I agree there. I always check studies after or before I get a doctor's opinion. I would also add that nutrition science is also a useful field to study.
the presumption of understanding 'self-development' in this video is interesting. From what I hear in this video the end-result of almost of all of your suggestions kind of lead to a 3rd-person, abstract understanding of the topics..which is fine and essential but for true self-development to take place, that understanding must be moved from 3rd person understanding and examination to 1st-person, embodied, contemplation & activity. In practice this could look like..learning a concept in psych book as you mentioned like ' interpersonal ethics' and then, writing down in one's own words what the concept is, and what practical actions one can take on daily basis to be aligned with newly discovered concept. Otherwise our brain just becomes a bank of ideas so the combination of abstract cognitive understanding & personalizing it in our daily lives would both work and stick long term I think.
@@bn8418 I get what you are saying, and I agree to some extent. I do think there is room for pure intellectual development. Excessive practicality is boring. But "how to apply" is probably a different topic than "what to study". I only wanted to share the general topics I found most important for self-development.
I really love this video, very inspiring and informative. I would personnally put maths way up there, above science. One reason of course is because it is the language of science and engeneering but also because of all the ways maths helped me build my thinking. A basic course in mathematical logics and methods of proof can sudenly open your eyes to a lot of shortcuts and bad reasoning that people fall into daily. And most importantly, maths thought me that we can take abstract concepts and ideas, express them formally, and subject them to a strict rigourous examination. Maths really hammers into you the need to very clearly state your problem and be extremely careful and, again, rigourous when you are doing a proof. It simultanuously allows you to actually prove what is previously an abstract intuitive conjecture, and teaches you to be warry of your intuition and look for couterexamples when you fail to proprely establish a result.
@@arselanehadjslimane2582 I think the thinking you are speaking of comes with any academic pursuit of philospohy. In university, the philospohy students studied argumentation theory, symbolic logic, and etc. However, even without that stuff I think you can achieve robust analytical thinking just by reading analytical philospohy. Of course, you also don't really read math, which is another reason I opted not to add it. Haha. I absolutely agree that reasoning within the constraints of a system is a useful skill, but its more of a "doing" rather than reading in the case of math or even coding.
@IdeasInHat I agree that analytical philosophy will probably give you the same thinking skills as maths, but I tend to prefer math because it is more tangible unlike philosophy which often isnt based on anything and where you end up discussing the meaning of simple words rather than thinking. Also, I would say if you are sufficiently advanced in maths there are some books that you can simply read instead of practice as you say. I think a reason we tend to not think of maths in things like this is that it hasnt been absorbed in the cultural zeitgeist like physics has, and public education doesnt acctually teach serious maths
Also, maths doesnt "just" teach you to reason within a system, but also how to create these systems and how whole theories can develop out of trying to frame a problem correctly. It is difficult to explain the creativity involved in mathematics to people who have not been trained in it. But it is really a discipline that combines restrictive riguour and an infinite capacity for creativity
@@arselanehadjslimane2582 yeah, I find chess replicates the experience of math as well. Even piano has some similarities. Or also learning grammar for a foreign language. It is definitely a fun subject!
Philosophy like Stoicism, Nietzsche, Sartre, Spinoza, etc completely changed my life and changed my mind and the way I think about everything forever. I understand that the philosophy you might be reading is more scientific but I do highly recommend you check out the thinkers I listed and existentialism in general.
I have read Nietzsche and Spinoza. I refuse to read Sarte, and I think people are lying when they claim to fully understand Sarte, lol. He's a horrible writer. I have heard people say he is better in French, but I am skeptical. The guy is anything but clear. Worse than Kant and Hegel!
@@IdeasInHat I can totally understand lol. To me he is just an average writer but not a writer like the likes of Nietzsche and Spinoza, although to me his ideas are extraodionary. Other people I am not as familiar with their whole catalog but have certain ideas that changed my life are Deleuze, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger (I've only read some of Deleuze and Kierkegaard and mostly secondary sources on Heidegger because his writing style is very unclear). What did you think of Nietzsche and Spinoza?
@@biskit8050 Love Kierkegaard! Deleuze is interesting but I haven't read much, and I also won't read Heidegger for clarity issues. I am willing to try Foucault, but I know his writing is also slightly obtuse.
How do you balance interests in a lot of subjects , currently struggling with it , my main interest changes every two weeks , i think i have a decent potential and i wanna focus on one thing and achieve something in it
@krrishwadhwa7596 self-control and time management😅😅😅. I have the same problem as you. I want to study physics, chess, art theory, architecture, medicine, engineering and cyber security. My backlog is out of control. Patience and consistency is the only way!
@@judegrindvoll8467 Not a bad idea for a video. Might help people if they realize even I am struggling to balance things, lol. I just found a bunch of estates and trusts law books I want, as well as federal income tax law and wealth transfer tax law I also want. Seems like useful reading for building generational wealth!
Yea, to some extent, it actually is for that. Haha. But, I think that fruitless effort is necessary in the beginning of an intellectual life; only because it will help you see how unnecessary it is.
@@baran4950 Yes, as funny as that sounds. And it's not enough to just be told and agree that it is useless. You have to painfully struggle to see it's uselessness. Otherwise you are not well equipped to recognize when you are engaging in it.
Brother, do you think people should reduce or increase reproduction? Or should fertility decrease in some countries and increase in others? (The last one is my opinion, for example, in places like India or places with high population density, fertility should decrease significantly) But it needs to increase in places like Australia, Spain and Türkiye. The young population should not decrease in Europe and America because the immigrant problem is something that has negative consequences in today's world) Also, there is something forgotten in this regard by those who say that the world's population is increasing too much. this is a short term view He does not see a long-term process. reproduction occurs between 2 people A person is born, grows up, gets married, gives birth to a new generation and dies. So this is the general loop with exceptions If 2 people come together, at least 2 children should be born to take their place in order to prevent the population from decreasing in the long term. If you have 2 children, the population stays the same anyway. The birth rate is around 1 in western countries, which means that the population will decrease in the long term. whose results are obvious. Therefore, even if the population does not increase, a birth rate of 2 is sufficient to maintain the young population. In the long run, the population will return to the same point anyway. I hope I expressed myself correctly :)
I am familiar with the arguments on both sides, but I have never studied the data directly myself. I couldn't come up with a solid answer unless I looked at the data. I think it is an interesting topic though, especially if we ever decide that some form of basic income is a good idea; as that would seem to entail a limit on the number of children someone can have. I would have to read some books to develop an opinion.
what genres do you think are most important for self-development?
I think self-improvement books are just like self-help books. They're like over-the-counter medicine you take but not deeply fixing anything. Non-fiction is like nutrient dense foods where they feed your cells in your body. But the classics are exceptional. Like Marcus Aurelius and others. That's why their ideas still last for more than a hundred years.
hey jordan, i just want to say thank you. You made me better.
Thanks for the kind words! Hope you continue to grow through your reading! It's great to see books having a positive impact on people.
I second that
I second that too!
I feel like it's useful to look a little bit into pharmacology and anatomy. That way, when you go to the doctor, you can actually have detailed conversations with them, have better knowledge of your treatment options, and ask more direct questions. You're also not at the complete whim of your doctor (who may not have thorough knowledge of what you're dealing with) and will have a better idea of when to seek out a second opinion.
Yeah, I agree there. I always check studies after or before I get a doctor's opinion.
I would also add that nutrition science is also a useful field to study.
the presumption of understanding 'self-development' in this video is interesting. From what I hear in this video the end-result of almost of all of your suggestions kind of lead to a 3rd-person, abstract understanding of the topics..which is fine and essential but for true self-development to take place, that understanding must be moved from 3rd person understanding and examination to 1st-person, embodied, contemplation & activity. In practice this could look like..learning a concept in psych book as you mentioned like ' interpersonal ethics' and then, writing down in one's own words what the concept is, and what practical actions one can take on daily basis to be aligned with newly discovered concept. Otherwise our brain just becomes a bank of ideas so the combination of abstract cognitive understanding & personalizing it in our daily lives would both work and stick long term I think.
@@bn8418 I get what you are saying, and I agree to some extent. I do think there is room for pure intellectual development. Excessive practicality is boring.
But "how to apply" is probably a different topic than "what to study". I only wanted to share the general topics I found most important for self-development.
@@IdeasInHat Thank you for your response.
I really love this video, very inspiring and informative.
I would personnally put maths way up there, above science. One reason of course is because it is the language of science and engeneering but also because of all the ways maths helped me build my thinking. A basic course in mathematical logics and methods of proof can sudenly open your eyes to a lot of shortcuts and bad reasoning that people fall into daily. And most importantly, maths thought me that we can take abstract concepts and ideas, express them formally, and subject them to a strict rigourous examination. Maths really hammers into you the need to very clearly state your problem and be extremely careful and, again, rigourous when you are doing a proof. It simultanuously allows you to actually prove what is previously an abstract intuitive conjecture, and teaches you to be warry of your intuition and look for couterexamples when you fail to proprely establish a result.
@@arselanehadjslimane2582 I think the thinking you are speaking of comes with any academic pursuit of philospohy.
In university, the philospohy students studied argumentation theory, symbolic logic, and etc.
However, even without that stuff I think you can achieve robust analytical thinking just by reading analytical philospohy.
Of course, you also don't really read math, which is another reason I opted not to add it. Haha.
I absolutely agree that reasoning within the constraints of a system is a useful skill, but its more of a "doing" rather than reading in the case of math or even coding.
@IdeasInHat I agree that analytical philosophy will probably give you the same thinking skills as maths, but I tend to prefer math because it is more tangible unlike philosophy which often isnt based on anything and where you end up discussing the meaning of simple words rather than thinking. Also, I would say if you are sufficiently advanced in maths there are some books that you can simply read instead of practice as you say. I think a reason we tend to not think of maths in things like this is that it hasnt been absorbed in the cultural zeitgeist like physics has, and public education doesnt acctually teach serious maths
Also, maths doesnt "just" teach you to reason within a system, but also how to create these systems and how whole theories can develop out of trying to frame a problem correctly.
It is difficult to explain the creativity involved in mathematics to people who have not been trained in it. But it is really a discipline that combines restrictive riguour and an infinite capacity for creativity
@@arselanehadjslimane2582 yeah, I find chess replicates the experience of math as well. Even piano has some similarities. Or also learning grammar for a foreign language.
It is definitely a fun subject!
@IdeasInHat I think linguistics and analytic philosophy are probably what comes closest to math !
All self-development is philosophy with good marketing
@@ivanbenisscott in that case, some have better marketing than others 😅😅. I don't think many people like chemistry.
by learning theology, i also learned logic. there may be overlap in a lot of genres.
@@hitsujihonyaku yes, I agree. Some subjects are harder to separate than other.
Philosophy like Stoicism, Nietzsche, Sartre, Spinoza, etc completely changed my life and changed my mind and the way I think about everything forever. I understand that the philosophy you might be reading is more scientific but I do highly recommend you check out the thinkers I listed and existentialism in general.
I have read Nietzsche and Spinoza. I refuse to read Sarte, and I think people are lying when they claim to fully understand Sarte, lol. He's a horrible writer.
I have heard people say he is better in French, but I am skeptical. The guy is anything but clear. Worse than Kant and Hegel!
@@IdeasInHat I can totally understand lol. To me he is just an average writer but not a writer like the likes of Nietzsche and Spinoza, although to me his ideas are extraodionary. Other people I am not as familiar with their whole catalog but have certain ideas that changed my life are Deleuze, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger (I've only read some of Deleuze and Kierkegaard and mostly secondary sources on Heidegger because his writing style is very unclear). What did you think of Nietzsche and Spinoza?
@@biskit8050 Love Kierkegaard! Deleuze is interesting but I haven't read much, and I also won't read Heidegger for clarity issues. I am willing to try Foucault, but I know his writing is also slightly obtuse.
How do you balance interests in a lot of subjects , currently struggling with it , my main interest changes every two weeks , i think i have a decent potential and i wanna focus on one thing and achieve something in it
@krrishwadhwa7596 I usually alot 2 or 3 years to each interest. Otherwise you won't get far enough into the topic.
@@IdeasInHat Thanks man , but they really change fast any tips on how to prioritize one goal for 2-3 years
@krrishwadhwa7596 self-control and time management😅😅😅. I have the same problem as you. I want to study physics, chess, art theory, architecture, medicine, engineering and cyber security. My backlog is out of control.
Patience and consistency is the only way!
@@IdeasInHatI would love to see what a typical reading week looks like for you and how you balance your various interests 😊
@@judegrindvoll8467 Not a bad idea for a video. Might help people if they realize even I am struggling to balance things, lol.
I just found a bunch of estates and trusts law books I want, as well as federal income tax law and wealth transfer tax law I also want. Seems like useful reading for building generational wealth!
Which books should I read in these genres?
check out some of my book recommendation videos! I talk about these genres all the time.
Brother
Frankly, I still haven't figured out what philosophy is for.
I think it's a fruitless effort
Yea, to some extent, it actually is for that. Haha. But, I think that fruitless effort is necessary in the beginning of an intellectual life; only because it will help you see how unnecessary it is.
@@IdeasInHat
O halde felsefenin varılacak en son noktası felsefenin boş olduğunu anlamak diyebilir miyiz 😅
@@baran4950 Yes, as funny as that sounds. And it's not enough to just be told and agree that it is useless. You have to painfully struggle to see it's uselessness. Otherwise you are not well equipped to recognize when you are engaging in it.
@@IdeasInHat
Evet
Belkide felsefe'deki esas amaç'ta budur
Thanks buddy 🙏
🙏🏼
Brother, do you think people should reduce or increase reproduction?
Or should fertility decrease in some countries and increase in others?
(The last one is my opinion, for example, in places like India or places with high population density, fertility should decrease significantly)
But it needs to increase in places like Australia, Spain and Türkiye.
The young population should not decrease in Europe and America
because the immigrant problem is something that has negative consequences in today's world)
Also, there is something forgotten in this regard by those who say that the world's population is increasing too much.
this is a short term view
He does not see a long-term process.
reproduction occurs between 2 people
A person is born, grows up, gets married, gives birth to a new generation and dies.
So this is the general loop with exceptions
If 2 people come together, at least 2 children should be born to take their place in order to prevent the population from decreasing in the long term.
If you have 2 children, the population stays the same anyway.
The birth rate is around 1 in western countries, which means that the population will decrease in the long term.
whose results are obvious.
Therefore, even if the population does not increase, a birth rate of 2 is sufficient to maintain the young population.
In the long run, the population will return to the same point anyway.
I hope I expressed myself correctly :)
I am familiar with the arguments on both sides, but I have never studied the data directly myself. I couldn't come up with a solid answer unless I looked at the data.
I think it is an interesting topic though, especially if we ever decide that some form of basic income is a good idea; as that would seem to entail a limit on the number of children someone can have.
I would have to read some books to develop an opinion.
@@IdeasInHatEvet
Üzerine araştırma yapılması gereken bir konu bence
Günümüzde iyice önem kazanan ve gelecekte daha da kazanacak olan bir konu bu
@@baran4950 I definitely agree, it is incredibly important, especially when considered in the context of globalization.