To resign in passive nihilism, that is truly one of my biggest fears. To be in constant overstimulation but never truly gratified or content, in an effort to distract ourselves from the absurd nature of the world. To never discover ones one capabilities, because of fear of facing the dread that accompanies trying. I'll always rely on the ideas such as that of Seneca to push me forward, "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself".
Upvotes from people who think "that's simple, that says it all, end of discussion." That's a seductive mind set. Its also socially valorized, because society values discipline AND pain.
@@RatPfink66Touché. Society also is orquestrated by the most hedonistic and selfish people preaching all this "discipline" and "pain" gospel to explore and sumit others to It while they colect the fruits and enjoy all pleasures
You said the same thing that all these self-improvement bodybuilders on youtube, who'd talk about sacrifices for muscles, dates, money, etc., but in a way that really matters and addresses the day-to-day gut-wrenching dilemmas. thank you for this, really needed it.
Live your life. People on social media are fake. Influencers suck in real life. They are all waiting for you to Click and earn. Don't give them heed. Care about the people around you and a stray cat.
@@channyngtatum9231 this channel really attracts a lot of lightweight intellectuals, that say stupid shit like its profound. To be frank, OP does that a lot too. I come here for the references, a lot of Sisyphus55 takes are trash.
This reminds me of the opponent processing theory in psychology. As we indulge in a pleasure, the pleasure begins to lose effectiveness, while we become more sensitive to the opposite feeling.
But also the more we suffer, the more numb we become to ALL feelings as a survival mechanism. Id rather live a life of pleasure/not permanwnt suffering and hard ship where at least i can be content most of the time, and perhaps i feel pain a little more strongly than it does happen, as opposed to a life numb to joy, where the only true experience is pain, and overtime that pain actually builds and gets worse because the human mind only has a threshold for so much suffering before it implodes.
I just though about this some time ago and bought a skate because of that. Skate is a great way to learn the reward of overcoming fear and pain in my opinion
@@igormichetti hell yea, just make sure you have a good setup from a skateshop, skating is not enjoiable with a chep toy. But for real after getting frustrated for trying a trick for so long you either end up making it, or getting a good slam. Which nowdays both feel good for me, since if you don't fall you aren't really skating, or at least not progressing. "I did it" and "damn, at least I tried, and I look like it" are both great feelings.
@@ouzei I trick that helped me not being so afraid of slamming is just to fall in the first try. After that the adrenaline is on and I see that is not bad as it seems
@@igormichetti Yes. Its almost like to find the right speed, force, balance or whatever it has to happen. At the start you give too little, but you have to go over that tipping point just once to fall, and after that you get the trick fast all of a sudden. Especially on miniramp/transition stuff where it's less about complicated micro manuvers and a little more about whats happening with your head. That's my experience
Perhaps this is why buddism teaches not to pursuit happiness, but to pursuit freedom, and that happiness (or rather contentment) comes as a byproduct of freedom. By making hard choices, we don't get immediate pleasure, but we exercise freedom, because we choose ourselves the struggle to engage and this gives contentment. Taking the easy choices on the other hand, will always be so straightforward, that it doesn't really feel like a choice at all. Instead of becoming free, the easy choices leave us a slave to our desires, and their aftermath comes as struggles we didn't consciously choose.
> By making hard choices, we don't get immediate pleasure, but we exercise freedom, because we choose ourselves the struggle to engage and this gives contentment. The Western version, pushed by many influencers, omits contentment. I doubt the wisdom of doing that.
Thinking like this for a while and it really helped me with anxiety, knowing that there is this equilibrium between happiness and suffering. I meditate on this subject for some time now, and it helped me tremendously to forge my path in life. I grown up pretty much alone and had no clue what to do with my life after school. When to college but didn't even know why I picked my course. I realized that I was making decisions not based on what my ambitions were, but on the most clear and simple paths I could take to be and "adult". This obviously didn't work, trying to escape the feeling of being lost just makes you more lost. Accepting that your actions have consequences and your decisions are ways to forge your path in life were the start of my reconstruction. Today I feel that decisions are way less of a burden of despair and anxiety that it once was, but a opportunity of freedom. Stick to your guts, listen to your heart and guide with your brain and everything will be just fine. Don't chase shit just because you think you should, chase something that makes you feel special. There's no such thing as a silly dream, but a life of running away from what you truly want is a silly life.
"When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life flows."
@@steggyweggy Practically speaking it means that a wise man knows he exists as part of a whole and not a disconnected self, and that love for all things can be found once you're willing to accept this. When a wise man's says "I am nothing" he means that what he refers to as "I", his ego, is an illusion created by instinct.
@@mrglibb yes, that is the realization, but it is not the practical application of it. It doesn’t say what one should do with this idea. How should man live knowing his ego is merely a distraction from his own mortality?
Hey, I just want to let you know that your work is an inspiration to me here in Brazil. I always learn something new from you, it's amazing. Thanks for sharing knowledge!
I got hit fucking hard by "lowering the level of human pain, you also have to diminish and lower the level of their capacity for joy." I've been in really dark places before, where I just didn't want to hurt and I knew it wouldn't get any better if I just kept going down that hole but I had never realized this. That quote made sense to me. I stopped feeling "happy" and just started being addicted. Now my life is on its way to a better place and I'm trying to make it as hard as possible.
You don't want just any old kind of hard. No 30-pancake stacks. No hair shirts. Punishing oneself is 100 per cent negative. What have you done to deserve _that?_ What I think you want is to make your life _as challenging as you are called to make it._ Is that closer? In the process, refresh your clarity of needs and desires. Do what you have to, to help yourself through the rough stretches. Keep ties open with others who may help you, and whom you may help.
@@RatPfink66 of course that's the case. When we speak about suffering and challenge seeking, we mean it in tasks related to one's own goals. If you want to be a master at your craft, you have to put in the effort, a master of your relationships, more effort also, etc... However, I'd also advise people to be as autotelic as possible, that way, suffering becomes enjoyable on it's own
@@dedopest3305 thanks for that. i approach it as a musician (my craft - and one i've never had a healthy relationship with). music has a work ethic that demands making its requirements your goals, without hesitation. (this is the musician's specialized definition of "humility," a much sterner calling than the humility of a mere human. and its something meant to be learned tacitly, thru experience, not discussion.) mastery of the craft is necessary but not sufficient. the extent to which you go your own way in pursuit of craft is thought to be the extent that you're a dilettante or waster of potential.
you have a beautiful way of putting feelings into words and concepts to help really conceptualize what's going on and the cause for actions. beautiful content as always!
As an incoming college freshman, this video made me feel a lot better about how stressful and difficult this transition is for me. It’s a lot easier to go through my troubles now knowing that there’s something better waiting for me ahead.
Except for the main flaw of this video is that it assumes suffering always to pleasure afterwards but sometimes suffering just grants more suffering. The harder path isn’t always the better path sometimes it is harder and brings more suffering but ends up being more or equally fruitless as the easy path. There isn’t a right path based on difficulty or any such things there is just the path you choose which inherently is the correct path for it is the only path
@@plugshirt1762 that’s usually the result of not being fully indulged in one path or another, most people will claim that they are walking the hard path, but will end up on RUclips for half the day. If u are fully indulged in the hard path but make good decisions, no matter what u will be better off than where u started, however if u are in the grey area u will most likely not go anywhere and live a mediocre life. You have to choose one pavement or the other, or you’ll get run over in the middle of the road
This channel really speaks to me with its presentation of philosophy. Although I have plenty of friends who are into these topics I’ve never really taken time to delve into them and this video really speaks to how I’ve been feeling. It’s sad to admit that I feel I’ve been stuck in the Last Man practices for the better part of a year. Videos like these though help to acknowledge that perspective and to me really help to see the other side of what’s possible. Great video as always, and I am going to check out that sponsor too. Cheers
This video has helped me a lot. Lately I’ve been struggling to find reason in going to school. It’s been the easy choice to just not go or do my work, because it was the most fun in the moment. I had forgotten that you have to do annoying and sometimes repetitive things to succeed in school and that it will be worth it, it just takes time. Ultimately it seems what I needed to realize was that patience is what I need to be in order to reach my goal of going through and finishing school.
@@HelloThere-xs8ss well I think so, but there was one piece I was missing when I wrote this and it was that I can do things miserably. Once I realized that I was able to apply and get into college even though I don’t want to go to college that much, but I do want what a college degree will help me obtain. So do it, even if you have to do it miserably. Also I graduate this spring and I have all A’s except in once class, and it’s a B. When I wrote this I was failing all of my classes and it looked like I wasn’t going to graduate in time. But don’t forget to do things that make you happy once in awhile.
If you fill your life with "hard" choices, it's no easy life! Balance is pretty much the key to everything! Just don't let your "easy" choices pull you along!
@@grotto185 did u ever try do hard things in life? in my experience every hard things become easier as time pass.. like do plank for 1 minutes is hard at first, now i can do 5 minutes planking.. then i do business , at first very hard to make money.. now the money coming eventhough i am sleeping... the hard things at first.. suddenly becoming easier and easier.. until u feel very boring and keep seeking new hard things.. and its never ending lol
@@dausdk I guess that’s why OP typed: “Balance is pretty much the key to everything!” The enjoyable activities one does in their leisure are important reset points since without them, a person would feel unfulfilled and they’d be more likely to seek the pleasure of doing something hard rather than thinking about it long term. They would not have actual fulfillment. That’s what I learned after my first semester of college. Idk 🤷♂️ correct me if I’m wrong tho.
Exactly!,there should be a balance between doing uncomfortable hard things,and simply relaxing and having fun with easy things,lean extremely to one and you lose.
Oh my god, that nietzsche quote felt like it pierced the veil of understanding. It's was as if pulling curtains from my eyes. Oftentimes I think my general displeasure comes from the fact that I want things to work as if keeping perfect tempo, anything to disrupt that tempo wears on me, until eventually I lose my shit because things didn't go "my way". In trying so hard to have so many good experiences I am also exposing myself to utter despair when things don't workout. When in all actuality I should be thankful there are as many positive things in my life as there are, no matter how "few". I needed this fam, I am recently quit smoking weed because of the volume I was smoking and I've been having straight up withdraw symptoms because I'd become so dependent on that numbing of the pain of daily life. I have probably gone through more mental anguish in the last week than at any other time in my life. I was to the point of wanting to just start walking in one direction and not stop, I just wanted to get away from everyone and everything. Now I realize how small all the shit that caused that mental anguish really was. Life goes on regardless of if I want it to or not, it's on me to not let it pass me by.
Surprised no one is commenting on how similar a concept this is to Newton's 3rd law, in sum "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction." Kind of beautiful how the topics you covered run in such perfect parallel to one of the most fundamental principles of physics.
@Jude McDermott this is mostly likely because of the influence the Classical Era of physics and Newton's Laws had on every intellectual that followed. Even our concept of economics follows almost an exact pattern as Newtons laws. Nietzsche definitely knew these laws and would have been inclined to make his laws in a parallel fashion.
Too beautiful perhaps. It tempts us to oversimplify. For every good there is not an equal and opposite bad - if there were, we might as well not bother doing good things.
This is a tough one. I actually agree with all of this in theory, and even by experience know the truth of "easy choices/hard life." My one asterisk is anxiety/depression, in the sense that experiencing equal pleasure for my pain sounds like a dream.
I think the pleasures that were stated in the video is much more concrete, for example the body builder finding pleasure when hes stronger and much more muscular. You can actually see and feel and have a concrete understanding of what you gain. The feeling of doing something and having it paid off is one of the things that makes life worth living i think sory for bad english.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. These videos really exposed me to philosophy and gave me so many life changing ways of viewing the world. You're great.
I’ve been trying really fucking hard to change I’m a new father @ 22 Things are hard and im no longer a kid but I was when he was born I’ve wanted to die a lot You’ve helped me a lot I could cry but I don’t feel like it I’m fighting it lmao
You’re one of the few content creators I know that looks at philosophy that’s sometimes centuries old, and fully articulates how it’s relevant now. I really feel like I actually gain something from watching your videos. Thanks, maybe I’ll get around to reading the Nietzsche book collecting dust in my room.
I think one of the hardest things for the modern man to do was what you brushed on at the end and that’s helping society as a whole. With the implementation of social media and globalization people are feeling less and less important and like they can’t help a grander picture I believe
I agree. I have an extraordinary dream, but sometimes I feel like I’m an ordinary man. With social media you see all these prodigies and Ivy-League tier people who are smarter, less discriminated against, more attractive, and have more achievements than you at the same age. You feel like because you aren’t there now, you’ll never get there. It makes you want to give up, or for a select few, maybe it pushes them even harder to achieve their goals.
Your videos always make me introspective, but when you explained what was meant by the theme of the video, I didnt really have to think that hard. I knew this was something that ive made so many easy choices lately. This feels like a wakeup call. Thanks.
@@alecrochon3531 Reality does. Living creatures need food, water, and shelter. It's difficult to find/grow/clean by hand so we invent technology. Creating and inventing technology requires time and resources, that means sacrificing time and resources now for a better future. That means creating a system where people divide up labor in some way, which means compromises. Those are all requirements for life. Different animals do it differently, no system will eliminate those needs without some sacrifices. Disease, accidents, natural disasters, etc, there's no getting rid of those either. And that's not even taking into account human psychology. When you remove all challenges from a person's life, you get miserable people with no aim in life. And if you don't believe that, play a game with all cheats turned on and you'll soon find yourself bored to your core. And on the off chance someone actually reads all this, I have notifications off so I don't see replies unless I come across this video again :P. Cheers.
@@pj1016 were surrounded by ungodly amounts of archetypes of varied and conflicting backgrounds, so many that its difficult not to have your thoughts led by instructions you dont even believe in
I'm here in May 2023 just seeing this. I haven't been more profoundly impacted in all my conscious years on earth up until this day. Thank you for this lovely piece.
I can't tell you how much your channel and video essays mean to me. I've been watching for a while, during a period of my life with a lot of nihilism, hedonism, pain, and self-pity. I'm learning to come into myself better with each video, and I thank you for the dedication and artistry behind your channel.
I rarely ever comment on videos but today it felt only right to do so. I'm a 16 year old guy from germany just trying his best to form habits that lead to living a happy and healthy life. What has really helped me to organize my thoughts and ideas are your videos. They always either exactly put into words what I tend to think about alot and thus remove the burden of me having to do it, or throw new ideas at me that are worth getting lost in thought about. Either way, I am very grateful to have stumbled upon your channel and I do want to thank you for the great effort you put into your amazing work :) Don't stop anytime soon please
I remember in the 7th grade we were running the mile and nobody wanted to do it, and one of my friends told me "its easier to run hard and finish first. that way when the race is still going you have extra time to catch your breath. but if you start to walk as soon as you get tired, you won't want to start running again. you'll just be tired longer and get a worse time anyway" and this principle has followed me my whole life
My physics teacher used to remind us this quote before every exam. In polish. So I smiled wide when you said that you always imagine hearing it with polish accent.
I just finished a month of rehab for drug and alcohol addiction, I was supposed to go through 3 more months in a different program, I walked out on the opportunity because I was scared shitless. My loved ones are all disappointed and upset. I've been trying to convince myself to go back and do the 3 months, this helped, thanks.
I did 6 months at an in house awhile back for my IV use. 508 days clean today. You can do it. Once you start it's easier to keep going than you'd expect.
With this I like to think that your life will be hard anyway. The difference is have the hard times now or later. Its gonna be filled with a certain amount of suffering, so the good news is you choose how you suffer and when. And not everybody will deal with it now. That's like nature and how some branches grow short, some grow long, and neither is really "superior" to the other. It just is what it is.
I'll definitely cover Brave New World in a video someday. It was somewhat touched on in my guide to Huxley. Didn't know about it's link to the Last Men but makes sense!
Love to hear your reflections about life with so many different views, even when they challenge my views I can get so much reflecting about my beliefs and choices. Thank you.
I really loved this video, this has pushed me to giving it my all to get rid of an unhealthy part of me. It’s only a start to becoming a better person, but I believe I have the capability to be that person that I can enjoy my life in. Thank you
This kind of paradox sort of leads me to the conclusion that we have an innate incapacity to handle extreme experiences. That the opening of one's mind towards one type of experience will inevitably lead to opening ones mind to all experience and this doesn't seem too odd to me, but what does seem odd to me is our allergic reaction to life experiences.
I cant relate more to this post, there was something u mentioned about how limiting suffering also brings a limited experience of pleasure and that was definitely the case for me. I once in my life became fully capable of repressing any type of anxiety or emotion that brought me suffering, but that somehow made me empty. I spent a whole year trying to search for deep emotions but was incapable of it. I then somehow managed to let some of that passion reenter my life: I started to feel deeper again, and it was amazing because I was capable of feeling these intense emotions and even though it affected my sensitivity both for the good and the bad all i can say is that stability is boring. I like feeling these rollercoasters of emotions because I know that no matter how bad I feel at a given moment at some other moment the pain will cease and i will be experimenting the exact opposite. It's kind of beautiful, somewhat of a romantic view, but way more exciting
I've never seen a creater liking this many comments, it really shows how much you value your audience. Also great video, I like the calm narrative, gives you the time to think about what you just heard.
Great Video as always, had a bad day at work and was gonna drown my sorrows in TV and junkfood, but now im gonna go work out and spend some time trying to practice my artwork, because this video reminded me that those temporary pleasures won't make my life any better
I feel so sad watching this. I live exactly as a passive nihilist is described. Even though it makes me sad, the thought of change is not enticing, rather it terrifies me and pushes me deeper into a state of seeking constant pleasure.
Needed this video. I have a job interview tomorrow for a job that I know will be difficult and strenuous at first but will pay off in the long run. I'm totally ignoring the little voice in my head that's saying it'll be "too difficult" and embracing the smaller voice that says "give it a try, you having nothing to lose".
The concept of duality of good and bad is similar to what the video is about. With the absence of either of the two things, there will be no meaning to it. The bad things in life which we endure gives meaning to the good things in life. The reason why we value good things in life is based on the bad things we had to endure.
I just had to transfer to a different school due to my health problems, leaving behind my old school I had been at for basically my entire life. I always envisioned being at that school until I graduated, but now my future and future plans are murky. I hope to re-enroll next year when my health problems will probably be cured, but there's no guarantee. I'm so happy this video showed up in my recommended, because it's making me realize that this choice will probably be more beneficial to my physical and mental state, even though the choice was a difficult one. thank you :)
you must understand that the primal part of you goes for pleasure. separate the two and it becomes easy. just like meditation, where you tell the animal part of the brain to focus on your breath, you must focus on consciously choosing to rebel against the animal part
"For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself" - Viktor Frankl... TOO DEEP....
I've found, as many others before me have, that chasing happiness is a hopeless endeavor. True, genuine happiness falls on me unexpectedly in brief passing moments. I let go of the future and the past for only a few minutes, and for a time, I feel as if I could ask for nothing more from the universe... and then it passes, and I move on with my day, content with the fact that I was truly, honestly happy in the moment, and nothing more. Then I continue seeking out satisfying endeavors until the next moment of joy swells in my heart again.
I was watching this video while lying on the bed since I could not get up from bed and was feeling hopeless but after watching it I did woke from my bed and I'll try to pass through these days :)
your videos have been a comfort to me through some difficult sufferings, thank you, videos like this make me feel not so alone in the difficulties of life
i went down the easy choices hard life route for a long time before i became conscious of the repercussions. it's weird to think that the discomfort i've always ran away from has saved me.
The quote doesn't work because harder choices = better life, it works because people often don't make the harder choices when(!) it is beneficial for long-term meaning/happiness (and do make the easy choices even when it is undesirable in the long-term).
If you want an easy life do the hard things. Been living this motto for a year and things have been smooth sailing. Do the things you need to do daily whether you feel like it or not and you will reap compounding benefits. You can experience acts that are pleasureful it doesn’t necessarily need to be subdued in order to counterbalance pain. From eastern philosophy what you do is not invest too much ego and emotion into either. If you go on vacation to the beach good. But don’t let it elevate your emotion and invest too much into it. Similarly if something doesn’t go your way in life whether you didn’t get a promotion, also don’t let your emotion get too vested in that. Being able to discipline and decouple your emotional and ego state from the action is what brings the balance between pleasure and pain.
This was just recommended to me, I recently moved out on my own(moved across country just a few weeks after graduating high school), nd the real world is kinda shit, I work every day and try to go to college but it feels so dreadful, your video really hit hard in my opinion. Thank you for creating it.
This feels like something people who are suffering would say as a cope. When life is hard it's alluring to think all that pain will eventually benefit you somehow, because the idea of a fair universe is so appealing that we really want to believe it. The trurh is your suffering may not lead to eventual peace or happiness and someone else's "easy life" might never catch up to them. The world is much more random than that and while yes, sometimes hard choices do pay off and easy choices do cause regret, it's just as often that the universe smiles on those least deserving and smites those who have struggled so much. People often refer to this as luck or circumstances or any number of different names but in the end it's all the same, and as much as we'd like to believe we have control over our lives, the world and its unforseen outcomes often tell us otherwise
I really get nietschze (i probably misspelled that) stance on the last men. I really lost myself for quite a few years in a nihilistic mindless pleasure seeking attitude and ended up crashing and burning because of it. I still have a hard time accepting the wasted years but I now try to live for the greater good, to prevent ending up in such a bad place again and to prevent hurting the people around me with my loss of control. Despite not being religious I tend to pray or fixate myself on the unknown force that resides in all of us and ever since, live seems to get easier. I work harder on myself than ever but I also enjoy life more than ever and I feel I can touch people in a meaningfull way. I have watched my own community blossom due to prioritizing self development and from there on out taking initiatives to connect, sharing philosophy and upholding a high degree of honesty with myself and others. Thats really all it takes sometimes I am curious to see if bad times created by living like individualistic zombies will bring forth a wave of inspiration or a complete degeneracy of communities. Probably both.
I now have a habit of only taking cold showers (as cold as possible) for washing myself. And now i am realy thankfull when i take a hot one. The abscence of it thus (now i realize it) has made me more thankfull for it. Great video, great lesson!
I've thought about these ideas before. Especially about the concept of how suffering is inevitable, but I didn't know that Nietzsche also came to those conclusions. Nice video
To resign in passive nihilism, that is truly one of my biggest fears. To be in constant overstimulation but never truly gratified or content, in an effort to distract ourselves from the absurd nature of the world. To never discover ones one capabilities, because of fear of facing the dread that accompanies trying. I'll always rely on the ideas such as that of Seneca to push me forward, "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself".
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@@stereoheart.806 yeah wtf how
@@yassinalaa102 patreon maybe?
Yeah, Patreon :)
Great comment. Thank you
"You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours." -Unknown
Or both or neither
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That's a really cool profile pic! Did you capture it or is it from somewhere? Where can I get it?
Upvotes from people who think "that's simple, that says it all, end of discussion." That's a seductive mind set. Its also socially valorized, because society values discipline AND pain.
@@RatPfink66Touché. Society also is orquestrated by the most hedonistic and selfish people preaching all this "discipline" and "pain" gospel to explore and sumit others to It while they colect the fruits and enjoy all pleasures
You said the same thing that all these self-improvement bodybuilders on youtube, who'd talk about sacrifices for muscles, dates, money, etc., but in a way that really matters and addresses the day-to-day gut-wrenching dilemmas. thank you for this, really needed it.
Live your life. People on social media are fake. Influencers suck in real life. They are all waiting for you to Click and earn. Don't give them heed. Care about the people around you and a stray cat.
Exactly. Went into this video thinking I wouldn't like it because it'd be that kind of cheesy shit, ended up adding it to Favorites instead.
Wtf does this comment mean lol
@@justamanofculture12 do both, Live your life, but also work hard because time and youth is irreversible
@@channyngtatum9231 this channel really attracts a lot of lightweight intellectuals, that say stupid shit like its profound.
To be frank, OP does that a lot too.
I come here for the references, a lot of Sisyphus55 takes are trash.
This reminds me of the opponent processing theory in psychology. As we indulge in a pleasure, the pleasure begins to lose effectiveness, while we become more sensitive to the opposite feeling.
@Michael Cueva let’s not put Nietzsche in the same sentence as those two ever again please
Good ole diminishing returns
The economics rule of diminishing marginal utility.
Lowkey Terrifying. That's why your crush is gone when the girl becomes your girlfriend.
But also the more we suffer, the more numb we become to ALL feelings as a survival mechanism. Id rather live a life of pleasure/not permanwnt suffering and hard ship where at least i can be content most of the time, and perhaps i feel pain a little more strongly than it does happen, as opposed to a life numb to joy, where the only true experience is pain, and overtime that pain actually builds and gets worse because the human mind only has a threshold for so much suffering before it implodes.
"Homeostasis between pleasure and suffering" : Welcome to the act of skateboarding :)
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I just though about this some time ago and bought a skate because of that. Skate is a great way to learn the reward of overcoming fear and pain in my opinion
@@igormichetti hell yea, just make sure you have a good setup from a skateshop, skating is not enjoiable with a chep toy. But for real after getting frustrated for trying a trick for so long you either end up making it, or getting a good slam. Which nowdays both feel good for me, since if you don't fall you aren't really skating, or at least not progressing. "I did it" and "damn, at least I tried, and I look like it" are both great feelings.
@@ouzei I trick that helped me not being so afraid of slamming is just to fall in the first try. After that the adrenaline is on and I see that is not bad as it seems
@@igormichetti Yes. Its almost like to find the right speed, force, balance or whatever it has to happen. At the start you give too little, but you have to go over that tipping point just once to fall, and after that you get the trick fast all of a sudden. Especially on miniramp/transition stuff where it's less about complicated micro manuvers and a little more about whats happening with your head. That's my experience
Perhaps this is why buddism teaches not to pursuit happiness, but to pursuit freedom, and that happiness (or rather contentment) comes as a byproduct of freedom.
By making hard choices, we don't get immediate pleasure, but we exercise freedom, because we choose ourselves the struggle to engage and this gives contentment.
Taking the easy choices on the other hand, will always be so straightforward, that it doesn't really feel like a choice at all. Instead of becoming free, the easy choices leave us a slave to our desires, and their aftermath comes as struggles we didn't consciously choose.
> By making hard choices, we don't get immediate pleasure, but we exercise freedom, because we choose ourselves the struggle to engage and this gives contentment.
The Western version, pushed by many influencers, omits contentment. I doubt the wisdom of doing that.
Thinking like this for a while and it really helped me with anxiety, knowing that there is this equilibrium between happiness and suffering. I meditate on this subject for some time now, and it helped me tremendously to forge my path in life. I grown up pretty much alone and had no clue what to do with my life after school. When to college but didn't even know why I picked my course. I realized that I was making decisions not based on what my ambitions were, but on the most clear and simple paths I could take to be and "adult". This obviously didn't work, trying to escape the feeling of being lost just makes you more lost. Accepting that your actions have consequences and your decisions are ways to forge your path in life were the start of my reconstruction. Today I feel that decisions are way less of a burden of despair and anxiety that it once was, but a opportunity of freedom. Stick to your guts, listen to your heart and guide with your brain and everything will be just fine. Don't chase shit just because you think you should, chase something that makes you feel special. There's no such thing as a silly dream, but a life of running away from what you truly want is a silly life.
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Wow... Thank you.
This is beautiful!
What if I don’t want…. anything at all?
"When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is love. And between these two, my life flows."
That sounds smart and poetic, but I don’t know what that even means practically speaking
@@steggyweggy Practically speaking it means that a wise man knows he exists as part of a whole and not a disconnected self, and that love for all things can be found once you're willing to accept this. When a wise man's says "I am nothing" he means that what he refers to as "I", his ego, is an illusion created by instinct.
@@mrglibb yes, that is the realization, but it is not the practical application of it. It doesn’t say what one should do with this idea. How should man live knowing his ego is merely a distraction from his own mortality?
Fearlessly? @@steggyweggy
@@gnatdagnatyes, one stops acting only in accordance to his „ego“
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“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.” Spinoza, Ethics: part 5 prop 42 S.
Spinoza really is a genius
I got hit fucking hard by "lowering the level of human pain, you also have to diminish and lower the level of their capacity for joy." I've been in really dark places before, where I just didn't want to hurt and I knew it wouldn't get any better if I just kept going down that hole but I had never realized this. That quote made sense to me. I stopped feeling "happy" and just started being addicted. Now my life is on its way to a better place and I'm trying to make it as hard as possible.
You don't want just any old kind of hard. No 30-pancake stacks. No hair shirts. Punishing oneself is 100 per cent negative. What have you done to deserve _that?_
What I think you want is to make your life _as challenging as you are called to make it._ Is that closer?
In the process, refresh your clarity of needs and desires. Do what you have to, to help yourself through the rough stretches. Keep ties open with others who may help you, and whom you may help.
@@RatPfink66 of course that's the case. When we speak about suffering and challenge seeking, we mean it in tasks related to one's own goals. If you want to be a master at your craft, you have to put in the effort, a master of your relationships, more effort also, etc... However, I'd also advise people to be as autotelic as possible, that way, suffering becomes enjoyable on it's own
@@dedopest3305 thanks for that. i approach it as a musician (my craft - and one i've never had a healthy relationship with).
music has a work ethic that demands making its requirements your goals, without hesitation.
(this is the musician's specialized definition of "humility," a much sterner calling than the humility of a mere human. and its something meant to be learned tacitly, thru experience, not discussion.)
mastery of the craft is necessary but not sufficient. the extent to which you go your own way in pursuit of craft is thought to be the extent that you're a dilettante or waster of potential.
you have a beautiful way of putting feelings into words and concepts to help really conceptualize what's going on and the cause for actions. beautiful content as always!
As an incoming college freshman, this video made me feel a lot better about how stressful and difficult this transition is for me. It’s a lot easier to go through my troubles now knowing that there’s something better waiting for me ahead.
me too man, i got into a good school but now am scared shitless
i hope everything goes well for u!!
And now your broke .
Except for the main flaw of this video is that it assumes suffering always to pleasure afterwards but sometimes suffering just grants more suffering. The harder path isn’t always the better path sometimes it is harder and brings more suffering but ends up being more or equally fruitless as the easy path. There isn’t a right path based on difficulty or any such things there is just the path you choose which inherently is the correct path for it is the only path
@@plugshirt1762 that’s usually the result of not being fully indulged in one path or another, most people will claim that they are walking the hard path, but will end up on RUclips for half the day. If u are fully indulged in the hard path but make good decisions, no matter what u will be better off than where u started, however if u are in the grey area u will most likely not go anywhere and live a mediocre life. You have to choose one pavement or the other, or you’ll get run over in the middle of the road
I really cannot understate how much of an impact that this channel has had on me, thank you.
This is clarity. I needed this.
This is one of my all time favorite channels. Fantastic. Cant wait to surrender myself to mindlessly consuming some more
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This channel really speaks to me with its presentation of philosophy. Although I have plenty of friends who are into these topics I’ve never really taken time to delve into them and this video really speaks to how I’ve been feeling. It’s sad to admit that I feel I’ve been stuck in the Last Man practices for the better part of a year. Videos like these though help to acknowledge that perspective and to me really help to see the other side of what’s possible. Great video as always, and I am going to check out that sponsor too. Cheers
I think this video finally made me choose a decision that I’ve been debating and or avoiding for so long. Thank you :D
All the best!! You'll get through it!!
nice! what was the decision if I may ask?
Good for you :)
Got one :)
If it’s suicide then I’m right there with you
This video has helped me a lot. Lately I’ve been struggling to find reason in going to school. It’s been the easy choice to just not go or do my work, because it was the most fun in the moment. I had forgotten that you have to do annoying and sometimes repetitive things to succeed in school and that it will be worth it, it just takes time. Ultimately it seems what I needed to realize was that patience is what I need to be in order to reach my goal of going through and finishing school.
How'd that turn it out? Did school pay off? Did all that time pay off?
@@HelloThere-xs8ss well I think so, but there was one piece I was missing when I wrote this and it was that I can do things miserably. Once I realized that I was able to apply and get into college even though I don’t want to go to college that much, but I do want what a college degree will help me obtain. So do it, even if you have to do it miserably. Also I graduate this spring and I have all A’s except in once class, and it’s a B. When I wrote this I was failing all of my classes and it looked like I wasn’t going to graduate in time. But don’t forget to do things that make you happy once in awhile.
I think one of the best things about pain is it forces you to search for a reason to endure it
If you fill your life with "hard" choices, it's no easy life! Balance is pretty much the key to everything! Just don't let your "easy" choices pull you along!
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@@bart2692 why do you think so?
@@grotto185 did u ever try do hard things in life? in my experience every hard things become easier as time pass..
like do plank for 1 minutes is hard at first, now i can do 5 minutes planking..
then i do business , at first very hard to make money.. now the money coming eventhough i am sleeping...
the hard things at first.. suddenly becoming easier and easier.. until u feel very boring and keep seeking new hard things.. and its never ending lol
@@dausdk I guess that’s why OP typed: “Balance is pretty much the key to everything!” The enjoyable activities one does in their leisure are important reset points since without them, a person would feel unfulfilled and they’d be more likely to seek the pleasure of doing something hard rather than thinking about it long term. They would not have actual fulfillment. That’s what I learned after my first semester of college. Idk 🤷♂️ correct me if I’m wrong tho.
Exactly!,there should be a balance between doing uncomfortable hard things,and simply relaxing and having fun with easy things,lean extremely to one and you lose.
Oh my god, that nietzsche quote felt like it pierced the veil of understanding. It's was as if pulling curtains from my eyes.
Oftentimes I think my general displeasure comes from the fact that I want things to work as if keeping perfect tempo, anything to disrupt that tempo wears on me, until eventually I lose my shit because things didn't go "my way".
In trying so hard to have so many good experiences I am also exposing myself to utter despair when things don't workout.
When in all actuality I should be thankful there are as many positive things in my life as there are, no matter how "few".
I needed this fam, I am recently quit smoking weed because of the volume I was smoking and I've been having straight up withdraw symptoms because I'd become so dependent on that numbing of the pain of daily life. I have probably gone through more mental anguish in the last week than at any other time in my life. I was to the point of wanting to just start walking in one direction and not stop, I just wanted to get away from everyone and everything.
Now I realize how small all the shit that caused that mental anguish really was. Life goes on regardless of if I want it to or not, it's on me to not let it pass me by.
Same
Happy for you my man
i relate to this so hard
hoping the best for you man
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Surprised no one is commenting on how similar a concept this is to Newton's 3rd law, in sum "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction." Kind of beautiful how the topics you covered run in such perfect parallel to one of the most fundamental principles of physics.
To gain something you must lose something; to get something new you have to stop doing something old.
@Jude McDermott this is mostly likely because of the influence the Classical Era of physics and Newton's Laws had on every intellectual that followed. Even our concept of economics follows almost an exact pattern as Newtons laws. Nietzsche definitely knew these laws and would have been inclined to make his laws in a parallel fashion.
It's like a mechanic of the universe that goes beyond the empirical. It truly is beautiful isn't it :)
Too beautiful perhaps. It tempts us to oversimplify. For every good there is not an equal and opposite bad - if there were, we might as well not bother doing good things.
This is a tough one. I actually agree with all of this in theory, and even by experience know the truth of "easy choices/hard life." My one asterisk is anxiety/depression, in the sense that experiencing equal pleasure for my pain sounds like a dream.
I think the pleasures that were stated in the video is much more concrete, for example the body builder finding pleasure when hes stronger and much more muscular. You can actually see and feel and have a concrete understanding of what you gain. The feeling of doing something and having it paid off is one of the things that makes life worth living i think sory for bad english.
There's something to hearing someone else say something you already know that so motivating for getting the things that matter done.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. These videos really exposed me to philosophy and gave me so many life changing ways of viewing the world. You're great.
I’ve been trying really fucking hard to change
I’m a new father @ 22
Things are hard and im no longer a kid but I was when he was born
I’ve wanted to die a lot
You’ve helped me a lot
I could cry but I don’t feel like it
I’m fighting it lmao
crying is good! its a big relief. let it happen :)
Every time you upload it’s a W.
You’re one of the few content creators I know that looks at philosophy that’s sometimes centuries old, and fully articulates how it’s relevant now. I really feel like I actually gain something from watching your videos. Thanks, maybe I’ll get around to reading the Nietzsche book collecting dust in my room.
I feel like my brother asked you to make this, and the video about love.
Thank you.
From the bottom of my heart..
I think one of the hardest things for the modern man to do was what you brushed on at the end and that’s helping society as a whole. With the implementation of social media and globalization people are feeling less and less important and like they can’t help a grander picture I believe
I agree. I have an extraordinary dream, but sometimes I feel like I’m an ordinary man. With social media you see all these prodigies and Ivy-League tier people who are smarter, less discriminated against, more attractive, and have more achievements than you at the same age. You feel like because you aren’t there now, you’ll never get there. It makes you want to give up, or for a select few, maybe it pushes them even harder to achieve their goals.
Your videos always make me introspective, but when you explained what was meant by the theme of the video, I didnt really have to think that hard. I knew this was something that ive made so many easy choices lately. This feels like a wakeup call. Thanks.
It all depends on your perspective in life. Life doesn’t need to be hard, but because of the system that we live in, it is.
Exactly
Life is always hard… and has always been, for anyone, anywhere. It’s just the nature of the world
it has never not been hard. at the time we live in today it is the easiest its ever been
@@gabevandevere7221 who says it needs to be?
@@alecrochon3531 Reality does.
Living creatures need food, water, and shelter. It's difficult to find/grow/clean by hand so we invent technology. Creating and inventing technology requires time and resources, that means sacrificing time and resources now for a better future. That means creating a system where people divide up labor in some way, which means compromises.
Those are all requirements for life. Different animals do it differently, no system will eliminate those needs without some sacrifices.
Disease, accidents, natural disasters, etc, there's no getting rid of those either.
And that's not even taking into account human psychology. When you remove all challenges from a person's life, you get miserable people with no aim in life. And if you don't believe that, play a game with all cheats turned on and you'll soon find yourself bored to your core.
And on the off chance someone actually reads all this, I have notifications off so I don't see replies unless I come across this video again :P.
Cheers.
i feel so guilty rn
is that guilt useful to you? and does it come from a place of introspection/true belief or is it what you were taught?
@@sunorcio3901 what do you mean by "or is it what were you taught"?
@@pj1016 were surrounded by ungodly amounts of archetypes of varied and conflicting backgrounds, so many that its difficult not to have your thoughts led by instructions you dont even believe in
@@sunorcio3901 thanks for the explanation.
I'm here in May 2023 just seeing this. I haven't been more profoundly impacted in all my conscious years on earth up until this day.
Thank you for this lovely piece.
Sometimes your videos so good that I can't understand in one go 😂
I can't tell you how much your channel and video essays mean to me. I've been watching for a while, during a period of my life with a lot of nihilism, hedonism, pain, and self-pity. I'm learning to come into myself better with each video, and I thank you for the dedication and artistry behind your channel.
Don't try to bully yourself out of self-pity. It's a good way to relapse.
As a famous man once said, "The industrial revolution and it's consequences have been a disaster for the human race."
I rarely ever comment on videos but today it felt only right to do so. I'm a 16 year old guy from germany just trying his best to form habits that lead to living a happy and healthy life. What has really helped me to organize my thoughts and ideas are your videos. They always either exactly put into words what I tend to think about alot and thus remove the burden of me having to do it, or throw new ideas at me that are worth getting lost in thought about. Either way, I am very grateful to have stumbled upon your channel and I do want to thank you for the great effort you put into your amazing work :) Don't stop anytime soon please
mindless distraction is my way, best way to avoid pain
I like the idea that instead of life being easier you will just be more well equipped to handle suffering and pain.
I remember in the 7th grade we were running the mile and nobody wanted to do it, and one of my friends told me "its easier to run hard and finish first. that way when the race is still going you have extra time to catch your breath. but if you start to walk as soon as you get tired, you won't want to start running again. you'll just be tired longer and get a worse time anyway" and this principle has followed me my whole life
Mind blowing but if this applied is to everyone there should not be hard working poor people who are just victims of cyclical poverty
My physics teacher used to remind us this quote before every exam. In polish. So I smiled wide when you said that you always imagine hearing it with polish accent.
I just finished a month of rehab for drug and alcohol addiction, I was supposed to go through 3 more months in a different program, I walked out on the opportunity because I was scared shitless.
My loved ones are all disappointed and upset. I've been trying to convince myself to go back and do the 3 months, this helped, thanks.
I did 6 months at an in house awhile back for my IV use. 508 days clean today. You can do it. Once you start it's easier to keep going than you'd expect.
> I was scared shitless.
Of what? Anything? Everything? No wrong answers here...
@@RatPfink66 it is scary to leave behind a comforting vice I suppose
With this I like to think that your life will be hard anyway. The difference is have the hard times now or later. Its gonna be filled with a certain amount of suffering, so the good news is you choose how you suffer and when. And not everybody will deal with it now. That's like nature and how some branches grow short, some grow long, and neither is really "superior" to the other. It just is what it is.
It sounds like a joke, but I always tell myself "There must be balance in the Force". This sounds remarkably similar to that
Again, I want to mention Huxley's Brave New World. Nietzsche Last Men is the main focus of Huxley's works.
I'll definitely cover Brave New World in a video someday. It was somewhat touched on in my guide to Huxley. Didn't know about it's link to the Last Men but makes sense!
Love to hear your reflections about life with so many different views, even when they challenge my views I can get so much reflecting about my beliefs and choices. Thank you.
I really loved this video, this has pushed me to giving it my all to get rid of an unhealthy part of me. It’s only a start to becoming a better person, but I believe I have the capability to be that person that I can enjoy my life in. Thank you
This kind of paradox sort of leads me to the conclusion that we have an innate incapacity to handle extreme experiences. That the opening of one's mind towards one type of experience will inevitably lead to opening ones mind to all experience and this doesn't seem too odd to me, but what does seem odd to me is our allergic reaction to life experiences.
I cant relate more to this post, there was something u mentioned about how limiting suffering also brings a limited experience of pleasure and that was definitely the case for me. I once in my life became fully capable of repressing any type of anxiety or emotion that brought me suffering, but that somehow made me empty. I spent a whole year trying to search for deep emotions but was incapable of it. I then somehow managed to let some of that passion reenter my life: I started to feel deeper again, and it was amazing because I was capable of feeling these intense emotions and even though it affected my sensitivity both for the good and the bad all i can say is that stability is boring. I like feeling these rollercoasters of emotions because I know that no matter how bad I feel at a given moment at some other moment the pain will cease and i will be experimenting the exact opposite. It's kind of beautiful, somewhat of a romantic view, but way more exciting
This is a beautiful description of something I've never been able to verbalize.
I've never seen a creater liking this many comments, it really shows how much you value your audience.
Also great video, I like the calm narrative, gives you the time to think about what you just heard.
Great Video as always, had a bad day at work and was gonna drown my sorrows in TV and junkfood, but now im gonna go work out and spend some time trying to practice my artwork, because this video reminded me that those temporary pleasures won't make my life any better
I like to go by my quote of
"Suffering now will always be less than suffering later and pleasure now will always be less than pleasure later"
I understand this that's why I discipline myself I want a easy life im thinking about future consequences on what I do
I feel so sad watching this. I live exactly as a passive nihilist is described. Even though it makes me sad, the thought of change is not enticing, rather it terrifies me and pushes me deeper into a state of seeking constant pleasure.
Needed this video. I have a job interview tomorrow for a job that I know will be difficult and strenuous at first but will pay off in the long run. I'm totally ignoring the little voice in my head that's saying it'll be "too difficult" and embracing the smaller voice that says "give it a try, you having nothing to lose".
The concept of duality of good and bad is similar to what the video is about. With the absence of either of the two things, there will be no meaning to it. The bad things in life which we endure gives meaning to the good things in life. The reason why we value good things in life is based on the bad things we had to endure.
"disregard for time"... that hits different
I just had to transfer to a different school due to my health problems, leaving behind my old school I had been at for basically my entire life. I always envisioned being at that school until I graduated, but now my future and future plans are murky. I hope to re-enroll next year when my health problems will probably be cured, but there's no guarantee.
I'm so happy this video showed up in my recommended, because it's making me realize that this choice will probably be more beneficial to my physical and mental state, even though the choice was a difficult one. thank you :)
Gratitude, antidote of dissatisfaction
This video has given me more to think about than all like 400 motivational videos my health teacher used to play before class. Excellent job.
But its hard to choose suffering. Even though i want to. My mind will still go with any pleasure it finds.
you must understand that the primal part of you goes for pleasure. separate the two and it becomes easy. just like meditation, where you tell the animal part of the brain to focus on your breath, you must focus on consciously choosing to rebel against the animal part
Never change your style (voice,art and humour and more) my man,it makes u stand out
bro you are the best youtuber to ever exist
*Caution:* "Don't close your eyes or you may slip in fantastical-alternative-dimensions while listening to his voice ❤️."
"For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself" - Viktor Frankl... TOO DEEP....
I've found, as many others before me have, that chasing happiness is a hopeless endeavor. True, genuine happiness falls on me unexpectedly in brief passing moments. I let go of the future and the past for only a few minutes, and for a time, I feel as if I could ask for nothing more from the universe... and then it passes, and I move on with my day, content with the fact that I was truly, honestly happy in the moment, and nothing more. Then I continue seeking out satisfying endeavors until the next moment of joy swells in my heart again.
I was watching this video while lying on the bed since I could not get up from bed and was feeling hopeless but after watching it I did woke from my bed and I'll try to pass through these days :)
Got me to study instead watching Netflix. Thanks
I hate when RUclips doesn't recommends channels like this one sooner. Grr I'm subbing right now
the animations r so simple yet so cuteeee 🥺
your videos have been a comfort to me through some difficult sufferings, thank you, videos like this make me feel not so alone in the difficulties of life
your videos are insanely relevant, pitch perfect timing on all of them!
You have no idea how much this video came at the right time for me
This is my entire mindset layed out in video format.
I didn't even watch the video at first, in the beginning, but all day i have been saying the quote like a Mantra
Loving the subtle changes/improvements in the style
i went down the easy choices hard life route for a long time before i became conscious of the repercussions. it's weird to think that the discomfort i've always ran away from has saved me.
what are the repercussions you've experienced?
I needed to hear this so bad. Specifically at this moment. Love u Sisyphus
If you always take the hard decisions in hopes of an easy life in the future, your life will always stay
hard
Thank you! A couple of days ago your video just popped up in my recommend section. I love RUclips algorthms now
amazing content as always!!
You're on top of my favorite philosophical/ reflective youtube channel. Big thanks for such wise words and huge inspiration!
The quote doesn't work because harder choices = better life, it works because people often don't make the harder choices when(!) it is beneficial for long-term meaning/happiness (and do make the easy choices even when it is undesirable in the long-term).
Powerful, you described a huge idea in a very simple yet effective way -proud subscriber ✌🏻.
that last quote by Dr. Viktor Frankl just speaks so much to me.
amazing video.
If you want an easy life do the hard things. Been living this motto for a year and things have been smooth sailing. Do the things you need to do daily whether you feel like it or not and you will reap compounding benefits.
You can experience acts that are pleasureful it doesn’t necessarily need to be subdued in order to counterbalance pain. From eastern philosophy what you do is not invest too much ego and emotion into either. If you go on vacation to the beach good. But don’t let it elevate your emotion and invest too much into it. Similarly if something doesn’t go your way in life whether you didn’t get a promotion, also don’t let your emotion get too vested in that. Being able to discipline and decouple your emotional and ego state from the action is what brings the balance between pleasure and pain.
I wish i had learned this earlier...there's really a gap between what you don't know and what you don't know you don't know
This was just recommended to me, I recently moved out on my own(moved across country just a few weeks after graduating high school), nd the real world is kinda shit, I work every day and try to go to college but it feels so dreadful, your video really hit hard in my opinion. Thank you for creating it.
This feels like something people who are suffering would say as a cope. When life is hard it's alluring to think all that pain will eventually benefit you somehow, because the idea of a fair universe is so appealing that we really want to believe it. The trurh is your suffering may not lead to eventual peace or happiness and someone else's "easy life" might never catch up to them. The world is much more random than that and while yes, sometimes hard choices do pay off and easy choices do cause regret, it's just as often that the universe smiles on those least deserving and smites those who have struggled so much. People often refer to this as luck or circumstances or any number of different names but in the end it's all the same, and as much as we'd like to believe we have control over our lives, the world and its unforseen outcomes often tell us otherwise
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I really get nietschze (i probably misspelled that) stance on the last men.
I really lost myself for quite a few years in a nihilistic mindless pleasure seeking attitude and ended up crashing and burning because of it.
I still have a hard time accepting the wasted years but I now try to live for the greater good, to prevent ending up in such a bad place again and to prevent hurting the people around me with my loss of control.
Despite not being religious I tend to pray or fixate myself on the unknown force that resides in all of us and ever since, live seems to get easier. I work harder on myself than ever but I also enjoy life more than ever and I feel I can touch people in a meaningfull way. I have watched my own community blossom due to prioritizing self development and from there on out taking initiatives to connect, sharing philosophy and upholding a high degree of honesty with myself and others. Thats really all it takes sometimes
I am curious to see if bad times created by living like individualistic zombies will bring forth a wave of inspiration or a complete degeneracy of communities. Probably both.
My philosophy is that happyness is not the lack of problems, but the solving of problems.
I now have a habit of only taking cold showers (as cold as possible) for washing myself. And now i am realy thankfull when i take a hot one. The abscence of it thus (now i realize it) has made me more thankfull for it. Great video, great lesson!
I've thought about these ideas before. Especially about the concept of how suffering is inevitable, but I didn't know that Nietzsche also came to those conclusions. Nice video