"Perfectionism is dangerous because if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. You sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is" I felt this on such a deep spiritual level.
In my opinion, perfectionism is almost always linked with the fear of failure. So once you accept that the first draft will always be imperfect and give yourself the permission to fail, your art starts to grow.
One of my regrets in life was not taking a writing course from David Foster Wallace while I was a student at Illinois State in the late '90s. But at the time, I was unaware of how great a talent he was.
@@justmeeagainn Jesus Christ dude that is pretentious af For starters you dont know anything about him, so you have no academic or intellectual basis to judge him on and furthermore I sincerely doubt that he picked his students, for most students the fact that you'd have to write at a very high grammatical and linguistical level to get good (or even just average) grades was probably enough of a turn-off.
I like to think this world would be a better place if he was still alive. Then again he’s contributed beauty though words that’s unmeasurable. You are missed Mr. Wallace, but not forgotten.
I like to think this world would be a better place if he was still alive. Then again he’s contributed beauty though words that’s unmeasurable. You are missed Mr. Wallace, but not forgotten.
This seems to be eternally in my sidebar as I come back to it consistently over the years. His thoughts on perfectionism are so vivid it chokes me up. If only Id heard this sooner instead of learning the hard way.
I randomly clicked on this video (not knowing who this guy was) and was happily surprised to find that he was a former English professor at my college.
I discovered this guy watching a Charlie Rose interview on youtube a couple of months ago. Instantly bought Broom of the System. It's great! he's great!
Shakespeare, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and David Foster Wallace. Easily one of the ten best writers to ever live. It seems like folks in this thread don't know who DFW was?
I love DFW. I miss him so much. I got so emotional watching this that I had to pause it a few times. I have such difficulty these days reading Infinite Jest and his collections of essays because I can't remove the image of his death from my mind. Goddamnit, David.
Me72 David's my favourite writer. Simply put I really like his work. I'd feel just as sad if Cormac McCarthy died or if Lemmy died or if Paul McCartney died, etc. In a way I'm pleased I didn't know David because if I did the pain of his death would have been even worse.
Yes. It's funny how millennials and younger generations seem to think they've invented the wheel. Most of the memes and shit you are spreading around, aren't all that new and creative. There is truly little new under the sun.
+Probus Excogitatoris Funny how you take a simple comment and just really put your own narrative and intention behind it. Guessing you have some built up aggression against millennials.
I have to say that I don't watch TV or sports. I therefore have the time to search for and discover amazing videos like these. The animation blended with the inspiring interviews gives a very cool sense of amazement even. Keep up the good work!!!
I think I speak for everyone when I say...we'd all like to see more David Foster Wallace on this channel. Even though I'm sure radio footage is limited and such.
The idea that the student is the “genius” and the teacher can only teach you what is “retrograde or outdated” is increasingly common in students today, at least in college. The majority of professors/teachers don’t think they are geniuses. They know exactly what that looks like and quickly realize that they are not while in grad school and/or in their years of teaching. What they are, though, is vastly more experienced, more nuanced, and more well-rounded than their students. That has become more and more difficult to get students to understand over the past 10 years.
@@DPhoenixPoet good for the insight but he left a mark and did what he could to his best ability. He could have been greater but he had faults that he couldn’t overcome
I think the important thing to remember about that quote you post in the description, is that he spent years struggling with that. Struggling with perfection is far better than disregarding it.
Been reading him for a bit. First time I’ve ever heard him. I’m in the middle of Consider The Lobster and I know when I get back to the book I’ll hear the words in his voice now.
@@katelinmarie5360 "I called him once. He was very generous with his phone number. He said “Call me if you got any questions,” and I called him a couple times … I ran a few ideas by him about this paper that I was writing. I was writing a paper on Don DeLillo’s White Noise … I’d come up with a couple crazy ideas, and I don’t remember the conversation well, but I just remember him being real generous at like, you know, midnight the night before it was due … I’d love to go back and read [White Noise] again." - PTA on DFW
Just came here to say that Jason Bitner did an awesome job on the music! I know it's just the background vibes, but damn! I love the music in this one. Video is great and of course the interview content is cool but the music really captured my attention on this one and I don't normally notice the tunes in these short "blank on blank" videos.
I find 3 things funny in this interview: 1. The interviewer bringing the drug factor out the blue in the middle of a totally different topic. 2, The fact that FW considered annoying and frustrating reading people who write only to show off that they're clever, and you see a lot of arrogant comments in this video, by probable FW followers, who seem to be doing precisely that. And 3, the fact that Foster Wallace, of all people, Foster Wallace is saying that it is annoying to read such people. The irony there!
I was thinking the exact same thing! DFW loves words and has and incredible vocabulary, but come on, he was trying to be clever and impressive with that exhaustive vocabulary! Give me a break.
No, that's not what david foster wallace meant by 'clever'. Verbose and 'clever' are two separate things. By clever, it would be appropriate to say he meant writing which plays around with ideas but doesn't really have anything to _say_ .
"3, the fact that Foster Wallace, of all people, Foster Wallace is saying that it is annoying to read such people. The irony there!" Thank you, I was hoping someone else had the same thought.
The dead stop when the interviewer dropped the "D" word. Wallace maintained his entire life that he never had a drug problem. He drank, sometimes to excess, but never drugs. Just because Infinite Jest is wrapped around the drug culture doesn't me it's his life he used as a model. I saw the same pause in the German TV interview when the cameraman accused him of "pontificating." It's the pause of disappointed offense.
i was going to comment something along the lines of “only a tennis player could write infinite jest” but then i realized more accurately that only david foster wallace could write infinite jest
"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high you'd never do anything." "...any student's deployment of a semi-colon isn't absolutely mozartesque knows they will only get a C in my class" I would've hated him as a teacher.
Exactly. Gatekeeping like that when most of his students would probably wish to earn a post-graduate degree is pretty obnoxious. Teaching is about having others learn, and less about punishment, or at least it should be. Respecting others growth process and where they are in the tree of knowledge is of great importance to students who care.
David Foster Wallace was brilliant and tortured, so when he killed himself it appeared, as it so often does with tortured brilliant people, that the two always sat together until the last day, when torture wrested control and forced the issue. So in the final analysis, people take the brilliance end of the shoelace and the tortured end of the shoelace and tie a nice bow. I have the torture, but not the brilliance.
Nobody, in my humble opinion, who can come to the conclusion that they lack brilliance is actually incapable of it. Maybe you're more brilliant a critic than a writer, I don't know, but if you can recognise brilliance in others, you can cultivate it in yourself. And I though the beautiful, beautiful metaphor of a shoe lace you came up with, was, what's the word for it, brilliant!
He had flaws such as being a quasi-sexist but he really was a beautiful soul. Who doesn't have flaws really? His work is summed up simply as "what it means to be fucking human." Infinite Jest blew my mind and it still does. Rest in peace you beautiful man.
There’s also such a sharp moment when the interviewer goes “There’s also the drug thing” and DFW just sort of resigns himself to a “yeah”. He always hated how people thought of him as a “Drug” or “Psychedelic” writer when his prose always cut deeper than that
@alexanderthegreat1270 I think that's a bit diminishing towards psychedelic writers. Wallace was truly terrified of his drug history being used a celebrity marketing thing. The cultural need to elevate an artists suffering above others kind of grossed him out in his own words- understandbly so.
''The Friar, if we are to believe Bizzarri, complained to Ludovico of Leonardo's apparent sloth, and wondered why he would sometimes sit before the wall for hours without painting a stroke. Leonardo had no trouble explaining to the Duke, who had some trouble explaining to the friar, that an artist's most important work, lies in conception, rather than execution, and as Bizzarri put it, men of genius do most when they work least.'' - Will Durant, excerpt on the biography of Leonardo da Vinci, as he painted the Last Supper.
A private education that is personalized is not the same as one in a public environment that asks for your mental prowess versus your ability to give and take information presented to you. What happens is students develop the ability to intimidate the wrong way.
This video isn't about ambition at all. It's about perfectionism, tennis and the difference in being a teacher vs being a student. Nowhere in here does he ever talk about ambition. Here's my opinion on ambition. The lack of ambition is what leads to depression. If you aren't passionate about things and you aren't trying to improve yourself then of course you are going to be depressed. This is a good thing. This is why humans are so innovative because nothing is ever good enough. It could always be better. And thus we have advanced to the point were we have the ability to leave the earth. Think about that. We live in a closed system that nothing is supposed to be able to escape from and yet we figured out how to get out. That to me is the most impressive thing humans have ever accomplished and the ultimate example of ambition.
I agree. I've been given the awkward task of searching for The Worker in Me, by Tracey Maguire. Apparently there's plenty of stuff out there and she's left a trail, but it's plenty awkward just trying to find it. This book is high quality, and it's circulating. Would you press a button or two to find her?
Personally, I never felt frustrated by works that try to show me how clever the writer is. Quite the opposite, in fact. I think I enjoy reading clever things, even ones that beat me over the head with cleverness, and I'm having trouble articulating why. Anyone else want to chime in on why they either like or dislike works like this?
@@clayerkwiltee2315 idk it's just one of those cute little details in an animation that make it what it is, like i could see him having done this in a real life interview
I would've loved to be one of those 4 students in his class. I probably wouldn't have gotten the best grade since i don't have the all that great of grammar, but it still would've been fun.
I am an Editor and i think the music works for me in general but the editing in this doesn't. The music should have faded out at 0:44-0:45 but it drags along till 1:25 almost unnecessarily as it won't be risen again, since there's no need. NPR-ish or not, i like the general feel of the composition, though i must add i'm not an American.
"Perfectionism is dangerous because if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. You sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is"
I felt this on such a deep spiritual level.
Lol he put it in such a perfect way.
Same problem the schizoid a’la Guntrip has. Read The Schizoid Phenomenon and Object Relations
why the need to do /create something (if it doesnt come close to how you want it to be)?
Sooooo true
In my opinion, perfectionism is almost always linked with the fear of failure. So once you accept that the first draft will always be imperfect and give yourself the permission to fail, your art starts to grow.
One of my regrets in life was not taking a writing course from David Foster Wallace while I was a student at Illinois State in the late '90s. But at the time, I was unaware of how great a talent he was.
That would have been something else.
jrm78 what makes you think he would have accepted you into his class?
Oh my god, sorry you missed out on that man.
Shaka, when the walls fell
@@justmeeagainn Jesus Christ dude that is pretentious af
For starters you dont know anything about him, so you have no academic or intellectual basis to judge him on and furthermore I sincerely doubt that he picked his students, for most students the fact that you'd have to write at a very high grammatical and linguistical level to get good (or even just average) grades was probably enough of a turn-off.
God I love the sound of this man's voice. It soothes me like a lullaby.
He’s also very persuasive
Me too. I recently listened to his “This is Water” speech and a recording of “Consider the Lobster” and it is incredible
You should go to an upper class private college, you’ll get the best sleep of your life.
Same . I love his voice
Fun fact: Paul Thomas Anderson, filmmaker behind There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights and Magnolia was taught briefly by DFW.
That explains PTA's writing. He's one of my favorite filmmakers.
somehow I always imagined that. Even the way PTA speaks in interviews always reminded me of David Foster Wallace
fan of PTA and DFW here. this connection was quite astonishing!
There Will Be Blood inspired me to really take writing seriously wow!
"But there's also the drugs? "
"... Dh-..... Ye....."
Killed me lmao
😂 me too
This guy makes me think that sincerity is the only thing you need to produce something good
it is not true i think
It depends on what you are trying to produce...
I never imagined his voice is so soft and gentle!!! I could listen to him all day!!!
come back to this every couple months.. just remarkably therapeutic
I like to think this world would be a better place if he was still alive. Then again he’s contributed beauty though words that’s unmeasurable. You are missed Mr. Wallace, but not forgotten.
Rest in peace you brilliant man.
@Steve Olson what? Why would you ever do that?
I like to think this world would be a better place if he was still alive. Then again he’s contributed beauty though words that’s unmeasurable. You are missed Mr. Wallace, but not forgotten.
Jason segel potrayed him so well in " End of the tour " got the voice right and everything damn
The way you take interviews and segments from conversations of diverse creative people and put them to drawings is inspiring.
Whenever someone tells me they're going on a cruise, I suggest they read "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again."
Lol. I read it while on a cruise. Definitely exposed/ruined the hedonistic factor and I’ll probably not cruise again.
@@brendaandrus I also liked the essay in Consider the Lobster about why Tracy Austin's memoirs were insipid.
This seems to be eternally in my sidebar as I come back to it consistently over the years. His thoughts on perfectionism are so vivid it chokes me up. If only Id heard this sooner instead of learning the hard way.
I hear you
One of my favorite authors! He left us too early.
Sold on this channel in seconds. Such fantastic interview candidates on here.
awesome Channel 👍
He sounds so smooth and sure and articulate and engaged. The presentation here and graphics are very fine.
I randomly clicked on this video (not knowing who this guy was) and was happily surprised to find that he was a former English professor at my college.
He was very intellectual, I hope you had a class with him, if not, oh well. Although I do suggest you read some of his works.
I discovered this guy watching a Charlie Rose interview on youtube a couple of months ago. Instantly bought Broom of the System. It's great! he's great!
he's not just a professor. He was a philosopher, famous writer, and all around amazing guy.
Shakespeare, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and David Foster Wallace. Easily one of the ten best writers to ever live. It seems like folks in this thread don't know who DFW was?
love DFW as much as the next guy...but woah there partner
About half way through Infinite Jest. Sad we couldn't have more of you DFW
I love DFW. I miss him so much. I got so emotional watching this that I had to pause it a few times. I have such difficulty these days reading Infinite Jest and his collections of essays because I can't remove the image of his death from my mind. Goddamnit, David.
Me72 David's my favourite writer. Simply put I really like his work. I'd feel just as sad if Cormac McCarthy died or if Lemmy died or if Paul McCartney died, etc. In a way I'm pleased I didn't know David because if I did the pain of his death would have been even worse.
+HarryIsTheGamingGeek lemmy died
matoranman I know. I was depressed for a whole week. You?
it didnt hit me very hard to be honest. hang in there bud
matoranman I'm all right now. I've had long enough to grieve. I did go on one helluva Motorhead binge though.
David Bowie?
How could someone this intellectual and inspiring end his life?.. his words inspire me a lot..:(
Depression is real
This video helps me when I'm having trouble with essays or feeling cruddy, it's great motivation :)
he used the phrase "grammar nazi" in 1996
Yes. It's funny how millennials and younger generations seem to think they've invented the wheel. Most of the memes and shit you are spreading around, aren't all that new and creative. There is truly little new under the sun.
+Probus Excogitatoris Funny how you take a simple comment and just really put your own narrative and intention behind it. Guessing you have some built up aggression against millennials.
Probus Excogitatoris ever thought it's kind of funny and cool that these terms were even being used 20 years ago?
Pause Films Nope, just pointing out facts... but it seems like I unintentionally touched a sore spot :)
"younger generations seem to think they've invented the wheel"
what?
I have to say that I don't watch TV or sports. I therefore have the time to search for and discover amazing videos like these. The animation blended with the inspiring interviews gives a very cool sense of amazement even. Keep up the good work!!!
I watch sports and have also read infinite jest. Turns out you can be interested in multiple things :)
Watching RUclips all day doesn't make you better than anyone else.
RUclips is tv
Damn, I’m seriously in love with this man
Dude. The kick drum in the first bit of music sounds fucking amazing.
I think I speak for everyone when I say...we'd all like to see more David Foster Wallace on this channel. Even though I'm sure radio footage is limited and such.
MORE FAMOUS WRITERS PLEASE!!!!!! This video was so good!!!!!
I have/had (not sure yet) the same problem, I saw it written somewhere and it encapsulated it so perfectly.
Paralysis through analysis.
it was probably in ij
it should be written in words of fire: FINISHED IS BETTER THAN PERFECT
The idea that the student is the “genius” and the teacher can only teach you what is “retrograde or outdated” is increasingly common in students today, at least in college. The majority of professors/teachers don’t think they are geniuses. They know exactly what that looks like and quickly realize that they are not while in grad school and/or in their years of teaching. What they are, though, is vastly more experienced, more nuanced, and more well-rounded than their students. That has become more and more difficult to get students to understand over the past 10 years.
very little on ambition here.
You don't hear it?
+Ken McCarthy if your ambition is to get high and watch tv...
+Blank on Blank suuuuper pretentious reply there friendo
it's that late allready?
I'd agree. More about acknowledging one's limitations (at least that is what I took from the video).
He seems like a person that learned a lot and is set towards certain goals and wpuld be an excellent guru of sorts to learn upon
@@DPhoenixPoet good for the insight but he left a mark and did what he could to his best ability. He could have been greater but he had faults that he couldn’t overcome
I think the important thing to remember about that quote you post in the description, is that he spent years struggling with that. Struggling with perfection is far better than disregarding it.
Been reading him for a bit. First time I’ve ever heard him. I’m in the middle of Consider The Lobster and I know when I get back to the book I’ll hear the words in his voice now.
I wonder what he thought of Paul Thomas Anderson as a student in his class.
What, really?
@@katelinmarie5360 "I called him once. He was very generous with his phone number. He said “Call me if you got any questions,” and I called him a couple times … I ran a few ideas by him about this paper that I was writing. I was writing a paper on Don DeLillo’s White Noise … I’d come up with a couple crazy ideas, and I don’t remember the conversation well, but I just remember him being real generous at like, you know, midnight the night before it was due … I’d love to go back and read [White Noise] again." - PTA on DFW
Just read about that, sounds like PTA really had a great awakening in DFW's english class.
Or Bill Burr, he was also a student in his class.
@@boxking2832 WHAT
Just came here to say that Jason Bitner did an awesome job on the music! I know it's just the background vibes, but damn! I love the music in this one. Video is great and of course the interview content is cool but the music really captured my attention on this one and I don't normally notice the tunes in these short "blank on blank" videos.
I adore this! It's just fantastic.
Keep up the awesome work guys!
If David Foster Wallace walked into a bar he would be adorned but if he represented the feeling he would be scrutinized until he explained it.
I find 3 things funny in this interview: 1. The interviewer bringing the drug factor out the blue in the middle of a totally different topic. 2, The fact that FW considered annoying and frustrating reading people who write only to show off that they're clever, and you see a lot of arrogant comments in this video, by probable FW followers, who seem to be doing precisely that. And 3, the fact that Foster Wallace, of all people, Foster Wallace is saying that it is annoying to read such people. The irony there!
I was thinking the exact same thing! DFW loves words and has and incredible vocabulary, but come on, he was trying to be clever and impressive with that exhaustive vocabulary! Give me a break.
No, that's not what david foster wallace meant by 'clever'. Verbose and 'clever' are two separate things. By clever, it would be appropriate to say he meant writing which plays around with ideas but doesn't really have anything to _say_ .
"3, the fact that Foster Wallace, of all people, Foster Wallace is saying that it is annoying to read such people. The irony there!" Thank you, I was hoping someone else had the same thought.
Is your name Pot? Stop yelling at the Kettle for being hot.
Yeah I think he's great but he was clearly just projecting an insecurity he had about his own intentions for writing.
This song at the end is a frickin' JAM!
This is one of the most important figures out there, especially because of his foresight on post modernism
How can he can foresight something that comes from the 50, 60s
I don't know why but this reminds me of a Dr.Katz episode, the pacing feels alot lIke it and the music too. Fits well. RIP to this great mind.
Dr Katz is tight.
I'm always humbled and humiliated reading Wallace. I cannot begin to imagine how chaotic it was inside his towering intellect. May he rest in peace.
‘Ambition is like your bank account , you always think there’s more in it than there actually is ‘ - Dylan Moran
The dead stop when the interviewer dropped the "D" word. Wallace maintained his entire life that he never had a drug problem. He drank, sometimes to excess, but never drugs. Just because Infinite Jest is wrapped around the drug culture doesn't me it's his life he used as a model. I saw the same pause in the German TV interview when the cameraman accused him of "pontificating." It's the pause of disappointed offense.
He definitely sounds like a stoner.
Wallace was on prescription medications, for depression; some shortcoming of, negligence or mismanagement of may have attributed to his suicide.
Alcohol is a drug
He used a variety of drugs and openly admitted to it.
the phrasing in these comments is way above par for youtube and very flattering if viewed, as it should be, as a reflection on DFW@@JP51ism
Holy fack . This is not only really intriguing to listen on an "intellectual" base but also in the way his voice sounds so damn smooth.
i was going to comment something along the lines of “only a tennis player could write infinite jest” but then i realized more accurately that only david foster wallace could write infinite jest
Profound. Everything he gives his insight on is so profound to me.
He is still the best!
The first 30 seconds of this video really resonate with me and have driven to me change that sort of aspect
Gosh... I had no idea he had such a soft voice... Wish he was still around...
I had to rewind the first 20 seconds like five times.
Djobo Kuwali Facts, lol. And dope profile pic, Basquiat the man ✊🏾
BRING THESE BACK!!!!
I like how he disagreed to the questions mostly until he said yes to the drug question.
so glad I have smart enough friends to put me on to a channel like this.
Rest in peace David wish I could have met you.
The animation is awesome, so stylish and nice.
"If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high you'd never do anything."
"...any student's deployment of a semi-colon isn't absolutely mozartesque knows they will only get a C in my class"
I would've hated him as a teacher.
Exactly. Gatekeeping like that when most of his students would probably wish to earn a post-graduate degree is pretty obnoxious. Teaching is about having others learn, and less about punishment, or at least it should be. Respecting others growth process and where they are in the tree of knowledge is of great importance to students who care.
@@danielmucyn was definitely a joke
@@JH-fb3mp it really seemed like he was serious.
-Start video
-Disable subtitles
-Listen to David Foster Wallace talk
-Activate subtitles again
This channel is like ice cream
Thank you. My heart is now filled with joy. Yay.
The brilliant minds are always the most tortured. RIP to one of the best.
I would have risked an imperfectly placed semi colon, (and the subsequent "C" grade) for the chance to have taken his class. RIP David!!
Is it just me or did DFW always sound like he had just been coming off of a cold in every one if his interviews.
Tea & Book talks learn to suspend your judgement
Tea & Book talks I think the deduction here might be that's just how he sounded
Tea & Book talks drugs
@@princessjellyfish6057 Drugs make you soft spoken?
He has the voice of someone who has just been crying.
For sure a legend
David Foster Wallace was brilliant and tortured, so when he killed himself it appeared, as it so often does with tortured brilliant people, that the two always sat together until the last day, when torture wrested control and forced the issue. So in the final analysis, people take the brilliance end of the shoelace and the tortured end of the shoelace and tie a nice bow.
I have the torture, but not the brilliance.
Nobody, in my humble opinion, who can come to the conclusion that they lack brilliance is actually incapable of it. Maybe you're more brilliant a critic than a writer, I don't know, but if you can recognise brilliance in others, you can cultivate it in yourself.
And I though the beautiful, beautiful metaphor of a shoe lace you came up with, was, what's the word for it, brilliant!
That is brilliantly stated
god i wish he was still alive to comment on everything today. he predicted so much with infinite jest, it's uncanny reading it this decade.
The poster to 'The End of the Tour' seems very inspired by this video.
ha truth
Such a fantastic movie
Agreed. I love the graphics! Wonderful animation.
Cool. You guys should do one of these on Kubrick.
DFW is amazing. Really sad to see him go.
PBS has some of the best programming.
New favourite channel
his voice is so soothing
Love this! One of my favorite writers and ANIMATION (which is my life!)
He had flaws such as being a quasi-sexist but he really was a beautiful soul. Who doesn't have flaws really? His work is summed up simply as "what it means to be fucking human." Infinite Jest blew my mind and it still does. Rest in peace you beautiful man.
There’s also such a sharp moment when the interviewer goes “There’s also the drug thing” and DFW just sort of resigns himself to a “yeah”. He always hated how people thought of him as a “Drug” or “Psychedelic” writer when his prose always cut deeper than that
Quasi sexist should be taken lightly as accusations in today’s environment of toxic feminism which is seen in many modern films with a female lead.
@@Gettothegone lol
@alexanderthegreat1270 I think that's a bit diminishing towards psychedelic writers. Wallace was truly terrified of his drug history being used a celebrity marketing thing. The cultural need to elevate an artists suffering above others kind of grossed him out in his own words- understandbly so.
is the quasi sexist a new word you learned in your backward school or something 🤦
Absolutely wonderful.
Really fantastic, thanks for sharing.
''The Friar, if we are to believe Bizzarri, complained to Ludovico of Leonardo's apparent sloth, and wondered why he would sometimes sit before the wall for hours without painting a stroke. Leonardo had no trouble explaining to the Duke, who had some trouble explaining to the friar, that an artist's most important work, lies in conception, rather than execution, and as Bizzarri put it, men of genius do most when they work least.'' - Will Durant, excerpt on the biography of Leonardo da Vinci, as he painted the Last Supper.
This is really cool. I hope you do more like this.
Does anyone have a full version of this song at the end?
In Scotland his classes were full. Recognition of his level to integrate in social science.
Beautiful vanity - fun take; thanks!
A private education that is personalized is not the same as one in a public environment that asks for your mental prowess versus your ability to give and take information presented to you. What happens is students develop the ability to intimidate the wrong way.
I like this animation - great job :)
This video isn't about ambition at all. It's about perfectionism, tennis and the difference in being a teacher vs being a student. Nowhere in here does he ever talk about ambition.
Here's my opinion on ambition. The lack of ambition is what leads to depression. If you aren't passionate about things and you aren't trying to improve yourself then of course you are going to be depressed. This is a good thing. This is why humans are so innovative because nothing is ever good enough. It could always be better. And thus we have advanced to the point were we have the ability to leave the earth. Think about that. We live in a closed system that nothing is supposed to be able to escape from and yet we figured out how to get out. That to me is the most impressive thing humans have ever accomplished and the ultimate example of ambition.
I agree. I've been given the awkward task of searching for The Worker in Me, by Tracey Maguire. Apparently there's plenty of stuff out there and she's left a trail, but it's plenty awkward just trying to find it. This book is high quality, and it's circulating. Would you press a button or two to find her?
Just found this channel - Great content! I love PBS Digital Studios :D
Love this channel
beautiful job! great animation for the greatest mind of the 20th century!
This made my week. David rocks and you guys rock too. ^-^
can anybody identify the music in this or is it just stock music or something like that?
I'd like to know, too!
I was stunned just by the opening
Personally, I never felt frustrated by works that try to show me how clever the writer is. Quite the opposite, in fact. I think I enjoy reading clever things, even ones that beat me over the head with cleverness, and I'm having trouble articulating why. Anyone else want to chime in on why they either like or dislike works like this?
I love the moment at 1:56 where he adjusts the microphone haha. I giggled
Why?
@@clayerkwiltee2315 idk it's just one of those cute little details in an animation that make it what it is, like i could see him having done this in a real life interview
I would've loved to be one of those 4 students in his class. I probably wouldn't have gotten the best grade since i don't have the all that great of grammar, but it still would've been fun.
This music couldn't be more NPR-ish even if it tried. DFW is great though...or, well, he was anyway.
send along your alt score :)
+Blank on Blank whats the name of the music ?
Blank on Blank Where to?
In 2013 that would still have been a compliment.
I am an Editor and i think the music works for me in general but the editing in this doesn't. The music should have faded out at 0:44-0:45 but it drags along till 1:25 almost unnecessarily as it won't be risen again, since there's no need. NPR-ish or not, i like the general feel of the composition, though i must add i'm not an American.
This makes so much sense.
How do I find a reason to live when David who is such a better man then me?
That sentence is not complete.
@@davidcopson5800 thats true,does any of it compute?
He could’ve been a great Pickelball player.