I like this idea of free time as not a real thing and not worth thinking about. I feel this way about retirement. "You should always be learning and creating" But I'm not sure how I feel about that statement. I don't know about "should" and "always". I like walking at sunset and I try to focus on the sensations in my feet and legs. I don't know if that is learning. I suppose you could say I'm learning how to be more grounded and relaxed. I think learning is important, but forgetting is just as important. I think we forget that it is OK to forget things. Old events, old habits, ways we used to think and act, even people and ideas we used to hold dear. I like to spend time letting go of my hold on everything that I think is me but isn't really me. Maybe another way to phrase that could be learning who I actually am. I don't know. Good video. Thank you.
What a great comment. Totally agree on forgetting old habits, etc. I'm a medieval literature teacher so I'm speaking the language of medieval philosophy. Boethius says that goodness exists and evil is merely the absence of good - in the way that darkness is the absence of light and cold is the absence of heat. It doesn't exist in itself - it's a non-thing. That's why I don't speak of forgetting an old habit as a thing but would call it learning a new one. Even a bad habit I might not even say exists but rather it was the nonexistence of a good habit. So, all that to say I think we agree, just different phrasing. Keep making more videos!
@@obviousquest Thank you for the encouragement! I just started about a month ago and I've been cooking up a video for like the last ten days. My goal is just to make a video that I like and I think I'm almost there. And I keep feeling this urge to upload and get some external feedback, but honestly the longer I sit on it the better it gets. Every time I come back to it I smooth out parts and make it a little funnier, a little snappier, more engaging. And the internal feedback of making something I would enjoy watching is rewarding enough. This video that you made here is one of my favorite that I've seen in a while. It felt a little eerie how you said to just ask for an apology. Because I had just asked my buddy for an apology, which I've never done in my entire life, and he immediately apologized and I felt way better. Crazy how that works when you transparently say what you are feeling and ask for what you want and then you get it. Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I've never herd of this Boethius fella, but he sounds like he was on to something. You got me looking at The Consolation of Philosophy. Thank you. Keep going.
@@LexJoeHome I'm learning about that too! Do you have any tips on how to not let sitting on it become perfectionism and stagnation? That's a topic I need to make a video about. I'm doing a November Filmmaking Challenge for myself and working every day on something related to my short film. I'm hoping that just working on it consistently without an upload schedule will help find the balance between the need to keep on finishing stuff and also the need to not rush things. Yeah, that apology thing was brand new for me this month (actually last month - I was 3 weeks late uploading this video because I was messing with the color - turned out I just had bad white balance in the shoot and it couldn't be fixed). But it's been working so far! Yeah, enjoy Consolation of Philosophy. It's a forgotten classic; I hear that before the 18th century everyone who had an education knew it and loved it.
@@obviousquest That is such a tough question. Trying to keep your momentum without being over-eager and impulsive. I've always wondered how a lot of the creative people I admire can spend months and years working on a single project. I'm just now learning how to work on something for more than a day or two. I'll let you know when I find the perfect balance between making the best thing I can make and getting stuck in perfectionism.
Every sentence in this video was so meaningful
I like this idea of free time as not a real thing and not worth thinking about. I feel this way about retirement.
"You should always be learning and creating" But I'm not sure how I feel about that statement. I don't know about "should" and "always".
I like walking at sunset and I try to focus on the sensations in my feet and legs. I don't know if that is learning. I suppose you could say I'm learning how to be more grounded and relaxed.
I think learning is important, but forgetting is just as important. I think we forget that it is OK to forget things. Old events, old habits, ways we used to think and act, even people and ideas we used to hold dear. I like to spend time letting go of my hold on everything that I think is me but isn't really me.
Maybe another way to phrase that could be learning who I actually am. I don't know.
Good video. Thank you.
What a great comment. Totally agree on forgetting old habits, etc. I'm a medieval literature teacher so I'm speaking the language of medieval philosophy. Boethius says that goodness exists and evil is merely the absence of good - in the way that darkness is the absence of light and cold is the absence of heat. It doesn't exist in itself - it's a non-thing. That's why I don't speak of forgetting an old habit as a thing but would call it learning a new one. Even a bad habit I might not even say exists but rather it was the nonexistence of a good habit. So, all that to say I think we agree, just different phrasing. Keep making more videos!
@@obviousquest Thank you for the encouragement! I just started about a month ago and I've been cooking up a video for like the last ten days. My goal is just to make a video that I like and I think I'm almost there.
And I keep feeling this urge to upload and get some external feedback, but honestly the longer I sit on it the better it gets. Every time I come back to it I smooth out parts and make it a little funnier, a little snappier, more engaging. And the internal feedback of making something I would enjoy watching is rewarding enough.
This video that you made here is one of my favorite that I've seen in a while.
It felt a little eerie how you said to just ask for an apology. Because I had just asked my buddy for an apology, which I've never done in my entire life, and he immediately apologized and I felt way better. Crazy how that works when you transparently say what you are feeling and ask for what you want and then you get it.
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I've never herd of this Boethius fella, but he sounds like he was on to something. You got me looking at The Consolation of Philosophy.
Thank you. Keep going.
@@LexJoeHome I'm learning about that too! Do you have any tips on how to not let sitting on it become perfectionism and stagnation? That's a topic I need to make a video about.
I'm doing a November Filmmaking Challenge for myself and working every day on something related to my short film. I'm hoping that just working on it consistently without an upload schedule will help find the balance between the need to keep on finishing stuff and also the need to not rush things.
Yeah, that apology thing was brand new for me this month (actually last month - I was 3 weeks late uploading this video because I was messing with the color - turned out I just had bad white balance in the shoot and it couldn't be fixed). But it's been working so far!
Yeah, enjoy Consolation of Philosophy. It's a forgotten classic; I hear that before the 18th century everyone who had an education knew it and loved it.
@@obviousquest That is such a tough question. Trying to keep your momentum without being over-eager and impulsive.
I've always wondered how a lot of the creative people I admire can spend months and years working on a single project.
I'm just now learning how to work on something for more than a day or two. I'll let you know when I find the perfect balance between making the best thing I can make and getting stuck in perfectionism.
I've learned more life lessons in this video than I have in my 16 years of living. 😂😢
The Return of the King 😏
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