Advice for young people: Life is longer than you think | David Wolpe and Lex Fridman 

So would you say to make sacrifices for your future self, instead of living as today is our last day, and trying to experience as much as we can.

Doing it for 20 years, no hope necessary if you dont want to die. This guy talks bs.

Yeh this guy just a romantic meanderer

@@lexmortis5722 living without hope isn’t living its existing

@@drewrisley5320 Most people only have the choice to exist or to not exist.

@@lexmortis5722 what you think about comes about and what you focus on grows pillar number 1 : How you think is everything

I do the same, good luck friend…. You got this!

Same bruh, really this man has helped so many souls !! God will bless him 🙏

It was not too long ago that depression was determinable. I believe the rise in clinical psychology invented the word depression among others. In the ancient days, the only clue left for us to any sort of feeling of depression was in the bible "you will not taste death if you follow me" How else do you "taste" death while you are alive?

Problem is that what Lex has become had taken a massive amount of work, tenacity, and care that most people probably wouldn’t even be able to initiate if their lives depended on it.

You spent an excellent childhood brother.

I had a pretty similar experience here growing up. My family even put me to work during the summers on dairy and beef farms. Eating my favorite cow, #42, was an experience for an 8 year old. That said, I also had the experience of living a digital life too. My friends family had a really good PC and broadband connection in the mid-90's. I used to spend hours playing on that computer. Since then, I've worked hard maintaining both a physically active lifestyle and a digital existence and I'm nearing 40. I often hear the same line of how living a digital life is "different" somehow than getting outside. I think a digital life is different, but to summarize one as worse overall than the other I feel is ignorant. I think living a digital existence is an evolving condition. And its rapidly evolving right along with other digital trends. Whatever your judgement of the digital universe, the digital universe is not a trivial thing. Personally, I think a kind of superior pure-digital lifestyle is possible, and probable in the near future. With enough real world solutions to biological problems, one may never need to leave their home. This universe is huge. I think it is ignorant to assume that there is only one kind of lifestyle to live. I think we can carve out quite a significant "life" for ourselves online, especially when Neuralink-like companies start to directly connect. But, would we be missing out if we lived pure-digital lives? Yes. But, we are always missing out on something.

@@lostinbravado I understand what you are saying. I often wonder if my distaste for technology is unfounded. Since I dislike it because I feel it is making us lose what it means to be human. But possibly it is just part of the evolution of our species. Almost like harnessing control of fire. It is a major step. I am a always thinking, questioning person. And being this way my beliefs change. For where I am now and have always been. I am deeply against humans merging with computers and machines. I think it is very dangerous and a corruption of nature and God. I believe we should advance ourselves to a point where we have fuller control over our body and our minds. This is what is worth evolving for and into. Computers and technology have a place. I feel best used to teaching and sharing knowledge and ideas. But as we see even at this low stage. Our shortcomings within our own selves have corrupted the gifts technology brings. For the most part we are engaging in it only in ways that weaken and destroy us. We all have the keys to unlock endless amounts of knowledge to ourselves but what do we do? Do we research and learn on topics we do not know or understand? Very very rarely. Instead we watch pornography, post pictures of our dinner plates, make RU-vid comments... Our children because of growing up in this way of life now are more obese than ever, barely know how to communicate with others, becoming lazier and more mentally ill and confused. To the point that girls don't believe they are girls and boys don't believe they are boys... And we tell them that is normal and anything said otherwise is hateful... Instead of scientific facts... The corrupt and power robbing elites are using this technology to survale our every move and spread confusion.... Anyone who would want their mind, heart and soul tied into that grid.. I wish them the best of luck.

@@ronprice1819 having lived both lives I feel the concerns of you and others are valid. It's just that there is much more to the equation. In the competition between the digital realm and the real world, the digital realm might win our attention, especially in the long run. But then if you think about it, that just means less people clogging up the trails and more room for nature. Seems like a win for nature to me? As to hacking biology being the realm of God, I don't think that's true. Is the realm of God so small? Even if we hacked our biology and created vast digital universes, would we be God? Not even close, I think. Are we Gods because we can fly in the sky like birds? No, that's silly, right? I think if we dramatically expand what it means to be human, our small problems today will be rapidly overcome. Whatever the case, I doubt we are in control of anything. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if no one was in control. Control itself seems a rather flawed concept.

I am happy for you experiencing such an amazing childhood. It's rare nowadays, it really is, but I imagine it to be beautiful.

Yes, it gets faster and faster…and reaches the speed of Light! When we die.

It was not too long ago that depression was determinable. I believe the rise in clinical psychology invented the word depression among others. In the ancient days, the only clue left for us to any sort of feeling of depression was in the bible "you will not taste death if you follow me" How else do you "taste" death while you are alive?

@@TheRealFranc I was so depressed my own body started to attack itself and I was constantly sick and hair was falling out…pretty sure I was depressed. And yes, at the time I was numb of all emotion so death really didn’t scare me. I simply had no emotion to anything. I don’t know why you trying to argue about something that isn’t even like an arguable conversation

@@rustedbiscuits874 you take it as an arguable conversation. I made no indication I was arguing. I am merely pointing out that depression was unheard of as of until recently when it was defined by clinical psychologists but there seems to have been a Biblical clue that could very well have been referring to depression. That is all buddy. I'm sorry that you are offended and take it personal.

And he just said why that is. We are always racing racing racing to get where we want to go. This could be financially, mentally, physically, career wise, Etc. But he’s saying when you just take a step and realize major things take years and years to fully change, you want feel as rushed and life being such a blur

When you act like it's short, you make it shorter. Drive fast, die faster.

No life is longer than you think it's only short only if you waste too much time

He didn't

@@SunnyvaleTrailerParkSupervisor Most likely. I see no culture or understanding of surrounding natural elements. This comes off a bit left field, but I wonder how many of the gen-z is capable of reading poetry, which has for a long time been an intellectual way to describe earthly sensations and sights...