Productivity Rips You Apart 

If your goal in life is to survive - then perhaps, you're not as much of a human as you think you are. You live in the very distant past, when we were still making tools to gather food, to survive. But that has not been the life of a modern human. Our survival is already granted, and what we have to do is to create, destroy and repeat, because that is what we have found respite in.

Ppl would tell you if you just surviving, you're not living the life intended, they are wrong of course, but they would tell you that.

@@myonfriend I'd live in that cave in Vietnam

​@@YuraK25perhaps YOURE not as human as you think. Why do we need Lamborghini when a bike gets you there as well? Or drugs when a son or daughter makes you immensely happier. You're just lost pal

@@YuraK25 what are talking about? Life IS survival, we can try to sugarcoat our lives as something else with our jobs, hobbies, and interests but at the end of the day the only thing that really matters is whether you’re still breathing or not. Anything else is just shit we’ve made up to make us feel better.

Not to be an asshole but everyone thinks this way, this video will not have a significant effect because we humans just work that way.

um but i didn't use to think that way so i guess you're wrong. but even if i did, hearing it from another person will effect me positively. @@tuthures5824

@@tuthures5824 I do not.

If you're useless, that's how you'll feel worthless.

If you have not mastered stoicism you will always feel useless because you measure your worth by external things, not internal

Hustlers mindset is an ideology based on rich capitalist western countries. Mostly consisting around the population in the middle class. They have the privilege of having this "hustlers mindset" These guys don't want success, they rather be where they are because it's comfortable. They might be motivated by others and read a self help book, but at the end of the day, they are fine living the same life they always have.

Great comment, @neveerland

This whole system is there very purposefully. For example, look at the American education system, it is based off an old prussian model for soldiers, where the prussians would essentially brainwash and create obediant "slaves" so that they do not disobey and do what they're told (because they lost a war prior to this). This was then adopted in the 1800s in their education system in America so that there would be biddable factory workers. But the problem is, this model has fundamentally been kept the same, even today.

Ah yes, it always comes around to communism with you people. Here’s an idea: talk to someone who actually lived in a place that implemented what you want and see how much they liked it.

Nah this is patently false

Ok commie

Being lazy is good , we should definitely work much less

What's your definition of lazy?

Being lazy is good to a certain extend

This comment is a prime example of the conditioning mentioned in this video.

Hanging out with friends isn't productive. It's not a step in any direction. It's just fun. Productive is making enough money to pay bills and put food on the table. Having useful skills like knowing how to change a tier. And actually accomplishing something

​@@theonlineanimal6009it does achieve you things though, those being improved social skills and keeping your relationships fresh You don't need to do things required to survive to feel accomplished, a lot of small things you do progress you every day

​@@theonlineanimal6009 ?? Rude. For many people with various mental health disorders, connection with another human can be almost impossible.

@@theonlineanimal6009 Productivity is based on the goal. If you goal is having good relationships, a good social circle and combating loneliness, then going out with friends is ultimately productive. If you dont have a drivers licence because you live in a city and use bike/public transport, then learning how to change a tire is unproductive. Your interpretation of productivity is anthing that provides a use for you perosnally, but you defined the rules and goals yourself. Productivity is subjective.

@GrifGrey well said, I agree

Er- sorry sir.. or maam, this is not a therapy session.

​@@user-sh4qc8ck4ywhat's wrong with you dude

⁠@@user-sh4qc8ck4ypeople shouldn’t need to go to therapy to say what they are feeling. This is the internet, where a comment like this under this kind of video (relevant to the subject) is commonplace and appropriate. This is a place of engagement and I think people should be encouraged to say what they felt in response to the video and describe their own experiences. It brings us together as people, sharing human life experiences and relating (or learning from) them

Yeah, same here. Burnt out deeply even though this is my most unproductive semester yet (academically). Did learn a lot about myself though, which was both good and bad in different ways

@@cameronschyuder9034 Thanks for your good and helpful answers! I wish you success at Uni and hanppiness in life. You are kind and I hope you and your family will have a merry christmas!

Hai, hai, perfect!

inspirational comment, 10/10

Actually no. It’s something that’s proving why not being productive at times is honestly better for the human mind and yourself than constantly trying to be “productive” in some way.

Technically this is more productive than trying to force your mind to work all the time, you're learning something valuable about productivity's value and that in itself is productive.

@@victorjun2421 not every youtube commentators opinions are valuable, in fact the vast majority of them are not

i know that i'm just a random stranger on the internet but i just want to wish you goodluck and have fun in the following days you will use to rest and catch up in life. You've been fighting for so long and don't forget that you also need to remind yourself to breathe sometimes :)

Get Right With God he can help you

I’m similar and the exact opposite. I come from a poor single mom family with 5 siblings. Except my mom chose to cheat on my dad and every step dad I had and mooch off the government without working a job so that we were frequently homeless or lived in literal dumpster fires. So I admire your mom for actually taking care of her family. I’ve got a family now and it’s tough even with having another parent.

I hope you moved out but kept helping your mom.

@@Taylor-tb8wzi wish you well in life good luck or bless you if you believe in that stuff

Sabbath of Judaism and Christianity

If its resting, thinking, or having fun, it is a time well spent.

Maam do you have any achievement's (probably no)

@@user-sh4qc8ck4y I do, I just like avoiding burnout

​@@bufficliff8978 Judaism, yes. Christianity has not been true to this value however, and is responsible for imposing this culture of slavery in the west. They called the native peoples "unproductive", "lazy", "useless", as a justification for subjugating them. To this day, we are slaves under that ideology, which doesnt value life in this world, except for the purpose of work.

Great... until you can answer all 4 of those questions and it creates more panic (i.e anyone in medicine and emergency services)

i dont think it's wise to view this as an us vs them ie top vs bottom situation - as someone who wants to work in data science and has seen many aspects of the field already, I can confirm that squeezing whatever you can out of your workers is usually done out of ignorance of the poor quality or outdatedness of the infrastructure of the company than wanting to get free/cheap productivity out of things you dont consider people (though this is obviously the case sometimes). going back to the assembly line example mentioned in the video, there's other ways to increase productivity of an organisation, and overworking your workers to the point they hate their jobs and even have health issues is just more trouble than it's worth. demonising those at the top gets you nowhere, when you could rather try and make a difference in the flaws of the system or the system as a whole. Anything within the realm of human life and especially human society is possible, even if it seems a massive mountain to climb.

@@addalad7144 Demonising those at the top is the only reason we have weekends.

@@ReaperTheRager demonising anyone is a bad idea. Just as some at the top demonise us - it only leads to more conflict and less solutions. They’re people. We’re people. I’m sure an understanding can be made eventually. What’s the point in hating people you can’t touch - go make a difference instead. It’s what I plan to do.

@@addalad7144 Corporate is not your friend. It is a soulless mechanism by which the laborer is exploited until that "cog" finally breaks down and is replaced with a new one.

Bro sameeee

I have ADHD and I feel like I would be happier if I could hunt or gather for my own food. I feel happiest when I'm mushroom hunting or doing sport. I can't work at the moment due to a lot of trauma and bad work experiences as well as my ADHD and idk if that's part of it but I hate working almost as much as I hate having nothing to do. I just wish I could find something to do in life that I did genuinely enjoy

Same bro... I have ADD and I always tell myself that I am going to start something tomorrow... But when tomorrow comes around I don't do shit. But this gonna change today. I promise!

Dude literally same except I deleted social media a couple years ago. Hasn’t really helped though. I even delete RU-vid for a while but eventually download it again for informative stuff. Shorts made RU-vid so much worse though. I have a successful-ish business that pays the bills but it suffers hard af from my severe procrastination. I feel like every day is a loop of me wanting to do things but not being able to even though I could.

@@Taylor-tb8wz have you thought about going to see if you have ADHD or ADD? Sometimes I wonder if I'm just lazy or if there's genuinely something about my brain

May I know your age and gender. I am 29 yo male. You just summed my life. That's y I am curious to know these details of you.

Shoot. Sorry buddy, no can do, the internet's scary. But im somewhat different from you in the specific details you said about yourself. There's diversity on the matter if thats the question and of you seek to compare yourself, don't. Thats detrimental. Have a nice day!

Agreed! Every time I fail to skip my scheduled hour or two to draw/paint, I feel down, not because there's a sense of failure from not meeting a certain quota marked on my calendar, but because I genuiely consider drawing an extraordinary form of self-therapy. We should all learn how to link being productive as a way of to be "constructive" as well. The idea is to grasp that quality time, no matter how you get to it.

I was really hoping to see this comment. I don’t believe people want to be more productive for their 9 to 5. I think most of us couldn’t care less. I think most of us feel unproductive when we substitute our hobbies or passions with social media dead-scrolling, or neglect our talents for too long in favour of something more expedient.

@@zerocore_ FACTS, people should teach us how to be productive on the things that really matter and how to do the bare minimum for others (eg. School, social media, job (unless you care about it))

Same here! I used to work at a nursing home, and ever since then I’ve been painfully aware of the brevity of my own life and the meaninglessness of the suffering that almost all of us will experience if we are lucky enough to reach old age. I want to do something with my life that will make that inevitable suffering seem worth it, something to hold onto and remember, “this is why my whole life wasn’t pointless”. I want to make beautiful things, to add beauty to the world. I’m in my mid-20s. I have ADHD (increases the risk of Alzheimer’s) and my dad’s family has a pattern of dementia, so I likely have about 55 years left before I too develop it. I have 55 years to do something more than “existing, I guess”. I haven’t done anything creative in many months because my body is adjusting to the new job I have that is more physically exhausting than my previous one, but it pays much better. I feel ashamed of that, it weighs on me, it feels like I’ve let myself down or have broken a promise to myself or have an outstanding debt to myself, something like that. Every month that passes is a new reminder (today is August 1st, 2023. Tick tock!). Even in creative hobbies, I can get burned out. Part of this is the ADHD, which can make burnout more common, and part of this is that I know I push myself pretty hard because of the impending doom and because of the ex-gifted-kid-syndrome-guilt. But what else can I do? Give up?

@@kathrynmyrick1739 do what makes u happy not what made someone else happy

A society that doesn't value it's own survival doesn't produce any humans at all.

That sounds like communism

@@davidnemecek7479 If you’re a capitalist, yes.

@@davidnemecek7479 ???

@@davidnemecek7479 You say that like it's bad thing ...

I worked as an English teacher for 2 and half months and after lots of thoughts and energy drained I decided to leave the job of teaching.. I just felt I was sacrificing my time and energy for a job ( I do respect as one of the most important to change ppl and be better ) but it was just not for me .

There's different types of productivity. There's "self care" productivity and then there's "self sacrifice" type of productivity where you serve others. I believe the video is talking about the latter. Of sacrificing your life force excessively for people or things that view you as a human resource, not a human being. Human "being", not human "doing". Even in our description our respectable and ultimate state is of existing and doing nothing, because we are perfect as we are. A lot of east Asian philosophy is just around that idea. That our ultimate state is where we do less and exist more.

No matter what you do, you'll suffer. Trust me, i've been a neet for 10 years. It doesn't matter how much freetime you have, how much meditation you do, how much you eat healthy and exercise, how much you try to be better. Do less do more, doesn't matter. You will suffer. Why? Because you have the human condition. It's a disease that can only be cured by death. Be that mental death or physical.

very good point we all need to keep in mind. Thats the basic condition of our Brain. we always desire things we dont have and always focus more on the negatives than the positives. I do believe you can think your way out of this by training but we will always have this tendency#. Life is suiffering after all. Islam christianity they all got that basic idea right from the start@@joyhfelixpravum

​@@joyhfelixpravumi enjoy life my guy. The human condition can be hard as shit but it can also be fun, joyful and full of beauty.

@@fniks12northboy31Buddhist thought sits on the fact that all is impermanent all happiness fades so does sorrow. Loved ones live, loved ones die. You will be happy, you will be sad. You will live, you will die. This continually cycle of change will never stop occurring in the human experience. Suffering is impermanence it’s the constant flux that our worlds will always be in.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom

Im 43 and will soon start again as Ive ruined my knees working a job i actually enjoyed- simply delivering packages. The thought of being once again trapped in a chair performing a useless, monotonous task for pennies makes me simply not want to exist anymore. Ive never felt like I fit in here. I loathe the "reality" we have created here. And im exhausted of it.

YOU ARE NOT 82

@@swagmonkey5795 Am so, born in '41.

​@@jdaniel3068please, never surrender, this short life is the only time we have as feeling matter, sometimes it's shitty, but there's almost never a good reason to give up

All the Best ❤

Enjoying life is the point of life. Kids know this very well. Adults seem to forget it over time

Chasing high productivity levels are physically unsustainable and only makes your boss rich. Work at a good pace, but also rest when you must.....enjoy the small things in life and appreciate your loved ones.

And he's sitting over there telling us not to be productive! Riot

Such hypocrisy! He’s a liar!

It’s kinda ironic in this situation.

HE DOESNT NEED THE SUBS, He doesn’t need the likes We love him for his BANGERS

No effort goes into these videos. Look at all the AI gen content. I'd put money down that he even generates the script he reads.

It was released 4 months ago.

Yeah it blew my mind when I first saw him a couple weeks ago how far back his videos went

7k subs at the beginning of July, it's amazing what persistence and passion can do for creators.

Bot Nets are quite amazing.

@@refundreplay Or maybe you could use any logic? He blew up because of the Arthur video. Arthur is a well known show, the title is “Arthur’s darkest episode”, the thumbnail is “the 9/11 episode”, 9/11 being _extremely_ well known, and the thumbnail and title combined convey that the video is about an Arthur episode about 9/11, that being quite unexpected. It’s extremely clickable and geared for success - this type of sudden virality really can happen.

@@Periwinkleaccount And I would add to that the fact that every other single video is a gem. So, not only that video went viral but people liked it so much that wanted to find out more about the channel and found the amazing content. Yes, what I just said is very obvious, but there are many channels with just 1 single viral video and the rest is not as good.

AI will help people adapt to previously unthinkable levels of productivity. It's going to change, but the squeeze will get tighter, not less

And let's not forget that despite all the work someone can do, they may still not be able to afford their basic needs because their work isn't directly correlated to having their needs for survival met.

Brother, I have sad news for you if you think the lives of ancient agrarian societies was better than ours today.

@@Elle-gm9rt absolutely! And of course this is already the case. I've heard multiple instances of people living in their cars despite working full-time or having to live in the shelter for the same. Our ruler's do what they do because they know that we're stupid enough to put up with it

@@nobodynowhere21 exactly! I do think, though, that it's more so fear than stupidity that forces people to put up with it. Too many are afraid and closed minded to think of a life that exists outside of such an exploitative and unsustainable system

I really hope you made the necessary changes. You owe them nothing and shouldn't be forcing yourself to for 3 peoples job at once. Respect yourself, dont hurt yourself.

Matthew 11:28-30 KJV BIBLE "The Lord Jesus Christ said, Come to me, All you who are weary and I will give you Rest" CHRIST JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY OUT!!! YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE!!

That's pretty true whenever I watch something and it goes to hey guys buy this course or join my patron for better I quit. I only now listen to the psychology of work flow and other things ....when I am not working and asking why, probably 99% of the time I would be able to find it out .

Sadly it's our insecurity that we're "not doing enough" that creates a market for these predatory gurus in the first place, and then they sell our anxieties back to us inflated tenfold, and the cycle repeats

Not exactly. It’s all in the mindset. Maturity comes with self discipline and consistency. If nothing else that is what you need to learn. Otherwise life becomes unbearable. There is a lot of bureaucracy in every part of life. You can’t let it defeat you.

​@@indfnt5590You should make self help content

That's a horrible assumption to make about people that are genuinely trying to share their experiences with people to help them be productive.

hey, I’m experiencing this issue now, especially with a busy schedule where everyone pretty much has to be productive. it’s glad to know that there are many relatable people out there!

Oh, you’re young. I turn 59 years old this week. I’ve mostly worked in advertising, design, and now IT. I’ve been praised for being protective, and all I have to show for it is trauma and depression. I don’t have enough money to retire. I have 5.4 hours of paid time off, my dad is sick. I want to see him and be with him, but I will lose my job. We are all contractors now so we can be dumped as quickly for no reason without any thought by a company. I called my dad today and said I can see you or I can lose my job. If I lose my job at 59. My odds of finding a new job are so small. I didn’t read your entire paragraph because I’m kind of sad. Well really sad. I was happy it’s not a farm just waking up getting the horses water planting a garden. My happiness was with the animals and the food I ate. I am so medicated I don’t even know what life is for anymore. Take care. I have to take my medication and get onto the VPN at nine exactly. It is 906 right now, so wish me luck.

I’m shocked at how precisely you managed to describe my exact situation. I feel you and it sucks. It’s hard to work on art every day at optimal productivity regardless of circumstance, and even when I do, I find myself moving the goalposts. As far as problems go, I tell myself it’s really “not that bad” (after all, I’m in an extremely privileged position to be able to try to work on art all day), but always feeling unsatisfied with your output at the end of every day does contribute to an overall lack of happiness, which honestly could be considered pretty bad. I guess it’s just difficult for me to accept that this is a real problem I’m dealing with, because productivity feels good even if it’s exhausting. Sorry for rambling, I could probably go on forever, but the way you wrote out your experience really resonated with me. And I hope you’re able to find some peace and balance in your life and reconnect with art on your own terms.

Yeah I reckon it seems counter productive but oftentimes focussing on something that seems completely unrelated helps with the thing we're struggling with

@@percheroneclipse238 I know my statement was kind of hyperbolic, but thank you for sharing your perspective on this. And good luck!

As a fellow artist our whole culture is plagued by this. I graduated, I'm the generic do commercial art and personal art on the side which also is monetized. The thing is we love what we do, and most of us define our entire self being on making our art. It kinda makes me sick for my day job I make advertisements, something no one wants, and at night I hobble home to maybe squeeze out some art which people actually do want to buy but I can never make enough because I need to save energy to do my day job that no one wants me to do but somehow pays my bills and therefore is more 'productive'. On my days off I would work to 'catch up' on making art. Recently I reached another life milestone and have a family now, and I'm finding the joy in the 'productivity' of just being with the people you love. Just being a pleasant person and enriching the lives of the people around you by helping, caring, and being with them. Caring for your home isn't laziness, listening to music isn't laziness, going to your friends shows, playing videogames, babysitting a cousin's child, going on family vacations, none of that is laziness. That's what people WANT and NEED you to do. At times your lifestyle is going to be very unbalanced and very unhealthy, and this sounds horrible but the trick is to manage the ratio of the time you're unhealthy with the times you're normal. In the arts, making money is just intrinsically linked to periods of insane workloads. It sucks. I think everyone who chose this life knows this. But don't ever let your passion blind you to the fact that rest is a form of productivity too and sometimes you just need to stop. One of my favourite comic book artists said he's proud of being lazy, because all his friends from the industry died in their 50's because they were so proud of publishing a book every year, and he's an old man on pension now.

And WHY were you able to close the printshop and stay home 5 days a week?

@@refundreplay amabouttoblowwwwww

How in the world did you achieve this, what field of work are you doing that you can work 2 days a week

How did you get into a situation where you could work only two days a week?

Oh wow, why didn't I think of this? Let me just quit my 6 day a week job, and just work 2 days instead.... idk how ill pay for rent and everything else but yeah.

That sounds hilariously similar to living a lazy lifestyle...

@@captain_malaria You've heard of reading the article title and then confidently speaking about the contents you didn't read, now prepare for:

Laziness exists, we're all just lazy in different ways. Some are lazy in physical labor, some are lazy in relationships, some are lazy in learning, some are lazy in the details of their work. There is no possible way to not be lazy in some way.

@@nathaniellarson8 I think you should give this book a read then.

There's a quote in the book that stuck with me: "Achievements are a fleeting thing".

A lot of respect for your father.

Why did you write this? to express your love to your mommy and daddy? I suggest you find a real reason to get up every day and live your pathetic miserable life. And if you think this comment is "cyber bullying" please, sleep and never wake up.

extremely well-put.

Username works really well with this comment lmao. I agree and your comment has made me ponder even more than the video itself.

I rlly wanna do this when i start getting out of this hell called high school lmao. The best time in my high school years currently are the holidays in which im free to rest and free to invest my time in things i actually want to do. I finally had choice to balance things for myself. The studying and homework had just gotten more grueling and im not even past my midterms yet

@@savstinks6847 Yeah, I feel ya. But also, try to enjoy it while it lasts. I miss hs. I'm 24 now. Granted, I kind of treated school like a joke anyways. To me, it was just a clubhouse where I saw my friends, and occasionally did the work I was given. I mean, I did enough to finish, so... I have a lot of problems with how schools are set up, with standardized tests, wrote memorization, boring lectures. To me, learning is supposed to be fun. True learning doesn't even feel like learning, it feels like playing, because in a biological sense, animals play (especially at a young age) to develop the neurological connections they'll need to survive in life. If a lion cub didn't enjoy playing with it's siblings, it would have less insensitive to develop the very connections that will allow it to survive. And I think humans, in our infinite hubris, forget that we aren't really all that fundamentally different from other animals. Kids should play, school should be something kids look FORWARD to going to. School should be structured in such a way holidays make you miss school. That's why I never liked it, and didn't do as well as I could've. I just kind of fucked off and did the bare minimum. Lol. Not giving you advice. There are still reasons it's good to make good grades, like it'll look better on college applications if you choose to pursue that. At the very least, push yourself in high school. Then you can decide how to live your life. If I could go back, I probably would've applied myself a bit more, personally. So hang in there. You got this!

@@savstinks6847 Oh, and a word of advice though: sleep is paramount to memory formation, so ensure before test day, don't spend all night studying. Spend part of it studying. Like, study until you'd normally go to bed, but MAKE SURE you get the necessary hours of sleep. Because your brain will need sleep for those memories to be better cemented, so don't make the fallacy of studying all night and getting no sleep. You'll likely preform worse than you would have had you slept and not studied.

I've been waiting to see someone say something like this. I'm currently struggling to complete my first year in an engineering program, even in summer school

@@titanproductions6350 I don't really have an inspiring story unfortunately because I failed out of my degree. But I came to understand it was more due to discrimination (I tried to study in Germany as a non German and female) than a problem with me. Studying 12 hours a day would not have fixed these problems and I don't regret not doing it. So if I could give myself advice back when I was in your situation, I would have told myself not only to ask whether I really want to do physics or not, but also ask myself to be realistic about the environment I'm stuck in. Are the other students including you in things like study groups? Is the university taking reasonable measures to support you and others in a similar situation (so in my case foreign students)? Are professors and tutors willing to help you when you have questions? When you take a very honest look at exams you failed, did you deserve to fail, or are you being failed maliciously? (I unfortunately had to grapple with the reality that sometimes it was the latter in my case, including from a professor who is very "nice" and otherwise seemed to be the only one on my side. I needed to do far better than average just to pass.) My answer to all the aforementioned questions is "no" and if I had realized it sooner, maybe I would have wasted less time and taken an alternative path sooner, even though it will be hard. Instead of trying to work harder and "be more productive" on the path I was already on. And instead of blaming myself.

I am now majoring in computer science, after I dropped out of a biosystems engineering course before. I know the videos you've mentioned in your comment, and I really, really believe they're fake. There is just no way you can keep up 12h a day year-round. Sometimes, even 1 hour and 30 mins of non-stop studying is already exhausting. Some days, you might be able to do 4 or 5 hours of study. But I really believe that anything beyond that is just too much, and unnecessary. People bragging about studying 12h a day aren't possibly actually studying during the 12 hours. They might be looking at the screen while daydreaming whilst still counting that as "studying". I believe that if you study with 100% focus during 1 hour and a half every day, you're already in top 90% percentile!

@@ThomateMaligno Yep, totally agree with everything you said! I think Dr. K mentioned in a video that some people do better working 12 hours one or two days a week, rather than working every day. But nobody is working 12 hours a day every day. In fact one of my exes was someone who bragged about studying 12 hours a day and I saw the reality. Sometimes he would do it but other days he couldn't even wake up until 10 or 11am. He definitely did the "stare at the screen and call it studying" thing too.

​@@ThomateMalignoThis is a prime example of "just because I can't do it , it can't be done ". I am sorry , I have seen people who can very "productively "(I know you hate the word) study for 8 to 10 hrs easily. Heck, I have been able to go for 8 hrs on many days. Its possible and people have done it.

I think I understand what you mean. Uselessness and heavy emptiness. I can relate to the seemingly "no excuse because you have a good support system" and yet, you feel even worse because of it. You start to compare yourself with people who seem to have more difficulties and are thriving or whatever you consider success. Turns out, you are the only reference you truly have and your human experience is unique, your resources, your talents, your weaknesses, your circle... Is not comparable. What's helping me is to think about what's truly essential for me to find peace rather than recognition/status/whatever outcome you can think of given your upbringing and opportunities... It's all maleable and it's ok. Focus on being kind to yourself (feed your body and mind with nutritional things, treasure your body because sometimes (in my case, most times) it's doing the best it can with whatever you give to it and despise the negative relationship we have with it). Be kind to your loved ones, be competent at whatever you attempt to do, but remember life is very brief, it's cliche but it's true, when you face true mortality, what's essential gets clearer. Just be careful of going the nihilistic path. I hope you are doing well, we are all improvising. All of us that got to the womb are literally built different, nature makes no mistake. One's purpose doesn't have to be grandiose to be important. I see my actions as a super tiny dot in humankind, but it's my dot, I'll make the best out of it, without killing myself in the process and enjoying this opportunity (1 in several millions actually) to get as much human experiences as possible. Sorry for the long post, here's a 🥔

@@zoryabreu340 ilysm stranger

i only clicked on this cause of the Sakamoto Shinichi art LOL. Guess it just has nothing to do with the video.

Ma'am, go visit a psychiatrist, because I can see a clear sign of IQ deficiency, this is just unacceptable, I can't believe they let someone like you go to school, why? even the mentally challenged kid in my class isn't as incompetent as you, he might be... somewhat unique, but he's ten times better compared to you, he doesn't whine and spout RETARDED rubbish such as an inhuman amount of work, please tell me. What kind of inhuman amount of work are they giving you?

Being "held back" a year has such a massively negative connotation when in reality is what most of us need. The current US school curriculum gets too theoretical too quickly and doesn't teach functional skills. Spreading it out to avoid burnout is a great idea and it allows you to get better grades which opens you up to more scholarships. No one can tell you spent an extra year in school, all they see is the GPA and grad year. Good on ya! 🎉

Cope

I dont understand how you would be worthless by doing more and more valuable by doing less

@@martinjugolin2087 quality over quantity

@@kuma7564 more can also mean quality

hit me in the songwriting bone real hard.

Thank you for blaming the education system. It deserves it-not just the teachers, but those who train and manage them. Everyone in the education system is miserable: students, teachers, admins. They have taken productivity culture most to heart, and it is doing tremendous damage. You can’t really learn if you are constantly stressed out!

As i understand it, basically being told to churn out art at a high rate is a given at the professional level. Especially in the realms of concept art. I can tell from a cursory glance the Marvel animators are getting told to hurry up atleast 35 times a day and even thats not enough. Gotta pump another super hero movie out. If anything im not sure art is a great example for your point lol, at a professional level it is PURE grind. Drawing/painting for 12+ hours a day under pressure with deadlines. Maybe stick to the brain surgery example haha.

@@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother Thank you for the chuckle. The kind of art I had in mind (but didn't explicate) is literary art. Arts and letters, that sort of thing. In my personal pursuits, I've tried pushing it, usually failing. I've also tried NOT pushing it, then finding my notebook empty months later. So--for me--there has to be a middle ground.

@@dmman33 Thanks for the thoughts, dmman33. I hated school from 5th to 10th grade. Then my fam moved to Oregon, and I started doing well in school again, started liking it again. Loved college, but that was decades ago. I hope not all of today's students are miserable, but I fear that the bulk of 'em are. Oh well.

@@tarico4436 OOH lol xD Yea the creative process can be tricky. Ideally i could just draw allday everyday... But real life and stress factors prevent it.

Being tiered dosnt make you disabled. That is a lazy way to think. Hell when I was in the Army I knew a guy with narcolepsy who would fall asleep standing in formation. But he was still productive. So it's no excuse

​@@theonlineanimal6009I have hypermobility and I make no excuse.

@@theonlineanimal6009 they didn't say what disability they have. Exhaustion/fatigue is a symptom of a lot of things - could be MS or fibromyalgia. Good for your army pal though, hope he's doing ok.

@@theonlineanimal6009 you’re right! Being tired doesn’t make you disabled. However, ongoing fatigue that impedes your ability to perform basic tasks (i.e. walking) does. As another commenter kindly pointed out, I did not say that exhaustion itself was my disability and fatigue is an extremely common symptom of most disabilities, whether it is directly caused by the condition or by the additional difficulties that condition places on you. Disability comes in all shapes and sizes, and I am not lazy, nor do I have a lazy thought pattern, for experiencing it the way I do. The accusatory tone of this comment was needless-in the spirit of this channel, I would have been happy to engage with you in good faith without the hurtful, provocative language I had written about in my original comment. I know using the words “accusatory,” “hurtful,” or “provocative” to describe your use of lazy appears sensitive. Perhaps I am sensitive. However, the word lazy has been used to deny me necessary medical care for many years. If you would like to continue this discussion, do not call me lazy. In the future, I would appreciate it if you took a moment to consider what ‘laziness’ means. I would suggest looking up “spoon theory”, which is a metaphor for limited energy invented by a person with Lupus (a chronic illness) to explain why she had difficulty with tasks like showers or phone calls.

@@judgementrizzyThank you for your support, I appreciate it a lot!

the past tense of "I see" is "I saw", not "I seen". jsyk!

@@bxnny0374 “seen” because I was talking about other mothers too, not just my mother

@@Adrian10_14 that doesn't really matter though matter. if you want to use "seen" then you have to put have so it's "I have seen" and if shortened "I've seen"

@@ghoust592 ok, you got the point though, I didn’t mess up too much that you couldn’t understand it.

It’s really exhausting.

This is a good point, but I have a question: is this really a political issue or is it just a fact of nature? Hasn’t it been true throughout human history regardless of the political or economic structure of a given society that people must produce in order to live? It seems to me that despite its evils, our current political/economic structure supports the most basic sustenance of its citizens (consider the fact that the homeless in the US/UK at least have access to clean water and things like free health clinics), whereas this isn’t the case everywhere. But I could be wrong, it’s just something I think about when this topic comes up.

It's a political issue. We, humanity as a whole, already produce MORE food than we need for example. In the biggest city of my country, there's 500k homes with nobody living on them, and yet, more than 40k homeless people. It, and many other things that modern society provided,should be rightful for people, not paywalled behind a random price. Many products, mainly from the primary industry, have their high prices only for ineficiency or looking for gaining a quick buck, as well the stock market who manipulate the prices.

@@lygiabird6988 if it causes distress or negatively impacts life, then it's a problem, regardless of whether it's present in whatever economic system or whatever point in time. Saying that other people have suffered worse doesn't help anyone in the present. If you think some negative trait is attributable to more than one economic system, all it means is that more than one system has that problem (ie, both capitalism and communism are flawed). But how is that a reasonable excuse to stop looking at the problems and trying to fix them? At any point in human history we are always "the most advanced" we've ever been, and if we had ever just accepted that position in time, then we wouldn't have made it this far, technologically or otherwise. Accepting things as they are because they've always been that way is just copium. People in the top percent benefit the most from everyone else giving in to that line of thinking . We shouldn't conflate the laws of nature with the laws of human beings. We wouldn't want the medical community to just accept that life is just illness and suffering and therefore stop treating conditions that are difficult to treat. If they're already working against the odds, against nature itself, just to make modest improvements to life, then I don't see why we shouldn't extend that mentality to social structures. The most difficult thing to do is to try to change a system; the easiest thing is to come up with some philosophy to justify doing nothing

@@jayfalcon-rw3qc I take your point, but that wasn’t exactly what I was thinking. I totally agree that we shouldn’t just accept poor living standards and inefficient/oppressive systems. But from what I have learnt about political and economic systems throughout history, it seems that a system is only ever as good as the people operating it. And it is very difficult to come up with a system for the distribution of limited resources that meets the unique needs of ALL of a society, because the creation of a fair and equal system would require it to be operated by essentially perfect people (incorruptible, honest, selfless people), and it would need the people in that society to be similarly honest, selfless, and hardworking. So my point was that it seems like it can’t JUST be a political issue, because it includes aspects of ethics and morality that are outside the realm of pure politics/economics.

Constant growth, do you mean by absolute volume or production or by percentage? Anyhow with enough resources, it can be constant for period of time that is from our perspective indefinite For example economy needs energy for it' growth and while reserves of Uranium and Thorium are indeed finite, they are so huge that they would be able to cover energy consumption, even off growing economy, for thousands of years. Problems starts when the system starts to run out of the resources. And that is what is happening with workforce in almost whole world. Well maybe if two generations ago somebody wouldn't be running around screaming that the world is gonna end due to overpopulation and rather would sit, productively, in lab, working on things like desalinization, better nuclear reactors, solar panels and power electronics and many many other stuff, then maybe we wouldn't have such problems in economy as we have today.

idk how legal stuff works exactly, but can't you sue for that?

@@plvto1 right to fire state. So... no.

@@plvto1 lol America genuinely has worse workers rights than most third world countries and I'm not exaggerating. If a company did that in any other western nation they would get investigated and shut down.

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Sounds tough :( I hope things get better for you soon. My mum used to say when it rains look for rainbows, when it's dark look for stars. Things will get better eventually

@@user-sh4qc8ck4y idk what you were trying to say but I'm diagnosed thank you very much

Or shall we say... pretentious? 😉

@@germanlondono8700 He doesn't come across as pretentious to me in the slightest. And that's doubly true if I compare him directly to the vast majority of other content creators I watch instead of just assessing him in a vacuum.

​@@goldmidwestit's a reference to one of his videos

Take care of your health man. You can always earn more money and find new jobs the world is huge like that but you only have one body. It's your most valuable asset. In the long run you'll make more money if you take care of it. It's never too late or too early to pick a new path. Life is a marathon not a sprint so take some time to breathe and drink some water!!!

think about your body as if it would be an asset, you dont want it to depreciate in value also of course there is no use in havin a nice car or good rent if you die from the stress

@@braysonnelson2686 thank you🙏🏻

@@thomas.thomas i like that analogy . i take pretty good care of my car so it can't be that hard to take better care of myself😂

If you're being so reliant on stimulants to get through college then you're doing something wrong. Some questions you should ask yourself is do you need to work 40 hours a week? Are you eligible for scholarships or grants that will make you work less if needed. And third is do you need to be in debt for a car? Hope this helps

Also, please remember, that many, many content creators live in shared houses with other creatives: they call them "content farms'. A huge percentage of the more successful channels have teams. They don't spend 100% of their time making stuff. They record, then someone else edits, then someone else distributes, someone else does their marketing/ graphic design, etc. Please don't compare yourself or your process to others, you really don't know what's going on behind the scenes.

Theres simply too much people for you to be successful should have told that to your great grandma when she had 18 kids lol