you can only cook what's in the fridge // reasons to read 

it really really does feel immersive doesn’t it? my guess is that it’s because your brain has to do so much work to visualize what’s going on, it’s like a dream. as opposed to watching something where the visuals are created for you. thanks for sharing!

Personally, I imagine every single story I know as happening to me, regarless of medium. I often find myself pausing just to contemplate how I would react, how I would go about things, to the point I often don't feel like continuing the story because I've gotten too immersed in my own head.

It sounds like drugs

​@@uMaudA book that takes someone a week to finish would take me twice or thrice as long because I do the same thing as you lol

For me it leads into real life problem. When people tell me their life story i get into their shoes too much i feel too emphatic for every problem they had. It makes me want to help them to the point that i exhaust myself. These days i just don't talk to people that deep anymore.

so glad to hear it. thanks for watching!

let him cook

i paused the view immediately

that's what we like to hear!!! thanks for stopping by. happy reading!

DESSINE MOI UN MOUTON!

I’m also have to pickup little prince

starting off light let's goo

My favorite of all time

Real

Love it. I hope to make a video on reading books that you explicitly disagree with in the future - feel like that would be a fun topic. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts!

@@timdemoss Tim, I think reading is one of the most, if not the most powerful tool for personal growth there is, so i bet it would be hard to find enough that we disagree on to make a video 😂. Keep up the good work making videos that help and challenge people to grow

I do this by reading only classics, cause they're the collection of tried and tested high quality books of different genres.

@@mishynaofficial yah plus there's lot of content in classics which we would disagree generally like rasicm, homophobia, sexism , I get so mad but I bear with it

thank you! I'm slowly finding that it really is true - even when I'm being original, it's only because I'm stealing from a really big number of sources. and luckily, books don't expire like food does, so your fridge can just keep getting bigger!

Yes very great

it could definitely be applied in all those ways too :) thanks for watching!

hadn’t thought of it like that but wow that’s a great point. we’re all combining the ideas in new ways. thanks for watching!

100 dishes coming from 100 cooks using 100 ingredients isn't that impressive. I mean, if I gave *one* cook 100 ingredients I'd expect WAY more than 100 dishes to result from his efforts. You're not even thinking additively, much less multiplicatively, which mixing obviously is. If I gave one intelligent chef a mere four ingredients (e.g. butter, flour, milk, eggs) I sure wouldn't expect only one dish in response. Or four. Or five. I'd expect dozens at least. Obviously mostly because those are highly variable ingredients, but hopefully you get the point. Stacking ingredients multiples the number of possible results. It's just weird that you suggest 100 ingredients and 100 cooks = 100 different meals as if that's an impressive output. 100 dishes coming from 100 cooks and 100 ingredients suggest that each dish was made from just one ingredient by one cook. That would be absurd. For the sake of the argument you were trying to make, why not say 10,000 dishes (100 x 100)? That would be closer to the likely reality: each cook is going to combine each ingredient in so many ways that the result is much, much large than the number of cooks or ingredients alone. Obviously.

@@johnrogstad1278 thanks for your comment; i wrote mine in a few minutes, so i didn't think about this aspect, but you're right. I think, however, that the example works.

Totally agree! (You’re skipping ahead to reason to read number four or five…don’t give too much away)

Speak for yourself. It takes me 5 hours to watch a 1h30 movie because I need to pause to process what happened. Likewise, you can completely skil through a book not thinking about it too much, perhaps not even understanding what the author wanted to communicate since tone is much harder to convey through text. I think people put too much importance on the medium and not on the quality of the story and character writing itself, or on the work you need to put in as a consummer. There are games, movies and series whose story line has lived rent free in my head for years because you can spend hours pondering on them. I've heard people say they prefer having someone read some awfully badly written 300 something pages of excuses to write p*rn rather than not reading at all, as if reading it would bring any intellectual fullfilment that watching it on a screen couldn't bring. Mediocrity is mediocricty, wether it's in a book or not. Likewise, a good, thought provoking story doesn't loose any value from being communicated through imagery and dialogue rather than through text. In short, I think the importance of stories lies in the content and in the way it is consummed rather than the medium, and people who pretend otherwise are just pretentiously trying to feel better about themselves.

​@@uMaudtrue. I love many books, and yet Yorgos Lanthimos movies are the best. I can spend days analysing what the author of the book or film wanted to say. But sometimes it takes 10 minutes, because the work is shallow.

I can 100% believe that. thanks for sharing!

same - it’s weird how that is…like it takes a great youtube video or short to make me not regret being on my phone, it takes a decent movie to make me not regret watching a movie, but there have been very few books where I felt like “man I shouldn’t have spent that time”. Weird, right? Welcome to the channel & I’m glad you’re enjoying the series!

I hope big brother watches this video

@@timdemoss He sees every video. or at least it's best to assume he does

This is one of the gooder videos on YT

thanks so much for the encouragement, I appreciate it :) good luck with your students!!

I’m so very glad to hear it! (also randomly by the way I ended up watching your “you should hire my sister” video and while I don’t have a need to hire anyone the video made me smile and I thought it was sick, so thanks! XD)

so glad it’s helpful for you!! good luck on your English learning journey!

I did it by watching videos in RU-vid and arguing about politics lol

@@hansmohammed5486 wow man, that's insane!

thank you! the style works for me and has been enjoyable to produce :)

glad to be of service. welcome to the channel!

Is it done??😂

Why the spaces?

so glad to hear it!! thank you for watching :)

wow thank you!! I hope it does some good in the world. three episodes in now - we’ll see how many I’ve got in me :) glad to have you here!

@@timdemossI binged this entire series today and im obsessed

thank you so much! I appreciate it! glad you found the first one in the series first - hope you enjoy the others! -tim

Thank you :) I appreciate the encouragement!

which book? love this

@@timdemoss An odd, short book called “I can read with my eyes shut.” 😊

Thank you! the first of a series of undetermined length. Currently on #4… we’ll see what runs out first - my reasons to read or my energy. :)

what a great technical example :) thanks so much!

100% agree and relate. thanks so much for watching!

thanks so much! It definitely helps when I edit myself down :)

so glad to hear it! :)

wow thank you for the encouragement! & welcome to the channel!

thank you! :)

thank you so much! :)

terrific! hope you enjoy!

welcome to the channel! and I need the nudge myself - got books stacking up!

thanks so much! and will do :) thanks for watching!

thank you! I appreciate the encouragement!

thank you! :)

thanks so much! welcome to the channel & I hope you enjoy the series!

exactly like that!

you just never know when something will come in handy! thanks so much for watching :)

i appreciate it! and I figure my target audience for this series will be a mix of people who want convincing, people who want reassuring, and then people who are already reading and just like watching book related videos :) welcome to the channel!

thank you so much & welcome to the channel! :) this series has been so fun to make for me honestly - I’m glad you enjoy the concept!

hey I’m so glad to hear it! :) good luck and happy reading!

I’m so glad you found the series! welcome :) thanks so much for the encouragement!

I’m so glad to hear it! Thanks for the encouragement!

welcome to the channel! :) at the end of the day we’re all mashups of what we choose to let into our lives. thanks for sharing!

thank you!

thank you for watching!

hey thanks I’m so glad to hear it. :) I hope you enjoy them if/when you get around to it - would love to hear your thoughts. Have a great day too!

thanks so much! welcome to the channel - hope you enjoy the series!

hey so glad to hear it :) very happy it made your ride better! hope your day went well!

Thank you! :)

thank you! :) this style was a fun experiment / happy accident & I ended up liking it - I've stuck with it for the rest of the series so far. thanks for watching!!

I’m so so glad to hear that! welcome!

so happy to hear it! thanks from the USA :)

wow thanks! this is the first in a (hopefully) long series - thanks for the encouragement

thank you! excited to do one about fiction specifically soon too for sure

thank you for watching!

yes! nailed it :)

love it! thanks for watching!

thanks for watching!

wow thank you! :) I appreciate it a lot!

as a fellow 26 year old, I believe in you! thanks for watching :)

thank you so much!

so happy to hear :)

thank you! :)

thanks for watching! and congrats on finishing the “out of your comfort range” book!

thanks so much! :)

thank you!

thank you! :)

so glad to hear it & welcome to the channel! :)

thank you! :)

hey thanks! :)

thank you! :)

it’s such a refreshing and wonderful set of stories :)

I guess I did! Oops :) but I might have to stick by it!

that’s a terrific reason to read books! even if you’re not trying to learn a new language, still helpful. But I imagine immensely more so when you’re picking up a language :) thanks for watching!

wow. thank you so much! this has been such a fun series to make & the encouragement helps a lot! :)

thanks for watching! :)

thank you! And the font is Athelas

thanks! :)

please no 😭 I really need this job

you’re funny

books feel like movies sometimes, love the mental imagery!

I’m so glad to hear it :) thank you for sharing!

Not really, you can think in a mix of things that you have been introduced to. So it's something unknown created from the already known stuff

great question. I’m definitely oversimplifying it. like, for example, you could invent something in your mind and then find out someone else had already also invented it independently. That definitely happens. But it’s sort of like trying to imagine a new color - hard to do without thinking in terms of the colors you’ve already seen and know exist. (I’m no scientist so I’m sure this color analogy isn’t perfect but it helps me visualize). Thanks for watching!

sounds like a blast!

Thank you! :) (And isn't it nice to be able to say "lovely" instead of just "good"?)

thank you!

thanks so much! hopefully the quality stays good if/when the channel grows :)

@@timdemoss I hope you continue the "reasons to read" series

thank you! I have been - this was the first one but I’m about eight in now actually :)

thank you!

it’s time. welcome back to the world of books!