The Misinformation Age: How The Internet Killed Critical Thinking
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Timestamps:
What It Feels Like Now: 0:00
Google's Biggest Problem: 2:13
Social Media Is Stealing Your Info: 5:45
The "TikTok Expert": 7:38
Emotional Triggering For Views: 11:20
How Social Media Increases Tribalism: 11:52
How We Can Fight This: 14:44
The First Rule To Becoming A Better Thinker: 15:00
The Second Rule To Becoming A Better Thinker: 16:12
The Third Rule To Becoming A Better Thinker: 18:01
What I Hope To See Moving Forward: 20:06
The Rise Of NPCs: 21:01
Topics: fake news, why its so hard to trust anything, how to be a critical thinker
I was thinking about this literally seconds before I found this video. “The internet is full of information, no excuses” No, it’s not full of information, it’s full of opinions.
This society set us up from the start by having everyone value the internet so much. Now people can say such mean stuff to others and it'll feel like the end of the world. They did this on purpose.
Yes I hate when people say google it sometimes bc it just gives you what it thinks you want not what's accurate
It's also full of information. But you need to be seriously good at applying critical thinking to "separate the wheat from the chaff".
I think though that there is also a huge amount of evidence based information.. but the key here is to never 'trust' just one or two sources and dig deeper to check this information
@@Mammel248 so true
I've been dying for this sort of content. My frustration with the misinformation train during Covid made me delete my youtube channels and rethink my own perspectives. We need people to be truly authentic and think critically, logically and sense. Thanks for putting this out there in a conversation we all need to have.
Having lived both pre and post internet, I can say categorically that the internet no more "killed" critical thinking than critical thinking was ever alive enough to kill.
My mother put it best people gave always been crazy but now everyone has a voice
I'd say a much larger portion of the population have at least some critical thinking skills than pre-internet times. But there are also people trying their best to kill off critical thinking. I feel a certain amount of optimism--the difference in religiousness from when I was a kid and now is huge.
@@killerflamingo9566exactly
Also as an oldhead, yes, the internet hasn't changed the way people think. There were whole books published with similar opinions and bad advice as a TikTok influencer spews today. Magazines would routinely publish false info, especially about celebrities and politicians. Going back to my grandparents' day, they had the old ladies at church telling them what to do.
Yeah, as long as there's people making decisions based on a religious relic critical thinking is a mute point as it simple isn't applicable.
Im an ecologist, so i have to read A LOT. The best way to filter out the bs is to read the actual studies and then look at their methodology. Many news articles about a study are usually wrong. For example, a few years ago, many news articles said archeologists found a female viking warrior and went on and on about how the vikings used women in wars. Well, the lead researcher came out and said that she never said that. The scientists found a viking woman who was buried with weapons. The media took this and ran with it. They ignored that this womans body had no injuries, no wear and tear that you would see on a warrior. No, they saw she was buried with weapons, and that was that. The fact is, this woman was most likely wealthy and very highly respected. So always read the actual study and if you can find lectures by the actual researchers, even better. You also have to look at the methodology. I hate to say it, but us scientists all have a bias. We have a theory, and we want our theories to be true. Now, most of us are honest and will take the data for what it is. But others won't and will manipulate data. There is another issue with self reported data. Many researchers will use self reports, but we are finding that normal people are bad at reporting things. Heck, most participants can't properly report what they had for breakfast. Let's take the eggs being linked to heart disease. Yeah, the participants reported eating eggs, but did they also report the potato chips, the twinkies, the Macdonalds, the pizza? Probably not, and if they did, they most likely under reported. Because of this issue, we thought for a long time that red meat causes heart disease. Well now with better studies, we see red meat isnt linked to heart disease, just people who eat a lot of red meat also happen to have poor diets overall. The heart disease is caused by a bad diet of over processed junk food, not the red meat. In fact red meat is very good for you at the proper levels for your body. So, for health science, i always look for high control studies where participants only ate what researchers gave them or only did exercises in front of researchers. To conclude, dont listen to influemcers and listen to science, but make sure it's good science first.
I agree with you, for the most part!
However, If we only relied on controlled trials for health we wouldn’t have been able to prove cigarettes cause cancer as early as we did (or at all due to the impossibility of doing an controlled trial over decades?)
Epidemiological studies have their value, especially in long term health outcomes like red meat intake where a 2 month highly controlled study simply won’t cut it. Short term RCTs have their value in finding markers/precursors of disease but that doesn’t always necessarily result in the disease itself. And in this case, controlled trials of red meat intake does seem to show markers of inflammation and ApoB (perhaps they are consuming in higher quantities than you suggest?)
A major part of epidemiology is about teasing out extenuating factors and likelihood of information and the bulk of evidence does seem to show red meat isn’t great for you _accounting_ for processed foods, poverty, alcohol intake, exercise etc.
Fiction marketed as news is wrong?
Does health exist outside of fiction or so you think and act as if it does?
Slaves cant be fictional thing like ecologists if you didnt know.
Then you find that some of the scientists are making false papers as well, I don't have a link right now but ill add it soon
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_misconduct_incidents
This is the link
There’s so much information that it gets kinda hard to verify what’s real
Indeed
1:53 beginning parts of this video is literally what am going through right now
there really isn't
@@chrismcgowan5180”there really isn’t”
It’s not really. But I’ve been to university so I have a different experience.
I love how your critique is against your own bubble rather than "the others"
I loved that as well, usually videos that focus on group thinking use the examples that don’t actually challenge anything. They are either about something completely obviously wrong like nazis or smth or about the group that the author knows the audience doesn’t like
realizing there's crap in own bubbles is first step
The most dangerous example of a “fake guru” is Wikipedia because it bills itself as a vetted and trustworthy source. Even its former creator has warned that it is absolutely not that.
I either use it as a source where there is little stake and just want to understand (say political system was in Denmark in 1700s, or what X group believes just for understanding, not assessing the situation. Like why do Indians think of country X in some way. Biased possibly, but I'm not interested in sifting for facts, but superficial understanding, or have an idea of why they do stuff).
Other thing it's really useful for is, a really good start for resources. Say I want to know about tensions between Spain and Portugal. I don't use the info as facts, but the sources wiki leads to and references are usually good ones. The thing is google doesn't do that with search enquiry. If I wrote Spain and Portugal contentions would give me only those relevant to those countries. But wiki will dive deep into the politicians, the issues within, the external interferences (and why Spanish people don't like country X), why the agricultural affairs are only the affected part between the countries and does not reach to military let's say.
Everything I said btw about Spain and Portugal is made up. Just showing how detailed topics can be viewed in wiki in a way google doesn't, and not made for in all honesty.
Google won't give you all the details and have to go through pages of search rests and 20 minutes of reading to know these things, when a 2 minute reading + checking 3 resources for 3 minutes each gave you not only a relatively good understanding, but gave you sources you checked are trustworthy (if you know how to do so). If one source was fake, whatever idea it claimed, if not supported by another reliable source, out of the window.
Wiki does have its uses, but not on itself as a source for facts.
@@reda29100 I would say be very careful. The subjective things like “why does one group believe x” or really anything debatable such as social, political, or historical issues is what Wikipedia is MOST prone to distort. Then you’re stuck with that distorted view and you are unconsciously likely to spread that it some way. If you’re going to use it as a tool, I would suggest sticking to prove-able topics such as something like “how many g forces can a human withstand before passing out” (just an example).
@@Magnetic1884 I was very careful about this stuff. I did mention (topics with little stake to) i.e., won't change how I look at someone or some people. And "not assessing the situation" was exactly about this point. You are absolutely right wiki is just a pen for humans to dispell their own narratives, but making my mind about an issue is something beyond what wiki is for.
Take the Spain Portugal thing. Wiki will tell me Spain is the aggressor. I'm wrong in taking wiki's word for it. What I am fine with tho is the wiki telling me the contention is about water resources, or say control over some mineral field or like that. If I read the wiki, I won't believe his take that Spain is who took the mine fields from Portugal, but what I will take is the issue is about minerals and probably industrial independence.
I think whoever is writing the wiki would not be interested in lying about the issue and reporting it to be about minerals, when it's about say cultural differences between the two nations (if they are at all). So I have little reason to doubt why wiki will lie about the topic, but would possibly lie about whose side is right in the conflict.
I hope you get to see I don't take wiki's morals and only there for more or less having an idea about why the situation is what it is now.
Yup, nowadays it's left wing asf. Neither of wings should have such control over wiki.
Thank you! People need to wake up to that!
If countries banned advertising on social media, a lot of these problems would disappear.
Whats marketed as advertising on social media?
I heard apparently you can pay to promote your videos quite recently, so you are not wrong
How are the social media companies supposed to make money and pay their employees without any ad revenue? Not many people want to pay a user fee.🤷♀️
@@mrswjr4061 Its simple. They pay by collecting user data and its alot more profitable than ad revenue
@@mrswjr4061 Its simple, they make way more money collecting data than ad revenue
This video is 100% real. There was a video I saw by youtubers called MindSquire where they dressed up as a news channel and asked random people questions about the most insane things that would never happen. 99% of the people they interviewed believed everything they said
Yikes….
I was once playing a game, and someone said an unbelievable claim like he played the game for 10 times the amount an expert does despite him having barely any knowledge about it (I don't mind beginner experience as much as I do the arrogance he said it with), so I said believe me or not but now I'm going to drive my Ferrari car later in my $50M mansion.
He was like, whaa?!
I told him "exactly!” Throwing claims left and right is the easiest thing anyone can do. Are you going to take my word for it, easily just like that?
i loved that cideo, too
@@ColeHastings saying yikes is gay
@@ColeHastingsgay word
One of my character flaws is that I am a "Know It All" - especially when it's a topic I have researched. When I was younger I would search and search until I found a "credible source" to validate my assertions.
Over the last couple years, I have kept a healthy dose of skepticism. I'm now hyperaware of the importance of confirmation bias, echo chambers, cognitive dissonance, critical thinking and other factors that play into searching for facts on the internet. I'm not perfect but I have learned that I had a lot of flaws going into my research that usually led me into an abundance of misinformation. Another trait I am working on is that I will just tell you "I don't know enough about that topic to have a solid opinion." Instead of spewing whatever I saw online.
Well said bro
Honestly, critical thinking is something humans were never actually any good at.
That doesnt make sense...without critical thinkers before us...we wouldnt even be here talking to each other.
I believe what your trying to say is that the current modern people are so lazy that they want everything outsourced
no i think its just.... thinking is hard and frustrating.
rather belive and flow and take the easy route.
who the hell like to think? id rather watch tv and eat junkfood. as i did as a child. wich poisend me to the point of having to drasticly RETHINK everything about my life.
so there you go.
Thinking is not hard. Alot the times when your not doing anything ur not even thinking. Your just in the moment with your mind. Thinking is only required to be used when your trying to understand something thats not developed by you. Once you understand something - its back to not thinking since u already know how that whatever thing works.@@Stefan.Neuhauser
Thinking is not hard or fustrating. Its the lazy side of the person who doesnt wanna learn whats requriing them to think.
For an example. Why is this app so trash its fustrating? hmm let me look at the code and think about what's the incompentent "mistake" the dev added within the code. Ohhh i found it. The dev added a subscription fee that locks down the hardware....let me remove that crap!
Yahh now the app is fixed and I dont gotta think about it anymore!
@@PHIL-SPENCER-HATES-XBOXCONSOLE A person can be an astronaut. A person can be a physicist. Humans in general are not astronauts, Humans in general are not physicists. Humans in general are not [good] critical thinkers.
Paralysis by analysis. That's why 'they' bombard you with information all the time. What do you really need to know? Don't jump in a fire, don't jump off a cliff etc etc.
Great video! Unfortunately misinformation has real consequences. We need to teach, at an early age, how to qualitatively evaluate sources of information. It is at least as important as math. We should also do our best to bring the older population into the know. Call it Intellectual Self-Defense.👋
why the 'older' population?
@@chrismcgowan5180 The older generation grew up in a climate where news sources were much more vetted, researched and fact-checked. Fake news didn't make it on air/in print nearly as frequently. They don't understand just how much these professional looking influencer videos aren't any of those things. They take it for granted and are less critical of the news source. Its far from perfect for younger generations but most people on the internet eventually catch on (there are tons of 'its on the internet, it must be true' sarcastic memes). Thats not even to mention the proliferation of bots and GPTs in comment sections adding social proof to bogus claims.
Edit: I didn't even mention things like clickbait and the effects of 'the algorithm.' Its a lot.
@@TheGreektrojan fair enough, just think it's a little ageist to group people but i suppose on average maybe?
@@TheGreektrojan Well said!👋
@@chrismcgowan5180saying true things is not prejudice. It’s reality, and you seem to need a reality check old head.
This is, by far, the best piece of content I've come across in years. This has been on my mind heavily lately, but I just couldn't put it into words the way you did. Will share this far and wide.
Appreciate that!
this comment is a perfect example of what this very video is talking about
@@RealASidesThanks for this comment. I fell victim to this as well. Maybe the only way to not fall for this trap is to become someone who is intellectual and observant enough to make a video like this. With UA-cam you have no choice but to rise above the rest of else you will fall for the trap.
@@RealASidesI agree. And I'm an old man with an IQ between 131 & 144 (depending on which test I take).
Even this video is politically skewed...
My favorite “fake expert” vid was from some dude who was super ripped saying, and I quote, “if you want to get in shape and look good, stop eating rabbit food and start embracing pizza!”
His explanation - “the more carbs and fat your body has, the more it will burn.”
I swear to Christ, you can’t make this shit up. No wonder why this planet is literally going up in flames.
As someome who really knows a lot about this stuff, i can tell you that really easy. Eat healthy (wich means everything. From protein, fat, carbs and rabbit food) and if you want to loose weight, eat a little bit less kilocalories than you really need. So if you need 2500kcal per day, you eat 2300kcal. Doing sports regulary will also let you burn more calories and building muscles will make your body burn more calories in general, because muscles need more energy to repair / grow.
So if you want to loose weight, technically you can just start lifting wheights and maybe stop eating so much unhealthy stuff like soft drinks and stuff full of sugar like chocolate and you will loose weight and gain muscles (wich means, you will not really loose much weight, but you will burn fat and gain muscles, what is more healthy for you in general)
Of course this topic is really complex. But with doing sports, eating mostly healthy and dont eat a lot of sh.. food, you are doing nothing wrong.
It's also going literally up in flames from the amount of ppl who also curse gods name in vein
@@boinecastillo7455 you can check that fairytale bullshit at the door, friend.
By the way - it’s “vain,” not “vein.”
If its fairytale bullshit then stop using it homey. Nice and simple. No need to be so passive aggressive mate. That's a female trait. Stop it. Just stop it. God bless.
@@MrRoboto81 I'll be sure to look down on you from above bro! Oh and yea by the way I used vein and vain as a homophone ! And u got it ! Good4you !!!
I remember watching a video about how social media and general has turned from focusing on connecting people to each other to isolating everyone in their own little bubbles of comfort. So basically things like trending tabs turned into explore tabs further isolating people. I recently noticed this because on all my social media I was shown posts that support a certain group. On UA-cam though there was just the usual stuff but as soon as they figured it out now my whole feed is about that same group. It's just freaky because this just feeds everyone's confirmation bias and makes everyone stick more to their sides and it's going to make every debate to try to understand the other side increasingly hard.
Create an anonymous account and use that to login on UA-cam.
@@pansepot1490how can you do that please ?
Am French and used to follow many scientist and doctors from the USA. Not influencers. I changed my diet took supplements and now am sick have IBS and depressed. I stopped everything in September and started eating when hungry no supplements and things are getting better.
Well yeah, it's easier to market to distinct demographic groups. Wait, do you think there's any part of our society not controlled by corporate America,😭
@@bmo8695 click on your profile picture and you should see an incognito button on there. If you're talking about creating a whole other account then I believe there's no need. The algorithm eats up what you feed it. So if you don't want to have multiple accounts just search for and watch other things. It's not like they won't drag you back in from a different account. Be aware of the content you consume.
My recent journey was realizing that my opinions are not my identity. It happened when I got Uber Uber defensive when someone said something I didn't agree with. I suddenly realized how I felt and went "wait. Why am I so mad? Why do I care what they believe? Why am I yelling?" After some thought - I got defensive because I felt attacked. And I felt attacked because I put too much of my opinions *about* things as my sole identity. I hate when ppl do that! (And here I was doing it myself, lol). To start down the road you describe (good video btw) I'd also tack on that you kinda have to let go of or step away from this weird trend that your opinion = who you are. Or that who can boil down to a single identity. I get confused when I meet ppl and they say "I'm lesbian" and I think "wow great. I didn't need to know anything about your sex life but okay I guess". Am I crazy or does anyone else notice this? Like. You're a person. You have a name, dislikes, likes, favorite food, movies and family. Why the heck are people being boiled down to 1 word descriptions?
I have never liked labels, they are meant to make discussions easier, so ppl know in what direction you think.
In my job I have to work with peoples opinions and lifestyle within my own rules and lifestyle.
Most things are fine, as long as everyone is safe and healthy.
Also opinions are not that important, in life you grow and live through different experiences which change your opinions constantly.
For me there are a few that stuck: sugar is a drug. Hygiene and cleanliness need to be in order. Use logic when thinking and please know your language: words are used to influence you skillfully and subtly.
I hate misinformation, it's like a festering plague of delusion and nowadays I never know what's the line and what's copying it
Opinions are a very big contributing factor to this, "my way of thinking is right!!" One correct opinion doesn't exist, some are dumber than others, some are way more structured or anything of the sorts.
My only opinion is that it's *terrifying.*
A lot of people say that I'm "making being gay my entire personality" and I never really understood what that means
@@actualgoblin In my case, I refer to people lead off with their orientation before even saying their name. Or they introduce themselves\in conversation only talk about their orientation. As if it's their most important\defining trait. Imagine a world where you meet someone and they said "I like strawberries" and that's it. They never elaborate beyond just that one preference. Or they base entire conversations about that one preference. It comes across (to me) as shallow. I hope those people get through life realizing that who or what they choose to fuck is not really what defines them. I knew one person (guy) who went on and on and on about their orientation to the point where me and others in the friend group stopped listening\ caring. They ended that school year all alone because they we so adamant about their victim status as a gay person, that they failed to see how many of the rest of us didn't care (as in we liked him for who he was before victim status became his whole world). He failed to see ppl who cared about him as a person and wanted to stay friends for so much more than just his orientation - but we all got so tired of the non stop prattling about it that we eventually left. Not everyone uses labels that way - but it feels like it's increasing. Like more and more people I talk to are just dumping themselves down into "I'm this" or "I'm that" and that's it. . . .maybe I just don't get around enough idk. Just a weird thought trail I went down of "why is this happening more and more?" but I might be just crazy. My partner seems to think so well enough, lol 😂
It's because we like to categorize and label things. Every species on the planet have a 2 word name because of that. Just be. That's my philosophy. I only get angry when people deny the truth, and that's usually scientific or historic truths that's based on peer reviewed evidence. I do read scientific journals. Everyone have their opinions. Everyone have their own life experiences. We need to revive the art of 'agreeing to dissagree'.
Thank you for addressing this. There’s a lot of black and white thinking, it makes me believe societies intellect has gone down massively. There’s rarely such a thing as just black or white mostly everything in the grey zone
I agree 100%. There needs to be more nuance in public discourse. Otherwise people get lost into echo chambers
@@damnedifido1062 all by design tbh. Actual nuance conversation are highly censored
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And somehow at the same time, there's a rise in people not believing there even is truth. There's my truth, your truth, her truth, etc. Idk how people can misunderstand THIS badly, that there is only one truth-- the truth-- but that everyone has different opinions, experiences, and understandings of any given set of events. That the truth can even be messy, that two contradictory things can sometimes be true, because like you say; some things are black and white but very often, they are shades of gray.
@@SingmetheSea "My truth" drives me nuts!
I swear to god everyday I step my foot into the digital landscape I get annoyed more and more about how dumb people are and their failure to think for themselves. As well as dumb ass people spouting utter bullshit into the void and the people eating it like chicken. You are the well needed change in this, pls never stray from your path and be the light
Can you provide an example
@@mr12aT literally every single redpill podcaster or people with alpha in their name
@@Adrik808There's a reason many identify with those beliefs. Stereotyped are stereotypes for a reason. It goes both ways.
@@colinrussell2017 the reasons those people identify with them is tribalism, a sense of belonging and a us vs them mentality. All these communitys are basically cults preying on weak men...
Raw milk for example or the "i eat butter stick daily", the carnivores and so on
As someone who’s finally learned how to critically think after being in limbo about my beliefs for 2 years, I can finally say, that critical thinking is one of most important skills anyone, and I mean EVERYONE should have. It makes you into a solid and fine individual.
Keep up the great work cole, love your vids always.
Its the only skill you need!
Same here. Very thankful. I'm about to be 19 and I've mastered this over the years.
Late comment I know, but how do you learn to critically think?
A quote I have created:
"I don't judge books by their cover, but judge the author for how they choose to cover their book" ~ Sujay Subrananyam
I believe that if you want to get respect for something you unfortunately have to dress yourself to get that respect. With that being said, I am aware of many people who don't look like who they really are.
I honestly love that quote :)
W Quote
Just a note I want to add is that also not every author gets to pick their cover. Appearances of an idea or thought are a luxury and are subjective by default.
"To trust is good, but not to trust is so much better."
You’ve been killing it Brother!!
This is an absolute Excellent video.
This is what I like to see _!_
Our brains are constantly being told what to do by influencers, and then confused when another influencer tells us everything we've been doing is wrong. We not thinking for ourselves, it’s as if we depend on influencers to help run our life.
This is why I deleted social media from my phone! The constant noise with no actual substance gets annoying. That’s why I love UA-cam videos like this! Full of substance!
Its good to have information at our hands, but we also need to learn how to interpret and think about that information. Just because a part of something is true, doesnt mean everything is true. And vice versa. And actual experience and knowledge, along with reproducability and qualified peer review, trumps over "influence" or "popularity"
It's almost like people need strong leaders to lead them. Weird....
I don't lol
People need to stop assuming that being famous means people know what they're talking about. This phenomenon was going on way before influencers became a thing
i hate being a woman in a world like this.
Me too. Can’t win whatever you do.
@@joygibbons5482 everything we say will always be debunked based on what another man said even if the topic is about women. It’s so frustrating literally not having a voice
Why exactly do you feel that way??
Great video! Another important thing to remember is that articles are not data. Always trace claims back to primary sources.
simply one of the goat - love the differentiated takes!
Much love!
The university I study at makes all new students go through a "Critical Thinking" class. The main assignments are searching social media for fallacies and choosing a hot topic on social media like MSG, aromatherapy, Carnivore diets etc, and writing on their merits.
I wish more people got a chance to take a class like that. Embarassing to say that I wasn't nearly as good at spotting misinformation prior to that taking that subject.
@@ocelotgg1803sure but did he learnt something?
Is a shame he had to pay to learn how to think
This should be taught at an early age with other actually usefull things like economics and idk ¿self worth? But instead we learn hiw to make useless formulas into other useless formulas for no real reason
(Im studing physics and after 3 years of errasing my brain so i dont think on how to solve the useless formula but instead convert it into other useless formulas and believe me my dad gave me a lesson in physics in 5 minutes on how to think again)
The issue usually is that most of those "anti-carnivore diet" "critical thinkers" will without a second thought say vegan diet is okay or even optimal, but you can't know jack shit about diet unless you actually learn at least the basic biochemistry, which they more often than not know nothing about. That coupled with the profit made from easily and cheaply harvestable crops versus expensive to produce meat shows why the vegan propaganda is being showed down everyone's throats for past decade.
They’re not teaching you to think critically. They’re brainwashing you into believing certain facts they don’t want you to know about are ‘misinformation’.
@@ocelotgg1803This kind of stuff should be taught in high school to be honest
@@Ash_Wen-li even earlier, kids nowadays are exposed to misinformation before they go to high school
I'm writing my first ever book on this subject and my experience with misinformation online because it really needs to be talked about more and you are the only person I've seen talking sense in a world of noise.
I wish you the best of luck
awesome, what's the title going to be?
i almost wanna contribute as i have a lot to say on this topic,and i don't mind sharing,however idk how much crossover in topics we'd have, but im a nihilist and i don't care enough to write a whole book and deal with all that, i can barely be bothered to deal with people for a few hours a day.
and that ladies and gentlemen is why I don"t have twitter, instagram, or Facebook and I only use youtube for coding tutorials and learning stuff
Cole you are a godsend!
i just don't trust anything, because it's hard for me to verify things
@@shaun3713 Some more basic things I think are more obvious but I mean with things that need a little more research to understand, especially when it comes to political things i just trust not much of anything because everything is so biased and skewed
What are your thoughts on spirituality? I've watched an obsurd number of videos about near death and out of body experiences and they give me a lot of hope that this isn't our actual reality and we are more than our bodies. The Vast majority of the people sharing their experiences honestly seem genuine, the problem though is that it's all anecdotal and I have no spiritual experiences of my own to base my beliefs off of. I want to believe what they are saying but can't go off of blind faith. I've been subscribed to you for probably around 4 years now and you really seem to be incredibly genuine hence why I'm asking you. Do you have any experience of your own pertaining to spirituality or know of any evidence for it? What do you suggest I do? Thx for your time and guidance🤝
The brain has a tendency to pump out comfort chemicals when it's near death. All the people who had these deep and meaningful experiences were, basically, tripping balls. However....there's something to be said for the deep comfort they've derived from it. I don't know. It is interesting.
Great stuff Cole.
Best advice I've learned: learn to self critique. Ask yourself uncomfortable questions, and take time to search out and digest answers. When faulting others, ask yourself: can my worldview also pass this same check? Make an actual effort to pull down what you beleive. You'll end up with more knowledge, a stronger foundation, and and more nuanced perspectives.
Cole, you dropped this at the right time man!
Thanks man
@@ColeHastingsthank you dude
Could you make a video on something related to dealing with falling YT view counts because you’re evolving into something that you’re not anymore? Or because whatever other reason? And why to be okay with that? I find a lot of internal battles revolving around that idea and it’s like a smoky forest I’m trying to navigate lol.
Im almost about to sub just based off that intro alone. That was hilarious.
Paul Saladino is good though! Lol. However, I just can't live how he does.
over for informationcels
So over
There you are , I missed you . Keep ‘em coming mate.
The editing is amazing in this video 💯💪🏾
I love the new comedic kinda format. It's more engaging, than those little stories you did, even though i love them
Sadly critical thinking is in short supply nowadays and I see that people most of the time tend to just go with feelings without actually thinking about stuff and seeing the algorithm's doing behind it.
For example: Andrew Tate. He's mostly recommended to boys between 18-30 and of course they start eating him up as there are those things which he actually gets right and so the audience enters the rabbit hole. Then there's the other side, the girls who get recommended content stating that boys who watch this and this kind of content are to be avoided at all costs. The boys see that they don't have success with the girls, dive even deeper and the girls see that yeah "they were right" as the boys enter the manosphere.
But the sides never talk to each other.
They don't even try to understand one another.
The world is not black and white. It is a different colour for everyone.
I had this problem with one of the self improvement content creators. He said Video games are bad for you even if you play them for 1 hour. He assumes that you'll eventually get addicted and take over your life but I disagree because I top play video games but not that addicted to it.
Things such as porn, Games, smoking, and alcohol are addictive but ONLY IF you let it.
Like it was ever abundant!
@@sagemaster1357being addicted isn’t something you “let” happen to you just FYI. I don’t think anyone would choose for that to happen. Some people are more susceptible than others, obviously do your own research but there are genetic components
@@sagemaster1357 Anything can be addictive. Lots of people are addicted to coffee, social media, sugar etc. the list goes on. The majority of things are fine in moderation, even the things you listed.
Great Title, Ive never seen your videos before I think but you seem like a good guy
One of the best videos on UA-cam
You are one of my favorite youtubers,the part about tribalism really hit home because ever since i started searching self-improving content i been hit by content creators like or that follow Andrew tate in some way,some seem almost made to get me into a cult,i have a fear for people who are even younger than me that might not realize what they might be getting into when they listen to them.
imo critical thinking should be taugth starting in middle school or starting at grade 5 because this shit is getting out of control. So many false idols and sheep that just follow blindly
@@Adrik808 educating people isn't in the best interests of people in power
@@Vivi_9 I think it never actually was. The education system may be just byproduct of current age, because people need more information and skills in this world that in the past one to live. Carve into young people the "right" picture of world that is made by those in ,,power'' and persuede them with other sources of informations that confirms it and make them passive about different views.
And it is even education system at all? It is not teaching us to actually live in this complex world.
In the famous words of Ted Lasso, “be curious, not judgemental”. We’ve lost nuance, the world is complicated, yet we want one word answers because it’s easy. The human brain will trust and seek information from other humans because ‘if another brain has done the work for me, great!’, in our monkey days that quick share of information kept us alive. Although now days that trust is exploited as naivety. Charisma being a big player in that. For anyone interested, Factfullness by Hans Rosling is superb at reviewing your ability to trust data around you. Insecurities are easier to fix within than externalise them.
15:20 “anecdotal is not evidence” is one of the best stray comments I ever read
Awesome video! Good Job!
Ok but, I feel like most people are smart enough to know this stuff. I mean it is both true that Spinach can be both good for you and bad for you. It is up to me to decide what I take from each video. I have to say that You tube has probably given me more information and facts in the last 6 months than I ever got in school. I think the current internet is making us smarter and more able to figure out what needs to be questioned.
The point isn't that the internet is bad for information and teaching. The point is more to take what you're learning with a grain of salt and look at multiple sources since anyone with a couple brain cells and money can make a post.
@@benellis3584 Thanks for the mansplain that is exactly what I said.
@@CelineNoyce my b, I wasn't trying to mansplain. You seemed like you disagreed with Cole’s point but I might have misunderstood.
IMO I don't think it's really about how smart people are. The various biases mentioned in the video are really powerful and they effect even the brightest minds. Most aspects of our society SEEM to be subtly encouraging less and less critical thinking while downright discouraging independent thought. It's lucky there are a few people with platforms, like this charming individual, who are at least speaking up about the concept🙂
@@mylo4539 I agree
Psyops are a hell of a drug
You vids be so on point 🦅🎯
The ad I got with this video was for relationship coaching “if the girl you really like keeps ghosting you…”
A few things missed here : 1. Sometimes "misinformation" can be true, and "truth" can be misinformation. 2. People with credentials can be on both sides. 3. Anecdotes can be testimonials, though of course you should go by more than one for evidence on a point if you can. When scientists and doctors are bought, seventh day, or wrongly influenced, and studies that go against narratives are suppressed, unpublished, or enriched enrollment is used, Anecdotes are Sometimes what we got left.
Sometimes, the studies can be trash, or the scientists come to wrong conclusions. Also, beware that the seventh day and plant bias scientists can be as such without having to state that that is their conflict of interest, so then a study can have conflict of interest, but yet it's not counted, so then we're told there are no conflicts of interest (but yet there are).
I like this video! Ad Populum is one of the biggest things to keep in mind on social media. Just because something has the most views doesn't mean it's correct. It's also one of the reasons I hate the fact that UA-cam removed dislikes. I feel like it shot educational channels in the leg, because you could kind of get an idea how legit something was at a glance by watching the like/dislike ratio.
This!! Thank you!!
Cole:
Most UA-camrs put time first, then description on the Time Stamps!
00:00 What It Feels Like Now:
02:13 Google's Biggest Problem
05:45 Social Media Is Stealing Your Info
07:38 The "TikTok Expert"
11:20 Emotional Triggering For Views
11:52 How Social Media Increases Tribalism
14:44 How We Can Fight This
15:00 The First Rule To Becoming A Better Thinker
16:12 The Second Rule To Becoming A Better Thinker
18:01 The Third Rule To Becoming A Better Thinker
20:06 What I Hope To See Moving Forward
21:01 The Rise Of NPCs
Cole, I know you get this a lot but honestly, you’ve helped me get through so many problems in my life at this point, especially a big one right now in how to think and critically process information. Thank you, and keep doing what you’re doing.
Glad to have helped. Thanks for supporting me
As for the diet thing, I'm in the middle with a Vegetarian diet with many eggs and cheese, I mean how the hell am I supposed to get enough protein from plants only?
A fully plant-based diet with no animal products is difficult, and for a lot of people, outright impossible (due to allergies and such). Humans are naturally omnivores, designed to eat both meat and plants. I personally don't believe in vegan diets.
With that being said, I suggest you look up information on the subject yourself instead of just blindly trusting me... and look for multiple sources, don't just stick to one. :p
I don't even know what's real anymore
This is really two videos, part one and part two. The second half should be expanded and be the focus.
Great video.
Hey Cole, you would not believe how uncomfortable it is for the likes of me to login on the internet with how the political spectrum is more divided more than ever. It feels like IT IS becoming more black and white with no more middle ground and it’s become conservative vs. liberal.
Oh and it’s definitely about right how the self-help niche is (mostly) on the conservative spectrum. Especially when we’re talking about all the alpha-escape-the-matrix type of people on social media who brag that they spit the facts/truth and other people say that they “are the big hero to society”.
Yet most of my personal favourite UA-camrs/influencers they don’t have that attitude nor they have the same perspective. And that can be quite awfully harmful if I’ve been feeling like I’m following a lie.
Of course people are who they choose to follow. I for one try to follow people who seem to “speak to me” with what I believe in. I’m no conservative but I’m not a full-on liberal either, I’m kinda in the middle here.
Now I do agree that both sides do in some way shape or form have a point. Also how you said that we shouldn’t necessarily change our beliefs whenever new information just shows up in our feed. This is why I remind people sometimes to take things with a grain of salt!
I'm the same way! I started reading all my news on Allsides so I can read an article on each story coming from the left, the right, and the center. Imho, anyone too far on either side is nuts
@@OriginalContent89 Oh yeah definitely. People who go too far on either side are a bit up there. 😅 That’s something that I know all too well.
I find it hard even trusting myself to begin with. I don't make rational choices, which makes it all the more unbearable. But hey, that's part of life. Y'all f*ck up as more times as you need to get yourselves a reality check.
Being yourself is the best thing you can do
That sponsor transition was so smooth , I did not see that coming at all
honestly, I dont think it started with the net, after a few years while I was in school, schools just kinda stopped promoting critical thought. It became solely about memorizing stuff. They never really pushed kids to think for themselves, kinda aligns with the creation of common core too I think. I know this is anecdotal but this was happening in all the schools I went to after middle school. This lack of critical thinking being taught and reinforced had actually hurt me for years to come. Made me worse at learning, picking apart true and false information, and more susceptible to misinformation, and I kept repeating my mistakes for a very long time until I kinda just couldnt stand dealing with believing wrong information
This!
@@OriginalContent89 honestly, in my opinion, I think all the net did was reinforce the absence of critical thought, but I dont think it was the reason why its on decline, well modern net that is, because the net back in the day was much more focused on critical thinking
I feel like society and the world in general is so surreal lately that I often cannot tell if something is just a meme or actually happened.
Yeah, life is truly stranger than fiction
I appreciate your candor
Great vid. 🏆
Ps: The jumping background is killing me. 😞
Brilliant. Should be required watching for every student. Often.
I don't search with Google.
I don't use social media.
Life is good. At least better than many. So simple.
what do you search with
@@jfkonlsd1364 Bing.
My dad agreed that the scariest fake info is the one that is wrong and fabricated but presented in a say professional way that make it more trustworthy. And the users, most of them are looking for an answer and they want it fast, naturally they will buy into those lies thinking it’s the real deal.
There has been a lot of work in creating distrust in experts. There has been too many cases where people seem to arguing that experts should be ignored and this random person with no credentials should be trusted instead. Maybe it is all those stupid clickbait. The "X that Y doesn't want you to know about", "3 simple tricks to X that experts don't want you to know", etc.
This is a really good video. Thank you
1. Everything is marketing.
2. Go outside and use your senses.
3. Be skeptical.
I feel like most of this is a consequence of the era we’re in (internet/social media) along with increasing distrust many have in expertise. It’s hard for me to see a way out of this because many don’t know how to do critical thinking, and I believe the postmodern idea that everything is relative is believed by so many people. Also, the internet/social media is probably not going anywhere. How do you determine what is misinformation when most would say that no one can determine that? It just feels like a nasty cycle that is beyond repair at this point.
Its much worse than that. It has to do with democracy, and too many people thinking at the same time.
I think we are here to realize that and to become the change we seek around us. Maybe there's more to discover. I feel like this is a good way to go in life.
“Everything is relative” is just an excuse for degeneracy imo.
@@ElJosher you’re probably right.
Well, expertise has shown it can be bought and manipulated.
So that's on them.
So good dude! When I feel the surge of emotion that comes when I see something I disagree with, it's such an opportunity. I can either let myself be triggered, or I can choose curiosity. Its so uncomfortable man - even listening to some perspectives feels somehow like I'm accepting them and can feel really gross. But in moments when I've sat and moved through that sensation into a genuine desire to understand its opened up truly life-improving insight.
Wow, the spinach one really shocked me!
Since quitting vegetables and seed oils my blood work has improved. Also, two life long illnesses have disappeared.
Lost me after 7 min . . .
Those services don't delete your data, at all. They merely flag it as private until you stop paying or until the websites where your data got deleted changes it's name and operates as a new company and makes all the stored but "private" data public again.
Total scam. And that as sponsor for a video about "critical" thinking
So how do we actually get our information off of the internet?
Metal Gear Solid 2 has this exchange that stuck with me for the longest time (in a time before social media):
Colonel : Raiden, you seem to think that our plan is one of censorship.
Raiden : Are you telling me it's not!?
Rose : You're being silly! What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context.
Raiden : Create context?
Colonel : The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you.
...
Raiden : And you think you're qualified to decide what's necessary and not?
Colonel : Absolutely. Who else could wade through the sea of garbage you people produce, retrieve valuable truths and even interpret their meaning for later generations?
Rose : That's what it means to create context.
Social media hasn’t done this, the us vs. them dialectic is as old as time itself. Thank the small hat tribe for its most contemporary manifestation.
I hate how Google implemented the "highlighted text" feature when you click on any webpage (not just the featured snippets) when searching for something. It automatically jumps to a random part of the page, skipping all context to show the "answer". Sometimes, the highlighted segment isn't even relevent or a fragment of a paragraph thats not even making a conclusive statement.
There's a fine line between overanalyzing a piece of content and thinking of it as legit right away. You have to balance both acts so you don't overdo either of them. Almost everything in life's this way, an act of balancing underdoing something and overdoing it.
Idk, with how much mis- and disinformation is online presently, I wouldn’t say the line between accepting something at face value and overanalyzing it is anywhere near fine… if anything I’d say it has gotten wider. I see your point about the futility of analysis with the purpose of The Ultimate Truth on a subject, but for the most part (in my opinion) it takes quite a bit of research nowadays before I’d label someone as overanalyzing. There’s just so much nonsense to sift through and too great an incentive for lying/exaggerating.
TBH I used to be triablist in things, but as I got older realized a lot of life isn't black and white and contains a lot of nuance/grey areas. If people enjoy a plant based diet and it meets their goals, awesome. Same for those who are more animal based.
Great video man thank u
Crash Course has a series about digital media literacy. It's a few years old at the point but I think it's well worth a watch.
the guy who says spinach is a fake health food is actually right and he bases all his videos on studies and reliable sources
His name is Paul Saladino and I'm glad you pointed this out.
Even he's biased too. Spinach still has a lot of nutrients for a little calories so eating cooked spinach isn't some dangerous food. Sure, if you have issues with oxalates you can avoid it but otherwise eating it occasionally isn't going to harm your health.
Spinach can be a healthy food, I'm plant based and multiple doctors recommend it for necessary nutrients I don't often consume in other foods, my dad eats meat and was told to stop eating spinach because of those exact same nutrients because he gets them through other foods and the possibility of kidney stones forming. For most foods as long as they aren't processed foods, the health of them is wildly dependent on the person and population eating them
Great content! I find myself lacking mental stimulation often and want to discuss the topics of ur videos with people but the reality is most people are the NPCs and don’t really understand anything ur describing. U make me feel seen and it’s great to know theres millions of people like us out there 🎉
Would be interesting to hear you discuss how misinformation on social media is a function of a capitalist organization of the economy and what we can do to ameliorate that
They don't understand because they haven't seen the video and you are bad at communicating the ideas. Don't call people NPCs because they don't immediately validate your bias when talking to them.
Great Video. Glad i found this channel!
Thank u for a thought provoking segment
Hey man, really impressed by the amount of info you put in every video. To be fair, you are the only self improvement youtuber which I haven't dropped quickly, as you truly make me question my self beliefs. Thanks sincerely dude.
That's good to hear (I think? haha). Thanks for still watching the vids
Thanks for doing your videos, you might be one of the few “self-help” influencers that’s actually genuine and not a grifter.
When did this influencer thing become a popular phrase. He is a youtuber just call them that please
Finally, some nuance. This is like a breath of fresh air. I've been into self-improvement for a long time but also recognized a lack of nuance and too many extreme viewpoints being pushed. I deleted a lot of channels/podcasts and just focused on a few high-quality ones, this one will certainly be part of that.
thanks for making this vid
Thanks for watching
Amazing video! Keep fighting for the truth.
Thank you for watching
I do scroll and check multiple results because of my studies (biochem). I gotta find good, primary sources to reference and being taught this has helped me in every other area. I’m still biased, but I have a higher standard for my sources. In my experience, the google snippets are more accurate the more obscure the topic you are searching is (to a certain extent until what you are searching for has no clear answer online anymore). Been writing a report in NMR and the snippets show very general and good reminders of parts of the subject. I always read more though because they are wrong or not answering my question half the time.
You best bro been watching channel a few yrs now🦅🎯
I recently saw a UA-cam video pop up with the thumbnail saying something like "Men are having 130% less sex!" Just... how... how do people write something like that and not think?
So basically, question EVERYTHING.