Just wanted to say thank you for this video, it really resonated with me. I will check out your other videos. To anyone who might read this: act now, I mean right now. I found myself in this rut that's been dragging on for 16 years now. I've never been able to snap out of it and watched as my dreams of being an intellectual got crumbled down to a point I'm not even able to recover anymore. Now I'm just a mediocre lady in her early forties, feeling lost and afraid of everything. But when you spoke about that yellow financial book, I think something clicked. It kinda dawned on me that I do hold those assumptions about money and maybe that's one of the main parts of this puzzle.
Thanks for this comment. I really appreciate it. Best wishes for your journey! I think you are not the only one in the position you describe. And I think there is still much hope and much opportunity to be had if we can learn to think outside the standard academic path.
A somewhat interesting playlist. Thanks. Any chance you'd be willing to add a video saying whether it is possible to become a scholar without going to university? ie What it means and takes to be a scholar. If it is not possible without attending a university, what do you get from a university that you can't get outside?
I'd like to make a video on this topic. Until then, I think the short answer is, you can absolutely become a scholar without going to university. But you'll need the discipline to do so. It's like any other skill-you have to put in your 10,000 hours, or whatever amount of time and practice that is required to become proficient. You'll also want a mentor if you can find one (I'd recommend reading Robert Green's book on Mastery on this topic). I would also ask: why do you want to become a scholar? And can the thing you want be achieved in some other way? If not, then you should pursue it! The difficult doing so outside a university is that you won't have as much structure or guidance along the way.
Thank you,@@philosophyforeverydaylife1861 . What an excellent answer. And what an excellent question: why indeed become a scholar? I think what you're saying is that if I read a number of books, whether ten or a thousand, and in one of them I happen on the detail that fits my puzzle, then THAT could be all that is needed. Especially if I am able to express the completed puzzle in a way that satisfies the right people. The guidance can of course work both ways. To take a bit of a stupid example: if I register with a university that requires its professors to annually renew a faith statement, the guidance might take me on a bit of a detour. Then again, much of life is a detour...
I found your channel today and binged through all the videos. I've gathered your field is religion, but I'm not exactly sure what. While religion does interest me, I personally am not religious at all, at least in the conventional sense of the word religion. All this is to say that when I listen to your reasoning, there are "hiccups ". I don't have any systematic or structured critique. It's just that your train of thought moves in some places in ways which I find "unexpected". That being said, your videos did resonate with me. I am not someone with your level of expertise and your point about someone who's able to get a phd being able to achieve a lot in other things if they can emulate the dedication they had in getting it, highlighted my lack of discipline and ability to focus myself on a subject for prolonged periods. But I do long for an intellectual life. Since a child, I've loved the sciences. After a period of heartbreak and depression in high school, I was acquainted with philosophy. I pursued a degree in CS, but exam stress and a couple of bad results made me discouraged and eventually dropped out. The underlying reason, I thought, was loss of interest in the field, both as a simple affective change and the gradual overcoming by dread of knowledge of what working in the field would entail (constant business talk, meetings, planning, documentation and finally writing a piece of code I care nothing about). I am just a boy who got into programming because I liked video games. It was in the broad cluster of "science and technology" that I admired since forever (and was easier for me academically) and would also lead to a good paying job. This comment wasn't really supposed to lead anywhere. It was just me rambling about myself. I appreciate your videos and will wait for the next one. Have a nice day.
Hi, thanks for this comment. I appreciate you sharing a bit about yourself and I resonate with what you said about the business world. That’s why I initially wanted to go into academia and why living an intellectual life is still so important to me. You mentioned potential hiccups in my reasoning. I have no doubt there are plenty. If you ever happen to come back I’d welcome any more specific insights you might wish to share! I would also say that it’s never too late to start on something new, if you have something you’re wanting to pursue. I had to reinvent myself in a new career since leaving the academy, and I’m learning a lot of things for the first time in my late thirties. So don’t give up hope!
Just wanted to say thank you for this video, it really resonated with me. I will check out your other videos. To anyone who might read this: act now, I mean right now. I found myself in this rut that's been dragging on for 16 years now. I've never been able to snap out of it and watched as my dreams of being an intellectual got crumbled down to a point I'm not even able to recover anymore. Now I'm just a mediocre lady in her early forties, feeling lost and afraid of everything. But when you spoke about that yellow financial book, I think something clicked. It kinda dawned on me that I do hold those assumptions about money and maybe that's one of the main parts of this puzzle.
Thanks for this comment. I really appreciate it. Best wishes for your journey! I think you are not the only one in the position you describe. And I think there is still much hope and much opportunity to be had if we can learn to think outside the standard academic path.
I'm a individual who just enjoys to read philosophy books. Your video helped me in my desire to "teach" what I read.
Glad to hear that!
A somewhat interesting playlist. Thanks. Any chance you'd be willing to add a video saying whether it is possible to become a scholar without going to university? ie What it means and takes to be a scholar. If it is not possible without attending a university, what do you get from a university that you can't get outside?
I'd like to make a video on this topic. Until then, I think the short answer is, you can absolutely become a scholar without going to university. But you'll need the discipline to do so. It's like any other skill-you have to put in your 10,000 hours, or whatever amount of time and practice that is required to become proficient. You'll also want a mentor if you can find one (I'd recommend reading Robert Green's book on Mastery on this topic). I would also ask: why do you want to become a scholar? And can the thing you want be achieved in some other way? If not, then you should pursue it! The difficult doing so outside a university is that you won't have as much structure or guidance along the way.
Thank you,@@philosophyforeverydaylife1861 . What an excellent answer. And what an excellent question: why indeed become a scholar? I think what you're saying is that if I read a number of books, whether ten or a thousand, and in one of them I happen on the detail that fits my puzzle, then THAT could be all that is needed. Especially if I am able to express the completed puzzle in a way that satisfies the right people. The guidance can of course work both ways. To take a bit of a stupid example: if I register with a university that requires its professors to annually renew a faith statement, the guidance might take me on a bit of a detour. Then again, much of life is a detour...
I found your channel today and binged through all the videos. I've gathered your field is religion, but I'm not exactly sure what. While religion does interest me, I personally am not religious at all, at least in the conventional sense of the word religion.
All this is to say that when I listen to your reasoning, there are "hiccups ". I don't have any systematic or structured critique. It's just that your train of thought moves in some places in ways which I find "unexpected".
That being said, your videos did resonate with me. I am not someone with your level of expertise and your point about someone who's able to get a phd being able to achieve a lot in other things if they can emulate the dedication they had in getting it, highlighted my lack of discipline and ability to focus myself on a subject for prolonged periods. But I do long for an intellectual life.
Since a child, I've loved the sciences. After a period of heartbreak and depression in high school, I was acquainted with philosophy. I pursued a degree in CS, but exam stress and a couple of bad results made me discouraged and eventually dropped out. The underlying reason, I thought, was loss of interest in the field, both as a simple affective change and the gradual overcoming by dread of knowledge of what working in the field would entail (constant business talk, meetings, planning, documentation and finally writing a piece of code I care nothing about). I am just a boy who got into programming because I liked video games. It was in the broad cluster of "science and technology" that I admired since forever (and was easier for me academically) and would also lead to a good paying job.
This comment wasn't really supposed to lead anywhere. It was just me rambling about myself. I appreciate your videos and will wait for the next one. Have a nice day.
Hi, thanks for this comment. I appreciate you sharing a bit about yourself and I resonate with what you said about the business world. That’s why I initially wanted to go into academia and why living an intellectual life is still so important to me. You mentioned potential hiccups in my reasoning. I have no doubt there are plenty. If you ever happen to come back I’d welcome any more specific insights you might wish to share! I would also say that it’s never too late to start on something new, if you have something you’re wanting to pursue. I had to reinvent myself in a new career since leaving the academy, and I’m learning a lot of things for the first time in my late thirties. So don’t give up hope!
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