Why We’re All Burning Out | Byung-Chul Han’s Warning to the World
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- Philosopher Byung-Chul Han is concerned that our capitalist society is increasingly leading humanity toward collective burnout.
Video: Why We’re All Burning Out | Byung-Chul Han’s Warning to the World
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#burnout #byungchulhan #depression
00:00 Introduction
01:50 Becoming our own tyrants
06:47 Exhausted by self-exploitation
08:56 The imperative to achieve
11:42 A species of multitaskers
15:02 Embracing negativity
" To be silent the whole day long ,see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself "
~ Henry Miller
he was on to something.
I'm going back and hopefully adopting a 80s type of life.
Going retro. Reduce technology as much as possible
❤
@@RedpillPortugal They had technology in the 80s. It wasn't _that_ long ago.
@@RedpillPortugal 1880'S
"Why are we trying so hard to survive... when we're too dead to live..."
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Nails it.
I have come to the conclusion that the most pervasive and destructive feeling along these lines, is shame. In all aspects of modern life such as work, attractiveness, attainment, etc. the systemic expectation (that remains by design unattainable) serves as the basis of comparison, moral judgement, and control. And it is all internalized. There are so many people in my life who feel like they are not smart enough, haven't accomplished enough, are not attractive enough, not weathly enough...are just "not enough" and that shame leads some people to depression and others to rage. Some cope by overcompensation. Others just seek solitude and follow the path of stoicism. May we all extend some grace to each other and reassure those around us that they too, are enough.
Shame is a dirty fuel too. It can motivate us to change, but we end up worse off for it
@@Jhawk_2k I see the most damaging kind as that which comes from the situation where people seemingly "do the right thing" by working hard, being loyal, living well, and are still shamed and experience contempt.
@@BrandonFoltz for sure. It's the "I've tried everything and nothing works" that leads us to some of the darkest places. Believing that this hard work alone will make us worthy of happiness that can hurt us so much
No. Most people are not enough. And I'm not going to congratulate them for doing the literal bare minimum. Stop with this feminine emulation. You are a man. Act like one for the sake of your father's dignity!
@@Jhawk_2k Wrong. Shame is what kept people in line. Just saying its a universal evil that must be suppressed is suicidally dumb. You have been failed by your parents and society that gave you such nonsensical beliefs. Shame is healthy and it keeps people from acting like feral animals.
I'd rather have people that feel bad about themselves than people that feel great about themselves and then they all flash mob rob the grocery store. They have many names these so called people. But you know who exactly I'm talking about.
>Kids
>Teens
>Thugs
>Youths
>Mayors
>Joggers
Rascals
>Parolees
>Juveniles
>Hooligans
>Hoodlums
>Squatters
>Protesters
>Teenagers
>Pranksters
>Youngsters
>Ex-convicts
>SUV Drivers
>Party goers
>Delinquents
>Church goers
>Young fathers
>Jobless losers
>Gifted athletes
>Gang members
>Trouble makers
>Bus passengers
>Aspiring rappers
>Subway dancers
>Repeat offenders
>Lifelong criminals
>Masked assailants
>Lunchtime rowdies
>Persons of interest
>Restaurant patrons
>Former NFL players
>Community activists
>Unhappy customers
>Black Friday crowds
>Troubled young men
>High school students
>Spring break partiers
>Neighborhood bullies
>Scholarship recipients
You guys have time for burnout?
Society is so nuts because you basically have to live past your limits every day to survive
This comment has the stench of genius about it. Bravo.
My dream is to travel and sleep
Travel and sleep on the car and train. Don't want to stop anywhere.
Just travelling
Bro it's not related to time, no matter if you're busy doing a job 24hours or something, you're burnout if you're burnout
Exactly
Worked for about 5 years, Monday & Tuesday nightshift(10:30 PM to 6:45 AM), Wednesday & Thursday free, Friday, Saturday & Sunday early shift (6:30 AM to 2:45 PM). Only I kept showing up half an hr earlier to help out in case the shift before me was being overwhelmed, kept staying longer to make sure I took care of everything, kept jumping in and taking over other people's shifts if they couldn't come to work, and kept taking on extra responsibilities to make sure problems didn't develop further down the line.
My mentality was "Someone has to do the job, and if you can work, you will work", and felt ashamed of even thinking of saying "no" if I got asked to work some more. The two days off didn't feel like days off, since I was still thinking about work and trying to adapt my sleeping schedule to the shift I had next.
At some point I looked at my bank account and noticed how much money I had saved up and how I have no idea what to do with it. I had no desire to spend it on anything, since... when would I have the time to enjoy what I bought for myself, but more importantly, I had no plans for the future whatsoever. It felt like I was working to gather money so it could collect dust.
I surprised myself when I told my manager, seemingly out of the blue, I want to quit and not work for a while so I could figure out what I wanted from life. Even that I felt ashamed of, since I felt like I was abandoning my co-workers.
But it was the best decision of my life. I had no idea what being relaxed actually meant.
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Can you give me some money that u have earned, so I can fulfill my desires and then I will become desireless
Thật tiếc khi bạn không nói cụ thể công việc của bạn đang làm là làm việc gì.
Nếu bạn đang làm việc và thấy tâm mình an với công việc mình đang làm thì tốt thôi. Như về thiền thì thiền không có nghĩa là ngồi yên một chỗ tĩnh lặng mà hoàn toàn trong lúc đang may quần áo, đang làm bánh, đang làm một công đoạn nào đó trong dây chuyền sản xuất,....thì cũng có thể thiền. Bởi vì, thiền là nhất tâm, một tâm duy nhất, không vọng tưởng.
Nên khi bạn làm việc mà chú tâm vào nó, không bị phân tâm thì chính là bạn đang thiền rồi đó. Mà thiền là 1 trạng thái thư giãn rất tốt, ở đó không có niệm tưởng lăng xăng làm đầu óc bấn loạn, bị kích thích quá mức.
@@harekrishna68948you should feel shame you beggar
@@ngocthamhuynh9966 I had the same life as him and the problem was the all encompassing nature of the work. It left no time for relationships, friends or hobbies.
I do agree that meditating at work and being in the zone accomplishing something hard was an amazing feeling.
It was fun while it lasted but spending your entire life climbing mountains leaves a lot to be desired for other goals. For me it was finding love for example.
Sitting in one's car and just listening to nothing but the rain is incredibly underrated.
Try listening to the rain outside the car next time, it's even better to feel the elements. 🙂
@@Keilnoth Very true, but living out of my car, getting drenched isn't exactly fun, as drying off can be a bit of a task.
@@KevinVeroneauI quit my high paying stressful job and have been driving up the coast living out my car and i can deff attest to this. Sometimes we don’t need much
I read that as "shitting" in ones car...
@@theworldofwoo8320sounds like a cathartic act
We live in a society where we compete to be better than the other person and over work ourselves day and night to one day wake up and understand it was all pointless. The Pursue of nothing..
WHAT ......
Society cannot give you purpose, you have to find your own purpose in life. But society gives us the right conditions to self realisation. The extent to which we utilise these conditions properly is up to us.
@@Michael-ko8ufit definitely doesn’t give you the right conditions for self realisation. Working a soul crushing job only to have no energy to want to do anything isn’t the right condition at all.
Competition has the very negative effect of wanting to stop others from being as successful and knowledgeable as they could be, as well as making people work themselves to death to get ahead.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”
we are forced either to scam themselves or help a scammer called the employer. No other way in capitalism, that's why it is a rotten system where only certain sick type can thrive, the rest just tries to survive ...
be grateful to all the scientists, engineers, doctors who went thru burnout to bring the modern man, amenities like antibiotics, electricity, GPS, microprocessors, brain surgery. Imagine a world without anesthesia and repairing a fractured bone. Its time for you to put on your big boypanties, stop complaining about burnout, and carry on the torch...humanity needs you!
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@@fitnesspoint2006 hahaha
@@fitnesspoint2006 Go fish.
Tao Te Ching - Verse 24
He who stands on tiptoe
doesn’t stand firm.
He who rushes ahead
doesn’t go far.
He who tries to shine
dims his own light.
He who defines himself
can’t know who he really is.
He who has power over others
can’t empower himself.
He who clings to his work
will create nothing that endures.
I like those eastern wisdom, so simple yet profound. I collect them in my channel as well.
Nội dung bạn chia sẻ hay!
In short:
Just be.
You are a being.
Your natural state is to be.
Nothing more nothing less.
I feel like my eyelids are peeling off from the speed of change. I wish I could just step off this society rocket and share more love and make more memories I cared about. Instead of just falling forward for no reason
Yup, I found the words of the Buddha can show us a way forward. 🎉❤
"Falling forward for no reason" is a good way summary of my life
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Profound as fuck
@@thesjkexperience I found the Buddhist philosophy terrifying. I actually think it is mostly right, but I do find the having "no-self" part a little too much. I think the truth is somewhere between "I have an intrinsic unchanging self" and nirvana.
Folks, make a priority to sit still in silence for at least one hour every day and just let your thoughts wander without interfering with them in any way, don't force a thought or resist any of them, just let them run their course so to speak. Same with the emotions, because once you start practicing this you are going to notice that a lot of bottled up, unresolved negative stuff is going to resurface and you just need to simply let them work themselves out and not push them away, they'll go away on their own, don't worry, you just need to give them some room to breathe. The key is (this is very important) basically to sit still and not interfere with any thought or emotion and just let them be. You're going to start noticing major changes fairly quickly in 2 weeks already if you do this consistently every day. I'm telling you, it's life changing, wish I knew about this years ago, honestly would've saved me a lot of misery. It'll literally feel like you've gotten rid of heavy baggage that you've been carrying around on your back for years and your head will always be clear with zero anxiety.
Also, if you think sitting in silence sounds boring, it is, but only for the first 15-20 mins, then you'll naturally enter trance-like state which you'll find very comforting and you'll actually look forward for the next one, so don't let yourself be discouraged if it doesn't seem to work at first, give it some time and you'll be amazed what a wonderful blessing this meditation practice is.
Great comment, thank you 🙏
thanks for advise, always wanted to try it, but got distracted easily. I hope I can dedicate time for that soonest
@@bogdankarpenko6661 yeah the first 15-20 mins is kinda tough, ngl, especially when you are just beginning to practice it, your mind just keeps racing and it's very difficult to just sit there not doing anything. But if you stick to it, all that noise in your head will start to disappear and once you start noticing the overall positive changes in yourself it'll motivate you to stay consistent with it. It kinda carries itself from there on, you just need to kickstart the whole thing, you'll always want to go back to it once you see the difference it makes.
1 hr was daunting to me some months ago, so if anyone's feeling the same but would like to try it out, start small. Starting off with 10, 15 mins twice a day will lead to you slowly building a tolerance to complete silence.
And journaling, in my experience, seems to be a lite version of this. Or it at least helps with being able to sit with yourself.
Does silent walking have the same effect?
Our phones and non essential information overload.
Minimalist functional phones are on the rise ...oh dear, think I just hyped that up, but yeah the desire for a dumb phone is a thing
It's rather a lot of pressure to do meaningless and pointless tasks faster every day.
And the desire to get others off their phones as well.❤
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Actually we’re learning essential information and realizing that we’ve been living in a manipulated society to a degree that’s absolutely horrific. My phone allowed me the access too enough information that I realize we’ve been all lied too from birth about everything.
I was burned out 3 years ago, and still haven't recovered. I gave everything to my work, but when the big sick hit I was shown what people really care about. I can't imagine myself working for someone else again, not even for myself.
@@EmbraceTheStruggle24what is your problem?
if i may recommend, pls do: kapalbhati yoga, it'll open up lungs, for vitality to rise and burnout to recover.. for me as well it took a lot of time.. i got seriously drained, that memory went low, intellect became dull, n more.. this really helps heal brain n body
Same here. I just cant see myself becoming a salaryman anymore, it feels like i rather die and i prefer suicide to it. I have been like this since for some time now. I am really depressed and i get nightmares everyday. I wake up, having panic attacks. I cant meet or socialize with people anymore. I cant imagine being in any other place besides my house for a prolonged time. I dont have the motivation to do anything. Constantly, i am finding myself reassuring that suicide is a good option. I am convincing myself to do it. I told many of my loved ones about this and my battle with depression for 8 years. But everyone brushes it off, remarking i should man up and suck it up, find work, regardless of job. I just cant. People dont understand
I'm sorry to hear that. Since burnout is a symptom of how we are self-managing or failing to. Burnout is the result. Tips for burnout help start with an early warning system for burnout. When you notice yourself starting to lose interest in your business or work that used to bring you joy, don't wait until you can't stomach it anymore, taking action early to reassess your process, revise your time management and spend more time in energizing relationships will help prevent burnout before it takes over. When you're already burnt out, it is still possible to get yourself back to your former self. But you must start the rebuilding work from connecting with what drives you, what matters most to you at a high level. list those things and then start to craft steps to experience them in order from highest to lowest. You can absolutely recover and come back stronger than ever. I believe in you, you've got this!
@@brianstone4459 I worry that we don't always have the option of taking action. In this day and age of high inflation and cost of living, low wages, and the expected achievements that are mentioned in this video, a lot of people don't seem to have a choice about their time management or energizing relationships, even if they feel the alarms inside of themselves going off. That's why they've ignored them. Sorry to be pessimistic, but I struggle to necessarily find a solution to some of these problems.
Many people work to afford health insurance for their family. This is making us sick, so we need more health insurance. Repeat.
And then work to pay the deductible 😂
Đúng vậy. Nhưng không biết số tiền đóng bảo hiểm y tế ở nơi bạn sống thì như thế nào, còn ở nơi tôi, Việt Nam thì mức đóng tiền bảo hiểm y tế thì có thể chấp nhận được, và không cần phải làm nhiều để có đủ tiền đóng bảo hiểm y tế.
Mà hiện nay tôi thấy có vấn đề là ở bảo hiểm nhân thọ. Có rất nhiều người làm việc kiệt sức như bạn nói để có thể đóng mức tiền cao ngất ngưởng để khi họ chết thì người nào đó họ chỉ định sẽ nhận số tiền đó.
Trong khi hợp đồng thì lê thê, tiền có thể mất bất cứ lúc nào.
Thật là, những người làm bảo hiểm này ăn trên nỗi sợ của người khác. Và thật sự chỉ khiến người ta sợ hãi hơn, tham lam hơn, yếu đuối hơn.
I was thinking about this the other day. The one way to get affordable health care in the u.s. is by making yourself a cog in some system, full time. And the only reason that was probably created.. Was most likely by companies that wanted their staff to stop dying from over working them. "Alright, lets give them healthcare, but we have to own them if they want it."
mobile phones, news and media...
i had no phone for 3 days but i wasnt sure if want to buy another one. the amount of peace of mind was fantastic.
LAMO. You normies really can't handle the world. I've always always always hated telephones before everyone got forced into carrying cellphones. They had buttons. Do you what a button is you little zoomie? Ever actually dialed a phone number? You weaklings make me feel self esteem.
What
Yes.
That's called a dopamine detox. I would like to try that one day> It's difficult to do all the time because banking services, bills and so on are now done digitally.
When I'm not into social media Facebook I'm more peaceful and can focus. I have twitter, no IG, no Tiktok. I'm only in YT because I wanna spread joy, enthusiasm, inspiration as well as my photographs😊.
A lot of people are trying too hard to be something..when they already are of value.
Đúng vậy.
You're right. However, we are still the highly intelligent apes that we always have been. We are meant to live in small, tight-knit communities where we constantly receive social feedback.
Now I live in a city of millions, most humans I meet I will never see again.
Even though I agree with you ideologically/philosophically, without a steady source of positive social feedback from a community, to my ape brain, I have no value.
@@ngocthamhuynh9966 ủa người việt nam à
@@damakuno đúng vậy.
Currently trying to read Byung-Chul Han. His books are short but very dense. Wonderfully insightful though. I love the analysis of "self-optimizing, crafting our authentic lifestyles, and becoming the best version of ourselves", all concepts whose over-use now make me cringe, for the very reasons Byung-Chul Han outlines. There is a cult of self-improvement that keeps us all tied to a life of ever more striving and sees any kind of negativity as morally questionable at best.
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@@EmbraceTheStruggle24 It's a commentary on how even the self improvement crowd has essentially become a commodity and how the book they're reading is effectively addressing those concerns because the book is self aware of this very problem growing in the self help community that seems to focus on striving for greater and greater abundance. That's why it feels cringe inducing to the OP how overused these self help terms are becoming since it seems modern self help people often are really trying to essentially spew out yet another form of consumerism to keep generating more success for themselves and others who become like them.
My two sense is the underlying problem with saying for example you need to "manifest abundance" is it's a very unstable model at the core that people on the surface won't see because, compared to trying to be more mindful and minimalistic for freedom, having more abundance is ultimately based still on the idea of infinite growth in a finite world, a world which also always requires cheap and nearly slave like work to offload the material labour to allow for such practices to exist in the first place. Even if everything is recycled like it should be, someone has to manage all that "abundance" of waste to turn trash back into treasure. Will those people ever have a chance to do what we're doing?
No so, to me, humanity's real goal should be to only consolidate power to redistribute it, meaning seek abundance to share it, not own it. Often self help stuff seems obsessed with individuals gaining power to only teach others how to gain power the same way they did, if they happen to actually share their real technique if it's truly more then merely generating wealth off the interest of others who want said wealth.
If you connect with this message, it would be nice to see a like or a comment. In✌️and ❤
@@dr.laydude yes this was definitely well thought out. Believe you me ... I definitely was not attempting to spam or troll ... lol ... however I must say, that all of what you described is very accurate and validating on a whole bunch of levels ^_^
Irony is... The People who actually needs to watch this Video won't have Time to watch it 😂
Or the video will appear in their UA-cam feed but they are too depressed to watch it.
There is prevention. Also, when I was working 15 hours daily, I used to listen to stuff on youtube too, depending on the nature of the work.
Or they’re too busy “crushing the day”.
I've been experiencing this burn out for some time now, it's gotten to the point where I couldn't take it anymore and quit my job. Doesn't help that I've been dealing with depression since I was a child and never really learned how to properly regulate my emotions so when those low times kick in, I'm a mess.
Couldn't take all that pressure, and it hurt even more when I realized how little it all meant. I still feel empty and unfulfilled and I honestly just want to give up. Can't take this anymore. Decided to just use what free time I have now until I can find a job to just get back into my martial arts and try to actually just take a break.
I'm so tired of all this.
Qq
I also quit my job because of burnout (I was a teacher). To be honest, I also feel worthless sometimes, as if there were nothing worthy to fight for. But after a while, I came to the conclusion that I don't know anything about life and that good and bad are often a matter of point of view. Many wonderful things may come in the future, some of them pretty suddenly. So, I just try to keep myself busy, think on others too and keep learning from life.
"Man surprised me most about humanity.Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."
-Dalai Lama
I wrote something on this a while back that touches similarly to what Han noticed. "We are the hardest working slave and the most cruel taskmaster; all in one."
I have suffered from mind-distorting anxiety and more than one depression consistently for years, every time I tried to achieve something I felt was significant, I had the rug pulled from underneath by these life-sapping conditions. Part of me also recognized that I seemed to be freaking out over trivial things but this busy demanding commercialized society also reinforced my neurotic obsessions. It appears that nobody escapes mental health decline these days and I think, finally I see what I have been hoping for, that somebody who is academically noteworthy will come out and tell everyone honestly that it is our social setup that is driving all of us insane.
All civilizations rise and fall. Our society isn't different,
It is different. The difference is we can map out its entirety and we have a lot of information to use from trial and error.
We have been close to a society crash numerous times for 2 decades. The only thing keeping us a float is hope and societal organization
Hard to see how considering humans don't change. Too many mouths, not enough resources?
Except our society has lived and transformed through the industrial revolution, the information revolution and now, the AI revolution. These are just the big ones. A lot of technologies have completely transformed our socities over and over for the last 200 years. That didn't happen to any of the other civilizations in history. So no, our civilization is not going to simply fall and be replaced by a new one like the egyptians. Anyone who thinks it will fall and that they will somehow live to see the next regime is a dillusional fool.
Impermanence
Yes, every society can fall. But it would be stupid to say that societies are different and there is no difference between the fall of Ancient Greece and USSR. Different consequences.
This is why I gave zero fucks about money when making decisions. Like my pops says, “if you got a problem that money can fix, you don’t have a real problem.”
what if you’re starving
If you don’t care about your finances you’re doomed in this lifetime
If you care about nothing but your finances you're a massive part of the problem.
@@austinharvey9116 Nobody is starving because of money since food is plentiful and cheap. If you can't afford food then it will be given to you.
Starvation today only happens because of war
@Brian-vk1hm exactly money is all we have to survive. Only broke people are told this to keep them down
I felt that i had to quit my job because of burn out ! Money doesnt pay health ! I lost a lot of money but now i have my focus again stop drinking stop partying eat good food again and working out ! Money isnt everything dont compare youself with others every person need to find their own PATH and just to try every day better and everything is going to align !
Good advice.
But at the same time though, what would you be doing differently? You would probably be bored af just look at you when the power goes out.
Been 6 months for me. I haven’t recovered from my burn out at all.
@@BlackJesus8463 the purpose of solitude is to find out whether one can live with their thoughts, for stimulation is only desired when one needs an escape from it
@@BlackJesus8463 for me solitude is really What is giving me Clarity ! Burn-outs make you wanna drink do drugs live Life reckless cause when you are tired of your daily rotine everything that is “bad” Seems to be a good escape ! Now im Alone yes but now i know my worth im learning to say no im learning What type of beahviour is not align with my better self in the end of the day being alone its all about lay low and getting stronger and better
I think people say "whatever happens in Japan, so goes the world" Japan is a great indicator of where the world ends up, and we are seeing this now. They went and are going through overworking, burnout and loneliness. Now the world is experiencing it. Also,getting a college degree and making good money comes at a price: overworking and burnout. Now a lot college jobs are basically no different than fast food jobs. I think we are really living in a real worsening dystopia. it is happening very slowly ,but we are still experiencing it. Too many unsolvable problems hitting society all at once and there is a "creativity crisis" and no solutions to fix these problems. It sucks. Climate change worries the hell out of me.
Take a deep breath and Touch some grass
@@michaeljaymarajas8186how can we touch grass when we are all overworked, underpaid, depressed, hyper fixated, misunderstood, and only looking forward to death
Why does climate change scare you?
100% a growing dystopia
@@46FreddieMercury91 its unnatural and shouldnt happen.
Animals and nature end up dying. The arctic is losing land mass (ice) and thus polar bears barely have room to live
Acid rain is forming in more places than china
And many places are not equipped for the changes. Ie: snowing in texas. Cars arent equipped for any snow at all, thus causing many accidents. Or snow melting in alaska. Many homes are built on thick ice in alaska. Landslides occuring and ruining homes
Eckhart Tolle - "The Power of Now".
Allan Watts - "Life is not a journey".
This video makes more sense than anything I watched in a month. It also explains why it is so.
I just came from work but I need to rest before I watch it cause I'm tired.
Sleep well my sweet prince
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Take it easy dear sir.
We’re not in an achievement society we’re in a consumer society and most of the advantages you attribute to it are only available if the individual can afford it.
Not an achievement society so much as an exploitative one.
@@kin-of-orakio Spare me the exploitation angle. That just screams to anyone clued in that you are a perpetual victim. Explorative is the wording used by weaklings. You have to articulate what is wrong with regulations and anti-competitive lobbying. Those are both exploitation but if you use that word people will rightly ignore everything you say. Nobody cares about your sex life or the color of your skin, its not an argument.
I guess the Korean dude wrote about what he sees in Korea, but the world couldn't be less homogeneous. Here in Hungary, for instance, the gov is a corrupt tyrant / mafia. In Communism, everything was state-owned. The moment we adopted Capitalism, the new elite took everything into private ownership (for free) under the slogan "The state is a bad (read: extremely inefficient) owner/operator." They made sure there was no way of entry into their markets for outside independent parties. This continues to this day. The result is that there is no motivation of any kind to perform. You do the absolute minimum in your job, because there is no competition, only cartels that arbitrarily set prices, therefore there is no reason to perform. And there is not a damn thing people will do about it until they have their basic needs met and are kept "safe".
Respectfully disagree. Society is what you make it. If your only motivation is getting the new iPhone, you'll view it as consumer. If your motivation is getting a great promotion at work, or building a business, you'll view it as achievement. It's all personal perspective.
Economic productivity and status is not a value
“As for pleasures: once we have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen. 🌞
Death is the end of all. Never to be born is the best thing. 🎃
To have seen the daylight And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.” 🌻🌲🍉🎃
- From Oedipus at Colonus
Hey man, That's too negative. 🙂
Famous people who speak and are quoted also have opinions.
I respect the comment, but from my experience I know some elderly people who have more energy and act younger than some of the youngsters today. Age is a state of mind firstly, obviously the body gets older but the mind can still remain young if your SPIRIT is strong
Even myself grew up with heaps of body aches and pain, after practicing yoga for a long time now I have never felt younger :) thank God for this Blessing and my Bliss
@@anattaevergreen4115❤ 100%. Recently added Qi Gong to the yoga. 🧘 🔥
do you know that there are MANY unborn souls out there waiting to be born as humans?
When I worked at Amazon I took a month off for medical leave of absence and when I returned to work I had 4000 emails and 10000 chime messages waiting. Soon after I quit the madness.
This is why they want immigrants. They will work unfair jobs for nothing. Congratulations.
The smile logo is upsidedown
Whew!
Amazon is pure evil, and Bezos is one of Satan's top minions.
Aah yeah the "when you are not there nobody continues your work", cause we are managing a tight ship.
Bad friends ruin lives. Anyone who introduces you to bad habits is toxic and need to be replaced by people who possess good & healthy habits.
This is illuminating, and terrifying.
You dont have to take it seriously. ✌
@@BlackJesus8463 yes, because nothing truly matters...just ask Meursault
I spent 12 years working 12-14 hours shifts with no weekends off, on top of trying to work on a side hustle on my days off. I was always spaced out and could never enjoy the moment with my friends. I finally started an 8 hour shift and I realized how much free time I have now. I feel myself returning to me, I may not be making tons of money but it feels like a restart to finding myself and what I really want to do again.
My dad is a good guy and his whole life has been to grind, achieve, level up, become noticeably better than they were yesterday. I’ve lived my whole 25 years of life in this way, and only in the past 6 months is this not right for me. It’s really hard to drop this line of thinking “the grindset” thinking. If I don’t work as hard, then I’m not valuable as a person.
Well since I have been taking more breaks, and chilling out a lot more, I’ve been overall happier as a person! I don’t put as much emphasis on being valuable as much as I do having fun. Thanks for the video. I take it as a sign from the universe that I’m doing the right thing now :)
Especially when you see people who do 1/5th of what you do running the world and 1/20000000th as well as you would. You realize that’s not the best way to play the game
You've been immensely valuable from the day you were born. That doesn't change, no matter what you do!
Yeah, we live in a different age, we need to really alter these outdated mindsets that get passed down.
So true. It’s literally a kind of guilt towards the system and shame towards oneself for not being “optimally productive”
Oh I should be watching this movie in the zeitgeist! I should be learning a language while playing a game so I’m actually accomplishing something!
I need to listen to a padocadt while getting my coffee at the local cafe so I’m not wasting time!
It’s all time wasted regardless of what you do. It will pass no matter what.
So better to take it slow and be “bored”
Gratitude in all things, small acts of kindness to ourselves and others, the joy of solitude and mindfulness in the now moment and Satori. Loving this journey of self discovery. Blessing to you and yours, shared your production with several of my contacts. Bravo. ♾Rb
well, done, that's how you sell his product for him ... without being paid a penny.
Watching this after getting a super small paycheck is like an extra axe in the heart
change, coz nothing changes until you take steps to change ...
Get roommates, makes a world of a difference on a small paycheck. I lived off of $800 a month about 5 years ago. Extra bathrooms and privacy are perks no one is entitled to.
@@stephosoinstead of thinking in entitlement terms, which are judgmental by nature… think of human needs terms, do I or they need this to survive or it can be done/lived through just fine without that ‘thing’
@@stephoso No one is entitled to privacy? Dude I think your way of thinking has been warped.
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Best video I’ve watched in a long time
20 years ago I helped place my father in the retort (oven) at the crematorium. Then, I did the same for my brother 16 years ago. As I drove out of the cemetery, smoke was rising out of the stack.
The majority of people say, how gruesome ~~!! But for me, it allowed me to witness the reality of life in that we all "pass". I have an awareness that many people do not have, nor want to acknowledge.
When in India, I saw the place where Gandhi was cremated. I relate seeing Shiva dancing in the circle of fire, beating the tambourine, which is the tick, tick, tick of time for all of us......
I agree with that, One has to embrace death as much as one embraces life.
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Bởi vì con người ảo tưởng sống lâu nên mới tăng tính tham lam tích góp cho thật nhiều.
Người ta nhìn người khác chết, người trong ngôi nhà lân cận chết nhưng họ vẫn thản nhiên, cho tới khi nào người trong chính gia đình họ chết thì họ mới có chút biết mạng sống ngắn ngủi, biết mạng sống vô thường. Nhưng đó còn là cái chết của người khác, chưa ảnh hưởng họ là bao nhiêu, cho tới khi nào chính thân họ bệnh tật thì họ mới hốt hoảng.
Man you described what I have been doing for the last 20 years. I achieved a lot, but I am so burned out that I can’t even talk to people without getting exhausted in a matter of minutes…. And I was asking god for some material about the burnout and here it is
Same..it’s like my brain is broken
My brain 'broke' a little more than a year ago after ~20 years of striving, culminating in back-to-back months of over 80-hour intense weeks at work (while raising / helping to homeschool three children and being involved in leadership in a church my family helped to plant in a rural area over the last 15 years). I don't know how I am going to stay on the hamster wheel long enough to see the kids finish growing up and moving out, let alone until 'retirement' (which I am not confident will exist).
There is a lot more to the story, but there was a period of time last year when I became suddenly unable to even do the most basic tasks at work despite sitting at a desk all day trying to force myself. (I'm a computer programmer.) My brain would 'shut down' within minutes of any beginning of an effort. I have not been the same since. I was miraculously able to hold on to the job - which subsequently almost went bust, lost more than half of my pay in the last year, but that is also another story - but I no longer have the ability to process / problem solve / burn through solutions over extended timelines like I used to.
If I can't somehow keep this gig or something similar (with restored income...) for the next decade or more, we cannot continue to live the way we do (with my wife able to devote full time to management of home / projects and the children's education). But I feel like my life's energy is already spent.
I find it quite coincidental that I stumbled upon this video just as I've been contemplating this topic recently. I've been pushing myself too hard and constantly burning out, and I've been wondering why. I always thought I had to be a warrior, relentless in pursuing my goals. I believed that if I didn't take action, nothing would happen. However, I'm starting to realize that this may not be true. I don't want to constantly be in warrior mode, relentlessly chasing after the next project. Perhaps this mindset was ingrained in me by my upbringing and society. This intense competitiveness is rooted in my upbringing and is tied to my fears. I'm making an effort to not push myself so hard now, but it's proving to be extremely difficult. I'm committed to this experiment because I can't keep burning myself out for the rest of my life.
Some might say "live the life you have instead of chasing the one you think you want". Time passes quick man, trust me... It'll be over for most before it even started.
If you find yourself enslaved to ideas about who you think you're supposed to be but find you cannot bridge the gap between those expectations and who you are, stop trying. You get to be the author of your own story. There are multiple ways to combat burnout. One of the first is to take control of your time. Use the 80/20 and make the commitment to eliminate in the next 7 days anything that represents a heavy draw on your time and energy, with little or no significant return. Reinvest that energy into recharging yourself and your batteries. Start there and there are many other useful steps to help continue to refine your pace and your life. You've got this.
Thanks all for the comments!!
There's nothing wrong with championing noble goals for a good cause. Just don't work too hard and wear yourself out in the process...
When I was young, I couldn’t wait to get off the family farm and onto the fast track. Now, I long for that farm, and the wilderness.
Chúc mừng bạn!
First too much pressure second too much social media
There's nothing social about social media... Best to limit exposure to this toxin as much as possible! All I do is UA-cam... And that's bad enough! Because it's getting worse day by day... But at least some of the content is good.
As for the rest of them? FORGET IT!!!! They're online lunatic asylums!
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"Latte enema"... You, sir, are awesome.
I do enemas to relax
I have watched many many many of your UA-cam videos but this one? Byung-Chul has absolutely and profoundly captured society as it is today. Profound...absolutely nails the empty "vessels" in the world.
Hard work never scared me. People scare me. I just need to keep it together a little bit longer so i can get my truck license.
Speak up, speak out
Hard work isn't the problem, it's when your hard work used to fuel the rich instead of yourself.
Amen to that!!@@pedrokantor3997
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@@pedrokantor3997yep its the pay. The exploitation thats the problem.
That was another fantastic video, Einzelganger! I love how you noted the tormentor has become ourselves as opposed to the prison guard. And multi-tasking world doesn't allow time for true creativity to create great things - well at least you have. Keep them coming!
So it's not just me that noticed since 2022->Now the burn-out rates are sky-high
I think the biggest reason for this is that employers are back in power now, because of the bad market conditions they know that people are trapped and they can ask anyone to do overtime or do more work and cannot reject due to fear of being fired.
@@bobbyverma94yahoo I still don't do overtime. I just found that their products are non-compliant with some laws, and now I get the best treatment there is
@@bobbyverma94yahoo Before you get gaslighted to believe the company is doing bad, check if that’s actually true
we are analogue creatures, do not touch digital stuff, you will save yourself burnout and depression.
Yup, that is the case and that is so true. This is actually what I'm going through right now. I never thought I would be working back in the warehouse. I was trying to get a job with of the bank Since I worked with this same bank before as a contractor, But they keep telling me they found somebody better than me. And they give me these rejection letters. So,here I , I am thankful that I have a job at least. Lower pay less hours, but it's something to help give towards my family and I have no car either anymore.That broke down last year. So I take Uber to work, but I try to walk everywhere when I need to go to the store. This goes against everything I try to do to save money. But yes, I still have my health and I'm here helping my parents as much as I can, since they're older now. Trying to keep focus to learn more on about my purpose.
"We are our own master and servent"
Not according to your neighbors! They want your labor, and they want it now!
@@BlackJesus8463 🤔
@@BlackJesus8463 You mean welfare leeches that vote themselves more of your money!
@@BlackJesus8463 What's in it for me? I unapologetically put a price on my labour and contribute to not providing more labour by not having kids. Lower the supply to increase the demand and then you have a market you can exploit.
Western society is two headed,
We can choose hyper achievement or be subject to the same old authoritarianism
We’ve replaced parenthood with narcissism and imposed greater authority, we live in fear of humiliating failure while we imagine surreal success
OMG are you kidding me? The parents are the biggest ass "narcissists" that I know. Their babies and children have become "accessories" - you know the Baby Bump, the Babymoon, the look what "I" made early days, the running buggies, the post-baby fitness classes, the pregnant Yoga classes, the baby clothing, the Instagram and Facebook pages. Barf.
We actually ARE living in authoritarian society. :D
There is no either or. We already live under the boots of men that believe they are gods and our purpose as goyim is to serve them.
Speak for yourself 🐑. I live LARGE 🤣💪🍁👣😉
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I've recognized my own behavior so many times throughout this video, it's actually terrifying!
It’s all the social media and phones. Including me commenting right now. Let’s get rid of it all and get back to face to face
I’m afraid it’s not as simple as that, you see we also go into this way of life because of the reality our world has been facing that’s always been there, even if you go back to face to face, we will almost never know exactly how to solve society’s issues that make us turn to the phone in the first place.
Wouldn't work. The issue was there even before social media and phones.
there’s a lot being ignored in these theories. the idea that we are creating our own prisons is not necessarily true, and it once again shifts blame on the individual. the reality is that we live in societies that govern what we need to do. we can’t escape the systems we are a part of. so it is not us who are building our prisons, it’s our society and government. this is why people who live in countries where the government provides more for the people, have a better quality of life and more happiness. whereas in places like the US, where the structure is design to make everyone fend for themselves, we suffer. I can guarantee that if our societies / governments provided more to maintain our necessities, we wouldn’t be in such a rush to achieve.
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Nope that's not it, the reason is that we stayed away from a traditional life of family, people are selfish,all they care is appearance and what are they perceived as,the capitalists government seek at every corner to tax you more,to steal and fund more wars all while your wages have stagnated for decades in purchase power,inflation is always high,wages never catch up,energy is always more expensive, governments always restrict you more in what you când do.
It seems easier to me to adjust my behavior than to change the way a society functions. But yeah, the States do seem to suck right now.
This is so relevant for our time! Why aren’t more people talking about this!! We are all living in this capitalist prison pursuing that ever moving end goal and before we know it life is over
People do, but many dont want to be reminded how dire and shitty our situation actually is
Ignorance is bliss
Its genuinely not capitalism. You have been mislead. You are now further away from understanding the nature of reality than you were before having watched this video. I know that will sound bizarre, I know you will want to disagree and argue. But it is true. This is literally how the system consumes people, and you're following the steps to the dance perfectly.
Is that really what you want? To be entrapped by the features of the prison you scream that you want to escape from? Cus that's what you're doing. Getting deeper into the hole.
@@Moe_Posting_ChadDescribe the reality you are referring to, please.
Because it is not Capitalism xD.
An expectation of constant improvement is going to be there whether capitalism is there or not. It sucks being a Korean, north or south because of work culture. At least in capitalism you get to keep your stuff instead of working for some bizarre utopian worker’s paradise that will never exist.
Great video! I am adding this book to my reading list. The concept reminds me of Thoreau's words, paraphrased as a person is rich in proportion to the things they can let alone. To me, the way out is awareness and a blend of hard work, to a point, combined with intentional minimalism. Similar to the topic discussed, it's no wonder society has so many autoimmune diseases. I am sure this is not the only reason, but it certainly makes you wonder. Chronic distress is self sabotaging. I can certainly relate that the modern world is overstimulating for me and I find great solace in nature away from it all for a majority of the time, a reversal of what is considered "normal".
Just discovered this channel, deep thinking channels are my new favorite
"Let's just take a freaking break." Excellent.
Don’t burn out!
The HR is here to listen to all of your problems.
I’ll add my experience as a late diagnosed autistic adult. I escaped a traumatic and neglect filled religious fundamentalist childhood and went on to graduate from big ten university with 3.8 GPA, made it all the way to 🍎. Autistic burnout is NOT plain burnout and is often medically mediated. It’s from being forced to live in a stigmatized and discriminatory society, years of perpetuation. It’s from being forced to communicate with the most willfully ignorant, low consciousness, credentialed people who run the world. I’ve had 9 lawyers in the last decade to fight discrimination cases, won two through EEOC. Been assaulted by police because of my autism. So naturally one would burn out in a society committed to ignoring and abusing us. 13x higher suicide rate in my community.
Assaulted by police due to having autism?
Lol you sound like you have a proper victim mentality
Something'll have to give at some point.
There's a lot of shame forced down our throats by default for wanting something different out of life, and I can barely begin to imagine how being different without knowing it adds to that.
Again, good luck to you.
It's also nice to seeing you here as well.
@@anthoras Oh yes, I do recall your other message, which I was too sick to reply to a couple of weeks ago.
I'm not sure what you think has to give and at what point you are thinking. Your other comment indicated I may be stuck in victimhood, not taking responsibility for myself. I don't owe any justifications and don't feel inclined to divulge more personal details, but know that's not the case.
I don't take the shame down the throat- that's one of the characteristics people don't like about autism is I don't pull any punches or beat around the bush. It's not that I want something different out of life. It's that my neurotype and medical conditions are different and are not mirrored back to me, so I always chart my own course by necessity.
@@SideB1984I realized while writing this that it's unclear what group I'm referring to. "We" as in humans.
I was referring to burnout. If we keep doing something because we think we should, rather than because we actually want to, our lives will begin to deteriorate. And that something that'll have give will either be our tolerance of it (and we stop doing it), or our wellbeing (and we "break down" in some way). If we're being forced to, then it'll be both, which will be worse, since we don't have agency.
I wasn't trying to make any implications in that comment (and that's what I was trying to avoid), I only meant it as a warning of a mistake that I made out of... hatred, at that point.
What I meant in my comment here is that a pretty good chunk of people imply that we're wrong for not wanting to follow the "best" path, or some social norm. For not caring about having the best paying job, for not caring about having a degree, for not wanting to sit in class for 8 hrs / day memorizing what is basically trivia and then not wanting to do the same thing again when we finally get the opportunity to do something else. That's what I meant by "something different out of life." And I've been shamed for simply liking or being drawn to different things than what others liked or were drawn to. So I was trying to imagine what having to deal with that, what seems to me to be a default level of shaming, plus the stigma must be like.
This might be the best Einzelgänger's video yet
19:05. As a 56 year old woman, the gym is my happy place (I go when it's empty) and it's to maintain health, not for posing or attracting a mate. That being said, I gave my notice to step down from a managerial role, as I can't abide the corporate BS. I'm totally burnt out. I'm not depressed, I'm just so tired, and there's no joy. Hence the gym for endorphin hit. I'm saving this video, as it's so eloquently on point. Thank you 🙏
A lot of love to you from the Beautiful Islands of Trinidad and Tobago 💞. Great content.
Funny to see this here now, I am currently half way through reading this book - very insightful I might add. Thank you for sharing
Awesome video. It is true that some people die at 25 and aren't buried until they are 75. "Benjamín Franklin"
Wish more people, governments and companies were aware of this. It seems society is spiralling ...
So happy and proud to have just noticed you passed the 2M subs.
US metrics:
Cost of living is out of control
Rising grocery costs are 2x what they were 4yrs ago
Utilities cost more
Gas costs more
Housing is absurd, imagine the choice of 500k-700k on a "condo" that also requires a 300-500/monthly HOA OR you can live 2hrs away from work
Average car payment is 1000-1200/month
Early talks of increasing income and other taxes
Is it really a surprise that people are "burnt-out" and not caring about the future???
And why many are choosing not to have kids. Can barely afford myself how could a afford a child
@lindyloohoo facts. Society expects us to have kids so society can go on but our society has made things so expensive that it's easier/better to just go childless.
Why complain that everything is more expensive? Reality is the US and Western Europe are getting poorer, far east is getting richer.
I'd never spend that much on a car nor lease / finance it. I don't drive much though so bought some cheap (less than 8k the one I paid the most) second hand ones.
Just to say that the video doesn't mention it (unless I missed it), but debt is another form of control 😅
I assume that those taxes are received by the fake achievers or fraudsters to repetitively achieve something as their own credential.
Im actually burned out bc i used to be so chill but i have no patience for bs anymore any ounce of it my body snaps like bart choking his son
If i had to guess, I would say your naturally chilled out state was being hit with all the bullshit of the world, and instead of reacting you stayed chilled, but the emotion built up in your nervous system and now you're over reacting to any stimulus that touches it, super sensitive and getting triggered (not saying that in a derogatory way). You gotta process and release the emotion out in a private setting eg 😡/😭 but mainly 😭 tbh
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Homer chokes bart
Many of us are more connected to self then ever. And it's best feeling in the world. You realize many things you believed aren't really true. I healed my addictions, depression, ptsd, anxiety with energy work and no meds. Not saying was easy, it was rather slow change but so worth it! I hope we all find our way to be who we came to be ❤
What are the most unexpected things you believed in are untrue?
To the people in the comments telling others to not be lazy and stop whining, I'm sorry you feel you cannout express your struggles openly and in turn are irritated by others doing so. We all deal with our pain differently.
This “burnout” happens, because the modern mindset focus on material pursuits and achievements mostly, the spiritual and natural were completely thrown out of our existence, this is why even tho we achieve much, it all seems meaningless and empty
this is why it’s important to know that everyone’s timeline and pace is personalized, which is why it’s called divine timing
Can you go a little into what you mean by "divine timing"?
I don't really see what you mean
@@anthoras everyone has a purpose to fulfill but u have to be patient and trust the process
@@ahmedfiasco6412 alright, fair, but I was hoping for a more in-depth understanding of what it means. This is like answering the question "What is burnout?" with "It's feeling exhausted." It doesn't really say much
You always seemed to be thinking what I’m always thinking. Keep doing what you are doing, I’ve been watching for years ❤👍
I am going to look for The Burnout Society on my next trip to my local independent bookstore.
Or have them order it for me.
Thanks for this video.
Very thought provoking ideas.
"When someone takes a break these days, it's often something like binge-watching a series on Netflix while checking one's phone, with music in the background"
This is becoming a serious issue; I don't know about not being able to endure boredom, the people I've heard defending this say they're trying to manage their anxiety to the point that they can't fall asleep without all of that.
Avoiding that anxiety will cause it to explode
Thank you for your valuable work
This honestly might be my favorite video so far. This needs to be addressed more than anything! I wish anyone would be willing to have these conversations.
Wow, I didn't expect anyone serious on youtube would bring this subject to light.
I'm extremely thankful to this channel for this and many other videos.
It's important to remember about the pros and cons of current system.
Byung-Chul Han’s Vita Contemplativa is also a real gem… as the antidote to burnout
This hit the nail on the head my friend, I do not subscribe to the capitalistic world we've been thrown into, and it's odd to look around at how many are completely "lost in the sauce" as I like to say haha. Thank you for taking the time to create such intricate videos, it shows.
Thank you Einzelgänger.
Great contribution to the ongoing discussion of “how to do this thing, called our life”.
Thank you for creating this at a right time! ❤
There’s a surplus of everything. It’s overwhelming. Remember the 70s: turn on, tune in, drop out. We don’t have to over achieve.
I went down the route of entrepreneurship and hustling and self improvement and all that yada yada yada... Not only ended up burn out and the taxman took most of my earnings anyway, but I went back to being even more depressed than i was before doing all these "self.improvements" although i started making much more cash. Ever since I was born I had a hard time understanding whats the point of this futile modern living, all these years later still feel the same.
Funny enough i was watching "the good the bad and the ugly" the other day and in one scene out of nowhere tuco says: "if you work for a living, why do you kiilll yourself working?".
It's all pointless in the "modern" world, I am 100 percent sure that ancestors living in the old days of primitive farming and horses had way more satisfaction than us.
The hustle culture is kind of predatory. They'll encourage hard work when the real question is who benifits the most. Generally speaking, if you work yourself to death for the benefits of someone else, it's predatory.
I’m pretty sure hunters-gatherers were the last humans to be happy. Agricultural evolution messed everything up
@@myrtila hunter gatherers were indeed happier than old school farmers, since the hunter gatherers lifestyle embodied what tribe, family and brotherhood really meant and this is what we humans are built for. So they were happier than farmers, and farmers happier than us. In all cases both those lifestyles were based on working with hands and mixing with nature, which makes them non futile, unlike the 'modern' world where we are all drone like and have to keep a smile on. Nothing we do now makes any sense, and anyway we all live individualstic and isolated, we are primed for what they have planned for us in the near future.
@chaccmi1358 You're right cause at least farmer had family values. Son was working outside with the father, while the sisters were with the mother doing household stuff. Man had their father has role model to teach them what it means to be a man. Nowadays, man has lost that, so that's why men are so lonely. Men need guidance cause men need to be made, and being a woman is more natural, meaning being a man is not natural. The father was extremely important. Ancient tribes had rituals that teach men about fatherhood and brotherhood, so the men had real importance for the tribe's. In today's world, we work for bosses who don't care about us and only seek their benefit, and, in that sense, everything is more predatory. Fight Club explains it very well. Men are very angry, and it's not good for men and women.
@@qcbelzebuth7083 yes women ( in general) know what their lifes mission is at birth, men have to figure it out. But loneliness is not only happening to men, it actually backfired on women and they are living it too although society is not as harsh to them. That said, this is happening mostly the west, but I can tell you in the east, although "some" traditional family values still exist, there is rampant loneliness too. We have become materialistic and individualstic, this is the main reason for loneliness, everyone stuck with their phone and social media is inflating our ego and narcissism. We are primed for what they call "fourth industrial revolution" a fancy name for something that is anti human at its core.
This is one of your many best pieces of work, thank you,,,
Thank you for making this video.
I decided to increase my stress-resistance by working a stressful job (smart move, isn't it?) ended up being completely burned out and diagnosed with depression (on top of my already existing anxiety from the previous job). Now I'm hoping that my savings would be enough to renovate a tiny house where I would be able to live with my pets and work remotely or do some part-time jobs. I also want to get some chickens which is considered a wild dream for a 25 y.o. girl living in the city these days.
I genuinely mean it. You will be miserable, because women are not like men. That is the number one lie on this entire planet, anything to do with the dual mating strategy of our species. Have kids, none after 30 unless your doctor says you a genetic freak that is as healthy as someone half your age. I'm telling you. *You do not want to have a kid that will be physically and intellectually dependent on you until you die and they will soon die after you, this is what happens with geriatric pregnancies.*
Hoping you get your dream 🌺
…hope you get your chickens. I am 56 and it took me many years to realise than Less is More
...when boredom is a luxury....
sadly boredom is the only way to find out who you are and what you are here for. rip
Wow, nice one. Dramatic ending.
Most of these ideas are also elsewhere. Cal Newport is an example of proponents that say the modern culture of productivity and hyper attention is actually less productive and more stress inducing. He reminds us that we will be remembered for our main achievements, and those hard things take time and focus and deep thought. He blasts corporate culture and helps people find techniques to move away from this.
I did hear an idea I hadn’t before. The diagnosis of depression as a response to the stress to be productive seems very believable to me, and an original thought. It can explain why depression is so ubiquitous today, whereas not common in yesteryear.
All the "high achievers" are thinking: "Where are the bullet points on how to avoid burnout?. Just give me a one-slide summation. I ain't got time to watch the whole video" LOL
I think that about every video like this. Because, this is a method to grift money instead of producing anything of value. It has nothing to do with high achievement, and everything to do with rapidly identifying minority behaviors and having absolutely no patience for it. Sheeeeeeeeeet
using AI to summerise key takeaways lmao
If you watch at speed 4x it's only 5 minutes 😂
That's not called high achiever. That's called a stunted attention span, lol
Nothing wrong with immense effort towards an achievement. As long as that achievement is moraly astute.
Most of us are so entrenched in this egotistic society that we can't understand what this talk is about.
I developed depression very early in life, and then burnt out at 35 after a suicide attempt at my then work. It's been three years, I am on disability and probably will be for the rest of my life. I am a shell of a man, easily scared and quick to anger. I have been through therapy and prescriptions. I was on two or three pretty serious things at one time and man did it screw with my head. I don't know who I was at that time but it was someone who made all my friends hate me. Now I just try to live a quiet life, play some video games, watch come videos. Read a lot and go on walks with my head phones on. Just quiet me living my own life, trying to put it all back together.
After COVID quarantine, the burn out is sky high. We got used to not following any rule and now can't get used to normal life
This and getting society to a sustainable equilibrium are my two goals for humabity
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Health includes your entire brain 🧠 not just your physical body ❤
Thank you for making this video, giving this author/philosopher a wider audience
Brilliant video. I love the idea that multitasking, especially in work/business means that there is no space for creativity and therefore no new ideas. I wonder if AI will replace or reduce the multitasking jobs and leave more space for creative roles.
I spent 5 days camping solo in the bush in an area with no phone reception so all I had was food, fire and nature to walk around in and observe. New ideas for music, writing and for my life popped into my head after 2-3 days and when I returned I was invigorated and fresh.
Tôi không biết AI có làm được việc thay thế hoặc giảm bớt các công việc đa nhiệm cho con người không. Nhưng trước mắt tôi thấy nó đã đang thêm vào một công việc cho con người là theo dõi nó, học sử dụng nó, trang bị máy móc, thiết bị, lại thêm công việc cho con người và thêm thứ kích thích con người.
Và bất cứ thứ gì thì cũng không nằm ngoài vô thường, hợp rồi tan bất cứ lúc nào. Nên tôi biết AI sẽ sập bất cứ lúc nào, khi con người đã lệ thuộc vào nó mà nó lại "sập" thì con người càng trở nên trống rỗng, mệt mỏi đến tê dại.
Great video your locations are amazing