Hi Eric, This comment is not about this Video specifically but about your lectures in General. Maybe without intending to do so, you have become one of my "unintended Gurus". I mean having a transformative effect on the listener's life. I was having a problem giving up some type of eating. After hearing your lecture on Sartre and Bad Faith (No Excuses) in your previous series of lectures given during COVID-19, I have been able to keep away from that habit for more than a month now (I began on 25th May 2020.) Your lectures and the attention to detail, including etymology etc, are worthy of emulation by each one of us. Thanks and keep up the Good Work.
Well, thanks for telling me that, Rajendra. It's always gratifying to hear about how people are using the material in these videos to improve their lives. So I appreciate your telling me about that. Also, congratulations on giving up that eating habit. As Gandhi once famously put it, "Renounce and enjoy." For the most part, we're truly wealthy in direction proportion to what we can live without. And perhaps your eating habit is a case in point... an instance of renouncing something, and then starting to enjoy your life. Anyhow, a big *congratulations* to you. Gratitude. Eric D.
I’m training to be a psychotherapist(early stages) but I have found your lectures illuminating and easy to understand, they cover many topics of special interest to me! Superb work sir! 😀
I am studying literature in one of the top Unis in Australia. But my professors would just read stuffs rather than speak/converse the way Eric does here. Is it something to do with the subject matter? Do some subject matters lend better to this style of lecturing? (which i find more engaging)
Well, Haniff, I'd say that part of what you're noticing probably has to do with cultural differences. My sense is that it's relatively rare here in the United States for professors to go into a classroom, and simply read pre-written text verbatim. Sometimes people do that in conferences here in the U.S., but only rarely in classes. After all, if simply reading text aloud were an adequate paradigm for effective pedagogy, then why bother with having students show up to class in the first place? We could simply post the same text on the Internet, and then let our students read it for themselves. What a more improvisational approach adds is that it makes the learning situation more fully human. And as a consequence, it makes it more immediately engaging, too. That's because the real point of teaching and learning (and perhaps toast-mastering) isn't merely to improve our stock of knowledge, or to cultivate greater intellectual agility. Instead, the point is to improve our lives all the way around... intellectually, true... but also emotionally, spiritually, socially and physically. And in my mind, the best way to do that pedagogically is to allow ourselves to speak in all of those languages simultaneously, and to make that obvious and accessible to our audience, too. So, I want my students to see my body moving, rather than just peeking above a lectern. I want them to hear real emotion and passion in my voice, and to perceive a kind of poetry in my presence (and in my soul), as we grapple together to comprehend the riddle of this world. But I find that that rarely happens when we've reduced the pedagogical situation to reading pre-written text verbatim. Sure, there's a time and a place for that approach. But in my view, it isn't usually in the classroom, especially in a world where students' consciousness has been thoroughly conditioned by more immediately engaging ways of delivering ideas. Well, at least that's the world according to Eric. Gratitude. Eric D.
@@EricDodsonLectures Prof, truly distilled insights here. I read and reread haha. Thank you so much. I am stealing these ideas and regurgating them into my toastmasters meetings. And also once i get to give the ananymous feedback thing to my profs at the end of the semester, i am gonna ask them to search for your videos on youtube and copy your teaching style lol
Hi Eric,
This comment is not about this Video specifically but about your lectures in General. Maybe without intending to do so, you have become one of my "unintended Gurus". I mean having a transformative effect on the listener's life. I was having a problem giving up some type of eating. After hearing your lecture on Sartre and Bad Faith (No Excuses) in your previous series of lectures given during COVID-19, I have been able to keep away from that habit for more than a month now (I began on 25th May 2020.)
Your lectures and the attention to detail, including etymology etc, are worthy of emulation by each one of us. Thanks and keep up the Good Work.
Well, thanks for telling me that, Rajendra. It's always gratifying to hear about how people are using the material in these videos to improve their lives. So I appreciate your telling me about that. Also, congratulations on giving up that eating habit. As Gandhi once famously put it, "Renounce and enjoy." For the most part, we're truly wealthy in direction proportion to what we can live without. And perhaps your eating habit is a case in point... an instance of renouncing something, and then starting to enjoy your life. Anyhow, a big *congratulations* to you. Gratitude. Eric D.
Thank you very much for all of the fantastic lectures! I've watched them all. Some multiple times!
Wow... at this point, you probably know my stuff better than I do. I'm impressed... and thanks for your interest. Eric D.
Excellent ending in those last 5 minutes. Could definitely tell that you were in the flow state.
I’m training to be a psychotherapist(early stages) but I have found your lectures illuminating and easy to understand, they cover many topics of special interest to me! Superb work sir! 😀
I am studying literature in one of the top Unis in Australia. But my professors would just read stuffs rather than speak/converse the way Eric does here. Is it something to do with the subject matter? Do some subject matters lend better to this style of lecturing? (which i find more engaging)
Well, Haniff, I'd say that part of what you're noticing probably has to do with cultural differences. My sense is that it's relatively rare here in the United States for professors to go into a classroom, and simply read pre-written text verbatim. Sometimes people do that in conferences here in the U.S., but only rarely in classes. After all, if simply reading text aloud were an adequate paradigm for effective pedagogy, then why bother with having students show up to class in the first place? We could simply post the same text on the Internet, and then let our students read it for themselves. What a more improvisational approach adds is that it makes the learning situation more fully human. And as a consequence, it makes it more immediately engaging, too. That's because the real point of teaching and learning (and perhaps toast-mastering) isn't merely to improve our stock of knowledge, or to cultivate greater intellectual agility. Instead, the point is to improve our lives all the way around... intellectually, true... but also emotionally, spiritually, socially and physically. And in my mind, the best way to do that pedagogically is to allow ourselves to speak in all of those languages simultaneously, and to make that obvious and accessible to our audience, too. So, I want my students to see my body moving, rather than just peeking above a lectern. I want them to hear real emotion and passion in my voice, and to perceive a kind of poetry in my presence (and in my soul), as we grapple together to comprehend the riddle of this world. But I find that that rarely happens when we've reduced the pedagogical situation to reading pre-written text verbatim. Sure, there's a time and a place for that approach. But in my view, it isn't usually in the classroom, especially in a world where students' consciousness has been thoroughly conditioned by more immediately engaging ways of delivering ideas. Well, at least that's the world according to Eric. Gratitude. Eric D.
@@EricDodsonLectures Prof, truly distilled insights here. I read and reread haha. Thank you so much. I am stealing these ideas and regurgating them into my toastmasters meetings. And also once i get to give the ananymous feedback thing to my profs at the end of the semester, i am gonna ask them to search for your videos on youtube and copy your teaching style lol
@@EricDodsonLectures you are so cool professor. I want to be like you when i grow old.
Marvelously explained Professor
Kierkegaard and Dostoyevsky must have lots in common.
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