Man, these are some beautiful conversations with some serious utility. Keep doin' what you're doin' Lex.

@AgendaFiles

3 жыл бұрын

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@onlydreaming1017

3 жыл бұрын

@@asdfghjkl3669 Why are you so filled with vitriol

@TheNervousnation

3 жыл бұрын

I love it

@andreskorge1828

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed - Sheldon is so eloquently articulate. Thank you Gents.

@officialcalvinwayman

3 жыл бұрын

Completely agree. These ideas Lex is bringing forward through his guests are amazing.

Quote at 12:10: "Turning away from a flight from death, you see a horizon of opportunity that puts you in state of anticipatory resoluteness with solicitous regard for others that makes your life seem like an adventure perfused with unshakable joy." Many hours and long walks will be spent pondering this one.

@yunho-cho

3 жыл бұрын

Wait.... I loved your machine learning roadmap. Really appreciate your work!

@fredriksvard2603

3 жыл бұрын

@Tony Tran finally someone who gets it

he looks like a hippie ray dalio. interesting conversations

@Rmacon4002

3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit you stole my comment verbatim 😂

@NoobishAlpha

3 жыл бұрын

He looks like Tony Hawk ;)

@newenglandbarbell4647

3 жыл бұрын

Legit does, similar subtle tremor

@xlifelessdaysx

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah dude!

@redwood-in-stereo

3 жыл бұрын

New England Barbell p

"Turning away from a flight from death, you see a horizon of opportunity that puts you in a state of anticipatory resoluteness with solicitous regard for others that makes your life seem like an adventure perfused with unshakable joy."

@orbitaljellyfish808

3 жыл бұрын

🤯👏👏

@eyesearsmedia9183

3 жыл бұрын

bars!

@orbitaljellyfish808

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulden3158 carrot>stick

@orbitaljellyfish808

3 жыл бұрын

@douglas wahid it’s just as possible to leave violence and suffering behind for inner growth, meditation, etc.

@toohdvaetihom7088

3 жыл бұрын

Dumb word salad

I love that this guy sounds like such a surfer bro

@bobkazak9499

3 жыл бұрын

You made me literally LOL

@christinearmington

3 жыл бұрын

Philosopher dude! 😆🤦‍♀️😎🌊

I believe death anxiety comes from believing that we are some grand construct that is significant and independent from nature. We fear the death of our identities, which society urges us to develop our entire lives, more than death itself. I believe people that live in balance with nature, those who have not been conditioned to build intricate identities as we have, have an easier time facing death.

@siliconterbulance

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but the price you pay for that is you are continually anxious, limiting your being to the present and Now, so short term is all that matters becoz the fabric of reality is not stable and the wheels can come off anytime. To really be able to do something meaningful, you need to invest time in the present and use it to bargain with the future. The biggest invention of mankind is understanding Future is a place, which you can bargain with using your present. At the same time, realising that this bargain may not be insured againt ur life makes it obviously very anxiety provoking. The only insurance you are provided are either cultural or spiritual/religious which works if you BELIEVE them. But the truth remains unchanged. There is no respirte. The nature of life doesnt care about ur feeling. Or as the great literary genius Ben shapiro would pit it: FACTS DONT CARE ABOUT FEELINGS. (Kimd of ironic when u see he believes in god)

@ThatWhichErodes

3 жыл бұрын

@@siliconterbulance that's pretty interesting, you're right. To live exclusively "in the moment" is held up as the ultimate spiritual goal, but it is severely limiting to not act with some trust in the future. Investment isn't just a financial principle-- we invest in our relationships, our health, and in our minds, and if we didn't we would have a much harder time progressing as individuals and as a human race

@JamesBond-uz2dm

3 жыл бұрын

We came from nature and we return to nature.

@ThatWhichErodes

3 жыл бұрын

@woof beast I agree! Many people including myself make efforts to "be present" or "live in the moment" as if we've forgotten that we always are. People in general are often chasing something they don't have to solve a problem that doesn't exist in the first place.

@Shatamx

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly humans are so dishonest with themselves they actually forgot what they are.

At 6:45 Heidegger was like "yo!" I would be really cool if he actually talked like that. But in all seriousness. Loved the interview.

'Guilt of unlived life'. Looks back at youtube history. Oh dear....

@eeronat

3 жыл бұрын

ikr

@universe36

3 жыл бұрын

Too real

@BeastnHarlotDFO

3 жыл бұрын

One of us... one of us...

@patallan1465

3 жыл бұрын

😁😂

@MrAhuraMazda

3 жыл бұрын

Christ. My youtube history is my BEST life lol. I live for a good comedic or thoughtful pod. Best part of my day is a long drive and solid episode

"One must imagine Sysiphus happy." - Camus

Very insightful and a thought provoking conversation with Dr Solomon. Thank you for sharing the interview, Lex. You are a role model for being an excellent listener!

The ultimate goal is to create. What you create is up to you.

@mastershake886

3 жыл бұрын

@douglas wahid People who abandon themselves enjoy destruction. Every developed man is a creator at heart

@ggh_-ts6pn

2 жыл бұрын

that mindset leads to overpopulation. Most people dont have capabilities to create anyhting other than children

@pup4301

2 жыл бұрын

@@ggh_-ts6pn You can fit all of Americas trash on piece of land the size of Rhode Island for 100 years. When recycling becomes more efficient and less expensive it would become cheaper to recycle products companies produce than to send it to a island. If you want to stop over population make sure the US school system doesn't go to crap by politics and hope to heck we don't waste money overseas or on any more 1 trillion dollar plans. Make stuff so that you can bring value to your country. If you don't something know search for it. Don't just stop at, "people are only good at making childern."

@pup4301

2 жыл бұрын

@@ggh_-ts6pn Here is my source I was off by a zero: m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/eYedqa6cZsnZnJM.html

Blown away by this complete discussion, but this portion is utterly mindblowing. Thank you both.

I loved this interview. Solomon seems like such a nice guy

Excellent as is the entire full Podcast Great clip! Thank you for all your great work and stimulating varied guests.

You're doing a great job Lex. Really enjoy listening to your podcast. Keep it up!!

This is truly inspiring! I feel nourished by listening to this conversation.

@dreyn7780

2 жыл бұрын

It feels normal to me and quite boring, infact. I've been living with this mindset since age 3. I've gone WAY beyond this level of knowledge. Its NOT good. Its not leading you anywhere good. Mass population allows great criminals to hide and flourish. You don't want to spend your life warning others of great danger all the time. The alternative life means you see all the dangers coming and they don't.

Definitely going to have to listen to the whole conversation!!! Thanks Gents!!!

Great things Lex thank you so much. QUALITY CONTENT

Awesome podcast! Thank you!!!

17 minute conversation felt like it was 60 seconds. What a powerful mindset.

Thank you! I'm a senior studying psychology who wants to become an academic and this conversation reignited my passion and love of the field and its intersection with philosophy.

@essentialpost

2 жыл бұрын

Read the book “Passion” by Roberto unger, he is a philosopher that revolutionised psychology/psychiatry with that book and takes all the insights taken in this video about Heidegger and rids it off it’s criticisms

It's the obsession with death and anxiety that is dumb. Shopping, drinking and watching TV is the right way to live.

greatest quote i adopted much later in life was, "regrets will chew away your life and it will come from indecision, not the decisions you'll make in life." That is what haunts me but also makes me happy with current self. Great convo.

Brilliant clip, brilliant speaker, brilliant podcast. I am hooked. Thanks Lex!

I'm addicted to this podcast. Love this guy😊

Thank you for the beautiful insight.

The words of Heidegger are so beautiful I seriously started choking back tears after Solomon said them. Just finished my first Burroughs book, I know who I’m reading next!!!

Glad to see Sheldon get his day, Ernest Becker as well. Cheers to yall, Tom, and Jeff.

What a great video. I wasn't expecting this def watching the whole thing.

Awesome conversation!

Thanks for the video

Great podcast 🔥

One major difference between Peterson and Solomon: Solomon is so much more in harmony with his own fears and anxieties and it allows him to live kindly ambitiously and heroically. Peterson seems so constantly controlled by his own hang-ups, anxieties and fears (and check his earliest videos in his trilby hat ranting about men and it’s *not* a change in his character due to criticisms after getting famous) that he is constantly lashing out, finding relatively inexperienced uneducated straw(trans)men to engage with to make himself seem smarter or more heroic. He hasn’t wrestled with his own terror and so he is constantly lashing out at a minority to make himself grander in the face of his own mortality. Peterson’s unhinged anxiety and aggression are such a purely tragic example of what Ernest Becker/Otto Rank were talking about. And if more people have heard of Peterson than Solomon, it’s because more people are like Peterson, they haven’t faced their own terror of death and gain vicarious heroism from Peterson’s anxious breakdowns and angry outbursts.

Awesome conversation, more like this please.

Mr Lex , I love that I have found you. My fav u tube channel now 🧜‍♀️

This is spot on and layers upon layers I’ve faced myself. How FREE I feel now!

this is a beautiful clip. I'm not great at reading Heidegger and Sheldon's exploration of the connection to all these ideas just gave me so much more than I could get from reading anything.

I'm fighting my angst by watching these videos lol

@gridcoregilry666

3 жыл бұрын

YES, keep pushing

'You could die at ANY moment." He's says that like it's a bad thing.

thank you for the words this man spoke life changing

This was an amazing guest I am a huge Peterson fan and this guy is the perfect counter balance, i love the healthy disagreement here and I am now a huge Sheldon Solomon fan now too.

@siliconterbulance

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Nic, i am trying to understand the same, can you list the main points of disagreement?

@graciousSenor

3 жыл бұрын

I'd like to know too. I listen to a lot of Peterson, and I don't want to become lopsided in my thinking.

@toohdvaetihom7088

3 жыл бұрын

Peterson is a fraud

@dreyn7780

2 жыл бұрын

Knowledge is wasted on you.

Lex Just an excellent interview snippet to stumble across on a beautiful Sunday morning. Perhaps one of your best to those of which I’ve listen. Am not sure that faith in life and God are if not the same thing not intimately related. My reading list just got bigger. Thanks and keep up the great work

I find this very interesting and helpful during this pandemic. Have some anxiety about death, but it spurs me on to pursue my lifelong passion for making art. It keeps me focused on joy.

I'm definitely more of an Epicurean than what Solomon, Kierkegaard, or Heidegger in their perspective. To me, worrying about state on which you have no control (your death) is an idle worry in anticipation! The way I see it, death is only 3minutes. The rest is all life. The less we think about death the more we can live life. You may achieve more if you have this dark passenger constantly reminding you of your limited time; but you haven't achieved much if you live in constant anxiety. If life is meaningless, then it's equally meaningless to worry about your death. It's best to focus on life until it ends.

Keep going Lex!

I love thegreatstory channel as well because they talk about post soon and death. Keep up the good work. We all need to speak on this especially in this time we live.

@dorothywitt7966

3 жыл бұрын

Post Doom I mean

Thank you

Just beautiful.

As I heard this interesting interview and the thoughts flying between thinking minds in different times and ages , the central thought that I have struggled , examined and reflected for most of my life , which by the way is now over 7 decades is this . Death is the absolute and final end of this bodymind construct . Further , what we call living is an ever changing phenomena where death is ever present too . Everything is happening right now . This now is all we really have . Its now that we live and make choices . The rest is some memory or speculation which we call past or future . When we accept that death can happen now for me , then I simply understand that reality and accept it fully . As such I don't have any choice in this matter . Accepting death fully brings a great sense of relief . In all this process of thinking one becomes aware of a sense of awareness in the ever present now . This sense of awareness takes one above the endless thought process . One feels and experience a sense of timeless and spaceless sense of beingness . In this state one feels free from the daily trivial , everydayness . Will end here as my sharing has become abit lenghty .

Love this!! ❤️

This is brilliant

What a motivational speech!

When this guy said you have to die to be reborn there is alot of truth to that. I was a drug addict for years. Overdose a few times. Got sober starting going to 12 step programs. I had to experience so much suffering to be reborn! I know longer play the victim in life. And just grow as a human.

The idea that we are insignificant is also a cultural trap, it's just the modern current one. We decide the measure of significance.

@TheNumbuh121

3 жыл бұрын

This may be somewhat overlooked, although that last phrase has some huge implications.

@antoniorenteria6799

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, ya, but it’s a cultural observation rooted in comparing ourselves to the vastness of the universe. We could easily claim greater importance because we are conscious observers slowly unfolding the scale of reality, but I think that proves a greater cultural trap than the former. Plenty of former cultures have questioned their significance to that of reality.

@wowsus1

3 жыл бұрын

​@@antoniorenteria6799 I agree, the universe expands in front of us without end. Our minds expand within us with out end. We can paint any picture we like and none of them existed before we made them. So to find something truly original you have to give up painting, you have to call off the search of the intellect. It is possible to experience this state of mind but not many people go for it, the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu is a guide to it.

Heidegger is like:"Yo! ... LOL

I love Lex.

Very practical advice. So much Self Help available online - so little ability for people to apply it

I love Worn in the core! Great Book!

Fantastic very interesting.

Tony Hawks father. Great interview Lex! I Could not unsee Tony Hawk

KZread videos are my tranquilliser

Banger

Heidegger's like "Yo!" .. This is the translator of Being and Time I always needed..

Love the podcast bro bring in more comedians and make a few more jokes.

"When your identity is defined by society, you cannot resist it. You don't have the knowledge, you don't have the wisdom, you don't have the resources to understand that something is being put over on you. You cannot but help believe the definition of you as a free agent. But you believe yourself to be a free agent as a result of not being free, that is to say, of being hopelessly unable to resist society's identification of you. So, in the whole sense of our personality there is a contradiction, and that is why the sense of ego, of being oneself, is simultaneously a sense of frustration." ~Alan Watts

@kshaunw425

3 жыл бұрын

Jeez!!!

@insightuk

3 жыл бұрын

Watts is one of the most insightful beings to have graced existence and his unerring efforts to heal humanity remain more relevant now as the tides are shifting towards the need to adhere to his insights more than ever. Compassion is a force of creation whereby we partake in the creation of a wholistic view for the betterment of all life, of all creation. Watts, and in my humble opinion, all great philosophers, walk the path of compassion, but wearing different shoes, when you the shoes are the social constructs one is born into. Watts realised he needed to take the shoes off and walk bare footed. “We are an aperture through which the universe is observing itself” is another of his quotes that has help explain a lot of my experiences and has helped deconstruct the identity placed upon me by society.

@insightuk

3 жыл бұрын

May I add that the quote you wrote, as some one who was ‘diagnosed’, or more importantly, ‘labelled’ as ‘manic depressive’ at age 11, to being ‘bi-polar’ in my 30’s, the quote displays a better understanding and insight into mental health issues of today’s society than the majority of physicians still working only within their socially construct view of the mind. I was never ‘mentally ill’, I was “frustrated” because I wasn’t being taught what is was to be human and my being innately knew this.

@kirstinstrand6292

3 жыл бұрын

@@insightuk society, perhaps. but we also do this to ourselves via our self selected Persona.

@insightuk

3 жыл бұрын

Kirstin Strand I agree, but one of the roles of society is teaching, and if we are not taught, then the mistakes are repeated, or even encouraged.

This is great

The thought about death, seems very stoic.

Some good thoughts to ponder from this dialogue

Life does not require a leap of faith. You're in it son!

Sheldon rocks

The denial of death 💀

Almost everybody runs from the horror of existence, and tries to hide from it with lies.

Living in "flight from death" can of course be debilitating / destructive to living. But being aware of it often can also push you to be and do your best. And to be more humble and caring. I wonder if Heidigger was saying we should completely ignore it in our minds or just to not be anxious about it?

This is better than Joe Rogan, straight up real conversation. Real philosophy.

"He's like yo" 😂

7:40 - existential dread kicking i hard lol :D

this stuff is crazy fun... I'm addicted :D

Beautiful

The Hermetic writers wrote well on the illusory nature of death

@13reakFree

3 жыл бұрын

Could you recommend a good piece of literature that goes into more detail?

@delerium2k

3 жыл бұрын

@@13reakFree check out The Hermeticism Collection (I listened to it on audible)

@delerium2k

3 жыл бұрын

@@13reakFree also there are some excellent lectures from Terence McKenna floating around youtube about the Hermetic tradition

7:46 Sheldon gave Lex a stutter for a second

This guy has a beautiful mind

Brilliant.

Sontag said our death is the only thing that's really ours. Derrida wrote of death, and I had no idea what he was driving at. Govinda said death is a transition one must prepare for, and embrace--Vonnegut called it a return to being "an undifferentiated wisp of nothingness." Anybody read the Lapham's Quarterly on Death? I cherish those quarterlies.

Must say I not heard of the guy in my ignorance but what wise words!

His tone of voice his mannerism his gestures somehow or another he is related to Ray dalio and one life for another.

I like to think "Maybe not me and maybe not now"

Great conversation, Lex continually blows my mind! Kierkegaard, Heidegger, I believe we can throw Camus into the mix because he is on the same train. Has Lex done the Dostoevsky podcast yet? I can't wait for that one.

@MrTgcantelo

3 жыл бұрын

he spoke a little about Dostoevsky with Ben Goertzel

@brawndo8726

3 жыл бұрын

Chris Hedges regularly mentions Kierkegaard in his presentations.

@myherocamus8847

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrTgcantelo Thanks, I'm listening to that one now, although I had to pause 1 hour into it to refresh my memory on neurons.

“Eat life, or life will eat you.”

Facing death is the ultimate letting go, enabling us to see things as they are.

This is crazy. I got very close to the abyss. And I turned around. The object of the game regardless of how you frame it (simulation/AI God/reality) should be to win by helping everyone else win. Choices within the opportunity allowed to us. Beautiful stuff.

attended several family members deaths. Those that resisted and those that embraced death died.

@joaquinbarraza4835

3 жыл бұрын

Did you see some of them die in a peaceful way?

Jaheezus, why do I feel like I just I stumbled into the campfire scene from Point Break…got this dude juggling a spliff with one hand whilst taking a swig of ripple wine with the other, as he tries to “one up” Patrick Swayze on who dropped into the most idyllic barrel wave at Waimea. I keep waiting for Brody to come flying in like Wile E. Coyote ridin’ an Acme fire cracker to make the big bust.

9:43 bye Felicia

David Lee Roth as a Psychologist in a parallel universe- Sheldon Solomon.

i like when smart people talk about Heidegger, its so rare

@tnix80

3 жыл бұрын

Considering smart people are rare, it's understandable

This is beautiful man.

Sheldon reminds me of Steve Guttenberg, The Audiophiliac.

How many people watched this video to distract themselves from their own death anxiety for a while? :D

@solodolotrevino

3 жыл бұрын

BurgielKing I want to do that soon. I’m too anxious to even try though. I want to be in a better place before I go all in

@russellbrooks23able

3 жыл бұрын

I lost my death anxiety when my Christian faith collapsed.

@rando348

3 жыл бұрын

@@solodolotrevino good idea to wait until you are in a good space. 👍🏾♥️🙏🏾

@eyoo369

3 жыл бұрын

@@solodolotrevino There's no need to be anxious, but you definitely need to prepare yourself for the trip. Make sure you are in the right headspace where you are able to let go of control and surrender to an experience. Meditation can really help to not associate with ongoing thoughts, emotions or moods within your life. Make sure you always have a trip-sitter with you :)

@pikiwiki

3 жыл бұрын

how many people thought about death after watching this video

The Denial of Death (Becker) is the most important book ever written.

Philosophers make easy issues unnecessarily complex. Philosophy itself is a distraction from thinking about death. Philosophy isn't any better than shopping or drinking.