Hope you're doing well, been a while I know - hectic times, remember baby strollers? You grew out of that, didn't you? Imagine if your parents forcefully kept you strapped in one refusing to let you out of it. Certainly we've grown out of a couple more things on a macro scale and we've yet to handle those situations reasonably. If you like the premise of the video, consider getting the book - amzn.to/2kQHqsZ Working on more content again, help by sharing videos you like is greatly appreciated. Thank you. - illacertus

@alexluna6745

7 жыл бұрын

i highly respect that you said you want quality over quantity for an audience kudos keep making great videos

@occuponvoix

7 жыл бұрын

the one that is smart is not the one that solve the problem, but the one that SEE the problem -omar aktouf

@rronaldreagan

7 жыл бұрын

illacertus whats your take on spanking children? im (if anythimg) a molyneux fan and have just discovered your channel, and its very fitting to molyneux`s as far as if seen

@Illacertus

7 жыл бұрын

Against any form of physical abuse, especially that of children. Parents who think they have a right to spank their kids are dreadful. Their argument is that their parents spanked them and that they turned out alright. I'm disturbed at that "I know how to raise my child." attitude by ignorant dumb people who cause a lot of unnecessary suffering for the young.

@rronaldreagan

7 жыл бұрын

thats basically what molyneux believes too. ILL BE WATCHING more of your past videos, you seem moral and fair in your views as Molyneux is.

the quality of your videos is something that draws me here,and we the subscribers really appreciate the effort you puts in, and we are not going anywhere. period

“To the man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail” - Charlie Munger thought I would leave one of my favorite aphorisms

5. My favourite labor of Theseus has been the fifth one, where he encounters Procrustes at Eleusis. Theseus overcame this criminal who captured all men that passed near him and placed them in his special bed made of iron. If the man was shorter he would stretch him, but if he was longer he would cut his head. Either way the man would die. The biggest weaknesses that a man is facing have always been the inferiority or superiority complex. To reach enlightenment one must conquer them.

@robertkelly9772

5 жыл бұрын

The book I read said procrustes would cut of their legs if the individual proved to big for the bed. It's both amazing and maddening that everything you hear today has an alternate version! I've been going through my life lately heeding professor Feathers admonition: "Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see" ...or maybe that was Dr Tar who said that!

You need to do audiobooks, I could listen to your voice all day.

Always happy to see another video of yours in my box, offering insightful explanations and bringing up different ideas about things not even close to my field of view. Sort of like shifting from looking through my glasses, to looking at my glasses.

Don't ever, my friend, keep us hungry for videos. This is one of the best channels on youtube. As always, thanks for uploading this brilliant piece.

Dude, you literally changed my way of living. I love all your videos, and I am very thankful for them. Keep up the good work.

Lucky to have refreshed the subscription page

Keep them coming I've learned so much about myself that I did not even know appreciate the time and the effort you take to make these videos👊🏾

… so truly refreshing to discover a video like this (it’s like finding a little rose in the middle of a newly (smelly) fertilized field; one is holding his nose while admiring the beautiful red flower). Thank YOU.

I first heard about the procrustean bed in a mythology class in college. There was not much I've retained from those days but this story always stayed with me. I'm just now exploring the philosophy behind it. And while, on some level, I was already aware of its meaning, I now see that I have incorporated the lesson into my daily life without intending to. I fucking love philosophy!! Thanks @illacertus 🙏

Glad to have you back! And damn that was just a beautiful video.

just found your videos last night and I'm hooked. Thanks for the quality uploads keep it up!

Dear illacertus, you have the power to change people's lives.

oh wow I couldn't wait for this video I was wondering when it was going to come but then I remembered that you said that it takes a lot of time ans effort. I am very thankful and grateful. keep up the great work.

Thanks for coming back! I'll reflect on this video for some time.

Amazing 👌🏽 so much wisdom to acquire from this video... I think I need to watch it a couple of times more

Thank you for making these. Well done!

First time viewer and I LOVE your work, and LOVE your ending comments about using language that might offend and telling the offended that they can leave the video and that you could have millions of viewers but seek quality viewers vs quantity. I'm off to find out where you are and what you're doing now. THANK YOU for being you!!!

always glad to receive your videos... insightful and thought provoking!

Long time ! I have been into personal self-improvement for the past 1 year now. I have watched all your videos especially 48 laws (more than 3 times). Keep up the good work.

love the content man, please keep doing your thing

Solid content, really good summaries, you save people a lot of time, thank you for this

Another timely video. Keep it real my friend.

+Illacertus Lmao! that little insert you add toward the end was awesome

Brilliant as always 🙌🏼

Glad to hear from you again. God bless you on your videos and keep up the great work.

oh my god ur back i wanted to donate to you but i didn't know if you stopped ur videos. Happy ur back :D

This channel is just GOLD!!!!

Found your channel tody dued to a colab you made with another youtuber. Love the videos! 5 stars content!

Love your videos and love Taleb's work. I wonder why schools don't teach a more diverse set of skills like farming, purifying water, making useful things or even catching fish from a pond - and let the kids figure out what they like to do with their lives. Not everyone is cut out to be a corporate warrior (or slave as Taleb puts it). Most kids in our society grow up without truly understanding where our food and water come from. Looking at our kids, I really worry about the future. They are addicted to dumb devices, mostly eat stuff that's wrapped in plastic (many consider eating fruit from a tree dangerous) and are taught too much PC non-sense at schools that makes them walk on egg-shells for the rest of their lives.

@b.bts19

Жыл бұрын

cuz they want us to b forever dependent on them

Just glad your Back Bro!

During the journey to improve myself I stumbled across your channel. Great work! Thanks!

Brilliant work... Thanks for sharing

Great channel , loving it!

Once again another great thinking video! I'm grateful for all of your hard work to which helps all of us humans grow and learn.

I'm so happy to "see" you again. Amazing as always. I would like see another video about Antifragile the same writer, I'm reading him and so powerfull.

i appreciate your attitude, keeps it real!

Thank you again. Awsome information!

You outdid yourself in this video, keep it up brother!

Welcome back, pal

@Followgod73

2 жыл бұрын

oh man you are here

Holy shit. This is enlightening. Tbh this answered a question I kept to myself. Thanks. I hope you upload more!

hey ...have for waiting for your videos a long time broii....it is great to see you back.

Thank you so much for this! Definitely buying this book!

Thank you for the great video, the effort is appreciated

so glad your back....been a while

Hey illacertus! you are awesome!!

I really love your channel!

Great Work! Keep it up

i really enjoy you content man! keep it up (new subscriber here)!

Love the passion and expression bro

Great content, thanks.

nice accent, easier to listen to, great examples from the book, easy to understand. Great work, imho.

Great work.

Love this channel.

Thank you so much!

I like the channel and in college wrote papers on Diogenes of Sinop, small world I guess

Excellent. Thanks.

This is the channel for those seeking wisdom, and I am a lifetime subscriber!

Your a great man, and I enjoy your videos.

great work thank you

THANKS FOR SUBTITLES!

Thank you for this.

The way you said the boy who figest to much is hyperactive just so the doctors can fill the boy full of drugs is exactly what happened me a lot in my life but I gladly got rid of the drugs to be who I am

Awesome video and review. Is this his new book? Anyway, it's so true what Taleb says. Society is using the bed of Procrustes as a control mechanism.

as always I adore you dude. xoxxo

Those of us who truly think differently will always enjoy these types of videos

Well said, and far a head of its time!

Hei dude welcome back! Post more I like the way you think, do podcast, do something :D just talk it's inspiring.

"Diogenes gone mad", an epithet worthy of a "magnificent bastard". 😜

I envy u for ur wisdom. Keep doing these videos.

Excellent observation. Now I don't feel so alone. My views on planning and control come from the lack of it at an early stage. Destruction and abuse await the wondering soul. Survival is best known as a plan and not chance.

i beleive taking responsibility and doing things you are born to do is the path of spirituality.

You should also create content related to Alexander's and Napoleons war tactics

Aaaaaaand subscribed!

Your voice expresses power. If fits perfectly to the books of Robert Greene. Thanks

Nassim has linked to your video on social media.

ive been watching this for 10th time.

I'm glad you stood up for yourself. Too many snowflakes in the world...Everybody got a dam opinion on what someone should be doing or who they should be... Leave if you don't like what you're saying, that's easy. Dude keep doing what you're doing. I need the content you're doing. Thanks a Million.

Fantastic channel! I have to admit I haven't gotten around to reading the book but I wanted to ask one thing that caught my attention. How does Taleb argue that employment is slavery?

Wow!

illacertus are you a public speaker? great video and I enjoy the learning experience. PS: can I get a reading list and favorite.

I think you should write a book about all these, worth a try.

the 60 dislikes are from Procrustes and his beds 🤣

I don't know if it's a methaphor lost in translation. But in my version of the book he cuts off the legs of people who where too tall. And theseus cut off procrustes's head in his own bed, in a sense of justice.

You're the man, cool guy. No really. Today, it takes an individual FOREVER to find assurance that all the rampant passivity we see is actually a newer attitude with all that dumb, discarded crap folks bandy as sensible and admirable to remain looking fashionable, is actually as crucial now as 100 years ago. Please outline the dimensions in concept to respect! Oh my gosh! That topic is red hot for deep contemplation .

So would the concept of human augmentation, i.e. replacing normal human limbs with highly functioning robotic ones, be considered part of talebs's view of hubris and if so is their a certain point where it crosses or is all augmentation hubris? I'd love to hear you opinions.

are you going to make more

U are great and I envy for your wisdom😂

quality over quantity, correctly said sir.

2:44 chemistry cat rules!

I did not understand the uber example, could you please explain it to me...?

his aphorisms are way outside the box...light years away

Tim Ferriss linked your vid in his 5 bullet friday email today! Tim Ferriss plugging you

@Illacertus

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thanks for mentioning. What did he write?

@maddypape

2 жыл бұрын

@@Illacertus He links to it after talking about the concept! Taken from his email: "Myth I’m considering in modern-day circumstances - A Procrustean bed: “Something designed to produce conformity by unnatural or violent means. In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a robber who tied his victims to a bed, either stretching or cutting off their legs in order to make them fit it.” (Source: Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms). Nassim Taleb (@nntaleb) has a related book of aphorisms titled The Bed of Procrustes. He explains the title thusly: “Every aphorism here is about a Procrustean bed of sorts-we humans, facing limits of knowledge, and things we do not observe, the unseen and the unknown, resolve tension by squeezing life and the world into crisp commoditized ideas, reductive categories, specific vocabularies, and prepackaged narratives, which, on the occasion, has explosive consequences.” For more, see this animated KZread video: The Bed of Procrustes. "

How many books do you read in a month?

Classic

Nassib is a genius.

sadly you can't do the 24 laws of seduction I listened to the book but I have no idea how to be any of those people in the book

Hey Illacertus, powerful video. This give me ambitions for my future ethics and wisdom if I end up in a position of power and to develop my current ones. Have you looked into veganism, I wondered? Also I want you to gain more viewers so you can go full time sooner so maybe you could try a tactic of Garyvee: tweeting about trending topics three times a day to get discovered, using facebook video for reach, you can even take pieces of your current content.