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"We might not always have the power to gain more, but we often have the power to want less". Thank you

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

As soon as i finish high school, I'm doing this for 3 to 4 months, I've always wanted to do this, Just one more year left.

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

That sounds really cool! Have fun!

@caiojahn

3 ай бұрын

Same bro

@ultraviolxce

3 ай бұрын

Sameee

@WONMARK

2 ай бұрын

It's all fun and games till "Wrong Turn"

This will be my early retirement. With a solar rig, my instruments,washing machine and starlink haha. Relative asceticism. We are far too comfortable indeed. Growing fruit and vegetables and foraging are so rewarding, permaculture takes this to the next level by creating your own micro ecosystem as such- endlessly fascinating, exponentially more than social media culture. Solitude is bliss!

As somebody who’s ran into health problems at the end of high school, this required me to stay in isolation for about 2 years from what I was previously used to. I was on my own personal Walden, in the hospital room, where I discovered philosophy; namely Buddhism, Stoicism, Emerson and Thoreau. Before I went into full isolation for my immune system, I went to a Buddhist retreat, where it reset my values, in much the same vein as Thoreau. Love your videos, please keep these coming. I would love to see one on Emerson and transcendentalism if you want some input! Take care.

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope things are better at your end!

I loved this book, I’ve abandoned my socials & all my so called friends (all questionable) over a year now, & I’ve formed such deep relationships with certain trees & crows in my neighborhood & hills nearby. And now it’s like the reality that surrounds me has become an oracle in & of itself, numbers & symbols & creatures & stars all working in an ongoing narrative. It’s all so compelling & uncanny. Magick gets real. 🧬⚛️🐇🦉🐦‍⬛⚛️👽🙏🧙

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

From what you’ve said here you may also like Dostoevsky’s White Nights

@bunnytarot

6 ай бұрын

@@unsolicitedadvice9198 I have not read that one, Dostoevsky is on another level , TY 🙏 You’re doing great content here, Happy Holidays! 🎄🙏

Many find peace & solutions to problems in their alone time. Give yourself the gift of appreciating time alone. Yes, it is sometimes very lonely ..but it is an opportunity to give thanks for whatever small grace we receive...as many in this world would appreciate the gift of peace.❤

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

This is a really nice thought

@kimlec3592

6 ай бұрын

@@unsolicitedadvice9198 Peace be with you, you are just beginning the long adventure called life.

You're a gifted teacher. This channel will grow. Survival is triumph enough.

As always, you knock it out of the park with this one! I worked as a therapist in the NHS a couple of years ago and was there for a few years. Gratitude was always a huge part of what I tried to impart in my patients being a big fan of Seneca myself, so it’s great to see you tackle it! Speaking of gratitude, I wanted to acknowledge your always dressing up for these videos. It’s a great way of showing your respect for yourself and for us as your audience and I for one appreciate it. Keep it up man, your channel will blow up very soon. We are just the lucky few who get to say we knew you at these humble beginnings!

Whenever I hear about Thoreau's cabin, my brain starts playing "Common People" without my consent.

"the things you own end up owning you" Tyler Durden

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Ah I had no idea that was where that quote came from - I’ve definitely heard it before but I assumed it was from a Stoic philosopher or Epicurus

Loving this channel! Have been watching for the past hour.

You're just incredible!

I was very happy to have found this video. You brought together 3 subjects that I really admire. first, minimalism, second, a transcendentalist vision and finally, stoic philosophy.

Thank you ❤🎉 Pursuit of more is truly draining.

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Thanks a lot for your work! Please continue, I believe this channel will have a lot of success.

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’m really glad you like it!

Your videos are excellent, the way you organize these works and ideas into easily digestible content is impressive.

This was a formative book for me, and I muchly appreciated this video essay. You did the text justice and gained a fan in this solitary persnickety nitpicker.

This came at the right time, thank you.

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

I am glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching

Great channel! Keep up the awesome work! Learning more about philosophy and the mind saved my life, I'm very grateful that there's intelligent, compassionate people like you out there to share it 🥰

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Ah thank you, that’s very kind. I’m really glad you are enjoying the videos! (Though I must insist that I’m not actually very intelligent, but it is very kind of you to say so)

So incredibly informative! ♥️

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’m really glad!

Such a great channel. Thanks for this!

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching

I absolutely adore and love your content keep going man:)

great video

Great video, learned a lot from it

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! I’m glad!

I actually did this 😄 I’m currently living in the countryside. Little pleasures are my daily life (:

Thank you for this video, please upload more videos 🙂

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! I’ll have one out towards the end of this week (family commitments permitting)

Walden is short and cheap, I shall read it. Thank you for the video essayl

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! And it’s a fun read!

Great content! ❤

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Amazing

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you!

2:35 I do Hope your physical pain has eased

My dream ❤

your videos are really great

@unsolicitedadvice9198

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I am really glad you like them

Damn bro I could literally listen to you talk allllllll day long. #Charisma #JustDamnGoodLooks

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Haha! That’s a lovely compliment! But my friends can attest it gets tiring eventually

Oh shatter my dreams.. her we goo :D

Perhaps a list of happy philosophers? Epicurus, Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Stuart Mill, Erasmus Darwin, Bentham? And the list is debatable and certainly not complete. Cheers

Own you

But you are so special, keep up like that

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Ah thank you! That’s very kind

your timing on some of these topics is just uncanny; they're so applicable at particular junctures in life for me, quite bizarre. many thanks for this one, happy holidays!

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Thank you! Happy holidays to you as well!

@caindis-abel-dhisbrother9601

6 ай бұрын

same, i just changed my life radically and now i am quite isolated (again). it's necessary, you need to live with yourself, before you live with others. i can't share his exile, i'm in the city, isolated though (and with a laptop). maybe i should quit that too, for a while.

Can you make video on shopenhaur on Hindu upnishad

so basically bro did the ultimate dopamine detox

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Ah yeah! If I had spotted that I would have made the comparison in the video

@detailed8962

6 ай бұрын

@@unsolicitedadvice9198 it is a good message but it doesn't translate in todays capitalist world. if we do that we'll get out of the competition and end up poor

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Ultimately yeah it’s not like copying Thoreau one-to-one will work out well for most people. I more enjoy thinking what we can learn from these people who do things we might not be able to do

Merry Christmas! ⛄ Walden is very interesting, why most philosophers are so 😡unhappy with life in general? Cheers 😀

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas! And I have often wondered the same thing. Though I think a lot of them also seemed quite jolly (or at the very least, their writings are quite jolly)

I love the woodsman. He’s not smart and he knows it. He works hard. He chops wood all day; that’s all he knows and what he’s best at. He eats hungry and sleeps tired. He doesn’t ponder the endless complex paradoxes of life. He leads a simple life, and he’s happier for it.

This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my KZread channel 9 months ago about self development. Now I have 1,739 subs and > 1k hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.

What is Thoreau’s book called?

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

It is called Walden :)

Shit you got me 😅😅😅

do an episode about each ancient filosophers

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

I would like to at some point! Although there is so much already on ancient philosophers that I am not sure if I would be adding much

This channel is useful as fuck ❤

@unsolicitedadvice9198

5 ай бұрын

Thank you! That's very kind of you to say!

Ironic that the cabin in the woods is considered a luxury by modern standards

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

That’s an excellent point! There is a sense in which it was still Thoreau’s fortunate circumstances that allowed him to conduct this experiment, since he was (as far as I know) living on the land owned by a friend (R.W. Emerson)

You look cute...!

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Very kind of you to say

The best way to be happy alone is to be Diogenes. Just like Alexander the Great Said... Also yeah that intro sentence really hit my fantasies to return to unga bunga perfectly.

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Oh I have got to do a video on Diogenes at some point!

@WelcomeToDERPLAND

6 ай бұрын

@@unsolicitedadvice9198 He's my favorite philosopher of all time, only barely beating Marcus Aurelius due to how funny it is to learn and read about him- unlike ol' Stoicism man who is usually at least a little depressing to learn about since he lived during such tough times in the roman empire- which usually hurts to think about... I've heard that we've lost many works from Diogenes which is a crying shame, apparently he wrote 10 full length books on the subject of morality that we have absolutely no surviving documentation of- only knowing of it by references made by others about them in later works... a damn crying shame, may the sands of time reveal at least some of such treasures to us one day, I can only imagine how incredibly funny or poignantly striking they would be.

I love your videos but you have got to get some new stick photos for your thumbnails and in video use 😅

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Haha! I will do at some point, but I’ve not found many that work as well

@eresoup7229

6 ай бұрын

@unsolicitedadvice9198 hahaha, good luck with that! Keep up the good work

Lonely and financial secure and happy wallowing in disgust for humanity. 10 million US dollars

I enjoyed Civil Desobedience much more than Walden. Thoreau had guts.

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

I would love to cover that as well at some point

Problem is people need money to buy food , warmth from the elements and pay for rent even in the forest since all things belong to someone which everyone wants something. Even women attack a man for that if they dont have which women are the biggest issue in the world for men. LOL In general good videos.

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, it’s not like it’s possible to live like Thoreau did for those years (even in his day it was only through a series of fortunate coincides that he could). I just think it’s fun to see what we can take from what he did

If exurb1a has taught me one thing, it’s that the answer is NOT a cabin in the woods.

@unsolicitedadvice9198

6 ай бұрын

Haha! It is worth noting that Thoreau did not plan to stay there forever