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  1. This was very inspiring! Thank you. I often feel like when I’m journaling there’s no “point” to writing down my daily actions. Then I get discouraged and stop journaling because I feel it isn’t improving me in any way. I need to let go of that narrative and think of it more as practice, as you’ve stated.
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  2. Absolutely agree ‼️ Journaling is the best way to capture one's narrative.
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  3. Great channel. Keep it up
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  4. Hi Jared! I first encountered your channel while looking for books similar to Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. But I've come to love all your content! I haven't seen much but this year my new years resolution has been to read 6 books (1 every 2 months), in the spirit of some advice I heard you give about becoming a better reader, which was to not expect too much of yourself all at once. Reading deeply is a skill which takes practice and develops over time. I studied theology in undergrad and did a lot of reading, but honestly felt a lot of shame about how I would often fall behind or feel lost. As a result I've really wanted to keep up my reading yet have felt often discouraged when it gets hard. Your advice was really encouraging and as I said played a key role in my resolution to commit to six books even though I thought with my background I "should" do more. So thank you for your awesome content! It is a perfect fit for a lot of what I am doing right now in walking towards more wholeness as a man. I'm doing a lot of personal work and even considering becoming a classical teacher one day. I've even thought about making a channel in the same spirit as yours blended with others like Horses, Struthless, Dry Creek Wrangler School, and Called to More to name a few. Thanks again and I am excited for more content!
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  5. I love browsing the comments section as much as I love watching your videos 😄 I'm a language teacher (not english haha) and I always tell my students to write by hand. Otherwise they don't recall anything. I wish I had time to find the studies I saw that showed that your brain make connections when your write by hand that it doesn't when you use a computer. I want to do a video about that at some point.
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  6. A door closed, another now fully open. I appreciate your content & will see you over on substack, too. 👍
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  7. Hey Jared, I really appreciate your editing. A lot of videos have wild visuals and complex transitions that feel almost over edited to me, and while there is value to that I feel it can distract from the point of the video. You have a more minimalist approach, simple graphics over a background with a sort of grain overlay - enough movement to not feel stale but not enough to distract from what you’re saying. Also you’re not sitting in front of rows of bookshelves that clutter the background, again helps the viewer focus on you and what you’re saying. I really appreciate your aesthetic, and as someone who edits videos here and there your style is something of an inspiration to me, an approach I want to shift toward in the future. Thanks for all the hard work!
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  8. So sorry to hear! Horrible in the moment but in my experience being laid off leads to better things. Really hoping things land in a better place in the end and excited to follow your journey!
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  9. Go for it bro. God has a plan. You're about to do some of the best work of your life. I don't know you, but I can feel it.
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  10. For the Pre-Socratics Oxford World's Classics has a good compilation titled The First Philosophers.
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  11. This is a FANTASTIC video! Thank you, Dr. Henderson!
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  12. Preach! Nothing more important than the re-read. Love what you said about points of confusion. That is not the place to just say eh, and skip over. Dig in! Great video, friend!
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  13. Last year I've read Shop Class as soulcraft and I loved it. I definitely saw myself into Matthew's words. I've been a "spirited woman" my entire life and I didn't realize until I read this book. I really recommend it to every "builder-like" soul out there.
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  14. Hey Jared, after hearing you repeatedly recommend “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin, I finally found the time to read the novel. It did not disappoint. I just graduated in May as a philosophy and business major, so the best parts of the book for me are the varied dialogues between Shevek and the other interlocutors, either from Urras or Anarres. These are the parts of the book where questions are raised around: human nature, freedom, the authority of government, and what an anarchist society should be. It definitely reshaped my thinking and left me re-considering my views on political philosophy. Thank you for the recommendation, but now I have a question. Have you made videos on political philosophy yet? If not, do you plan to in the future? I personally would like to see a video of you discussing philosophical anarchism; both the socialist and the capitalist versions. Or you could talk about the various philosophical views that support the existence of a government: social contracts, the divine right to rule, or rule consequentialism.
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  15. I love this. I'm actually reading "How To Read A Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading," by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren. These two great men were proponents of classical learning of the Liberal Arts! This video sounds pretty much the same thing they are talking about! I became aware of this book because Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson, President of Zaytuna College, gave a lecture about this topic several years ago and it was on my booklist as I endeavor to become a better reader, even as a college graduate. Zaytuna College is the First (accredited)Muslim Liberal Arts College in America. Were the 'Great Books' tradition of the West and the Islamic tradition are engaged and mastered.
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  16. I love this method. Really similar to what I've seen Ryan Holiday do when prepping for his next book. I need to gett better at this!
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  17. I really like the freewriting method, it feels so natural and having no restrictions is quite helpful to lift all anxiety issues, the text just flows from my mind to the page, so delightful. I can't imagine how I would fill, say, a five year journal, having just a tiny space for each entry feels like a nightmare. I'm trying bullet journal this year, I really hope that it's not that restrictive and will allow me to mix freewriting with structured entries, task tracking and indexing. Hope bujo indexing will help me to navigate through the old entries (the main problem you mentioned about freewriting is bugging me hard). Thanks for the video and tips!
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  18. Writing, in general, and journaling, in particular, is one of the artistic manifestations of who we are.
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  19. I have to admit, this channel is the best thing in yt, thank u for your content!!!
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  20. This is such a great content, as well as video editing. My takeaway: The popularity of Stoicism in the modern day must not deviate from its Ancient origin and essence.
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  21. Hey Jared, I've always particularly enjoyed your style of content. From the books lists, to journaling, to the philosophical videos that often go over my head. I wanted to say that in the video "books that influenced my life" (or something like that), I was thrilled to find out you had the same faith background as me (Orthodox). I'd be highhhhhly interested in watching some version of apologetics and or analyses of the Orthodox Faith (and Christianity in general) from you. I think you'd put out phenomenal content, and doing round tables with the likes of What Do You Meme, Apologetics Roadshow, Apostate Prophet (often streams with David Wood/Apologetics Roadshow) would I think lead to some very interesting conversations. As someone that wishes they could write full time, I wish you all the best in this hopefully beneficial turn of events.
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  22. Can't believe you are already at 4.7 k subs! Joined at around 34 and I can't wait to see y'all grow even more. I love listening to the Hobbit on audiobook because it reminds me of my childhood. Audiobook narrators really are underrated and it feels nice to just close my eyes and imagine it all. After I read the Hobbit I always watch the Rankin and Bass movie.
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  23. I actually started with a gratitude journal, writing 5 things I was thankful for, and really built a daily practice. Now I do that and freewriting a few days a week in a separate journal. I am now interested in trying a commonplace book.
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  24. Meditations is my favorite non fiction book of all time. I am on read-through number 5 currently. Loved this video, the b-roll was done well too!
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  25. We appreciate your recommendations. May God bless you.
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  26. I collect blank books of all types, but I suck at using them as sketchbooks or journals like I intend. Three years ago I began using them as commonplace books and now I go through them in about half a year, replete.
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  27. Great video, comprehensive and succinct. I hope all the people led astray by those nonsense "how 2 stoic" videos find this one and go on to learn what Stoicism is really about
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  28. Brilliant explanation -nice and straightforward too, which is urgent here on Youtube. Thanks for the link.
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  29. Thank you for sharing, this has inspired me to speak about my own career crisis from 2013.
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  30. my comment doesn’t really have anything to do with the video; i simply want to share with the creator - and all the community of course - that in september i’ ll go to university and i have decided to enroll in philosophy. i have only studied it briefly in high school and i know i lack some basic skills such as a good text comprehension, excellent writing skill and logical thinking which is why i am scared as have never been before; i feel like i won’ t be good or smart enough for this faculty and i’ ll fail pretty soon still i know this is want to do and i’ ll try my best. thank you to the creator for making such good videos that inspire me and reassure me whenever i doubt myself or my decision.
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  31. Your stoic content is so well thought out… hope to see more :)
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  32. As a philosophy major I actually feel like it is hard to make a distinction between "beginner level" and like a more "advanced level" of philosophy... Sure, there are certain philosophers that are more complicated to understand because you might need some understanding of their use of certain words and expressions, but in the end if you want to read it and understand their thoughts, you will have to start somewhere. I see here comments by people saying that e.g. reading Kant as a "beginner" is a stupid idea but I just feel like philosophy is something that you just have to to jump right into it and then figure out where to go from there, trying to understand the key concepts and ideas. To people who are not used to read philosophy, I would just recommend starting somewhere with some of the big names and then just read something and if you are not really interested in it, skip it and go on to the next thing until you reach a philosopher or a topic that you find soo interesting that putting all the work to like slowly understand it is fun to you and not a difficult task...
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  33. Videos like this scratch my brain itch. Thanks!
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  34. I just finished reading The Dispossessed the other day, having picked it up on your recommendation. I completely felt the same as you on finishing it and wanted to start it again. I love the way Le Guin writes, and her Earthsea Trilogy was a huge influence on me as a child. In this book I felt like it would have been so easy for her to score some kind of political points but she is too interested in pursuing the real dilemmas faced by the characters.
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  35. Really interesting list! It's interesting to hear you go against big surveys as starter points. I like that thinking. I'll be really curious to hear your deep dive into stoicism. It is for sure a favorite of mine but has been blended when it comes to my personal philosophy. I think people like it because it is more accessible and immediately applicable.
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  36. Wow, I actually use these basic prompts already. It really does help! I've been doing this for about 3 months now and I've been feeling so much better. I'd like to add that it is nice to go through and see patterns between the positive and negatives throughout the previous entries. I turn these basic daily entries into examples of a thesis that I can turn into a goals. I really like the idea of writing it as a narrative. I am going to try to focus a bit more on how I'm writing. Right now, I've just been word vomiting. I've never been a good writer, and there's so much in my brain, it feels nice to just get it all out.
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  37. Thank you for putting quality content about Stoicism on the Internet.
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  38. Hi Jared! You got me into philosophy! You and Park Notes.
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  39. I self published my first book in 2011 and alternate between wide and exclusive with Amazon. I hate going exclusive but my royalties drop by 80% every time I go wide. The other problem with Audible is they control the list price of the my audiobooks. I'm experimenting right now with putting some of my audiobooks up on YouTube for free but my channel isn't even monetized yet so I'm pretty sure this is not going to be the solution. And Trad is not the answer. I've had two trad offers that I've turned down because the advances were $2500 and $5,000 and I know damn well I'd never see another penny after that because of creative accounting. Whoops, sorry for venting...
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  40. Came here for the recommendations and I stayed for the thorough and passionate explanation on the books and styles 👌 A couple of longer lists about science-fiction and fantasy suggestions would be fantastic, pun intended.
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  41. Hey! Thank you. I’ve been journaling, feeling like I was mostly summarizing or listing the events of my day and getting very little benefit. I didn’t realize, I was writing as thorough someone would be reading it, and didn’t let myself sink deeper into what my actual thoughts and experiences were. Just wrote for 30 minutes and it’s like I offloaded stress I didn’t know I was holding. Thank you!
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  42. Jared, i’m a engineering student in Mexico, and the books you’ve recommended and journaling itself have helped mea lot, not just in the career, but in my life. I encouraged my gf to start Journaling because her existencial crisis and whatnot So all o can say, is thank you for this content.
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  43. You single-handedly got me into reading philosophy, and for that, I'm forever in your debt.
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  44. I'm trying to reignite my love for reading in this very moment. I feel in love with reading by way of The Lord of the Rings more than 20 years ago. I then began consuming fantasy at (for me at least) a breakneck pace. I use to scour used bookstores, thrift stores, libraries and more for every fantasy or science fiction book I could purchase. It became an obsession. But eventually with work and other responsibilities and a mini personal crisis I just stopped reading. I still purchased books, but I didn't read. Recently, for the sake of my sanity I've decided to find and make the time to fall in love with reading again. And I just finished the first book during this reignition phase last night; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. I was thrilled to hear that it was one of the three books that helped rekindle your passion for reading. I am pulled towards a lot of spirituality, philosophy, religion, etc. nowadays, but I also want to read sci-fi/fantasy again, and the classics. Thank you for sharing this video... it really feels like a sort of defining synchronistic moment for me. This was my first Dostoyevsky novel and I loved it! I love Le Guin... I don't remember if I've read The Dispossessed, but I have it and will read or re-read soon. I also have many of Terry Pratchett's Disc World books , but I've yet to read any of them. You've given me the inspiration to begin. Thank you again! And I wish you continued success with The Classical Mind.
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  45. jared: you have been a key part in my renewal of reading and love of philosophy, and just wanted to say thanks and keep up the great high quality content (would also love your thoughts on Notes From The Underground)
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  46. This is an excellent list. Just found your channel and now newly subscribed.
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  47. I love reading science fiction, but you have insights and call out relationships to other books in a deeper way than I tend to, and I appreciate those points you make. Plus I’ve only r ead 4 of the 5 books you discuss, so now A Memory Called Empire is in my list. Thanks!
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  48. Dude... DONT STOP READING THE MANGA.. beyond the "goofiness" you will find heavy themes about philosophy, politics, race issues, life, god, YOU WILL BE REWARDED
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  49. Great video as always! For me the greatest benefit of journaling (doing it consistently for almost 40% of my life) is the realization of ups and downs. All the fears, the happiness, the depression... everything is cyclical in a way, and I find a lot of comfort in that idea. My 15 year old self was pretty happy, unlike my 20 year old one, but became happier again at 25... Also the worst part about journaling is seeing things that you have been trying to achieve for almost a decade, and still having trouble with them like being constant or intentional.
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  50. Love these types of videos, its really interesting to hear an honest perspective with no bs. Glad you chose YouTube!
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