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Great people, great computers and.. 00:00:43.420 --> 00:00:45.420 moving on with the video! 00:00:46.500 --> 00:00:53.860 Meme Review - just kidding. It's just me! I didn't get much sleep last night, and I'm just like can we 00:00:54.520 --> 00:01:02.720 This video will be very chill; just one video, that would be very chill. Thank you very much ok alright ok 00:01:02.900 --> 00:01:09.740 Feels kind of stupid making a video like this because who cares what PewDiePie has to say about literature 00:01:10.390 --> 00:01:11.700 if you follow me on Twitter, 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:16.680 I've been posting I've been reading a lot of books lately and a lot of people were asking, "hey 00:01:16.930 --> 00:01:21.930 Do a book review" so here I am. it was three people that asked actually it's really weird 00:01:21.930 --> 00:01:27.389 I don't think I've ever read this much in my entire life. It just sort of happened, and I've been loving it 00:01:27.389 --> 00:01:29.840 I had a blast this month reading these books 00:01:29.940 --> 00:01:31.940 Consider Phlebas, Brave New World, 00:01:32.650 --> 00:01:34.650 Fahrenheit 451, 00:01:34.659 --> 00:01:39.179 Children of Time, the Picture of Dorian Gray, and 12 Rules of Life. 00:01:39.180 --> 00:01:43.949 I basically wasn't - it's not a new year's resolution or anything like that 00:01:43.950 --> 00:01:47.280 I used to read, YouTube sort of made me completely stop 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.689 And I've been really desperate to just do other things in my spare time 00:01:51.689 --> 00:01:56.780 and I've been loving it and I plan to keep, keep on reading and 00:01:57.620 --> 00:01:58.620 maybe 00:01:58.620 --> 00:02:01.620 uh, this could inspire you to read as well or 00:02:01.620 --> 00:02:02.940 uhhhh 00:02:02.940 --> 00:02:08.440 Might just be interesting to hear what I have to say. I don't know probably not, shut up! First book is: 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:12.020 Consider Phlebas or plebas or 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:20.690 phLeBaS. You know this is an important writer because the title of his name is five times big as the title of the book 00:02:20.690 --> 00:02:26.680 I didn't know anything about Ian M. Banks. I know he's from - he's a Scottish writer? this was written in nineteen 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:33.500 1987. I don't think the title or the cover has anything to do with the book 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:36.139 I just knew I wanted to read a sci-fi 00:02:36.140 --> 00:02:40.669 I got this idea that I just want to immerse myself in a completely different universe and 00:02:41.160 --> 00:02:46.490 Space seems like a great place to go. I've been really interested in AI lately, and I thought 00:02:47.220 --> 00:02:51.679 Maybe, maybe I can discover that. I just searched up classic sci-fi 00:02:51.680 --> 00:02:58.580 and this is what came up. It's about the main character whose name is Horza, and he's a very interesting protagonist 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.040 He's a changer as it's called and 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:03.560 Whenever I, uhh 00:03:03.870 --> 00:03:05.340 Whenever I read a 00:03:05.340 --> 00:03:08.090 Old literature that is considered a classic 00:03:08.090 --> 00:03:14.300 But hasn't been made into any form of movie adaptation because Hollywood would literally take anything and make a movie out of it - 00:03:14.300 --> 00:03:17.839 But they don't - I'm always thinking why? Why has this not been made into 00:03:17.970 --> 00:03:20.029 a movie and well 00:03:20.030 --> 00:03:25.669 I think it's the protagonist. How do you make a movie about a character that can change into other people? 00:03:25.670 --> 00:03:28.520 It was very interesting to have a character, that's 00:03:29.160 --> 00:03:31.339 sort of OP (overpowered) in a sense. He can 00:03:31.530 --> 00:03:37.309 change into other people - not as seamlessly as x-men or whatever; that blue girl or whatever - 00:03:37.410 --> 00:03:39.559 But nevertheless he can do it he has 00:03:40.020 --> 00:03:45.739 teeth that if he bites you you'll become paralyzed and if he even just scratches you and 00:03:46.590 --> 00:03:52.399 He will have the same effect. He doesn't really use the powers as - just as a superhero 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.580 It's more of a way to as a power struggle 00:03:56.250 --> 00:04:02.389 This is so uninteresting. I realize sorry, but the main cha - I just find it interesting that the main characters like he has 00:04:02.390 --> 00:04:06.830 these really great abilities and that made it really fun. It's basically about Horza 00:04:06.830 --> 00:04:12.980 who is - I don't; I feel bad for not remembering this - but he's with the Idiran, which is this space 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:19.820 group of people. Man, I'm explaining this amazing. and Idiran is at war with The Culture which is this uh 00:04:20.760 --> 00:04:25.200 space group of people. And Horza is uh, he wants 00:04:25.740 --> 00:04:29.900 Through some strange turn of events, he wants to retrieve 00:04:30.520 --> 00:04:34.240 this AI that had crash-landed on a 00:04:34.300 --> 00:04:36.190 planet called Schar's World 00:04:36.190 --> 00:04:42.570 That's the story. A lot of things happen in between but if you write a summary of the plot it can be extremely short 00:04:42.570 --> 00:04:46.559 But it is a space opera in a sense that a lot of cool stuff happens 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:48.869 You know? They, they fight at a temple, 00:04:48.970 --> 00:04:54.450 They play this crazy space game; things that it wasn't really necessary for the plot 00:04:54.460 --> 00:04:57.280 but it was fun to be part of the journey and 00:04:57.420 --> 00:05:04.940 That's what I enjoyed about it. Iain the writer loves the culture. It's very clear while reading this that he loves describing 00:05:04.950 --> 00:05:06.790 What? the civil - space, 00:05:06.790 --> 00:05:11.520 civilization is, what their morals are, what their ideas are and 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.530 He spends a lot of time on this and personally I found it a bit boring after a while 00:05:16.530 --> 00:05:21.059 I wanted to know more about Horza. Why is he part of the Idiran? 00:05:21.070 --> 00:05:24.989 Why does he want to retrieve the AI so badly? What is his motive as a character? 00:05:25.020 --> 00:05:28.529 What is that drives him through to to want this so badly? 00:05:28.530 --> 00:05:32.220 We never really find the answer to that which I find to be kind of annoying 00:05:32.470 --> 00:05:37.200 But it wraps up nicely in the end and it's overall just a fun space adventure 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:40.710 I think that's really all it is so I would rate this 3 out of 5 stars 00:05:41.770 --> 00:05:47.669 It was alright. It was okay. Moving on: I wanted to read a dystopian futuristic 00:05:48.460 --> 00:05:53.519 Sci-fi. I read 1984 by George Orwell before and it's one of my favorite 00:05:54.190 --> 00:05:57.480 Books it was a book that really left that impact on me 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:04.259 I and the meaning and the story tied together really gripped me and I think about it a lot. A lot of people 00:06:04.870 --> 00:06:11.609 suggested Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, which is very similar to 1984 but 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:15.700 they sort of tackled the same issue but 00:06:15.700 --> 00:06:23.240 Completely different perspectives. Basically, uh Aldous describes a future - this was written, 00:06:24.540 --> 00:06:29.220 1934 I think or something like that, a long time ago - and Aldous describes a 00:06:29.700 --> 00:06:31.800 a future horror scenario 00:06:31.810 --> 00:06:34.230 Human as a society. I think the year was like 00:06:34.810 --> 00:06:41.850 2150 or something like that - we have a society where we are just perfectly content 00:06:41.860 --> 00:06:46.950 There's no problems, there's no diseases, people are born out of labs 00:06:47.860 --> 00:06:52.830 Through the Bokanovsky effect, people are born in- without a mother or a father 00:06:53.830 --> 00:06:57.600 They're just genetically produced. People are born into hierarchies 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:05.129 So you have the hierarchies and social casts of alphas being the top guys Beta Gamma Delta's is that the right order and? 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:10.800 Everyone is just content where they are. The alphas are happy they're not deltas, and Delta's are happy 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:14.080 they're not alphas, and if there's ever a problem 00:07:14.100 --> 00:07:21.510 for the people in the society they just take soma; they, they brainwash themselves with drugs, and they just feel better 00:07:21.510 --> 00:07:23.700 It's sort of plays on the blissfully ignorant 00:07:24.340 --> 00:07:25.320 sort of way of living 00:07:25.320 --> 00:07:30.960 And this is how people want to live this is how people are happy to be. 00:07:31.140 --> 00:07:37.200 Then, another character gets introduced who grew up outside of civilization, he's called a savage 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.510 He is basically us he is 00:07:39.940 --> 00:07:46.460 he has the same ideas and values as we do and he meets this new world, a brav- the Brave New World™️ 00:07:46.540 --> 00:07:54.020 the civilization that is completely different and the contrast between the savage and the civilization was hilarious 00:07:54.060 --> 00:08:03.560 I laughed so much while reading it. As an example: He tells the civilization that he has a mother. *civilized Pewds* a mother? HAHAHA 00:08:03.860 --> 00:08:07.120 I love her *civilized Pewds* you love her? HAHAjsHA 00:08:07.260 --> 00:08:10.140 It's very funny, I'm not even sure it's supposed to be funny 00:08:10.140 --> 00:08:14.039 But I, I laughed out loud a lot of times while reading it, but then 00:08:15.580 --> 00:08:21.539 The story like I said it might not seem as bad as in the beginning, but the story turns very grim and 00:08:22.060 --> 00:08:28.680 You understand that things are- this is not a way to live. This is actually a horror scenario and 00:08:28.840 --> 00:08:35.339 The ending left - just like 1984 - a very big impact on me. I think about this book a lot after reading it 00:08:35.340 --> 00:08:38.460 I love this book. I think it's a masterpiece 00:08:38.760 --> 00:08:44.700 5 out of 5. It's an incredible piece of literature. I could not recommend this enough if you like a dystopian future 00:08:44.700 --> 00:08:50.099 So you probably read it already anyway. It's very interesting as well to compare it to 1984 00:08:50.709 --> 00:08:52.709 1984 which is written by George Orwell 00:08:53.649 --> 00:08:57.268 Described a future just to oversimplify. He described a future 00:08:57.820 --> 00:09:01.889 Horror scenario as well where the government doesn't want you to read books 00:09:01.889 --> 00:09:07.948 I guess you can say, but Aldous describes the same fear, but he describes a future where society 00:09:08.760 --> 00:09:13.400 Doesn't want to read book- we just rejected it where we reject the knowledge ourselves 00:09:13.620 --> 00:09:18.800 So it's very interesting to have to two fears brewed into different 00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:23.000 uh, perspectives. Moving on, I don't need to go on too much 00:09:23.079 --> 00:09:27.779 So naturally I wanted to read more dystopian because I read two, 00:09:27.780 --> 00:09:33.380 and I loved them, so a lot of people suggested Fahrenheit 451 00:09:33.420 --> 00:09:39.400 written by American writer Ray Bradbury, and you see here on the back: "Ray Bradbury's gift for storytelling 00:09:40.029 --> 00:09:45.419 reshaped our culture and expanded our world." - Barack Obama. I hated this book 00:09:46.810 --> 00:09:48.459 comparing this book 00:09:48.460 --> 00:09:50.020 to 00:09:50.020 --> 00:09:53.980 Brave New World, it makes this seem so shallow 00:09:54.220 --> 00:10:01.880 and so petty. I'll try my best to explain why I didn't like this book because I know a lot of people love this book and 00:10:01.890 --> 00:10:08.819 I know a lot of you probably have read this book because ironically your teacher told you to read this book- I bet you 00:10:08.820 --> 00:10:14.640 that's the case. And the irony of that is that it probably will turn people off right reading books 00:10:14.890 --> 00:10:19.079 Because it's not an interesting story, but it carries a very important message 00:10:19.079 --> 00:10:24.659 So, so teachers want kids to understand his message about why literature is important 00:10:25.020 --> 00:10:30.600 But it's just gonna turn them off. That's how I imagine it. Anyway, I need to explain what this book is about, sorry 00:10:30.680 --> 00:10:33.480 It's about Guy Montag who's a firefighter, 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:38.860 Sorry, he's a fireman, but he doesn't extinguish fires, get this: he, he burns books 00:10:40.959 --> 00:10:44.969 Burning books, guys, burning books is BAD obviously 00:10:44.970 --> 00:10:46.180 That's an important message 00:10:46.180 --> 00:10:51.680 But I just found it to be told in a very shallow and uninteresting manner the meaning was the story 00:10:52.139 --> 00:10:59.448 And not the story itself, which I found to be kind of annoying. I didn't care about guy the firefighter. I didn't care 00:10:59.449 --> 00:11:01.110 what happened to him and 00:11:01.110 --> 00:11:03.409 It just made it not really interesting 00:11:03.410 --> 00:11:09.440 I read that apparently this book was written in a few days or maybe it was a month and you can tell 00:11:09.630 --> 00:11:11.749 I compared his writing style to, to 00:11:12.930 --> 00:11:19.130 Huxley it's this is a joke. I felt like sense it didn't really have a story, I'm just reading 00:11:20.040 --> 00:11:27.860 Ray Bradbury's ideas and his fears directly, and it just came across as kind of petty and 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:33.649 Anti innovation, maybe at the time it was more reasonable to have the fear that in the future 00:11:33.649 --> 00:11:39.259 We're not gonna care about books anymore. That's Ray Bradbury's fear. His fear that we're gonna listen to the radio 00:11:40.350 --> 00:11:46.250 While doing other things and he makes a good point actually now that I think about it about, how 00:11:46.589 --> 00:11:52.279 we want to consume media so quickly now, that I did resonate to and he 00:11:52.560 --> 00:11:54.319 he sort of goes over the top with it 00:11:54.319 --> 00:11:59.299 he seems like the kind of person that will tell you don't spend too much time in the front of the TV because your 00:11:59.420 --> 00:12:02.680 eyes will become squared and to me that just seemed like 00:12:03.260 --> 00:12:09.100 Against innovation in the future. Yes, he was probably right about how quickly we want to consume media 00:12:09.100 --> 00:12:13.420 But people still read books just because we have computers and television and radio 00:12:13.880 --> 00:12:15.880 That doesn't turn off from anything 00:12:15.990 --> 00:12:17.279 Maybe I misinterpreted 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:23.809 But that's just how I understood the writer. Because of that I can't give this book too high of a rating 00:12:23.810 --> 00:12:24.769 I will give it a two out of five 00:12:24.769 --> 00:12:28.549 I don't really understand its price, and I would not recommend this book 00:12:28.550 --> 00:12:32.269 I would much rather recommend a book like this or 1984 00:12:32.579 --> 00:12:38.929 Next. book. So I asked Marzia what her favorite book was it's the Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 00:12:39.569 --> 00:12:40.920 another, *smol kiss* 00:12:40.920 --> 00:12:45.920 fine piece of literature, and I understand exactly why Marzia loved this book, it has a 00:12:47.400 --> 00:12:49.080 meaningful, uh 00:12:49.220 --> 00:12:53.120 a meaningful story with sort of horror elements to it 00:12:53.120 --> 00:13:00.859 And I think, uh that hits, uh that's what Marzia would be interested in. The story is about Dorian Gray who gets painted by 00:13:01.649 --> 00:13:03.649 Basil, this painter and 00:13:04.649 --> 00:13:08.448 The third character, which name is Lord Henry. It's kind- 00:13:08.448 --> 00:13:16.120 I don't want to get too much into each character, but basically Henry, and it gets really infatuated by this Picture of, of Dorian 00:13:16.320 --> 00:13:19.260 It's just such a beautiful picture that he painted 00:13:19.829 --> 00:13:25.099 That Basil painted, and, and Dorian himself really adores his pic- painting, every one loves his painting 00:13:25.100 --> 00:13:31.129 But it's between them that that it's been painted *Doria* This is incredible and incredibly beautiful, man 00:13:31.649 --> 00:13:33.649 He's, he's the perfect 00:13:33.810 --> 00:13:36.949 perfect being it's described as and he's a 00:13:37.649 --> 00:13:40.518 He's in a high social caste. He's well regarded 00:13:40.940 --> 00:13:46.800 He's rich, and he has it all, basically he has everything you could possibly want 00:13:46.800 --> 00:13:52.900 But he realizes that he's not gonna have this youth, this beautiful face forever, so he 00:13:53.020 --> 00:13:57.040 he sort of wishes that he could have it forever 00:13:57.440 --> 00:14:03.760 He wishes that he could look this young as his picture and as beautiful as a picture forever and that becomes his curse 00:14:04.139 --> 00:14:06.589 because he doesn't age at all and, 00:14:07.170 --> 00:14:12.319 Instead the picture becomes a reflection of his soul. Lord Henry, 00:14:12.319 --> 00:14:14.989 I would describe as - he's older than Dorian. 00:14:15.029 --> 00:14:19.999 he is, he's lived a fuller life than him and he has experience and I think he looks at 00:14:20.250 --> 00:14:26.689 Dorian sort of as him- himself in the past and he gives Dorian advice through different things 00:14:26.689 --> 00:14:28.849 And maybe I'm describing the plot too much 00:14:29.610 --> 00:14:31.639 Sorry it-I, I think it's just interesting 00:14:32.279 --> 00:14:33.569 Dorian uh 00:14:33.569 --> 00:14:37.519 Makes a mistake and here's what I really resonated with this book 00:14:37.519 --> 00:14:43.008 He had the choice to either double down and just treat it as he did- it wasn't his fault 00:14:43.220 --> 00:14:46.939 I think as anyone can do when you make a mistake you can either own up to it 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:54.880 Or you can confess that yeah, this is my mistake. I made a terrible mistake. Lord Henry, I would almost say is his, you know 00:14:55.180 --> 00:14:58.160 Devil on the shoulder and he tells Dorian 00:14:58.180 --> 00:15:03.700 No, you didn't make a mistake at all what you did was fine and even myself while hearing Henry's 00:15:04.310 --> 00:15:08.380 Claim, I was like yeah, actually he didn't do anything bad 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:15.639 - Obviously he did - But it made it resonated to myself with like mistakes I made especially on YouTube where you turn 00:15:15.830 --> 00:15:20.949 it's hard to confess to the world that you made a mistake it may not seem like it and I 00:15:21.140 --> 00:15:24.549 Went through that myself in my head where I'm like well, I didn't really make a mistake 00:15:24.550 --> 00:15:27.550 It's not really my fault, and I shouldn't have to own up to this 00:15:27.550 --> 00:15:31.479 but I'm glad I did because you don't want to end up like Dorian Gray because 00:15:31.970 --> 00:15:37.209 Basically since the painting, It's a reflection of his soul, the painting becomes more tainted 00:15:37.940 --> 00:15:44.289 By this path that Dorian has been led upon, and it's a very interesting story about vanity 00:15:45.160 --> 00:15:49.380 about how one mistake can lead your whole life astray and 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:54.240 It's extremely well-written, and I really really really enjoyed this book 00:15:54.250 --> 00:15:59.619 I thought it was fantastic and I totally understand why it's Marzia's favorite book 00:15:59.620 --> 00:16:01.510 I would rate this 4 out of 5. Next up: 00:16:01.510 --> 00:16:08.220 I wanted to read sci-fi so I read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky this has been bought by lionsgate 00:16:08.220 --> 00:16:11.980 I think the film studio, so it's probably going to be made into a film 00:16:12.050 --> 00:16:16.930 How are they going to make this into a film? I don't know! does anyone know? 00:16:16.930 --> 00:16:23.500 I think this was more what I was looking for when I in the beginning when I wanted to read sci-fi 00:16:23.500 --> 00:16:28.210 I think this is what I wanted to read, this tackles some really interesting 00:16:29.090 --> 00:16:31.090 topics like AI, 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:32.660 time, 00:16:32.660 --> 00:16:34.860 human evolution, speciesism- 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:42.190 How we value other species - it was very interesting. To describe the plot without any spoilers 00:16:42.190 --> 00:16:48.849 I think the best way I can say it: It's humanity's last hope is on this ship, and then there's also 00:16:49.610 --> 00:16:56.349 Humanity's old Empire as it's called sort of lingering in space, and then there's this planet where 00:16:56.900 --> 00:17:03.549 Humanity wants to go to but there's there's things on the planet so there's a power play in between the planet 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:09.020 Humanity's last hope and the old Empire and you follow each of these perspectives 00:17:09.380 --> 00:17:11.380 more, or less and, 00:17:11.970 --> 00:17:16.609 It's just very interesting. It really made me look differently on, 00:17:17.340 --> 00:17:23.869 How we value species; I look at the humanity in the future, but overall it was just a fun space adventure. 00:17:23.870 --> 00:17:27.890 I really enjoyed it. I thought it was it was fun from the beginning to the end 00:17:27.890 --> 00:17:32.810 I didn't really like the main character, I guess. I didn't- I wasn't as gripped by it as, 00:17:32.810 --> 00:17:37.300 I think a lot of all the people probably would be, it has an incredibly unexpected 00:17:37.800 --> 00:17:42.880 Character in it without spoiling it and I don't understand how they're gonna turn that into a film 00:17:43.350 --> 00:17:49.549 Maybe I'm making it seem more interesting in that it is but if you want to go on a modern space a sci-fi space thing 00:17:50.520 --> 00:17:52.670 This is why I'll never read or- write a book 00:17:53.610 --> 00:17:59.570 This is it. This is very gre- very good, very great I almost said, um I've been talking a lot 00:17:59.570 --> 00:18:03.379 How are you still here? great because I'm trying to cut it short 00:18:03.380 --> 00:18:08.660 I don't think I'll ever read this much in a month because the last book I read which I finished last night 00:18:08.660 --> 00:18:10.660 Which is probably why I'm so tired is 00:18:10.830 --> 00:18:15.470 12 Rules of Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. 00:18:15.900 --> 00:18:21.680 Peterson. You may know about Jordan B. Peterson already. He's very popular on YouTube 00:18:22.770 --> 00:18:27.619 For being sort of a free thinker; he's sort of a controversial figurehead as well 00:18:27.620 --> 00:18:31.760 And I think he's gotten a lot more flak than he deserves 00:18:32.610 --> 00:18:35.930 Because of it, because he's very cut and dry with his 00:18:36.420 --> 00:18:37.110 ideas 00:18:37.110 --> 00:18:43.840 Which is why he's been so embraced by the internet and disliked by media which I can sort of relate to 00:18:43.980 --> 00:18:48.620 Have you seen that interview he did with uh channel 4? It's sort of gone viral 00:18:48.620 --> 00:18:53.359 It's became a meme almost because the lady that tries to interview Jordan 00:18:54.210 --> 00:19:01.220 Try and strawmen argue against him. she keeps going, "Oh, so you're saying this," *actual vid* "but you're just saying that's the way it is" 00:19:01.220 --> 00:19:03.756 You're saying, *unknown* women have some sort of duty, 00:19:03.756 --> 00:19:04.789 Jordan: so if you want me gone 00:19:04.790 --> 00:19:08.239 Why you should dominate, but you're saying basically it doesn't matter. if, it made, 00:19:08.280 --> 00:19:13.280 It made, her goal was to make him look bad and trash Jordans name in this interview 00:19:13.320 --> 00:19:19.840 He completely shut her down, and he made her look really vicious and really spiteful 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:25.600 And he'd really made me want to read this book because of it cuz I was like wow that's really impressive and the Channel 4 00:19:25.600 --> 00:19:31.629 News lady if you read the damn book you wouldn't have fallen into that trap he even discusses strawman 00:19:32.030 --> 00:19:34.990 arguing, and why that's wrong in, in the book 00:19:35.630 --> 00:19:41.650 - Ha gotcha - anyway, about the book itself. Twelve rules of life. I didn't read the title it's a self-help book 00:19:41.650 --> 00:19:47.920 I don't think I ever would have read a self-help book. It gave me a lot of new perspectives that I never thought I 00:19:48.710 --> 00:19:55.449 Would even have, it was very interesting even reading about advice that doesn't resonate with me at all 00:19:55.540 --> 00:19:58.980 But just to understand all the people. Jordan goes very deep in 00:19:59.340 --> 00:20:03.900 philosophical thinking and psychological thinking and he makes this very 00:20:05.210 --> 00:20:11.230 Simple claims, right? uh tell the truth for example rule eight or at least don't lie we know that 00:20:11.630 --> 00:20:16.570 We know not to to lie and we know the moral implications of that 00:20:16.610 --> 00:20:21.579 but he goes so in depth in a philosophical and like I said a 00:20:22.190 --> 00:20:25.509 Psychological way, and how that by telling lies it really, 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:31.179 twists your worldview. I really resonated with it that was the only rule where I was like 00:20:31.180 --> 00:20:34.629 I don't ever want to lie this is he really makes a great point here 00:20:34.630 --> 00:20:37.630 So I thought that was really interesting . There was a lot of rules 00:20:37.630 --> 00:20:44.800 I didn't I didn't need to read at all about raising kids or like how to deal with- the cope with the 00:20:45.590 --> 00:20:47.709 failing marriage and that sort of stuff. 00:20:47.709 --> 00:20:54.240 But you can tell Jordans goal for this is to help people you can really appreciate that at least I think he 00:20:55.080 --> 00:20:59.860 Unfortunately does it in a way that he goes on a little too long sometimes. 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:03.160 Sometimes I find it a bit, uh 00:21:03.620 --> 00:21:09.609 Beating the point to death and some of the analogies that he made seemed strange at times. 00:21:09.610 --> 00:21:12.249 They didn't really seem like they fit. He draws, uh, 00:21:12.530 --> 00:21:19.300 He draws comparisons and analogies from Disney movies to old biblical stories 00:21:20.080 --> 00:21:26.319 And there's a lot of religious analogies in this book a lot of religious analogies 00:21:26.320 --> 00:21:31.330 And I didn't realize until the very last chapter. I was like he's religious 00:21:32.290 --> 00:21:34.290 I thought he grew up in a 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:40.150 Christian household or something like that and and the reason that he drew a lot of religious analogies was because 00:21:40.340 --> 00:21:46.600 To prove the point that we always knew about this or maybe this is something that we we've known for thousands of years 00:21:47.030 --> 00:21:50.379 Through this biblical text. Whenever I look at self-help 00:21:50.380 --> 00:21:51.340 I can't help 00:21:51.340 --> 00:21:54.909 But feel a bit critical like is it what is this some sort of cult 00:21:55.220 --> 00:21:59.079 book or something like that? and, and finding out that he was religious in the end and 00:21:59.810 --> 00:22:01.550 it sort of 00:22:01.550 --> 00:22:03.370 Changed my perspective on the book 00:22:03.370 --> 00:22:10.360 I know that's kind of stupid maybe but he even, even Jordan himself brings it up that the past can, can 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:13.510 be changed from the future and 00:22:13.510 --> 00:22:15.440 and finding out he's religious, eh 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:21.039 It's not that big of a deal, but I feel like it's probably unfair for me to say but anytime self-help 00:22:21.040 --> 00:22:24.070 I'm like this is just some sort of cult following bullshit 00:22:24.070 --> 00:22:28.450 It's not it's not at all, but it made me look more critically at the rules 00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:34.700 Which I think you should do any time you get advice, about how to live your life. 00:22:34.700 --> 00:22:39.740 so I think that was fine, It didn't it didn't ruin anything for me, but I 00:22:39.760 --> 00:22:46.200 Surprisingly like I said. I really enjoyed this book. It was very fun to read, I will definitely take some lessons from this book 00:22:47.300 --> 00:22:52.869 Absolutely and it also made me understand other people around me better. That was the book I read in January 00:22:53.090 --> 00:22:59.079 I want to keep reading. I hope this was fun to listen to I know I've been going on a long time 30 minutes 00:22:59.300 --> 00:23:02.710 It's probably cut down a bit. I had a lot of fun talking about these books I 00:23:03.590 --> 00:23:10.299 Had a lot of fun this month having a hobby that doesn't involve YouTube. I used to, I used to read but 00:23:10.820 --> 00:23:15.249 YouTube just took over my life, hopefully this might inspire you to read more as well 00:23:15.249 --> 00:23:19.000 And maybe you'll pick up one of these. Next month, if you want to join me 00:23:19.580 --> 00:23:22.160 ehh, Book Club! 00:23:22.170 --> 00:23:25.579 I know already which books I'm gonna read next month; not all of them 00:23:25.580 --> 00:23:31.160 But I know I want to read Beyond Good and Evil from Frederick Nietzsche. Everyone talks about Nietzsche all the time 00:23:31.160 --> 00:23:36.139 I never read anything from him and Jordan mentioned him a lot, so I I knew I wanted to read this 00:23:37.140 --> 00:23:41.089 I'm gonna read Life 3.0 By Max Tegmark which is 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:50.420 He describes AI and how it, how it may or may not affect us in the future. He is a Swedish genius, 00:23:50.520 --> 00:23:56.180 I don't know if his genius, but he, the people compared to the Swedish Elon Musk and Elon Musk 00:23:56.180 --> 00:24:02.689 Even praises the book. My parents recommended this as well, so I started already a little bit, and it's very interesting 00:24:02.690 --> 00:24:06.440 And I want to read what you guys suggest me leave you- let me know in the comments 00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:10.760 If there's anything that you think I might be interested in. leave a like if you enjoyed, I really hope you did (Captioner: I certainly did) 00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:13.400 If anything this is just one video 00:24:14.370 --> 00:24:20.540 Compared to a lot of other where I go and act like a *Dorian* so that's it goodbye 00:24:21.360 --> 00:24:23.360 Bye now, Squad FAM 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:27.410 Is my *Dorian* hair up like this the whole time?