WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en-CA 00:00:01.760 --> 00:00:04.400 I read 72 books. Sorry I lied in the 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:06.350 title. That's right. 00:00:07.760 --> 00:00:10.460 In 2018 I read 72 books 00:00:11.430 --> 00:00:14.120 here in my garage and this is all my 00:00:14.120 --> 00:00:14.870 knowledge 00:00:15.310 --> 00:00:18.140 And the other dead means 28 year old man 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:19.550 discovers books is a thing. 00:00:22.010 --> 00:00:25.010 It's the end of the year and I wanted to make a sort 00:00:25.010 --> 00:00:28.010 of summary and talk about some of my favorite books that 00:00:28.010 --> 00:00:30.890 I read this year. And I also wanted to make this book to 00:00:30.890 --> 00:00:33.860 hopefully inspire you guys or more people in general to read 00:00:33.860 --> 00:00:36.740 as well. The percentage of teenagers that read for fun 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:38.480 is at an all time low. 00:00:39.140 --> 00:00:41.120 Let's change that. Oh yeah. 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:43.610 The reason why I started reading was 00:00:43.670 --> 00:00:46.640 because I made actually 00:00:46.640 --> 00:00:49.520 a New Year's resolution so I thought OK well maybe 00:00:49.700 --> 00:00:52.670 this could. You guys can take the same resolution. Maybe 00:00:52.670 --> 00:00:55.490 you guys have the same problem as I had which is that 00:00:56.120 --> 00:00:58.850 I kind of have a problem with finishing 00:00:58.850 --> 00:01:01.040 things. Sounds a bit weird but 00:01:01.220 --> 00:01:03.740 generally as soon as things get a little 00:01:03.740 --> 00:01:06.710 difficult I get bored and I move on to something 00:01:06.710 --> 00:01:09.410 else and this could be for even silly stuff like. 00:01:10.460 --> 00:01:13.370 Playing a video game. If it gets boring at some 00:01:13.370 --> 00:01:16.160 point I don't really care to finish and I'll just buy a new 00:01:16.160 --> 00:01:18.980 game or move on to something else or whether it's a hobby 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:21.170 project as soon as it gets a little boring. 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:24.090 I generally don't finish it so I. 00:01:24.740 --> 00:01:27.500 I miss that feeling I'm finishing 00:01:27.500 --> 00:01:30.380 something I missed that gratifying feeling though you 00:01:30.380 --> 00:01:32.300 know even if it wasn't the most fun. 00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:36.570 I still am glad I went through with it. I'm so glad 00:01:36.570 --> 00:01:39.230 that I can move onto the next thing. Preachy 00:01:39.230 --> 00:01:42.170 moment incoming and NG in case hasn't been preachy 00:01:42.170 --> 00:01:45.140 enough so far I think especially with social media as 00:01:45.140 --> 00:01:47.990 well we should literally never has an end 00:01:47.990 --> 00:01:50.900 to it. It's just something that keeps going and going and going and 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:53.810 going. I wanted to have that feeling so I said by my new 00:01:53.810 --> 00:01:56.690 year's resolution was going to be that no matter what I do I'm going to 00:01:56.690 --> 00:01:59.540 finish it. And I didn't have books in mind at all. 00:01:59.720 --> 00:02:02.450 It just sort of became a coincidence that I decided 00:02:02.510 --> 00:02:05.370 OK I'll read a book and I'm leaving if I don't like it. 00:02:05.720 --> 00:02:08.720 I don't care. I'm just going to finishing it. Finish it. So 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:12.080 I start off with reading sci fi and to be fair 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.020 I didn't really enjoyed that much. I'm so glad I 00:02:15.020 --> 00:02:17.840 read it and I knew I wanted to read something 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:20.690 different next. And I really enjoyed that and they just sort of 00:02:20.690 --> 00:02:23.390 came and moved on and on and on and here I am 00:02:23.390 --> 00:02:26.030 later and I'm so happy. I'm so glad I made 00:02:26.030 --> 00:02:27.470 this decision. 00:02:27.590 --> 00:02:30.170 One of the major discoveries for me this year was 00:02:30.170 --> 00:02:32.870 discovering my favorite author which I talked a lot about 00:02:32.870 --> 00:02:35.540 on this channel which is Yukio me Shima. 00:02:35.750 --> 00:02:38.570 Didn't know anything about this author when I read him which I 00:02:38.570 --> 00:02:41.540 think really added to the effect for me so I almost don't want 00:02:41.540 --> 00:02:44.240 to talk about him because discovering him as was 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.060 equally as fun almost or really added to the 00:02:47.060 --> 00:02:49.880 experience for me. I tweeted out on Twitter 00:02:49.930 --> 00:02:52.640 asking if there was any recommendations for Japanese 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:55.510 authors because I enjoyed reading them more Academy 00:02:55.660 --> 00:02:58.400 and at air really expect much of it. I thought Yukio was a 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:00.980 female name. I thought it was a female author because 00:03:01.340 --> 00:03:04.150 when I read this elite fell from grace I could see I just felt sewing 00:03:04.180 --> 00:03:07.100 could completely merge into the main character's mind 00:03:07.430 --> 00:03:10.430 which is something I never really experienced before with literature even 00:03:10.430 --> 00:03:13.250 though this character this young boy very special to 00:03:13.250 --> 00:03:16.250 say the least I was. I was there I 00:03:16.250 --> 00:03:19.130 was into it and I felt like I got a window into that 00:03:19.130 --> 00:03:22.100 time and period when this was written. And 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:25.130 that really is why I was so 00:03:25.130 --> 00:03:27.980 drawn to his literature afterwards studying the book 00:03:27.980 --> 00:03:30.650 learning about Yukio emission man's life 00:03:31.010 --> 00:03:33.140 you certainly learn more about the meaning the 00:03:33.140 --> 00:03:36.080 symbolism and the ideas that motivated 00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:38.930 his work which makes it even more interesting. 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:43.030 So I think that's why for me you mission man had 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:45.800 such an impact this year and also reading more about his 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:48.560 nonfiction work like Sun and steel for example. 00:03:48.630 --> 00:03:51.230 That was his way of living he he wanted to 00:03:51.230 --> 00:03:53.990 reintroduce the samurai way of living into 00:03:53.990 --> 00:03:56.900 Japan and a lot of his book reflects that 00:03:56.900 --> 00:03:59.660 idea on the shift that 00:03:59.750 --> 00:04:02.540 Japan went through during the Meiji period. Shortly 00:04:02.540 --> 00:04:05.510 after the Second World War I hate to say this but 00:04:05.630 --> 00:04:08.240 the point is he wrote sun and steel which it was for a 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:10.800 magazine and he was an avid body lifter 00:04:10.860 --> 00:04:13.820 weightlifting which is not your typical I 00:04:13.820 --> 00:04:15.910 guess rider hobby. 00:04:16.790 --> 00:04:19.520 Because he believed in sun and steel which is 00:04:19.520 --> 00:04:22.370 his take on the old an old samurai saying the 00:04:22.370 --> 00:04:25.160 flower and the sword. That's oversimplifying it 00:04:25.220 --> 00:04:27.380 but basically it was his idea that 00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:30.740 samurai should spend just as much time 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:33.350 writing poetry as they spend time 00:04:33.410 --> 00:04:36.380 practicing with their sword and missing 00:04:36.380 --> 00:04:39.290 my felt like. Japan had forgotten about their 00:04:39.290 --> 00:04:41.930 steel or the sword of Japan. And 00:04:41.930 --> 00:04:44.720 especially during the westernisation of Japan. A 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:47.450 lot of his work like runaway horses. 00:04:49.250 --> 00:04:51.950 Is technology in the Temple of Dawn. They will 00:04:51.950 --> 00:04:54.950 reflect this this shift. 00:04:54.980 --> 00:04:57.740 He was also obsessed with the idea of dying 00:04:57.830 --> 00:05:00.280 young and he really dramatic size. And 00:05:00.530 --> 00:05:03.260 Mishima was supposed to win the Nobel Prize he was 00:05:03.260 --> 00:05:06.230 supposed to be one of the first winners. This sort of became 00:05:06.230 --> 00:05:09.110 an essay I don't know why I didn't mean sorry I just. I 00:05:09.140 --> 00:05:12.040 like talking about male Schmidt. He was a poet. 00:05:12.180 --> 00:05:14.960 It is very interesting. He was supposed to win the Nobel 00:05:14.960 --> 00:05:17.480 Prize but he was kind of a misunderstood character and 00:05:17.750 --> 00:05:20.180 still is fairly young to receive such an award. 00:05:20.210 --> 00:05:23.180 So he he got snob. Then he went to one 00:05:23.180 --> 00:05:26.030 of his peers. Instead. And 00:05:26.780 --> 00:05:29.690 I think twice as even he was supposed to win the Nobel Prize. It 00:05:29.690 --> 00:05:32.570 was sort of taken back. He's still young. We 00:05:32.570 --> 00:05:35.510 don't really know who he is yet. So when he 00:05:35.510 --> 00:05:38.390 gets older it will probably get the award. But 00:05:38.780 --> 00:05:41.420 for people I know by Miss Sharma he never made it that far to 00:05:41.430 --> 00:05:44.210 verify it. Fascinating author. His life is 00:05:44.270 --> 00:05:47.210 equally as fascinating as his work so that has been one of 00:05:47.210 --> 00:05:50.180 my favorite things that I discovered this year. Just reading his books 00:05:50.210 --> 00:05:53.150 I absolutely loved it. I read his technology. 00:05:53.390 --> 00:05:56.360 I read someone who is I guess more weird 00:05:56.690 --> 00:05:58.850 stuff. His short stories 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:03.350 so much great work from him that I just I feel 00:06:03.530 --> 00:06:06.200 I enjoy every page that I read. The second thing that I 00:06:06.200 --> 00:06:09.030 really enjoyed discovering this year which is 00:06:09.030 --> 00:06:11.900 something that I never thought I would say which is Buddhism. 00:06:13.370 --> 00:06:16.220 That's right everybody. I think a lot of people 00:06:16.220 --> 00:06:19.220 can benefit from the critics not from a religious 00:06:19.220 --> 00:06:22.040 thing from but just I think if you embrace 00:06:22.100 --> 00:06:24.620 Buddhism as a philosophy there's so much to learn 00:06:24.860 --> 00:06:27.500 especially for me. I think with the ideas around 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:30.050 self. Control and 00:06:30.290 --> 00:06:33.230 why you should indulge in self-destructive behavior that is 00:06:33.230 --> 00:06:36.200 something that I really benefited from and it's something that I 00:06:36.200 --> 00:06:39.080 never really was taught so I'm really glad I read this 00:06:39.080 --> 00:06:42.050 book I picked it up on a complete win and the sun came out of 00:06:42.050 --> 00:06:44.540 nowhere and I'm getting blasted like an inferno. 00:06:44.570 --> 00:06:47.420 Jesus Christ. I find it interesting because a lot of its 00:06:47.570 --> 00:06:50.450 ideas on why you shouldn't indulge in self-destructive 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.420 behavior sort of correlates to another book 00:06:53.450 --> 00:06:55.880 that I read. I've talked about before which is 00:06:56.330 --> 00:06:59.180 Man's Search for Meaning by Victor you Frankl who 00:06:59.180 --> 00:07:02.110 is a Holocaust survivor. He survived I think two or three 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:04.790 concentration camps and he made the 00:07:04.790 --> 00:07:07.770 observation that people that you 00:07:07.770 --> 00:07:10.480 know started smoking or did these self-destructive 00:07:10.490 --> 00:07:13.100 things on the camps avoid the people that had 00:07:13.280 --> 00:07:16.280 kind of given up on on in general and 00:07:16.280 --> 00:07:18.440 these were the people that would soon after. 00:07:18.920 --> 00:07:21.810 Obviously not for everyone but would pass away because they 00:07:22.190 --> 00:07:25.150 they lost their meaning there they lost their their grip 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:27.530 I guess you could say you know here I am 00:07:28.310 --> 00:07:30.350 privileged little sweet boy. 00:07:31.640 --> 00:07:34.580 Why should I do these self-destructive things. What's the 00:07:34.580 --> 00:07:37.400 meaning for me to do that. And Frankel says 00:07:37.460 --> 00:07:40.220 as well that you should live your life as if you've already 00:07:40.220 --> 00:07:43.040 make made your mistakes as if you already 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.040 lived it and made all your mistakes because that changes 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:48.830 your approach to life in a meaningful way. And this 00:07:48.830 --> 00:07:51.170 connects a lot to the ideas in my opinion around 00:07:51.740 --> 00:07:54.440 reincarnation which sounds really weird for me to say but 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:57.440 it gives you a positive meaning and outlook on 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:00.410 life in my opinion. Regardless if you embrace the 00:08:00.440 --> 00:08:02.870 religious and spiritual aspect of it 00:08:03.380 --> 00:08:06.260 and regardless if you believe in that or not I 00:08:06.260 --> 00:08:09.260 think is irrelevant or at least actually it is 00:08:09.260 --> 00:08:11.990 relevant but it doesn't really change anything and doesn't 00:08:11.990 --> 00:08:12.930 change the outcome. 00:08:12.950 --> 00:08:15.770 I guess you could say if you have a meaning for something you can go through 00:08:15.770 --> 00:08:18.430 any suffering in Buddhism treats life as 00:08:18.440 --> 00:08:20.300 suffering. This became very weird. 00:08:21.670 --> 00:08:24.610 Always my final point. Life sucks. I want to tell us and 00:08:24.610 --> 00:08:27.460 touch upon that dystopian which I could 00:08:27.620 --> 00:08:30.290 because I think that's something that a lot of people like to start off 00:08:30.290 --> 00:08:33.050 reading. Myself included one of the earliest 00:08:33.050 --> 00:08:35.510 books that I read this year was brave new world 00:08:35.900 --> 00:08:38.840 written by Aldous Huxley. I loved this one especially because 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.780 it's a good mixture of comedy and intentional or not 00:08:41.790 --> 00:08:44.750 I don't know. And that is how grim it 00:08:44.750 --> 00:08:47.630 gets as well how dark it is. We should really delivers 00:08:47.870 --> 00:08:50.660 this impactful meaning behind it. I don't want to go too 00:08:50.660 --> 00:08:53.300 much into it sorry. But the main reason I'm bringing this up is 00:08:53.300 --> 00:08:56.240 because a lot of you guys are recommending 00:08:56.630 --> 00:08:58.940 this book to me which is Fahrenheit 00:08:58.970 --> 00:09:01.940 451 which is another dystopia which 00:09:01.940 --> 00:09:04.730 depicts a future where people won't read books. 00:09:04.910 --> 00:09:07.820 They have the same idea generally but I think 00:09:07.820 --> 00:09:10.460 these are two great examples of this one has a great 00:09:10.460 --> 00:09:13.370 elevator pitch this one dozen but this one has so much 00:09:13.370 --> 00:09:16.220 more impactful meaning behind it. This just sounds to 00:09:16.220 --> 00:09:19.160 me like the rambling of an angry 00:09:19.160 --> 00:09:22.160 old man. This is the one that's going to get a movie adapted to 00:09:22.160 --> 00:09:25.130 it. I think Lily sings is even acting in it 00:09:25.280 --> 00:09:26.300 so it's gonna be great. 00:09:27.990 --> 00:09:30.320 Golly golly 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:34.010 Phoebe and government controlled information 00:09:34.100 --> 00:09:36.900 verses information in the media today. I 00:09:36.950 --> 00:09:39.830 say pretty identical. Just go on any social media Web 00:09:39.830 --> 00:09:42.720 site and you'll see that there's two sides to every story and everyone you 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:45.430 literally just sound like a crybaby and an idiot which you are. 00:09:45.510 --> 00:09:48.460 Lately things it's so bad. This book is so terrible 00:09:48.470 --> 00:09:51.020 I think it's a perfect example of a book that's the 00:09:51.020 --> 00:09:53.960 moral is the core center of the 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:57.080 of the novel. Which just 00:09:57.080 --> 00:09:59.920 makes it so goddamn boring in my opinion the beauty your 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:02.330 fiction is when you have characters that are 00:10:02.330 --> 00:10:05.270 interesting and the story that really grips 00:10:05.270 --> 00:10:08.270 you in a way that. The ideas behind 00:10:08.270 --> 00:10:10.820 it isn't as transparent and they have so much more 00:10:10.820 --> 00:10:13.370 impact in my opinion. This is so 00:10:13.370 --> 00:10:16.190 rambling so poorly written. It 00:10:16.190 --> 00:10:18.950 blows my mind that this is what gets recommended. 00:10:19.460 --> 00:10:22.340 Don't read this one. There's so many better dystopias out there. 00:10:22.910 --> 00:10:25.700 Whenever you goal as well the top rated 00:10:25.700 --> 00:10:28.370 books on the online and you see 00:10:28.490 --> 00:10:31.340 see what's popular there are a lot of it is a self-help 00:10:31.340 --> 00:10:34.310 book which is fine. Obviously they have a purpose and 00:10:34.370 --> 00:10:37.010 there's a lot to learn from that as well. But I would really 00:10:37.340 --> 00:10:40.190 emphasize that reading fiction read fiction 00:10:40.340 --> 00:10:43.280 there's really no better way to to get the meaning behind 00:10:43.280 --> 00:10:46.130 something in my opinion instead of just getting it 00:10:46.130 --> 00:10:48.680 spoon fed to you. And I hope that 00:10:49.520 --> 00:10:52.310 more people get into reading fiction as well and don't 00:10:52.310 --> 00:10:55.190 just read non-fiction because I 00:10:55.190 --> 00:10:58.040 know I have a lot of younger guys watching me and I know 00:10:58.040 --> 00:11:01.010 younger guys generally tend to strayed more towards 00:11:01.370 --> 00:11:02.840 nonfiction instead of fiction. 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:05.170 But you're missing out okay. Did you get scared. 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:08.270 Extremely dark in here. God damn it. I think that's all I 00:11:08.270 --> 00:11:11.090 wanted to say. I could probably ramble on a lot more. 00:11:11.150 --> 00:11:13.970 Thank you for listening so far. I again I 00:11:13.970 --> 00:11:16.710 really hope this inspires more of you to read as well. 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:19.670 Because I had a lot of fun this year and I also would 00:11:19.670 --> 00:11:22.490 recommend to start small. And 00:11:22.490 --> 00:11:24.770 also maybe set a goal for yourself. I think 00:11:25.190 --> 00:11:27.850 instead of reading 50 pages and then or 300 00:11:27.890 --> 00:11:30.530 pages and stopping. It's better to just read 00:11:30.650 --> 00:11:33.420 something small like 10 pages a day. That's 00:11:33.430 --> 00:11:36.200 a banner if you were consistent with it at 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:39.110 least then stopping and I think you'll find that you'll 00:11:39.110 --> 00:11:42.050 get into it quicker than you think. Obviously if you're not 00:11:42.050 --> 00:11:44.810 used to reading which I was in at the time it's a 00:11:44.810 --> 00:11:46.110 little harder to get into. 00:11:46.160 --> 00:11:49.000 But once you do it's great 00:11:49.280 --> 00:11:51.560 it's really fun. If this video gets 00:11:51.560 --> 00:11:54.170 5000 likes I will give 00:11:54.170 --> 00:11:56.750 away my favorite book of the year 00:11:57.320 --> 00:12:00.080 which is the cat in the hat. 00:12:00.140 --> 00:12:03.100 Now they spoke. I'm thinking about doing a whole 00:12:03.100 --> 00:12:05.730 series about. It's 00:12:05.760 --> 00:12:06.520 goddamn genius.