Category: philosophy

Anyone Can Share on YouTube

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I love YouTube.

Justin Bieber, Ed Sheeran, and Weeknd came to attention on YouTube first.

MrBeast is in 2024.  A College dropout whom nobody would ever have got to know, except for YouTube. His childhood friends are still collaborators. 

Casey Neistat popularized vlogging. A high school dropout who headed to NYC with no money.  And went on to inspire tens of thousands to start their own YouTube channel. His first upload was February 17, 2010.

I first learned about him from this edit for Nike. 😀

“Nike asked me to make a movie about what it means to #makeitcount. Instead of making their movie, I spent the entire budget traveling around the world with my friend Max. We’d keep going until the money ran out. It took 10 days.”

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You have to love this guy.  Here’s his philosophy of life and YouTube.

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Life … ENJOY the Ups and Downs

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The rain. And the rainbows.

Sean Kitching, one of my favourite YouTube editing experts, is giving up his house. Going full-time on the road in a camper van.

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Life … Live A Good Story

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Original song by Brendan Coulter.

@BrendanCoulter17 on Instagram.

Brendan remembers his friend Josh Neuman, who died in an Iceland plane crash.

Only age-22.

Josh created the most popular skateboarding videos of all time, and his YouTube channel had approximately 1.2 million followers at the time.

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Ted Lasso at the Van Gogh Museum

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This comedy is very philosophical.

Happy November 2nd 🎈

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I’m 65 years young today.

Give me ALL the pensions. 😀

Last year I was in Lisbon for 64.

For the 62nd I was in Nepal.

53rd was in Porto, Portugal.

I’m usually travelling the world on my birthday.

30 years ago I decided on my far-from-typical philosophy.

Life is short. Too short to waste working. Do what you want.

Financially my plan was to “retire” from age 33 to 65 — then go back to work full-time when I’m no good for anything else. At age-65. Today.

I can do that as a Gymnastics coach. There are plenty of elderly full-time Gymnastics coaches.

Sounded a brilliant plan. But I think I’ll put off un-retirement for a while longer.

Perhaps until I’m medically tied down.

All the best from Liverpool, England. I’m here for the World Gymnastics Championships.

What’s next? … I’m researching sunny European hiking destinations. Azores? Canary Islands?

Adventure Travel – WHY?

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Part of “adventure” is an uncertain outcome.

And my first 3 weeks in Norway were certainly unexpected. I arrived far north of the Arctic Circle with no bicycle. No luggage. Both were stuck at Heathrow airport where I checked in with SAS (Scandinavian Airlines).

I could give up. Or make do with my carry-on.

WHY not simply go to an all-inclusive beach resort and start drinking at noon?

Here’s a good answer from Jedidiah Jenkins who cycled Oregon to the southern tip of South America.

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Riverman by Ben McGrath

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The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book “contains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable characters”

David Grann

The story of a unique American ➙ Dick Conant.

He’s most often compared with Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild ➙ Chris McCandless.

Personally, I don’t see the connection. I was much more reminded of ➙ Eustace Conway, The Last American Man.

Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, met Conant by chance just north of New York City as Conant paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath wrote a widely read article about their encounter, and when Conant’s canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body, McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched–to capture a remarkable life lived far outside the staid confines of modern existence. …

Amazon

A great book, well written. It makes you think of your life priorities.

🙂 True? Kind? Necessary? 🙏

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An important quote often ascribed to Socrates.

I admire those who can hold their tongue while running through this checklist.

ME?

I often check to see if something is true.

Much more rarely do I stop to ponder whether it’s kind. Or necessary.

… I’ll try to do better.

Why Travel?

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I took a gap year between High School and University.

SUPER happy I did.

It opened my eyes to the bigger world. Other cultures. Other ways of thinking.

Niklas Christl didn’t know what to do when he graduated High School. Here he documents what happened on his gap year — and how it changed his life.

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