Shadowing-Übung: The Lost Art Of The Intellectual Life - Englisch Sprechen Lernen mit Video

We live in one of the most informationally rich societies in history,

yet we are also somehow one of the most intellectually poor societies in history.

And it doesn't quite make sense because you would think

that the more access and easier access to high level information that you have, then the better the intellectual quality will be,

the better ideas you will have, and the better output you will have as well.

And this was actually predicted by Friedrich Nietzsche himself, as he was noticing that the more information we were having as a society,

the lazier people were getting in their ability to think and craft new great ideas.

any new ideas.

He was starting to see that more and more art was just a critique of art created previously.

And more and more philosophies were just a critique of philosophies that were created previously.

And that you were having these philosophy students from university

or art students from university who were growing up just critiquing other philosophies or other art and

about possibly the greatest book ever written about the intellectual life.

And that is this book here called The Intellectual Life written by, I'm going to butcher this name here.

It's a French name.

I don't speak French.

I'm sorry.

A .G.

Sertelanger.

And in this book, he backs up Friedrich Nietzsche's original hypothesis, which was that the more information you have,

But he does outline in this book a way to regain the intellectual life

and a way when applied to your own life for you to start coming up with better ideas, more unique ideas and thinking more clearly.

And so in this video, I'm going to break down the three main pillars of the intellectual life outlined in this book

and then also provide some practical advice

that I was able to take from this book and apply in my own life and saw a really big impact.

that said, let's get into the first element of the intellectual life, which is to actually find your key interest.

Now, this is one of the biggest problems about having

so much information and so many competing ideas and industries in your mind because of social media.

It can be hard to find what you truly love, to find what you truly want to do because you're being pulled in so many

in page 19 of this book in regards to how to

find the one interest you want to specialize in is that

if you tell me what you love I will tell you

what you are as love is the beginning of everything in us

and that starting point which is common to knowledge and practice cannot fail to make the right path.

And what he's saying there is that in order to cultivate an intellectual life, you have to love it.

You have to be interested in it.

And this is why school derails the path of the intellectual life so often, because you're forced to study things that you're not interested in,

and then you're turned off by the intellectual life.

You're turned off by academia.

But what he's saying here is to just follow whatever you love and what you're interested in, as that is the right path for you.

fully know what you love when you're pulled in

so many directions how do you find what you love

but the key here is that you don't have to clearly you're watching this video

because the idea of an intellectual life has enticed you you're enticed by

that idea therefore just keep following

that thread you don't have to land on the industry you want to specialize in

or the the topic or philosophy

or art whatever it is you're interested in you don't have to find

that straight away you just follow the thread of common knowledge.

If you found this video interesting, then maybe you'll be enticed to go out and buy this book.

You'll read this book, and then maybe you'll be enticed to read a different book or to follow a different path.

And eventually you'll stumble across something which you truly do love,

something that entices you so much that you have to go down that road and that path.

But don't rush yourself.

If you just follow your love and follow the fun, you will start life.

without meaning to, without having to stress, without having to work too hard, because at the end of the day, knowledge is meant to be something that you're curious about.

And so if you're not curious about something, don't follow that thread.

But the fact that you click this video, the fact that you're watching this right now proves

that there is some sort of thread that you're unraveling and that you will follow down the line.

few books are necessary.

Once you've found what you want to specialize in, once you've found the thread you want to follow, don't be inundated with the hundreds or thousands

or tens of thousands of books out there for you to read in regards to this industry,

as Surtelanger says that only three or four books are truly necessary when it comes to building the foundation of that interest.

And what into existential philosophy.

In order to build the foundation and follow that path of existential philosophy, you don't need to read 25 different books.

You perhaps just need to read one book from Nietzsche, a book from Dostoevsky, then maybe read a Hemingway book,

and then you round it out by something written by St. Thomas Aquinas.

And that those three or four books will lay a sort of intellectual foundation that you can then move forward with.

And then all the other books and ideas

and pieces of content around existential philosophy will just be more information

that you can pull from and attach to this foundation

that you're building because the idea that you can sit there

and just read every single word ever written about one specific topic is just impossible

but that's not necessary to live the intellectual life and to come up with unique insights in that specific

through following your curiosity, through following your love, and then you apply it in your life.

You go out and you start crafting your own work.

You think about it and you start to apply it in a practical sense as well.

Because you can't just sit down and read 24 seven.

That's not the intellectual life.

It is a life.

Therefore, it's a lifestyle.

Therefore, it requires action.

It requires producing something.

And you can't do that if you're trying to read everything ever written.

But what he's saying here is that the greats of intellectual pursuits, the greats of academia, the greats of history,

philosophy, art, science, they didn't do that.

They couldn't do that.

They didn't have an iPhone that we have today.

But what they did do was build the proper foundations on the proper classical texts and then went out and applied it.

And any other book they read, any other piece of information they got, they just took what they felt they were missing

felt was necessary and was good to add to this foundation that they had.

And the best thing about a foundation is that you constantly return to it.

You don't read Beyond Good and Evil by Nature once, you read it time and time again for the rest of your life because you will always,

after applying some of those ideas, after practically living, you will then be able to return as a

proving that only three or four books are truly necessary

and you don't want to be so overwhelmed by reading a lot

and information that you never put it into action

and most crucially you never have the silence in your own mind to actually contemplate these ideas and have proper thoughts yourself.

Which leads us to the third pillar of the intellectual life outlined in this book

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is that you can't be across everything in the world.

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And that is one of the biggest mistakes that we all make today.

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And we can't help because of social media, because of technology, we're pulled in so many different directions.

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But if you want to live a truly significant life, if you want to live the intellectual life, if you want to have clear thoughts,

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ideas around a specific topic, you just can't do that.

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And so you need to be very much aware

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ignoring of what you're leaving out of your life just as much as what you're bringing in.

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It can be easy today to watch 25 YouTube videos in a single day, but that's too much.

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It's more important to choose what videos you don't watch.

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Even if all those videos are educational, even if all those videos provide some kind of value, when you have too many of them,

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you're actually diminishing the he's saying here is to simplify your daily routine.

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Don't read five books at once.

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Read one book, meaning that if you only read for 30 minutes, you have multiple hours throughout the day to contemplate those 30 minutes.

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And through those hours of contemplation, you will come up with deeper insights, clearer insights, and more profound insights from what you read than

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if you were trying to read multiple books at a single time.

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And then you were attaching videos on top, commitments you can't do that you also have to be very honest about

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when you read and

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when you work maybe some people work better at 5 a

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.m in the morning some people work better at 8 p .m at night

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but if you understand that then you can simplify your life

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and you know whether you read before bed

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or read first thing in the morning or read on a lunch break

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or read in the afternoon whichever time suits you best

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and then you can figure out the time that you like to work as well now of course, we have jobs as well.

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And you can't decide your entire day because you have commitments, you have work, you have life commitments.

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But what you can do is come up with a simple formula, like read for 30 minutes or an hour each morning,

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and then do your work in that field for 30 minutes or an hour at night, or you can flip it.

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But by knowing yourself, you simplify your life and streamline your intellectual productivity.

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It's also important to allow yourself to have that

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simplify your life when you cut out so many other distractions

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or so many other things fighting for your attention you gain back some silence in your mind

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and Sir Telanger says that

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that silence is where the best insights come it's where the best analysis of the information

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that you're bringing in from a book or a video comes into play

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when you're sitting there in silence when you're embracing boredom

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and you can only do that when you simplify your life and this leads me to the part of this video, which is some practical advice as to how you can actually

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apply these lessons from this book in your life in order to cultivate a better intellectual life.

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Now, I know a lot of you guys would have work that's outside of perhaps what you're interested in

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or outside of what your main curiosity is.

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Luckily for me, I do get to work online.

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I do get to do this for a living, but that still requires editing time and email admin and all sorts of things which aren't as fun

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reading and talking about these books online.

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And so I still have majority of my work being boring tasks that I don't enjoy either.

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And so with that said, what I found that's helped me is by setting an actionable assignment once a week

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or once a fortnight or once a month that you can work to in your own time.

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What I mean by this is that to live the intellectual life, you have to absorb

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your own information and so whether

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that is producing a YouTube video a week like I'm doing now

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or that's producing an essay a week to put on sub stack or to

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or to keep private even just for yourself it's about setting

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an assignment this could also be an artwork this could be building something

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if you're into architecture or woodwork whatever it is there are

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so many different projects and assignments that you can set yourself

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and you can do one a week or an assignment to fortnight or a month or even an assignment every three months.

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And so what this does is it gives you a deadline

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and a task for you to read and absorb information in this topic that you're curious about and then actively apply it.

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And by having that deadline and sticking to it ruthlessly,

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it's the perfect balance to stay focused and to keep that intellectual curiosity alive and thriving and cease to be fun.

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And so that's what I found has helped me.

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And what I do is privately, I actually write an essay a month just for myself, just to help my cognitive ability,

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to help my thinking, to cultivate better intellectual curiosity.

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And what I do is I just designate 30 minutes each morning or some weeks, 30 minutes before bed to stick to that essay and write that essay.

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And what that does is it just keeps my life moving forward and ticking in a fun, enriching, intellectually cultivating way.

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And it can be something just as simple as that.

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It's just one task, one assignment, and you work to it in your own time, but you keep that deadline strict so that you have to meet it.

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Because a little bit of that friction, a little bit of that stress actually makes it more enjoyable

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when you look back on that assignment when you have finally completed it.

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But with that said, I hope you guys enjoyed this video.

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below in the comments.

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I do want to quickly say that if you are enjoying these videos, I have a weekly book club on Substack, the 5 Minutes Late Book Club,

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and it's me and my father who's worked in media for decades as a professional published writer

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and as a professor at university.

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We sit down each week and discuss a book.

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If you are interested in that, you can go to the link in the bio and subscribe to the Substack.

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The weekly book club is completely free, but then there also is a well.

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I hope you guys enjoyed this video and until next time, take care.

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Schnappen Sie sich das Video und spielen Sie es in einem langsamen Tempo ab, damit Sie die Sätze klarer erfassen können. Überlegen Sie, welche Prinzipien des intellektuellen Lebens für Sie am relevantesten sind, und formulieren Sie Ihre eigenen Gedanken dazu auf Englisch. Das fördert nicht nur Ihre Sprachfähigkeiten, sondern hilft Ihnen auch, tiefer über die Inhalte nachzudenken und Ihre Meinung klarer zu artikulieren.

Das Ziel ist es, die Inhalte lebendig zu machen, indem Sie diese Konzepte in Ihre eigene Sprache übersetzen. Nutzen Sie die Idee des intellektuellen Lebens, um persönliche Themen zu entwickeln, über die Sie mit anderen sprechen können. So wird Ihr shadow speech dynamischer und ansprechender.

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Struktur	Im Video
Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut	was actually predicted · were created · being pulled
Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist	has enticed · you've found · has helped
Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache	hypothesis, which was · life, which is · point which is

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