681 Why Very Intelligent People 'Fail'

[serialkiller1990]

"In the same way as you would not like to take out your appendix through your ass... I'm assuming".

WHY DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO ASSUME!?!??!

[benji9316]

wow! this is a great video! ...another eye opener, for all of us once again :) keep them coming..your intelligent and open minded

[JohnBigmon]

dude: please, please, please get to the damn point next time

[MrMansson10]

Exactly. Especially the rejecting parents part. As a kid I was never able to finish a sentence, without getting cut short or being talked over and the point of what I was gets missed....it would make feel intimidated....may that's not the right word, but I would feel something along those lines. Being an analytical thoughtful and insightful person with depth stuck in a society of mediocre drones who are nothing but liars, hypocrites and just plain insane on some level. Ppl are weird. lol

[watch4free2007]

"baldness" as hair color? it is according to the DMV... ^_^

(statism strikes again... hehehe)

[watch4free2007]

"baldness" as hair color? it is according to the DMV... ^_^

[AntiPsychopath]

Intelligent people that choose to go off the norm do not really offer any services to anyone directly therefore they dont make much money...by contrast a pimp offers a lot of services therefore can make alot of money and appear successful.

[Helicopterpilot16]

I listened to your 32:41 minute video and don't want any microsecond of my life back!

[Paralyt1c]

This the SHIT!

[NewBaldwin]

why are you doing this while driving?

i thinks that was a fail on the family @ 1100?

i think you generally have issue with 'society' the concept of community?

and you digressed a lot from your topic... even if your runts are interesting.

@2656-2710 you answered yourself many times over; don't through your pearls at the feet of swine.

[gary7999]

I did try this.Im,for all intents and purposes,homeless.

[davethelave]

You lost me when your babbling became heavily bias and opinionated man. Your explanation is very narrow and focused on your view point, instead of open mindedness and logic.

[AyatollahSuggy]

Right and Wrong. Some may feel that that question MUST have been answered in Ancient times, therefore why question established right and wrong. Right and wrong changes over time. How can one tell someone what is right and wrong, we all think differently. Mathmatics has right and wrong, but applying that to life has infinite possibilites.

[Sickicho]

Thank you

[Rtardnewb]

great video. It's nice to see people I can relate with. Being a philosophical minded kid growing up with parents who care only about status, wealth, and other materialistic things is not a great deal of fun.

[RobT89]

@Rtardnewb I feel that every fucking day. We all have the potential to thrive in the given culture. But It just doesn't make sense to me.

[nycic]

More creepy Ayn Rand free market "wisdom". I'd love to watch this clown, Peter Schiff and Michael Medved in a room together. Erm, no, I wouldn't.

[nep808]

how stupid someone nicknamed nycic can be?

[ScreamsOfOrwell]

I know a guy Who used to think alot but his flow of toughts were all based on bullshit...Then he realised it was a lie, was in shock for a couple of years and now he can't think but can tell what is lies and what is true...but he doesn't think too much...beer

[PsyogiBottoms]

Why is the world based on a lie? Why is it not built on truth and virtue...why has this not been the mode of operation of the human race?

Why is the vanity of the self so attached to the fantasy of the narcissist? These are the questions I have long contemplated in my own life. I was that child you speak. Forever debased, undermined, 'brought down a peg or two' for the good of the mediocre.

Why is not truth held above all as pride, not shamed. I still find these questions unanswered. Help me.

[stefbot]

You might want to check out some of my free audio books, available on my website... :)

[PsyogiBottoms]

I am headed there right now. As well I am sharing your series on Statism being dead with as many as I can get to listen. Excellent work, profoundly enlightening, if not a bit nauseating.

As a Truthsayer(seeker) my entire life, I understand your struggle. The acceptance of the truth in its entirety is still even hard for me to digest. I'm glad to have stumbled upon such a wise and noble sage.

Off to educate myself some more.

I look forward to future dialogue with you. Keep up the excellent work.

[Borimp]

very clear points!!!!!!111

[psycausticyo]

I like you, man. :) You seem like a cool guy.

Just one question - do people ever give you weird looks after seeing the mic? A headset would definitely be less of a hassle for driving. Heh.

[stefbot]

Thanks -- fortunately, I now do this full-time, and no longer have to podcast while I drive... :)

[psycausticyo]

I dunno I just thought it'd be at least a little odd to see. xD That's pretty cool, man, doing what you want full-time. Kudos to you.

[meltingiovanni]

You might not make bad videos man but jesus, 30 minute videos make me not wanna watch.

[americasace]

I couldn't agree more, well said!

[americasace]

I often times find myself in that very same situation and it's very frustrating to say the least. At first I thought it was just me, I soon came to realize that this was not at all the case. However, that point is mute for it is my belief that you already know that it has nothing to do with you.

It is a good thing we have this medium where we can both reach out across the void to others who share our plight and who actually understand and my advice to you is that you do just that my friend.

[americasace]

oh my.. another me! Absent any visual similarities however how we think, (including our similar tendency to go on and on without immediately moving on as I have just made apparent) I feel, is very similar. That said, it's then obvious and should go without saying.. however, I'm still going to say it.. "I agree with your assesment as well as your overall conclusions regarding society in general 110%" There's just not enough objectivity in the world! See what I mean? Exactly alike!

[PieJee1]

I think the problem that is the case now is that thinking for yourself is hard nowadays for 2 reasons:

if you want to do things on a professional level it's that often some absolute maximum is 'found' and taught. For example: all formula 1 drivers drive almost the same. Since this is a certainty money and attention goes to the known things and is inflexible for curiosity

Almost everyone can understand the shallow things and therefore being good in being shallow makes it easy in personal life.

[magpiesmn]

The awful part about it is you cant just go around asking random people what they think is going to happen pick one of thouse answers at random and take it as advice. But in actuality you would be just as good off over all doing that in the long run as compaired to sticking with one persons advice. So the problem is not people hate philosophy its more that people cant accept that the universe is so random that its not important what advice you get its important how much faith you put into it.

[magpiesmn]

And it turns out the people who say there gona do something to someone else based on some reasoning with limited factors involved can end up looking smart lol. So then you get a person who made a good choice because they predicted the output that happens, and they do it several times in a row now they are rich and smart. So then they get put into a situation where the factors they choose to look at dont work for the problem... And then u have people who took for granted they were smart fail.

[magpiesmn]

I think this is the greatest fail video I have watched. Even better then the lady that drives into a post three times. But anyhow I think what you say is true and I dont see it really ever changing. The problem is inorder to do something that benefits you or who ever you have to take into account factors and try to figure out the result before you do it. But in actuality the factors are unlimited. So your force to make a choice with limited knowledge.

[GabrielKorp]

In the land of the blind the one eye man might be king, but his also very freaking lonely... (unless his burned at the stake, of course)

[ZombieJesusBrainz]

thats why simpsons are great, homer is a rebellion against traditional concepts of Virtue.

[ZombieJesusBrainz]

Maybe its ego and not the content of questions.

But if you have read frege on this question, you will know the act of assertion is itself a crucial important part of the validity of an argument, in LOGIC!

nice.

[Dracopol]

Driving while making a video? They are starting to ban cell-phones while driving, in this or that jurisdiction. So making a video is unwise, dude!

[oscarmvela]

And regarding success, yes, there are many kinds of success, I belive different people have different goals and the achievement of such goals can be considered success (personal), or happiness. That is, I belive, the correct meaning of success. I don't think you can define it as something objective or general. General success would be, I guess, personal realization or happiness.

[oscarmvela]

hey man, you're very cool

[orangeblueandlavenda]

the reason why some very intelligent people fail sometimes is because they are nice. Where as some other people who may be just as intelligent, or as intelligent, are not.

[junkyjuice21]

good points

[adorianvlad]

here is a great and very simple example to convince yourself about the truth of your statements regarding the failure of intelligent ppt.

Go play chess at yahoo Website; most folks out there are "clowns" waiting like spiders for a blitz game (under 5 minutes) just to grab easy points.

Very few are up for an onest true game of chess...

[icedeap]

well you can definitely speak better than most... i haven't finished the video yet but so far so good

[stefbot]

Thanks, I hope you'll watch more!

[vaiman777]

Maybe that's why you're bald, because you've lost your religion lol.

[stefbot]

haha, right, still worth it! :)

[vaiman777]

But seriously stefbot, you're asking the right questions and coming to some good conclusions. I've saved this to my favorites. :)

[partilov1]

the fact that you value knowledge, reason, and wisdom is beutiful.

man, i always get that attitude in school why are you stuck in your mind.why are you asking me about good and evil.

[scottferrie]

I can't stand this world anymore, I need to do something...

[stefbot]

What do you mean, brother?

[scottferrie]

Regulations, Laws, Violence, Institutional Collectivism...

I feel like walking in the street naked with a firearm to make a point that the Left are disarming us while the Right wants moral conformity

[scottferrie]

How about we arm ourselves and shoot all the statists, collectivists, and elitists?

[parispeter2]

Get a hands-off kit Stefan!

[stefbot]

Haha, quite right, I won't be podcasting from the car much longer!

[lordmetroid]

Common answer for why wrong is right: "It's the law", like that solved it all!

[SOCRATES012]

Where did you get the idea that jesus said that "unbelievers should be killed"? I would love you to prove that to me by reciting the quote. It is simply untrue Stefbot.

[stefbot]

"But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. (Luke, 19, 27)."

See also Matthew, 10, 34, Luke, 22, 36.

Now what?

[xx1212]

Put your hand up Steph - I'm hi-fiving you through my PC.

Does anyone know where I can view an example of someone surviving a socratic interview with thier beliefs and patience intact? (answering all the questions - no cheating).

I've never seen it done.

[stefbot]

Hands up brother! ;) I like to think that I might be able to do it, after 25 years!

[SOCRATES012]

do you not think that when Jesus said that we should love our enemies.... we humans should find the real answer to all our problems. And i do mean ALL of our problems if one is wise enough to foresee the consequences of such a version of reality.

[stefbot]

Actually, Jesus just meant 'love other Christians'. He said that unbelievers should be killed.

[supercoolkid83]

thanks for another great video!:)

[j3rdog]

You drive a car built by socialist!

[neutrinoide]

Boooo... haha!

[willyswear]

AAAGGGHHH the reflection of light off your head has blinded me.

[stefbot]

haha, sorry!

[freebaker]

I can almost hear the willfully ignorant crowds booing you. I wonder if thinking skills are more important than being able to expose fakers. I put much blame on my parents for being completely unprepared and incapable of nurturing a quality rational mind, while my brother blindly loves our mother and hates our father.