Boredom, often seen as a negative state leading to destructive habits, can be transformed into a powerful tool for self-knowledge and deep thinking by utilizing a pocket notebook for contemplation.
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a bored man is a dangerous man we've
heard this quote before and we know it's
intuitively true when you're bored you
eat too much you get into trouble you
message that person you probably
shouldn't be messaging and more often
than not unless you have some system in
place being bored brings you back to the
infinite scroll but I found a way to
replace these bad habits brought on by
boredom with a positive one that is my
pocket notebook for
contemplation hey welcome to park notes
I'm Parker setticase I'm a philosopher
and the loan and this is a channel where
I help you study and think more deeply
in this video I'm going to help you
master boredom so that you can use it in
order to contemplate deep ideas instead
of developing bad habits like turning to
your phone for that infinite scroll so
in this video I'll show you how to keep
a pocket notebook for contemplation I
call this my contempla I use the Latin
because I'm pretentious and it motivates
me to take it more seriously so in order
to get the full concept of a contempla
or a pocket notebook for contemplation
first I'm going to talk about the pros
and cons of boredom and why I think you
should be bored sometimes then I'll get
into the concept of a pocket notebook
for contemplation I'll give you guys
some examples from my own pocket
notebook and then I'll finish by going
over some of my favorite pocket notebook
Brands we got a lot to cover so let's
Jump Right In so as we get into my
method for staving off boredom by
reflecting and contemplating on deep
ideas I want to say first and foremost
boredom in and of itself is not a bad
thing sure it can lead to some
destructive behaviors but boredom can
actually be a really helpful tool for self-knowledge
self-knowledge
getting to know who you are what you are
why you believe what you believe why you
desire what you desire and why you act
the way that you act and boredom can
also lead to deep thinking and a
development of your own ideas so not
just why do I believe what I believe but
should I believe what I believe so I
actually recommend you schedule boredom
into your day go for a walk without your
phone or put your phone on silent or put
your phone on airplane mode and go out
and let that stream of Consciousness
flow let your ideas come to you think
about things look at that bird what do
you think about it consider your life
consider your station where are you who
are you what are you think about these
things boredom is a beautiful tool for
self- knowledge and deep thinking after
you're done with your walk come back and
write down some of those ideas or bring
a pocket notebook with you like these
field notes wallets which have memo
books in them I always have one of these
with me but I also make a living by my
ideas my thoughts so I have to collect
them all the
time this is actually what I've been
using for my wallet lately there are all
my cards and money and stuff but here's
a field notes memo book 48 pages and
this is like my backup look if I have a
good idea I need to write it down so I
like to bring these memo books with me
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now I've also done videos on deep
thinking philosophy journals and books
of soliloquies this is getting to know
yourself more deeply this is thinking
about your ideas and your thoughts more
deeply coming to conclusions on what you
believe and why you believe it thinking
through new ideas and figuring out what
you know and don't know I don't want you
guys to think this current video is an
attack on boredom simplic and boredom in
general no boredom is a good tool it can
be a very good tool for generating self-
knowledge through soliloquies or
generating new ideas through a deep
thinking philosophy Journal if you guys
want to find out more about keeping your
own book of soliloquies then check this
video up here and if you want to find
out about keeping a deep thinking
philosophy notebook then hopefully it's
up here as well if not check the
description for those videos but you
can't be bored all the time you can't
always be writing soliloquies or going
for boredom walks or working in your
deep thinking philosophy journal what
about those situations where we don't
have time to sit down and write how do
we Stave off the boredom then that
brings us to pocket commonplace books
and pocket contemplation
notebooks now I've already done a video
on this pocket commonplace book this is
my pocket commonplace Book of Proverbs
my sententia gome my book of sententious
maxims my Flores philosophum it's a book
of pocket Proverbs so I collect my
favorite gnomic statements my favorite
Proverbs I put them in here and then I
bring this with me so that when I'm
bored and I'm tempted to pull up my
phone and fire up that infinite scroll
once more I can pull out some of the
deepest wisdom from the greatest Minds
in human history I'll read through 1 2 3
4 of these and then I'll reflect on them
and that helps me Stave off that boredom
or those awkward situations where I just
want to be lost in my phone so if you
guys want to learn more about keeping
your own book of pocket Proverbs check
out this video linked up here but let's
dive in deeper to a pocket notebook for
contemplation or a
contempla now I like the Latin because
it's kind of fun I need to give myself a
reason to be using this and this
motivates me using Latin is fun I don't
know it kind of sounds like Harry Potter
or something but a lot of my favorite
philosophers and theologians use a Latin
so I feel good when I use Latin or Greek
or Hebrew now this notebook is a cross
between a commonplace book and a
compendium I've been working on these
distinctions throughout my videos so
they they've changed over time but
what's common between the two is they're
both notebooks and they're both
collections a commonplace book is
usually a collection of quotes and you
can have either printed commonplace
books where you just collect the quotes
or like a manuscript commonplace book
where you collect the quotes and your
own ideas about those quotes whereas a
compendium is a collection of detailed
information on a particular topic which
is systematically presented for others
they're meant to be more comprehensive
in scope so think of like a handbook on
North American Turtles that's going to
be a compendium it's a collection of
detailed information on all the turtles
in North America it's presented
systematically probably alphabetically
or regionally and it's meant to be
comprehensive in scope all the turtles
in North America so my contempla is kind
of a cross between the two I put ideas
in here I don't always put quotes I
usually just abstract the ideas out of
the quotes and I present them
systematically but this is not meant to
be comprehensive in scope it's not based
on on One Singular idea but it's ideas I
want to reflect on ideas thoughts
Concepts I'd rather be chewing on
thinking through rather than firing up
that infinite scroll and scrolling my
life away so I will put quotes in here
but as I'm thinking through the
definitions of commonplace books and
compendiums I'm not sure where it falls
it's somewhere in between the two it's
really important for me to get clear on
the concepts I don't know why if you
guys don't care then don't even worry
about it just get your own pocket
notebook for contemplation so that's the
idea it's really simple get yourself a
pocket notebook and fill it with ideas
that you want to think about read books
read articles listen to podcasts
abstract out those ideas and put them on
a page or two of your contemp latio
bring it with you everywhere you go and
when you're tempted to pull out that
phone to check for your alerts to scroll
and scroll and scroll don't do it
instead bring this out and think back on
those ideas that you find important that
you find meaningful that you find
worthwhile going from compulsively
scrolling to intentionally reflecting on
ideas that you find worth watching
meaningful desirable impactful that's a
huge swing it's the first step in
utilizing boredom to your own Advantage
I'm bored but I'm not going to go to
some shallow Amusement instead I'm going
to go to Amusement I'm going to think
I'm going to Muse and chew on ideas
that's awesome so that's it it's a
really simple idea and it's a really
simple method get yourself a pocket
notebook fill it up with some of your
favorite ideas you can put quotes in
here or you can do the hard work of
abstracting out the ideas from the
quotes and see how short you can get it
one page two page three pages but some
of you guys really like when I give
examples from my own notebooks so I want
to walk through a couple of those and
then I'll leave you guys with some of my
favorite pocket notebooks that you can
use for your own contempla so here's the
first entry in this pocket notebook for
contemplation this contempla and it's
one of my own ideas about pythagoreanism
and stoicism it's kind of surprising to
me that stoicism is having such a moment
right now everyone wants to talk about
stoicism everyone thinks it's super
awesome and it's pretty cool but there I
think there's a lot of problems with
stoicism and so I'm wondering why
stoicism has found such a audience today
but pythagoreanism hasn't sure maybe
Pythagoras was a little bit of a Cults
leader kind of weird but pythagoreanism
as a whole is is a pretty awesome
philosophy they were substance Duelists
they thought that the mind was an
immaterial thing some people categorize
them as being part of the orphic Greek
religions and Pythagoras taught that the
rigors of mathematical thought is an
activity that purifies the soul I'm not
a huge math guy but that's pretty
fantastic deep abst ract thinking
actually purifies your soul the
pythagoreans heavily influen Plato and
Plato is the biggest figure in all of
Western philosophy I think that stoicism
is committed to fatalism hard
determinism and physicalism and so I'm
not sure there's actually room to
control your emotions in the way that
the stoics suggest the pythagoreans on
the other hand hold to an immaterial
mind which may not be subject to the
laws of physics so there might be more
room to harness your own emotions to
have control over them if that's the
case then I think pythagoreanism should
be preferred over stoicism now that's an
idea I need to think through a lot more
but when I'm bored and tempted to pull
out my phone this is an idea I want to
think about I've been thinking a lot
about cartisian minds and transcendental
egos that's the philosophy of Emanuel
Kant versus the philosophy of Renee
dayart and their theories of personal
identity and the self the ego I had
Luciano fidi on my podcast Parker's
penes you can find a link to that
somewhere up here but I've been thinking
a lot about the life cycle of
information especially because I run
this channel which is like notebook
philosophy so what is information how do
we capture it how do we reuse it how do
we process it those things are very
important for me to get clear on I also
have been developing my own history of
AI and I've been pulling from folks like
Andy Clark and his history of cognitive
science along with Margaret bowden's
history of AI and Melanie Mitchells so
really briefly you know some people will
find everything tracing back to Plato
but I found that dayart might be the
father of artificial intelligence in
that he's the one of the first to talk
about it in his philosophy Dart
specifically was talking about Androids
and how we might be able to tell a
difference between a human and a
humanoid robot something that visually
looks just like a human but inside is a
machine deart basically argued that in
order to pass a touring test the Android
would have to be artificially generally
intelligent and that's practically
impossible so that's one way that we'd
be able to tell an Android from a human
I recently wrote a substack piece on
this where I analyze decart's arguments
and his reasoning and I think that
ultimately they fail but decart's a
genius and he was talking about this in
1637 which is crazy you can find the
link to my substack article in the
description here nits also talked about
artificial intelligence in 1646 with his
Mill argument and he actually argues
against the idea of a machine being able
to think or perceive things so the
rationalists of the 1600s were arguing
against the possibility of artificial
intelligence but the first positive
movement looks like it started with Lady
Ava love lace in the 1840s and her
friend Charles babage who tried to
invent an AI with his analytic engine
though it looks like that gears and Cog
wheel device was unsuccessful fast
forward all the way to 1936 with alen
turing's formalization of computation
which was a huge stepping stone for
progress in Ai and then a short step to
the 1940s with the invention of digital
computers by people like John Von noyman
and Alan Turing 1956 artificial
intelligence was coined by John McCarthy
at the Dartmouth workshop on AI and then
I've thought through some more ideas
like the fight between the good
oldfashioned AI folks and the
connectionists all the way up until the
Transformer neuronet Revolution that
started in 2017 with the Google paper
attention is all you need that brings us
to November 30th 2022 when open AI
released its chat GPT model gpt3 which
set the whole world on fire so I want to
be an expert in the philosophy of
artificial intelligence I'm not claiming
to be anywhere near an expert today but
I want to be so when I'm bored I'd
rather pull out my contempla and think
through the history of AI then become a
victim of AI on social media platforms
which want to lure me onto their
platform and keep me there as long as
possible so for all my Theologian
friends I have the neoplatonic Trinity
the neoplatonist also had a view of the
Trinity they they appropriated the one
which is kind of like the platonic God
or or Plato's good they appropriated the
mind or noose from Aristotle's intellect
that's like Aristotle's God and they
appropriated the world soul from the
stoics the logos so some have called
this the plotinian Triad from plotinus
these are the kind of things I want to
turn to when I'm bored so again the
concept is super duper simple get
yourself a pocket notebook and fill it
with your favorite ideas that you want
to reflect on so as I finish up here I
want to leave you guys with some of my
favorite pocket notebooks so you can get
started with your own contempla this is
a Midori MD notebook it's their pocket
size and I have this in a leather cover
this is from stride Ridge on Etsy I'll
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don't need a leather cover madori also
has paper covers so you can find these
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notebooks and these Chicago notebooks I
love these ones so much so you can grab
one of these and fill it up with your
favorite ideas and turn them into
contemp Latios also if you like mol skin
notebooks I've been using these ones for
years and years and years for pocket
notebooks as catchall systems I
personally love these but if you use a
fountain pen perhaps you won't like them
because I think it does bleed through
just a little bit but if you wanted a
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thick I love the grid notebook here I
haven't used this one but I used a
larger one for deep thinking philosophy
Journal so that's another one that you
may want to try all right guys so that's
it it's a really simple concept I hope
that you found it helpful I hope that
you all start your own pocket notebooks
for contemplation your own contempla if
you guys have made it this far in the
video you're awesome leave me a thinking
Emoji in the comments I want to know who
the real ones are and let me know what
you like about the concept whether you
think you'll use it yourself or maybe
some things that you think should be
changed about it I always love hearing
from you guys and we can all learn
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