0:02 a bored man is a dangerous man we've
0:05 heard this quote before and we know it's
0:06 intuitively true when you're bored you
0:08 eat too much you get into trouble you
0:09 message that person you probably
0:11 shouldn't be messaging and more often
0:13 than not unless you have some system in
0:15 place being bored brings you back to the
0:17 infinite scroll but I found a way to
0:19 replace these bad habits brought on by
0:23 boredom with a positive one that is my
0:25 pocket notebook for
0:27 contemplation hey welcome to park notes
0:29 I'm Parker setticase I'm a philosopher
0:31 and the loan and this is a channel where
0:33 I help you study and think more deeply
0:35 in this video I'm going to help you
0:37 master boredom so that you can use it in
0:39 order to contemplate deep ideas instead
0:41 of developing bad habits like turning to
0:43 your phone for that infinite scroll so
0:44 in this video I'll show you how to keep
0:46 a pocket notebook for contemplation I
0:49 call this my contempla I use the Latin
0:51 because I'm pretentious and it motivates
0:52 me to take it more seriously so in order
0:55 to get the full concept of a contempla
0:56 or a pocket notebook for contemplation
0:58 first I'm going to talk about the pros
0:59 and cons of boredom and why I think you
1:01 should be bored sometimes then I'll get
1:03 into the concept of a pocket notebook
1:05 for contemplation I'll give you guys
1:07 some examples from my own pocket
1:08 notebook and then I'll finish by going
1:09 over some of my favorite pocket notebook
1:11 Brands we got a lot to cover so let's
1:13 Jump Right In so as we get into my
1:16 method for staving off boredom by
1:18 reflecting and contemplating on deep
1:21 ideas I want to say first and foremost
1:23 boredom in and of itself is not a bad
1:24 thing sure it can lead to some
1:27 destructive behaviors but boredom can
1:29 actually be a really helpful tool for self-knowledge
1:30 self-knowledge
1:32 getting to know who you are what you are
1:33 why you believe what you believe why you
1:36 desire what you desire and why you act
1:37 the way that you act and boredom can
1:39 also lead to deep thinking and a
1:41 development of your own ideas so not
1:43 just why do I believe what I believe but
1:45 should I believe what I believe so I
1:47 actually recommend you schedule boredom
1:49 into your day go for a walk without your
1:51 phone or put your phone on silent or put
1:53 your phone on airplane mode and go out
1:55 and let that stream of Consciousness
1:57 flow let your ideas come to you think
1:59 about things look at that bird what do
2:00 you think about it consider your life
2:02 consider your station where are you who
2:04 are you what are you think about these
2:07 things boredom is a beautiful tool for
2:09 self- knowledge and deep thinking after
2:10 you're done with your walk come back and
2:12 write down some of those ideas or bring
2:14 a pocket notebook with you like these
2:16 field notes wallets which have memo
2:18 books in them I always have one of these
2:20 with me but I also make a living by my
2:22 ideas my thoughts so I have to collect
2:24 them all the
2:26 time this is actually what I've been
2:28 using for my wallet lately there are all
2:29 my cards and money and stuff but here's
2:33 a field notes memo book 48 pages and
2:35 this is like my backup look if I have a
2:36 good idea I need to write it down so I
2:39 like to bring these memo books with me
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2:50 now I've also done videos on deep
2:52 thinking philosophy journals and books
2:54 of soliloquies this is getting to know
2:57 yourself more deeply this is thinking
2:58 about your ideas and your thoughts more
3:00 deeply coming to conclusions on what you
3:02 believe and why you believe it thinking
3:04 through new ideas and figuring out what
3:05 you know and don't know I don't want you
3:07 guys to think this current video is an
3:09 attack on boredom simplic and boredom in
3:11 general no boredom is a good tool it can
3:14 be a very good tool for generating self-
3:15 knowledge through soliloquies or
3:17 generating new ideas through a deep
3:18 thinking philosophy Journal if you guys
3:20 want to find out more about keeping your
3:22 own book of soliloquies then check this
3:24 video up here and if you want to find
3:26 out about keeping a deep thinking
3:28 philosophy notebook then hopefully it's
3:30 up here as well if not check the
3:32 description for those videos but you
3:33 can't be bored all the time you can't
3:35 always be writing soliloquies or going
3:37 for boredom walks or working in your
3:38 deep thinking philosophy journal what
3:40 about those situations where we don't
3:42 have time to sit down and write how do
3:44 we Stave off the boredom then that
3:46 brings us to pocket commonplace books
3:48 and pocket contemplation
3:50 notebooks now I've already done a video
3:53 on this pocket commonplace book this is
3:56 my pocket commonplace Book of Proverbs
3:59 my sententia gome my book of sententious
4:02 maxims my Flores philosophum it's a book
4:04 of pocket Proverbs so I collect my
4:07 favorite gnomic statements my favorite
4:09 Proverbs I put them in here and then I
4:11 bring this with me so that when I'm
4:13 bored and I'm tempted to pull up my
4:15 phone and fire up that infinite scroll
4:18 once more I can pull out some of the
4:20 deepest wisdom from the greatest Minds
4:23 in human history I'll read through 1 2 3
4:25 4 of these and then I'll reflect on them
4:27 and that helps me Stave off that boredom
4:29 or those awkward situations where I just
4:31 want to be lost in my phone so if you
4:33 guys want to learn more about keeping
4:35 your own book of pocket Proverbs check
4:38 out this video linked up here but let's
4:40 dive in deeper to a pocket notebook for
4:42 contemplation or a
4:44 contempla now I like the Latin because
4:46 it's kind of fun I need to give myself a
4:48 reason to be using this and this
4:50 motivates me using Latin is fun I don't
4:52 know it kind of sounds like Harry Potter
4:53 or something but a lot of my favorite
4:55 philosophers and theologians use a Latin
4:57 so I feel good when I use Latin or Greek
4:59 or Hebrew now this notebook is a cross
5:01 between a commonplace book and a
5:02 compendium I've been working on these
5:04 distinctions throughout my videos so
5:05 they they've changed over time but
5:07 what's common between the two is they're
5:08 both notebooks and they're both
5:10 collections a commonplace book is
5:12 usually a collection of quotes and you
5:13 can have either printed commonplace
5:15 books where you just collect the quotes
5:17 or like a manuscript commonplace book
5:18 where you collect the quotes and your
5:21 own ideas about those quotes whereas a
5:23 compendium is a collection of detailed
5:26 information on a particular topic which
5:28 is systematically presented for others
5:29 they're meant to be more comprehensive
5:31 in scope so think of like a handbook on
5:33 North American Turtles that's going to
5:35 be a compendium it's a collection of
5:37 detailed information on all the turtles
5:39 in North America it's presented
5:41 systematically probably alphabetically
5:42 or regionally and it's meant to be
5:44 comprehensive in scope all the turtles
5:47 in North America so my contempla is kind
5:50 of a cross between the two I put ideas
5:52 in here I don't always put quotes I
5:54 usually just abstract the ideas out of
5:55 the quotes and I present them
5:57 systematically but this is not meant to
5:59 be comprehensive in scope it's not based
6:01 on on One Singular idea but it's ideas I
6:04 want to reflect on ideas thoughts
6:05 Concepts I'd rather be chewing on
6:07 thinking through rather than firing up
6:09 that infinite scroll and scrolling my
6:11 life away so I will put quotes in here
6:13 but as I'm thinking through the
6:14 definitions of commonplace books and
6:16 compendiums I'm not sure where it falls
6:18 it's somewhere in between the two it's
6:19 really important for me to get clear on
6:21 the concepts I don't know why if you
6:22 guys don't care then don't even worry
6:23 about it just get your own pocket
6:25 notebook for contemplation so that's the
6:27 idea it's really simple get yourself a
6:29 pocket notebook and fill it with ideas
6:31 that you want to think about read books
6:33 read articles listen to podcasts
6:35 abstract out those ideas and put them on
6:38 a page or two of your contemp latio
6:39 bring it with you everywhere you go and
6:41 when you're tempted to pull out that
6:43 phone to check for your alerts to scroll
6:46 and scroll and scroll don't do it
6:48 instead bring this out and think back on
6:49 those ideas that you find important that
6:51 you find meaningful that you find
6:53 worthwhile going from compulsively
6:57 scrolling to intentionally reflecting on
6:59 ideas that you find worth watching
7:02 meaningful desirable impactful that's a
7:04 huge swing it's the first step in
7:06 utilizing boredom to your own Advantage
7:08 I'm bored but I'm not going to go to
7:10 some shallow Amusement instead I'm going
7:12 to go to Amusement I'm going to think
7:14 I'm going to Muse and chew on ideas
7:16 that's awesome so that's it it's a
7:17 really simple idea and it's a really
7:19 simple method get yourself a pocket
7:20 notebook fill it up with some of your
7:22 favorite ideas you can put quotes in
7:23 here or you can do the hard work of
7:25 abstracting out the ideas from the
7:28 quotes and see how short you can get it
7:30 one page two page three pages but some
7:31 of you guys really like when I give
7:33 examples from my own notebooks so I want
7:34 to walk through a couple of those and
7:36 then I'll leave you guys with some of my
7:37 favorite pocket notebooks that you can
7:40 use for your own contempla so here's the
7:42 first entry in this pocket notebook for
7:45 contemplation this contempla and it's
7:48 one of my own ideas about pythagoreanism
7:50 and stoicism it's kind of surprising to
7:52 me that stoicism is having such a moment
7:53 right now everyone wants to talk about
7:54 stoicism everyone thinks it's super
7:56 awesome and it's pretty cool but there I
7:57 think there's a lot of problems with
8:00 stoicism and so I'm wondering why
8:03 stoicism has found such a audience today
8:06 but pythagoreanism hasn't sure maybe
8:07 Pythagoras was a little bit of a Cults
8:10 leader kind of weird but pythagoreanism
8:12 as a whole is is a pretty awesome
8:14 philosophy they were substance Duelists
8:15 they thought that the mind was an
8:17 immaterial thing some people categorize
8:19 them as being part of the orphic Greek
8:21 religions and Pythagoras taught that the
8:23 rigors of mathematical thought is an
8:25 activity that purifies the soul I'm not
8:27 a huge math guy but that's pretty
8:30 fantastic deep abst ract thinking
8:32 actually purifies your soul the
8:34 pythagoreans heavily influen Plato and
8:36 Plato is the biggest figure in all of
8:38 Western philosophy I think that stoicism
8:40 is committed to fatalism hard
8:42 determinism and physicalism and so I'm
8:43 not sure there's actually room to
8:45 control your emotions in the way that
8:47 the stoics suggest the pythagoreans on
8:49 the other hand hold to an immaterial
8:51 mind which may not be subject to the
8:52 laws of physics so there might be more
8:55 room to harness your own emotions to
8:56 have control over them if that's the
8:58 case then I think pythagoreanism should
9:00 be preferred over stoicism now that's an
9:02 idea I need to think through a lot more
9:03 but when I'm bored and tempted to pull
9:05 out my phone this is an idea I want to
9:06 think about I've been thinking a lot
9:08 about cartisian minds and transcendental
9:10 egos that's the philosophy of Emanuel
9:12 Kant versus the philosophy of Renee
9:14 dayart and their theories of personal
9:16 identity and the self the ego I had
9:19 Luciano fidi on my podcast Parker's
9:20 penes you can find a link to that
9:22 somewhere up here but I've been thinking
9:23 a lot about the life cycle of
9:25 information especially because I run
9:27 this channel which is like notebook
9:29 philosophy so what is information how do
9:31 we capture it how do we reuse it how do
9:32 we process it those things are very
9:34 important for me to get clear on I also
9:35 have been developing my own history of
9:38 AI and I've been pulling from folks like
9:40 Andy Clark and his history of cognitive
9:42 science along with Margaret bowden's
9:44 history of AI and Melanie Mitchells so
9:46 really briefly you know some people will
9:48 find everything tracing back to Plato
9:50 but I found that dayart might be the
9:52 father of artificial intelligence in
9:54 that he's the one of the first to talk
9:56 about it in his philosophy Dart
9:57 specifically was talking about Androids
9:59 and how we might be able to tell a
10:00 difference between a human and a
10:02 humanoid robot something that visually
10:04 looks just like a human but inside is a
10:06 machine deart basically argued that in
10:08 order to pass a touring test the Android
10:10 would have to be artificially generally
10:11 intelligent and that's practically
10:13 impossible so that's one way that we'd
10:15 be able to tell an Android from a human
10:16 I recently wrote a substack piece on
10:18 this where I analyze decart's arguments
10:20 and his reasoning and I think that
10:22 ultimately they fail but decart's a
10:24 genius and he was talking about this in
10:26 1637 which is crazy you can find the
10:28 link to my substack article in the
10:30 description here nits also talked about
10:33 artificial intelligence in 1646 with his
10:34 Mill argument and he actually argues
10:36 against the idea of a machine being able
10:39 to think or perceive things so the
10:41 rationalists of the 1600s were arguing
10:43 against the possibility of artificial
10:44 intelligence but the first positive
10:46 movement looks like it started with Lady
10:49 Ava love lace in the 1840s and her
10:51 friend Charles babage who tried to
10:53 invent an AI with his analytic engine
10:55 though it looks like that gears and Cog
10:57 wheel device was unsuccessful fast
11:00 forward all the way to 1936 with alen
11:02 turing's formalization of computation
11:04 which was a huge stepping stone for
11:06 progress in Ai and then a short step to
11:08 the 1940s with the invention of digital
11:11 computers by people like John Von noyman
11:13 and Alan Turing 1956 artificial
11:16 intelligence was coined by John McCarthy
11:18 at the Dartmouth workshop on AI and then
11:19 I've thought through some more ideas
11:20 like the fight between the good
11:22 oldfashioned AI folks and the
11:24 connectionists all the way up until the
11:25 Transformer neuronet Revolution that
11:28 started in 2017 with the Google paper
11:30 attention is all you need that brings us
11:34 to November 30th 2022 when open AI
11:38 released its chat GPT model gpt3 which
11:40 set the whole world on fire so I want to
11:41 be an expert in the philosophy of
11:43 artificial intelligence I'm not claiming
11:45 to be anywhere near an expert today but
11:47 I want to be so when I'm bored I'd
11:49 rather pull out my contempla and think
11:51 through the history of AI then become a
11:53 victim of AI on social media platforms
11:55 which want to lure me onto their
11:57 platform and keep me there as long as
11:58 possible so for all my Theologian
12:01 friends I have the neoplatonic Trinity
12:02 the neoplatonist also had a view of the
12:05 Trinity they they appropriated the one
12:07 which is kind of like the platonic God
12:09 or or Plato's good they appropriated the
12:13 mind or noose from Aristotle's intellect
12:14 that's like Aristotle's God and they
12:16 appropriated the world soul from the
12:18 stoics the logos so some have called
12:21 this the plotinian Triad from plotinus
12:22 these are the kind of things I want to
12:24 turn to when I'm bored so again the
12:26 concept is super duper simple get
12:28 yourself a pocket notebook and fill it
12:29 with your favorite ideas that you want
12:31 to reflect on so as I finish up here I
12:33 want to leave you guys with some of my
12:34 favorite pocket notebooks so you can get
12:36 started with your own contempla this is
12:40 a Midori MD notebook it's their pocket
12:43 size and I have this in a leather cover
12:45 this is from stride Ridge on Etsy I'll
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13:21 one of these and fill it up with your
13:22 favorite ideas and turn them into
13:24 contemp Latios also if you like mol skin
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13:35 because I think it does bleed through
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14:14 haven't used this one but I used a
14:16 larger one for deep thinking philosophy
14:18 Journal so that's another one that you
14:20 may want to try all right guys so that's
14:22 it it's a really simple concept I hope
14:23 that you found it helpful I hope that
14:25 you all start your own pocket notebooks
14:28 for contemplation your own contempla if
14:29 you guys have made it this far in the
14:31 video you're awesome leave me a thinking
14:33 Emoji in the comments I want to know who
14:35 the real ones are and let me know what
14:36 you like about the concept whether you
14:37 think you'll use it yourself or maybe
14:39 some things that you think should be
14:40 changed about it I always love hearing
14:41 from you guys and we can all learn
14:43 together in the comment section so leave
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