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Summary
TLDRIn this candid discussion, John Green reflects on the counterintuitive ease of honesty during personal struggles versus success. He challenges the notion that enjoying work, especially when busy, is wrong or unhealthy. Green shares his upcoming events, including opening for Rich Hall and Boseman, participating in comedy festivals, and his involvement in education and political campaigns. He also expresses excitement and apprehension about a potential collaboration with David Silva for scientifically accurate dinosaur figures and the launch of 'Crash Course Religions.' Green acknowledges the stress of managing multiple projects but embraces the 'storm' as part of a fulfilling life, encouraging others to explore their true feelings without judgment.
Takeaways
- 🌪️ The speaker finds it easier to be honest when struggling rather than thriving, which feels counterintuitive.
- 🎭 Creators are often open about their struggles, but it's less common to admit enjoying work and productivity.
- 🌬️ Stress can be both a hurricane and a breeze; the speaker enjoys the stimulation of stress to some extent.
- 🚀 The speaker's life is full of various projects and engagements, including comedy shows and educational summits.
- 🦣 There's an exciting project involving scientifically accurate dinosaur figures, potentially in collaboration with PBS.
- 📈 A crowdfunding campaign for woolly mammoth figurines is underway, with stretch goals that the speaker is eager to see realized.
- 🏛️ The speaker is involved in political campaign events, reflecting the importance they place on civic engagement.
- ☕️ The rebranding of Awesome Coffee Club to Keats and Co. is underway, with a focus on both coffee and tea.
- 🎬 The speaker is actively involved in content creation, uploading videos to Hank's channel and enjoying the process.
- 🌐 Complexly's Learnon is ending, and the speaker encourages support for the team's hard work and the educational platform.
- 🤔 The speaker is reflecting on what they enjoy in life, including the excitement of being in the 'storm' and the community it fosters.
Q & A
Why does the speaker find it easier to be honest when struggling than when thriving?
-The speaker finds it easier to be honest when struggling because it feels more relatable and expected, whereas admitting to thriving and enjoying work, especially under stress, goes against the common narrative that such a situation is unsustainable or unhealthy.
What does the speaker perceive as 'the hurricane' and 'the breeze' in relation to stress?
-The 'hurricane' represents overwhelming stress that feels destructive, while 'the breeze' symbolizes a manageable level of stress that the speaker finds invigorating and necessary for growth and preventing stagnation.
What significant event is the speaker opening for next week?
-The speaker is opening for Rich Hall and Boseman, which is a significant event for them.
What is the name of the comedy festival the speaker is participating in?
-The speaker is participating in the 'Last Best Comedy Fest'.
What educational summit is the speaker attending on October 5th?
-The speaker is attending 'Project Lead the Way', an education summit, on October 5th.
What project is the speaker excited about that involves David Silva's dinosaur figures?
-The speaker is excited about a potential collaboration with David Silva, who creates scientifically accurate dinosaur figures, for a figurine that could be part of a prehistoric life show produced by the speaker's team.
What crowdfunding campaign is the speaker promoting for woolly mammoth figurines?
-The speaker is promoting a campaign on Backer Kit to fund the creation of scientifically accurate woolly mammoth figurines, with stretch goals for other prehistoric animals.
What is the rebranding of 'Awesome Coffee Club' mentioned in the script?
-The 'Awesome Coffee Club' is being rebranded as 'Keats and Co', which is a coffee and tea brand that the speaker is enthusiastic about.
What is the speaker's role in hosting 'Saow and Tang'?
-The speaker enjoys hosting 'Saow and Tang' and has uploaded several videos to Hank's Channel, indicating an active role in content creation for the show.
What is 'Complexly Learnon' and why does it end today according to the script?
-Complexly Learnon is an educational initiative that the speaker is involved with. It ends today, and the speaker encourages support for the work done by the team behind it.
How does the speaker feel about the amount of work and stress they are currently handling?
-The speaker acknowledges the stress but also enjoys the excitement, interest, curiosity, and community that come with it, despite the potential for it to become overwhelming if multiple things go wrong at once.
Outlines
🌪️ Embracing the Storm: Thriving Amidst Chaos
The speaker, John, discusses the counterintuitive nature of finding it easier to be honest during personal struggles rather than when thriving. He notes a tendency among creators to openly discuss burnout and mental health but a reluctance to admit enjoyment in working hard. John shares his own experiences, emphasizing that stress can be both a destructive hurricane and a revitalizing breeze. He acknowledges the impossibility of a life devoid of challenges and expresses a personal inclination towards embracing the 'stronger breeze.' John also outlines his upcoming events, including an opening act for Rich Hall and Boseman, appearances at comedy festivals, and educational summits. He mentions his involvement in a Kickstarter campaign for scientifically accurate woolly mammoth figurines and the launch of 'Crash Course Religions.' John also discusses the rebranding of 'Awesome Coffee Club' to 'Keats and Co.', his enjoyment in hosting various shows, and the end of the 'Complexly Learnon,' urging support for the educational platform.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Honesty
💡Struggle
💡Thriving
💡Stress
💡Creativity
💡Countercultural
💡Campaign Events
💡Education Summit
💡Kickstarter
💡Complexly
💡Regret
Highlights
Easier to be honest when struggling than when thriving
Creators are often honest about struggles but not about enjoying work
Enjoying work and high productivity can be perceived as wrong or unhealthy
Struggle and stress can sometimes be signs of thriving
Stress can be both a hurricane and a breeze,象征着挑战与机遇
It's impossible to avoid all stress, but it's necessary for some
Upcoming performance opening for Rich Hall and Boseman
Participation in the Last Best Comedy Fest and other events
Involvement in education and campaign events
Collaboration with David Silva on scientifically accurate dinosaur figures
BackerKit campaign for woolly mammoth figurines
Launch of Crash Course Religions and rebranding of Awesome Coffee Club
Enjoyment in hosting shows and the community aspect of work
Complexly Learnon's end and the importance of supporting the team
Managing multiple projects and the stress that comes with it
Accepting the reality of enjoying stress and the importance of self-awareness
The necessity of understanding personal feelings towards stress and work
Transcripts
good morning John I want to talk today
about something that feels a little bit
counterintuitive because I have found
that it is easier to be honest when I'm
struggling than when I'm thriving and
that feels like the opposite of how
things used to be like I think a lot of
creators are are pretty honest about
their struggles with burnout and mental
health but it seems a little bit
countercultural in the spaces I inhabit
just to be like working a lot and
enjoying it If Ever I talk about like
enjoying work especially when I have a
lot of work to do I can expect to be
told by other people that I'm like wrong
or if it's just a voice in my head you
know saying that this is unsustainable
or it's unhealthy or whatever I've been
doing this for a long time and I have
done it in ways that are unhealthy and
unsustainable and I've done it in ways
that I don't enjoy but I also know that
I've never really felt like I was
thriving if there was no stress in my
life sometimes to me stress feels like a
hurricane that will tear me out by the
roots but other times stress feels like
a breeze that stretches me and brings me
fresh air and if I didn't have it things
would feel really stagnant now here's
another thing I've learned I cannot set
my life up so perfectly that I only ever
have the breeze and never the hurricane
but I do think that I was a little bit
born to sometimes enjoy like a stronger
Breeze there's a lot going on in my life
right now next week I'm opening for Rich
Hall and Boseman which is kind of a big
deal for me then I'm going to be doing a
few other things at the last best Comedy
Fest you should come if you can on the
26th I'm going to be in Youngstown Ohio
which is kind of near Pittsburgh and
kind of near Cleveland and not really
near anywhere else on October 5th both
of us are going to be in San Diego for
Project Lead the Way which is an
education Summit also Pizza Miss starts
on the 23rd and I'm going to be filming
a new show in Los Angeles in October as
well it's also the election time which
just takes up a lot of my brain and also
I've been doing some campaign events
with Montana folks who are running for
office here because it all matters I
hate how much it matters also John like
a year ago I started following this guy
named David Silva who used to work in
the toy industry but then quit to make
scientifically accurate dinosaur figures
his work is absolutely gorgeous and I
was like you know who has a prehistoric
life show that they produce with PBS me
not me complexly so I told the eon's
team that it would be amazing if they
collaborated with David on a figurine
and then I ran away because that's
wasn't my job and now it's maybe going
to be real there's a campaign on backer
kit right now to make these beautiful
woolly mammoths and hopefully also maybe
some other pridans they are huge and
there are stretch goals that I
desperately want to be real but we can't
make any of this unless we reach the
goal like as a legit Kickstarter where
the molds are too expensive to make if
we don't sell a certain number of them I
think this is very exciting and also
kind of scary so if you think a
scientifically accurate woolly mammoth
might be up your alley also crash course
religions is coming out which is a youth
thing not a me thing but I'm still
thinking about it a lot we're rebranding
awesome coffee Club as Keats and Co a
coffee and tea brand and the tea is so
freaking good and the reviews are
starting to roll in that's exciting and
scary meanwhile I still love hosting
saow and Tang I've uploaded like three
videos to Hank's Channel this week and
this seems like a lot but honestly I am
having a lot of fun also the complexly
learnon ends today complexly is an
exciting and stressful thing in my life
we are not launching a streaming service
but if you want to pretend like we are
and give us $60 for a year of complexly
you can do that because everybody works
so hard at complexly to try and make it
work and it's always happening on razor
thin margins and that's stressful but at
the moment like it's a good stressful if
I try to hold it all in my head it does
scare me and if I look at it from
outside of myself that seems like
something a person shouldn't be doing
but I am 44 years old and what I know is
that this behavior isn't a problem for
me if things are going okay it only
becomes a problem when two or three of
the things start to go wrong at the same
time and I simply can't fix things
faster than they are breaking that is
when the roots start to get tugged up
and I regret every decision I've ever
made have you ever regretted every
decision you've ever made cuz it's
happened to me like a few times and I
know that that could happen like at any
time which does keep me you know
worrying I think an appropriate amount
but here's what's up I'm trying to
figure out what I like about life
because I only get so much of it to live
and I do like being out in the storm a
certain amount I like to walk out onto
the sidewalk and let it push me around
until trees start to fall down and then
I want to go inside and I want to
understand that because I don't want to
let my expectations of how I should feel
feel limit my ability to feel how I
actually feel especially if how I
actually feel is like excited and
interested and curious and passionate
and in community with others even if
that also comes along with being you
know pretty stressed sometimes and again
the learnon ends today please support
the work these wonderful people do John
I will see you on Tuesday I bet they'll
run it through the weekend just saying
if you didn't watch it on Friday if it's
Saturday I bet they'll still take your
money complex.com learon
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