The Meaning of Commitment: A Few Thoughts

0:00 - Introducing commitment
0:30 - Commitment involves difficulty and pain
1:47 - Commitment involves being "half-sure, but whole-hearted"
3:58 - Commitment involves integrating our hearts and minds
5:40 - Commitment involves self-awareness
7:07 - Commitment involves authenticity
9:14 - The struggle to lay claim to our lives
11:52 - Consummating our existence itself

[adrianfortmoviereviewsbook]

A new Dodson upload!

I was wondering if you might do a video on hauntology. Its something I've been trying to comprehend lately and I'm not sure I'm getting there. Either way, glad to get a new video.

[iandonnelly]

This is why I have a passion and love for philosophy! It’s not just about the acquisition of knowledge...it’s about the acquisition of wisdom and it’s everyday application....you Sir are a sage! 👏🏻

[pugsly]

Yes, new video!

You're the only Youtuber I have notifications on for.

[alpacinomerbah]

These videos feel like I'm listening to my own grandfather teach me about specifics of my own life experience. Thank you for making these, I will always be looking forward for the next!

[JustininTaiwan]

Hi Eric, as a fellow prof teaching comparative phil/lit in Taiwan, I plan on starting an English channel like yours, albeit with a more comparative focus on meditation etc. I enjoy your measured discussions. YouTube needs a lot more of this, and there is an audience for it. Thanks for your time.

[Bobotv]

Dear Eric, your videos are very good. They guide my thoughts. Help me maneuver through my current existential crisis. I also learn a lot about philosophy psychology, and good books I should read.

Thank you

It's a shame that you're not more famous. You should be at least as famous as Jordan Peterson. You're much more sincere and authentic than him.

[projectmalus]

Thanks for pointing out the difference between a generous true commitment and one that is assigned, for self-gain. It's a slippery one!

[thesleepinggodspodcast]

Internet dad with the goods, thanks Eric.

[brutexrp]

You look at commitment in much the same way as I look at discipline. It takes no discipline for me to go to the gym because I love to do it but it takes discipline to do the things I should do but don't enjoy.

[royprovins]

Commitments are fine but they can definitely change as you get older and you look back and wonder what you were thinking. But good video. Thanks

[yengsabio]

Much like balancing being sensuous and being Stoic in an individual. Truly, "too much of something is bad enough, " the Spice Girls song states.

[kevinhornbuckle]

“My girlfriend told me she wanted me to be more committed. ‘Don’t dare try it!’ I warned her, ‘I know my rights!’”

[junkjunk]

hope is blind
when hope is gone, all is lost
not knowing but hoping
moves us forward