What video led you to an existential crisis?

[TisDoney]

There are so many transformational videos that have seriously changed the trajectory of my life. I’m curious which, if any, videos caused you an existential crisis or a paradigm shift?

[allislove]

Leo's "Self-Deception" series is golden.

[Dinkle64]

Usually I wouldn't say that one video really changed me but I wholeheartedly believe that Leo's "Outrageous Experiments in Consciousness" has forever been deeply ingrained in my sub-conscious, it's the one he did after his 30 day retreat.

[PurpleTree]

"existential crisis"  sounds a bit negative in my opinion.

 

Something like 8 years ago i've watched some Eckhart Tolle videos which made me see reality a bit different. Not really sure exactly which video it was.

[DocWatts]

So I don't know if it counts as a full on existential crisis, but I found Peter Singer's argument that people living in wealthy nations have a Moral Obligation to help people living in less developed parts of the World to be really compelling; so much that I feel it is unethical to not give at least some portion of your income to charitable causes if you're fortunate enough to be a middle class person living in a developed nation. 

Also helped me put my own privilege in to perspective, and to reframe the way I think about my obligations to other people.

 

Edited October 1, 2020 by DocWatts

[Carl-Richard]

This video started my trajectory into doubting everything I thought I knew.

[Espaim]

 

[Danioover9000]

@TisDoney

2 hours ago, TisDoney said:

There are so many transformational videos that have seriously changed the trajectory of my life. I’m curious which, if any, videos caused you an existential crisis or a paradigm shift?

   The entire spiritual video playlist. That gave me periods of nightmares and depression earlier in my life.

[Vladz0r]

Right now probably the toxic life purpose. I know in the back of my head I've been on the daily wage slave grind, but struggling to build up any skills on the side to build into a life purpose in the future. Trying to just stay afloat but I used to do way more than that.

[Byun Sean]

Probably the most life changing ones for me so far I think have been:

 

35+ subfields of self-help -------->really kickstarted my path a lot i think.

 

Understanding Survival parts 1 and 2

 

How Ideology works

 

And the entire Spiral Dynamics series and scientific model.

 

 

On top of that watching his new videos once a week really motivated me to keep grinding hard toward my goals and meditating like crazy.