The Best Life Advice You’ve Ever Heard is Probably Wrong

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Published 2020-10-01
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In this short, fiction story, we follow a man's journey through different parts of the world, collecting a variety of wisdoms along the way, only to conclude one consistent thing from all of them.

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All Comments (21)
  • @ItsErkk
    “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” -Mr.Watts
  • @flipper337
    'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced' -Soren Kierkegaard
  • @kenthn5396
    " I'm sorry Chris, but it's impossible to be with someone who is never happy." Damn, I felt that.
  • @jerryk3280
    Don't take life too seriously. No one gets out alive.
  • 'In zen we don't find the answers, we lose the questions.' - Zen saying
  • 'The best life advice you've heard is probably wrong' - The best life advice I've heard. A paradox!
  • @Ihaaab
    what's really impressive is chris knowing all languages known to mankind and being able to easely have a conversation with any one
  • The best life advice I've ever gotten is that everyone is right in their own little world.
  • @srisai7244
    And then Chris started a Youtube Channel called Pursuit of Wonder.
  • I’m not joking about this, as a Z generation child, i have been born to the internet and to the endless void of all the shitty content yet this is the best content creator i’ve ever seen, i am grateful for being able to watch all this. Internet is not so bad after all lmao.
  • @hop7278
    “everyone is their own hero and their own villain in their own story” -Baco
  • @FireBlaster3000
    "The only wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." -Socrates
  • Every day that passes by makes me realise how close and similar the concepts of "everything" and "nothing" really are.
  • @Bao2me
    I’m so glad that Chris traveled the world for us to know each of every persons views, so that I don’t have too. Thanks Chris
  • @jakechase5227
    "To live life in its ordinary form is courage. To find meaning in its mundane meaninglessness is a sort of genius." This is so true.
  • @AlexBlank
    The best way to learn how to live a good life is through living it. However we choose to live, we'll end up learning something .
  • @wave._.hunter
    “better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way” -Alan Watts
  • @jerbear97
    imagine if he went to those countries in a different order. he would have been very confused