The problem with motivational youtube videos!

Resverathrole wrote: »

A genuine motivation video shouldn't need that dreamy seductive music as it's backing. If it's that music that is 80% of what the viewer is getting their inspiration from, then what does that say? This is why the viewer is suddenly motivated to take action with their life, as well as being surprised at how they had been doing so little all along. The viewer's only explanation for why they had been doing so little with their life, being "I can't believe I've been so stupid and lazy - I'm such an idiot".

I never watch such videos myself, but I used to have a friend, who was a bit of an idiot and who hadn't gotten very far in life, who used to post such motivational videos on facebook. He made me watch one once and it was every bit as stupid as I'd thought. I took pleasure in making him explain to me word for word, why it was a good video. I then ridiculed his attempts as he failed to explain. I then made him feel like a fool, as I pointed out how his life's choices in fact contradicted the advice given in the video anyway! He'd never have en the connection between his behaviors and the video's advice if it wasn't for me. Made me see how people don't always want to learn, they just want to stimulate their emotions or act like experts.

You see it's one thing to be thought of as the guy who hasn't gotten far, but if you post motivational videos on facebook, then what you're effectively saying is "I'm ambitious but I haven't gotten far". So you look like a bigger fool. With these videos, I think people oftendon't realise that they haven't actually learned anything from such videos that they'd be able to put into words. So the next morning when they're in a different frame of mind, they are none the wiser, and the same habits manifest. Then they feel like idiots when they think back to the notions that they had in their heads the day before.

I think the motto here, is that the cycle repeats! If such a person continues on being lazy and stupid for another couple of weeks, until they watch a movie or another motivational video, they will thn come to the same conclusion... which is "oh, I can't believe I've been so lazy all along - I'm such an idiot". The thing is you're not as big an idiot as what you think, or for the reasons that you think.

The biggest problem with saying "oh, I can't believe I've been so lazy all along - I'm such an idiot", is that they're nothing to be learned from saying that. There are many nuanced explanations for why we lack will power, or why we get distracted on a daily basis, and such problems cannot be solved clicking a title like "this video will change your life"!