awkward………
Sources and extra links below!
me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce
me on instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants
music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow
Embarrassment and prosociality: http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~keltner/publications/FeinbergWillerKeltner2012.pdf
Empathetic Embarrassment:
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/19/332760081/the-opposite-of-schadenfreude-vicarious-embarrassment
Cringe subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/cringe
awkward hug gifs: http://giphy.com/search/awkward-hug
Embarrassment: http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/11/embarrassment.aspx
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows
“Why Are We Morbidly Curious?” (related Vsauce video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbdMMI6ty0o
social rejection and physical pain: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/15/6270.full
Social awkwardness and genetics:
http://news.sciencemag.org/social-sciences/2009/11/socially-awkward-check-your-genes
http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs53576
Psychology experiments that test the breaking of social norms are called “breaching experiments”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_experiment
Stage Fright: http://business.uni.edu/buscomm/Presentations/stagefright.html
Oxytocin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
http://www.psyneuen-journal.com/article/S0306-4530(13)00211-4/abstract?cc=y
Oxytocin and fear/anxiety:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-07/nu-tlh072213.php
negativity bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias
more negative emotions than positive:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3156001/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-the-name-love/201007/are-negative-emotions-more-important-positive-emotions
Eleanor Roosevelt quote: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/26110-you-wouldn-t-worry-so-much-about-what-others-think-of
“in you 20s and 30s…” quote: http://www.ihhp.com/equotes/
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (on YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows
“sonder” gif: http://i.imgur.com/zxBZ0vF.gif
Wow, the segment about protagonist disease reminded me that it is practically always in the back of my head, but consciously thinking about it is enlightening everytime.
The Biden clip 💀
3:07 Biden Jump Scare
Embarrassing 💅
He touched on this in his video about time but not properly. Whenever i feel insignificant it is worth thinking about time in terms of human computation not years. In terms of human computation every year now is worth 1000 years in the medieval age because there is 1000x as many people, 1000x times as much experience. And your life is just as significant now as it would have been when there was 1000x less people, only then your experience would have seemed more significant because there were less others. If you stretch your understanding of time in this way you realise that right now you are not insignificant. It’s just that more significance is present now than there ever has been in all of time, measured in human computation. We are not in the year 2024 we are in something like the 2000000th experienced human life and if you divide that by two you don’t go very far back in history (all numbers here are wrong obviously and I didn’t google anything, there just examples)
Why tf does this guy and lots of others have to frame awkwardness as something positive?! Trying to comfort us? NO THANKS!!
I am the opposite of Sonder.
I am the wet spot on the carpet you arent sure is water or pee.
I am the mechanics behind those who drive stick shift with fist bumps.
I am the fart in the elevator becoming its own entity.
I am, awkward.
“You forgot your phone at home”
I immediately checked the date on the video when he said that because that never happens nowadays 😂
Well that's awkward😶😐
What is a fart?
As someone with autism i relate to that intro all to well.
i feel awkward just watching the intro
I remember telling my mom about the 'main character' thing mentioned in the video just as same as he have mentioned way back when i was a kid
Rumor says the first girl is still in her same coordinates till now
I wish he was my science teacher
When you drive quickly past a slow driver only for them to catch up at the next red light
0:22 here in India when we forget eachother's name we would go like" tera naam ki a " which means what is your name like it is nothing and even worse when this happen to my friend who foegot my name I said a random student's name (I forgot ny own name)
Vsauce and matpat have very similar voices
The Main Character
"We don't like awkwardness" wait what?
if you are reading this, i am here to register as one of the extras in your life story
"its not illegal to not cover a sneeze" 2020 was weird
I never thought of sonder as negative before. In my mind, it was understanding what a rich tapestry of life we take part in… I never contemplated a negative aspect before, only perhaps that I fail to recognize it often, that I live separate from all those lives and unaffected by them shut away inside myself. But really all things need an ebb and flow. Biology often demands we see ourselves as protagonists to be able to make sound judgments and increase our own ability to flourish, but as creatures that are social we also need to recognize that others are doing the same, having their own human experience.
same energy as "this dog doesn't bite, but it can hurt you in different ways"