How did you become interested in the work of a mortician? Also, how did your perspective of the job chang when you actually began in your profession?

In this video, Mr. Fry did a great job talking about how we look at ourselves, how we act, and how we see the world around us. He makes a good point when talking about goals (2:26) because they do not actually help you to grow as a person. If you don't meet your goal, you have a negative viewpoint of yourself, but if you do, you stop trying, because you feel you have accomplished all you have needed to. Therefore, does that mean goal-setting can only hinder us? Yes, it does give us something to work towards, but it stops us from being creative with our lives. When we set goals for ourselves, we limit ourselves to those goals. We feel that if we accomplish every goal on our list, we have fulfilled everything we need to in life. The very goals we set can slow us down in the long-run.

Mr. Fry also talks about being different (26:00), saying that we all want to belong and feel loved, but we also want to be our own selves as individuals. This is a hard balance to find, because if we are too different, others will see us as strange, and we will feel alienated. However, if we act too much like everyone else, we will feel that we have lost our own individuality, because we have come to conform our identity to that of a group. This led me to think - What exactly is individuality, and what implications does it have? (Does being an individual help us, or hurt us?).
Overall, Mr. Fry does a great job in taking a standpoint on various issues. He makes his viewers think about their beliefs and how they look at themselves (eg: Am I too egotistical?).