It Only Takes Two Weeks — Transcript

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1. 0:00I'm just going to get right to the point
2. 0:02because I want to keep this video short
3. 0:04and then I'll explain my point the point
4. 0:08is this
5. 0:09if you're in a classroom
6. 0:12and there are people in your class
7. 0:15and you feel like
8. 0:18you are behind those people
9. 0:20you feel like
10. 0:22there is no way
11. 0:24that you could become as good as they
12. 0:27are
13. 0:29then the point is
14. 0:31that it only takes two weeks
15. 0:33two weeks
16. 0:35you could do it in two weeks
17. 0:37and so let me let me explain this
18. 0:39because
19. 0:40this was actually a comment that someone
20. 0:43made
21. 0:44in a room I was in many years ago
22. 0:48there was this math professor who
23. 0:51I didn't really know
24. 0:53and he was talking to a student who I
25. 0:56didn't really know
26. 0:58and the conversation went something like
27. 0:59this
28. 1:00the student was
29. 1:02feeling like you know they were behind
30. 1:06and the professor was saying well you
31. 1:09know when students feel that way you
32. 1:11know I always tell them you know you're
33. 1:13really only two weeks behind you might
34. 1:15think that you can't catch up to them
35. 1:17you might think that you can't be as
36. 1:19good as they are you might think that
37. 1:21you can't improve your mathematics to
38. 1:23get to the level where they are because
39. 1:25they're succeeding and maybe you're not
40. 1:26but the reality is it only takes two
41. 1:29weeks
42. 1:30and so I left the room and I thought
43. 1:32about it
44. 1:33and it didn't make any sense I mean how
45. 1:36is this guy going to know that it only
46. 1:38takes two weeks right because different
47. 1:40people are at different levels so how
48. 1:42does this comment make any sense at all
49. 1:44you know people say things all the time
50. 1:46so why is this true
51. 1:48and so here's the rationale
52. 1:51when you are in a classroom in college
53. 1:54and I'll just use the us as an example
54. 1:56but it's probably true in most places in
55. 1:59the world if you're in a classroom
56. 2:01there's usually some requirement
57. 2:03that is needed for you to be there for
58. 2:06example in the US when you go to college
59. 2:07you take some entrance exam and they
60. 2:10place you in a class they say okay you
61. 2:13can go into a college algebra okay
62. 2:14you're really good at math we can put
63. 2:16you in calculus there's a placement test
64. 2:19and people always criticize these tests
65. 2:21and they criticize the system and that's
66. 2:23fine you can criticize it but there
67. 2:25exists some sort of placement where
68. 2:28people are put into classrooms it
69. 2:30doesn't have to be perfect but there is
70. 2:32a system
71. 2:33and so by some sense everyone in that
72. 2:36class is somehow supposed to be equal
73. 2:38but we all know that's not true right
74. 2:39different people have different
75. 2:40abilities different talents different
76. 2:42intellects but the system puts us all in
77. 2:46this place
78. 2:47and so the rationale is that if you work
79. 2:50hard enough
80. 2:51within two weeks you should be able to
81. 2:54catch up
82. 2:55and I agree I think it's possible I
83. 2:57think it's possible now after years of
84. 2:59just reflecting on the statement and
85. 3:01thinking it was just bogus I think I
86. 3:04think you can do it because think about
87. 3:06it everyone is roughly equal if if I
88. 3:08think of all the students that I've had
89. 3:12in all the classes I've ever taught and
90. 3:14I think about
91. 3:15some of the worst students like the
92. 3:17students that they were just really bad
93. 3:21I had something that had really really
94. 3:23bad issues with math some that were just
95. 3:25not very good
96. 3:27and I look at the best students
97. 3:29could these students who were really bad
98. 3:31actually catch up and you know get the
99. 3:34same grade on the test as one of the
100. 3:37good students absolutely yes absolutely
101. 3:39definitely 100 I know because I would
102. 3:43make the tests I know that if they knew
103. 3:45X Y and Z they could get a 100 on the
104. 3:49test
105. 3:50you know and I would go over stuff in
106. 3:52class and I would teach everything and
107. 3:53explain everything so in theory if they
108. 3:55could learn everything I was teaching
109. 3:57they could get a 100 every single time
110. 4:00they just actually had to learn it which
111. 4:02takes a lot of effort and a lot of time
112. 4:04and for some people learning those
113. 4:07things is actually going to take more
114. 4:09time because they're so behind
115. 4:11but you could do it in two weeks you
116. 4:12could definitely do it in fact it might
117. 4:14even take a week
118. 4:16the real question is
119. 4:18you know how bad do you want it
120. 4:20especially if you're in a situation
121. 4:22where your math is really bad I mean
122. 4:23let's use let's use algebra as an
123. 4:25example let's say you're really bad at
124. 4:27algebra
125. 4:28and you're trying to get better and
126. 4:30you're in a class and you're not doing
127. 4:32well right there's people in your class
128. 4:34that are doing well well maybe they had
129. 4:36algebra before in high school maybe they
130. 4:38you know they saw it before maybe their
131. 4:40parents are Math teachers whatever
132. 4:42the only thing you can do in situations
133. 4:45like that is just work harder and really
134. 4:47just grind you have to grind and grind
135. 4:49and grind and you can do it so I just
136. 4:51wanted to make this short video to
137. 4:53indicate that I think it's possible I
138. 4:55really do I think that if you're in a
139. 4:57classroom and you're in a bad situation
140. 5:00and you're not doing well
141. 5:01you can pull yourself out of that
142. 5:03situation if you work really hard and
143. 5:05you just have to grind
144. 5:07one idea
145. 5:08is to just do every single homework
146. 5:11problem multiple times this is what I
147. 5:13did I was obsessed I would do so many
148. 5:16math problems and that's all I did you
149. 5:19know on weekends too you know people
150. 5:20would go to school they do their
151. 5:22homework they'd finish it they'd go out
152. 5:24with their friends
153. 5:25no I didn't do that all right I didn't
154. 5:27do that I just stayed home on weekends
155. 5:29and studied
156. 5:30studied every afternoon after class
157. 5:33it's about how bad you want it
158. 5:35so it's possible so if you're in a class
159. 5:39and you're failing
160. 5:41and you're thinking oh can I still pass
161. 5:45don't think that way it's not about
162. 5:47passing
163. 5:48it's about getting a hundred
164. 5:50aim to be the best aim to score a
165. 5:54perfect score because if you aim high
166. 5:56and you miss
167. 5:58you're probably still going to do pretty
168. 6:00well
169. 6:01two weeks right two weeks is all it
170. 6:03takes you really can't do it you really
171. 6:06can't do it and I thought about this
172. 6:07guy's comment for years because I was
173. 6:08thinking two weeks it doesn't make sense
174. 6:11from the perspective of okay you might
175. 6:13have this friend who's in another math
176. 6:15club like say you're an algebra and your
177. 6:17friend is in calculus three no you're
178. 6:18not going to be able to catch up to him
179. 6:20in two weeks right but if you're in the
180. 6:22same class and you're comparing yourself
181. 6:24to another student in your class and
182. 6:26that student is getting A's and you're
183. 6:28getting F's
184. 6:29you can actually Rise From the Ashes and
185. 6:32do better and get an A on the next test
186. 6:33I've seen people do it they completely
187. 6:36change their study habits they go from
188. 6:38not taking notes skipping class to going
189. 6:42to class every day asking questions
190. 6:44doing all the homework going to office
191. 6:46hours asking questions multiple times
192. 6:49don't be afraid to be annoying a lot of
193. 6:51students
194. 6:53um I feel like they're lost in class and
195. 6:55they're scared to ask questions I used
196. 6:57to be that way don't be like me right
197. 7:00it's funny I'm telling you not to be
198. 7:02like I was but it's good advice because
199. 7:04that's something that I should have done
200. 7:05do I have regrets no because I don't
201. 7:07believe in regrets
202. 7:08just regret to accomplish nothing all
203. 7:11you can do is change
204. 7:12the present and hope that it affects
205. 7:15your future
206. 7:16because that's all we have control over
207. 7:18is the present
208. 7:20so it's possible it's possible pick
209. 7:23yourself up and work harder you could do
210. 7:26it I mean you could do it it's
211. 7:28mathematics and it applies to other
212. 7:30subjects as well but I have more
213. 7:31experience with math so I'm speaking
214. 7:33only here of mathematics in mathematics
215. 7:35you know if you're in if you're in an
216. 7:37algebra class or a trig class and let's
217. 7:39say you're using this book here
218. 7:40fundamentals of algebra and trig by
219. 7:42swachowski great book
220. 7:43you know pick up the book do all the
221. 7:45problems from the section do all the
222. 7:47homework go over all of your notes
223. 7:48you're gonna get better you're gonna get
224. 7:50better it's possible it just takes extra
225. 7:52work and it's about how bad do you want
226. 7:55it it really comes down to that
227. 7:57so you should know that deep down inside
228. 7:58you can do it it's just a matter of do
229. 8:01you want to do it a lot of times I think
230. 8:03that
231. 8:04people think they can't do it
232. 8:06and I believe they can it's just do they
233. 8:10really want to do you really want to
234. 8:12spend that much time doing math I mean
235. 8:14there's other things in life that are
236. 8:15important too right but if it matters to
237. 8:18you you can make the effort and you can
238. 8:20succeed and that's all I wanted to say
239. 8:21in this video I believe in the two-week
240. 8:24rule two weeks in two weeks you can
241. 8:27catch up to a classmate
242. 8:29if you rock it I think that
243. 8:30mathematician who said that I remember
244. 8:32his name but I won't mention it and I
245. 8:34talked to him once briefly and that's
246. 8:37no comment I didn't really know him so
247. 8:39but he was right
248. 8:41I believe what he said he was a smart
249. 8:42man and he was right
250. 8:45if you want to learn mathematics I do
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257. 8:59today
258. 8:59and it's possible it's possible it
259. 9:02really is I want to emphasize that I
260. 9:04believe that you can do it if you are
261. 9:06failing your class I just from teaching
262. 9:09so many years it took me a long time to
263. 9:12believe this guy I was like two weeks
264. 9:13but he was talking about people in the
265. 9:15same class so if you're in the same
266. 9:17class with someone and you're comparing
267. 9:19yourself and you want to get the grades
268. 9:21they're getting I really think it's
269. 9:22possible to catch up in two weeks I
270. 9:24think that's more than enough time a
271. 9:26week maybe two weeks I think that's a
272. 9:28lot more realistic to catch up to them
273. 9:30and do as well as they're doing I think
274. 9:32it's possible
275. 9:34anyways until next time good luck take
276. 9:37care and keep doing mathematics