The Secret to Getting Better at Physics — Transcript

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1. 0:00in this video I'm going to tell you guys
2. 0:02the secret to getting better at physics
3. 0:04this is how you get close to 100% if not
4. 0:07100% now what you hear in this video
5. 0:10might not be what you want to hear
6. 0:11because it's not the easy way out but I
7. 0:13can guarantee you that this works
8. 0:15because this is what I did myself and so
9. 0:18I want you guys to listen until the end
10. 0:19of this video and take my advice into
11. 0:21account and execute this advice if you
12. 0:25do I can guarantee that your physics is
13. 0:27going to improve and you will end up
14. 0:28with close to 100 % if not 100% in order
15. 0:32to tell you a bit about my story I'm not
16. 0:35someone who's naturally good at physics
17. 0:37in my opinion but during High School I
18. 0:39spent a lot of time to it on it I
19. 0:41dedicated a lot of hard work to it and I
20. 0:43ended up getting the highest score in my
21. 0:45country for as and A2 physics and I also
22. 0:47went on to the University of Cambridge
23. 0:49to study Natural Sciences I graduated
24. 0:51with a first class honors and one of the
25. 0:53subjects I studied during that time was
26. 0:56physics so in this video I'm going to
27. 0:58introduce 13 steps on getting better at
28. 1:00physics starting with number one one
29. 1:04dedicate a lot of time to it and care
30. 1:06about it a lot two rather than learning
31. 1:09it for the exam shift your mindset to
32. 1:12becoming a person who just knows and
33. 1:14understands physics so instead of
34. 1:16thinking I am learning this in order to
35. 1:18take an exam on it just think I am
36. 1:20learning it to become a person who knows
37. 1:23this and understands this three physics
38. 1:26is a subject that is pure and deep it
39. 1:29can't be learned learned just by root
40. 1:30memorization unlike some other subjects
41. 1:33and it can't be learned quickly it's
42. 1:35something that requires a conceptual
43. 1:37understanding and for you to use your
44. 1:39imagination and for you to understand
45. 1:41the links between different topics as a
46. 1:44result understanding is extremely
47. 1:46important and vital to your knowledge of
48. 1:48physics four physics is not fast it's
49. 1:52not something that can be crammed or
50. 1:53rushed so you need to dedicate a lot of
51. 1:56time to it over a long period of time
52. 1:59the the reason you need to do this is
53. 2:01because you need to allow yourself the
54. 2:03time to process the concepts absorb them
55. 2:06and allow your brain to digest the
56. 2:08information and be able to pull it back
57. 2:10to be used five in order to best learn
58. 2:14physics it's good to enter something
59. 2:15like a meditative state or close to a
60. 2:17meditative state where you're extremely
61. 2:19focused on the subject the best way to
62. 2:22improve your understanding of physics is
63. 2:24to sit by yourself in a quiet room with
64. 2:26nothing in it only yourself a pen and a
65. 2:29piece of paper and the concept that you
66. 2:30don't understand then you want to be
67. 2:33able to persevere until something that
68. 2:35doesn't make sense to you begins to make
69. 2:37sense to you and you are able to
70. 2:38logically explain it to yourself if you
71. 2:41haven't gotten to this point yet don't
72. 2:43give up if you feel like you've sat
73. 2:45there for like a day and you still don't
74. 2:46understand it then go and ask some
75. 2:48friends teachers a tutor and consult
76. 2:51Google and
77. 2:52YouTube Six work on your understanding
78. 2:55so always ask yourself why and find
79. 2:57yourself the answer as to why as I said
80. 3:00before understanding is crucial to
81. 3:02physics the limit of your knowledge and
82. 3:04the boundary of your skill is determined
83. 3:06by the point that you stop asking why so
84. 3:09you need to keep asking yourself and
85. 3:11with that process you will continue to
86. 3:13learn more and more
87. 3:15deeply seven be honest with yourself
88. 3:19whenever you find yourself thinking I
89. 3:21don't know or I'm not sure or you have
90. 3:22that tiny feeling that you feel like you
91. 3:24could know this more and you don't
92. 3:26really understand it you need to focus
93. 3:28on that and you need to clear that out
94. 3:30of the way so you need to work on it
95. 3:32until you are sure and you do know even
96. 3:36though a lot of people think oh maybe
97. 3:37this won't come up it's not really just
98. 3:39about that because remember we're
99. 3:41learning it for life and not the exam we
100. 3:43want to be able to get to the point
101. 3:45where we understand physics fully and
102. 3:48purely eight read the textbook from
103. 3:51front to back if you can read every
104. 3:53single word the more detail that you
105. 3:56know it in the better A lot of students
106. 3:59will think that they don't want to read
107. 4:00the textbook or reading the textbook is
108. 4:02a waste of time because a lot of
109. 4:03information and it doesn't come up in
110. 4:05the exam this is actually true but it's
111. 4:08not really enough in order to do really
112. 4:11well to know just everything that comes
113. 4:13up in the exam we need to know more than
114. 4:15what comes up in the exam and what the
115. 4:17textbook is useful for is introducing
116. 4:20and situating a topic within a wider
117. 4:23context so you know how this topic links
118. 4:25with the rest of the world and also with
119. 4:27other topics there's an introduction and
120. 4:29explanation and a conclusion and all of
121. 4:31these are necessary for you to be able
122. 4:33to better imagine the situation that you
123. 4:36want to understand the best way to think
124. 4:39about it is to just think about the
125. 4:40textbook as a book that you really love
126. 4:42to read and keep reading it over and
127. 4:45over absorbing all the small details
128. 4:48nine understand that physics is a model
129. 4:51what I mean by this is the way that
130. 4:53physics started was that someone a long
131. 4:54time ago asked themselves why does the
132. 4:56world work the way it does and then they
133. 4:58created an explanation for themselves in
134. 5:00order for them to better understand this
135. 5:0410 pay close attention to the wording of
136. 5:06definitions every single word is there
137. 5:09for a reason every single phrase is
138. 5:12there for a reason the way that it's
139. 5:13ordered and phrased is also imported as
140. 5:16I was saying before physics is a
141. 5:18man-made model it's not something that
142. 5:20exists by itself in nature but it's
143. 5:22rather like a projection of what humans
144. 5:24think projected onto the nature of
145. 5:28reality because of this we need to be
146. 5:30able to understand what these
147. 5:32definitions are and know the definitions
148. 5:33precisely in order for us to be able to
149. 5:35speak the same language as the physicist
150. 5:38so we can know when they argue something
151. 5:41why they are arguing it the way they are
152. 5:43based on the definitions that we are
153. 5:45using we need to all be using the same
154. 5:47definitions 11 use formulas to help you
155. 5:51explain formulas describe the
156. 5:53mathematical relationship between one
157. 5:55thing and another thing so it will tell
158. 5:57us when one thing changes how does it
159. 5:59affect something else and these are very
160. 6:01useful in helping you to be able to
161. 6:03explain when this happens what happens
162. 6:05to other things 12 practice even though
163. 6:10understanding is crucial practice is
164. 6:12also equally important you need to
165. 6:14practice in order to help your brain to
166. 6:16absorb and use the concepts practice
167. 6:19drawing the information from your memory
168. 6:21because the more often that you do that
169. 6:23and the over the longer the period you
170. 6:25do that for the more the information is
171. 6:28going to sink into your brain and the
172. 6:29deeper it's going to go so continue
173. 6:32doing that and you will feel like you
174. 6:34start to understand it more with
175. 6:36practice 13 make sure that you have a
176. 6:39strong basis and foundation in math as
177. 6:42you get older physics becomes more and
178. 6:44more math focused and math-based physics
179. 6:47and math are very strongly interlined so
180. 6:49if your math is not strong you will
181. 6:51start to find that physics becomes
182. 6:53difficult similarly having a good
183. 6:55foundation in maass will support you to
184. 6:58get better at physics
185. 7:00those are the end of my 13 steps in
186. 7:03order to become better at physics but
187. 7:05before this video ends I also wanted to
188. 7:07say something else these days the world
189. 7:10is a very rushed place we're always
190. 7:12getting a lot of information a lot of
191. 7:14different content a lot of people trying
192. 7:16to grab our attention and everything is
193. 7:18very fast we are always trying to do
194. 7:21things in as little time as possible and
195. 7:23get the most we can as possible but
196. 7:26physics is the opposite of that it's a
197. 7:28science that is quite a ancient and back
198. 7:30when it was created there was no
199. 7:32internet and physicists probably just
200. 7:33sat around and stared at the sky most of
201. 7:36the time so in order to become truly
202. 7:39good at physics dedicate yourself to
203. 7:41living a slower more patient and
204. 7:43peaceful lifestyle eliminate all
205. 7:45distractions and at the end of the day
206. 7:48give it a lot of love release
207. 7:49expectations and study it with pure
208. 7:52intentions and that is the secret to
209. 7:54getting better at physics when sometimes
210. 7:57it might be difficult to put a lot of
211. 7:59time in energy into something which
212. 8:00you're not sure is going to generate
213. 8:02results trust me and have faith by the
214. 8:05time you get to the end of it you will
215. 8:06be proud of yourself and you will have
216. 8:08improved and achieved a lot lastly I
217. 8:11also have a year 12 physics cie online
218. 8:14course which includes teaching videos by
219. 8:17me in which I go through all the topics
220. 8:18in the syllabus pass paper question pass
221. 8:21by topic and a definitions list P paper
222. 8:24questions organized by topic are a lot
223. 8:26more helpful to you in your vision
224. 8:28compared to poll past papers because you
225. 8:30get to repetitively study one topic over
226. 8:33and over which helps you to drill in
227. 8:35your understanding of that topic rather
228. 8:37than skipping from one to another the
229. 8:40definitions list is also extremely
230. 8:41useful and is exactly as in the mark
231. 8:44scheme for CI e the reason this is
232. 8:47important is like I said before it's
233. 8:49important to know the definitions and
234. 8:51the exact wording of them so you can
235. 8:53speak the same language as the examiners
236. 8:56if you're interested in getting this
237. 8:57course DM me at NE proud Academy on
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246. 9:18luck bye-bye see you