You Cannot Learn Math, Physics, or Programming Without This — Transcript

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1. 0:00This makes it impossible to learn
2. 0:06anything.
3. 0:08You really can't
4. 0:11learn
5. 0:13hard mathematics effectively.
6. 0:16You can't learn physics. You can't
7. 0:18become a good programmer.
8. 0:21And you're going to have a really hard
9. 0:22time trying to do it
10. 0:24if if you don't
11. 0:28try to do this.
12. 0:31I I made this video
13. 0:34in Spanish for my Spanish channel.
14. 0:37And I was thinking, you know, this is
15. 0:40this is something everyone needs to
16. 0:42hear.
17. 0:43And so I thought, let me just make the
18. 0:45video really quick here for you all in
19. 0:47English.
20. 0:50When you are trying to learn something
21. 0:53hard, like mathematics, and this is
22. 0:55really important. When you are trying to
23. 0:57learn something hard,
24. 1:00obviously you need to be able to sit
25. 1:02down and focus.
26. 1:05Your your level of focus
27. 1:08is more important
28. 1:11than anything.
29. 1:14Yes, how hard the subject is matters,
30. 1:17but that is determined by your ability
31. 1:20to attack it.
32. 1:21If you can sit down
33. 1:24and focus on something
34. 1:28without distractions
35. 1:30for an extended period of time, you're
36. 1:33going to be able to learn it.
37. 1:37The reality is,
38. 1:40in order to focus,
39. 1:42you have to I don't want to just say
40. 1:44eliminate distractions. Turn your phone
41. 1:47off, turn your computer off.
42. 1:49You have to get rid of the negative
43. 1:51stuff in your life.
44. 1:54That's what really gets people.
45. 1:57And this is different for everyone.
46. 2:00You know, maybe you have toxic friends.
47. 2:03Maybe it's family. Maybe it's a problem
48. 2:06at work.
49. 2:08Maybe it's your significant other.
50. 2:14Eliminate the things in your life
51. 2:17that are causing you distress
52. 2:20and that are taking away your focus and
53. 2:22your energy. You don't need that,
54. 2:24especially
55. 2:25when you're trying to learn something
56. 2:27difficult.
57. 2:29And that is the advice for this video.
58. 2:32Get rid of all the bad stuff and bad
59. 2:35people in your life so you can focus on
60. 2:38yourself and improving yourself and
61. 2:41learning the things that you want to
62. 2:43learn.
63. 2:45It is so important to do that. It is so
64. 2:47important to have the ability to focus.
65. 2:52Without that, you're not going to be
66. 2:54able to learn hard things. You're not.
67. 3:00You're not. And you know, try this.
68. 3:02After this video is over,
69. 3:05I want you to sit down and think about
70. 3:07all the things
71. 3:09that are taking your focus. All of the
72. 3:11things
73. 3:12that are taking away your mental energy.
74. 3:17And what's going to happen is you're
75. 3:18going to say, "Oh, yeah, this this and
76. 3:20this. These are the problems in my life,
77. 3:22but
78. 3:23I can't do anything about it."
79. 3:27That's rationalization. You're
80. 3:29rationalizing things because you feel
81. 3:31trapped.
82. 3:32But the truth is you have free will. And
83. 3:34I'm not saying your problems don't
84. 3:35matter, but you can make choices to
85. 3:38eliminate those things from your life or
86. 3:41at least alleviate the situation, my
87. 3:43friends.
88. 3:46And yeah, and I don't want to say that
89. 3:49you should just focus on the bad stuff
90. 3:50in your life. Another strategy, I know
91. 3:52the strategy which is really quite
92. 3:54powerful
93. 3:56is try to focus on the good in your
94. 3:58life. You say, "Wait, you said eliminate
95. 4:00distractions, eliminate the bad." Yeah,
96. 4:03but the thing is this, a lot of times in
97. 4:05our lives when we have problems,
98. 4:07the problems are self-created.
99. 4:10I used to know a guy used to say that
100. 4:12when people didn't have problems, they
101. 4:14would create them for themselves and we
102. 4:16do that.
103. 4:18If you
104. 4:20focus on the good in your life, if you
105. 4:22focus on the positive stuff in your
106. 4:23life, say, "My life is great." Yes, you
107. 4:26might be lacking something. Yes, there
108. 4:27there's probably things you need. We all
109. 4:29need things. We all face adversity.
110. 4:32But if you focus on the positive on your
111. 4:34life,
112. 4:35it's going to make the negative seem
113. 4:37less bad.
114. 4:38It's going to allow you to focus more on
115. 4:39the mathematics.
116. 4:41And this this is huge. This is this is
117. 4:43like this is this is something no one
118. 4:45talks about and it is so important.
119. 4:49And I shouldn't say no one talks about.
120. 4:50You know, I I I interviewed a
121. 4:52mathematician a long time ago.
122. 4:55His name was Thomas Garrity. He wrote a
123. 4:56book
124. 4:57uh called All the Math You Missed but
125. 4:59Need for Graduate School. You should buy
126. 5:01it. I'll leave a link in the
127. 5:02description. His book is very good.
128. 5:04It's a good book. You'll learn from it.
129. 5:05It helps him. It's his book. It's his
130. 5:06book.
131. 5:08Uh All the Math You Need but Missed. Uh
132. 5:11All the Math You Need for Grad School
133. 5:12but Missed.
134. 5:13Anyways,
135. 5:14his
136. 5:16he had a video on
137. 5:20on YouTube
138. 5:22and it was about teaching.
139. 5:25And he he was talking about
140. 5:29how no matter what was going on in his
141. 5:31day,
142. 5:32he had to go in there and do his best.
143. 5:35I'm paraphrasing here.
144. 5:37Um but it was something like that. Like,
145. 5:39"Oh, no matter what's going on in my
146. 5:40life,
147. 5:41you know, when I go in and teach, I have
148. 5:43to do the best I can." And I remember
149. 5:44watching that video. I was teaching at
150. 5:46the time. I was thinking, "That's really
151. 5:48good advice. You know, I have a lot of
152. 5:49respect for this guy. It's good advice.
153. 5:52It's kind of the same when you're
154. 5:53studying. No matter what's going on in
155. 5:55your life, you you want to be able to
156. 5:59sit down
157. 6:00and and focus.
158. 6:03Right? And focus on the mathematics. And
159. 6:05it's a little bit harder with learning
160. 6:06because when you when you're teaching,
161. 6:07yes, teaching is hard, but you're you're
162. 6:10teaching something you already know.
163. 6:11When you're learning, you're trying to
164. 6:13learn something you've never seen. So,
165. 6:17the way to do that,
166. 6:18again, eliminate the negative
167. 6:21and focus on the positive. And if you do
168. 6:23those two things, it's going to make
169. 6:25your learning so much better. You know,
170. 6:26it's again, it's not just about what's
171. 6:28the best math book, what's the best time
172. 6:30to study, what's the best way to study.
173. 6:33A lot of it is about how can I sit down
174. 6:35and study
175. 6:37effectively?
176. 6:39And by effectively, I mean
177. 6:42being able to focus.
178. 6:44Not sitting there and thinking about
179. 6:45your problems and being stressed all the
180. 6:47time.
181. 6:50So, do it. Focus on the positive in your
182. 6:52life.
183. 6:53Eliminate the negative.
184. 6:57And you will find
185. 6:59you will find
186. 7:01things things will work out. And I'm
187. 7:02going to look up I'm I'm going to look
188. 7:04up Thomas's book, All the Math You
189. 7:05Missed
190. 7:06but Need for Graduate School.
191. 7:10All the math you missed. Yeah, All the
192. 7:12Math You Missed. It's called that.
193. 7:14And
194. 7:16check out his book. Yeah, All the Math
195. 7:17You Missed
196. 7:19uh but Need to Know for Graduate School.
197. 7:20But it's really just called All the Math
198. 7:21You Missed.
199. 7:24And that philosophy that he applied to
200. 7:26teaching,
201. 7:27you know, I used.
202. 7:29You know, sometimes I would I would go
203. 7:31to class and I'd have a rough day or was
204. 7:34up late playing video games or whatever
205. 7:36whatever, right?
206. 7:37And I'd try to
207. 7:39focus on the job at hand despite my
208. 7:41tiredness or problems.
209. 7:44But yeah, learning learning is more than
210. 7:46just
211. 7:48the best books, the best time to study,
212. 7:50the best way to stay It's It's really
213. 7:51about being able to focus. And you're
214. 7:54not going to be able to do that until
215. 7:56you're in the right mindset. And the
216. 7:58only way to get there is to get rid
217. 8:01of the bad stuff in your life, my
218. 8:02friends.
219. 8:05Check out my books and courses. Those
220. 8:07are in the description. And check out
221. 8:09Thomas's book. It's funny, I'm just
222. 8:11mentioning Thomas here randomly. Uh
223. 8:14so
224. 8:15it just came up naturally in the video,
225. 8:16right? Because I remember I remember
226. 8:18that video he had on YouTube where he
227. 8:19talked about it. And uh
228. 8:22it's it's a thing. And it's a thing when
229. 8:24you're studying, right? You know, if if
230. 8:25you're
231. 8:27I mean, maybe you're in a relationship
232. 8:28and you break up with your girlfriend or
233. 8:29boyfriend. You're going to be stressed.
234. 8:30It's hard to study. Uh maybe you've got
235. 8:33some problems at work. It's going to
236. 8:34You're going to be stressed. It's hard
237. 8:35to study. Eliminate the bad, focus on
238. 8:38the good. You got to have a clear head,
239. 8:40right? Don't let stuff bring you down.
240. 8:42Remember, many problems are
241. 8:44self-created. Focus on the good stuff in
242. 8:47your life. Stay strong, my friends.