I moved to a new school. Decided to just keep to myself. Eventually one day I realized the entire class, including the teacher, were discussing what a useless piece of shit I am. I suppose what hurt the most was that teachers are at least suppose to pretend to like you but I guess I was such shit that I didn't even get that much. When I asked for a better explanation of what "dy/dx" or anything I was told to just memorize it and they refused to give me any more than that etc. Unfortunately most go through school with an absolutely terrible experience like me.
@@FactHubREAL because it's difficult and almost anything difficult done effortlessly/elegantly looks cool I guess? Do I really have to explain this lol
that's nothing, somewhere on earth, someone who watched 12.64 seconds of Rick and Morty had his brain exploded from having so much IQ, ending up with -1/12 IQ
Even negative numbers are imagined. There are no -1 apples in any real cart. If you believe good historians, even 0 was an invention by ancient Hindus -- assuming my memory serves, but you can check that out with google. When we shift from math to life, things become even more fun: try to think about something "real", meaning not imaginary, not something you've imagined. You can say, many things. Table, sky, my hand, people, planets, .... Do you really know that they are real? Where is the proof, or justification? Others agree with you? Could it then be our collective imagination? Remember Socrates who said that he knew he didn't know, and kept challenging others who were convinced that they knew things. Or, take Descartes who admitted that all could be a dream -- can you convince yourself that it is not? Well, this is what Eddie suggested, isn't it? Thinking deeply about things, not just mathematical things, but, daily things, lively things... To make it more practical, think what do you really want? What makes you happy? What makes you scared, or angry? When are you at peace, content? When are you annoyed and why, with your little sibling, or spouse, or friend, or parent? Is it really justified? Here is a challenge for you: no upset is justified. It is caused by some thought in the mind. Not what happens, but how we interpret it is what keeps us troubled. Have fun! Be still. Peace.
When I was younger, this is what I thought college would be like. True learning and trying to find understanding of the principles of math. I thought I’d be learning how to solve problems. Instead, I learned that professors don’t care about me and that cheating is easier than studying.
Life teaches you more than any college or professor can. Follow your heart and follow up on Your questions as a hobby. You'll be surprised to find quite a few people in the whole wide world who are on the same or parallel paths. With today's communication across social media a few dedicated thinking people can do a lot more collaboratively than vast herds of disorganised sheep.
Bro you can’t complain you didn’t learn anything then in the next line say you cheated because it was easier. Cheating is always going to be easier but that’s not how you learn
inb4 some dudes walk into the class "you son of a bitch, you in?" and then they fly across the world to solve some mystic earth stopping problem or something
Radmehr Abdolahi That’s just inaccurate and without conclusive evidence to support it. Yes, overthinking can be a source of stress for many people, but 1. Most stress does not come from overthinking 2. Most overthinking does not result in stress. Overthinking has many advantages in many situations. That is the only reason it is even biologically possible in the first place.
Nice comment. I think, the kind of "simple things" that tends to get us into anxiety is, if we're thinking about the consequences that will happen to OURSELVES, NOT about the beauty of patterns behind this world that God created. And also, the key is, to try to moderate/balance our own thoughts. If we're overthinking, rest a bit. If we're not thinking at all, then think. and yeah, maybe we do need a guide on how to be balanced.
He wasn't self-aggrandizing, he was being genuine; that was a rubbish circle for people who can do such things. Give him some credit, and raise your standards.
+Tejas Chandrasekar This is glorious, I've been looking for "become a mac technician" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Ronny Geniusify Epiphany - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my work buddy got great results with it.
I have a problem, my teachers teach me math in a... Poor way, they just show me how to do it, but not how it works, and why it works, I know it's much more difficult when you try to explain every little thing, but I'm not the kind of student that can just accept something without truly understand. If someone could help me I would be very grateful. Obs: english is not my native language, sorry for any possible mistake.
I'm sorry for what you're going through. I went through that too ... certainly in college ... and recently when I tried to figure out music theory, which I think I did, on perhaps my 8th try in the last 40 years I took a shot at it. I'm sure it took me 50 hours to understand it enough to 'see through it' so I could simplify it enough to see the underpinning. But I'll be very honest with you ... I hope you're a bit obsessive so you can just plain figure it out yourself. I think the greatest lesson from school is to strive to make it superfluous - just plainly accept that you'll simply have to start learning to enjoy being relentless. I remember learning to write in college ... which for me means I taught myself how to write while in college. I was an engineering student and we were not allowed to take English ... yes really. There was one technical writing class but I don't know why I couldn't get it. Regardless, the situation was that I needed to write, really file, a petition to the Faculty of the school to get permission to drop a course far later than usual. Well this was a major big deal for me ... this was a core course. I am sure I spent over 120 hours writing that petition. Maybe it was two or three typed pages? But being an obsessive kind of person I could just ... not ... let... it .. go ... and if you're just plain relentless about it you just plain get the answer you need.
just letting you know that you are not alone. same shit here. one thing you can do is learn some proper english and then learn the rest of it on internet at places like khan academy
I had an instinctive habit of always asking "WHY??" Because of it, university became a cognitive burden for me, as I hated having more and more engineering math thrown at me for the sake of the syllabus. It got really bad; I felt like my mind was going to assassinate me if I didn't question everything. Have you ever had non-stop math/physics dreams, woken up in a sweat at 2 in the morning while your roommate sleeps soundly across the room, and had a genuine panic attack because the (probably) legitimate holes in classroom content logic and the "why?"'s won't stop pounding on your head. I got fatigued with the American educational system and dropped out. It sucks because I was a top student throughout my time there, but sometimes the promise of a degree isn't worth it. University education really messed with me in ways that I'm still dealing with 2 years later. I gave up a $60k a year full academic scholarship for peace of mind, and I mostly don't regret it. Engineering math is especially bad because you're given MODELS of physical systems and asked to do creative things with them, and provided rules of thumb for when they work and when they break down, and when we have to switch to alternate models. Just because something works doesn't mean it makes sense. True story. We live in a "practical" society where asking why is the hardest way to live and thrive. It's easier to take things as they are. Marcus Aurelius once said something to the effect of, "if you live your life according to someone else's conceptions in the hope that one day you will have the wealth to buy your freedom of action, you will never find freedom." If it means that much to you, you just need to start asking questions now. And when you're feeling particularly whimsical, maybe even following it up with a savory "what if?" These days I'm the lead founder at a yet-unnamed startup developing a machine-learning algorithm that correlates the dynamic states of 3D objects in an observed environment in real-time and feeds said models into a probabilistic physics engine that helps self-driving cars navigate the real world via stereoscopic depth perception (computer vision). This is different from industry practice where you just feed a neural net billions of training examples (of that one town in Arizona or whatever) and let the computer get better at driving. We want our correlation-MLA to require as little example data as possible while gaining insight into the coupled states of entities in the environment (via our in-development probabilistic-physics engine). School hasn't worked for me sadly; too many questions, not enough time to understand deeply. In a way, that's the whole premise of our learning model: it learns by extracting coupling patterns in data so the insight of the model is far deeper than a traditional ML model. Best wishes Eddie, & wonderful discussion! Greetings from the USA.
I find myself in the same boat every once in a while, for example, maths and asking my teacher specifically about certain aspects of a problem AFTER they have explained it to me and given me an answer, most of the time they just repeat what they said assuming that I didn't understand the explanation, when in reality I want to exactly figure out why it works that way, but eventually I give up and move on after realizing that they don't have full and perfect insight of what they are teaching but only memorized is certain ways. When I tackle maths (or any concept for a matter of fact) I want to know every possible perspective and a specific 360 view of it. Unfortunately many times I have been let down and just go with it the way it's been explained.
@@basil8474 Wow it was crazy to read your comment. I relate to that struggle so so sooo much in school. I like to think I am one of the smartest students in the room, but I simply just cannot understand something and remember it and use it in practice if I dont have a conceptual understanding of why it is that way. I have also asked my teachers WHY these things we learn are that way, only to realize they dont actually know, they just know how to teach it to the majority of students, and not the students like me.
Or probably you shouldn't enter engineering departments. They always do that, they never derive something like physicists do. I think you would do in university better if you enter the physics department.
7:12 - 7:25 You can also apply this to life: I could never get that girl to fall for me. But what if I could? I can never be successful in my career. But what if I could? I could never invent something genius. But what if I could? I'm not good at doing things with my hands. But what if I could?
You could also evolve: I could never get that girl to fall for me: But why? I can never be successful in my career. But Why? I could never invent something genius. But Why? I'm not good at doing things with my hands. Why? Solve the why, and evolve
This was the problem i faced in School. My Math teachers would just go on and write out theories and formulas on board, and expect us to memorize them and spit them out back on the test. But, they never really explained us why a theory is the way it is, or why this formula actually works, they failed to engage students into thinking deeply, and that's why many people hate math. Because they don't know how to think deeply...
@@second_second_ This. So much this. I've loved math for as long as I can remember but everyone around me has throughout all of my years of schooling just been blaming the teachers I've had for everything. "Oh no _I_ didn't fail that maths test, it was 'cause the teacher doesn't know shit" or "The teacher is feeding me lies and incorrect information", well how come some of us manage to ace the tests then you lazy fuck?
@@ismailfaalih9559 I'd say my point is fairly clear, leading me to believe that your comment is an invite to further discussion and/or an argument, neither of which I am interested in partaking in on a Monday evening over a 5-month old comment. Whether this is the case or not, I really don't want to hear it, so I'll bid you a good day and hope you don't take too much offense. If you do however, I don't care.
@@ThelolipopCreeper You replied to @Second who said "teachers are also human" with "Don't blame the teachers you lazy fuck". If you still didn't understand, then let me explain it. If you have already seen what you did wrong, then there's no point reading the rest. Oh well, guess you didn't understand it?? Unless you knew what you did wrong and still decided to read.
@Connor Gaughan i think its because the whole point of this video is to prove no concept is beyond questioning, but rather than just applying it to the nature of his life, he reflects the initial reaction in the video's comments. If i was a bettin boy i'd probably say you're doing the same thing on a slightly more meta level, and given that its the case that you both are questioning without reason, then by questioning him really means youre also questioning yourself. So why did you ask him why he asked anything? Randomness, or maybe hoping to be the last quesitoner? Though it may not seem thought-provoking at first, the nature of his questioning lies behind not knowing how he could have enabled himself till someone else did it for him/her. How it wasn't his choice to even question the nature of this video till someone else made it for him/her. Possibly even hinting at the nature of determined fate vs free will. The possibility that if they never saw the video already made for them, they wouldn't be given the freedom to question in the present, where seemingly it already feels like they have control of their own thoughts. Maybe im over extracting, but i hope my attempt of any explanation was at least entertaining.
I'm certain I would have embraced maths as a child if I had Eddie Woo as my teacher! Wow thank you for these wonderfully clear and imaginative explanations.
Nikola Tesla: “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
I had the same problem a lot of other people here seem to have had, too. That is, the way maths was taught was so clinical and 2D (formulae in chalk on a blackboard) that it had no relevance to real life, as it was taught. In my case, it changed when I was lucky to encounter a brilliant tutor who showed me how to relate all that 2D clinical theory that had been crammed into my head (that I didn't really understand) to something I was passionate about - cars. He asked me, are you interested in cars? As a 17yo lad, I said 'yes!'. He said, do you know that calculus is a way to measure the rate of change over time? I said, 'sort of'. He said, well it is, which means you can use calculus to work out how long it will take a care to accelerate from 0 to 100, or, the increasing fuel use on a curve as you press harder on the throttle, or, just what point in time a car part will wear out. Well, that changed everything for me. It took maths from being just boring 2D concepts drawn on a chalkboard to useful 3d realities that I could now apply in the things I was interested in. That's how maths should be taught.
"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane" - Nikola Tesla
It's 5:00 am. awake for 24 hours. 4 cups of bold espresso in. got an important essay in my final year. deadline is in 6 hours. only barely started it. and here i am watching how to make simple things harder. pray for me guys!
this really shows how much of a difference a teacher can make to a student's learning. i always hated math and never enjoyed it. I'm sure many people can even relate to crying because of math, trying to figure out a problem but just getting no correct answers. even when you figured the answer out you don't fully get it and understand it. math was always so frustrating. it was not until my previous school year where i started doing well in math when i truly understood the concepts. i really wish i stumbled across this channel sooner, as most of the things he's explaining i have spent years just memorizing. if only i knew i could achieve much higher scores in math classes if i had just spent more time trying to understand how everything worked. now i do not despise math as much as i used to- in fact, i am looking forward to my coming school year to see what new math lessons I'll be learning. I cannot believe i went from crying and hating on math to binging his videos explaining math at 1 o'clock in the morning for entertainment 😂
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” - Nikola Tesla
We need teachers that take the 2D chalkboard formulae and relate it to real world 3D applications so that kids can see the practical use of learning maths. Finding out you could use calculus to work out all kinds of stuff about racing car performance did it for me when I was 17.
Watched one of his videos on trigonometry (introduction - unit circle) before hitting the class. Got there and was on Super Saiyan mode teaching my class 11 students 💯 thanks, Sensei Woo 🙏
Thank you Eddie. I can't remember how I found this, but I was mesmerised! I didn't do well at math in school, but now I realise it wasn't because I was stupid. It was a simple thing where my teacher didn't engage! I have learned a lot and found math interesting so many years after I learned to hate it. Thank You!!!
In all my school years when I asked why is something like that in math class I got the same answer "just because it is", I have literally no clue where maths came from and who did them, and no one encourage me to know; so I really thought math was senseless and kinda just passed the class without paying them attention. Now I literally love math and had become one of my passions because of people like you or vihart, so I wanted to thank you for helping me now a new part of myself and inspiring me to always ask why
He is already. He is posting his videos about maths on youtube. And yes, you have to solve the questions that arrive in your head somewhat alone, but it will be worth it, just stick with them.
I'm currently studying maths with the goal to become a "Gymnasium"-teacher (teaching kids between 10 and 19 years) and I really like the way you break down the topic to the very essence so your students can follow you while you also show your enthusiasm for maths which - I'm pretty sure - ignites your students desires to learn more about it. Keep it up!
This can apply to everyday life not just math. I find it useful to contemplate a lot of things that other people may not care about. Keeps me sane and busy when I’m bored.
But what if it didn't? The sci-fi response to that would be that there's a singularity somewhere between the questioner and Africa causing a distortion...etc.
But a minute passes where? If you're closer to the sun, or a black hole, every 60 seconds in Africa a minute does not pass. Ahah! I will go kill myself now
I remember being introduced to the concept of infinity in grade school and how much thinking about it disturbed me. Have learned a lot of math since then but it still bothers me to this day.
Dear Edie, you made me want to learn Maths (definitely will focus in real life), I wish every student have access to a teacher like you! Pradeep from Dubai.
Eddie woo sir, Mathematics is my toughest subject but after I saw your videos and your excitement for teaching 🤩 I just love it even though I am commerce student I like to watch your maths videos.
I'm watching your videos right now, and I'm honestly amazed at the ability you have to explain everything both efficiently and concisely. Thank you for teaching this and making it publicly available on youtube!
I enjoy answering the why-chain using physics for as long as possible. :) (Sometimes it takes a few steps through psychology and biology in order to get there)
Egor Zvorykin Incorrect. Philosophy from PhD comes from the roots philia and sophia, meaning ‘love of’ and ‘wisdom’ respectively. So no, all scientists need not be philosophers, but they do share in the love of knowledge.
I, an electrical engineer with Master degree, looking for more videos in this channel at 1 o'clock am, just because you make me feel happy and interesting in all these simple but meaningful math problem. good job! you are a great teacher, keep your awesome work!
You have such a way with words. "Think deeply about simple things" describes a mindset for mathematics that I wasn't able to articulate until your video.
Just seeing the title makes me happy that I have been a bit on the right track from the get-go. As long as I can remember, I've always had people say to me: "don't think so deep about it." and stuff like that.
I would like to mention that I've never had a math teacher as good as that at teaching :/ I mean he explains it to you with damn easy examples, not throwing a lot of formules on a table and just learn them like a parrot -.-"
Wish all kids could have teachers like you.
Unlike Thomas Edison's teacher who said Edison had a slow brain cause he was asking too many questions
I moved to a new school. Decided to just keep to myself. Eventually one day I realized the entire class, including the teacher, were discussing what a useless piece of shit I am. I suppose what hurt the most was that teachers are at least suppose to pretend to like you but I guess I was such shit that I didn't even get that much. When I asked for a better explanation of what "dy/dx" or anything I was told to just memorize it and they refused to give me any more than that etc. Unfortunately most go through school with an absolutely terrible experience like me.
@@nexusclarum8000 That is abysmal, please tell me you went to another school and told on that teacher. He/she should be fired.
you can try to be that kind of teacher instead
@@nexusclarum8000 This memorizing stuff happens all the time.Most of them are not brave enough to ask why?
What a time to be alive, thank you internet.
are you imaginary
Hello i
no he is real now !
Aswin_ T_Vinod 😂😂
Lol hello i
Why are all math teachers so sensitive about their ability to draw a perfect circle in one go.
Because it looks cool
But why does it look cool?
@@FactHubREAL because it's difficult and almost anything difficult done effortlessly/elegantly looks cool I guess?
Do I really have to explain this lol
Why are u?
Soumil Sahu but why do effortless attempts look cool? Is it just part of humanity or something?
0:55 whats 1+1
~few seconds later
student: Three.
that one savage
@@andrasstaub5286 yea the real cringe comes from the inevitable "he's not wrong he's just different" loon.
🤣🤣
He probably proved that 1+1=3 with an illogical equation
He divided both sides of the equation by 0
i love his excitement every time he explains things, it's contagious
It's because he knows what he's teaching
@@kofi_haven Not just that, he has this natural curiosity that lots of math teachers just don't have.
You are part of the rare group of teachers that allow students to ask why rather than memorise
Hi, I'm here in 2022
Memorizing without reasoning is dead
you are really confused
I gained 10 IQ points from watching this video
that's nothing, somewhere on earth, someone who watched 12.64 seconds of Rick and Morty had his brain exploded from having so much IQ, ending up with -1/12 IQ
No
Nope, -1/12 is the value of the infinity.
Yahiko Tendo so you have 20 now!!!
Watch it 20 times , u will get 200 IQ ""))
School headmaster: you cannot pass this lesson.
Me: But what if I did?
Sniper20Destroyer that’s the spirit
*Vsauce music intensifies*
I like your thinking !
Or will you??
Vsauce music plays
these numbers are imaginary....
*but what if they aren’t?*
vsauce music plays
Ohh...gotch you...or is it?
actually they're called imaginary numbers but they are not "imaginary"...
Even negative numbers are imagined. There are no -1 apples in any real cart. If you believe good historians, even 0 was an invention by ancient Hindus -- assuming my memory serves, but you can check that out with google.
When we shift from math to life, things become even more fun: try to think about something "real", meaning not imaginary, not something you've imagined. You can say, many things. Table, sky, my hand, people, planets, .... Do you really know that they are real? Where is the proof, or justification? Others agree with you? Could it then be our collective imagination? Remember Socrates who said that he knew he didn't know, and kept challenging others who were convinced that they knew things. Or, take Descartes who admitted that all could be a dream -- can you convince yourself that it is not? Well, this is what Eddie suggested, isn't it? Thinking deeply about things, not just mathematical things, but, daily things, lively things... To make it more practical, think what do you really want? What makes you happy? What makes you scared, or angry? When are you at peace, content? When are you annoyed and why, with your little sibling, or spouse, or friend, or parent? Is it really justified? Here is a challenge for you: no upset is justified. It is caused by some thought in the mind. Not what happens, but how we interpret it is what keeps us troubled. Have fun! Be still. Peace.
@@BulentBasaran well at least I am not alone :).
@@vijaysridhar351 or are you?
We should think about why we should think deep..
Venkatesh l about why we shouldnt think deeper
then we shd think that why we should think about why we should think deeply
What if you shouldn't?
instructions unclear, can't think anymore :(
The deeper the better ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
I am pretty sure a large percentage of your students grow loving math. You can't say that for the average math teacher
When I was younger, this is what I thought college would be like. True learning and trying to find understanding of the principles of math. I thought I’d be learning how to solve problems. Instead, I learned that professors don’t care about me and that cheating is easier than studying.
Life is so sad :(
@@zainmehal9950 dont be dank
omg I thought exactly the same when I was a kid 😭
Life teaches you more than any college or professor can. Follow your heart and follow up on Your questions as a hobby.
You'll be surprised to find quite a few people in the whole wide world who are on the same or parallel paths.
With today's communication across social media a few dedicated thinking people can do a lot more collaboratively than vast herds of disorganised sheep.
Bro you can’t complain you didn’t learn anything then in the next line say you cheated because it was easier. Cheating is always going to be easier but that’s not how you learn
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein.
I wish I have this kind of teacher.... Cherish him....
He looks and acts like a teacher from a movie
inb4 some dudes walk into the class "you son of a bitch, you in?" and then they fly across the world to solve some mystic earth stopping problem or something
Well the movie teachers are supposed to act like this.
I mean if your paying attention enough to realise that thwn hes done his job
How can I get you as a teacher?
git clone
tell enough people you want to be taught like this
well, what if you had him as a teacher...
Go to Australia. To be honest I would come too.
pack up kids, the bus to Woo land is leaving
"Think deeply about simple things" so you want me to get a ton of anxiety?
I say you need to carefully choose simple things to think deeply about.
Egor Zvorykin why??
That’s why smart people are more stressed, because they overthink everything
Radmehr Abdolahi That’s just inaccurate and without conclusive evidence to support it. Yes, overthinking can be a source of stress for many people, but 1. Most stress does not come from overthinking 2. Most overthinking does not result in stress. Overthinking has many advantages in many situations. That is the only reason it is even biologically possible in the first place.
Nice comment.
I think, the kind of "simple things" that tends to get us into anxiety is, if we're thinking about the consequences that will happen to OURSELVES, NOT about the beauty of patterns behind this world that God created.
And also, the key is, to try to moderate/balance our own thoughts. If we're overthinking, rest a bit. If we're not thinking at all, then think. and yeah, maybe we do need a guide on how to be balanced.
*draws a near perfect circle*
"I've done better" 😂😮
He wasn't self-aggrandizing, he was being genuine; that was a rubbish circle for people who can do such things. Give him some credit, and raise your standards.
Compared to his sphere circle it is rubbish.
+Tejas Chandrasekar
This is glorious, I've been looking for "become a mac technician" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Ronny Geniusify Epiphany - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my work buddy got great results with it.
OF COURSE HE'D SAY THAT. WHAT DO YOU EXCEPECT, HE'S ASIAN
Dayumm... this thought is actually pretty smart.
Depends on how you define simple
I have a problem, my teachers teach me math in a... Poor way, they just show me how to do it, but not how it works, and why it works, I know it's much more difficult when you try to explain every little thing, but I'm not the kind of student that can just accept something without truly understand. If someone could help me I would be very grateful. Obs: english is not my native language, sorry for any possible mistake.
Teachers these days just aren't given the time to explain. It's a shame, really.
I dont know what level of math your at but message me if you want and I can help explain stuff to you over email or something.
I'm sorry for what you're going through. I went through that too ... certainly in college ... and recently when I tried to figure out music theory, which I think I did, on perhaps my 8th try in the last 40 years I took a shot at it. I'm sure it took me 50 hours to understand it enough to 'see through it' so I could simplify it enough to see the underpinning.
But I'll be very honest with you ... I hope you're a bit obsessive so you can just plain figure it out yourself.
I think the greatest lesson from school is to strive to make it superfluous - just plainly accept that you'll simply have to start learning to enjoy being relentless.
I remember learning to write in college ... which for me means I taught myself how to write while in college. I was an engineering student and we were not allowed to take English ... yes really. There was one technical writing class but I don't know why I couldn't get it.
Regardless, the situation was that I needed to write, really file, a petition to the Faculty of the school to get permission to drop a course far later than usual.
Well this was a major big deal for me ... this was a core course. I am sure I spent over 120 hours writing that petition. Maybe it was two or three typed pages?
But being an obsessive kind of person I could just ... not ... let... it .. go ... and if you're just plain relentless about it you just plain get the answer you need.
if you are interested you can just ask questions mentioned in the video and go down the rabbit hole with the help of the internet
just letting you know that you are not alone. same shit here. one thing you can do is learn some proper english and then learn the rest of it on internet at places like khan academy
I had an instinctive habit of always asking "WHY??" Because of it, university became a cognitive burden for me, as I hated having more and more engineering math thrown at me for the sake of the syllabus. It got really bad; I felt like my mind was going to assassinate me if I didn't question everything. Have you ever had non-stop math/physics dreams, woken up in a sweat at 2 in the morning while your roommate sleeps soundly across the room, and had a genuine panic attack because the (probably) legitimate holes in classroom content logic and the "why?"'s won't stop pounding on your head. I got fatigued with the American educational system and dropped out. It sucks because I was a top student throughout my time there, but sometimes the promise of a degree isn't worth it. University education really messed with me in ways that I'm still dealing with 2 years later. I gave up a $60k a year full academic scholarship for peace of mind, and I mostly don't regret it. Engineering math is especially bad because you're given MODELS of physical systems and asked to do creative things with them, and provided rules of thumb for when they work and when they break down, and when we have to switch to alternate models. Just because something works doesn't mean it makes sense. True story. We live in a "practical" society where asking why is the hardest way to live and thrive. It's easier to take things as they are. Marcus Aurelius once said something to the effect of, "if you live your life according to someone else's conceptions in the hope that one day you will have the wealth to buy your freedom of action, you will never find freedom." If it means that much to you, you just need to start asking questions now. And when you're feeling particularly whimsical, maybe even following it up with a savory "what if?" These days I'm the lead founder at a yet-unnamed startup developing a machine-learning algorithm that correlates the dynamic states of 3D objects in an observed environment in real-time and feeds said models into a probabilistic physics engine that helps self-driving cars navigate the real world via stereoscopic depth perception (computer vision). This is different from industry practice where you just feed a neural net billions of training examples (of that one town in Arizona or whatever) and let the computer get better at driving. We want our correlation-MLA to require as little example data as possible while gaining insight into the coupled states of entities in the environment (via our in-development probabilistic-physics engine). School hasn't worked for me sadly; too many questions, not enough time to understand deeply. In a way, that's the whole premise of our learning model: it learns by extracting coupling patterns in data so the insight of the model is far deeper than a traditional ML model. Best wishes Eddie, & wonderful discussion! Greetings from the USA.
I find myself in the same boat every once in a while, for example, maths and asking my teacher specifically about certain aspects of a problem AFTER they have explained it to me and given me an answer, most of the time they just repeat what they said assuming that I didn't understand the explanation, when in reality I want to exactly figure out why it works that way, but eventually I give up and move on after realizing that they don't have full and perfect insight of what they are teaching but only memorized is certain ways. When I tackle maths (or any concept for a matter of fact) I want to know every possible perspective and a specific 360 view of it. Unfortunately many times I have been let down and just go with it the way it's been explained.
@@basil8474 Wow it was crazy to read your comment. I relate to that struggle so so sooo much in school. I like to think I am one of the smartest students in the room, but I simply just cannot understand something and remember it and use it in practice if I dont have a conceptual understanding of why it is that way. I have also asked my teachers WHY these things we learn are that way, only to realize they dont actually know, they just know how to teach it to the majority of students, and not the students like me.
If you want to understand why. Then you your own research. That isnt university's fault
Or probably you shouldn't enter engineering departments. They always do that, they never derive something like physicists do. I think you would do in university better if you enter the physics department.
@@yiumyoumsan6997 I am a physics major and I used to ask why so much and realized the derivations hurt my brain just as much as not knowing lol
7:12 - 7:25 You can also apply this to life:
I could never get that girl to fall for me. But what if I could?
I can never be successful in my career. But what if I could?
I could never invent something genius. But what if I could?
I'm not good at doing things with my hands. But what if I could?
You could also evolve:
I could never get that girl to fall for me: But why?
I can never be successful in my career. But Why?
I could never invent something genius. But Why?
I'm not good at doing things with my hands. Why?
Solve the why, and evolve
This was the problem i faced in School.
My Math teachers would just go on and write out theories and formulas on board, and expect us to memorize them and spit them out back on the test.
But, they never really explained us why a theory is the way it is, or why this formula actually works,
they failed to engage students into thinking deeply, and that's why many people hate math.
Because they don't know how to think deeply...
we can think by ourselves. teacher is just a human, not our slave to spoon-feed us all the time
@@second_second_ This. So much this. I've loved math for as long as I can remember but everyone around me has throughout all of my years of schooling just been blaming the teachers I've had for everything. "Oh no _I_ didn't fail that maths test, it was 'cause the teacher doesn't know shit" or "The teacher is feeding me lies and incorrect information", well how come some of us manage to ace the tests then you lazy fuck?
@@ThelolipopCreeper Your point?
@@ismailfaalih9559 I'd say my point is fairly clear, leading me to believe that your comment is an invite to further discussion and/or an argument, neither of which I am interested in partaking in on a Monday evening over a 5-month old comment. Whether this is the case or not, I really don't want to hear it, so I'll bid you a good day and hope you don't take too much offense. If you do however, I don't care.
@@ThelolipopCreeper You replied to @Second who said "teachers are also human" with "Don't blame the teachers you lazy fuck".
If you still didn't understand, then let me explain it. If you have already seen what you did wrong, then there's no point reading the rest.
Oh well, guess you didn't understand it?? Unless you knew what you did wrong and still decided to read.
Why am I thinking deeply about this video? What if I didn't?
cause its simple
if you didn't, you wouldn't have got to ask why.
lol nice one
@Connor Gaughan i think its because the whole point of this video is to prove no concept is beyond questioning, but rather than just applying it to the nature of his life, he reflects the initial reaction in the video's comments. If i was a bettin boy i'd probably say you're doing the same thing on a slightly more meta level, and given that its the case that you both are questioning without reason, then by questioning him really means youre also questioning yourself. So why did you ask him why he asked anything? Randomness, or maybe hoping to be the last quesitoner? Though it may not seem thought-provoking at first, the nature of his questioning lies behind not knowing how he could have enabled himself till someone else did it for him/her. How it wasn't his choice to even question the nature of this video till someone else made it for him/her. Possibly even hinting at the nature of determined fate vs free will. The possibility that if they never saw the video already made for them, they wouldn't be given the freedom to question in the present, where seemingly it already feels like they have control of their own thoughts. Maybe im over extracting, but i hope my attempt of any explanation was at least entertaining.
damn dude this is some serious mlg intellectual shit right here 10/10 IQ raised by 4/20 thumbs up
But my IQ reduced by 20 after I read this.
I smiled when he mentioned "string theory".
i shouted "YESSS"
😀
Farah KSP me too.... because it came to my mind first when he said 27 dimensions... I love physics😍
lmfao wikipedia warrior string theory tryhard that probably cant do anything past calc 2.
@@ronronn3148 what's wrong with being curious about string theory and not knowing math that great?
I'm certain I would have embraced maths as a child if I had Eddie Woo as my teacher! Wow thank you for these wonderfully clear and imaginative explanations.
0:59 - 1:00
Teacher: "Whats 1 + 1?"
Student: "3"
😂😂😂
mod(2)
@@frikiboss1239 Base 1.5 but transformed back into base 10.
Nine people couldn't think deeply
Why is he such a great teacher? What if every teacher was this amazing?
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Nikola Tesla: “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”
I had the same problem a lot of other people here seem to have had, too. That is, the way maths was taught was so clinical and 2D (formulae in chalk on a blackboard) that it had no relevance to real life, as it was taught.
In my case, it changed when I was lucky to encounter a brilliant tutor who showed me how to relate all that 2D clinical theory that had been crammed into my head (that I didn't really understand) to something I was passionate about - cars.
He asked me, are you interested in cars? As a 17yo lad, I said 'yes!'. He said, do you know that calculus is a way to measure the rate of change over time? I said, 'sort of'. He said, well it is, which means you can use calculus to work out how long it will take a care to accelerate from 0 to 100, or, the increasing fuel use on a curve as you press harder on the throttle, or, just what point in time a car part will wear out.
Well, that changed everything for me. It took maths from being just boring 2D concepts drawn on a chalkboard to useful 3d realities that I could now apply in the things I was interested in. That's how maths should be taught.
O even I had kind of same thoughts like you, but I didn't get anyone like you,..... I started thinking it's useless and lost interest.....
"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane" - Nikola Tesla
Me after this video:
What if...?
Math teacher:
No, u can't
This is the first time that I watched a mathematic video until the end .
Seems like a very intelligent teacher. These students are lucky and should make the most of it
It's 5:00 am. awake for 24 hours. 4 cups of bold espresso in. got an important essay in my final year. deadline is in 6 hours. only barely started it. and here i am watching how to make simple things harder.
pray for me guys!
Hey... How'd it go, man?
this really shows how much of a difference a teacher can make to a student's learning. i always hated math and never enjoyed it. I'm sure many people can even relate to crying because of math, trying to figure out a problem but just getting no correct answers. even when you figured the answer out you don't fully get it and understand it. math was always so frustrating.
it was not until my previous school year where i started doing well in math when i truly understood the concepts. i really wish i stumbled across this channel sooner, as most of the things he's explaining i have spent years just memorizing. if only i knew i could achieve much higher scores in math classes if i had just spent more time trying to understand how everything worked.
now i do not despise math as much as i used to- in fact, i am looking forward to my coming school year to see what new math lessons I'll be learning. I cannot believe i went from crying and hating on math to binging his videos explaining math at 1 o'clock in the morning for entertainment 😂
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” - Nikola Tesla
great quote
Where is it from any specific work of Tesla's ?
@@hortlockthelivingdead4676 I would assume his autobiography but it's been a while since I read it and can't say for sure.
@@hortlockthelivingdead4676 just checked the bookshelf, also possibly his "the problem of increasing human energy" essay.
@@SameBasicRiff thanks dude
has anyone ever let their younger siblings ask them questions and later on stealing that idea from them and turned it into a research paper?
No
wow that's a great idea! wonder how i'll get them to understand what i'm trying to talk about.. or get them to get interested
I
Best motivational teacher ever for digging on simple things to understand deeply. Thank you Sir......
Very few teachers focus on ingraining critical thinking among the students. Kudos!
As an aspiring math teacher, every one of this guy's videos tugs at my heart strings.
ok, overthinking has become something really different now.
how exactly right now ?
we need teachers like this, not the ones who be like this is your syllabus and you will get 2 questions from this unit blah blah
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the thing is teachers like him are usually PhD and only very less tend to teach high school students.
We need teachers that take the 2D chalkboard formulae and relate it to real world 3D applications so that kids can see the practical use of learning maths. Finding out you could use calculus to work out all kinds of stuff about racing car performance did it for me when I was 17.
This video, Wwoooowwww
9 minutes felt like 1 minute. This teacher is just fabulouuus😊
Watched one of his videos on trigonometry (introduction - unit circle) before hitting the class. Got there and was on Super Saiyan mode teaching my class 11 students 💯 thanks, Sensei Woo 🙏
Thank you Eddie. I can't remember how I found this, but I was mesmerised! I didn't do well at math in school, but now I realise it wasn't because I was stupid. It was a simple thing where my teacher didn't engage! I have learned a lot and found math interesting so many years after I learned to hate it. Thank You!!!
In all my school years when I asked why is something like that in math class I got the same answer "just because it is", I have literally no clue where maths came from and who did them, and no one encourage me to know; so I really thought math was senseless and kinda just passed the class without paying them attention. Now I literally love math and had become one of my passions because of people like you or vihart, so I wanted to thank you for helping me now a new part of myself and inspiring me to always ask why
Think deeply about simple things... after you have made enough money.
Think deeply.
Teacher: What’s 1+1
Student thinking deeply: 3!
you may mean 3 but I see that as 3factorial=6
I needed this guy back in high school. Better now than never. Thank you for sharing these lessons.
"27 if you're interested in string theory"
*you bet I am the moment you said that*
Isn't it 26 tho? (I'm not an expert on the subject)
Hi Vsauce, Micha...hmm Eddie here!
I am inspired by your teaching methods. You are amazing! Will you be my mentor?
no
He is already. He is posting his videos about maths on youtube. And yes, you have to solve the questions that arrive in your head somewhat alone, but it will be worth it, just stick with them.
I'm currently studying maths with the goal to become a "Gymnasium"-teacher (teaching kids between 10 and 19 years) and I really like the way you break down the topic to the very essence so your students can follow you while you also show your enthusiasm for maths which - I'm pretty sure - ignites your students desires to learn more about it. Keep it up!
This can apply to everyday life not just math. I find it useful to contemplate a lot of things that other people may not care about. Keeps me sane and busy when I’m bored.
Congratulations, Achievement Unlocked.
You Recieved 10 IQ points.
Here something to think deeply abt:
Every 60 seconds in Africa a Minute passes
But what if it didn't? The sci-fi response to that would be that there's a singularity somewhere between the questioner and Africa causing a distortion...etc.
But a minute passes where?
If you're closer to the sun, or a black hole, every 60 seconds in Africa a minute does not pass.
Ahah!
I will go kill myself now
So that´s -1 minute or +1 minute or both?
DEEP
I remember being introduced to the concept of infinity in grade school and how much thinking about it disturbed me. Have learned a lot of math since then but it still bothers me to this day.
watch my maths tricks.
Tuhk
I love how he rants about things not being possible and that you can't do them and then he goes like "𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓯 " with that smirk
That passion for teaching and mathematics is what every teacher needs :)
I like how he puts that emoji in the thumbnail
I see that the Feynman method is being applied by young teachers, which is lovely
This guy is magical. I was glued to the screen and voila! Before I knew it, the video was already over!
7:23 ***Vsauce music starts playing***
This is good. It is nice to watch your videos and be able to put my brain to work again. Thank you for that. (I'm from Europe)
Lucian Andrei why does the place that you come from matter? And btw I can bet that you are from Romania :))
I am from india and i found difficulty in understanding lectures but i think you are the best 👍
Its the very first and basic principle of philosophy. The WHY.
THIS IS GOLD....in fact it should be mandatory that this be presented & reminded first to students...all through school & college..
Did I just found out where all the asian kid watch math?
Dear Edie, you made me want to learn Maths (definitely will focus in real life), I wish every student have access to a teacher like you! Pradeep from Dubai.
can you do a video explaining how we know that pie isn't a finite number please?
I appreciate this philosophy a lot. (of course, the Mathematics too XD)
Thanks for sharing!!
Can we also consider the logarithm of negative numbers?
I was that "Why?"
I always got an answer to it as well.
Usually "SHUT UP!"
"In maths, you can always know"
_Kurt Godel has entered the chat_
Man i wish i could talk to you ask you all the questions that popped in my mind all the time
Eddie woo sir,
Mathematics is my toughest subject but after I saw your videos and your excitement for teaching 🤩 I just love it even though I am commerce student I like to watch your maths videos.
Teacher: what's 1+1
Student : 3
Teacher : legend
Student : ultra legend 👍👍👍🤟
This is why old generation people are more genius and smart than this generation 👍❤️
Every single math student should be given this speech right at the start of their career. I'm glad I found this, and I hope others find it too.
I wish I have such teacher in my dumb and duffer school
I'm watching your videos right now, and I'm honestly amazed at the ability you have to explain everything both efficiently and concisely. Thank you for teaching this and making it publicly available on youtube!
he was like @vsauce. No we don't have negative numbers in square root, that's nothing... We can't calculate anything. What if... we could...?
my man... you are a vsauce fan
No, Vsauce is a fan of him.
maybe , but he is more of a fan of vsauce then vsauce of him...
the "IF IF" and "WHAT IF" part is a cirect quote from michael
Rick and Morty fan
thisisaydansn - nah
Numberphile fan, i guess?
Me: I don't like math.
Eddie: I am going to start this man's whole career
The answers to every why questions are and will be philosophical...
I enjoy answering the why-chain using physics for as long as possible. :)
(Sometimes it takes a few steps through psychology and biology in order to get there)
Almost always XXXD
what if they are not always philos0phical?
all scientists are philosophers, look up what Ph.D. means
Egor Zvorykin Incorrect. Philosophy from PhD comes from the roots philia and sophia, meaning ‘love of’ and ‘wisdom’ respectively. So no, all scientists need not be philosophers, but they do share in the love of knowledge.
Don't silence the voice in your Head and keep asking"why?".....
"1 + 0.5 I can manage that, that is tow" hahaha lol
1:35 "whats the first word that comes to your mind ?"
me: oh shit
"What's the first word that comes to your mind?"
Triangle. No wait, right angle.
"Either five or Pythagoras. "
Oh, okay...
Actually 5 came to mind since 3 4 and 5 are pythagorean triplets
I, an electrical engineer with Master degree, looking for more videos in this channel at 1 o'clock am, just because you make me feel happy and interesting in all these simple but meaningful math problem.
good job! you are a great teacher, keep your awesome work!
This man is so fucking awesome!!!! Screw maths and philosophy teachers, we need more people like him in our education system
You have such a way with words. "Think deeply about simple things" describes a mindset for mathematics that I wasn't able to articulate until your video.
Dude. I really want you to be my teacher
Just seeing the title makes me happy that I have been a bit on the right track from the get-go. As long as I can remember, I've always had people say to me: "don't think so deep about it." and stuff like that.
I would like to mention that I've never had a math teacher as good as that at teaching :/ I mean he explains it to you with damn easy examples, not throwing a lot of formules on a table and just learn them like a parrot -.-"
I jouls because i haven't teacher like you
Definitely NOT trying to be inappropriate but you’re really handsome!
Hmm...
*I'm starting to doubt about SIMPLE's meaning*
Simple as in fundamental; taken for granted