The two words that got me my PhD
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2018
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This video is entirely creditable to my dad, who is cool with me stealing his intellectual property (really). It's rather pretentious to say this is a philosophy, this is more like a motto that I refer to when making decisions about work. I hope it's useful to you guys at any rate.
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I love this! I'm frustrated by people who say life is all luck or all hard work. This is the right approach.
Maybe I’m just lucky? I dunno, I do push my luck on too many occasions but I’ve scraped by just by simply going in blind and hoping for the best...
Kind of like light actually.
Amazing growth mindset, Simon. Hard work plus humility - no guarantee of success, but giving yourself the best chance of success. Great advice here.
I love you, Socratica!
The harder you work the luckier you become.
lol you simplified his 10 min video into 8 words
Some people just do have dumb luck tho. If you take a large enough population, like billions of people, then there are going to be outliers. Some people will be lucky and some unlucky.
Yeah, some poor people are bound to have horrible lives, there isn't anything they could do to make them better. It's not like if they worked harder to increase it they would have any better of a _chance_ to have a better life or anything.
Some people are going to have really bad luck in their lives, we get it. The point is that It's up to us to increase our chances of having good luck. Even those people out there with horrible 'luck', still have the ability to increase it by doing the work necessary to achieve it.
There are limits to the amount of luck you can get in the first place. Let's say you're a sweatshop worker in Zhengzhou. No amount of work is going to meaningfully increase your chance of getting out of the shitty situation you started in.
In addition, this type of thinking often results in people thinking of people who live in poverty as lazy, which is only a small step away from thinking they deserve to live in poverty.
That is a Quote from Gary Player.
Your dad looks and acts like the wisest man in the world. I mean this as a compliment, but since I'm bad with words I may have messed up the compliment.
How on earth would that sound bad, I'd assume the "acts" part or something?
@@TheCartWizard ya
His dad is massively offended even 3 years later.
This reminds me of a quote by Louis Pasteur. "Fortune favors the prepared mind". And I completely agree with you, Simon. Now I should probably go back to work. I've been procrastrinating all day now.
So true 🙌🙌
Tibees i love your videos
Hi Tibees, its great you watch Simon's vids, you are a famous youtuber!!
Love all your videos Toby!
Love from India ❤️❤️❤️❤️
All I could think at 1:01 was “holy shit he met physics girl “ lol priorities
Mobeen Kamran you mean "holy shit physics girl met Simon Clarke " ?
Same!
I know right 😂😂😂
Your dad seems like such a lovely person
"Luck favors the prepared mind"
Cheese and wine ! Fuck Yes !
If I’m not wrong, this quote belongs to Blaise Pascal.
I dont think you needed to blur the words for the clickbait, nobody knows what proactive serendipity means😅
To quote everyone's favourite auror, CONSTANT VIGILANCE
Thanks, you just saved me ten minutes. I'm guessing it means "if you work hard, good luck will benefit you more and bad luck will affect you less"
@@SimonClark AHHHHHH
Is it weird I noticed PhysicsGirl first, before I did Tom Hanks? 😅
No, it's not
Not as me not knowing who Tom Hanks is, I presume
Same!
Same😂
Welcome to the club
You have really inspired me with all your videos Simon! Please keep this great content coming.
Loved listening to this way of thinking, definitely a big mindset boost!
Love you my brother! This video is relevant for anyone even if one isn't preparing for any exam! Hard work tends to pay off in one way or another in my experience.
i have an english gcse tomorrow, and this came at perfect timing. i know a lot of your viewers are doing degrees lol and a gcse may seem small, but i've been doing quite a bit of revision and hopefully it'll go well. thank you for this advice! :)
Cerys Cooper You’re sitting at a good time, grade boundaries are low while teachers still don’t know what’s going on with the syllabus. Good luck
at 1:00 my first thought wasn't "Oh my god it's tom hanks" it was "Can't believe simon met physics girl"
I needed this video so much after not being so lucky in an exam. Thank you!
Great vid. Excellent content and presentation. I am hooked. I subscribed. Thanks from Canada.
Loved this video, thanks Simon!
For me what's more inspiring than "Dr. Simon" (the title) is the the willingness and effort and hardwork that Dr. Simon puts in!!! It's really inspiring. Your passion not just about physics or RUclips videos but your excitement and love to work! Wait for videos more than my favourite shows.
I am very very very new to the family but a very very very proud subscriber!
There is a lot in this video that people can draw inspiration and peace of mind from. Personally, i really appreciated the comments on having a mental breakdown and not letting setbacks or failures stop you from pushing forward. I have, unfortunately, been a victim of both this year (2nd year physics undergrad), with the mental breakdown stemming from being not achieving what i wanted and then it setting me back further because I had no motivation to get up after being pushed down. So, it is really nice to hear that even though these issues arise it's not the end of the world. I mean, you've been through it all, you seem to be living an enjoyable life and now I'm taking inspiration from it all.
Thank you for these videos, and never stop doing what you do.
Hey Simon, I love the videos you make. Been watching since my first year of university, and I can hands- down say your videos have been uplifting and very inspirational throughout my Astrophysics course. Cut to 4 years later and I've just recently graduated with a 2:1 w/ honours. All I can say is that this video and the idea of increased probability of luck through putting in effort, definitely hits home. I thoroughly like this approach! Keep up the great work dude!
Really cool concept. Never thought about it that way, but certainly true.
Thank you for this video, halfway through my 3rd year finals and this video has really helped me!
Really liked the sentiment of this video and agree so much with what you've said. It was making myself known as competent/enthusiastic to my undergrad project supervisor that for sure helped me get my PhD place.
Thanks you Simon for sharing this. At this moment it is the most helpful video. Because it gave me the solution of the problem that I'm facing right now. Thanks a lot.
I have been so stressed lately and your video just made my day. Thanks.
Thanks man. I have a lot of failure my education, but I'm LOVE your wise counsel. It made my mind click and find understanding. I have an academic detour, but I believe things will work out. Again thanks.
God I love this, I don't know how I missed it when it was first uploaded!
Great video Simon! Really good advice too
I NEEDED THIS!!
Much better title Simon fits in with the RUclips algorithm perfectly
I'm currently doing a master's and hoping to do a PhD. But I'm very aware I'm unlikely to get a PhD position, and I start to wonder why I'm bothering doing a master's at all. But after watching this, I now trust that - even if I don't get a PhD placement - putting the effort in now will pay off in one way or another. Thanks for calming down an over-stressing student!!
Welcome back Simon!:) Watching this video one month after my exams, all the while being unemployed, did make me feel better :)
oh my god, I love you, from your really stellar book recommendations like "Mindset" to this... top quality content Simon, lots of love, a long time subscriber from Nepal
That book is great!!
This actually motivated me to get up and start working for my SAT math 2, thank you so much 💕
Totally love this video!
Thank you Dr Simon Clark! I really liked this information you shared with us! 😊😊😊. Michael
Just wanna say, this video is incredible, very inspiring and I think I might try and use those two words from now on, thank yourself and your dad for me haha :D
so inspiring , Thank you so much
Thanks simon really needed that right now
What a fantastic life philosophy, thanks Simon. I wish I had learnt this sooner!
I was taught this by my dad as well! He phrases it as "Luck happens to the well-prepared", but it is the same sentiment and has helped me put myself in so many "lucky" situations over the years!
I think I found your channel at a very transformational time in my PhD program. A time where I'm questioning how things will be after and who I will be after. Thanks for the content! Cheers.
this is such a motivational video - love it!!
Brilliant video. A very interesting philosophy which I will try to harness over the next three weeks ;)
You need to start a podcast. It would be awesome! You have very interesting topics and great knowledge.
He has a podcast already! It's called the wikicast :)
Can your dad get his own channel please?
😂. Cool suggestion fam
I second that.
Woahhhhhh mindblowing insight!
Love this, so true!!!
What a great concept!! I love the way you explained it! Thanks for the great content!!
P.S: waiting for my merch to arrive❤️
T shirts should be with me any day now, and they'll be shipped ASAP after that!
When Simon uploads a video all revision ceases!
Thank you! I am going to write down some of the things you said and put it in my diary !
This is a great video!
amazing advice thank you
I've first watched this video a few years back and honestly it helped me quite a lot in my journey through uni, I really think this is the best way to look at things.
Still, next week I have my last exam and I am utterly terrified at failing it, so I am leaving this comment as a note for my future self.
Now back to work
thank you simon
your dad is so lovely :)
This is the best video I've seen on personal advice.
Thanks.... your vid touch’s on so much about life in general.
This is actually very useful to hear! I've written it on a post-it. Exams in january, eeek!
Best of luck!
I love your personality.❤
Omg this is concept that everyone needs to know!!!
Spot on!!
Lucky to have a really caring and wise Dad.
But to do calculate is three words?
Thanks a lot man
I very much agree with you here, and have a similar story of my summers of Proactive Serendipity (if you care to read! ^^ :
I started my Physics BSc with ACC a levels, but had made my luck and gotten my university placement, by doing a research project at the university a summer before, and the supervisor for that project was one of the people in charge of admissions to the course.
So I got in, worked my arse off, moved from BSc to MPhys as my grades climbed and climbed, and just last autumn, after spending my summer learning C++ in my free time, as I thought it was a valuable skill, a PhD opportunity came up for exactly the kind of field I wanted, extremely competetive, but required strong coding. Well, I'd just spent 3months doing exactly that day in, day out, and after being whittled down to the last 2, and 6 hours of interview later, I got the offer.
Those productive summer were my Proactive Serendipity summers
Now, with my final exam tomorrow, I don't even have to pass it to achieve my dreams of starting a PhD
So wish me luck!
(EXTRA: weirdly enough, the two exams I'd probably been the most confident with, and put the most work into during my degree, Id also gotten the least lucky with, which meant I would have bombed them if not for the hard work I'd put in, so lucky, maybe?)
Anyway, great video, keep it up!
Thanks a lot for all the food for thought you post. You might just be a career savior.
Great concept
hah, a notification for your video about working hard interrupting me studying physics, ironic.
Good video Simon!
this was
'Fortune favors the prepared mind.'
And u got to meet physics girl!!!
Couldn't agree more!
Good video! Liked how you associate 'luck' with 'hard work'.
A very positive (and factual!) message.
This is how I started working for a certain organization dedicated to space exploration that I've dreamed of working for since childhood but, in my adulthood, had almost given up on, until proactive serendipty stepped in.
I didn’t plan to apply when I browsed their jobs site. And my post-college career was never directed specifically at them (because it always seemed so unattainable). But I pursued a career in a somewhat adjacent field and worked hard at it, knowing that a lot of places would need people like me. As it turned out, many years later, one of those places was my dream job. :)
bless you
Why didn't I get this in my subscription box till now? Great job youtube...
Man, this video basically describes my life!! Some people think I'm crazy for doing so many things, but what you said is pretty much what happens to people like us!
This blows my mind
I just learned something new and useful in a month :D
what a dad to have
Bless you. You boost my PhD journey.
"You might open the paper and only find questions in areas you're weak at" ... story of my 4th year atmos exam haha
Thank you
You're amazing
That is a good phrase! New favourite words!
Woah woah woah, how can one be proactively serendipitous? Looking forward to you explain this my friend because serendipity is MY FAVORITE WORD
luck is when preparation meets opportunity
That sponsor transition was so good i almost got mad.
I like your dad :) He is really like a dad ( sitting on the rocking chair and reading news paper ;) )
It's like all the people who work tirelessly for decades to become an overnight success.
Proactive serendipity, brilliant :)
Okay I think I am gonna subscribe to you because I am actually thinking about getting a PhD and I find your videos very insightful and that is not because you have a british accent lol.
Your dads philosophy is a reworded version of my own. Quicker you learn it, and live by it, the better your life will be.
Fantastic video Simon! While reading a bit about "serendipity" on the internet, I found that there's a dinousaur named after this principle: The Serendipaceratops! It's named that way because the guys that discovered it only found its genus by coincidence - serendipity! How cool is that! :)
Damnit thought this was a secret pass to a PhD. Kidding, great video of course.
"proactive serendipity" I think its changing my life too... Its not same as "Luck is preparation meeting the opportunity" or "Fortune favors prepared mind", both these are optimistic statements that hides probability of failure. Proactive serendipity nicely encapsulates probability of failure without discouraging once preparation.. Its delicately optimistic...