How To Study Hard - Richard Feynman
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2023
- “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. - Richard Feynman
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As a wise man once said "Talent can get you far, but hard work can get you anywhere."
Yeah i would want to see that man find whether γ is rational or irrational or prove or disprove the Riemann hypothesis with "just hard work".
@@Ishar___X I know of someone that managed to solve mathematical problems that has stumped mathematicians for a long time without even knowing he did. The dude did it all with hard work from his childhood years of studying geometry. He didn’t have the talent or is a genius, but nonetheless, his a brilliant mind for his long journey in studying.
And if you’re curious, his name is George Dantzig.
Incorrect
Intelligence will always gets you farther than hard work. Hard work has minimal influence on success. Talent is the most influential factor
Correct, I just dislike people who are smart but don't have the right attitude towards everything.
I read in his biography that when he was a teenager he studied so hard that he was sick for days. I don't think ordinary people can study that hard.
@@sudheeshsingh6856if you’re not the top5 student, you should seek a more efficient studying method since it is easy to study less efficiently.
Some chinese people have heart attacks
@@birdbeakbeardneck3617 asians in general
Name of the biography Book please
@@LeChercheurDeVie Genius by James Gleick
Came for Feynman and got tricked into a podcast. Clearly I’m not smart.
Same. 😑
Atleast you are self aware =)
@@mr.ben-dover7249 Thanks, Officer Dover of the Comment Police.
This deceptive, duplicitous bait-and-switch is why people no longer trust scientists any more. Mistitling written and video data elements has evolved to a very high level at the same time citizen IQs are lowering. This is no coincidence. Dr. Fauci is prime example.
Seriously
Great advice: don't compare yourself with others, but rather with who you were some time ago. If you see others doing better than you, admire and learn from them. Then, strive to improve.
It is literally in the video
>admire and learn from them
This is difficult to actually carry out in the real world, especially since narcissism culture is pushed so hard these days. Almost everyone on some level is trapped in the loop of comparison, and when you're in it you don't even realize it's happening, but your actions are completely motivated by fear.
@@Blank-ds5oxthis was really insightful
I used to enjoy studying but not anymore, maybe stuff were just simple and now they got harder and I don't like harder
@@araobalate and that's where you get paid more, for learning and doing thre hard stuff
to study hard:
1. stop procrasitnating and actually study
i think it’s less about active studying as it is thinking about it ALL the time. active studying matters but when you love something you don’t stop studying when you close a textbook. i’d bet people like feynman never stop thinking about how the world works
Oh yeah, he says he does calculus when he is eating, driving and even when talking to his wife.
That’s legitimately the key. Johnny von neumann (of course he had a crazy amount of the genes that mark for intelligence) apparently never stopped trying to solve problems and think and start thinking about how to solve other problems
I'd say anyone who's studying/reaserching something that really pokes their interest would probably do the same or similar if not same. For example I in generally love biology chemistry and physics and when I stop studying I'd continue thinking about them in the background of my mind. Sometimes if I'm sitting with someone while thinking they'd be mad at me for "not being here" and not talking to them so yeah I think it's all about interest + the more you know the more information you have to use to think.
I know he didn’t ever stop because I never stop thinking about how the universe works. If I do it, then no doubt Feynman did
That's true of many artists and musicians also. I have a friend who's a classical composer. Sometimes when she's working on a new piece she'll forget to eat or sleep for a day or two.
To make an image of what he says, kids learn their first language by listening, talking, making mistakes and practicing without worrying about looking silly. How they do NOT learn is by sitting down and cramming grammar rules and aiming at perfect spelling on the first try. That's how you ''study hard'' and ''study smart''.
That's just wrong. I mean if you have to sound like a 4 year old you could have a go at it but grammar, active listening, learning from your past mistakes etc. are simply THE way to learn a language. Not to mention a child's world is small and a number of things you have to know is ridiculously limited which is alright for a child but not for an adult.
@@user-vz2fj4wq7d that would mean people before formal education didn’t learn their languages past the level of a 4 yo.. nonsense.
You don’t learn your first language in school, you learn it by trial and error.
That said, formal language training applied effectively utilizes the high intelligence, focus and experience of adults to learn languages in a more time efficient manner.
A childs brain and an adults brain are radically different when it come to learning
@@Moltenlavawell... I had the same mindset, but, I recently watched a interview where the invited was a neurologist, he said that both children like adults have the same brain plasticity.
@@Moltenlava yes, an adult can leverage more complex thinking to learn in more ways and much more efficiently.
That doesn’t change the fact that you need to use the language, speak it with other people and allow yourself to experience the uncomfortable process of trial and error to really become fluent.
No amount of flashcards and grammar study can replace real emersion in the language. All formal language study does is assist and speed up the process. But we still _learn_ the language the same way children do.
"What I cannot create, I don't understand" - Mr. Feynman. Feynman is not just a physicist, he's an artist.
We live in his mind when we explore free will as he saw it, he let us escape the Einstein process of God not playing dice with the universe. We have him to thank for this freedom of thought.
It's really something I needed to hear. I never worked hard in my life. To get my high school diploma, I never studied, but I got it. At university I dropped from Theoretial Physics as I didn't want to work and I knew I was about to fail as what I did in high shcool would not worked there. So I applied for my first programmer job and got it. 17 years later, I'm a software developer working for a big company. My coworkers all have phd's or master degree and I make a good amount of money. But I still have this dream to become an astrophysicist. So here I'm, going back to university to become what I wanted, ready to work hard to get it.
U will absolutely achieve your dream!!!
I know a guy who went back to get an astrophysics degree in his 30s after working as a network engineer.
@@debrachambers1304did he finish?
I'm at a similar roadblock. Kinda breezed through high school without putting in any actual effort, now stuck at college, trying to get through Computer Science, restarted (switched schools) 2 times now. Still not sure how to become adept at working hard.
I'm rooting for you mate!
"What I cannot create, I don't understand" - Mr. Feynman
"If you can even want something in the first place, you are probably qualified to achieve it."
Can't remember where I heard this, but one of the most profound sayings I've come across
true
Earl Nightingale
I want to steal the sun
@@TeaRex Reproduce enough and nurture a culture of education in your children and some of your progeny's progeny's progeny's progeny might eventually harvest the Sun or something. Basically an extension of yourself and your actions on Earth.
Or...you know..
Get a solar panel and use it to charge something. Or you could grow a bean plant near a window and then eat the beans.
wow!!Spot on.Believing along these lines will definitely help in getting rid of self-doubt.
I learned from one of my professors from my college that if you are losing interest in life or anything then you should just go deeper into it and look for the solutions and it will automatically brings interest in your life
thanks for sharing! idk if its depression or what, but the past few years now I have not been looking forward to the future. But now I have to change my mindset and look deeper for solutions
I wish I had your professor. Mine said "AI? Well that's pretty boring. You just throw more compute at it and magic happens. I want to understand what's going on."
00:06 Studying and hard work are key to understanding complex subjects
00:41 Obsession can lead to great accomplishments.
01:09 Changing the world requires hard work
01:35 Focus on how much you do rather than just working smart
01:55 Becoming an expert requires 10,000 hours of work
02:14 Spending 10,000 hours on deliberate effort makes you an expert.
02:39 Tracking progress is motivating and helps identify mistakes
02:59 Don't focus on past mistakes, keep working
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Thank you ❤
Highly motivating
Probably the most motivational video I've watched in a long time. They are all my mentors in a way - the reason why i'm dedicated to learning SWE is because of Systrom and my motivation to go into AI is because of Andrej and Lex. The notion of "I can learn anything" is because of Feynman. Great video!!
Oh wow I am also learning ai because of lex
Going into SWE is the right way to go for AI. Be able to build finished product.
beautiful people saying beauty doesn't matter, rich people saying money doesn't matter, now talented people saying talent doesn't matter
Irritating isn’t it?
@@MethenySco indeed. Let's say working hard is the key to talent. But mate,, working hard is the talent 😂
You have a good point, but is interesting think that people say that bc they know how is have that things. Anyway, we should wait to get thats achiviement that they have :)
Bcoz they know 😊
I wish he was right. I personnaly studied extremely hard to join french elite schools. People use to tell me that I am brilliant. But what I know deep inside from first hand experience is that they are people who understand things faster than me. These 2 qualities help tremendously when you compete with others in exams for instance. And although I did very well in academics, I was always frustrated when I had to work for the exact same result twice as hard as people who had these extraordinary abilities. And believe me, the same way they are people taller and stronger than most of us they are people like Feynman who are more intelligent than 99,99% of us. and whatever you do, you can not catch up with them. You just have to accept and watch them shine.
As someone considered to be "way faster" than my peers, I can tell you that's BS. Every single student that gets there has to work their absolute hardest. What is perceived as "talent" has more to do with the background or privileges a person might've had prior to a certain point. Do some research on Feynman's own early life and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
As someone (at least for some time) considered faster then my peers, I agree that hard work is part of it, but still there are people studying harder and achiving less, then others who didn't study at all.
This is probably one of the best life advice one can get. The hard part is not understanding this fact but having enough discipline and drive to study a certain subject.
*10000 hours is a lot! It's like spending 6 hours a day for 5 long years. That's the time scholars spend for doing a PhD.*
Thing about Feynman was he was an expert in getting down to the core principles of things.
the main things we should focus on are to protect our passion on something we are interested and keep improving by spending time on doing it with ACTION. Do not compare yourself with others, do not be little yourself, do not discouraged yourself. As long as you can keep doing it, you will unlock your maximum potential in your life.
Minimize your distraction and maximize your executions
Copium overdose
I don't know why they all try to make so-called hard work difficult. It's something you are passionate about, you love it, hence, you are able to do it more than others.
"It has been reported-including by Feynman himself-that he only obtained a score of 125 on a school IQ test. I suspect that this test emphasized verbal, as opposed to mathematical, ability. Feynman received the highest score in the country by a large margin on the notoriously difficult Putnam mathematics competition exam, although he joined the MIT team on short notice and did not prepare for the test."
^This. This is what people dont understand about iq. The number alone is meaningless without the defiitions attached to it by the particular test. Some kids score 220+ on a stanford binet lm than 135-140 on another
the source does not mention putnam btw. we don't know if it's the actual puntam exam
IQ is a speed test. Its advantageous but it doesn't mean its a prerequisite. Scientific research is more about creativity, thinking outside the box.
@@OneilFe cope
@@iweather-nr6kpYou can’t score 220. 190 is the absolute maximum.
The 4 day work week is for people who want to devote their own time to their own interests.
I have a lot to do, but it’s not necessarily what I’m being paid for.
Exactly. We can't all have jobs that inspire us to work at it 24/7, so we need time after the work is done to do the actually interesting things. I *used* to do physics and yeah I didn't mind working a lot because it was kind of fun and I didn't have a family, but it didn't pay the bills and didn't have any job security. Now I earn two or three times what I did as a scientist, and yeah it's more boring but I am not working a minute outside my 9-5 4 days a week, and overall life is better.
Don't prepare for an exam.
Prepare an exam.
You will learn a lot more that way.
What do you mean by that ?
My takeaway from this is that if I believe I'm talented in something, it's actually not that easy. It becomes depressing sometimes to learn that all that praise earned is just something I had no role in getting. So when I learn that this bottom-up approach to expertise is good, so must the role of top down be modest. I'll now tell myself that if I do something well, I've surely put in the work.
Being a master at something is 10% talent and 90% hard work
There is only half a truth here. Hard work is a necessary condition for brilliance, but it most certainly is not sufficient. The fundamental bottleneck encountered as your progress to higher and higher echelons of a technical field is the rate at which you learn - that is certainly not constant from person to person and is not solely a function of method or time investment. That is what talent really represents, the ability to learn fast. By learn, I mean assimilating the known ideas and being able to use them in the invention new ideas. The speed with which ideas can be generated and then fully considered is key in determining progress.
thats when neuroplasticity comes, you can train your brain to do so. So again whats ur point ?
@@suryanshu8692 His point is some people have better brains than others. Genetics are a factor.
then you could argue some people are more neuroplastic than others. also neuroplasticity cannot just make your brain "smarter." @@suryanshu8692
@@suryanshu8692 yeah why do mathematicians try for 150 plus years to prove Riemann's hypothesis ? You should just "train" your brain to be powerful enough and then solve the problem for them.
@@Ishar___X well,technically...yes
thank you so much for curating this Arjun! I've seen snippets of some of these convos in Lex Clips, but this is a brilliant compilation!
" I was an ordinary student"
Also him : solving integral calculus at the age of 12.
But don't people start doing differential and integral calculus at age 14 and 15 at school, in year 9 and 10?
actually, the school system has changed, nowadays, integrals are late-teached compared to how it was old.
@@edits_heimer not in India brother.. here a good number of children start learning basics of calculus as early from grade 8 or9 and all have to start ir by grade 11
@@Marsh46203 in icse that is
@@dsingsit my school is a cbse and a show off so they start early.. like for me it was 9th grade but by 11th im pretty sure all students i.e those who are in Science stream at least have to learn basics of calculus
Whenever I become clumsy I watch this to fuel my -self may be one day I give my example to other' to study Hard but if u like my comment it really motivate me to STUDY HARD.
-1st year student of IIT Bombay (ECE).
good luck.
do not rely on motivation;
be disciplined enough to do what you have to do specially when you don't want to
Bro doesn't know whom he's telling 😅
You know, tomorro i'm going to graduate. I always tend to belittle my work and efforts, but this video really put me in the mood. Even if I still don't feel like I've arrived, it doesn't mean I haven't come a long way. it won't be the final goal, but it still deserves to be celebrated. thanks for the inspiration
Why do you belittle your work and efforts?You should celebrate the small wins.
congratulations on your graduation, bud!
congratulations!
*tomorrow
This works when you're doing work that you love doing for yourself or a certain goal. It shouldn't be applied to normal jobs or careers, where the goal should be do a good amount and then come back to your life, family and friends. Not everybody needs to be a prodigy, a normal existence is nothing to be ashamed of. This hustle culture has become very toxic.
I will start a PhD soon in applied maths to continuum mechanics. This video motivates me a lot. I think I will watch it every day.
Good luck.
What is continuous mechanics? Or do you mean continuum mechanics?
@@Martin-iw1ll yes, of course it is continuum mechanics. English is not my native language ahah.
Can I ask somethng ? @@imstudying4120
Don't let this video fool you. Feynman was an extraordinary genius.
It's not just a video, it's Feynman himself talking about his own experience. But, of cuorse, I guess people should listen to your wiser opinion since you know better than himself about his own mind.
There are two kinds of geniuses, the “ordinary” and the “magicians.” An ordinary genius is a fellow that you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what they have done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians. They are, to use mathematical jargon, in the orthogonal complement of where we are and the working of their minds is for all intents and purposes incomprehensible. Even after we understand what they have done, the process by which they have done it is completely dark. They seldom, if ever, have students because they cannot be emulated and it must be terribly frustrating for a brilliant young mind to cope with the mysterious ways in which the magician’s mind works. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest caliber.
-Mark Kac, quoted by James Gleick in Genius@@keizan5132
I believe Einstein was a maverick thinker who throughout his education bucked the system and went after what he thought was important to learn and know. I'd include this -- whatever it's called --too.
he was a THIEF. a great intellectual , mathematical and patent THIEF from tel aviv
Yes, but that very frequently doesn't work. He got very, very lucky: a certain pet philosophical idea of his ended up being the key. It never happened again for him. It is much more repeatable to work with the community, not against it.
maverick
@@geometerfpv2804 He actually two ideas in. And in a single year.
What Einstein did isn't really a principle we can all follow. He also tried to stay within the standard academic track, not reject it, but the system rejected him because of anti Jewish sentiment. Were he not Jewish he likely never would have ended up in a clerks office, day dreaming his ground breaking ideas about time and space.
'hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.'
3 minute video, 30 seconds of Richard Feynman.
I needed to hear this. I've been fighting myself for years. Logic vs emotions. I'm normally very emotional (inside not necessarily expressive). Yet, i've been studying electrical and electronics for a LONG TIME. Always questioning.. "do others GET this stuff?" Yes, they do.. but only after that threshold of experience, training and education, of "AHA". Some may never reach that due to lack of time and or interest. The more you put into it, the more you get out of it. No matter the field. You are human, ANYTHING you want to learn is within reach. Literally, with Tube here.
To excel in any field you need to work smart and hard. This is what I gathered from this video
Upto 10000hrs
Feynman is not just a physicist, he's an artist
Great
practicing, reading, study work, thinking, mathematics and timeline
I wish this video was longer, very well made!! Loved the advice at 2:24, I constantly compare myself to others, especially people I used to be in classes with in college, seeing them with all these great jobs while I currently dont. But I am only going to compare myself to myself from last year, last 6 months, last month from now on
damn Shawn found you here( from the BN stuff)
this is an excellent montage of advice. thanks for putting it together
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Don’t think just by watching these videos you are doing something productive . You have to put all that effort they say in practice so start doing . Best day to start was yesterday next best day to start is today.
one word :
INTERESTED.
Thank you.
4 day work weeks are the greatest known to man
Wow you hit jackpot with this vid..! Good work my man
Κάθε φορά που το ακούω, δάκρυα γεμίζουν τα μάτια μου...μαθαίνεις και βλέπεις, όταν εκπαιδευτείς να είσαι μόνος και χωρίς κοινό. Σεβασμός στον μεγάλο Πέρελμαν και τον Èrdos...
this motivated me for my upcoming physics and computer science exams, thank you
At age 6, a very good friend of mine was able to resolve x-y 2 factors equations, that you normally learn at age 14. I think talent exist. However I think talent without work is just capabilities...
I did that at 8. No special talent at all, I had an uncle who studied engineering and taught me. It's all about having contact with it at an early age, "the strength of the habltude"
And, of cuorse, about having the passion to comtinue on that path.
The last person talking who I don't know is such a beautiful speaker. His words are so clear just like Feynman.
this man changed the field of sciences for ever he made science avilable to all
Work 4 days per week for the company but 7 days per week for yourself
The growth vs fixed mindset
everyone here other than you, found excuses real fucken quick, real fucken quick.
It's undeniable that hard work is required for excellency, but that doesn't change the fact that almost no one of us has what it takes to do what Feynman did.
Why put Richard Feynman in the title, if you are including all others. They are brilliant folks too, but don't use Feynman's name on the video. You must be a computer scientist to put Carmack, and Karpathy. It's all good. Good video anyhow. :)
Seems to be a big Lex Fridman fan :D
Interesting stuff, but some of it is rubbish. The 10,000 hour idea was created by K. Anders Ericsson studying violinists. It doesn't apply to other fields. Also the 10,000 hours requires "deliberate practice", not just 10.000 hours, as stated by one of the speakers.
Plus worthy of note is the N.Y. Times best seller "Moon Walking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer. Foer worked with the help of Ericsson to become the U.S. memory champion, in less than a year. He worked about half an hour a day. So in less than 200 hours he became a world class expert. Unfortunately it didn't occur to Foer that he had shown the 10,000 hour rule is rubbish.
There is such a thing as muscle memory, or even, the equivalent such memory for mental learning. And this is a passive sort of practice that goes on even if you aren’t actively performing a task. It is impacted by, as you say, “deliberate practice,” as your mind is formulating and integrating what you have done into natural habit. So this would validate the 10,000 hour idea, but the 10,000 idea is really generalized and is really only meant to serve as a rough marker of how long it will take from the onset of learning a skill to the mastering of it.
@@NutjobChuckin this other Hand it is proven, that you need to Take Breaks. Because your brain does stuff while you are not learning. There isnt Just studying hard, but also studying smart.
@@julianhernandez3192
It isn't just his opinion. He published data on violinists why supported the claim and thought it extended to other fields.
Bro don't miss you have life you have goal intiatid destined from the first day you start thinking maturely that need to be achieved spending 10k for your dream is likely year and half from deeply work is nothing from what I belive
@@echahedhamdi
Failed chatbot.
Hard Work brings success and satisfaction in life❤🙏
Not without intelligence. If low IQ and work requires intellectual firepower then no hard work in the world will matter
This is an excellent motivation for anyone who gets more confident to do better in life
In my current experience and understanding, I cannot agree more with Mr.Feynman
A good message doesn’t always need music..
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
Terence Tao and Grigori Perelman are great examples of living breathing "miracle people". Ofc almost everyone can achieve mundane greatness with a lot of hard work. However 99.999999999% of the population of earth no matter how hard they work even if they had 10 lifetimes instead of one would still not be able to even come remotely close to solving a millennium problem.
That makes around 8 ppl who can
@@samuelwaller7013 yeah this means massive success. 8 millennium problems solved in the next 100 or so years. I would consider that very optimistic.
Thankyou Dr. Feynman.
I really needed this video right now. Thank you
The Fynmen techique is one of the most underscored methods in rapid skill aqusition and unlearning or altralearning ever.
Some people are Mozart…some are feiman , some Newton , some Einstein and some are NOT ..
"Most" are NOT
@@thecritiquer5976They don't have to be, everyone has an individual genius within them, a HUGE untapped potential some realise it to some extent, most do not.
@@nexuscross3233 Exactly, the average human being’s brain capacity is larger than any super computer ever made, and by a LOT, to the point of petabytes
@@Mechanicaa Human memory, in fact is so vast, there really isn't a way to measure it. I had researched this some time ago and found it very interesting. The best conclusion I found was that the human limit of memory is equivalent to living more than 3 centuries. No wonder people with perfect memory exist, they are proof, although genetic outliers.
Newton, Mozart and Einstein you mention... well, there has to be a higher league... a natural ability... like Usain Bolt at running(no matter how hard I practice, I can't run like him)... otherwise human race and even its progress will seem so utterly dull!! They hit orbits we can't, but we replicate as much as we can to fill in the gap... and thats how we move forward, isn't it?
Excellent video! Really motivating!
Thank God for podcasts
I think the issue becomes that if you grow up from a financial disadvantage it will put you behind others in terms of probability of success.
Imagine having to choose between working or going to school? I don't know about you but I cannot study on an empty study as much as I have tried lol.
The point I am making is you are more likely to succeed if you have a stabilized upbringing with at least one parent who is working so you can be provided with basic things and kind of like Maslow's hierarchy - You will only begin to be able to achieve more once your basic needs are being met, you can begin to focus intently on other areas of personal development.
For example, I missed a lot of school when I was younger due to a bad home situation and then had to work from my teens in an almost full-time capacity to help pay off debts that my mother had, so of course I dreamed about wanting to go and study, and go to university. But it wasn't until I was 30 that I finally got the financial opportunity to, and now even after qualifying, I now get discriminated against by recruiters due to being 35 yrs old and only just qualifying in my profession!
Such as life right?
The guy who looks down upon the idea of a 4 day work week probably never has heard of the idea of "work-life balance". IF you are blessed enough for your job to be what is also your passion in life, then you can pour all your time into it. The majority of people are not as blessed. Not everyone can be a scientist. There are a lot of menial and monotonous jobs that need to be done so society doesn't collapse. It's quite arrogant, assuming and also ignorant to put those jobs on the same level as what he gets to do.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
I needed this
How to be born a genius
the thing about the 4 day work week is not about accomplishing things, it's about retaining people to do work that's not as interesting, by people not obsessed with it. Try forcing a 4 day work week on someone that anyways thinks physics everyday. You'll work a little bit of physics 7 days a week, probably more than a little bit too.
Exactly! I think that guy had some sort of disconnect with the situation. Like I don’t know what his point was. Like, okay so you can’t get enough of what you specifically want done in a 7 day work week, so are you saying that everyone should be working as much as possible? No matter who they work for or what they do? Like mentally that’s not possible.
Yes for a supposed smart person that was a pretty dumb thing for that guy to say.
this is so comforting 💓
Thanks for making this video
Bravo 👍
In my personal experience thats not always true. Sure, hard work often pays of, but there are people who need to study more and some who need to do it less and some not at all.
I study physics myself and am very passionate about it and like to work hard, but there are a lot of people who just have some kind of deeper understanding from the beginning on. Of course they also study hard, but when I study hard I get to the point where they startet from and they get to a completely different point.
I mean I'm still good enough to get a degree, understand a lot of things and be happy with that, but I know it wouldn't make sense to become like an theoretical physicist. Cause I know, I would never stand a chance against the real pros and would probably be sad in the end.
What I wanna say: do something where hard work really pays of
I am a physics student too and being in college level academia has given me a rude awakening. I used to believe in the hard work mythology until I met students in physics who naturally grasped almost any math/physics concept they came across that may take me a whole semester to even begin to wrap my head around. After getting my degree I am quitting physics too. My brain is not built for that stuff.
Imo the most facinating scientist. He exhaled passion!!! And his works 🤯
Unwavering passion defys all odds ❤
@ 1:25 "but when I read about companies going to 4 day week work, I chuckle, I can't get enough done with a 7 day week"
This guy is probably an entrepreneur. If he was an employee, he'd have been fired for not doing enough in a 7 day work week. I wonder what he does that even a 7 day work week is short for him.
In today's job market, employees are replaceable, if not with another employee, with computers, machinery, etc. With a 4 day work week, you'll have time to upskill yourself so you don't become irrelevant.
Me studying on how to study instead of studying 😢
Richard - one of my heros - is full of it here.
This video inspired me a lot.
Feynman was not "ordinary". Considering the high quality education he got from MIT and Princeton, his IQ and his intellectual level, he was ahead of like 99.99% of the people. But people want to see an "ordinary" man achieving great things so that they want to believe that they can do the same... I think they should look at subjects like "easy ways to make money fast" instead of quantum physics for that matter.
I think there is some context missing when he says that. It sounds like he is responding to a question about whether you need a special brain or genius to understand quantum mechanics. Which no, you don't, you just have to study hard. But yeah to be Feynman and see what no one else sees, invent quantum electrodynamics and reinvent how everyone does calculations in quantum field theory and win a Nobel Prize, yeah that's a bit more than just studying hard.
@@ninjafruitchilled It's not like he just did that, he proposed many failed theories before landing on the one that, so far, has held up.
This whole "hard work" mantra that 'muricans preach...it is quite laughable. There is ZERO correlation between "hard work" (and who's defining that, btw) and success. If you are interested in something, it isn't work and you will naturally devote more time to it than the "average" person. Some are more gifted than others in areas, as well. As for the 4-day workweek, it's brilliant in today's world. So is working from home for many professions. The part by Richard Feynman I totally agree with.
He is my favorite scientist, i think.
That was damn amazing!!.. Minus the loud music ofcourse :)
There is talent. There is this thing called cognitive ability which is mostly determined by genetics. No, Mr. Feynman, some people just can't do it
you a random bozo , you think you're right against feynman who was the smartest man during one point of human history?
That's speculative
Pls, is it Richard Heyman? Or a different one
There's absolutely no evidence of such claim nor it even seems to be an educated guess given what we know until today.
@@keizan5132if you believe innate cognitive ability is a myth you're probably dumb yourself.
This video is titled as a video regarding Richard Feynman. Why was I watching some other unknowns rabble on about 10,000 hours.. 10k hours is a myth.
very good compilation
Thank you very much it was helpful
But let's face it there are people better suited for this stuff. I have a colleague at work that reads stuff and knows it thereafter like he never did anything else.
Remember the bit about not comparing yourself to others?
There's nothing wrong with not being this way. There's nothing wrong with living an ordinary life. The productivity cult of modern life is a big driver of anxiety and depression.
@@chandlerlewis3309 I salute this comment.
Sure you can learn stuff, you might even get to a good level of understanding but you will never reach the professional level I reckon.
Mr. Feynamnn would have probably never made it to the olympics in any sport no matter how hard he trained.
That's my point.
Enjoy the learning experience of course.
Doing something wrong is actually not a waste of time, for it helps you figure out how to do it right. The waste of time, I think, is when you do nothing about it.😊
I think the caveat is you have to find something you love that you are willing to put that type of hard work in. I'm 56 and have never found something I love that much that I would put that much time into.
True,The self Sacrifice and Courage to Push onward .
Forward to a better Tomorrow Fellow mathematicians
"There's no talent."
A genius not wanting to admit his genetic gift? Classic.
It isn't genetic. It's about the effort you want to put into something, You must start from something that you like, and if you really like it, you will study, improve day by day without being tired about it. Unfortunately, many people don't know what they like and if they like something, they won't put all the effort in there, because there could be other things that can be in the middle. The point is that many people think that things happens like magic, but the reality is much harder. So, if you really do want something, you can achieve it. Of course, Mathematics and Physics are difficult, but it isn't impossible. These people become very obsessive with this stuff, so that's why then invent things and people call them "geniuses", because only 1% or less of the population put all this time, energies and intelligence in these kind of stuff.
@@alessandrocapialbi2446you right
I agree with you a hundred percent @alessandro..
No hard work needed. Just to understand. What skills you mastered now, is all because you understand it.😊
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
motivating and useful
Great advice