It's Okay To Screw Up Sometimes, We Hope
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- We're all human, and therefore occasionally make small errors. Sometimes these can have slightly bigger consequences. Here's why last week's video was a filler video.
MATT: / unnamedculprit | TOM: / tomscottgo
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We’re both aware there’s a glitch in the shot of the robin at the start. Given the video title, we decided to leave it! - Tom
Matt and Tom - No problem on the glitches. They happen. Suggestions:
1) CHECKLISTS - If you're finding yourself making a lot of little, annoying mistakes, it might be time to just type the whole process out as a checklist, and get into the habit of following that thing religiously. AND THERE IS NO SHAME IN WRITING OUT AND USING A CHECKLIST! Virtually every commercial and military pilot has four checklists in their cockpit they follow (Startup, takeoff, landing, and shutdown). Some planes (like the old Corsair F4U fighter from WW2) have the checklists as a part of the cockpit.
2) MISTAKES - You're going to make them. Everybody does, and Matt is correct. You need to say, "Well, that happened and there is nothing I can do about it. Onto the next thing." I heard somewhere (and this may be anecdotal and not factual) that people have an error rate of about 3 to 5 percent. With that said, (and built in limits on time travel, thanks to String Theory's description of the temporal dimension) you can't go back to fix them. You can only move forwards in time and work with what's coming up.
Also there's a robin behind the bench (right hand side) through most of the middle of the video. I like to think it's the same robin as from the start :)
Patrick Daly - The robin was patiently waiting to use the bench-loo.
why does the tree look weird on the top left?
It took me a while, but its lower half is behind a fence
Number of times Tom predicts he will be distracted by robin: 1
Number of times Tom actually was distracted by robin (apart from the prediction): 0
Number of times Tom predicts he will be distracted by jogger: 1
Number of times Tom actually was distracted by jogger (apart from the prediction): 2
Number of times Tom predicts he will be distracted by Matt's devastatingly perverted and yet oddly captivating smile: 0
Number of times Tom actually was distracted by Matt's devastatingly perverted and yet oddly captivating smile: 1
Number of professional presenters making competent, polished, well-edited videos about important things: 0
Number of hours spent watching this nonsense: VERY MANY INDEED.
Number of hours spent watching this nonsense: ALL OF THEM
words can't describe how much i love this comment
Journalism
best comment :)
🎶There's a hole in this bench🎶
Need to come up with a full music video for that!
I was so resigned to the obvious response to this old comment that it was mildly disconcerting not to see it.
As such... *Ahem...*
We Flew A Kite In A Public Place album when??
🎼we flew a kite in a public place🎼
lmao remember when matt said we would never hear him sing?
yeah, me neither.
Dear Liza, dear Liza
"He's been TWAT past twice" - now that is a Freudian Slip if I've ever heard one! Haha
"...that was not a fake double take, by the way, I did not expect that face," from That Picture, from That Video, and if you have been affected by That Face from That Video please call the number on screen now.
Rowan we'll never let that die
rosemary it must live forever!
It just occurred to me how different American robins are from English robins, which until now I’ve only ever seen in the illlustrated Peter Rabbit I had as a kid.
Yours are small and compact and gray and yellow-orange and so cute the word “borb” must have been coined specifically for them.
Ours are half again as long, black and red-orange with eyes that look like holes in the universe, sleek and fierce like “my uncle is a falcon and if you don’t watch out I’ll send him after you.”
You're not wrong in the least. American robins are jerks, too. (Had a few swoop me when I went out to the store the other day.)
English robins are lovely wee things. Whenever my mum's out working in her garden there's one that comes and bobs next to her, waiting for any worms that get dug up 😍
I love your description. I'm American, and I think most Americans would like to have their robins/themselves described like that.
Robins are known to be friendly towards gardeners, following them around like Katie described.
It's amazing how birds come to recognize you over time if you're working in the garden; I've seen other species of bird wait to watch how the robins react, only coming down from the trees after the robins have come up to you.
Yes, American Robin is a Thrush. Nearly its entire underside a bright orange-red. European Robin is a Flycatcher, though it was once classified as a thrush. I suspect thrush family was split at some point into True Thrush and Old World flycatcher
It's okay to screw up sometimes...
Unless you're a skydiver.
I hope all a sky-diver's screw-ups happen within a safe distance of the ground (like in a vertical wind tunnel), and a heart surgeon's all happen while practicing and not during real surgeries.
Interestingly it's necessary to screw up all the time if you're a screwdriver.
Skydiver-❌
Screwdriver-✔
I think the “barrel scraping” comments were mostly just jokes. We know you guys always put out quality content
Harry Todhunter
Said comments were also about ideas, more than about quality.
Besides, it was only “less good” compared to their other videos, not compared to UA-cam videos in general.
"Don't Shoot for the Moon and Miss"
"It's OK To Screw Up Sometimes"
Sounds good...
Fail fast, make small mistakes so you can learn from them without losing much.
At some point, you guys should get an actual barrel and scrape the inside of it with various implements.
If you have one with crap video, and one with crap audio, why not put the good video and audio together as a blooper video 😂😂
Eddie Hart plz mat tom
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Never seen a more perfect thumbnail before.
No that was a Srew up 😂
Did ... did Matt just sing?
Yeah he did. I could've sworn he said we'd never hear him sing as well
Yeah, I loved it! :D
Well, he wasn't being serious about it. He just spoke in a sing-songy way.
''I forget things, 'cause that's how forgetting works'
This is the most motivational phrase I have ever had the bless to hear, and probably the only one that really has had positive permanent consequences on me.
This is fine and all, but that's another song that we need a full version of (along with "We flew a kite in a public place").
Also, what is the protest clock?!
Da Scientist well I believe the screen annotation over that video said something about the protest clock being too dangerous to actually do and they didn't wanna give people ideas... I think at least. But I do still wanna know what it is.
Tom was not expecting... That face from this video...
I don't watch your videos for perfection, I watch them because they are fun, spontaneous, and honest. I'm pretty sure an audience who watches two guys sit on a bench and chat isn't looking for the typical "perfect" video :-) I love your chanels and content!
Tom Scott: "I can't sing"
Also Tom Scott: "Try that again and I'll harmonize"
The way I look at it, is it's ok to screw up sometimes, as long as you don't screw up the same things twice. Always make new mistakes.
8:22 auto subtitles: "Thanks for bleep smut."
Yep.
This is why aircraft pilots/captains use checklists! To ensure the aircraft dose not do unexpected things!!
Anyone else think it looks like there’s a translucent yellow square just above the left of Matt’s head?
T. Sutton yea
Do people not say "There's no use crying over spilled milk" anymore?
Prrotip: remember how many things are on your checklist. It's way easier to remember, and you notice immediately if you've forgotten something.
Was the misspelling on the video preview intentional?
looks like it is
thatsthejoke.jpg
I'm not trying to be mean, I just love Rainier Wolfcastle
I hate the fact I didn't even notice that until I read this comment
The odd blip here or there every now and again is absolutely understandable and only natural; especially given the amount of quality content you guys put out.
Beautiful beautiful grey hair.
I've found that the more corporate a job, the more they demand that mistakes be eliminated. Working as a technician, corporate came around and explained how to eliminate mistakes by just concentrating all the time as part of the 6 sigma system.
Conversely, in all of my science and hard engineering work, mistakes are expected, with supervisors expecting mistakes and accidents followed by fixes for those mistakes rather the elimination of human fallibility through inhuman concentration.
We heard Matt sing!!!
Making mistakes will happen. It's not fun, and owning to them can be soul crushing. The thing to remember, like Matt pointed out, is that you can't change the past. What you can change is the future.
Learning from the mistakes of others is preferable, since it comes to little cost to yourself. The times that you learn the most is from mistakes you make. As long as you remain cognizant of the past, and apply it to the future, there is no shame in screwing up. Again, another humble video from you, and yet another reason for people to use you as a role model. Thank you for your content!
Screwing up is a part of life, the important thing is what we do after the screw up.
You might find that making checklists for your gear helps prevent mistakes (and I realize that sounds obvious and unhelpful, but hear me out). There is an excellent book called "The Checklist Manifesto" written by an emergency room doctor about developing checklists to prevent silly mistakes in critical situations. The idea is that by writing down the small but crucial things, people don't have to work as hard to remember them all and can focus on the complex and challenging parts of the work. The list that they implemented in the hospital was very short, began with basics like "confirm identity, procedure and site with patient" and apparently prevented several screwups. They're used extensively in aerospace and nuclear industry where mistakes can be catastrophic. You should check out the book and see if you can apply some of its ideas to your own work.
And FWIW, yes, you can sing. :) That sounded great, and we'd love to have both a harmonized version, and any more singing you care to share with us.
Honestly, i would still watch a dark, grainy, and barely audible park bench episode.
The jogger!
Gotta love Tom when he gets embarrassed.
I'd be super interested in a series of video tutorials on film and audio from you guys. I know that's probably been done dozens of times on UA-cam - poorly. Whereas you two are
exceptionally good at delivering information.
Yes, indeed. I'd love Tom to record the video output of his computer as he edits Citation Needed for instance, and then comment what he's doing.
I gotta say: I only just noticed the typo in "Screw" on the thumbnail, and I've watched this video at least five times.
Those who work make errors.
Those who work a lot make a lot of errors.
But those who don't work at all make the biggest error.
It's okay to screw up sometimes.
It's human.
Let it be known that I eat no pineapples.
Thank you grandma.
That's so sad, I would have liked to watch Faceswapping with a live audience. Your bit on emojis and Unicode with an audience is great.
At long last, Matt singing without a silly voice! Sounded pretty good, too.
Well, now we can finally believe that Tom's hair becomes gray
"We fell into a pattern and we just did the things rather than checking the things"
And that's why pilots have checklists, everybody
Just use the bad audio one and do a "Google does my voice-over" kind of thingy
The videos with bad audio might be unrecoverable, but the one with bad video you could just release as a sort of podcast. We'll still listen to it.
This show is basically just a podcast with video anyway.
Tom, write a program that will send you a notification on your phone everytime you're at a park that tells you to check all the equipment setup :D
This video is more rambly than usual. I love it!!
I would suggest that rather than relying on memory and habit, write it down as a checklist. Anyone who says "I don't need to write it down, I will remember it" really needs to write it down.
Matt Gray's mind: _NOT_ *Built For Science*
The Technical Difficulties, experiencing technical difficulties.
I hope that as this channel grows that this mentality that humans make mistakes stays on, I think we live in a society where sometimes failure is deemed unacceptable, and that needs to change
"There's a hole in the bench. Feels like we ought to have known."
The last minute of the video has literally made me laugh my arse off.
Oky unrelated to the video.. Tom's fingers are so beautiful and elegant.his hands look soft.. better than mine
I've made a few small errors in my job recently, tiny slip ups that I should have caught and were a headache to clean up, and this video actually helped kind of set me back into a good mindset about myself. Thanks for that guys, I really do appreciate this video. :)
I hope that as this channel grows that this mentality that humans make mistakes stays on, I think we live in a society where sometimes failure is deemed unacceptable (or I see a lot in areas of my life), and that needs to change. Thanks for sharing this, it made me feel better about myself, not in a degrading way, but in an accepting way, more accepting.
When you make a silly mistake which costs some time or money, just say to yourself "At least I didn't cause a half-billion dollar spacecraft that people have spent entire careers working on to crash into Mars."
Regarding the end: it's a good job there were no ducks around 😂
Have y'all every thought about having a physical checklist to follow so you don't forget things? I am a forgetful person. My forgetfulness has become a bit worst since I had a seizure and my brainmeats got a bit scrambled so I find having a list when I have to do technical things like writing a script or setting up something helpful, even if it's something I've done numerous times.
In my old job, I was photographer for my company. When video became the current wave, it was natural for them to stick a video camera into my hands and expect miracles. What you have described here exactly explains why I utterly hated video, sucked at it, and loathed doing it. "I'm a STILL kind of guy", I tried to explain.
Panicking about uni work right now. This was a very therapeutic video to watch
I cried. As a "maker" of things - videos, audio, etc - this video was just what I needed to hear today
Yes, it is perfectly fine to screw up, especially when you learn from them.
He wasn't ready for THAT FACE
Bench Commode sounds like a bad Depeche Mode tribute act.
About that whole bench thing...
So last video Tom told us we can't trust video sources and now he tells us it's OK to mess up. This all added up to something, but my mind just blanked.
We heard Matt sing!
Bench Commode is clearly Barry Scott's alter ego who sells toilet cleaner rather than a general cleaner/bleach
"He's been past twice."
"What?"
"He's been past twice."
"That's not what you said."
I'm sure you know this already, but there are free apps that make it really easy to create and go through a checklist on your phone
Matt sang on bench!
The one and only paid filming job I have ever had didn't have proper audio because someone (me) pressed recorded once, which put the recorder on standby, but didn't press it again to start the recording. That was only one of the things that went slightly wrong with that job.
You know what, compared with self-isolating talkshow hosts, you're doing just fine :)
Watching this right after I watched the park bench about you guys not being able to sing. You were right.
Lessons in signal to noise ratios.
that is why for aircraft you ALWAYS are to follow the checklist, to check if everything is Aok. not all pilot's follow it, and if that happens and something goes wrong, it is on him/her/they
How ironic would it be if this video was unusable
I'm entirely happy to watch bad quality video of good quality content...
Bench Commode would be an awesome superhero name and his superpower would be- ... oh...hrm. Okay, perhaps not the best superhero name. :3
MATT WAS SINGING! MATT SAID HE NEVER SINGS, BUT HE WAS SINGING!
you should learn from your mistakes. it's sometimes hard to not hate yourself for really tiny things that you would excuse other people for but since it's you doing it it is somehow the end of the world
whoeveriam0iam14222
A thing that might have helped in many of these cases would be the habit of testing everything before starting the real filming. (Or maybe they already do that and it wouldn't work like I thought.) OTOH you'd need to drag previewing equipment around everywhere you filmed so it's not easy.
IIRC this is where Numberphile got their video a while back of mathematicians taking about breakfast - it was all test footage before their interviews.
And moments later in the video Matt mentions this.
my comment was just about general mistakes. not necessarily videorelated.
you know that time when you had a hard time getting your change into your wallet in the crowded supermarket and then you dropped a coin too. everybody forgot about it 10 minutes later but you still remember it years later when you can't sleep
Aha! We hear Matt sing!
8:48 no, Bench Commode is clearly a Prog Rock band.
UGHHH ALL THE FILMING JARGON
Anyone else find yourself feeling like Tom at 4:04 when the robin enters the frame and is peaking through the park bench next to Tom?
Maybe I'm just easily distracted... also... I feel like I should make a 404 joke... but the robin was clearly found..
Well said. Very topical in the medical profession at the moment with the Hadiza Bawa-Garba case...
Ffs. I've watched this video multiple times, and I've only just realized the srewup on the thumbnail...
is the jogger from the B Ark ?
Whose face WERE you expecting ? Matt Parker ?
At least the small mistakes did not have the risk of someone being killed
You guys should do a pub sing!
I’ve NEVER been early to y’all! Love it!!
Madi welcome to the club, bud!
I had a dream that Matt Gray crashed my car and then ditched me because he didn't want to go to prison again.
according to youtube notifications this was uploaded 20 minutes ago ... well done .
Something tells me it's not ok to watch park bench instead of sleeping when you have an English exam tomorrow.
If we get a question on Bassanio I'm screwed.
There's a hooooole in this beeench!
The robin was really cute
Well, like my grandfather used to say, better a hole in your bench, than a bench in your... ehr... you get the picture.
Who else now really wants to hear the Park Bench Album? There's a hoooole in this bench...
When I was in schools media class, we had a written check list (for dummies) but it helped a lot.