As far as I can tell Mr. Gates was implying that the best way to become a life long curious learner is to first understand the reality in its entirety by learning the big history. Big History is a concept of telling the entire origin story as best of our scientific knowledge and understanding, This has especially helped me, as a teenager I was very anxious about my existence nothing made sense to me, But when I learned about the universe, the origin of life this gave me a great sense of purpose to contribute to the collective knowledge of humanity so that those who would come after us can be better than we are.
Same. My teenage years(still ongoing )of finding a meaning lead to depression leading to more why?'s. Questioning everything from my beliefs to am I really even here leading to curiosity and becoming a life long curious learner now. I heard somewhere that to learn we must get a main focus of a topic and see it has a tree, with added details of the topic as the leaves on the tree's branch.
Thats great, Abhay! Can you please share how you went about it? would you recommend any books/videos/documentaries? Would be keen to learn about it more.
I'm happy to hear you dove deep, I hope you learned or heard about quantum mechanics, neural plasticity, and metaphysics. life is images and thoughts of the mind expressed. your external reality is the densest part of your mind, without any separation. time and conditionality is just an illusion. we have all that we desire right NOW (the only time that exist).
reality is 99.99999999% empty space made of up energy. nothing is solid and reality exist in 2 states, its natural state of quantum wave form and its collapsed state of matter or actuality. we collapse that wave of probability by simply observing it. your computer, body, table, house, chair, office building are all made up of the same quantum particles but just formed in different building blocks that appear to be solid and seperate objects but in all actuality everything is the same and is connected in the quantum world. when you observe matter, what you are seeing is light photons emitting from that object, entering your eye, then electrical signals are created and travel to the back of the brain to the vision cortex where an image is created and is then projected back into your eyes. all reality is a perception created in your brain. your whole life has been your brains best guess of what it thinks reality looks like (brains perception). everything you are seeing right now is actually all taking place inside your dark brain. fascinating stuff man
It's like having a mental bookshelf you can store the knowledge in. When you read enough books you have context for everything and can put it in your library. Love the idea of a mental library.
Quartz is just another hustler, no better then a pimp standing on a corner streets of Compton. Like the rest of the other money greedy hustlers on youtube, selling a qick rich scheme, only difference is; these people usally present themselves without a gun and having your best interest in mind. Only people who belivie these RU-vid hustlers are suckers, the same in which you shall find on the streets of Compton.
Schools are too focused on passing exams, getting high grades and then students forget everything they learn. Real "learning" starts when you're in the real world, picking up books and discovering your interests.
@@theshayannn Yeah I know, I saw someone else do the same witty trick, so I though to use it as well, get some good laughs during this Pandemic. Am I not right?!
It tends to be easier studying something when one can relate it to something else. Although schools try teaching the fundamentals of topics they often leave out; 1. The significance of the subject matter( Its use in real life and the interesting ways it can be used) 2. An intuitive way of understanding the topics. Glad to see Bill studies in the way he does... pretty sure there would be a few more Bills if our educational systems taught us to learn this way.
If you want to learn fast, stop watching RU-vid videos, build up the habit of reading books 30 mins to an hour a day, and you will be able to learn fast over time.
So true what he said about incremental learning. Most of the great mathematicians we learn about in school were philosophers (Pythagoras, Euclid, Decartes). They used math as a model to answer larger philosophical questions. When you understand this, mathematics begins to take on a much deeper and richer purpose.
are u helping usher to rape me better????? u know the things between us isnt love, and it cant be, becasue we dont understadn each other. u are not helping usher, u make him and me slave? u are making us slaves, did anyone ever tell u that?
What he is describing is the principle that people are terrible at remmembering lists, but are incredible at remmembering pathways of items. relating a bunch of objects and remmembering essentially is def easier than remmembering lists in which the items within it are independant of each other, or are categorized to be so anyway.
So basically he talks about creating a structure or a map of how things have unfolded and how they all interconnect with each other. And when he notes a discrepancy he can go back and have another look at the piece which does not fit correctly. I like his abstract thinking.
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that is pretty similar to what I thought of myself... First develop fundamental understanding and a broad rough structure that you will keep adding onto as you keep learning new things.
How to remember what you read? Write down the most meaningful parts of books and you will be able to skim the whole book by reviewing your notes. You could easily get 10 pages of notes out of a 350-page book. When you review, the rest of the book surges back into your mind.
Damn, choosing to remain an ignorant arse just makes you stupid. And the problem with Stupid is it needs to prattle on emotionally about something which isn't the truth, or truth bent to make a tiny soapbox on which to spread the drivel spewing from Stupid's mouth. Every mental child that agreed with your complaint, rewarded you by "thumbing it in your comment...safely, now there is group of Stupid. Grow up, & if you're going to complain, at least let it be an issue that exists...I won't bother explaining the obvious nor debating the fact of your stupidity, but I am embarrassed for you.
@@FoEvaSlynda Instead of learning and adopting Bill Gates mentality of philanthropy for the greater good they decide to monetize his interview. See the problem? Not many things in life are free but it goes against the Gates foundation mantra of giving back.
He used to go relax on Jeffrey Epstein's island, sit girls on his lap and read the sex stories of Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter and Aleister Crowley. Then it ended with his favorite book "Bill like little Pink hole"
Maybe teaching kids subjects isolated from each other is a mistake. Making math link into history, adding why certain math was developed, could add some tangibility to abstract math. This could, perhaps, help some kids remember and learn math.
I wish I watched this video in high school when I was struggling with things like the Illad and To Kill a Mockingbird. Because apparently just reading the book carefully is not enough to do well on a test on it.
I see it this way, if you have a foundation it will stick if you don’t, it will not stick, sometimes you have to read, experiment and experience in first place the foundation to go more in depth.
It's like drawing, if you get super familiar with say anatomy then when you do a life drawing because you understand the body so well, you don't need to retain every section of line information to draw the subject - like a newb would - as someone familiar, you'd only need to observe the general masses and you'll be able to draw much more information while focusing on creating a better image.
Today I learnt that bill gates values reading books and understanding what each piece of information he learns leads to and is useful for. Bill gates doesn't expect people to know or memorize the bigger picture but rather the things that make the bigger picture.
The broader your mind gets the more cautious and humble you'll be in accepting what you read...rather than saying(it's an absolute fact) you'll say(some scholars say...) or (there's a point of view says...)...etc.
he is bang on ... something i've been experiencing over the last 6 months ... the initial "core learning" phase is painful lol ... getting the basics down, the core concepts about the "thing" ... but incremental knowledge and maintenance is waayyy easier! Darn he actually reads! lol
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@@1183tn I donn't know about all that.. Still, he has done great things for us to enjoy today, and he is still a very intelligent man, who has alot of knowledge also, you can learn alot from him.
The magic of effective learning is when there is knowledge contextualization and pattern recognition. The sad thing is that teaching often relies on feeding us isolated parts before giving us a greater framework to attach information and it see its relevance to the whole.
We use memory maps to adjust to our memory deficit to recall immediately. I keep forgetting the names of relatives and suffer of many junks, I don't know what to do. These memory gaps are not a good sign. It's like dying alive.
He is essentially describing the intellectual schema that we develop over time, that new knowledge is easier to assimilate when where have a broad 'tree' to which we assign new elements. He is also describing how and why older smart people are smart. Unlike younger people that might solve a problem fresh, smart older people are pulling from their well of knowledge.
Bill, you should reread Dambisa Moyo’s book . She didn’t criticize you for providing medical help to Africa. She simply wrote that it’s fine to save lives, but what are these healthy people going to do when they have no work?
So where's the rest of this interview? Lol "it really bothers you when you read something and there’s an inconsistency" and it's frustrating to only get things out of context (which is why I ask the question about the entirety of this intvw…) because it would be interesting to know what Bill Gates thinks about other types of knowledge, not just incremental.
Simple logic of Gates is what he said in the first sentence. "If you read enough". That's it. Read enough to create a framework in your mind. Keep on reading things and go on creating the framework. Once the framework is created everything you read will feat in your brain. Just keep on reading stuff regardless of you understand it or not because even if you don't understand it in the single go you will eventually understand it in future reads.
