Few years ago, I took a graphic design job despite having no experience and I managed to complete the work to a professional standard. There were nights staying up late learning photoshop and illustrator an a lot of times where I thought I bit off more than I can chew. But I wanted to try this so bad I just committed and tuned out all of the noise (other peoples work, what others said about graphic design etc.) While I don't do graphic design work anymore, I found that this attitude helped me tremendously in other areas of life. I took a discrete math class this summer term and I decided to push through no matter how impossible it felt and ended up with a good grade. I think that life in this modern world can feel hopeless, especially with all of this information being thrown at us, but I think the power of believing in ourselves is greatly underestimated.
I don't think the sorcerer realises that I tune into his videos more for a therapeutic reason than anything else. Thank you so much for putting these videos out❤
I love this. I'm a math undergrad, after school I just dove into software. The money and security was nice but after a few year I found it wasn't for me. Now I'm just getting started as a market gardener in Lincoln nebraska! The financial struggles are real, but I've taken solace in accepting the inherit uncertainties in my line of work. Sometimes we just need to sow our seeds and shake our fist at the sun when the rain doesn't come! This attitude is a game of numbers. If you sow enough seeds at the right (ish) time, eventually you'll be surrounded by things you intended to be there. Sure, there will be weeding to do, and you will have crop failures, but if I worried about the exact right time to sow some seed, my whole farm would be overridden with things I didn't choose to grow.
10:21 I like how you distinguish between saying that if you don't try, you have already failed and saying that if you tried and failed, you can still learn from that. *Failure is still part of the learning process* whereas if you don't try, you don't get even that far. Thanks again!
A small hole can sink a huge boat. Like words, a problem like overthinking could withold our progress. We can't dream of learning calculus unless comfortable with it's prerequisites.
I like the piece from Bible when Jesus says to "deny oneself". In Polish language, "deny" has two translations - "refuse to accept you know sb" or "stand firm". I use the "stand firm" translation to remind myself not to follow distractions and overthinking. Thanks and good luck to all!
U hit it on the head, I’ve noticed when I overthink a lot I end it up not executing what I said I was going to do. This can also be said about procrastination too
I'm a student in Korea trying to get a degree in statistics. And yes, I am an overthinker, and I totally agree that overthinking leads to inaction. I see many ambitious people in the comment sections that share their experience in jumping in. I found that very inspiring. I'll try to realize when I overthink and stop doing that. Thanks for your lesson!
I always feel like I need to represent concepts in my head in unpleasant loops, ultimately leading to something incomplete because I lack data. Often, I get the answer later when improving. But I Always fear to miss something. Also it's hard to make choices. I think identifying it fast is the first step.
@@omicronsrule6565 For me it’s mainly the fear to not use my potential, really this is one of my biggest fears. The „problem“ is I used my potential in the past and did great things. But I lost in on the way kinda, starting new things, being demotivated, fear of failure etc. And now I am here with 22, didn’t do much with my life yet, I learned some things but never finished something. So I am sometimes overthinking how I should use my potential, how should I study, how can I be creative? Yes I wanna be creative and do something on my own. But I can’t do it as an undergrad. So I just have to get through it I think. It will come surely on the way, if I just stick to something.
This is the exact video that I need to watch right now. I lost most 4 years because of that. I'm 23 years old.But i didn't give up. Right now i am learning mathematics from start and my aim is going to one of the best universities in Turkey. I am sticking with math and english. Every hour in a day i tell myself what you do in that hour. Btw i have ADHD
We are in almost the same shoes bro. I'm 26, always been terrible in math in school because I didn't bother to study and disliked it a lot. Now that I matured I regret the years wasted. But I decided to pick myself up and do it now. It's better now than never, or better now than in 5 years. I'm also trying to get in one of the toughest universities but to get in, I need to score relatively high ( roughly 80% ) on all 5 subjects ( Math, Biology, Chemistry etc ). Had my first shot at the Math exam. I did pass it, but not enough points to enroll, so I gotta keep trying. It's a constant fight with myself though, there's days when I don't want to study and so I just waste that day I was supposed to use for studying. Hope you get into that university of yours
@@tresemiselada3828 When I was feeling bad, I would always tell myself that you are not the only one going through this. This was an example of this being true. My best wishes are with you my friend. I also quit smoking and my bad life habits. I feel like I'm starting my life over again. The important thing is to be determined and not give up. Never too late for anything.
One of my favorite mathematics instructors of all time once told me that the time spent doing mathematics is virtually priceless, because it doesn’t matter what you get paid an hour or how much money you have, you cannot buy mathematical knowledge or pay someone to give it to you. The only way to obtain it is to actually spend the time doing it, reading the texts, watching videos, working exercises, and applying it yourself in your everyday life to deepen your understanding. What he was trying to convey to me was that one of the best ways to spend your time is to spend it doing mathematics. This was one of the most powerful things that I heard early in my math journey and has inspired me to do mathematics every single day.
this literally is better than all the “how to stop procrastination” motivational videos i swear to god this is the first time i grasp why we procrastinate in the first place and how and why to actually stop overthinking 🙌🙌
I'm not a mathematician. Just a 31-year-old, philosophical inclined, severe burn victim whose life is very out of order. Thank you for this video sir. 💜
Hey man i just want to say that this video helped me out a lot. I love mathematics and i love it a lot and really cant live without learning. Hearing this message of simply just doing it and not care what the results will be. Now i learn a lot without thinking a lot because everytime i start thinking i just stop myself. And now i learn way more and way healthier. Appreciate it man!
As a CS major and now software developer I got obsessed with my code being stylistically good, going down pure functional programming rabbit holes, is this written well, etc. The main thing about software development is getting a working solution, that produces the correct result, doesn't crash, isn't too slow, and ideally can be read/extended by other people if necessary. Worrying about whether your work is perfect will make you get nothing done. I switched to golang where there's one way to write most things and it's helped me quite a bit, took that experience and applied it to other languages, just get it done and if it's shit you can always rewrite the next day.
And also by overthinking you spend so much energy and after you're so exhausted that you have no more energy to do things even if you find a good solution or path
Sorcerer, dude. This one hits close to home. If being a guru of all things mathematical doesn't work out for you, you've got a great career ahead of you as a life coach. i'm damn serious about that.👍👍
The bias for action. This is one of the best pieces of content in your already incredible body of work. Thank you for this, and for everything you do for us!
Your videos are just so helpful, encouraging and in a way "therapeutic". I vastly appreciate your help, inspiration, entertainment and the knowledge you give. You remind me a bit of my physics teacher too. Keep going with your heartwarming content.
You came at just the right time in my life. I was going to attend university for my BAS but I chose to keep my associates and get married. I had regrets not pursuing the better degree with the change of obtaining a higher paying job. I chose to get married and now 3 years later, my wife and I are tackling college together. Thank you for always providing wisdoms and introspectively to my life.
Overthinking is what has gotten me stuck often in math and physics classes. I think the solution has to involve some random other concept we learned and suddenly I’m spending hours trying to figure out this one problem
I’m an old retiree who has gone back to trying to learn mathematics, hence my interest in your videos. On a practical note, I find it very easy to overthink practical repairs and renovations around the house, to the point where I become paralysed. Quite often work that I’ve put off for weeks or months only takes a few hours! Back to maths. I would love to see a review of your idea of the best book on Calculus, because that’s where I’m struggling.👍😀
Thanks a lot, this piece of advice is a great support for me right know, I believe for many others as well. Congratulations for your positive, motivational and realistic attitude.
Gramp I love you so much. I watch a lot of your videos. So I suggest you do something about video game addiction, this is not a joke anymore it's happened all over the world.
You can become more intelligent but it’s a matter of having a strong thirst and reason for it. We are all individuals and honestly our brains work differently so approaches to education should be different and tailored to your way of working to get the most out the subject you’re studying. At other times the subject you may be forced to study by the academia simply doesn’t interest you enough so of course trying to digest the information would be a hard process.
hi, dreamer here after several failures, even afraid of failure, always overthinking and then i dont do nothing, panic attacks+anxiety is ruining my life
My overthinking is deadly. The best points in my life were definitely when I wasn’t thinking and I just DID. I didn’t think “oh I only got a few hours of sleep, I wouldn’t have a very good study/workout session, and I still have to go to work after”, I just did both of those things and went to work just fine. Over thinking how to go about studying for these WGU classes bc it’s pretty much like I’ve been handed an online textbook and sent on my way. I need to just do any part of it…
I am a mathematics undergraduate student and I recently read a research paper on combinatorics for a professor at another university in Texas that I am interested in his schools masters program. I was lossed in some areas but I understood part of the logic and wrote google questions to look up. I do overthink when I study for my classes on what topic or homework or reading slides for class should I start with. Until 2 hours later I just say fuck it! I am going to start here
I've been stuck on some overthinking recently regarding my studies, and still am somewhat. Eventually, I'll study mathematical modeling during my undergrad studies with a concentration in applied mathematics. So, I was looking for books on mathematical modeling, especially good-sized recent textbooks, to study ahead, but either they are very expensive or old and likely outdated. After much overthinking about weighing cost vs. need, I decided to order two: Meyer's *Concepts in Mathematical Modeling* and Bannerjee's *Mathematical Modeling: Models, Analysis and Applications* each costing about 9 U.S..D. and 33 U.S.D. respectively. I wish the latter book was of a much lower cost but I decided to make that purchase and move on. There are more books on the subject, but I cannot find more that are low-cost while somewhat up-to-date. I think the best I can do for now is to make the most of what I have and move forward while looking out for opportunities to get more suitable resources. Perhaps it's best also to realize that the *choices we make are not necessarily written in stone* We might not find a satisfactory resolution but can move forward with what we have while being open to other better resources and opportunities. Thanks for the video 😊
Great comment thank you for this! That's really cool that you got two books and yeah, about the price, I get it! I think it's worth it though. You will have these books forever:)
What's more important, how to stop overthinking? The best answer I know: CBT, MBSR, MBCT. There are some other suggested ways like ACT, REBT, about which I do not know a lot.
It may help to take notes of many durations (exercise duration, reading duration, stuck duration when it comes). So some of my papers get a special function, and are helpful for decision making. But behind that, I write different types of texts. Some of them are conceptual and less rational than mathematics. This kind of process may help not thinking at all because doing could become thinking.
It just seems like having SO much information available and screaming for my attention nowadays that I’m too aware of too many potential options. Like it would be reckless to not be thorough or something. Frankly, and this going to maybe sound crazy, but I’ve taken to largely just following my gut on a lot of things just so that I don’t end up over analyzing every choice. What I’ve found is that pretty much any outcome is preferable to nothing happening because I was searching for a perfect outcome.
If you don't know the minimum effort required for a task, and that task is very important to your survival, overthinking is probably the best strategy.
yeah i was overthinking just now, for the past few months, past few hours. i am thinking - actually determined about going back to get my math degree at the age of 30. i wish i had done it sooner, and yes i was not the person who had the clarity or guidance to make good decisions for myself. i kept blaming others for problems and not doing anything to solve them,
I really needed this tbh. I have to take linear algebra and I don’t remember any calc and I feel like I have to relearn everything. But I’m need to start
I just had a very suck moment yesterday when i was at my final test, only to regret my lack of preperation, i was just so mentally difficult to study Calculus 2 up until the test, and i was facing it with a lot of anxiety from the home, so much so i even forgot to bring my notes with me which can very helpful if only i bring it, i even write on the scratch paper the proctor gave me and write on it " Stress and Anxiety only give you more problems and sadness" and other things that isn't helpful at all, and the anxiety continues after i finished the test i busy thinking about my future, "will i fail the class? will i get a C?". Now i realize i was stupid and what i do doesn't help at all. What i can tell is " Think about what you can control now" because overthinking past is nothing but adding more suffering.
Thinking is the process of comparing and contrasting, of seeing from as many angles as possible (passable), in order to perpetuate freedom of movement. What we are really doing when we think is moving through a gauntlet of outside influences, which includes but is not limited to, the opinions and beliefs of others, present and past (consciousness) . This process is crucial for perpetuating ideas, and for perpetuating life itself. A non-thinking entity will imminently die, as will a non-thinking group. It is essential for life to think THROUGH (italicized) consciousness in order to arrive anew. This process is practical, but not repetitve. It is an upward spiral, not a closed loop (circular thinking). Circular thinking occurs when we allow consciousness to enfold us. When we continue to listen to all the outside influences, FOR TOO LONG A TIME (italicized), we fail to move through to new life. This is where many people become stuck, primarily because of FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN (italicized). "The devil that you know is better than the one you don't, and so it goes, round and round..." Unfortunately, we are often told to not think. Many people, present and past, are unable or unwilling to move out of circular thinking. We are discouraged from this essential life process by those who see it as a curse, rather than the gift that it truly is. The gift of overthinking! Of thinking over. What does one often say? "I'm going to think it OVER (italicized)". Or "We're going to think it THROUGH (italicized)".
I always tell my wife that if her ever saw me overthink about something too much just tell me "Do the minimum requirement " when you get your head in the working the solution will come up.
I actually started in Calculus books before I've had finished the Algebra books I have. I think of my doing math like pushing information through a slow moving scanner that gets jammed sometimes if too much documents are put into it at once😆😆. My mind gets jammed with some of the calculus info sometimes because I simply don't know how to do a particular calculus problem. Then I quit calculus and go back to algebra. Eventually I'm ready to tackle the calculus problem again and move on to the next calculus problem when I still get it wrong. I don't understand the books on proof I have, but I at least read them hoping my brain will absorbed something enough to understand it. I set up Udemy for the math classes and intend to take a few classes there
Overthinking is pretty much procrastination. Find some recommended books/materials, but start working on them as soon as possible! One will learn more by having and reading one textbook than by having hundreds of them like a hoarder, but never opening them
