A math GENIUS taught me how to LEARN ANYTHING in 3 months (it's easy)

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

As the 'math sorcerer' YT'er says "no matter how far behind you are, it can take two weeks to catch up"

[@Gigusx]

Good luck with that when you're very far behind.

[@krystalmarie5637]

I saw that video. I wish he’d gone more in depth about how to do that.

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

@@krystalmarie5637 After binging his videos, the TLDR of how to catch up in 2 weeks is *mindfully solve more problems* (solve problems and understand WHY the solution is what it is). He said when he was in college, he'd aim to do 20 proofs per day. this had a compounding effect and helped him improve significantly. Aim to solve ONE problem per day and then increase it over time. read multiple books on the same topic (syntopical reading) to accelerate comprehension. Use the Feynman technique to deepen comprehension. There are so many resources online, you wont have trouble.

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

@@Gigusx catch up ≠ top of the class.

[@Gigusx]

@@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805 I wasn't talking about getting to top of the class...

[@Flanor]

Teacher: how did you manage to cheat? Python Programmer: I didn't cheat, Mr Simpson taught me. Teacher: Mr Simpson has been dead for 20 years....

[@nowonami2524]

brilliant

[@downstream0114]

That's dedication.

[@saswatahalder4887]

that's a freakin PLOT

[@gustavocortico1681]

Your teacher transformed a reasoning problem into a prediction problem, getting you to pay attention to the features and form a map to use when presented with more general tasks; it's kind of genius imo

[@ot8479]

That's what teachers do😂😂😂

[@eamonnobriain8383]

1. Learn how to learn the thing you want to learn. 2. Focus and dedicate time to learning. Ideally find somewhere with no distractions. 3. Do the thing you want to be good at. 4. Find your weakest points and work on those. 5. Test yourself. 6. Get feedback. It's harder for self-learners but ideally you'll have someone to evaluate your work. 7. Don't just accept the answer as the answer. Understand why it's the answer and build your own understanding of how to get there.

[@uvideo100]

In hindsight, doesn't all these steps seem obvious?

[@YO-BIZZY]

@@uvideo100just question when confused and logic doesn’t add up

[@uvideo100]

@@YO-BIZZY Thanks! My post got 8 likes so far, so I am not the only one to whom in hindsight all these steps seem obvious. But it is good to get these steps enumerated, because we are usually confused and anxious when starting to learn something new. And good to know that they were successful when applied by the video maker.

[@Testurteil20]

Step 1 is realy dumb. So you have to be lucky to get a "Mr. Simpson" OR you already have to know the stuff you want to learn, so you can decide what is important. But yeah maybe iam just dumb and dont understand this genius hint.

[@Gigusx]

​@@Testurteil20 It's not dumb. Remember that the list is based on Scott Young's process, you can find more the details of each step in his book, any summary of the book, or Young's own blog.

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

The silver lining to having a terrible, dismissive teacher would be that you developed resilience. You learnt first hand the value of a 'growth mindset', that 'experts' not only dont have all the answers but they'll double down on their beliefs rather than entertain the idea that they could be wrong. That's more valuable than winning some award in my book and Im sure that's served you well in Data Science.

[@pipertripp]

spot on, mate. You've gotta have the right personality/mindset for it or it could end disastrously. Fortunately, in this case the opposite happened. A tough but very valuable lesson for sure.

[@arg1051]

Best way to learn to math is to do math. It's hard to get kids to understand that, because they typically want to understand fully before doing anything because they're often afraid they'll make mistakes and look foolish but making mistakes and figuring out why they are mistakes is how you learn math.

[@allenqueen]

A mysterious math angel? Maybe it was you from the future😮

[@johanponin8680]

I'm really wishing that Mr Simpson pops up in the comments saying "you're welcome, brilliant use of the method".

[@jacksparr0w300]

Finding the Mr Simpson is probably the hardest part.

[@enginerdy]

Doh!

[@sarahlund7363]

It was lucky to have come across Mr Simpson: we need more of them in this world to counteract the frankly Machiavellian Mr Parkinsons of which it seems, sometimes, there are too many. However, because this man has shared his story, then Mr Simpson continues to do his fantastic work and he probably has no idea. Most of the real angels in this world never know recognition. Thank you to Mr Simpson and Python Programmer for being enablers, rather than disablers. :-)

[@jacksparr0w300]

@@sarahlund7363 well said!

[@richardjames3022]

That teacher was typical of that time, I too had the same situation with my teachers. Now as a teacher I NEVER do the same to my students as I remember how distrustive it is.

[@rafaelanschau3196]

The amount of injustice teachers used to be able to get away with is unbelievable. So he tells you you were cheating and that was it? No "court of appeals"? Appalling.

[@Michael-cb5nm]

It’s almost as if some teachers want some students to fail. One wonders why such people get into teaching…

[@jasonn5196]

That’s one of the saddest stories I have ever heard.

[@FredDavison]

The thing that helped me learn freshman level physics was something called the Keller Plan taught at the University of Michigan in the '70s. To progress in the syllabus you had to achieve a 100% test score on a topic before moving on. A small group of students were assigned to a tutor and we'd work through the material at our own pace. Your grade was determined by how far you got in the syllabus. The tutors were students who had been through the course previously and received academic credit for their work. I tutored the following semester and that _REALLY_ helped me learn physics.

[@ola...o1009]

Maths is not so difficult with good teachers and videos on KZbin these days. It’s hard to get python fundamentals to stick permanently in my brain 😅

[@bepositive271]

I think you should visit "Clear Code" KZbin channel i didn't watched his python course cause at that time I already knew python but i watched his tkinter(a python library to make apps) course and i think he is just too good at teaching you must try it.

[@je9625]

Build something.

[@ola...o1009]

@@je9625 ok. I’d do a refresher course and build something

[@TraderGoo]

You probably don't even need to know the basics, I'm doing ML and I use cudf but I cannot even define what a str is, I know how to use it and know when to use it. This is easy because I have a hard use case so it's easy to think in systems. Point is think in systems on how to apply something, it's a lot easier if you're building something that you're invested in

[@renaissanceman419]

I'm a professional software developer. I got good by writing a hell of a lot of code. It gives you an automaticity that is really needed when tackling the higher level parts of software development

[@Joelconway34]

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[@amalmberg13]

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[@Joelconway34]

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[@Joelconway34]

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[@KuramaUchiha-id1ow]

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[@JoanneBrookes]

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[@sarveshsriram19]

Priceless advice. Genius Strorytelling. Amazing edits and camera work! You won... My popcorn brain was paying attention to everything that you said....

[@davidoconnor8224]

That book on Maxwell's equations in your hand is fantastic.. clear, concise and wonderfully explained, just like your video. Thanks❤

[@cr3sselia527]

Which book is that?

[@davidoconnor8224]

@@cr3sselia527 "A student's guide to Maxwells equations" by Daniel Fleisch

[@davidoconnor8224]

@@cr3sselia527 at 1:02 ,"A students guide to Maxwell's equations" by Daniel Fleisch

[@komicalkramer6188]

​@@cr3sselia527looks like "A student's guide to Maxwell's equations" Daniel Fleisch

[@marlondingo]

Well even this video reveals the great mystery of learning, most of us tomorrow will figure out how to learn better again by searching on KZbin.

[@arthurmatthewf5406]

As a retired Uni Math Prof the simple solution here is: 1) It's math, there is ALWAYS a right answer; 2) if you do enough homework / practice problems, you will be able to solve any similar problem and possibly any that is one step beyond those. If you only did the assigned homework or sought me out before the Exam, you probably wouldn't be standing at my door begging me to raise your grade after the Exam.

[@gavinandrews9026]

I always struggled with mathematics in school. I passed, but only just. Later when I wanted a career I had to pass an aptitude test. I failed, my best friend passed it. Disappointed and embaressed,I bought a book with similar questions. I photocopied it and did the questions over and over again. I doubled my score and passed. I started to believe in my math abilities for the first time in my life. I regret not going back to study it academically, but at that time I just wanted it to get my foot on the ladder of a career.

[@AdrianMark]

I'm the guy who couldn't work up the nerve to ask you for help because you were so unapproachable to my teenage self, especially after I had been failing every exam for two years straight and regularly missing homework because I just couldn't follow. You told me I would fail my o-levels a month and a half before the exams and smiled. But I never asked you for help, and I never begged, I just took your incompetence on the chin and with one month left, I got out two years worth of text books and intuitively figured out how to reverse engineer math methods using the answers to each of the problem sets at the back of the book. I ended up not just passing the math and additional math exams I sat for, I got high distinctions. And I did the same with my A-levels, and went on to study economics and econometrics. I'm a professional programmer and I write in Python and Javascript, making my career out of reverse engineering code and applying economic math to data systems. Never have I ever needed a math teacher, and I just thought I'd let you know that smug little insecure pricks like you don't always win, and if you ever get reincarnated, I hope you come back as a dung beetle instead of as a teacher, you don't deserve the right to guide young souls. And there's no need for you to capitalise the word Exam, you obviously have no idea how to venerate learning you petty little tyrant. ❤ Go do something else with your time left, you were obviously a horrendous teacher.

[@AdrianMark]

I wrote a longer comment but I think KZbin's censorship AI decided it was too risqué for this chat 😂. I just wanted to say that you sir, are the problem with math teachers and I am so glad you are retired and no longer being incompetent at inspiring students to get good at math. I am so glad we live in an era where teachers are going to be made obsolete by tutor AI's. You probably haven't the slightest clue the number of young souls you did the disservice of turning away from math.

[@gavinandrews9026]

@@AdrianMark you know all this from one comment.

[@e.r.5329]

Storytelling here... Very excellent 👏🏾

[@mabell01]

Yes! None of this true!

[@ProjectKneepads]

You’re the only KZbinr I’ve found worthy of SMASHING the bell icon for

[@nicholasjackson5311]

I think you're missing out the most important step. Having someone close by that is too deep working, who is next by.

[@coco-ongelzela]

I don't like how you made sure you only told us at the end of the video yet kept us hanging, saying things like, and now we will be learning it, then you go off topic

[@coco-ongelzela]

Also shilling Betterhelp

[@Govindhan-P]

Guys, any best book to learn 1. Design Pattern in Python 2. Data Structure and Algorithms in Python 3. Object-Oriented in Python

[@seeker511]

2. Grokking Algorithm by Bhargava 3.Master OOP by Building Games and GUIs by Irv Kalb

[@Govindhan-P]

​@@seeker511 Thanks

[@fernansd]

It is crazy how similar this is to the method I've developed for myself. However I never fully grasped on why it is so effective. Thanks a lot for the video! I can refine it now to be even better! I have to wonder what would happend if schools started to structure courses with these principles in mind.

[@kkumar559]

I would be grateful if you could elaborate a bit on your methodology ... thankyou

[@tanusingh2154]

Please share any video or solution for studying law and remembering its provisions with essential ingredients...help me sir

[@aaronbrown8377]

What do you imagine a court to do, they probably did that. Confirm it is true in your area.

[@MathewSan_]

Great video 👍

[@mahmoudtokura]

Thanks for this. I need to apply this information to my algorithms and data structure learning.

[@DrStoic91]

The channel’s name should be “Life Programmer” instead of “Python Programmer”

[@tazkhan8679]

please find Mr Simpson and make a video about it.

[@genemcphee8053]

Just ordered it

[@RajatShetty-ul1ux]

Top tier story teller!!

[@steveheyden9219]

Thank you for sharing 🙏👍

[@davecreelman]

Such a great video. Thanks so much. I've experienced ..small parts... of learning things well. Nothing like outlined here. Truly a great shame about your teacher back at school. Some teachers are like this unfortunately. I'm grateful you were able to move past that experience and find a way to shine and then share how to learn here.

[@EmmaMoshood-qb8tt]

Teacher: You scored 99 😒 in your mock, how did you do it, you cheated!!! Student: No Sir, I didn't cheat, I just visited master chefu who took me through rigorous training till I become the dragon warrior. 😊 Teacher: ???🤬🤬

[@pepperpeterpiperpickled9805]

Teacher: Who ever heard of a private tutor and hard work??? I banish thee!

[@cursorop1716]

it was pretty informative 🔥

[@AbhilashKorraprolu]

1st 50% was storytelling, then you do the sponsor, and last 2.5 mins was the actual answer

[@amandinevovo6549]

i do need some miracle right now to learn some works to present in 3 days, i´m going follow yours steps.

[@StellarEmpyrean]

Love the editing in this so much!

[@insushin6139]

Thanks for sharing your experience! Ultralearning was a book I tried to read and thought was uninteresting, but given that I use your videos as a reference for finding books, I may try another shot on reading it. By the way, do you have any plans to post a video on book recommendations to learn deep learning, especially pytorch?

[@StudyingMachine-yg4th]

Awesome tips!

[@peetung]

Out of curiosity, what are the extra 2 steps that you omitted from your 7?

[@kaieden]

You already have part of the answer - now you have to fill in the blanks 😉

[@jeffreybarker357]

I kinda think number one is the crux. If I knew how to learn the thing, I’d learn the thing…

[@karikaru]

Man f that math teacher. Sorry that happened to you

[@RumanGogoi-cj3]

Thanks!

[@alexei.domorev]

Brilliant!

[@1SciFiGeek508]

Why is it impossible for anyone on YT to just get to the point? 10 minutes of video for 45 seconds of information. Is that clickbait, or BS?

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

Why not both? Two sins for the time-price of one.

[@agytjax]

What a BS waste of time ?? This is nothing but click bait

[@runel7891]

what did you expect from someone who accepts betterhelp as a sponsor?

[@VarunSingh-mj6xc]

i like the editing

[@ianmcmillan5590]

I do t understand what No 1 means , learn to learn ?

[@grahaml6072]

You do a lot of research on the topics you discuss so why didn’t you research your sponsor?

[@kodalinehaddon5223]

Thanks 🙏🏿❤

[@Mangoos305]

My exam is in 2 days lOl 💀

[@5yotub]

Can we find both teachers?

[@mimosveta]

how are steps 3 and 4 different? both are about focusing on things that are causing you problems...

[@blubaylon]

BetterHelp sponsorship, automatic dislike.

[@rockenOne]

I call BS given your spelling mistake in your video title.

[@pichuelanewman7135]

Better help mention, dislike to the video

[@DogsandDoubles]

OH MY GOD.. GET TO IT. How annoying.

[@davidtheopgamer7181]

u just cant build focus like that

[@viddeshk8020]

Bro chill just sit 🪑😅

[@budgarner3522]

Superior method to start by filling in gaps. Did some of this with geometry proofs as HS teacher with good results. This would be interesting if used to teach people how to code. Currently a few examples then you are stuck in trial and error mode until you 'get it'. We identify strong math abilities in children with patterns but fail to use pattern recognition outright to teach people how to recognize and apply patterns to learning math and solving math. (Yep, I'm a yank but a great uncle Sir David Brewster was a relative and suspect I got some math skills from him via my dad's dna..

[@Gigusx]

TDD is pretty much that. You have the beginning, end, and need to fill in the blanks.

[@bhavinvakil6061]

Worst way to include the ad

[@joncharles5817]

The majority of this video is you talking bullshi and then offering psychiatric help what a joke

[@TheMouse254]

5 minutes in and still not gotten the point!?

[@allenqueen]

😢

[@Nathan00at78Uuiu]

So you didn’t cheat and the person who taught you as far as we know doesn’t exist. What are the teachers supposed to believe? I guess they could have just had you work out a problem and walk through the solution. Why didn’t they do that?

[@solidsteal]

Hairy Plotter speaks. Go youtube!

[@AlaKareem]

❤

[@DogsandDoubles]

Jump to 5:40. Skip the rest of the nonsense.

[@oroka2984]

By "nonsense" you mean backstory of the method huh. Thanks anyway for the timestamp.

[@SciFiMangaGamesAnime]

Better help is probably the only sponsor I can't justify. I'd rather see Raid: Shadow Legends being your sponsor. I like what are you doing, but I think I have to skip this video.

[@chuck8478]

Yes, BetterHelp is bad for people, folks seeking help and the therapists trained to give it. My heart stinks every time I see it advertised

[@SciFiMangaGamesAnime]

@@chuck8478 if only there were no PR nightmares that involved them. PS: this 'stinks' instead of 'sinks'.. amusing Freudian slip, won't you agree?

[@MarlyTati]

why is better help so bad?

[@SciFiMangaGamesAnime]

@@MarlyTati They were caught selling private data of their patients, is one of the issues that are known to the public.

[@williamwayne4043]

​@@SciFiMangaGamesAnime In the future could you please include stuff like that in your initial comment. I almost wrote you off as someone who just hates mental health because you didn't.

[@JimmyArcanum]

Hello My Mr. Simpson

[@lindenh2014]

Wow! Being ostracized by the maths department and almost being expelled from school, for suddenly and mysteriously transforming yourself into a brilliant student, puts you on a legendary footing. That's truly impressive, and inspiring.

[@SlowPersuit]

And a massive indictment of the educational establishment(s). To make things worse, I think the system has become far worse in recent times. As an ex-teacher (or 'fast track grad teacher'), I would hazard a guess that Mr. Simpson was "taken aside" for his meddling and invited to leave. My experience as a part time hourly paid lecturer in further education was even worse.

[@BarryFence]

Math teachers are some of the most pretentious, demoralizing, and self-important a**holes in a school. I've had my share of them.

[@FloydBanks-th8ss]

Sounds like winning at the casino. You must be cheating.

[@parkerstroh6586]

@@SlowPersuit wow, what happened with you?

[@rushabjha]

I am just half way done, but couldn't resist not commenting that your video is extremely engaging and fun to watch. The role play and the editing skills are epic combined with your knowledge makes it effective in engaging and conveying your thoughts to the audience.

[@kylek29]

Rejecting those tests is such a lazy way to instruct. If there was any question about your ability, why not just take a few minutes to sit 1-on-1 and have you answer a few additional problems under direct supervision? Or ask you to walk through one of the problems on the test? The method they took leads to frustration (possibly a reduced desire to learn the skill/task) and resentment for the instructor. I'm sure you've realized this -- that negative situation was on the teacher, not the student.

[@EyeIn_The_Sky]

Probably because this is a made up story

[@johanponin8680]

You should write a "Cal Newport" like book titled "So good they can't let you in"

[@MotoM0nk]

the math teacher and the dept banned you not because they thought you "cheated" but because they were proven wrong in their conclusion about your abilities

[@BillHilton]

This man has a box set of Spaced and an open bag of Jakemans' pastilles on the coffee table in front of him. Each by itself would be an indicator of impeccable taste, but together... goodness me, talk about being in the presence of greatness

[@jimliu2560]

Nonsense.. For advanced subjects…you really need to start at the beginning and painfully workout through all the nuances and complexes… There is aNo shortcut…

[@Minecraftsnowwhiteofficial]

NO ONE go to better help they are a fake money taking scam get a real therapist that can come in person not only online because ur getting robbed of money and time

[@bonut02]

Skip to 5:36 to get the meat

[@leoarantes1231]

Learn Law School is huge difficult also for be judge or attorney. How could this method could be?

[@azrulrhm]

Do “thousands of Maths” - sounds like the Asian way.

[@ili626]

Better Help has been shown to violate the privacy of clients

[@jontnoneya3404]

The last part he said is SO VERY IMPORTANT!! "Don't just take the answer as the answer. You need to know WHY the answer is right. You need to build your knowledge and intuition into why the answer is the right answer." Here's something I learned about my brain - when I'm working any sort of math problem, when I reach an answer, on very rare occasions, my mind will tell me "that's a wrong answer" and it'll be correct. MORE OFTEN what happens is that I will intuitively FEEL that it's a correct answer but very often I'm wrong. Wait what? Seriously?! YES!! I've found that I simply cannot trust the way I feel about an answer. No matter how much I've worked a particular type of problem, I cannot trust my feelings about whether it's right or wrong because my body and mind often feel the exact same way when I get a right answer or wrong answer. Now that I know that about myself, I can double check my work, work problems more than once from scratch and NOT just repeating the steps I took previously, working them and asking myself all along "Now what other steps could you take here?" and if it's different maybe take that step and see what happens. I found that in calculus based Physics classes, I struggled the most with these math problems and this feeling that I got the answer correct. SO I also found that many of those problems can be worked in different ways. SO I would work the problems 2 or sometimes 3 different ways to check my work. Now this was quite a tedious way to learn but I knew I simply couldn't trust my feelings on the matter. AND during the test, I wouldn't have the answer handy to know if I was correct or not so I had to work it out myself, multiple ways.

[@algavone]

One question: if that method of teaching math works so well, THEN WHY DON'T SCHOOLS TEACH IT THAT WAY?? Seriously. Is it taught so poorly on purpose?

[@johnwarren8032]

Tall tale Not believable Learning is way harder than that, unless he had some kind of hidden genius that Mr. Simpson brought out. The truth is that hard subjects take years of work, and more than just work. You have to structure your thinking and build efficient mental models of the material to be able to use is effectively and hopefully even use it creatively. With math, most of the mental models are pictures, 3d diagrams, or pictures and 3d models with symbols included. You have to make mental models of individual sentences in the text to understand them sometimes. Mental models of individual formulas that are like physical models. Some rare geniuses may have that whole process happen subconsciously and automatically, but for most people it is painstakingly difficult.

[@jimsimpson1006]

That story of the reaction of your old maths teacher when you did extremely well in the test reminded me of the old joke, "Smart lad wanted, but not too smart". 😂

[@Michael-cb5nm]

Every one of these steps sounds like the deliberate practice methods described by Anders Ericsson.

[@becks3six9]

Please help me where i can start math from scratch. I love it so much and am willing to put in 6hrs a day to learn it n be good but text books don't make it easy. Too analogue and difficult to understand.

[@ikramHabbasi]

Your way to communicating knowledge is terrible. There are one million attention diverters in your video that don't let your audience to focus on the topic and learn. Simply sit calmly, describe your point, rather cuts, cuts, movements. Accept my apologies for this, I think it will make your videos more productive for your audience.

[@MartiA1973]

Material this good would still be good filmed on a park bench with a mobile phone. However your imaginative and snappy production techniques are to be applauded....didn't see any snake charming though ;)

[@MichaelStawowy]

So how do I find Mr Simpson? I’d love a half hour meeting twice a week online

[@nimamasoumi646]

I want Mr.Simpson's paper's as a book or sth, anything, guys you know anything like that?

[@aracelimercadofernandez9928]

El método es muy bueno... para quien lo quiere usar. La mayoría de los estudiantes no lo aplican, imagino que por flojera. Muchas gracias por el video.

[@DRAI-ow1nq]

During my secondary school, my results was below average and I wasn't a bright kid. I came from a poor background so my parents couldn't afford to pay for any sort of tuition. One of my teacher told me about the 10 year series so I bought those for both Math and Science, then sat down and work through all the questions diligently. Those books did have the correct answers and that was how I worked my way through. I got back my GCE O level and scored 4 As. Everyone was surprised at my result including my parents and teacher.

[@mohammedalshalabi3122]

Could you share a rough template of the worksheets Mr. Simpson provided for maths.... perhaps applied to other subjects.

[@JoshFoster-l7t]

I have been advised do not rely on bookish knowledge to help tackle learning.

[@ssing7113]

This is literally no secret or shortcut in life. 😂 it’s called dedication and focus and work. I mean I love the video, yet we all know this. You don’t lose weight sitting in the couch eating Doritos. You simply completely change your diet and exercise. Yet few can do it 😂

[@eswyatt]

I use the examples in the book as problem sets. I cover up the explanation with my left hand, and peek only when I get stuck. And even then I only look at enough to get me through the impasse. The downside is this, for some reason, is VERY stressful.

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

Is this a true story? Sounds aweful lot like a S. Korean movie. Though, there, the math genius used to work as a school janitor.