Training Nerd Math Adjacent - Path to Mastery

[@johnloth479]

I'm a vessel captain. I am really good and driving a 300 foot ship. Then I had to teach other people how to do that. It forced me to be able to articulate why I do things rather than just doing. Now I'm learning how to teach the teachers. Wich each step I'm forced to reevaluate and refine why I do things let alone my teaching methods. Great video really loved it.

[@MarkWildman]

You are well on your way to mastery sir

[@terwils7492]

Exactly my experience as a leader in scouting. I observed other adults leading scouts who liked to just tell scouts what to do and marvel that they "follow." My understanding of scouting, it is scout led. So, when I asked scouts to replicate what they had 'followed', they couldn't. It was a completely different thought process to do something from their own intuition or decision making ability than to follow the way someone else had directed. It forced me to learn, as you describe, understanding the underlying principles and methods as well as the AIM of the teaching. The founder of scouting, Robert Baden-Powell, was a master at training others. He trained by putting his pupils in charge of their own training within a small group of their fellow trainees and then giving them games to test what they were learning. Learning by doing! The best method I found was Socratic in nature, asking questions empowering the scouts to think for themselves and come up with their own decisions, try, do, evaluate, repeat. It worked great. The hard part then, was to ask the adults to take a similar approach when guiding scouts. They were extremely resistant to change their ways. They were results or outcome focused instead of the process that leads to results.

[@robinwarga9]

This is why you are a master. Thank you so much. I am 72, retired in Thailand from LA, living a recluse, meditative, fitness life on island forests. You have changed, contributed to my physical and sometimes mental growth. Good on you for applying, learning, this video to your life, passing it on to all of us. Your students are ready, please continue teaching. Robin Warga, Ko Phayam, Thailand

[@cucciafr68]

One issue I had starting out as a judo instructor is learning not to give too much info at the beginning. I want to teach all the little secrets I learned through the years but I have to hold myself back until they come across the same situation that I did. Great vid, Mark.

[@stefanienia3914]

Oh yes. I have the same with my pedagogue students and young colleges...Keep myself back and breathe - but always being there. I remember my journey. And I' m not finished yet.

[@thenrie98]

This is a great video to re-watch. I watch most of Mark's videos within a day of them dropping. But I like to go back and watch again. This is something worth revisiting. Almost wish you could put a 6 month alarm on videos like this one. And it is a very succinct phase about teaching "remember what it was like to suck". Great content.

[@wenhsin547]

This is a great video, Mark

[@tiborkovacs5317]

It is very basic but I think the process of asking discovering with Who What Where When Which Why How to build knowledge understanding wisdom also is helpful. Good vid thanks.

[@BenSemisch]

I forget where I read it (I think it was Ryan Holiday's Ego Is The Enemy) was that Ken Shamrock used to tell people to always have 3 sparring partners - Someone at your level, someone worse than you and someone better than you. In that way you're challenging yourself, learning from someone better and watching someone who sucks (and ideally showing them where they suck) to become a more complete athlete at your sport. I've been doing this with hockey and it seems to be paying dividends, so seeing this same sort of idea here is really nice.

[@a.lame.username.]

I have a vague memory of that. Also not at all sure where I picked it up 🤔

[@stefanienia3914]

Excellent. I realized really good teachers are quite rare. And now I see some of the points why. Quite clear. My impression is, some people don't want be a good teacher. In no direction. Okay. Now I look on my own. And gratulation to the growing of this channel. It _is_ a skills channel. Definitely. Thank you.

[@simondhalliday3919]

The "forgetting what it was like to suck" idea is sometimes called "the curse of knowledge" in some of the academic literature - it's considered a "cognitive bias." Though I'd use that phrase in academic settings, I'd be likely to use yours more when talking to students. Good job Coach.

[@PNWBlue1]

So true of going back and making steps smaller. I try to get teachers that I work with to do that. So important.

[@gundy3842]

Mark, The lock down and your connection back to nature has taken you to the next level (what ever that means) I recognize profound truth in all the content you provide. Thank you ! Namaste !

[@alno1]

That video is an universal roadmap! Thanks for this !!

[@sawomirantoskiewicz9540]

Excellent video! Thank you , Mark!

[@nadiadozova6515]

Genius video. I am doing exactly this in my job (science/teaching) and in my sport. It is good to see it written so clearly and so succinctly. As someone said underneath if you can teach something it will greatly improve your learn/compete sides of the triangle. And yes there are some people that are very good in their field even though they suck at teaching: I always thought they are hitting a plateau and they would improve if they put some more effort into the teaching part (especially remembering what it is to suck...)

[@psychoshonen]

Excellent video, thank you! Seems like it maps well onto Kano's model for learning judo (and education more broadly): kata, randori, shiai. Forms, sparring (likely an interesting combo of teaching and competing), and competition. Cool to see this broken down across more fields!

[@edmond0073]

I think I'm going to write down that flowchart for my own future reference. Thanks mark.

[@kypdrayson]

Skills channel indeed. Not only have I had my wife and a friend ask me to teach them kettlebell, but I think this video is gonna help me be a better parent too. I've totally forgotten what it was to be a 1st grader. Dang, Mark.

[@terwils7492]

Mark, this is excellent. You provide Much wisdom here. Creativity Inc., similar lines of thinking in Pixar organizational development implemented by Ed Catmull, John Lasseter and Steve Jobs! "All movies suck in the beginning of development."

[@mattiswahlby6194]

Amazing content! So happy to have found this channel

[@willmathers2925]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Makes sense and applies to everything. You often refer to “we” in your videos. Out of curiosity who is we? If you are part of a team they need to be thanked as much as you for all the brilliant content.

[@MarkWildman]

I often don’t say “I” because I think it’s mildly self righteous in these contexts. I use “we” to encompass my friends, my clients, my teachers, etc as everyone has contributed to my thought processes over time

[@a.lame.username.]

True Master 🙏

[@nicholaskroll6249]

You mentioned longsword. When will we get some longsword videos?

[@MarkWildman]

When I get back to Scotland

[@robertw2953]

Excellent. Very helpful.

[@MrSteeJans]

One of the best ways to validate if you've actually learned something, is if you are capable of effectively explaining it to someone else. However, not everyone is capable of articulating a concept to someone else. Theoretically all can learn. Some can compete better than they can explain it. Some can teach it better than they can compete. Wayne Gretzky is considered by many to be the greatest hockey player in history.......he was a terrible coach. The concept of competing against yourself is excellent! Great video!

[@jasonmurray4714]

Wayne Gretzky is also terrible at making whiskey. Ask me how I know.

[@MrSteeJans]

@@jasonmurray4714 hehe.....I've actually been to the distillery in Niagara ;) I won't comment on the whiskey in and of itself, but my wife and I do enjoy making '99s (the cocktail) fairly regularly. It uses the Red Cask + Cabernet Merlot. For whiskey, I prefer Ardbeg, and Highland Park. Cheers!

[@DavideTarasconi]

I played basketball for enough time to have multiple people asking me to coach a team. I always refused because, in a way, I knew I forgot what it means to suck (I was a more than decent player). A few years ago I accidentally started teaching people (different context: professional training), and I found myself being very effective as a teacher, mostly because I very well remember how it is to suck at the things I teach. Starting at a young age might build great performers, but maybe starting later in life creates better coaches. That also applies specifically to sports: very rarely great players become great coaches, great coaches come from a place of obsessively loving the sport but mostly sucking at it.

[@MarkWildman]

Well that’s certainly me

[@a.lame.username.]

Awesome!

[@rudycanda]

Is it just me or does even wrong grammar sound right when @markwildman says it? 🤔 Great stuff as always!

[@ADEXClub]

It applies to, basically everything, all the time

[@mannyshawbrooke]

what do you mean by “non-compliant” - of the competition environment? would it mean within the “rules” or expect the unexpected. Sorry for this question; used to practice organization development (retired) and your model is simply smart

[@israel2255]

Sorry hope this isn’t a dumb question!! But where is you kettlebell workout for fat lost? I looked on channel but I may have missed it. 🙃

[@MarkWildman]

All of it

[@MarkWildman]

It’s not a dumb question. All the kb stuff is total body, mid weight and long duration. That’s pretty much the definition of a fat loss workout

[@davidsopher6871]

Nerdmath entrepreneur app on its way guys.

[@MohamedAmine-nq5rj]

Stay hard mark

[@terwils7492]

Do! Burt Munro, The World's Fastest Indian! A thought that comes to mind of the example of human spirit lead by "DO."

[@shantanusapru]

Maybe replace "compete" with "improve"? :-P :-) Lovely video, Sensei Mark!

[@bookworm3756]

It's infuriating when sometimes you get coaches who don't believe in clarity and then when you say you don't get it they go "well you clearly don't want to learn enough" and they take pride in how many people get sick of them and leave. It's like when a teacher is proud of almost every student failing their class because their subject is "too much for these idiots to handle"

[@MarkWildman]

I dislike those people intensely

[@a.lame.username.]

Waste...

[@annaz9655]

Hey Mark. For snatches, are high pulls good as a warm up after mobility?

[@MarkWildman]

I’m not a big kb high pull fan. Clean and press is the warmup for snatch. High pulls are great with barbell

[@annaz9655]

@@MarkWildman Thanks. I'll try that. The high pulls were tough on my weak shoulder at times😬

[@happiman9484]

Do you practice German or Italian longsword?

[@MarkWildman]

I did a bit for a movie. I’d appreciate a refresher on the names of the positions. I’m running a learning OODA loop experiment with longsword blocking

[@KarateRustamRoshchin]

💪💥💎🎯

[@dividendsmatter3108]

Is the down vote guy okay? 🤔 Never beaten him to a vid before

[@Bat_Dance]

Perhaps he downvoted himself into oblivion.

[@dividendsmatter3108]

@solo I guess it's possible 🤔 I'll put my money on missclick tho 😸

[@sgb996]

Fun theory @MarkWildman uses secret account to down vote so we talk about him more - compete!

[@a.lame.username.]

DVG ... RIP

[@scottengh1175]

Much better to learn foreign language from someone who learned it when they were an adult. Not a born and raised in that language.

[@antonomaseapophasis5142]

Word Police: “commensurate”

[@Sparrowhawk187]

Also, "irregardless" is not a word.

[@MarkWildman]

They sound good though

[@Sparrowhawk187]

@@MarkWildman That's for sure. I had a college freshman correct me on irregardless while I was her English professor ten years ago. Stuck with me and I'm just passing the curse on. I still think it should be a word--sounds more heavy duty than "regardless."

[@MarkWildman]

@@Sparrowhawk187 irregardless or whether or not irregardless is a "word" im unclear on what rules of the english language that it breaks which makes it not a word. anyone remember how to do word trees from the linguistics field... because i don't

[@Sparrowhawk187]

@@MarkWildman Good news: "Irregardless: In nonstandard or humorous use: regardless. The reason we, and these dictionaries above, define irregardless is very simple: it meets our criteria for inclusion. This word has been used by a large number of people (millions) for a long time (over two hundred years) with a specific and identifiable meaning ("regardless").: "

[@johnkenny6516]

E.R.R. Erase Replace Repeat.