The Science of Thinking
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
- How the brain works, how we learn, and why we sometimes make stupid mistakes.
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This video was inspired by the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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"To watch videos that give you the sensation of understanding, without actually learning anything" I feel personally attacked XD
Me too!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol....same
this comment is why i came to the comments for
That’s what I thought. “Oh- I thought I was learning watching this video. Guess I’m wasting my time” 😂
11:24 "To watch videos that give you the sensation of understanding, without actually learning anything"
I see what you did there...
BOOM!
But what if i learn from them... IS IT FAKE KNOWLEDGE?! *DO I NOT ACTUALLY KNOW SOMETHING THAT I CAN RECITE TO OTHERS IN AN UNDERSTANDABLE WAY!?!!?!?1?1?1?1?1?1?*
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Well played.......
Veritasium but can I not choose to take some of the information in this and actually apply the rationale. it's not learning facts but it is growth right?
My brain while watching this video: “What a fascinating concept”
Also my brain: “IS THAT THE MUSIC FROM THE MR INCREDIBLE MEME”
just noticed it💀
Kerbal space program
Maaaaaan, good to see u here!!!
wtf is this god doing here
its from kerbal space program, maybe put some of their music on your chanel ;)
It’s funny how this video changed my pov on lots of things. There’s one thing I really learned from this video after only watching it once (I’m rewatching it and still knew this one thing before rewatching it months after) : thinking is uncomfortable and you must be willing to be uncomfortable to learn. Now when I feel uncomfortable when learning new things bc it’s difficult, I can say to myself that this is just normal and that as I clarify the difficult informations I will learn it better
We’ll said! Awareness is the key and keep doing the uncomfortable things until it feels comfortable and than keep your growing by get into the uncomfortable situations again . If u can do it u will become a mastermind
Yeah but when I go uncomfortable I feel like I am going on full psycho mode. And when I am really uncomfortable all these people around think that I am stupid or quite narcissistic and I myself too get a lot impulsive while being uncomfortable that I just don't know what to do
@@rahul-rz5uj unfortunately this entire thing is a skill that needs managing. It's something you should learn by example from your parents, but sometimes, either your parents aren't healthy themselves, or you are just different enough from them it doesn't translate well. In that case, a good therapist can help you build a health structure to manage that. Because it genuinely is a skill. It's just one that people who learned it naturally because they had a good childhood take for granted.
You have to understand that discomfort is your mind's way of telling you that if you that you are doing something that, if continued for too long, could hurt you. In this case, you could overwork Gun until he overreacts and makes you anxious to try and stop it from happening. However, consider this. Your sense of what will hurt you is not omniscient. It is only based on experience. So if you've only ever learned badly, your intuition for what is comfortable will be off.
So what you have to do is find a way to step back from your feelings and examine whether something is healthy for you. Then step back into your feelings and find your limit. Usually somewhere in there is a gray area.
So what you have to do is move just into that gray area for a while. And then step back. Think of it exactly the same as lifting weights. Do enough that you're actually having to work, but not enough you're hurting yourself.
And if you're like, but how do I know where that is! That's a fair point that a lot of people can't help you with because most of them already have a general sense they just haven't exercised, and even if they had to figure it out from scratch...they aren't you.
This will unfortunately just take a lot of time paying attention to yourself and learning when to stop and retreat, and when to push forward again. Just practice practice. Be careful of books and other things because many are written by very narcissistic people. Because their goal is to stop you from growing completely while feeling like you are growing in order to make money.
My best advice is to find a therapist for a while so they can help you set emotional boundaries for yourself and get you started. Because a good therapist doesn't fix you. They just help you find the structures within yourself to grow. Because frankly most of us in life are made to ignore our limits and this can cause us to just not want to grow at all.
I hope that helps and good luck. It's a very difficult but rewarding journey, because the more you learn where to push and where to rest and retreat correctly, the more control you have over yourself, and the better you become at growing and pushing yourself in ways that are actually effective. Again, just think of it like working out.
In fact I think one of the reasons working out can be so useful for mental health isn't just the feel good chemicals it gives you, but because it helps give you physical practice on something you can also do mentally. It's something you just have to experience and honestly it's not a bad place to start.
@@chettlar212 I know this is kinda old, but I just want to say thanks. Just thank you. For helping them. For offering them an explanation. And most of all, making the internet a better place. I hope your still offering your generosity and time to those who could really use it. Stay selfless mate.
When a science channel is more motivating than most motivation channels.
Vrai
I love how the video ends presenting tangible solutions rather than just "you can do it" garbage.
The reality 🔥🔥🔥
Yeah
Facts
Interesting that the human brain can not tolerate boredom, but actively avoids engaging tasks.
There is an optimal zone of learning in-between tasks that are too difficult and too easy. This zone is subjective for everyone and is based upon prior knowledge.
The mind craves instant and easy gratification.. It does not like effort
@05candymanmaybe most minds :)
It c a n tolerate boredom
People are addicted to stress now
imagine the portable smartphone/teen fusion stranded in a cave 10 000 years ago
@@torrace12 Imagine anyone from our current time stranded in a cave 10,000 years ago. I doubt any of us would do that well.
Things I've learned from this video...
1) Habit --- automatic ways of doing something (practice something Consistently)
Eg, Shoe lace tieng, Musical nots, Pupil dilution
2) Thinking takes efforts. It involves fighting through confusion (Somewhat unpleasant)
3) Human Brain cannot tolerate boredom but actively avoid engaging tasks. Mind craves for easy and instant gratification.
4) Enhanced observation skills..
5) False feelings:
Eg, Watching CZcams videos gave us a sensation of understanding without learning anything.
- To always drive with the GPS on, So you never get lost but alao you never learn the way.
6) If you really want to learn and get better at anything, have any chance to become an expert, you have to be willing to be uncomfortable.
"If you want to have any chance of becoming an expert, you have to be willing to be uncomfortable."
I just completed a PhD focused on nanomaterials development and application. This sentence resonates incredibly well. I don't really relate to the idea of not thinking because my advisor told me a few years ago: "as researchers we don't get paid to do experiments, we get paid to think."
The negative side of this is thinking deeply about literally everything all the time lol
A blessing and a curse.
Ah it's so nice to see someone else see this as well. Thinking unnecessarily and deeply, the bane of it all. Often, towards our own misfortune.
Highly-trained musicians experience the same conundrum. Listening to music for enjoyment only, has to become a conscious decision, as the “music critic” mind has been so deeply developed.
researchers never really get paid for their work tho..
@@pluvia13 Recognition is better than money.
Gun is still telling drew to scroll to the bottom on phone to find the comments when they are indeed at the top.
How does this have so little likes???
Now they are at bottom again
@@ImranPollob no they aren’t
underrated AF
@@dlhtks it should actually have more likes, his comment shows that he paid attention to what was being said in the video instead of zoning out and then made observations around him and found one very common but cool observation of the scenario explained in the video.
This must be why kids have an easier time learning than adults. Their auto pilot isn't fully developed yet, and EVERYTHING takes effort.
dang that's... weirdly plausible
FACTS 💯. Correct, excellent observation sir
It’s also because adults have a huge library of information already filled up (Gun) in the subconscious, and it loves to make assumptions based off what it already knows or and think it already knows what it’s about to learn or tunes out. A huge process of learning (for adults) is UNlearning or forgetting everything you think you know. This is actually the very first step in famous Jim Kwik, the memory experts, tips for learning. There is so much information already stored, you often have to delete information to make room or rewrite information thats already in there to adjust to the new information and allow the learning to take place. Which requires way more effort, and steps, than starting from scratch with a blank slate would... aka teaching an old dog new tricks.
- Psychologist
Disclaimer: Hi just generally responding to your comment, not trying to critise you. I have been researching stuff like this for quite some time now. Long text ahead!
This is why adults can have the learning ability of children. For learning, you don't want to suppress anything. You want the conscious (you, the 'awake' one) and subconscious (auto pilot) to work in unison to address problems if they arise. Kids can justify working hard for problem solving because they do not have coping behaviour other than primal cries and aggressiveness. To a child, abiding to the environment (read: listening to parents, interacting with animals, discovering tools/toys) is vital to discovering the rhythms and eventually get educated about the world. If they do not learn this, they will be pushed around by those who do similar to being trapped in a fast current deep river. This education by interaction eventually leads to wisdom which is used to make assumptions with. The assumptions are a away to get out of that river. This is why you must allow some degree of freedom to anyone, including yourself. Without freedom, we feel suppressed and can no longer make helpful assumptions and you're trapped in the current. To stay afloat, you'll have to excert energy similar to that of learning if not more.
Making assumptions is an integral part of learning. But the problem is lack of reflection. A child is allowed to make mistakes as the nervous system is undeveloped and we know they do not have the wisdom to justify such behaviours. They simply cannot know.
However it is different for adults. The brain is fully developed and we even have a huge library of information in the form of our memories, books and the internet. We can reason about why things happen and what we should do to live and survive.
At some point, humans learn how to use social dynamics to mitigate work to people who are better at it, in return of another favor. Due to the sheer number of people, we've created something akin to a network of people who are better at dealing with problems than you, while you have your own strengths to help others. To find people that can give support, in the form of instructions or involvement, a group is formed. This group will represent safety and most importantly, a means to resolve problems without having to think much about it. As long as the group exists, you have a better chance of dealing with problems effectively.
However reflection is an universal skill, a skill even children at the young age at 7 can do. Most people simply chose to abandon it because the group provides enough comfort. They don't have to adapt to survive anymore.
It is a shame really, reflection as a skill is just as accessible to humans as using hands to grab stuff. But the groups feel safer.
I have an hypothesis that dementia is Drew getting even lazier. I'm watching my dad's rapidly developing dementia (maybe alzeimers?) and it's like he's on super-autopilot. He's simply not attending very much...like Drew getting lazier. If I can have a conversation that genuinely engages him and makes him process what we're talking about, he'll remember, but otherwise he's often just "lights are on but nobody's home"...he asks a question but then doesn't really listen to the answer; turns on the tv and looks at it but doesn't really listen to what the tv presenters/characters are saying
“To watch videos that give you the feeling of understanding even if you aren’t learning anything”
Damn you got me there
One of the best content creators on CZcams. Thank you very much for the efforts you put into making these informative videos. We learn a lot from you. Keep'em coming 👌
*"To watch videos that give you the sensation of understanding, without actually learning anything"*
My man's breaking the fourth wall
You got hearted after almost 4 years since this video came out. Congrats
I taught some older comment would of get it
@@daminkon246 I was about to say this.
hahahah right
Painfully self-aware.
"Drew is lazy". Just gonna directly and explicitly call me out like that huh
Haha
0.0
hahahaha
My name's Drew as well & I was half listening to this while doing dishes & all of a sudden heard "Drew is lazy. It takes effort to make him do anything. And he is slow"
@@5manrocks1YT hahaha...
This is too good!!! Way too good! You expertly resumed the concept and explained even better than Kahnemam's book, while adding even more data. Now i'm in desperate need of more content like this from you.
Thank you very much for the efforts you put into making these informative videos. We learn a lot from you. I've been looking up how to improve my memory for years and this short explanation of "chunking" has been the biggest breakthrough.
1:09 "The Earth doesn't take a day to get around the Sun, it take a yee."
My man knows where it's at.
We all thought it was a year..
It's a *Y E E !*
E !!!!
where's that accent from?
Lebanese Australian
yeee
"Believe that you, being much smarter, could never fall into such traps"
As a senior student in aerospace engineering, *I fell into both traps*
Since when did you have to be smart to become an engineer lol
as a student of computer science i second you
@@huskiehuskerson5300 since like starting of engineering, to be a good engineer you have to be smart
@@oksowhat Aah👆good being a KEY word. Only few engineers are that
@@huskiehuskerson5300 from the beggining
"To watch videos that give you the sensation of understanding without actually learning anything". This one hits personally
Am using CZcams since 2016 but till date I had never commented on any video it's 2023 now and I would say that this is the best video I have ever seen on you tube and the line "If you want to have any chance of becoming an expert, u have to be willing to be uncomfortable" is just it really hits the sensation of doing something and not just being lazy all the time
This gave a whole new meaning to "not stupid, just lazy" 😆which is actually motivating
Stupid like a fox!
It’s actually kinda smart because the brain is more efficient by not trying to over think everything
Definitely motivating in some way, I thought it was just me but maybe I didn’t think that thru cause my brain is lazy😂
"People who work hard do things the hard way whereas lazy people find the easier path." - a wise man once said.
@Waldel Martell Why should we do that tho? (to solve things in 4 seconds)
" ...video which gives sensation of understanding without learning anything... "
this is every motivation video with millions of views)
@@VladGoro25 Okay, I did not said otherwise, I just quoted. 😂
If you watch the video while actively progressing it then that's fine I guess.
instantly felt a wave of guilt lol
That's me while watching vsauce lol
Just incredible! This is hands down one of the best CZcams channels.
Man this guy makes something so easy to explain from a normal pov into something so deep in scientific. Like if somebody asked me what is thinking I would say something like "Thinking is to come up with a solution or an answer."
You could argue that the switches in Australia and Canada are actually the same way around, but it's you that has been inverted.
TheSuprChikn hahahaha. I said the same thing.
TheSuprChikn same reason toilets flow the other way 😝
But I thought that gravity was a toilet...
I think Canada is the weird one here. All the years I've traveled across asia and africa power on is always downwards.
But I thought that I was the weird one here...
Fun fact: did anyone notice how he made it much easier for us to understand by converting the 'systems' to names that we are comfortable with and hence our Drew does not have to work hard. We would have to pay much more attention to understand had he not used the names Guns and Drew😀
Why gun?
Guns can be associated with firing things quickly. Just how 'Gun' rushes to solve the answer quickly.
You could make a similar analogy with 'Drew' painstakingly drawing some art. Slow and methodical.
But then people also would be less inclined to do so, so there must be a balance. He's right that most people hate thinking and often seem to have an aversion to learning, so it's better to make it easier to understand otherwise people just won't try. This is a CZcams video, so people elect to watch it. They will just as easily elect not to finish it if they decide it's too difficult for them to understand, both because they don't want to put in the effort of thinking and because on a psychological level, people don't like to be made to feel stupid, which is also why if you correct someone you'll often get accused of acting superior and being mean by trying to make someone feel dumb, even if you were genuinely trying to teach them for the sake of sharing knowledge.
Actually, quite the contrary for me. I could not remember which name went with which system. I would have been better off with system 1 & 2. Or "Auto" and "Thinker."
He used Gun and Drew because they rhyme with System 1 and 2.
By far, this is the most brilliant episode of your amazing science videos...
I've been looking up how to improve my memory for years and this short explanation of "chunking" has been the biggest breakthrough.
"We're all wrong aren't we?" mood
What's the answer????!!
@@JeanaTheGreat the ball costs 5 cents. He said the bat costs 1 dollar more than the ball, together wud add upto 1.10. so 1.5 for the bat and 0.5 for the ball adding upto to 1.10
@@SakethAlva You mean $1.05 and $0.05.
I know you know, just being pedantic.
@@Liberum69 ryt, missed that one🥶
@@JeanaTheGreat he does say in the vid :D
"If you want to have any chance of becomming an expert, you have to be willing to be uncomfortable"
This is amazing.
So it's natural to feel that way when learning, and not a sign of stupidity.
Makes me feel slightly better :)
But you should feel uncomfortable xd
Can you explain me this line, I don't get it ,how can I be uncomfortable? How to be uncomfortable?
@@debankanmitra2425 it means for example just look at any quantum mechanics channel.... when they explain everything simply like a summary it's going good.....whoa, go to the actual mathematical part and we're dead lol
Stupidity is when both gun and drew knew the truth but won't admit it because ego said no
I also liked that statement, because i never put this phrase of looking for discomfort in regards to learning :)
Your videos are questioning my philosophy and they are changing my perspective toward my life and the world, thanks a lot
Best video I've seen regarding learning! I really needed this, it confirms that I do in fact need to change locations and do things differently to study appropriately
He just explained a whole trimesters worth of psychology in a 12min video
no, 11:23 ;)
That's a great motivational video for a trimester, but Drew needs more than that to actually learn.
or you didn't focused enough during classes.
psychology =/= behavioral psychology taught in institutions
Eh... What type of psychology are you referring to exactly?
"If you really want to learn, any chance of becoming an expert, you have to be willing to be uncomfortable, because thinking takes effort. It involves fighting through confusion and for most of us, that's at least somewhat unpleasant!" -Veritasium, an element of truth.
You just made me past a test, I was looking for this quote for an hour lol.
@@officialcrescent120 you were looking for an hour through a 12 minute video? I ask, bc I can imagine doing that, looking for a quote… too lazy to watch the whole vid again, jumping around in it…
@Veritasium Interesting
It is this understanding that led me to rise among my peers as a data engineer. I realized early on in life that I don't have to be a genius. I'm smart enough, but not enough for it to be a differentiating factor. All I had to do was be uncomfortable for longer than other people are willing to. That and my dumb ego just LOVES to solve problems that are hanging others up.
@@CitAllHearItAll That's great. I'm also an engineer. But I didn't realize it early in my life as you did. 🙃
Someone once said "confusion is the physical sensation of learning" and I've repeated that to my kids quite often.
Excellent video. Everyone ought to watch and learn from this video. This material is not taught in schools...as it should be. It's worth viewing several times.
Its like vsauce, but stays on the same topic.
Yeah, it's totally not random :D
vsauce makes me dizzy sometimes
or
or
or does he?
LMAO BUT HOWDARE YOU THAT IS WHAT MAKES VSAUCE GREAT YOU CLICK ON A VIDEO TO LEARN ONE THING, YOU LEAVE WITH 199
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
@@kingdollop-head743 Well, technically you leave with 199, but drop 199 of them on the way to the next link... Because Drew didn't have enough practice with all of it to hand them over to Gun.
I’m gonna remember Drew and Gun the rest of my life.
ten seconds after exiting this video: "I remember remembering Drew and Gun but I don't remember them."
"You know?"
Yeah me too😅
I bet 7 years from now you will forget them both all together!!!
So am I.
same. this will change me and already has. im still procrastinating but i wont be in a sec!
this is very very good. I have been yelling at people that they need to be less complacent. learning comes at the cost of discomfort, and you cannot find a shortcut. thank you for this video
Thinking is uncomfortable, it takes effort. Woah!!
Donald Trump be like...
My brain read, "THE CAT" part as "THE CHT," so it automatically translated to "THE CHAT," like Twitch chat. I feel like that's a funny indicator that our minds are skewed by our interests.
I also read it as The Chat. The skew is interesting.
I read it as the chat too XD
I read it as "tae cat" 😂😂
@@wanderer37 You monster 😂😂😂😂
I read the chat too 😂
Boss: Why are you procrastinating?
Me: Drew is on sick leave all day everyday
It is like a sum up of the 700 pages book by Daniel Kahneman, Thinking fast and slow. Amazing video, fascinating! You make everything understandable!
"Because thinking takes effort", what such a good teaching!
"Thinking through confusion" is the base principal of jokes: when we break the confusion and "get it" - it makes us smile because we've learned something new, saw a different perspective.
Same as children, constantly learning new things, smile up to 200 times a day.
Same reason this text made you chuckled once you "got it" and broke the confusion. So learning CAN be fun!
Nice comment
Yeah I know that feel and this feels so good, yet as we grow older and older, we can't find these scenarios very often.
@@muio Life is all about change. Once we stop learning new things, change stops and it's like we're dead. Try to find something new to learn every day that will make you smile and want to share it with others. Don't be a walking corpse ;)
Sorry but what was I supposed to "break" in your text? I'm too Drew to give it a second thought.
@@6pac. why does your name sound Indian
My drew is so anti social and introverted that always refuses to show up during tests and quizzes
This comment is underrated 😭
"TRY NOT TO READ THIS" got me so hard XDD I'm loving Veritasium and I've been watching dozens of his uploads for quite a while, I love information and science hence I'm definitely subscribing today! fellow scholars do so since it's very informative!
Idk how I haven’t seen this one but goddam. I’ve been thinking about this concept for several years and still allowing myself to be a victim of the “feeling challenged/lazy”. But it’s priceless to understand that feeling uncomfortable for what is challenging is perfectly normal, and in some ways anything is possible when done consistently
So all I have to do during exams is to summon Drew
Summon drew so gun can do it for you
Summon Drew while studying so Gun can finish the exam for you
How did they go
@@zdenek3010 I have written this statement on my study table, thanks :)
no, the case for u is to cheat, thats the only way
This is one of the best episodes you have ever made. My point of view! ;)
Totally agree
yup
agreed. incredible quality
Too bad the episode doesn't contain his own ideas. The entire episode is based on a book called "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. He got everything from the book but he didn't give the author credit.
True :(
This is great!
Especially that bit at the end about how educational videos, make you feel like you learnt, but you didn't truly learn anything.
I know this is a really old video, but I've only recently subscribed to your channel, and really like this stuff, and am trying to keep in mind most of it, in application to my own day-to-day life as a Final Year student.
That being said, I'm wondering how do people make that process with "Drew" pleasant. While it is fair to say, generally people don't like to be in that uncomfortable situation. I'd like to ask and ponder what would make us more interested and driven, towards wanting to constantly be in uncomfortable situations.
I wonder if I made sense, just a random thought
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 job well done. The editing, creative brain characters everything
When I started learning computer science I've discovered how my brain works, and I'm sure other people's brains work the same way even though they might not be aware of it.
But basically I was hitting these "walls", where you feel like you're too stupid to understand something, think you'll never get this, and so on, that feeling of being uncomfortable basically. And what I've discovered through experience is that if you just sleep on it, the next day, things will start to click, and the more you repeat this process of forcing yourself to go through the material even though you don't understand it and feel lost, and then sleep on it, eventually everything will click, for me it was usually the next day in the morning. And all of the sudden from being completely lost and feeling stupid to feeling like you mastered the concept, and you can explain the concept to others as if you invented it in the first place.
So that's always my best advice for students, force yourself to go through the material and sleep.
Silver Mirai This is extremely interesting and I actually want to try it. And if it does work as you say then my explanation for it working would be that your brain tries to solve the problem on it's own while you sleep which is probably going to be more efficient because you won't have any distractions or things in the world to distract you while you think because your brain is doing it while you sleep..Im probably wrong but its my best guess.
I wonder if there's any research on this, probably yes.
Gumption traps.
@Silver Mirai I'm pretty sure there's research on this. I've heard before that during sleep your mind kind of *locks in* what you've learned during the previous day, sorting what is relevant and worth remembering and whatnot. Kind of the same reason that you get a little mixed up and hallucinatory when you go without sleep for a very long period of time, your brain is full of information that it never had the chance to process so your thinking is very muttled. Sleep is basically the time your brain gets to put your mess of information into nice neat filing cabinets for you to access later.
@Johnny Lee Dreams and Nightmares are likely a mix of exploring potential future events and their outcomes mixed in with our fears,desires and also we get some practice on things we have learned, so if you were learning guitar that day, in your sleep the motor neurons that controlled your fingers will fire in your brain during your sleep as if you are practicing, but there are inhibitors that prevent you actually moving your body. A similar effect happens when we watch someone else perform a task, the same neurons fire in the brain, we almost feel other peoples pain, when they hit their hand with a hammer or get hit in the nuts for example, they say this effect comes from mirror neurons.
having social anxiety is like using dru to speak, rather than using gun
Lmao this one gets it. Drew is TOO active.
EXACTLY. It's like everyone else seem to so effortlessly socialise because they're using Gun and Drew is just chilling so to them socialising is "chilling", while with social anxiety Gun pass all the tasks to Drew because he doesn't know how to deal with them, and so Drew needs to work like 10x as hard.
So ... basically to solve social anxiety we just need to train Gun to automate socialising !!! so just keep trying to socialise over and over and over again until Gun gets it
Try meditating
You misspelled “Drew”
Yeah I think it's part of the joke even though it is irrelevant
I love the bgm choice, soothing and makes me wanna watch more, not to mention this guy's awesome oratory skills
it is UNCANNY 💀
and INCREDIBLE 💀
This was a brilliant video. Thanks Derek!
"this is Drew, he's your conciseness, the voice in your head. He's the one you think of as 'you'..."
Me: "hi Drew!"
"...Drew is lazy..."
Me: "hey!"
Lol
Lmao I had this reaction but even more
XD Crazy!
Reminds of the quarks anti quarks joke where quark sans that anti quark is weak and anti quark sans that he's just like quark
Conciseness? Consciousness?
Isn't this a short version of Daniel Kaneman's "Thinking fast and slow"?
Amazing book.
That’s what I thought too
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I saw it now. I need to read those descriptions more often.
It is, he took most facts from there
Yes, even the examples are from there.
started watching your stuff, and cant stop
The discovery of the year for me. So glad I found it.
For musicians: have you ever noticed that the "muscle memory" acquired by playing a song in a specific instrument is kind of attached to the velocity you practiced it ? When you try to play it slowly its hard to remember the notes... I wonder if this has something to do with the way we acquire muscle memory in math operations as well...
I play piano and this happens to me a lot
I play guitar and I agree very strongly. The other day I was teaching someone the notes of a song I had been playing for years now and I kept on getting stuck and making mistakes myself whenever I had to slow it down for her to catch up.
@Gabrial Barberini
Literally this. Not sure, if you're reading this, but the same experience happens when you try to type in your Bank PIN or your PIN on your smartphone. Somehow I don't really remember the numbers itself directly, but more like the way I press the buttons and at what velocity. And usually it works if I type it in very quickly. But as soon as I slow down, I somehow tend to not know the PIN anymore. I am not sure what this is, but I always wondered about this. It's very different to all kind of memories I usually have.
I speed solve rubik's cubes and this happens to me A LOT. I can do algorithms (sequences of movements) with my eyes closed at full speed no problem, but when I try to slow down, for example to show someone how I do them, I just can't and have to rethink it
@@DROGOC0P I was about to reply with this exact comment. LOL
"I am who you think you are"
I really didn't need that today
Its drew that said "I think therefore I am"
haha, try acid.
@@oluchukwuokafor7729 i think therefore i think i am.
Wow
One of the most interesting videos i ve watched
You made it really easy to understand with your examples as well
And I watched this video again after 3 years! Still goosebumps!
"What are you?" - Kurzgesagt
"You are two" - CGP Grey
"You are Gun and Drew" - Veritasium
"AAAAAA!!!!!" - Wait but why's Panic Monster
LMAO we r the same.
"Aaaaaah! Real Monsters!" - Old cartoon
but WHAT IS being? - Vsauce
@@miukiwey But what is "what"?
I am surprised that this didn't end up with a Brilliant ad!
They didn't spam CZcams with ads back then
@@rowan-paul true story
When he said "Un"comfortable, I was almost sure those guys sponsored him. But Nope!! A veritasium video without an ad
this is a beautiful explanation mate. well done, thank you
You know I watched this video already about .. idk how long ago but I just came back because I had this thought 💭.
Another reason why this makes sense is because you know when you watch a movie or tv show, in that specific episode or movie scene if you’ve watched it. It goes by a lot faster than it did if you watched it the first time. Probably because! Your brain 🧠 is recovering every moment it took in and sometimes there’s scenes you haven’t even noticed. That I can’t explain and I have no clue how that would make sense. I guess it’s because at that moment you weren’t paying attention to it. And your brain was lazy idk 🤷♂️. But veritasuim. You’re a real G. Love your videos man. I love watching stuff that’s educational. I’m that type of person 🥸🤓 knowledge is the best
If I draw my gun a lot, Gun draws the gun with my muscle-memory and I don't need Drew to draw it. So... Gun drew the gun without Drew?
Oh, that's good...
This easily deserves to be the most-liked comment
i threw an oscar at my screen after reading this.
English being not my first language ... It's really hard for me to get this haha, but thats GOOD
lol
I think this is the best veritasium video so far :)
Охтеров Егор thats what I was thinking too😁
Охтеров Егор
it is good.
it's been a while...
or maybe you are too lazy to remember other Veritasium videos that were good or better than this? =P
No =)
Honestly, those were the same words i said after i finished his video.
I really liked it! Some of Kahnemas' work showed!
This is the best study motivation I could have asked for.
This is definitely one of the best videos from veritasium.
Everything he said is just so true and extremely relatable. We avoid being uncomfortable, we avoid anything that takes effort. We seek for familiarity. Why is it so hard to break an addiction? Why is it so hard to stop procrastinating and just do your homework? It's because we avoid things that take effort. We prefer doing things on autopilot mode, that's why it's so hard to create new healthy habits. Ever watched veritasium and vsauce videos constantly instead of studying? You deluded yourself into thinking your learning but you just wasted time.
You've gotta normalise being uncomfortable and put effort, that's the secret to having a disciplined and better quality of life.
Excellent video Derek.
Normalize being uncomfortable! Excellent point
I felt called out when u said "Ever watched veritasium and vsauce videos constantly instead of studying? You deluded yourself into thinking your learning but you just wasted time."
What you have written is pure gold, underrated comment though
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You pointed out exactly what I was doing i was constantly telling my Brian that I am watching a educational video but in deep down i know that I am just wasting time
"Thinking is uncomfortable; it takes effort." That is why most people hate critical thinking.
These days I'm more inclined to believe that most people have never encountered the concept of critical thinking - and if they did, they would use it only to support what they already feel. Concepts like loyalty, faith, and patriotism and other forms of tribal group identity have come to supersede the need to _be_ right, although the need to _feel_ right is totally undiminished.
@@davidhand9721 Well I kinda agree but if you use "critical thinking" to support what you believe then it is confirmation bias and not critical thinking in the first place.
@@brawnstein ok but to independantly think critical, it required years of data. not just last 400 years of data. I am referring to patriotism here
Yes
most people never think critically. i have to encourage and stress young engineers at work to actually think about what they do, how they do it and what is the purpose. and these are so called 'smart' people.
I feel the "click" in my mind. Just like you finally got the point. It's hard to understand concept *because i've been procastinating for a long time*, even more concept about thinking, it get biased when you think about it. And you guys awesome can illustrate something complex in simple way. Thank you so much!
And some tips for me to everyone, learn not to skip the videos you watch. If you got bored, instead of you watching another videos. You can stop and take a moment.
When you only think all day, the only thing you think about is thinking.
now i get my answers, why I feel so sleepy while learning new things. actually i almost forgot that i have to push myself to learn some new things. Thanks so much
If you really want to learn, you have to be willing to be uncomfortable because thinking takes effort and fighting through confusion is unpleasant. Truly words to live by.
Complex or just use sparknotes.
I always study when I had to pee!
One of the best videos I've seen till date. This is like a motivational video minus all the crap. Big thumbs up. I'm going to try to make my Drew work his ass off!
7 months passed. Did you?
One of the best Veritassium videos!
A beautiful lesson. Thank you.
11:25 and Veritasium gets pretty meta
Felt like he was trying to roast vsauce
Nick Kirkpatrick I was thinking the same thing.
He just called us out on our laziness.
I was watching to avoid doing work...
This is not 'meta', this is on an individual level.
9:04
Gun: I can't solve this problem
Drew: Here, hold my beer
xDDDD
Oh so this thing was meme since that time 11 months ago!!!!
I thought this meme came just a few months ago
@@AyushGupta-yj8jz No, it's been there for ages
Honestly one of the most important videos you have made
Seeing the Drew and Gun parts with how they engage with their tasks and the animation (video editing) just got me laughing everytime it showed up. Brilliantly executed.
DISCLAIMER : This video is not for Gun, it's for Drew.
What if you watch it multiple times?
@@yugdesai4140 gun is ab to start taking notes
HA ha ha very clever !
He copied everything in the video from the book Thinking, Fast and Slow. He doesn't give any credit in the video. Just slid some credit in the video description. The book is worth reading a million times over. It deserves the credit.
@@TrentYakle he gave credit by putting the book in the description, its not like there was no mention of the book
My Gun handles the liking button for your videos.
do you think this video is saying that if you watch science videos you're not learning anything
Anton-Constantin Not accurately, This video is saying that to learn from science videos you need to apply the knowledge in real life, use your so called "Drew" for the process of learning. Ofcourse, if your motive is to change and not for just mindgasm thing we get from new knowledge. (We tend to forget this soon)
i read your comment and i went to like the video and i found myself already liked it
mine too, I click like as soon as the page loads :)
I especially found the part of chunking interesting. I really like reading, and always make chucks of everything I know about each character.
I have seen this play out in physics. Most of the textbook problems give quantities in base SI units, so when an exam question breaks the trend, "gun" automatically assumes it must in base units without checking. And this is why professors sometimes teach you to write the quantities / underline them in the question to try to eliminate that automatic response.
I teach chemistry and have a very student-centered classroom. My students often share that they wish I would lecture. I struggled to explain why the student centered classroom is so effective other than describing it's an effective research-based strategy. This will be perfect to share with them! I cannot wait to show this video! Thank you!
Did you show them?😂😂
This is just simply a life changing 12 minute video
I'm looking for another one now to UNdo it, I need to change my life back to the way it was before.
naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Thank you for this beautiful video.
wow, I can't imagine how brilliant this video is! Just amazing content.
I think I might have killed my Drew....
InMaTeofDeath lmfao same dude
INTJs are lazy ). but its mostly due to low resources. start Keto
With my Gun.
*ba dum tss*
By understanding the drew analogy, you show that "your drew" has worked.
He is just asleep!
11:25 owned all of us lmao. And played himself too tbh
Sure did and also shows that using your brain takes active participation and constant flexing to hone the skill of critical thinking, which is what he is actually getting at. Looking at the world unbiased and objective to a point of being able to see things in their true light, as it were. It is sad that critical thinking seems to have been abandoned a Relatively short time ago and now the paradigm is deeply rooted and mostly abstract at best. The self validation of those who purport the same contradictions and logical quagmires is what is sought in the mainstream physics and is only going to hinder a progress to logically sound, reality based experimentally repeatable scientific understanding of the universe around us. Things are bleak and this is in my opinion the only Dark Matter that needs to be discovered. We have lost what scientific integrity should be and the scientific method is being so loosely applied that we are stagnating. It should be about the real results of direct observations, not how closely do the predictions line up with the data that was altered to validate success claims. That is where the concept of critical thinking has all but died. It is a lack of this that has led us down the path of darkness, and funny that because the universe is filled with all sorts of light. Think critically of everything that is trying to be programmed into you. If the evidence is not from real observation then it is not evidence of anything other than the idea trying to be passed off as fact when it is not. The real scientist is critical of all of it until proven otherwise, and mathematical gymnastics are not allowed in the game of reality. Only rational, logical and provable ideas will bring greater understanding of the universe, and doing some relative tricks and changing reference frames with thought exercises is getting old. If we call it constant it should be that. If we have to transform it , that changes it fundamentally to fit a construct, and is not what should be done so all the ideas work neat and play nice together. Ideas that are uncertain should not depend on or be built upon a whole bunch of other uncertain( but look good in algebraic symbolisim and constants that represent things not fully understood) ideas to keep the current paradigm happy. I think that is what not thinking and following your gps has led us to. Rant over I dont know how to constuctively fix non critical thinking as that has to be done by each individual and when the group pressures a certain topic most people are just part of the crowd. Seems relatively improbable that it will fix itself. See how many GR puns you spot in this comment, lol
@@JasonKerlin Thanks for your essay.
@Johnny A. Thanks for reading it.
@@JasonKerlin Jason Kerlin Interesting read and I agree as far as I understood it. Nevertheless, I'd be careful with the phrase "scientific understanding of the universe". Science quantifies and you can't quantity everything. I don't know if it's possible for science to understand the universe. Science is probably able to model its processes, but I wouldn't assume more.
@@JasonKerlin I have been making a short essay everyday. as a part of "As long as you think" campaign
Saludos desde Colombia, sigo este maravilloso canal para expandir un poco más la información que constituye el conocimiento del mundo en el que vivimos y que abordan de manera excepcional. Me gustaría la traducción de este capitulo. muchas gracias.
Nice explanation. It gave me motivation.
Dang Veritasium, these videos are becoming more and more incredible.
Drew is that one classmate you had who couldn't care less about school, failing in almost every subject, and who teachers were frustrated with because they knew that in reality, he's not dumb at all and if he just put in a little effort, he would actually be doing pretty well
and Gun is the other classmate who has a 4.0 GPA but is good at nothing else.
@@annettenavin2063 Gun fails reading complicated questions properly because they looked simpler than they were.
"10 cents"
@@yargolocus4853 Good thing (or a shame) that schools are institutions that have become so standardized that Gun can now pass with a 4.0 GPA because tests and reading material will never change. Once thrown into the real world Gun fails since the real world isn't black and white, falls into a depression, and thus Gen Z was born.
...and Gun is that classmate who's really good at cheating but always gets something wrong because he never checks what he's throwing on paper, he gets the tests done in 20 mins and leaves. However, Drew and Gun are brothers and share the same bench so if there's some prize that they value for getting a better grade, they cooperate and can get good grades.
Seriously, best channel on CZcams.
Hi Derek. I am honestly amazed on how you present ideas on your videos. I am even learning to incorporate your style on my science classes. Quick question: How do you think AI's will affect someone's Drew and Gun way of thinking? Thanks :)
well its gonne be the same way the "Gun" always do since he discovered google, he just automatically trust AI more for gaining information and getting things done
When Drew said, "Can't we just use a calculator?" --
There won't be much difference if we compare it to the GPS example. It will give you the false feeling of having accomplished or understood something. Hardly any learning will ensue, because your personal (Drew's awareness) experience isn't being engaged is what I've gathered from the video. Drew would neither register or understand it nor store the information.