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Did you notice?
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We learned so much at school
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But what is it for?
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Is all that useful?
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That's what we will find out in this video.
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Unfortunately, often we are too focused on memorizing at school
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instead of trying to really understand.
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That's what makes we, even though we might get good grades,
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suddenly forgot all the lessons we've learned after graduation
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We have no idea how all the knowledge we've learned so far might be used for
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Even so, our world has been built by great people throughout history.
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They attempted to understand various complicated things in this world
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Therefore, the biggest mistake we made on learning is that we are too focused on memorizing.
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It doesn't mean memorizing is not important, but memorizing by itself is not enough.
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If you see out there, our world has changed so fast.
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We can't just rely on memorization to face this kind of world
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We should be able to keep up with the changes in our civilization
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That's the reason this video series was made -- to accomplish one objective:
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To help you understand all these various fields of knowledge...
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...by looking at them from different lenses
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We will look at how it is used in real life
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the origin of how it came to be
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the influential people behind it
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and your affinity with it
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Afterwards, you can follow their footsteps yourself
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So, what are we waiting for?
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Let's discuss about good learning methods so we can have deeper understanding on these subjects
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and how they can be useful in our lives
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Part 1: The First Step in Learning
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We often encounter complicated formulae and terminologies at school or college
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But remember -- try to hold yourself back from just memorizing and guessing the answers
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Try this instead:
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Be honest to yourself if you don't understand something
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because that's the first and MOST important step in learning process
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If you feel like you have known about everything,
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we will NEVER truly learn anymore
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So, if you don't understand this difficult terminology...
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don't pretend you know it and guess the answer
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But look up what it means
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If you don't know why you should use this formula to find the answer,
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find out why is that so
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Keep practicing and try understanding the concept
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If you don't understand what the subject is for,
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even you don't know why you go to school to begin with,
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then don't study just to graduate
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Look up why you study these subjects and how you can use them in your life later
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So, never feel ashamed if you don't know everything
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Be ashamed if you feel like you know everything
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Part 2: Want to Understand It? Start from the Basics
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Our world is filled with new knowledge that keep emerging every single day
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With how vast knowledge is in the world,
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in order to learn something at a faster rate
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it's important to look at knowledge as if it's the branches of a tree
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You heard right, branches of a tree
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Make sure you have understood all the basic principles
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Those are the trunk and the branches
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before you move on to the twigs and the leaves
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or else, they won't have anything to hang onto and collapse
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As a result, we won't understand
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Therefore, it's important to, for example, understand the basics in math
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before we proceed to the branches
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because what often happens when we learn at school...
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...is that we fail to understand since we missed the important details in the basics
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...or we just never looked at the bigger picture
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It's tough to learn something if we haven't grasped the basics
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It's difficult to learn something if we don't know at which "level" we are on
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That's why if you're still confused what this terminology or that terminology means,
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then look them up and try to understand them
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Whether it's playing piano, learning foreign language, or playing games,
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please remember -- we all begin from Level 1
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Keep repeating the previous level if you haven't understood it yet
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It's okay to take several steps backwards so you can truly understand it
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Don't feel ashamed to relearn from the basics
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Part 3: Don't Stop Figuring Out Things You Like
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So, all the subjects we learn at school are basic knowledge
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But the question, as stated in the beginning of this video, is...
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"Is it important that we learn them all?"
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The short answer is... VERY important!
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because you need all of these basic skills to survive in this era of rapid development like now
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You also need to figure out which ones you like so you can contribute to this world's progress
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Alright, let's not use big words
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Now imagine that you're a character in an RPG game
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You certainly will learn the basic skills first
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However, in the next level, you have to decide what kind of character you want to build
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... and you might be confused, but it's okay
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There's no character who's obviously better than than any other character
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This is your choice to decide what kind of role you want to play as
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Even if everybody has his or her own opinion, there is no wrong choice
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You may choose one or a combination of several of them
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You must choose what kind of character you want to be
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...because as the level goes up, you must cooperate with other characters to complement each other
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There's no character who's able to do everything
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...because it takes a long time and huge effort to master something
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Even Harry Potter and Captain America needed to work with others
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because they were not able to do everything by themselves
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That's why all characters have their own roles and work together to defeat this monster
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The same thing applies to the lessons at school
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All characters must start by learning how to swing their blades
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because whatever our character turns out to be, we must have the basics to survive against the monsters
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It works the same way in learning math
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Calculating and training your logic are basic skills for us to face challenges in real life later
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because what we will face in real life is no longer exams, but "The Monster"
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That means challenges in the world and in our lives later
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Therefore, all these subjects are not only theories to memorize,
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...but they are also useful and can be applied in our lives
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All these subjects we learn at school are like weapons that we can use to face daily, real life challenges later
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Okay, you might think it does not make much sense because all those lessons contain too many theories
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So, for the sake of you to be able to imagine and understand these things...
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...let's rewind the time to look at our ancestors in the ancient times
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Let's take a look at them
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Not too long ago from today, if we turn the time back to the old times,
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our ancestors lived only with the stars above them as their roof
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Many kinds of danger awaited them
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But just from a simple question: "How could they warm themselves up?",
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our ancestors learned how to make fire, a chemical reaction
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They used it to protect themselves and to survive
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In the morning, they continued their journey, using geography
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so they were not lost and knew where to go
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Then, as more descendants were born and more mouths to feed,
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our ancestors chose to settle down, getting to know plants and animals with biology
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The abundance of foods pushed them to rethink their situation - "How could they ease their workload?"
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Wheels were invented, based on the laws of physics
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As they got more prosperous, they need mathematics to manage and prepare their foods
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Trade was then born, and there was a need of medium of exchange, like money
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in order to ease the exchange of goods like foods and clothes, keeping the economy going
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As life became more complex, our ancestors thus built a society that functionally complemented each other,
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encouraging them to develop further
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but also learned how to manage and maintain the social order,
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building a government to rule over many people
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Nevertheless, many things were inevitable --- for example, swords
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But by learning about their own bodies, there were no wounds and injuries that could not be healed
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...including understanding the remaining, aching scars in our minds
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Slowly, days came to pass as if nothing happened
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However, they would never forget those stories,
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remembering those historic days as important knowledge to be passed onto future generations
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They recorded them on writings and preserved them to be remembered for millenia to come...
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...and interpreted it with emotions and expressions, inciting tears and laughter,
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something that could spark life in their own lives
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Then, everything returned to become reflections of basic questions...
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...that capable to give birth to new knowledge
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Knowledge is not merely achievements of great people
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...but the joint forces of everybody -- the joint forces across generations
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It's an effort carrying the torch from teachers, to students, then back to teachers again
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It's a joint effort from before civilization until far into the future
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Everything starts from our school
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By being fearless of admitting that we have not understood something...
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by being unafraid to find out about everything until its most basic essence...
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by not viewing knowledge within any limit, but as a whole picture...
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working together to survive against uncertain future that's full of challenges ahead
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So, are you ready?
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Now, let's explore the fundamentals of these knowledge
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Our story has just begun...
