Why I Don't Care About Grades Anymore

I'm here making this video that I've been wanting to make for a very long time but somehow fear got into the way between me and this piece of message that I want to communicate with you just to open everything up I'm here to warn you that this video would probably I'm probably gonna get a little emotional and a little ranting in this video because this is something that I truly care about this is something that's in the backbone this is something that's foundational to how how I approach all of my learning this is something that really deeply resonates with me and this is something that I want to share with you people so don't mind me if I get a little ranty if I get a little antsy and get a little pissy in this video so I'm here early to tell you that I don't care about my grades I don't care about my grades at all just like no at all immediately people start to ask me questions such as well if you don't care about your grades who the hell are you to come on here to preach about learning if you're not a great learner yourself how are you here talking about topics of learning right if you don't care about your grades why are you here reading books if you don't care about your grades why are you making YouTube videos if you don't care about your grades why do you have the credentials to talk about the topics that you talk about and ultimately if you don't care about your grades why the hell are you working so hard it is as if if you guys notice that there's a deep assumption going on within all of those questions there's a deep unquestioned unbiased assumption within each one of those questions it is as if I do what I do solely because I just care about some mark on paper it is as if all my motivations are directed towards a little earning that mark in the paper it is as of all of my motivations towards learning towards exploring what life is and towards learning everything that I need to learn about life I need to learn the literature I need to learn philosophy I need to learn physics I need to learn chemistry I don't need to learn humanities I need and anything that you throw at me I need to learn it because my life here on earth is finite and I want to make the effort to understand every aspect of this universe it's really a creation of Marvel it's really a creation of divine beauty and if you are so hooked up in an academic system and grades is all you care about think of how much stuff you're missing out instead of marveling at the beauty of organic chemistry marlee at the diagrams of how these things are constructed and how they interact together and to influence human biology and how human biology tends to create breathing living breathing organisms and how these organisms can group together to form an entire complex social structure and how that structure goes on to influence history instead of seeing the beauty and interconnections of all of these details that is the universe itself you're worried about some Markham paper you're worrying about your next exam you're worrying about everything every studying is stressful and then learning about stuff is stressful as if all you really care about is just that mark on a paper true knowledge and true commitment and true purpose they don't at all come from something shallow as grades they don't come from a market of paper they don't come from standardized SAT through interest and true marvel at the universe and true science are derived not out of somebody who's trying to seek a lot of fame seek a lot of recognition from Pete's academic peers nor is it from some straight-a student who only cared about their grades the greatest straight-a students the greatest scientists in history they didn't care they care about the outcome they cared only about understanding what the heck it is that's actually actually around them they're actively mesmerized they're actively bedazzled by all it is that the universe really is and they want to understand it in whichever field I want to choose and really true knowledge and true learning should make you feel very small if you marvel at the universe at night you look at the Stars and you wonder what could be out there out there in the universe is there not a universe out there and then you take a look at study using two black holes into a string theory into UFOs and aliens you take a look at these very advanced frontier research and you take a look at somebody's findings saying you even just learn a little bit about science learn a little bit about the solar system learn a little bit about chemistry learn a little bit about biology you should get the sense that you and your grades on the cosmological scale it's tiny it's peanuts compared to the miraculous structure that God have built for us oh I'm not religious but I deeply believe in a god this God is the universe itself and I am a part of this universe and it is my job to understand the universe so true knowledge and true commitment should make you feel small and then when you feel very small if do you have the true authentic drive to understand all of us about life to understand about what is this what is everything around me it's so strange how does the language work why are we communicating through language now why is it that people can write stuffing books and you can comprehend that stuff where does the nature of natural language come acquisition comes in how could anybody ever comprehend a thing called language or you ask another question why do water look like the way it does why does it behaving that way why is it the case that when you put water in a more advanced system it can form in itself an entire ecosystem based on just the simple simple water h2o structure by itself or if you want to look into history how is it that people could derive theorems and philosophies that could go on to influence generations generations and how is it that some of our culture paradigms are being shipped I mean shifted and how some of the paradigms have been broken down and reconstructed and why do we think the way that we do right now if you investigate even just a little bit of this stuff you should get a sense that everything synced to connected everything is beautiful everything is miraculous the way that it all fit together so when people ask me if you don't care about your grades why the hell are you learning that to me it's a preposterous question I don't care about my grades not because now I get to be some crazy wacko kid who does no work I don't care my great I don't care about my grades precisely because it is a way for me to move forward it's a way for me to grow out of my current paradigm it is great for me to further and deepen my learning schools don't give you enough time to to absorb all the information to marvel at it they pile tests up on tests SATs up on SATs upon you so you don't have any time to marvel at the beauty you don't have the time to absorb all the nature that studying Nature has to offer and your ego your sense of self-importance are really boosted by all these great chasing the greatest knowledge to make you feel small not big we're approaching this problem ass-backwards instead of making knowledge instead of gaining knowledge and making us feel smaller so we can appreciate and become happier and become more content in this universe and then understand every part of it we're worrying about our own self-importance we're worrying about some mark on the paper we're worrying about our own self self biases we're worried about am I gonna publish something in nature next year am I gonna gain a publication for Nature we're worrying about this petty stuff well this is a whole new universe out there for you to explore I've been going through a Leonardo da Vinci's biography I started today and about 30 pages in I can already I can already sense that there's a huge disconnect between the way that we learn stuff now versus the way that we learn about stuff before people back in the day they actually understood what it means to learn they didn't learn just for some silly silly shallow purposes of a grand aggrandizing one's ego they learned because they truly want to understand a universe a lot of people complain about all math that's so hard I don't want to do math a lot of kind of stuff but they were missing out on some point this point right here to missing out on it which is that here's some Rahil of structure and on what school does is that they mechanical eyes all these structures and they give you they fit you into pigeon halls and categories and they give you tests they give you exams and they give you all these assessments which drives you completely away from the center from the integral from the integral purpose of learning itself that's what they've done back in Florence people have more wood sculptors and poets than they had butchers people had more poets and wood carvers than they have butchers but nowadays people are so stuck on a functionality people are like so concerned about their own reputation I want to be a doctor I want to be a biomechanical engineer I want to be something well if you're driven by authentic passion go pursue those things but don't pursue it just because it offers you great paid don't pursue it just because there's some ancillary stuff to be gained learn like you care about it you're offered a great education learn like you care about it now for some supercilious reasons not for some ancillary benefits not for some amazing Greed's marvel at the universe learn like you care about it with the abun twit the abundance of information that we have right now there's no excuse for not being a Renaissance man there's not an excuse for you not to be investigating to nature there's not an excuse that you can make that somehow the universe I have no interest in the universe while you're a part of it you're a little part of it and you think your daily matters and your daily depression and you think your little problems are what on a grander scale than the universe really you should be aiming to become a humanist do you want your grades or if you want to be a human do you want to just chase some ancillary stuff that you care about out there or do you care about being a true human for me being a human it's not about self-importance for me being a human is not about somehow you get to author some amazing books and become this celebrity philosopher or celebrity scientists for me being a humanist is all about exploring life exploring life in itself is a human endeavor some of the greatest scientists they weren't driven by greed they weren't driven by shallow stuff they weren't driven by conforming to a system they were driven by truly wanting to understand universe and that is my message for you do you want to be a human or do you want your grades do you want to conform to something that you don't even believe in or do you want to fit yourself into the universe that it's all interconnected and you as a part of it take your pick and that is my message I'll see you guys next time

Channel: R.C. Waldun

Views: 441,568

Keywords: how to do better in school, how to learn and understand anything, how to learn more efficiently, study tips for highschool, study tips and organization, i don't even care about my grade, grades are not important, grades are not important debate, how to study more effectively, how to study more efficiently, how to study more effectively in less time, renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci, inspriation, motivation

Id: 4MPf56a1tX0

Length: 12min 29sec (749 seconds)

Published: Thu May 31 2018