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  • - Hi everyone.

  • Welcome to our daily live stream.

  • This is why we've almost,

  • we've been doing this for a little bit over two weeks.

  • For those of you all who are new to this,

  • the whole point of this is Khan Academy

  • is a not-for-profit, with a mission of providing

  • a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

  • And over the last many years,

  • we've been building resources that start in pre-K

  • with Khan Academy kids through elementary,

  • middle, high school and the core of college, not just math,

  • not just videos, but deep interactive exercises,

  • dashboards for teachers, English and language arts,

  • history, sciences, SAT preparation.

  • And, that has made us very well-suited

  • to really step up for the country and the world

  • as we go through these school closures.

  • But we realize we need to do

  • as much as possible on top of that.

  • And so the whole point of this live stream

  • is for all of you who are using Khan Academy

  • or thinking about using Khan Academy

  • or just trying to navigate the school closures generally.

  • We wanted a place for folks to connect, and feel connected,

  • especially in this time of social distancing.

  • And so, every day it's very informal.

  • Myself and I gonna bring some team members on,

  • we sometimes have special guests,

  • we try to answer your questions

  • and I make any announcements that are relevant.

  • I do wanna start off with reminding everyone

  • we are not-for-profit,

  • we are funded by philanthropic support

  • from folks like yourself.

  • We were running at a deficit that even before this crisis

  • and with this crisis our server load is up,

  • is roughly 250% of what it normally is,

  • our registrations are six x from teachers

  • and parents of what it normally is.

  • Parent registrations are 20x.

  • So if any of you find yourself in a position

  • that you can donate, please think about doing so.

  • I wanna give a special shout out

  • to several corporations who've stepped up

  • in the last few weeks with very short notice to help us,

  • although we need more help.

  • Bank of America was the first followed by 18T,

  • google.org and Novartis but we need more help

  • from individuals and corporations.

  • We are literally going to go millions,

  • few weeks and months.

  • But with that said, I would love to,

  • I'll bring my colleague Dan on who helps me

  • answer all of the questions that we get on the live stream,

  • and I encourage all of you all to start asking questions

  • on whatever you're using, YouTube,

  • Facebook, whatever channel.

  • And, let's see,

  • it seems like there's already a couple of questions,

  • but then you can always jump in, but this question,

  • it's from YouTube, this is Crazy Cookie 3,908.

  • It's pretty impressive

  • that there were probably 3,973 before you.

  • Hey Sal, will there be summer classes?

  • Will this be all-year round?

  • That's actually a super powerful question,

  • Crazy Cookie 3,908.

  • You know, I think about two weeks ago,

  • the school closures were announced in this country

  • and really through the world,

  • there's 50 million students out of school in just the US

  • pretty much close to a billion globally,

  • and it happened so fast

  • because of just the health emergency.

  • And I don't think a lot of thought was no one had time

  • to think about what the implications

  • but now it's becoming clear that in most of the world,

  • the school closures actually might happen

  • through the summer.

  • And so, the way we've been thinking about this,

  • we wanna be able to support teachers,

  • parents, students over the next two months

  • so that we can keep the learning happening,

  • keep everyone learning, but we also see summer

  • as a really powerful opportunity to keep going.

  • There's no reason that once you've built the practices

  • and the habits to keep learning

  • over what would be the traditional school year,

  • that whether you're a student, parent or teacher,

  • that you can't go over those three months as well.

  • And that might be the silver lining of,

  • historically summer has been, you know,

  • there's the term summer slide,

  • it's been a time for a lost learning

  • and now we have an opportunity to do,

  • now we have an opportunity to make it a valuable

  • for learning purposes.

  • And so, yes, simple answer what we're trying to do

  • in response to the school closures and COVID,

  • we expect to be able to do through the summer.

  • And I think next school year is going to be interesting.

  • We all hope that the social distancing,

  • the school closures are not in place as of back to school.

  • Hopefully the summer temperatures

  • will help kill some of that virus, reduce the spread

  • but there is a possibility

  • that in October, November, December,

  • what's traditionally flu season

  • could actually make COVID go up again.

  • And so we also wanna think about if that happens,

  • how we can continue to support folks.

  • But, the big takeaway is summer is an opportunity

  • that we all have to keep everyone learning.

  • Excellent question.

  • All right.

  • So there's a another question.

  • This is from Facebook.

  • Dina Everett Nevos says, hi, I'm apparent and new to Khan,

  • I saw the sample daily agendas.

  • How do I link the daily schedule to my children's accounts?

  • Thanks.

  • Well, Dina, the schedules are very simple documents

  • and you can actually adapt them, you can copy and paste them

  • into your own docs and adapt them as necessary.

  • And those just have links

  • to the relevant part of Khan Academy.

  • And what if the student, if your child clicks on the link,

  • it will go to their Khan Academy and if they are logged in,

  • they will show up as a logged in users.

  • So, if they click from their computers

  • or whatever they're using, if they click on that, you know,

  • let's call it fifth grade English and language arts

  • on that document, they'll go to Khan Academy

  • and see fifth grade language arts,

  • and if they're not logged in, they can log in

  • and there'll be logged into fifth grade language arts.

  • And if they're already logged in on that computer,

  • they will be on their accounts.

  • So I think that's what you might be asking.

  • And that brings up another interesting thing is, you know,

  • we've made those schedules,

  • we made four different versions of them.

  • One for kind of the pre-K kindergarten first grade crowd,

  • one for the elementary crowd,

  • and then one for the middle school

  • and one for the late high school crowd.

  • And what you could do is then make them

  • even more fine tuned for your children's needs.

  • Because for example, for the late elementary crowd, we said,

  • okay, you might wanna use third grade

  • or fourth grade or fifth grade or sixth grade

  • or seventh grade math on Khan Academy

  • and depending on the strength of the student,

  • you might wanna remediate it or not

  • but you know all your children better than anyone

  • and they know themselves hopefully.

  • And so you can narrow that down, you know,

  • work on sixth grade or if you had some weak foundations,

  • work on fourth and fifth grade

  • while you work on sixth grade as well.

  • So I completely encourage you to fine tune

  • those schedules for your children's needs.

  • - So Sal, I would add next week

  • we are hosting some parent webinars for different age groups

  • specifically and we'll be going through both your,

  • the schedule that you created and kind of helping parents

  • find the right content for their kids

  • and dive in a little bit deeper on how to use Khan Academy

  • specifically matching to those schedules.

  • - Awesome.

  • - So Sal we have a question here.

  • Yeah, we have a great question on YouTube from our Arov Jane

  • who says, I'm in fourth grade,

  • I want to learn more about scientists,

  • can you post something on Khan Academy about that?

  • - So Arov, we want to help you.

  • We currently do not have what you could call

  • fourth-grade science on Khan Academy,

  • but we, and I hope over time we are able to add that

  • and I'll remind everyone we're not-for-profit.

  • The more support we get,

  • the more we can think about adding more subjects.

  • But, if you are genuinely interested in science,

  • I think there are places you can start.

  • I actually think that you could,

  • we have several, for example, even our high school biology,

  • I know you're only, I'm guessing nine years old,

  • and high school biology could seem daunting,

  • but I actually think some of the intro levels

  • of high school biology you could start to engage

  • in my oldest son is about,

  • is actually a little bit older than you,

  • my daughter is about your age.

  • And actually I've been doing stuff

  • even in some of the early chemistry,

  • high school chemistry units on, what's an element,

  • what's an atom, what's an atomic number?

  • I think these are types of things

  • you could completely understand

  • and it'll be really interesting,

  • especially some of the stuff in biology to understand,

  • you know, I was talking to my daughter

  • who's about your age this morning about what's a virus,

  • how the virus different than bacteria, are viruses living?

  • You know, what's the definition of life, what's RNA and DNA,

  • how do viruses replicate?

  • So this is obviously very, very important things

  • to think about that's very relevant to the world right now

  • and I encourage you to, depending on your interest

  • to start digging in and see what works for you.

  • See, other questions.

  • So this is from Facebook, Scott Yang asks,

  • I enjoyed the daily live streams,

  • will you do it again next week?

  • Yeah.

  • We are set to keep doing this

  • until no one wants us to do it anymore.

  • (laughs)

  • So no, no, we think this is super important

  • and I say it at the end of every live stream.

  • I myself in this time of social distancing

  • feel more connected by being able to do this

  • and I know a lot of our team here at Khan Academy does.

  • So, we wanna do it for sure, keep that connection going

  • and make sure that all of you feel supported.

  • So, from YouTube, Steven Amenzo says,

  • when was Khan Academy founded?

  • And Steven, if you do a web search, you'll find a lot of,

  • you know, talks on YouTube and other places

  • for me talking about that.

  • So if you want it in depth,

  • I recommend you you're doing that

  • but long story short, about 14, 50, actually 16 years ago.

  • I'm getting old.

  • My cousin Nadia, who was 12 at the time

  • needed help with math and I started tutoring her remotely.

  • Worked around my family that free tutoring was going on,

  • and so people, and so I started making resources

  • to scale it up.

  • At first it had nothing to do with videos.

  • I was creating the software part,

  • the early version of what you can now the practice software

  • in Khan Academy and then a friend suggested

  • that I make videos to supplement it

  • and that kind of took on a life of its own in 2009.

  • 2008 I set it up as a not-for-profit,

  • which just means no one owns Khan Academy.

  • I don't own Khan Academy, I'm an employee of Khan Academy,

  • I own as much as you own of Khan Academy,

  • and then 2009 was when I quit my day job

  • to try to work on this full-time.

  • It was a tough year.

  • (laughs)

  • I was living off of savings,

  • but then in 2010 we got some of our first support

  • from some foundations and corporations.

  • And so we've been able to grow all the way till today

  • where we're over 200 folks, we have thousands of volunteers,

  • there's 40 translation efforts

  • around the world of Khan Academy,

  • we're trying to add subjects and grades

  • and we were already reaching 17, 18, 19 million students

  • a month before the crisis and it looks

  • like our daily users is up roughly 50% now

  • and our actual total traffic is up 2.5.

  • And so it's been a bit of a wild ride

  • but we feel privileged to be able to support you

  • and so many other folks.

  • Dan, you got more questions?

  • - Yeah, so I just wanted to share.

  • Here's our 10 year tee shirt from last year so...

  • - Dan is showing off his clothing.

  • (laughs)

  • - I'm worrying about getting this Khan Academy's.

  • (laughs)

  • - So we have a question on YouTube from Carmen Nita.

  • Hey Sal I have a question.

  • Will the schedule you made for all of us,

  • will you switch it up or will it stay the same?

  • - That is a great question and that was at Carmen Nita.

  • So, that's the schedules you see where the first pass

  • that we put out a little over a week ago.

  • And, I hope that as we kind of get our legs under us

  • that we can provide more and more supports for y'all.

  • One thing we are very seriously talking about are yes,

  • can we extend that schedule to maybe think about

  • what goals could be week by week

  • as we go through this crisis,

  • not just over the course of the next couple of months

  • during the traditional school year,

  • but to previous question asker go through the summer,

  • so that, you know, hey, given your grade level,

  • given what you're trying to achieve,

  • what are reasonable goals for you to achieve?

  • And it would be cool to even switch it up like,

  • hey, here's the PE of the day.

  • So what we're trying to do,

  • we have a small but mighty team,

  • and we're gonna try to put as much together as possible,

  • but that's a really cool idea to think about.

  • How could we switch it up day by day a bit?

  • Maybe we give a weekly schedule or something like that.

  • So, we're gonna work on that.

  • Let's see.

  • There's other questions.

  • Some Facebook Tamra Adams says,

  • is this the new normal of distance learning?

  • How do you believe is the best platform for assessments?

  • So Tamra, you know,

  • what you're asking is a really intriguing question.

  • I've been writing actually just there was an op ed

  • that came out today that I wrote about,

  • you know, are a lot of people asking me,

  • what's the new normal, what's structurally,

  • how is this crisis going to fundamentally alter

  • what we do going forward and schooling

  • and obviously in a bunch of other ways?

  • The way I've been thinking about it is,

  • given that this is, you know,

  • we're likely to go through the end of the school year

  • and then summer, and then as we go into next school year,

  • hopefully schools are open,

  • but then they might have to close with fairly short notice

  • if the virus picks up again in November, December.

  • I think this is where the hybrid of in-person learning

  • and having a great online tools that are accessible

  • and free it's starting to become even more important.

  • Even before the crisis we've talked a lot about

  • that everyone learns at different paces

  • and has gaps in their knowledge if they're pushed together

  • at a fixed pace.

  • Teachers have always known this.

  • They have students who come into a class on day one.

  • There's some kids who are ready to move ahead.

  • There's some kids who have gaps from two,

  • three grade levels behind.

  • Teachers try to kinda teach to the middle

  • but that leaves some kids a little bored,

  • some kids a little lost, and there was no way for them,

  • you know, they're taught in ed schools

  • to try to differentiate but it's really hard

  • if you're one teacher in a classroom of 25, 30

  • or in some cases, 35 or 40 students.

  • And so even before the crisis,

  • all of us at Khan Academy have been working with teachers

  • and districts to say,

  • okay, how can we support teachers in that way

  • so they have the tools?

  • How can we be the teaching assistant for that teacher?

  • So they have the tools to give that personalization

  • for every student so they can fill their gaps

  • and if necessary, learn along the class if necessary

  • and even accelerate as necessary.

  • And then how do we do it with districts?

  • So the districts can have a read on

  • where their kids need help or not.

  • And now all of a sudden when you have these school closures,

  • the districts that have adopted that,

  • those types of models where they are using tools

  • like Khan Academy for even 20% of their class time

  • really is a strategic supplement.

  • It's been much easier for them to transition

  • to the school closure world because they can now lead,

  • you know, they've already rostered their kids, set them up,

  • the students are used to using these tools,

  • the teachers are used to reading the dashboards

  • and so they've been able to lean quite heavily on these,

  • say the teacher or the district version of Khan Academy

  • and have a seamless transition.

  • And so I think, one of the new normals is the emphasis

  • on being able to blend is going to be really important,

  • blend so that you can accelerate outcomes

  • during a normal school year,

  • but also blend so that if for whatever reason

  • there's a school stoppage that kids can keep learning

  • and then the district and the teachers can keep monitoring.

  • I think there's a whole other layer

  • that's going to be really interesting around,

  • you know, I've been talking to some school districts lately,

  • they're doing all sorts of training

  • to help teachers start teaching on Google Me or on Zoom.

  • So I think that's gonna be a new muscle

  • that even when schools are in session,

  • I think might actually be an added muscle

  • that'll be really powerful for a lot of types of schooling.

  • So, we will see, but a lot of things going on.

  • I think one of the biggest question questions

  • that everyone's thinking about is access.

  • Obviously if you're watching this,

  • you have internet access at home,

  • but there's still a large fraction of kids in the US

  • and even a larger fraction globally who don't.

  • And I think this crisis shows us

  • that at home internet access is not just a nice to have,

  • it's a must have, not just to access things

  • like Khan Academy and Keep Learning,

  • but also to just be socially connected

  • and for your mental health when all of us

  • are having to be socially distanced.

  • Great question though,

  • and something we're thinking about it, a lot.

  • - So Sal we have a question on Facebook

  • from Elizabeth Warner, and this is for a lot of folks.

  • So where can a parent find out more

  • about the upcoming parent webinars next week?

  • Where's the best place to find these opportunities

  • to send parents to?

  • And really what's the best place to find

  • all of our resources that we're developing right now?

  • - I could answer it, but I don't wanna steal Dan's thunder

  • 'cause he's actually the guy (laughs ) coordinating.

  • (speaks indistinctly) why don't you tell us?

  • - Yeah, sure Sal.

  • If you just go to khanacademy.org right now,

  • we have a blue ribbon at the top

  • and it contains links to all of our resources.

  • Our parent webinars, the ones that are upcoming

  • are listed there as well as webinars

  • that we've already performed

  • where you create links there and it's available

  • for you to view so in case you can't make any of them live,

  • they are available to you after the fact as well.

  • - Yeah, exactly.

  • You just go to our homepage or actually any page

  • on Khan Academy, that banner at the top

  • there's three or four links.

  • One of them is kind of, you know,

  • we've been posting stuff on the daily schedules

  • 'cause a lot of people have been looking at that

  • and also that a remote learning resources link

  • that you can see right now, and we are,

  • and Dan is one of the many people

  • who is constantly updating that to keep you informed

  • and also stay tuned on social media, our Facebook page,

  • our Twitter, et cetera,

  • that's also where we're going to be making announcements

  • on new resources that we are adding.

  • All right.

  • So there's other questions.

  • So Facebook, from Facebook,

  • Mary Miller's asking any thoughts

  • on adding more arts courses to the curriculum?

  • So, we don't have any major plans

  • to add significantly new ones.

  • And then I don't think if there's a little hum from yours

  • or maybe lower the microphone down.

  • I'm getting a hum.

  • It's not horrible.

  • Oh yes but (speaks indistinctly).

  • (laughs)

  • No, but on the art courses,

  • we aren't going to add any new significant ones,

  • but we have a partnership with Beth and Steven

  • who do smart history, who've been adding art history content

  • on Khan Academy for many, many years now.

  • And so, if you haven't seen it already,

  • I do encourage you to explore art history on Khan Academy.

  • It's really, really interesting stuff

  • where they're having these cool conversations

  • about some of the most important pieces of art in the world

  • or actually almost all of the important pieces of art

  • in the world.

  • So encourage you to check that out.

  • All right.

  • So there's other questions here from Facebook.

  • Actually, let's see, there's other questions below the.

  • So from YouTube, Kimberly Klein asks,

  • what advice do you have for GED students using the website?

  • So Kimberly, my recommendation to you as a GED student,

  • I think there's two things you could do actually,

  • even though it's not built for GED,

  • I think our SAT practice could be great for the GED.

  • It's covers roughly the same,

  • you know, math reading and writing,

  • and so if you get good at that,

  • I'm confident that you will do just fine on the GED.

  • If you feel like you have some more foundational gaps,

  • especially in math or reading,

  • then I encourage you to try to find your learning edge

  • on Khan Academy math and the Khan Academy English

  • and language arts.

  • And you could do that by just sampling and say,

  • okay, the algebra stuff seems a little hard.

  • Okay, the seventh grade stuff feels a little bit easy,

  • eighth grade feels right for me,

  • and then you could take the course challenge

  • and use that to assess what you know and don't know

  • and then focus on the units

  • where you might have larger gaps.

  • There's another way where you can actually start

  • at the earliest possible stage at second grade

  • in English and language arts and a second grade in math

  • or even earlier in math you could start.

  • And just go from there

  • and if you feel like it's ridiculously easy,

  • you obviously can skip to the next grade.

  • But that actually might be,

  • and you could take the course challenges in math.

  • That might be one of the most robust ways

  • of making sure that you don't have any debilitating gaps.

  • What we've seen even a strong students, A, B student,

  • from middle school, high school,

  • even in third or fourth grade, you know,

  • they might have a mastery of 99% of it

  • but there's always that one like, oh,

  • that's why the distributive property works this way.

  • Or things like that, things that they've just, you know,

  • taken for granted but even that helps fill in the gap.

  • So, I think that's something that you can do.

  • So, from Facebook Myuran Alara asks,

  • how can we make sure that we maintain a good mental health

  • during these uncertain times?

  • You are my hero.

  • Well, thank you Myuran.

  • You're being very generous.

  • On the mental health side of things, you know,

  • and this is something I think a lot about

  • 'cause even before this crisis, you know,

  • sometimes life can get stressful, jobs can get stressful,

  • school can get stressful, what I have found invaluable

  • and y'all have seen me talk about this before

  • has been meditation.

  • And you know, meditation isn't some fancy new age thing.

  • I mean it is a fancy new age thing as well.

  • (laughs)

  • But it doesn't have to be a fancy new age thing.

  • You know, meditation, it literally can be,

  • you know, you can start five minutes in the morning

  • and I've personally found the morning

  • or right before I go to bed,

  • but especially the morning it's about,

  • is the best meetup when the house is quiet,

  • is the best time to meditate

  • and it's literally just finding a quiet space,

  • sitting, you know, posture matters a lot.

  • Sit up right, close your eyes, be attentive

  • and just try to observe your thoughts,

  • and you'll realize that you are not your thoughts.

  • That there's all this stuff that's going on your thoughts.

  • I've got to get that thing done.

  • Why did that person say that?

  • And how am I going to do this?

  • And, you know, what's going on on that TV show

  • that I'm watching and, you know, any,

  • I know like what's gonna happen with COVID rise?

  • You know, all of these thoughts are going in our head

  • right now, and what you need to do is just learn

  • to observe those thoughts,

  • and separate it yourself from those thoughts.

  • And, you know, the a metaphor,

  • we've done some guided meditations on kind of going.

  • There you have it fully fans a put the screen.

  • So you can go use these guided meditations

  • if you want a little bit of health,

  • but over time you'll be able to do it on your own

  • and you're gonna realize

  • that as you rise above the thoughts, you know,

  • if you do the thoughts as cars on a highway,

  • you just kind of get out of the highway

  • and just watch the cars go by,

  • that the car starts slowing down.

  • And you're gonna have these moments where you're like,

  • well, you're not even thinking about it,

  • you're just not thinking.

  • And when you have even five minutes of that a day,

  • and your mind will wander and don't beat up yourself,

  • just say, okay mind, that's funny, you wandering,

  • come on back in.

  • You're kind of like a sheep herding dog for your mind

  • and your mind are the sheeps (laughs)

  • or you're just kind of, that's a little sheep

  • that's going astray and you gotta bring it back.

  • But I found if even five minutes a day,

  • but over time you're going to like it,

  • you're gonna wanna do 10 minutes, 15 minutes.

  • I do half an hour every morning.

  • You're gonna have moments in that half an hour

  • where your mind is wandering but moments

  • in that half an hour where you're just completely still

  • and you'll feel really happy and really, really calm.

  • And I found that it's not just for that 30 minutes

  • or that 10 minutes that you're meditating,

  • it just maybe makes you more mentally resilient

  • through the day.

  • It's harder for people to trigger you, so to speak,

  • you get less worked up about things

  • and you get less stressed about things

  • and so that's my best advice and you know,

  • just don't beat up on yourself,

  • take everything one day at a time, you know,

  • to quote a frozen one and frozen two, frozen one, you know,

  • let it go and frozen two do the next right thing

  • which is a awfully deep philosophy

  • which is actually consistent

  • with most of the mystical traditions of most religions.

  • (laughs)

  • - So Sal unfortunately with the crisis

  • affecting everyone around the world,

  • this question is particularly important.

  • So from YouTube online education, Nepal says,

  • hello Sal, I'm Pushpa from Nepal.

  • How can you move this into different languages?

  • - Great question Pashpa.

  • So there are 40 translation projects

  • of Khan Academy around the world,

  • and there are different degrees of fidelity.

  • We have the richest versions in Spanish-speaking

  • Latin America, Brazilian, Portuguese,

  • and we have actually a team in India

  • that is trying to work on the various languages in India

  • and aligned to the standards in all of these places.

  • And then of course you have

  • this other 30 something projects going on.

  • So that's what's going on right now.

  • I'm actually not expert on the state of Nepalis,

  • if that's of a particular interest,

  • but if we don't already have a translation project there,

  • obviously we would love people to start one.

  • So that's one layer that we think we can help with.

  • And then the other layer is in many parts of the world,

  • things like internet access, et cetera.

  • And, you know, there where we are try,

  • we do try to work with philanthropists, corporations,

  • telecom carriers to make it more accessible.

  • But that's our best answer right now.

  • All right, YouTube, Samayam Hyundai

  • is asking a really simple question.

  • What do you think is the purpose of life?

  • That's a good question.

  • (laughs)

  • Samayam, yeah, no I mean, you know,

  • I think not to get to a metaphysical or too deep,

  • we find ourselves in this big mystery and I think,

  • you know, current world events, you know,

  • which feel almost surreal, dystopian,

  • whatever you want to call it,

  • I think really emphasize 'cause we're finding ourselves

  • in this big mystery.

  • And I think one of the purposes is to reflect on the mystery

  • and to experience this mystery that we call life

  • in the universe and everything

  • and obviously I'm making a few references to Douglas Adams.

  • But yeah, you know, I can't claim

  • that I know the purpose of life.

  • I will say that sometimes in your moments

  • when you can actually steal your thoughts

  • and bring your mind away from,

  • I guess you could call it material reality

  • and all of the distractions and material reality,

  • sometimes you can feel a deep peace and connectedness

  • to the universe and whatever you might want to call that.

  • And I think that actually can sometimes make you feel

  • a very grounded and very happy.

  • And so, you know, I can't necessarily describe

  • that as a purpose of life

  • but I can give you maybe a lens on life.

  • But it's a really, really good question.

  • One met a one framework, you know,

  • who knows if this is true is, you know,

  • this is something of a learning experience for you

  • and obviously we talk about learning at the academic level,

  • but life itself is a mega learning experience.

  • And, you know, there's frameworks of imagining

  • that every person on the planet is another version

  • of yourself and so you are, you know,

  • we're all connected in some way.

  • Who knows?

  • I don't wanna get to a metaphysical

  • 'cause I don't know the answers, but it's a deep question

  • that I'm sure we will (laughing) keep struggling with.

  • Okay, so YouTube Gurpreet is asking, how to deal

  • with demotivation and how to approach a new topic.

  • I think number one thing with demotivation

  • or procrastination is to just get started

  • and I've talked about it in other sessions.

  • There's something called the Pomodoro technique,

  • where you can kind of set a timer and say,

  • I'm gonna do 20 minutes and I'm gonna focus

  • and I'm gonna get something done

  • and then give yourself a break after that,

  • force a break after that, and then jump back in.

  • And, you know, one thing that I've always reminded myself

  • is to just keep on moving.

  • I actually am a big believer in starting the day

  • with making your bed and I have a little bit of a ritual

  • which includes meditation.

  • I go do some pull-ups in my garage,

  • I do some pushups, and the reason why I do those things,

  • it's not so much even for my health

  • or to make my bed look nice,

  • it gives me some wins early in the day.

  • And I find that on days

  • that I'm able to have some accomplishments

  • within 20, 30 minutes of waking up,

  • that my brain just loves that feeling

  • and wants to then have more accomplishments

  • and check more things off.

  • So that's my best advice, and when I approach a new topic,

  • I view it as an adventure, you know.

  • And so it's just, you could have approach life and this,

  • this is like a mystery. it's like a game.

  • And it's a puzzle and so even if something looks dry

  • or you're not sure how it applies to your life at first,

  • if you look at it with that lens,

  • and if you look at it through the lens

  • that you're able to look at human knowledge

  • that has been accumulated over thousands of years

  • and you are the beneficiary of being able to consume that,

  • you know, Isaac Newton would have done anything

  • to have access to the textbooks,

  • the resources that we have today.

  • Pythagoras would have done anything,

  • Marie Curie would have done anything

  • to have access to a modern chemistry or biology book.

  • We get that, and we get the a lifetime's work

  • of so many people who've dedicated their lives to it.

  • So if you view it that way, it's quite exciting,

  • I think to learn and it's fun to meditate in a different way

  • or it's fun to sit and think about the learning

  • in a way that forms those neural connections in your brain

  • and it becomes intuitive,

  • and when you do that in one subject,

  • all of a sudden a lot of other things

  • start to make a lot of sense.

  • So it looks like we're out of time.

  • You guys got me talking about topics

  • that (laughing) I have limited knowledge about,

  • but I enjoy pondering.

  • But I just wanna remind everyone or tell everyone,

  • thank you for joining, we do this every weekday

  • at noon Pacific, 3:00 p.m. Eastern.

  • It's a fun way for all of us to connect

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