Can anyone become a genius | Mark Diaz | TEDxBlvdTeofiloBorunda

[joshaunanderson]

"If you get to your gift too quick it will destroy you."

[luiz_ed]

"It's not about the age you have, It's about what you doing with the age you have". Truly inspiring.

[tulikadey]

I'm an example, I used to fail at maths when I was in 6th grade and I improved drastically within a year, I became a topper in 7th grade! All I did was I believed I could do good and practiced, practiced and practiced a lot everyday!

[BrightPink]

My mind was blown when he revealed that all it takes to go from No Talent -> Genius is finding the SMALL steps that are WITHIN your abilities. And not to mention that you must treat it like a journey... it might take 5 years or 10 years, but DO NOT rush it! What an incredibly insightful video

[senishi_mi]

Somehow the whole thought of this video reminded me of calculus, with how the area under a curve is solved by adding up infinitesimal strips and how smaller steps that we take lead us to a bigger picture. It's beautiful.

[abdennasserrahmani]

One of the most underrated videos. Masterpiece

[johnreid]

Mozart was locked in a room with a piano. Lock yourself in a situation you want to become and you'll be a genius with the muscle memory.

[jordangray]

I literally think this is the best video I’ve ever seen on YouTube

[Dan]

Amazing talk. All makes sense. It's like my own life story. At 43, after being diagnosed with fatty liver, I decided to start jogging. It was hard, I was only able to run to a maximum distance of 2-3km at a time. I also started to swim, at most 50m, at once and stop to catch more breath.
Then after about 2 months I realised that actually I improved in both running and swimming. I signed up for a short Aquathlon (750m swim + 10km run) events.
Then I read a running article about marathon that says: one should dream big to keep yourself motivated and have a focus on certain things.
So I decided to sign up for 42km full marathon and also 6.5km open sea swim. I trained hard, 3x running a week after work and 2x weekly pool swim. Occasionally I took leave from work so that I can swim in the pool without disturbance when no one else want to swim under hot mid noon sun.
6 years later, I completed 11 full marathons, 3 open sea 6.5km swim and 3 ultra aquathlons.
Whatever the presenter said makes every sense to me. It also reminded me of the story of the 3 Polgar sisters whose father literally made the 3 of them chess geniuses.

[gustavotorresguerrero]

Very inspiring talk. I fully agree with all the statements made.

[teddy]

A picture, they say is worth more than a thousand words. Now, this is genius: using his artistic skills to communicate an unrelated message. One of the finest deliveries of TEDx I have seen

[uwu]

I wish more people can see this. This is so underrated.

[soumil]

One of the most brilliant videos I've watched on YouTube as yet. I was not bored for even a minute. It held my attention for the whole 16 minutes. Everything he said was delightfully lucid and exceptionally clear.

[mylife-giog]

HAHAHA HA I genuinely laughed at how awesome and playful his presentation was.

[jamieoify]

That guy is Hilarious!!!
And that speech was amazing.

[sincerefuller]

I absolutely loved this video. I wish more teachers in this world were like this. It take a very creative person like himself to really get peoples attention by laughing in the process.

[Sophias_booktube]

I am 42 years old now and my strongest point in life was computing and technology and I have a slight learning disability and I was brought up old school my mum is 75 and my dad is 77 years old, I became good computing and technology at the age of 7 or 8 years old all just by playing around on my dads computer back then it was more programming to make your own games or cassets or discs and all I did was just play around with it, when I was in hightschool I was a one finger typer at a time now I can type and use a keyboard with my eyes shut, but it was not till I was in 6yr of hightschool it all just came to me and all I did was not give up read and watch into it, I was never a classroom person, but still it just all came to me and yet I self tought myself that being my own boss. but I allways loved solving things and maths but iv never been great at maths im 42 years old now iv been self teaching myself math since 2018 it took me 3 years to get familure with maths and now I am and now I can do calculus better but I still go over it and persaver makeing better my weakness, as they say practice makes perfect, hopefully one day before I die I would love to do advance math, topology differential deometly, abstract algebra and anaylasis because I love solving things, I say to myself its not comeing sooner but ill just persavere.

[AmanSingh-vstd]

Your geniuses depends on how much time you give at something to make a genius muscle memory... Take your time from distraction and give it to your goals.

[harrydaplatypus]

This is literally one of the best TED talks I’ve seen since ever! Just think about how original it is but has only relatively low view counts. What a pity

[lomkima]

This change my perspective and doubt that somehow talent always win and felt that i couldn't attain the level of intellectual to become a professor but after watching this, I will spend my time devoting to become great in the path that I have chosen