Success Is Not Measured By An Exam 🧠 w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson

[stischer]

As a former college prof, any time someone came up with a unique solution, if they could explain how they got it and the explanation was valid (no magic), then they got credit and was asked to explain it to the rest of the class.

[TheYeetusLord]

“They are thinking in ways that you have yet to think” is such a bar🔥

[SugarPopi]

He's right, but some people take this to the wrong places. If you're gonna be a doctor or a lawyer or something like that, study hard, he's talking about inventors

[cdot.]

I said something similar to this. Some kids who have focus issues are really smart and tend just get cast aside because people cant easily grasp onto them

[makokx]

Great for the geniuses. For the rest of us grinding it out and doing our best is the surest way to get a decent life.

[DagmawiAbebe-bm]

One of the things i like about this guy is that everypart he talks is so cohesive and intertwined and so meaningful i respect that a lot

[eatThehomeless]

Success isn’t comparing yourself to others it’s comparing yourself now to where you started.

[marystephens]

News flash: I taught 18 years in a public high school. I was constantly harassed by administrators for being non traditional. It finally broke me. I left with a brain tumor I didn’t know I had for the next 12 years. I lost that career and a second one I was working on. The public school system is killing itself by allowing administrators to have the final say in EVERY SITUATION. It’s all about marking on your colleagues that gets you privileges.

[kataseiko]

I had a teacher in 8th grade who had an interesting approach to teaching math and chemistry. On the first day of teaching a new topic, he'd give us a "test" with a few easy and medium questions in the new topic. The "grade" wasn't important, but the ways we'd approach the new topic was. Great teacher. When someone got the correct results by a different way than the books taught, he'd ask us to explain how we approached the problem. I remember that I was once asked to explain my thoughts - didn't have a teacher that good before or after.

[Trace]

The amount of people who are struggling because they didn't go to college (me) outnumbers the people who dropped out and became a success. And the people he mentioned in this video are the exception and not the rule. Stay and school. Trust me!

[majordanger]

Success isn’t measured by fame or a jingle,
It’s not in the bling or the cash that might mingle.
True success gives you a warm, happy tingle,
In the joy of your journey, where dreams freely dingle.
It’s the splash of your passion that makes your heart wringle.

[benoitgranger]

I remember my school courses, after high school in math, teachers taught us to think out of the box, and it was always impossible to solve the problems just remembering what they taught. You always had to find how to adapt what you know to create a solution that works

[ChristopherVail-ugji]

I love this, truth; and, thank you for this message

[jahimuddin]

I remember getting extra credit in one of my business management classes in college for going outside of the thinking of the management style we were talking about to offer a different perspective. We need more professors like that. Promote innovation.

[yesimrightyouiswrong]

Neil is from another world. We can't comprehend his logic!!

[ErrOR_SaNs]

One thing I found as a 20 almost 21 year old man is that before school when I was going to elementary and middle school I had imagination and dreams to make a better future and support my parents who took care of me. Then when I reached freshman and high school it’s all this rule and that rule and do this and do that. I had no time to dream no time to imagine. After high school I’m just stuck in a mind set that if I work super hard at my job I’ll move up and be able to at least take care of myself. But I have almost no ambition, it was all drained out from the strict rules and regulations of my high school that barely accommodate people with autism or disgraphia or dislexia or ADD (attention deficit disorder)

[PotsoR]

I still have it. Success is great discipline and self love… That’s it. ❤

[edd]

Best thing I've heard from him! Outside thinkers

[gerardoq]

I agree this comes from a Mathematics professor.

[goldmother]

Not everyone is looking for 'success' ... many just want a balanced life.