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hi everybody my name is aboro Barry and

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I'll be your teacher for today let's

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begin my name is saboro ISA Barry I'm 12

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years old as far as I know I'm the

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youngest Professor that's ever taught at

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a

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university I'm 11 and I got a

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scholarship year at NYU yeah

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congratulations to you it was not in our

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level he was beyond our

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level good afternoon student and welcome

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to my physics class with enough

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determination and enough passion

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anything is

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possible just to dip the pistachos

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inside your Tey instead of eating them I

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was born over in Queens at the New York

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Presbyterian Hospital but for the entire

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time when I was growing up I was in the

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Bronx we were in a pretty small

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apartment my dad had a job working as a

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security guard and my mom was still

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unemployed back then which made things

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pretty hard but still um my dad had a

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big love for

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mathematic no

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i

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r okay what is the atomic number for

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barium my first interesting memory is

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around when I was 2 years old and that

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was when I started wondering why do we

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use math to explain in the natural

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world my mom used to give me um lessons

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in math and that was when the thoughts

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started occurring to

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me okay one day I was uh teaching him

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like 1+ one is two very beginning of the

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teaching level and then he said Mom then

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n plus n is what is 2 N right and then n

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times n is what so it it's kind of

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challenging situation for me so I asked

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him to teach sh not but my husband said

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no he's just trying to impress you I

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said no he's totally different than

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other kids I just realized that so then

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my husband started teaching him I don't

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know uh atomic number is

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seven how many proton in hydrogen um one

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okay very good so write one it's not

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easy to teach sh he kept challenging me

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so I wasn't able to serve his

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so I took him to my professor yeah it

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was like um it was not in our level he

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was beyond our levels in general my

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preschool uh and kindergarten education

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was very normal and so was my first

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grade and second grade education as soon

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as third grade hit I felt like I was

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totally disconnected from my school I

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found myself growing more and more bored

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of the mathematics that I was being

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taught something in me finally broke and

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I decided to just stop caring about

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school school by the time I finished

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third grade I actually had a whopping

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122 missing assignments and that was

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when my parents noticed that and decided

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that they had to actually support me um

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by moving me to a higher grade so that I

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could actually feel

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challenged I've been teaching

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technically for a very long time ever

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since um the channel Barry science lab

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has started P factorial over K factorial

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P minus K factorial and one day when I

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was 7 years old I was given an

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invitation by a university in India to

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give some lectures about math and

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physics I'm sure that I will still be

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able to inspire you to fall in love with

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f in this class I want two things from

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you everyone needs to ask me at least

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one question

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did you hear that he he just said sir

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you wrote the equation wrong the

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equation is

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wrong this is like a Comedy Central

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skit I am feeling like uh I've come a

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very long

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way it everyone has to start

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somewhere we published those videos and

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that went viral and eventually it

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started snowballing and into me doing

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lectures almost two or three times a

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year at this point right now I'd

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estimate that the number of lectures

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I've given was probably between 30 to 35

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in person but possibly over 3,000 if you

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count online lectures Infinity is very

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special why because at some point as ex

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approaches at the beginning I wasn't a

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very good teacher because I wasn't

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really teaching I was more just reciting

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everything that I already knew and I

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think how was anyone in the room

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tolerating this without walking out but

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eventually I started figuring out how

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was this taught to me in a way that I

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could

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understand the rewards are mostly just

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total gratification it feels like you've

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actually spread your knowledge to other

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people and that's one of the most

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valuable feelings you can

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get nowadays I like to focus more on

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actually learning math and science

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rather than teaching math and science

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and that's why for um the past uh 6

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months actually I've been a student of

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New York University and Mathematics let

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me see does this work I think it

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does wow it's

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unbelievable honestly unbelievable yeah

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I'm 11 and I got a scholarship here at

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myu yeah congratulations to you it was a

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huge accomplishment for me even to get

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accepted into University I was nervous

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that um due to being in only 2 years of

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high school and not just that the fact

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that I was well 6 years younger than

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every other applicant it would make it

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very difficult for me to get

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accepted okay tell me how things are

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going at NYU um yeah everything's going

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great uh this semester I working with a

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student like saboro is thrilling because

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they have uh infectious energy no matter

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how much you teach them they want to

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know more these kids are actually

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special needs kids and I know people

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don't like to think of them like that

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the typical attitude is they're smart

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they'll figure it out eventually but

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they don't they need as much attention

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as somebody who's struggling to keep up

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with a class because they uh disengage

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in the same way

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I was very lucky to be born with two of

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the most supportive parents in the world

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I would like to tell any parents

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watching this speak to your kids they

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have a lot more going on in their mind

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than you might

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realize very proud of you okay now let's

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uh let's do something else what we going

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we don't want him to become next

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understand we want him to become next

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happiest person in the world yes we

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always support their interest nothing

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else we never force them to do anything

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think whatever they enjoy just support

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them as a parent we think that's our

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responsibility I hope that 9 or 10

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year-old kids who see my story don't

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take away the message that they're

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supposed to be teaching at 9 or 10 years

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old but I think that they should take

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away the message that with enough

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determination and enough passion for

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whatever subject you want to go into um

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Anything is Possible