Learning from early mistakes

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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