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@charlynnerivlogs70703 жыл бұрын
oof
@amaxwell0110 жыл бұрын
I love this. I always try to think small because thinking small and micro wins can lead to some amazingly large accomplishments over time.
@ttwilightzzone8 жыл бұрын
This is how computing works. The computer works on many simple problems EXTREMELY fast to solve a huge problem.
@anshikarushdie19686 жыл бұрын
my favourite comment
@WassupChannel5 жыл бұрын
Who really? But we are not computer
@karinas58334 жыл бұрын
I agree. You do not solve big problems as a big problem. You break it down into small pieces and pin it down one at a time. It kind of reminds of Kaizen approach where improvement takes on a different level by just solving or making one tiny change at a time.
@nuynobi3 жыл бұрын
@@WassupChannel The computer is following instructions written by a human, and its this human who had to break the big problem into many small problems. The original comment might be better phrased "this is how software development works".
@g.reaper79462 жыл бұрын
Oh so that’s why they say, for example, this computer does a trillion calculations per second, it’s actually referring to these little problems. Right?
@psznt7 жыл бұрын
Optimism, which probably is one of our precious resources. Thank you for realizing me that crucial thing!
@ionutagatinei25138 жыл бұрын
Goes hand in hand with the idea that tackling big problems is very hard and that is why we should deconstruct them heavily into tiny problems that are more manageable to find a solution for. And sometimes the solution for the smaller problem is simple, but if we keep looking at the big problem we might be overwhelmed and not very likely to find an answer.
@doodelay10 жыл бұрын
He just gave us permission to think small. I like him.
@aliancemd10 жыл бұрын
I felt the problem of vision in school on myself... I was a very good student, doing best at math in my school, winning math olympics. I was reading A Lot... I started losing eye sight and my grades just drastically started declining. I was sitting in the back of the class and I was not seeing anything what was happening in the front, what the teacher was writing on the board... It was way harder to understand the material by myself when I was going at home, add to it that I had many subjects to study and keep up with and it was a disaster. I got glasses around 4-5 years later after I started seeing bad. I was left back on the material and I hardly kept up. Just at university I started getting back on track...
@barbaraevening38544 жыл бұрын
Well done, keep your eyesight up, have a test every year. xx
@tracylemme13753 жыл бұрын
My dad said that when you have a job (He had a machine &welding shop) that you don't know how to fix, just do what you know what to do and the rest will fall into place.
@Original502 жыл бұрын
This combines nicely with the Covey 4 Disciplines of Execution. Strategic goal-setting by management with no insight into the workplace conditions fails and over-complex goals are generally never realised.
@ajtronic10 жыл бұрын
So basically solving a bunch of small problems that add up to the larger problem. Okay.
@MrHav1k10 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tl;dw summary!
@TheGuruNetOn4 жыл бұрын
A miss is as good as a mile. It's doing the "small things" that needs to be done. That can make all the difference between success and failure. The poem "For want of a nail" and "the road not taken" expresses the idea perfectly. When everyone else is "thinking big", it pays to "think small". Like fixing a flat tire or broken window or giving eye-tests/glasses to children. Doing the small things that need doing.
@livelife594710 жыл бұрын
UK government adopted this philosophy years ago re education. They figured out that kids who didn't eat breakfast in the morning had lower academic attainment levels, so most schools offer breakfast meals now before school starts.
@dannycraps10 жыл бұрын
I could not agree more with this idea. Great (small) idea!
@user-fs5fc1vv7y8 жыл бұрын
In social contexts: Delve into the events/stories while focusing on detail
@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time10 жыл бұрын
We can always break big problems into small parts!
@dadislies5610 жыл бұрын
No, don't break the atoms, DONT SPLIT THEM!
@gauravstam6 жыл бұрын
Wow wierdest Channel name I have seen so far, really innovative 👍👍
@jayt22574 жыл бұрын
I am more interested in the how
@SpacedudeGFX10 жыл бұрын
this channel is called big think.....how ironic
@AGeeksTouch10 жыл бұрын
Does anyone remember what irony actually is?
@NintendoFreakah10 жыл бұрын
***** *Ahem*... "A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result." In this situation, the "state of affairs" would be the fact that we should think small and it is deliberately contrary to the channel's name: The Big Think. There are a few meanings of the word irony, and this is one of them, just maybe not the one you're thinking of.
@SpacedudeGFX10 жыл бұрын
***** "big" think, think "small" how is that not ironic
@anikaa654810 жыл бұрын
The big thought being shared here is that complicated problems can be broken down into smaller chunks one of which you maybe able to fix. It's not ironic, no one is asking anyone to do anything. There is simply a big idea being broadcasted here. Cool? Cool.
@shubhamchaudhari7909 жыл бұрын
SpacedudeGFX Think Small to solve Big Problems ..but Think Big to have Big Problems
@jubzfree10 жыл бұрын
I suffered with the same problem, I was too ashamed to wear glasses at elementary school. I couldn't even read from the blackboard. I think it affected my test scores sadly.
@piratapan10 жыл бұрын
One guy is my class was a cool kid (actually cool, good at stuff and genuinely nice to everyone) and he needed glasses. He told us he didn't really felt like it when the optician told him, but when they told him about the famous brands that existed, he flipp flopped immediately and came to school the next day with his new glasses.
@k14pc6 жыл бұрын
that was interesting. the problem he talks about near the beginning is the problem of Tractability, basically a lot of people working on issues that are going to be very difficult to actually make progress on. Doing that can still be worth it if the problem is important and neglected enough, but tractability is absolutely an important part of the analysis that a lot of people forget about.
@dr4t10 жыл бұрын
The principle he talks about should be pretty obvious to at least anyone with an engineering diploma. That's how I learned that taking one large problem and dividing it into smaller and easier to understand ones is the way to go into solving anything that at first seems to be really intimidating and hard to grasp. Divide et impera!
@Messi109473 жыл бұрын
Thank you. More so for people like me thinking big can be quite overwhelming
@JN0035 жыл бұрын
“Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.”
@manesmusicorum33306 жыл бұрын
9 minutes sums up to "take care of the small things and the big things will take care of themselfs"
@antoniofuller23313 жыл бұрын
Exactly!!!
@fabricepoirette33289 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and inspiring. Definitely worth watching.
@blairw16956 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the transcript I'm using this article for an assignment
@randomviewer00910 жыл бұрын
Great speaker. You make valid points throughout, and your very eloquent. I don't agree with it all, but I agree with the overall spirit of it.
@aryavijaykumar47002 жыл бұрын
Thank you all very much
@dianaarias35336 жыл бұрын
that's true, my cousin needs glasses but he doesn't wear it because his grandmother makes fun of him and when I see his notebooks, he has bad writring, so when he is going to study his notes, he doesn't understand and he fails his tests for that. i know this is a old video, i just wanted to write it.
@wynstansmom8295 жыл бұрын
"I just wanted to write it"...Yes! and I wanted to write something like that also. Find a way to help your cousin find the value in wearing his glasses. In fourth grade, my best friend had glasses and I wanted a pair. My Mom took me to the doctors who said I had terrible vision and prescribed glasses. Then I didn't want to wear them and no one made me. By 14, I had lost any hope of maths but I read voraciously to overcome the boredom of a classroom board and teacher, that I couldn't see. I also lost friends because I didn't see them to wave or say Hi. I lost so many years of classroom instruction but no one noticed since I read and passed tests easily, was quiet and polite and moved schools frequently. Add to that, I'm an Intuitive thinker and it's a potent combination that lets people fall through the cracks unless they are self-motivated learners with an insatiable curiosity. Tell your cousin to put his glasses on. How's your eyesight?
@selfelements80374 жыл бұрын
3:59 Beautiful. The priority in any educational systems is not us, adults, but the children. And the focus is not on the students who are doing well, but the ones who are lagging behind. There lies the opportunity of real growth!
@wgaskill210 жыл бұрын
I've noticed the issue of lack of education in the form of Driver's education. I learned Driver's Ed in school, and started out with effective and efficient traffic rules built into my head. When children learn their driving from their parents, they learn (usually poorly) the driving habits of their parents who practice less than 100% of the rules. When successive generations of kids do this, driving becomes less predictable, and much more dangerous.
@julioalarmo8392 жыл бұрын
Well explained. Ive been thinking on this from a design perspective. Some problems could be solved taking away the origin of the problem. Sometimes we try to put solutions one after another instead of removing the source of the problem. Example we want to pass thru a door a washing machine but it doesnt fit. So we come up with a bunch of solutions. When we could just remove the door frame. Sometimes the solution requires to remove somethin that since has been there so long we dont want to touch .
@endle5s10 жыл бұрын
having listened to countless freakonomics episodes, i did not expect stephen dubner to look like this (he has a very young voice)
@matthewbrown75723 жыл бұрын
So let me get this straight.The teacher creates 5 different lesson plans with different learning modalities for each of their 180 students ,figures out which modality works best for each of the 180 students each day and writes 180 lesson plans each day for each student, for the school year. Why didn't I think of that? It's so very simple.Thanks for the tip.
@LionOnGreen10 жыл бұрын
Reasonable way how to effectively teach students.
@alexplotkin33685 жыл бұрын
I liked early in video, pick off a small piece of a problem and start there. Thanks.
@Noorizubair1110 жыл бұрын
Should i think Small or Big think
@justincase129610 жыл бұрын
I like your thought.
@fitforsoccer00010 жыл бұрын
Zubair Noori You need to Big Think about thinking small.
@RomanNumural910 жыл бұрын
fitforsoccer000888 i see you thinking small about big thinking on thinking small. I counter it with thinking big on big think about small thinking on the topic of the big thinking thinking small on big ideas.
@fitforsoccer00010 жыл бұрын
Josh McGillivray lol, someone shoot me
@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time10 жыл бұрын
fitforsoccer000888 Me too! Just talk with no meaning!
@AdemirAlijagic4 жыл бұрын
I loved this one Big Think, will definitely recommend this video! 😃👏
@bigcat563088 жыл бұрын
Drinking game: Take a shot every time he says "our argument is..."
@diontaedaughtry9745 жыл бұрын
Thank you this was very helpful and informative 👍👍
@letlapafly3 жыл бұрын
Kaizen: think small thoughts, take small steps/actions, solve small problems, repeat
@bobbiemcdo97074 жыл бұрын
Excellent.
@WassupChannel5 жыл бұрын
Perfect! Got it
@lifevt94hellotoworld10 жыл бұрын
The problem with this is that most great thinkers will focus "the big picture", as opposed to one its smaller parts, simply because the bigger picture is much more interesting. Eccentric, absent minded geniuses aren't that interested in solving as much as possible (which, according to this vid, would be achieved by focusing on the small problems) but will approach what stimulates them.
@orbismworldbuilding84282 жыл бұрын
Big picture is to know what's going on, little picture is to make changes
@NewAwaken10 жыл бұрын
Good Video. Just a suggestion: Change the white background please... my eyes melt. Thanks.
@onetwoxplore4 жыл бұрын
There are guidelines for "small" thinking effectiveness. Presenting "small" as a cure-all can be deceiving bcs complexities surface almost immediately. The suggestion to extrapolate from large to small (manageable chunks) has a place, but small pieces can be extremely complex. I think you need a bird's eye view where the process of the large informs but the process of the small outlines how to go about fitting together the pieces of the puzzle. Large-to-small thinking or vice versa is fluid and not a zero-sum game. This video is just general and common sense advice. I was hoping for more.
@orbismworldbuilding84282 жыл бұрын
This is true
@eskorupski123 Жыл бұрын
Totally agree. You have to at least somewhat know how a system works in order to tweak it properly. And you can't feasibly change a whole system at once by changing all the parts, so in a practical sense you do need to change small things. "Atomic Habits" is a great book for this kind of topic, because it can apply to individuals as well as whole groups.
@tothgabor71883 жыл бұрын
Great work...greater than what I have first thought...or even on second thought.)
@d.c.martin62610 жыл бұрын
(0:26) "Observation" to solve big problems with small thinking works very well. Big problem (Creationist vs Atheists) Try to create something without outside manipulation it's impossible! Problem solved or not?
@hamza30652 жыл бұрын
Great video.
@raffy33047 жыл бұрын
much thanks.
@JoeHernandez-lp2tw10 жыл бұрын
I think the glasses indicated an emphasis in learning for this kids and thus prompted a placebo effect, if you will.
@CerebellumCorp10 жыл бұрын
These are some great thoughts. Awesome video!
@ianbowen3935 Жыл бұрын
Wow, that's interesting.
@coffeine19245 жыл бұрын
Cool concept. Would like to see how kids who needed glasses did after receiving them.
@tracylemme13753 жыл бұрын
I had a schoolmate who did poorly in first grade. He got glasses in the second grade,and graduated with honors from high school.
@Kratax10 жыл бұрын
Glasses also make distractions lesser, as the sides of glasses block visual of movement from sides. And glasses might act also like the hat of scientist. In general, solving big problems is hard, because people do not tend to organize as you would like them to organize - unless you are some kind of a boss. Then your success factor is bigger.
@organicchemistry63576 жыл бұрын
One way to think small is about the increase in temparature. That problem can simply be tackled through firing iodine in the air to cause rain. Let the sun make the clouds from sea water. Not enough? Just stop blocking sunlight since that leads to more draught!
@ShilpaChhabra10 жыл бұрын
completely agree :)
@EforEvery110 жыл бұрын
Good job, Big Think, I liked this one.
@cemsavasaydn70538 жыл бұрын
This is similar to occam's razor in a way the simplest solution among different solutions to a certain problem is the best one.
@TheGuruNetOn4 жыл бұрын
When everyone else is thinking big, it pays to think small. Be the Contrarian and solve the problems nobody is even interested in questioning.
@TheGuruNetOn4 жыл бұрын
Wiki (as in Wikipedia) is an excellent example of thinking small (in an incremental, scalable way). You only pay for what you use. At the very least it's similar to a simple notepad and at the very most can be a superb knowledge base incorporating top line multimedia content linked in to text. It's the organisational flexibility that creates value in a totally freeform incrementally and organically growing way.
@WaterproofSoap Жыл бұрын
The are so many problems that seem to have elegantly simple solutions, yet.....humans.
@charliemckay640210 жыл бұрын
Another perspective is that fixing small parts of big problem to resolve the big problem is not thinking like children but actually using the "Butterfly Effect" as a tool.
@maverickleadership68015 жыл бұрын
Is that Fred Armisen? I love him!
@usenlim10 жыл бұрын
This argument seems like comparing opensource software making to microsoft software making. And we know which is better.
@Cloud_Seeker10 жыл бұрын
Honestly don't really matter, what is important is what program the computer you read the document on is using.
@BurnNotice321010 жыл бұрын
Actually whats more important is the operating system that you're using, and we all know that Macs are the right computers.
@Anonymiter10 жыл бұрын
The argument was to allow the microsoft software to continue but to also promote and/or not discourage opensource.
@anoncker10 жыл бұрын
Burn Notice No, just no.
@queuesnake70410 жыл бұрын
Choice. Brilliant. =)
@salamandiusbraveheart41833 жыл бұрын
Short-sightedness is really common in Asia
@melissais10 жыл бұрын
Wow, when I started realizing I was really bad at math was around the same time I needed to start wearing glasses. But I don't know if that really has anything to do with it?? Because I've still been really bad at math. :/ I really need someone to tutor me.
@TheGuruNetOn4 жыл бұрын
Unlike subjects like history or biology where content is mostly independent from each other Maths requires you to build with tools you learned in previous chapters/classes. So if your basics are not solid (maybe you missed classes due to sickness or bad eyesight) you can't really build on top of a weak Foundation. So it's better to start from scratch rather than build with holes in the stress bearing columns of your Math Foundation.
@alicequayle46252 жыл бұрын
Also some kids are undiagnosed partly deaf which hinders their learning.
@ScienceByMike6 жыл бұрын
Ask the children how to fix something. Many answers will be give everyone a pizza but one will have a good suggestion
@UserMum751210 жыл бұрын
Now that I think about it, I can strangely relate to this idea of wearing glasses. I do rubbish in school. Still love science though.
@6LordMortus910 жыл бұрын
Interesting, when I look back at my college course, I did much better in a group of peers than I did on my own... not that I took my answers from others, but that in a group, I came up with answers that everyone agreed on, or was open enough to stand my ground and find that my answer was the correct one.. on one exam that I did on my own, I thought it was the best exam I had had, and I finished it faster than any others, but turned out to be my worst score in the course. I never have had that experience in school prior to college. So this doesn't just fall on to the lower grades of school, but to every level.
@hardeepdhery2 жыл бұрын
Moral of the story :- Were Glasses in school
@EmperorsNewWardrobe7 жыл бұрын
Not only do I think small, I happen to be narrow-minded too. All I should need to do now to solve those big problems is wait
@ilhammahmoud94533 жыл бұрын
good argument ♥️👍
@Geist45210 жыл бұрын
Big problems may have numerous and compound solutions/challenges, but their perceived complexity is really born of morality... I think many would agree that we are very technically inclined as a people when we're willing to accept a solution. Solving small problems can give people the confidence to act on their morality, while often circumventing any moral ambiguity. But I wouldn't say that the coarse of action or moral components of a big problem, is more complex than solving any small problem. And I would argue that when its been mapped, the thought process shifts very quickly into a science of details that is equivalent to many small problems. What addressing big problems allows us to do is identify those many small problems; so when problems are fundamental and related to an unconscious morality, there's opportunity to address individual components. .... what i took from this; is that third world problems are simple, nobody has to think up any obstacles, and make sure you follow through with the help you can provide. Which is great because I don't take for granted things like literacy, a full stomach and free time. But the problem with this as a general principle is that eventually in order to render a solution relevant to a more positive result, an organized effort has to be made. So while you're solving a small problem it's still important to understand to what end, and how to network within that landscape.
@hasnainabbasdilawar88324 жыл бұрын
He reminds me of sheldon cooper from the big bang theory.
@uncleshan6 жыл бұрын
break it down. got it
@NawidN10 жыл бұрын
Solving a big problem = solving a set of smaller problems. His point is moot.
@orbismworldbuilding84282 жыл бұрын
Not moot, just obvious for some (but important to point out for some)
@SG133810 жыл бұрын
Makes sense
@rowland59518 жыл бұрын
Sounds very similar to Elon Musks First Principles way of solving problems which has its grounding in Physics.
@TheNewTravel8 жыл бұрын
+Rowland Alexander Agreed!
@top1percent4246 жыл бұрын
Rowland Nah.
@AFROZIBRAHIMI6 жыл бұрын
Good video
@iviastergrade2057 жыл бұрын
If you do this In architecture, the lecturer would bash you up.
@dddmemaybe9 жыл бұрын
This guy was right and wrong about certain things, but he's definitely right to think "small." Oddly enough, just talking about your day at work to your kids and family.. Is likely to help you more and faster than 10 years of speculation would ever.
@ToTo-hz7bc6 жыл бұрын
Nice
@TrentonErker10 жыл бұрын
Teddy Roosevelt was thought an idiot until he got glasses
@meem975410 жыл бұрын
think small is actually also a hard thing ! einstein was imagining every theory as simple as possible , he said the most successful theory is just simple that any child can imagine it !
@drlex10 жыл бұрын
to think small we have to get rid of big government first
@bryanhfuller79375 жыл бұрын
Everything starts at home plain and simple
@damienhunt42642 жыл бұрын
I suspect Mr Duber has never been a teacher in the public school system.
@jnighs83802 жыл бұрын
I think we should make school work harder actualy if we want to keep up with asia. Though we could offer harder material if you got to pick the teaching method.
@sanjeevacharya26348 жыл бұрын
good
@joahchewbhaka56799 жыл бұрын
only one wrong thing: you can measure the size of a problem without trying to solve it.
@palashahuja84804 жыл бұрын
Think of dynamic programming
@harrypearle9781 Жыл бұрын
EASY vs HARD School Challenge Division? EASY and NO buttons are available, and they could be used to remind students of EASY vs HARD. (Easy tasks may be done right away, but still appreciated) Hard tasks are frustrating, but need time ===============================================================================
@harrypearle9781 Жыл бұрын
thanks much
@Logan-kn3gt7 жыл бұрын
big think made a video about think small -_-
@itsswarna90436 жыл бұрын
LoganBerry haha
@marlo27349 жыл бұрын
Spot on. Thats a Biblical principle....if you "see" like a child even spiritual stuff will make more sense PLUS you will enjoy the playing field iso trying to level it....!
@tasnimfarah6139 Жыл бұрын
❤
@muratkamiloglu37138 жыл бұрын
all the video i wondered where is this dudes upper lip
@brucebaker8106 жыл бұрын
There ya go. Break it down to components. Don't listen to the guy. Don't "absorb the gestalt" of his face. Focus on "waaaaaait a minnit. Focus under his nose. Shouldn't there be...something...?"