Transcript
You want to know why I don't just get to the point. I don't just give you practical takeaways from research and tell you what to do. Say, oh, I read this in a study, so you should go and just do it and trust me. Well, too many people do that. Too many people say, forget even the research. They'll give some sort of certification. They'll give some random post they read. Or they don't give anything. I'm this person with a lot of followers, therefore you should just trust me. I don't cite evidence. I don't want you to trust me. I want you to trust the evidence that I cite. And more than that, I want you to learn how to go about interpreting evidence yourself, how to understand science, and hopefully recognize what people are not actually using good science. But there's another reason, and it's related to what we've been talking about this week. how memory works. If all I did was tell you one quick takeaway, you'd forget it. Yeah, I don't trust you to remember it, because that's not how memory works. The broader the connections that you make, the more likely you are to remember something. And as humans, we best remember stories. And learning what researchers did, how they came to their results, not only do I find it fascinating, but it's a better way to actually make connections in your mind, to make it stick and to let you hopefully try and apply it in a usable manner. But the last reason, the most important reason, is that I love science and I love sharing it with you guys. I love learning how it happens, watching it happen. This coffee is being siphoned from this chamber into this with the grounds, it's mixing with the grounds, creating a vacuum back in the original chamber, which very soon is going to wait for it. The weight changed... Ugh, can't talk. The weight changed. It's brewing. It's brewing. And now the vacuum left in this other chamber is sucking it back in. And we've got a perfectly brewed cup of siphon coffee based on so many cool scientific principles that I'm going to share with you guys at some point. So if all you want is for someone to tell you what to do, go follow someone else. But if you want to come along for the scientific ride and learn how discoveries are made, why we should care, what's good evidence, what's bad evidence, well, then stay here.
Additional notes
Replying to @user8714190854151 there IS a middle ground I’ve been thinking about that i want your feedback on. I’m considering turning the majority of my videos into paired sets: one short onewith just the takeaways and a viration, the other that goes into the oaper in detail- maybe even more detail than i normally have time for. Would you sit through a 3-5m on here? Longer? (Ill probably also cross post on the tube)
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