Meeting #4 9/15/20 Full

The Learning Code

00:00 Steve’s 1 week trip to Utah + Vegas

02:05 Steve taking Math Course instruction time mathematical thinking “for fun” and to gear up for undergrad + grad school

4:23 Steve’s planned educational leave

5:40 “Getting what you came for” book for grad school + document camera gift 🎁 for content creation

7:20 Case study featuring Optimize.me

12:30 what to learn from Optimize by Brian to TLCode

13:25 Henry's check in Fall 20'

14:30 What Henry has done well what is he struggling with - going too deep in technical questions during office hours *

16:18 Balance Breathe vs Depth in Office Hours

17:25 Jeff's experience working w his Advisor - teacher student hierarchy - information asymmetry - social power w power differential

19:49 Whiteboard Strategy to Self Advocate and stay focused during Office Hours

21:32 prep 14+ pages of notes in addition to whiteboard to counter

23:05 How to Navigate the Education and what are Goals that we have

25:18 Henry's recap to previous meeting on being overwhelmed

26:30 We are productive vs our past

27:00 Forgive ourselves - heal

29:26 Up to us to navigate & Upper Ward Manage conversations

31:46 What Steve wants out of his degree and PhD - wants B.S. to lead to a PhD - write your goals down!

33:55 Henry's perspective of PhD

35:54 "The Student Makes the School, the School Does not Make the Student" a ton of knowledge exists that school to help solve our problem on our Goals List

39:39 Steve's interpretation & preception of upper ward management

41:04 Write Down Large Goals so you can Begin Kindling - Anderson

41:47 "I miss doing Math" - Steve. You are a top performer!

42:40 Ask your professor why they became a professor and why we're interested in education

43:48 Assimilating to system we perpetuate the system when professor's focus on grades that causes problems, but... *

45:20 System Transformation vs. System Navigation (surviving in classes) - progression on skills Newport - can you imagine getting straight A's by working for 5 hours a day. *

48:20 Must navigate the system FIRST... despite the deficiencies

50:38 Youtube first and foremost is a search platform 90% of youtube searches are to answer questions but what about

53:08 In order to create a career that I love... I have to navigate the system first!

54:45 reflection on Conquering College (system navigation) vs. Student Centered Pedagogy from Jeff (system transformation)

1:02:29 Traumatized by the System - heal for ourselves and future generation of students

1:04:21 Humility from Lived Experience - TBContinued. weave in humanity to TLCode grade pursuits

1:07:30 No one talks about their failures

1:08:50 Counter: failures are fundamental to learning brain activity during a failure vs when you are doing something right

1:11:55 Steve Silva is well on his way of becoming Michael Jordan of math

1:14:20 Consistent Blog Post Systems - minimum deep reading and writing habits