"School & The Modern World Failed Us!"- #1 Reason This Generation Is Struggling | Eric Weinstein

My heart broke for the interviewer when Eric was trying to teach him the magic of music, and the interviewer said what good is that? I just want the utility of the guitar to get me laid. How said. The portals are closed to you sir because you see everything as a means to an end and not the pathway to infinity.

Wow. Erics patience with all of the interuptions is amazing. He's very graceful.

I once tutored a kid in high school who was “having trouble in math”. It took me a few sessions, but I discovered that his issue was the fact that he couldn’t decipher his own hand writing. He literally couldn’t tell the difference between his own written 4s and 9s. It blew me away that no teacher or loved one had paid enough attention to realize what was going on.

You did Eric dirty with the thumbnail. He deserves much more respect. For a man for the people

"I'm interested in everyone who got left behind." Yes, this, absolutely. Can't even say how much this video opened my mind. My brother was one of those brilliant kids who got medicated because the teacher and my mother couldn't deal with him. This covers so many subjects that I have been concerned about. An education in itself.

I got Fs and Ds all the way through and was beaten and despised for it. Wasnt till i was 30 and took remedial courses and went to college i realized i was gifted intellectually. Sadly it was too late anf my strugggle with alcoholism kept me from completing graduate education. Finally got sober at 50. Im 62 next month and looking back is no fun. If kids like this have just one person, one adult to recognize them for what they are as a child it would change the entire trajectory of life.

This would be so much better if Eric was allowed to finish a thought

Can Tom stop talking? He has a guest on.

Eric is a teacher with a message of hope. People have endless potential. Never let the "system" or "matrix" keep you boxed in.

Eric is literally one of the most incredible people on this planet right now. I watch every single video I can find with him in it.

I'm 5 minutes in, and I already feel bad for Eric. The interviewer is so difficult to listen to. He isn't letting Eric speak and is spending all of the time talking about himself.

Eric is amazing, I can only imagine how differently my life would have turned out if I would have had someone like him on my side when was in school. We need a huge overhaul in our education system, we need to do better as a society, we need to demand better as a society.

Im almost in tears listening to Eric Weinstein talking about how the society excludes people with a different way of thinking and undersstanding. I went through all that shit and ended up literally losing eye because of conflict that started with me not being able to learn and being frustrated at school as they were telling me mentally to like "lay down and stay down" every time i had a question they didnt know how to answer. Its like being indoktrinated into becoming a very defiant person at a very young age so later this defiant way of looking at learning and school and the world just bled out into every aspect of my life and ended up sewerely hurt in a fight when i was 17 years old. im 32 now and im basically an outcast of society diagnosed as a mentally ill person although i know all this couldve been prevented and I could've easily gotten a normal life if guys like Eric Weinstein was actually taken seriously by society but instead people choose to bring people like him down. for the reason of tribalism. and the (why are you not acting like us like normal??) excuse of treating someone like shit..

The thing I love about Eric is he is not self-absorbed. He stays focused on what’s important.

Eric is talking to one of his challenged students in this podcast...the host. Eric did great!

Love it when if Tom can't figure out his guest explanation of a concept etc., he would say so straight away and ask for a more simpler explanation - (no ego) 👌

I identify so deeply with Eric's message. I baffled my teachers and parents by not being able to read. I was tested for dyslexia, and other learning disabilities but passed every test. They tested my IQ and I scored a 147. However, I couldn't for the life of me learn to spell or read. Even to this day, I am a very very slow reader. Which is odd, because I am an incredibly fast writer and typist. I am also still atrocious at spelling. No one ever solved it, but while they were baffled I slowly fell through the cracks. The school wouldn't hold me back because of my testing, but they stuck me in the remedial classes because of my struggles. It took my mom suing the school before they put me in more challenging classes. I did a lot better in the more challenging classes, but still didn't do extremely well. I worked harder to get around doing the home work than the effort it would have taken to have completed it. However, I'd ace tests because my memory is extremely sharp, and I absorb information quickly. I realized early on that I would do extremely well and work hard if I was interested in something. If i found it fun. It took me until my mid-twenties to realize this wasn't a disadvantage... My portal was discovering how to make anything interesting by asking the right questions and remaining constantly fascinated at the applications of that subject to other things I already was passionate about. For example... If you hate to cook and look at it as a chore, but you love to paint... Start finding the comparisons in the two. They are both forms of self expression, and they both manipulate ordinary things to induce an emotional response. The plate is your canvas, the ingredients your paint, your knives your brush, etc. Look at the parallels and it opens a lot of doors. All of a sudden you've discovered the corner of cooking that ties into your deep passion to paint and by proxy making it interesting and easier to learn.

“When I was following the rules, I didn’t meet anybody...” Best interview ever! Tom. Please do a show just on this topic.

"We can lie about us all being the same or we can recognize that our gifts lie in different places." Sentence like that if properly expressed and accepted, I personally believe have potential to make significant impacts in the cleaning up of the mess of which you two brilliantly discussed.

39:49 This is what I do with my son! He’s 13, ADHD and tests as having slow processing speed. When he hits writer’s block, or any opposition to his school work, I initiate a good explicative riff and invite him to join in. He LOVES it. It instantly loosens him up, and gets his brain cranking. So encouraged to see this brought up here!