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He says students also play multiple games: doing well in school, friendship/popularity, and pleasing parents; in his ranking, pleasing parents comes first, friendship second, and actual learning last.
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Jiang says individuals should stop worrying about secret societies and the end of the world and focus on personal transformation through learning, spiritual development, reading, and questions.
He defines deliberate practice as strategic self-assessment: a learner identifies weaknesses, tests a plan, and changes that plan if it fails.
He argues that most schools do not merely fail to teach these purposes; they produce the opposite effect by weakening reading, turning collaboration into zero-sum competition, and making students hate learning.
He says students also play multiple games: doing well in school, friendship/popularity, and pleasing parents; in his ranking, pleasing parents comes first, friendship second, and actual learning last.
A student asks whether sin is a low vibration needed for learning mistakes and success.
The tree of knowledge is interpreted as the capacity to learn from mistakes rather than merely moral information.
Godhood is defined as the union of immortality and the capacity to learn from experience until all knowledge is absorbed.
Because the Ivy League is too powerful to be destroyed soon, the individual response is to see the system clearly and choose real learning over indoctrinated success-seeking.
"...to the best of your ability. You can be focused on learning, on developing yourself spiritually. And intellectually and emotionally. You can be focused..."
"Okay? So those who have a growth mindset, if they fail, they try harder. Those who have a fixed mindset, if they fail, they..."
"...as a student and figure out how to improve your own learning strategies. And what Kay Anders Ericsson discovered is that if you do..."
"to like actually love learning and you have to like know how to learn for yourself so these are the three basic purposes of..."
"...of odd okay and the last thing of course is lifelong learning where school teaches you to hate school and therefore teaches you how..."
"out the pages and you throw it in the sky just to signal your liberation your liberation and you're like i never ever want..."
"I was arguing against the norms, the values, the conventions of this country. And it's, and so if people believed in me, then they..."
"...about, that matters the least is actually doing well in school. Learning, learning in school. Okay? Does that make sense? So game theory, it..."
"Like, I think Frank said that you can have all pleasures that you want of sins. But I think that is a kind of..."
"that is pleasant to the site and good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree..."
"...make sense because if you can live forever but you're always learning eventually you will absorb all the knowledge of the universe which is..."
"...you go to Yale or Harvard or Princeton, you think you're learning, but you're not. You're being indoctrinated and being brainwashed and being traumatized..."
The midterm turns a ceasefire into a world model: history moves like a river, eschatology makes prophecy into a plan, and the people who survive collapse are not the ones with the best machines...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
A source-grounded reading of Literary Genesis: Israel begins as a political coalition, David needs legitimacy, and the Bible becomes the technology that turns propaganda into living memory.
The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
The first Secret History class begins with Kant and ends with alchemy.
The first Secret History class starts with Kant and ends with alchemy.
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