Bulletproof For BJJ Podcast
Discussions on improving your BJJ, navigating mat-politics and all aspects of the jiu jitsu lifestyle. Multiple weekly episodes for grapplers of any level. Hosted by JT and Joey - Australian jiu jitsu black belts, strength coaches, and creators of Bulletproof For BJJ App. Based out of Sydney, Australia
Bulletproof For BJJ Podcast
Curiosity and Expanding your mind- JT Goes Back to school!
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Have you ever followed your curiosity and ended up down a weird rabbit hole?! JT has been caught up in an adult learning odyssey. He stumbled upon Brilliant.org and has gotten bitten by the learning bug, found himself doing high school algebra... and liking it.
This discussion gets into a different side of human psychology where being internally driven makes all the difference in what you enjoy doing as an adult compared to being forced to learn it as a teenager. Maybe this is something you already do or has it been something you have always wanted to try- this could be your good omen to learn something new, might change your life...
back once again the private lives of joey and jt. You're getting behind the curtain, the realness. I've been on something different lately, joseph. I have been learning some different stuff. Now it's crazy. I I had this realization. I was sitting there. I was like am I doing high school mathematics as an adult and enjoying it, when as a high schooler I hated it. Like what's going on right now that I would pay a subscription fee? One plus one is two. I was just like two plus two is four. Are we doing fractions? But it's interesting, so I'm just getting spammed. We get spammed by so many different things.
Speaker 1:You watch a video too long and Instagram's like ha, I got you. I knew you were into that, you like the shit and now you're copying it. And now you're getting videos about scientists setting water on fire with copper oxide or some shit. What the fuck, why do I get this? There is a website called brilliantorg which is kind of like adult learning and it's gamified dot org, which is kind of like adult learning and it's gamified and most of it's pretty basic. But they have just different concepts like learn probability, um, learn you know mathematics, or learn computer science, or principles behind computer science. Uh, statistics like, okay, interesting, and they're just like, like a, like any, uh kind of like duolingo or whatever. It's gamified. So you're like, oh, there's little animations and they give you a little scenario like, oh, these five friends want to go to the football game, but Joe doesn't want to sit next to JT and JT doesn't want to sit next to the Dark Prince, and so you have to put them in their seats so that those statements can be satisfied, which is like a logic thing. So, yeah, I started have to put them in their seats so that that state, those statements, can be satisfied. Right, which is like a logic, a logic thing.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I started getting into this and I'm like, I'm fucking into this, I like this, and I'm just on the like, you know the free version of whatever it is, but I am smashing out the first unit of everything they got. Wow, yeah, I'm just those units. What's available for free? Yeah, it's like cause I'm like I just crunched that in half an hour. And they're like, oh, sign up to our premium. And I'm like motherfuckers, I guess I'll learn about computer science. Yeah, like whatever, whatever they're prepared to teach you in that whatever. 14 units, yeah, boards, I got all kinds of shit.
Speaker 1:But I was like sitting there and I'm like it's too basic. I'm smashing this like, thank you, I want. I want something harder. Jt needs more yeah, always perpetually.
Speaker 1:And it was just interesting because I was like I did catch myself. I'm like I think I'm doing algebra right now. I I'm tempted to pay 15 a month to do algebra online. What the fuck is wrong with me right now? Like it was just such such a flip and it made me think about learning. How learning is so different when you're interested yeah, as opposed to, someone goes, learn this, you must learn this.
Speaker 1:And I'm like I'm just trying to kiss the girl up the back of the math class, like I don't want to learn about algebra. What the fuck is this? So, yeah, the thing for me is I'm trying to improve the way I think and the things that come up over time, as you know, stuff about tax or our business and stuff like that. I'm like I want to. I want to understand how this works. I want to just I'm not trying to go to uni or anything like that, but I'm just like I just want to think better.
Speaker 1:So I've just started specifically in the realm of like numbers and mathematics. Yeah, numbers, mathematics, because that was actually my big weak spot in high school. Yeah, mainly because my basketball coach was my maths teacher and he just didn't, he didn't mind, he just kind of let me slack off. But I was pretty good year seven, year eight, I was okay, but because I just kind of didn't, I missed a bunch of building blocks in year eight. Year nine wasn't great. Year 10 got worse and I had gaps in my knowledge. But I like to be able to do an equation in my head.
Speaker 1:You know, even though we have calculators on our phones and you don't need to do it For me phones and you don't need to do it, for me it's it's like remembering phone numbers, stuff like that, yeah. So, yeah, man, just trying to trying to do something, learn something different, how much time you're putting into it, uh, say, is it, is it a daily thing? Yeah, I'd say, like, probably do 20, 20 minutes, half an hour a day. Yeah, just get the brain primed. Yeah, and yeah, it's like a, it's like a little warm-up. Yeah, because it's just not something I would do. It's not, you know, it doesn't, it's not something within the realm of my life. Yeah, unless I have to.
Speaker 1:Like you know, even with budgeting, like you generally know, you've got roughly that enough money to go and do your supermarket shop. You don't have to do a budget per se. You know, like it's only when you start to talk to your accountant or whoever that you actually have to go. Fuck, how much should I spend on this and what's this? And it's not often that you have to go. If two C plus T equals 45, what is C? What the fuck? Like? That's impossible. Nobody can work that out. How do I work that out? Yeah, so it's interesting because it's just like, yeah, it's kind of like mental gymnastics. That's cool. Yeah, so it's just a bit different. And yeah, here you're learning something. Joe, what are you learning on? Ask your question, sorry.
Speaker 1:Well, I was going to say like there's an irony to that, isn't there that as an adult now, you are interested in learning these things that you had the opportunity to learn at school, but you just weren't interested in them at school. No, and this is, and I find the exact same thing, right, like I, um, I've only educated myself and been motivated to do so about managing finances in recent years. It was always a complete blind spot to me. Um, so much stuff like at school, like history class fucking sucked, yeah. Um, society and culture I don't know, I wasn't interested geography. I'm listening to fucking podcasts about society and culture all the time. I'm buying books on history. You know, like it's the irony of just whatever.
Speaker 1:I think it's the fact that you're a kid and you just want to do other shit, but also someone's telling you you have to learn this now, yeah, whereas now you got to, you got to, you have the, you have retrospect and you have time. Liberty and yeah, yeah, and I, I guess it's. It's stimulating because you have a use for it as an adult when you're 16, like what's it matter, right? Yeah, it doesn't make you cooler, it doesn't fit into the social hierarchy, it doesn't necessarily make you money. It's not obvious, you know, yeah, so your needs are relatively primal at that stage. So you don't want to get into higher learning or anything like that.
Speaker 1:But no, it just made me think about learning, because learning is kind of my obsession and yeah, so that's just on the laptop. It's not an app or anything. It's just like a website, brilliantorg, I believe. So, yeah, yeah, cool, there's a bunch of stuff out, anything. It's just like a website and, uh, brilliantorg, I believe. So, yeah, yeah, it's pretty, it's.
Speaker 1:You know, there's a bunch of stuff out there, like I used to do brain training, where we'd have like little raindrops which had mathematic equations in them, and so you tap the raindrop. It's kind of like tetra rolling, yeah, and the water level's rising, yeah, I'm gonna drown fuck, I didn't know mathematics would drown me. But yeah, and you solve the equation and you level up. So, yeah, that stuff for me it's and it's totally. I could be wrong, but I feel like I did get a little bit smarter. So then maybe I got a little bit more mental dexterity. You know I'm fucking around as in mental dexterity in other arenas, yeah, so then my brain is, my brain is more engaged.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, in the same way, if you're completely hung over, finding your keys as a fucking quantum physics equation, yeah, just remembering where she did, you know, like if you think of the opposite of that, yeah, so I'm trying to find ways to be like a bit more switched on and for various reasons, nice bro, yeah, just trying to learn some shit, man, like I. Just, you know, people study, people go back to school. I don't really want to go to university cause I think it's a scam. But yeah, whatever people do their thing, I mean, yeah, the beauty is, now you can do some shallow study into a thing without having to like go change your whole life, right, it's also expensive.
Speaker 1:A lot of forms of education, you know, um, I I did an online gamified learning thing in recent weeks that you just made me realize. I've I've sort of dropped off, um, but adam child's put me onto it. He's like bro, do you know how to touch type? Oh, and I was like no, I don't. And he's like dude, dude, you'll change your life. He's like if there's one fucking thing that's just gonna make your time on your computer way more productive, he's like learn to touch type. And I was like I had ideas like, dude, just go online. There's like free fucking courses. And I was like all right. And he said, trust me, just give it a go.
Speaker 1:And I jumped onto this thing and it's like, yeah, it's got these little drills and little games you play and you gotta like not look at the keyboard, you know where it is, yeah, and I was like, wow, this is actually really cool. How interesting. Yeah, uh, so I dropped off, I'll get back on it. I'll give you an update. Dexterous fingers yeah, well, you think about it, right? It's like time do we spend on computers, exactly? You know? It's like, uh, they talk about those hacks to productivity. One is like having your mouse set at the fastest speed possible, right, so there's no lag in moving where you need to move on the screen, right, having the fastest internet you can have yep, you know, and I like fully agree with those. So I'm like, makes fucking sense. Touch typing is another part of that speed demon, all right.
Speaker 1:Well, the learning continues, something that you might consider yourselves. You're out there. You're like, yeah, maybe I might learn that thing because it's available, isn't it? Pretty much knowledge has been democratized, so much for free. It's just up to you to go get it. Yeah, get it in you, awesome. See you guys next time. Peace out.
