- If English is your second language,
just getting through that paragraph.
I mean, that is a dense, stupid paragraph.
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- I went to an Ivy League school.
I did great on my SATs.
- I have two degrees from Stanford University.
I did very well on my standardized tests.
- I graduated from UC Berkeley in 2015.
I'm interested to see how much harder it is.
- I don't have confidence.
If so many people screwed up.
I'm certainly no better at language than most of the world.
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- Number 28.
Journeys are the midwives of thought.
- So already, you've got these abstract concepts,
which is already a tough idea to wrap your head around.
- Few places are more conducive to internal conversations
than a moving plane, ship or train.
- There is an almost peculiar correlation
between what is in front of our eyes
and the thoughts we are able to have in our heads.
- Large thoughts at times requiring large views,
new thoughts, new places.
Introspective reflections which are liable to stall
are helped along by the flow of the landscape.
- The mind blank when thinking is all it is supposed to do.
The tasks can be as paralyzing as having to tell a joke
or mimic an accent on demand.
- Thinking improves when parts of the mind
are given other tasks, are charged with listening to music
or following a line of trees.
- These question are already three times the length
of questions on the American SAT.
- They are saying, as contrasted to a journey,
when thinking is all the mind is supposed to do,
that's like, gonna be something negative.
So I'm looking for something negative here.
- This is very confusing (laughs).
That sentence, the task can be as paralyzing as having
to tell a joke or mimic an accent on demand,
feels like it's from a totally different passage.
That would throw off so many people.
- I'm going to say it's one.
- I'm going with one.
- I think it should be may be
reluctant to think properly, one.
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- Yes, oh my!
I mean, hey! (laughs)
- I'm making my mom proud!
I'm gonna text her.
- 82 percent, that's worse than random guessing,
which means this is a particularly bad question.
- It's a fucked up question.
- Number 26, here we go.
The big question that everyone got wrong.
- So far as you are wholly concentrated on bringing about
a certain result, clearly the quicker
and easier it is brought about the better.
Uh, what a difficult thing to have to parse together, okay.
- Your resolve to secure a sufficiency of food for yourself
and your family will induce you to spend weary days
in tiling the ground and tending livestock,
but if nature provided food and meat in abundance ready
for the table, you would thank nature for sparing you
much labor and consider yourself so much better off.
- An executed purpose, in short, is a transaction
in which the time and energy spent on the execution
are balanced against the resulting assets,
and the ideal case is one in which, oh, fudge!
- So the ideal case is one in which you get a lot of assets
and you don't spend any time on it.
- Purpose, then, justifies the efforts it exacts
only conditionally, by their fruits.
- Oh my God, this last sentence, ugh!
- Ohh boy!
- This is hard.
- The ideal case is one in which
it doesn't take a lot of time.
That's what I got out of it.
- Okay, I feel like it's number three.
- I'm going number five.
- Five, my final answer.
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- Thank you!
- 90 percent? (laughs)
- That's the first thing that I checked off,
'cause I was like, it has numbers in it.
I would have never gotten that.
- When I learned Spanish, it was much easier being like,
the dog ran to the library, instead of like,
the thing about language theory is.
I would never be able to understand
that in a foreign language.
- If you're talking about suicidal thoughts,
that takes school pressure to whole new degree.
- In Korea, where you go to college,
that's your whole life goal.
- They're set up to fail.
Look at these questions (laughs), these aren't like,
you're never gonna have to talk like this.
It's so highly specialized.
It doesn't need to be a general standardized tests.
- I hope that students can start to see
academic success isn't the only validator of who you are.
I have so much respect.
My heart really goes out to you.
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