Andrew Huberman· PhD
so the key question for educators is what everybody's always having some kind of emotions all the time if those are dead right or unconscious what are people's emotions about in this space if the emotions because whatever those emotions about that is what you're learning about so if the emotions are about the outcomes did I get it right am I going to flonk and I can make plus I'm so smart I'm so stupid well any one of those right if those are the main drivers then that is what you're learning about if the emotions are about the actual ideas in play the math the physics the why does the ball roll down the ramp wait a minute that's the same as why the moon goes around you know what I mean like there are right when the emotions are about ideas then what you're engaging with is learning about ideas and so what I would argue is that in setting up the kind of accountability system we have we have taught people that their emotion should be about these high-stakes accountability measures which means that's what we're learning how to think about perform perform not how to think about the ideas not the intrinsic power of using math to understand the world in a different way