> That guy has a serious gift for explaining stuff
I'd like to challenge this idea.
I don't believe he's more gifted than other people. I strongly believe that the point is he spent a lot of time and effort to get better at explaining stuff.
He contemplated feedback and improved his explanations throughout the years.
His videos are excellent because he poured himself into making them excellent, not because he has a gift.
In my experience the professors who lack this ability do so because they don't put enough effort into it, not because they were born without it.
I disagree. He has always been excellent from the beginning of his Youtube career. Maximum potential skill levels and skill acquisition/growth rates vary from person to person. I think most people wouldn't have as much success even with twice as many hours invested in the 4 separate crafts (!) of mathematics communication, data visualization, video animation, and video editing. I know I wouldn't, and I consider technical communication one of my strong suits.
Everyone can improve with practice, but some people really are gifted.
To be very good at something it is necessary, but not sufficient, to have a talent for it. The other 85% is hard work. You aren't going to pull just anyone off the street and have the same level of instruction, no matter how motivated they are.
I think real genius is translating all the heavy symbolic manipulation into visual processes, that people can see and interpret. Suddenly, you are not seeing some abstract derivation somewhat removed from real world, but another real visual process which you pause and reason with.
I'd like to challenge this idea.
I don't believe he's more gifted than other people. I strongly believe that the point is he spent a lot of time and effort to get better at explaining stuff.
He contemplated feedback and improved his explanations throughout the years.
His videos are excellent because he poured himself into making them excellent, not because he has a gift.
In my experience the professors who lack this ability do so because they don't put enough effort into it, not because they were born without it.