Practice #81 - Isaac Newton

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Number two on the list of the most influential people in history is a guy named Sir Isaac

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Newton.

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Now, I've heard of Isaac Newton for a long time in my life, but I never really knew kind

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of what he did or just how great he was, just how much he changed the world.

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Because Isaac Newton kind of coasted along his life in high school.

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He wasn't really doing much.

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He wasn't really notable.

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He was not a notable figure.

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So much so to the point where his mother actually pulled him out of school and said,

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okay, let's be a farmer.

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He was going to be a farmer.

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Now no shame to farmers, but our world would not be the same if he became a farmer.

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Now let me explain.

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He decided not to be a farmer and he decided to go to Cambridge.

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Cambridge?

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I don't know.

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And there he quickly absorbed all of mathematics, all of science, like all of this stuff, and

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he, like, it's literally a genius.

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And it's crazy because when he was literally 20 years old and even in college, he started

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to lay out the foundation to his inventions and his new mathematical formulas and laws.

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And when he was around 23, he discovered this law.

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I don't know the actual order of events, but I'm just going to say.

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He discovered the law, the second law of gravity and the third law of gravity.

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And then he also discovered this formula called F equals M times A, force equals mass times

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acceleration.

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I think it's that.

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And that basically allows you to basically apply mathematics because at the time, mathematics

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was simply just genius people kind of like playing a game.

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There was no real application.

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And really for the past 3000, 4000 years, people have been pretty much living the same

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lives.

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Like, the lifestyle between someone in the year 2000 BC is very similar to the someone

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living in 1500 AC AD, AD, like after Jesus died.

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So this basically, this new mathematical formula basically allowed him to make mathematics applicable.

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So what that means is now people can start inventing things, creating things like a telescope.

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They can start inventing literally anything.

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Like you look at anything on my desk and it's probably been created because of what he,

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like this formula that he created.

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And he didn't just create formulas and laws.

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He also showed us how to apply them and actually invent something and how they're actually

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able to be practical.

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And he became like the world's most notable astronomer and completely revolutionized the

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fields of astronomy, thermodynamics, the study of sound, I forgot what it's called.

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And then like all of these things.

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So this guy is responsible for, like he is the, okay, one scientist, one genius scientist

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said that he was the greatest of all geniuses.

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So think about this.

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There's normal society and then there's geniuses.

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These guys are highly famed, highly coveted, extremely smart people and they're like the

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top 1% of society.

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Now Isaac Newton, he is kind of like the difference between normal society and genius.

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That's like 1%.

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So now let's say genius is a new society and then Isaac Newton is the genius of the genius.

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So let's say normal society is the 99% and then genius is the 1%.

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Now let's create a new society with just the 1% of all of the geniuses.

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So now these guys become the 99% and then Isaac Newton is the 1%.

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So that's how great Isaac Newton is and he is responsible for tremendous amounts of inventions

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and like he is the one that showed people, he provided the blueprint for modern day life.

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That's a great summary.