A short conversational clip from the YouTube video "You Must Be Out of Your Mind" (Ep12Clip1) featuring Dr. Don Wood and another speaker. They use sports (golf, baseball) as an analogy for individualized teaching, argue that formal education funnels learners into a single method, and note how medicine similarly groups people and must simplify—illustrated by drug dosing variation driven by patient weight differences.
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Yeah, well, you know, it's. I always talk about, too, and I use sports as an analogy because it's a great way. When you teach somebody to play golf, we teach somebody to hit a baseball. There's not one way, Right. To hit a baseball. It's not one way to hit a golf. A golf ball, but. And it's the same thing in school. You know, we. We're trying to teach kids all the same way. So you can see how the medical community would get that. Right. Then when they go to school, they've got so much to learn that they can't allow any kind of variation. So they've got to get it all into these funnels. Right.
Well, nor can they. Again. It's an infinite number of possibilities. So they have to chunk people together. I mean, one thing that people don't realize is a lot of drugs. Weight variation. Right. So I'm 115 pounds. Shaquille O' Neal is 275. I don't know. Ginormous.
Right.
But when we both go in for a colonoscopy, we're both handed the same amount of medication.