How 1 Man’s Brain Injury Turned Him Into A Math Savant

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Jason Padgett grew up struggling in school - until one night in 2002 when he was attacked in a bar and everything changed. Padgett said after the incident, he was using areas of the brain he didn’t previously have access to; he experienced choppy vision, was drawing intricate shapes and was seeing complex mathematical objects everywhere. Dr. Darold Treffert, a world renowned expert on savants, later diagnosed Padgett with acquired savant syndrome, which explained Padgett’s new skills. Padgett joins Megyn Kelly TODAY to share his story.
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How 1 Man’s Brain Injury Turned Him Into A Math Savant | Megyn Kelly TODAY

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  • I was hit in the head and now I have bills and three kids

    @davidkennedy6022@davidkennedy60225 жыл бұрын
    • Lmao🙆🙈seriously! I m out🏃😀😀😀😀😀

      @marieestile6023@marieestile60235 жыл бұрын
    • 😂😂

      @lincydorazyledon1442@lincydorazyledon14425 жыл бұрын
    • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA :-) :-) :-) :-) omg I'm dying!!!!

      @Estilove1@Estilove15 жыл бұрын
    • Let me hit it for you

      @alwaleedalsayaary3461@alwaleedalsayaary34615 жыл бұрын
    • It did not benefit u you need another hit again because you didn't get enough... 😆

      @ayyotube5224@ayyotube52244 жыл бұрын
  • My dad did nothing but work. He couldn't read, he had no hobbies, he thought games,sports,art,movie going and reading were distractions and unnecessary. He just worked, went home, took a shower, ate one meal a day at home. I knew nothing about him. He had a stroke. A stroke damages the brain, and while trying to recover other parts of the brain may wake up. All of a sudden my dad decided he wanted to paint. He had my mother drive him to an art store. He came out with an easel, high end paints, brushes, canvas and charcoal. Look, he once took me out to a dept. store, gave me $22. and said "buy a whole new wardrobe, your clothes are awful". He did not spend money. And here he was buying something he thought was frivilous. And he started painting. Stuff from looking out window, stuff from dreams. He never even doodled before. Now we had these really nice oil paintings - like pro quality,unbelievable. He never had an attention span and now he saw below the surface. He also used to be cruel and loved to berate us in front of others. And that stopped. It was like he had a stroke and instead of recovering his old stuff, he came back a way more interesting, and apparently had a gift he never had any interest in and thought was a "frivilous hobby".

    @DumpTrump4TRE45ON@DumpTrump4TRE45ON7 ай бұрын
    • That’s wonderful!

      @grahamstrouse1165@grahamstrouse11656 ай бұрын
    • That is amazing and wonderful. It shows us that our brains are living computers and we only use a limited amount of the brain functions. The rest are lying dormant.

      @nickidaisydandelion4044@nickidaisydandelion4044Ай бұрын
    • After my Mom had her stroke (she ended up in a wheelchair as her left side was paralyzed) she became funnier, and nicer. She was always funny, but before the stroke she could be mean...and being around her at times was like walking on eggshells. I always said that when she had her stroke the mean side of her died and the best part of her came alive. We lost her 7 years ago and I miss her so much!

      @debidehm9129@debidehm9129Ай бұрын
  • I get it. The math we use in our daily life is in the background, subconscious. He's now able to access that info in that part of the brain consciously. That's amazing!!

    @angelamagicsalveson3639@angelamagicsalveson36394 жыл бұрын
    • It crazy

      @dannysdragons101firewater8@dannysdragons101firewater8 Жыл бұрын
    • ive seen people compare math to magic in fantasy, cause it controls everything and explains everything and we can all use it a bit but some are just like on different level

      @Silva-avliS@Silva-avliS9 ай бұрын
    • right! like a dog or human catching a ball, the brain's doing complex calculus subconsciously.. even dogs, so we vastly underestimate the true intelligence of nature.

      @Sam-me5pl@Sam-me5pl2 ай бұрын
  • true story- I met this dude like 15 years ago while I was trying to buy a futon. We talked for like an hour because this had just happened to him. Amazing man!

    @mattdaddy9947@mattdaddy99474 жыл бұрын
    • not convinced

      @JohnPork-gr3bx@JohnPork-gr3bxАй бұрын
  • I'm pretty sure cutting off the mullet added a few IQ points.

    @S2Tubes@S2Tubes5 жыл бұрын
    • Blood Angel u said that on the other video too

      @sanniyasin@sanniyasin5 жыл бұрын
    • LOL!! Oh man.

      @shannoninalaska@shannoninalaska5 жыл бұрын
    • 😂😂😂😂😂

      @AnaHerrera-gk7zh@AnaHerrera-gk7zh5 жыл бұрын
    • Thats funny!

      @danelda47@danelda475 жыл бұрын
    • Maybe it drove innovation in the past. Barbarian warlord survives head I jury from battle. Goes on to invent catapult and subdues adversary.

      @nathansharp5743@nathansharp57435 жыл бұрын
  • *someone hit me in the head I’m in ap calculus*

    @tavkid1104@tavkid11045 жыл бұрын
    • Lol

      @newzade1@newzade15 жыл бұрын
    • Right!

      @TheTuellfamily@TheTuellfamily5 жыл бұрын
    • That's a little bit like the. movie Phenomenon with John Travolta, he gets struck by lightning and suddenly he speaks fluent Spanish, he can move objects with his mind etc ..

      @genevievemarie9427@genevievemarie94275 жыл бұрын
    • Just take LSD. Look at your body as a computer. It has several components to process vision "eyes", hearing "ears", etc. Your brain processes all these things using mathematics (it's like the CPU). And just like a computer, the only thing you can understand is what you see on the screen (your conscious thoughts). That's why people say that you're only using something like 10% of your brain. When he got hit in the back of his head, it seems as though he got access to more of his brain then he had originally. Now when he looks at objects, he sees his brain processing the mathematics of the things around him. When you take LSD, you get access to more regions of your brain, and a lot of people in silicon valley have already figured this out. Microdosing is getting very popular across the country. Just some food for thought :)

      @yourxploit7858@yourxploit78585 жыл бұрын
    • #MeToo

      @jshanker2005@jshanker20055 жыл бұрын
  • It’s really cool that he is so down to earth he is and how he lights up when he talks about math. What a cool story to come from such a horrible attack.

    @KCsFunHouse@KCsFunHouse4 жыл бұрын
    • 6:49 WHAT ARE YOU CRYING ABOUT?

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
    • I believe he is humble because he sees beautiful things & has appreciation for his new insight

      @jacobgalvan3628@jacobgalvan362811 ай бұрын
    • It's really strange, but in my own life the best things that ever happened to me in the long run were the result of bad things which happened first, and if those bad things never happened neither would the good things have come about.

      @DATo_DATonian@DATo_DATonian9 ай бұрын
    • is so fake im barfing my way to the supermarket.

      @somerandomchannel382@somerandomchannel3828 ай бұрын
    • I feel that it does sound like a very cool story and I feel it may be very inspirational for so many people in life

      @nohlanfisherman5185@nohlanfisherman51858 ай бұрын
  • This is such a wonderful story. What could have ended in tragedy actually made the guy a genius.

    @thelaurels13@thelaurels134 жыл бұрын
    • He’s not actually a genius, his fluid Intelligence is the same as it was before the accident. It’s just his condition that allows him to visualize fractals. He even said he struggled in doing derivatives, which begins in calculus 1 and is not difficult to conceptualize

      @IsaiYuno@IsaiYuno9 ай бұрын
  • I’m absolutely living for the woman in the background in red. Her facial expressions are on point

    @MsBroadway97@MsBroadway975 жыл бұрын
    • If you watch her, you don't need to speak or understand English! Lol. She is an interpreter!

      @JJ-yu6og@JJ-yu6og5 жыл бұрын
    • she is an actress trying to get screen time. ugh. annoying AF!

      @rememberyj@rememberyj5 жыл бұрын
    • Ikr. They always do that on these shows esp. where the audience is in the round and the camera shows people in the background all the time. I am sure there would be people doing that anyway, because I am naturally like that-very expressive with emotions, but it would not be everyday, I don't think. It can be annoying.

      @melissawalker3888@melissawalker38885 жыл бұрын
    • Seems like they always plant someone in the audience right there who nods and make a lot of facial expressions. In all the Megyn Kelly TODAY videos there is someone right there nodding and grimacing.

      @ananse77@ananse775 жыл бұрын
    • She was expressing everything I was. Lol

      @gma904@gma9045 жыл бұрын
  • The best thing about this guy is his ability to explain things simply to your average person.

    @SPadventurOUS@SPadventurOUS5 жыл бұрын
    • I’m pretty sure it’s fake he’s done 0 math

      @xdmrzzz8740@xdmrzzz8740 Жыл бұрын
    • @@johndoeistaken he knows how to draw trippy shapes 🤦🏿‍♂️ he hasn’t done one line of math in his entire life

      @xdmrzzz8740@xdmrzzz87408 ай бұрын
    • @@johndoeistaken because they call him a mathematician but he has so far shown zero proof of being capable of doing math equations all he’s done is draw.

      @xdmrzzz8740@xdmrzzz87408 ай бұрын
    • @@xdmrzzz8740 because nobody would watch the flipping show you dolt

      @oldmedstudent1750@oldmedstudent17507 ай бұрын
    • Yes! Luckily it happened to someone eloquent. Great communication skills and seemingly a lovely fellow who is grateful for everything, esp to have met his wife when he returned to education.

      @HumanimalChannel@HumanimalChannel7 ай бұрын
  • Somebody smarter needs to interview him

    @forniafishing@forniafishing5 жыл бұрын
    • It takes a stupid man to identify a stupid man but it takes a genius to identify why he’s a stupid man

      @jimmyyaeger8494@jimmyyaeger84944 жыл бұрын
    • "X squared" "You've lost me" "Literally just a square" "Yeah totally lost LMAO so funny"

      @nancyregan9656@nancyregan96564 жыл бұрын
    • Yes!! I’m into the interview with the man not the woman who only cares about her comments. Yes lady we know you’re lost, no need to express it sooo many times.

      @iitsacecithiing@iitsacecithiing4 жыл бұрын
    • The interviewer did a disservice to him. Such a poor job. Is this what TV does?

      @alexyegon2381@alexyegon23814 жыл бұрын
    • Alex Yegon So go knock her in the head ...

      @arrjee9474@arrjee94744 жыл бұрын
  • Dude got knocked out into a permanent acid trip

    @Eye_Radiate_Light@Eye_Radiate_Light5 ай бұрын
  • I think this happened to my ex wife because she knows everything

    @chapter4444@chapter44445 жыл бұрын
    • Lmfao brooo have dieing over here ..... Hahah

      @jcwell6801@jcwell68015 жыл бұрын
    • @@jcwell6801 glad to share a laugh 😂

      @chapter4444@chapter44445 жыл бұрын
    • Lmao

      @damiengarbutt7229@damiengarbutt72295 жыл бұрын
    • Lol

      @ErinPowell4@ErinPowell45 жыл бұрын
    • LMAO

      @Alex-bd4ov@Alex-bd4ov5 жыл бұрын
  • I had a cerebral brain tumor removed in 2011. Photographic memory ever since

    @lyndsieannette957@lyndsieannette9575 жыл бұрын
    • How's that working out for you?

      @Theomite@Theomite5 жыл бұрын
    • Have you found that having a photographic memory is boring when it comes to watching movies and reading books? I've found it is because you've seen it, you remember it, you don't forget it, but it's really great. When you have to take a test, you need to remember something friends think it's really weird, because you can tell them exactly what they were wearing or what they were doing, etc, or what their desk looks like. And where they are report is that they need for the meeting if you were over there.

      @valiantsfelinesmccarty6678@valiantsfelinesmccarty66785 жыл бұрын
    • Gimme your medias i need to Know your story

      @tonymendez3586@tonymendez35865 жыл бұрын
    • There's even a movie about her starring Clare Danes.

      @Kdija89@Kdija895 жыл бұрын
    • I have photographic memory. If I see a photo (painting or what ever) I remember it always. I used to study in the University using my photographic memory. I did not notice this skill when I was young. I was also able to find lost items easily (a gold ring of my aunt´s husband etc)

      @barondemonrepos@barondemonrepos5 жыл бұрын
  • So basically, he sees the "source code" of the universe.

    @sprawlmessiah@sprawlmessiah4 жыл бұрын
    • Yes, he is the Real life Neo of the Matrix, except allot smarter.

      @RonnieVaiArovo@RonnieVaiArovo4 жыл бұрын
    • no just basic evolution strusture..

      @campkira@campkira4 жыл бұрын
    • yeah best comment ever and I think that psychedelics do something similar , btw this re affirm the beliefs of Pythagoreans about everything is math. I think there have to be other ways to reach to this background process in our brain , maybe with meditation or something like that lol

      @marcoconcepcion840@marcoconcepcion8403 жыл бұрын
    • He's.... a USER.

      @matasa7463@matasa74632 жыл бұрын
    • @@marcoconcepcion840 Can you imagine what the Pythagoreans would think of him? They'd probably worship him as a living math god, haha.

      @matasa7463@matasa74632 жыл бұрын
  • My cousin was hit by a car on his motorcycle. He was in a coma for 2 weeks. He claims he had visions of angels placing books of knowledge on him as he was in his coma. He didn't have a mechanical bone in his body before the accident. Now he runs his own restoration business where he restores everything from vehicles to tools and vintage household items to museum quality. No formal training at all, he knows how to all of it in his head

    @worshipthepig9750@worshipthepig97503 жыл бұрын
    • 3:20 THEN I ASK MYSELF, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!?! TEMPLE GRANDIN MY LIFE WITH AUTISM MY LIFE IN PICTURES

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
    • angles?

      @alastairgreen2077@alastairgreen20777 ай бұрын
    • What was he doing before the accident

      @eyeswideopen7777@eyeswideopen77776 ай бұрын
    • @@eyeswideopen7777 Working for a restaurant, he was 19 years old at the time

      @worshipthepig9750@worshipthepig97506 ай бұрын
    • @@worshipthepig9750 lucky him. I had a friend her dad was hit by a lady, he was riding a motorcbikr. Died in his injuries. I guess he (your cousin) got wealthy now

      @eyeswideopen7777@eyeswideopen77776 ай бұрын
  • *when it happened on friday the 13th and his name is jason*

    @tavkid1104@tavkid11045 жыл бұрын
    • Dammmmmmm lol

      @PARENTALADVISORYPODCAST@PARENTALADVISORYPODCAST5 жыл бұрын
    • Scuuuurrry right!

      @nikkistahr7105@nikkistahr71055 жыл бұрын
    • OMG!!! 😲😲😲

      @cherahsBroll@cherahsBroll5 жыл бұрын
    • Opposite day

      @Razor-hh6ru@Razor-hh6ru5 жыл бұрын
    • Fake news

      @squirrelboss7067@squirrelboss70675 жыл бұрын
  • The lady in red behind him is all of us. Lol!

    @kdawson8981@kdawson89815 жыл бұрын
    • @PolSmokesPot ! lol same I tried to avoid looking at her XD.

      @Biceps4evr@Biceps4evr5 жыл бұрын
    • @PolSmokesPot ! O-O XD

      @M3RKSYNDICATE@M3RKSYNDICATE5 жыл бұрын
    • This is an underrated comment

      @just4funlive4eva@just4funlive4eva5 жыл бұрын
    • No, she isn't. She looks like a moron.

      @bilcarter@bilcarter5 жыл бұрын
    • OMG! You are so funny!. Ha ha!

      @christalclear8226@christalclear82265 жыл бұрын
  • she really did start the interview by saying “omg”

    @julianabohley4957@julianabohley49574 жыл бұрын
    • I'm g@y

      @FreeStyle-id2yf@FreeStyle-id2yf4 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah that was cringe af

      @daisyg509@daisyg5094 жыл бұрын
  • I was sort of sad to hear he was going in the direction of finance and stocks instead of medicine, physics, engineering or something else that can change the course of humanity. It is his choice though, of course.

    @AvivMakesRobots@AvivMakesRobots4 жыл бұрын
    • Engineering Juice same

      @truthspeaker555@truthspeaker5554 жыл бұрын
    • Relax, its not real.

      @xser4321@xser43214 жыл бұрын
    • No, it's my choice, but he won't listen.

      @kshepard52@kshepard524 жыл бұрын
    • Fr imagine

      @xFTLc@xFTLc4 жыл бұрын
    • i knew a guy in college that was gifted in chemistry. he would get perfect scores on tests and ruin the curve for the rest of the class. to him, chemistry just came so easily, like he was adding 2+2. he could just see it. but i guess he didn't have passion for it, because he went into computer science instead, even though it seemed like it was more of a struggle for him than chemistry.

      @lang-ed3bk@lang-ed3bk4 жыл бұрын
  • She’s greeting a math genius and picks “omg”? *slams head*

    @grayskindablue@grayskindablue5 жыл бұрын
    • That's why she makes the big bucks.

      @insomthegreat@insomthegreat4 жыл бұрын
    • @@insomthegreat Uh, no, not anymore.

      @generalyellor2187@generalyellor21873 жыл бұрын
    • He's not here to teach math but describe the amazing phenomena of becoming a maths genius by a hit to the head. Omg is entirely normal reaction.

      @meio4744@meio47443 жыл бұрын
  • This was such an awesome and inspiring story. I too always struggled with math. What really struck me though was how humble and almost childlike he was when he was talking about the different concepts, as if he was awed by it as much as others.

    @melissawalker3888@melissawalker38885 жыл бұрын
    • Melissa Walker Yes, exactly. I noticed that too 🙂

      @cherahsBroll@cherahsBroll5 жыл бұрын
    • O

      @christinechatfield4082@christinechatfield40824 жыл бұрын
    • I loved that about him.

      @daisyg509@daisyg5094 жыл бұрын
    • 3:20 THEN I ASK MYSELF, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!?! TEMPLE GRANDIN MY LIFE WITH AUTISM MY LIFE IN PICTURES

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
    • 6:49 WHAT ARE YOU CRYING ABOUT?

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
  • Did no one else notice how this guy’s name Jason and his attack happened on Friday the 13th?

    @lukedelagarza603@lukedelagarza6034 жыл бұрын
    • Luke De la Garza yuh that’s crazy

      @elifowler8239@elifowler82394 жыл бұрын
    • I guess it…adds up

      @PatDaddy13@PatDaddy132 жыл бұрын
  • my uncle was just like he was until he got hit in the head by a baseball. now he’s a chemist and research genius. Wild

    @womaninthewave@womaninthewave3 жыл бұрын
  • he should do a movie call "A beautiful mullet " lol

    @twobitmario@twobitmario5 жыл бұрын
    • LOL you got me, that's funny

      @infotainment999@infotainment9995 жыл бұрын
    • Hilarious

      @ryanboyd100@ryanboyd1004 жыл бұрын
    • A beautiful mullet no more

      @anime-girlfriend@anime-girlfriend4 жыл бұрын
    • Mario Herrera the FUNEST. FUNNIST. come on part of you never grew up

      @paularubin4711@paularubin47114 жыл бұрын
  • Shockingly, I completely understood everything he said. He described it so perfectly and it made so much sense. If math teachers taught math like this instead of as memorization games, maybe I would have done better at math lol

    @gladitsnotme@gladitsnotme5 жыл бұрын
    • What he said was really cool and all, but try explaining differential equations as two beams of light moving towards each other, and most kids would get even more confused.

      @trylikeafool@trylikeafool5 жыл бұрын
    • @@trylikeafool our dfeq courses are easy lol

      @echooutdoors2149@echooutdoors21494 жыл бұрын
    • I felt the same way, i understand what was being said, but why isnt math taught with more universal rules rather than memorization.

      @ronniecoleman2342@ronniecoleman23424 жыл бұрын
    • When did YOU get hit on the head lol?

      @3dbadboy1@3dbadboy14 жыл бұрын
    • Unfortunately kids learn differently and public schools especially are not equipped to help equally

      @TrevorIsCommenting@TrevorIsCommenting Жыл бұрын
  • This guy has an awesome story, from jock party guy to genius lol and then met the love of his life while rediscovering the beauty of math thanks to his accident.

    @gabrielharrison9800@gabrielharrison980011 ай бұрын
  • I’ve seen a lot of kids like these they always seem to dismiss their talent have a great sense of humor and excited to talk and share

    @jeffcrocker1078@jeffcrocker10785 ай бұрын
  • NPR did a story about a man who got a head injury and then became a piano savant. It's amazing.

    @TheTuellfamily@TheTuellfamily5 жыл бұрын
    • I think I saw Jason's story in an episode of The Three Stooges.

      @jonaldblip_@jonaldblip_4 жыл бұрын
  • Well I'm gonna continue to banging my head on the wall till I see the light

    @MikeMiller-nn1pj@MikeMiller-nn1pj5 жыл бұрын
    • American English, please.

      @VoltairesRevenge@VoltairesRevenge5 жыл бұрын
    • @@VoltairesRevenge that is English???

      @MikeMiller-nn1pj@MikeMiller-nn1pj5 жыл бұрын
    • Mike Miller dude your a confederate hillbilly no matter how many times you hit your head you’ll never see the light. only more lost IQ equating into nothingness

      @keilonjackson3388@keilonjackson33885 жыл бұрын
    • Mike Miller have you seen the light yet?

      @dultimatedav24k90@dultimatedav24k905 жыл бұрын
    • @@dultimatedav24k90 Hahaha! Very funny comment.

      @MsBiz888@MsBiz8885 жыл бұрын
  • Uh what that's not a math genius, he's just seeing fractals

    @algot34@algot347 ай бұрын
  • His mind became more open but he still had to study new stuff. He still worked. I admire him.

    @veritasnunc8749@veritasnunc87494 жыл бұрын
  • They need to make a movie about him! Wow I love amazing true stories!

    @m.castel9219@m.castel92195 жыл бұрын
    • M. Castel I will be the first one to line in the theater. His life is very interesting!

      @Liven78@Liven785 жыл бұрын
    • There's something similar Phenomenon John Travolta.

      @Isaharif@Isaharif5 жыл бұрын
    • "A Beautiful Mind" is the best movie about a man who suffers greatly from Schizophrenia, but is a math genius. Also, Albert Einstein who was Dyslexic also was a math genius. How do you think we got E=MC2? 😉

      @aaronbarton227@aaronbarton2275 жыл бұрын
    • Sam Rockwell should play him

      @PositiveLastAction@PositiveLastAction5 жыл бұрын
    • Einstein didn't invent that formula, it was an Italian math genius called Olinto De Pretto (search it up). Actually Einstein was a plagiarist.

      @phpsns@phpsns5 жыл бұрын
  • I guess I’m gonna go into a bar now and provoke an attack so I can pass ap calc

    @nicolemar3975@nicolemar39755 жыл бұрын
    • Taylor Ellis MOOD

      @tavkid1104@tavkid11045 жыл бұрын
    • Lmao😆😂😂😂😃😛

      @emmamadgini4139@emmamadgini41395 жыл бұрын
    • You can do it.

      @nzmanhdee6246@nzmanhdee62465 жыл бұрын
    • Goodluck u need it

      @rahabwanjiku176@rahabwanjiku1765 жыл бұрын
    • You wont go into a bar you virgin boy

      @sneakybeaver1049@sneakybeaver10495 жыл бұрын
  • So brilliant that he can communicate his thoughts. A rare gift to know how it is to be a genius and have experienced normal life.

    @carlabettles-theenergyroom2079@carlabettles-theenergyroom20794 жыл бұрын
  • What an amazing man. He is so interesting to listen to, with his passion to explain with simplicity. He makes Math almost colourful! Charming man and lovely presenter. Great interview.

    @justinewills7288@justinewills72889 ай бұрын
  • Friday the 13th, Jason? Coincidence? I think not

    @huangwinnie8951@huangwinnie89515 жыл бұрын
    • The Purge?!

      @salilbhatnagar@salilbhatnagar5 жыл бұрын
    • The Lord works in mysterious ways.

      @avaangel433@avaangel4335 жыл бұрын
    • Hotel, trivago!

      @cupcake5309@cupcake53095 жыл бұрын
    • @@avaangel433 u on point sis

      @renarich4942@renarich49425 жыл бұрын
  • Where do I install this system update from?

    @warrickwalter426@warrickwalter4265 жыл бұрын
    • LOUISVILLE_SLUGGER.exe

      @jonl9801@jonl98014 жыл бұрын
    • DMT, mushrooms, or acid

      @treeman_mj@treeman_mj4 жыл бұрын
    • virus update risk...

      @campkira@campkira4 жыл бұрын
  • Basically he's a super hero with mathematical powers

    @jojosdarkbar2594@jojosdarkbar25944 жыл бұрын
  • Did she just say OMG? Nice statement Megyn with a Y

    @roberthust5908@roberthust59084 жыл бұрын
    • that made me dislike the video right away

      @octofel@octofel4 жыл бұрын
  • Fascinating story! I love how excited this man is about math now and sharing his “gift” with others. I sucked at math in school.

    @CapeCodBelle@CapeCodBelle5 жыл бұрын
  • I've had 6 concussions and 3 of them were 'severe'... and I'm still garbage at life.

    @ImVexuli@ImVexuli5 жыл бұрын
  • I was a "Maths genius" until I was 15 ... then I had a "stroke" (or maybe it was epilepsy?) and the focus of my intellect became language. I literally lost interest in maths and began "seeing" the complexity of human language communication. What seems to have happened was a switch from what they call left-brain logical thinking to right-brain thinking. Prior to this I very seldom spoke and had difficulty understanding written and spoken language. Immediately after I'd recovered from the physical effects of the stroke/epilepsy (which lasted for about 15 minutes) I found myself experiencing a "world of meaning" when I read or listened to speech that I'd never experienced before. My experience of music and the human voice also changed.

    @jordanpeters3746@jordanpeters37468 ай бұрын
  • It's like musicians who hear melody playing in their head. But he is seeing shapes and numbers. Imagine how amazing is that.

    @jojo1865@jojo18652 жыл бұрын
    • Wait people don't normally hear melodies playing in their brain?

      @moustachio05@moustachio0517 күн бұрын
  • I love the facial expressions from the lady in red behind him. She is really in awe. 💗

    @alikacerto2280@alikacerto22805 жыл бұрын
    • She’s an actress.

      @trylikeafool@trylikeafool5 жыл бұрын
    • @@trylikeafool probably... Placed in for $100.00

      @watersbey25@watersbey254 жыл бұрын
    • She looks like someone that sat in a chair and had it spun around 100 times

      @treeman_mj@treeman_mj4 жыл бұрын
    • Then he said we can maybe use this in 20-30 years and she went like :(

      @Crozz22@Crozz228 ай бұрын
    • yeah, she annoys me a lot

      @peterpancik@peterpancik6 ай бұрын
  • When my cat jumps on the railing, he calculates the exact power needed to jump--to just land on the railing and not overshoot--and not fall over the railing and splat on the patio downstairs.

    @roundedges2@roundedges25 жыл бұрын
    • He knows he has 9 lives ;-) Lots of videos on KZhead of cats that try to jump and don't make it. Kitty in videos also has to understand co-efficient of friction.

      @frednil8304@frednil83044 жыл бұрын
    • roundedges2 my cat forces me to let him run around our roof

      @kushhunter6106@kushhunter61064 жыл бұрын
    • I have observed that as well and it appears they simply " relocate" where they want to be. They focus on that spot and they materialize there......without any real effort. Wish we could do this.

      @linanicolia1363@linanicolia13634 жыл бұрын
    • Hit your cat on the back of the head and see what happens.

      @user-dt6mt3cg2d@user-dt6mt3cg2d4 жыл бұрын
    • Zigg Zagg wtf

      @kushhunter6106@kushhunter61064 жыл бұрын
  • The physical changes including his body language, despite his age is also fascinating

    @icravehotpot5520@icravehotpot55204 жыл бұрын
    • He's like a totally different person. There's no way you'd say they were the same. His younger self seemed like a hooligan.

      @Eye_Radiate_Light@Eye_Radiate_Light5 ай бұрын
  • The man rocked a mullet, what a legend.

    @TheConspiredOne@TheConspiredOne Жыл бұрын
    • 3:20 THEN I ASK MYSELF, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!?! TEMPLE GRANDIN MY LIFE WITH AUTISM MY LIFE IN PICTURES

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
  • What a great story...I wish him and his family all the best..he is a great example of the "upgrades" that are in store for humanity..we can ALL do this,we all have this capacity..this is just a small fraction of what the human brain and the human mind are capable of 😊

    @sunshinemishasmommy5352@sunshinemishasmommy53525 жыл бұрын
    • what do you think the 1% say about this?... They will not encourage us but to only keep us working as busy bees....the grease on the crank...

      @j5santos@j5santos5 жыл бұрын
    • Jill S what the 1% say is irrelevant because someone will bring the tech to the common people if they don't

      @tahneethompson6012@tahneethompson60125 жыл бұрын
    • @@tahneethompson6012 RIGHT and tech lke smart phones have truly made us the cutting edge and such an amazing species and force to reckon with. looking at pics on social media really feels so avant garde.

      @bigpun2k6@bigpun2k6 Жыл бұрын
    • 3:20 THEN I ASK MYSELF, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!?! TEMPLE GRANDIN MY LIFE WITH AUTISM MY LIFE IN PICTURES

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
    • 6:49 WHAT ARE YOU CRYING ABOUT?

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
  • Wow...That is the exact experience I and many others have on psychedelics. The mathematical representation of literally everything through fractals and shapes...The thorough understanding of the entire history of the universe, the entire essence of life. Amazing that he received a psychedelic effect from an accident.

    @earthwerm@earthwerm5 жыл бұрын
    • The only time I saw fractals was when I got drunk off japanese plum wine. And I mean I drank a whole bottle. I laid under a tree at a park. And all of the branches and leaves started to spiral until there wasn't anything but fractals. I thought it was pretty cool. And yes plum wine is something I think every one should experience at least once in their lives.

      @alsdjfknbo@alsdjfknbo4 жыл бұрын
    • Which psychedelics give you these effects?

      @universalconsciousness4097@universalconsciousness40972 жыл бұрын
    • The Mayans and Aztecs knew all about fractals and they tripped big time

      @ballsdeep8858@ballsdeep88582 жыл бұрын
    • 3:20 THEN I ASK MYSELF, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!?! TEMPLE GRANDIN MY LIFE WITH AUTISM MY LIFE IN PICTURES

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
    • @@universalconsciousness4097 Probably mescaline

      @dieglhix@dieglhix11 ай бұрын
  • Thank you for sharing this story it is very touching. my daughter had a electric pole fall on her head when she was 4 and we are struggling in school. This put a smile on my face because she is very gifted in her art work and we are very very hard to get her up the speed with her math and reading.

    @addrienne634@addrienne634 Жыл бұрын
    • an electric

      @alastairgreen2077@alastairgreen20777 ай бұрын
    • YES AN ELECTRIC POLE WHILE RIDING ON HER BIKE. FREAK ACCIDENT, BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD!@@alastairgreen2077

      @addrienne634@addrienne6347 ай бұрын
    • Wishing her the best

      @vinayakangle1677@vinayakangle167710 күн бұрын
    • @@vinayakangle1677 thank you! We are blessed and she doing very well

      @addrienne634@addrienne63410 күн бұрын
  • Dude is considered a genius for hallucinating...He got a plug in the game!

    @toxichammertoe8696@toxichammertoe86968 ай бұрын
  • The secret to being smart is head injuries? Interesting..

    @snake6700@snake67005 жыл бұрын
    • Guys this doesn’t work, trust me.

      @ozymandias8523@ozymandias85235 жыл бұрын
    • Brep Brep im sorry to hear what ur mom did to u with that 5 iron

      @kushhunter6106@kushhunter61064 жыл бұрын
    • That's why football players make the big bucks.

      @insomthegreat@insomthegreat4 жыл бұрын
    • LMAO ha ha ha

      @justinhuman3278@justinhuman32784 жыл бұрын
    • I had a stroke as a baby and I'm as dumb as it gets

      @GGGS97@GGGS974 жыл бұрын
  • Stop playing with stocks and make us a damm warp drive. The aliens are laughing at us man.

    @wyaldkingdom@wyaldkingdom5 жыл бұрын
    • I agree, except before warp is possible, we need fusion, then antimatter reactors. The power needed to travel warp is immense. I could power all of earth with one of my prototype reactors, but have not solved all needed mathmatical calculations.

      @ronniecoleman2342@ronniecoleman23424 жыл бұрын
    • @Brayan Carmona we could theoretically achieve teleportation through quantum teleportation using the theory of entanglement. In fact we already did achieve this by teleporting data. However, the issue with this in order to teleport something we have to replicate its particles which in turn destroys the original particles. There’s a risk that if you teleport a person they may not be actually the same.

      @froggie1847@froggie18473 жыл бұрын
  • When she said “OMG” 🙈

    @mikek545@mikek5454 жыл бұрын
  • Megyn actually did a great interview here. Props.

    @getnasty08@getnasty085 жыл бұрын
  • Wow math literally coded him into a new man. This is an amazing story absolutely incredible.

    @cspratling5247@cspratling52475 жыл бұрын
  • You can talk about the low point of your life with ease only when you have overcome by far. His demeanour is so comfortable talking about his past ignorance in front of so many crowd.

    @ji-yongahn6527@ji-yongahn65275 жыл бұрын
  • The hospital sent him home after being seriously hit in the head. Wow, God loves this Dude a LOT.

    @a.k.4085@a.k.40854 жыл бұрын
    • High as a kite too! Demerol shot

      @bennett420316@bennett420316 Жыл бұрын
  • Dude was bullied so hard by life, it smacked the jock outta him and made him a nerd.

    @luisduran3456@luisduran34564 жыл бұрын
  • I am going get hammer wish me luck guys😂😃😄😅😆

    @alanbang6249@alanbang62495 жыл бұрын
    • How are you now? Become a genuis yet?

      @Ohmide@Ohmide5 жыл бұрын
    • You're going to need a sledgehammer after that poor use of the English language

      @warrickwalter426@warrickwalter4265 жыл бұрын
    • Warrick Walter I useded a sledgehamma liyke u sayd, I feels wai smarta

      @greenthizzle4@greenthizzle45 жыл бұрын
    • Yeah go ahead all the best

      @goddyrichie4185@goddyrichie41855 жыл бұрын
    • Hammered*

      @dylanh.1530@dylanh.15305 жыл бұрын
  • I need to see a way more in depth interview with this man

    @MsMedusaa@MsMedusaa5 жыл бұрын
    • Ms. Medusa he has a book you can buy. It's fascinating.

      @MmmKayHuuNay@MmmKayHuuNay5 жыл бұрын
    • +Captain Ford ill def pick it up!

      @MsMedusaa@MsMedusaa5 жыл бұрын
    • This man is not a math genius

      @se4949@se49492 жыл бұрын
    • @@se4949 Wrong comment

      @krisw9526@krisw9526 Жыл бұрын
  • imagine if we could turn on abilities like this in anyone!! I hope brain science continues to compound to find solutions for brain injuries but to also improve the average person’s intelligence

    @sarahmunoz5749@sarahmunoz57498 ай бұрын
  • Why am i getting mad that i cant access all parts of my brain now😂

    @sydneykpopsaranghae@sydneykpopsaranghae7 ай бұрын
  • There are MANY examples of brain injuries resulting in savant behavior. This goes to show that even the tiniest "rewiring" of the brain can have MASSIVE results: Usually bad, but sometimes good. Strange, the brain is, innit?

    @JustWasted3HoursHere@JustWasted3HoursHere5 жыл бұрын
    • I'm thankful of my health, although I wish I was smarter... Sometimes I wonder about go ahead risking hitting my own head to become a savant in something lol

      @dieglhix@dieglhix11 ай бұрын
    • same here😂​@@dieglhix

      @wingerplayz5035@wingerplayz50354 ай бұрын
  • I read this guy's book. Absolutely fascinating.

    @maureennochannel@maureennochannel5 жыл бұрын
    • Maureen Compoli What’s the book called? I want to read it too.

      @CapeCodBelle@CapeCodBelle5 жыл бұрын
    • @@CapeCodBelle it's called 'Google'

      @s.ljones6824@s.ljones68245 жыл бұрын
    • lol

      @jusrayne@jusrayne5 жыл бұрын
    • S.L Jones thats actually PRETTY racisttt.....

      @kushhunter6106@kushhunter61064 жыл бұрын
    • jusrayne dont egg on this textual pervert

      @kushhunter6106@kushhunter61064 жыл бұрын
  • My god this is absolutely fascinating, it is as if (considering you see the brain as a computer) he had access to 'lower level' parts of his brain processing the usual movement, visualization etc... This would mean, our brain ALREADY HAS tons of mathematical capabilities that we shouldn't have access to and that we 'learn a second time' at school. According to what he says, he actually sometimes needs to think about a concept to understand it. But his thought process is more like: "now what does it mean for the universe ? How does the universe does that ?" And this makes sense, our brains evolved and got more complicated thanks to (or because of) our environment, therefore, our 'deep' thought processes are completely related to that same environment (concrete stuff and not abstract stuff). For instance: "what does F=GMm/r² mean ? Oh yeah ! it's the force that pushes me against the floor !" or "what is -1/2gt²+v0.cos(a) ? oh yeah ! it's the curve a ball draws in the sky when I launch it !" I WANT to search more about that, this is more than a gift, it's like the ultimate way to do math (aka use what our brains are already doing in the background).

    @raminote5726@raminote57264 жыл бұрын
  • Isn't human mind the ultimate frontier? If you could only access the areas of the brain that Jason and all the other savants have access to, we could perhaps crack the code of aging and explore the solar system and galaxies by building inter-galactic machine.

    @nc01sadh@nc01sadh7 ай бұрын
  • Remarkable outcome for this man!

    @seanhenry4830@seanhenry48304 жыл бұрын
  • Med school’s been getting tough- who knew I just needed to get hit in the head 😂

    @DrAdnan@DrAdnan5 жыл бұрын
    • ✊✊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊✊ There ya go!😃

      @nikkistahr7105@nikkistahr71055 жыл бұрын
    • NIKKI STAHR I feel smarter already.

      @DrAdnan@DrAdnan5 жыл бұрын
    • How you holding up? Closer to graduation I hope

      @errolm8313@errolm83134 жыл бұрын
    • ERROL MATTHEWS yeah, still alive somehow. Last year 💪

      @DrAdnan@DrAdnan4 жыл бұрын
    • Roshni Rampadarath I’ll try doing this more since I’m studying for boards

      @DrAdnan@DrAdnan4 жыл бұрын
  • One day I’m going to become a neurologist so I can work with people like him.

    @waterfallsdontsaymeow2917@waterfallsdontsaymeow29174 ай бұрын
  • This is so cool and he is so fortunate! I got struck in the head and all I got was a concussion and post concussion syndrome. My IQ actually went down 😞😭

    @onigiri2136@onigiri2136 Жыл бұрын
    • Wow I feel bad you watch this knowing someone else has it better than you for no fair reason 💀

      @SAINTFLOOR@SAINTFLOOR11 ай бұрын
    • Not necessarily good. Did you notice that the person is now more feminine post-trauma? There's probably more that's not being shown but the law of zero-sum should apply to this guy too

      @yggreuyri5822@yggreuyri58227 ай бұрын
  • This made me cry. I honestly really want to have an fmri done of my brain. I had a traumatic brain injury at 17 from a similar situation.

    @Unlockingparadoxes@Unlockingparadoxes Жыл бұрын
    • I use artwork to express myself but I love all sciences and math.

      @Unlockingparadoxes@Unlockingparadoxes Жыл бұрын
    • I love neuroscience aswell. Ever since my injury I wanted to study it

      @Unlockingparadoxes@Unlockingparadoxes Жыл бұрын
    • Hi! Would you like to change ideas. There's some natural beauty in chaos, and the Mandelbrot set. There's a code to life in fractals and I think conscience has something to do with Claustrum's actions. But these are complex topics which have complex numbers and I don't yet understand and doubt I'll ever truly will. So if you want to chat we could do it over Telegram or whatever you're comfortable with. Fyi, from Finland had this "awakening" and ideas of these concepts before I even researched them. It's honestly scary and I feel borderline crazy, but I'm constantly mind blown about all these similarities and coincidences that I keep finding.

      @Antif4mous@Antif4mous Жыл бұрын
    • 3:20 THEN I ASK MYSELF, WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!?! TEMPLE GRANDIN MY LIFE WITH AUTISM MY LIFE IN PICTURES

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
    • 6:49 WHAT ARE YOU CRYING ABOUT?

      @ericwilson6994@ericwilson6994 Жыл бұрын
  • This is an awesome story! Inspiration

    @stoplayin21@stoplayin215 жыл бұрын
  • He wasnt always a genius. He clearly stated that.

    @WolverineMKD@WolverineMKD7 ай бұрын
  • he is talking about the composable nature of universe and she asked "can we go to vegas with this". i wish there was a better interview of this guy where the interviewer had better questions. if you happen to know it pls link it below

    @aj.arunkumar@aj.arunkumar7 ай бұрын
  • This just goes to show you how mysterious the brain is

    @ibraveheart5700@ibraveheart57004 жыл бұрын
  • I love the reaction of the woman behind him the entire time

    @justinhuman3278@justinhuman32784 жыл бұрын
  • Usually when they say Math Genius they mean arithmetic savant but this really is mathematics.

    @chrisofnottingham@chrisofnottingham4 жыл бұрын
  • Jason, u are my new interest. I can listen and question u for hours. It still be very interesting and inspiring

    @BtwinUnW@BtwinUnW3 жыл бұрын
  • I suffered a traumatic brain injury and I got all of his bad traits and a learning disability. I had an eidetic memory and now my short term is shot. Depressing.

    @elissaj420@elissaj4205 жыл бұрын
  • This is amazing. I’ve always understood math to be like like.. of course I am never able to figure it all out like he can, but what he’s explaining is exactly what I’ve theorized and imagined

    @jdawg119@jdawg1195 жыл бұрын
    • we suffer because we say we cant

      @jaybanks2709@jaybanks2709 Жыл бұрын
  • What a nice, humble man !

    @veronicalombardi2443@veronicalombardi244310 күн бұрын
  • The attacker should get a nobel prize

    @colinjava8447@colinjava84474 жыл бұрын
  • 3:18 I can't stop laughing 🤣😂

    @mrunknown3384@mrunknown33843 жыл бұрын
  • This is JUST like that episode of spongebob

    @whyjordie@whyjordie5 жыл бұрын
    • whyjordie This made me laugh so much 😂😂😂 You’re so right

      @cherahsBroll@cherahsBroll5 жыл бұрын
    • Which episode?😂

      @worldwide123@worldwide1235 жыл бұрын
    • 😂

      @mysteryof7@mysteryof75 жыл бұрын
    • @@worldwide123 it's the episode where Patrick falls of a cliff and becomes like super smart

      @adrianortega6409@adrianortega64095 жыл бұрын
  • Gives new meaning to the term "having some sense knocked into you"...

    @johnnyreb280@johnnyreb2802 жыл бұрын
  • When I add two numbers - Host: SLOW DOWN EINSTEIN Crowd: 🤣🤣😆

    @fornello123@fornello1234 жыл бұрын
  • Let's hope this man will discover something amazing!

    @lukastheinfinite7311@lukastheinfinite73115 жыл бұрын
  • No genius has a mullet after 1996. He should find the guy who hit him and thank him.

    @Jenbrinkerjackson@Jenbrinkerjackson5 жыл бұрын
  • We need more researchs on this !

    @hikaryagravity@hikaryagravity Жыл бұрын
  • proceeds to tell siblings who play football to give me a concussion

    @saahil5790@saahil57904 жыл бұрын
  • Shoot, can someone please hit me in the head? I want to win a Nobel Prize. :)

    @EricChamplin@EricChamplin5 жыл бұрын
    • Eric Champlin yeah come to me man

      @greenthizzle4@greenthizzle45 жыл бұрын
  • This is amazing but don’t forget about those who have brain injuries and do not recover. They are amazing examples of perseverance

    @runnininthe80s84@runnininthe80s84 Жыл бұрын
  • Fascinating. The Brain is an amazing organ which we have yet to understand let alone fully comprehend.

    @jeighlynn2667@jeighlynn26674 жыл бұрын
  • Amazing. I'd like to learn more about the fractal algorithms in the stock charts. Have actually been fascinated with fractals for a long time, but never had the chance to really get into them. Thank you for sharing.

    @nancychace8619@nancychace8619 Жыл бұрын
  • It’s very strange how accidents can sometimes rewire your brain chemistry

    @ItsMeKelso@ItsMeKelso5 жыл бұрын
  • He literally had some sense knocked into him.

    @cmk5081@cmk50812 жыл бұрын
  • So,where do we need to hit? Which spot?

    @lustxglory@lustxglory4 жыл бұрын
  • 2014 I had a TBI when I came out of hospital I could remember my whole life before that down to 2 years old being in a neighbours house with my dad but felt lost.

    @freqeist@freqeist8 ай бұрын
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