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Courage in the Face of Pi

“Leaders are fascinated by the future. You are a leader if, and only if, you are restless for change, impatient for progress, and deeply dissatisfied with the status quo. As a leader, you are never satisfied with the present, because in your head you can see a better future, and the difference between ‘what is’ and ‘what could be’ burns you, stirs you up, propels you forward. This is leadership.”

- Marcus Buckingham, Gallup

Vi Hart is a leader. You can tell that math class burns her and she’s doing something about it. From Infinite Elephants: 

So you’re me and you’re in math class yet again, because they make you go, like, every single day, and they make you learn about, I don’t know, the sums of infinite series. That’s a high school topic, right? Which is odd because it’s a cool topic but they manage to ruin it anyway so I guess that’s why they allow infinite series in the curriculum.”

She has 26 videos at the time of this writing and you can bet I’m going to watch every single one of them.