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Connor Pugs

What my theoretical math degree taught me about business, love, happiness and life

Connor Pugs

Connor Pugs

Fiction, Comedy Fiction

4.7688 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What my theoretical math degree taught me about business, love, happiness and life

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0:00.0

A little over a year ago, I graduated college with a math degree. Specifically, a pure math

0:06.0

degree. There's applied math and pure math. Pure math is a little bit more theoretical, right? If you don't know me,

0:12.0

I've been doing social media for 10 years. I actually have my million subscriber YouTube channel. I have over 2 million subs on YouTube, but across all my channels, I do about a quarter billion views a month. I also run a company with multiple employees, with 25 plus clients

0:26.0

that do basically social media marketing agency type. We build the organic social top of funnel for them.

0:32.4

I also do a bunch of angel investments on the side. A lot of math involved in that as well.

0:36.4

However, my math degree,

0:38.0

I've never directly used it. A little bit of probability in my day today. But generally,

0:42.2

I don't use a single thing for my math degree. However, it's probably one of the most important

0:47.9

decisions I've made. It's one of the most impactful. So this is how my math degree,

0:53.0

I'll do this in 20 minutes or less, maybe it runs a little

0:55.2

long, this is how my math degree has completely shaped the way I see business, finances, relationships,

1:03.1

like risk-taking, romance relationships. I know that, that sounds a little crazy. I'll get into that

1:08.5

in a second. And you don't need to be technical in any of these topics to get something from this video. I actually was in low math in high school. A little bit of the reason why I did the math degree was to prove people wrong, but then it ended up being great. The higher up you go in math, the more interesting it gets in the less kind of just like churning through numbers, right? That's always been a problem for me is like I lose focus for one second, then the whole equation breaks. However, there's a bunch of

1:32.3

different subcategories in math that are covered. Everything, I covered things from very practical,

1:38.3

like probability statistics, that kind of understanding as well as the theoretical,

1:43.3

understanding proofs, understanding axiomatic thinking,

1:46.0

which is actually how people think. I think that was the most interesting.

1:50.0

However, if I'm going to go straight into it, probability and statistics are probably the most obviously,

1:55.0

most applicable, the most obviously applicable, I should say.

1:59.0

I think the biggest takeaway, the one biggest takeaway from everything,

2:03.2

is just having a fundamental understanding of expected value.

2:07.4

I don't know the last time I calculated, truly calculated the EV on something.

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