In this video, we're going to help you give a great answer to what are your weaknesses? A very typical interview question. When you are in an interview and the interviewer asks the what are your weaknesses question or a variation on this question it can be a horrible feeling. That feeling is much worse if you have not prepared at least one good answer. I remember when I was first asked this question in an interview quite a while ago now and my mind went blank for the first few seconds then it raced through a number of different possible answers. I gave a pretty lame answer in the end. It goes without saying you don't want to be in this position. The interviewer is asking you to reveal all your flaws. If you do then there is a good chance that your job application will not go further. Passing interviews is as much about ensuring the interviewer does not have any red flags or real concerns about you as it is providing answers that show off your great skills and experience. A couple of variations of this question are what areas are you most keen to develop or improve? What are the areas that you would like to improve? What is your greatest weakness? What are your key strengths and weaknesses? However it is asked this is a horrible interview question to have to answer. We're going to help you construct a couple of different answers to this question. We suggest having more than one answer to this question as I've had interviewers say well that was really interesting can you give me another example please so be prepared. Everyone goes into an interview determined to show off their best points and say nothing about their weaker areas. The job of the interviewer is to try and get a balanced view of you as a person and as a candidate for the role that they are advertising. Asking about your weaknesses can reveal a lot more than you think more than just what you say. Your body language when reacting to this question can say a lot about your confidence levels and how you might perform under pressure. Your answer will also tell the interviewer how much preparation you've put in before coming to interview and just in case you're tempted to wing it I would say that there is a pretty good chance that if you're going to turn up to interview without much preparation you're probably going to approach doing the job in the same way and finally you can of course talk yourself out of a job by giving a poor answer or revealing weaknesses in character skills and experience that mean you will find it harder than the next candidate to do the job you're applying for. A common way used to answer this question is to talk about the downsides of a current strength and how you have managed to overcome these downsides. Examples of these might include I'm very impatient and you go on to talk about how you have become that or I've been told I work too hard and you go on. I know that I care too much about doing a great job and if you're going for a junior position or the interviewer is not very experienced then these answers can work pretty well. They are certainly a lot better than talking about your real weaknesses. Here's an example I am very impatient I want to deliver results quickly and I get frustrated when other team members don't work at the pace that I do. In the past this frustration has resulted in upset team members I'm aware of this and when I feel impatient I take a few deep breaths and remind myself that everyone is not as action-oriented as me. I now try to support rather than chase and this works well. I get results without upsetting people. When you are applying for management level roles even the junior ones and certainly the senior ones this type of answer is no longer enough. This textbook type of answer can even become detrimental to your progression chances. One reason is more is expected of you and your answers and the other candidates are providing better answers. Another reason is that managers need to be self-aware to manage others well. Providing a textbook answer is not demonstrating self-awareness. Don't forget interviewers can do their research using google too so they know the textbook answers as well. So how might we answer this question as a manager? If the role being applied for is a junior manager you could talk about an area of experience that is not strong yet but you are working on improving it. Just remember you can't choose one of the key areas needed for the role. For instance sales people or marketers could talk about their financial knowledge and experience being less than they would want and the steps that they are taking to get basic financial knowledge or finance could talk about sales or marketing and what they're doing to improve their knowledge in this area. You are not expected to be good at everything. You are expected to know what you are good at and what you're okay at. If you have an area that you are really not good at we suggest you don't bring it up in answering this question. Choose an area that was a weaker area and talk about the steps you have taken to get it to okay in this area. As you get more senior talk about how you try to ensure that skills of team members are strong in the area that you or other team members are only okay at. This ensures that the team has all the skills and experience needed to deliver well as a team. Most middle to senior managers should recognize this situation provided you demonstrate awareness and progression to get your weaker areas to okay your answer will become a positive differentiator to other candidates using standard or textbook answers. Plus using this approach you are answering the question directly honestly and showing good self-awareness and productivity improving your skills. We suggest having two to three different weaknesses to discuss. We have seen interviewers accept the first answer and then ask for a second. I remember when I first got into sales I didn't like or know much about the financial implications of what I was selling outside of my targets and commission. As I climbed the ranks within sales I made a conscious effort to understand a P&L and balance sheet going out of my way to spend time with members of the finance team. It was a weak area that I'm now okay at. I am all over my sales numbers and my team's numbers and do numbers as a critical part of managing the sales process. I should ensure that I have a good and friendly finance person to lean on for those difficult bits of financial analysis though I am comfortable with information contained in most P&L reports. Improving my financial knowledge has really helped my sales team management too so it's been a great journey for me. I've risen through the ranks to middle management through being very good at my job and good at managing my team. We've delivered some outstanding projects which made a real impact on the division and the business. That said I had little experience at networking and was not as good at some at marketing myself within the business to the more senior managers and board members. I also had little practice networking externally to the business. For the business this meant important project didn't get quite as much buy-in within the senior management levels as they needed. Also as more of my role involved dealing with external parties my small contact list gave me and the business less options to get help when needed. I put myself on a networking course and used a coach to improve my approach in both areas. I spent the last two years practicing all the skills I've developed. I'm now reasonable at networking and marketing what I've been doing to the wider teams within the business. I've been promoted again during this time as a result of the work I've done in this area. My projects get great buy-in and I have a much longer list of great partners to solve problems we struggle with internally and I'm still working on proving this area. Make sure you create your own answers based on your own experiences with a little thought and practice you can come up with some great and original answers to this tough interview question. If you want to get more great answers to difficult interview questions then take a look at our interview question bank by going to enhance.training and selecting resources. We have answers to over a hundred difficult interview questions and lastly please hit the like button below if you found this video useful as this really helps us produce more great content for you and if you like the content of our channel and want more then please subscribe using the button below and hit the bell to get notifications when each new video comes out. 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We're back with the breakfast and plus TV Africa. It's time for us to go through the papers. Chris Kennedy, one who joins us this morning. Chris, thank you for joining us. We really do appreciate your time. Always a compliment of the season. Good morning. It's going to be on the program this morning. Yes. All right then. Let's quickly take a look at the punch newspaper. Rising attacks vote buying 13 polls on a Christ out. These are the issues ahead of the 2023 elections. Commission says violence may merit election. Prevent presidential poll winner from emerging. Electro body plans supplementary budget to replace destroyed buildings, equipment, others. I think this was also a focus for us. I don't think it was yesterday. IGP FCC boss wants politicians against inducement. Survey puts 33 state on vote buying watch list. Wow. Goofy, what is that? I mean, I'm sure that, you know, our guest will be sharing his thoughts, but I'm already taking a back if you have 33 state out of 36, including the FCT. Court stopping Mephile's arrest. Groups lack or back. CBN governor. Narrow redesign will affect poor Nigerians. SMEs. That's what the World Bank is saying. Again, federal government begins 11 power projects. Plans 3,750 megawatt generation. I mean, we should be moving beyond this when you look at the population as a country. Money laundering occupies pays 13 million narrow escape to jail or jail 10. That's how the punch captions, but we won't move away for the want of time to all the papers. Alright, let's quickly look at the next paper this morning. And of course, we're looking at the nation newspaper with the following headlines. The lead one there. Workers to get better deal, Tinibu assures NLCTUC. Workers to get better deal, Tinibu assures NLCTUC. How we will stop vote buying by IG, INEC, a bandit skilled 28 in Southern Kaduna, Petroskesity, possesses motorist groan, obese campaign, DG, and jail two years for money laundering. That's the whole story. We'll look at that as we go on. Well, let's move away from the punch punch newspaper, the nation newspaper. And we quickly take a look at the Guardian. The Guardian says APC failed on 40,000 megawatt promises rationing of 4000 megawatts. And the stakeholders insist Buhari failed in sector despite 1.7 billion intervention, three billion dollars loan, Nigerians paying for darkness. Sector worse in the last seven years. There's a lot of thoughts as regard, you know, the past sector. Politicians unhappy with moves to block vote buying says INEC, how can these things be right? Well, that's the much we can take this morning on the Guardian paper. We'll look at more papers as we proceed. But we want to bring in, I guess, at this time because I want some time. Chris came to wonder. Chris, good morning to you once again. The situation with the DG of the OBE campaign organization has gotten a lot of people talking. Yes, the papers are saying he was jailed two years for money laundering. The two years is concurrently. It's not just one one two year sentence. He had I think two two year sentences on counts 30 34 to count 15 nine. That's 26 counts in all. And 500,000 per count. We had to love 12 million Naira. He was able to pay the amount of money, the fine that they gave him for each count between before 4 30 p.m. or by 4 30 p.m. Yesterday and avoided being handed over to officials of the Nigerian Correctional Services to be taking to Kuja prison spend some the next two years. What are your thoughts on this? Is this does this cast a bad shadow on the Labour Party in Pito B himself or something? Yes, as far as the law is concerned, as of this morning, Dr. Do you think it's an S conflict that's been committed by the court for is not no is no longer an alleged an allegation that is a brutal conviction of a constitutional court in the federal public of Nigeria. So as of this morning is an S conflict. And I want to believe that the Labour Party knows what is good for it. And the Labour Party presidential candidate who has been preaching on the issue of corruption, integrity and likes. Once Nigeria has to believe him and take him seriously, he has to immediately as of this morning is engaged. Dr. Do you agree as the director general of his campaign organization that is a very, very huge setback and he has the moral right to be with Pito B, our main DG of that campaign organization because anything that will be said now will be aligned and will be compared to the passing of his director general and he who comes to equity, as we say in law, comes with quickly hands. So it's quite unfortunate. This is a case that I've been up some time here. I'd like to have engaged in morning learning to do about 702 million Naira at the end of Pito according to what we read was able to complete his bailout and participate with about 30 million Naira yesterday. But that's been, as he said, it will be to build a party that remains a convict. And if my international capacity suddenly right, as a less convict, you cannot impun, participate or stand in a relation for some years. But that is left for other lawyers to be able to that if he was next, I saw this morning, I personally think that Dr. Doyoku should be relieved of this position. If Pito do really want to get as much support, especially with the kind of movement he's moving towards the 2020 election. Well, the next question would be whether this would affect the labor party in terms of how they're being perceived and also the outcome. I mean, how people will vote ahead of, you know, the 2023 elections, especially when it feels like we're tilting towards integrity, casting or morality. I mean, morality has a yardstick for the 2023 elections. Would this particular happening or even that is actually a core, do you think that it would take it all on the labor party would also affect how Nigerians vote? In law, we say there's a difference between morality and law. Morality is wanting, in law is surrounding that. Morality is more of a perception of what people feel about you. And as I already said in my opening statement, the perception and chance we have with Pito be changed from today, if he does not do the right thing, or if the party did not do the right thing by relieving the director general off of the campaign opposition, if they refuse to do it, that means that they have indirectly behind him and supported his act, which is not good enough for the campaign. I think the campaign team will do itself a world of good by easing out, as a teacher of that campaign. It can be sent to other committees where he can be working silently.  And that in itself will be a very big challenge. But that will make people to, to affect Pito's big chances. It's neither here nor there. Don't forget that people are not voting for Pito. They are going to vote for Pito. But I don't think he needs that moral body for now. All right. But let's quickly look at the punch now and talk about, you know, the energy issue. The federal government has said that, you know, she has plans of projection of about 3,000 megawatts with the new power plants, injecting it into the system. Do you think that this would actually in any way, you know, help the power situation of the country, especially when we're looking at, you know, 211 million Nigerians, approximately? Probably this neither here nor there. We have currently about 4,000 and we are in here to 7,000, yeah, 7,000, 3,000 megawatt. That's a good one. That's close to about 60 percent or there about. But that is not an issue for me because one thing is to generate and that thing is to distribute. If the distribution channels don't have the capacity to be able to carry out what they are generating, then that's, that's what you normally have outtakes. So if the distribution channels can only carry about 5,000, we are generating 7,000, then that becomes an issue. Our problem has not really been, I don't think our problem has been that of generation. I know that at a point we are generating that, but the capacity to be able to channel that through the distribution for us and to get to holds is where the problem is. So what we need, for example, is an expansion program on the distribution channels so that we can be able to have more capacity to be able to take more from the, from the, from the generation. And if you look at what the guide and others, it's published cover leads. It says that the APC government failed its promise to generate or to generate and distribute 14,000 megawatt. This was the promise. Now we are talking about 4,000. That is what they even made about 5,000 and leaving with it in the next few months. They promised to generate at least, to be able to generate about 10,000 every year. That was the promise the APC made in 2015. But now they are not, they could even sustain the one that they have. So that is the issue for me. And Nigeria has been made through the analysis for electricity that they don't employ us. Estimated bill, since the other of the day, people are paying for only few houses which are that is up to 30 percent have been paid with us. Others just live on estimated bills that even for 25 days out of 30 days, we don't have electricity. You still see this electricity companies coming to BU. And also the, the discourse also having issues which is right from some days back, the government came out with a policy that the indebted banks should be able to take over some of these discourse. And I know that some of them have already been taking over. I know they are taking electricity, having serious issues. The bank wanted to take it over. A lot of our budget has been taken over by the now bank in Nigeria. And that is the issue we are having. When we went into privatisation during the good, large enough time era, nobody did the due diligence to make sure that it's the perfect capacity in terms of funds and ability, technical ability to handle this issue. And that is what is, we are facing non-spirited challenges we are facing. All right. Let's stay with the nation, Nisropa. I mean, I face this situation myself. Petros Kessiti persists, motorists groan, the queues are still with us in Lagos, marketers are seeking equity allocation. It seems the DSS is turning out to be all bark and no bite. What are your thoughts on where we are right now? Well, while we are still on the ESEC, let us also talk about that. The ESEC is another, another round of battle now with the government of the central bank. Yes, another DSS issues and ultimately marketers few weeks back. And I think it was on this program where you are on another channel that I was talking about, that was just an empty thread. There's nothing DSS can do about it because the nobody problem is going to challenge and face the problem as it's squarely and scarcity. And we will be able to bring up our refineries to be up and running. We want them to depend on fuel importation as we do close to about 100% importation. Then the DSS does not DSS has no capacity to be able to ask marketers to supply. Are you going to supply what you don't have? No, it's not possible. So I said that we'll just there's a hot air that the DSS was blowing and I'm right about that because we're just barely to base 28. We have barely purchased Christmas and Nigerians are still finding it difficult to get through and across. If it's biting this hard in a state like Lagos and Apuja, I imagine what is happening in my state of mind and other remote states outside the major cities of Nigeria. And that is where the problem is. And that would jeopardize that with the issue between the DSS and the government of central bank. I read this morning that because a high court sitting in Apuja have stopped the DSS from arresting the government that report coming up this morning that the court in Apuja has stopped that and said that DSS would not have the right to do that.  But I sent to court to mandate it to arrest the CBN governor on trouble charges of terrorist, supporting terrorism. It's a heavy accusation and that they are not going to give that directly. But that to me is the big issue. And that in a second is going to affect our monetary policies, as far as what the central bank is doing now with the issuance of the new Niran bill, withdraw all points. And I heard you and Kofi talking about this money, about the new Niran bills, which are not even easily made available to the banks. But mostly, you say you have not gotten it. This is the new Niran. I've gotten it. So you know what I'm talking about. No, I mean, this is, I got some yesterday. Can I, can I, can I just take it through the screen? I'm trying to take it through the screen. I'm just trying to, but it's not working. Yes. That is the best. I will tell you for Kofi that getting it through the bank spending because that was at the bank. I have to say that they can only give me 5,000 Niran after what they ask. But that is the problem. So I will be looking at, that is Lagos, which is what some of us are saying that this policy has been reduced by the top of the central bank. We may not fly as quickly as if you are putting a cap date of the 21st of January as a cap date for withdrawal of old Niran notes. And the Niran note as of today, 28th of December has not gone round. We are talking about Lagos. I'm talking about half of Lagos. There you go. Imagine what happens and that's the solution. All right. Talking about the Niran, I just want to ship this thing very quickly. Ghana has its issues as well. We are also hoping that there won't be a scarcity of funds in the banks and we see the kind of queues in Nigerian banks like Arizona, Argentina, and Greece. In Ghana, they're having a cash crunch and the Ghanaian government has suspended payment of foreign debt. It's getting worse for the Ghanaian economy. What are your thoughts on what's happening in next door? Yes, they are almost having the same issue Niger is having. But I think Ghana is a much, much better position. If you look at our debt profile, last time we were looking at about 10 plus to about 40 trillion Niran, that is huge. And the problem we're having, which Ghana is facing now is also that we are not paying back the debt. We are only paying interest on the debt. And those are loans that were collected, majority of it were collected under this government. And this government is even about six months. That is why I'm going to say that IPT, whoever is going to pay back the money, whether APCO, PDPO, or labor, or NMPP, whichever government is going to take over, we are going to see a paradox of so many revelations that is going to come true. It might even be worse than what we are doing at Good Love, Dunatown. The only way this government can be able to sustain this level of integrity is IPC and IPT too. That means they want to cover themselves and just have a wrap on it and try to arrest some of the anomalous pets where a serious, severe situation. And Ghana is also the largest in that. But our problem is self-inflicted unlike that of Canada. Because what the problem we are having is that we are not doing what we're supposed to do. If we're exporting as much as we're supposed to do, this is a relying only solely on oil, plus over 80% of our foreign economy. If we have diversified our energy into areas like mining, like agriculture, and the rest of them, we would not be any more. So many countries are in prosperous nature, especially oil-producing countries. What Aramco is doing in Saudi Arabia, how much they are making, and other countries into exportation of crude oil. How was, instead of making more, we are using so much, practically on a daily basis, at the rate of almost $2,000 per day that I've been meeting our public, we should have been in more better position, like a country like Angolan, which is also dependent seriously on the export of crude oil and the rest of them. But I cannot do the writing, that is why I want to access, but there's a small country, a country under the ultimate environment area, at least in bed. Nigeria has to do the rifle, and I hope that in the coming months, our leaders will be able to do the writing, and make sure that they will not continue to go down the side. The poverty level in our country is almost about over 130 million nitrias under poverty level. That is a huge population. Well, I mean, I wish we had more time to talk about some of that issue, especially the consent of INEC, the increase in attacks, and also the issue of vote buying. Some states have been flagged as, you know, likely and has been identified as, you know, flashpoint for a vote buying, 33 of them. But Chris came to wonder, hopefully we're able to have this conversation as we inch closer to 2023. Thank you so much for being part of the breakfast. I will send you the other side of Chris, I have a wonderful Christmas side. All right, all right. You know, you can send some of those narratives to us so that we can look at it well and understand what we call an investigative journalism. Let me use it but I'll say how wordy it is. All right, Chris, Merry Christmas to you. Thank you so much. It's still the breakfast and plus, if you have calb next, we're looking at the cost of cooking gas and the efforts by consumers to ensure government does an evil, make it more affordable and available to Nigerians. Stay with us.


Let's go over the names of these compounds that are made from combining these two elements. So again, we just combined them and we made these things, but we don't know what they're called yet, even though we just went over that piece in lecture. So remember, the cation always comes first, and then the anion as we talked about, but it's the same in the name. So the cation comes first, and you don't actually, you don't change it, okay? So sodium stays the same, but oxygen is changed. You drop the ending and put I, so sodium oxide is the name of that compound over there. Remember, the cation doesn't change, so lithium, okay, aluminum and oxygen is going to be...


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Okay, now he's getting that guy. Oh great. Dude, this guy is killing everybody in this path He is a savage He just got two people in a row Three people in a row Well, guess what Michael? You're not gonna get me man because I break ankles out here boy Okay, let's make him run in circles No, come back here. Where you going? Look at this dude. Okay, and he vanished. Oh my god.  That's a lot. What is this guy? What does that even mean? I guess he's like a silent killer or something. Oh It's dark out here Yo Okay, why did it get so dark? Oh my god.  The guy is behind this dude Okay, so he camouflages is the dark and he whispers just pretty creepy Yeah, where'd it go? You can't even see this man Okay, oh, he's chasing this poor person right here. Okay. Now I lost this guy great. Oh, there he is Somebody turn on the flashlight out here It's so dark Look at this man Can't even see him. Okay, so I don't know what's going on there. Let's go up here check it out. Oh my god What's up the killer? 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Okay, let's see if you can get me I guess they can't climb the stairs Hey, how's it going Jason? All right, man. Well, I'm just gonna chill here Okay, let's get oh my god. Okay. He jumped up there trying to get me Trying to get me now That's what I thought man. That was so close. Oh, he's still slashed us Okay, so happy added anything to the store. Let's go over here Okay, the subscriber rooms over there Pets, okay, I forgot they had pets. Oh, they have I think they already had these before And I think there's a store at the back end of the map over here somewhere back here It's just pretty weird because there's stuff everywhere now. Oh my god not this guy Okay, there he goes He is chasing somebody over here. He is in pursuit Of his victim. Oh, okay. There he is Oh, he just got someone Okay, now he's after blazer. Oh my god. Okay, so it's so hard is like How are these guys even going and where did he go? I just lost him. Oh there he is. 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I think he's over here Dude, we lost this guy Oh, there he is. Oh my god. He just got someone dude the way they run. It's like they've waddled. They don't even run Hey, can you relax man? Oh my god. Hey, you need to chill out bro No run.  Oh Yo, that is some freaky looking picture, man. Oh my god. Okay. Let's keep moving on Oh, that's a cool picture.  Oh my god. He sounds evil already Where is the rake? Oh there he is Oh, okay, so he's not as fast as I thought he would be because he's really quick But I guess right here just like yo wake up Why is this man asleep when there's a killer on the loose? My man, you gotta wake up or the rake is gonna get oh, okay. He vanished Okay, he was taking the nap out here while the rake was out slaughtering people Okay, that is not the rake That was a demogorgon licking person Where is this dude? Is he here? Oh, there he is Hey Come fight me man. Leave those poor people alone. Oh my god I wish you could fight back all the killers Who would have made the game way more fun? Okay, can you relax? No come this way Okay, so we were trying.  Somebody get this man ahead. Okay. Um. Oh my god. Can you stop creeping over there? Okay, um, can I buy this guy a head?   I am terrified of the smile dog Because he is a douche Uh-oh, where does he do that? Oh, there he is. What he's floating in mid air.  They never notice he had a tail to right now Oh my god I think that is one of the most funny looking models.   Well, thank you guys for watching. Thank you guys for the amazing support If you guys enjoyed the video make sure to slap the like button Leave it in the channel make sure to subscribe and turn that notification bell on and I will see you guys in the next one Bye


Growing up, I had a strained relationship with my father. He was stern, and when one Friday afternoon in high school, I pitched my municipal baseball team to a big victory, but then walked home after the Jewish Sabbath began. He wouldn't talk to me. To better cope, I built a shanty in the back of our New Jersey yard, and I lived there off and on for three years amidst the squirrels and the raccoons. And then when high school ended, I was ready to head off to Israel for a year to get far away, and I did. And I read, and I studied, and I came to admire my father's careful practice of religion and medicine too. And then I decided to get very strong as well, and I did thousands of pushups and got very, very strong and grew five inches as well. And when I came home to see my parents for Passover, they barely recognized me. The month we then spent together was restorative, and I was ready to go back to Israel when I asked my father to have a catch with me. So we went into the backyard, and we took our mitts, and I asked him to make me dive, to throw a ball to the right and to the left of me, and he did.  And then after our catch ended, I went to the way back of the yard, and I took down my shanty, and I lay its molded pine boards out by the curb, and I flew back to Israel. I was 19 years old. Two weeks later, I was sitting in the back of a bus on a way to Jerusalem. Unknown to me, there was a truck heavy with tons of floor tiles that lost control, and it slammed at great speed, flush into the back left corner of the bus where I was sitting. My head snapped back, and I broke my third and fourth vertebrae, and they hit my spinal cord, and suddenly I was sitting in my red vinyl seat, and I could barely move, and I could barely breathe, and I could barely talk. Steroids and surgery lessened the swelling in my spinal cord, and my body enlivened. After one week, a bicep flickered. After two, a quadricep flickered. After three and four, I could breathe and urinate without mechanical help, and then I saw that my body was hemiplegic. I was divided in half, and then I looked in my hands. They were caked in dead yellow skin from the wrist to the finger, and I asked a nurse to soak them, and she did, and she rubbed them with lotion, and black logs of dead skin came off. And suddenly what had been yellow was pink, and I said, wait, this skin that was now on my hands had not been part of me when the crash happened. They'd never held a ball, these hands. And what about my hair and my nails that had grown since the crash? And then I thought, will there be nothing left of me, the me that was whole for 19 years and 35 days? Four months after my crash, I walked out of the hospital, but walking was still a great difficulty for me, and so I used a wheelchair, and I used the wheelchair for four years, and then college ended, and I rose from my chair, and I became a journalist, and I used a cane and an ankle brace to walk through six continents where I did 100 stories and wrote two books that I typed with one finger at a time, and every May 16th on the anniversary of the crash, I thought back to who I had been, and it was a great comfort to me that my body had spent more time not disabled than disabled, and I started to wonder of the faraway day when I would have lived exactly as long after the crash as beforehand, and I started to call that moment my half-life, and it loomed ahead as a sort of uber anniversary, a great hinge in my life. I was born at 2 a.m. Mountain Standard Time, on April 11th, 1971. My neck broke at 12 noon Israel Standard Time on May 16th, 1990. I had thus lived one metonic cycle, the 235 month cycle of the Hebrew calendar, plus 35 days and zero minutes. I asked a friend to pinpoint for me when I would tip, when I would have lived exactly as long after the accident as beforehand, and he told me that that would happen on June 20th, 2009, at 5.15 in the morning, and I said, well, what should I be doing at that moment? It struck me that a half-life ought to be lived pertinently. Should I be riding in the back of a bus? Should I be riding? Should I be having sex? Should I jump from an airplane? And then one month shy of 38 years old, as I contemplated who I had been at the age of 19, I had a comforting thought. I thought of the half-life of a substance. The amount of time it takes for a substance to decay to half of its value is asymptotic, and what forever divides by half will never fully disappear, and so there would always remain in me pieces of my past. At 5.03 a.m., on a Saturday in June, three years ago, I walked into the backyard with my father, and we brought our mitts, and we walked where we had walked, and we stood where we had stood, and I put the mitt on the hand that I had not then worn it on, and the sky started to lighten, and I threw the ball to my father, and he threw it back, and then time passed, and I knew that we were done.  Thank you.