Hey, what's up guys? Happy Tuesdays Let's see Take a look at the market today The point chemicals fcx Lot of the mining sector is doing pretty good material sectors doing pretty good Healthcare is getting we leave rally for once because they've been very beat up for a while Actually, everything's rallying pretty hard. We're a career being as well Strong move even Etsy up 4% for the day live entertainment SPG getting pretty beat up today down 4% everything else is up Facebook is down a little bit to 20s hitting the keys key level Google finding some support Apple up 1% Microsoft up 1.2% Amazon up 2.2% Where's Tesla up 1.6% so what are you guys looking at apps apps FRCL right in big earnings for today's Chipotle cross-air expo Lyft cross-air lines Global foundry for the sales today Global found you doing pretty good up 36% you over a year 15% margin Has some deals of four and BMW What's the outlook saying? Outlook is 1.8 to 1.1 point 8 to 1.92 For next quarter So that's gonna be a little bit better than this quarter looking pretty interesting. It's up a little bit at the hours 3% Had a nice bounce off that 43 area support 44 support check out lift long nipple hair what's up? Going on kip young ball digital turbine. Oh God Take a look digital turbine Earnings for shares 49 cents as opposed to 43 cents sales is 375 as opposed to 353 Another great quarter 133% increase compared to the same pair last year at 300% increase in sales compared to last year. This is For the homily outperforming in the whole sector Hey, the CEO says very few company can walk and chew gum at the same time Then you guys can hear me drinking so this quarter they just pulled about 375 million They said the business outlook for the fiscal 22 year revenue looking between 1.2 to 1.1 point 22 to 1.2 for so Say 1.2 for divided by 4 That's gonna be about 310 million per quarter give or take Supporter might be better than others So it's gonna it's not like a The growth will continue but It's not a more growth on top of this growth EPS is gonna be between 1.66 to 1.68 Almost slowing down growth actually So It's probably not gonna run much in that. I have some shares of digital turbine as well I was selling some calls on it But I actually bought it back because I was was kind of hoping they had a good beat This $40 range was pretty good area. I think it's a nice area in the chart, too. Let me see EPS. Oh Yeah, I was hoping they would break out from 46 It's a huge huge M pattern here double M pattern Can't even come back down to nine dollars But I mean it wouldn't make sense if it comes back down this far because the company's been performing really really well But who knows man Chipotle Let's go Stagh split stagh split Chipotle did it again man. Holy smokes every quarter Bro, do you think you can turn 5k into 50k in three months? Documenting IG it's doable Will require a lot of options trading I mean in the volatile market that we're in right now It's probably pretty doable CMG Cigillica CMG what a monster man every quarter They continue to surprise. Oh, yeah, I remember one of you guys are asking about shorting CMG, right? Yeah, you know why you know why I don't like shorting CMG I wouldn't advice is really shorted is because they they always increase their restaurant counts So when the company always increase their restaurant counts like especially in 2021 2022 They're opening so many new restaurants that they're bound to have good sales their sales revenues guaranteed to increase Because there they're so far their store model is just extremely successful I mean anytime they open a store people just flop to it. It's like it's like pageants of breads in New York, man Holy smokes Total revenue increased 22% to 2 billion Comparable restaurant sales increased 15% Digital sales grew 3.8% and accounts for 41% of their total sales. That's huge man 40% of their sales are like 41% of the sales are like digital over the phone Restaurant operating margin is 20% still it's pretty strong. Oh EPS is a little bit lower compared to last year The fourth quarter of 2020 include tax benefit of 377. Oh, okay. That's probably talking about the PP PPP They open 78 new restaurants already in four quarter. Holy smokes This is what I was talking about man. They always open a new restaurant. It's the best game ever So four-year highlight total revenue increases 26% so as you can see they did slow down a little bit in the fourth quarter Comparable sales 19% for a year. I suppose it's 15% so we did see some slow down there They also grew a lot in the year About 24% in digital sales and accounted for 45% of the sales And they opened about 215 restaurants for the whole year of 2021 Monster year for them based on the success of small town locations Huh. Oh wow. I wonder how many subway restaurant there was Like where the subway restaurant peak that Because I feel like this could potentially catch up to that so I just googled and Wikipedia Subways it was the fastest growing franchise in the world in 2015 as of June 2021 They have about 37,000 locations in more than a hundred countries Wow, were they owned by the Luca family Mafia Surprised they never IPO man They missed the opportunity to scam the market But um Chipotle said they're looking like 7,000 locations. I think they could easily like I I can see Chipotle becoming the next subways man It's just so It's just so so convenient and trendy for people. I don't see why not Right guys. What do you guys think? How do you guys feel about subways? I mean like Chipotle overtaking subways and having like 37,000 stores That's the next is I was thinking the wage inflation food price increase. That's true. That's true But I feel like they probably increased their price too. What's up?  We'll check it out. Let's check out across there Nothing to read here. No stock splits Why? So there's a few restaurant I mean there's a few stocks that I'm expecting to split Sometime this year next year Chipotle was one of them because they're so down and expensive, you know, but dang didn't happen Let's look at outlook real quick before we move on to other earnings 2022 management's anticipating the following first quarter comparable restaurant sales growth in the mid to high single digits So that's a little bit lower actually as opposed to double digits between They're looking to open between 235 to 250 restaurants. That's a lot more So think last quarter they will open about 70 right? They're not looking to open about 235 to 250 Including five or ten wheel locations to add a chipotle Which assume construction and permanent delays with it is COVID-19 doesn't worsen Hmm an estimate of online tax rate between 25 and 10 7% Hmm So actually it wasn't like a great it wasn't great guidance. It could have been a bearish guidance there But the stocks also drop a lot too Nice move to the upside. I guess Check out crosshair cross air gaming We up down no movement Peloton we get the peloton had a strong move today We talked a little bit about on podcast how it could potentially be bought out for $40 So it got pretty close to that price $42 was my max buyout price. So pretty close to there CMG is pretty universe friendly. They like student clubs run fundraisers through their restaurants Thoughts on Facebook tomorrow close to 20 today Pretty strong area, you know, we talked a little bit about Facebook yesterday. I like this area I think we're we're at a pretty good range at 220 levels It did close a little bit under that level depending on how we look at it But you know markets starting to turn around if market really turns around here I would not be surprised for Facebook to turn around as well It's past that three to five day Hold on didn't pass the five day yet. It's past the three-day selling period Usually after three days, this is where the selling gets a little bit weaker. So we'll see We'll see if the week is the selling volume starts to get a little bit weaker But I did pick up some long-term shares in one of my portfolios for around think around two to 20s or Yeah, I'm pretty sure I picked it up around to 20s because um, it's like pre-covid levels man 2020 levels this is so far down. I Said to myself like how could I not how could I not? You know, it's coming back to a two-year price point. How could I not? That's like if it was 2018 and they came down to this 2016 price of $132, how could you not? You know, how could you not? Man Overstocking Uber please So we'll take a look at some charts later. Um, if we go through the earnings Chipotle not very international though. Oh, you guys haven't had Chipotle in Singapore yet. I Bet you guys are looking to see what the hype is. I have not seen Chipotle in Winnipeg or Angkor Chipotle is not in Canada either. Oh god so much opportunity I bet you can't wait to see what this hype is Yeah, I used to I used to enjoy Subway too, man until until they caught Jerry for watching child born Just kidding it just like Until they started exposing Subway and they said, you know, the food wasn't that fresh I'm actually used to like a salad of subways because it was really hard to get salad for a while And so Subway actually would serve you a salad like two to three dollars So that was that used to be like when I was on like super strict diet and Subway was pretty good for that But now a lot of subways they're run by like people that are like cutting corners over the place They're super cheap. They give you like one slice of meat and stuff man. They even work with the subways Surprise they're not dead yet Gman pro. Thanks for subbing a few days ago, man. Appreciate you PayPal same thing as Facebook pick some position up as well Cross there we did we ported earnings at 417 Eps 35 cents as opposed to 25 cents sales is 510 million as opposed to 495 mil This is a 33% decrease compared to the same period last year 8% decrease in sales compared to last year. So despite beating the estimate these were decreases Compared to a year ago. The stock was trading around 48 dollars right now. It's trading around 1920 Compared to IPO price a two-year basis. It did have significant growth But it's coming back down a little bit IPO around 14 dollars. I Remember when cross there used to be around 48 dollars big pump and dump Cross there sees full year 22 revenue at 1.9 to 2.1 billion as opposed to 1.89 billion Pretty interesting Stock split stock split. I just see what I just want to see one more stock split this quarter, man They said full year 2021 highlights For the full year it was a 11% increase year-over-year in terms of net revenue gamers greater Segment was a 647 20% increase net income Was 101 Compared to 103 They said after extraordinary growth in 2020 caused by gamers spending more time at home came in large growth in the crater economy We're pleased to see that the lockdown shelter at home were lifted our 20 You know our 21 red net revenues were about 8% of Q4 2020 Despite ongoing logistics and supply chain challenges impacting market including the lack of availability of reasonably priced GPUs in the retail channel We experienced healthy growth over 2020 in both our operating segments So I said didn't do pretty well 2022 expecting a 1.9 to 2.1. So what was that? What did they pull this year? 1.9. So they're they're expecting to make the same amount of money. They made this year Next year It's pretty good It just had a huge run for a while So it was pulling back, but that was actually a pretty decent earnings could be a by-the-deb opportunity if we get to like We get to IPO price $14 who knows? Lift earnings. Let's check it out. Where's the lift earnings? Do we have expo come out yet? I was looking for that earnings. I was pretty bullish on expo Because they're a logistics company. They're like a trucking company and they're like last mile delivery also So it's overall like a pretty interesting company and I should have alerted play on there, honestly But I slack on that today Because I saw this other logistic company report last week and they did really really well huge move up. It was like old dominion Fright line That's also another like trucking company I feel like so far a trucking company should be killing it. I mean UPS UPS is doing so good They're looking to buy planes man more planes so lift Full year revenue 3.2 billion grew 36 percent year over year Net loss for the fiscal year 2021 significantly narrowed by over 40 percent 2021 was a big year strong growth 30 Q4 was 70 percent increase year over year That loss was lighter 258 million as was the 458 Yeah, let's just one of those other company that hasn't come to profitability yet It's hard to like really be bullish on these guys I honestly don't even know why some of these guys IPO because I mean it's a cash grab for sure at this point, um Because other than that unless like they see profitability really soon It's really hard to like be extremely bullish on them So down a few percent after hours There's good results, um I guess Compared to a year ago, it was trading on 55 dollars Two years ago. It was trading around 54 IPO around 87s in 2019 Just the pain of that makes them tough on them catch up on comments Only in europe pretty sure to pull is in toronto Yo, actually let me tell you though. I want honestly i'm not too greedy about chipotle I mean I live in new york so you know, um There's so much there's so much mexican foods. There's so much taco places that It's it's not something too crazy for me But it is convenient like it's It is definitely easier to order at chipotle than ordering the mexican restaurant because the mexican restaurant is always so busy It's always popping and stuff whereas you go to chipotle It's it's it's designed for introverts, man. You everything over the app, bro QQQ 370 you can check for me Let's take a look at QQQ real quick. I did post an outlook on QQQ earlier this week I think it was actually a pretty bearish outlook QQQ the 356 We haven't gone into the bullish territory. I need to break over 360 So I don't think we're necessarily there yet. We did have a strong run today Um, overall in the market, but we haven't necessarily gone over that bullish bullish territory Um, even then 360 is just a quick area Next area they need to clear is 366 Then it'll be really bullish and after that we could potentially see 380s So if you're bullish, you can take a target to 365s see if that hits Um, if you're bearish, obviously the opposite direction 345s Peloton was this morning. They actually released pretty early. Uh, I can find the results for you a little bit indeed Uber's coming and was wanting to keep the calls for er a lotto Yeah, Uber's tomorrow What's up junk the ac for the win is trash So it is trash right now What's up cg2k? Hello guys Yes, sir And put down a mama 51st and 9th Oh, I may have I felt like I may have before I do like empanadas, man Los tacos number one. Oh jersey mikes is actually really good Uh, I had a chance to I had a chance to eat at jersey mites for free for a while and And it was really really good. It's really getting good. Let me check out xpo Yeah, I didn't know a guy I didn't know a guy Um, so a few years ago when jersey mikes started expanding a lot in new jersey in new york, right? I was in charge of like this. Um, I was in charge of like setting up projects with them and and And like every time like one of the new stores opened I would stop by say, hey, what's up with going on And you know, we do the walkthrough for the new store and things like that and then They would introduce me to like the store manager and stuff and then we'll always come back the next week and to get free subs So every time they open a new store, I would I would go there to get free cells. It was pretty good I got like I remember the first one I got was the philly cheese steaks and it was actually really It was actually pretty decent for a philly cheese steak Cross it they give guidance. Um, I said it before they they said they're expecting the same results that they pulled this year for next years so xpo They reported the highest revenue of any quarter. Why is this up? Why isn't this up like 10% right now? Port highest revenue of any quarter in company history Mmm Holy smokes This is what I'm telling you guys about man. So xpo is a diversified trucking logistics company built mostly via acquisition until 2016 Following the third quarter 2021 spinoff has bloke global contract logistics division outsourced warehousing supply chain services Um, it goes before we we flex transportation operations acid base less than truck low shipping 33 percent of the gross revenue light freight brokerage including Inter model and trucker brokerage is 29 percent heavy goods last mile eight percent European truck low and ltl operations 24 percent so Very interesting company Which should be doing good really good in this environment They said provided 2022 guidance um To adjust the ebitda of 1.36 billion to 1.4. What did they pull this quarter? Where's this earnings at? Where are you? This quarter they pulled about 3.36 so Q4 $34 as opposed to 99 cents sales is 3.36 as opposed to 3.27 That's the top and bottom b 12 increase compared to the same period last year Huh? This math is This math doesn't make sense here. They said they only made 4.67 million last year. No, that's not right They pulled some bad data Probably 3.4 billion or something. I don't even know they couldn't have pulled in Oh net income Is 126 for the fourth quarter Compared to 34 million That's a strong. That's a strong increase there. So profit margin got really wide there for them 155th times four 400 600 620 And they expect that to double next year So they expect um 2022 to be just as strong 1.3 to 1.6 The overyear improvement more than 100 basis points Interest rate expense of 170 to 180 tax rate of 24 25 Eps of 5 to 5.45 That's pretty in line with what they have right now right now. It's like 1.34 um, I supposed to 1.0 Cross-expenditure of 500 million free cashable 400 Expand the driver base the company graduated approximately 900 professional drivers for his driver training school in 2021 exceeding his goal and intent to double the number Of uh, 2021 that graduates in 2022 I heard that right now the um the the drivers where these trucking companies are so bad It's really hard to find them. Um, they're mostly stuck with new people for the full year The company reported total revenue of 12.8 billion as opposed to 10.2 for 2020 net income 323 As opposed to net loss of 41 So kind of like that cash drill Um marine company yesterday big turnaround Huge success store here No stock split. Um, up only $1.50 at the hours 64 hit 68 for a second there um One year almost no growth. So no real reflection of that the sales they've been doing This should easily be worth 70 plus honestly I'll be damned if it's not worth 70 plus tomorrow Um, once people start digesting the results Yeah, I could see it come back to this MOB line around 71 area Even below 2018 area man. Holy smokes 2018 support Um So we always got a little bit support over here as well 63 dollar range area So now it's above it has a nice little double bottom Um, the only thing I don't like is that on the RSI is on the downside Or my RSI is going to downside So it's kind of signaling bearish Same being the weekly as well sitting on the weekly MOB line. So really need to be above that Um above 65 above 66 we should move up Uh, I think 70 dollars should be easy target 71 After that would be 76 after pretty good earnings like that Not related to earnings, but what you're taking facebook is again by option leaps Yeah, I don't think it's a bad idea. Um, because Because I mean You know at on a technical basis, it looks pretty interesting. There's a lot of noise on the fundamental side though So it's all speculative there, but On the technical side, I really don't see why not Um I picked up some shares I think they took a lot of beating last year because um, their sales has slowed down a little bit Um, I mean last quarter they took a beating last quarter because their sales slowed down a little bit It's pretty weird. Um, the market cap is significantly below the enterprise I have to dig a little bit more into it, but that's really weird to see that You almost really really see that I think I remember them talking about like splitting into different like A small part of the new division or something too that might have something to do with it Let's see. Was there any other interesting earnings today that we miss? Yum china Assurance as well Assurance is an insurance company mobile phones and things like that Yum china is kfc Um pizza hut in international and taco bell for um overseas Revenue guru 1% Full year total revenue grew 19% of operating profit of 1.39 billion Accelerate expansion plans with record opening of 1,806 stores 1,200 net new stores in 2021 People they open in stores all over the place in asia talk about growth this company is super growth here Says they help some 28 equity interest in some hazu Hangzoo Hangzao catering service company kfc Restaurant margin got weaker Same store sales decrease Oh, wow huge decrease in In that income They open about 1,282 new stores last year Pretty crazy. Oh coming back to pre-covid levels At 46 dollars One might say this is an interesting investing area for a long term I might have to look a little bit more deeper into this. Um sales is getting a little weaker though um I'd like this company long-term investment But the the sales Surprised me a little bit over there. They come down a lot Um in terms of that income from the cobit hit They took a beating from that. Holy smokes What else? What other needs do we have today? Oh somebody asked about peloton earlier this morning, right? Let's take a look at that So peloton actually posted earnings this morning instead of after hours when we all thought it was going to be scam scam as yo Peloton here we go. Here we go Peloton earnings per share is negative dollar 39 as opposed to dollar 20 sales is 1.13 billion as opposed to 1.15 a huge miss Compared to last year in earnings. This was an 872 decrease um In terms of sales it was a 6.47 percent increase So huge decrease there One of the companies that that's holding them says that um One of the significant shareholders They you know, they send a presentation, you know outlined to me for immediate change And and how much they should sell it for and blah blah blah and things like that So let me see we can finally hear a call for action peloton 0.1 executive summary peloton is like track the business peloton's underperformance grossly mismanaged Accountability and alignment the borscht immediately put peloton up for sales Take a look cool background You can see the total revenue declining to Shareholder returns negative 70 per six percent. They're like dang. What are you doing to me? This is a peloton is the worst out of all nasdaq 300 companies Peloton 2021 shareholder returns of negative 76 was the worst of any company the nasdaq 300 Oh loss of credibility management qualifications potential acquires could include media and content um Which would be disney veercom and comcast I don't really see veercom doing it. Um technology and device companies would be you know, um apple amazon and google Sporting goods would be adidas lululemon nike Online subscriptions would be netflix Spotify and serious xm serious xm bro. I don't think so man What are you smoking serious xm is like a small company? They can acquire peloton Now I know these guys are just pulling stuff out of their ass scale I think I don't think lululemon could um Like it would seem cool actually if lululemon does acquire them But I actually don't think lululemon could do it because lululemon already has like a device Rulu workout advice They had think they have like the smart mirror or something. Yeah right today Yeah, they really have um, they really have a thousand three hundred dollar mirror So and they they just like they blew money behind that last year so I don't really see them like blow more money buying something else this is extremely difficult for competitor to replicate the business model to not logical innovations and community supporters I don't know how true that is the subscriber girl has been good connective finish subscribers that's the only good thing for them total workout they peak a lot I think that's their best selling point there their subscribers but they also been spending a lot of money on that too so there was a given take they blew a lot and a lot of money on the subscribers acquisition they said that they they're expecting peloton to be worth substantially more than current stock price using revenue multiples they're expecting like 57 plus dollars or even $60 based on these revenue multiples but that's like assuming peloton to continue to keep growing which they're actually like almost doing opposite in terms of revenue grow they they aren't substantially growing like three to four X we think we're playing chess where others are to be honest aren't even playing checker oh man that's it stealing this we're stealing this we're stealing this I don't know why they keep comparing themselves there's a one-year return to all these other these other indexes and things like that lack of qualification young so they just put a quote from CEO before it's been scary what you keep doing competition poor decision-making lost credibility I mean yeah it was bound for the guy to get fire oh my god look at this they put the attack on this guy they say foley and foley I think I'm not a very good manager quote-unquote I interview almost nobody time interview yeah is there anything about being a CEO that you don't like that you like to delegate the CEO to finance our CFO does 99% of finance I engage because I want to know how we're doing but to say I don't add value to your operations understatement you can also say the same with technology our CTO doesn't get any help from me I'll go sometimes months without talking to our CTO which as a CEO of a tech company that's kind of rare how would your colleagues and your co-founder describe your strength as a manager he's like I'm not sure they say they would probably say I have many strength at all I'm not sure they would say have many strength at all it's like this is like a meme at this point man this is a freaking meme at this point is a pretty funny it's a pretty funny poor decision-making inconsistent go-to-market strategy what's the optimal price point $1,000 they asked and he's like I don't know management does not have a well-informed pricing strategy and continue to validate on pricing strategy confusing the market and harming shareholders yeah they probably like go through like hours interview just to like catch them saying the wrong thing I mean like they could just even be joking and and they would like blow out of proportion poor decision-making inability to forecast the man the actual hardware sales incredibly predictable it's a beautiful business fully insist the man would only ever increase fully massively increased production capacity in 2020 build an inventory in 2021 he says we have increased the manufacturing capacity by 6x which is pretty perculean but we're definitely not going to stop there we bought pro-core we're going to be investing in us manufacturing but then the man's slow and fully noted at the same fabric confidence we're now making more bites and and treadmills then we're selling one employee says that warehouse resembles jigsaw puzzles with employees trying to figure out where it's stuff another bike plus on has now been forced to mouth bar production I mean no shit you know it was a it was like one of the top demand products out there they they you know at the end of 2020 they couldn't meet they couldn't meet the demand right they they literally have so much demand so much backlog they couldn't meet it they're like yo we had so much demand to like 2023 boys or 2022 or something right but then they kill babies you know Peloton kills some babies and and that was it people cancel the order and it went from everybody's got to get this product to like everybody hating on this product Instagram so I don't think he was really bad at forecasting the man I think I think they actually did their best they could you know and they took a bold initiative in in maxing out the capacity but bad press just caught them like honestly if it's like if bad thing doesn't happen to this company they would have been ahead of this whole supply chain issue this is where they got in prop this is where they got in trouble when the when the child died involving Peloton treadmill they denied him and they like you know they thought they were too popular and they were just too good to get to get taken out by bad press and think things turn around real quick there that's like I would think that's a poor decision he's part for sure what is this poke here looking at this company that they bought up they bought out another treadmill company probably for the facilities to invest it 400 million to develop one million square feet of production capacity I mean this attacker on the CEO is so bad it's like dude do people really want to buy the company after you saying all these horrible things I think it's kind of unfair to compare against these guys because some of these are bigger companies he's put his wife in charge of the apparel business apparel penetration into our member base is so low how do we drive more revenue from our existing member base do a smart yo he was a mass smart look at him he's selling he keeps selling the guy was just selling the tops he's kept selling selling selling selling selling selling he was selling for the whole for a long time mass smart yo genius and they call him a bozo now they made this capital race that was a smart race man this this is a headpiece this piece is kind of funny let me move to the summary this is getting too long conclusion fire them fire CEO fire CFO when right now runs just teaching alternative process well no they did the capital race like late last year when the company started going downhill which is a smart move on the company side because if you do a capital raise while the company still has reasonable price that's a good area right to to unload and so other people like a lot of biotechs and and like vaccine companies to that even like like look at like Pfizer I think I think Moderna did a little bit of that gillie did this some of that as well you know when when hype is in that's when you want to do more capital raise lock-in more money for the company it's essentially a scam it's like share offering right but it's like kills the company stock price when they do things like that yeah I mean I'm not saying it's not a scam it's definitely a scam definitely very very big scam but it's it's reasonable for the company to do you know hey what's up Jay what's going on thanks for stopping by appreciate you man I was thinking about you the other day how you doing man let's take a look at Google real quick oh XPO started moving up from that 65 price point area moved up the dollar already so Google has been selling off let me see if it filled that gap yes it did fill the gap wow so you know Google had announced that stock split had a huge gap up moved over here it's been coming back down we're finding some support here it filled the gap as well briefly so I feel like I feel like if there was a time to recover this would be it man this would be it because they feel that that gap over here that a lot of people are looking for so we might we might potentially see that we cover here might might be a good area to go long on Google that's assuming market doesn't like fall under for us right so on the half day charts looking pretty good it's a little bit over so on the daily chart you know it looks like you can go further like of course ideal area would be if it comes back to this double bottom range around 24-2500 however I'm not sure if we're gonna get that hard to really say yeah look for the gap area look for the gap field area that was talking about if you wanted to get in I think this is a really good gap area the 2754 at that range I'm not sure if you get another opportunity like that I probably would man you probably could get another opportunity the market's been a lot of up and downs let me see how much these options are Google's mergers in July right it's coming back down to this 2700 dollar price times 1.2 3240 oh wow so when I initially looked at this opportunity it was like there was no opportunity to make money from that gap up but now if they have the stock split run then they have a 20% run to like 3200 dollar range if that happens anywhere between July to June you could potentially make anywhere from 2 to 300% or 2 to 400% risking about $2300 and making about $10,000 pretty interesting here hmm that's a foot for thought for those of you guys that want to participate in the split that's that's gonna happen in July typically on a good split you know it run 20% but the market has been really really bad so we haven't you know really seen the run yet so surprisingly we got a nice pullback I mean Tesla gave us a pullback to during the stock split announcement as well so you know who to say this is not the same opportunity right so Tesla announced the stock split in July 22nd 2020 and then it came back down below the announcement price which was a surprise to everybody and then once it came below that price I was like you know ran like crazy so went from 277 to $500 so fortune favors the bow if you guys you know want to be risky dicky this would be the area this would be the area not saying go risk your whole portfolio but this is a good area to take some take some long dated positions good luck on that I'm gonna end the stream here today be back here tomorrow we'll take a look at some of the other earnings from CVS Walt Disney oh yeah somebody asked how we feel about CVS I don't think CVS gonna do that great because pandemics coming to an end so I feel like it was a pandemic play and they might not make as much money as before I don't know I mean it depends are they it really depends on how much vaccine they're pushing out for CVS during the last quarter but I won't suspect that much the other interesting thing tomorrow was see camco which is a ccj they are a uranium mining company so that could be pretty interesting Honda and tomorrow morning as well and after our we got a lot of interesting ones we got Walt Disney Uber Twillow Zanga but Zanga is being acquired Mattel Sonos MGM resorts I robot expect big ralatoty from my robot so we'll see how those do tomorrow thank you guys for stopping by and hang out and take care have a good night


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com coming at you with a quick one box break of 2019 Leaf Flash Baseball. One box random player break number two from jaspyscasebrakes.com. At the end of the break, you got a chance to win a spot in transcendent baseball, which is coming up a little bit later tonight. But let's do the break first. Big thanks to these folks. Actually, the original list is going to be randomized for that, so let's copy and paste that over there. For the break itself, you get six players from the list below, so let's multiply that by six. One, two, three, four, five, six, and I copied all the players right there, which is in the item description, plus that combo. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it four and a one five times for each list. Fifth and final time, TJ Leonard all the way down to Dan Tyson, four and a one five times for the players. Fifth and final time, we've got Tucker Davidson down to Andrew Vaughn. That's the White Sox prospect, Andrew Vaughn. All right, so I'm not going to read off all these names here, but I'll just slowly scroll down the list. Dan Tyson with the Jorda, TJ Leonard with the Wanda Franco. It's pretty nice. TMS with Cody Hosey, Dodger's prospect, Adley Rushman for Dan Tyson, Joey Bart for Jeff Peace, Andrew Vaughn at Dan Tyson, Nolan Gorman, Bobby Whit Jr.'s in this too, Nicoba. Nice. And there's the box right there. Anyone need to... Oh, let me sort by player name now. So Dan, there's your block of players there. Derek, Jeff, Joel, Levi, Mike, Nick, Ryan, SKS, Tim S, and TJ Leonard. Let me know if you need to... I'll give it everybody a few moments to maybe if you need to see your players again. Let me know. If you want to trade, go for it. Trade window going once. Trade window going twice. Trade window closed. Buzz, what's going on? All right. I'm going to re-alphabetize this by player name now. All right. So there you go. Good luck, everybody. All right. Six autos in the box here. Ryan Jensen. Here's Ryan Jensen. He's a Cubs prospect, Ryan Harold with Ryan Jensen. I've got a buddy, Ryan Jensen, who's from Chicago, but he's a White Sox fan. So he's not going to be buying that jersey anytime soon. There's Ryan Nelson, Flash Foundations. Ryan Nelson, Levi Newman with that one. We got Flash Forward, Michael Bush, Dodger's prospect. That's numbered, 17 out of 50. And that's for Tim S with Michael Bush. We got Jordan Balazovic. And that goes to Nick Koba. Next up is Hudson Head. It's kind of a cool autograph. Five out of 15. And that's Tim S with Hudson Head. And the last one here is Cameron Cannon. One of one, Cameron Cannon. And that's Levi Newman with the Cameron Cannon. And out of fives and under, get the train whistle. All aboard the Big Head Express. Woo-hoo. There you go. And there you have it. Now, let's grab the original names again right here. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it. Nine times. Name on top gets a spot in transcended. Good luck. Six out of three. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. And ninth and final time. Congrats to Nick Koba. There you go, Nick. After nine times, your name is on top. You get a spot in transcended. We'll put a little rooftop next to your name and flash two so you know you won that spot in this break. Show for Jasper's casebreaks.com. I'll see you for the next one.


Hi, everyone. Welcome to these CUBE's coverage of WINS 2022. I'm Lisa Martin, very happy to be covering this conference. I've got Vidya Settler here with me, the Director of Tableau Research. Vidya, welcome to the program. Thanks, Lisa. It's great to be here. This is one of my favorite events.  You're going to be talking about what makes Intelligent Visual Analytics tools really intelligent. Talk to me a little bit about some of the key takeaways that the audience is going to glean from your conversation. Yeah, definitely. I think we've reached a point where everybody understands that data is important. Trying to understand that data is equally important. We're also getting to that point where technology and AI is really picking up. Algorithms are getting better, computers are getting faster. There's a lot of dialogue and conversation around how AI can help with visual analysis to make our jobs easier, help us glean insights. I thought it was a really timely point where we can really actually talk about it, and distilling into the specifics of how these tools can actually be intelligent beyond just the general buzz of AI. That's a great point that you bring up. There's been a lot of buzz around AI for a long time. The organizations talk about it. Suffer vendors talk about it being integrated into their technologies. But how can AI really help to make visual analytics interpretable in a way that makes sense for the data enthusiasts and the business? Yeah, so to me, I think my point of view, which tends to be the general agreement among the research community, is AI is getting better, and there are certain types of algorithms, especially these repetitive tasks. We see this with even Instagram. I mean, you put a picture on Instagram, there are filters that can maybe make the image look better, some fun backgrounds. And those, generally speaking, are AI algorithms at work. So there are these kind of simple, either fun ways or tasks that reduce friction where AI can play a role. And they tend to be really good with these repetitive tasks, right? I mean, if I had to upload a picture and constantly edit the background manually, that's a pain. So AI algorithms are really good at figuring out where people tend to do a particular task often, and that's a good place for these algorithms to come into play. But that being said, I think fundamentally speaking, there are going to be tasks where AI can't simply replace a human. Humans have a really strong visual system. We have a very highly cognitive system where we can glean insights and takeaways beyond just the pixels or just the text. And so how do we actually design systems where algorithms augment a human, where a human can kind of stay in the driver's seat, stay creative, but kind of defer all these mundane or repetitive tasks that simply add friction to the computer. And that's what the keynote is about. And talk to me about when you're talking with organizations, where are they in terms of appetite to understand the benefits that natural language processing AI and humans together can have on visual analytics and being able to interpret that data? Yeah. So I would say it's really moving fast. So three years ago, organizations were like, you know, AI, it's a great buzzword. We're weary because when rubber hits the road, it's really hard to take that into action. But now we're slowly seeing places where it can actually work. So organizations are really thirsty to figure out how do we actually add customer value? How do we actually build products where AI can move from a simple, acute proof of concept working in a lab to actual production? And that is where organizations are right now. And we've already seen that with various types of examples, like machine translation. You open up a Google page in Spanish and you can hit auto translate and it'll convert it into English. Now, is it perfect? Not, but is it good enough? Yes. And I think that's where AI algorithms are heading and organizations are really trying to figure out what's in it for us and what's in it for our customers. What are some of the cultural, and until we talk about AI, we always talk about ethics, but what are some of the cultural or the language specific challenges with respect to natural language techniques that organizations need to be aware of? Yeah, that's a great question. And it's a common question and really important. So as I've said, these AI algorithms are only as good as the data that they are often trained on. And so it's really important in addition to the cultural aspects of incorporating those into the techniques is to really figure out what sort of biases come into play, right? So a simple example is there's sarcasm in language and different cultures have different ways of interpreting it. There are subtleties in language, jokes. My kids have a certain type of language when they're talking with each other that I may not understand. So there's a whole complexity around cultural appropriation, generations that where language constantly evolves, as well as biases. For example, we've had conversations in the news where AI algorithms are trained on a particular data set for detecting crime. And there are hidden biases that go into play with that sort of data. So it's important to be acknowledged of where the data is and what sorts of cultural biases come into play. But translation, simple language translation is already more or less a solved problem. But beyond the simple language translation, we also have to account for language subtleties as well. Right, and the subtleties can be, I mean, very dramatically. How do you, when you're talking with organizations that are really looking to become data-driven, everybody talks about being data-driven and we hear it on the news all the time, it's mainstream, but what that actually really means and how an organization actually delivers on that are kind of two different things. When you're talking with customers that are, okay, we've got to talk about ethics. We know that there's biases and data. How do you help them get around that so that they can actually adopt that technology and make it useful and impactful to the business? Yeah, so just as important as figuring out how AI algorithms can help an organization's business, it's equally important for an organization to be more data literate about the data that feeds into these algorithms. So making data as a first-class citizen and figuring out are there hidden biases is the data comprehensive enough? Acknowledging where there are limitations in the data and being completely transparent about that and sharing that with customers, I think is really key. And coming back to humans being in the driver's seat, if these experiences are designed where humans are in fact in the driver's seat, as a human, they can intervene and correct and repair the system if they do see certain types of oddities that come into play with these algorithms. I got to ask you in our final few minutes here, I know that you have a PhD in computer graphics from Northwestern, is it? Yep, Northwestern. Were you always interested in STEM and data? Talk to me a little bit about your background. Yeah, I grew up in a family full of academics and female academics. And now, yes, I have boys, including my dog, I mean, everybody's male, but I have a really strong vested interest in supporting women in STEM. And I actually would go further and say STEM. I think arts and science are both equally important. In fact, I would say that on our research team, there's a good representation of minorities and women. And data analysis and visual analysis in particular is a field that is very conducive for women in the field because women tend to be naturally meticulous. They're very good at distilling what they're seeing. So I would argue that there are a host of disciplines in this space that make it equally exciting and conducive for women to jump in. I'm glad that you said that. That's actually quite exciting. And that's a real positive thing that's going on in the industry and what you're seeing. So I'm looking forward to your keynote and I'm sure the audience is as well, Vidya. It was a pleasure to have you on the program talking about intelligent visual analytics tools and the opportunities that they bring to organizations. Thanks for your time. Thanks, Lisa. For Vidya Settler, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's coverage of WIDDS Conference 2022. Stick around, more great content coming up next.


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Don't know how to get the camp whatever we don't need no sneaking food Watch I'm gonna miss it 15 minutes until Friday, huh? Oh the tail swing That's what that looks like. Oh, I hit the ceiling. That's what that does Give me that bitter bug. Hey Vino matrix. Thanks for thanks for the compliment man. Thanks for coming by too And believe that hit nothing Thanks for the follow my DC. Oh, that was weird Man, everything just start going crazy Okay, now I can't reload Is it cause of the health thing? Well, I get a shirt my wife got it for my birthday. I don't know where she got it like a while ago I have no idea who she got it didn't ask either. I appreciate it though. It's really nice shirt Okay, so Let's put on some demon powder. I guess Okay, I'm gonna cluster bomb them Ready? Let's go. I don't have any Wyvern ammo That's what I'm missing. I Don't have it on my bar either Gotta craft some more Wyvern ammo Yay, I have Wyvern ammo. So when do you unlock an RPG tomorrow actually?  Oh, come on. I'm gonna need at least probably gonna need two more Probably need two more after this So in seven minutes. Yes. All right, we're almost there We are almost there Probably one more rotten veil investigation. I Think I got some new ones though. Let me see Maybe some better ones like a capture or something great girls You might be less annoying Here's a player. Okay. Here's a four player on all the gear on Probably go quicker. Got our powder gunpowder that is Our powder boy now What kind of powder you talking about sir? Just the one I just added. Where's the players? Yeah And it's gold. All right guys, if you want to join my session ideas and chat We're gonna do a four player hunt in the order gear on the guy we just were fighting I'm gonna fire flare to people want to join. Haha. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just want rations. Give me rations Okay, now remember Found them kind of annoying. I put the mantle on I can't I can't put that Oh, I thought he was gonna fight here crap now you ran That's not all the gear on is it Even know any more chat Yeah, that's the other guy Yeah, I gotta go the other guy So I found the second monster first and test is bleeding my seed Get my Billy Ward close to odd He moved see this This It's my boom stick In the butt in the butt Haha, you've got the high ground now Anakin. Give it up. Are you ran away fast? I saw blue. I thought I saw blue He chose me But he lost he won What am I shooting at? I love crafting and blocking at the same time Mistake. Oh, I'm glad I canceled that Missed two shots guys You see that stop moving in the mouth. Oh, I pay for that one. Oh, okay, I'll do Yeah, that definitely went faster than a two player. Hey, I got a plate a warp bono Dragon bone relic. I might get two bones out of this. Maybe three bones Come on, just be it right that's it right is it right? That's it, right? That's it, right? Huh nourishing extract. Well, thank you. Oh, we did it. Okay. I didn't make the board but that's I'm okay with that. Oh Feels good, man They have all that bite so I just got I got two more Two more elder dragons and whatever else comes after that. Oh third fleet master is Now there you're right you're not the third fleet master Valhazak Do well a fluvium I'll tell you what kind of crazy monster we're dealing with a crazy one is what we're dealing with Okay, I think we get a stopping point chat. That's that's that's that's That's a well beyond what I want to get done tonight I want to definitely beat the first elder dragon. We did that and on top of that we unlocked the other two So that that was definitely well beyond what I want to do there Good stuff, man. Great mutton Good stuff. I also want to unlock the the other harvest box, but you know that can that'll come Let's get that one part But yeah, man. Good stuff. Good stuff. Thanks so much for watching. Thanks. Thanks so much Thanks so much for watching. Feel free to follow the stream if you enjoy yourself. Follow me on Twitter Twitter.com slash one. I'll be back tomorrow at 4 p.m. Same time same station It does sound like a doomed character the quiz act satiric Valhazak Muadib tell me if you're a little more moussel Valhazak He who controls the spice Blow me back tomorrow man a lot of fun a lot of fun today. We got a lot done I was I was frustrating solo in that real the dragon with HPG now. I know what people said they gave up They gave up trying to solo with HPG and went to a We went to a melee instead because I know. Yeah, that melee though. That's another thing I got done I'm getting ready for my hammer time. I Know I'm getting ready for my hammer time So my nerker gun to a hammer is almost done and by almost done. I'm meaning that I got to farm some more The dirty gun to a hammer is Where is it is right here? So I need one plate and two tails So I think if I get some nerker ganti Investigations hopefully I'm like that then That'll go better So we're working on that right now. We got this guy right here an arc demon Wait. Yeah, we got this guy Which is pretty good I mean for me just starting with the hammer and then starting with this is going to be pretty pretty pretty good But I'm hoping to get this one and then just start with that and then just go nuts with that and learn how to use it But man progress is progress chat. I must say I must say alright. I'll see you guys


Okay, good morning. Thank you for joining in for our class today. We've been we've been looking at different kinds of counseling skills over the last couple of weeks and today we're going to come to a culmination of those skills. We're going to be looking at the very last part of it and progressing into other certain other topics also. I'd like to also welcome all the e-learning students that thank you for joining in. Thank you for ensuring that you'll have been on track with the program in itself, okay? So just a quick recap about what we did last week. We did about questioning skills in counseling. We spoke about the purpose of questioning skills. Why is it used? When is it used? What are some of the characteristics of its use? What are some good and effective questions? Kind of questions that we could use. We spoke about how we could use more of open-ended questions and we also looked at closed-ended questions. We looked at some examples. We did, I think, two roadplaces. One was with Divya and Jafina and one was with Divya and myself. So I hope that really helped to capture how we could work through counseling sessions with using some of these skills. Okay? So today we're going to focus on two skills, going to add in a last one as well, very little of it, but nevertheless it's important. So we finished with Attending Skills of Attending where we are building rapport. The next we looked at was Responding. How do we respond to the individual? How do we respond to the feeling of the person? How do we respond to the content? How do we respond to meaning? How do we respond to feeling and content? So we've got up to that. Now we're going to get into the skill of personalizing. Now the skill, just before I put up my slide, I thought, just give you a little brief outline of why this is important. Now if you remember, the meaning of personalizing is to help the counsellor take accountability, take responsibility for working through whatever issues or concerns that they have come with. So the process of personalizing, it actually provides a bridge between your responding skills and the action, the action of the individual. If you remember the three processes, the three stages of counselling is exploration, understanding and action, initiating action. So when we're looking at the skills that we have, what you are basically doing is your bridging. It becomes like a bridge from your respond and before they move into a place of action in working out something with the issue they've come with, that's where personalizing comes about. So simply put, this process makes sense of what the counsellor has explored in the responding phase and it leads to a clear understanding of the initiatives that is needed by the counsellor to change their behavior or to adapt to their circumstances or to quit whatever issues, whatever behaviors that they may have or transcend them. So whatever helps their growth, whatever helps their well-being, that's what you're doing. So I'm just going to repeat that. So the process of personalizing, what you're attempting to do is to help the counsellor get into a place of action from that place of exploration and understanding and this process is important for them to take initiative either to change whatever behavior that they may have been or to adapt to any kind of circumstances or to keep away or to quit them with understanding or to transcend them with peace. So the specifics of the goals that either lead to change or lead to adaptation, it's just not, we're not looking at good ideas that can be worth trying but they are derived from analyzing and helping the counsellor gather the information that is generated through that phase. So it is very critical that especially the exploratory phase has adequately considered all the pieces that are related to the person or anything that requires for them to work through their situation. So an exploration, a good comprehensive exploration actually paves the way for an effective working across this bridge that is from the responding into initiating where you are bringing about this personalizing. And on the reverse, inadequate exploration is likely to help them to retreat and maybe continue in that mode of blame shifting or throwing responsibility onto somebody, someone else. So basically the skill requires that we slowly move them from the place that they are into a place of actually internalizing and personalizing, taking responsibility for their problem so that they are ready to move into action.  Please give me a moment. Okay, so we will get into further details about personalizing and figure out maybe through a case example how this can be worked out. So like we said, we often find that our counselors may continue the talk, that helpless talk about other people or third persons. It's their friends or their employers, their teachers or their spouses or their children. But by focusing upon others, what's happening is they are externalizing their experiences. That's what we said when they focus on others, they're externalizing their experiences. But what we're doing is we pass on to personalize the understanding onto the counseling themselves. So by focusing upon themselves, they begin to internalize their experiences. So internalizing is what makes them accountable for their experiences that they say that okay, I need to also look at it from my point of view. I need to understand the situation from the way that I can, I take responsibility for it. I take accountability for it. So personalizing assists the counseling in internalizing their experiences. So by focusing again upon themselves, that's where they internalize. So the personalizing, what is personalizing do, it builds upon that base we have established in our responding skills as I had said before, that is what we build towards, we're building on that base. And there again, here we see that the attempt is to help them understand where they are in relation with where they want to be or where they should or where they need to be. Okay, so that's what you're helping them see, that they are coming to a place of knowing, I know I'm here, I'm in A and from A I've got to move to B. Like for example, I know I am anxious or I'm depressed or I am angry or I am lazy or I am procrastinating or I am like this in the state of my relationship. So they get to understand that and you are helping them see from this place, where do you want to go? Which is the destiny that you want to take. So maybe it's from anxiety, it is to have peace. From a sense of sadness, it is to have joy. From a sense of a broken relationship is to have, is to have peace from maybe laziness, it is to coming into productivity. So what you're doing is helping them show where they ought to be, where they need to be from the place that they are. So when you are doing this, you're actually helping to personalize different things and this is what we're going to be looking at. You are helping them personalize their feeling, which means whatever they are feeling, they come to a place of accepting that this is part of where they are at and it's okay to experience this feeling because that's what helps them to move into the next part or to personalize the meaning of the issue or of the concern or to personalize the problem or to personalize the goal. Where is it that they want to go? So this is the effort that we take in moving them to that. I just wanted to also state we are in page 39 if y'all would like to follow through, we're at page 39. So in personalizing, what are we attempting to do is first and foremost, like I had spoken about, you cannot come to a place of personalizing until you have helped the councillor build a good base of understanding themselves in relation to their problem. Like for example, if let's say someone with a substance use comes to you, someone who's into addiction comes to you and they are continuously in the complaint of I don't think I would have been here if it were not for ABCD reasons or if it not for ABCD people. So the minute that they have got there, they're still in that place of externalizing their problem. So until and unless we have given, we have taken them through maybe times or sessions where they have understood what is it that makes them take refuge maybe in the substance or in their smoking, whatever the issue of addiction is, until and unless we have, we built that strong base of really understanding that, maybe these have been triggers, the father has been triggered, maybe the mother has been triggered, maybe the school has been a trigger. Nevertheless, there is something much more internal. So until we've explored that, until there has come a place of self-understanding of it, it doesn't make any meaning moving into personalizing because if we don't get there, they are still going, it is an indication for you as a councillor to know that they are still in that place of externalizing their problem. If they continue to say, no, I would stop drinking if my mother does this or if my spouse does this, I would stop drinking or I would stop getting into this habit when the fighting in my house stops, then I will be okay. And that kind of keeps the councillor away from the real situation that there are these, again, we looked at those five stages of five functions, those five, the physical, the emotional. So until we look there in that area to see what is it that creates this urge, this need, this dependence on a substance, we may not be able to move into this thing of personalizing. So it's extremely important to build that solid base of understanding with your councillor as you're going through sessions. So even if that takes a while for them to understand their contributions, understand their thinking process, understand their feeling processes, understanding those crucial needs, we spoke about those three needs, understanding that we are not doing justice, we're not helping them into moving into this level of personalizing because only till we have done that in a fair amount are we bringing them to a place of readiness to get into saying, okay, this is my problem, I'm going to own this. I know that I am in this situation because of this need of mine, because of this kind of a thought process of mine or this kind of a feeling that overwhelms me or this kind of critical needs that I have within that makes me feel that once I take this substance, I can move out that. So this is extremely important that personalizing can happen only when we build that solid base of understanding. So now as you are doing that and we've done this so often, we've done this so many times is to be able to respond. So going back to some of those skills is we need to continue to respond to their feeling, respond to their thoughts, respond to their meaning to the content. So just as an example here, I've just taken this example so that we could move it into that place of personalizing and the example given here is of a young student who feels she's not doing too well at school and this is what she says, things are not going so good for me in school, I just seem to be floundering. I fake it every day, but inside I'm really down because I'm not sure of what to do or where I want to go. So here maybe these are the first couple of sessions and this is where you continue to respond to the feeling. So what we picked up up until now is you get into this conversation of really expressing your understanding of what the person is feeling. So here she's not said anything about her response or about her feeling, she's not said anything over there. So that's where we hit at first or where we explore first, getting into moving away from the content into the more feeling level.  So you're helping the young student to really explore what's going on and why is it going on that way, what are the thoughts that come in. So then that's an entire process like what we did at personalizing, sorry, at responding. So if you were to look at why, what is the reason that we need to get the feelings out in the open before we can actually get to the skills of helping them to personalize is one, it helps them to first and foremost to be aware of that there are feelings like this that are there. It helps them to be open about it, helps them to learn to deal with it that there are, yes, I feel like this and it's there, I can't deny this, I can't suppress it, it is there. So the more that you as a counselor helps to explore that feeling, the more likely they will be able to channel them constructively and once they're able to see, able to give words to their emotions, then they have more clarity in thinking as they have expressed their emotions, they begin to have a lot more clarity in what's going on. And this you must have noticed, you know, even as you're talking to people, as you have helped them to really emote and discuss what they're feeling, they have a lot more clarity, they may say, okay, now I think I understand what I should be doing because their feelings and their emotions have been tackled, they have been helped to do that, okay. So what are you doing is next you are, when you need to respond to their feeling and to the content. So in this case, what you're doing is you may, in Anita's case, you may say something like, you know, I see that you're feeling disappointed, I see you're feeling discouraged because things don't seem to be going well at school and you feel quite fake because of the way that you're responding. So I'm actually doing just that, I'm responding to the feeling and I'm responding to the content of her message or of what she has bought about, okay. So the example here is, the example that that's given is that you feel upset because you're struggling with your schoolwork. So I've just kind of briefly put it there just to help us know that we are still in that place of responding and it is leading up to that place of personalizing with your counseling, okay. Now once you're able to, once you've come to that point of getting there where you are responding to their feeling, responding to their content, then what you do is you are going to personalize that.  So what are you doing here is you are bringing about certain implications and that's a question that's there is what you're trying to attempt to see what are the effects of the situation on the counseling. So as a result of her not being able to do well at school, being able to fake, I mean being in a place of not feeling genuine about her course, how is it affecting you? How does it bear a burden on you and that's what you are attempting to do in personalizing, bringing the entire context back to them, okay. So when you're first looking at the implications and the second thing that you're doing is you're looking at assumptions. So behind this situation or behind this behavior, there may be certain assumptions that the counseling is keeping. So there are certain personal beliefs that the counseling has that makes them feel the way about their situation. So you are what you're doing here is you're challenging or you're bringing, not challenging yet, you're bringing to the forefront all the assumptions that the counseling may have about her situation. So you're bringing to the forefront what are the beliefs, what are the assumptions, what are the perceptions, what are her thoughts, what are her ideas about this specific situation. So when you question it that way or when you bring about a certain meaning, when you begin to personalize that meaning that begins to take root. They begin to become more aware of the kind of beliefs or the thought process that really holds them in their situation. So let's continue to look at that example. So here when we are looking at personalizing the meaning, here is what the counselor says, says you feel upset because your future will be affected if you don't do well in college this year. So there is an implication here. The implication is actually bought about here. What does this imply for you is that you're worried because your future will be affected if you don't do well this year. So then that becomes like a right. So what you're attempting to help the counselor think about is yes, I have a part to play in whether my future will go well or not if I don't do well in college this year. And so that's what your statement may help to bring about for your counseling. So when you throw about this belief that there is an inability to deal and cope with this pressure, that's the belief she has. The inability to deal and cope with the pressure, that's the belief it's going to have an implication which is that her future will be affected. So when you're doing this, that's what you're bringing up, you're taking it up to me. Now once that is done, once you have bought about a sense of the belief that the person has, which maybe I sense that this is what you feel that you don't feel capable enough or that there is too much of pressure and as a result you can do it. Now that's the belief and that it is going to impact your future. So we've reached that. Now once that is there, you're helping them own the problem. You're helping them to personalize the problem. So what are you doing here? You're actually going to dive deeper in and to find out that what would be there about the counseling that could be contributing to this problem. What is there that may be contributing to this problem within the counseling and that is generally got by the statement like this. You feel sad because you cannot and you've actually bought about the entire problem over there. So when you have placed them in their problem, their contribution of the problem, they get to a better place of finding out what needs to be done. So here in personalizing, I'm sorry, in this example, Anita has given a second part of her problem. So she says, I'm the school basketball's teams captain and I spend two hours every evening in practice and I'm left with no time or energy to study. So she has bought about something here that is an added issue. So in our response to her issue, we could probably say this like for example, you feel upset because you cannot spend enough time studying or you seem to be concerned because of the pressures in your basketball team, you don't have enough time studying. So you've bought about this merging together of her own contribution to the problem, to the situation over here. So when you're doing that, it gets the person to bring about what should go about or what should happen next. Okay. And let's say she's added on another statement said, I should never have agreed to being the captain. So she's actually through the responding, she's actually coming up and saying, I shouldn't have done that because maybe I don't know probably how to manage my time. So here, as you are going on, you're beginning to personalize new things. You say, okay, you feel angry because you seem to have taken on much more than you can handle.  So what you're doing is it's bringing the person back to the responsibility of, okay, I know maybe I've made a choice like this or I've done something like this. Now, again, it comes back to me having to figure out how I can work this out. And that's when you move to the next part to personalize their goal. Okay. What is it they want to want to do? They want to move from A to B. Okay. So this is where they begin to demonstrate that they are ready to move away from discussing all her problems, Anita's problems of being fake and not being able to study or the basketball thing, from discussing that into saying, okay, I want to figure out what I do need to do about it. And this is when they are more ready to respond to their problems the way we have been doing for them. So now they feel a lot more empowered because then you will find the statements will change. It will come up to, yeah, I think I feel quite overwhelmed because I don't have time to study and I have these many responsibilities. So the more that when you're building it up for them, you're helping them to see that this is what it is for them. Then they begin to own it. They say, yeah, I agree. This is how I feel. I feel quite overwhelmed. I feel there are too many things because I cannot maybe handle so many issues. So you've got them to a place of figuring out that they would like to rework their situation, rework where they are at. And that's where you begin to establish where the counselling was to where they want to be and what might contribute to resolving the problem. So you're basically what you're helping them do is they have understood, okay, this is how I'm feeling. And this is my problem. And this is why I have got myself in this place. And so you move it to personalizing the goal.  So the problem is there and you are getting into the actual goal. So here there's another line that she continues to say. She says, my dream is to become a doctor and I've taken the science dream. I did poorly in my first term exams. I'm disappointed in myself for not studying enough. So if you were to personalize both the problem as well as the goal, what you would essentially get to do is you're merging those two together. You're bringing those two situations together. Like for example, you feel bad or you feel upset because you cannot put in the hours required and you want to be able to do well in your exams so you can get a seat in medical college. So this is what you're doing. You bring about the response or the feeling and you bring about the problem. You feel bad because you cannot but you want to be able to do that. So this is where again that you are helping to merge that and bring them to a place of understanding. So yeah, that's the example again. You feel bad because you cannot put in the hours required and you want to be able to make sure that you do well in your exams. Now, what are you doing over here? You're actually helping them to begin to get into your next stage of initiating that action. So from here, what are you doing is you're doing a check first. So throughout your process of personalizing, you are getting them to really have a feeling check about where they are with respect to their goals and here's where you say, Sanita says, yeah, I really want to do well in my exams and that kind of helps you see that there seems to be some urge or there seems to be some way to move forward. And so this is how, when she says, yes, I really want to do well, that's how when you begin to personalize that, you say, okay, you feel hopeful because you're going to figure out how you can do well in your exams. So it becomes a place where the counseling comes to a stage or to a platform where they begin to figure out what should I do now. Now, I've understood that I need to do well in my exams and I feel hopeful because I've understood that there has been this thought, I feel incapable, I know about my future, there are those implications that have been brought about. You bring them to a place of hope, bring them to a place of another feeling where they are able to figure out how to take this forward. So through this entire personalizing, you may need to go back and forth over up, over down, but what you're basically doing is first and foremost building that base where you're responding to the feeling and content, bringing them to a place where they personalize, internalize the meaning of that entire issue over them, internalize and personalize the problem. They say, okay, this is my problem and personalize their goals, this is okay, this is where I want to go. And that's a great place when you would like that the counseling is in. But they say, yeah, now I do see that I would like to work through some of these issues or work through that. So they've come to a stage of saying, okay, I'm ready. They've expressed to you that there is some bit of readiness that they find in wanting to move to the next stage. Okay, let me stop here. Are there any questions even as you're moving? Remember I said it's a bridge between your responding and into initiating action. So any thoughts, any questions, anything that you would like any support or help for? Excuse me. No questions? Yes, Xavier. Go ahead. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. So the question that I'm having is, so when you're dealing with the counseling, do you like backtrace from this end goal? Like, if you, at the end, you came to a conclusion, right, wherein this is the problem and this is the, this might be the goal that you can have. So in that case, so do you just, you know, backtrace from there and ask the questions and likewise? Sometimes it's hard to keep all these things in mind, right? So I just want to know, like, how do you usually go about? So depend, okay, now maybe each issue that the counseling brings up, there may be certain different goals that are there, right? Like, for example, this girl, this student, Anita, she knows she needs, or you come up to that point where she says, okay, my goal is to do well in my future so that I can get a seat in medical college. Now, that's the broader goal, okay? Now, that is, it's like an umbrella goal that you have. Nevertheless, as you're going to look into initiating action, that goal may need to be broken down into smaller parts, right? That, in order for her to move across that goal, there may be smaller, simpler goals that she may need to achieve. So through your counseling or through the process of this, you're giving her or you're helping her see that's the broader picture and keeping that focus there and moving it back into more simpler tasks. So let's say, she may say, okay, so in order to get there, I have to start small. I have to probably start with maybe organizing my time. Maybe that's the beginning of it, right? Or it may be putting in extra hours of study, right? Or something like that. So let's suppose those goals don't get met. Then you need to, again, you are bringing about the greater picture.  So she says, yeah, it is, I'm actually, I actually feel like I want to give up. So maybe you're saying, you're feeling, you feel upset or you feel you struggle because you're not able to follow through these goals. Nevertheless, you have a desire to do the big one. So remember, again, I bought back, personalize the smaller goal and looked at the larger part. So she says, yeah, I just, I don't think I can, I can work through this. This is the way that I feel. So going back, okay, so if that were the case, if there were the smaller steps you could do today, what would it be? So then I refocus back on the smaller goals when I may actually keep that bigger umbrella goal insight for her to keep working on, to keep motivating her, to encouraging her to move through that. So yes, I may trace it, trace it to the goal. I may trace it to smaller goals depending on how she's being able to progress into that. So yes, we continue to do that all because we've established it once. It may not mean that is forgotten, but that becomes something to catch. That becomes the aim, right? It is, it is to do well in college or it is to build that particular relationship. That becomes the broader aim. And so we have, we bring it back to smaller goals yet keeping the bigger goals in mind. Did that answer your question, Vivian? Yes, yes, yes, Ma'am. I believe the counselors have to be really optimistic. Yeah, yes. I mean, you have to, and this, I think this is something a trainer told me.   So that's why they're there. So the very fact that you have someone in front of you is a clear understanding that they want something out of this, even though it may be a very steep, steep journey. And that's why we keep that, that optimism, that hope alive for them, that, you know, we can manage it, we can do it and not go down to, so you need, you're a hope giver. You're someone who is going to continue to encourage them that something that they see as a goal is something that we can get, okay? Yes, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Any other thoughts? Any, any other responses? If not, we'll move into the next one. Okay. So from here, we're going to take a slight de-root because we're going to be adding something called as influencing skills. Now influencing skills basically helps you, our skills that helps you to influence, okay? Now this is something that you may use throughout the, throughout your sessions, you know, here and there, but they are important because it pushes your counseling towards change. It helps to promote that change. It helps to give them that nudge into moving ahead. So, so influencing skills come as a result of, of you wanting your counseling to move into, into the next level of, of help for them. Okay. So let me, let me just share, let me just share my slide. Okay. So what is, I think just by the word in itself, it's probably clear as to what it is. The word influence is generally basically means to, to have a power of producing some effect without really exerting too much of force without maybe an apparent exertion of force or a direct command or a direct exercising of your influence. Okay. It is a skill where you're taking, you're helping the counseling take that proactive step towards change. So it basically means to flow in. It's, it's flowing in. It is an, it is a, it is a way of producing a certain change or an effect without really pushing or without really bringing them to a place of too much of an exertion. Okay. So looking at these skills, influencing is part of all counseling. All right. And you would do that. Maybe look at the way that you may be talking to somebody. You may be in some way influencing them. Right. So even if sometimes just by your attending skills and your active listening to them and helping them to feel that they're being genuinely heard, can also influence their behavior. Okay. So influencing skills can take a more direct approach to the change that you want to see in your counseling. And what you're doing, why do you do that here is to add in alternatives for action that can bring about change that is quicker.  And that's what you are hoping to do to, to accelerate the change, to promote the change quicker and to make, sometimes to make that change a little bit more permanent as well. So what's the, again, similarly, the purpose of it is to bring about change the way the counselor chooses to think or act. It's actually adding a fresh perspective and hope into their lives. Okay. So this is, when is it used? It's used when they are exploring alternative ways of thinking or behaving. And I find that these skills are a lot needed, especially when you're helping a counseling, when you're, when you're working with a counselor to challenge their thoughts or challenge their beliefs about something, right? That's when you're actually influencing them to think alternately or to behave differently. Like, for example, you have for in the case that we saw in Anita's case, we determined that Anita felt she was inadequate or she was, she was, she didn't have the ability or she was faking it, right?  So then maybe you've exploded and helped her see that those are thought processes, maybe asking her questions like, what kind of thoughts do you engage in when you feel like this? So she may say, yeah, I keep telling myself I'm useless, I keep telling myself I'm inadequate, I keep saying that I'm good for nothing. So you've got to that place. And now you're helping to explore, you're going to explore and help her look at alternative ways of thinking. So you want to challenge those thoughts. You want to get her to know that if she's able to have, if you're able to equip her to change the way she thinks, the way that her studies goes can go well. So that's what you are, you are trying to equip her to do. So and some of the techniques that we do is what we call as the, as influencing skills. Okay. So we will look at a few of the, there are many, but we will just take, take some examples of these influencing skills. Okay. So one of the most commonly used influencing skill is that of confrontation. Now, the skill of confrontation, it's, it's an, it's an important counseling skill to have. Okay. But there is always a right way and a wrong way of doing it. So what does confrontation do? Confrontation helps the counseling taste themselves realistically, especially when they interact maybe with other people or a certain situation. Okay. So here what you're doing is you are bringing them to a place of identifying what are some self-defeating patterns or techniques or thoughts or methods or manipulations that they are using for themselves. So you're making them aware that you're confronting them, you're bringing them to a place of awareness that this could this, these thought patterns or these self-defeating patterns affect the way that they are in their problem or in their solution, affect the way that they could get that solution. So it challenges them to integrate these aspects and then find ways to come out of it. When you look at stories or when you look at the counseling stories, you will see that they often have certain contradictions. Now, the contradiction will be between a thought and a feeling or there can be contradiction between a feeling and a behavior or any other combination like that. Like for example, they are, they are saying, I want to do MBBS or I want to do medical college but their thought process is I'll never get a seat in there or I'm not smart enough. So you see that there is a contradiction between where they want to go and what actually is happening and what happens is they also have very ambiguous feelings that they may be feeling too opposite feelings simultaneously. They feel like a lack of ability. So that brings them to a place of disappointment and they have hope because of what they're saying or what they want. So they are sometimes, they are unaware of this, they are unaware that they are moving into these polar opposite emotions because of what they're thinking and what they would like to see, maybe their behavior or their feeling or their thoughts. So those combinations can be very, very different. So in order to help counselors address this distress, it is essential that these inconsistencies are brought to their notice and brought to their understanding and their attention and it is to be addressed. Otherwise, they can get very stuck in that problem. Now when we do that, what can happen? Like when I said it, I said, there's a right way and a wrong way of doing. If when we do it the wrong way, it's easy for them to become very defensive. After all, we need to remember that when someone comes to you as a counselor, they somehow in their mind see you as a one up position. They see you as someone who knows everything but that's not the truth. They see you as the expert or they see that you have the greater power in that counseling relationship. But if counselors, if we aren't very careful of how we confront, they, a counselor could feel negatively judged, they could feel actually quite put down. So in other words, they can actually feel worse than they came. So what is a good confrontation? A good confrontation is gentle, is supportive and accurately reflects what your counseling has shared with you. The idea is to help the counseling explore their own conflict more deeply. So they need to see more deeply that there is a discrepancy between the way they are thinking about it and the way that they want something. So they explore that more deeply with the goal being the new idea or the plan that will benefit the counseling. For example, okay, that if I change my thought process, maybe I would be able to enjoy this goal or enjoy the fact that I could reach the goal. So the counselor expresses and when you're doing this, you express the genuine confusion to the counseling in a quest to completely understand the counseling. So framed, when you frame it this way, gently, supportively looking at the benefits of it, the counseling will feel more cared rather than feeling a sense of judgment of the issue. Let's just look at an example that will, that could probably help, help you understand this better. Okay, so here the counseling is saying, I just don't have time to exercise and I don't have the money to join a gym anyway, but I really want to lose weight and feel better. Okay, so there you find a discrepancy and she doesn't have time and she doesn't have money, but she wants to lose weight. Okay, so here's a wrong way of saying it.  So that's true. Okay, that's quite accurate, but it's not, it sounds very judgmental, but maybe a right way is on one hand you know exercise is good for you, but yet on the other hand, you seem to not want to do it. Could you explain this to me? Right, so you've actually bought this up to, for them to explore it deeply. Right, so that they may come up with some kind of an answer or some kind of an understanding of it. Now all because you've said this statement doesn't mean that you know all things are going to go right, it may actually need multiple ways of confronting to get them to a place of saying, you know there is a discrepancy here, I would like to settle that settle that in a way. Okay, all right. Okay, shall we, I think we are, we are time, we're way ahead of time, way beyond time or shall we stop for a break and then we'll come back. So it's 10.53 on my clock. We'll get back at 11. We'll see you soon.


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