All right guys, we got our next speaker coming up. His name is Tom Terraro from daygame.com. And he's an executive instructor for them. I've seen a couple of his videos on the internet, YouTube and whatnot. And I love what I saw, really looking forward to hearing his talk. It's his first time speaking at the event. And just so you guys know, he's also the love child of David Cameron and Michael Shoemaker. So we have some royalty on our hands. So let's welcome. Hello, hello, hello. My name's Tom Terraro from daygame.com, not gaygame.com. That's a different website. Some of you are nodding. And usually, I get really energetic and passionate about my job, which is teaching guys the art of day game, which is meeting and attracting women during the day with no bullshit, no lines or routines. Anybody had a day game? Anybody do day game? Beautiful. Wow, full house almost. Great. So you prove a point. I don't really need to explain what day game is or go through the day game basics. So I thought I'd veer off into something a bit global, a bit esoteric, a bit spiritual. And you're all thinking, Jesus Christ, is this going to be a talk on like California and hippy stuff, power of now, just being in the moment, man. Just feel it, baby. Well, no. No, it's not. That's the topic. But when I read into that topic, power of now, has anybody read power of now, air cut toll, awesome book, but very difficult to implement. Really difficult for men especially. I'm a primary school teacher by training. And the boys in my class were the jittery ones, were the nervous ones, the ones where their brains were going 100 miles an hour. So for me to be still, you can see for now, I move around a lot. Usually I move around a lot more. For me to be still and present was almost impossible. But what saved me, what taught me the power of now, to be in the moment, to jump into the moment, was day game. So I'll touch on day game, but more importantly, I want to talk about being present in all aspects of our lives and how ultimately that makes us happy. So the difference between happiness and pleasure. Sound good? Yes, awesome. OK, I won't tell you who I am. You can look it up on daygame.com. But I speak and I teach guys how to meet women during the day. But before I could do that, I had to teach myself day game. I had to come from a place that was very, very nervous, very, very shy, very, very geeky, very, very unsociable. It was quite a painful process, two, three years of going out onto the street pretty much every day, speaking to strangers first indirectly and then directly as Sasha was talking about. So racking up this confidence, racking up my success with women and generally becoming more alive. And this quote sums it up. This is the quote that I had pinned to my bedroom wall for three years. People say what we're seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think this is what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive. Because if you accept like me that life really has no meaning in terms of somebody dictating a meaning, then life can mean whatever you want it to mean. But that causes the problem that we need to feel it. We need to be alive. We need to decide what our purpose is and then we need to feel it. We need to be in the moment. And this man defined it. He didn't define it in a kind of a Californian way, a yoga way, just be in the moment baby way. He's a scientist. He's a professor of psychology in America. He comes from Hungary. And to say his surname, you need to be in the moment anyway. Anybody want to give it a go? Anybody know who this man is? Anybody heard of this man? Michal Graves, we've got a couple. Professor Michal Czikszentmihal. You can just remember it as Czikszentmihal, which is also true. Czikszentmihal. And he wrote the definitive work about 30 years ago and he called it FLOW, the work on how to achieve happiness. So he defined this state that we feel. Now before we kind of unpick it, I just want to know a few people's passions, OK? Because we all have glimpsed flow. Some of us are better than others at flow. And to start, we need to think, when do we feel most in the groove in the moment? So has anybody got a real passion? A real passion where you pretty much dedicate your life to it or you feel completely free in that moment? What's your passion? Yeah, roaming, Mike? I mean, my passion, really, is to actually be successful in business and always have a very social life, preferably with loads of women around me. And at the moment, it's completely opposite, but that is really what I'm aiming for. And it is a goal I'm trying to achieve, but it's just a lack of motivation from preventing me, really. OK, this could really help, because it's going to define what motivation is. So business, women, big motivators. We have one more. Can you be more specific, maybe?  My passion is going up mountains.  Yeah. Awesome.  Everything, any form of going up mountains. Great. Ice. Ice to climb, and I'm going to use a lot of climbing metaphors, and he was fascinated by climbers. So he defines flow as the mental state of operation when a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of real, energised focus. So full involvement, and it creates this magical feeling of spontaneous joy and rapture. Sounds a bit wooly, but even as a kid, I remember, I walked out of my house one day asking us about 10, 11, and I was just hit with a feeling of happiness, a feeling of heroine, a feeling of complete joy. I wasn't masturbating, it was totally for free. Has anybody had that feeling, and it comes for free? Some people only have it once in their lives, some people have it every day, apparently. Awesome. But the unfortunate thing about that is that we can't control it, it just happens. You could be looking out the window and it just happens. Sure, if you've got a newborn child, it could very well happen. If you reach the top of a mountain, it could very well happen. But they come and they go. So we can't rely on that to feel happy, because you might only feel happy once in your life, or when you climb. So let's think, how can we get it? And the professor said that lots of different things give us this flow state. So if you're really, really good at something like snowboarding or skiing or climbing, they always report the same thing. In the zone, in the groove, a loss of awareness, a feeling of joy, may be painful at the time, but looking back on it, a feeling of joy. So these activities are not always pleasant to do, but when you look back on them, they give you ultimate happiness and satisfaction. Certainly for climbing, it's very, very painful.  Musicians always describe this feeling of free flow. Top musicians especially, they're lost in the moment. Better than drugs, better than sex, ultimate happiness. Like I said, I'm a primary school teacher by training. I've taught kids for 10 years, and kids are lucky bastards because they just exist in flow. Flow is most apparent when you're about four, five, six years old. When you don't look back and you don't look forwards, kids are just high.   So if you want a natural high, become a primary school teacher. Not a secondary school teacher, you'll get hormonal kids. But primary school teaching and things like art, artists always describe this feeling of being in the moment, top artists. They lose track of time, they don't eat, they don't go to the toilet. Somebody said when Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, he just existed in a state of awe for up to weeks on end. Writing, business can get you into this flow state. So let's define it even more, because it's still woolly. You're still thinking, well, yeah, but how do I get it? How can I cultivate it? In the day game house, we've been watching some cool documentaries recently. And each of these documentaries shows flow. Hands up if you've seen King of Kong. Anybody seen it? It's an awesome documentary that Mark recommended to me. Mark from day game. About these nerds, ultra nerds in the States who compete at Donkey Kong. Sounds proper nerdy, it is proper nerdy, but you watch these guys in their garage all night trying to get to the next level of Donkey Kong.  And they exist in flow. You know, if we accept that life has no meaning, well, for those guys, that is the meaning. They're completely happy, they're completely satisfied with Donkey Kong. You know, we can laugh at them, but just watch the documentary, watch their faces. Even cooler, even more masculine, you could say, is a documentary on motorbike riding in the Isle of Man. Anybody seen that one on the right? TT motorbike racing, about guys that just go full throttle, many deaths per year in the race. When somebody dies, everybody's like, well, totally cool, you know, he died in flow. Good on him. It's probably the most exhilarating documentary you'll ever see.  Maybe that's the same as my business flow. So you're getting a theme already. Climbing, this is a very famous film, touching the void, gripping story of guys stuck in the Peruvian Andes. And this one we watched recently, a big fat guy who swam the Amazon, swam the Amazon and every day he got more and more into flow until he basically lost his mind and carried on swimming and it took him two months to come down from his flow state. He was seeing things, seeing visions. He was in a drug experience. So he really immersed himself into flow. This is the definition of flow. If you only remember one thing, remember this graph and Google this graph or it will be on the video. This is how you can get into flow. This is how he defined it. Down the bottom is your skill level from very low to very, very high. Going up is your challenge level from very low to very high. Let's talk about day game.  So you know the feelings involved with day game. Even night game, any kind of talking to women, that's cool. Let's have a look at it. So when we teach guys on the boot camp, they come to us with pretty low skill or no skill and we send them into high challenge situations. We like to just throw them in the deep end.  Obviously this generates a state of perhaps worry if she's pretty hot or if she's a supermodel, severe anxiety. So these two are typical. And most of the guys that we coach at daygame.com exist in this state during day game. If you get past the anxiety, which is pretty doable, you just have to go out a lot. Maybe up to six months, you have to talk to girls on the street. You get to this stage, which is arousal, not that kind of arousal, excitement. So that's the typical puppy dog scenario. And we get a lot of students on our boot camp who have done a bit of day game and they come to us really, really excited. And these are the guys you see on YouTube doing all the dancing and really excited and doing all the routines and spinning and it looks really cool. But what they're doing is just being excited by challenge and their skill level is medium. This is the magical situation. This is the best of the best. This is where you stand in front of a woman, you're completely present. You don't have lines, you don't have routines, you don't feel fear. You feel excited, but you also feel in another dimension. It sounds cheesy, but you really feel like you're not standing on the street. There's no time, you're not thinking, you're not in the past, you're not in the future, you're present.  You need to be honest and present. So you reach a flow state. There's not many guys I've met that have been in this flow state because it requires a lot of skill level and a lot of challenge. And I would say a year or two years of day game, you'll get this. You might glimpse it day to day because there's like a micro flow. So if you go out and you spend five hours on the street, finally you might move from anxiety to excitement to a bit of flow. And we see it with students on the bootcamp. They just suddenly get in the groove and they approach one girl, get the number, they go into the next girl, get the number, go into the next girl, get an instant date. It's a snowball effect. But the sad thing is they wake up the next morning and they're back down here.  I'll just do questions at the end, all right? Who's heard of Yad from daygame.com? Yad, yeah, cool. Now Yad's favorite word is vibe, yeah? Who's heard Yad saying vibe, baby? Just all you need is vibe, you know? The vibe is beautiful. That's what Yad would say.  What is vibe? Yad was saying, Tommy, you need more vibe. Okay, how do I get more vibe? Yeah, just get more vibe, baby, because Yad is self-taught. So what Yad's talking about is flow. Yad exists pretty much day-to-day in a flow state. So he doesn't really need to warm up that much. He hits the street and he flows. Same for Sasha, same for John, same for Andy. Anybody that's done day game for a long time just exists in a state of flow and it's very, very attractive to a woman. Because she can see that you're looking at her and you're in the present.  It's very, very intense because it's in the moment. That's what girls mean when they say be yourself.  These ones down the bottom, we wanna stay away from. We wanna stay away from activities that are low-skill, low-challenge. Unfortunately, watching TV is there. Low-skill, low-challenge. We wanna obviously stay away from worry. This is a nice state to be in, but it's not as good as this one. Can anybody see already that to keep flow, the challenge has to go up and the skill level has to go up? That's the only con with flow. You can't just get flow and then stop. So for anyone good at day game, you need to do harder stuff. You need to keep expanding your circle of fear. You can't just stop and have flow forever. I'm gonna break it down in terms of Mina. Pleasure versus happiness. I was always about pleasure, and if we're honest, most of us are just about pleasure, okay? Having sex, getting high, drinking, eating great stuff. Cool, there's nothing wrong with that, not judging it, but it's a different type of happiness because this is passive. You get it for free, it satisfies you, but then it doesn't satisfy you. You get it straight away, but then you don't look back at it as one of your life's greatest achievements, watching TV, and it's kind of usable and you just throw it away. Whereas the happiness, if you wanna be scientific, you have to work for it, and that's an awesome concept. So happiness is painful. Happiness is something you work for. You need effort, and it doesn't just satisfy you, it inspires you.  It was horrible.  His credit, not mine, he got me to the top. And at the time, it was horrendous, but even 24 hours later, I existed in a state of happiness, and that happiness lasted for, I don't know, almost a year. And when I look back at it now, when I look back at the film and the photos, I feel happy. So I hope you can see that difference. It's a huge difference. To be in flow, you have to work for it, and to be in flow, it might be painful at the time. If you think about going to the gym, might be really painful at the time, but you look back at it, you think amazing. If you run a marathon, it might be horrendous at the time, but that's what gives you lasting satisfaction. Let's go back to day game. These are the things he says you need for flow. You don't need all of them, but these are the characteristics. So I'm thinking of day game. You might wanna think of your business, or climbing, or playing the guitar, going to the gym, whatever you think is your passion. You need this stuff to achieve flow. You have to have clear goals. And men love clear goals, okay? Bad behavior in schools is caused by teachers not being clear with kids, especially with boys. Kids love goals and challenges. If you wanna be high off vibe or flow, they need to be high. Challenge and skill needs to be high. So set yourself really high goals. Define them. For most things, people have defined them already. For day game, pretty easy. What do I want? I want to have phone number. I wanna take on a date. I wanna sleep with her. I wanna make her my girlfriend. Very, very simple goals. That's why day game is so easy to achieve eventual flow. You need to concentrate, obviously. We're so easily distracted as men, as boys. So we need to focus our attention. I know where your attention is.  She was horrible, actually. So nice legs, but not a nice personality, bless her. But limited field of attention. And we prove this again and again. Like, when I'm coaching a guy, let's say that's the guy. I'm thinking, right, he needs to close.  Or we've had camera crews. We've had three cameras following us around. And the camera can literally stand next to the girl and she never, ever sees it. Cause she's in flow and you're in flow. Yeah? So you need to concentrate on your activity. This is my favorite one. You will lose a feeling of self-consciousness. So awareness fades just into pure action. Climbing is the best metaphor. Nothing else matters except your finger grips.  In this situation, as a beginner, it often feels like that. If you lose the moment, she will walk away, you will feel terrible. But when you're in the zone, nothing else matters. And it's just like being on drugs. It's just like drinking. We say day game, you know, we don't drink in the day, but it's just like being pissed. It's awesome. You just get a high off it. It's amazing. Don't need any alcohol. You get a distorted sense of time. So musicians, climbers, writers, businessmen, athletes, day gamers, you lose track of time. And that's a great feeling cause we all worry about timing. That interaction could actually be five minutes, but it could feel like hours and hours and hours.  It's all weird. It's all in this weird bubble. He says one of the most important things you need is feedback, which is immediate. Kids respond to this as well. So it's not just a case of giving something a girl. You need to know whether it's right or wrong and it needs to be really, really quick. And the beauty of day game is the girl is your mirror and she's gonna tell you immediately what you're doing wrong. So we always say to students, look at the girl. She is your teacher. She's telling you what you're doing wrong. So if she's giving that weird face, you're too serious.  If she's walking away, it's too intense. So you get feedback from the girl and you can self-correct. So over time day game is kind of self-correct. Having someone there to watch you is much quicker but you can self-correct. That helps with flow. The balance between ability, do you remember the bottom of the graph and challenge the side of the graph needs to be pretty good. So not too easy, not too hard. So climbers would get really bored on an easy route. Climbers would get really tired on a difficult route and there's a sweet spot when you just hit it. So if you're approaching women during the day and you've never done it before, sure maybe don't run up to that super hot model and hope that you're gonna get a number straight away. Because you're probably gonna be overwhelmed with fear. So first of all, deal with the fear, work up to it. We call that state shifting or even start indirect. Do whatever you think you need to go and start talking to women. Obviously the aim is to be authentic, genuine, direct but that's the flow, that's the peak. Really important for me was learning to have a sense of control over what I was doing.  Watching TV, maybe having a beer, probably watching a movie.  I have a skill, I know how to stop a girl, I know how to get her attracted. I felt, you get like this feeling of a superhero quality about you. It kind of fades after a while. But at the beginning I remember my first year of doing it, it was just awesome, it was a superpower. And you'd say to your mates, watch this, just run after a girl and stop her. Validation, bit egocentric but yeah, it's important as men to have a sense of control over what we do. And obviously you gotta enjoy it, you can't impose flow on somebody.  So it's gotta be something you choose. So if you accept that life has no meaning in a scientific sense, choose a meaning. That's a massive revelation, just choose a meaning. It doesn't matter what it is really. Although I will come back to the dangers of day game flow, there are a few dangers.  Massive motivation, probably the biggest biological motivation, yeah? So without that drive I don't think I would have done any of this stuff, meeting new people, getting more social, changing your fashion, changing your health. Women kick you up the arse, it's awesome. So if you're thinking should I do day game?  Okay, dangers of day game or dangers of any flow activity are that you're gonna become addicted to it. For a time you're definitely gonna become addicted because the feeling of flow that I get from day game or I certainly used to get more from day game is the same as a shot of drugs, you just get high. And you want it again and again and again. So I didn't have it in other areas of my life. So the only way I could get it was to go out every night, I literally went out every night and picked up a new girl, dated her, maybe slept with her, kind of threw her away, got another one, did you see the cycle, the gambler's fallacy? I was stuck in this mode. And it was only quite recently, about four, five months ago, I realized that that's not making me happy. That's just a temporal solution. What I need is flow in other areas of my life. And he says this at the end of the book. You can't just have flow as a tennis player because he interviewed a lot of tennis players and they go home and they're miserable. Or weightlifters go home and they're miserable. What you need is to transfer your whole life into a flow state. So it doesn't matter what the goal is, as long as you set goals that have objectives, rules, you can concentrate, you can become involved and you can get fast feedback. So even if it's just washing the dishes, he's proven this with the study of male students at Harvard. You can achieve flow through washing dishes.  They just immersed themselves in washing dishes. We all like to stereotype work as bad and pleasure as good, but really, we've got to be honest and say that work gives us high flow state. Might not give us ultimate flow state because we haven't really satisfied ourselves with the job, but loads and loads of people report getting flow from their work, especially if it's your business. I know Andy, who's gone from kind of hardcore day game on the street to hardcore business, gets flow from thinking about the business, working on the business. So a computer, a focus of business gives him flow, the same flow that he got on the street. Loads of guys, obviously, you can see my amazing body. Get flow from exercise. Awesome, awesome, awesome.  I only know a few guys and a few girls that have actually said to me they achieve what yoga promises them. You can get glimpses of flow, but long-term flow, long-term happiness, concentrating on nothing, concentrating on the present is really, really hard. So sure, meditation is one way to do it. How long have I got, Anthony? 15, awesome. So I'm gonna give you some practical tips. There's loads of tips on daygame.com for daygame, but I'm gonna give you some daygame tips for flow. And I'll start with short-term flow. That means going out maybe tomorrow. How do I get flow tomorrow? Who's kind of new to daygame? So maybe the anxiety's still there. Cool, on a day-to-day basis, yep. Who's kind of been doing it for six months a year? So it's the excitement phase. Yep, one of our instructors, Sam, loves a bit of daygame. And who's achieved flow from daygame or dating or women? Yeah, awesome, okay. So I'm gonna go with the first one, that we've got a bit of anxiety. And obviously the students that come to us have anxiety. So what we do on the bootcamp is we warm up and Andy calls it state-shifting. A geeky term for just traveling between states. And our state at the moment is this. Look at us, we're just listening, we're static. Maybe we're looking at a computer. So if a hot girl comes in, conversation-y, we're a bit dodgy, yeah? So how we warm up. I go and speak to one of those charity sign-up people. We call them chuggers in London. Just steal their energy and give them some energy. Don't get their number. Don't date them, don't marry them. Go up to anyone. It doesn't matter what she looks like, he looks like.  And just have a chat. Be silly, go a bit crazy. Be really high energy. Start the day having a laugh. Go into a shop. This is what Yad does. Go into top shop. See one of those girls that's really bored. You know, she's folding the clothes. Just go around, go and mess with her. Don't get her phone number. Just have a laugh with her. And then you'll notice that you feel a little bit more social. But that's not enough yet. That's not enough to stop the supermodel and get a number. You could try, but you're probably not in flow. So tomorrow, the next stage is to go up to a few people that are stationary. Easier if they're stationary, just to start off with. And just give them a compliment. Again, she doesn't have to be super hot. Maybe she's an old granny. Just say, do you know what? Bit random, you just look very, very nice. Have a nice day. Okay, it's win-win, makes London better. And it makes you better. Makes the old lady better. And surprise, surprise, what do you feel? You feel confident. You feel a little bit more in the zone.  You're not thinking about your business or your debts or your health. You're a little bit more in the moment. And then the last thing we do on a bootcamp is just say, okay, it's time to just jump in. Okay, no more deliberating. We could be yak, yak, yakking for ages. Some bootcamps take place in classrooms. We're like, no, just go, just go. Just jump in, fail a bit. It's okay to fail.  She might say, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. Brush you aside. Next one, straight into the next one. And you'll see that after one hour, two hours, it's usually two to three hours on the bootcamp, they suddenly get in the zone. And we've just got a documentary that's come out and the guy who we met on Saturday, you'll see him in the documentary, it's on YouTube. He's shaking on the Saturday, never approached a girl in the day. Takes him quite a long time to warm up and then he gets one instant date. That means he goes for coffee with his hot girl and he comes back and he's like, just blown away. And then we kick him straight into the next one. He gets another instant date. So we're like, awesome, that's two in a row, that's very rare.  Kick him, he goes into another girl, third instant date, three in a row. And he's had three cups of coffee, so he's pretty high. That man was in flow. No doubt about it, you see it on the video. Unfortunately, he woke up the next morning, flow had gone. Just to start all over again, but he got it back, got a few numbers. So does that make sense? It's not a complicated procedure to warm up. Even the best of the best, think of a tennis player, they just hit 200 balls against the net and then they go into a match.   And John came up to me, I think it was after we went to Oslo last year. And I was like, John, you're like different, mate. All the girls are just stopping, all of them. And the hotness went up and closure went up and he was dating super hot girls. I was like, what happened, mate, what happened? And he was like, I don't know, I'm just on. I'm just on all the time. And that's a beautiful place to be in. So John kind of, when he goes out, he goes out less now. He's coming on later. He'll show you some of his videos. He goes out less, but he's more in flow.  I'm just going to go back to the awesome graph to sum up, there it is. So if you've got approach anxiety, like I said, you're going out tomorrow, maybe you've got worry, anxiety, maybe take down the challenge a little bit. So go and speak to one of those shop girls. The skill is going to just increase by just doing it. So most day gamers I see in London are in this state. And if you ever see a guy, John's going to talk about this.  You're giving day game a go. Your skills pretty high, medium, you know. He's going for the hotties, but he's just too excited. And as John is going to explain, this is a real danger zone for day game, because girls don't really like you being too excited. So there's a big difference between getting from here to here, but this is what we're achieving. This is what we're going for. At Christmas time, I realized that my flow had run out. I woke up and I just didn't feel on. I just didn't feel the motivation. I didn't feel the drive, because I had completed some of the targets I set myself, getting a hot girlfriend, having crazy adventures for two years, teaching guys this stuff. So even though I demo now and I teach on boot camps, I've got a girlfriend, so I would say I exist in my day game here. And at the moment, it's very hard for me to get into flow. So now I've decided to focus on other goals. So getting to self-development, self-improvement, men's coaching, fitness, health, confidence, charisma. These are bigger goals, because I need to switch the goals. Either I go crazy with more day game, I've got a girlfriend, so I don't want to do that. Either I go completely crazy with day game, or I just find other means of flow. And as the book says, you've got to balance your flow. Right, enough yabba-yabba. I'm going to take a couple of questions and then you're going to meet John, and you're going to see John in action in a nice flow state. Yeah, you were waiting. You mentioned how you have to build, you start with a challenge when you're in low skill and then you build up. How much, just kind of in terms of time commitment, how much time do you spend building that up and kind of maintaining or even increasing your skill, like per week or whatever? It's a very good question. Yeah, it's a common question. How long does this skill set take to master and maintain, yeah? Let's be honest, it's not one bootcamp. And it's not one DVD and it's not one book. That's the sad truth of the pickup community, okay? I kind of guess you already know that, yeah? So going on a bootcamp doesn't transform you into flow.  But the students that do well commit to it for at least four to six months. And me and John are out teaching and we meet guys on the street that were on the bootcamp. And when I, awesome mate, you're still out on the street, that's awesome, how's it going? And he's talking about getting into this getting into this excitable stage. So that could be four to six months, yeah? Like every day? Of three times a week. I did it every day for 365 days in my first year. I was obsessed. I was a man possessed. And I think it was good. I threw everything out of my life like going to the gym and stuff. But I became very good at day game. So you could do it two times a week. It might take you a year. Skill set for like intermediate, being pretty good at day game, reliable, consistent, getting hot girls, I would say is about a year. And then mastery, two years, three years. Yad's been doing it five, six years. Sasha's been doing it. I don't know, how long is Sasha here? Yeah. Still learning, still changing, still evolving. So it's commitment. It's not just gonna happen. Maintaining it. I took a couple of months off. John took a couple of months off around Christmas time. And you come back to it and you find that, yeah, you've got a bit of nerves.  So it took me another couple of weeks. I had to go back into the street and warm up again. But then I got it back. So I think once you've got the day game skill set, it's inside, you just need to keep it going. But if you want to get good at it, you've got to commit to it, just like tennis here or the gym. One more question? Two more questions, awesome. Guy over there. There's a similar concept called mindfulness, which you learned from meditation and Buddhism, which is about being very aware of your internal thoughts and your external sensations. So what do you think about using stuff like that to get into flow more readily in every other aspect of your life? Yes. It is the same state. He's defined it as the same state, but just harder to achieve. Like I said, I would love to be really good at meditation, where I could go into a room every day and have a high skill level, because to be concentrated in a yoga class, to be concentrated on the trainer in your bedroom is an extremely high skill.  And the challenge is high. So sure, he defines Eastern religions, meditation and yoga right up here. There is no doubt that those people are in flow. You can see it, you know, you've met people who are just transcendent and they exist in flow, the religious leaders, people who do meditation. So if you can do it, I'm really, really jealous. And it's one of my goals now, to get flow through meditation, not drugs, not day game. If you can do it, awesome. Is anybody here really present in yoga? Great, great, because that's a far healthier way. Obviously then, playing video games or being out on the street for six hours every night, you know? One more question. That was a good question. One more question. No? Well, there you go. I hope it's given you something to think about beyond day game and using day game as a path to get into flow. Thank you very much.


It's DDK and I'll back to you with another video. Shoots out to you if you want to win, go and subscribe. Give me a thumbs up and do not skip those ads. Guess what baby? In today's video, we did the biggest Sherry Williams order we've ever had. It's time for us to get to this bag, let's go. 60 on my pink nipsy, let's go. I got 116 forehand, 116 FRAN, I'm right here, yup.  You can be right there every time. And they already got the skit on top. Yeah, we said baby. Unfortunately, we only got this one order so far. I don't know what's going on baby, but let me guess what it is. It's time to hit the road baby.  You better get busy baby, you know what I'm talking about? Just like that, we are all finished. We gotta hit him with the photo, yard noodle, smack at the photo. Oh, is it for Bryce? Put it in there and we gone. Let's go. Guess what, I'm in the back cleaning out the van and guess what, it's time for us to get some old bands baby. We pick up another order from someone. It is one panel, 8.7 miles for $40. You about to go ahead and pop our collar, let's go. I have to pick up a panel that the order is 699-P-8-T-E. That's it. Oh, good. That's it. That's the only one. We shake your balls. You gonna put this on right over here? I don't know how, I'm just gonna lean back like Fat Joe. Right here, I'm gonna slide this joint. Slide? Ticking this broken back, we need to get that money. You know what I'm talking about? Who happened that was messed up out of the box? No, the one on the old panel. Oh. And one of these, just play? Oh, okay. Yes sir, you have a good one. And then with the photos, man. What's your name, boss? Travis. Travis, oh my God, Travis Scott. Travis, boom, we gone. Let's go.  Just like that, we are back at the warehouse to drop off this broke panel, baby. I'm gonna show you how my animal. Grab this joint right here. I already got the cart, I'm gonna slide this on here. Close this up. I'm back again. They told me to drop this, can I bring this back? This is the broken one. Oh. So where you want me to sit at? Oh, I'll take it. Do you need anything else? Nope. Hopefully I'll get something soon, but we gon' see. Y'all have a good one. Order number three, we about to go or hand get busy on D-L-I-V-R. They about to pull it right now so we can get this, she's deliver that. We are about to use the deliver app and the pick up place is tropical smoothie. We're gonna drop 7.3 miles. The order cost is $82.97 and we will receive a payment of $40. I got my game from a scholar, let's go. And just like that, we are here at tropical smoothie. Y'all see what's going on, baby. I got the insulated bag. We're trying to get to this bag. You know what I'm talking about? Hey, how you doing, sir? I'm gonna have a pickup, an easy caterer pickup from you guys. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, like this. Damn, we got the box. How's everything? Oh, thank you. I don't everybody need this. I got the box. I'm not a fan of putting it in here anyway. This is gonna do just the easy way. This one here. Is that this drawing out?  You know what I'm talking about? Where is this? Hello. How you doing? I have a delivery for Sue's. They said something about putting it on the white tables. Okay. Thank you very much. I have to wear this? Or I could just put it in my pocket. Okay. Stay back on the photo. Man, got the photo. Gone, let's go. In last but not least, it's time for us to get some of this jeez, baby. Press brand, baby. Just in case you was wondering. We are going to Sherwin Williams. We are picking up 60 items. We're gonna drop 46.6 miles for 101.33. We're about to go ahead and get busy. Let's go. We are here to pick up the biggest Sherwin Williams order we've ever had. We're about to get to this bag. Hello. How you guys doing? I have an order to pick up. I'm not sure the order number or anything, but going to South Holland on board, it can right you. They got big stuff.  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Hello, I'm Amy McKenzie and I'm Michael McKenzie today. We will be exploring padlet Google Forms Google Slides and Pear Deck There are apps and extensions that can be used for student reflection Before we get started don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell to enable notifications for our channel by clicking our logo during the video Also, leave us a comment or check out our related videos by clicking the pop-up cards in the upper right corner Here's how to get started with using digital tools for student reflection So what is student reflection? The dictionary definition of reflection is serious thought or consideration Student reflection is when students take the time to analyze their experiences or their work Students are reflecting when they think back to the activity and describe what they've learned felt thought or experienced Why is student reflection important? Reflection gives students the opportunity to dive deeper into their learning process and Encourages students to think deeply and critically about their learning or experiences Reflection also allows students to own their goal setting process Our first digital tool is Google Slides Google Slides allows for a year-long reflection You can prompt students to write about what they've learned for each week unit or activity You can add the slides to a Google classroom and make a copy for each student Which will allow you to read and reflect on how well students understood the lesson Teachers can also use slides as an assessment to ensure student participation Here's an example of Google Slides that I do for activities with my class For our activities we label them on the top and then I have students write reflection on the left side describing what they learn in a lesson and Then evidence on the right evidence can be anything from a picture or data in this case. It's data You can add pictures of Anything that they do in class or even the class in general In each activity students get to look back and think about what they've learned The next tool we'll discuss is Pear Deck, which is an add-on for Google Slides Pear Deck is a great way to have students reflect during a lesson Pear Deck can be used on your existing Google Slides or near pod Pear Deck allows students to participate anonymously during your whole group instruction Once you've installed Pear Deck onto your Google Slides It will appear in the add-on menu on the top of your screen When you open the Pear Deck add-on you'll see that there are two options for adding on to your Google slide You can go to the template library or You can add these tools onto your pre-made Google Slides Here's one example from the template library When you go to the template library you're given different options that help you decide which slide to insert All the different slides have directions on them that are very clear for students to understand during your lesson They'll either drag objects or type in their responses while you're presenting the slides If you don't want to use a slide from the template library, you can create your own On this slide, I simply type the question What is one thing you can do to prove to me that you understand how to add fractions? After I type that question I came right here to ask students a question and I enabled the text feature from the Pear Deck add-on Now when I present this slide students will be given a text box to type their response to that question Here's a really simple example or you can add pictures with multiple questions You could add graphics And you don't you're not limited to just text you can do a multiple choice or a number or even websites The next digital tool is Google Forms Google Forms is a simple way of collecting student reflection The teacher can start a blank form or choose from the various options in the template gallery Such as Exiticket you can ask open-ended questions about an assignment or topic Give student prompts or sentence starters Provide multiple choice questions that lead students to think about their experience or use the form for goal setting before unit and reflection afterwards Here's an example of a Google Form for student reflection A multiple choice question could look like when we started unit XYZ, how much did you know about it? and give students the options After the activity where we blank did you understand how to blank and students can write a short answer Complete the sentence my biggest accomplishment during unit XYZ was understanding Once again students can answer with a short answer If you could rewind the past two weeks, what would you have taken better notes on? In that case students can answer the long answer Review your goal setting sheet What was your goal for this unit exam? an a b c or d n did you accomplish your goal explain why or why not in three to seven sentences All of these options make students look back at what they've learned Our last digital tool is Padlet Padlet provides a very easy way to document the reflections of learners as well as be able to share learning with others Padlet allows for whole class reflection which can help students collaborate Students often find Padlet quick easy and enjoyable When using Padlet students have the option to remain anonymous which can promote introvert involvement It can also generate more honest and therefore relevant comments on the reflection feedback notes Students can create their own Padlet and document their work throughout the year Or you can create a Padlet and prompt them to be more reflective about their learning experiences Padlet is very simple to use If you go over here to the settings You can change the title and then in the description you can add a question Such as what is one thing you learned from today's lesson You can also change things like the wallpaper the color scheme or the font Once you have that modified the way you want it You can share it to your students With a link a QR code you can put it on your website Or there's a button for you to share directly to google classroom Once you shared it to them They will have the option to add On to your Padlet You'll see posts popping up from different students as they type in their responses in real time Here's what your Padlet will look like once your students start putting their reflections on the wall You can see that they have a title and a description All answering the question. 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Welcome to What's Neat for April 2016. This month we've got a pretty good show. First Mike Buddy stops by with a roll of aluminum foil and shows us how to make wrecked freight cars and automobiles to scale. Korea Brass has come out with a new U25C locomotive and we do a product overview of that and then we install a TCS wow sound decoder in it and it goes pretty quick. It's a pretty nice segment for Korea Brass this month. Bachman has got me doing a brand new 2016 large scale cover for their catalog this year so I show you a little bit about what into that project. For layout construction this week or this month we look at a shelf layout that I had built about six months ago and I'm making changes to it plus I added LED lights to help light up the area. Now John Deetson comes by with some magnificent drone footage again this month so we've got a pretty good show when you add that to all the run buys for What's Neat for April 2016. But first I want to tell you I got a package in the mail and this would fit under freight car and modeling tips for this month. The package in the mail came from Weathering Solutions and what they sent me was some of their new products their new Weathering decals and graffiti decals I really like their graffiti decals because they're taken right off of the sides of prototype freight cars. But if you look at all of these photographs that I'm showing you right now these are freight cars that were weathered using decals. Now they've got a product line of rust streaks in all scales in O scale, HO scale, various types of scale even large scale and these decals go on really good auto rack roofs The nice thing about them is these decals just slide into place so it's very easy to get your weathering streaks straight up and down which is very difficult to do with a paint brush when you're doing oil paint weathering. So Weathering Solutions takes all the guesswork out of Weathering with this new line of decals they sent me so check it out. WeatheringSolutions.com is the website to go to they've got a full line of decals everything's available to be shipped and there's some pretty nice guys to work with. So that's the modeling tip this month on how to weather your freight cars and take all the guesswork out of the oil paint streaks and rust that we like to do. So that's here we go with What's Neat for April 2016, let's go start with Mike Buddy. For this segment of What's Neat I've got Michael Buddy over and he's going to illustrate and show us how he makes wrecked freight car loads using aluminum foil as the main medium for modeling. So let me hand it over to Mike here for a minute. Hi guys, this week I'll show you something I've been doing for a long time since I was building 125th scale model cars I've always had a fascination with wrecks and junkyards and stuff like that so when I was a kid I started using aluminum foil to make fenders and doors on my car models and now I use it in the model railroad hobby as well and all the vans on this auto rack have been racked using parts with aluminum foil and same thing with this and the ends of the decks are aluminum foil made to look like they were crushed in so I'll show you how I do this. As you can see here on these auto racks one of them has the vans all smashed together they couldn't get out because the ends were crushed in. This one is full of vans that were drivable and that they could put on another rack to take them away then this box car was one that had the side totally torn out of it yet could still be transported on the rails because I have prototype photos of one that looks just like this. So in order to achieve this kind of damage I would cut away part of the existing model and replace it with foil that I embossed and crush it. I take the existing model and cut parts of it away where I want the damage to be and replace it with embossed parts. Alright let me show you how I replicate the torn outside of this box car by using aluminum foil. Alright let me show you how I do this. Take a piece of foil that beer car that I the Southern Pacific beer car was one just like this moped so take a piece of foil that's about the right size. It's a little better if it's a little bigger because then you have more to hold on to but then you just emboss it with like a Kleenex on the end of your fingertip or a q-tip. Take your time and try and get all the rivets. I took the ladders off I didn't put the ladders on here because I didn't want to try and mold over that. But keep the foil from moving and just keep going over it and over it and I'm not going to do the whole thing here but what I did on that car was one side was plastic this other side the whole thing was foil like this and most of this was gone but keep getting every little detail then paint it and decal it so it's like a regular car and then you can crush it. Is that how you do the roofs too Mike? Yeah. I saw you had this roof. There's the same thing here with the roof of this car that other model over there is the whole roof is foil. This I would probably take a piece of Kleenex or a paper towel or something and rub it all down you know all the length of the whole thing fold it over on the edges a little bit so so that it won't slip and then you can take a q-tip or your finger tip wrapped in a Kleenex and I'm trying to rush a little bit too much here but anyway you get the idea. Would you rather this as if it was just a regular free car? And then for a little bit of added strength on these foil parts I would turn it over overnight I would fill this thing up with Elmer's glue and let it dry in the morning it would be hard you know a little bit flexible but hard plastic but add a lot of strength to this. Now I wouldn't do that with the part that I wanted to wreck but the part that I wanted to look pretty good I would do that too so isn't that what sit right on top of that free car huh? Yeah, yeah right. These are very delicate models aren't they? Yeah but like now another trick you could do with the foil is on a boxcar like this you can make a roof or a part of a roof and simulate the forklift you know big bulges where the forklift would hit it from the inside or dense or whatever same thing you take this foil and like those vans over there on that auto rack you just you press it all around it and make an impression of the van or the part of the van that you want to damage just make a real good casting then cut this off with a dremel tool or you know however you do it I use a dremel tool then you trim this glue it on paint it all and then carefully I don't just smash them I plan what I'm going to do I plan the damage and same thing with that free car that boxcar I made fake ribs and everything I added a lot of detail to it other than just the foil but the fact that it was painted and had decals really helped make it look realistic. Mike this is a really cool tip you could do this with a multitude of different types of models what a beautiful convincing effect your wrecked freight cars are thank you so much for sharing this with us on what's neat Mike. Next time we'll show the auto junkyard. For this segment of what's neat Bachman has asked me to copy this photograph of Ward Kimball's real estate his property where he had his grizzly flat railroad and I'm redesigning I'm designing the scene from the ground up on a piece of foam using this beautiful locomotive that is an absolute representation of the Emma, Nevada one of the locomotives that Ward Kimball had owned. Now you know Ward Kimball is the famous Disney animator that did Cinderella or Jiminy Cricket a lot of those really cool cartoons and in order to design the scene what I know I have to do I've already built the water tank and the grizzly flats train station it's a polar kit but it's an identical train station to the train station that was built on Ward Kimball's property. I've also got a small figurine of Ward Kimball here complete with his characteristic glasses that we're all used to seeing. Now when I design the scene it's going to be a floating scene because I built these buildings as per Bachman's instructions but I do know that the photograph is all about the locomotive and if any of these buildings obstruct or take away from the lines of the locomotive they will ask me to remove those. I've seen that before it's all about the product the scenery is generally secondary on a shot like this. Now this is going to be the cover for the 2016 Bachman catalog and if you notice on the diorama here I've got some lines drawn with black magic marker and what these lines represent is what the camera sees so everything that's on the inside of this black line will have to be modeled so I'm going to take this foam and I'm going to cut off about a foot and a half of it here and then what I'll do to save on ballast I'm going to take the track and I'm going to router out the area where the track goes and rubber it down about just a little bit less than a quarter of an inch and that'll sink the track into the scene and this is the Bachman track that I've got to use so I may or may not paint it I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that yet but then I'm going to ballast the scene put dirt down on the scene and keep the buildings so they can slide and be floatable for the photograph so I'm going to work on this project now and let's see how this one turns out so here we go we're going to do the first test shoot for the Bachman 2016 cover and the reason I have to do this is I've got to do a vertical shot and horizontal shot and show the manufacturer the photographs just to make sure it's what they want now they may want a building removed or building slid around forwards and backwards just different things to tweak the photograph it's very important when you're trying to satisfy a customer to get it right so I'm set up now I've done the vertical shot I'll show it to you right here and I've also done the horizontal shot and I kind of like the vertical shot better and I think that's the way it's going to go so I'm going to focus on the vertical shot add some weeds to the scene out here in the foreground rope weeds or just woodland scenic's weeds that I stick in there and him standing up about a foot I'm going to add the station name grizzly flats to the side of the building right here and I'm after a phone call and showing them the test shots I already know that I'm going to shove the station back about 12 inches and I may eliminate the water tank completely because it interferes with the lines of the locomotive as you can see the smokestack just kind of disappears in the shadow of the roof so there's a couple tweaks that are going to happen to this just to get it right to make sure the customer is happy so do all those things inside tonight and then I'll set up again tomorrow and let's see how the shot comes out for the final so here it is day two this is the actual photo shoot day for the Bachman cover shot and I've got the photographs that I've got to work with here I've got the shot from last night and the prototype shot that we're covering here for the shot and everything's all set up out here now the way it's supposed to be you'll notice that a lot of the scenery isn't finished on this diorama simply because what's not going to be seen was it necessary to do everything set up where they want it the water tank's been pushed way far back in diorama the train station's got its name on it it's set up in a position here and I've also got the locomotive sitting here and all of its glory and looking nice so I've got the camera set up in a vertical position I've added a few trees to the background here just to make it a little bit more interesting as we go off to the rear of the shot and it's set up exactly like the corporate customer wants it to be so let's see how this turns out now to the magic of the computer I can now show you this is what the final shot comes out this is what it looks like the engines right where it needs to be everything set up just the way it's supposed to be for the shot so now when you see the Bachman catalog at your next trade show you're gonna know how this photograph was taken large-scale scene cutting a lot of corners but otherwise a very very good corporate cover shoot just like what we want for this segment of what's neat I'm working on one of these 70 degree winter days that we've got and I'm enjoying this and today I'm shooting some beautiful ather and Amtrak locomotives which one is your favorite paint scheme there's just so many beautiful paint schemes that Amtrak keeps coming out with and the models are able to be reproduced and it's just wonderful the various ones that we've got to shoot I'm also shooting a new manufacturer's products today I'm shooting Korean brass I'm shooting they're a brand new U25C locomotive and I've got to tell you these are absolutely beautiful models to work with today here's what the actual photograph looks like that I was able to shoot really satisfied with the great detail on the screens on these models they just look exquisite now these models that I've got are the models that do not have sound in them but what they do is when you order a model with sound in it they simply put it in for you so I asked for the sound system so let's take these inside now that I'm done shooting them and let's put the sound in them and test them on the layout and see how they do to start the decoder installation process I cut open the package with the electronics and dumped this onto the paper towel to find a Ka2 Keepalive a TCS Wow 101 decoder and a 16 by 35 Wow speaker I took the coupler off of the rear of the locomotive with the model safe and a cradle I then took the coupler off of the front of the locomotive making sure the sunshades cleared the cradle by holding the fuel tank and the shell I pulled the shell off of the frame it was nice that there were no wires connecting the locomotive's lights to the chassis I unscrewed the front light contact spring bracket to make room for the Keepalive to be fit into the chassis's front speaker enclosure I then reassembled the light spring bracket I put a small amount of Wather's goo onto the sides of the speaker and then mounted this into the locomotive's rear speaker enclosure facing up I then proceeded by removing the screws that held the DC jumper power circuit board to the chassis I used a small screwdriver to unplug the circuit board from the nine pin harness I then installed the decoder by simply plugging this into the nine pin harness next I then located the harness that the speaker and the Keepalive are wired to and proceeded to plug this seven pin connector into the Wow 101 decoders and jack and that was it the sound was installed in nine minutes and I didn't need to do any soldering so with that I reassembled the shell onto the chassis I then started to install the front coupler and I noticed that these couplers were metal couplers with the spring it appears on the inside so this is a new designed coupler that appears to be very strong I then went ahead and reinstalled the rear coupler onto the locomotive and now it was time to put it on the track and see how it performed and what it sounded like so with that test the locomotive sound absolutely fantastic I really enjoy the way they operate so far very smooth now that I put them on the layout and tested them now I spent a few hours on the TCS website reading about these decoders and how they operate and there's a lot of information on the website about these decoders and all the features that they have got in them that I suggest strongly that you go at their website and look at I take me an hour to explain everything that these decoders can do I can tell you that they're different from most of the decoders that I've used in the past in that for example let me show you in order to toggle between sound right now I've got my throttle set up so if I hit the buttons on it I'll get the bell and I'll get the horn but in order to change the lighting effects you toggle f8 twice hit the button twice and now the lighting effects are set up where I can take these locomotives and hit turn on the cab lights turn on the headlights by controlling the lighting now right now I cannot honk the horns or blow the whistle but if I hit f8 twice again sound mode active so now I can run the decoder and the train and still have my sound effects on the throttle that I'm used to having now one more thing that I want to talk about that I find absolutely interesting about these decoders is the fact that these things will talk to you and walk you through the programming process and to illustrate that I want to turn these down because I work at night a lot in the family sleeping and I want to give these things a good hour run on the way out and see how they perform and when they're running right now they're at factory volume which is pretty loud so what I'm going to do is turn them down and show you how the automatic voice programming walks me through the process of turning down the locomotive and in order to activate this you hit f8 four times okay so I'm going to use button one so that I can get into the sound mode that's what I want so now I'm going to hit and I'm going to hit button one and I'm going to turn it down it's a good sound level for running at night I understand this is a ringtone that you can get on your cell phone by the way now to save the sound I hit f8 one time and then to exit to exit this programming mode I'm going to hit zero and she tells me goodbye and we are ready to go and they're really quiet now I like that so for so overall I would say that these Korean brass locomotives are really nice surprise they're beautiful they photograph well the TCS decoders in them are very interesting and have a lot of features I'd say this is another winner so that's this segment of what's neat looking at these new beautiful brand-new locomotives that have just come out the shelf layout that was 78 or 71 inches high up on a hill a narrow gauge shelf layout and in fact I did a two-hour video at Ken Patterson dot-com on shelf layouts with it which showed how the shelf layout also fit into a 12 by 5 foot standalone layout the problem was I never ran trains on the shelf layout because it was simply too high and I had lost interest in it and this was driving me nuts so I decided to tear into the project and spend two hours removing the shelf layout and lowering it to a height where I would not need to step on a step stool to view it maybe then I could use it more I worked quick and I hit it down in about 15 minutes and as you know I do work pretty fast I then test fit the shelf layout to a height that I could see comfortably standing on the floor and yet still have room to access my HO scale staging yard I used a red laser level and a level that gave me percentage of grade numbers to figure out the grade that I would need to bring the existing tracks back down onto the shelf layout scene I simply pulled the plywood roadbed into position with the track still glued into place onto plywood using the red laser line again as my guide to line up the rail to the shelf layout tracks once things lined up perfectly I reattached the roadbed to the walls with drywall screws now the height of the shelf layout was perfect but the staging yard underneath seemed too dark and it needed to be I stained an 8 foot long piece of oak corner stock to create a one half inch lighting valance I test fit an 8 foot strip of LED lights onto the inside corner of the stock and I turned them on and this was going to work out really well is the trim piece to the underside of the plywood shelf slash bench work and I attached this with small wood screws by hand as the power drill would not fit into the confined space the LED light strip stuck to the underside of the trim piece with a self-adhesive peel and stick backing so this was pretty easy to put up I hope it stays then using the dimmer switch that came with the lighting strip I turned on and adjusted the lighting on and off and I'll tell you what this worked really great so now I've got an operating part of the layout that's been lowered down to 64 inches and it's a pleasure to run trains on it now and I still have room underneath for my staging yard my HO scale trains so that's the segment of layout construction for what's neat


So before we dive back into Unreal I wanted to cover a short little series teaching you guys how to create your own data set using your own art that you own 100% of the rights to in order to train your own personal AI to give you exactly what you need how you need it and when you need it because I realized something important as I was trying out all the different AI. You know when we were learning Dolly it was really cool and fun but the list of banned words made it unusable for anything outside of cute generic pictures words that you often need in a video game like war or battle or fire or shoot would get your account striked and even certain styles like Quentin Tarantino would get your account flagged or shut down and even after moving to Adobe Firefly while it has been excellent at doing general things like abstract art and generative fill it's proven to be very unhelpful as soon as you need anything specific for example I have two friends that have wildly different art styles one of them is a horror artist and in horror you commonly need to explore themes like brutality blood gore torture mutilation you know the usual and Firefly obviously does not let you go into that stuff at all and my other friend is the polar opposite where they just love to generate cute anime waifus just a typical you know anime girls and every time you try and get that out of Firefly well let's just say it doesn't really give you what you would traditionally expect a typical anime waifu to be and I realized that this issue is never going to change as long as the tool you use is dependent filtered and maintained by someone else you're never really going to get exactly what you need as long as you're using someone else's AI what you can and cannot generate will be controlled by the person running that website and that's why I think it's so important that you have the ability to generate whatever it is you need or want not what people say you should want not what people allow you to want what you actually want whatever that is the only way you're really going to get it is if you train it yourself and that's why I ultimately believe that in the future everyone's just going to have their own AI trained on whatever they're interested in if you're a writer then your AI will be trained on all your favorite books if you're a programmer your AI will be trained in all the languages that you specialize in if you're a musician your AI will be trained on your favorite songs and likewise if you're a visual artist your AI will be trained on all your favorite historical artists your own works and your own style if you're into horror your AI will specialize in horror if you're into waifus your AI will specialize in waifus and this stuff is getting more advanced and more accessible every day and one of the reasons I decided to do the series in the first place is because I was recently shown you can train an AI reliably with about you know three to five hundred images which boggled my mind because I think most artists like myself easily have three to five hundred images or screenshots of our work lying around so when I realized this was an option I was like holy shit I could save so much time coming up with my own designs if I just trained the AI on my own work and honestly it's been a lot of fun because normally every day I wake up I have about a hundred new ideas for cool character designs but it takes me about three months to make one and sometimes you spend three months modeling a character only to realize man this really doesn't look as good as I imagined but now I can easily brainstorm and filter through all of my ideas to find the ones that I think the players are really going to enjoy the most and I figure I'm not the only one who would probably find this workflow extremely useful so I wanted to make sure to share it with you guys before we move on to our next project now something we will be doing that is a little different from most of the other AI training videos is we are going to be approaching this from a 3d character artist perspective which is going to help save us a lot of time because normally you have to spend a lot of time trying to generate images that look like the same character in different poses and lighting and it's very hard to keep things consistent across all generations so that process alone often takes countless of hours of frustration and often requires you to go in by hand and manually fix things like the face and clothing to make sure they're the same across all images but as a 3d artist we don't have that problem we have a rigged 3d model that we can control the lighting background and pose however we want and the character will always stay perfectly consistent in every instance by default so if you are a 3d artist interested in training your own AI on your own work then just join me in the next few videos and I'll walk you through step by step it's a lot of fun so I hope you're excited but anyways thanks for watching and as always hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around