All right, I think we'll go ahead and start. So this session is about learning to read music with the Web MIDI API. If you want to get to the slides, you can get to them here, bit.ly, web-midi-api, if you want to look at any of this later. I'm really excited about this talk. This is the first time I've given it, and it's also, I think, the first time in many years that I've done a talk that was just totally based off of a random fun side project. So I'm really excited to be able to do this today. So I'm Jan Kleiner. With me is Ryan Jarvan. And we are both developer advocates at Red Hat. I'm going to be talking through most of this. Ryan's going to be helping with the demo, and probably jumping in also with more color as he goes. He's a lot more knowledgeable of music in general. I would say electronic music than I am. So he may have some interesting thoughts that I don't touch on as we go along. No pressure. All right. So the way this came about is related to this picture. So I have two kids, two daughters, and they both take piano lessons. And what you kind of can't see here at the top is this is a web app that their piano studio uses as part of their practice and their music theory stuff. And so it's really cool for what it is. So it shows at the top that you can't see right now the treble clef with a note displayed. And what they're supposed to do is click on the keyboard what note that is. So if it's middle C, they click the middle C on the screen. And it's green if it's right. It's red if it's wrong. And that's really cool. But what's always kind of bugged me about it is I don't feel like it's as transferable as if they were actually pressing it on the piano. So we got a new digital piano maybe about six months ago. And it had MIDI out on it that was like USB, which is kind of exciting. And that's what this basically came from. I wanted to create something so my kids could practice like their note homework basically. But by actually pressing the notes on the keyboard so it would really trigger in their mind, OK, middle C is there, not just like a picture on a screen. So that is what I'm going to demo for you later is that little web app that I put together. But in order to do that, I had to learn about MIDI and the Web MIDI API. And so that's what we're going to talk about now. So if you're like me, when you think about the word MIDI, this is typically what comes to mind. See if we can get it. You can only hear it through here. But this kind of sound is typically what I would think of from like mid 90s websites. What's that? Oh, that's OK. You know what it is. But MIDI is not actually that kind of sound. MIDI is not sound at all. You can create sound from MIDI messages. But MIDI is not sound and it's not that tiny kind of stuff that we're used to from old PC games and things like that. What it is instead is stands for a musical instrument digital interface. And it's a technical standard that's been around since the 80s. And there are several components to it. But essentially what it is in the context of what we're going to talk about today, it's a way for digital musical instruments, audio devices, computers, anything that can transmit these MIDI messages to communicate with each other. And there's a ton of things that you can do with that. But it's basically a protocol, a communication standard for these devices to be able to communicate this musical information. So to go into a little bit more detail on that, there are quite a few different types of messages that MIDI composes or comprises. We are only going to look at a couple things here. For what I'm doing, I'm only using something called a channel voice message. And even more specifically, the only message that I care about for this demo is note on. So what note on means is somebody has pressed a note. So in the sense of a keyboard, somebody has pressed a key, that would generate this note on message. And they've got this 144 in parentheses here because that's the numeric value for that note on event. So the MIDI message that would come through, it has got three parts. One is this event, this note on, so that would be 144. The next piece of information that comes through is the note number. I found this interesting. The note numbers can go from 0 to 127, which is more than the number of keys on a piano. So the notes that you can represent with MIDI are beyond what you can do on a standard 88 key piano. So I don't know if that's useful information, but I thought it was kind of cool. So the note number comes through middle C, my voice. Middle C is 60, which you'll be useful later to know. But so 60 is middle C. As you go higher up in the notes, the number goes up, and same for as you go lower. And then the third piece of information is velocity. And as Ryan is demonstrating over here, velocity is basically, in the sense of a keyboard, how hard are you pressing the key? So if you gently press the key, the velocity is going to be a low number. If you just slam it, it's going to be a much higher number. And so that can be useful if you are then taking this MIDI information and playing it back out in some way that can influence how you decide to produce that sound. In our case, what we're going to be doing, we're not producing any sound with this demo. Instead, we're using the MIDI information that's coming from the keyboard to match against what's on the screen and see if they're playing the right note. We'll look at that once we get to the demo. But so those are the three important pieces of information that I ended up needing to use in order to do this. Was in this channel voice message, I want to look at, I'm listening for the note on event. I don't care about note off or some of these other types of events that can happen. I need to know what note number was played, and then I don't really care about the velocity, but it's coming through for us. All right. So that's MIDI, but then how can we get that to actually work with the browser? And that's where the WebMIDI API comes in. So WebMIDI API lets you have MIDI devices communicating with your browser and with web applications. And the API itself is actually pretty simple. The most important thing to know first, though, is does the browser you're using actually support the WebMIDI API? And this is the slightly sad part. So this is the request you can use to find the answer to that navigator.requestMIDI access. If your browser supports it, you'll be great, and you can move on. If not, there are some alternatives. And here is the current state of the world. From can I use for WebMIDI, so Chrome supports it, Opera supports it, and like the Android, Chrome for Android and Opera Mobile browsers, but nothing else. Maybe that'll change in the future, but that's unfortunate. That makes it not as easy to use these things in a widespread way. But there are some alternatives out there. Now, I haven't actually tried this, but this is what I've always seen referenced as an alternative that makes this work in other browsers. There is, I think this is called, it's from Jazsoft. This Jaz plug-in that you can install, and then there's this package that you can use that makes it work more than just in Chrome and Opera. So again, I haven't tried it myself, but this seems to be the supported way of getting this to work in a broader set of browsers. All right, so going back here for just a second. So the first thing you need to do is see if MIDI is supported in the browser, you're in. And then what we're going to do is if it is, then we're going to actually request that MIDI access, and then we've got a success handler. If everything's looking good, we'll end up over here in our success handler. And so this is giving you kind of a sense of what this demo app is going to do. It's a scrappy app. There's probably much better ways of writing this, but this is what we're doing today. So to start, we have an array of notes. So I mentioned before, middle C is 60. So what I'm covering here is basically from middle C, then C sharp would be 61, D would be 62, D sharp is 63, and so on. So every note goes up by one. That makes sense, right? So we're going up to 72, which is the next C higher than middle C. The reason I stopped there is that's where this demo keyboard stops. So there's no sense in going any higher. If we were doing this for a full piano, there's probably a much more efficient way of doing this, but for demo purposes, that's where we're at. So what we're doing in here is I'm shuffling this array because I don't want to present my kids the notes in the same order every time or they're going to just memorize which note is which. So we shuffle that, then we're going to draw whatever the new first note in the array is. Draw it on a staff. And then we're going to get our list of MIDI inputs. I'm showing outputs here just so you know that you can output to a MIDI. You can output as well. I only care about inputs, what's plugged into my laptop. At our house, it would be our big digital piano here. It's this little keyboard. Could be multiple things. So where we are cycling through, I've only got one plugged in. So we're going to get our input and then when a message comes through, so like a key press, we're going to get that message and do something with it. Is this all making sense so far? Cool, okay. All right. So we talked about the note on command here. That's what we're going to do when we get a MIDI message. We're going to look at this message. Now here's the three parts that we talked about. The command, the note and the velocity. So those are those three pieces of data that we get. We have a switch statement with one case. That's exciting. But you could build it out. So that's why we've got that there. And note on is 144. So when we get that one, what we're going to do is I've got just like a little like text string that comes up to say what note was played. And then we're going to go into this note on listener. And that's where the actual logic happens. And rather than printing all the code out for that here, what it's doing, it's checking if the note that was played matched the note that we had displayed on the screen. So checking those note numbers against each other to make sure they match. If they do, it changes it to green. If they don't, it changes it to red. My kids have already given me a feature request that also needs a thumbs up and a thumbs down picture next to it. We don't have that today. Then after one and a half seconds, which is just to give us time to register the correct or incorrect feedback, it's going to display the next note in the array. So it's going to cycle through all 13 of those notes, giving you a chance to play them and get it right or wrong. And at the end, it'll tell you how many out of that 13 you got correct. So it's really simple, but it kind of can show you what you can start to do with this sort of API. And I love that the API itself is so easy to work with. That's really for a basic thing that's really all there is to it. So Ryan, do you want to? Now this isn't fair because this is a treble clef demo and Ryan's familiar with bass clef, so this was super unfair of me to do this to Ryan. But I don't want this to get unplugged. So I can give you cheat sheet hints if you want. Yeah, I may need some help because my music education was not on a piano and was definitely bass clef instead of treble clef. So we'll be making some guesses at these. No worries, we can work with the team. So this is our middle C on this keyboard. That's our middle C. So this is E. E, oh jeez. Yeah, that's going to be up a good, let's try. That's it. Let's try this one. Oh, very good. So you can see, it displays quickly, but you can see it's going to show you that the command, which is always going to be 144 because that's all we listen for, the note and the velocity. So now this is the... Couple notes higher, this is a H, right? Yes, hit it really hard. So the velocity is 50. Now on this next one, that's like half step down, so A sharp. Hit, oh, and that's what happens when you get wrong when you slip. What's the high C here? So the velocity is 107. So you can see if you wanted to do something useful with that velocity information, like maybe make the note get bigger if you press it harder. Yeah, yeah, we were talking about what you could, we don't really have this playing out audio, but we could wire it up to all kinds of fun things, like change the brightness of a light bulb if you had some IOT lights. The harder I smash the keys, the brighter the lights are, I don't know. Gales up pods in your Kubernetes class. Yeah, you could do all kinds of... Fun, exciting ideas. All kinds of home automation, where I'm playing creepy Count Dracula music in order to make the bats fly out of the chimney or something fun like that, I don't know. Instead what it does is it turns the green or red, but you get the idea. So you can cycle through these and actually I added something in to kind of give a very simple sense of other things you can do. If you go up, I'll do it because I know you're trying to hold it. You can also, so these lower notes down here on the keyboard are just changing the background color of the page just to drive home the point that like, it's musical information, but you don't have to just use MIDI for musical applications. Like you could use this to do whatever you want with. It's also something that is often when you're doing more interesting and complex things using the WebMiddy API alongside the Web Audio API would allow you to do a lot of really interesting applications. So I've seen some demo apps out there that are kind of like a digital synthesizer where you could do all sorts of cool stuff with it, but for this example, we've got this use case here. And we'll have these two keyboards in the red hat booth if you feel like stopping by and plugging in to test it out with your own code. Yeah. So, I think, did we ever get through to the end of it? Let's see if we can get through. Oh, now I've got it in the back. Oh, I'm on the wrong octave. So that's another piece of information. Combined score, five out of 13. So we need to practice some more. We need to go back to school. All right. So, and the thing is flashing like crazy now. I don't know what we did to it, but yeah. So that gives you a sense of how you can work, you know, a web application with this MIDI data. Something else in case this is new to you all like it was to me. So I'm just using SVG to draw the staff and the notes and then basically just I've got the measurements of like where the note needs to be placed relative to this staff. But I hadn't worked with SVG much in the past and I didn't realize you couldn't just like set the color of it. You can't, but you can use filter, a filter on it to get the color to be what you want. And it's really kind of interesting how that works. So you can like rotate the hue if you think about on the color wheel. And this might be obvious to everybody but me, but I thought that was pretty awesome to go from one color to another for the SVG thing. So, bonus. All right, so that was our demo. And then there's a lot of information out there that I also want to point to you. I used a lot of resources when I was figuring this out myself. One of the best ones I found was this article on getting started with the WebMedi API. There is an awesome example where they are doing, they programmed kind of like a lock code for almost like an escape room thing where you had to figure out the pattern of keys to play to solve a puzzle. Like in Goonies? Ooh, maybe. Like where they have to play the notes in Goonies to... Yeah, totally like Goonies then. Totally. I'm so horrified that I can't remember that part of the movie. But it's a really cool example. They've got some of the code there and that's doing a slightly more complex thing that's not just a pure music learning application to it. There's also information on the WebMedi API on midi.org which is a great resource if you just want to learn more about midi in general. This page here also has a bunch of links out to cool examples and demos and things like that. This is the slides. And then if you want to play around with the code for this demo, you can find it here. Again, like I said, it's scrappy. There's probably ways it could be way more efficient. But it works and you are welcome to try it out. Add in bass clef if you want. And let me know if you have any questions. So we finished a little bit early. Does anybody have questions about this or want to come play the keyboard? Yeah, no. I'm curious now though. Yeah, the question was about Google Magenta. I've seen some demos and it's definitely on my list of things to look into. I have not personally had experience with it but it looks really, really interesting. Did you have a comment on that? That's cool. Yeah, really cool stuff. He said if you weren't able to hear, start off a melody and it will detect based on the first couple of notes, it will follow this progression, chord progression and try to make something Bach style sounding based on TensorFlow neural nets and outputting MIDI, I guess. Well, I'm not sure, yeah, probably MIDI. Yeah, but Magenta sounds like a really interesting creative process to research. Yeah. Question back here. In here, we were just using one note. It looked like what about if there's a chord progression and there's multiple notes, anything special you think to handle those? Like, for example, I know human hands won't precisely hit the chord at the exact same millisecond, for example, but it should be considered. I don't know, what do you think about that? So in this, I don't remember the actual answer to your question but I know that there was some chord related stuff. In this example here, I remember reading about it. I don't remember precisely how that's handled. The note on callback or hook that you have can catch multiple note on events. And so just because one note has been pressed on doesn't mean that they've let the button go yet. You're just signaling a press, not a release of the button. So that's a separate event and you have to catch them both or the note will stay stuck on. So sometimes you'll have, when you're doing MIDI, if it misses the note off event, it'll just be, like have this long tone and you'll have to run a clear all notes command to basically signal that it should be clear. So hopefully you don't have to run clear all notes but these are all asynchronous. So that would be a poly, poly notes, I don't know, yeah, yeah. That makes perfect sense, I think, sorry. We're only keeping track of one thing at a given time but if you were keeping track of how many had been down and then were they lifted back up, that would work. There's also something, I can't remember the name for it right now but there's another message that can come through if you've pressed down the key and then you press more, like, yeah, see, I don't know these things. I just know how to make my kids do their homework. But that's another message that can come through if that's useful for things outside of my kids doing their piano homework. Was there another question? Yeah, this isn't really a question, just a comment to follow up on the note off. Some MIDI keyboards don't actually send note offs, they send note ons with zero velocity. So just like FYI, if you're playing around with a really cheap keyboard and all of your notes are getting stuck, like that's probably why. Good to know. Nice, nice feedback. Yeah, these controllers that Jan and I are using have after touch velocity, so you can play a note and then kind of hit it again and it'll send another, the after touch event. But that is something that's been kind of added on to MIDI in later years and it's funny, there's still some clear kind of limitations with the language of MIDI I think that one of the absolute limits since the 80s has been the range of values you can express has to be zero to 127. That's your, you know, the largest integer you can basically have within this. So you can do a lot, but if you wanna get really fine details, you almost have to fake the tempo to add more data or something. Whoa, revolutionary. It's the first I've heard. MIDI 2.0 is a thing and it's been out a couple weeks and it has floating points? Incredible. Oh yeah. Yeah, no hardware yet. Yeah, good luck finding a keyboard or an API for that one. That's cool, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, that'll be really interesting, more expressive quality I guess in the MIDI. Yeah, anyway, good luck experimenting with this stuff. 127 different values is still a lot to work with and you have a full range of notes and a full range of, there's 12 channels to work on, so you could send a lot of data over a MIDI bus and yeah, it's a fun thing to work with for all kinds of automation. So I hope you enjoy it and have learned something fun. You got any closing thoughts, Jan? No, except that I hope you learned a little something about MIDI and can do more creative things with this than I've done here. Yeah, stop by the booth to tell us your ideas of if you plan on doing any fun automation or MIDI projects, we'd love to hear about them. Thanks for attending all. Thank you. Yeah.


You will read in the newspaper about BJP workers killing people. The Congress worker will never harm anybody, will never kill anybody. That is the big difference between us and them. And the other difference is that whatever you see in India today, whatever progress you see in India, whichever institutions you see, these have all come out of the Congress ideology. The success of India so far has come as a result of the work of the people of India and the Congress party and formations like the UTF. No state, no country can succeed without harmony. Imagine this meeting, we are sitting harmoniously, nicely having a conversation. We are talking about the future of Kerala. Suppose this crowd was fighting amongst itself, could we ever have a discussion about the future of Kerala? Could we ever understand what the crowd wants? Could the crowd ever be prosperous? So the first thing that the UTF will give Kerala is a harmonious peaceful tranquil Kerala. Now the biggest problem that Kerala and India are facing is the problem of unemployment and is the problem of an economy that is not moving anymore. I understand that there are a lot of fishermen in this region. I understand what you go through when you go out into the sea. You have no idea about your future. You don't know whether you will catch fish or you won't catch fish. Sometimes you don't even know whether you will come back or won't come back. This is not fair for fishermen, for labourers, for farmers to live in these conditions. And when the economy does not work, your hands are tied behind your back. And when you go into the sea and you think about how you will educate your children and you don't have an answer, that is not fair. When the farmer works all day long and cannot figure out how to cure his ailing father or his ailing mother, that is not fair.  The interesting thing is that if the LDF wanted to make such a deal, they should have done it openly. They should have come to the fishermen of Kerala and said, we are doing this. We are making this deal with this American company. But there is a difference between someone who stabs you from infront and someone who stabs you from the back. And silently try to stab you in the back. And this shows their intention towards you. Intentions do not change easily. So now you will ask me, okay so what is the LDF going to do? And that is the reason I have come here today. We believe that we need to start the economy urgently and we need to create jobs for Kerala's people. So a farmer, a fisherman, a labourer has options for his children. If a fisherman wants his son to be a fisherman, we are not against it. But we would like to give the fisherman's son different opportunities. And we want to leave you with the choice. So imagine a boat and a boat that does not have fuel cannot move forward. No matter what you do, if the outboard engine does not have fuel in it, it is not going to start. That is the current condition of the Kerala economy. It is like a boat in the middle of the sea with no fuel. The chief minister keeps trying to start the outboard engine. Nothing happens. Sometimes he opens Karl Marx's book and he looks inside for the answer. So what is the fuel for the economy? Diesel is fuel for the boat. What is the fuel for the economy? The fuel for the economy, brothers and sisters, is money in your hands. If the people of Kerala do not have money in their hands, Kerala will be like a boat in the middle of the sea without fuel in the engine. If the people of Kerala do not have money in their hands, it is like a boat in the middle of the sea without fuel in the engine. It is like a boat in the middle of the sea without fuel in the engine. So that is why the UDF is going to put fuel into the economy. And we are not going to put few drops of fuel. We are going to put massive amount of fuel into the engine. Our ideas are very simple. It is called Nyaan Yojana. And every fisherman, every farmer, every labourer should understand the revolutionary idea that the UDF is going to attempt. For the first time in this state's history, in 3000 years, we are going to guarantee a minimum income for every person in Kerala. For the first time in Kerala, we are going to get 6,000 rupees a month, 72,000 rupees a year into every poor person's bank account. And it will continue after 5 years by account until that person is out of poverty. Every month, every single poor person in Kerala is going to get 7,000 rupees a month into every poor person's bank account. And every single person in Kerala will find 6,000 rupees automatically in his bank account. And the moment we put fuel in the tank, the magic will start. I will explain the magic to you. Many of the people in Kerala will have money in their pocket. There will be no bank account that is empty. These people will start to go and buy things. Someone will buy medicine, someone will buy shoes, somebody will buy a shirt, somebody will buy glasses. This will create massive demand for those products. When there is massive demand for those products, people are going to start producing those products. The factories that are today closed will open and start manufacturing the things that you are buying. And those same factories will go looking for youngster after youngster, fishermen's children, farmers' children, labourers' children to produce those products. And the ship will start moving forward. So brothers and sisters, Nyai Yodina is going to solve three problems. First, it is going to solve the problem of poverty. There will be no poor people left in Kerala after Nyai. And anybody who remains will have access to Nyai. The second problem Nyai Yodina is going to solve is the problem of unemployment. And the third problem Nyai Yodina is going to solve is the economic problem that is present in Kerala. So we come with intelligent solutions. We don't look at Mr. Karl Marx's book to find these solutions. We look to you to find these solutions. We ask you, tell us what we should do. We appeal not to the intelligence of one man but to the intelligence of the people of Kerala. Now you must have noticed that in my speech I did not spend a lot of time attacking the left front. I didn't tell you that this is what they did wrong, this is what they did wrong, this is what they did wrong. You know those things better than me. I have come with a proposal for the future that addresses the major problems you are facing. Ninety percent of my speech was about the future. Now after this meeting I would like you to go and ask the left front about the future. Tell them that the congress party has come, the UDF has come with a concrete solution. Clear number, 6,000 rupees a month, 72,000 rupees every year for every purpose. And ask them for their proposal. Ask them how are you going to address the problem of unemployment and the problem of the economy, which is our most challenging problem.  There will be silence when you ask this question. We are very excited about the future of this state. We believe that Kerala can show direction to the rest of India. Your spirit of brotherhood, your history, your tradition, your respect towards women, these are things that can give direction to India. This is an election for Kerala but it is also an election for India. Through Kerala we are going to show India that unity will defeat division every single time. So that is what I wanted to come and tell you today. Please support our candidates. Thank you very much for coming here. Namaskar.


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So make the money when stocks go down like Michael Burry and then when they reverse you could do your Warren Buffett thing And that's why we brought back to multi-memberships to teach you guys this strategy that's been working time tested for years, you know Yep, and the thing is this guys You don't have to go short to take advantage of my see-room because what happens is Alice I and bunch of other guys go short but knowing where the short sellers sell knowing where the short sellers want to cover Knowing which stocks short sellers want to avoid because they because we know which stocks is going to squeeze That has a higher percentage of squeezing so by knowing that you know which is stock selection, right? So so as a long bias trader you can either try that on your own if you are Experienced that you know what you're doing But most most of the time you guys are here because you're not experienced and so if Alice and I warned the room do not short this stock This is the low flow. There is no dilution and it's way deviated over VWAP. What does that mean? That means that wow long should take advantage that that stock is going to kill the Experience short sellers. So knowing where the shorts want to short helps the longs number one either avoid Having to go along and get stocks. So we have strategies like the death line once it breaches that there's no point of return right that kind of stuff so longs and shorts will work in Conjunction one other at MIC guys and so you don't have to go short I'm telling you a lot of people are scared to go short. You don't have to but you're not knowing where the professional shorts enter and exit is Very very huge to your learning and we also have the stock selection is key to know what stocks to trade And you know the honest answer of how you could learn which stocks are good and which stocks are bad is through time and experience Everyone always asks how do you find these stocks to trade? How do you find these stocks trade? Honestly, the easiest part is finding them The hardest part is narrowing down which ones you should trade and which ones you should avoid and the thing is when You're first starting up trading whether it be a month or a year You haven't seen enough stocks moving to understand which ones are troubled and which ones are good And that's why leaning into someone's experience like bow or leaning into experience like me that we've seen all Different types of market conditions. We've seen I've probably trade 10,000 stocks, right? Maybe even more hundred thousand stocks Who knows how many but the point is after seeing so many stocks after seeing the way they trade over and over again We have learned which stocks are good to trade which is what we focus on We have learned which stocks are avoids which are good for longs to focus on and together we make a plan and we execute like professionals every day Correct and we provide you the watch list too. So watch list has our our guides So it's not like these other rooms So there's been a lot of people joining M. I see from other pump-and-dump services That's because they've been losing so I wanted mentioning names But you know someone been convicted by the SEC things like that recently So I mean there's a reason why the SEC and stuff came after them, right? And so they have left those rooms and joined doesn't that oh my gosh night and day that's because we really there's two ways to make money guys and The second the first way is getting lucky anybody can get lucky few times But just like the lottery winners If they all lose their money back eventually right the curse of the lottery because they're not financially Literate enough they think that they they think that luck is feel and they end up losing back all their money Say the number two the consistent guys.  That's a thousand dollars. That's life changing money versus a guy That's making a thousand dollars today tomorrow losing two thousand next day making five hundred next day You know just while it's doing so it's like it's like yesterday someone asked me They're like how do I turn ten million into a hundred million these guys don't have a thousand dollars yet? And they're worried about ten million to a hundred million before you guys run Before you guys worry about ten million to a hundred million before you were about one million before you were about a hundred thousand before You were about ten thousand. Let's get to you to a thousand first Okay, once we get you to a thousand then that's it then we could keep moving for cuz A hundred million without making a thousand it's like Alex like going on the first day the girls already like name our children future children We haven't even kissed yet And that's the thing guys training is it's possible to make a hundred million it is a hundred percent possible But the way to make a hundred million like bow says you must first learn how to make a million to make a million It's as simple as making a hundred dollars because if you could learn how to make a hundred dollars All you have to do is add a zero to your share size and then boom it keeps exponentially increasing, you know So that's the man learn the basic foundations is so I I don't know if the So I've read this one guy said they couldn't afford the annual so we have the monthly so the guys are in So this is the thing I want to do for you guys, okay? Alex ended I think that sell ended but there might be some options open some some some room left So if you got this might be the last day guys I don't know where to go you you want to Yeah, I mean we ended it yesterday But I mean if you want to do like another I don't know like couple hours Well, we're doing this for for my Instagram followers guys because I just read someone that said they can't afford the annual This is it guys. This is the last chance we guys joined monthly. We we decided to open it up because of this We don't know when the next time we hope we will bring back monthly. I don't think it's gonna be for the rest of the Year, yeah, so this is this is your last chance then guys this year to join monthly So go to that link that we've been posted on Twitter my investing club comm slash spring This is it guys. Yeah, no more excuses. Yeah, you say you can't afford annual. I had let me ask you guys, okay?   They also there was a financial genius. That's the thing with crypto I don't want to bash crypto, but you know They've experienced a 12-year 14-year bull market where it does not dip You know even my son bought one share of Tesla I think at $500 broke and it's split he has two shares is up to like a thousand dollars And so he thinks he's a financial genius too.    I mean all these guys.  They think these stocks They think crypto will go to a million dollars. I mean what the freak right guys So this is what I'm going to try to tell you man The way you make money during a bear market is to have realistic expectations You're not gonna get rich overnight. It's very difficult. You're not gonna find that one diamond in the rough stock Because in a bear market hardly anything spikes up that much so in a true Recessionary market it will be a downtrend Okay, and the thing is the ones that survive are the ones that have a plan Okay, the ones are not too eager keep adding adding There's two ways to make money. Okay, either you short when it goes down or you buy long when at support That's all it is buy a support selling resistance, but the problem is this the time frame, right? We don't know how long this bear market recession market will last and so what do you do? You must have a plan guys and a lot of the people that buy early try to guess the bottom will go broke Because if this thing as well as for five years for freaking dead It's only been six months the market went down or something like right, so you still have another five years left So what do you do is this guys? My mom taught me something great Don't be don't focus on buying the bottom or selling the top just go with the trend So as an insurance policy wait for the market to actually Bounce up because there's a lot of meat on the bone. You can easily so being a little late is okay Being early is bad being a little late is better when it confirms So the way you make money is you take your gains out. Well, Alex and I we nail and bill every day So our strategy works in every single marketing conditions the problem with their market There there are less opportunities to make the money because less plays pop up to the to get the meat that we need But there's still opportunities. You have to be more disciplined That's the that's number one thing if you're disciplined in a great market You make a ton of money if you if you are not you're gonna lose money But it's more forgiving in a great market because there's a lot more opportunities to make back the mistakes So keep doing what you're doing follow the MIC process risk management above all else So this is going to separate the men from the boys the guys I know what they're doing from the rest okay guys risk management because if you have a rhythmic estimate If you have bad risk management and you made money the wrong way in a bull market, you're dead, dude You can't recover you cannot recover it's you know it is too man That we we don't really talk about it as much often anymore is we made so many videos is there's two sides to trading guys There is the technical aspect of trading and there is the mental aspect of trading So then I see we teach you guys the technical aspect Which is how to read chart the strategy is whatever and the mental side is why you come and you guys watch these videos Because you must have a very sharp mental to be able to do this and the reason why I say that is because Imagine if you were working for someone and for the past two years you got paid a hundred grand working for that person Now not only are you working more hours? You're probably getting paid 40 grand for that same job that you work more hours a lot of people are not able to handle that a Lot of people are not able to downsize a lot of people are not able to adjust and adapt And that's why you see so many of these people Non-existent anymore you see so many of these people losing money because they are failing to adapt They are failing to fix their mental and say you know what? The market doesn't owe me anything. I don't deserve to make a hundred grand I don't deserve to make a million. I don't deserve to do anything My job as a trader is to show up and see what opportunities are there and capitalize on those opportunities Just because there were multi-million dollar opportunities last year does not mean you will get the same opportunities this year But slow and steady if you could show up and make a hundred dollars a day $200 a day that is better than 99% of people in this market because a lot of people are not changing. They're not adapting and It's it's tough out there, right?    It's very consistent. Take a look at Alex posting his P&L's on Instagram. So check out our Instagram what you guys have now. You'll see it. It's very consistent It's imaginable this time last year I was making 40k 50k a day and all of a sudden now I must accept a $500 day or no trade day and a lot of people are not able to mentally handle that pay cut Not a lot of people are able to mentally handle because what happens is most Americans they live outside their means They make a 50k a year 100k a year.  You don't have say I have I'm doing really well financially You know it sucks that everything is going down, but I'm not saying all right. Well the market is down I got to buy another this I got to buy another that you must stay conservative when the market conditions Warrant that and when everything is going well when you're making money.  So a lot of people they want to make what they made last year I want to make what I made last year too, but in this current condition of high interest rates markets tanking whatever it may be Realized that the world has changed again the world changed during 2020 It is now changed again in 2022 with the war in Ukraine as well And because the world has changed you must also change Yep, and the thing is remember guys most you guys are not full-time traders. That's the advantage you have I'm telling you right now. Do not you don't want to be a full-time trader There's no reason to be a full-time trader, you know Alex only trades the first hour of the day You don't need to dig around all day and the fact that you have a job which pays your rep now You can trade stress-free enough force to make money trade and that's the secret guys To to my success was the fact that I had a job and I I was a full-time trader But I also had a job and so that job afforded me not to stress it not to force bad trades I had to pay the rent that day, you know, I saved enough money. And so that's the key guys supplement your income Remember I was always talking about picking a pay cut to me is not even a pay cut because you know what man? It's a commission job. It's not a guaranteed job.     So why are you trying to reinvent the wheel join and learn from people that have done this? I'm gonna tell you something man. I've seen new traders trying to build their own system.   So, you know what maybe your strategy didn't work at all It was just freaking luck And so you sometimes you have to ask for help guys the humility is the best thing and that's the one thing man No, the one thing that got me successful in Alice is the fact that we're humble We we realize we don't know everything.  So I mean no matter because about here's the thing about me and that we're always Willing to learn and improve bow's favorite thing is to learn new tricks in the market like learn the new algos Learn the new tricks find out the blueprint That's bow's passion in the markets to always improve to he wants to reverse engineer the algos and become the algo himself, right? For me, I just want to improve and just get better. I want to show up and just get better I want to be able to just be less stress in my training because I learned that if you are stressed in your training You are probably in the wrong trade. So the less stress I am in a position the less stress I am in a trade less stress I am ends up domino affecting and benefiting me, you know Good any questions guys like keep it short sweet.     So let's do another 12 hours for this monthly promotion to my investing club comm slash spring So for the next 12 hours, we'll open it up and then no more for the rest of the year and I don't it's yeah, we um We were trying to try to figure out how to help you guys better And so we may do more of these live trading because we we serve back then to do that thing for the boot camp of that It was hard man and one year is a lot of planning. So and our Anniversary is coming up again. So wait for that guy. So it's a lot of great. I think though. Well, it's all around the world We had one in London Berlin hosted by Steven moderator. So lots of going on guys. So you guys should join I Mean dude, we have great people that you think about this man It's a country club for the everyday man with like-minded individuals like yourself. That's that's all thing man I mean, I love MIC when I'm bored. I pull up MIC.  So the bow is in the west coast and I'm on the east coast So by the time I'm going to sleep at like 9 p.m. Is 6 p.m. For bow and then bow just keeps talking So we we have everything covered. This is your opportunity guys to network and meet other people I mean, it's you you would believe that stock traders would be these people that just sit in their offices all day Which we are but a lot of these people are also doctors. They're also lawyers. They're also engineers web developers Advertising experts carpenters any type of thing. So whatever I need anything in my personal life I always go to the community first because not only are they Experts in their own field. We both love the same thing man. We both That reminds me Alex With the recession come up people gonna lose their jobs and so we are using the club We meet other people and we found actually our developers and everything through the members of the club and We are we success trader actually has it. I think we forgot to show them the link to the careers. Oh Yeah, let me see let me pull that up real quick one second. So So we always trying to help our members guys So here, let me show you For a great opportunity You want to explain this a little bit about for yeah, so success traders up and coming You know the brokers that we partner with they day day I guess they're surprised how many clients we We refer it over and everything's going great. So they need more help guys So go to success trader comm slash career. Is that it career career? Yeah, and then in there you can submit we have a It doesn't go to me and Alex it goes to them We we're not part of the hiring, but you know what man if you're in the MIC Put that down that might be just what they want to see to put you on top of the the hiring food chain But just go there guys No squares required just freaking go in there and good luck Maybe you will have a career now in the stock brokerage business, which is you know pretty pretty cool, man I Cool guys anything else great guys. We'll see you back at MIC on my investment club comm slash spring Okay, see you guys there and tomorrow is Tasha's webinar at 2 p.m. We're probably bowing. I would be there too. Yeah, we'll be there a public webinar every 2 p.m. Wednesday, which is wait Tuesday Wait, that's tomorrow's tomorrow's webinar today. It was today's Joe's large cap guys Yeah, we have a large cap and options webinar every Tuesday at 7 p.m. So you guys could join watch the webinar today at 7 p.m. That tomorrow we have a free public Like new member orientation webinar. So we'll see you guys there. All right guys. Thanks Alice. No problem, bro. Bye


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i felt like everyone who was driving along could see me crying and were looking at me like i don't understand why i'm getting daggers thrown at me this morning i woke up and now everyone's throwing daggers! hello everyone welcome back to my channel today i thought i would do a bit of a different video and i thought i would do a books for when you're sad video all of us struggle with our mental health right it's something that we all have to live with and deal with and it can be really tough sometimes and sometimes certain books just aren't the right thing to read when you're sad and sometimes certain books are the right thing to read when you're sad so uh today i just thought i would recommend some of my books that either i read when i was sad or i wish you know i i feel like would have been really good in those moments books aren't gonna fix our mental health but um i think there are right and wrong things to read when you are sad so um before we get on make sure you like the video if you do like this video after the end and make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out on any more of my videos so but let's get into it let's get into it let's get into these flops this yes girl get into these flops yeah these flops the first book i wanted to recommend was remember this when you're sad by Maggie van Eyck i've spoken about this a few times on my channel um i read it quite a while ago i read it right at the end of 2018 and i really really loved it the author is very open about her mental health struggles she takes you through everything she's been through and hearing that someone else was going through stuff maybe not exactly similar to me because we all struggle with different different things when we're sad but um she gets she gives really actionable steps she gives better points throughout the book on each section on how to deal with that particular issue so i know there's i remember this when you're maybe struggling with your your image or maybe read this when you're when you're depressed maybe read this when you're when you're in a relationship there's all these different sections talking about how our mental health intersects with so many parts of our lives and i've said before fiction is really helpful to read when we're sad because it does take us into this other universe other realm other story other than our own and that's what a lot of the other books i'm gonna be recommending um are but i think it's also helpful to sometimes read stuff that makes us reflect on ourselves and make us want to nurture our mental health even more so i think this book is really great for that and i would definitely recommend checking it out if you can it's she's just brilliant she's just great and um i follow her on instagram now and i just think she's a really refreshing person so this book definitely helped me you know the winter of 2018 um going into the start of 2019 was a really rough one for me touch wood this this winter has been great um i think i have a booktube and you guys a lot for that but um it was definitely a really tough one and this didn't fix everything straight away in fact it kind of got worse after this before it got better not because of the book obviously just because of the way my mental health was but i think it was a stepping stone another book another non-fiction book i'd recommend i'm not going to spend longer than this because i actually i've only just thought of it but i used to love the book don't sweat the small stuff and it's just like super short two page chapters on why you shouldn't just get stressed about little things i used to always get stressed about the listless things especially when i was kind of like 14 15 i'd work myself to the ground on like school work that meant nothing do you know what i mean do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what do you know what there's one like one little chapter because they're kind of just little thoughts the book is like that big and they're only like two page chapters but uh one of them he talks about like whenever anything is stressing you out and it seems like it's a big deal in the moment think to yourself is this going to matter in a year or six months or even two weeks like Is this gonna have any real impact on my life? And if the answer is no, then don't stress out about it.  So yeah, that's another quick recommendation. I didn't plan to recommend that, but that is a good book as well. Let's get into the fiction now. So my first recommendation is, I think sometimes when you're sad, you need just like the purest, sweetest, like, oh, it's just, you need something that's like, just happy and positive. And even though it can deal with difficult subjects, it just has its core, this really positive feeling. So that would have to be for me the Heart Stopper Graphic Normal Series, but I was wondering, this is volume two, volume one is back at home, but wow. Now I believe, especially in volume three, I haven't read it yet, but I think it may deal with some heavier topics, so be warned for that. I know Insolitaire, which is one of Alice Oseman's novels, it's set after these are, I don't think the graphic novels have caught up with Solitaire yet, but Insolitaire Charlie, it's Charlie's sister that the book is about, and he is dealing with an eating disorder in that book. So I think that may come up at some point in the graphic novels, I'm pretty sure it will do, but for now it hasn't. And these books make me squeal, and the books never make me squeal.  What?  Their facial expressions, oh my God. Hang on, hang on, hang on. I don't wanna spoil anything, but let's just like, look at him, right? Just the way that you look at each other is just so pure, and I think if you're sad, a graphic novel is something that's really easy to tackle because sometimes when you're sad, big books or reading in general can kind of be scary, right? Like, it can be difficult to get yourself to read, but a graphic novel won't take you long, so it's super easy to pick up, it's not intimidating, and it will just have you like, ah, did they just, oh my God, oh my God. It's the perfect thing to read when you're sad because you can't help but like, hurt in your chest from how much you love these characters and how much they love each other, and it's just the best. It's just so good. So both of the series, I've read one and two, I haven't read number three yet, but both one and two have been five stars for me. The only reason I haven't read number three is because it's gonna be in a video I'm filming soon, and so I just have to wait, but I keep looking at it like, I wanna read you. But it's true. I'm the best one. I just want Anna's Oathman to produce. I mean, it takes a long time for a graphic novel, but I want like 50 volumes right now. I haven't even said what it's about. It's a boy meets boy romance at like kind of secondary school in the UK, and it's just the purest thing ever. So if you haven't picked these up yet, please do, I will defend them with my life. I just think they're incredible. I think they're an incredible series. So I just think if this isn't just cheer you up a little bit, it always cheers me up a little bit, even if I'm feeling down. I think this is the perfect thing to pick up when you're feeling a bit sad. The next book I also don't have with me, and that would be The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. So this was very almost, almost almost almost my favorite book of last year. In it we follow a character who finds this kind of old book and when he starts to read it, he realizes one of the chapters is about him, about something that happened when he was a child that no one else was there when it happens. They happen to anyone possibly know about it, and it takes him into this underground world of underground libraries and cats and the Starless Sea and pirates and people lost in time. And it's just one of the most immersive books I've ever read, and that's the reason I'm recommending it in this video. I think sometimes when you're sad, you need a story that completely envelops you and I've never had anything that's enveloped me as much as The Starless Sea does. I think it just completely takes over everything and the world is so vivid and yet so confusing and yet so like you know everything all at the same time. It's incredible. It's so good. Again, I would have ended to the death. It just has this softness to it and this like magic to it that I think is perfect when you're feeling a bit down. And also if you love books, then this has a library in it. It's set partly in a library.  So I think if you wanna get immersed in the world when you're feeling down, you really wanna escape everything. I know a lot of us wanna do that.  Yeah, this book is perfect to kind of escape into this magical world that there's nothing out there like. You know when sometimes you reach fantasy series and all the fantasy worlds kind of blur together, you're like, this is very similar to something I've read before. To me, this world is so different to anything I've read before. So I'd really, really recommend going and pick this up if you're feeling a little bit down. The next series I'm gonna recommend is a bit of a weird one, but I have my reasons. The Trudy Devious series. This is the second one. I haven't read this one yet. I've only read the first one. So in this we follow a girl, I think her name's Stevie. Yeah, Stevie who is really into true crime, really into detective stuff. And she goes to this special school. It's a school for kind of people who are really good in very specialist areas. And her task is to solve a murder that occurred about like, I don't even know, 70, 80 years ago. Not her task, the teachers haven't gone, you can come to our school if you solve this old mystery. It kicked out if you don't. But like, because of her interest in true crime and how kind of good she is at figuring stuff out, that's why she's gone to the school. She turns up and things start happening, things start going wrong. There's a lot of murder in this series, but it's like light murder. Everyone always makes fun of me for this. But like, sometimes a bit of light murder can cheer you up. The reason I'm recommending this is because it's set in like a boarding school situation. And I think those kind of old school boarding school books just like cheer me up. I think it's because we all kind of associate it with like a non-magical Harry Potter.  I think that's another recommendation. If you like Harry Potter, just go reread that if you're feeling a bit down because I think that will definitely like, take you back into that world. And that world has such good feelings for so many of us. But I think reading a detective story where your brain is having to work kind of fast to figure out who's done what is a good distraction. And I think that really helps me when I'm sad. Reading books where I have to figure stuff out. But this is YA, so it's not a super heavy mystery. So it's not like it's super difficult to work out what's going on. So it's kind of the best of both worlds where your brain is working like hard to figure it out. But also it's not too heavy. It's not too daunting on you. So I think it kind of is great for when you're down because it kind of fulfills a, you want your brain to work hard and be distracted but you don't want something too hard that it's intimidating. It meshes those two together really, really well. So that's why I'd recommend this series. The last book I have to recommend is that, it's because sometimes I think when you're sad, you just need a good cry. Like you just need a bit of a cry. I wanted to pick a book that wasn't sad throughout. Like you're not going to be crying throughout. I actually cried like 70 pages into this book and then never cried again. I don't think the story as a whole is sad. I don't think the ending is, well the ending, no, I don't think the ending's sad but there's a bit kind of 60 pages in. I just felt like it just broke my heart. But sometimes I think when you're sad you just need to let it out a bit. And so I think a book that isn't sad the whole way through but has little parts that could make you cry a bit and could let you get out a good sob is kind of what I wanted to recommend. So I'm going to recommend Daisy Jones and The Six. I haven't heard many other people say that this made them cry but it made me cry. It's so hard. I was reading it in the car on the way back up to uni and I was just stopping in the car and like I felt like everyone who was driving along could see me crying and were looking at me like, I don't understand why I'm getting DACA thrown at me this morning. I woke up and now everyone's throwing DACA. And like I was crying silently so I was sitting next to my dad in the front and he didn't even know I was crying. So Daisy Jones and The Six is about a kind of super, not superstar, but like a really big star, Daisy Jones and a band, The Six and they kind of merged together. I always thought the band before I read this was always Daisy Jones and The Six but it's kind of the story of them coming together and having one really, really massive album and tour together. And it's a story of all the relationships within the band and kind of the reasons why they broke up while the band broke up. Another thing that made me cry was actually to do with Billy Dunn who is the lead singer of The Six before Daisy Jones joins at all and one of his relationships. And it, I just sobbed, I just sobbed but this story is so well written. If you don't know, it's an interview format so I don't know if you can see but basically each of these little paragraphs is a different person talking, a different member of the band and what I think it does so well is there'll be times when on certain elements of the story they're telling because they're all telling the story of the band they will disagree on little elements and it's just so cool. Like, it's seemingly trivial things but you realize that it had a big impact on maybe the band breaking up or how the band's story progressed then disagreeing on these little elements and so I just think it's such a cool story. I almost gave these five stars but it just, I'm trying to be a bit harsher and it's like a 4.75, like it's so close, it's so close. I actually, this was in my five star predictions video which I'll link if you haven't checked out. I did it with five stars and it was very close. It was like a 4.75 but just something stopped me from giving it a five stars. I don't really know what, something just stopped me. I loved it and I would really, really recommend that you pick this up and just have a good cry and then you're so attached to the characters that again you're absorbed in that world and just can't wait to finish it. So there we have it. That is all the books I recommend for reading when you're feeling a bit down, when you're feeling a bit sad. Again, I think there's so many good books out there but I think you'll also need to be careful when we pick up when we're sad because it can like maybe impact us in a good way. I hope you enjoyed this video and I hope if you are feeling down then maybe some of these books can help you out a bit and yeah, I will see you very, very soon with another video and I hope you're well until then. Bye.


What's going on you guys? It's your boy Lloyd here. So I got a question from a viewer and he writes Hi, Lloyd. I'd like some advice. There is this girl at my work. We were very close She would want to be around me and talk to me a lot, but about a month ago that all changed She suddenly stopped messaging me and when she did the conversations would get shorter and shorter She ignores me and ghosts me. It seems as she doesn't want me as much Is there anything I can do to make her want me as much as she did in the beginning? If so, what can I do? P.S. I love the advice you give on the channel. Keep it up, man. smiley face All right, so Let's answer this guy's question So he gave me no details whatsoever about the situation So I got to answer this basically in general terms, which I think is fine for a video like this because we've all been there With a girl who you and you were talking to and at first she was really interested in you She wants to be around you, you know, she's paying attention to what you're saying She responds quickly and then she starts to not do that anymore She started her responses start to fade out slowly and slowly and then eventually you don't really hear from her anymore Okay, why did this person lose attraction for you? Okay, and what can you do to try and get her back? so Generally, I would I would say for a lot of situations like this if a girl's attracted you for a certain circumstance and then that Circumstance changes something changes then, you know her attraction for you might also change.  Okay, or you're like The head of a restaurant. Okay, so in that restaurant, you're probably a pretty attractive person, you know People can see you doing your thing. You're in an authoritative position. That's a great position to be in for a guy Especially people are gonna be more attracted to you. Now. Let's say you come out of that restaurant and then you end up in a I don't know. She starts hanging out with you on a golf course and you've never golfed in your life before Okay, so you're not showing as much competency doing this. You're a little awkward with the way you're carrying things You don't know people there So you're probably gonna be less attractive in that environment now a lot of girls will remember the guy that you are in that Restaurant and still be attracted to you, but some of them if the attraction isn't enough at that time or they're kind of fickle Or they were just in you at the moment Then their attraction for you is not gonna be that high and now they're they're not really that into you Okay, so these situations happen a lot in different areas So if she saw you in a certain light or maybe had an idea about you and that idea Changed then she's probably not gonna be as into you then as she was before Okay, so how do you get her back? The idea would be to get her to see you in that light again Or maybe put yourself in a position where you're going to be looking More like the guy that she met and when she was into you Okay, but a lot of guys will do this and the problem about this is that I would advise Against going for women that lose attraction for you that quick and the truth is is that I'm covering the stuff that you can Control there's a lot of aspects in this a lot of the way women work That make them kind of in and out, you know, sometimes they're hot. Sometimes they're cold You know with these women are fine. If you maybe just want to hook up with them I've Hooked up with plenty of those kinds of women But I would say in general even in those situations a lot of times they're more trouble than they're worth Okay, so you want someone who's gonna be more consistently into you That's just gonna make your life more easier like if a girl's being hot cold with me I usually don't try and play that game with her and you normally trying to play that game where okay Now you're trying to win her back and trying to impress her actually pushes her farther and farther away So I think you should just go back and and do what you do best man, okay You don't try and you know force yourself to act a certain way to try and win her over Because again, that's just gonna push her more and more away and you don't really know what happened to Sometimes maybe she was talking to another guy and things got serious and she only wants to talk to one guy usually if You know things are going well with a guy women kind of they stop talking to the other guys that they're talking to Maybe she's just going through a weird mood or something like that. I don't know Okay, there's a lot of things that can happen that are outside of your control that you don't know about and you Reacting to those kinds of things You know being super reactive is not leading. That's that's following Okay, so I always talk about this on this channel if you're the man in general the man to woman connection is you lead and she Follows and she could decide if she doesn't want to follow you at any point in time And you have to be okay with that as a man, but if you start to okay Well now she's not following me now. I got to follow her and win her back. That's not how it works Okay, she's not gonna be sexually attracted to you if you do that She's gonna lose attraction for you even more. Okay, so I wouldn't go after and start chasing her a whole bunch I would still kind of maybe be flirtatious with her playful with her. You want to show a little bit of interest still But keep doing what you're doing and keep improving yourself. Keep putting yourself first those kinds of things I think after a certain period of time a lot of girls will come around and if they don't do you have to have The power in your own mind to be okay with that and walk away, you know This is something I talk a lot about on my channel or sorry a lot about in my programs So it's typically guys who fall into this trap or maybe they may maybe let's say we teach a guy to talk to Talk to women and bars very well. Okay, so he learns that Now he's very attractive in bars and clubs But once the girl starts dating him for a little bit then they realize his lifestyle isn't very good You know, maybe he's got a mattress on the floor or something like that And he just doesn't have a lot of cool friends or whatever. He doesn't have a very interesting life So his lifestyle is lacking and so she loses attraction form when she realizes the guy who she thought he was Isn't so much what he does on a regular basis. He's only like that in that environment So you need to have everything and what I teach my students is to have all the different aspects, you know your lifestyle You know being being attractive and then also to having a confident mindset as well All of these three three things together Basically are gonna make you into the complete package and you're gonna encounter this a lot less But like I said you guys you can't predict what's going to happen and you trying to micromanage these situations A lot of times will push the girl farther and farther away So have those three aspects handled keep doing what you're doing man show interest But don't chase and then I think a lot of times those girls will come around And if they don't do you got to be okay with them not coming around because this happens all the time Like women especially the young ones will be very very fickle and if you start playing their game You're gonna get off your purpose. You're gonna get off yourself as a man That's not a masculine thing to do Okay, so hopefully this helps you guys if you made it and consider subscribing I come out with videos like this every single week if you're interested in getting coached by me personally There's a form down below click on the link right there fill out the form if you're a great fit We'll get back to you Thanks a lot you guys