The Morning. Markets kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good morning, everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN, 8.30 a.m. Friday morning, one hour to go until the opening bell, and we got markets starting off to the negative side right now. Dow futures, negative 101 points, trading at $29,227. S&P, negative by nine, trading at $33,36. And the NASDAQ, negative by 31 points, trading at $94,94. As we speak, we're waiting for the jobs number to come in this morning. Jobs in December, forecast to add non-farm payroll, $165,000. We'll see as that number's expected when that drops jumping over. It looks like we got $225,000. Got a little of the tigers down. They're already talking about it. And as the headline pops up, I'll bring it over here. Let's just jump to the front page of CNBC because that's where we got the number. $225,000 versus $158,000 expected. U.S. added for a January number. Always interesting when it starts right at 8.30 a.m. as I come on the air. So let's start things off and jump over to the charts and see how the markets are reacting. Dow 30 right now, $29,290. You see the lows that we made at about 6 a.m. of $29,160. The numbers, climbing higher. These are 15-minute bars. Climbing higher on that jobs number as quite a beat, $225,000. NASDAQ 100, trading at $94.44. We dipped below $9,400 briefly at 6 a.m. at the lows. We're now 43 points above that level, peaking a bit higher on that jobs number, but pretty muted action so far on quite a beat. S&P 500, $33.41. You back things up to overnight, even after the close last night, making the highs of $33.49, all the way down to a low of $33.27. There's your crude oil market trading lower as well, approaching the $50 price mark, crude not getting a big reaction at all to that jobs number. Gold spiked lower initially on the 225,000 jobs added in January, now trading at $50.69, and the Euro-US dollar under $110 at $109.65. In terms of what else you have happening across the market, earnings, last night, Ubershare spiking higher as the company says it's gonna reach a key profitability goal sooner than expected as to when. Shares spiked after hours after the company moved its EBITDA profitability forecast to just the fourth quarter of this year. The company shares up as much as 10%. They lost 64 cents versus 68 expected revenue, 4.07 versus 4.06. Revenue growth accelerated on an annualized basis to 37%. That's pretty remarkable coming up from 30% one quarter ago. In respect to guidance, they're forecasting a $1.35 billion loss. The estimate is less than the $2.83 billion the market was looking for. And rides, including ride sharing services and fees from drivers, $13.51 billion in gross bookings of 18%. Uber and Lyft both trading higher on that news as we pull up their charts. UBER. Did spike as high as 4103, closed last night at 3709, looking to open it around $39.13, about $2 higher, going over to Lyft as well. Catching a bid on the Uber news to go along with, closed yesterday at 47.42, looking to open at about 49.20. Terms of what else you have happening around the market, jumping over to other news items I had up here. We also have Pinterest earnings out last night after the bell, Pinterest trading higher. Pinterest reporting fourth quarter results after the market closed Thursday, beat on both the top and bottom lines, shares climbing as much as 17%. Here are the numbers, 12 cents a share versus 8 cents forecast revenue of 400 million right on the dot versus 375, excuse me, 371. Monthly active users, 335 million versus 331, an average revenue per user. Not a bad boost when you boosted eight pennies, that's what, a solid normal 7% rise per user from 114. Full-year outlook also exceeded analyst expectations. They expect revenue to come in at 1.52 billion, quite a number for Pinterest and to pull up their numbers so far this morning. How about that? 20% to see the action, how it goes, PINS, quite a spike higher, closed yesterday at 2301, looking to open at about 2735, the high there, 2780. In terms of the coronavirus, a quick update from China, those numbers now at 31,000 as of Friday morning, total debts 636. You have Uber commentary, this is just a live feed going on, but nonetheless remarkable numbers as that coronavirus continues to affect economies. In the world of cannabis, Aurora cannabis, taking a $1 billion charge, cutting 500 jobs as CEO exits. So CEO Terry Booth, we're retired and Executive Chairman Michael Singer beginning to become the interim CEO. The beleaguered marijuana producer also announced a $752 million, excuse me, million in impairment charges, cutting 500 jobs, about 25% of corporate positions. So that CEO we're retired as the beleaguered marijuana producer announced, so it's a billion Canadian in impairment charges, $752 million US and cutting 500 jobs, ACB to pull up their chart, this has been a tough one, folks. I believe in the cannabis industry, but when I was talking about a few stocks, this is one that I actually thought of staying away from anytime you get this low to check out the yearly. I mean, in the face of a tough year, that is an especially tough chart and backing it up as far as it goes. You see the euphoric run up to 1253, but as other stocks in this industry have found a footing to go back to the last year, have found a footing, ACB continuing to struggle to find one, and when you get into the 50 minute, we touch 159, 166, you back things up, that is basically right around that low of 150 that we made on January 14th. For some context there, canopy growth, they've had a tough year as well, but from 52 to 21, the low being 1381, and Kronos as well, similar tough year, 24 to six, but not exactly 10 to a dollar as Aurora has done. Checking back in on the markets on that jobs data, seeing if we've gotten movement, and that's why you check back in, quite a little reversal initial, quite a beat, the jobs number 225,000 versus 165 expected, you have the market initially spike higher, you now have the Dow at 29,206, made it as low as 29,192. NASDAQ 100, spiking to a low of 9,405, currently at 9,415. We were as high as 9,450, just fast movement. S&Ps, 3,333 after making it to 3,343 initially on that news, crude oil hanging tough at $50.36, gold, you're actually seeing higher, pretty remarkable, you get quite a beat, 225 versus 165, and guess what, markets are lower, gold is higher, Euro US dollar sitting right under 110 at 109.64. 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Making it as high as almost 29,301. NASDAQ 100, trading at 9413 was as high as 9450. And the S&P is making it up to 3343 and quite a spike initially right now to 3332. Jumping over to the numbers in terms of jobs added. 225,000 expectation was 165 somewhere there, listing it as 158 with a boost for warm weather. You see the headline flashing as well. Getting into the exacts of it. An unseasonally mild January helped power the U.S. job market to more gains with non-farm payrolls rising 225,000. The unemployment rate ticking higher to 3.6%, but for the right reason, as labor force participation rate increasing 0.2 percentage points to 63.4%, matching its highest level since June of 2013. Good to see that. Anytime you're seeing a low unemployment, you wanna see participation rate high and you wanna see wage increases to go along with this unemployment rate. Economist surveyed by Dow Jones, we're looking for payroll growth of 158 and a jobless rate to stay at 3.5. It's lowest in more than 50 years, a more encompassing labor market indicator that includes discouraged workers and those holding part-time positions for economic reasons, also moving higher 0.2 percentage points to 6.9%. The so-called real unemployment rate previously had been at its lowest level in the history of the data series. However, employment to population ratio in the household survey was to 61.2%, highest since November of 2008, and 0.5 percentage points higher than a year ago. So the weather-sensitive construction industry, 44,000 jobs, well above the average of 12 last year. Manufacturing has had a month-long slump, 12,000 positions. Leisure and hospitality adding 36,000 as did healthcare, professional and business services, 21,000 bringing to 390, the number of jobs added this sector's had and transportation warehouse. So rising workers all across the board. Morgan News, average hourly earnings, here we go, 3.1% over a year ago to $28.44. That's quite an average hourly number. Ahead of the estimates for 3% growth, so 3.1, 18 consecutive months of wage gains above 3%, as the initially reported 2.9 for December was revised to three. Average work week unchanged 34.3 hours. Lots of good numbers in here. Pretty remarkable that you see the market trade higher and then actually pull back a lit a bit. Jumping back, I mean, that's quite a bar. We got across the board, S&P's hanging at 33.32, backing things up to where we were last night. And there is your closing bar, there's your gap right here. So you can see that we've actually traded right back to where we are barely in the negative for the S&Ps, but you can see that we made it as high as 35, 357 and we are now 25 S&P points off of that high, pretty remarkable. What else you have happening out there? Treasury yields slide ahead of that jobs number. So this article up here ahead of time, we can check in and see how they're doing. But as of 4 a.m. Eastern time, the yield on the benchmark 10 year Treasury note, which moves inversely to price, 1.61%. The 30 year was trading at 2.08% to pull up a chart of those the 10 year, let me slide this over. So there's your 10 year and you can see the point in time four in the morning trading higher price all throughout that is yesterday's action. And that's the 10 year at about 1.30, 24. Other news out there, Credit Swiss chairman says lost of trust led to times, times exit. So in a battle on the board, the chairman has ousted the CEO officer, the chief executive officer, Tidge Jane Thym to stem a decline in its reputation in the wake of a scandal that unnerved the Swiss establishment. So Credit Swiss group AG, they are ousting their CEO this morning as that battle. And this story making a lot of waves around the press, around the whole world as it should. Death of a hero doctor back to the coronavirus sparks crisis of confidence in Xi's China. So this having to do with, unfortunately, the doctor who waved one of the first red flags who was admonished by the communist party on the beginning of this has passed away 34 year old doctor on Friday. So a wave of fury in China. Li Wenling who was sanctioned by local authorities after blowing the whistle on the disease last month to come to the virus early on Friday, his death was immediately met with an outpouring of grief as you should. You know, that's quite, it's good to see the people rallying around him and outraged by hundreds of millions of social media users. They vented about how he was initially silence and mourned with the pregnant wife and young child he left behind, very sad. But China facing some heat bringing it back into the political sides of things. China facing some heat in terms of how they handle that from their own people and we'll see if that plays out at all. Boeing back in the press but not exactly for the right reasons, fixing their new software bug on the max. So Boeing's discovered a new software problem on the grounded 737 max but the company said the flaw won't set back the goal of returning the plane to service in mid 2020. Now, I'm a believer that morality aside in terms of what they did that that is probably gonna find a bit at some point. It's a duopoly of airplane makers in this world. You have Boeing and you have Airbus. Boeing, the American company, America needs a company that can make airplanes. They will rebound. But they are consistently over promising and under delivering. So I would not be surprised to see this be a setback potentially as they continually talk about one date and it gets pushed back continually over and over and to check into Boeing this morning because it's pretty remarkable. They've got a lot of funding and so forth but in the face of some tough headlines even over the last few days Boeing shaking it off as they have, I believe it's 13 billion they got additional loans and to put this on a yearly. Quite a slide. We've been down at this 320 level on multiple occasions. We almost made it back there in May. We did touch that level in August. We almost came down at that level again in October. Yet again in December went through that level on the toughest of news on January 22nd and from there you're up almost $40 which is a good 13% off the lows already and you can see that we're charging back in positive territory in the face of tough headlines when that plane does come back online you can expect that that may appreciate. Checking back on the markets just seeing where we are constantly we're now approaching those lows 29,192. The market I'm not sure if it's saying that maybe the news is too good and they won't get the cuts that they were thinking about maybe that's potentially getting priced in because 225,000 versus 165 Dow 30 approaching the lows of the session as you have all the markets in the red crude oil approaching $50 and gold spiking higher on that jobs number 1573. What else folks in six days? 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We just made these crazy easy acrylic windspinners and we'll show you how we did it right now. What is up? A welcome back. Do it to do a build or make it. So do we. And we have new videos each week every Tuesday and Friday. This week we're taking it to the skies. This week we had one of our top tier patrons had a request for a project. We actually threw a little blast out there asking for requests. So if you've got some let us know. What do you want to see? Leave us a comment. She wants to see some acrylic projects and so do I. And I. Yes we've been wanting to do some stuff with acrylic and we just keep pushing it to the back burner with other ideas. But we're going to do an acrylic series. We've got like three or four things lined up that we're going to do. So this week we're going to do some wind spinners with acrylic. Maybe it's something you hadn't thought about yet. Not just wind spinners Kim. Halloween inspired wind spinners. Well we got to stick with the theme. We got to stick with the season. And did you know you can sublimate on acrylic? I did not. He did too. Only just now. So we're going to show you how to sublimate on these wind spinners. Cut them out of acrylic and show you how quick and easy it is. If you're looking for a quick and easy project for crash shows this project might be it. Step one. We're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed some acrylic because this is an acrylic project. We needed a heat gun so we could heat up the acrylic to bend it. Something to hang the acrylic with. So we have some string and then some hooks to assist the string with the hanging. Or chain. String or chain. And we're going to need some sublimation paper because we're going to sublimate on one of them. At least one of them. That is the biggest sheet of sublimation paper I think I've ever seen. And we're going to be using our heat press. Oh and our X-Tool P2 will be doing all of our acrylic cutting for us. Step two. We're going to create our design. We're going to do our design in creative space. Right you can download a wind spinner design anywhere but we're going to show you how to make your own wind spinner design. It's super easy to do in creative space or I think we're going to show you a quick version in Adobe Illustrator and that way you can make any design that you want. You can use your initials. You can use any graphic that you find on the internet and you can make this shape in multiple different styles and you don't have to just stick to a basic scalloped edge. And I think it'll actually be quicker to make your own than to go out and find one, pay for it and download it. Alright we're going to start in creative space and we're going to make a scallop frame first. That's what Kim wants to do first. So we're going to make a scallop frame. So I'm going to use my circle tool.  Now I'm going to go to my array tool and I'm going to go circular array. Now let's say this is the space between them. There's where it's sitting right now and then you're going to step the spaces between them. So start with 10 and 10. So we have five. That was four. I guess I could just use the oh that steps down partial numbers. Well before that let's add some circles. Yeah that looks pretty good. That looks scallopy. Maybe one less circle. I'll tell you in it when we take the film when we fill it and I can see it like that. Oh all right all right.  We'll select everything and we're going to come up combine and unite. That looks nice. It leaves me a hole in the middle and I can't really ungroup it. So I'm going to hide that hole in the middle by putting a circle. We'll shift draw another circle. There's a circle right in the middle and we'll combine, unite. Scallop frame Kim. Wow that was so fast. Fast. Add some yeah that's what add the outside layers. How big do you want the inside? Four inches? Yes four inches. I'm showing him. Yeah he's just showing me with our hands. It looks like to be about four inches. All right now we're going to start to give it its little wind chymeness to it. What is it the spin? Yes the spin. Now we'll give it some spins. Four angies. We'll give it an outline. I don't want the inner outer line, the inner outline. We'll just uncheck that. I think the spaces between the whatever those things are called spleens, splines, things should be about I don't know an eighth of an inch right? Okay works good. So all right now that one's selected and we're going to add another outline but we want these thicker right the actual spleens to be thicker so we'll make those quarter inch we think several too thick. Okay so that's the first that's the spacing and then the next one is the actual yeah that was the spacing and now we're going to make the actual ribs the ribs yeah point yeah I'm going to say we're quarter inch yeah yeah she's holding her fingers out I'm showing him about quarter inch. I have to visually I'm such a visual person I have to look good. All right now I'm going to select this guy and then the one I just made we're going to go up and combine subtract over that. So now look that's all one object I'll even move it over here all one object I'm going to select that and we'll give it an outline again give this an outline my period doesn't seem to work. So when you do that you're taking away taking away the middle it's like subtracting the middle piece from it. Okay this is the long way here in a second I think I'm going to show you how to do it way faster in Illustrator. But you can do it here in Cray Space which is pretty cool. You can totally do it here at Cray Space I mean I was surprised that I was able to do it at Cray Space pleasantly surprised that I wanted to subtract over that. All right I have five of them now. Okay now how big is it? Because I'm going to sublimate on this one and I want the whole thing to be eight inches. Oh you want it to be eight inches? Yes. Let's add another one. Okay. About eight inches. All right. I'm going to insert a rectangle. The rectangle is going to be should I just stop it at the bottom or should it hang past? This is what's going to unite on a little. Stop it at the bottom but you do need to make a little loop for hanging at the top. Yeah so it's let's see make it a quarter inch wide what do you think? Yeah. Whoa four twenty four inches. Periods are important. Whoa let's select everything. I think that's okay up there. Two inches. You can have a little measuring tool. Well you can check the top. So hit the top outer. Well this is just about eight and the whole thing is this one point three inches. Yeah one hundred. I think you need more. No. Okay all right so let's grab everything now. I'll come up to combine and unite. There have it. All right you guys want to see how fast you can do this same thing in Illustrator. All right here's my pumpkin. All right grab my pumpkin's outer line and we'll go object path offset path. We'll say the first one is going to be one two five. Got eighth of an inch. Bam. Actually let's make it a quarter inch. So object I'm going to show you even faster way. Offset path we'll just go straight quarter inch. Round and right. Now I have one.  I'm going to go to actions. I'm going to create a new action. We're going to call this one action Jackson. All right action Jackson. We got it. Here it is down here. I'm already recording. So I'm going to go to object because I have it selected. Outline offset path quarter inch. Okay I'm going to stop recording now. Now I have this one selected. Just going to hit my little play button. Play. Now how many did you want Kim? What was it five? One two three four five six. So I guess we can let's see how big it is. So the other one had point one two five between them. This one is a quarter inch between them. Well I haven't finished yet. No because I can go ahead and make these. Oh yeah okay. Well let's not do that because I ended up doing the pumpkin face. This is like 10 coin.  Oh yeah nice. All right how big is that whole thing then? This whole thing is seven inches. Oh seven and a half. About seven and a half. Okay that's fine. That's good. I mean we can go ahead and scale it a little bit. There you go we're at eight inches. Okay looks good. Yes. All right so now we're going to take our line tool. It's where this it's where the spiral is right. It's where the spiral is. It's just everything's got a line. Let's group these guys. These guys. Oh one more time. It's good. Let's group it. Oh I was holding caps. Group these guys. Now we'll grab everything. Make sure everything is lined horizontal. We'll grab everything that's got a stroke on it. I don't think I want to grab this basket. It's going to be solid. Take this. Let's grab everything that's got a stroke on it. Object. I'll grab this guy in the middle now and we'll go into window pathfinder and we'll unite everything. Select everything again. We're going to get rid of this fill and then we're going to stroke it all red. You're right. There you go. Yeah you got it. I was afraid if you were going to get rid of his face for this thing. No it's back there. It's back there. All right let's export this as SVG and let's start saving these. Let's start cutting these things. If you want to see a more detailed version of this or slower we do an illustrator class over on zoom with our top tier patrons every second Tuesday of the month. It's technically a jack-o'-lantern. I already had a jack-o'-lantern. All right Kim said we forgot to include a little hole for the string so I'm going to add a little hole for the string. First let's do a circle. Do the same thing over here. Half inch guy or five inch guy. I'm going to make one more circle. This one's going to be tiny circle. That's what I was thinking but it was like I'll wait. All right let's go and do this thing just like a piece of string. Maybe. I got a little hole. Maybe just a little bit bigger. Just under quarter inch. Two. Yes that's good. All right I'll take this hole. There you go. All right now they have a hole Kim. Perfect. Step three we're going to make all of our cuts. We're going to bring this eighth inch acrylic over to the X-Tool P2 and cut it out. We're just going to use the creative space settings for acrylic. This is a eighth inch acrylic. We got this from our friends over at Cerulean Tides and I think this will be fine for hundreds of colors and packs so you can get packs of colors. They have everything you need for acrylic over there. Time for sublimation.  Each one took about seven minutes. They're about eight inches so not a bad cut time. All right and next up will be to add our sublimation print. So I went out to design bundles and I just grabbed a fall image. I liked this one because it had something right in the center and I think that'll be perfect in the center of our little scallop that we made here. I printed a couple of them because we're going to want to sublimate on both sides and what we're going to do is we're going to peel off our paper. We're going to sublimate on this side. Take it off of the heat press and then put something heavy on it and let it cool. You don't want to try and do the bending because we're going to need to sublimate on the second side. Once it's cool and everything is back to stiff again, we're going to put it back in the heat press and sublimate on the other side. Take it off, put something heavy on it, let it cool. It does tend to warp. That's why you're going to want something nice and heavy on it as it cools down. Then once both sides are sublimated then we'll do the bending process. We're only going to sublimate on one of these today. All of mine are non-sublimation. This middle part, just the middle part on the top and bottom that we want to bend. We're going to heat it up with the heat gun and then try to bend it in place. Right. You don't want to put this in the whole heat press because everything, even the centerpiece will get soft and it'll be a little too malleable and I'm not sure we can keep it in its shape. So by just... We need some controlled softening. Yes, so by just doing this center section here, we should be able to twist it and let it cool and it'll stay in that shape, I guess. Let's see. A couple more of those. Then I'm going to pass out. Oh, I think it's dry. Oh, look at that. That was pretty easy. Let's do the other ones. One, two, three. Malleable. She's a ghoul. That's cool looking. We're just going to use some of this bead cord. It's like jeweler's cord stuff. Like it's got a little sparkle to it. I think this one's, yeah, it's stretchy. I figured we'd give it the most spin. Maximum spin. Max spin. All right, so we're just going to put this stuff through the hole and give it a knot, and then I have my little spider. I'm going to put him in here and give that little knot. Kim's going to show me how to make this knot. How long you think about it? That long? Let's go and loop it through. What I was telling Garrett is I suggest tying the two, bringing the two ends up and just putting them together. It just makes for a little cleaner knot. But will it spin his spinny with two instead of one? It will hold it. I might need to burn it. There it goes. What do you think? Are you getting spin? Let's see some of your ship knots. I thought we've discussed this. I don't know ship about any knots. I thought you were in the Navy. I was in the air part of the Navy. I didn't tie boats down and not did anything. It's just a knot for knot's sake. It's a not for it. It's a show knot. That's a show knot. So I think all in, we're about like $7, $7.50. Yeah, I think you can get a sheet of the acrylic for less than $10. You can get two of these out of one sheet of 12 by 19 acrylic. That leaves it at about $5 for materials. And then they cut in like seven minutes. Yeah, it was a seven minute cut. So it was like a dollar, $1.50 in laser time. And you can sell these anywhere from $15 to $25. It depends on personalization, what you've got going on. These are pretty simple. Yeah, sublimating the personalization would be super easy. Yeah. Throwing somebody's name on there like that. Yeah, super easy. I think they're pretty cool. I do too. I think they came out great. I think they were quick. I think the longest time was the design, right? Yeah. It was easy. I showed you guys how to make an easy design. So if you are not going to join us for the patron after show, like all these guys, our patrons, we love you guys. We will see you next week where we'll do it, build it and make it again. And don't forget to pop in on Tuesdays where we do a test cut Tuesday. We test something out, see if our design works live. I'm going to go hang these things up. Well, I'm going to go hang these up in the wind.


So, there was a period in my life when I basically tried to be a self-help guru and pretty much failed. Now, to recap what happened and why it happened and how it happened. So, I was in my teenage years and if you're following this channel, you already know that since forever, since as far as I remember myself, I always wanted to make a difference. I always wanted to help people and inspire people. But I think there is this phenomena that when we want that but we are not really capable of doing that, we sometimes start to push for it and I noticed it in myself and in that stage of my life and I noticed it later when I figured out what's happening. I noticed it in other people. It's when people want to help others so bad that they spend very little time in actually getting the right life experience or the right skillset or knowledge and then they go to others and try to teach them what they just learned and that's how it was. I think I was around 14, 15 when I started to feel like I really wanted to make this happen and if I would have conversations with people and if they would tell me that they're having some problems and they were like, you know, my age but I guess in teenage years you do have some life issues and challenges and I tried to help them out so bad, you know, I was trying to give them the right advice and I was, you know, talking my tongue off. And I was also, you know, reading the books. I was also thinking a lot, drawing mind maps, working on myself.  I had very little experience and I didn't overcome the same problems that they came and I didn't have the right knowledge and skillset to help them but I was trying so bad and I was pushing that and it didn't really, you know, it kind of felt like they would be inspired at that moment or sometimes they would appreciate it but then I didn't see any change really and it was kind of, I was puzzled so what is happening? Then my journey continued and my drive was still so bad that I was also, you might know I was doing Aikido martial art, kind of a philosophical martial art and I decided that instead of studying I would pursue the path of Aikido and right after, soon after school, after summer vacation ended, after I finished high school, instead of university I went to Switzerland to train in a martial arts dojo and Aikido yoga meditation dojo which was very spiritual school as well. Like there was a lot of meditation, a lot of spiritual talk and after those three months that I spent there training every day and then I was doing a lot of work extra on my own, reading a lot of books and meditating and contemplating and it really felt, it really inspired me and elevated me so much that after those three months when my first initial committed trip ended and I came back to my home country, Lithuania I felt so elevated, I felt so inspired and I felt so changed but I came to a conclusion, I came to a notion that maybe now it's time for me to teach maybe now I have so much knowledge, now I'm definitely much better and now I'm ready to teach everyone the truth of life and I don't think I was ever extremely pushy, I never demanded people to follow what I do but I was also to reading a lot of self-help books which now I look down upon, like Tony Robbins, Robin Sharma, the monk who sold his Ferrari and I read everything, I was like, for a couple of years I went nuts I kept reading all those books and the advice that they were giving it sounded good, now that I look back I think most of the advice there is superficial it doesn't create core changes, it just makes you feel good at the moment or it makes you make a change for like a week or two weeks and then you feel like it's better things are better but then usually you just fall back to it and they don't take the responsibility, they usually the self-help gurus blame you for not being able to apply their suggestions, their advice but actually that's not really the case, the case is if the advice would be really solid it would be much more likely that you will be able to follow through I think their advice is flawed usually most of it and then eventually you try to apply it and it doesn't have a high percentage chance that it will work I think it's a very low percentage actually, the possibility that that advice applied will work but you usually blame yourself, you're like, oh I wasn't able to apply it but now that I look back I think most of the advice was not that good in those books not really mature, not really solving the real problem or creating a significant change but it felt like I was like, okay these guys are recognized, they're popular clearly they know what they're talking about and I was passing on their knowledge and so I had a bunch of that type of knowledge in me and one day I went to my high school which I already finished and I met one of the teachers which I had a great connection with and she heard my story about going to Switzerland and doing this yoga and spiritual thing and meditation and Aikido and she saw my passion and inspiration and she was like, yeah maybe you want to come to class and share your story with other students they may find it interesting, I was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah and I think I started drinking my Kool-Aid at that moment because I was telling that story and everyone had their jaws dropped and I was so passionate and there's this almost mystical martial arts school and I was kind of mixing in life advice in between and I saw that it affected those kids, they're like 16, 17, 18 years old and I saw that they were that moment inspired and that made me even go deeper into my delusion that I'm ready to save people and to give something incredible to them and so I started meeting more and more of those kids and I even organized a couple of workshops and I was like, okay, I'm going to teach about life so come down this hour here and there and I was laying out all my stuff but to be honest though when those kids would ask me some questions I would have some superficial answers from the books, from my contemplations but some of those answers I could notice and deeper in myself if I would look I was like, I don't really know the right answer and my answer isn't really sufficient here and another thing that happened is I was making a break from coming back to continue my Aikido training in Switzerland and at that moment I started to feel like my mood was going down and I started to feel actually lost myself because I was trying to teach the truth of the universe to kids but barely younger than myself but I didn't see any real significant change and I think, I don't know if that was necessarily doing that period or in and out of it but there was one significant thing that happened to me is I met some of the people I used to try to motivate back in the day when I was 14, 15, 16 and some of them when I would meet them they would tell me oh man, actually you know, you actually really helped me out that day and I was like, really? Yes, yes, this is great, this is great this kind of approves me, this shows that I'm actually that I actually know what I'm talking about and I would inquire so what was it? Tell me so I could put that in the book of fame in my mind and be like, okay for now and this is the best advice ever and every time that happened they would tell me that I told them something that I wasn't even aware of that I told them it was something that I considered to be completely natural it seemed like common knowledge for me because the rest of the information I was really trying to push hard I was like, let me tell you this, this author said this and this guy said this and you know, Buddha said that and none of that stuck with them but then I would casually say something on the back of my mind I was like, oh yeah, yeah, by the way, you know I did this and this worked for me and those were the things which actually had some impact on them the things which were effortless the things which I didn't really even care about and that made me think and I started to realize that, you know, actually I came to this hypothesis which I kind of believe still up to today that if you really want to offer value to others you either need to just, it's either just showing example you know, living your best life and letting people see, look at you and take what they want by themselves or the other aspect is just the other aspect is becoming so familiar with your own material with your own life experience learning so much and becoming so comfortable at that developing such a deep depth of knowledge that you wouldn't even care about that anymore and you would practically try it out you would practically apply it and then that would become common knowledge for you and you would be so sure of it that you wouldn't even you know, you wouldn't think about it twice you wouldn't even try to persuade anyone you would just be sharing something that, you know is a day-to-day thing for you which works for you and there's a chance that maybe somebody will take something from that themselves but then if I look back at my self-help guru days it was all so much about pushing it was all so much about trying to convince others that I know the truth that eventually pretty much none of that really worked because none of that really was my own none of that even worked for myself that I believed in it just because some other self-help guru guy told me about that and I even actually to be honest I noticed that happening even with some self-help gurus even like big-time self-help gurus today I look at their advice and I see recognition of my own type of self that dynamics that I used to have that day I noticed that in them it's just like it's a lot of nice sounding thoughts and you know, fluffy advice which isn't really the core solution like the best of the stuff that I found for myself that works for me pretty much is mentioning almost no self-help guru book at best it's a book of some expert which shows a very specific field and he dove, they deepened it used scientific evidence, scientific research did tests and proved that it works for a lot of people and you know he offers a couple of bits of pieces of information where you're like oh crap that makes sense and you apply it and it works but all those self-help gurus including myself at that day trying to play the god of life or the source of knowledge that they know everything they know about their total advice and they know about diet and they know about fitness and they know about habits and they know about psychology it's like dude no you're just digging the surface and trying to push some basic random information into people's minds that's not the way to go and so that was my conclusion, that's what I learned that I was doing and my counter solution was stop doing that, focus on a direction and just keep digging and if you watched my previous video you know that this is not a coincidence that I'm telling this story because I realized I need to do the same again and I decided I will share a story here and there but for the rest of my time oh my goodness it's all about digging, digging, digging standing on the top of the shoulders of giants learning from the best of the best reaching the end of what was already discovered and then seeing if maybe maybe I will slightly be able to add something on top of that but that's a huge, huge endeavor so far as far as I think it's the only good way to really create something unique and valuable and not just really a couple of self-help guru books and pass on the knowledge while you're yourself lost and confused so I hope this video was useful thanks for watching, let me know what you think in the comments


It is absolutely hilarious to me that conservatives in America insist that really it's them. They're the ones who are pro-life. An actuality that applies to just a very narrow issue, abortion. But when it comes to protecting human beings, actually putting this belief that human life is valuable into practice, offering people universal health care, ending wars, they're not very pro-life. And they've really gone full mask off during this pandemic when almost immediately after it began, they recommended sacrificing grandma to the gods of capitalism in order to make sure that we don't hurt the economy. Now, you'd think that after all this time, they'd learned that you don't get to choose between saving the economy and human lives because if human beings aren't flourishing, the economy, which needs human beings to function, also wouldn't flourish. But they've just disregarded any sense of reason and logic, and now they want to pretend as if the pandemic is over when it's at the worst it's ever been. So you'll see how pro-life they are as they reject health care to people and financial assistance to people during a pandemic. And you're really going to see how pro-life, the so-called pro-life conservatives are when they are now actively encouraging people to just straight up defy lockdown orders which are essential to save lives and stop hospitals from becoming overrun which is literally happening right now. But Charlie Kirk on his podcast, he encouraged his thousands, perhaps millions of viewers to go and defy lockdown orders and if you don't, you're part of the problem. This is literally something that he thought was a good idea to say to an audience that's probably really large. Take a look. So before I get into, what tape do we have? Do we have the tape from the John Frederick's to show all the fraud that's happening in Georgia? Before we get into this, I just have to give like a 30-second question. Why is America still locked down? Why do we not have everything open completely and totally? No mask mandates. Make a decision as you see fit. If you're afraid of the virus, stay at home. This has been one of the most disappointing chapters in American history. We have tolerated these lockdowns that are anti-scientific, anti-human. We have people committing suicide, drug addiction. And by the way, do you try and go find accurate suicide data? Do you notice the states aren't publishing them? They're not publishing them because they're actually going to find out that more people, young people are committing suicide than dying from the Chinese coronavirus. It is a disgrace and we're letting it, everyone's letting it happen. But we at Turning Point USA, we hosted the largest event of the entire year in Florida. We did an amazing job. So if you are not actively defying these state and city ordinances, you're part of the problem. Okay. So let's go to John Frederick's who goes to show that our election in Georgia is being corrupted with. Play tape. I love how that insane rant about COVID lockdowns with sandwiched between this idiotic conspiracy theory about how the election in Georgia was fraudulent when we literally just listen to the phone call where the President of the United States, which you support, is trying to get the Secretary of State of Georgia to commit an act of election fraud. It's hilarious to me. Words have no meaning. Fraud just means whatever they think hurts them. It's insane.  And I mistakenly said before that I think that even though he's wrong about everything, he at least is somewhat intelligent. Now I'm questioning that.  Like I think he's now getting into Dave Rubin territory. Like that's that's where we're at. He says, why is America still locked down? Why do we not have everything open completely and totally? No mask mandates and make a decision as you see fit. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because the pandemic is at the worst it's ever been. And this isn't about individual liberty. Not wearing a mask isn't about someone's personal decision. If I don't wear a mask, I could potentially infect you. If you don't wear a mask, you could potentially infect me. So it's not a personal decision to choose to not wear a mask. You're making a decision for someone else. You're choosing to spread your germs on other people during a pandemic. That's the point of masks to prevent us from spreading spreading our germs to other people. So this isn't about individual liberty.  And he says, if you're afraid of the virus, stay home. Yeah, well, why don't you tell that to people who work with the public who don't have the option to stay home? If they don't stay, if they don't go to work, then they can't pay rent. They don't have the luxury of staying home. So explain to them why if you're afraid of the virus, just stay home. If he said that, but then also said, you know what, we have to give everyone $2,000 per month. I'd say, all right, you know what, that's fine. I can understand your rationale, but he's not saying that. If you're paying people to stay home, that's a different story, but people cannot stay home. So you're basically just inadvertently pushing for herd immunity without actually saying the words. He also says that the lockdowns are anti-scientific, they're anti-human, and we have people committing suicide and drug addiction. And I've heard this from conservatives before as well. And this is a real concern. Of course, these lockdowns are isolating. Prolonged lockdowns are not good for our mental health. I agree with the concern there, but he doesn't actually care. Because if he truly cared about people's mental health, what would he be doing? He'd be pushing someone like Donald Trump, who he has influence over, to offer a more expansion of mental health coverage. Maybe we should make mental health care in America free. Maybe we should make health care in America free, but you don't want to do that. So you claim to care about mental health, but really all I see is you just using that. Like you're exploiting a subject, trying to pull on the hard strings of people disingenuously so when you don't actually care about people's mental health. If you cared about mental health, you would advocate for making health care free.  So spare me. And the worst part of that entire video is when he says this, if you are not actively defying the state and city ordinances, you're part of the problem. So he is quite literally encouraging people to go out in public, pretend like the pandemic isn't a thing, not wear a mask, and this is going to get people killed. Charlie Kirk by saying that the people who listen to him and believe him and trust him, they're going to do this and some of them are going to get sick and may die.  Are you going to admit that the blood is on your hands, someone who's supposedly pro-life, if this does in fact happen? Are you going to foot the bill for their burial services or their funerals if they take your advice and they defy lockdown because they have a misunderstanding of what liberty means because they're entitled? Are you going to take responsibility for that, Charlie Kirk? This is just unreal. And a lot of people oftentimes argue correctly so, I think, that conservatives, they never care about an issue unless it affects them, unless it hits close to home. Megan McCain had a baby and now she stresses the importance of maternity leave.  So you think that, okay, well, Charlie Kirk maybe just has to know someone who was affected by COVID-19. Maybe he has to be affected by it personally, but he was. Look at this headline, Turning Point USA co-founder dies of COVID-19. Someone who co-founded the organization that he runs, someone who he knows personally, probably closely, has died and he's still not taking it seriously. It's just, it's a joke to him. And if he does personally take it seriously, but he's still saying this because it's politically expedient and it's what's popular in right-wing circles, then I don't know what to say.  But I mean, that's one way that the far right is responding to COVID-19. You have some individuals like Dave Rubin who are just conspiracy mongering and trying to raise doubts about the severity of it, particularly in states like California, are experiencing really, really bad outbreaks. This is totally anecdotal, but I, you know, I keep seeing that they're saying like something like all, not all of them, but we're seeing like, oh, 90% of the hospital beds in California are overtaken. So Cal and LA, all the hospital beds are overtaken. There's two hospitals that I live about 10 minutes between and I drove by both yesterday and they're pretty much empty. I did not go in and check every bed. So I'm just telling you what I can see on the outside, which are pretty much empty parking lots and the lines for COVID testing that are completely empty and everything else. So it's just like, what's going on here? What's going on here? I don't know. I'm just, I'm just asking the other questions. See, I can't see evidence that this is as severe as I'm told it is. So I doubt that it's really that serious at all. And look, don't get mad at me. I'm just asking questions. I know exactly how my far right audience will interpret what I'm saying. I know what I'm doing, but I'm just asking questions. It's not that big of a deal.  And I know that he doesn't believe what he's saying.   Downplaying the severity of COVID-19. Conspiracy mongering. And I want to share this tweet that Lauren Steiner, an activist on Twitter shared that really puts things into perspective. So the LA County EMS has directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals and to conserve the use of oxygen. That's what's happening right now, but I can't see lots of cars in the parking lots of hospitals. So it must not be real. It must not be as severe as people are telling me it is as the numbers indicate. Additionally, they are trying to discharge COVID patients and all patients as quickly as possible because they're reaching full capacity if they haven't already reached it. But Dave Rubin, he has to see the cars. He drove by like two hospitals guys. So it must not be as severe as he says it is. We've only had what more than 350,000 deaths in America. What is it going to take? 500,000? 700,000? A million? By then, will it be a serious enough illness for you? I mean, what is it going to take? And the answer is there is no line. Like it doesn't matter what threshold we cross.  And apparently now a pandemic is a political issue.   And so we need people to take it seriously. We need them to stay home. We need them to know how bad it is in certain states. You have far-right lunatics who are trying to contradict that and it's just deeply dangerous. And I don't know how these goons sleep at night, but you can only have so much money profit off of the misinformation that you spread.  I want to think that they feel bad about the things that they say and do. But I think that these are just soulless ghouls who don't care.