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all right guys seems like we are i am done i did all the work after all you were just watching anyways the coilovers front and rear brakes including rotors front and back rear diff now you saw how difficult the one caliper bolt and one on the back and one on the front basically stripped off stripped out the threads i don't know what the deal was i tried my best used pb blaster didn't work stripped out the inside of the caliper i don't know what i'm gonna do about it i'm kind i'm kind of pissed off at it gave me two unnecessary problems two extra unnecessary problems look at this mess yes this is my homemade or home lamp modified to fit under cars and there you go probably didn't have to take the exhaust off but it just made things easier left side calipers came off right away can tell by if i squeeze this one hand is kind of difficult as you can see i can squeeze this spring myself so i won't have to compress any of them found the issue with the boot there's a small tiny little crack right about here right there you can kind of see it the axle just popped out no issues there transmission oil is actually still dripping so let me talk a little about why i'm going for softer springs you can tell where the the wear line is right here ideally you want to be right above this little triangle here so got a bit of ways to go now the car did handle very very nicely it was well balanced it was hard to oversteer it or understeer it but there's room for improvement on the track that is here we got the rear tire looking for the triangle there it is so now you can see where the line is it's the outside is almost the same as far as front and back actually this is better the back is better on the inside than the front i did run 30 psi on front and back i mean you don't want to go and you know well you can't like that that was cold it was super hot that day i don't know if you watch that other video you can kind of fast forward through it and just check out how the brakes caught fire anyway the brakes these are front pads that is cracked cracked right here all messed up on this side and just turned white look at this one look at this crack right here yep these are done inside front rotor it actually feels a bit worse than the outside it always does for some reason the inside always almost always is worse than the outside on any cars this bolt broke off i could not fit the gun in there that's why it made things difficult it's kind of hard to uh tell felt like it was coming out again i was i must have put it in and out 20 times with pb blaster but it just didn't work so i'm probably gonna end up drilling this out just put a bigger sized bolt in there and obviously i'm gonna have to drill this this out too i'm not about to buy new calipers because of something stupid like this old diff old new diff i'm gonna open both up most likely switch the gears from the old one to this one i want to keep this cooling cover it also holds more oil so that's kind of nice replace the seals we got some rear diff oil and this time i'm going to use motel 660 for brake fluid instead of this what's in there right now this has a boiling point of 536 Fahrenheit gotta measure the springs and order the right ones so i won't have any surprises i didn't order them before i wanted to make sure that i get the right ones forgot to mention why i i'm switching to softer springs this thing drove beautifully on the track but it's almost well it's not impossible but it's very difficult to go fast around an autocross track which is bumpy and that's the main reason the car is just too stiff and i really gotta slow down if i know there's a bump i gotta slow down because i'm just gonna lose it and the softer springs should help with that and of course after all of it is done i'm going to go straight for a lot and alignment and corner balancing so next up we're taking the diff apart i'm going to take the coil overs apart and we're going to start putting stuff back together so like subscribe comment i hope you had fun like i did lots of fun i'll see you soon


Hello and welcome to today's video where I'm going to be sharing some of the best art materials for sketching and even if you are just at the very beginning starting out with your sketchbook journey. I've also got a couple of tips on how to save a bit of money on buying those art materials as well. And don't forget to stay right to the end as well because I'm going to be sharing one of my sketchbooks showing you a few of the pages and how I've used some of the materials that I share in today's video, how I've used them together. And kind of what my favorite combinations are right now. Now I've created a free download for you with a full list of all materials that I've mentioned in this video and a few more as well. If you'd like to get your hands on that, then don't forget to check the link below this video where you can sign up for free and grab yourself that list right now. Okay, so when you're thinking about sketching, you're likely going to want a few of these combinations.  But quite honestly, you could get started with a graphite pencil and a cheap sketchbook. It really is as simple as that. Now behind me I've got what might appear like an entire art shop and you haven't seen the rest of the studio where other bits are lurking as well. And you might say, oh, it's all right for you, Sophie, you've got all these materials.  I've gathered a lot of these things. Some things actually even belonged to my mum. I've got some pencils over here that were mine when I was a child at school and one of my daughters used them. So I'll show you those later because some of them are really small and they're packed in the tin. And I've got some things I've gathered over the last few years as well. So my tip here is don't throw anything out. You'll be really grateful to hear that because if I'd thrown out a lot of these things when I'd stopped using them, I wouldn't have a beautiful array of sketching materials that I'm loving to use right now. Okay, so I've written down a kind of list of what I would call basic materials moving on from that pencil and sketchbook. And some of the things I have here today, so I'll show you those as well. Some of them I don't use, but I know that a lot of other people who are sketchbooking are using them. So I would say something like an A5 Royal Talon sketchbook. I don't have the Royal Talons, but it's definitely next on my order. It's affordable, the paper's good enough and it's a great place to get started. The other thing that's nice about it is it doesn't have a spiral bound because it's quite nice to lay your sketchbook flat. And if you do something that you think, well, this is rather nice, I could make it into a card or a print, then it's pretty easy to lay on a scanner, clean up your artwork on Photoshop and then go ahead and make it into a product. So I have these. These are actually Cass Art from Brighton in the UK. It's a little bit of home. I often buy them and bring them over here because I can't get them here in Australia. So this is an A5. I think this is a really great place to start because it also just fits in your bag, right? So it's super simple size A5, whatever type you decide, but I like these. There aren't many pages to them. And actually, if you are in the UK, you can buy, I think it's a set of three. So it's super useful. They also come in A4 as well. And then I would simply use some lead pencil or graphite. So I definitely have my favorite graphite here. It's quite messy. This is a 6B, so it's quite dark. So I used to use it a lot and I've got a few others that are bound in kind of plastic and something. So something like that. I also have my trusty HB and Ange pencils. You can see they're a bit worn down and just a bowl with a sharpener and a rubber. I do actually have a double sharpener for some reason. There's just the single in there today.  I had a series of them that I used to mix painting. I don't know what happened to them. So that's sort of basic as well. And then you're going to want some sort of wet media. So some sort of paint. Now, I recommend gouache at this point because it's a nice combination between watercolour and acrylic. So it's opaque, which means that you can layer on top of layer. Whereas watercolour, it's got different properties to it and acrylic. It's quite difficult to take out and about. And once it's dry, it's dry. You can't play or move with it. And I do use both of those things. But I think as a beginner, gouache is a great place to start. And you can get all different sorts as well. Now, I was actually introduced to this by an artist in the UK. And I've only just bought it. It's actually untouched. It's at the lower end of the market price-wise, but it gives you a lot of paint. It's quite heavy. So I don't know that I'd want to take it out and about with me. But perhaps you could. There's a really large number of colours. There's a little palette and some brushes as well. So this is quite a useful place to start. However, I didn't start here. I started a bit more at the higher end of the scale, which I like. And this is the Holbein Artist's gouache. Now, the downside with that is they're really small tubes. And you use the paint up really, really quickly, especially once I realised that I loved it. But this doesn't really go very far. However, it's pretty light.  So you definitely want some paints. If you prefer watercolour, then here's a great place to start. Something like a little, I think this is a Windsor and Newton. I've had these for ages. I think I used loads of them actually. Just a really, really simple paint set and you can use the paints that are in here or you can actually buy your own pans and change them out to colours that you would like. You just got to get in there, probably not with my nails, but you got to get in there with a knife and get those out and you can replace them with the colours that you like. Super simple, those again, really easy and a little bag. So great for travel pack. It's also a brilliant place to start. Now, if you say to me, OK, I don't want to buy a whole pack. I'm not sure if I like gouache. Then the best place to start really is actually just to buy your primary colours. Here's a red, yellow and blue and I've got a primary yellow, fallow, blue and flame red and a big tube of white. As you can see, the tube of white has had some fair hammering and these are still going strong. So this is really, really simple. Don't do what Sophie did and that is take it in your hand luggage, not in a bag because I just think I slipped them in the side pocket of my carry bag and one of them exploded inside. So if you're going in an aeroplane, do not take it hand luggage unless it's in a ziplocked bag. Put it in the hole. So that would be a really great and simple place to start where paints are concerned and then with brushes, just really keep it really simple. You definitely want a round brush, really easy for moving the paint around and a smaller one for details and then I quite like a square. If you don't use this that often, I have to admit this is my go-to. These are not expensive brushes either. These are just bog standard, I think, student watercolor brushes. I'll likely go through them and then just replace them again. It's really easy to find palettes these days. So again, I've got these little tiny palettes. They've still got the gouache in because I can just wet that and bring it back to life again. It's very, very nice, a bit like your watercolors. So these were super cheap and again, easy to transport except they probably need to go in a bag or something. Or you might want to get something a little larger. I actually quite like this because I'm mixing my own shades of things and I know exactly where they're located. It might look like a mess to everybody else, but I know what colors wear and so this was a bigger palette. So great if you've got studio. And then really, I would say the last thing, I went back in the kind of color department and that is to have some pencils. Now, you might not be ready to invest in a whole box of pencils. This is the kind of basic sort of starter place, but you do want to have some. So what you might do is go and buy individual pencils and maybe just buy some colors that you really like. Now, I've grown up with colored pencils from school. Again, I'm going to show you a box of those in a minute, but you could just go and grab. So I grabbed some loose pencils from a brand that I hadn't used. These are actually Faber Castel and I just bought, I think I was maybe even traveling when I bought these. I just bought some greens and browns because I didn't have them with me. And those are just five color pencils that when used on top of the gouache, makes life really easy. So that's a super simple, quick and easy starter materials. Okay, so I've titled this bit that would be nice to have section. So as you discover what sort of things that you like, whether you like painting, you're going to have more paint or whether you actually like pencils, we haven't even talked about markers or pens or any of those things. So I have quite an extensive list. I've actually written it out so I don't forget anything, but pretty much they're on the table here. So I will give them a go. So you might want to upgrade next up to a better quality sketchbook. Now, I really like these cast art ones. I like the paper, they're easy to carry, but my preferred sketchbook is actually a sea white. And again, it's a British brand. I would recommend though avoiding the spiral bound because like I said earlier, it's pretty difficult to lay down and you can't really make a nice spread when you've got. So for example, I've got bits of paper in between because I'm using crayons and things that smudge. So this is a sneak peek on my challenge actually. So if you want to make a spread going across both pages, you've got the spiral bound in the middle, which isn't so great. However, I had it already. I bought it, I hadn't used it. And so I love it. I love the paper. I also really love square sketchbooks. I've got another really big one that I started a few years ago for something else. And it's made me think I might go and get another square one. So this is the A4 sized and I've started doing, I'm actually in a Patreon. So I'm following somebody else's Patreon. This is the book dedicated to that. Shout out to Katie Moody. Thank you very much. I'm very inspired by what you're doing. So this is a book just for her Patreon drawings. So we've got those. So sketchbook would be right at the top of the list. And then I really love my Tombow marker pens. And I really did just start by buying three or four and I've built up the collection. I know you can get a box with the whole lot and I was going to do that, but I feel like I'm too far in now. So here I have, here are the colors I have so far. And really what I've done is I started with, I can't even remember what I started with, kind of I think some brown, some green, a couple of browns, a couple of greens, maybe a yellow, red, blue, and then I've built it out. I remember thinking, I'll never want lilac, purple, mauve, like these colors are not things I'm going to want. But as I've explored more into drawing what's around me, of course, what happened this spring is there were a whole plethora of purple flowers. So suddenly I needed to go and add all of these shades of purple to my collection. So it's pretty full. I would also say it's quite good to get one of these. It rolls up really nice and easy. This is Rome, but you can get them anywhere. It rolls up nice and easy and goes in your bag. I think this we could probably say is pretty much full. I think I worked out I can carry maybe four more markers in here and then it is maxed out. That just means I've got to go on another one, right? So another type of marker is the liquid text. Now I had a few of these and they've dried up. I've subsequently found that I was storing them in the wrong ways. I'm a bit gutted. This one works really, really well. It's got a big chisel top and makes a big mark. And I, when I was painting with acrylics professionally full-time a few years ago, I did really advocate for the liquid text colors. They were vibrant bright and they really matched my artwork. So when I saw they were making these, I thought this is great. At the moment I just have orange and black and I'm looking to go and infill some more colors. Again, not great for detail, but brilliant for just getting some big areas in and loosening up with your sketching. Now if this is something you're thinking, I'm never going to do that. Then these are going to not be for you. But if you like the idea of making big, bigger marks where they're not so accurate, then something like this is going to be brilliant. I've also got some Posca pens. And again, this is the chisel top. And again, you can make nice marks with those. You've got to give them a bit of a shake and get the ink down to the end. But I just bought a cream one the other day because I can see that that's quite good for going over things. If you're like, I don't like that area of my sketch, I'm just going to block it out. Somewhere I've got a narrow white one as well. So again, I'm just picking the colors that I like and adding them in. So something I had for all my artistic life with these art line drawing system kind of fine liners and they come in 0.1234 right up to 0.89. I think this is the 0.2 and I've always drawn with these. These work quite often my default. I would do some sort of color wash and then I would draw with pen. And interesting, I haven't been using them as much lately but I think I will throw them back into the mix now. So I've gathered them all together. I've got a lot of them, some work, some don't. But I think these are essential. Again, great to go in the bag, great to travel. So if you're thinking, you know, this is a pretty easy kit you could just put in your bag, right? And a sketchbook, some color, two different types of marks, easy, good to go. So things like refillable pens. I had these for a while and just put water in them. And again, if you're using watercolor pencils and the Tombow markers and many other things that are water soluble you can just add the water and play with them. But I've seen a lot of people also filling them with paint or ink or their own colors and actually mixing them and making them their own kind of marker pens. So there are lots of different brands and I think there are lots of different things you can do with them. This one is a kind of round one. I think one's a chisel one. That's a sort of flat one and I've got a few more somewhere else. So I think these are definitely a great idea that you can definitely expand on those. And then ink. I used to have lots of ink and they've dried up over the years but I still have this and I think I'm going to expand that range as well. This is a good old sepia. And I have things like, you know, these belong to my mum and this is something I made at art school when back in the day I made bamboo pen and thank goodness I never throw it out. I'm so excited by that. And I've even found that was obviously the brush I used for the ink because it's covered in black ink. So excited to rediscover those as well. And again, you know, when you're doing mixed media you want to put in different things, maybe not too many, but like cooking, isn't it? You don't want more than sort of five ingredients in one dish so you don't perhaps want more than five different things. But the idea is to mix and try different things out. So I definitely want to get back into doing some of that because I used to do that as part of my practice when I was younger. I have hundreds of brushes and I'll maybe just show that on screen but having something like something wider that will make some bigger marks, this is useful too. All right, let's talk about coloured pencils. Now, I don't know about you but when I was at school we had the coloured pencils and I loved my coloured pencils and this is what I wanted to show you actually. So I think I've got one box at home. I had a few and they've travelled over from the UK in my storage container here to Australia and this was the original Karandash Prismalo 2 soft pencils. I remember when they came out so excited and as you can see they're a little bit battered now right the way down to the little tiny brown here. So you can buy a pencil extender so I could do that to make it easier to hold. I actually saw somebody today with little tiny pencils like that I thought, how do you hold those? But these were lovely. These were amazing back in the day. There's still nothing wrong with them. So here's a tip. Go around the charity and op shops you can quite often find boxes of coloured pencils sometimes people don't really realise what brand they are sometimes you can get a real bargain. I think the spare set I have at home was $5 at a garage sale and they were top quality Derwent pencils. So that was a bit of a win definitely worth keeping an eye open for that. And then, oh talking about Derwent some watercolour pencils again I've had these I don't know how long but as you can see obviously I've used them a bit but probably not as much. If the budget doesn't run to this buy them singly. You can often buy them online singly or some art shops will favour one brand and you can go and just get a few colours. Find out which brands you like find out whether you like the watercolour pencils or more the oil but based pencils. So I like to have both she says clanging and making a big noise. All right so I have the Derwent Chroma flow I went and bought these just before I realised the inktense would be nice so maybe that's what Father Christmas will bring me. So I've got these and I've been using these a lot and I love to draw with them I have to say the downside is the leads are breaking really quickly and easily and so on my I think the three trays here on my smaller set half the pencils have broken all the way down I don't know whether I dropped them somewhere or anyway that's just a little bit of something that's a bit concerning. However, I've just leaving these in the studio not moving them so that's those and then I recently invested in these back to the old Karen Dash again and these are their luminance and they are the most lightfast pencils out there apparently and their colours are simply stunning. They're so stunning I haven't even used them that much. There's this tray here and this tray here and there's a beautiful you can get many more of these but I thought I would just get this set and they are just creamy buttery beautiful to work with so if you decide that colour pencils are your thing then probably you want to invest in the best of the best and I reckon these are right up there you never know what's going to get brought out and I say Inktense are amazing we have some amazing products I don't have but they've got blocks and pencils and giant blocks and there are videos out there showing you how to use those actually a shout out to Katie again she's got an amazing video on her YouTube where she shows you how to use those as well alright what have we not spoken about oh we've gone into pencils and let's talk about near colours so again this is Karen Dash just takes me back to my childhood I think I love that brand so as you can see this is my own set in here and I'm collecting these singly because I wasn't sure I was going to like crayons I felt they were a bit like back to junior school but actually I love them so what I did was I bought some singly from an art shop in Sydney, Sydney maybe over East somewhere and had them flown over and so I've got that little selection and then I've put the ones I used the most the greens the whites in here and then I changed these up according to what I'm drawing and I'm just going to build out the whole collection thank you to a local artist who donated her pot and it's become the Karen Dash pot so that's great and maybe last no not last but not least okay watercolours so I've never been a fan of watercolours really my mother was a watercolour artist and I just just weren't for me I obviously went into acrylics and then into oils and loved the colour however I did buy these in Florence a few years ago and there's the Schmincker watercolours they were quite an investment and I felt a bit disappointed because I didn't love using them but now with sketchbooking and a few of them the things have stuck I need to actually get out with a pen and take the top off I actually love them I'm going to clean out these pallets and I'm going to start using them again because I think having flexibility choosing different materials for what you're drawing I think is the optimal this is the kind of optimal list that you can build up to but again I had that sitting on a shelf I bought it 2019 so I barely used it and now it's coming into its own and then oh no wait a minute before we talk about pastels because I used to use a lot of those let's talk about paints so I still have them and I want to reincorporate them so I do love the golden brand I mentioned earlier I sort of grew up on Liquitex I do have all the Liquitex paints but I also really love the colour of the golden I just think they're just slightly nicer for me so you can get them in the fluid or soft body or heavy however you want them so these are the fluid ones which again could be quite useful in terms of Mixmedia here in the sketchbook setting so I've got a bit of a rainbow selection of those and then I've got all the others in trays but if I want to dip in and out of those as well this is actually a really useful colour to have because it's transparent so to get the transparent like the red iron oxide or there's a few other transparent brownie colours if you just water that down a little bit and then just wash that over something you've done it's just going to add an extra sheen to it okay last but not least let's talk about soft pastels oh not just soft pastels let's just talk about pastels so you can see that Sophie likes to buy her materials so I always had oil pastels and quite frankly hated them until I bought these and these are of course the Senile ones and I bought the big box and as you can see I haven't used them but I'm going to use them now I mean I've used the odd one no I've used the odd one and the colour range here are amazing so they're kind of the next level from the Neo colours obviously they're oil pastels they're not water soluble but you could put them on top of various other things and you can mix them in around or you could just use them on your own for really quick sketches so look out for more on the oil pastels I personally think it's worth investing in the real deal if you buy some student oil pastels probably the same like a lot of materials the colours are not great the experience is not great but when you buy something like this or you invest in something like this the quality is amazing and they feel better to use better and then I actually brought back from the UK in hand luggage, trip after trip after trip my thousands of soft pastels and they're all stacked up down there maybe at some point I'll give you a tour of all my soft pastels but this is a nice box would be easy to get I think this is also available from somewhere like Casart I thought I maybe bought those from Casart so this is also Sennelier Rembrandt do something similar quite like the Sennelier ones I have to say and ultimately if we were concentrating on pastels we might go down the handmade pastel route because they would be the best ones to get but I think if you're going to get shot bought these soft pastels are absolutely just crumbly gorgeous, divine I used to paint large with soft pastels and I'm really excited to go back and just add them into the mix the thing now that we need to add something over there and that's a fixative because the more messy you get in your sketchbook the more you're going to need a fixative just to kind of settle everything onto the page alright so that's that I feel like that's the bottom of my list at the moment I think I got carried away as you can see I've got many other things and like I say I've got various things over there but I'm pretty sure that's pretty much what I've got so okay now we've looked at the would be nice, we've had the basic set kind of would be nice materials definitely really enjoyed going through all of those it's great to do a bit of a studio vlog sometimes so here's a little bit about some of my favourites and how I've used them in my sketchbooks let's go and look at that quickly I would say at this stage my current go to is either starting with gouache and then working over it with pencils for example something like that which is in my second Europe trip travel sketchbook so I've done quite a few like that they're all kind of falling apart now this was the other mixture that I quite like and that was I just did with neocolours actually some of them were just neocolours a couple of them I put a little bit of paint and they were really quick and really luxurious to do so I'm either doing that or I'm actually just doing the whole thing with the Tombow markers and that way I don't need the spray and I really liked this one this was the scene this is where I used that purpley colour that I never thought I would use so this was the scene at the bottom of the cottage that we've bought here in Western Australia and all these flowers came out in the spring and they've just died about a week ago and there was just a sea of them so I had to go and buy these colours to pick them in the sketchbook but that is literally just done with marker and nothing else so at the moment I'm just keeping it simple where's another example where I've been mixing it together I suppose this one this is from our cottage garden so again I've just started with gouache paint and then I've worked in with some pencil and some of those neocolours and that's it and at the moment I'm really happy with that combination I might have all of these things but actually I'm getting the look that I want at the moment just with those materials so what's going to come up next is I will use different media I'll probably get myself a new sketchbook and start doing the different explore with the inks, explore with the soft pastels but at the moment that's what I'm doing I'd love to hear what you're inspired in doing what materials you use please do leave a comment below and let me know what art materials you use what materials you're inspired to use now having watched this video and anything else that you'd like me to share I'm sure you'd like a process video that's coming up I'm making one of those how I'm doing what I'm doing but if you'd like me to make a video about anything else art related please do let me know either below the video or over on my Instagram account at Sophie Mahia Art thank you so much for watching for this one I think it's time that I clear up this mess more drawing I'm on my year-long daily sketching challenge and I'm on day 4 as I'm shooting this video so I'm going to go away and play with my prompt rocks alright take care everybody see you soon bye


G'day mate, 40 here. So I used to be a terrific saver. So up until age 22, I was really good at saving my money yet. I think age 21 I had about $40,000 saved. And then I got I got sick and after I partially recovered my health, I said I need to start living for today because who knows how long this recovery of my health will last. I need to grab everything I can right now. And I lost the habit of savings instead. Started getting into debt for the first time in my life. I started spending more money than I was bringing in. Completely new problem for me. And I thought of it. Oh, you know, I'm investing in my future. And eventually ran my credit cards up to the max in 1995-1996 writing my first book. And I think I maxed out at about $20,000 in credit card debt then and took me about three years until about year 2000 to pay it all off. And then in late 2007 I started running up credit card debt again, maxed it out at about $50,000 and did not pay it all off until 2018. So it was just interesting to me because I used to always be such a good saver. And then something switched in me and I just became a debtor. But whether I was a saver or a debtor, I still had, it didn't feel worthy of prosperity and having money in the bank and having good things in life. So I was still looking for ways to give my money away. And it wasn't until really debt is anonymous that going into that program that I learned to track everything that I spent, everything that I earned to develop a spending plan and to feel at ease with prosperity and with saving money. So prior to that, I'd always just want to spend any extra money that I had on courses, on helping people, on charity, on travel or whatever. I just felt like if I had extra money, I should spend it. And I had this haunting feeling that if I ever got money that I would dissipate it. And I didn't come to terms with money. I didn't start to feel easy with money until debt is anonymous. And the primary tools were one, being part of a program. So making friends, having a community, people that you can talk to have similar problems. Then the tool of tracking every penny you earn and every penny you spend and then developing a spending plan and a saving plan. So that enabled me to start to feel comfortable with prosperity. So I no longer am haunted that any extra money that I have, I'm just going to spend it. So I still feel the inclination at times like, oh, I need to sign up for these online courses. I want to take an infinite number of voice lessons and learn different approaches to voice production and doing different voices and doing different accents or polish my skills or say a radio host to help with these live streams. And so I still feel that inclination to spend every bit of extra money I've got on taking courses, taking lessons. So the inclination is still there, but it's not as strong as it was and I recognize it and I don't have to fight to keep it in check. So used to be I'd want to dissipate my resources over hill over dale, spill my resources out on the dusty soil. And now I'm not going to let them impurify my vital bodily fluids or my vital financial resources. I finally feel at ease with the good things that I've got building towards the future, saving money, and I don't have to spend every spare dollar that I've got on taking new courses, new lessons. So tracking, I just find so helpful for a sense of ease, tracking my time, tracking my spending, tracking my earning, like it's getting a mirror to reality, just like journaling. So when I journal on a near daily basis, I'm getting a mirror to my mind. And the more I journal, then the more things start to open up for me. So one of the best ways I get ideas for live streams is I just sit down and I just start writing everything that comes to mind. I write about what I'm grateful for that always makes me happy. I write about what I'm done right that day that always makes me feel good, because my tendency is just to beat myself down and treat myself like my crap. But if I notice what I'm grateful for, what I'm doing right, and then just keep writing, just keep the pen moving and then it starts going in unexpected directions. So ideally, I want to journal four pages a day. So there's a terrific book called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. I think it was inspired by her 12 step experience, but it opens up new ideas and it's a great spur to writing and to creativity in general, The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. And Real Artists Have Day Jobs. That's the name of another book, which I have not read, but I just love the title Real Artists Have Day Jobs, because so many people, it's so important to them to be famous, right? I feel that like I really want to be famous. I want to be great. And I know when I get into that mode, it's not a 24 seven thing. It's just an occasional thing that comes over me. I know when I get into that mode that I have to be great, have to be famous, that there's a part of me that feels sad and unloved, that there's a part of me that feels inadequate. And so I'm trying to compensate for that part of me that feels broken by seeking out admiration from other people. So seeking out admiration and respect and adulation from others, it's not usually a permanent condition. It's usually a periodic state that we get into as a periodic state that comes from when we don't feel good about ourselves. And so it's a lot easier to fill and to fill that hole in yourself than to get, you know, 10,000 people to pay attention to you. And also, if you can learn practices that enable you to feel whole, that's something you can do for yourself and adoration from other people that comes and that goes. And the adoration turns to hatred often. It's a highly unstable way to build your sense of self. So I know when I occasionally get into that feeling needy, Oh, I want people to pay attention to me. I want people to love me. I want people to adore me. I want people to respect me. I want to be a thought leader. I want to be famous. I want to be powerful. I want to be influential. I know when I get into those momentary states, it's because there's a feeling of lack in me. That's usually a lack of human connection. That when I feel strongly connected to other people, my central nervous system comes down and I no longer desperately need external sources of validation. Other people to prompt me up and tell me that I'm great and that I'm awesome. And I can just calm down. And when I calm down, I don't need that external validation. I can internally validate myself. I can respect the good things that I'm doing. I can feel grateful for the opportunities and the wonderful things in my life. And when I'm in an attitude of gratitude, then my central nervous system comes down and I don't have to be that bizarre attention-seeking show monkey that has characterized so much of my life.


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Thank you all for being here. This is really exciting. What's exciting about this is the opportunity to talk about entrepreneurship, about morality, about the function of entrepreneurs at a venture, at a university that embeds that spirit. This is an entrepreneurial venture, a new university, a new project. And that to me is extraordinarily exciting. It's not like going to some old university that's been around forever and they don't, their professors and administrators don't have a clue what entrepreneurship is because all they've done is studied it at school and they find it in class. Here you have people who are living it every day. And that's unique. It's a unique opportunity for you as students. And I think a unique opportunity for the faculty and administrators as well. Let me also apologize that I'm not speaking Spanish, but given that I don't know any, it's probably a good thing that I don't trust. So I want to start off with a question. What is entrepreneurship? It's a word that we throw out there quite easily, quite often, that we can discover, we discuss through debate, but to me it's important that we clarify terms, that we know what we are talking about. So what does it mean to be an entrepreneur? What is the idea of entrepreneurship mean? And if I understand it, this university is very much focused on the idea of entrepreneurship. That you as students will one day, the goal of the university is to help you, train you to be entrepreneurs, not just to be engineers, but to be engineers who are entrepreneurial. What does that mean? I'm getting feedback from the... So what does it mean when we say entrepreneur? Now my definition of entrepreneurship is different than most. Most people consider entrepreneur somebody who starts a business, right? You start your own business. That's an entrepreneur. But what is the basis for starting a business? Why would you start a business? What is it in the world out there that causes you to want to start a business? It's an opportunity, an opportunity to do what? What is business about? You can yell out if you want. What's business about? Making money, right? And it's a little embarrassing to say, and that's why we laugh a little bit, right? All audiences, be here that way. Making money is why you start businesses. Business is about making money. Now how do we make money? How do you make money? This is entrepreneurship 101. How do you make money? By doing what? What do you have to produce? What do you have to create in order to make money? A product, a service, a value that other people want to buy, are willing to buy, at a price that's higher than what it costs you to produce. So why does Apple make a profit on the iPhone? You know, in America these are cheaper than they are in Colombia, so this only costs me $300. What's this worth to me if I pay $300 for it? What's this cost for me? Just yell out. What's the cost, what's the worth to me if I pay $300 for it? There's a shy. Yeah, South Americans are not supposed to be shy. $300. $300? Then why would I pay $300? Why would I pay $300 if I pay $300 out of my pocket and give it to somebody? If this is only worth $50 for me, I'd stay at home. How much is a worth to me? A lot more. A lot more than $300. Because that's why I'm willing to give up $300 to get something more valuable to my life than the $300 that I'm giving up. So an entrepreneur, somebody who creates a product that people value more than the price. Now what's this worth to Apple? More than $300? I know this is trivial, but just play along, right? Less than $300 because they make a lot of profit on this, right? They make a lot of money on it. So entrepreneurship is about creating values that you can profit off of. And at the bottom line, I believe that entrepreneurship is about finding profit opportunities and taking advantage of it. Entrepreneurship fundamentally is about finding profit opportunities and taking advantage of them by making money. It could be by starting your own business and building new products or starting a store by having a state engineering service company. It could be by discovering a new way to get oil out of the ground like fracking was a new way up into recent. But it could be working in a big company and discovering a new way for the company to make money. Entrepreneurs exist in companies and outside companies. It's not only about starting your own business. It's about discovering profit opportunities and taking advantage of them. That can be done inside or outside a larger enterprise. But what's interesting is despite of the fact that we all love entrepreneurs and we all kind of understand that that's what it's all about, there's a certain discomfort about the idea of making money. We're not that comfortable about it. And generally in the culture we live in, at least in the United States but I suspect in Columbia as well, there's a certain discomfort about markets, about free markets, about marketing with entrepreneurs can start businesses wherever they want, whenever they want, however they want to start them. Because the fact is that in Columbia and in the United States we don't allow entrepreneurs to go out and do whatever they want. We regulate them, we control them, we supervise them. We want to make sure that they do what we think is right. So what is it about entrepreneurship? Not the word, but the activity. What is it about profit? And we feel a little uncomfortable about it. Making money makes us that. It can't be worked like it's really about. What is it about that that makes us uncomfortable? What is business about even broader than entrepreneurship? What's business about it? Making money. Now, is it just about making money? Or even entrepreneurship? This is just about making money. What else is being an entrepreneur, being a businessman about other than making money? Like Steve Jobs, did he make this iPhone only to make money? He made it to make money, right? We know that because the profit margin on this is 50%. If he didn't want to make money, if he only cared about me, then he would sell it for half price. That would be nice of him.  But what else motivated Steve Jobs other than just making money? What motivates you? You're not doing this just to make money. What else motivates you? What's that? It's a speaker. Yeah, but why do you care about the utility of the iPhone when you create it? What is it about it that motivates you to go to work, to go and create something like this? Yeah, we love finding solutions to problems. Particularly engineers, right? We love that math problem. Some of us anyway, right? By the way, I'm a civil engineer in my previous life time ago. It's been a while, but I was a civil engineer once, so I know a little bit about engineering. I don't remember much, but a long time ago I knew something. We love the process of solving problems. We love getting up in the morning and being challenged and going out and solving that challenge. Steve Jobs wanted to make the best phone in the world. He wanted to make a beautiful phone because Steve Jobs had an aesthetic, right? One of the things that made out as strong as its aesthetic. Steve Jobs was not only motivated by money. He was motivated by beauty. He was motivated by the challenge. He was motivated by passion. He was motivated by love. Love of a beautiful product. Love of the work. Love of the thought process. Love of the challenge that's involved. And you should be motivated by love. Choose a career. By the way, Steve Jobs said this. I'm just repeating what he said today. You can find it on YouTube if you look for Steve Jobs, Stanford University. He gave a speech at Stanford University and he told the students. He said, you will spend more of your life at work. Working. Anywhere else. You will spend more of your effort, more of your energy at work than anywhere else. So make sure you love what you do. Make sure you have passion for what you do. Make sure that in the morning when you go to work, you're excited. You're not draining it. Because it's your life. So Steve Jobs built this iPhone for whom? For Steve Jobs. To make money. For Steve Jobs. And because Steve Jobs had a passion for this. To make him happy. He didn't know me. He didn't care about me. He didn't know you. He doesn't care about you. Steve Jobs made this for Steve Jobs. Producers. People who go to work. People who make stuff. Make it because they love it. Make it because they're trying to make a living. Now when I bought my first iPhone. It was 2008. And the economy of the United States was kind of going into a session. Spiling down, right? So I went and bought my first iPhone. Because I wanted to stimulate the US economy. Right? Because that's why you go shopping. You go shopping because you want to help your fellow man. You want to make sure people have jobs. You want to help the economy go along. Right? I'm not going to ask who believes that. Because I worry about anybody saying yes. No, why are you going shopping? For whom? For yourself. You go shopping for you. I bought the iPhone because I thought it was cool. I bought the iPhone because I thought it would make me more productive. I bought the iPhone from me. So one of the things that makes us a little uncomfortable about business. A little uncomfortable about markets. Not a little. Actually a lot uncomfortable about business and markets. Is that business and markets are about what? They're about the pursuit of what? They're about the pursuit of something first. They're about the pursuit of making your life better. Whether you're a shopper, as a consumer, or as a producer, as an employee. Free markets are about ecoistic behavior. About me. Each one of us. Me. Your love for your job. Your profit from your job. Your challenging job. It's about my stuff that I want to buy. That's what makes markets work. And markets reward people who are really good at that. Who find profits. Who know how to make money. What passionate about they work. They're the ones who get rewarded. They're the ones who advance. They're the ones who do well. It's a system of self-interest. It's a system that feeds on self-interest. That encourages self-interest. It's in a while they're sad because I know that everybody takes their headphones off. Now what do our mothers teach us about self-interest? About being an egoist. Yeah, right? I mean I can tell you what my mother taught me. Since I was this big. My mother taught me. Think of yourself last. Think of others first. Sacrifice. That's good. That's noble. That's virtue. Selflessness. What does selflessness mean? Not thinking of self. Not taking your own wants, desires, passions into account. Thinking of others. That's the whole point of ethics. We are taught. It's other people. You know what Steve Jobs is attacked for? There's a new book in Steve Jobs' life that says he was a horrible person. You know why he was a horrible person? Because he didn't do any philanthropy. He created the most successful company in the world. He changed my life. He changed most of your life. Actually all of your life. Because if you don't have an apple, you have a Samsung which is copying apple. He changed all of our life. He changed the entire world. But he didn't do philanthropy. It's not good. Why is the fact that he changed all of our lives not enough? Because he made money doing it. Because he thought about himself. And because he loved what he did. We have a moral code. We have an ethical belief system. We in the war today. No particular country. Every war. It's sad. Selflessness is good. Sacrifice is good. Helping others is good. Giving is good. Sharing is good. Building, making, creating, profit, money and not so good. That's why when I say business is about making money. You go, yeah we know but it's a little embarrassing. Because that's what our mothers thought.  He made 70 billion dollars for himself. But he changed the world. Not a human being on his planet has been untouched by Bill Gates' Microsoft. All of our lives are better because of him. How much ethical moral credit does he get from that? None. Actually some negative. Because he made a lot of money. Too much money. I mean there's an old discussion now in the world about inequality. How dare somebody make 50 billion dollars for himself. The fact that he created trillions of dollars worth for us. That doesn't count. Because he made 50 billion for himself. Now when does Bill Gates become a good guy? Yeah he leaves Microsoft. God forbid he should still make any money. And he starts giving his money away. In a foundation. How many lives will he affect it in a foundation? Some. Some. But a lot less than he did in Microsoft. A lot less than he did in Microsoft. How much moral credit does he get at the foundation? A lot. That's cool. Giving is good. Making, creating, building and... You're not convinced. How do we make Bill Gates a saint? I know this is the Catholic country. You have to be careful. How do we make Bill Gates so admired? That we build roads and name him after them. That we build sculptures. That we make paintings of him. Because he's not a saint yet. Why is he not a saint yet? He hasn't died. If he died tomorrow, nobody would name a road after Bill Gates. Why? Because he's still rich. He still lives in a big house. And he sees that he had fun. Saints don't have fun. Bill Gates can only be a saint if he gives all his money away, moves into a tent, and if he'd bleed a little bit for us, suffer a little bit for us, then we would admire him. But to me, that's all messed up. That's all messed up. Bill Gates had challenges. He overcame them. He used his mind to make his life a good life. He took care of his family. Yes, he lives in a beautiful house. Good for Bill Gates. He changed the world. But first and foremost, he made his, he really made his life mean something. He produced, he created, he built. To me, that's what deserves more credit. That's what's good enough. That's what's true. The fact that he made $50 billion means that he created a lot of value for you, for me, for all of us, for himself. $50 billion is a fraction of what he did for us. He deserves it. Good for him.  He is a great entrepreneur. Should be celebrated. We should have sculptures for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and many of the other entrepreneurs throughout human history who built stuff, created stuff. And yes, made a lot of money because that's what entrepreneurs do. They make money. That's the whole point. If you're an entrepreneur and you don't make money, what is that called? A failure. The whole point is to find proper opportunities and take advantage of them. So, my view is I want to challenge you in a sense. Not in a sense.  I want to challenge your great fundamental beliefs because I don't believe morality is about being selfless. I don't believe morality is about sacrifice, about helping others. I believe morality is fundamentally about taking care of yourself. Making your life the best life that it can be. Living up to your fullest potential. Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, said that the purpose of morality, the purpose of ethics was to provide us with guidance, to provide us with the virtues and values that would lead to a great life, to a happy life, to a flourishing life. There's a word in Greek called eutomineia, which is the purpose of life. Eutomineia means happiness, flourishing. So, the purpose of morality should be not to sacrifice, not to be selfless, but to be self-interested, to think about what's really good for me, what will make my life the best life that it can be. And that's not easy. It's not easy to figure out what's good for you. It's hard, just like entrepreneurship is hard. It's hard to figure out what's right for me, what's going to make my life good, what's going to make my me happy. We make mistakes all the time. The question is, what do we do with them? So it's really important that we have some guidance. Like, what is the most important thing? If you cared about your own life, if you wanted to be a great entrepreneur but more importantly, if you wanted to be a great person for yourself, what is the most important value? What is the thing that is most important? Or what makes possible all human values? What's that? Love. Love's important. But yet eat it. When it doesn't bring food to my table. Survive? What's that? Survive? Survive? Survive? Yeah, survival is important, but I'm asking what value makes it possible for you to survive? What makes it possible for human beings to survive? Just look. If you look around the room, look at your neighbor, you can look, but not that bad, there's a lag in the translation and they laugh like three seconds after I tell the truth. That was perfect, thank you. Yeah, two and a half seconds. If you look around the room as an animal, as a biological entity, we are pretty pathetic. Just look at your neighbor. We're weak. We're slow. We have no claws. We have no fangs. I mean, you try running down, what's a good animal here? It's like a bison. Do you have a bison or buffalo? You don't want a bison and a buffalo? You try running down the bison and biting into it. You can't do it. We're not built for it. And yet, last time I was in Colorado, I ate a great bison buffalo. And here I am. And where's the bison? So what is it that makes it possible for you to hunt a bison? For you to eat the bison buffalo? Yeah, it's your mind. What's uniquely human? What makes it possible for human beings to survive? What makes it possible for human beings to thrive? What makes it possible for every human value, from food to clothes, anybody here at the clothes making gene or the agricultural instinct, we don't have any instincts. Not the way animals do. We have to figure everything out. If we don't figure everything out, we die as a species. Yet we thrive. We do fantastically well. We're living longer than ever. We have more technology than ever. We have the other one capability that we have. And that is to use our reason, to use our mind, to think. One of the core principles I know of the elites of the university is thinking. And it's not just the core principle of a university. It's a core principle of life. It's your number one, it should be. Your number one value.  That's what we have in store. So we want to live in a world which leaves our mind free. That lets us think outside of the box. And people don't like it when you think outside of the box. Ask Galileo. I hear in Colombia, you could ask Uber. You banned Uber. No Uber in Bogota. Because they've upset people, right? Because they think outside of the box. Entrepreneurs. What's the whole point of being an entrepreneur is thinking outside of the box? It's taking new thoughts. Every new piece of knowledge. Every new thought upsets somebody. Uber upsets taxi drivers. Galileo upsets the Pope. Every new thought upsets somebody. Even the thoughts I'm expressing right now, I'm sure I'm upsetting somebody. But that's good. I'd like to create cognitive disabilities. What are universities about if not to stimulate thinking, to challenge you, to expose you to new ideas? So in our view, you should live for yourself. You should make your life the best life that it can be. And the way to do that, the way to do that is by using your mind. It's by rationally figuring out what values you should pursue in life. Just like you do a business plan, right? You guys will know how to do business plans by the time you leave here. You should have a life plan. You should devote as much energy, actually a lot more energy, to figuring out your life plan and you do a business plan. Because a business plan is just part of your life. It's about living, which requires thinking. But thinking is not good enough. So I have to think. We have to act on those thoughts. And what's the most important action we take based on our reason? In order to survive. What do we have to do to survive? Once we've thought. Yeah, create. Whether it's to create a weapon so we can shoot the bison down. Whether it's to create a strategy so we can together hunt the bison, maybe build a trap. Right? Whether it's to create agriculture. You know, people, human beings supposedly have been around for about 2 million years. 2 million years. How long have we had agriculture? 10,000. Can you imagine what kind of revolution that was? You think an iPhone is cool. Right? When they invented agriculture, they really thought it was cool. And the first person to figure out that when you drop a seed on the ground and you water it a little bit, a plant grows from it, it looks like an Einstein. That was an Einstein. But that wasn't good enough. I didn't create agriculture. Who created agriculture? Bill Gates of 10,000 years ago. He said, oh, that works. That works. I can turn this into an industry. I can sow seeds all along and then we can cut it and we can sell it to people. He was the first entrepreneur. He saw a profit opportunity. At times, he took scientific knowledge and turned it into a business. That's what entrepreneurs do. They take scientific knowledge and turn it into a business that makes money, that is profitable. So it's not enough to think you have to act on those thoughts. And the primary action we need to take is to be productive. It's to create value. It's to make build. And that's true of everybody. You're told that many kindness to you that would drive the economy as consumption. Consumption drives the economy. We need more consumption because that's what will drive the economy. That is one of the dumbest ideas ever created by human beings. I'm sorry if there are any economies too. I guess I don't need to insult you. Why? What do we need to do before we consume something? When do you get the money to consume? You have to produce. So to consume you have to first produce. So production has to come before consumption. You can't consume unless you have a job. You can't consume unless you're creating something. You can't consume unless you're creating some value. And what are you consuming? Something somebody else produces. So there's production that you have to make. There's production somebody else has to make. And then there's consumption. Consumption can't be what drives the economy. Production drives the economy. How many of you have a problem of consumption? If you have money in your pocket, how many of you have real trouble spending it? Nobody has problems consuming. Consumption is easy. If somebody has a job and if you're securing that job and they pay their bills, they're going to spend the money. The problem is the jobs. Do you think economically? How do we create production? How do we stimulate economic growth through production, not through consumption? That's easy. Just give my wife some money. Can we take that out of the video? So in my world, the small view of the world that I have that I learned from Ayn Rand, the purpose of life is to flourish. The purpose of life is to be happy. The purpose of life is to make yourself happy. Nobody else can do it for you. You have to do it. And that flourishing, that happiness requires at the very least two important actions. One, to be rational, to think, to figure stuff out. It's our tool. It's our means by which we know reality. And second, we have to produce. We have to work. We have to create value. That to me, if I see somebody like Bill Gates, like Steve Jobs, they're clearly rational at least in your work. They're clearly productive. They're clearly creating value. And you can see that by the fact that they're making money. Making money is a good measure of value creation. They're good guys. They're really great. In my world, they're saints. They are the good guys. They are the moral heroes. They're the ones to set you should be broke for. Because they did the kind of things that are made there like good. They thought and they acted in a productive way. Not because they helped all of us. That's just a bonus. But because they helped themselves. Because they made their life really, really good. And when you make your life really, really good, you help other people. Not because you're trying. Because that's part of the way in which production works. We're all better off when we have billionaires in a free market. Not when they come and steal money from some people and give it to the billionaires. But when we're freely exchanged. When we're free to create. When we're free to produce. And when we're free to trade. So, what I'm asking you to do is to give.  Something that your preacher has told you. Something that the philosophers have taught you. That morality somehow is about sacrifice. It's about others. It's about helping and sharing and giving and all this stuff. Some of that is nice. I hope that it's nice to share. But that's not what the essence of morality is. I challenge you to rethink morality. And to say no. What the good is. What the moral is. Is what's good for me. But properly good for me. Now, that sounds a little weird. Because that sounds like what I'm advocating for is to be selfish. But what do we understand? What do we be taught that selfishness means? Selfishness means what? Is it a good thing or bad thing? No. Why is it bad? What kind of behavior is that selfishness and courage? Thinking and producing? No, nobody ever taught you that. I'm the first person who ever told you that it's in your self interest to think and produce. What does everybody tell you that selfishness would lead to? Come on, you can tell them when you point a kid in the schoolyard and say he's selfish. What do you mean? He's a what? What's that? Speak up. Somebody translate. Nobody think about themselves but it's not just that. It's not like this kid is thinking about how I can make my life the best life that it can be. That's not what we point to. It's because he's going to lie, steal, cheat. He's going to exploit you in order to make himself bad. That's the fear we have. That's what we be taught.  We be taught that some of your self-interest that he's going to exploit you is going to take advantage of you.  That's nonsense. How many of you have ever lied? Lying is a really, really bad strategy if you want to take care of your own life.  And if you do it in business, what happens to people who lie in business? Nobody wants to do business with them again. The other businessmen shun them and you get a bad reputation and you're not going to be successful. What happens in your personal life?   Lying does not generate value. Lying is a destructive policy. It's bad for you. If you're really self-interested, if you really care about your life, you wouldn't lie. Because lying on a meditate is the opposite of being rational. What does rationality require? What does engineering require? Do you know what to solve an engineering problem? What is the first thing you need? Well, you have a problem. How are you going to solve it? What's the first thing you want? Facts. Information. Real facts. True facts.  What's the solution going to be? Mom, we're not going to solve the problem. We're going to solve it in computer science. It's called very simple.  That could be an engineering experiment, right? Garbage into engineering, garbage out. I use the wrong facts to build a bridge. It comes down. That's your lie. If you start lying, you're putting in garbage. You're going to get garbage out. If reason is really the most important thing, if rationality is thinking, the most important thing for your life, lying is a self-destructive strategy. It's bad for you. What about stealing? Oh, there's a pile of money there. Nobody's going to catch me. I'm just going to take it, and then I can consume. That's cool, right? Why not? Why isn't that for you to steal? What makes you happy? What makes a human being happy? What makes a human being feel good about himself? What makes a human being success? What's that? What you care about your life? Is that what you mean? Oh, you own your living. Yes. So what you need in order to be happy and not to flourish is self-esteem. Self-esteem. A sense, I am capable. I am good for this world. I can take care of myself. I am a value. And when do you get your self-esteem? Mostly. Where do you get your self-esteem? Where are you going to be in your life challenged? Where are you going to be driven? It's in your career, in your job. You're talking about the importance of being productive, right? Because that's where you get your self-esteem from. And when you earn money, even in the simplest job, I don't know if you remember, I don't know how many of you did this when you were kids, and you got your first job and somebody paid you your first paycheck or your first cash, and you burned it because you did something. That felt good.  That's self-esteem. That's true happiness is built from that. When you steal something, what are you basically telling yourself? I can't make it. I can't produce. I can't earn it. I have to take somebody else's earnings. I have to live off of somebody else, and completely dependent on other people. It's not about me anymore, it's about them. It's destructive. You're never going to get self-esteem. On the contrary, it's going to destroy whatever self-esteem you have. Nobody who's a thief was ever happy, because of goodness about yourself. Yes? Is it wrong idea Steve Jobs? Is it that Bill Gates told me the other day Bill Gates didn't steal an idea from Steve Jobs. You might be referring to the fact that Bill Gates bought MS-Docs originally from another company for very little money because he realized the value of it and they did not. That was his genius. Now, he took an idea in a sense of the graphical interface for the Macintosh and turned that into Windows. But that wasn't stealing. That was taking, making his own spin on it, just like Samsung didn't steal the idea of a smartphone. But they certainly took an idea and they developed it. But he mixed it in with his own particular genius, his own capacity to market his own ability to produce. But there was no stealing there. Stealing is using force to take somebody else's stuff or lying to somebody, to take somebody else's stuff. It's not about, you know, you can copy if what you're copying is not copyrighted, if what you're copying and then you add something to it and you make it different, which is what Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did. So we have this perception of interest as involving lying, stealing, and cheating. But the fact is all of those activities lying, stealing, and cheating are all self-destructive. They're all bad for you. A true self-interested person doesn't lie, steal, or cheat. Not because he cares about you or me, but because he cares about himself. Now what about treating other people? Really self-interested person treats other people really badly Right? Most of our most important values come from other people. Friendship, love, trade. Those are all incredibly self-interested. Right? I am friends with somebody because what? Because he provides me with something valuable. Friendship, conversation, shared values, we might just think the same music, but it's that shared something. It's a value that I get out of the friendship that keeps us friends. I don't know if you've ever had a friend where it's all one direction, but one party's a giver and the other one doesn't give it all. It doesn't last very long. At all. Don't try it out with your spouse. Love is about trade. It's about give and take. It's about sharing values. It's about giving and taking. If it's all one direction, it doesn't last. And love is the most selfish of all values. Why do you love somebody? Because they make you feel good. People tell me, no, no, no, love is self-less. Love is about sacrifice. Try this one. The day of your marriage, go up to your spouse to be and tell them, honey, this is a huge sacrifice to me. I'm not in this for myself at all. I'm just doing it as a favor to you. No. Love is about me and about her. Loving me, so it's about her. Right? It's about two souls valuing each other, getting pleasure out of each other, gaining value from each other. That's what it's about. Being self-interested is not about not caring about other people. It's the exact opposite. It's about loving other people because you want that relationship and valuing other people who are productive because you gain from their part. I, in some sense, when Steve Jobs died, I had tears in my eyes.  I, in some sense, love Steve Jobs because I really enjoy everything that he created. I've been using Apple since 1989, Apple products since 1980. I love those products. I love what he did, what he created, what he built. So I got teary-eyed when he died because I loved him. We love the people who produce value to us if we're truly self-interested.  Be entrepreneurs. Create values. Be the kind of people that we should love, that we should admire, that we shouldn't just do it because you've created something, you've built something, you've made something of the one life you have in this time. And I'll just end with some a little bit of politics. What economic social system, political system, makes entrepreneurship possible, makes self-interest possible, makes it possible for you to pursue your own happiness, to choose your values. What's that? No, it's capitalism. Because why is the essence of capitalism? The essence of capitalism is freedom. A pure capitalist system basically says that the government does one thing and one thing only. It protects us from crooks, from criminals, from foxes. But other than that, leaves us alone. Leaves us alone to get new businesses, leaves us alone to pursue our happiness, to pursue our values, to pursue what will make us flush.  You know. The government doesn't know what's going to make you guys flush. No bureaucrat, as smart as he could be, no supercomputer could figure out what would make you guys flush because it depends on your passions, on your values, on your ideas, on your innovations, on your creativity. Happiness is individual. It's not collective. There's some principles irrational. Other than that, I like Beethoven, you like Mozart. So, if you're real entrepreneur and you really care about your own life, what you want is to be left alone. What you want is not to be forced. What you want is not to be cursed. What you want is not to be put in a straightjacket and told how to think and what to do and what not to do. What you want is freedom and free markets are what freedom is. It means free of coercion, free of force. That's what capitalism is. Capitalism is not what Marx told you it was. It's not what most of our professors tell us it is. All capitalism is is a system in which we are free. Free from force. It's a system of private property that encourages us to be entrepreneurs, that encourages us to follow our passions, to build, create and make stuff. So, if you want to be entrepreneurs, you kind of have to fight for your freedom because we live in a world where governments and your neighbors and your friends and the community want to strain you, want to constrain you, want to tell you what type of businesses you can open, where you can open them, how you can open them, what you can do, what you can't do. And that's tragic and that's sad. So, you got to fight for freedom. So, to summarize, I am entrepreneurship is great. I am making money is fantastic. I am building and creating values are wonderful. I think if everybody in the world pursued their self interest, we would be in heaven already. And people who pursued their self interest deal with one another very simply. We trade. Value for value. Win, win. That's what life should be about. Win, win relationships in every part of our life. So, good luck. Make a lot of money. Be great entrepreneurs. Thank you all.


My name is Sophia Pirano and I'm from Thornton, Colorado. Now I'm a junior at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Colorado. Colorado Christian University is an awesome school, but the main reason that I love it is the people. The people here make going to college fun, make it worth it. My peers and the staff and faculty not only help push me in my spiritual walk with the Lord, but also encourage me and give me guidance throughout things that I'm struggling with. I think some of the benefits of attending a Christian college is that it causes you to grow exponentially in your walk with the Lord on your own. I'm currently in a Bible study in which we're reading through the entire Bible in a year and just the way that the Bible has been opened up to me through this Bible study has been a very exciting and awesome experience, especially with the girls I'm with as we're growing together and we get to challenge each other as we read through the Bible. My plan is to one day become a pediatric physician's assistant and the classes that I'm taking I feel are really preparing me for the road I have ahead for grad school. At CCU we're encouraged to give back to the local community. I'm involved in an organization called Waters Edge, which is an outreach to high school girls. We play volleyball for about an hour and then we all sit down and have a small group where we talk about the Bible and how different biblical principles can help us in our athletic life. I feel so blessed to be able to attend CCU and be a part of the volleyball team. I couldn't imagine being anywhere else for college.