Income tax 2021-2022, information returns. Get ready to get refunds to the max, diving into income tax 2021-2022. Most of this information can be found in Publication 334, Tax Guide for Small Business 2021. We're looking at the top line of the income tax formula, but there will be a subschedule and essence and income statement with income and expenses, expenses basically being deductions and net then flowing in to the top line of the formula as well as the first page of the Form 1040, on line number eight, which we are looking at now. In essence, bottom line of the Schedule C flowing into the Schedule 1, which then goes into page one of the Form 1040, line number eight, which we see now. This is the Schedule C profit or loss from business, basically an income statement. We're now looking at information returns, which may be returns that basically aren't gonna have taxes related to you possibly at the point in time that you're making the return, but possibly giving information about either you or about payments that you're making to other people so that the IRS can basically have that information and verify that everything's going the way they want and that the taxes are being paid by someone somewhere. So if you make or receive payments in your business, you may have to report them to the IRS on information returns. The IRS compares the payment showing on the information returns, which each person's income tax return to see if the payments were included in income. So if you're giving a transaction to somebody else, for example, then you might have to give that somebody else an information return, possibly a 1099, so that the IRS, and you also give it to the IRS, so that the IRS can kind of double check that the person receiving the payment is reporting their income. This falls in line with our general rule. How does the government work? How does the income tax system work? The IRS has leverage on the person paying. There's two sides to every transaction. One side is the payer, the other side's the recipient. The recipient is the one that has to record income, which is bad for taxes. The payer wants to get a deduction, which is good for taxes. The government has then leverage on the payer to get them to write out, in essence, who they paid so that they make sure that the other person reports the income. So you must give a copy of each information return you're required to file to the recipient or payer. In addition to the forms described below, you may have to use other returns to report certain kinds of payments or transactions. For more details on information returns and when you have to file them, see the general instructions for certain information returns you can find on the IRS website. So we have the form 1099 miscellaneous, the famous form 1099 mis, use the form 1099 miscellaneous, miscellaneous information to report certain payments you make in your business. These payments include the following items. Now a couple of years ago, this was a form more used more often, but now they kind of broke out the non, or like the contractor work, which we'll see shortly in another miscellaneous form. So this has all the other stuff. So it might not be quite as common. And they made a change on that, like last year or the year before that, rent payments of $600 or more other than rents paid to real estate agents, prizes and awards of $600 or more that are not for services, such as winnings on TV or radio shows. I'm not sure where they got 600. You know, it's like 500. Nah, let's put it, let's put another 100 on 600. Sounds good. Royalty payments of $10 or more, $10 payments to certain crew members by owners of operators of fishing boats, amounts paid for the purchase of fish for resale from any person engaged in the business of catching fish. Then you got the form 1099 miscellaneous continued. You also use form 1099 miscellaneous to report your sales of $5,000 or more of consumer products to a person of resale anywhere other than in permanent retail establishment. We've got the form 1099 NEC. This is the newer form, which has a more restrictive kind of component to it that used to be reported on the 1099 miscellaneous, which if you're not quite aware of, you might still think it would be on the miscellaneous form, but now we've got the 1099 NEC. Yeah, file the form 1099 NEC, non-employee compensation for each person in the course of your business to whom you have paid at least $600 during the year-end services performed by someone who is not your employee. So that would mean that basically you're thinking about a contractor and that's that kind of situation where you got that gray area as to whether you wanna hire an employee or should they be categorized as a contractor? If they're a contractor and they're not incorporated and you paid them over a pretty low dollar, amount $600, you might then have to issue them not a W-2, but still possibly a 1099 NEC. So include the parts, including parts and materials, you have that in box one. So you're including anything you paid them, whether it be for their wages or for them to spend on parts and materials because they're the ones, if they're a contractor that are in charge of purchasing their own parts and materials, that's the point. If you were the one purchasing the parts and materials and whatnot, then you would be like the employer, right? So it's income to them and then they get the deduction of whatever they had to spend that money on in order to get the job done, those are expenses. So cash payments for fish or other aquatic life, you purchase from anyone engaged in the trade or business of catching fish box number one. That's it, I haven't seen that one personally, but if you're in the fish catching business, which is a big business, I suppose, I live by the ocean, but I should know this stuff. But anyways, payments to an attorney box number one, form 1099NEC, you must also file form 1099NEC for each person from whom you have withheld any federal income tax report in line four. So normally, if you have the 1099NEC, you don't have to have withholdings. And so you're not the one that's gonna be responsible for that because they're not your employee that's part of the benefit of them not being an employee who's responsible for that.  And so then you would report that in box four or if they request it to be withheld for whatever reason, maybe you would withhold their federal income tax box four. So under the backup withholding rules, so you can look up backup withholding rules, regardless of the amount of the payment. In general, the backup withholding rules would kind of be like, if you asked the contractor for their social security number and they didn't give it to you or their EIN number and they didn't give it to you, then you can't rat them out to the IRS on how much you paid them. In other words, you can't fill out the form 1099NEC the way the government wants you to because the government sees them as a number, either a social security number or an EIN number. And if you don't have that, then you can't rat them out. You can't give them the form so that the IRS can verify that they record the income and pay the tax. So the IRS wants you, in that case, this is one of the more common cases to make a withholding of the money and pay their taxes on their behalf, kind of like you do on the W2 employee situation, which wouldn't make the contractor happy if they weren't aware of that kind of situation. So you wanna be upfront with getting their information. You're gonna say, hey, I need the deduction.  I wanna be in compliance with the law so the government doesn't hit me with the sticks that they like to swing at people. So I need your social security or EIN number if you're gonna be doing business with me at the starting point so that I can fill out this form in 1099 NEC so that I don't get hit by the stick that the government has. If you use Form 1099 NEC to report sales totaling $5,000 or more of consumer products, then you are required to file Form 1099 NEC with the IRS by January 31st. Then we've got the Form W2. The form we all know, and I'm not sure we love it, but we know it. I know that form pretty well. And you must file Form W2 to report payments to your employees such as wages, tips, and other compensation withheld income, social security, Medicare taxes. You can file Form W2 online for more information about Form W2. See the general instructions for Forms W2 and W3. So if you have employees instead of contractors, then you have a larger reporting requirement which is the W2 form. And then you are required to make withholdings for federal income tax, social security, Medicare taxes, the payroll taxes, possibly state taxes. And you gotta report all that stuff and you're more responsible for a bunch of stuff which we won't get into more detail here, but you got that. Penalties, the law provides for the following penalties if you do not file Forms 1099, miscellaneous Forms 1099 in EC or W2 or do not correctly report the information. So here's the stick that they wheeled around.  This is them. This is it. For more information, see the general instructions for certain information returns. Failure to file information returns. This penalty applies if you did not file information returns by the due date. Do not include all required information or report incorrect information. Failure to furnish correct payee statements. This penalty applies if you do not furnish a required statement to a payee by the required date. Do not include a required information or report incorrect information. Waiver of penalties. These penalties will not apply if you can show that the failure was due to reasonable cause and not willful neglect. So they're winding up. You can imagine the situation. They're trying to hit you with these penalties. They're winding up the stick. And you say, no, don't hit me. I have a waiver. I have a reason, a waiver. And so you're gonna have to plead your case here. In addition, there is no penalty for failure to include all required information or for including incorrect information on a de minimis or small number of information returns. If you correct the errors by August 1st of the year the returns are due, a de minimis small amount, number of returns is the greater of 10 or one and a half of 1% of the total number of returns you're required to file for the year. Form 8300. You must file form 8300 report of cash payments over $10,000 received in a trade or business if you receive more than $10,000 in cash in one transaction or two or more related business transactions. So now they got the dollar restriction amount where you gotta say, and this number is getting actually lower and lower these days in terms of real dollars due to inflation and whatnot. So you get this higher payment the government saying that's like a lot of money. We wanna make sure that we're getting our piece of that. So then you got the information. So cash includes US and foreign coin and currency. It also includes certain monetary instruments such as cashiers and traveler's checks and money orders. I believe that part of the year they were trying to they were thinking about lowering this reporting requirement so they can see transactions that were really low. I was like six, but I don't think that happened. In any case, I will get into that. Cash does not include a check drawn on individuals personal account personal check for more information. You can see publication 1544 reporting cash payments over $10,000. Penalties, here's the stick. What, but what if I don't IRS? What if I don't? Well, I'll tell you what'll happen IRS says you'll get hit with this penalty stick. There are civil and criminal penalties including up to five years in prison for not filing form 8300. What are you in for? I didn't file form information return 8300 filing or causing the filing of a false or fraudulent form 8300 or structuring a transaction to evade reporting requirements.


Hello! I am Markus. I'd like to show you a graphical environment for learning closure and physics. To warm up, let's get our hands on some Bob Dylan lyrics. Come get around people wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown and accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone. Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen and keep your eyes wide that chance won't come again and don't speak too soon for the wheels still in spin. For the times, they are a change in. What I just presented is widely used in learning poems by heart. Maybe you have seen mobile apps of that kind. The method is also well known in computing education. It was termed Parsons Puzzles in 2006. It is a topic of active research at least since then. The title of my talk is Functional Physics, along with visual blocks. The table of contents does not show this title. We need to complete the puzzle. I think that puzzles are ideal for learning functional physics. A puzzle is asking you to think about the design of an algorithm. You do not worry too much about the actual code. Your focus is on the problem domain. The syntax of the language matters less to the user. This feature is very compelling when it comes to Clojure and Lisp. The attitude towards Lisp in science is best described on the Pirate website. Pirate is the programming language for introductory computing. You heard about it on Friday in the talk on data centricity. Much as many of us love parentheses, we fear that Lisp will always bump into an acceptance threshold due to its syntax. We are delighted to see the growing adoption in industry of languages like record and Clojure, and maybe the days of parenphobia are over. But academics are far more height bound than industrial programmers. I also see that the Lisp acceptance threshold exists among scientists. And for very relatable reasons. For a physicist, a method or theory is a valuable and hard-earned thing. It will only be given up when experimental facts force her to do so. I think that an academic needs to be height bound like this to have any chance of making real progress. Plus, scientists always have concern for their self-efficacy. This means they will be inclined to look at the new method or experiment only when it is short and elegant. The most elegant formulation of physics I know of is presented in the SICM book by Sassmann and Ristam. SICM stands for Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. But this approach involves programming in Lisp. And typing on a keyboard is certainly not as elegant as writing with pen and paper. Because of this, I wanted to bring Clojure nearer to pen and paper with the method of Parsons puzzles. Let's start with the Algebra. This workspace shows a simple math example. We calculate the average of 20 and 40.  And divide by 2. The result is 30, as expected. This was the first example of solving a physics puzzle. For a scientist, I think it is clear enough. But a note is in order. A programmer who knows that CLJ tiles is written in Clojure expects a notation which differs from the common one. To clarify this, we open the parser by right-clicking on the workspace. And type plus 1, 2. You can see that the parser converts Clojure code into the usual infix notation. The reason of course is that the notation in the workspace should be as similar as possible to pen and paper. The code which is generated is displayed on the lower right. It is proper Clojure code. The code is for informational purposes and read-only. It is handy for pasting into an editor and starting to develop own programs. The idea is that users will learn to read Clojure code while solving puzzles from easy to more and more difficult levels. It is important to say that normal users will only work with the mouse and not use the keyboard. The parser only is needed for creating puzzles, which is the task of dedicated coders. While normal users are not concerned with creating puzzles, they certainly want to understand them and investigate the puzzle pieces. This will be covered in the following example. When I run this workspace, I get an error message. It is actually not called error message, but code interpretation result. Sometimes a workspace is not yet meant to run. You did not make a coding error, you just ran early. So the name error is simply wrong in the case of puzzle solving. Right-click on the number 2 and inspect. You now see three reasons why no end result is shown. The first reason being the variable the average dangling on top. The second is for the ill-formed dev. The third again for dangling the average. There is more than one reason displayed because inspect tries to run every expression separately. This is different from the run button, which stops evaluation at the first ill-formed expression. Move the number 2 out of its block and inspect. All of a sudden you get the result. Clojure was able to evaluate the expression despite all the other unsolved issues. The value 2 is printed together with its type, which is number. The display of types is possible because within CLJ tiles, parts of SICM are specced via Clojure spec. I think the type number is the most important one in functional physics. This is because numbers provide the connection from theory to experiment. I think types help in learning physics with SICM. Usually data is presented to the user just as a string of characters. It all looks very similar. But when additional type information is displayed, the data gets a shape. When it is typed, a piece of data is experienced more as a thing of some kind, a text, a symbol or a number. Later on we will learn about several other mathematical objects. Types will make learning about them easier. Another idea for flattening the learning curve is to present the same puzzle at several difficulty levels. So we look at two different workspaces, which contain the same puzzle. Here we see a simple function definition. The puzzle is very easy to complete. In the Violet block, the function say welcome is called with the value closure. When the workbook is run, the text welcome to closure is printed. To show a bit more in detail of what is going on, inspect the parameter called what. Indeed, it carries the value closure and is of type text. On the next page is the same puzzle as before, but split up a bit more. You can see that the blocks have different colors, depending on the number of slots. Blocks with one slot are violet, two slots is green, three slots is blue. And there is the pink block with no slot. Now we solve the puzzle. It should help that we have already obtained the solution before by solving the simpler version of the same puzzle. Here the colors play out nicely and separates the different blocks in a clear manner. The blocks with one or more slots are all constructed in the same way. They start with a name, like deafen, print line, say welcome. The deafen is not special in any way. It is just displayed vertically. This can be changed using the context menu. But that does not make sense from a code formatting point of view. We go on to a bit more sophisticated math now. I will show the printing of color vectors. With this, we enter the domain of the SICM book. Originally, the SICM utils are written in MIT's scheme. In the last years, the SICM utils have been ported to Clojure by Colin Smith. Sam Ritchie enhanced and ported them to Clojure script. The workspace I show here has an explanation at the bottom. So it should be easy to complete. As you can see, in SICM, color vectors are created with a function called up. After pressing the run button, you see the correct result. 1, 5, 9. Inspect the whole green block. First of all, the vector is now nicely formatted. And second, we see that the result is a color vector which consists of three numbers. Now inspect the right blue block. Here we get the new type, an expression. If you inspect pi, you get the hint why this is. Pi is a symbol. Apparently, when the function sign is fed with a symbol, it returns an expression. So we already have four different kinds of mathematical objects in this simple example. There are numbers and symbols which we already know from standard Clojure. In addition, we have a type called color vector and a type expression. They are provided by the SICM library. All of those mathematical objects can be used in calculations. In other words, we have a computer algebra system in the browser. Now fill the upper left slot with the green block. Press run. The result is printed nicely formatted as before. This time without the types. Up to now, we had two kinds of blocks. On the one hand the simple pink block and on the other hand the remaining blocks which are mainly for calling functions. There is no obvious way to do higher order functions. For this, the beige block is introduced. It always has exactly two slots. The first slot carries the higher order function. The second slot carries the one single argument. Look at the violet block which has the familiar form for calling functions. Its one slot is filled with the string 3 equals. Now inspect the block. The result of this block is a function with exactly one parameter. We want to find out what this unnamed function does. For this, we fill the first slot of the beige block. After pressing run, the result is the text 3 equals 3. So the string 3 equals within the violet block is concatenated to the number 3. We are given the definition of the higher order function above. It is called this returns a function. It takes some text as an argument and returns an unnamed function. This unnamed function itself takes a number as its single argument and returns a text which concatenates all the data. The beige block takes exactly one argument. Every functional programmer knows what this means. CLJ tiles demands carrying of higher order functions. Thus, the beige block is another stepping stone to LISP. The insistence on carrying makes code containing higher order functions more readable. The most important application of higher order functions within SICM is taking derivatives. In the following workspace, we will take the second derivative of the trigonometric function sign. For this, we need to remind ourselves that pink blocks not only take texts or numbers, but also the names of functions. Inspect the pink block T. It is a symbol. Inspect the other pink block. It is a function. While its name is not displayed at the bottom, the block itself reveals that it is the trigonometric function sign. To calculate the second derivative, drag square T into the first slot and sign into the second slot. Inspect the whole block. It is a function. But it is unnamed. We need to apply it to some argument in order to explicitly see how it looks like. So, finish the puzzle and press run. The result is minus sign, indeed the second derivative of sign. Now, take another look at the result. It is interesting to know its type. One might guess, it is a function. The derivative of a function always is a function, after all. That is perfectly true, but there is a catch. Inspect the whole block. It is not a function, it is an expression. Inspect the inner block. A function. This is the real second derivative of sign, an unnamed function. It is notable that this unnamed function knows nothing about a symbol or a variable named t. You can even replace t with pi. Inspect and you get a meaningful result, the number zero. In the last step, we calculated the derivative of sign at point pi. And we got the number zero as a result. There is a more general version of this. It is called a function l by physicists. This is a construct which takes an arbitrary function as an argument and returns a number. Again, while a function like sign takes a number as an argument, a function l takes a function as an argument. On blackboards in physics classes, sometimes a dot is used as a placeholder for the argument within a function l. The corresponding notation in blocks is quite obvious. I split out the sign block to leave an empty slot. This slot now can be filled with any function and the result of the block will be a number. Hence, the block is exactly the thing which physicists call a function l. This block cannot be executed anymore. In the context of the interpreter, this function l does not exist. But in the context of physics, it does. This well-known construct of physics is just not understood by the computer in this form. But a tutor can create, interpret and explain it very well to students. So, my claim is that graphical blocks can form an independent notation beyond their execution as a computer program. But then they require a tutor. Concerning notation, you might have noticed that the base block can be misused. With it, one can construct a normal function call. For example, sign of t. This notation should not be used. The correct notation is revealed by the parser. In the base block, the sign can be removed. But in the violet, it cannot. So the violet block is not in line with the list-by-deal that goes by the slogan code is data. We have already seen another such break in tradition when we had a look at algebraic expressions with infix notation. Again, the reason is that the notation should look as similar as possible to pen and paper. Coming from this complex topic about notation, I'd like to add a remark on Parsons' puzzles. As far as I know, CLJ tiles is the only environment using Lisp for those puzzles. A Google search leads to a Python implementation. The original paper by Parson at L is from 2006. It seems that from the beginning on, the idea was to arrange whole lines of code. Compared to the line-by-line approach, the use of Lisp offers a new vision. Parsons' puzzles in really two dimensions. And with this, Lisp offers a much faster space of possibilities to construct tutorials. A sophisticated possibility was the example just shown before. Because the puzzle showed a rather deep idea, it required a tutor to understand. It is important to note that a domain expert does not need to know how to program. The puzzle is already there and can be used as easily as writing formulas on the blackboard. Even more, I think the cognitive load is reduced by using puzzles instead of pen and paper sheets. This concludes our deep dive into puzzles that show the principles of functional physics. Let me come to a more higher-level overview of a specific physics example. At Clojure West 2017, Colin Smith showed the example of the driven pendulum. The demo is on his blog page. In the last chapters of CLJ tiles, the equations for the driven pendulum are developed puzzle by puzzle. I will give a brief overview of this example. It starts with a very simple workspace containing the definition of a freely moving particle. In the next steps, we introduce the kinetic energy and the gravitational force. This demo here is meant as a high-level overview, so I will not go into details. But all the workspaces have a description and a solution for further studies. As an intermediate result, we arrive at Newton's equations for a particle in the gravity field of the Earth. As a concrete example, think of a flying cannonball. Notice that the equation has two parts, because the ball can be shot forward and upward and anywhere in between those two main directions. In the next workspace, we make a pendulum out of the cannonball. We suspend it as a weight on a pivot. Thus, it now describes a swinging movement. This step is arguably the most difficult part to understand. Notice that Newton's equation now consists of only one part because the weight can only move at a fixed distance around the pivot. In the last step, we introduce the moving pivot and arrive at the final equation. This concludes my overview of the driven pendulum and we come to the summary of the talk. I presented examples in theoretical physics as a series of Parsons puzzles. Anyone can attempt to solve the puzzles just by opening a web browser. Puzzles help smooth the rough edges of lisp. CLJ tiles achieves this with the following features. Math formulas are presented in the commonly known infix notation. The various colors separate nested expressions and they do not start with parentheses. This combination is meant to resemble more the familiar math notation for functions. Higher order function calls have their own special block which takes only one argument. Evaluation of expressions is very easy using the inspect functionality. The indication of data types helps in understanding the various objects that populate physical theories. So, puzzles help to overcome the acceptance threshold for lisp. But lisp in turn augments puzzles. It really levels them into the second dimension. So, lecturers can present sophisticated examples that go way beyond beginner's tutorials. All in all, lisp and puzzles are a good match. For an outlook, I can only say that CLJ tiles was a private endeavor. I'd like to thank all the people who gave me advice and support. The dream is that CLJ tiles opens the door to lisp. A small crack into some of the physics classes that are traditionally based on pen and paper. Thank you for watching.


Watch this before the narcissist does this to you, there are a lot of weird creepy things that the narcissist will do to you if you are around them long enough because the abuse tends to escalate over time as it becomes normalized and yet they become more and more dissatisfied as the initial thrill and feelings of excitement begin to fade away which is why there's no cut off point for the abuse, because it's like a drug to them, they're addicted, it may have been satisfying for them in the beginning like an initial ingestion of a drug but then those feelings of escapism and euphoria begin to disappear so they start feeling like they need a bigger hit or a bigger dose, they need to be pumped full of it, they need to feel it flowing throughout their being because it's the only thing that makes them feel alive, it brings energy to them when they can suck the life out of an unsuspecting empath which is why as time goes by and they become more and more dissatisfied, they become even more desperate and dependent on their drug of choice which of course is the empath, this person who has an unusually strong ability to feel other people's emotional and mental states which is a highly attractive trait and it is like a drug to the narcissist, it turns them into blood-sucking zombies where it's like they've suddenly been brought back to life although they still do not possess human qualities but they're able to identify that you do not possess any intrinsic needs from them, they understand that as empaths we have no natural desire to connect to them because they're unable to bring us internal joy or to help us to create purpose and we're typically drawn to people who we can help or change while the narcissist does not desire to change so they cannot be changed and yet they string us along and dangle a carrot on a stick making us believe that they are steadily improving for the better when it's all of a sand if anything they're getting worse but they disguise it by manipulating you into feeling, feeling of dependence on them by making you feel like you need them but the only thing you need is to get as far away from them as you possibly can because they will suck the life out of you, they will turn you into a shell of a person and by the end of it you won't even recognize yourself, you won't even know who you are because they will get you to ruminate, they will cause you to think deeply about them or someone else or something else, they will cause you to contemplate, consider and give thought to meaningless situations or things, to where you're constantly going over the same matters in your thoughts again and again with purposive thinking because they're corrupt in your innocent mind with distasteful suggestions and ideas until you become just like them and you start to think in the same way that they do, well you may have never thought that way before and you may never have had the inclination to obsess if we were to visit the same thoughts or themes over and over again until you got involved with this person but regardless of that they will blame and shame you for these thoughts and they will gaslight you, they will try to make you believe that you're losing your mind as though there's a problem with your train of thought or the way that you reach a conclusion or a line of reasoning when in fact they're just gaslighting you again because it's intentional and deliberate, they know exactly what they're doing and they're trying to sink their teeth in dig you like an animal biting vigorously into its prey which is why they will become fully engaged in every aspect of your life, they will become completely involved with great enthusiasm, concentration and conviction as though they're trying to solve a problem when in fact they are the problem because they are deliberately infecting your mind, they're trying to infect and contaminate you, they're trying to pass their infection on to you, they're trying to make you impure, they're trying to cause you to become morally wrong where you engage in acts that you should not do, acts that you would have a duty to refrain from doing, they're trying to strip you of your moral values and beliefs and they will try to achieve this by becoming a constant presence in your life because they already know that they're corrupt, they know they're contaminated, they love to get your attention because they were deprived of it in childhood, they have childhood traumas that they never resolved, they have a history of feeling unloved which they're trying to embellish on to you by trying to make you obsessed with them, even while they have no intention or even the ability to give you the love that you deserve, they're exploitative, they make use of situations and treat you unfairly, they form relationships based on what they can gain from you rather than genuine emotional connection, they have no desire or motivation to connect to you, they lack effect of empathy, they have an inability to share your feelings and experience, they can't put themselves in your shoes, they engage your manipulative and exploitative behaviours to maintain control and to ensure that their emotional needs are met to where they cry and complain easily and often are without good reason, they throw temper tantrums even when you've done nothing to even want that type of response or they plan and coordinate the elements of a situation so that you react and then they can assert their will on you, they will isolate you so that they can become your only source of influence and the hopes that you will begin to doubt yourself and have undying faith in the very person who was abusing you or they may even start a smear campaign against you and enforce flying monkeys to do their bidding on their behalf where they will try to sensitise you to certain stimuli and try to turn your own senses against you, they will manipulate your sense of sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, movement and even body awareness, they will do everything in their power to turn you against yourself until you become one of them and you're working with them against yourself because that is their ultimate goal, they want to turn you against yourself because your strength, willpower and determination is a threat to their control, by that point it's the only thing standing in the way of them being your Lord, your Master and that's what they really want, they decide to have total power and control over their targets so that they can harvest your empathic energy because what you have is very rare, they may never have seen anything like that before, you're highly sensitive, you're highly attuned to the energies and emotions of the people around you, you know what they're thinking and feeling which reflects badly on them, it makes them feel bad about themselves so they want to change your perception of yourself and they want to change your perception of them so that it changes the reflection of themselves that they're receiving from you and they will do this by manipulating your senses and by causing you to ruminate, they will start minus arguments, they will zone in on your daily activities so that they can cause obstructions and deliberately cause what may seem to be accidents or coincidental inconveniences, if you listen to music, read books or watch youtube videos or movies, they will try to get you to filter everything through them so that they remain a constant influence in your life and it's because they can't let go, they need to have control so they end up micromanaging you, they control every part however small of your daily activities because they have an excessive focus on observing and controlling you and they have an obsession with details even while they're treating you as though you're unimportant which doesn't add up because if they really saw you as unimportant why would they want to control you especially when you're just one person usually there is nothing wrong with wanting to have to control as long as it is driven by a desire to feel safe and to keep a sense of order where people are protected from and not exposed to danger or risk where there is a sense of efficiency and consistency but their controlling personality is driven by their mental health condition their mental health condition they have a personality disorder which is why they will try to control your finances they will give it a silent treatment when things don't go their way they will criticise your behaviour or appearance to make you change they will dominate conversations they will constantly interrupt you they will isolate you they will lie so that things go their way they feel the need to have complete and specific information about you such as who you're with and where you are at all times and yet at the same time they show this extreme desire to impress you to cause you to feel admiration or respect to make you recognise their importance or value while they refuse to acknowledge yours and they show an unwillingness to adapt to the circumstances because the only thing they care about is what's going on in their own brain they have an inability to connect it's just all about them it's about what they think or what they want you to think but even then it's just so they can feel better about themselves even when it seems that they're doing something good or something right it's never out the goodness of their heart it's never done out of kindness it's because they're expecting something in return or because they decide to have control of you so that even just for a moment they can feel in control of themselves which is why it will often seem like they don't care about anyone else because the reality is that they don't people who have this mental illness have an inability to see anything outside of themselves people are just mirrors to the narcissist their objects that they use to feel better about themselves and narcissists objectify themselves as well but that does not mean that you are unimportant they can make it appear that way at times because they don't want you to know but the reality is that in parts of very rare narcissistic personality disorder may affect the 15% of the world's population which means that up to one in seven people may have the full-blown disorder dr. Ramani also mentioned in one of her videos that she believes that around 50% of the population may engage in narcissism which is defined by selfishness involving a sense of entitlement and lack of empathy which arises from the failure to distinguish the self from external objects and this is typically a feature of a mental disorder where they view other people of extensions of themselves and they use them to feel in control and to get their emotional needs met while with empaths the opposite is true we decide to make other people feel safe and comfortable at times even at the cost of our own health and well-being but empaths are very rare only one to two percent of the population have the ability to feel and absorb the emotions surrounding them which is why despite what they may have led you to believe you are actually very important to the narcissist just look back at the time you spent with them and remember all of the things they went out of their way to subject you to that reveals your significance and importance but as a tool or an appliance rather than an actual person because narcissists have an ability to connect they lack a fact of empathy they use cognitive empathy and they will often team up with other narcissistic people to prey on vulnerable empaths so that they can harvest their energy they will try to contain you to keep you hooked on them so that you become a constant source of supply while making you believe that you possess is something negative or something to be ashamed of when in actuality although it may seem like a curse when you are around the narcissist it is actually a blessing in disguise if you share it with the right people there is nothing wrong with being emotionally intense sensitive or gifted with heightened sensitivity it's like a powerful sports car it just requires a special fuel and a specific kind of care if it is in the right condition and it is maintained and protected it can be one of the most high-performing machines in the world it's just that you have never been taught how to use these abilities properly and to your advantage it is in fact the narcissist who is sensitively and perceptively impaired they have an inability to appreciate other people's feelings they're unaware they lack in sight they only see what they want to see whatever will make them feel better about themselves rather than what may be true or what may help another person which means that they lack value because our value is determined by what we give rather than solely what we consume for ourselves which is a concept that narcissists never seem to grasp and it's why they're always so miserable their lack of empathy is the cause to their demise and it also draws other people into harm's way because they're not considering other people they're just thinking about how they can harness your energy for themselves when it just never satisfies them the abuse always escalates they just end up needing more and more they become more and more involved while still experiencing possessives dissatisfaction and disappointment because they're going about it the wrong way they're seeking power and control which actually prevents them from ever experiencing the feelings that they're looking for but at the same time it's because they can't they can't experience a effective empathy they can't share another person's experience the only experience that matters to them is their own which is why they will try to do unethical things to have you be obsessed with them they will gas like you they will stalk and harass you they will do whatever it takes just to get you to notice them because they know that's the only thing that they can do they already know that you're not going to want to be involved with them because you have an innate desire to help people and they can't be helped or changed they rely on their disorder in order to function efficiently even though they will never find true love or happiness they do it in order to regulate their emotions and many of them actually enjoy it they enjoy the brush of adrenaline at the release of dopamine in their brains it makes them feel alive it gives them a sense of purpose even though it may seem purposeless to you because they're only thinking about what's in the moment or they're thinking two steps ahead so that they can experience a situation or event that they have imagined in their minds so that they can experience these feelings of having got went over on you when you look into their eyes it may seem like there's nothing there but there's actually a lot of things going on in their minds they are constantly overthinking they struggle with being present and living in the moment they constantly thinking about how to get attention and how to maintain their image they constantly thinking about how to destroy you or your future plans and they constantly think that you are able to get them which makes them paranoid and fearful but at the same time they also enjoy it they thrive in negative conditions because it allows them to get their emotional needs met by keeping them distracted and stopping them from looking within and thinking that the danger is outside of them which is what makes them so dangerous because they're paranoid and delusional and it all comes from them feeling like they are not enough so they constantly trying to accomplish something even if it's just them trying to abuse or control you it's a distraction which is why they're never satisfied it's almost like they are possessed as though a demonic spirit has access to their thoughts and feelings which gives them the ability to manipulate your emotions perceptions and beliefs and it makes you behave how they want you to if you're around them long enough because by that point the spirit will take over you but it will never nest in you like it does with them your empathy will always return it will never go away completely it's not even a choice that you're able to make it's almost like you're not allowed to go down that path you were destined for greater things but the spirit will continue to dominate their minds and it will make it impossible for them to ever experience happiness satisfaction level peace where they're constantly focused on revenge fear and envy as it continues to distract them from looking within which is why they will use every trick in the book to distract you from your reality to convince you that they're right or that's something you got wrong because they already know that you're right under money they know that everything you're saying is true which is why it's so powerful when they invalidate you it causes cognitive dissonance where you begin to doubt yourself they will call you crazy for something you later find out to be true they will gas like you so that you focus on your thoughts feelings memory and experience being wrong it confuses you and causes you to second guess yourself will you doubt yourself and blame your intentions until you end up relying on the narcissist even more and you fall prey to them ablation which they're only engaged in because they already know you shouldn't want anything to do with them that's why they get you to doubt yourself to begin with if they knew that they were good people to be around they wouldn't need you to doubt anything about yourself but they do it because they're envious of you which is why they will often seek to destroy you and provoke feelings of jealousy within you it's a defense mechanism it makes them feel better for being envious of you and it makes you feel worse for doing or having something that they want because they want to twist the story which is why they will blame and shame you they will criticize you they will judge or mark you and then they will claim that you're being too sensitive when really it is their ego that can't take the pain they feel and important because they're not getting the attention that they want from you so then they will go out and impress strangers to try to create feelings of jealousy within you to get you to explain yourself to them and to get you to question and doubt yourself when they should be explaining themselves for their behavior and it's why they always act arrogant and entitled because really they know that the opposite is true they already know that they have no value which is why they're always trying to prove themselves to you a person doesn't need to go out of their way to prove something if they already know that it's true which is why you will end up over analyzing things because you're trying to figure out the truth they will often rely on reactive abuse so that they can feel better about their feelings and their mistakes they will do whatever it takes to provoke a reaction from you and then they will stand back and point the finger at you they will accuse you of overreacting when you maybe have any normal reaction based on what they're doing to you and while they may be aware of that it makes them feel better about themselves which is why they want you to think about things in the same way that they do they don't want you to think for yourself they don't want you to know the truth about who they really are and what they really want from you because then they would lose control of you as their target you wouldn't want anything to do with them if you knew that they just want you to think about them and it's so that they can harvest your energy and then destroy you because that is the only thing that they can do when they are around an empath otherwise your empathy will resurface their shame and then you would unintentionally destroy them which is why they always have to twist it on you and to make you feel like something is wrong with you because they don't want the shoe to be on the other foot they wouldn't have a leg to stand on because then you would quickly realize that your dinner with a zombie an energy vampire someone who only knows how to manipulate and to strengthen nourishment from your thoughts and emotions because that is why they feast on any more sort of your attention and energy they are nourished by the essence of your being they use you to feed that emotional needs and they leave you feeling drained and used after they've leashed off your kindness and empathy because they have a fragile ego they feel worthless and ex-efficent so they have an insatiable need for validation and aberration and your steady attention is the indispensable factor and influence that maintains their self-esteem their confidence in their own worth and abilities which is why they need you to be constantly preoccupied with them so that they can feel magnificent and impressive and of social importance your natural gift of empathy makes your first importance to a narcissist because you are the highest quality of supply you have the ability to deeply feel and understand that emotions which is something they can't even do for themselves they are disconnected from the emotions which is why they prey on your kindness and sensitivity because they want you to be stuck in a constant recurring thought loop where you are fixed on fears motives and how you feel you should not have acted or acted so that they can remain a permanent residence in your thoughts which then serves as evidence to them of that power over you they will place you in a hypnotic trance to ensure that they're always in your leading thoughts because that's just what they've learned they had to do to survive emotionally they can't get their emotion on these met like a normal person because maybe they're just boring when interesting so they had to find an alternative way to get around it which turned into the skilled and precise craft of manipulation because they learn that it is the only way that they can keep your attention on them and it serves their need for control it keeps you emotionally attached to the narcissist and it prevents you from continuing on your healing journey which is why they want to keep you trapped in these memories and emotions because it makes them feel like they have conquered you as it abroads your self-esteem and it prevents you from becoming the person that you could be thank you for watching if you found this video helpful please give it a thumbs up share your thoughts in the comment section hit the subscribe button to receive the notifications if you would like to support the channel you can donate our paper that emis or snark survivor you could book a one-on-one with me on my website it's snark survivor the current UK thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon