And we're off. We are officially recording. Now I may stop the recording and cut it every now and then because I want to be able to write down what the questions were and I want to make the editing process a little bit easier. But yeah, everybody that's just joined in, welcome. This is now the second episode of Tick Tock Live and being recorded for YouTube, so exciting times. So everybody that's just joined in. Thank you so much. Please feel free to share the live so more people can come in. Anyone that asks a really good question that hasn't been asked before. Don't think obvious. Don't talk too much about my height, what football team I go for and what subject I teach that's already been answered. So anything to do with what you want, what you want to know about life or what you want to know as a student, any help, anything that's going through your mind you want help with, that's what we're going to be talking about today. Okay, so let's begin. Um Dan has asked me, did I know I was always going to be a teacher when I finished school? And no, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I finished high school in year 12 and I went straight to being a lifeguard. My mum said, go to uni or get a job. I became a lifeguard. And yeah, not until five years later, I started to go into university and I was like, yeah, I'll try teaching. And I loved it ever since. So it took me five years before I decided to become a teacher. So that's what I'm saying, guys, there's no rush. There's no rush at all. Take your time. Isaac Mortz has asked me what my favourite memory of school is. So thank you for the question. My favourites, my favourite memory of school, I'm going to go through year eight all the way through through year 12. I'm going to mention one memory that I can specifically remember from each year.  So if anyone's in year eight, all the way through to year 12, you may relate to this. So when I got to year eight, it was obviously my first year of high school, was nervous, but my favourite memory because it was a new school was making friends, people that I mucked around with and just, we played soccer or football, whatever you want to call it, in one of the courtyards at every recess and lunch. And it was just, there was no, there was no court, like it wasn't organised. It was, there was no, there was just two trees and we tried to kick the ball through those trees. That's all we did. And there was defenders and there was attackers. That's it. So there were people just be standing in the defence and that was it. And then there was the attackers who just keep booting it into the each other. That was, that was fun. That was super fun. Yeah, we had a lot of fun in that courtyard. Year nine, I remember I had more close friends and meeting a few guys who, I mean we sat, I was one of the kids that sat around in the back of the class. Like I did work, but I was still a little bit of a hooligan. But my favourite memory was with a kid called Sean and me and him and a few others, we would, we would just be just mucking around, just joking around. Like we never bullied anyone, but we would like, we would be teasing each other, like sort of like banter, you know what I mean? And that was pretty fun. Year 10, my favourite memory of Year 10, this is a story in its own. Year 10 was when they banned sugar, like actual like lollies being sold in canteens. That's when I was around, Tiferovia. And I thought it was a good marketing opportunity. Here's my entrepreneur coming out of when I decided to sell lollies out of my backpack. And I made over a thousand dollars in 10 weeks in Year 10 selling candy to kids. I remember like had a box of 50 zombie chews. It was a $20 box investment. And then I sold it for a dollar each. And I made $30 profit per box. And I got, yeah, I made a lot of sales. I remember like kids would come in with 20s with just buying 20 of them. And then they'd try to resell it as well. That was fun. Year 11 was when I got into video games, like full on video games. And I remember meeting my mate Ben and meeting my mate James. We were like that trio. I always wanted to be in the friend, in the group, in the circle of people of all the footy players, like the jocks and the hot chicks, you know? I was on their football team and I was, you know, I was the Ruckman and all that. But I was never friends with them, like full time or anything. Like they didn't, they didn't think that I was cool or anything. So I never got into their kind of squad. But instead I enjoyed video games. And the guys that I actually hung out with in Year 11 the most were considered the nerds or the geeks. And it was an interesting combination because I was, I could, like I was a sportsman. I was athletic. But it was also my friend preference were the geeks and, you know, the nerds because I was one of them. And like, even if I did hang out with the footy people every now and then, like the jocks, I think by default I would have reverted back to the, the nerds and the geeks because like they were more respectful. They were less, you know, you know what it's like. It's like the, the hotshots of the school are always just like high and mighty and, and I think they're ever better than everybody. And, and then the nerds and the geeks that kind of keep to themselves. I was like kind of that breach was weird, but I loved it. But most of the time I just kept playing video games with my best mates. And then Year 12 was, it went so quick. And it's because it's shorter than every other year at school. Yeah, I just went ham and did that for a long time. For a long time. What am I saying? Yeah, Year 12 was obviously just exams. I didn't do full on like ATAR or TE. I just did general and I passed it. There was a bit of a time where in Year 12 I had to put my head down, but then I managed to do it. I managed to complete it, had fun with my mates, and then it was done. Like Year 11 and 12 went so quick, went so quick. And in hindsight, I looked back at it. I was like, man, I could have got away with so much more. So there's a bunch of memories from my high school all the way from Year 8 all the way through Year 12. So thanks for the question, bro. That was a great one. Kevvie has asked, I'll mention his username properly, Kevvie Island, Kevvie's Island. I can read. He's asked any party wisdom for me to give my students on the last day of placement tomorrow. One thing that really stuck to me was one guy's speech to me at uni. So I did a biomechanics unit because I was doing sports teaching. And at the end of the unit, the guy said to me to the group, he goes, one last thing, guys, you have the best opportunity to learn. You have an education. And it's not, it's not like you have the ability in the country to learn. And I resonated with that. And I started telling that to my kids at the end of every time, the last time I teach them for the year or something, I say to them, guys, you have every bit of chance to learn. And it's pretty much free, as opposed to more than half of the rest of the world, you have such a big advantage in your lives. So make the use of it now because there would be someone out there across the world who would trade places with you on a heartbeat to get the education you are getting. That's it. That's my parting gift every time. Ava Taylor, 2440. Thank you for your question. She goes, do you have a student that you know looks up to as a mentor because one of my teachers is mine? So what happens periodically? And after the kids graduate, so year 12, a missus from previous schools, they message me, like directly message me, they find, like they message me on Instagram. Even the current kids do it. But I'm very careful because, you know, all that direct messaging and stuff out of school, outside of email correspondence, whether school can see it can be a bit dodgy. Because it passed people being weird about it. Like I've heard of stories of teachers getting DMs on Instagram and they would reply within appropriate things.  But anyway, they would message me on Instagram and I, they would ask me like, can you be my reference for a job? Or they would say, Hey, what's your opinion? What's your advice on landing my job? I don't have a job and I want a job. What do I do with resumes and stuff? You know, things that should be properly taught at school. And sometimes they are, sometimes they aren't depending where you're from. But I remember one kid in particular would watch my stuff. I remember teaching him last year and he hated me. And his girlfriend hated me. Absolutely hated me as a relief teacher as well. Every time I was assigned to his class and her class, they were like, Oh, not him again. But now every now and then they're asking me questions. They're asking me for advice. It's like, it's the job never ends. Not even in year 12, it goes onwards. And the fact that I'm doing this now, for free, I love it. I love it. You know, that's, that's kind of what happens. Because I want to, I want to leave a legacy. I want to be that teacher and hopefully promote other teachers to do the same thing to be able to be like, Hey, don't confine yourself between 8am and 3pm. Because you know, you do need to think about them outside of school, where you need to think about how to get them into the best kind of pathway or the best thought process so that can figure out what they want to try. Try more things. I've always asked in my early days, what do you want to be when you grow up? But I realized recently that that question is completely wrong. You never, there's no one knows exactly what they're doing until they've tried it. Sometimes 40 times, sometimes 800 times, sometimes it'll take a long time before you're like, this is my, this is my life. This is what I want to do. And I want to be able to teach you guys how to do that. I want to be able to make you guys go, if you want to try that, do it. Give it a go. But promise yourself and keep yourself accountable that you're trying your best at it, that you're given an actual go. And if you're not obsessed with it, then it's not for you. Straight away. Don't fake it till you make it. There's no such thing. It's dumb. It's a terrible idea. And kids love that. Kids are like, yeah, why not? Why don't I try what I want to try? Thank you for your question. I'm Dan. Another question from I'm Dan. I love the username. I'm Dan. As of right now, do you set short term goals or long term goals? It's a really good question, really good question. So I mean, I've got my, I've got my long term goals in terms of where I want to be or what I want to have and like, like overall. So I have those two main goals and then my short term goals is pretty much just what I want to achieve today. Like there is a pathway. There is an idea. There is kind of like, sort of, you know, ambitions and, you know, a plan. But it all comes down to that long term goal or two goals that I have and the macro goals, the short goals, to get to those long goals. So it's all just one big thing. And it changes all the time because life changes. My attention changes. My philosophy changes. My situation changes. My attention changes. A lot of things change and it doesn't like stay put. You know, I don't like standing still and with teaching, I love it, but I want to try and become a professional photographer, videographer, business developer and instigator. And what I mean by that is I want to help you guys do what you want to do, not just motivate you, but actually like, and I don't have a magic formula because everybody's different, but I want you to be like, tomorrow, remember something from this, even if it's one, just one person to be like, I'm going to do that. I'm going to do it right now. And it's all about accountability. So that's what I want to do long term. But like, to share with you something a bit more personal. My dream is to have two holidays a year where I go snowboarding at least two or three weeks at a time. And I also want to obviously own a house. So nothing too over the top yet. But the one thing that does kind of make it a little bit over the top is I want to have money work for me. So that means I want to be able to create a cash flow or a business where I can create some income, I can hire someone and be able to make money off of that or off of, I don't know, endorsement deals where the money pays for my holidays and pays for my mortgage. And then whatever I do as my business, what I do work wise for the rest of the time is what I'm doing for the rest of the time, including making that money. So it's like a separate nest egg that's growing on its own that I've like developed. And then that's paying for one, two holidays and paying off my mortgage. That's the very kind of out there goal. How I'm going to do that and do I have a timeline? I mean sooner than later, but I have patience and that's the difference. You need to have patience. So there's my long term and short term goals. Snowboarding twice a year minimum and establishing something where I can pay off my house really quickly or without me thinking about it. Like I don't want to get paid every fortnight and then be like, right, half of this is going to my mortgage. No, I want to have an investment or something that's making me money. And then that's going into the mortgage. And I'm like, cool, keep doing that. You know, Luke Avello has asked, when you teach students, what are you trying to influence? What are you trying to influence on the students? So at the start of the new year, I started the new class. What I do is I go through, let me see if I can remember them off my heart, five rules, five, not rules, guidelines. And I try to stick to them and remind the kids as long as I can that they need to, if they can succeed at demonstrating those five guidelines, they will be more successful in my opinion and from my experiences is what I did. So number one, I try to influence respect. So respect, respect your teachers, respect your parents, respect your fellow peers, respect the janitor, respect anyone in the street and respect.  And I know that's hard to, hard pill to swallow sometimes because you don't want to be told what to do.  The thing is, one day you'll get a job and you will get told what to do and you'll get reminded if you forget and you'll get frustrated if you don't learn. If you get told what to do at work and you do it straight away, they'll love that and you'll keep your job simple. So that's number one. Number two is you need to allow for others to succeed, allow for others to learn. So during the class don't distract other people from what they're trying to achieve. If you don't show respect, you're probably doing like, you doing that doesn't show respect. So it's kind of both in the same category as well, but allow for other people to do their thing. Don't be annoying. Number three, I influence being on time, so being punctual. I influence being attentive. So you have to make sure you're paying attention, you know, not on your iPad, you know, all that stuff, but that's what I really want to try and channel in. So if the teacher's saying something to you and you're on your iPad and you're like, and then you put the iPad down when it's time to work and you don't know what you're doing, the teacher's already told you. And that's not showing respect to the teacher. So it all comes back to the top one. So, you know, and then when you do want some help, you're not allowing another student to learn who actually did listen at the start, but they just don't get it.  So it all is like one big family sort of thing, all these things. Number four, ask questions. I always try to influence asking questions. It is no such thing as a dumb question. There is such thing as not asking a question and then you don't do anything. You're lost, you know. You're only lost until you ask. And if I'm not there to ask, Google it. Google will probably do a better job than me. Real talk. And yeah, I think that's all of them. Then there's a fifth one. The fifth one is, yeah, chase your happiness. Be happy. Find something that finds your happiness. That's it. Thanks for the question, Luke. Great question. Luke Avello. Thank you for another awesome question. He says, do you think video games are good or bad? It depends. But I'm always leaning to the good because if you think about it, games teach you how to do things like save. Yeah, pretty much that. So you're playing through a game where you collect coins or power-ups or abilities or XP or something. And then you spend it on something that you need to conquer in the rest of the game or later on in the game. Now you can do different strategies. Like I'm talking about RPGs like Skyrim and even like GTA V and God of War and all those adventure games. And even like Call of Duty, you can still technically do it too. So what you do is you get enough points to unlock something, right?  So that in video games for me teaches me how to save. Like in real life, do I save money and do I spend it straight away and get the instant hit of satisfaction from whatever it is I buy or do I save money and then long term be able to get something that has even better potential for me to succeed further in life. See how that can relate to games? Hopefully that makes sense. But yeah, so in saying that, I reckon games are good just as long as you don't think that they're real life because they're definitely not real life. With love from air has asked me the most what is my most bizarre or freaky moment that I've had in my life? Man, I have so many of those almost almost daily, you know, like the real like weird deja vu things or things that I thought have happened or I would have, excuse me for a second, put my laptop on judge, like freaky moments like I would think about someone that I haven't spoken to in like ages and then they would call me like in the same day. I was just like whoa, you know, that sort of stuff. But like it's just it's just me looking back at life and seeing how things have aligned and I just and then I look back at them and I'm like, man, if that one thing didn't happen then none of this would have happened. So the first thing I can think of is when I rolled my ankle in footy back in like 2000 and maybe 10 or 11 and I couldn't play footy for a bit and I couldn't go to the footy grounds because I had my ankle but I still needed to go to the gym to keep you know strong. So I joined this random gym near my house and then I met this girl and she introduced me to these people and then long story short, those chain of events led me up to getting becoming a personal trainer and then I met a person at the gym who encouraged me to go to university and then here I am. So I mean you can say that that ankle roll if I didn't roll my ankle something different would have happened. I never I never will never know but there's a big reason that I joined that gym to meet that person to influence me to go to uni and you know it's one of the big freaky moments you're just like, whoa, you know that butterfly effect sort of thing everything happens for a reason. So great question with love underscore from me from me a person called dumb underscore B I T C H 12345668 has asked me what the best or worst thing that happened to me the best thing that's happened to me is me meeting my fiance so far that's until we have kids and then they'll take the crown of the best thing that's happened to me. Oh it's like it the worst thing that's happened to me is meeting my actually no the worst thing that's happened to me probably was when my grandpa passed away when your relatives pass away nothing's worse than that you compare anything else nothing's worse than that I miss my grandpa it's been 12 years I'm obviously over it but that man was an inspiration he was a role model he was someone that I really admired I still admire to this day and if he's looking up down on to me and I hope he's proudest part of what I'm doing and for him I will learn fluent Russian that's my promise thanks for the question Talia J S8 has just asked me if I were to go if you were to go anywhere in the world where would you go I would go back to my hometown in Kyrgyzstan in a little town called Tokmak and 40 kilometers out of that town is a house in the mountains where I grew up as a kid and I would go there I would go there if I could teleport there anytime I would do that if if someone came up to me and said hey Seth you are allowed to teleport to one spot for the rest of your life and return back here forever like but it can only be one spot where would it be it would be that spot it would be those mountains it would probably be the town of those mountains so then I can drive there because I love the drive that's my that's my spot that's that's my childhood that's my memories that's my that's my everything that's that's where I would go so Tokmak or T-O-K-M-O-K and it's pronounced Tokmak in Kyrgyzstan such a random answer and you probably didn't expect it but that's that's my birthplace and that's that's my jam right there the mountains of that oh Yas Queen you know thanks for the question there it is 50 50 we did it doggo's RZA Benny we did it guys oh 53 it's going up it's going up oh my god oh my god I'm recording there so we did it oh my god this is insane this is gone this is going on youtube oh my god here we are I'm gonna scroll up to see all the people that are commenting areas oh he's sending stickers look at that thanks for sending sticker fan thanks for sending the stickers bluish turtle there it is oh are we up to now 55 let's keep climbing guys damn Liza 2102 has asked if I could go back in time and give your teen self some advice about school or uni what would it be now this is a great question because it relates to a lot of people in this chat and I know you guys you know invested in this now a lot of your students and I really my main aim for this is just to give you as much value as possible so here we go um if I had my teenage self in here right now I would tell him to save as much money as he possibly can stop buying dumb stuff you do not need a packet of Doritos you do not need a 30 pack of Coca-Cola you do not need to go to Woolworths at 8 a.m in the morning and get a soft drink 1.25 litre Fanta you don't need that it's dumb don't do that save every cent that you have while you're living at home for free because once you become an adult the more money you save the better you have at head start if you save enough money to buy a car stay out of that loan do not get a loan for your car ever buy it outright $7000 car is a good car $30,000 loan for a car is not a good car okay that's what I would tell my teenage self and in terms of studying and union stuff Seth at 16 17 years old keep yourself accountable okay if you say you're going to do it do it that's it that's what I would do thank you for that question that was amazing with love from me has asked me certain teachers have inspired me what is the earliest memory of a teacher who inspired or you liked okay shoutouts to my year five and year six teacher mr. Simmons hope you can somehow see this so I went to a primary school called South Padbury primary school and I graduated in 2002 and I had a guy called mr. Simmons his name's Wayne Simmons shoutouts to Wayne and the reason why I remember this guy is because he cared in year five I was a bin kid I was terrible no manners rude everything and by the end of year five I was like oh thank god that's over he was strict he was harsh and then I found out that I had him again in year six like I was part of a year year six seven class or no year five six class and I and I drew the short straw so that I thought of back then that I had to be in his class again but the best thing is I knew what he was like already I knew what I had to do but the thing is because I did it and it worked and I felt good about it I learned something so from the first like I remember year five I didn't get a merit certificate until the end of the year and if you haven't figured it out the kids that get their rewards last aren't really the brightest or the most well-behaved kids but the year after that in year six I got the first merit certificate out of the blocks and because I I went guns blazing and then from there I was just like a good student I was a good person I had manners I had like you know open the door for I let the girls go first and all of that just manners and everything and it was from there it was like all systems go and it was it made everything so much easier and thank him for that shout outs to Wayne Simmons thank you man Chloe underscore 0037 has asked 50 years from now where would you be and what will you be doing now straightforward straight up I don't know I will be 78 years old hopefully I will be healthy hopefully I will have energy and hopefully I'm still pushing it I'm pushing much more wisdom that I have now 50 years of experience and wisdom I will be pushing that on to people your age in 50 years time that's if I want to do that right now and it's become my ultimate passion and I'm still doing it in 50 years time I have succeeded for 50 years and I've been happy for 50 years but long story short I don't know no one ever knows like um yeah where would would I be like I mean it'd be cool to have a few properties around the world it'd be cool to be able to travel anywhere anytime I want for whatever reason and go baller and you know business class that'd be amazing but yeah I would be happy I would want to be happy where would I want to be I want to be happy in 50 years time you know millionaire whatever doesn't matter I want to be happy healthy my family is alive and we're all happy that's what I want Ben Licastro has said who has inspired me the most and why I'm going to take a beverage I'm terrible at keeping water inside me by the way guys if you've been watching this since 6 a.m of 6 p.m and you haven't drunk water please stay hydrated anyway who's inspired me the most in my life and why my mum my mum has inspired me the most in my life and here's why I know it sounds cliche but she has taught me the most she's taken on both mother and father roles because I never really had a father growing up I had a stepdad but we didn't really connect on a father-son level so mum took the reins for pretty much my entire life and and only recently in the last few years the the stuff that she's taught me all this time I've been able to kind of use and you know implement into scenarios that I've never been you know involved in but all of that teachings has made me realize holy crap mum you did it and she's the best thing that's ever happened to me you know and she's made me the person I am today and even though we had a few little bit of frictions you know disagreements and stuff throughout the throughout our years you know I love her to bits and I wouldn't be here without her obviously but like I wouldn't be further ahead without her help and um I love her for it and and um yeah mum thank you mum I love you okay Ben Licastro says what's the most expensive thing that you have purchased and why the most expensive thing that I've purchased is probably my car um it was like brand new or demo back in 2008 um I was 18 or slash 19 years old and I got a loan for it and it was about $30,000 I ended up paying so much interest on it and I bought it because I wanted to flex I thought it was cool and eight years of paying it off it was the dumb idea I should have purchased a $5,000 to $7,000 car whatever I could afford at the time it was a dumb idea but that was the most expensive thing and I do not encourage anyone to purchase a car that expensive at that age unless you somehow have saved that much money but a car is a terrible terrible thing to invest in if you're purchasing anything over $10,000 because as soon as you buy a car it degrade it devalues straight away so buy something secondhand I don't think I'll ever buy a brand new car unless I can buy 10 of them oh no that's too much if I can buy two of them and still be well off I'll buy one but I'm not interested in buying brand new cars anymore it's just a waste of money I just need to get from A to B I don't need a flex that I got an Audi or anything like that does not matter to me it does not matter so thanks for the question man hey we just hit a new record 61 there it is thank you all of you amazing amazing human beings for tuning into my life that is incredible 63 so this is all going on on the youtube channel thank you for commenting so we've got Cameron Shannon TomSka Misha Angel Harvey Victoria little monster man thank you guys you guys are amazing we're going to do a power five minutes of straight questions no cuts no bruises let's do this and I'm just going to go through the chat so if you see me do that that means I'm looking at the chat there I'm going to mention everyone that I can that asks me questions even the questions I've asked before here we go um okay start with Jasmine she loves Connoisseur ice cream thank you so much we're talking about ice cream before um Triss Trissa Brander Horst 61 says my teacher when I have my hand up for ages she looks at me and then she completely goes to someone else um Trissa just a little bit of advice there um teachers aren't perfect um and they've got so many things going on in their heads it's not you it's them and they will get better they learn and over time they'll be able to manage that whole class even I do that I feel for her but please understand there's so much going on in their heads and it's hard for them to juggle everything especially if your class has got 32 kids thanks Shannon for the um sticker appreciate it thanks for the love um all these good questions I'm asking where are we where are we where are we so many um yes Kath you are asking so many good questions you are on fire uh what's that noise that's the beeper and there's music in the background my favorite video game would probably be Call of Duty 4 um back in the day um how long have you been a teacher for I've been a teacher for two years um I'm sorry Kath if I missed your question favorite Netflix show um I don't really watch Netflix but I really got into suits I think that was on Netflix I just don't remember do you like video games yes I do okay which member so Kath Smith 77 says which member of your family do you feel closest to and why I did already answer that but um again I'll repeat it my mom is definitely the closest member because um every time there's something that's bothering me she knows straight away and she calls me up she says are you okay so that's um the member of my family that I'm closest to so thanks Kath 77 appreciate um we are at 60 people online it's amazing and it's been going strong at 60 this has been our best live performance ever um okay let's keep going what's the best worst part of teaching the best part is the fulfillment that I get from getting kids that click and then just like I get it the worst part is when parents don't care all right let's keep going what's the most memorable experience you've had in elementary school said by Kath Smith 77 um the most memorable experience you had in elementary school was probably when um I I was oh actually yeah year seven camp I loved year seven camp that was so fun a week of just cool things that we did down south like played fun little like murder in the dark and uh beach games and team building stuff it was so fun that was my favorite time thanks Kath for that um favorite food my favorite food um when I was a kid growing up was lasagna my favorite food now would probably be um oh probably lamb and or Nando's let's go with Nando's that's a safe one everyone loves Nando's all right we've got about two minutes left uh KSI versus Logan Paul um KSI won by one point from what I saw the kids talking about um I didn't actually watch the fun um in your eyes who won KSI or Logan Harvey UK 11 I didn't watch it so I don't know um yeah so we've got one minute left last chance to get mentioned for a question what's a good way of studying a good way of studying is actually going on youtube and finding as many different videos on the same topic and then going over all of them because they will all explain it differently and over time you will have read it viewed it listened to it so many times it may sink in or one of those explanations may click and you're like oh I got it now that makes sense okay it's like different teachers have different ways and tactics to teach you and one of them hits that right spot you're sweet you've done it you're good you did it thank you for the question daniella karan karan z 55 um if you could be anyone who would you be I love who I am I wouldn't really want to be anyone else because this is my life and I'm giving it a go in my own personal way I used to probably want to be um some famous AFL player when I was growing up I probably wanted to be some celebrity when I was growing up but what I've learned is those celebrities have lived their own life and they're doing their own thing I want to do it differently I want to do it my way and you know if it's better good for me if it's worse good for me as long as I'm happy hopefully that answers your question um okay okay I'm about to go on camp any suggestions or what to do on how to behave make sure you stay clean you stay hydrated and you enjoy it you live you don't live through your phone you keep your phone away and you enjoy your camp oh kupa did a tiktok with me today um do I speak any other languages and that was russian shea baby 17 hey girl what up and uh yeah that will be it