What is up guys karma medic here and welcome back to another dose. If you're new to the channel then hi My name is Nasser and I'm now a fourth year medical student studying at King's College London and as you've probably seen we have just crossed 750,000 subscribers which is three quarters of a million, which is absolutely insane to think about I Just the numbers almost don't mean anything anymore They're so big and so difficult to picture in my hand or comprehend or make sense of that It just doesn't make sense. It's it's very very difficult to put it into perspective a little bit of house cleaning before we start Almost as a reminder for myself of where I am in life I'm currently at the end of my fourth year of medical school crossing 750,000 subscribers Pretty crazy timing. I am now officially on tiktok. I'm having an absolute blast making videos over there If you don't already follow me, please make sure you do I'm posting there almost daily or pretty much daily The next thing is that we are trying to hit one million subscribers by the time I graduate and become a doctor if you're watching this assumptions video Then you're likely someone who is a hardcore viewer of the common medic channel You likely care about me or my journey to becoming a doctor and what it is that I'm doing on my YouTube So I need your help if you know anyone in your life or think other people on the internet could benefit from my videos Whether that's my medical school vlogs my study with me videos my educational videos time management things like that Please feel free to share my channel with them to tell them about the channel and let's reach a million subscribers As soon as possible, so I asked you guys on Instagram if you had any assumptions about me or my life or my studying or whatever I've organized them into a whole bunch of folders We've got friends girlfriend high school life medicine miscellaneous money motivation personality religion social media studying and productivity YouTube food and free time. So yeah, we've got quite a lot to get through grab yourself a coffee or a drink a snack sit back Relax, I'll leave chapters and links so that you guys can skip to any part of the video that you like But make sure you watch the whole thing and without further ado, let's get started All right, so let's start with personality because I got quite a few interesting assumptions over here So we've got you're an introvert and extremely shy in real life You're sometimes very shy and you don't like being around people too much because you don't like talking a lot You're an introvert.    You're an absolute introvert I think you guys get the point by now So I'm not gonna lie I was actually really surprised to get this many assumptions about me being shy or an introvert because I honestly feel like that Couldn't be further from the truth. I'm someone who has a pretty easy time in social settings I love meeting new people and talking to new people Finding out what it is that they like what is they don't like whether we have anything in common, etc And this is something that I've been thinking about for quite a while now because multiple people have told me in my real life So like my friends and people from my university have told me that I come across Way less cool and way lamar on camera than I am in real life And I've said this quite a bit on my podcast the karma cast which you should obviously subscribe to if you haven't already That I want my personality in real life to be the exact same as my personality on camera And maybe it's the fact that you know filming yourself on a camera is a lot more artificial and especially when you're on public I feel like it's a lot more difficult to be really open and yourself while holding a camera to your face But yeah, there is this discrepancy for some reason that I want to work on bringing together and matching entirely The other thing is that when you're making videos and putting them out for absolutely everyone to see I feel like that is a really no I feel like I know that that's a really scary thing and you want to make sure that you come across in the most professional the most You know proper kind way as possible And so probably a little bit of the discrepancy between my in real life personality and my camera personality is that I know that This is going to be seen by a whole bunch of people including my future colleagues in the hospital people at my university Whether that be faculty or friends And so you know I always want to make sure that I'm as professional as possible a lot of your comments on my recent Vlogs have been saying oh we're getting to see more of NASA's personality his personality is finally coming out things like that Which I'm which I'm really happy to hear so I'm working on it I'm trying to match my personality in real life and on camera to be the exact same so we'll get there My assumption is that you haven't always been this productive I've actually been this productive forever pretty much when I was in high school I was productive in the sense that I would you know very efficiently finish my homework and then move on to Playing video games or hanging out with my friends or whatever I was still using all of my time as much as possible not really sitting there schooling through my phone or anything like that then obviously in University most of my time being productive was spent studying and preparing for exams and working on assignments and things like that and now in Medical school with you know this whole YouTube channel and all the extra things that I'm doing outside of medical school Yeah, I feel like I'm at peak productivity. So I've been like this for a very long time I assume that you're very kind and patient with the people who wrong you one of the main sort of principles I live with in my life is that I'm very open to new people that I meet I'm more likely to trust you quite easily at the beginning. I'm a very open person But if you lose that trust from me, it's pretty much impossible to get back I'm very easy to give it, but it's very hard to get back if you've lost it You have a secret crazy side you let out once a year Um, I definitely have a secret crazy side that I let out all the time You know, I'm studying very very hard for long periods of time and then there's always you know those Weekends or nights out where you let off a lot of steam you go on you have lots of fun I'm not always a robot sitting at my desk and studying. You're super organized and clean.  Absolutely.  That's a tricky one. I like to think that anything that I do in life I do to as high of a standard as I can possibly do it But that is always always always in balance with Being efficient and not spending too much time doing something thinking about what the value is from the time I'm putting into this project and making sure I don't exceed time input from value output So yes, I like to do everything very neatly to a high standard But at the same time it needs to get done quickly if there's not a lot of value coming out of it from the time I'm putting into it. Hopefully that makes sense. You don't stop arguing or debating until they acknowledge You're right. This is the complete opposite of me I despise these types of arguments where people are trying so hard to prove that they're right or like get their point across for me Personally, I'll explain my position or my opinion once maximum twice and if the other person doesn't agree with me That is completely fine. I acknowledge that we can have different opinions and I just move on with my life I despise these types of debates and arguments. You're insecure about your appearance. You know, that's a that's a funny one I think appearance for me is something that I've never really thought about when I was in high school and I had Horrible acne all over my face. It didn't bother me that much And I think at the time it was mainly because I was so focused on just playing video games and having fun with my friends That I didn't really care about what I looked like or being attractive to girls or anything like that and then sort of as I've grown older luckily and thankfully I've always been quite happy with what I look like I don't really look in the mirror and see any imperfections or things that I don't like I can always get bigger and more jacked in the gym. So, you know, I'm always working on that But other than that, thankfully and luckily it's not something that I think about it's not something that I'm insecure about You are very emotional I think I have a very very bad personality trait and have it where I just shove all of my emotions into a box And I close them off and I hide them away same with anything that's on my mind that's bothering me that is like stressing Me out. I'll literally put it in a box Shove that to the side of my brain and close that box It's very very useful when you have tons of things to do and you need to move on and you need to get stuff done Studying work side hustle jobs YouTube, whatever It's very useful for that type of life as far as processing your emotions being a reflective person It's a horrible personality trait and it's something that I'm definitely working on I want to be more in touch with my emotions and reflect on my emotions as I go through life You don't like to talk about your feelings. Yeah, that goes hand in hand with what I just said You don't get angry very easily.  If they bother me or stress me out or whatever It's literally water under the bridge I literally brush off anything in my life that doesn't make me happy that bothers me that stresses me out I feel like there's so much you can you if you wanted to you could focus so much on the negative things That are happening in your life and it can affect the rest of your life And I try very very hard to spend very little time thinking about those things And focusing all of my energy on things that make me happy and things that I do want to be doing You're not as friendly as you seem to be in your videos. I might be wrong. I'm definitely way more friendly in real life. If anything Definitely a lot of people say to me that before they meet me if they see me walking around campus or something And I'm listening to music they feel very intimidated because I look very serious And I always look like I'm on a mission running around the place But that once they meet me they're like, oh my god, you're so much more friendly than I thought So I'm way more friendly in real life. Faye Bates says that you learn how to speak so calmly from buddhist monks The only explanation. Do I speak calmly? I feel like uh annas who was also on my podcast child the karmicast He speaks very calmly. He has like the most soothing voice ever. Um, but if you think I have a soothing voice Thank you very much. That's a nice compliment. Alexia mig You guys might might know of her.  I think I am a little bit of a robot I really do I think like I said, I can shut things off very easily in my brain and emotionally and just push them to the side If there's a task in front of me that I need to get done. I will do it right then and there I really don't procrastinate pretty much anything. I'm working on something almost the whole day Whether that's studying youtube exercise anything at all I'm constantly doing something that I feel is adding value or is being productive in my life So I guess I'm a little bit of a robot. It's true, but I'm trying to work on it I'm trying to be more non-robot in my interactions with people You're not really a people person, uh, but trying to be one because you're now an influencer Nope, I'm absolutely a people person and I have been my whole life You don't have emotional breakdowns or burnouts. No, I don't the last time I cried was in 2017 and I remember it very clearly I've wanted to cry and have come very close to crying several times since then but I but I haven't And that's also something that I'm trying to work on letting myself cry and be more emotional because not crying Is not the way to go. Don't do it. You have a different personality outside of youtube like a much cooler one Yes, we addressed this in a previous question Apparently I'm much cooler in real life than I come across on youtube. I feel like you're a very private person Even though you vlog about your life. Yes, absolutely I love to keep my privacy intact and you know as much as I do share online as much as I vlog I really show you guys what I want to show you and my private life time spent with friends Time spent with my girlfriend and family and all those types things is very private One of my biggest fears with this whole youtube thing is that I will one day lose my privacy and my online life will mix With my real life and everyone will know everything about me. Yeah, that's definitely one of my biggest fears I like my privacy I want to keep my privacy and I still want to make all these videos and share everything that I love talking about That I'm passionate about so it's a difficult balance sometimes it really is but I think I'm doing a good job I assume that you are very competitive in nature I like I like a little bit of competition But it's definitely not like one of the defining traits about me the people who know me wouldn't say Nasser is a competitive person. I don't think that's the case You are confident enough to be different than other medical students.  I would rather do that action fail get it wrong Whatever and learn from the experience than not do it at all or be shy And yeah, but there's like this stereotype of medics being like, I don't know really snobby really studious Snakey blah blah blah. I've never been like that and I never will be like that And there's plenty of room in medical school to be a completely normal nice kind person And there are plenty of those people as well. Um, so yeah, absolutely. All right, so that's it for personality. Now. Let's talk about friends So we've got my assumptions that you don't have friends in college I assume you don't have a lot of friends and your social life is poor. Okay Fair enough assumption, I guess the truth is that one of the things I'm very lucky about is that I have too many friends that I can't see them all enough I can't spend enough time with each of them and I can't, you know, do all the social Interactions and events that I want to do. I feel very very blessed to have Three sets of friend groups. So I've got my friends that I went to high school with in Greece There's about a group of 10 to 15 of them who feel like my brothers and sisters We meet regularly here in London. Well when we could and yeah, I love them to death They're very very close to me Then there's a second group of friends that I made at the University of Toronto when I was doing my first degree over there And those guys are just some of the best people I've met in my life I really really love them and I'm sure we're going to be friends for a long long time And now that I'm here in Kings I have got a third circle of friends probably the smallest of the three circles of friends that I have So no assumption is false I'm very very lucky to be surrounded by some pretty amazing people in my life next assumption That you're the type of person who has lots of friends and it's great at relationships Okay, so literally the exact opposite of the first one. Yeah, I think I answered this All right for the next one. Let's do a religion plenty of you people Have asked me about my religion This is has been one of the most frequently commented things for a very long time I don't know why people are so interested in it Here we go So we bought my assumption is that you might be an atheist.  Nope.  I assume you're an atheist.   Assume you're religious.  You don't follow our traditions.  All right, so I grew up in a muslim household both my parents are practicing Muslims when I was younger. I was a lot more religious than I am now I do consider myself to be muslim. I do believe in a god, but I wouldn't consider myself to be a religious person I never prayed five times a day. I never even prayed once a night I sort of used to pray every now and again very loosely and sort of as I've grown older and older I've become less and less in touch with religion and less and less in touch with Arabic traditions. So for example fasting is something that I did ever since I was a kid every single year Up until I went to university and then once I went to university. I stopped fasting Not sure why to be honest. I think that first year that I was there I felt like I was away from home away from my family and I felt like there wasn't that community environment or that community aspect of other people fasting with me and going through it with me at the same time And I decided not to fast and then I haven't looked back since so my overall thoughts on religion are that I think it's a good thing if it provides guidance for you if it sets sort of some rules for you to follow some goals to aspire to Some personality traits or characteristics to aspire towards. I think religion is very good from that aspect There's a lot of other things that I don't really like about religion as well And for me personally, I see religion as a relationship between me and god I do believe in a god and yeah It's sort of like something between me and my god how I choose to interact with god or pray or not pray and do all these things I see it as a very Individual relationship not so much as this big community thing that we think about as religion Obviously, I understand everyone has a different relationship and I completely respect anyone's relationship with their religion. It's completely fine That's just my own. All right next. Let's move on to youtube We've got Kisi who says I assume that you've sacrificed a lot of things to get where you are now Social life friends and hobbies. I've definitely sacrificed a lot of things for this youtube channel Since I upload on a weekly basis There have been many many nights where you know, we're going out for drinks or we're meeting at a friend's house Or there's like some social event or something and I know that I need to get some editing done So that my video can be ready for thursday and I've decided to stay in and work on that video And not go out and do that thing and the reason is that you know, youtube for me is something that I enjoyed so much It was such it's has always been such a great creative relief and outlet for me that you know Staying home to edit a video or film a video is the equivalent Well, not the equivalent but it provides me as much value as going out and having a social event And so there's definitely been lots of times where I've chosen youtube over other things in my life Whether that be friends, family, social events, etc Not to make it sound like I'm ignoring those other aspects of my life because I really do believe I've had a very good balance throughout But there are times when you know, youtube takes priority in my life Similar to there are times when all those other things take priority in my life as well My assumption is that you don't like to tell your friends you have a youtube channel because you feel sort of shy I don't know something like that. So this was definitely true when I first started my youtube channel I made a conscious decision from the beginning that I was going to tell absolutely no one I was going to do this all on my own and just you know Go out there make my videos and try and help people get accepted to medical school And the reason that I did that is because I didn't want the additional pressure of knowing that people who I know are watching These videos as well and what they might be thinking what their opinions might be I didn't want that to sort of affect my bigger goal Which was to actually help people get accepted to medical school And I knew that if I thought about those opinions and if I had that as part of the process It would affect me and I and I remember vividly saying to alexia I said to her when I have 400 subscribers That's when I'm going to feel confident telling my close friends that I have a youtube channel because 400 people Is an absolutely insanely huge big number of people to be supporting my work and liking what I do And it will be at that point that I feel confident enough to tell my friends Which is insane to think about how much numbers change and how every time you reach a new milestone That's the baseline that gets set and every time you get higher higher higher your baseline gets higher and higher and higher And you become happy with uh less and less and less and you always want more and more and more Anyways, I got a little bit off track. So yeah, I remember at the beginning I was definitely shy about telling my friends that I had a youtube channel And it took a little bit of time and courage for me to feel confident in saying it And now it's something that I'm unbelievably proud of. I mean I was always proud of it, but there's this crazy Stigma and thing that we do in social environments, which is that people who are trying to Uh, you know grow an instagram page or youtube channel or Tiktok channel or whatever people think of that as lame and uncool and something that is You know not cool to do until they cross some sort of magical threshold of a number Let's say 10,000 subscribers or 10,000 views and then it suddenly becomes cool And I don't know why we do this as a society We look down on people who are trying to grow these social platforms until they've reached some magical number And then we're like, oh suddenly, you know, you're doing something that's cool You're doing something that's interesting. You have viewers. You have subscribers. You have fans Whatever it is.  I'm trying to break down those stigmas and change that for sure I assume that there are youtubers you're jealous of. I'm jealous of absolutely nobody Whether that's on youtube or in real life.  I'm so happy and I'm so confident in my life and what I'm doing There's literally nothing more I could want great close friends. I've got them a loving girlfriend I've got them a loving family I've got them this youtube channel that people seem to love and subscribe to and watch I've got it literally every electronic I could possibly want in my whole life is sitting on this desk There is I'm I'm left wanting nothing. I feel so lucky and so privileged and so happy in my In my position in life. I forgot to add on to that a satisfying degree and career that I'm working towards I'm so so so so lucky in all aspects of my life like touch wood a million times My mom is going to be mad at me for saying all this She's going to want to bring up that blue eye to take away the iron I'm I feel so grateful for every aspect of my life There's literally nothing more that I could want nothing that I could be jealous of thank god YouTube is the main reason you study hard. I have been studying very very hard long before I turned on the camera and told youtube about it I would do youtube full-time rather than being a doctor. Absolutely not youtube is very fun. I enjoy it so much It's a fantastic side hobby and side hustle but where I derive my happiness and gratefulness and Personal satisfaction is from the fact that I'm working towards becoming a doctor Is from the fact that I'm studying and learning and seeing patients. That's what brings me satisfaction inside I love youtube and it's absolutely amazing. But that's not where my long-term goals lie. You never had anxiety I Interesting story actually there was one time in canada where I was sitting at my desk studying A couple weeks leading up to an exam and suddenly out of nowhere. I had this intense intense chest pain I started feeling lightheaded I felt like I couldn't breathe because I had this pleuridic pain every time I breathed in And I actually ended up calling the ambulance on myself I called nine on one and they were like is there a fire and I was like no and they're like Is someone bleeding and I was like no and they're like, okay. What's happening? And I was like, I think I'm having a heart attack This was like 21 years old before I'd studied medicine properly and known that that was very very unlikely for me But yeah, I was I was so scared that day and basically the conclusion that we came to is that I probably had an anxiety attack So, yeah, I've had that one more time in my life is extremely unpleasant that hopefully answers your question Journey to med says you want to do youtube for as long as possible. You don't want to be a youtuber forever I would love to have some sort of online presence make some sort of content Whether that's youtube tiktok instagram, whatever the next social media platform is I would love to do this for a long time. I enjoy it so much. I gain so much value from it So in some way shape or form I will be on the internet. I'm not going anywhere. So make sure you subscribe But your next video is going to be a banger Obviously, you guys already know that and every video is a banger like comment and subscribe Are you going to post videos on youtube even after becoming a doctor? Yes? I hope so I would love to make videos about my experience being a doctor obviously within Patient confidentiality and all the very strict rules and restrictions that I'm going to have Talking about my work and my practice when I become a doctor But I'm sure that we'll find some sort of way to keep this going. You still get a bit scared while I I think that's supposed to say vlogging in public. Yes, absolutely when I vlog in public Sometimes I feel like I don't care and I have the courage and the energy and I just do it And I don't even think about it and other times I literally have to tell myself like, okay, nasser Come on, you're gonna do it now pull up the camera and start talking. It depends where I am How many people there are you know, it depends on so many things But I definitely still get scared when I vlog in public You really cherish the people around you and hopefully us like I said before I feel so Grateful to be surrounded by the people who I am surrounded by And also so grateful for the people who watch these videos and actually leave me nice comments and like my video And seem to actually derive value from it It's absolutely crazy that I can reach, you know people from all over the world All ages from like making videos in my room out. I'm incredibly grateful for for all of this I know that none of this came easy. That's for sure and I appreciate every single person who watches my videos So thank you. You sometimes laugh at yourself when editing videos. I laugh at myself all the time I'm constantly laughing at things that I said actions that I did That's definitely true. This is a good one. You only show the positive side on camera for us But you two have days when you're down I will preface this by saying that again very very very lucky very very grateful Like there are so few things that bring me down and make me upset and like I have so few bad days Because I generally just brush things off my shoulder if something's stressing me if something's bothering me I literally don't think about it. I'm just like I don't want this energy in my life And I just don't think about it But of course I do have my down days and I do have days where things are just not going right And I am sad now picture me having a bad day and things are not going well And I'm like sad and and down the last thing that I want to do is pick up a camera and start talking to it And like I like pretending that I'm happy I would never want to do that because that sounds very horrible And I also don't really want to turn on a camera and you know Lay out all of my problems to a camera and vent to a camera and there's two reasons for that one I think that people don't care to begin with why would anyone want to listen to my problems and hear about A bad day that I'm having and then the second thing is that back to the previous conversation I was having about my privacy.  That's a very personal private experience And the last thing that I want to do is sort of put that online for other people to have a look at Or have opinions on and share their thoughts about so that's another reason why I don't really film days when I'm really really sad Not that I have days where I'm really really sad. They happen once in the blue moon But I don't I don't really film when I'm having a bad day because it's just the last thing that I want to do And lastly you spend less than two hours a day on your phone. That's definitely not true I spend way too much time on my phone if I'm not studying and if I'm not at medical school and whatever I feel like my entire life outside of that lives on my phone You know youtube comments and analytics now that I'm on tiktok posting daily. We've got instagram We also we got whatsapp facebook messages constantly coming through I spend way too much time on my phone. I need to cut that down if anything and that is youtube and social media done All right, let's talk about life Surely a fun topic My assumption is that you are thriving in lockdown because of the ability to study more the fact that we had a lockdown Is probably the main reason Well, it is without a doubt the main reason I was able to spend so much time studying for the usmd step one exam If I had to balance going to medical school going to placement having med school exams and assignments Plus studying for step one. I could not have done it in such a short period of time that I did thriving in lockdown Definitely not. I absolutely I'm not having fun in lockdown. I wish everything was back to normal But of course it does lend itself to more time spent at home more time able to study more time able to work on these youtube videos Etc. My assumption is that you secretly don't sleep much but film it for the video And that way you look normal But you can also get all your to-do lists checked off. Um, I'm very open about how much I sleep I talk about it pretty much every video The last thing I do before I sleep is I set my alarm for seven hours from whatever the time is now And then I put it on my side table and it wakes me up in seven hours from then I don't like to sleep more because I want to get up and start working on my to-do list and working all the Things that I want to do and yeah, I just don't really value sleep too too much There's a minimum amount that I need which is about six six and a half hours And then if I meet that then I'm good to go for example today I had my alarm set for nine because I slept late at two and I woke up at seven two hours before my alarm So I just got up and started my day two hours early, which is great because now I have an extra two hours in my day So yeah, I'm very open about how much I sleep assumption. You barely talk to your family during med school I don't think that's the case I definitely could talk to my family more But I think I do a fairly good job of keeping in touch and calling them Pretty regularly my assumptions that you're finally living the life You always want to to you're perfect with your studies career and as well as your personal life I feel like I need to knock wood a bajillion times I just talked about this in one of the previous questions But yeah, I'm I'm very very happy in all aspects of my life. If you're watching this and you have some wood next to you Please knock it on my behalf. You do not enjoy going out to a lot of parties But if you're going out of your friends and close ones, you have a good time. I love parties house parties are the best place to be I love going to clubs. I love going to bars I really really enjoy that scene We don't get to do it at all now because we're in lockdown But otherwise we don't get to do it too much because we're in medical school And there's a lot of things to do a lot of studying to be done and placement to go to But I absolutely love going out one of my favorite activities in past times You don't worry about the future that much and don't get paranoid if things don't go as planned PS lovely content. You're always inspiring and Alexia is a cutie lover. Yes, Alexia is a massive cutie Thank you for the lovely comments. I don't get worried about the future and I don't get paranoid if things go to plan That's absolutely true I do not plan that far ahead into the future because things change literally like this and you know If I make a big plan and then it changes that's so possible to happen And so I don't like to think too far ahead. I plan for what I'm about to do right now What I'm about to do today general plan about the next week I don't even think about the next month like not at all Everything happens on a short-term basis and I just focus on what's in front of me My assumption is you don't take all your medications as often as you described in your 50 facts about me video I am so bad at taking my asthma medication It's it's actually embarrassing as an asthmatic you take two types of inhalers One is a reliever which alleviates symptoms that you're having right now And then the other one is a maintainer and this is what actually treats your asthma and helps the inflammation go down And your secretions go down This is what you need to take every single day and this is only what you take when you have symptoms I am terrible at taking this.  I was at a frat party once and someone walked up to me and they're like liam hemsworth Oh my god, it's liam hemsworth. I didn't even know who he was before I heard that I think pewdiepie is a very good-looking man same with liam hemsworth And so I will take that as a compliment you secretly have more than 24 hours in a day It probably looks like that from watching my videos. Um, I I'm constantly feeling like I don't have enough time in my day Every single day. I don't finish the to-do list that I made for myself every single day And I always feel like I'm running out of time So I wish I had just one more hour maybe two if I'm being greedy you're not gonna settle in london This is something that I am constantly battling with in my life I don't know where I want to live for the rest of my life and I feel like once I settle down somewhere I kind of have to stay there because of the nature of my career So I'm really really not sure it's something I'm still thinking about and debating inside And yeah, hopefully I figure that out sooner rather than later But basically london us and canada are probably the places I'm considering most you never sleep in even on weekends Please explain how do you stay up late? That is very true I never sleep in and the never will have a little asterisk next to it that says that that is true Let's say 95 of the time the only times I sleep in are if I have had like a series of nights in a row Where I've slept like five and a half six hours six and a half and then I'm like, okay You know what you need to catch up on sleep sleep for your eight and a half nine hours or whatever But otherwise, like I said set my alarm for seven hours put it on my side table and I go straight to bed You've never been in a fight with your twin sister when you were kids nor and I have been in plenty of fights as kids She has bitten a chunk of skin out of my back I have thrown a chair like this at her like across the room. I think we even got into a fist fight once So we've had our fair share of fights as kids Um over very stupid things, but now as adults were we're very happy together.  I feel like I don't finish all the things that I want to do So if we add on to that somebody wasting my time or me wasting someone's time, that's a big no no Nor karma says how does it feel to have such an amazing talented and humble sister? Who is that if you'd have a day off you'd rather spend it with pre-planned stuff than spontaneously Yeah, absolutely every day off I've ever taken I have planned exactly what I'm going to do that day One of my recent vlogs, uh, which was a productive day in my life without any studying I had a plan for that whole day from the morning till the night You learned a language at some point but didn't practice it and forgot it almost completely That is one million percent true with both french and spanish spanish I feel like I still have a little bit somewhere left in there, but french is completely gone You schedule a cry session every once in a while. I probably should but I don't you don't like getting drunk Definitely not I tend to drink up until the point where I feel like I'm having a good time Everything is good and then I stop. I really do not like the feeling of being drunk And I definitely do not like the morning after after you've had a big night out and you feel drunk So I really do avoid that at all costs. You're a family guy Uh, not yet because I don't have a family, but I can't wait to have one I think I will be a very good dad and I can't wait to be a dad at some point in the future Obviously, that's not the right time. All right. So next let's talk about girlfriend First of all, I've been receiving a whole bunch of comments asking if me and alexia have broken up No, we haven't we're still together We just don't like to post too much about our lives online like the conversation I was having with you guys earlier I like to keep my private life private And I don't want to put everything that I do in my life online. So that's why you haven't been seeing too much of her lately Okay, moving on to studying and productivity We've gone.  You don't actually study four hour blocks I do actually study in four hour blocks and I've made a whole bunch of videos about why I think that's a great way Of studying that works for me. Yeah, I definitely do if I only have a two hour window to study between x and y activities And then I obviously don't study in four hour blocks But if I plan a day of studying, I always study in four hour blocks You take Ritalin or various smart drugs. I have never taken Ritalin or any other Performance enhancing drug or whatever taking drugs scares the hell out of me The thought or the idea of not being in control of having my heart racing or feeling super Focused or energized scares the living hell out of me. I I don't ever want to feel that way And so I stay away from these drugs at all times Coffee is more than enough for me.  Absolutely My assumption is that you follow a very strict routine and never compromise with the study hours Uh, yeah, I do. I plan pretty much everything in my life and I very strictly follow that plan I compromise for very little reasons something really drastic has to come up to take me away from the activity that I've told myself I'm going to do my assumptions that you were so unproductive during your school years that once you entered high school or college You realize the need for productivity in your life and became addicted to the feeling of satisfaction upon having completed all your tasks No, ever since high school. I've been super motivated. I've been working really hard studying very hard It's not something that sort of happened when I reached university when I reached university I had so much more work and so much more Need for time management that naturally I had to become a lot better at it But I've always been very hardworking from when I was young shout out my mom and dad for that You've always been clever. This is a good one that I like to talk about in every one of these videos that I do I'm very very adamant about the fact that I am not a clever person. I do not think I am smart I do not think I am clever what I do think is that I put in a lot of time effort and dedication into learning things and into You know succeeding at exams or whatever other like methods of assessing us for being clever is at university I have friends who are very very good at assimilating large amounts of information quickly without needing to study for long periods of time I am not like that at all I need to sit down and I need to study for long periods of time to get in that same amount of information So I really don't think I'm clever or smart or anything like that And I offset that by working very hard and studying for long periods of time And you know doing all the work that I do my assumptions that you never have unproductive days.  I'm not studying for anyone else My assumptions that the breaks in your study with me videos are just for us and you study for seven hours straight Yeah, the breaks in my pomodoro study with me videos are just for you guys If you watch closely, you'll see that I'm doing the same thing before and after the break I take plenty of my own breaks during my four hour block. I go to the bathroom.  I study in four hour blocks There is no way someone is doing construction right now midway through my filming. There's no way It's not happening. Emily says you never got a under the average grade My assumption is that you never failed the test or got low marks. You've never failed the test I have gotten two very poor grades in my life One was 44 on a math class in high school and my teacher Shouted at me so much in front of everyone when he handed me that paper back And the other one is I got 55 percent in a physics test in my first year of university So those are the two lowest grades I've ever gotten and they are definitely an exception. Everything else has been Very very good touch wood my assumptions that you have a photographic memory. Definitely not I definitely learned better with images diagrams flowcharts You know sketches I learned much better like that than I do with audio or with reading something But I definitely don't have a photograph memory. I wish I didn't my assumption Is that you have a chip installed somewhere that makes you an absolute productivity machine? Can you guys see that? I don't think you can see it. I thought I was hiding it quite well Sometimes you wonder whether you have toxic productivity. By the way, love your vids. Definitely This is something that I thought about quite hard when I don't know There was like all this chatter online and videos coming out about toxic productivity and whatever because if you look at my Channel, it probably fits right into the definition of toxic productivity Somebody who studies very hard and makes videos about them studying and things like that So I've thought long and hard about this. I even wrote out a full video script about it But I never ended up releasing the video Basically, my thoughts on the subject are that I'm very clear and I'm very honest with how much I study when I study How I study my studying techniques, whatever I'm so super honest and transparent about that and I make it very clear that these are all things and techniques that work For me personally. I love doing this.  I need to study more and this is really stressful Then please don't watch my videos.  I want to work harder. I want to motivate myself blah blah blah Then that's great And that's why I'm making these videos to hopefully add value to somebody's life like that If my videos are causing stress or anxiety to people who watch them that makes me really sad I I have always hoped that that's not the case But if that is then you know, maybe take a break from me or from other channels that post that type of content If I watch something online that causes me stress I will just not watch it anymore because I don't need that in my life And if I cause you stress, then you don't need me in my life and as sad as that is for me to say I I think that's where the reality of it is everyone is different Everyone studies differently everyone's confident in their studies to different extents So do whatever works for you, you know, if you enjoy this type of content then fantastic Welcome to my channel subscribe and I hope you stay around and if this content isn't for you Then that's okay. I'll catch you in the next one We're in a different video in the future peace love and positivity and all of that and I'll see you in another video You sometimes enjoy studying. I absolutely love what I'm studying I'm so fascinated by generally most things that I read and that I come across don't get me wrong I'm so tired of studying just like every other medical student out there But at least I enjoy it and I find it very interesting you rest on weekends. Yeah, definitely I work very hard during the week and then on the weekends I take a step back now because exams are coming up very soon I've been studying decently hard on the weekends as well But yeah, I work a lot harder during the week for sure. Secretly a big procrastinator. No, not at all I procrastinate almost nothing in my life. You're more of a night owl. Absolutely not I am the most morning person of all morning people that you will find I don't wake up at like four or five or anything like that, but I love waking up early like seven Getting up and being active and doing things in the morning. I get very very sleepy and tired I like midnight and then I need to go to bed. So I'm definitely a morning person You never struggle with exam anxiety. You rarely get stressed about your studies because you are so organized You know exams medical school assignments, whatever that stresses me maybe like 10 percent of like stress in my life I rarely get stressed about those things Like you said partially because I'm so organized and I plan so much and I work so hard I study so much for my exams and in preparation for these things And once you've done that much studying and that much work and that much prep How could you be stressed like for my upcoming exams now? They're very very big exams that are going to be very very important for me But all I can do the only thing in my control is to study as hard as I possibly can for them Let me show you as for example with this timetable that I have um, you can see This one is now finished. So I've done all those days of studying and now I have These days of studying coming off as well. So by the time I reach the test day Where is it over here? By the time I reach test day I will have studied as much as I possibly could have If I actually do all of this, that's it. I've done everything within my control I've done everything that I could have possibly done So there's nothing for me to be stressed about if I do well Which I probably will based on how much studying I've done then that's great And if I don't do well, well, that's going to be really sad And I'll work on and focus on how I can fix that in the future But I've done everything that I can there's nothing more for me to do So I can't possibly feel stressed. That's why I like to think about it anyway. All right next Let's tackle high school My assumption is that you had a great childhood. Growing up in Greece was incredible I have very fond memories of my childhood. I am so grateful and thankful for everything that I had all my experiences I would definitely agree with that statement. My assumption is that in high school You must have been very overweight and then you controlled your diet and got lean I think I'm blessed with my genetics in that I've always been sort of like a thinner leaner Lankier limbs body type and in fact, I struggle to put on weight And I need to eat a lot and hit the gym very hard to put on muscle mass So I've been very luckily blessed with those types of genes So not quite you have never cut classes in your grade school years. Yeah, I skipped pretty much no classes in high school I think I skipped maybe one or two in my final year or something like that But no, I wouldn't have dreamed of it. My parents would have not been happy with me at all You were super popular kid in school that everyone liked and wanted to be friends with not very true at all I had a very close group of friends who I really really liked and we mostly just played video games and did our own thing Hacked and jail broke our iPods and were really interested in tech and things like that I definitely wasn't one of the like popular kids that all the girls were like hunting after or whatever But uh, yeah, I'd say I was really nice and everyone would have wanted to be in friends with me I don't think I like pushed anyone away or anything like that. You've never really struggled at school And you've always been a straight a student. Yeah, this is true I've gone in straight a's throughout all my high school years Most of my university degree as well and in medical school now. I've always worked very very hard for exams I've always studied very hard I always bring up the fact that I've never gone into an exam feeling unprepared literally ever my next exam coming up After I've done all this studying. How could I feel unprepared? I will have done literally everything that I could have and so that's what I always tell myself Study your very best prepare as much as you can and then whatever happens happens. You've never received detention Funny you guys say this I have spent more time in detention than I have outside on the playground in the field Like I have been in detention so many times I've been held back after high school so many times all me and my friend group did was laugh and cause havoc and Just be a nuisance probably to teachers. I've had infinite detentions in my time in high school I'm I am offended that you would assume this about me. Absolutely not So money my assumption is that you are wealthy. My assumption is you are a rich guy. You're from a rich family Are you rich? You're born into a rich family quite affluent parental background. You're well financially You're from a wealthy family. You're very rich.  All right guys So I definitely grew up in a privileged background I definitely was very lucky to not have to worry about things like you know food a roof over my head electricity bills water bills anything like that I'm eternally grateful for everything that my parents provided for me as a child at the same time I am nothing like what you guys probably think about when you think of hour of money What you see on youtube and instagram and things like that That's absolutely not at all how we are and then since I've started this youtube channel I've had a bunch of extra income that i'm able to spend on things that I want in life Mostly electronics as you guys probably see on my desk You might look at my desk and see 10 000 pounds worth of electronics and think to yourself.  He has so much money blah blah blah, but this is where I choose to spend my money These are the things that I think bring tons of value to my life and I would be so happy to spend my money on I don't really spend money on expensive dinners or clothes or you know shoes or I don't know what else people spend their money on But for me electronics is where I love to spend my money because they bring me such an insane return on investment They add so much value to my life that it's a very easy spending decision for me to buy a mac mini for editing Or these speakers for listening to music or you know this podcast arm and podcasting microphone These are all very easy spending decisions for me to make because they provide so much value in my life So growing up my parents provided pretty much everything that I have or could have wanted in my life And I am eternally grateful and thankful for that from them and it's part of the reason that I'm so hard working I'm so motivated and that I you know I'm so disciplined in everything that I do It's because I've seen what my parents did to provide me with the comfortable lifestyle that I had as a kid And I want to provide that exact same lifestyle to my children in the future One of the things that I'm most scared about in life is that I won't be able to provide for the people that I love And for my family moving forward And so I work very hard now and you guys always see me being productive and working and you know being Studios and everything like that because I want to mitigate that risk as much as possible I want to set myself up to be in as best of a position as possible for success To be able to provide for my family in the future So yeah, that's part of where my motivation comes from for everything that I do And so that is a good segue for us to jump into motivation We've got you seldom feel unmotivated. Yeah, that's absolutely true. You know any time I feel unmotivated or unproductive or anything like that I'm honestly reminded by my dad who he went to two universities at the same time studying engineering and law He has had to flee three wars in his life moving countries changing jobs Whenever I think about my problems and what I'm going through and if I'm feeling unmotivated or unproductive I'm like actually no I have no right to feel that way My dad has been through an infinitely harder time than me And he worked so so so hard to give me the life that I have now And for me to enjoy everything that I enjoy now and I want to do the same for my kids And so I almost never feel unmotivated if there's something that I need to do I just get it done if there's any work that needs to be done. I just get it done That's how I lift most of my life my assumptions that you feel guilty each time you take a break and feel accountable to someone I feel zero percent guilty when I'm not working because I work very hard And so the time that I don't spend working I'm very fine with taking a break and enjoying myself and having fun and relaxing I don't really feel accountable to anyone the work that I do and the studying that I do and you know This youtube channel and whatever all these things i'm doing for me I'm not doing them for anyone else at the end of the day You know who's going to benefit from all this work and studying that i'm doing me and my future family And so I'm motivated by myself and by wanting to work harder to be able to do everything that I want to do in this life You know provide for my family be able to take nice vacations and nice breaks and that's really why i'm always working because I want to Be able to do all of those things in the future not an assumption But would love to know what gets you up from bed when you feel completely unmotivated I'm just going to sound super unrelatable when I say this But I can honestly say I I have not woken up and felt like this even when I was studying for the us I'm least step one exam and I was like Four months in of studying eight to ten hours a day when I woke up in the morning Yes, I was super like bummed out that I had to continue studying and sit down and do this again And I was like it was such a difficult time in my life But I don't I wouldn't say I felt unmotivated because I knew that I just had to do what I had to do And I had to get up and study for this exam You know, it was just an important thing that I had to do So I don't really think I felt unmotivated If I have to study then I have to study if I have to work then I have to work If I have to chill and play video games then I have to chill and play video games And I don't really think about motivation in that sense There's just things I need to get done and things that I don't need to get done And I like slot them into my day however they need to fit in My assumption is that sometimes even though you're organized and time obsessed you feel drained exhausted and rethink your decision Yeah, I definitely feel drained and exhausted at different parts of the day and different parts of my week and my life Yeah, constantly working and moving from one project to another and feeling like you're always running out of time And that there's not enough time to do everything that you want definitely gets exhausting And you know, that's when it's important to take some time off to take a break to relax To do something else to go for a run and then I sort of reset and then start my days again You've never dealt with mental illness. Yeah, I think it's pretty fair assumption I don't think I have I I know quite a few people who have dealt with and are dealing with different mental illnesses Whether that be depression or anxiety and other things of the sort and yeah, I can't say that I've felt that way You are the hardest working person, you know If I'm not the hardest working person I know then I'm definitely up there amongst the hardest working people that I know You know, that's one of the things that I can actually control I can control how hard I work and how much effort I put into something What I can't control is the result how successful that thing is or how much value it provides to somebody else But what I can control is how much I work and whatever I put into something And so I always try and work as hard as I can in anything that I'm doing Not as perfect in managing time as you show in your videos I am the same way I manage time in my videos is exactly how I manage my day-to-day life And if you don't believe me, you can ask alexia about that You are robotic in the way that you just sit down and work without any extrinsic motivation I definitely think this is true and this comes back to the question that I just answered before If I need to do something I'll just get it done. It's just going to happen and I'm going to do it I don't procrastinate it. I don't really think oh, no, why do I have to do this? I'm so annoyed that I have to do this I don't really go through those thinking processes Like if I write it down on my to-do list then I wake up in the morning I look am I to do this I'm like, okay This is the next thing that I have to do and I just do it I don't think about it for a second almost all my motivation comes from intrinsic comes from within Because I'm at the end of the day. I'm doing all this for myself I'm working hard for myself for me to be successful in the future Not really for anybody else. You're not as productive and motivated as you seem I am as productive and motivated as I seem in my videos Of course, I have down days where I'm not having as good of a time as I am smiling and laughing on the camera And I do not film those days I've already talked about that in a previous section for the most part 95% of the time I would say I am as productive and motivated as I seem Do you ever just want to lay on your bed and do nothing for hours? I honestly don't I cannot relate to this feeling I have laid on my bed and scrolled on tiktok for like 20 minutes because I set a timer for 20 minutes But like I really can't relate to this feeling. I just don't I I love doing the things that I'm doing And I love doing the things on my to-do list for the most part besides like annoying admin things But no not really. All right, let's do a nice and light one food My assumption is that you're caffeine dependent to get stuff done. I am super caffeine dependent In my life, I like to have a warm drink whether that's tea or coffee or a cold drink Just something to drink like at all times of the day and I always used to think yeah, I can I go I'll be fine without coffee. I don't need coffee until I didn't have it one or two days in the morning And I really realized how much I was missing that coffee and how much I wanted it So this is probably true as much as I don't want it to be I heard a rumor that when it's your turn to wash the oven trays you just wipe them for the paper towel So nor my lovely sister living two doors down The most annoying thing we have to do in the kitchen is clean the big trays that we put into the oven And so we have like this running towel the of whose turn it is to clean the trays on different days or whatever And sometimes without feeling very very lazy I won't wash them and I just wipe them down with a paper towel But don't tell her that I confirmed it that you're sick of morning toast and eggs But productivity says otherwise. I'm actually not sick of it I'm one of those people where I could probably eat the same thing every day for a long time I absolutely love eggs on toast I feel like there's so much variety in so many different things you can do for eggs and toast But also productivity and efficiency definitely plays a role It's something that I'm used to making I know how to make it and I can make it very quickly Like eating breakfast is just something that I have to do to move on with the rest of my day So I just take that box get it out of the way and then I move on to things that I actually want to do Like youtube and studying and med school and friends and social life and activity and blah blah blah You really like eggs and toast absolutely if you're forced to eat one thing for the rest of your life It would be fruits. That's a really good assumption either fruits or the classic thing that everyone says is sushi But I love love fruits. I can devour Massive quantities of fruit very easily in short periods of time and I always say the same thing Eating fruits is like drinking water. They're like 99.9 percent water So I can eat so much of them that you don't eat as healthily as you portray in your vlogs No, that's not true. I eat quite healthily 95 percent of the time. I do order takeout every now and again Probably once maybe twice a week, but generally speaking I eat as health Whatever I film in my vlogs is what I'm doing in real life.  I promise you I'm not gonna get fat And so I've been working out every other day while I've been on peripheral placement But I also bought pop tarts and I've been nibbling on them cheating. So That's that medicine One of my favorite topics as you guys know, let's start You seem to really love your emergency medicine rotation. So I assume that you want to be an ER physician Um emergency medicine is definitely one of the things that I'm considering for a specialty in the future I absolutely loved the rotation. I felt that it was so varied He was very hands-on, you know, people were constantly walking through the door and you got so many different presentations I definitely really enjoyed it and I'm considering it in the future What made you decide medicine was your calling has it been everything you hoped or expected it to be I've said this before but I always felt in my life that I wanted to be a doctor I want to be a doctor. I want to be a doctor But I didn't quite know what that meant and then the more work experiences that I did the more shadowing That I did in a hospital That's when I kind of realized what does the job of a doctor actually look like on a day to day basis And I think at its core the reason that I've wanted to study medicine for so long and why I'm so adamant on pursuing medicine Is I don't think I will get the same level of gratification and satisfaction from a career doing anything else I think I could be someone who works in an office. I could be a snowboarder I could be uh, I don't know what other jobs there are. There are lawyer and accountant and engineer I could be those things But I don't think anything would provide me nearly as much gratification and satisfaction as working with patients And treating patients and talking to patients I think medicine is such a unique career that I haven't actually done yet I'm still a medical student But I believe and I hope that it will be everything that I have in my head I think it's so unique in that you get to talk to so many different people every day Your main job is to help people and to make people feel better Like what more could you ask for in life? Like what better job could you have Where you spend 90% of your time helping other people and treating other people And I haven't started working as a doctor But if it's anything like my experience has been in medical school, then yeah, it's it's been pretty great Obviously there's pros and cons to everything, but I think it's been been pretty great And there's been a time you really wanted to quit med school No, I have not felt that way. I haven't experienced that However, I have experienced imposter syndrome in my fourth year of medical school I've just sort of realized like oh my god I'm supposed to be an actual doctor soon who is doing all these things taking the place of these doctors that I'm looking at And I'm shadowing when I'm on placement. Yeah, I've definitely felt to myself like can I actually do that? Do I have what it takes to do this? Will I be able to go there because where I am right now is certainly not how these doctors are acting on the wards And I don't have all the knowledge that they have So I've gone through a bit of imposter syndrome times throughout the course of this year But I keep reminding myself that you know being a doctor still now a year and a half away or a year away I have plenty of time to evolve to learn to adapt to become like that You know if everyone else has done it Everyone else has gone through medical school and gone on to be doctors. I can do it as well So that's what I keep trying to remind myself whenever I feel like that is medicine tougher than you'd think I honestly think people make out medicine to be way harder than it actually is I think the stigma around medical school and being a medical student and you know What it takes to be a doctor and and go through medical school is a lot more like built up in people's minds And a lot more like scary people make it out to be a lot more than it is The most difficult part of medical school is time management and organization And you know dealing with the massive amounts of content and commitments that you have But as far as like true true difficulty In the theory and the concepts and the understanding I don't think that's where the difficulty of a medical degree lies You have to be super motivated You have to be really hardworking I think to get through medical school with a like relatively easy time If you don't have good time management skills If you don't have those personalities or characteristics then it's you can still do it But I just think it'll be a lot harder You studied very hard during your undergrad and did not go out or socialized much This is very very true for my first two years of undergrad I was so overwhelmed with the amount of studying and courses and assignments that we had That I literally just locked myself in my room and studied so so so hard That was not fun and I do not recommend it and it was not the right thing to do I way overcompensated because I felt so overwhelmed and I didn't really know how to handle the situation And looking back I would have done so many things differently But my third and my fourth years of my first degree were so much better Because I finally learned how to cope with all these like studying strategies And I fixed sort of the problems that I had and then medicine has been the exact opposite of this I have done so much so much fun stuff in medical school There's definitely time to go out and be an individual and have your hobbies and socialize and do anything that you want to do And do medical school at the same time There's enough time for both and don't let anyone tell you otherwise You don't regret studying medicine not one bit You think you're some hot shot because you go to medical school I'd never experienced this before but when I came to the UK There is this sort of like stigma around medical students and being a medical student where people think Everyone's so proud to be a medical student and wear the stethoscope around their neck and sort of show off The fact that they're a medical student. I don't think that's the case at all. Honestly I think the stigma is more than the actual real life situation is I definitely don't think I'm a hot shot because I go to medical school I'm incredibly happy at medical school and I have a great time there And I think it's the right choice that I made but it doesn't make me better than anyone else And I and I think most people in medical school don't think they're better than anyone else just because they go to medical school I think other people think that about medics probably because there's a few people like that who just stand out above everyone else You actually think med school isn't worth the stress. It's absolutely worth the stress Any degree you do in your life is going to be stressful Any career you pursue is going to be stressful. The stress is always going to be there You just need to balance that out with something that you find brings you enough happiness and value and satisfaction To make the stress worth it. So I absolutely think it's worth the stress. So burnt out question mark I definitely felt burnt out after I studied for the u.s. Emily step one exam So in at the beginning of my fourth year of medical school from like september until january february now of 2021 I could not study for the life of me. I couldn't pick. I couldn't sit down and read a book I couldn't do pass paper questions I was struggling so much to study because I was so burned out the Months that I spent studying for the u.s. Emily step one exam Took everything I had in my life in my body to complete And it was very difficult to start studying again and really only recently when I started studying for these exams How I started to be able to study again properly. I was very burnt out But it's okay What I did was I acknowledged that you know, I'm really burned out from studying right now And what I need to do is give myself a bit of a break take a little bit of a step back Let that burned out emotion go away Focus on other things do other things and keep up your studying a little bit every now and again But don't kill yourself to keep going give yourself that break and that time that you need and then come back to it All right, and finally last section little bonus section or miscellaneous Let's go through that You eat green veggies as a snack You know one of the one of the funniest things Is that when I go to a friend's house I always take food with me because I'm always snacking And I always want to eat something and my snacks of choice are celery sticks Baby carrots or bell peppers like red and orange or yellow bell peppers Those are like my three favorite vegetables to eat because they're super crunchy Super snacky and they're just the perfect perfect texture And my friends always make fun of me because I'm eating like a rabbit whenever I'm over at their houses But it is what it is. It's my favorite snack My assumption is that you don't know where home is that honestly could not be Closer to the truth. I'm so confused about where to call home. Where to call my people I am ethnically Jordanian Palestinian. I was born in Canada I grew up in Greece for most of my life and I went back to Canada for my first degree And now I'm studying and living in the UK. I struggle so much with where my home is I feel that like ethnically my people Where I come from is Palestine is Jordan my culture I feel like is very Arabic but also mixed in with some Greek and then I was born in Canada And I hold a Canadian passport and then I lived in Canada for four years and I feel drawn to there And so I really don't know where I'm from. I feel like I'm pulled in all directions to save myself the stress from thinking about this I like to tell myself that I'm just a global citizen I'm a citizen of the world and I feel like I'm a little bit from everywhere. I don't need to belong to any one country I don't I don't feel patriotic to any one country But I'm very proud of my Arabic roots and my Arabic ethnicity for sure My assumption is that you can speak Arabic Yeah, I speak Arabic but I don't speak Arabic in videos because you don't speak Arabic Most of the people who are watching these videos speak English So that's why I speak in English My assumption is that you never eat fast food. No, absolutely not. I love fast food I definitely do. I just don't eat it very often because I'm trying to stay in shape I'm trying to work out and be healthy, but I love fast food My assumption is that the orange dog doesn't have any story behind it. I know I am right What do you think karma medic? My question for you is have you found the orange dog in this video? What do you think about that?  I just try to limit them as much as possible. You love to teach I absolutely love to teach one of my most favorite things is being a mentor for Other students that are in lower years than me because you know having someone guide you or help you Through something that they've already been through is absolutely invaluable I love to teach. I love to share knowledge and talk about things that I'm passionate about which is why I have this youtube channel So yeah, absolutely And I think I'm gonna harness this energy and this passion Into making some courses in the future and teaching things that I'm really excited about you invest in stocks or bitcoin I invest in both stocks and bitcoin and touch wood both of them have been doing very well I've been investing in stocks for a very long time any extra cash that I made when I was at university from working part-time jobs And things like that I would invest straight into stocks and then cryptocurrency is obviously something that's been a little bit more recent But I know Ali Abla has made a fantastic video about investing in stocks for beginners You should watch that video and you should invest any spare income or disposable cash that you have in stocks Because it's literally free money over time putting your money in a bank is a terrible place to store it It's not going to grow over time and investing in sort of the safer stocks Is a great place to put your money having said that and this is not financial information Blah blah disclaimer do your own thing with your money. This is just my opinion what I do your favorite color is orange My favorite color is actually red, but the theme of my youtube channel is mostly orange So a little bit of a misnomer misconception there My favorite color is definitely red, but I like to include a lot of orange in my videos You hate exercising, but do it anyways. Absolutely not exercising is one of my favorite things to do I love running. I love running so much hitting the gym and lifting weights It's such a great way to relieve stress to clear your mind to start to start anew. I love love exercising You own 19 hoodies I think I probably own more than that to be honest with you. I'm trying to collect a hoodie of every color because I love wearing hoodies Um, yeah, I probably own closer to 30 than 19. You have a hidden tattoo You haven't told us about I would love to have a tattoo and I've thought about it so many times And I've come up with designs and I've printed them out And I've even walked into a tattoo shop and shown them the design that I wanted and I've come so so close But I haven't been able to do it I haven't been able to convince myself to get that tattoo because I get bored of things very very fast And I move on to different projects and different ideas very very quickly and every time I've thought of a tattoo design I've gotten bored of it after a couple of months. And so Haven't been able to permanently put it on my body just yet. You don't want kids as they decrease productivity Of course not. I definitely want kids. I can't wait to be a dad But at the right time. Is it true that you like playing video games in your spare time? I love playing video games video games are such a great way to pass time. There's I love I love I love video games some of my favorites right off the top We've got last of us two until dawn the Uncharted series call of duty pretty much all of them But I want to work for two specifically Spyro crash bash Ratchet and clank beyond good and evil. I don't know. There's so many I love video games You have a false teeth when I was a kid. I went down a water slide backwards And I smacked my head at the bottom of the water slide and when I stood up in the pool It was just red all in front of me There was blood gushing out of my mouth and I messed up a lot of teeth in my mouth at the time This one here broke as you can probably see You can see that like a line that is a fake part of my tooth there I had to have a root canal in it and I had a whole bunch of work done in my mouth after that event So yeah, I have a little bit of one false tooth. All right, and that is it I have answered all those assumptions. This video is one hour and 55 minutes long, which is insane I hope you enjoyed watching this video and I hope it gave you a little bit more insight into me as a person And my personality. Thank you so much for following me on this journey to three quarters of a million subscribers Make sure you subscribe for more tell your friends to subscribe to the channel and I will see you in the next one Peace


Okay, welcome back. We're live here in Boston, Massachusetts. This is SiliconANGLE and Wikibon's exclusive coverage of HP's big data conference, HP Big Data 2013. This is the Vertica users conference. This is SiliconANGLE and Wikibon's theCUBE, our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE, and I'm joined by my co-host. Hi everybody, I'm Dave Vellante of wikibon.org. We're here in Boston. We're going wall-to-wall for two days. John and I are just really excited to be here. Paul Lillford is here. He is with Tableau. He's a person who works with the channel and partners. Tableau is everywhere. We first, John, remember we first heard about Tableau? At least I did, with our friend, Abby Metta, at one of the first- Hadoop 2010. Hadoop World. Hadoop World 2010. And he said, you guys know Tableau? And he started describing Tableau at the time. He was with B of A. You guys just, like I say, did an IPO. Fantastic to have you on, Paul. Thanks very much. Great. Excited to be here, guys. Very excited to be here. A lot of interest in your sessions and those birds of a feather, you guys are packed, how it's sold out. No more slots available. The technology sessions. Visualization really is odd. People can collect data, but how they show it is really interesting. That's a hard challenge, isn't it? Yeah, it is. And you know, I think one of the things at Tableau is because we built our product from a different perspective. We built it from the idea of visual cues and looking at how the human mind works and building it from that ground up where we're well-positioned in that. But ongoing challenge with the size of data, the disparity of it, and all the sources that are out there. So what is the biggest challenge you find right now with current customers? Because obviously you guys went public, big successful company now, in terms of getting funded as a startup. You get to lift, and obviously going really supernova as a company. But you're building a big business at Mach 100. It's a rocket ship, as everyone says. But there's the market still early and there's still a lot more innovation coming on multiple data sources. The challenge is making things dynamic, agile, fast. Yeah. And you know, search and all this stuff's happening on the Duke site. So what else is going on? You guys have to kind of be Switzerland and work with a lot of folks out there. So what are the challenges that you guys face right now and with customers and technology change? Yeah, we definitely have a, you know, obviously the growth rate and the speed at which we're moving is one of them. But you know, I think from a customer challenge perspective, John, it's really about, you know, getting to the size of data, the all the sources of data, all the scale of things that are out there and making good decisions based on it. So, you know, we're obviously a very data-driven company.  And I think the thing with big data that makes big data interesting and it's going to make it real is all around combining these sources quickly, making more and more data decisions driven at a detailed level. So the scale of it's important, but it's also the where it comes from. So whether it's social or web, third-party data, internal ERP data, doesn't matter. It's the joining of all of these things. And it's really the thing that I think is going to make the EDW space something that's consumable for business users. So they have three tracks here, business technology and ecosystem. Honestly, the technology piece is interesting.  But the ecosystem's new for HP. They have the marketplace going on here with my.vertica.com. You're in the channel's business. What is the channel opportunity in general in this emerging space? Because it's a shifting sense, a moving train, it's a growth market. All those things create opportunities, but challenges. At the same time, on top of that, there's a huge services opportunity. That channel part is love because that means gross profit. Yeah, yeah. So talk about the emergence of the ecosystem and who's doing what. You know, so I think there's a few challenges in that for sure.  Everyone says, I'm big data this and everyone's kind of glommed onto the big data word and said, this is big, we got to do it. In terms of making a tangible, palatable and simple, which has been a mantra we've had for a long time, helping people see and understand the data, doing it in an ease of use paradigm that is unmatched. For me, it's how do you keep this complex thing simple? How do you in some ways hide the plumbing but then have an ecosystem, a partner base that actually delivers the scale and speed and all the things that this means, right? Because the thing with any analytic, if I have to wait for my report, if I have to think about what it's doing, while it's doing it, I probably check out and I find another way to do it, right? If I'm a business guy. So how do you keep it simple? I mean, everybody wants to work with Tableau. Everybody's integrating with Tableau. Every time you go to a conference, there's a new press release. Oh, we're doing Tableau. Everybody's demos you use as Tableau. What is it that makes Tableau kind of that gold standard and how do you make it so simple? What's the secret sauce there? Well, you know, I think our mission hasn't changed in 10 years, right? So I think when you look at our mission from the early days, we were probably ahead of where the market was ready for visual. And in a lot of ways, I think we've helped create that space, but I think keeping it simple and talking about seeing and understand data, that's been part of what Tableau's message is from the very beginning, connecting to any source, leveraging the data where it sits, allowing you to mash it up, do some iterations on it. That's all part of keeping it simple. But then even to the way we interact with partners, I think we're brutally open with our partners, and it's a true partnership, right? So for our strategic guys, we really want to be pushing each other to excel and deliver better for our customers. And it's a key part of it.  You predate Hadoop. And so you pointed out, Paul, that your philosophy was always in any data sources, but you couldn't predict what was happening with big data and Hadoop. Subsequent to the big data wave coming on generally and Hadoop specifically, how has that, I mean, it obviously has positively affected your business, but how has it changed the way in which you look at whether it's partnering or has it created a need for change or were you that prescient that you were able to anticipate? No, I mean, I don't know that anyone could have anticipated the way it hit, right? But I think the way we've done it is our product has been core to what we do, we're a product company first, we're a customer-centric company first. So we've evolved the product as the space has evolved based on customer input. And I think because we've stayed on the pulse of that and we like to talk about ourselves as freakishly friendly as a company, and because we've kind of tried to keep that mentality even in the pace of our growth, I think we've stayed well on top of it, but we hear it from our partners, we hear it from our customers, and we try to incorporate that into our product.   You know, frankly, Dave, that's really one of the biggest problems. I mean, I've got a growing base as to all the other pillars of our channel. So I'm the director of technology partners, I have a global responsibility, and we have partners coming up from every angle you could imagine, but I think because our mission is clear to us, we don't debate that, this is what we do. We really can focus on what the partner's bringing to the table and how they service the customer, but that scale issue, I don't know that we fully resolved it yet. I think as we continue this growth rate that we're seeing, we're going to have to get better at it, we're going to have to get faster at it, we're going to have to get more agile. I don't think we ever sit back on how it's happened. I think we now look at what's ahead and how to evolve and how to do this better. We think only a small percentage of the space has been realized, and we think we've got a nice part of that, but at the same time, it's... Well, it's true. And what percent of actual end users are actually touching Tableau, it's a relatively small percentage. That's right. It's an enormous potential TAM, I had to say. So Dave, we have, people can't see it here, but Billy Bean is going to give a keynote here, we're going to break for that when he gets on and we're going to go in and get some notes there. We can't film it, it's confidential. There's some proprietary information he'll be sharing, but you can hear some of the crowd coming in, it's exciting. Billy Bean obviously, Moneyball, named behind Moneyball, and that's a visualization opportunity. You got crunching through the data. People, whether it's sports or business, talent acquisition, finding customers, servicing customers, understanding data is the concept of visualization, how to present the data. So, again, you guys are at a rapidly growing market. Congratulations for everything.  There's not one silver bowl, there's a variety of approaches, people are taking one, you guys have a unique one into the human aspect of it, but what are the different approaches to visualization?  Yeah, I mean, I think when you look at that one, it's based on maybe your role in an organization or your perspective on that, but I think there's a more sophisticated, if you look at the data scientist and the visuals that they may need, versus what an IT professional might need, versus what a marketing person or a sales person might need. And our view is we have a tool that we can think can support all of those. But as this evolves, I think you're going to see new visuals come out, whether it's us breaking from the Cartesian grid, you're going to see those things and that creates good noise, bad noise, but you're going to continue to see that evolution in it. So talk about the company, you guys have a show coming up, I believe, right? You have your own conference, user conference, or is that like a conference conference, how's that? Yeah, so we have our North American user conference at the beginning of September in Washington, D.C. And we are looking for this to be another significant milestone in our company, but mostly it's a way to interact with our customers, partners, and build a more violently wild user base. So first week of September? Yeah. Okay, so after VMworld. It's the fifth through the seventh. Okay, Wolfram's doing a summit down there, as well. Yeah. Is that part of the same event? Wolfram Alpha? No. No, but it's in D.C., right? Yeah, we're at the Gaylord. How big is that event going to be? We're leaving north of 3,000 is the number I can tell you.  It should be our biggest user event in the history. So we got to talk about getting the cube there. We'd love to cover that. Yeah, absolutely. In D.C., because there's such a big need for data, analysis, visualization within the federal government.  Yeah, I know it's going to be a fun market to be in because the federal presence will be there and won't have to travel distances to go. I think they'll attend and we have partners that service that space well and customers that are in that space. And so I think it's going to be a really fun event and I think it'll be the next evolution in our step. Well, we'll have to get you guys management aware, bring the cube there. Tell them the cube wants to be there. We'd like to cover the show. Let us know. Great. Obviously, we love to, we're open source. We can go wherever, we go where the action is. We all go there. That's great. Paul, thanks for coming on the cube. Really appreciate it. Again, congratulations, Tableau. Changed the game. You're first in with a real innovative visualization. The market just blew up right underneath your feet. You guys rocket ship. Continue to innovate. Congratulations and look forward to possibly being at your event and congratulations on your success. I really appreciate it, John. Thanks. Okay, this is the cube, extracting all the signal from the noise and there's not a lot of noise here. A lot of signal, a lot of customers. This is HP's kind of, it's kind of a private event. It's not a big, big conference where they're doing a lot of showboating on the announcements and technology, intimate conversations. We're capturing some of that hallway conversation. We'll report that back to you when we get the embargo lifted. But more importantly, great customers. Not a lot of what lightweight's here. All heavy hitters doing some great work. HP Vertica's making some real moves. We're right back in depth conversation. We're going to go watch Billy Bean's keynote. Dave and I, big fans. We interviewed him, we interviewed him before. Remember we had a little social cam? We had Billy Bean on at Oracle Open World. You kind of did a, you know, guerrilla. That was a big week for you.  We had guerrilla coverage of Mark Benny off and Billy Bean. Anyway, we're right back. This is the cube. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. We'll be right back after this short break.


The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have reached an agreement. Among the agreed two terms are rules governing the use of AI tools. Here's the gist. If AI tools are used to create material within a script, a WGA writer, maybe somebody who prompted the material, gets the credit. You can't give the credit to an AI. A studio also can't tell a writer to use AI tools or even what AI tools to use. Writers may use writer materials to train their own models, but the WGA reserves the right to step in if it determines training violates the agreement or law. These are all reasonable things. I think it's clear from this agreement that the fight, the real fight was over, the royalties for streaming and the sharing of data and how many writers can be in a room. They solved all those too.