Congratulations Vaseem. Thank you for securing such a wonderful rank all India 7 rank in civil service exam in 2022. I welcome you to this program success speaks and as you know this program is meant especially to help the people who are not able even to join coaching to be benefited with your journey and the success there right. Vaseem I would like you to introduce yourself for the audience where from you come and what is your family background. I am Vaseem Ahmad Bhatt and I have secured all India rank of 7 in CSC 2022. Regarding my background I belong to Nantnak district of Jumman Kashmir. I did my schooling from there till 12th and after that I moved to NIT Shernagar. Did my B. Tech in civil engineering from there that ended in 2019 and after that I came to civil services. Regarding my family background in my family there's my dad and mom and I have three youngest siblings. My dad works in government service and my youngest siblings they are starting. Vaseem the first question is how this idea you know of going into IAS came in your mind and which is called goal setting you know there's not that easy for anyone. People have wishes to do it but they don't make the real goal. So I would like you to explain what is the all behind this goal setting for IAS. So my dad since I was a child he had this idea that my son should become a DM someday. So that was his idea but I myself thought that I will do engineering. So after 12th I went into engineering and in the college itself I came to realize like after one or two years that I have to look at other options also and in that moment I don't know fate had it in I used to go to library and all found newspapers and all this thing and I knew about civil services earlier also but I didn't know exactly about what the job is and exactly what the syllabus is. There I came to know about this syllabus and I really liked what it had like the syllabus is such a diversity you talk about quality you talk about geography and all those things. So it really interested me. I was a student of engineering and I saw this as like humanities it will help me in understanding the world better that was one thing and second thing also at the back of my mind I also had this thing that like someday I will do civil services but it was not concrete. At that point I felt like I should try at least for this. So in college I think in third year the idea became little concrete that I will work for this and then I started doing some newspapers and some basic books in college. After the college then obviously I went for proper preparation. Wasim as I know it was your third attempt in the first attempt which you did in 2020 exam you got IRS with a very good rank that is for India ranked 225. Second attempt you could not qualify the pre right and third you are in already a seventh rank. So this is going to be very interesting for the audience to know those who are aspiring for the future that how what all happened especially that you even after qualifying in the first attempt you lost the second attempt so after I qualified in my first attempt there was like celebratory mode and all so for 10 days in my home there was constant celebration and I was also celebrating in that moment after that I realized I have to write the exam again in order to improve the rank but then I thought key I will write it like normally I already know the stuff I will do it so I don't know maybe because of that overconfidence I went to the exam picked all the options then I came outside I saw that some of the options I had ticked wrong so even outside the exam itself I felt like I would not do this brilliance and then the results when they came I saw that I was not there for like 1 hour 1 2 hours I was sad after that I thought key no it's a blessing in disguise I will prepare for the next attempt properly because I would get some time for preparing for mains also so that thing happened so I would say sometimes overconfidence also becomes an obstacle in this exam and secondly don't take it very lightly that was what I did in that every attempt is a very serious attempt and civil services examination overall is a very serious exam of course you have to do it joyfully pleasantly but not spoiling your seriousness that is something very important to keep anything in life which you want to achieve something extraordinary you have to make all and every time is a serious effort for that and I'm happy to know that you are very honestly sharing with the audience that how the celebration mode in the second attempt and taking it casually became deciding factor of not qualifying in the limited edition here civil services will make Jamsen of course is challenging and it is becoming year after year but there is nothing new in my 30 years of experience of civil services training program and the coach running the coaching I have understood one thing every year the students will come so this year the train has changed this year train nothing new is there so students should be very much well prepared with the basics and they should do all the groundwork and take every attempt seriously now first of all I would like to know from you about the preliminary exams and itself right to be sure in qualifying for the examination what are the basic certain things to be taken care of from the beginning itself so I think the basic thing is reading the basic standard books which is the NCRTs for a lot of subjects and NCRTs are very much relevant for example geography you cannot do geography without reading from the NCRTs for other subjects also you should try to read the basic material that's available do not go to advanced without reading the basic material and second thing that I feel a lot of candidates what the problem happens is we read the stuff one time then we go to the next source sometimes that happens and in problems I have seen this trend that sometimes you have to remember the thing that you have read very properly if you remember some part of it and you do not remember other part of it it becomes like that problem that little knowledge is a dangerous thing then you mark the option right you would have marked it you mark the option wrong you would have marked it right maybe if you do not know anything but with little knowledge you get confused so that thing I have seen that happens you have to devise the resources whatever resources you have basic resources that you have to devise properly third thing I think what happens is some candidates also they scored very good in the test series but in problems they are not able to do that I think there is this mental pressure that comes in the exam that is not there in the test series so because stakes are high so third thing that I would say is you take the test as the problems exam read every test like you are writing proper problems exam treat it with that kind of seriousness so when you will go to the real exam you will do better as for example in 2020 when I wrote the exam problems exam after the exam I felt like here I wrote the exam like it was a test so that thing happened so I wrote it with like such ease there was not much mental pressure and I got good score in that problems that's right but if you take mental pressure then you will not firstly be able to concentrate on the question you will be thinking about what will happen in the future so that thing will also should not be there and then beyond that you should have very clear and crisp notes for prelims because actually reading from the like standard books sometimes including NCRT's it becomes tough when the exam is very close so if you have clear notes for those subjects it will make it easier see there are some very important things have come from your discussion the first thing is that the fundamentals should be very clear and you should not make superficial study UPSC is not expecting you to be a greater scholar in very in-depth study but the fundamentals which are there and the things related with that must be clear to you that is first important thing revealed from your talk and the second important thing is the maintaining the seriousness even while you're practicing you know if you sweat more in the practice you bleed less in the war that's the very beautiful saying right so you should just keep this thing in mind take it seriously and the third thing that as you have to remember a lot of things so naturally notes making should be your habit and you cannot read through other's notes read from the original sources but make your own notes so that you can quickly revise at any point of time especially before the examination day so let's take up first the question of note making which is an art okay because mostly the students get confused what kind of notes should be made and what is the real method of making notes so what do you have to say about that so I have also had this journey with notes so earlier I remember that I made notes for economics from one book and then after that I realized that I had written the whole book in my notes sometimes that happened but over time I have realized the essence of notes should be that it should be written in your own language firstly it should not be directly what the author has written you're just copying that it should be written in your own language because that will make it easier for you to read second thing it should have all the essential concepts that are there sometimes your notes will focus more on like the peripheral stuff rather than the basic concepts so basic concepts will not be there over time you will realize that you forgot those concepts itself so that thing should be there thirdly I have also realized that what note making is a continuous process so once I make a note then after three days I realized that in this topic I have to add this thing so I put one space on the right side of the page right every time on every page I would do this and after the time when I read for the second time and I'm looking at the note I think that I have to add one fact or something I would add it on the right side that makes your notes more neat and clean otherwise I have seen if notes become like unclean and they become jumbled then it's difficult to read them so that thing also has to be taken care of and you have to also put in all the facts that you can find because problems may sometimes facts become really necessary so as many facts as you can put concepts would be very clear and it should be written in your own language see this is everybody has his own style but more important how much organized you are and you are going to plan in a way that anytime in future when you are reading through your own notes it should not be further a fresh reading for you that what you have written and trying to comprehend so it should be neat and clean maybe some charts by graphs by diagrams and anything can be used that way that's the second important thing is how quickly you revise and keep revising that time and again that would help to them especially the preliminary examination with my experience also I will tell is a test of retention power also yes how much you good officers must have very good memory also yes but how you are able to identify relevant facts and figures not everything you are remembering and but in your mind with second important thing to select best option out of the given choices that is always part of service also in the service life also you will always be left with that what is the best option to take care in decision making and problem solving now well begun is half done this is a very old saying right so when I ask you to explain it how will you do it with your experience so that is true actually planning is very important for success I think without plan in this exam especially you will go on to some other part that does not lead to a good result so for me also in first attempt I think I was not planning that well so what my idea was time because I didn't know how to like combine GS and optional and do all the note making and all so some things went jumbled in my case in the first attempt for example in optional I did the option for three months at the coaching classes and for three months I kept making notes then I kept them in Delhi because covid came I went home and I did not read it for them so that was one mistake that I felt I made at that time in other cases for example GS and all I made the notes and everything but I did not do answer writing that much in the first attempt so I would say that if we are like starting the exam it should be with proper deliberation one should think for example one year down the line because for one year we have to prepare one should think one year down the line if the exam is next June or May we should start preparing for example from September we will do answer writing and you should make goals monthly goals weekly goals this time I did that in the third attempt so what I did for example I made exact timing that I will put for sectionals I will put this much time for full length I'll put this much time and in this month in this day I will do this test it was exact to the day and then I would try to fulfill that of course we can't fulfill everything we write but even if you do 80% of that planning you will do good in the exam but without plan what will happen that sometimes you think that you will do it in 15 days it will take 30 days so over time your Parkinson's laws also say that work will expand to fill the time that is what happens in this exam also and after one year you will feel you haven't read properly so it is essential to have weekly goals daily goals monthly goals and even long-term one-year goal I feel that your the challenge of failure in the second attempt made you take it in a very positive way and you got more organized and even in the first attempt that's why certain such a big jump from 225 to all India seventh rank actually after the first attempt when I saw that I got 225 rank I would like I was like with this preparation I got 225 if you prepare properly I might get even better so that was but get great thing the second attempt mostly you might have discouraged you or you could have gone in comfort zone that I've already got a job and that is also fire is right income tax so that was good enough but you didn't compromise you thought of doing something but this is something for your audience to understand how to remain motivated for such a long time you know is a big thing time and again lot of emotional breakdown comes ups and downs comes so how will you explain with your experience so as everyone says I will also say from personal experience and motivation will be a very internal thing also so when you firstly decide to come into the civil services it is sort of a passion for you if it is not passion then after some point your motivation will start dying down passion not in sense that you are thinking of like videos key Lava Asna videos or something like that that is a short-term motivation a long term motivation would be key if you are looking at long term contribution you will be able to do to the society in civil services so that sort of motivation if you have I feel like every day when you wake up you try to remember that basic idea why you are coming into the service and if you do it what will you do what how will you contribute and all those things so that will be one internal motivation and second thing that I feel the motivation that is like achieving small goals I think for personally me achieving small goals is a big motivation like I put a goal that today I will do these many tests and in the night if I do these many tests I'll be happy so in the night I will check whether they have done and if I have done it gives me a motivation for the next day that I can do even better so small goals will ultimately make the task easier for you if you think in terms of for example we have this idea that I want to become I is right but every day we don't know what to do so that cannot be done you have to make every day goals and you have to fulfill them that will give you small sort of motivation for to move to the next day so this is again something interesting coming from your talk one thing that the motivation has not to be outside it can be initial ignition but this should be learning desire from within but to keep that on the question why is very important as you said that why you are taking this pain efforts yes that is important because there are certain naturally special efforts to be made in some pains to be faced also in the whole journey right yes so this why is important now coming back again to this question what is that why that kept you on so for me the why was that if I will go into civil services it was that idea future what I will be able to contribute so because I have seen so many IS officers doing wonderful job in JNK and outside also and within the preparation itself I also came to know about a lot of people who have done good in civil services so that why was that if I do the exam if I prepare properly I will also get to contribute something to the society and it is that sense of service I think ultimately that that is the reason for you to come to civil services otherwise any sort of corporate job or any other job may be there for us and I was also from engineering background but I did not sit for placement because it was very clear to me that I have to go into civil services and I want to contribute something in the longer and so that when I am old maybe I think that I have done something so that thing completely like every day I would think about that thing and good thing that you started from young age thinking and you are planning even what you will be there and what you're doing old days with your experience this must be some clarity about the road map yes but a journey of life and I'm very happy to interact with you on this point and I am sure audience are also enjoying your whole truthful explanation of things there in the preparation of civil services examination time management is also very crucial some people will say that you should read 15 hours 16 hours somebody who said this and that and students get badly confused so they start counting the number of hours rather than working on the quality yes with your experience what was the average number of hours you were utilizing during the preparation so in this context I want to say one thing that if you are totally focusing on how many hours to put in that means maybe you are not motivated enough whatever time you get you can study but the point is for me the average would change from time to time so if the exam is not close enough if it's far away let's say in the next year I would read probably for eight hours every day and for the rest of the time I would do whatever hobby I have and other things but when the exam was closed for example prelims between prelims and means I used to read for whatever time I had like if I was awake I was either reading or eating so that was mostly the thing and I feel it also depends on the context what kind of a person you are some people may be very hyper focused and they may be able to do in six hours what others do in 10 hours and others may be a sort of taking longer time taking longer time you have to find your own strengths and weaknesses in that and you have to think about it that how much time are you using efficiently like you can sit on a table for 10 hours and at the end of the day have only studied for actually three hours so you have to look at yourself how much time you are using your phone while you are studying in all those things you have to take into consideration so essentially it should be probably on average it can be 6 to 8 hours but ultimately when you are very close to the exam you have to read for a lot of time. See very interesting to know for this time management is used in this beginning used a very good concept that if you are really connected with the goal enjoying that so that counting of the hour goes over because you are more focused on enjoying your journey rather than counting when I will reach there and when this first comes in mind when you will reach there right then the counting begins in what time lagara it is taking a lot of time I will define very difficult to reach there but if you are just in the process such as so every minute you are focused you are enjoying and so long as you are focused keep doing that work but every 6 to 8 hours that is must when you are enjoying and you are getting good concentration you can go longer hours also yes more important is you should be goal oriented you are making small small goals daily yes and you are accomplishing that and with a bigger project that within this period of time if you are one year time how many days are there how many hours are there if you have broad calendar of that this another important thing you said you had balanced approach time maybe you are talking about good time to sleep good to time to other activities because they are also must to keep you better with your efficiency and efficiency and effect these all are very very important to keep you more effective and efficient on that so if I ask you how many hours you slept every day what will you say so maybe this will be a surprise for a lot of people but I have always slept 7 to 8 hours good never less than that before it sometimes before 8 hours if I wake up I feel like like I will study then I will go to the table come back and sleep again because I feel without a proper good sleep you cannot even study properly so there's no point of studying your body and mind has not taken proper rest absolutely your efficiency is bound your efficiency goes down you'll feel lethargic you feel lethargic also and this exam also requires a very good focus you have to be hyper focused on what you are studying otherwise you will just skim through the whole pages of NCRT and other thing and at the end you will not have studied anything the first thing came no compromise on sleep six to eight hours but when say no compromise does not mean that you go in 10-12 hours that's not that you should just limit because so biologically your body needs six to eight hours to sleep right what I used to do usually seven hours of sleep I would do then around 30-40 minutes of nap time after the lunch because after lunch I felt like I was always feeling sleepy so I thought you may not sleep properly for 30-40 minutes and then after I would start preparing again that thing also once you sleep in the afternoon for 30-40 minutes then when you wake up it feels like another day like you are fresh again so you can study properly I think it's very important to sleep small small nap as per the requirement of the body yes and mind you should take right that is very important yes now what kind of companions say friends circle you managed especially when there are a lot of distraction due to social media yes so regarding the companionship when I came to Delhi I came with two other friends of mine who were college friends itself they were also preparing we were in the same place so one of them has also called a friend he has got rank 84 this time so we used to like we would go to classes also together we would do all the things together like study in our own time then when we had like we would eat together discuss about things and all so that sort of companionship has actually helped because when you have people inside the exam who are also preparing for the same exam they also understand what sort of difficulties you are going through and you also understand their difficulties and their things so I think that has helped me and second thing those people if you are wasting too much time on social media then definitely you have to make an assessment like there can be two ways of using social media either it's a mature way of using social media for example I used to use WhatsApp and I even had a Twitter account never tweeted from it but I would always see it but I knew that I was using it in a limited time and I had that capacity of using it maturely if you are not able to do that then you should clearly switch it off completely if you feel like it's wasting too much of your time so it has to be a very personal assessment of how you are using it that is very true in case you are not disciplined in using it I come across many toppers and in the discussion they say sir I could not use it properly in discipline so better I should stop everything yes right it doesn't mean that only when you use social media so you will become topper but yes it can be of add on value to you provided you are making it a very meticulous and in disciplined way of that way friends create and friends destroy yes that's again a powerful so what will you say about that I say definitely that is the most true thing if you are in the company of saints you will become a saint and if you are in the company of properly thieves and that will have a negative effect on you so in my case also since college I have got friends who are very super smart intelligent and very friendly generous people that has also had some sort of effect on me in this exam also I was talking earlier about two other friends over with me in Delhi so because we would go together to the classes we would come back we would always keep discussing about issues social issues about these sort of things in the exam that definitely has helped me and sometimes they would quote something sometimes they would talk about a particular source and I would later on use it in the exam that obviously helps on the other hand it can very well be that if your friends are like a distraction or probably they don't know about the exam or something then it can have a negative influence on your preparation as there are friends outside good or bad so are there two friends inside every human being yes one is called Mr. Triumph another is called Mr. Defit right you have a choice with whom you want to be friend with right so with your experience how much Mr. Defit was taking place and how much Mr. Time was playing a role for you I think in my case particularly I have always been slightly confident I would like means you are more with Mr. Triumph right Mr. Triumph so I think in the second attempt that Mr. Triumph became like a nemesis because I became more confident I was like okay I can do it but usually sometimes obviously all of us have that Mr. Defit inside us this would essentially happen with me when I would get less marks and testries for example in this exam sometimes the examiner would write that you don't have understanding of basics or you don't know this and I was like I have written everything I have done it properly and still I'm not getting marks and that would make me sad in that moment but then again I would think each other in the next test I would do better so it was always like a fight between these two people but on the whole I would say I am more confident and Mr. Triumph and that helped me actually because I didn't take a lot of pressure in the exam in the first attempt I went through the exam I didn't even feel like I had done that kind of preparation but in this attempt I took it even more seriously I was like now I will enjoy it properly I will enjoy the preparation I will do a serious this is beautiful what you are using I will enjoy the preparation yes that's there and also this time I felt like later on when I will do the exam I will remember those days of preparation so it's better to do it properly this is again a very important thing that you should be really proud of yourself that you did justice with your time and hold the journey it's not that I you did casually right you say so it is better to fail with awareness than to succeed with ignorance because some or the other you will lose in your life if it becomes your habit yes a positive element of fear a positive fear keeps one going that flame what's going yeah I may lose it because that is the consistency required yes so that stops from one being overconfident also yes but allowing too much to Mr. Defeat to dominate that kills the Holy Spirit that way Wasim is it only that one should be focused towards the curriculum prescribed to read the book or there should be some additional studies also to give you going or maybe some giving you some additional wisdom and thoughts on that what is your experience so my personal experience with this has been I think the most important lesson in this exam that I have personally felt so I have been reading books for a lot of time since my school days itself and in my college also I read a lot of books later on when I came to the exam I wrote the first attempt for example my optionless anthropology and that time in anthropology questions were slightly difficult and I can say with confidence that that time whatever marks I got that was a major part of that was because of the reading that I had extra studies which you are doing right so I had read a lot of books I directly used case studies from there I directly used whatever anecdotes I had and I got good marks UPC at the end of the day does not know what you are reading they don't know your sources they only know what you're writing on the paper so if you are a well-read person a knowledgeable person if reading is your habit then that will definitely help you in exam be that an essay writing a good essay or ethics or even optional sometimes it will help you and in the interview obviously if you're a well-read personality then that will reflect I would like you to explain a bit more on that in addition to the prescribed books for the curriculum what other kind of reading you're talking about just a few references might tell so for example I used to read a lot of books about human evolution culture and psychology and all so I read for example sapiens right that was one of the earliest books everybody reads that right then I read guns germs and steel the story of human body and all of these books whatever I read the gene by Siddharth Mukherjee later on when I went to the exam I found out that what I was writing in the answers probably nobody else nobody else can write that kind of stuff so this time in anthropology I have scored 328 which is the highest that this has a major contribution in that a lot of people keep asking me what did you read from what standard books but standard books is only half of the story for me I have also read a lot of other books that I could quote from memory and when you read a book what happens because of that is it's easier to remember rather than if you read a direct quote from internet let's say from that book because you don't know the context of the book once you read the book you understand that okay this is the background story in that context this is the quote and similarly I have seen that when I used to write an essay last time I scored 114 essay that was only because I had read so much that it was easier to quote a story from some book or write something emotional because I understand how writers write so it becomes easier to write on the other and if you have never read a book if you're only reading UPSC syllabus and nothing beyond that then it becomes slightly difficult for you obviously you can also do it but you have to be like really hard and do a lot of hard work on that thing and that organic writing that is there like essay has to be very organic it has to be creative that creativity will not come in your essays without reading so kind of one should be good in reading some additional thing which might be related or something out of interest also which broadens your thinking process widens your horizon of thinking that is very very important not talking about the main examples especially what are the basic qualities that the UPSC is looking for in the mains and what should be the preparation strategy for the bates so I think the ultimate basic quality that UPSC wants in mains is you should be able to answer any question with proper arguments and examples to substantiate that or facts to substantiate that is the end of the story but within the story there are multiple stories to write that answer which is proper which has proper arguments which is proper facts and all you have to read a lot and you have to practice a lot so reading for me this time what I did last time I had done from notes this time I chose a slightly different path I did from model answers I did the model answers of like tesseries for two three years so I read all the answers for example let's say history so I read three years answers of all the history questions that made me understand that when I was reading the book I was reading from a book perspective like a novel or something and when I was reading an answer the same thing became an answer format sort of thing so my my mind became like a customer to writing and later on when I would write I would be better able to recall what I had read in the answer so that sort of thing I did this time and third thing I would also say which is very important and means is practice and practice for me this time also was based on previous year questions which I had not done earlier that's very important every day I put one hour of practice for previous year questions and then I would self evaluate that I would do like let's say I would take 2021 paper of GS1 start writing it for one hour then for half an hour I would evaluate it and then my friend would also write he would evaluate my paper I would evaluate his and similarly I would keep doing this till I reached almost 2015 I did all those papers of previous year questions because I would write one day one hour every day I think that was one of the most important additions to my preparation basically more than even the test series what else is your previous year question definitely you should really do it and you should not miss in any case right now talking about especially the essay paper you are talking that where you make some star studies that helps your lot so what you have to suggest to the future parents while developing their experiences for the essay writing so for essay writing I would say two three things are majorly important one is that you have to understand that essay is different than GS it's not the same as GS GS tests your knowledge essay also tests your personality that what sort of a person and so the same essay topic will be given to different candidates they will write it in completely different contexts and different stories so that thing you have to keep in mind and for that you have to know a lot of stories I think that is that is the thing because an essay without a story is like I don't know an ocean without water some sort of so it's not an ocean so you you have to look at for example famous authors who have written very good essays once you look at that for example the introduction every time you will find a good author who writes an introduction it's a very introduction based on pathos which is emotions so it will connect to you on an emotional level so I tell to all the candidates and I used to tell this to myself also that whenever I would write introduction it should be such that when the examiner reads that introduction he would want to read more right that's the ultimate point and for that you have to make it slightly emotional that it touches his heart then later on you can like talk to his brain in the main body but that thing you have to keep in mind and that will only come if you keep practicing because for some people it may come early like you write the first essay it may be good I used to write essays and it was good from the start because I had read a lot but even if it's not happening with time with practice you can get better at it and second thing I would say is that in the body itself you have to elaborate on the essay with different substantiation like through examples or something so whatever great leaders we have had Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, B. R. M. Badkar and Nelson Mandela and all world leaders their stories will definitely add to your essay I have seen that for example Mahatma Gandhi's story or his quotes and all they are very good addition to the essay or even in ethics then in the conclusion you have to be very positivistic so give solutions that like a civil servant-direct bureaucrat would think so in that education parenting and all those things some things I had prepared properly like from the start itself I thought that education would be one part of the conclusion in most of the essays it happens that education because it's able to tackle a lot of issues so I would always put it in the conclusion so that was one sort of things and then beyond that you have to read a lot reading, reading everything write a good essay you have to read a lot either you read good books novels or whatever suits you or you read essays of other toppers who have already written essays you can collect a lot of stories from there this time what I had done I read a lot of stories about buddha and I read a lot of stories from zen buddhism also and from the gay leaders and all I collected them and wherever I would feel that it suits I would put them and I have felt that zen buddhism and buddha stories are very relevant in all the contexts be that essay or generally in our life also so that thing also helped on your behalf what you're trying to say I would like to explain a bit reading habit is really very very supportive and very helpful in especially essay essay is a kind of creative writing yes so of course how good you have been there in other papers history geography quality economy international these things are really needed but more is if you have done some additional studies with some great thoughts great personalities and maybe some health book also there is a self-help book also they all might help you in creating and you need a practice also of that you should keep writing it may not develop just in a way day ideally one should write at least one essay every week yes that will be the most ideal otherwise at least two essays in a month that will be very very important for that you are an engineer with your education and a background and you have taken anthropology or optional subject so my question is what is the right approach of selecting optional subject and what made you choose anthropology or optional so for me the story was very simple that I was interested in it that was as simple as that that's a very powerful thing but because I had a lot of books in college itself and that were related to anthropology at that time I did not exactly know that this was anthropology or whatever it's called but I would read a lot of stories for example about human culture about evolution and all those things later on when I came I took like five six optionals that I thought that I was interested in for example history philosophy anthropology sociology political science so within them I saw that what is the syllabus of each optional and when I looked at anthropology I found that it was really interesting to me then I also checked that anthropology was getting good score like before that year anthropology has been scoring well for a lot of time so that was an additional thing but over time I also realized that there are a lot of things that go into selecting an optional one is your interest definitely because you have to read for a lot of time interest should be there then second is the scoring capacity of that option some optional sometimes do not score well but if you have that kind of interest you can take that but you should take that into consideration what sort of scoring ability it has the third thing that I have found was the resources that are available for that optional that includes the books and all and also the test series for some options it becomes difficult to find exact resources because they're they're very peripheral for example taking let's say Kashmiri literature right if I do that sort of option I am not sure where to get those resources and where to exactly find the test series and all for that study resources are important so you have to look at those majorly three things one is interest second is scoring capacity third is the resources if you find that there's an option which has all of these things then you can take that forward I feel that for the first and third things are very important scoring will definitely be related to these terms because if you have interest in the subject you can form opinion you will not count the hours again as we discussed earlier you will do with interest so you'll read then you'll enjoy the second thing whether you are getting light guidance study resources or not if these two things are there then of course the third thing whether this paper as for your need is scoring or not right all the optional subject is scoring provided you have been able to fulfill the requirements of that light now we are talking about the interview you have appeared twice in the first and the third attempt yes what was your experience in the first and what all you improved in the third attempt right and what is the expectation of the board from these candidates so my experience in the interview I will talk about the 2020 interview that I had so my board was Sujata Mehta man so at that time my experience was that interview board was very cordial I think sometimes what happens is we usually picture eyes a very serious sort of environment and we prepare according to that environment we do not think it's more of a conversation we think like it's a job interview which is I think the wrong way of looking at the interview the expectation from the board is ultimately that they want to look at a well-built personality a person who has a good mental caliber who can socialize well who has different interests and who can like look at the social problems and make his own his or her own arguments about that so in the first attempt I was very sure about one thing that I do not want to go with any preconceived notions I do not want to know which board I have even though I had the option to ask the person but I did not ask that I went and it was a very cordial by the end I was so invested in it that when they said the last question was that do you want us to ask you anything else I said yes I want to talk about my hobbies so that was how cordial it was I really liked the interview experience that time this time also my board was PT Sudhan ma'am a very cordial board the difference that I would say in my preparation and my personal experience was that in CSE 2020 it was my first attempt so I would answer every question like I'm answering like let's say a GS question and being asked something I would answer the question but this time what I did was I slightly personalized the interview so when they would ask a question I would also add a story a personal story or something like that because I feel at the end when we talk about for example bureaucracy itself if you talk to a bureaucrat who is 60 years old who has just retired some senior when you talk to them they would talk about that particular social issue itself but they would add their own personal experience with that issue on the other hand when we as students we don't have that kind of experience so we usually talk from like theoretical perspective so this time I would add whenever they would ask about something tourism in JNK or something so I would add my personal experience when I went some place or something I think they also like that and they want you to see as a personalized interviewer rather than as a robot sort of thing who would just answer the question at the end of the interview I'll ask you what top three things you would like to suggest to the future parents out of your experience so out of my experience one thing that I always say and I will say this again which is that consistency is the key to this exam without consistent if you lead the example let's say one week or even five days then after five days you will feel that you are like starting afresh yes that should not happen consistency even if you are reading for less time but make sure that every day you are touching the exam you're connected to the exam that would be one thing second thing is you also have to organize your life and unorganized life without planning in this exam will not work right so for that you have to have a proper plan for the whole exam one year down the line then monthly weekly targets and daily targets that should be the second thing the third thing should be as we earlier also said that you have to practice you have to sweat in peace rather than bleeding in the war and that exactly happens in this exam that you have to take a series or whatever previous questions you are practicing before the exam you have to take them as the real exam itself so that when you go to the exam you don't have to think twice before writing in answer it should come naturally to you so I think these are the three things that I would say excellent thank you very much Vasim for coming in this program success speaks I am sure by listening to you future parents will be able to correct themselves connect with you and design their own plans how they have to everyone has to customize his own or her own program and schedule accordingly that way and wish you all the best for a grand career thank you sir civil services especially in IS thank you God bless you thank you sir don't forget to like share and subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon to never miss an update


This is the 16 inch Apple MacBook M1 Max and this is a laptop with a GTX 3060. Now let's find out how well they both perform playing three games. Hey guys, Thundie here and thank you for joining us on the channel again and today I'm taking a look at the brand new 16 inch MacBook Pro M1 Max and if you're joining us for the very first time we do videos like this where we do comparisons that make no sense so if you want to watch more hit that subscribe button and notification icon to get notified with more videos. So Apple's new MacBook Pro right they talked about it they showcased graph they said look this bad boy gives you performance and power they even touted that hey look it's closer to a 3080 in terms of this graphical performance but from what I've seen so far a lot of people say hey look it's closer to a 3060 and I thought to myself how well I've got the Victus laptop from HP here this has a 3060 graphics card and also runs the AMD 5800 series CPU. So how well does it stack up in terms of gaming. Before we get to that let's look at the 16 inch MacBook Pro M1 Max. Now this thing is a gorgeous looking laptop I've got to say Apple has outdone themselves with this device and the best part of it honestly is the display that mini-LED display looks absolutely gorgeous your wallpapers really stand out when you're gaming it's so vivid. Now the notch is there it's kind of annoying but when you're playing like everything just is seamless you've got bigger bezels there but you kind of jump into the gameplay experience. Build quality is nice you've got some really great speakers on here which you listen to in some of the gameplay and overall you've got all the ports that you need for pro device right. But the cool thing about this device is that with the M1 Max that you can play games at really good settings right but you can do this without actually plugging their device. We do know very well on PCs and gaming laptops you have to be plugged in which is what I had to do with the Victus and that's the standard but with this though you don't have to so we started to look at some of the games that we like to check out and the very first game is Shadow of the Tomb Raider which is available on Steam on both Mac and as well as also on PC and we ran both of them through the benchmarks at the highest settings and the results were interesting. We got 85 frames per second on the 16 inch M1 Max while we got 81 frames per second on the Victus for the 3060. That's pretty close and that is pretty solid to see both were run at a resolution of 1080p but again slight edge goes to the M1 Max. Now when we moved over to a game like Borderlands 3 which is a much newer game and again available on the Epic Game Store for both PC and Mac this is where we saw some differences but it's not as far off as you think. While playing the game on Ultra we're able to get only 29 to 30 frames per second especially when you're the benchmarks but when we went to the lowest settings we're able to get to 56 frames per second. Now I won't warn you guys that I could not drop the resolution down to 1080p. I got a pseudo 2k because the system just couldn't find the right resolution I guess because of the notch it just couldn't find something that fit. Now with the 3060 though we were able to to actually run the benchmarks at the highest settings and get it at 65 frames per second so you can see here maybe this is because it's a PC the game might be more stable for it than with the M1 we don't know yet but that's the only one that had the biggest difference. Now the final game is Fortnite. Now this is a game that we know quite well that runs well on both devices. We know runs well on a Mac we know runs well on a PC performance though is quite interesting. Now resolution 1080p for the PC this was slightly lower than 1080p for the M1 Max but of course we had the highest settings at epic and on the PC it basically was locked at 60 frames per second that is what we got that was highest and it ran pretty well. Now on the M1 Max we got between 80 to 100 frames per second which was really impressive and the fans didn't even kick in that loud like they did turn on you could hear them but honestly they weren't loud and again I wasn't plugged in I didn't plug this in while I had to plug this in which is honestly it's tremendous right so to me what that tells me is that when you look at both devices the M1 Max yes is slightly above a 3060 yes it's not fully optimized yet because it just came out so a lot of these games are not optimized but off the bat we can see it gets closer to a 3060 than a 3080 so according to what Apple implied this is not closer to a high-end gaming laptop this is closer to a low to mid-tier gaming laptop so that is what you should expect now with the price difference the 16 inch MacBook Pro is a $3,800 machine this is roughly around $15 to $1,800 so you can see there's a different stand price but when you look at what Apple has created as a device that can do a lot of things and also game it kind of makes me happy I mean I'm not a MacBook Pro user I will not recommend anyone to game on a MacBook Pro but it means that Apple now has devices that developers can make games for which is good which is honestly good it means that if you have a MacBook Pro hopefully in the future there is a possibility where more games will come to the system and you can actually play more of the games you love you don't have to go and build a PC or buy a gaming rig or any of that stuff it's that it is capable of doing that now it's not capable to the 3080 you know statements or say pseudo statements that Apple said but I'm happy to see that they've done a fantastic job and I really like the way this machine is built sadly I just don't use a Mac so that would be interesting to see how if I ever try to use it for a week it would be worth it and Daniel's like nah they won't waste your time anyway guys before I leave I'll pose this question for you should I install windows here on the Mac and see how native windows runs and also how games perform if you want me to do that let me know that would be kind of weird though because they know Nvidia drivers or AMD drivers or anything like that but we'll see how that performs if you guys want to do leave this comments down below otherwise thank you very much and always enjoy entertainment


I'm Zor. Welcome to Unizor education. Today's topic will be a continuation of complex numbers. We were talking about a certain formal way to introduce complex numbers and right now I think that basically has covered more or less the more rigorous definition of the complex numbers. I would like to concentrate on their graphical representation now. We all know that real numbers can be graphically represented on a straight line with one particular point on that line marked as equivalent to number zero. Then there is a positive direction on the line and with a certain segment of a unit length we can just put all these marks one, two, three, minus one, minus two, etc. to represent integer numbers. Then we can divide each into certain fractions to represent fractions and rational numbers and fill it up in between with irrational numbers to complete the whole line of representation of real numbers. Now let's talk about complex numbers and how they can be represented. Well, complex number, generally speaking, is basically a combination of two real numbers and the imaginary number I squared, which is minus one. That's the general representation and right now I will not use the formal representation with curly brackets around these operations because these are actually true operations within the set of complex numbers where A as a complex number by itself is actually formally represented as, actually this is also curly, as a combination of A plus zero as far as the imaginary part is. So B is equivalently represented in the complex numbers. So I will be talking only about real operations of addition and multiplication and when I'm saying that the imaginary number is multiplied by real, that's not exactly true. Imaginary number in this case is multiplied by a complex number which is mapped into real number B. But these are parts of this more formal definition. So right now let's just abstract from it real addition between real numbers and imaginary number I so how can we represent this particular complex number graphically? Well, in theory I could choose another representation of this complex number. I can choose something like A comma B thinking that A represents the real number which is on the left and B is the real number which is supposed to be multiplied by imaginary part. This is another way to formally introduce complex numbers and I can add these two numbers together. I can multiply them, etc. So I can basically repeat everything except I'm not using these operations which I think I might actually find is convenient. But in this case this is another representation which can be used as well. But at the same time this reminds us that it's just a pair of real numbers and the pair of real numbers can be represented as a point on the plane with the Cartesian coordinates. So I will draw another line here and I can always represent this pair of two real numbers or if you wish this complex number as a point on the plane where its x-coordinate of this is A and coordinate is B, the y-coordinate. Okay, so since A and B can be any real numbers then all complex numbers basically fill out an entire plane because the x-coordinate and y-coordinate can be any real number. So basically all the points on the plane are filled out with representations of complex numbers. Alright, fine. And now certain very elementary properties of this type of representation. Now obviously we can always think about this particular segment which connects our real complex number with zero. Now obviously it has a length, it's a segment and it's a rectangular triangle with a straight angle. So basically the Pythagorean theorem can help us. Now this is A and this is B. So basically this length, let's call it C, this C is obviously the square root of A squared plus B squared. That's one thing which we can say about our complex number. So its representation is on a distance of this distance from zero. But at the same time let me make another couple of observations in this particular case. What if I would like to know the distance between two different points on the plane that represent complex numbers? Well obviously we can use something like this, Pythagorean theorem. And what's interesting about this is that for any complex number like this we can always talk about something which is called its modular. Now the modular in this case by definition is exactly this square root of A squared plus B squared. Now what's interesting is that this modular which can be defined purely algebraically is actually the same as in the geometrical, in the graphical representation of complex numbers is really a distance from zero to our number. Now a very similar thing can be observed if I would take a distance between two different points. For instance, what's the difference between this and this? In geometrical this is B, right? Approach this particular geometrical representation from the algebra of complex numbers viewpoint. If this representation of A plus B I, what is this particular point on the plane a representation of? Obviously it's x-coordinate is A and it's y-coordinate is zero, right? So we have this point which is represented here and we have this point which is represented here. We know that the distance between these two points, geometrical distance is actually B. But let's see what happens if I will use algebra of complex numbers. First I will just subtract from this number, I will subtract this number. What happens? From A plus B I, I subtract A plus zero I. What happens? Well, as you remember real parts are subtracted and A minus A gives zero and imaginary parts are also subtracted separately B minus this will be B I. Or if you wish to be more precise, zero plus B I. What's the module of this? Well, it's obviously the same thing, square root of zero square plus B square which is B. If B is a positive number, let's say B is a positive and A is a positive.  So as you see, modular represents the same number in this case, modular the difference between these two numbers represents the same as geometrical distance between these two points. Generally speaking, this is a situation which is exactly the same for any two points. So modular in algebraic representation of complex numbers plays exactly the same role as the distance in their geometrical and their graphical representation. So if you will take another point, let's say here and call it C plus D I. Now what happens? Well, if you would like to know this distance, what you would probably do is you will build this triangle with the right angle, this. Now this is C and this is D, right? Since this is C plus D I, the projection onto the x-axis is C and on the y-axis is V. So what is the length of this? Well, okay, we will use the Pythagorean theorem and this segment is the difference between B and G. This segment is the difference between C and A. So we have C minus A squared plus G minus B squared square root. But again, this distance which is equal to this number can be obtained by just calculating the difference between these two complex numbers. So if you will do A plus B I minus C plus D I, now what's the difference will be? Well, obviously it's A minus C as a real part, B minus D as an imaginary part. So that's the difference and what's the module of this difference? Well, again, it's square of this plus square of this which is this. So the point is that geometry of the complex representation of complex numbers is very much resembles just algebraic operations on the complex numbers with a very important quality that the distance between two graphical representations of complex numbers is basically a module of their algebraic difference. Okay, that's one kind of side issue which I wanted to make with complex numbers. They can be graphically represented. What's interesting is that you can always represent a point on the plane using some other system of coordinates, not necessarily Cartesian coordinates, but you can also use polar coordinates and every point can be represented by the distance from the zero, from the origin of coordinates and this angle. So two parameters are which is a distance and alpha which is an angle always define our point on the plane. So I can always say that my complex numbers can be represented on the plane using this Cartesian coordinate system where A and B represent their correspondingly real and dimensionary part. At the same time I can say it can be represented by a pair of distance to the zero and the angle from x axis which I have to lift that particular segment to get to my point. Now if represented in this way for those who know some basic trigonometry it's obviously that A coordinate of this thing is equal to r times cosine of alpha. If alpha is this angle, right? So this is A, this is r and this is B and B is correspondingly r times sine of alpha. Now if you compare this with our algebraic representation of the number A plus B i but we can always say that this representation can be obtained following quickly. So what is the difference between these two, what is the length between these two points? So r, r is actually a module, right? So we can always have it as module A square plus B square multiplied by A divided by this square root plus B divided by this square root i. That's the same thing, right? I just multiply it by the module and divide it by module. Now this is r. So if A is equal to r times cosine of alpha then this, A divided by this square root of A square plus B square is the cosine of alpha and correspondingly D divided by the same thing, this is the sine of alpha. So that's how many different aspects, geometry, trigonometry and algebra are brought together in the same kind of very harmonious way because one complements another and no matter from which side you're approaching this problem you actually get more or less the same thing. So it proves that you are on the right way basically. If you can prove the theorem for instance in three different ways you are absolutely sure that you have proved it correctly. So this is three different ways to approach the representation of complex numbers. Trigonometrical way, Cartesian coordinate way and algebraic way and all lead to the same thing. Well that was just a small extra for graphical representation of complex numbers. There will be a couple of problems as well which I would definitely recommend to solve. Thank you, that's it for today.


Can you believe that a Pokémon episode cost actual epileptic seizures to hundreds of its viewers? In this Critical Thinkers episode, I'll tell you the story of why it happened, how it almost killed the Pokémon series, and what most people don't know about it. The episode Denocenshi Porygon aired in 1997, where the lead character Ash and the gang got transported to a digital alternate universe. After this episode aired, some reports suggested that as many as 12,000 kids experienced dizziness, blurred vision, and convulsions after watching the show. So what caused this? It turns out that at the climax of the episode, the team gets attacked by an antivirus program, which Pikachu defends everyone against by blasting it with his thunderbolt attack. Since this episode is based in a digital world, the animators decided to try something new in how they represented Pikachu's attack. So they used a technique known as paka paka, where two colors flash rapidly on the screen. The colors alternated at a rate of 12 flashes per second for approximately 6 seconds. That was enough for some people to experience epileptic seizures, who were prone to photosensitive epilepsy, a condition where rapid flashing of lights can induce seizures. It was reported that over 600 viewers, around 300 boys and 300 girls, were taken to the hospital by ambulances. Although many victims recovered during the ambulance trip, more than 150 were admitted to hospitals. Two kids were even hospitalized for more than two weeks. Now I know that you are dying to see the clip yourself, so I'm going to play it in a moment. But if you're prone to photosensitive epilepsy, I figure that you're smart enough to skip the next 15 seconds. I'll give you a countdown to get ready. 3, 2, 1. This incident brought in massive media attention, and it was even later included in the Gamer's edition of the Guinness World Records book, holding the record for most photosensitive epileptive seizures caused by a television show. The following day after the episode aired, the television station that had originated the lone broadcast issued an apology to the Japanese public and suspended the program until the cause of the seizure would be investigated. Pokemon anime went into a four-month hiatus, and Nintendo's shares, who owns the Pokemon franchise, fell almost by 5% immediately. In later years, this event inspired parodies in popular culture. In an episode of The Simpsons, 30 minutes over Tokyo, in which the Simpsons family travels to Japan, Bart sees an anime entitled Battling Seizure Robots, featuring robots with flashing eye lasers, which cause him to have a seizure. The incident was also parodied in a South Park episode called Chimp Pokemon. In the episode, it turns out that the Chimp Pokemon toys and video games are sold to them by a Japanese company who uses the toys to brainwash American children, making them into their own army to topple the evil American Empire. While playing a Chimp Pokemon game, Kenny has an epileptic seizure and later dies in a direct reference to the incident. Coming back to the incident itself, if 600 kids were actually admitted to the hospital, what then about the rest of the formerly mentioned 11,000 people that claimed to also be affected? About 1 in 100 people have epilepsy, and only 3% of those individuals have photosensitive epilepsy. That's a really low number, but the number of the people affected by the Pokemon episode was unprecedented. The reports suggested that 10 times as many people had photosensitive epilepsy as would be expected. This disproportion brought the attention of Benjamin Radford, an investigator who co-authored a paper on the phenomena. While making this investigation, he discovered something that didn't line up. The timeline that everyone accepted said that kids watched the episode at the same time and simultaneously experienced seizures. Turns out, that wasn't quite right. Lots of kids watched the show live, but a lot of them watched it the next day after news reports and schoolyard chatter had spread the word about the Pokemon shock. There were about 600 kids who genuinely did have headaches, convulsions, and breathing problems. Yet the next day when words spread about the incident, that's when more people started feeling bad. Turns out, that in reality, the wider phenomenon was not photosensitive epilepsy, but a condition known as mass hysteria, a real phenomenon where people are under stress to the point where they self-produce physical reactions. These people were convinced by external influences that something will happen to them, and then it did. It's not that they were faking it or imagining it, the symptoms were real, it's just that they were caused by being exposed to other people exhibiting those symptoms. This story also makes me think about us. Of course, people experiencing photosensitive epileptic seizures is a real thing, but so many people who shouldn't get affected become intimidated by rumors and easily give into panic, which exponentially leads to mass hysteria. Thousands of people who were not supposed to be affected were affected by the Pokemon episode, but that's because they potentially lacked the critical thinking skills to stop and ask themselves. Do I really know if over 10,000 people had serious issues because of this episode? Is it really worth panicking about it, and is it really likely that it will affect me? Too many times we rush to conclusions given to panic and rumors and forget to stop and think, to analyze and come to our own conclusions. Even when this mass hysteria can have a little direct lasting effect on us, as we run around aimlessly like chickens without a head, this state can lead us to actions which do have real implications, such as canceling a show, which leads to real people losing their jobs, or in other situations much worse outcomes can happen, such as mass violence due to the mass hysteria and lack of critical thinking.  If you do, and if you are interested whether it really says so, and also what this doll caused, click on the box that the red arrow points to to watch it. I also hope that this episode of incredible critical thinking stories will make you more thoughtful the next time you hear about a massive incident, and that you will do some investigation and use critical thinking skills before entirely believing it or going into a panic mode. This was Rokas, and let's keep creating a culture of critical thinking together.


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That's the first step is that you're going to start off with your research, right? Now, I'm not even sure if it will directly impact, but let's say it will and you can't change it. So you're going to do research and then you're going to do conditioning. You're going to look for guys who have physical disabilities along the same lines, may not be exactly the same. But I've worked with clients who have hearing impairments, severe hearing impairments or vision impairments, and what's amazing to me is actually, there are quite a few really powerful guys who also have those impairments. Lou Ferrigno was deaf in one year and he had achieved so much in his life, Mr. Universe and then in TV and movies. That's just one example. You could just do more and more of that and then you condition your mind into seeing that it's not actually going to be so much of a, I'll just start off just a real surface level reframe for you. Is that, obviously the more research I can do, the better it will be. But if a girl finds out about your disability, then it's already a screen. Can you handle that? I'm an amazing guy, but can you handle that? How cool are you? Any girl who will stay with you past that is going to show herself as being somebody that is mature enough or cool enough for you that will work for you. You don't want a superficial girl, I mean, it's not just about the sex, right? So that's a great way to screen a girl right off the front and she can't say anything about that. It's not like she can make fun of you. And it's great because my Trump card is always racism.  And I'm not going to confront them, I'm just going to make it very loud. And I'll just make it, that's that one word, I just throw it out, make it a bit louder, like, are you racist? You know, just like, what can she say to that? Like, she's going to have to tone it down, I just want, you know. So if you're honest with yourself, you're not ashamed of who you are, but you think, actually, this is who I am and it's a condition that I have. But it means that I'm going to have to compensate in other areas of my life to be stronger. Like, I had a client who didn't have use of his legs. So he just ended up working his upper body. He became like super jacked, his upper body, and could like lift himself everywhere, it was insane. Like, he could do, what do you call those, the muscle-ups on the pull-up bar. Just like, like I was doing pull-ups, like, he just, and what's really cool is that it will force you to be stronger in other areas. And if you can do that, then you've got the compensation there and you condition the belief that this is actually for your own good. And one way you can think of it is it will help you screen the women that you meet and the people that you meet. And I would even consider using that early on, like, first five minutes or so, put it out there. You're welcome. Okay, right, so I have to run back and forth. All right, go for it. How honest should you be? Can you tell white lies? And should you tell people what you think about them if it will hurt them?  So, when I say honesty, I mean at first with yourself, honest with yourself and your insecurities. That's why for this example, I use limiting beliefs.  Cause that's not about yourself, right?  That's one of the basis of flirting, right? So, you can tell lots of white lies. A lie is white if she knows that it's a lie or she suspects that it's a lie. And you don't care if she finds out cause that's why it's funny, right?  This is not about white lies. This is specifically, in this case, targeting your own insecurities and just self lies. Lies to yourself about yourself. So, first be honest about where you are and then just express that. Yeah, especially when it comes to other people, if it's about them, there are plenty of times when you don't want to tell them what you really think cause it's just not going to help anything. Yeah, thank you for that question and that clarification. Other questions? Sure, right, right, yes. Okay, so you're saying that with cerebral policy in your case, it's actually a strength because they find it exotic, but to an extent, cause you wouldn't use it in a club, right? You'd say it was a football injury. Great, actually that's, it raises another great point that a clarification I should have made. When you're flirting and it doesn't bother you, then this won't come up.   Maybe she just made a joke about people with cerebral policy, not knowing that you have it and that hurt. And now if you say, oh it's a football injury, it's gonna feel bad cause you're like denying yourself. That's when you bring it out. But you don't even have to say if you don't want to, that you have cerebral policy. You could just also use intrigue. I have this disability. I don't think you can handle it. I don't think you can handle it. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, right. And then let her ask for it, let her work for it. And then maybe on the date you'll tell her, I don't know, I still doubt you. I don't know if you can handle it, but we'll see. Then you've got your third leg to work on. So you've got, it's a good move. Okay, other questions? Okay, so see if you're asking about the difference or the relation between pride and honesty in the context of this talk. So can you explain how you see them as being in conflict? Yeah, I totally, yeah. Okay, great. Yeah, coming out of a Christian context, pride is like the cardinal sin. So whenever I hear it, I'm like, I don't want to be associated with it, but yeah, actually that's what I'm trying to say. When I say you got to be proud of who you are, that's exactly, if that's what you mean by pride. Pride can also mean I feel better than the next guy, or I want to be better than the next guy. I think that's in a Christian context, and that's why that could be dangerous.  That's the honesty part of it.  You pay lip service to it.  When a girl challenges you about it, you just pretend like it's not true. Maybe you say, you know, I get some football injury, you don't want to tell her, for instance. Being honest is what will force the pride to come through. Maybe the first time you say it, you don't feel it, but you just train it, and eventually when you put yourself out there, and over time it's just out there for everyone to see, then you'll be a lot more proud of it. So the honesty will support the pride. Great question. Thank you. Thank you very much.