From the dazzling crest of the Himalayas, to the humid shores of the Indian Ocean, stretches a timeless mystic land, rich with a pattern of life through forgotten centuries. India. Its frontier guarded by forbidding peaks wears always the sense of brooding peril. In the Midland deserts, dust clouds dance away from creaking primitive water wheels. The steaming lowland villages throb incessantly with the rhythm of native drums. Up and down over the forested roads of India, past glittering princes, peasants, half-naked holy men, soldiers, elephants and tigers roam the jungles. Temples, mosques, shrines of a hundred gods and half gods crowd the cities and countryside. Teaming with life, prodigal of jewels and gold, land of fabulous wealth and of famine, India. On India's northern border, the protective wall of the Himalayas is broken by the Khyber Pass, through which it poured the conquerors of her ancient civilization. Macedonians, Afghans, Mongols came, saw, conquered and disappeared in the dust, while Mother India placidly endured. Then came the soldiers of the Crescent. 1536. Under the Mohammedan Babur, the Muslim horde swept through the Khyber and founded the Mogul dynasty. The golden age of India had begun. Unequal since the world began was the magnificence of the barbaric court of Delhi. A river of rubies, pearls, emeralds and diamonds poured through the hands of the artisans, fashioning palaces and thrones of the great Moguls. And as tales of this splendor spread through the world, European nations began to covet India's opulence. In the year 1601, in the Hall of Private Audience, the great Mogul Akbar has received an English emissary. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of England has granted a charter to the East India Company and with its sole right of trading with all countries lying beyond the Cape of Good Hope or straight to Magellan during a period of 15 years. In the name of Her Majesty, I venture to request your friendly acceptance of these trading merchants when they send their representatives to Delhi. You may tell your Queen on whom be the blessing of our that whatever can be done to promote commerce between England and India will be gladly done. But instantly, feuds sprang up among the English, Dutch and Portuguese traders. The East India Company hired and trained native soldiers to protect their interests. 1684, Charles II grants the East India Company a revised charter. The East India Company is hereby granted the right to acquire territory in India to coin money, to command fortresses and troops, to form alliances, to make war and peace and to exercise civil and criminal jurisdiction over whatever territory they may in time possess. Out to India then began the procession of adventurers, traders, soldiers of fortune under the protection of the East India Company. Peasants looked up from their fields of rice to find they must pay taxes to the white sides. Meanwhile, the East India Company is hereby granted to find they must pay taxes to the white sides. Meanwhile, in the desolate hills of Hyderabad, French and English traders alike had heard of a magic city, Golconda. Out of the jewel-studded earth came diamonds whose varying names ring with romance and legend. The great Mogal Diamond, weight 787 carats. The Olaf Diamond, stolen from the eye of an idol in a Hindu temple, given to Catherine the Great by her lover, Prince Olaf. A foreigner, worn by Mogal Emperors, taken as loot by the Persian Nadir Shah, now an acceptor of England's king. The reagent Baman, weight 410 carats. Moon of the mountains, in the Russian crown jewel. The Florentine Diamond, among the crown jewels of Austria. When Allah Uddin conquered the country, he took from the Hindu ruler Ramchandra 160 pounds of diamonds. Today, Golconda is empty. The great fortress still towers over the deserted city. On the height above, a tiny Hindu temple reminds men silently that only the gods endure. In ever-increasing splendor, the Mogal Emperors reigned. Akbar moved the capital to Agra, built a great fortress with walls that shone like topaz. There, one day in the year 1605, he speaks with his eldest son, Selim. My son, it has come to my ears that you still desire to marry the wife of an African officer in the court. His rumor is false. I will have the standards tortured. It is true, my father. I have told you. I will never permit her husband to divorce her. So you may add her to your Zanana. You know that since I visited Lahore as a young prince, I have loved Zaria. I was 15 then, now I am 35. It is unworthy of a Mogal prince to speak of enduring love for a woman. When I command the Mahuta to guide my husband into the street that passes through windows, I am breathless with the knowledge that she may be watching from behind the lattices. The very air about her dwelling is profumed with her spirit. Enough! I am an old man. You will soon be ruler of India. I command you to put this woman out of your mind. As well ask me to disregard the shining of the sun or the call of the Moes into prayer. May Allah grant you many years of life, my father. But when the moment comes that I am emperor, I will have Zaria. Nothing shall keep her from my arms. Majesty? Have you brought your sister Zaria to the palace as I commanded Asafkan? Yes, sire. Where is she? She was taken to the women's quarters to await your majesty's summons. You have done well. And you shall be rewarded. Sire, I... You have a favor to ask? No, sire. I... Do not fear to speak. I hesitate to remind your majesty that your father, on whom be the blessing of Allah, forbade your majesty to bring my sister to the palace. And if... My father is dead, may he rest in paradise. And I am no longer Prince Salim but Emperor Yahungir. Yes, majesty? Bring in the lady Zaria. Yes, majesty? I will speak to her alone, Asafkan. Sire? Silence. I will speak to her alone. Leave me with her when she comes. Yes, sire. Here is the lady, sire. Bring her in. See that Asafkan has sherbet and cakes. Serve him in the garden. Yes, majesty? I will summon you presently, Asafkan. As you say, sire. You love it. No, do not kneel to me. It is I who should kneel to you. I have waited 20 years for this moment.  Your majesty, I... Oh, I will not call you majesty. But Salim, as I did when we were children in La Hore. Oh, could you think me like him in modesty? I think you are everything that is lovely. For 20 years I have lived in darkness.  Salim, say I shall belong to you forever. And I shall call you Nur Jahan, light of the world. You shall not only be my wife, but the share of my throne, Empress of India. And so Nur Jahan became the only queen of Islam ever to rule with her husband. At their death, Jahangir's son Shah Jahan comes to the throne, builds for his bride, Mumtaz Mahal, a palace exquisite as a fabric of a dream. In the jasmine tower of the palace a few years later, he sits beside a window. His architect stands before him. The very heart has gone from me. When I returned from the wars to find Mumtaz Mahal dying, I too longed for death. You have remembered my words to make her tomb beautiful as she was beautiful. Yes, your majesty. Tell me of your plans. It will be a square structure of white marble. The center of the roof will be an alabaster dome. At each corner a minaret. The great doors will be carved from translucent agate so the light will fall softly within. About the doorways, bands of flowers inlaid with jewels. What of the interior? The walls are to be a finely carved pure white marble with a tracery of jewels. And the diocese on which the Mumtaz sarcophagus will be placed is to be paved with precious stones. Swear by the 99 names of Allah that not one flower carved in this tomb shall ever be repeated. I swear it, Sire, it is well. The work shall begin at once on the Taj Mahal. Now the years are moving swiftly. The Mughal Empire weakens but the great East India Company grows ever more powerful. Every trading post is fortified. Companies of native troops, officers by Englishmen, are at its command. Among these is Robert Clive, young company clerk turned soldier. June 1756. The East India Company's governor in Calcutta receives the ruler of Lower Bengal, Suraj Adala.  It is true, Sahib. Marked for my vengeance, he escaped from my palace and has claimed protection in your fort. Give him to me. I will have him torn to bits and tempered by elephants before my eyes. I'm afraid I'll have to refuse to surrender him to you. But he is my cousin and he is marked for my vengeance. Nevertheless, he's under my protection here and I can't turn him over to you to be killed. I demand his release. And I refuse. By all the gods, they shall never be forgotten as long as one stone of Calcutta remains upon another. The city is being attacked with a measure of vengeance. I serve your good power. I order all English people in Calcutta to take refuge on the ships lying at Uncle Harbour. They will sail down the river until the danger is over. Take your family. If this goes on in the city, you'd not believe. Will you come, Captain Clive? Of course. We'll make a forced march to the jungle. Here, sit there and rest. We'll take you back with us. Through the steaming jungle in the deadly tropical heat, Clive leads his army to the relief of Calcutta and captures the city. He sets up headquarters at the garrison. There's a wounded Hindu out here, sir. Seems to be trying to tell us something. Where is he? Here, sir. They're going. You'll never get him to talk. What is it? Let me get down there. I saw you. Yes, yes. Mem. Saw you. Pri... Pri... I'm there. Prisoners? Where? Prisoners. We saw no prisoners. Captain! Yes, sir. Where are our prisoners, Captain, is for? Across the court there, sir. But there's only been a small garrison here. The guard room's only about 20 feet square. There can't be many prisoners in it. Besides, they'd have called out to us when we took the fort. Come on, let's see. All right, now, be quick, men. Take down the vials. Yes, sir. There's a lock beside, sir. Now we'd have to break it. Who's in there? There can't be any one here, sir. Lead on through here. There you are, sir. It's broken. Pull the door open. They must have been wedged right up against the door. So they fell out when we opened it, sir. Oh, what devil are those Hindus? Are the prisoners all dead, sir? Yes, yes, of course they must be. We'll bring them here for examination. Listen. Listen, there's a woman in there alive. Let's get them out quickly. It's like a furnace, sir. I'll be surprised if any of them are alive. The room's packed solid with them. They couldn't even fall over when they died. Yes, yes, sir. Easy there. Give her water. Here, here, I'll take her. You men get the rest of them out there. Here, drink this. Oh, hot. I can't breathe. You're going to be all right. Yes, you can. There, there, that's better, that's better. Try and talk now. The boat sir, I had gone. Yes. We... Yes, yes, you're all right. They forced us all into that room last night. Devils, tell me, were you the only woman? No. Oh, the ten of us. Are they all dead? We don't know yet. Three more women alive, sir, and 19 men.  The black hole of Calcutta? We'll spell the end of the Suraj Udalla. Coldly, steadily, Clive takes up the trail of Suraj Udalla. One stifling morning in June 1757, in the Fort of Calcutta, Mere Jaffir, a follower of Suraj Udalla calls on Captain Clive. Well, Mere Jaffir, you're willing to betray him? Are there many French troops at Classe? I do not know how many French soldiers there are, but Suraj Udalla has told me he has 35,000 foot soldiers and 15,000 horsemen. There are also 50 cannons. I must have money before I go. I'll give you part of the money now, part of it when the battle is over. Will you wait outside while I send with the money? As you say, Saib. There will be no trickery. No, no, no trickery, no trickery. Mausoleum! Yes, sir. You're not going to trust him, sir. Never fear. I have known Mere Jaffir for a long time. If it wasn't for his fear of torture, he'd have quit fighting long ago. But we have only 3,000 men and 2,000 of them are sepoys. Yes, yes, they are. But don't forget the element of surprise. Send the sergeant major to me. Yes, sir. And after that, the clock. Tell him I shall want 10,000 pounds. Yes, sir. You'll have no chance if we get out where they can reach us. Well, that's nearly noon, sir. And this has been going on since six this morning. Have you done thought in my opinion, sir? Oh, no, I haven't. You're waiting to see. What's happened, sir? They've still firing. They've stopped to eat their dinner. They always do. Now's our time. They'll never suspect we'd attack in this awful heat. What? Now, sir? Now. To our places. At the gunsmen. Over the bay. Seize the outpost. Storm the camp. The victory of Clive at Plassie makes the East India Company the ruling power of India. Native states fall into its hands. Native armies police the towns and trading stations. As the years go by, native insurrection flares is quelled by stern measures. Then the British law is passed prohibiting the burning of widows with their husband's bodies and the killing of girl babies under the old caste ritual. Hindus are outraged. In the year 1857, the governor of Calcutta talked with General Hersey, a native officer. Now, General, what's the trouble about the cartridges? As you know, Your Excellency, with our muzzle-loading muskets, the cartridge end must be bitten off, releasing the powder into the barrel. Yes. When? The cartridge ends are greased. And yesterday, a high caste soldier was trodded by a low caste seapoy with being defiled.  Good Lord.  No. General Hersey, there's only one thing to be done. Pass the word among your officers that hereafter only clarified butter will be used to grease the cartridges. And the men may grease them themselves, if they wish. Will that satisfy them? I can only tell them. But if word of this has begun to spread, it will go like wildfire. Coupled with the new laws, it may cause a holy war that will trench India with blood. No, then. Do what you can. But the harm was done. Down with the white sites, they have defiled us all. Avenge Hindu honor. Down with them. They have defiled us. Avenge our honor. Mutiny. Mutiny. Mutiny. Mutiny. Mutiny. Mutiny. Mutiny. Mutiny. Mutiny. Mutiny. Across India from Delhi to Calcutta, the native troops rise and revolt.  The red pages of our history are filled with the names of cities where Englishmen, sick, wounded, starving, hopelessly outnumbered, somehow cling to the beleaguered garrisons. Delhi, Agra, Kornpur, Lucknow, two years of horror and death. Not until 1859 does the mutiny end. A few months later at Delhi, in the midst of a grandeur bar, glittering with all the pomp and splendor that is India's, Lord Canning reads the proclamation. India is declared a possession of the British crown and Her Majesty Queen Victoria, hereby grants amnesty to all who engaged in the mutiny save only those who murdered British subjects. God save the Queen. So begins modern India, where side by side with British dominions are the feudal states, owing allegiance to the crown, but ruled by native princes who live in the incredible luxury of the past. In 1896, a great drought ravages the country. Hundreds of thousands of peasants starved to death. Agitators blame British misrule. In 1914, the Great War sends thousands of natives beyond the seas. They return to raise afresh the cries against their British masters. In 1920, Mohamdes Karanchan Gandhi speaks to the people in the streets of the cities. People of Bombay, you have suffered too long under the injustice of British domination. It is time for India to be free. To protest to the British Raj is to accomplish nothing. So we must begin a campaign of non-resistance that will force the tyrannous English to set India free. That is what to do. All government service must be boycotted. If any of you hold public office, surrender it. Withdraw your children from the British schools. Seize to use articles of British manufacture.  Make Indian cloth for Indian people. If you do this one year from today India will be free. The unlettered people believe Gandhi to be a saint. Give him the title of Mahatma. Great soul. But as he postpones the date of India's liberation again and again his fiery Mohammedan followers begin to leave him. In 1922 he is arrested. You are charged with conspiring to spread disaffection among the people with a view to overthrowing the government. How do you plead? I am guilty. I accept full responsibility for any acts the people have committed. You are sentenced to six years in jail. Released after serving less than two years Mahatma Gandhi finds his power has waned. He takes up the cause of the untouchables lowest of all the countless castes in India. Affronted by this challenge of their ancient law Hindus forsake him. With his power to sway the masses goes his influence. Only a few faithful followers still believe him to be the saviour of India. Today native princes unite with British statesmen and diplomats seeking to find the government for India that will reconcile the age-old antagonisms of race and creed dividing the crowding masses of her people. Let us catch our last glimpse of India from the harbor of Calicut little known city at the southern tip of the continent fragrant with the scent of cinnamon, cloves and ginger. From here in 1631 went the first shipment of that cotton cloth named for the city, Calico. In the throng streets of Hindu turbans and the saffron robes of Buddhist monks mingle as always with the sketchy garments of pearlfishers whose tatters may conceal a gem worthy of a rajah's crown. The whistle blows and we're homeward bound once more from another journey to ports of Calicut. We invite you to join us again next week in this time as we journey to another of the world's fascinating ports of Calicut.


So in this video, I want to talk about a course that helped me to start writing online every day and start making more money from my writing. So back in January of this year, 2021, I saw a tweet from a guy named Jack Butcher who talked about how writing every day on Twitter helped him build a $1 million business in 2020 in just one year. And even though I've been writing an email every day or almost every day to my list, I was intrigued by how Jack had built in a public place on Twitter and used that to build his audience and also build a $1 million business. So Jack had a course out, I bought that then I went down the rabbit hole of also looking for any course that I could find around building an audience and writing on Twitter. And one day I'm not really even sure or I don't remember how I stumbled across this, but I started seeing all these weird pictures that people were posting of essays of just these typed up short essays on their Twitter timeline. So I got curious, I started doing research into what the program was. I signed up in February of this year for the March cohort and Ship 30 for 30 has helped me start writing on Twitter, build my audience to over 4,000 followers in about six and a half months and generate tens of thousands in sales for info products, coaching and consulting and services offers. So what I want to do today is just give you my full review of Ship 30 for 30, my experience, who I think it's best for and how it can help you start to build your audience online and start making more money by writing online every day. Now before I begin, make sure you hit the like and subscribe button so it can show it to other people who can benefit from this video as well. And let's dive into the review right now. All right, so I think the best way to do this review is just to walk through visually the program, the different components and also talk about what it is, how it helped me, what it helped me achieve, what I enjoyed most about it and who should actually join this course, this program. So let's first start off with what is Ship 30 for 30? Well, it's a cohort based course and a cohort based course means there's a start, a definitive start and end date where everybody is moving towards the same goal together. And the goal of this program is to start writing online and build the online writing habit in just 30 days. Now the way that we do that is we have on Twitter, it's specifically for Twitter. And what I do is you can see February 15th for 30 days, we post what are called atomic essays. And these atomic essays, they give you the tools to create these. They probably improved it since February 15th, but you can see here, day one, day two, day three, I'm just posting an essay every day. And these essays are on a topic of your choice. They have you pick three different topics at the beginning of the program and you're just writing different essays around those three topics every day. So you can see here, I'm just starting the atomic essay string February 15th. And then every day I'm just writing a new essay. So by the end of the 30 days, you will have 30 of these atomic essays built up, and you're going to have all these different writing pieces where other people have read and engaged with them and liked and shared.  So the whole goal of this is not only to build a daily online writing habit where you're posting these atomic essays, it's also to help you clarify your ideas and your thinking and also figure out what ideas are resonating with your audience. It's going to help you build an actual audience, right? This is how I got started on Twitter with zero followers was through posting these atomic essays. And it's also if you're selling any kind of products or services, this is going to help you down the line with that too, because your writing is going to help you build your audience and also sell those different products and services to your audience. So that's the whole goal of Ship 30 for 30 is to build that 30 day or build that online writing habit in 30 days. And it's also going to be build your audience and also make money from that audience in the future. If you're selling products or services and also to help you clarify your ideas and the things that you want to talk about in the future. Now they also include a course that helps you with writing quicker and clarifying your ideas and figuring out what to write about. They also give you tools to help you move faster with your writing. And they also have this 30 days of shipping. They tell you what to write about each day and your workflow and giving you tips so that you can move along this, this challenger, this cohort fairly easily. So they give you access to this course and they also give you access to this community. So this is, I think it's only for my cohort. You can see there's 252 members in here and they have a new one for every new cohort that is launched. And I think they do these every month and a half or so. So not only will you have access to the atomic essays template here and posting it on your timeline on Twitter, but you're also going to access to this course and then access to this community with all the other members in your cohort. And you can see here, there's different tabs for helping questions and wins. And also every week, at least through my cohort, they are doing two times a week training, live Zoom sessions. And they have the recordings here. They bring on some special guests sometimes and they talk about different topics around writing and improving your writing. So they do that twice a week, at least through my cohort, they were doing that. And this community is pretty cool. It's very active and it also helps you to engage with other people with their atomic essays. So that's what Ship 30 for 30 is, cohort-based course for 30 days. You're posting these essays onto your timeline every day. You get access to this course to help you write better and quicker. And then you also get access to a community here with all the people in your group. Now with that said, let's talk about how Ship 30 for 30 helped me. What did it help me achieve going through the course and then after the course as well? So first thing, it helped me to grow my audience from scratch. So as I was building my daily writing habit, I started from literally zero followers when I started this program. And now I have 4,320 followers. And it all started because I started this writing habit, this writing challenge in February and continued it on even months, it's six and a half, seven months after the cohort ended. So it's a habit that I've kept up. It helped me to build that habit. It also helped me to build my audience here. I've also been able to get about 1,100 people to my email list. So if I click on this link here, there's different links for what you can do. And people will join my email list using this button here or they'll join my Facebook group here, which also links to my email list. So it's helped me to grow both my audience on Twitter and 1,100 plus people to my email list. It's also helped me to form connections with people that I wouldn't think I could have formed connections with otherwise. So there are people, multimillionaires and entrepreneurs, very successful entrepreneurs that I've met just through communicating with them through the DMs, through direct messages here and just forming relationships through people that I meet on this platform through engaging with their content. They engage with mine and I strike up a conversation through direct messages. So it's helped me to form these connections that I wouldn't have had otherwise and also make some actual friends. There's somebody I met on Twitter that might become a potential business partner of mine for a venture that I'm working on and it all came through a Twitter conversation. There was also a project, an opportunity to join a project. I didn't end up doing it, but back in April, I only had about 400 followers at the time and it was a company that wanted me to work on a project for them within the company and it was very enticing. I almost ended up taking it, but ultimately didn't do that, but it only came into my lap because of my posts on Twitter and because I had been connecting with people and engaging with their content and also creating my own content. Now, the last thing to tell me to do is to generate tens of thousands in sales of my different info products, coaching, consulting, and services offers. So I jump back here. This is a course that I have a $49 course. This is my email side hustle program, which is a course plus coaching. This is a one on one coaching session and then also my done for you service offering here. And we've had tens of thousands of dollars in sales come through these links that came directly from Twitter. So it's helped me to do that as well to generate actual money from just writing and building my audience and getting people to follow me and then check out my different links and offerings here. So those are the four things that helped me achieve and helped me to actually build a writing habit and start building my audience to over 4,000 plus followers in six and a half to seven months helped me to build my email list or grow my email list by about 1100 subscribers. It's helped me to form connections with people I didn't feel like I could have connections with otherwise and also generate tens of thousands of dollars in sales from my different offers. Now I want to talk about what I enjoyed most about going through this course and being a part of a cohort of everyone who was on the same journey together. So the first thing is the community. So one of the biggest fears that people have when they first start writing online, especially when you're starting with zero followers, is I don't want to write stuff that people aren't going to like. I want to write into a black hole where no one's going to engage with my stuff. And a lot of people quit there because they feel like they're writing for nothing. But when we have this community of 250 other people who are on the same journey together who have the same start and end date and who have the same mission of I'm posting 30 atomic essays for the next 30 days, we're all encouraged to engage with each other and help each other. So if I find, I can't find it right now, I just already lost the page. But if I go back to my atomic essays, there's likes, there's retweets, there's comments on every essay from people who are in my cohort, right? So you're engaging with people, they're engaging back with you. You don't feel like you're talking into a void and that helps you to keep pushing out content, help you to continue writing and pushing out your atomic essays. So that's a super important part. I enjoyed that because I don't want to feel like I'm writing to nobody either. So as I'm posting these essays every day and people are engaging with it, gives me the motivation to continue posting more and more essays. And of course, seeing other people post their essays makes me want to post mine as well. So that's the first thing. I really enjoyed the community and the engagement that I got from the community where we were liking and sharing and retweeting other people's stuff and commenting on it. And they were doing the same to ours. So we weren't just writing to ourselves. The second thing that I really enjoyed was the fact that there was a deadline. There's a timeline. I've been in courses, many different courses where there is just lifetime access or unlimited access and nobody, there's no urgency there, right? Nobody actually takes action because they have years and years to do it if they really want to. So with this, there's a 30 day deadline, right? 30 days starting on X date. In this case, it was February 15th and ending on March 15th. You are going to write an essay every day. And if you miss a day or you're not writing essays, you're falling behind. So there is a deadline here. I enjoyed that because it forced me to take action and actually do the work. And it forces a lot of the other people to do that as well. So the attendance rates were really high. The success rates were really high of people posting their atomic essays and actually posting and writing every day. And I enjoyed that because the biggest downside of having a course is not having people actually go through it and take action on it. So having that deadline in place, I enjoyed it because it forced me to actually do the work and it forces everybody else to do the work as well. The third thing I enjoyed was it did exactly what it said it was going to do, right? Start writing online in 30 days. In 30 days, you are going to have this daily writing habit of writing every day. And I've continued that for seven months after that. So it's a habit that I still do to this day. It still benefits me. My audience is still growing here. I'm still generating more and more sales every day from my audience and the different offerings that I have. And I'm still writing and continuing to grow my audience here and continuing to get better at my writing and getting better ideas for the different content and products and services that I can roll out. So I really enjoyed that. I did exactly what it said it was going to do. And it wasn't a crazy promise, right? It's just start writing online in 30 days and build this writing habit. It wasn't build a six figure business in 30 days. It was just, hey, pick this up, start writing online, build this habit. Here's how it's going to benefit you. I really enjoyed that and it actually stuck to its promise here. So those were the three things I enjoyed most was the community and the engagement and the encouragement you get from the community. The actual deadline, the timeline of the 30 day cohort forces you to take action. And then also the program or the course itself actually stuck to its promise, which was to build a writing habit in 30 days. And I really enjoyed that. I continued to do it months after that as well. Now, the last thing I want to address is who should join this course? Who should join ship 3430? And personally in my cohort here, which is 251 people, there were folks from all different types of backgrounds, right? There were TikTokers and their YouTubers, personal brands. There were course creators. There were founders and entrepreneurs. They were marketers and sales people. There were just regular folks who wanted to start writing online as well. They worked a nine to five or whatever it was and they just wanted to get better at writing and they were joining this program for that. So whether you were trying to build your audience online or sell or grow business and sell more of your products and services, whether you're trying to make connections with other people, right? This is a group of 250 bright people that you can connect with and make friendships and connections with. Or whether you are just trying to get better at the skill of writing and pick it up and actually turn it into a habit and join a course like this to force yourself to actually do it. Those are all great reasons for you to join. And like I said, there were people from all different types of backgrounds that were in this course, right? So if I go here in the ship 3430 page, this guy right here, Alex Lieberman, he wasn't in my cohort, but he runs an eight figure plus company called Morning Brew. And just imagine being able to communicate and connect with people like that who are already doing really cool things in their life just through a program like this, like ship 3430, okay? So if you go through this page, I'm sure you can see a lot of other reasons of why you might want to join, but those are a few different reasons of why you might want to join. If you want to build an audience, sell more of your products and services and grow your business. If you want to make connections with people that you might not have already had otherwise, or if you just want to get better at the skill of writing and turn it into a habit, those are all great reasons for you to join. So do I recommend ship 3430? 100% yes, right? If you are trying to build an audience and start building an online writing habit in 30 days and of course make more money online by maybe selling your products and services, ship 3430 is a great course for you to take. I've seen everyone from complete beginners to experienced founders and entrepreneurs to marketers and sales people to bigger creators going through this course to build an online writing habit and start writing every day. So regardless of your background, your experience level, if you are trying to write online every day and build this habit and build your audience and start making more money online through your writing, I think ship 3430 is a great course for you to take and I highly recommend it. Now if you want to help me out and support this channel and you're thinking of joining ship 30 for 30 as well, go to www.SeanAnthony.co. That's going to take you to the page for the next cohort whenever that is depending when you watch this video and if you sign up through that link, I get a small commission for that at no cost to you. If you don't want to help me out, that's totally fine as well, just go to www.Ship30 for 30.com and sign up for the next cohort. I still recommend it either way, but if you want to help me out again www.SeanAnthony.co. If you go through my link, reach out to me on Twitter and I'll share with you my different atomic essays so you can see where I actually started from. 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Hi, my name is Monty Johnson. I teach philosophy at the University of California, San Diego And this is the fourth of my lectures on alberca moves the plague la peste originally published 1947 I'm using the translation by Stuart Gilbert published in 1948 So this is part four and part four comes after the Pedestal climax chapter of part three where the graphic description of math's death was provided now we get self-revelations and Transformations of the main characters their perceptions of themselves and of their friends Strangers in the world are revealed reflected and changed in various ways as a result of the plague and and the chapter culminates in a very philosophical discussion and conversation between tarot and Rio and Because of this philosophical content, I will spend most of the presentation discussing that But first we have a description in chapter 19 after briefly describing the exhaustion of the essential frontline health care workers Rio and his friends during September and October Chapter 19 mostly consists of tarot's observations about coddard The criminal fugitive smuggler black marketeer He's a vicious and unhappy man who is thriving in a city Or almost everyone except the health care heroes seems to be slouching towards Vice lethargy and unhappiness because of the horrible circumstances Many people are brought down to coddard's level Fear and cowardice are becoming widespread in commonplace So in this circumstance coddard himself Finally feels like he belongs and he actually sympathizes and understands the feelings of other people For the first time the world and other people make sense to him even while it's turned upside down for them Coddard was already cut off from other people Before they all became cut off from each other and now that they have become cut off from each other He has become connected to them like an experienced older sibling or elder and yet ironically He's described as mostly enjoying Associating with the youths and their youthful pursuits going to bars restaurants and clubs where Social distancing regulations are ignored and even flaunted now in Chapter 19 we also get a description of a theater piece Coddard invites to row to the theater to see a performance of Gluck's orpheus Which a troop that has become trapped in oron is performing continuously Now orpheus describes the painful separation of orpheus and his lover Eurydice Eurydice has died and departed for the underworld orpheus's laments begging the Lord of the underworld To release his dead lover these laments hardly aroused the emotion of the audience in oron Because they have become indifferent to this kind of separation as a defense mechanism against their own all-too-real suffering But they are finally jolted and surprised at the third scene when Eurydice is Slipping finally away from her lover and the actor playing orpheus Chose this moment to stagger grotesquely to the footlights his arms and legs splayed out under his antique robe and Fell down in the middle of the property sheepfold at the same Moment the orchestra stopped playing the audience rose and began to leave the auditorium Slowly at first and finally the crowd Stampeded toward the exits wedged together in the bottlenecks and pouring out into the street in a confused mass with shrill cries of dismay So the mythological story about the separation of lovers due to death Which normally has a very mythological and perhaps Distant feel to it to this audience seems to be stark realism Because it's a dramatic picture of their life in these days plague is on the stage in the guise of a disarticulated mummer the actor or Mime Represents all of their memories and so at the climax of this play where this grotesque Display takes place. We have a kind of second climax of the novel itself after the description of death in the pedestal part three and We reflect on this Allegory which is an allegory, but it's assumed this frightening realist dimension Occurring within camoos plague, which is itself a very realistic description of the plague but at the same time an allegory for the plague of fascism and politics The separation of lovers is here used to depict or represent Not just the misery of being separated from lovers But the permanent misery of being separated from someone you love permanent separation being a kind of death now Character development chapter 20 Discusses Rambeir It takes place in early September and so it chronologically proceeds chapter 19 But whereas chapter 19 was general and updated us on several characters Chapter 20 is focused on Rambeir Rambeir continues to work under Rio with the voluntary sanitation squads Learning that he has a fortnight to wait until the guards will at last have an opportunity to help him escape through the front gates at Midnight undercover of darkness Now on the appointed day Rambeir visits the doctor at a place where tarot is acting as Rio's secretary They have a brief conversation in the office under masks Quote whenever any of them spoke through the mask the muslin or gauze Bulged and grew moist over the lips.  You can't read their lips or see their lips move their facial expression is obscured and it greatly inhibits communication and Connection But now that Rambeir has finally reached the end of his elaborate quest to escape from the town and the plague Which has been described over several chapters He unexpectedly announces that he's decided to stay and fight the plague Because despite his desire to reunite with his lover a desperate desire he says quote if you win away he would feel ashamed of himself and That would embarrass his relations with the woman he loved so again he acts out of shame But Rio Replies that there's nothing shameful in preferring happiness to the misery of their current situation and Rambeir agrees, but he replies that it may be shameful to be happy by oneself one can't be entirely happy When knowing that one has committed a shameful act in order to secure that happiness or pleasure and So Rambeir has changed and he's exhibited self control over his desire and found a way to intelligently pursue that desire but in a way that's moderated by virtue by a Sense of shame in the first place But the result is that he will enjoy a greater share of happiness in the end Then if he had directly pursued the object of his desire without moderating it through a sense of shame now in chapter 21 the pathetic death of Othans child jocks is the backdrop for a crisis of faith on the part of Father Pantelou Recalled that Othan had been dismissive of the rats in the plague Even refusing to socially distance when his wife was under quarantine, but eventually When she was he had to be isolated at the municipal stadium, which has been converted into a mass isolation ward his wife and daughter remain at the quarantine hospital and his son jocks is at The is being treated by Rio He's suffering from the plague and his case is so bad that the medical team has decided to test out the Experimental plague serum on him in a last-ditch effort to save his life and the extreme Misery and suffering of this child is graphically described and Pantelou who has been serving with the voluntary Sanitation squads Sinks to his knees and exclaims my god spare this child desperately Praying to his god Now in the aftermath of this everybody's in a bad mood Rio and Pantelou have a terse exchange of arguments The child was clearly innocent Pantelou acknowledges this but explains That sort of thing is revolting because it passes our human understanding But perhaps we should love that which we cannot understand and this enrages Rio who replies No father. I have a very different idea of love and until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture so you should not Love this even if it's caused by God and even if you should love God a scheme of things where God causes the torture of children that cannot be loved So Pantelou alleges that Rio like him is working for man's salvation, but Rio replies to this. No, I don't aim so high. I'm concerned with man's health and for me his health comes first and Pantelou's ministering to their salvation is not nearly as useful or effective or in the end Sensible so Chapter 22 Then is focused on father Pantelou. It's the end of father Pantelou in the previous chapter 21 We've seen his faith tested when he witnesses the agonizing death of Othan's son jocks but From the day on which he saw a child die Something seemed to change in Pantelou and his face bore traces of the rising tension of his thoughts Pantelou tells Rio that he's working on a radical essay entitled is a priest justified in consulting a doctor and When Rio expresses interest in the topic Pantelou tells him to attend his upcoming sermon So the change in Pantelou's own view of things is represented by the differences between the first sermon the first sermon was Given in part 2 chapter 11 it described the plague as a divine punishment for your religion a kind of collective punishment for people not being religious enough and In this second sermon in chapter 22 The plague is instead described a bit differently as a test of religious faith Can one maintain faith in the face of these horrors? Whereas the scientific approach tries to explain the cause of the plague itself and this is what Rio and His associates are interested in Pantelou instead stresses Learning the lesson that the plague has to teach He distinguishes between things that we can grasp is coming from God and things that we cannot For example a libertine burning in hell and a child suffering are both evils But the former is something we can grasp we can think of it as being a punishment But the latter we cannot grasp and cannot understand since the child is innocent Now Pantelou does not say Does not take the easy way and say that the child's suffering will later be compensated for by some kind of eternal Eternal bliss for who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can Compensate for a single moments of human suffering Rio asks So as a result we have to accept all suffering as coming from God and being due to God Even though we can't grasp the cause and so a time of Testing has come for all of us. We must either believe everything Believe what the church is telling us or deny it all Taro later summarizes Pantelou's position as a Christian should either lose his faith or should consent to the things that are happening like innocent children dying Pantelou refuses to lose his faith in God. Therefore, he must embrace even a child's suffering as having some kind of positive meaning That God has some intention with this that we simply cannot grasp and so Pantelou rejects the naturalistic approach to understanding how the disease afflicks people as a result of physical processes and It's really a pretty random thing. Some of them are innocent some of the innocent are afflicted whereas some of the guilty like Cotard aren't afflicted with it and the doctors natural scientific explanations can make sense of this but Pantelou has a crisis of making sense of this within his own Theistic worldview and So he's been forced to the conclusion that we must accept even these horrible senseless things as somehow coming from God and being meant by God and thus to answer the question in his article a priest is not justified in consulting a doctor So when Pantelou becomes ill He refuses to consult a doctor in accordance with his principles When he finally consents to being brought into the hospital just to be in accordance with the civic regulations Rio can't actually diagnose the illness. It seems that Pantelou has a serious illness But it's not the plague. He doesn't show any of the symptoms of the plague Still his condition steadily worsens Rio offers to stay with him in what seemed to be his last hours, but Pantelou refuses saying Priests can have no friends. They've given their all to God So he dies clutching a crucifix the perfect representation of innocence suffering a Divine mystery in which he's put all his faith Chapter 23 begins on November 2nd All souls day the day of the dead nicer cooler weather has come on But the cemeteries remain Unvisited flowers are no longer brought to the graves. The day of the dead is every day now the citizens Do some absurd things like buying and wearing oiled raincoats even in fair weather because of a Report and a rumor that these have been used effectively against the plague and were 200 years ago Meanwhile, health care workers must all wear masks and protective gear because the pneumatic form of the plague is becoming more common than the bubonic one so the contagious danger is even worse and shops profiteer from Selling these things that are supposed to be like Protection but also have raised prices on essential food stuffs The result is that the poor are hurt Disproportionately also because they've all become unemployed and there's a growing sense of Injustice that just makes everybody much more upset Meanwhile the newspapers Maintain a kind of optimism as does One of Rio's associates doctor Richard. Dr. Richard points out that the graph After its long rising curve had flattened out So they've flattened the curve of the death rate. It's still horribly high But people who are desperate for good news are relieved to hear that the rate of increase in death has slowed But just before the authorities are set to announce a Relaxation of the public health restrictions the optimist. Dr. Richard is himself Ironically carried off by the plague Now the municipal stadium once used for sporting events has become a guarded isolation camp to row and Rambar visit it those Quarantined sit in the stands silently watching a field Once a host to exciting spectacles of sport is now pitched with tents on which there is no movement or action whatsoever just people killing time and staring off into space There to row and Rambar Encounter Othon who asked them if his son Jacques Suffered before dying. He's got the news that he died but since he is in isolation. He wasn't able to be there They reply to him that they thought that he had not suffered In fact, he had suffered so badly that it provoked a crisis of faith on the part of father Pantalo as we saw Now after this to row and Rio go late one evening to visit the Spaniard asthma patient and while there they're invited to go upstairs and enjoy the view from chairs on the terrace above and as they do to row Warmly asks Rio to take an hour off for their friendship in which they have a very philosophical conversation to row begins By telling about his late father who as a prosecuting attorney had brought his son to watch him at court one day the young boy Fixated on the defendant perceiving him not as a criminal, but just an extremely unfortunate person he experiences a terrifying intimacy with the man and a resulting alienation from his father who the Hemantley and with great Rhetorical and oratorical power manages to get the man convicted and sentenced to death His father is then required to be at the execution Which to row describes as what would better be called murder in its most despicable form Toro runs away from home Abandons his middle class upbringing and becomes an impoverished drifter He says my real interest in life was the death penalty to my mind The social order around me was based on the death sentence. And so he joins up with other radical activists Needless to say he says I know that we too on occasion pass sentences of death Suggesting that he engaged in some kind of supported terroristic activities But I was told that these few deaths were inevitable for the building up of a new World in which murder would cease to be but he becomes Disillusioned with these tactics and the means don't seem to him to justify the end and Here we cannot help but see a hint of autobiography Because Camus of course was part of the French resistance and was forced to consider how his own pacifistic views and views about murder and the death penalty Related to resistant Plots for example to kill Germans bombed German soldiers He discusses such moral Issues in his letters to a German friend the friend had become a Nazi and Camus discusses why he thinks participating in resistance efforts Could be justified now to row describes Witnessing another execution later in life and seeing the agonized look on the condemned man's face Makes everything real before his eyes and he's forced to reflect on his own connections to murder Quote I learned that I had had an indirect hand in the death of thousands of people That I'd even brought about their deaths by approving of acts and principles Which could only end that way Concepts like necessity force majeure Etc are abused in order to excuse murder Which seems more and more common so that he says there's a sort of competition for who will kill the most Recall that this is being Written during and immediately after World War two But and ask yourself whether this competition of who will kill the most has Changed since then Finally he says quote as time went on. I merely learned that even those Were better than the rest who could not keep themselves nowadays from killing or letting others kill Because such as the logic by which they live and that is why we cannot stir a finger in this world without risk of Bringing death to somebody so we're implicated in the network of causes and institutions so that we are Connected to People being put to death people being killed in war and so on and so this occasions a Reflection on what we might call plague ethics Having come to the realization that everyone by being part of an unjust society is implicated in murder to row is ashamed He compares the moral Copability to this to being plague stricken quote. I realized that we all have plague and I have lost my peace I only know that one must do what one can to cease being plague stricken So that is why I resolved to have no truck with anything which directly or indirectly for good reasons or bad Brings death to anyone or justifies putting another to death now this of course since all organized society is connected with institutions and practices that Implicate us in murder Requires him to live apart from society. He says once I definitely refused to kill I do myself to an exile that can never end and thus his route his life as a Rootless drifter who just happened to wander to Oran before the action of the novel starts Tarot wants to become a kind of saint despite his disbelief in God. He pursues moral purity by a radical change in his lifestyle quote that too is why this Epidemic has taught me nothing new except that I must fight at your side referring to Rio. I Know positively. Yes, Rio. I can say I know the world Inside out as you may see that each of us has the plague within him No one no one on earth is free from it And I know too that we must keep endless watch on ourselves last in a careless moment We breathe in someone's face and fasten the infection on him. What's natural is the microbe the rest health integrity purity if you like is a product of the human will of a Vigilance that must never falter the good man The man who infects hardly anyone is the man who has the fewest lapses of attention And it needs tremendous willpower a never-ending tension to the mind to avoid such lapses Yes, Rio. It is worrying business being plague-stricken. It is still more wearying To refuse to be it That's why everyone in the world today looks so tired Everyone is more or less sick of plague This is an absolutely key Philosophical message that resonates to this day Just as those who are stricken with plague don't choose to be infected and don't choose to harm others Those of us who live in and partake in an unjust society Don't choose or intend to harm others, but we bear responsibility for this harm And so we can be expected to take enormous Precautions and pains in order to avoid doing so just as those who may carry the plague can be expected to take enormous Precautions and pains not only to avoid infecting others, but also to help prevent further infection and Save those who are infected. So we're expected to Self-isolate observe stay-at-home orders wear masks socially distance and to the extent that we consciously and self-consciously do so and are careful to do so then we Minimize our connection with this chain of causes which results in other people's deaths But that means that doing the opposite of those Refusing to socially distance going to underground clubs Refusing to wear masks protesting stay-at-home orders Not staying isolated when we're sick that these directly and morally Implicate us Now it's interesting to Rose ethics could be compared to Socrates in the Gorgias Socrates in the Gorgias says that he can imagine nothing worse than putting another man to death unjustly and That he'd rather have harm inflicted upon him than inflicted on another in the least bit so to row is willing to Sacrifice his prosperous lifestyle and become a rootless Drifter in order to minimize the possibility that he's putting another man to just to death unjustly or We may compare his view as we did a Couple of in in part two Compare it to Epicurus and Lucretius who described the tranquility that follows from avoiding any wrongdoing and that's the pangs of conscience and fear of punishment and claims that this tranquility is worth the sacrifice of ambition and desire for worldly success or We may compare him to Hobbes who discerns that the first law of nature is to always pursue peace and Abandon any right of nature to kill another person even for your own protection so this These philosophical reflections almost close out this part, but the part ends with some glimmers of Tranquility some even possibilities of happiness that seem to follow from the Careful philosophical knowledge and reflection that the characters to row and Rio have They cap off their philosophical discussion With going out to the sea for night swimming There's a brief and unexpected feeling of tranquility a kind of windfall of happiness for them They swim together and feel at once Isolated from the world and at last free of the town and the plague They have a very strong fellow feeling and can already see that they will cherish the memory of this brief respite Despite the horrors to which they must now return Such are their thoughts as they pass the plague watchman in returning to town In town Rio is plunged back into constant work He helps Othon secure release from the municipal stadium Quarantine camp with some unexpected difficulties But once he does Othon decides not to return to work But rather to take leave from work and to Rio's astonishment to return To the camp as a volunteer and he says I know it may sound absurd But I'd feel less separated from my boy So Othon this Official in the city has had a complete turn around from not wanting to bother With the rats or the plague not acknowledging that they were a problem Refusing to social distance refusing to wear a mask as The members of his own family become sick and his son actually dies from it. It changes him completely and he decides to Surround himself with the plague but focus on those less fortunate with then him try to help others and that Makes him feel better Now as a dismal Christmas time approaches Cotard meanwhile has illegal enterprises that are flourishing Grand his neighbor, however, is not doing very well Rio finds him wandering in the town and they share together a moment of anguish It turns out that grand is delirious with illness Rio diagnoses him with the plague the case looks bad and Toro offers to stay with grand on the night that Rio predicts that grand will not survive But in the morning it has turned out that grand has survived and will live on and so be able to do his solid and continuous work and over the next couple of weeks there are More pleasant recoveries and surprises like this and even the rats seem to be returning only this time their appearance is a sign of a slow return to normality


This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. Electronics were among the most requested gifts of the 2011 Christmas holiday season in the United States. Jim Berry from the Consumer Electronics Association says tablet computers were the most popular electronic gift. Laptop computers were second. Jim Berry says the iPad continued to lead the way in the tablet market. Apple released its iPad 2 in March. The company is expected to release the iPad 3 in 2012. Tablet computers are the top of the list of what folks said they were going to buy this year. And probably north of 80 percent of the tablets being sold up until now have been Apple iPads. But he says the tablet market is starting to change. There are now more choices and less costly tablets available. These include the new Kindle Fire from Amazon.com. Jim Berry says e-readers were number three on his group's survey of holiday gift wishes. And that came as a surprise to more than a few people. Some folks thought that the popularity and success of the tablet computer would mean sales of e-book readers would go down. Well, that hasn't happened. Sales of e-book readers have more than doubled this year. We're buying lots more. The leaders there continue to be the Kindle from Amazon and the Nook from Barnes & Noble, along with the e-reader from Sony. Amazon released its Kindle Fire just in time for Christmas. The new Kindle is a touchscreen tablet. Unlike the earlier e-reader, this one is in color and lets users explore the web. The Kindle Fire sells for $199. This is several hundred dollars less than the iPad, but about the same as people paid for the Kindle 3G Wireless in 2010. So the big question on a lot of people's minds in 2011 was whether or not to wait for the price to come down. As Jim Berry put it, this is the challenge of the early adopter. You know, one of the great things about consumer electronics is that the prices get lower as the stuff gets better. And that's not true of automobiles or furniture or houses and so forth. So as the prices get lower, if you bought earlier, you may feel a little bit of that, well, I wish I had waited. He says falling prices are one of the reasons why consumer electronics do relatively well, even in a difficult economy. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villarreal. Learn English and much more with our programs, lessons, and activities at voaspecialenglish.com and the VOA Learning English page on Facebook.


Good afternoon. Good afternoon. How are you? Fine. You're fine? Yes. I gave you these little notebooks through Elena and she gave these notebooks to you on Monday. I recorded a short message to give you some ideas about how to approach the activities proposed in this notebook and I just want to know your experience with the notebooks. Maybe you lost your notebooks. Maybe you don't even have your notebooks with you. Maybe you started doing one activity and then you forgot. Maybe you did everything. You didn't.  Tell me your ideas. What's the topic of the conversation? Yes. What were you talking about? You have done it but we have two kind of questions. And were you... All right. So were you trying to do it or not? Some of us. Some of you. Some. And how was it? Good. In which way? I don't know about thinking about the suggestions. I would not like to do that. I would you know you said normally I can't and I can't remember how I asked you. This usually happens when you're driving a car. It can happen to you.  You're not paying attention. That happens a lot. But not only with driving a car or with brushing your teeth. It happens quite often. That is called automatic pilot. And this is being mode in which we are usually. And I am particularly interested. I will go back to these experiences from time to time. I don't know about your ideas about some parts of the notebook. But I am particularly interested in asking you about the stress management question. And I'm going to start with an activity related to that. I don't know if you did it. Did you do the stress management questioner? You did that. So this questioner I told you 83 one time ago. Well not that long. I have to say. And I tell you there that you've got three different stages. So I want to start this workshop. You will not have any theory class here today. So this will be quite experiential. And what we are going to do to start is a systemic photograph. Have you ever heard of it? Well this is an activity that is very much used in coaching. Systemic photograph. So you say you did the questioner right? And do you remember the value you obtained? So everybody which obtained low perceived level of stress everybody if you obtained from 0 to 13 you have to place in the room from here imagine this is 0 and this is this is 13 here you can be here. So you've got all these states to place yourselves. If you got from 14 up to 26 let's say here in the middle and you will say from this black box up to that one in the middle and those of you who obtained a very high perceived level of stress here. All right? Information about now that I know where you are that gives me information about how you are feeling how you've been feeling in the last month. Remember this is related only to the last month so that means that your stress levels can go really high at one point and then the next point be low because it changes over time. So the picture that we took here today if we came here at the end of August we would have a different result if we came here at the beginning of November a very different result like scratching your skin all right? So this is a good way of getting to know where you are where your views are and this is a very interesting activity that I think you can use. Well and now that I am connecting with your anxiety or lack of it I'm going to propose you to do the first activity that you have in your handouts which is activity number one that activity I want you to do individually please don't talk to anybody be as frank as you can and focus on explaining or you forgot what I mean I mean in handouts you don't need these do you have more copies I don't know do we have more copies I don't have a copy myself so can you please go and ask them to take five more copies I don't have a copy so they need a copy and I need a copy too so in the activity what do you have in your day to experience which new situations do you face in the field setting that you haven't experienced in your regular teaching practice and then I'm asking you three different questions first one is related to your students the second one is related to clean parents your students parents the next one is related to your colleagues and the last one is about you so please take four or five minutes to write about it if you prefer you can turn their page and instead of writing in vertical maybe you prefer writing in horizontal you can use nicer to me in a bilingual setting try to predict how these educating agents make you alright so I was thinking about that is anybody here who is not teaching in a clean environment right now if you are not doing it if you still don't have any experience in a bilingual setting try to predict how the educating agents make you so in case you are not participating at the moment think about it one photocopy for him that's from the right now we are going to do a pair work need to find something in the class somebody in the class it can be someone who is next to you if you want if possible I know that we are already in Thursday you may have been talking to each other that you have not had the opportunity to talk to before choose that person and I want you to be together in pairs standing up if possible so find somebody go to that person and stay together but please don't talk fear so in your class you need to you choose fear so fear is for you and you need to answer the 4 questions the 5 questions that you have there you are going to be fear as well then you go to Andrew for you Andrew puncture part 5 but this is where are there are these ingredients in between some researchers some say there are more some say there are less let's say we have basically 5 universal emotions we are going to be working today with 4 in these 4 can you see the balance between the ones we have I said fear did I say fear here fear, fear, anger sadness happiness do you see a balance or an imbalance what would you say find these unbalanced negative only one only one would say positive emotions are not positive they are negative we have a positive attitude to some and a negative attitude to some others which is different but emotions all of them are necessary and we need them to be here as human beings otherwise we would not be here we would not be in this world they are helping us to survive as a race as a human race the 5 basic emotions are these 4 plus when you feel like you don't like it have you seen the 266? the film the inside out you've got the 5 emotions there alright let's take a look at what you had in your emotion chosen so we have here fear fear and what are the body sensations associated to it what do you feel in your body when you are afraid I split heartbeat you can put it to breathe yes or what anxious so you are like hyperventilating yes just pressure tension your muscles are stiff yes alertness what do you have there same difference most we also have sweating sweating how are your eyes when you are afraid when you are afraid the pupils dilate so this is really physical alright and the breathing is more superficial yes and quicker quicker the heart rate may increase yes same now which reaction does this emotion faster what do you have when you have this emotion which are the characteristic feelings that allow you to recognize it how do you feel when you are afraid paralyzed paralyzed outside yes losing control losing control you can either be paralyzed or what other possibility when you are afraid you can fight back you can fight back yes that means that then you go to another emotion yes so you are there paralyzed or run away this is what you usually call to freeze freeze or flight you go away if you fight then it means that you have moved to under alright now this is a biological function when you have fear which is the biological what does this emotion help you to do so is this emotion necessary completely ok and now what thoughts do you have when you have this emotion do they belong to the present to the past or to the future generally speaking because I am talking in general terms with every person it can be different but in general if you are afraid you are usually afraid of what the unknown the unknown in the future alright the unknown in the future and the last question if this emotion is not properly handled to which other emotion do you go there we come here what do we have here can you tell me about sensations any of you your anger it means heart rate and you run fast ok it runs faster in your pulse in your veins now you feel in your throat now what do you do with your hands you move a lot how would you look in your face can you show your teeth because it adds pumping alright ok now when you feel that what do you feel like doing which is the emotions that you trigger what do you get what do you do but you are this is the biological function the biological function is to protect to protect and the thoughts that you have when you have this emotion you may go to the present future where you need to defend or protect you need to defend what you do yeah you feel that alright ok yes more in the present almost you both are component in the present and the future but more in the present alright so do you think clearly yes and what do you say everything comes out of your mouth alright sadness because the anger is not really handled yeah it's a fear it's not a fear it's sadness frustration is not a way frustration frustration is not a feeling frustration is a linguistic explanation of the base emotion emotion is different from feeling the feeling is a linguistic I would say a linguistic creation construction of the emotion in our society but the universal emotions are these ones then we've got so many different names to label different versions of these basic emotions but the basic one is sadness and you are sadness and you are sadness now can you tell me about the body sensations associated to it no energy not smiling yes in your face you can see that fear crying being fired and what happens to your heart your heart breaks and you have pressure alright and your feeling what happens to your feeling when you open yourself to it yes no now the emotion triggers a reaction which is a reaction when you are sad what do you do when you are sad you want to be apart from people more out of the year what's the meaning more when you are sad when you are sad so you think about something which is already for you and you see the opportunity to rethink about it and to approach it only as long as you are able to need the sad situation in which you are or to have the proper opportunity to read or enhance your life or that aspirin in your life which is already in something you said reversible rearrange everything rearrange everything organize things and what about creativity all these great works of art these painters these writers they wear so sad and they create the magnificent works of art out of sadness so it also triggers creativity yeah that's what it sounds like and right now I want to say one person in the community wants to be isolated it is a call of attention for the rest of the world members of this society so if someone behaves in a social way he is asking for help from this way of asking for help can you hear the violence of reflection we are this side yes it works okay and what we present now we call the past yes and if this emotion is not properly handled if it comes you are sad and you are sad because this fear derives into anger anger into sadness and what happens in the end this is not managed you end up in sadness and you end up with depression all these bursts of anger that you see in your teenage students and they are alternating anger with sadness with sadness so any time you see a violent reaction it is also because they are still intelligent I have to say I am simplifying they are still legal again they have this adverse because they are still in their bodies they are still creating some neural networks but when we see all these bullying things all these violence coming up that is part of it and this tries but we have happiness so tiny not there it is important why do we need happiness for as a human race leave it can you stop the violence you know you saw what she said look why do we need happiness to be able to look forward rather than to look forward and to create and we are very happy we share and we have babies and we continue having a new race alright alright you see so all these emotions are the basic kind of emotions involved in stress and it is important to know that because that can give you tools either to do for yourself and to get to know where you are also to know that throughout the day you are not installed in one basic emotion we keep on fluctuating we are not all the time in the same way but the problem is when white feeling predominates over a period of time that is the problem but well I need to wrap up well I need to finish I will give you one tool for the basis of mindfulness in the oil photocopy pain and resistance means suffering and this is one of the basic ideas of mindfulness suffering is not necessary pain will always be there but suffering is not necessary as acceptance end up in being only pain so would you resist can you finish the sentence you know how to finish it it is a very common it is look at resistance and you struggle no look at resistance persist would you resist persists so in emotional regulation activities what we usually have and this is for you and for students in the future but basically for you what we usually have in emotional regulation is a step of thought it is a process of thought brain, it is known as brain recognizing what is happening how do you recognize your body your body is giving you all the information not here here I need to be just as it is because you are having it because our brains are wired for ears to feel like that because you are fighting against your amygdala and that is impossible to stop which are the reasons why why has this happened so this open a distance between what you are suffering and a reaction instead of reacting then you respond have you seen more to a sentence that I have in your notebook which is between it is a sentence from Victor Franco yes if you like it there is a space between something that happens to you and your reaction so the idea of mindfulness is not to react because if you react you will follow your amygdala you will be hijacked right so you will be just taking time and then responding from a different position and finally not identifying not identifying so it is like you tend to say yes that has happened to me because I am the center of the world what has happened to me and then you kind of react so you personalize and understand and I am going to finish here with one idea in your in your hard points that you will have in Moodle you will have some activities in one of the slides so I am going to pass it here these are some activities you can do because I know you want to take some activities so have this you have these activities for you you have my contact information of the back of your notebooks and what I want to let you know is that when we take mindful activities in class we need to be really careful we cannot do activities at the wrong time because we we were saying at the beginning of the session before we were figuring out any activity in class you need to do that as well before don't do anything in class that you haven't experienced before also think about ways of giving answers and making your students interact which are not linguistic because that way you are taking out all the mental I would say rubbish but both your students and we have in mind so try to find ways like what I did for example other ways of doing it look any answer any reactions students have is okay because it is okay to feel sad it is okay to feel anything so think about that especially with teenagers they don't ask your students to do things if they don't know why they are doing it they need to be aware of the benefits of doing it so before doing anything explain to them I am going to propose this activity to you this activity is so because it will bring this to you because if they don't understand they will start thinking why the heck am I going to start moving that way I don't want to explain the reasons why those activities are good and choose an anchor choose an anchor choosing an anchor is doing a little meditation in which you either choose your breathing as an anchor to focus your attention so that you empty your mind alright and the butterfly butterfly is that well every time that you ask them to do a meditation always sitting straight or lying down on the floor I don't mind but your back your spine straight always butterfly meditation either lying down on the floor or sitting down I don't mind they have to imagine a butterfly posing on different parts you lead the meditation they pose on different parts and they need to be taking their attention to that part maybe my heel maybe my toe maybe alright and well mindful eating you know that like one tiny thing and they have to hear that touch it alright walking as if is really interesting I want you to walk as if you were angry and they need to work as angry I need you to work as sad I need to do things like that and sorry okay there is a very I'm glad you asked I could be here forever in that activity you do that when you want to change you have been doing an activity and then you want to change it to another activity before you do that you ask them to stop breathe be and then you can start an activity to start with one thing and start with the other they are very excited yes also one last thing when you are doing these breathing activities if you focus on beyond breath stretching the out breath they will relax if you focus on the routine of air you will activate them alright so when you are asking them to breathe always focus on the out breath more than the intake of air thank you very much


I read psychology more than anything because psychology really health, love, love, happiness.  It's like self-discipline, right? Wealth, all the money in the world is in other people's hands. So if you don't understand those people and connect with them at a deep level, they're not gonna give you any money. There'd be no free trade. Love is all a social game, friends, family, romance. And then lastly, happiness is literally almost how people perceive the purpose of psychology.


There are a number of logical equivalences that we'll find useful to know while we're building our architecture. These are essentially just a bunch of simple rules that are already known to be true and can allow us to simplify or transform a proposition that we already have that might otherwise look rather complex. So, a lot of these should be pretty straightforward and really obvious. Things like p or true is true because, well, if one of your inputs to an or operation is true, it doesn't really matter what the other one is. The result will be true either way. On the other hand, if you have p and false, well, you're not going to be able to get a true out of this expression, so that's going to end up being false. Some things are just really important to have in the system like the negation of p is also p. If this didn't work, we could end up having trouble with our actual operations here. We saw one of these earlier when we looked at the truth table, which was that p or p and q turned out to just be the same as p. We showed that using the truth table, but that's another example of an absorption law where the p on the left-hand side ends up being far more relevant than the complex term on the right-hand side. Knowing that absorption law would allow you to reduce a complex expression into a much simpler one that just had p. De Morgan's laws are one of the more interesting and less obvious of these logical equivalences. De Morgan's laws allow you to distribute a negation over a complex proposition. But in doing so, we end up flipping ores to ands or ands to ores, and the way we're used to a distributive law, we wouldn't expect that we'd have to change our ands to ores. So De Morgan's laws are not the most obvious, but they end up being very, very useful in a lot of cases. The majority of these logical equivalences you'll see once in a while they'll give you a nice way to simplify expressions, make your hardware simpler or easier to just understand what the hardware is doing. So these are useful to know.


I'm back. What's up ladies and gentlemen? I know it's been a while. I just saw someone there, someone commented on one of my other videos saying, RIP this channel. Well, fortunately for most of you, unfortunately for some, I'm not gone. I am very much here. And the reason I haven't been uploading for such a long time is I've been writing. I've not been relaxing. I've not been playing games. I've not been, well, I have been travelling a little bit, but that's neither here nor there. The reason I've been so busy writing is because I've got some books planned, which I'm going to be releasing very soon. Now, these books are, they're pretty much only useful to lucid dreamers. So they're going to be directly for people wanting to learn how to lucid dream. So I've got one which is specifically about reality checks and how they work, why they work, why most people fail with them. And it sort of solves all the problems that you can think of related to reality checks.  But you know, I'm not going to bore you now. That's sort of later on. I'm going to let you know now that I'm doing it. So when I release it, you guys can go and check it out. Now, the other one, which I have released before, but I've now brought into paperback is lucid superpowers. Now, this is for those who have had a bit of experience with lucid dreaming, you know, sort of what you're doing, but you want to take you to the next level. And I'll give you a very small sneak preview. Now, this don't get too excited. This is a proof copy. The cover image is going to look completely different. I sort of messed up with that one and just sort of want to see how easy it would be to make a paperback and to actually get rid of that glare there from the line. So yeah, it's about 70, just over 70 pages, and explains how to master specific superpowers in your dream. So that's going to be coming out as well. I've also got a personalized how to lucid dream journal coming out. And this will be something really special. This would be like, for those of you who want to dream journal that's more specifically for lucid dreaming, not just an old notebook or not bad. This is going to be something that lets you like there's a checkbox to write if you're lucid or not. There's another section where you can write which technique you are using. There's another section for the date. And each every other page is like a plain page. So you've got one lined page one plain page so that you can draw things from the dream. And then like write notes and draw little arrows and all sorts of stuff like that. There's also a section at the back of this dream journal where I've got some like useful tips, little reminders for you to help you with your lucid dreaming experience and point you in the right direction. An example of one such reminder is that expectation is everything. So whatever you expect to happen in the lucid dream will happen. There's lots of little reminders like that at the back. And there's also a section where I link out to some some useful resources for you. But anyway, I don't want to bore you with this. That's what's going on. That's why I haven't posted in such a long time. It's also been brought to my attention that this channel is at 11,000 subscribers. And I really think that's that's amazing. I when I started this channel, I never could have imagined that it would get this successful. And it's not, you know, a success in terms of most other YouTube stars by any means, but it's well on the way. It's definitely far beyond where I thought it would be for only a year or two. Not even that actually just over a year. So yeah, that's great news. Thank you all for subscribing. Please stay subscribed and also look out for the new videos in your feed because they're going to be coming hopefully at the rate of about one every other day, hopefully every day. So yeah, thanks for subscribing. I'll see you in the next video.