you declare position absolute on something and then you have trouble making it responsive or you change it to position fixed and even though that's always worked for you before you've run into a situation where it's not actually fixed and it's not staying with the viewport like you'd expect it to or you use position sticky and it just, you're a hundred percent sure you've set it up right, you scroll down and it just doesn't stick. When we declare a new position on an element whether it's absolute, sticky, fixed or something else we're changing how this element interacts with those that are around it and with a few of these we're also changing what the containing block is for that element which of course leads to the question what the heck is a containing block? Well, it's actually a pretty fundamental concept of CSS that just rarely ever gets talked about but it also happens to be the key to understanding how to wrangle things when you are changing the position on an element. Hello my friend and friends and welcome back for yet another video and if you're new here, my name is Kevin and here at my channel I help you fall madly deeply in love with CSS and one way we can do that is by diving right into this code and understanding containing blocks and how they impact positioning and all of that good stuff. Now I know you're here because you wanna figure out positioning but first let's just understand what a containing block is by default and then how positioning changes that and how we can control it. So here we have this H3 that's right here it is the name Diana Benson that is right there inside of this yellow box and so the H3 is here and the containing block for it is this div right there because that div is its parent. Seems very simple and it is very simple but there is one more thing that does come into play with this which is what part of the parent is the containing block. So if we pop open my dev tools and we do take a look at the testimonial let's jump over to the computed tab right here and we can see there's different parts of this and you're probably familiar with the box model by default not only is it just that this testimonial div is the containing block but it's the content box of that which makes a lot of intuitive sense it just works you don't have to think about it too much because we have some padding on there which is what's creating the space between my yellow border and the text. Obviously if we add padding we want things to smush in you know we want things to be inside of that padding so everything is laid out inside of that containing block which is the content box of its parent and one thing that's important with this is let's go over to my styles and that's a scroll all the way down and let's select that testimonial right there and what we wanna do is let's give this a width then I'm gonna give it a width of 50% for now just so you can see that it goes to 50% and it's always well what is it going to 50% of and it's going to 50% of not its parent but of its containing block and you might be going Kevin I get this if 50% it goes to 50% of the parent that's fine but we have to think about this a little bit because I often see things where somebody does something like this where they'll do like P and then they need it to be a width or they don't need it to be they just declare width 100% because they know they wanted to take up all the space but then they also come on this paragraph and they say that it has a margin left of like 100 pixels and then they get problems because what's happened is we're saying that the width is 100% of the containing block so it's looking at that content box it's saying my width is now 100% of that size and then we're adding a margin left on top of that and so widths as percentages we do wanna be careful with in general this is over declaring things that you don't need it's a mistake that I do see people often doing where they declare a whole bunch of stuff without seeing if they really need it beforehand they're just like sort of declaring things as they go you know we want an auto on there and auto just means it's going to fit we can do a 50 there whatever it is it means it just sort of figures out the leftover space more or less and of course that's the default so I don't even need to declare it but I just wanted to cover that and just really hammer home that idea because now we're gonna be changing the containing block so let's say I choose my testimonial name here and I wanna do something with it you know what I need to position it a little bit differently I don't like where it is so I do a position absolute on here and when I do that it pulls it out of the flow and I go well actually I wanna move it up a little bit so I do a top of zero on there and it vanishes or it doesn't vanish it goes to the very top of my page and it's actually overlaid with a whole bunch of other texts because we have some more testimonials down below that we're gonna use a little bit later on but so the name is sort of shot up to the top of the page and the reason that's happening is when we declare a position absolute on something we're now pulling it out of the flow but we're also changing what the containing block for that element is and it changes it in more than just one way which we'll see in a second but it's looking for the closest ancestor that has a position on it that's not static which is the default so here is my name right there it's going does this have a position on it no does this have no does this have no body no and then it eventually ends up at your HTML element which is the root of your document and it goes okay well we can't go any further back than that more or less so it's positioned relative to that so that top zero is top zero of my HTML and it goes all the way to the very top of my page now I can choose what I want to be the containing block I could say that this container is the containing block I could say this testimonial is the containing block one thing I could not do is say that this header is the header is a sibling of this container grandparent I guess of my name so we can't move containing blocks into other things like transverse across stuff we have to really rely on nesting and let's look what I mean and this is why I put these borders as inline styles there but let's just say we do this first on my container I could say container position and I can give it any position really but let's just give it a position relative for now and now we can see that this is moved down and it's within the top of this red box rather than the top of the entire page that it was in before and of course we could change this over to testimonial and this is usually what you see people doing right you do testimonial and then it moves and now it's at the top of the testimonial but there is a big difference between the containing block of something position absolute versus what it was originally which was when it was position static and what that big difference is if we come and take a look here again let's actually add a left of zero here as well we have my testimonial here and you'll notice that the name is inside the padding and that's because before we were dealing with the content box so if we go back to the computed we were dealing solely with the content that would fit inside of there and the content box was the containing block once something becomes position absolute and it finds something that is it's containing block it is not looking at the content box anymore it is now looking at the padding box instead and this is regardless if I look at my CSS and we scroll all the way up I do have the box sizing border box on there this has no impact on any of that don't have to declare this if you have it it's the same in every situation now this can make for things that are a little bit annoying one trick for dealing with this is if we give this a say padding of two rem then you want your left here to be two rem and you'd want your top here to be two rem so that way everything sort of falls more in line with the padding that you'd originally set up and if that's the type of situation you do wanna do this could be useful for like my padding of two rem here and then you could set this as a custom property so we could do all three of these at the same time and do a var and do padding there and the advantage with this is when I change this one and hit save it changes all of them or hit save here and it changes all of them so if you do need that positioned element to be sort of relative to the original content box this is one way that we could do it now of course this isn't a very realistic situation but understanding how this works is super important and one of the reasons for that is say let's get rid of all of this so let's go look back over here and I've added this class of testimonial quote here because I wanna add like a decorative quote around this and this is the type of situation where people run into issues with responsiveness when it comes to absolute positioning so what we're gonna do is let's choose that testimonial quote and instead of just doing another quote let's use a before because this works out really well because we can do a content and just say open quote which is super handy and you can actually see that it's showing up there let's say the font size on that's actually like three RAM just to make it really big and maybe the font family is a serif just so it's a bit more decorative and maybe it could even be bigger than that so 10 make it super decorative and of course then what people often do is they say position of absolute and that pulls it out of the flow and then we work really hard at trying to get it into the right spot so the first mistake is when people just do this where they say left say negative one RAM and then oh well okay that's not the right spot so then like 20 RAM I don't know you just magic number it until it can sort of like find the right place and let's say eventually we get to something like this and you're kind of happy with it and you're like awesome I got it but then of course we changed the size of the page a little bit and where did it go and oh that's not good why is it there and then this is the whole idea of the containing block I've positioned this relative to the entire page because I never set a containing block for it and then so one thing we could do is choose which one like what do we want here to be the containing block and then work around that because even though I've positioned this on my paragraph I could make that paragraph the containing block because if we do when you do use pseudo elements if we take a look inside of that paragraph the open quote the before that we have is inside of that so I could choose this paragraph to be the containing block I could choose the container for some reason or anything else that is like you know an ancestor that is further out so if I did it relative to the paragraph then I would just say here that my testimonial quote has the position of relative and again it doesn't have to be relative it's just the one we usually use because it doesn't really change anything and then that just means these numbers could probably be a lot simpler and obviously this isn't perfect but we're sort of getting it like where I wanted to next to there floating around and the nice thing now is as I resize things it's always going to stay within that space because it's locked to the corner based on the testimonial quote itself or maybe I don't actually want it to be relative to this position I want it to be a decorative box that's like hanging over here so sort of looking at the yellow box instead of looking at this paragraph here so then we get to say that the testimonial is position relative instead and it's gonna jump all the way up to there because now this negative three and negative five is locked into this position and it's going to stay responsive if things move around, anything changes it's always going to be locked into that one position so if you are using position absolute focus on what do I want the containing block to be and like 99.9% of the time you don't want it to be the page or the viewport or the root, the HTML, whatever you want it to be linked to a certain element because usually your position is relative to some other component that it is inside of and you can choose which one that's going to be and of course then the nice thing is if you have multiple testimonials those quotation marks are always for each one of them is sort of linked to the positioning of that one now we did run into a small issue because I'm using open quote and we never close the quotes so because we have an open quote that never closes it's doing the inner quotes as single quotes instead of double ones so one way we can actually fix that is to close the quotes so just doing something like that it means that after the paragraph we're actually closing a quote and then we can have open quotes that are normal once again and the nice thing here is having I have three of them but no matter what they're always positioned within the containing block which is the entire thing here even though they're a child of this paragraph and that would even mean if using flex if this got too narrow which I think it will at one point they stack those quotations are following the parent this is perfectly responsive even though I'm using position absolute along the way here now moving on to the next section we're gonna look at position sticky first because it's a little bit simpler even though there's a few weird things that can happen with it and then we'll get to position fixed and the really strange things that can happen with position fixed if you do some stuff because position fixed has a really easy way of working and understanding it with some really weird edge cases but before we get to that let's look here and all I have is this content sidebar parent and then inside of there I have my content and then I have a sidebar here with basically not much in it so this is my sidebar this is my content and with position sticky where it's different so let's just choose that sidebar and we do my position of sticky on there when we use position sticky which means like you should scroll in and then stick in position the containing block doesn't change it's not pulled out it just stays how it was before looking at the content box of its parent so let's do position sticky and let's say a top of zero because I wanted to stick to the top and if I did that right it should stick but it's not sticking why isn't it sticking? and the reason this isn't sticking is let's give it a background color background of we'll just do this one right here so it stands out and oh my goodness it's not sticking because it can't stick because look how big it is and this can happen as a default behavior for flexbox and for grid so part of it is looking at what the containing block is so if we do content sidebar and let's just give that the border like we did before we wanna check to make sure that the parent is actually long and it has something that it can stick inside of because just like the other one it is going to be looking at this content box of this element and it's gonna stick within that but it needs to if its height ends up being really big like we have right here even though it didn't look like it was big it can't stick because well it's filling up all the space so sticking doesn't really work in this case I'm using grid but if you make columns with grid or with flexbox the default behavior for items is to stretch and fill up the height and match the height of the other elements that are there so on my content sidebar itself or even on this we could do and I'm gonna do align items of start and now it's not filling up all the space it's a little item that has a lot of space that it could be inside of that content box so now it's gonna stick and as long as it's inside that content box and then it pushes off because a sticky element will never escape the content box it has to live there but it can stick to the top of the viewport until it gets to the bottom of that content box and then it gets pushed off so sometimes putting, find the content box so like your parent because with position sticky it's always the parent and just put a border on it or something like that so you can visualize where it is and if things aren't sticking the way you want maybe add a background do something on that just to make sure that everything sort of makes sense and you can understand sometimes you want things like show up underneath things and play around you can do really interesting things with position sticky and you really have to understand this relationship with how it works with the parent how its height is and then it can't escape outside of those bounds and it's really living inside of that space to be able to do these cool things that you can actually do with position sticky and as I said that one was the easy one and now we're gonna go to position fixed and what we're going to do for position fixed I think it's a really common example where you have like a scroll to top button that you want stuck at the bottom of your page you also have like the social sharing things that suck but you know let's say I want the scroll to top that brings me all the way up to the top of my page and but I want that to always be at the bottom of my page so here I have this class scroll to top so let's select that and so with that with a position fixed on it now it should be fixed okay well maybe it's because I forgot to put a top of this let's or maybe we'll do bottom this time so I say I want it to be one rem off the bottom of my page all the time wait why isn't it fixed what's going on it should be fixed on the page okay let's go look what's happening here yeah everything looks okay and just quickly before we get to the solution to why this is actually happening I just do want to let you know that this type of sort of under appreciated fundamental concept is a big part of what I cover in my course CSS demystified it's more of an intermediate course that I've put together that covers the why things work the way they do in CSS we look at things like formatting context containing blocks as well as understanding a little bit more about the implications of the cascade how we can take advantage of things like that and inheritance properly why CSS works the way it does to make it less frustrating to write and to help you fall in love with it just a little bit more so if you're interested in that there is a link to the course in the description but now let's get back to this problem at hand that we have right here okay so I'm going to move it out and then we'll explain why if I moved my A outside of the footer and I hit save it's actually going to work now you can see it's scrolling with me and a position fixed element let's go to the default behavior for its containing block the containing block is always the viewport it's not even looking at your HTML element it's not looking at anything in the DOM it's looking at the viewport so when I say bottom one RAM or bottom five RAM or whatever I want it's always going to be positioned relative to the viewport so if you move things around all of that it's moving along with the viewport containing block is the viewport the problem with position fixed is that you generally well generally it always works it just does it you never have to worry about it the problem is there are certain situations like this one that I've created here where I actually created a new containing block for my position fixed element and because it's stuck within this new containing block it's going and that containing block is my footer and I'll explain why in a second because it's the footer it's just sitting it's fixed five RAM from the bottom of my footer the footer doesn't move so you know it's staying within that it's not looking at my viewport it's fixed to my footer now so what would cause something like that and this is where you get into these weird edge cases and hopefully this helps you out because it's one of those things that's a little bit annoying that has a very easy fix but if we look here I put a perspective on my footer and that's because I wanted to change this like rotation here of my name because I was doing something fancy basically I couldn't think of a great example but I'm doing like a 3D rotation on my name maybe you do an animation so you need you know you want a cube that's in there whatever it is you've thrown a perspective on there perspective is one of these weird edge cases that will make that element a containing block for something that has position fixed on it backdrop filter is another one so if you're doing a backdrop filter and you're blurring things behind and for some reason you have a fixed thing that's inside of there it's not on that element itself if something is has the backdrop filter on it like I could add that to my scroll to top here we could do a backdrop backdrop filter of blur I don't know 10 pixels to make it really blurry behind now anything I go on top of if we fix that scrolling by moving it up here now you can see well we can sort of see there we go over the image you can see it's blurred the image that's behind it and maybe I did a little too much so let's just do like a three so I can do that on the element itself but if the parent of the element had a backdrop filter on it then it would get stuck within that space and as I said it's a little bit of a weird edge case you don't run into these very often transforms can also cause this to happen so if you've transformed the parent or if you're using a contain which could come up now that we're using container queries or now that container queries are becoming a thing these are all things that can change how a fixed element behaves and it locks it in rather than the viewport to a different containing block one way that we can easily fix that with position fixed is generally is just move it outside of whatever is causing the problem if something is position fixed it's probably not actually you know the content of it probably isn't really related to the parent because it's following the viewport it's this independent thing that's probably completely separate from everything else on the page so here I have my footer and then I guess semantically speaking it makes sense to have this scroll to top all the way down at the bottom as we get to the end of the page and then I have a scroll at the top here and then with that working I just have that here and then I can click and it brings me all the way back up to the top so hopefully this helps you get around the responsive issues you might have run into with position absolute or any weird edge cases with position fixed and sticky that you might have run into another issue that people do run into a lot is dealing with collapsing margins which is part of formatting context which is another one of those things that you rarely hear talked about even though it's super important it is something that I cover in depth in CSS demystified once again link is in the description or if you'd just like to learn more about collapsing margins which are just one of those behaviors that I wish wasn't part of CSS but it is there and understanding it makes life a lot easier so there is a video on that right here as well that you can check out and with that I would like to thank my enablers of awesome Jan, Johnny, Michael, Mr. Dave, Patrick, Simon and Tim as well as all my other patrons for their monthly support and of course until next time don't forget to make your current internet just a little bit more awesome.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. We've been 23 Top Star Wars Chrome, Hobby, 8 Box, Case Break, number 12, Random Box Style. Before we do the random, I'm just going to open the case really quick to denote which boxes are which. Then we will go ahead and do what's said at random. Make sure these are all facing the right way. And they are. So you can see from the top of the screen, like here's my hand, the four right here on the left are going to be boxes 1 through 4. So there's 1, 2, 3, and 4. And then we have 5 through 8 on the other side. 5, 6, 7, 8. So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Get an empty case. See you later. I'm going to take you to the random screen. All right, going to roll the dice. Got our eight participants and eight numbers, 1 through 8, denoting which box you're going to do. Nine times on each. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. That is Manny V down to John B. And nine times on your box number. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9. 4 down to 5. So we've got Manny V with 4. Brandon K with 6. Simon H with 2. Chris S with 7. Ben K with 8. Joseph B with 3. Francis D with 1. And John B with 5. Let me get these copied over, guys, and we'll get the break started. Do this, do this, create. 9 and 4. And a box style. And there's your link. It's got started. Tangbox 6 loves you. All right, let me sort these so we know who's got what. Francis D at 1. Let me back these up a little bit. Again, I'm going to start 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Let's see you guys then. Here we go. Box Uno. Good luck, Francis. Francis D at number 1. It's a fun way of doing these breaks, man. Everybody guaranteed a break. We sell them at the same price, tops does, but we ship them free and sleeve and top load and potentially mag all of your hits. So Katana, Palpatine, there's Maga Madness, C3PO and R2D2. Chosen one, Monarchers, Anakin Skywalker. Four of the five you've been in, Brandon. Luthan Rail, Refractor. Grogu. Grogu's Adventure. Those are cool cards. I like those. That'd be a fun one to collect all of them for. Jyn Erso, Rebel Alliance. There's a Han Solo Hala. Nice one there. Again, one auto or sketch per box. Hopefully we can snag a sketch out of this. Do. It's been a little bit harder to hit for sure in this product, but makes them cool. Nian Nubb, that is 32 of 99 on the green auto. Nice one there for you, Francis. Monarchers, Kylo Ren, Leader of the Dark Knights. General Leia, Organa. Great little race. You can get online and go to the general and save some time. Maga Madness, well now you ruined it for me. Thanks, Forrest. Way to go, buddy. Way to go, Breaker Manager. Dark Ray, first order Hala. Yeah, I'm not cracking up for the meme because, you know... Princess Leia, Organa on the auto. Nice. Two autos in this box. Grats on that, Francis. Very nice. We'll take it. Orange Manga, that's pretty solid. Finn, Monarchers. You're cracking up from what? It's a meme. It's like a hockey meme that I... Ray Hala. Bowling it. I get it, but I don't find it that funny. Maga Madness. Nian Nubb. Yeah, I guess Forrest will probably find it funny. Fennec Shan, Hala, or Fracture, as it says. His tops, after all. Bass, this is Grogu. Monarchers, General Leia, Organa. And Vader, that is a Han Solo. General Hux, first order. Teal to 199. And Chewbacca, a refractor. All right, I'll do it for your box there, Francis. Congrats on the second auto you got as well. Simon H, on box number two. Good luck, Simon. Yeah, there's an extra auto in that one. It's pretty cool. Yeah, so if there is a box with no auto in it, we'll send an empty box in that one. In case, just gonna practice that. It might not be the case, but if it is, I will let you know. Maga Madness, Ben Kenobi, Monarchers. That is Teal Cobb Vanth. Nice one there, Chewbacca, 199. And Fifth Brother Refractor. Saw Gerrera. And you get a string attached so I can force it to me. Rose Tico, you get it for the next one. Yeah, you can't miss the auto, right Chewbacca. Jarrick Yeager, two 150, nice one there. From resistance, or for the resistance. Rogue. Yeah, I mean, there's definitely for damage, especially Luke Skywalker, especially if you have video evidence of it being pack pulled, being damaged. You definitely have a chance. Captain Phasma, First Order Refractor. Maga Madness, Yoda. That was cool. Yeah, it was really cool. Rogue, Han Solo, Boba Fett. And the Refractor, nice one there. What are you giggling at? Tegli's. Husk and Warrior Refractor. Two and a half months of that, right? Jeez. Maga Madness, Han Solo Refractor. Same here, Brandon. Jabba, I have a redemption from 10 years ago. Beyond Waiters, 1213 Hoops, Rookie Auto. Jabba the Hutt, I've given up on that. Well, I've long given up on that, but I do like to say it's still pending. Ezra Bridger, and the last pack for his time. Blue Bucket, nice one there too, 150. And Second Sister. All right, box number three, Joseph B. Good luck here, Joseph and Grobe. Maga Madness, Han, Bucket Head, Stormtrooper. Let's read just so you know. What's it? Reva. Reva, okay, that's what I was gonna say. Honestly, when I said it, I was like, that doesn't sound right. It wasn't. Toridosa, thank you. I'm gonna mispronounce them all.  Maz Kanata. Luke Sky Welker. Ooh, salacious B. Krom on the auto. Here you go, Joseph. He popped out today. Oh, man. Oh, man. Refractor is R2-D2. Still watching this for the first time. What's wrong with that individual? They're like, that guy needs help. C3PO are refractor. Maga Madness, Grogu. Yes, Gold is Nikuvozo. Nice one there to 50 for Palpatine.  Shields auto. There's them. I'm supposed to be getting them. Andre Stevenson, collegiate auto. Hunter. Grogu refractor. Nice one there. Crescenton. Two paths there, accidentally. Zeb Aurelius, Med B. Maga Madness, Luke and Vader, and a Yoda refractor. Got 10 box Tuesday coming up after this, guys. Then on to personals. Grab your personals if you are interested in getting one ripped tonight. Random team style, more random team styles, some random player style. A lot of stuff coming in. Chewbacca monikers. Chewbacca howl, Admiral Ackbar. Trap. That's versus. That is Vader. Orange. Nice. 24 of 25. That's sick, dude. That's Joseph. There you go, buddy. I think so. I'm not. Still cool. Orange Vader. Very nice. All right, Manny. Box four. Good luck, Manny. Manny sold us out on this. Thank you again, Manny, as always. I thought that was gold for a second. Wait a second. There's no cave on Tibido in this. We have to unmask Vader. We have to check. Hey, what's up, Joe? Joe B and Joe P. Joe who works here and Joe who does not work here. So, Joe's. Yeah, Joe B, you just said that. That was your Orange Vader right there. That was pretty nasty. Obi-Wan Kenobi refractor. Poor Doza. Had many time, Manny. That'd be sweet, dude. Katsu Anya refractor. Shmi Skywalker. Grogu. That seems to be as important as all of these, right? Probably, yeah. Probably, I assume, a very limited run, but that is Tal-Darith. Nice one there. Refractor order. Grats, Manny. Put that part there. Ray. And luckily on the last bag. Yes, sir, Joe. Absolutely. Babu Frick. Nice one there. Manga Madness, Vader, and Anakin. Nice. Good. That is Teal. General Leia Organa. Nice one there to $199. Very solid. Congrats, Manny. And Crosshair. You like Babu? It's full of Babu Frick's Super Fractor now. Oh, Forest would make you. Oh, and Lars. Oh, Forest would be so pissed. That Leia is very solid, for sure. Monika's refractor. Tompe. Pull some Eddie Two Tubes out of this. He's not hitting it, is he? No. Okay. I was just saying, I'm pretty sure he's not hitting this. Got a Green Mall. Nice. 10 of 99. There you go, Manny. Okay. Green Mall. Very nice. That's pretty sweet. That's awesome. And Greep Carga refractor. Another Manga Madness. And Tom Rivora. Or Cam Rivora. That's a good color in these boxes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Gold, orange, Obi-Wan, the negotiator. Gold, orange, purple greens. There's Boba. Cere Junda. Pull two 101s last night out of this. No, we pulled two 101s out of six series.  That's right. You're right. You're right. You're right. Kira. Six series, that's more. Bail Organa. That'll do it, Manny. Congrats, buddy. Some nice, nice color in there for you, buddy. It was crazy. That was the same case. I know. That's weird. John B. On number five here. Got Brandon coming up next. Chris at the seven spot and Ben Kay around in this box. Love John. Grogu. You got it, Manny. Thank you for closing this out. I appreciate you, buddy. Appreciate it for sure. That's a Manga Madness and Rex. I'll cast this. Calf? That's our new way to say cowl now. Calf? Boris did that yesterday and Cowl came and was like, what? Yeah, I heard that, too. Hasha Estri. I think I was here when he did that, that's funny. Mon Mothma Refractor. Otto, Jerick Yeager. Nice one there, Refractor Rota. Second one. It's up Yogi. Oh, Yogi. How you doing, buddy? He could send the other ones over. Send them? Good. Send the yeet. Yeets. Start Sidious, Emperor Palpatine. Nice one there. Is that card number one? I don't know if they have numbers. 87. 87. Good. The number's on the side. Right side. Okay, I got you. Got you. Thank you for pointing that out. Tuscansheath. What are they for? Sure. What do I do? Manga Madness. All the bounty hunters. Migs may feel this billbear. I wonder what is card number one? What's up? I said I wonder what is card number one without having to check the checklist. Choketana. Oh no. It might be something random. Probably. That would probably be it. See three P.L. Monarchers? Yes it is. Yes it is. Yep. Good call. Good call there, Yogi. Good guess. There's an R2. And R2-D2 Refractor. We're not calling people trash so that rules out Sean. It's that rules out Sean, right? They're not giggling at everything. It rules out Jay, Qui-Gon, Jin. And no one else top what's a nice. Right. So there you go. Good to hear Yogi. Good to hear, buddy. Manga Madness again. Another green of Grogu. Nice. 73 of 99. That's color match. It's a big time. Yeah it is. That is a color match. Nice Grogu. Very nice. Congrats, John. Jerick Yeager. About to go to bed work in the morning.  Do not blame me, Yogi. Cannon Jerse. Is it Cannon Jarvis, right? Jarvis. Cannon Jerse. Cannon Jerse. No, Cannon Jerse. You're Cannon Jerse. Zory Bliss. And the last one here. Yeah, gotta get some sleep for that grind, Yogi. Lendo Calvrazian. I appreciate that, Yogi. Always good to see you in chat, man. Always good to say what's up. Like to hear about the car progress, too. It's always fun. All right, box six, Brandon K. Good luck, Brandon. Let's do it, buddy. Super Fracter. This is his super every box. Easy. Super. Everyone goes home with a super. Let's do that. Or your truck. Your truck progress. That's what I mean. Of course. How can I be such a fool? Don't insult him. I know. It is vehicle of choice. God. Be careful. That's, I gotta call a yellow card on myself on that one. Yellow card on that one. Manga Madness. I am so happy we have that. Etiquette Skywalker. We're going to use that. I'm walking it. I might just walk in tomorrow and just call a yellow card on Forex for no reason. Darth Vader. Throw him out of the game, honestly. Walking in the studio just grab the card. Honestly. Boss Nass. Don't get all yellow, see? We got ejected. I know. That'll go yellow to a red. Same with you. You got a yellow card today, too. That was a false. That's what I love. Gold Gallon Erso. Nice one there. $41.50. Congrats, Brandon. Nice one there, buddy. And a cash in Andorre. Cash in Andorre. Princess Leia Organa. Yeah. Yeah. She got a job that's like super convenient for her with Marley. So I know she's excited about that. Plus it's something that she's super passionate about, too, which is good. Subolba. Subolba. You always wins. Yes. Correct. There's a Janna. One of 10. Nice one there. On the Black Auto. One of 10. Nice one there. It's a little bit of like Schmack on the top there. Right there. I'm going to send an empty box and wrapper for you, Brandon. Sorry about that, buddy. I'm going to go with box six. Where was it then? Top. Like above her hair. Right there by the chrome? Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of Schmack-ish. Yeah. She left for another job, Higley. Yeah. Sunday was her last day. Blue Hunter to 150. Manga Madness of Leia Organa. Actually, yeah, you did a great job on that. Yeah. We got it off, actually. We got it off. We got it off for you, Brandon. No box needed. Yeah. No box needed. Looks great now. Had to get Jimmy the Intern's glazed donut fingerprints off. This glazed donut's sketchy, man. I know. Come on, Jimmy. What are we doing, buddy? Oh, no. This is top. So Jimmy's not over here. Oh, yeah. Monica's Kylo Ren? Billy. Oh, man, Billy. Oh, Billy. Come on, Billy. Come on, Billy. God. What are you doing? Got you, Brandon. No worries, buddy. Want to make sure that that is as good as possible for you. So yeah, good job. Shout out Donnie on that one. Woo! I get a shout out. Donnie's card care over there. Harris and Gula. You should open a shop called Donnie's Card Care. Donnie's Card Care. DCC. Ah, there you go. I already got a name for it and everything. An acronym. There's Vader and Tech. Doesn't stick. Doesn't sound as catchy as something else. What could have? Appreciate the Rubba Dub Dub on the card. Donnie. Stop, Donnie. Wait, what? That's just a mistake on the... Donnie. That is Manga Madness. I hope that's autocorrect. Oh, that is definitely. Either autocorrect or that might be Brandon hitting the B next to the N, unfortunately. That, yeah. On his phone slash. Keyboard. Mace Windy Refractor. I've done that for a thousand. I type fast. There's Janna Refractor. I know I said F-O-R-R-W-S-T when I sent Forrest the Jingle meme. B-B-8, because I had to say Forrest, check, text, and then text him and then jump back in. Oh, yeah. Let me check if someone can see it. There's Quinlan Voss. All right. There you go, Brandon. Congrats, buddy. You've lowest numbered auto with a break so far. That's like the lowest auto number. Like the lowest auto that I've seen so far. Yeah. Other than the supers, I think that we've- Oh, yeah. Down to Chris Asset number 7 now. Minus those books. Of course, of course, of course. Yeah, Solid Box. Had a gold in there as well. Not the biggest character of a gold, but still a gold regardless. Garogu. As well as the character Galen is, like it's actually very important character. Yeah, definitely. He made it all possible. There's Manga Madness with the Bounty Hunters. That's my favorite one, I think. Stormtrooper Monarch. It's the Bounty Hunters. Way better than Forrest Fax. The other one with the Bounty Hunters. BD1. I like the- I think I like the Fire Strikes Back one the most. Is that the uh- So with uh- Rogue. Like it's, I think, Luke on the bottom and then like all the other surrounding characters. Oh, yeah, yeah. I know what you're talking about. It's got a job on it. That one's pretty sweet. Kylo Ren Refractor. Yes, for sure, Yogi. Take a trip down here at some point. Come by the shop. Absolutely. Absolutely, Yogi. That'd be awesome. Echo Refractor. Echo. There we go. That'd be awesome, Yogi. Yogi, you golf or no? Fourth sister. That is a Manga Madness. Grogu Refractor. Play some golf at some point. Cool. K2SO. We could all smash Donnie on the course. Wow. You all just wipe the floor with Donnie. I'm going to play a little bit more smarter next time we play. Oh, nice. Job of the hut on the auto. Very nice. Congrats on that. There you go, Chris. Pull on a good speed. Hut knees. That's Kanata, R2, Chewbacca, Monarchers. Anakin, Skywalker Refractor. Nice one there. That is Princess Leia and Cobb Vanth. That is Manga Madness. We're probably an hour and a half, two hours? Yeah, it depends on traffic. Depends on time of day you go. Probably, like you said, probably statistically like two hours, I think. I would say two hours to be safe. And but again, Cad Bane, if you get stuck in bad traffic, I would say probably it'd be upwards of like four. Harrison Ford probably up there, I'd say. Yeah, he's C-Signs, Payton. Yeah, Christensen. And then who's Kylo Ren? Who plays Kylo Ren? Oh, Adam Driver. Yeah. Orange. McGregor. Yep. Tomty on the orange. Nice one there, 24 of 25. Otherwise, Aunt lives in Tampa. Nice. Cinderella Song. Who the hell am I thinking of, dude? Or who? Not who plays, is it? Adam Driver plays Kylo. Yeah. Who plays Mando? Wrecker? Wrecker? Um, Pablo, whatever is last name. Yeah, okay. That's maybe what I'm thinking of. Sabin Ren. All right. John V with some Matt Demmelby bricks tomorrow. Hawk's gone. Steeler's gone in an optic break. Very nice. My boy Couch. Over that key. I'm watching, we actually are watching that right now. Funny enough. Giant some pirates. And he just walks. Not a very high scoring game. No, not at all. Ampty. All right. Good luck, Ben on box eight. Box eight, Ben. That's what they're calling him. Are they? Yep. Interesting. That's what Ben K is. That's what I've been hearing the people have been calling him. Drop of the hut. Monarchers. He's been improving this? I don't think so. I would assume no. There's C3PO. Omega? Or Mega? Well, it doesn't really work. Okay. Mandalorian. P-Plan after sheer tire of Bucca. Yeah, I don't blame him. I mean, that's where he started. That's where he won his MVP and everything. Grand Inquisitor. He could drill over. Oh, thank you. Sorry. Does anybody watch Guardians of the Galaxy 3? That was like the saddest movie of all time. I haven't yet, but it's so sad. I heard that. Yeah, I heard that. And then I heard Kylo Ren. It's like depressing. Like Serena said it wasn't that bad of a movie, but I've heard other people say it's like sad. It's really sad. Poe Dameron. It's really freaking sad. I don't know if I'll watch it. I think that's probably going to drop on Disney plus in July. So. Green, Dirk Ray. Nice. 73 of 99. Yeah, that'd be my guess. I'll probably have to wait till July to watch it. It's one there. And Georgia. Refractor. Yeah, it was, it was, it's just like you under, you get why Manga Madness and General Hux, you get why Rocket's the way he is. Kind of, I guess. Yeah, I heard it was a big, like deep, like backstory to the rocket. Yes. Yes. Which is kind of weird. Rose Tico. Refractor. Auto. Nice one there. I thought it'd be more like about them as a squad, but. Yeah. I guess Rocket will probably have a bigger role in the future. So. Farm Boy. I don't know if they're going to make another one. No, but he might jump over to like the event. Oh, yeah, yeah. The thing in the comics, he was part of that, but I don't remember. DJ. I didn't actually read the comics, but from what I understand. Manga Madness. This the one right here? No, right. No, that's the Hawth one. Yeah, that's the Hawth. Obviously, Retire of Pirate. Yeah. No, he was pretty, he was decent with the brew crew. There's a Niannub 2199 on the Aqua. Ray Refractor. Ray Refractor. Blue is Fifth Brother. Galactic Empire to 150. Niannub Refractor. That's pretty much right on time. That's kind of nice. Manga Madness. And Ben Kenobi. Grade like Sixth Conor Badard. Smart Man. Smart Man. Smart Man. Darth Vader. Very Smart Man. Here we go, Yogi. The Dard is the next tease of the guy. The guy. Freaking Black Hawks. Badard, oh that's him. Reed Streetus. Yeah, he's like the miss. Yeah, he'll be Black Hawks for sure. Yeah, for first overall. And Bucket on the Refractor. Again, guys, no recap on this as we have everything completely put together at this point. Thank you for getting this filled up. Do appreciate it. Always fun to rip some Star Wars. We will get them right out to you when we're on to 10 boxes.


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Today, I'm going to be teaching my students about a reading strategy called back up and reread. When I teach my students this strategy, I also use a hand gesture, back up and reread. They like to use hand gestures when they're learning new reading strategies. Today, I'm using the book Chrysanthemum. You can use any book that you have in your school library. And as I'm reading the book to the students, I stop at different places and I back up and reread. So for example, this is what I would do. On the first day, Chrysanthemum wore her sunniest dress and her brightest smile. She ran all the way. Hooray! said Chrysanthemum's school. Hmm, what was that paragraph about? I better back up and reread and I would go back and reread it. Back up and reread is a great reading strategy for all beginning readers to learn. Try it today.


Thanks, Robbie, to accepting for my interview and For people that will be watching this video. I'm with Robbie Frank, which is a business coach and he had been coached with a lot of really successful people in many country in the world and He's also a coach making people Go forward in their business and in their mindset So, Robbie, how have you found your passion? I don't think that I Found it. I think that I was very lucky that it found me Most people they have to actually experiment so For me since age eight sixteen, I guess I already Was very interested in self-development and actually start with everything related to meeting women and What would happen is I got really good at it at some point and the next thing I did immediately when I got good at it Was start teaching other people how to do it not like teaching like a classroom environment, but like helping them think better and and kind of have epiphanies and and take actions that are more properly aligned with the way you should do it and That really gave me a kick like a high and that was already a sign that something was up And what happened from there on is every time I would do something else in life or business Or as an employee, which I actually had a lot of success as an employee Every time it would call me to come back I believe every person that lives by his truth and Kind of goes by his intuition and listens to what it says he will kind of like coincide with his passion and kind of like Rob elbows with it at least a couple of times In his early life like till age 24 So so I believe anybody who lives lives like truthfully and and through his intuition will By age 24 at least have some idea of what his passion is and Just just to clarify when I say passion I mean that thing that no matter how much you do it like you don't it doesn't get old like you always want to keep doing it more and more and more perfect, so What tips will you give to an entrepreneur that want to start in business? An entrepreneur that wants to start the business Well, I guess that's a bit of the too too much of a vague question Can you give like a bit more of a kind of like a specific example? Well, let's say there's someone that like want to start his business What it will be like the first step you will tell him to do to that person. Oh, okay well the The way I look at it is like in terms of leverage. It's what would be The what would do like the biggest ripple effect out of everything? So, you know, some people think oh you need to learn about the field That's not That's true, but truth is relative. It's not Absolute in terms of what's true is what works. So it's more true like for example, if you if you need to get to a place that's like In our drive away, you can get there by walking But it's more true to do that by driving because it's just the more efficient leveraged solution To achieve your goal less effort more time You I mean you have more time left in terms of the business so doing like a business plan No, that's that's one way, but it's extremely slow Just starting out and seeing what happens. No in my experience on literally like 100% of the cases The single fastest way to move forward like the single biggest ripple effect If you really really want to get ahead fast and not just in business by the way It's like it's a principle of life is to find somebody who is at least ten times better then what you want to be at the moment so You just start out a business and at least you you want to start a business and you aim to make a Ten grand a month by the end of the year or by in a year or two find somebody who's doing like ten times that and If you manage to stick yourself with that person like get really close to them and spend Half an hour a day with that person or even just an hour or two like twice three times a week Your brain will soak up like a sponge everything that they're doing and The way actions work is based on belief So if you don't have any other point of reference to what's possible and when I mean what's possible I don't mean mean what people told you that's possible But what you actually saw with your eyes that's possible because even if somebody's like hey I'm a multimillionaire you can do it too unless you see that this is a living person like a living flesh person You'll never believe it that he's truly possible. Maybe you'll somewhat deceive yourself but won't you won't fully believe it and We work based on point of reference. So you always When you don't have a mentor or you don't have anybody who's like much much better than you you basically move in steps So you aim to the next step. So let's say you're at nothing. You aim for, you know 10 $10 sale and then you've got a $10 sale now you aim for $20 And I aim for you know another sale and a bit more and a bit more and a bit more and you always aim in small Small steps just the next step.  So instead of aiming like this high you'll actually aim here and when you You can try this experiment when you look Let's say you want to get to like a door that's like 20 meters from you If you look at the floor you can literally only take like the tiniest steps because you don't see what's in front of you You just see just a bit in front of you So you can't make take any major steps But the further you look away the faster you seem to get to places. So this is by the way a trick Like if you want to get some pretty fast Don't look at the floor don't look like in the mid Length but look as far away as you can see in the horizon and because you don't see the depth anymore because it's so far away You'll actually be taking the biggest steps without even noticing So that's really something I found which is insane. Like I have a friend Just isn't quick two examples even in terms of my ascent with coaching and getting really really good at closing high Paying clients. I literally found a guy from Europe who was doing that on a very high level like making I think like $50,000 a month From coaching and I paid him a ton of money just to align myself with him And I said I'll do anything to work with you and I worked with him and did anything to be next to him and Within about two months of doing that maybe a month and a half. I myself started closing thousand-plus dollar Clients with a lot of ease like it wasn't even hard to do that and most people were taking them like years If any if they'll even succeed in doing that And that was because of the belief because I saw it's possible with my own eyes same thing with online business And I mean like passive income. I have another friend named Ben who makes think a hundred thousand dollars a month He's just 23 years old using, you know sales funnels and Amazon and selling courses and when I wanted to start making money with the Autobiography book that I wrote you know, he kind of came into my life because he was a really good friend when we were younger and I Saw him making, you know over a hundred thousand dollars In the living flesh, you know, this is a friend of mine. There's a person I know and immediately my my vision jumped so much forward that in the first two months I myself started making about two three hundred dollars a month From passively selling my book online Just by not even he wasn't even helping me that much like maybe we're talking a couple like every two three days Just like a quick chat But the fact that he was in my life and that's like where I was aiming is what made it happen in Two months instead of like a year So so that that's my single biggest tip is fun Not just in business in anything that you want to get like really far in like fitness spirituality, meditations Intellect like anything you want to improve Substantially just find somebody who's like ten times better than what you think you want and you'll get there so fast It will completely shatter your reality because you'll realize that there are no The walls that you thought you had like you thought you needed to move in small increments. It's not true You can actually move in huge steps that's how people like like You know Mark Zuckerberg and so on they become billionaire like people don't realize that but but but but Mark Zuckerberg Was mentored by Bill Gates and Bill Gates was mentored by Warren Buffett, you know, and it's not a coincidence Each one gets there faster than the other one It's it's truly amazing like how how mentorship is Single biggest accelerant of progress that men has ever discovered great, so How have you known that what you're doing right now? It's the writing for you because it feels meaningful Now this is a big mistake that I actually made in the past where I would I actually reached a point where I was making around ten thousand dollars a month from coaching I was working like ten hours a week traveling the world and I felt like shit And the reason I felt like shit was because I was aiming on the wrong things I was aiming at comfort and luxury and not meaning so instead of like taking up, you know Higher paying clients and changing myself like let's see if instead of closing three thousand dollar clients I can close five thousand dollar clients or let's see how if I can take them further than I even thought Instead of that I was kind of just moping around just going to expensive restaurants You know kind of oversleeping and I lost my passion so I would coach people and it would not feel fun anymore And I thought that that just the coaching wasn't the right thing anymore And I that was a big mistake that I was very impatient and I just quit the coaching and Tried something else and then again found out that was a really stupid mistake and came back to it So When it feels meaningful, that's when you know, you're at the right place Your body has an almost pretty much an instinctive Part in the brain where it recognizes meaning and you know, you know, something is meaningful when you start losing track of time When it just feels like the right thing and we all know that what that is which is incredible that you know I don't have to explain to you what it means to Say when you something feels like a meaningful like it's really important. It's really good that you're doing it Everybody knows exactly what that means even though every person is literally like completely different than the other person So Once you have a handle on your passion Your passion is like the closest approximation to that thing at which you operate in the highest capacity It's that thing that will allow you to express yourself most deeply and in the most meaningful way and if you love it and embrace it and Really take it up like like something that you appreciate Then like if for example for me when I appreciate the coaching meaning I I don't use it to satisfy me I I satisfy the coaching so I look at it like an ideal or something. That's a continual strive for for improving and and using it like like Like a sharpening saw for my my character and my being then it rewards you bigger better than anything else You could ever do like I've been in so many Situations in my life where I was in deep shit. I thought it's you know it took me like months or years to get out of it and The moment I go back I'll go back to coaching the moment I I align myself with that meaning again life just immediately spirals up quicker than you can even imagine like suddenly money comes in Really fast appreciation love Am I thinking gets better everything just It's like everything gets lifted up They say you know a rising tide lifts all boats and that's like your biggest rising tide is When you do that meaningful thing out of love for the meaning and not out of trying to get something from it Yeah, it's true when you find like that thing that is meaning and you do it It make every other things more easy to do Yeah, it's like life becomes bearable again Because it really because when you don't have that life is extremely Life is extremely tough life is is mostly suffering and mostly pain and it's the things we do That make life worth living in spite of the fact that life is is a shitty thing like anybody who read like 20 century literature about What happened like 50 60 years ago? I'm not talking about Nazi Germany. I'm talking about like everything life is shit like bad things happen all the time, but when you Find meaning in life when you find meaning something that you can continually improve your character through Then suddenly life gains this almost transcendent meaning where now it's worth living It's not just something you bear Or you suffer through it's something you actually suffer through with pride.  Well Over the years the message has changed as I discovered my values. I literally Separate my life into four categories The first one is before knowing what my values are and I was I believe there are three values to every person like There's not more than three and not less than three. It's always like three You know, it's it's a it's a the rule of threes by the way It's it's a common rule of life that you can pretty much distill everything to three things And you can't usually distill it to two and four is too much three is always the the The most the best like the ideal number because three is the is the lowest number That can for something that can support itself. So basically a triangle is the minimal shape that can support itself You know less one one less than that and it's basically just a line. It can support itself It's not a shape and one more again. It's it's less than the ideal So the three values the three ways I change my life is the first one is I discovered growth and You know that might one of my first biggest value was growth and Anything that relates to progress and growth, you know the faster the growth exponential growth leveraging That's like it just turns me on like that's what makes me move That Catapulted my life and basically I tried to make everybody grow but the problem is growth it needs to have roots as well and That was you know, I was growing way too fast for sorry for a 21 year old guy Without, you know Not that good of parenting Skip the army Skip school like I didn't have really a good backbone for ethics So I did really dumb stuff that you do when you have a lot of money in power And influence and I thought growth is everything.  I also helped a lot of people Substantially, but yeah, there was no roots. It was not good and that allowed me to the second period Which was discovering ethics and truth, which is my second value basically the roots of Growth have to be ethics because when you grow, but there's no base of ethics, you know It's like a ship that you know when it's on the ground it can have like flaws It can like the screws don't need to be tied, you know, there can be a bit holes and stuff but the moment it goes up in space the higher it goes the more pressure is on the cabin and It's at a certain height if there's even like a slightly screw loose The whole ship is gonna blow up or or get wrecked so so if you want to go up and progress you have to actually have ethics and Because the slight of state at a certain height the slight of mistake will destroy you if we're not properly aligned in ethics so that Was the second kind of breakthrough after doing again a lot of really dumb shit and That's when I started also teaching ethics and Teaching people how to think not just how to think in terms of like quick growth but how to think in terms of having good character and Being an ethical person which is in of itself and you know One of the most important goals in life because you can't always grow, you know Not it's not always good times like right now, you know capitalist Mania where you can just build a business entrepreneurial, you know Sometimes you're a person who's stuck in Nazi Germany or or you know Stalinist Russia and all you can't grow anything But you can have ethics at least and you know not end up like a horrible person Because you understand yourself and the third value which actually kind of recently came to me My the final value I believe Is love which sounds really dumb. I know I that's what I would think but I Discovered it through my relationship. So the girl I'm Very likely going to marry Basically the first time I ever decided to completely commit to somebody and stay with them no matter what and that's when I discovered the power of commitments where by committing to something to a person and Being with them, you know deciding. Okay, this person is good enough for me to like Not let them go no matter what then you go into depth That you never thought you had in you because now when there's clashes between people. That's why I also am Into the idea of having somebody that's different for me.  So that's kind of like my my My creme, you know of the in the top message. It's so it's growth It's ethics and the love part is where it kind of brings it all together because You know if there's growth Then again, that's abundance. That's awesomeness. If there's ethics That's what roots you where the growth is doesn't become cancer. It becomes, you know, it stays good but the love is Something to grow for so it's somebody That you want to do it forward because we'll never do as much for ourselves as we'll do for somebody that we really love That's the reason why pretty much every single successful person you'll find in in History has had a loved person behind him, you know history was pretty much dominated by men not entirely but almost entirely and Pretty much every single great man, you know from Henry Ford up to Napoleon You know cuz I know your French They all had wives and the moment Napoleon left his wife because he got kind of Felt he was too great for his wife Done like everything started crashing so the effects of having a woman or a man that you will do anything for and be committed to that grounds you and Makes that growth continual Not just in the spurs right. Yeah, it's It's a really interesting so Now more more technical. How do you plan your your goals? How do I? Choose goals, how do I really how do you plan them when I have a goal? How do I plan it? Yeah? Well, I do kind of a more Action-based way, so I'm less of a thinking type, you know and this advice will not be good for 60% of the people but people who really relate to like taking action and I don't mean the others don't I just mean people who are like mostly focused on action and less on technicality Because some people really like to think and strategize What I do is I simply You know call it like my goal system I have a you can search in my YouTube channel like the goal system For like a 30-minute video about it, but I simply I found that what motivates me is actually negative Motivation it's not positive. So what that means is what motivates me is not like what I could attain and how amazing that would be It's actually the risk of what I would lose if I fail on the way Which you know kind of like a deadline or something it keeps me going so whenever I have a goal I simply Decide on a deadline for it. I choose a Something to lose for example, I recently went back to making videos after kind of a hiatus of a couple months and I made the decision to do 30 videos in 15 days. So going back to two videos a day from not like from zero and My risk my commitment was I told my I said to my girlfriend that if I fail to do this challenge If I don't do 30 videos in 15 days I'll break my phone Close my YouTube channel and eat a big ball of wasabi, which is really really spicy Japanese food and I Came up what I do when I is I set up the goal. Okay. Okay. This is what I wanted what I want to achieve. I Asked my I start asking how do I want to break this down into actions? Do I not so it depends sometimes I did crazy stuff like I did this with like an 800 people lecture where I came back from Thailand to Israel and I wanted to do an 800 people lecture. It was like a huge inspiration at that moment So I called up like a huge Lecture hall and I paid them upfront about $15,000 to rent the place for the night and I booked it two and a half weeks in advance without having a single person so And no strategy because you know, you can't have a strategy when you don't know how to do it But I trusted the power of commitment that I will do my best and I got to 500 people So in that time because of that necessity in those two weeks, I think I worked like 18 hours a day I did one lecture every day for a whole week at night To get more people. I did like 15 coaching calls every single day.  So comfort zone is literally based on necessity So if you have any problem with comfort zone like, you know, you're afraid to approach women or to make that cold call Increase the necessity make sure that you have to do it and then the comfort zone is not a problem Because when you have to do something you just do it So that's what I do is I play with it I play with the the risk part where I set up a commitment I make sure it's not too stressful where it'll make me crash because I had that kind of experiences and It's horrible and I make sure it's not too easy where I won't feel like, you know I have something to lose so I find like the right amount of stress and It makes me focused and I always achieve the goal So when I set up the goal and set up the proper commitment that feels right in my intuition I always achieve it and not a single time have I not been able to achieve it like to where I had to like Suffer the consequences if the again if I said it Based on my intuition and my intuition said, you know what it's hard But I think you can do it like you can go for that commit to it. So that's my system for you know setting up goals great and What would you say to an entrepreneur that don't want to start his business because like something is missing? Let's say money experience time So to you mean okay, so there's an excuse basically yeah It's not the right time because Experience time money many other reasons Well There won't be a better time That's pretty much what I can say like it's not gonna get better like all you need to do is look You know, you don't even look need to look in books or in history.  We're having a kid So I'll wait like half a year to you know get promoted. So I have more time. That's strategic But have you ever like procrastinate on something and it actually turned out like That was the right call like oh, I'm so happy. I procrastinated with You know asking for a promotion You know while somebody catches your promotion somebody else like takes it or something like it's never Because yeah, maybe it could get more you'll have more money later, but maybe no, maybe not maybe have less Maybe you'll have more time later. Maybe no, maybe you have you don't have more you know like it's it's really Kind of a logical error. It's really like a bold to say I know That in the future it will be better like you don't like could be a whole lot worse You are where you are now and if you don't show any intentions towards the universe to That you want to move forward The universe is gonna say, okay, but I gave you the opportunity I'm gonna show it to somebody else now and you just you just won't do it Like how many people do you know where the story is like? Yeah, I wanted to be an entrepreneur.   It's like it's people who don't understand goals Like you get motivated by necessity. So like Don't wait for the right moment or the right weather like just create the necessity It's gonna happen like instead of waiting for necessity to create itself by getting, you know, cheated on fired Decide to create it like literally just I'm gonna commit to doing this every day like and then make the commitment make the sacrifice like I'm gonna Commit, I'll pay my friend $200 if I don't do it I I'll tell everybody that I'm gonna do it and that's like sort of a commitment like just commit to it create the necessity You're gonna do it and It's it's people who are like I can't do it if I don't have necessity like yeah, I agree I'm like that too, but nobody said the necessity has to happen to you. You can create it Yeah, it's true So What would you suggest to someone that wonder if you should use is all name for his company or Build create a new company name Like hide behind the company name Hide or just have a company name instead of his own name being the company name Well, I think it really depends on the company like, you know, it wouldn't make sense for Facebook to be called Zuckerberg, you know, I think it would be nearly as famous That was the name But on the other hand, you know, there's for example the investment company Schwab Which is based on Charlie Schwab and that sounds really awesome and you know Ford based on Henry Ford If you have a really really really cool name That's really catchy then it would be if your company succeeds you'll pretty much solidify your name and history You know, my name is Robbie Frank, so I don't know. I don't really think of If I'll start a company in the future like for you know, this Software company or e-commerce, whatever. I won't call it Frank Or Robbie, you know, it's not really doesn't really make sense So I think it's case by case basis Perfect How have you decided what kind of image you wanted to give to the world? What kind of image Like how you wanted to appear to the world you and your business Well, I'm I'm still working on it today because it's it's really It's a continual process of refinement Where on one hand, there's the idea of self expression and on the other hand, there's a question of how much Of us is like self expression or how much is like appeasing the people so for example Something interesting about Hitler. I know it's really out there. That's gonna be a business question. I'm like, yeah, Hitler The way what happened is people think he was like the bit that the meanie the bad guy who He swayed the entire German people and you know, he's such an evil But think is it wasn't like that like in his speeches, he would like Talk about his ideas and he was a very dark person So he really represented like the dark part of people and some people and then the the crowd He would say something and the crowd would be silent And he would be like, okay, that's a no-no and then the crowd on the other thing You know, it's like we'll take back Germany from the national socialist and everybody's like And he's like, oh, okay Reinforcement that's that's good talk about that more and he basically refined the process and he became like the embodiment of people's Like anger, you know, kind of like what Trump did by the way with his populist speech Like yeah, drain the swamp build the wall, you know, it's or even bark Obama, you know whole change It's like how much of that is really you how much of that is really like appeasing your audience You know, so as long as long as you don't like Sell out like don't say something that you don't believe in or don't value You're good. So I'm continually doing it like where I'm putting out messages that are the feel right to me I'm seeing what people respond to and then let's say people say, okay, we really like that Thing that you talk about then I know I'm gonna talk about it more So it's it's still me because it came from me, but I also am very Attuned to what actually works so It's not something that's final you'll never you're never like yeah, that's my message which Yeah, that's what happened with Hitler. It's like When people are like, okay, we don't really want to you know, exterminate Jews anymore We're not really up for that. He's like no, no, that's the message.  Let's talk about more, but it's still my truth and Yeah, I just continually you do that for ever Great and How how have you been? How have you made yourself be known? Well There's three ways you can get yourself really really known the first one is I Already say ahead of time I probably forgot the third but the first one is simply going viral and that's what I call that's like the courage approach and you do that by Just doing something that will go viral like people think it's very Difficult to go viral, but it's not that difficult.  I think than anything else So, I mean I had the necessity to do it, you know, it literally just took up my a friend of mine Just took out the phone filmed it uploaded. It's a gone viral So so if you have the necessity to go viral meaning you have something you make yourself have to go viral Like you create some sort of commitment for I have to get To make a video that will get like 10,000 views and you commit to it Like you seriously put up like some sort of a risk Where you really you can't deceive yourself because it's numbers You either do either succeeded or not And you know, there's like consequences if you'll fail Even if you don't have any idea how you'll do it your subconscious will just know because you do know what works you just Won't admit it because you're not willing to do it Um So that's one way okay to create the commitment and do something that's like Like either super high quality or super provocative or something Um, that's one way to get really picked up fast But if you don't have the ethics to support it meaning if you're done If not actually like a really good person a really honest person people are gonna look at you You're gonna be interested and then It's gonna be you know disappear or they're gonna hate you So, you know, you want to be a really good person so that That attention actually sticks with you rather than just disappearing Um, which is what happened to me by the way because I that was before I kind of learned about ethics for me So what happened was uh, it got really really viral But I didn't know how to handle it because I didn't have a handle on myself as a person So I wasn't really deeply ingrained in truth Uh, the second way is paid advertising That's something that most people miss.  I don't know why maybe That's a sign that's the right time Is that uh, when I close clients, it's usually around $2,000 per sale And I have to talk to just five six people to get that sale So in in all actuality, I just need like five or six leads that came up that called me You know booked a call with me to get a call So meaning like even if you get like $50 per lead Using advertising $100 per lead $200 per lead, you're still profitable. So just The better your your Uh profit margins are the better, you know, the more money you make per viewer or per whatever it is that you do The more uh easier it is to grow because if you have a really high profit margin You can use paid advertising and literally the paid advertising pays for itself And this is like a continual growth where you buy growth Using sales Uh, so that's the second way to get a really good sales machine going Uh, and for that I really recommend the book dot com secrets. Like that's literally the bible for it My friend the one that's making like over a hundred thousand dollars a month at age 23 That's he says like a hundred percent of the way the reason he can do it is because of this book And the third way that's now I remember it as just is word of mouth. So Of course all the the two other ways also support word of mouth. So, you know, if you go viral People talk to each other and if you do facebook or paid marketing people also talk to each other when they see it but word of mouth what that means is just exclusively like somebody really likes you and Your service or product or video Whatever, it's so good. It's so fucking good that he'll tell three people So you just grow because of quality and you know Cool, I mean if you can go through quality then it's it's uh, you know, it would be a good thing to augment it with paid advertising, but You have to have one of the three like if you're not going viral if you're not using paid advertising Or and if people are not talking about you with other people You're not going to grow And the cool thing about my coaching that's something that I actually want to refer to At many points, uh, I've for example last year in october I would make three to five videos every day and it was like the biggest fun ever and I had Uh, maybe 40 views per video not more than that and I still close at least three or four clients every month So I would make at least eight thousand dollars a month for four or five thousand views a month um, and the reason for that is because I would do a lot of free coaching and somebody would get coached by me And he would tell his friends about me and they would watch it And some of them would go on a free coaching call with me and they would tell their friends So I wasn't getting a lot of attention attention from a lot of people but the attention that I was getting was very deep So it's not just how many people it's also how deep the attention is uh, because the average view Watch time for the videos was like five six minutes. So Every single view was like somebody sitting on average for like five or six minutes just watching me Um, again, and I had like four or five videos a day sometimes so Deep, you know, uh There's again viral paid or word of mouth or a combination of them Perfect So how he became an expert in your in your field? Well, I don't I don't consider myself an expert in my field. I have uh experience and this experience allows me to I have experience and I have really good uh skill of like Thinking well So all that I really do is just say what happened to me And I align people's thinking Where they have obstacles that are not really there And I just kind of put them aside and show them like a clear path Where that's like the comment that I get the most is Oh, you put it so simple like not just simple but simple but practical like oh wow that's that's like You made it so simple and assailable. I can actually do it now um Again it comes back to the mentors to be honest like The mentors You have to have that like you have to have Somebody who's so much better than you they will just catapult you up and From there, you know, like I just made a lot of Good mist like I just experimented a lot. I did really dangerous stuff for good and bad So I learned what not to do and what to do uh, and the more Experiment the more risky you go.   I'm not scared anymore.  Well, for me, that's where love really comes in. I'm a very More emotional than I would like to admit Which means that It's very hard for me to keep motivated Unless I have something bigger than me that I do it for So for me having somebody in my life Uh that I love That is bigger than me like we know when you love somebody you'll do it You'll be there for them whether You want, you know, you feel like it or not but When it's yourself you won't always be there for you if you don't feel like it so By having somebody that you deeply care about and it could be a family by the way It's it's a lot easier to go forward in rough times. So You want to connect your motivation intrinsically to Something bigger than you so when so you're opening a business and becoming successful.  Do I feel in the mood to Be there for them right now like if you think that then Something deeply wrong with um yourself or the relationship, but because this should be automatically. Yes. I'm here Yes, totally true um What tips will you give to someone that is in the early stage of his business? It's been let's say a year or two that he's in business Well, is he succeeding or is he procrastinating or Let's say succeeding succeeding. Yeah Identify exactly what I say what are like the three main things that are the most important to the growth cycle every single day Repeat to you and your team what these things are so you never forget them And uh, stay humble. So stay ambitious, but stay humble. So never think you're above the Sorry, never think you're above the process where oh, we're growing. It's because I'm amazing like no It's because you did things right If you're going to keep doing them, right? It's going to keep moving up And the pressure to do it right is going to be higher and higher So you have less room to screw up the bigger it gets And be easier to screw it up So keep reminding yourself refining it like okay, it's Action a b and c like these are the three things That when we just focus all our attention on, you know, it's not answering emails. It's not Designing the logo or you know, it's it's it's the sales calls. It's the The Facebook marketing and it's the Really good customer service and just keep reinforcing it like like bam bam every day like remember Improve this improve this and improve this and keep working on it again while staying humble realizing We're succeeding because of those things not because it's us um It's it's just the Matthew principle like Keep doing the things that work or the Pareto distribution And you will exponentially grow Because you already have Momentum behind you.  What have it give to your life? What did being an entrepreneur give to my life? Yeah Hmm. That's an interesting question. Um Well, I don't really view it like um There's this dichotomy where you either an entrepreneur or you're not Uh, I think you're always an entrepreneur Like when you go to you know meet a potential partner, you're being an entrepreneur When you have a job You're an entrepreneur in your job, but Um, you know, so there are people who are much more entrepreneurial than me Like by fast magnitudes But Their employee they have a boss so We're living currently in an age of entrepreneurialism meaning that We lived in the agriculture stage and then the factory stage And then the knowledge stage where you know, you had to learn Now we're living in the entrepreneurial stage where a company can disappear in three or four years Or a complete sector could be taken over by 30 dudes in a basement You know and a couple of girls too because it's uh diversity today um So It's not like that. I'm an entrepreneur per se, but it's that That's not the way I see it at least of course. That's not the definition of entrepreneur You know definition is somebody who like takes risks with money to make money Uh, I think entrepreneur like from the idea of like innovator Like where you do things out of the box and you try new things and you know And there's again the dichotomy like oh if you have a job you're not like that um I think it's it's like the most the only thing you can do today that's rational like Not being innovating today or entrepreneurial. It's it's that like you You know right now it may not look like that but 10 years from now Uh, it's called it's called a turkey dilemma.  Nothing's wrong. Nothing's wrong.  I'm used to discomfort Just boom just bounce right back find even better job But somebody who's like not very used to like getting out of this comfort zone and Doing new stuff When change happens and change happens faster and faster in this era You're not gonna be able to deal with it so it's important that Entrepreneurialism as a value not as like oh, I'm an entrepreneur, but like Even as an employee start doing stuff out of the box. Like if you work in an office Ask what's what is one thing I can do that's outside of my uh Kind of like my job description that can make my boss more money Or you know make it more efficient or just big good for the company which again means making more money You do that thing your boss if it's a good boss like somebody, you know Who appreciate you like should appreciate that stuff.  I think that's like the key is like Entrepreneurialism taught me to be adaptable to be able to travel to move to Get out of any situation. So, you know, you're in financial trouble.  He's going to pay you more Like, you know, I'm a good employee. No, you're not like But find a way to make your boss An extra $10,000 a month. I guarantee you he's gonna increase your income by $1,000 And if he's not quit your job Find another employee and this the next one will because Good good bosses, you know, good CEOs or, you know, upper ups they they recognize People who benefit the company So yeah, like, you know That's I think the cool thing about it It teaches you how to think it teaches you to The solutions that, you know, you can always change and evolve and And that you're never dependent on somebody else to give you something like of course You are in the sense that you need the money from the person, but You're not dependent on one person But you always have the initiative and and that's another one that's like really cool where the You realize the power of initiative like the fact that You want to get something and create initiative like You know, you want to get more money take initiatives towards more money Don't don't wait. Don't ask for it. Just start doing it You know, you want to raise start making the company more money and then ask for a raise Um, so yeah, just adaptability the ability to feel comfortable with the changes of life. That's Really important because some people when life changes do they they freak out. They completely freak out So do you have anything that you want to say to the people that will be watching this video? Yeah, um I Wanted to share something that actually recently Happened was I actually Like I told you like I think there's three values. So minors are like growth and progress Truth and ethics and third one is like love and being good to someone Once I found my third value like completed the package quote-unquote What happened was I immediately started to feel like imagine if your happiness is like one of one One to ten, uh, it's like a plus one or plus two To Constant to my happiness.  So so the last thing I would say is like find your values Your three values, you know, it's going to take a lot of time and you have to ask yourself every single day Like what are my values? What are my values? Three values three values three values until the answers start coming Your brain will basically start recognizing the patterns slowly and um And once you know what they are and you actually live by them and you keep kind of like refining your values and getting closer and closer to the type of person that you can be the type of person that you respect and admire You really like It it makes all the difference in life So I'll just finish with this is like whatever you do wherever you are um Work daily Literally like do a daily report like every night and ask yourself questions about how you can be better tomorrow Then you'll wear today And you do that for like 10 years. You're going to be in the top 0.1 percent of people Not in the world, but in the united states for example I'm not saying even you know in the top of so you could say one top 0.0001 percent of the people in the world because The amount of people that sit down every day and ask themselves What did I do today where tomorrow? I could be better than that like tomorrow like I was a bit angry today tomorrow I'll be a bit more patient I was a bit I didn't take enough action today tomorrow.   I think that's what it's called It's like it goes like this it goes like this and it just shoots up It's like it's also morse law for example that technology doubles its power every year You you look at you just write morse law in in google like search for the image like you see it like It goes That's why people say we're in a virtual reality because They say that Imagine like how technology progressed in the last 30 years The probability that we're in a right now in a fiction reality like a digital digital reality are like almost 100% because 100 years from now technology is going to be about a 10 trillion of a trillion times stronger than today So imagine how realistic computers are can simulations can be today Imagine when they're 10 trillion by trillion times better So it's that's what's so cool. That's what's so cool. It's math.  You just you have rational Scientific understanding of how this principle works for good or bad. It's not it doesn't care if it's good or bad Just it works in this principle Just keep making a tiny effort just keep you know You're uploading videos to youtube keep uploading videos.  You know, you're uh Working out. It's not really working yet. Keep going keep going just every day Just ask yourself how can be just be a bit better than yesterday How can the videos be just a bit better? I can be just a bit more honest How can I handle my finances just a bit better?    That's like 10 times bigger than another surge. That's like 10 times bigger And you literally just take over the world like that. So Uh, I know it sounds crazy. I know it sounds way too optimistic, but I don't think so. I think it's very scientific.  How can you be better in all aspects of real life? All aspects of real life. How can I be better tomorrow? How can be better tomorrow? That's that really makes me horny to get up every morning like that that thinking of like, whoa, like if I just Even if it's slow, even if you know, I don't really see the change yet. Like it's How it's going to look next year 10 years 50 years like knowing that it's exponential Uh, you know, that makes me want to be consistent more than anything So yeah, that's like my final message Great. So, uh, thank you to I've accepted to do this interview with me. Yeah, sure. I really enjoyed it Great success Yeah, and uh, if you're watching this video and you want to know more about ruby, just look in the description And there will be some information about him and uh, how you can find more info about him So thanks for watching this video And thanks ruby again to accepting for doing this interview My pleasure, man. Thank you


Welcome to another Art of Composing daily vlog. I'm John Brandingham and today we are going to be, it's kind of like a continuation on what I talked about with sketching in an earlier vlog. So somebody had asked for me to show some of the techniques that I was talking about and I figured now let's just do this in another short video. So you can see here, one of the things that I like to do is start with constraints. So it doesn't, you don't have to give too much thought to this. Really it's about just having the constraints. It's not necessarily the constraints that you choose. So I'm going to just go ahead and start with, you know, I'm just give myself, give it a piano staff right there. And then I'm going to just pick a key signature. Why don't we do D major. So F sharp, C sharp, C sharp, okay. And then we need to pick a time signature. So why don't we do three, four is a good one. So right there, we've already set some clear constraints. We know the key, we know the time signature. We can pick a tempo and, you know, why don't we do something kind of slow. So I don't know this, I'm guessing it's somewhere around 80-ish. So I'm just going to write 80-ish right there. And now when I'm starting to come up with ideas here, I like to write as quickly as possible and get as much down on the paper as possible. But often it does start with just a little bit of playing around and right. So right there, I've played an idea instead of trying to make a judgment on it and say yes or no, I'm just going to go ahead and write it. It's the first thing that popped into my mind. So it seems to be the thing that wants to come out. So let's go ahead and write D, A, F sharp like that. And now here's I'll start to show you some of the techniques I have. We do this and we've got the rhythms there. You know, it sounds like I want to do that a couple of times. So I'm going to go like this, just give myself some empty bars. Feels like I'm doing it four times. Now you can put a little repeat symbol here, right? That's a quick way to just get the stuff down. It lets me know that this is really, it's almost like a thematic introduction. Just a harmonic material. So there we go. I wrote an F sharp. Okay, so nothing too complex here, but the chord does change it. So I've got D, B flat, and I've got G. Now I know the rhythms there. So I can save time by not drawing the lines. These are little techniques that you can use to get through a lot of material quickly. Okay, so now I know I can use, I know basically what I'm going for here, accompaniment wise, and what I can do is just write D right there. It's telling me it's a D chord again, right? So you've got a lot of flexibility. You don't have to stick to one thing. I could have easily written one like that just to let me know the left hand. Stick into the same shape, but I can write it harmonically like that. I can write the individual notes. Sometimes I'll just stack the notes like this just so I can quickly see the chord. These are all cool little techniques that help you get through real quickly. So now I'm jumping down to another line. Don't really worry about how everything looks. Now I did read in a book about Ravel once that Ravel had a lot of the issues with correcting wrong notes because he neglected to copy over the key signature. So I'm trying to do that. I'm trying to copy out my key signature so I don't have to constantly put accidentals. So now let's say I want to repeat this. I can call this idea A and then I number each bar. So what that means is now I can reference that. I don't even have to rewrite that out. I can, if I wanted to do an exact repetition, I could just, I could literally do this. A, you know, one through four, boom. And now I have copied it out. Now most of the time I won't do that.  However, I won't usually do that. I'll usually make a change. So I'll say maybe A1 is repeated, A2. But then maybe A3, I'm gonna make a change. So I'll go. And now I have to figure out what's different about it. So right there, I wrote the chords out, or I wrote the chord out. And maybe I'll do something like that. I don't know where this is going and I may take material out. And then this is back to this chord right here. So it's like that. You can see I'm leaving a lot of information out and I'm trying to abstract just what is the critical information that I need. Now this is not a good thing to give to an orchestrator per se. This is for your internal use. If I was gonna give something to somebody to say, turn this into something more, then you're gonna wanna give more detail. You know, if you look at the sketches of professional film composers, they're often very detailed because you're not necessarily, you're not relying on the orchestrator to fill in your gaps of musical knowledge, or at least you shouldn't be. The orchestrator is there to take something that you've written and blow it up to a full score. So one of the other techniques that I talked about, which I find very useful, is let's say, what if I wanna change a pace here and I'll just go, right, well, I'm gonna start to write that out. But instead of having to write out every single chord, oh, this isn't three, four, so I need to not have four beats, all right? So there we go. Now I've made it a change. But instead of having to write every single note out every time with all the articulations, I just know that this is the same thing being repeated. And you could do that with a lot of things, I mean, if you write that figure out once, and then let's say you wanna repeat it, that's kind of like a four, four kind of figure, so I'll just do it one more time here. But then repetitions, I can just just indicate that it's the same thing. And then one, two, three, one, two, three. One, two, three, one, two, three. One, two, three, one, two, three. So these are just some of the cool little techniques that I like to use when I'm sketching. There's a million and one techniques. And really, you should start to think of what works for you and what you can start to come up with on your own. For instance, let's say that you don't necessarily know the notes you wanna write, but you wanna write a scale. Well, just do a line like that. As long as it makes sense to you, get too detailed on some parts. And maybe I like this as an outline for a melody, but I want a little bit more, you know, right? Add more ornaments. Or, you know, maybe even put in some whatever rhythm and just figure it out later. With rhythms and things like that. But that's the benefit of being flexible and not putting too much down at the beginning. It's because your mind can play around with the concepts that are on the page. It's not. That may be what I started with, but... So, flexibility and not being too precise with your sketching, I believe, is actually useful. So hopefully you enjoyed this vlog. If you're interested in learning composition, learning similar techniques to this, and obviously the fundamentals, then check out www.partofcommunity.com. And I will tell you more.