Detainment News' Oris Willeke, one of Nigeria's pioneer reggae musicians, says there is no need for comparison between artists of the 60s, 70s, 80s and the Millennial artists. In an interview with Plus TV News, the producer, songwriter explained that the contents that they were producing at the time were mostly to liberate Nigerians from the Gestapo era of military rule. They presided, they praised the new artists for putting the country on the world map. We're coming from a dark age where a lot of people were under pressure, as my brother would say. We were under the military and there was a lot of brutality and we wanted freedom for democracy. So if you look at the lyrics of contents that were coming out of that time, they were unique and perceived to be in one direction, you understand? So we talked about the freedom in South Africa, the liberation of the South Africa, you know? So at the end of the day, you realize that the message people were used to then was the words and passion for liberation. So and it got to the point also where I think the airwaves was too saturated with such kind of music and first of all, music comes in style and pattern, it comes in fashion, you understand? So it's like a round football, so it goes round like this and it changes with time. And so by the time the youth felt well, they're tired of this, no light, no water, no this, no this, they wanted something new. So they were able to come up with a unique sound, a sound that nowadays we were not able to actually come up with because we used to argue amongst ourselves, do we have a Nigerian music? You know? It was difficult because you cannot say Aqbala, it's Nigerian music because it's unique to a particular section. You cannot say how life was from Ghana. You cannot say the traditional music that we know because it's not national. So we needed a nationalistic sound which we couldn't get but today the youth have been able to come up with a unique sound. If you play it in Asia, you say this is a Nigerian sound. If you play it in America, you say this is a song from Nigeria because they've been able to come up with a unique pattern of music that is original to Nigeria. The music legend sang one of his popular songs, Mubala Mumbai, explaining that the music is medicinal and the calling to be a musician is not to retire until God calls. When asked if he would like to work with the young ones, he responded this way. God help you if you do not have any physical disability, a musician should play to entice the grave because it's a calling. It's not like the civil service where you have a number of age that you will serve and then retire. Look at King Soniadeh, he's still bubbling. There is no day he's not on stage. You think of the energy at servitude something. So it's a unique calling and with the calling, you realize that your body is aligned to it. If you don't play music for one, two weeks, you look sick. If you're looking for an organic sound that is unique to one person, then it's the video. I also work with Bonnaboy because of his creativity. He can take a line from any song and turn it to something nice. Whiskey is also very good. But Whiskey is more of thinking of the perception of an international artist. So when he writes his song, he ensure that he embellishes with the unique international sound that he thinks is acceptable. Thanks for the win, Bonnaboy. Because it's something we couldn't do in our days, but thank God it's your time. So congratulations. Play me that music of Africa that never grew old. Tell me the history of Africa that's never been told. Africa nice, money so nice. Africa cool, money so cool. Africa sweet, money so sweet like that sugar and spice. My bad. Take it again. The saddest song of the time, the saddest song of the future. Sad of drugs, sad of courtes.


In this video, we provide the solution to question number five for the practice final exam for math 1050 We got a story problem here. Terry is skiing down a steep hill Terry starts at an elevation of 4,000 feet and descends at 65 feet per second if the elevation of Terry is E of T after T seconds What's this function going to be? So notice here that if we're going down the hill Right this this slope going downwards really gives us a linear function, right? Terry started off at 4,000 feet. That's the initial value. Then we're descending at 65 feet per second. So that's a description of a rate. That's gonna be the slope here so if you think of our line being in the standard slope intercept form, right the intercept Was gonna turn out to be 4,000 right there the slope M would then be a negative 65 feet per second And so putting those together we see that the elevation of Terry is gonna look like negative 65 times T plus 4,000 the initial value and so this would then give us the feet that Terry is in with regard to elevation And so we then see that the correct answer would then be choice F I wrote it a little bit different, but it's the exact same function Terry's elevation would be 4,000 minus 65 T


So the UNM Engineering Student Success Center asked me to present a brief history of computer science Because I used to be a UNM computer science professor and because I'm old and today I'm gonna focus on the old stuff when we get to PCs and smartphones. I'll leave it up to you Now they told me I should be light-hearted and fun like a one-man John Oliver show Wait The history of computer science the history of computer science for the most part is the history of digital computing Which begins with the breakthrough discovery of the digits? They're great for counting things and they come in fives and tens which is just the way we like to count Incredible luck or alien influence you decide in any case counting is good for lots of things Like to count up how much you owe me says the king the high priest the local big shot and don't you forget it? And that was actually a problem with early digital computing fingers were convenient but you couldn't count very high unless you had lots of friends and The counts kept getting erased when you decided to use your fingers for something else But information technology research and development was on the job Counting on fingers led to using pebbles or sticks or stones or shells to keep the count and Coming up with all sorts of tally marks like these modern ones. Look at those cute little hands one two three four five one two three four five and Check out these marks that were scratched into the leg bone of a baboon 20,000 years ago. That's persistent memory now granted this may not be the baboon's favorite memory technology But there were more innovations to be had like clay It's easy to mark on wet clay then let it dry if you wanted to you could wet it again and smooth it over like a Sumerian etch a sketch But if you cooked it in a hot oven the clay tablet turned to frickin stone and the royals and accountants everywhere like that a lot and The resulting persistent memory market was basically owned by big clay for centuries And clay got used for everything like this from 5,000 years ago. What was important enough to bake this tablet? Beer who gets the beer? Well, I don't care if your uncle is Sargon of a cod It says right here. You only get one vessel of beer. Good day, sir Or this little note it's three three or four thousand years old It's a customer complaint letter and you thought it was tough dealing with Wells Fargo Yeah, I have a friend a new sender So counting up is great and right once memory is great But for more complex math, we really want persistent but rewritable memory and Progress marches on with this sturdy wooden counting frame You can write and rewrite numbers all day long or check out this streamlined monster It's got like 17 hands one two three four five One two three four five six one two. Whoa, how's it work? One two three four five six seven eight nine Counted to nine with one hand. I use these fingers twice can't do that with right once memory So with a device like this if you knew the bead the twiddling rules and the algorithm You could do complicated things like multiplication, which is good for figuring out how much Everybody owes me all at once So put the memory device together with the instructions and you get a digital computer, right? Well, not quite you have to plug them into a human or they don't work Memory by itself is just all passive-degressive. I'm just repeating what you told me and the rules Just give orders you do this you do that the rules never do anything themselves So we need something else to examine the situation make a decision and then turn the crank and move on It seemed obvious that there were only two choices teach a human the rules and have them do whatever it is or Design the rules explicitly into the machine up front so it can't not do them but then the rules can't be changed later and That was the great split in digital computing You could build machines and then try to make them flexible or you could deploy on humans and then try to keep control opportunities and risks either way Now when humans are writing rules for other humans things can get really complicated really fast And in some ways that's the history of science people programming people is also culture and parenting and law But people programming people to do math physics science has proved to be especially powerful Royalty likes that Now the math humans did kind of get into sort of arms races with each other about notation Trying to pack the most power into the shortest program and utterly baffling everybody else in the process I know that one No Who knows Now there were also many efforts over the centuries to make automatic Deciders of increasing flexibility and speed here's the pascaline of 1652 an adding machine designed by blaze Pascal And people made automata machines that moved on their own and sort of acted like alive They weren't really ever useful, but then a lot of them were made to please the royalty This is a view of Vauconson's digesting duck from 1739 which appeared to eat grain drink water and poop The mechanical Turk claimed to be a chess playing machine Built to impress Maria Theresa the Empress of Austria It played chess really well, but it was a fake with a human chess player hidden inside as the decider It toured for decades anyway In Japan there was a long tradition of caracuri puppet automata that did things like move and bow to serve tea Yes, rich people bought them On the other hand the Jacquard loom of 1804 which could weave intricate patterns from punch card programs was a success indeed by 1812 there were eleven thousand of them at work in France and By the way, the Jacquard machine design built on previous loom work by among others Vauconson the digesting duck guy incredible luck or alien influence you decide Here's a look at the programming cards and here's the man himself not in a lithograph or an etching But woven in silk using 24,000 punch cards on a Jacquard loom Charles Babbage sometimes called the father of the computer owned one of these silks and was Reputedly inspired by it. So over the centuries there was progress on the quest for flexibility and fast mechanized deciders and Development of the programming languages they accepted we even started to get software documentation and All the digital computing concepts had been in the air one way or another since the beginning as Much as anything it was a matter of multiple technologies Matureing plus the will the investment and the audacity to make it all work Several machines can claim to be the first electronic computer depending on what's considered essential in Bletchley Park north of London the Colossus mark 2 was built specifically for code breaking The ENIAC funded by the U.S. Army and built at the University of Pennsylvania was more flexible than Colossus But programming it involved physically recabeling and rebuilding parts of it and took a long time But after that it could do a thousand additions five thousand additions every second And over the next couple of decades electronic computing exploded around the world the U.S. Army funded several more machines With pieces of them shown here from the left a board from the ENIAC the Ed vac the Ord vac and the burl ask one on the right And just to be clear the folks holding the boards are mathematicians programmers project staff bad-ass nerds in heels and It was an age a time of fantastic progress for the math humans too There was finally a non-human machine with great rule following flexibility and reliability Thousands of algorithms and variations were explored just to pick one out of that hat the Patricia tree algorithm was created by Don Morrison who was a member of the UNM computer science department way back in 1968 Commercial computing was on the rise as well Big machines epitomized by the IBM system 360 which debuted in 1965 And this is a deck system 10 my favorite computer of all time not this exact one But I've loved a few The deck 10 was one of the first popular Time-sharing machine so that a lot of people could use a piece of a machine They'd never be able to afford all on their own I loved learning how to use it and I'm sorry, but Tico is still the most awesome text editor ever fight me Program, I love programming it too, and I did it a lot And it this great job. I had as an undergrad was being a system operator for a deck 10 I Didn't dwell on it at the time, but you know this was a huge magnificent machine Like most mainframes it had a private room all its own really it wasn't in the room so much as it was the room the machine room thick doors always locked raised white panel floors with cables running in every direction underneath Smooth even lighting AC humming always cool The printer chattering as the next job came out the blinking lights on the main console right out of Star Trek Usually not that much to do unless there was some problem there then cabinet after blue cabinet of main memory Each one holding I think about a megabyte Although deck the deck 10 didn't count bytes quite the way we do now and then further back the tape drives That would meet you face-to-face as you change the reels for one of the users or another And there were always users users users day or night pack cheek to jowl inside the memory of this incredible machine Doing homework playing games analyzing physics experiments Or just messing around to see with the machine to see what it could do I did some of that, you know Colossus didn't have to worry about randos trying to provoke it into doing something weird neither did eniac and Getting everything perfectly safe turned out to be kind of hard. We haven't figured it out yet And the locks and the thick doors kind of missed the point It's really about the cables from all over campus Converging under the white panel raised floor and punching straight up into the brainstem of the machine So its user names and passwords special operator privileges Hierarchy was imposed but no matter The machine utterly trusted its program. That's the source of its flexibility and it could not do otherwise the brief age of Secure computing was over The deck tens lasted into the 80s, which was a good run for at the rate machines were evolving One was in fact decommissioned while I was in grad school. This was one of my my treasured possessions It wasn't security problems so much as just the company wanted to concentrate on its newer VAC systems But things were changing in lots of ways anyway So That's it. I didn't want to end on a downer note But the quest for the fully automated totally flexible mechanical decider Really has succeeded too well We need to focus on robustness So I published this argument in in 2013 the future of computer science is robust first and you know, of course the consensus now on the lessons of 2026 is that you know, we pretty solidly missed robust first But you know robust later is better than robust never wait What year is this? Thank you any questions


To welcome our viewers to Ignite the Spark, my name is Shar Speck-Pakniak. I am the founder and executive director of a program called Ignite the Spark. What we do is we mentor students, middle school and high school female students, trying to help them navigate the journey through life, help them try to figure out where it is they want to go, what they want to do, and help them with resources to make sure they can be successful. Our program is nearing the age of 10 years old. Kind of proud of that. We're able to make it that far. And I thought it was time to kind of review where we've been, what we've done, what works and doesn't work, and what better way to do that than to talk with one of our past students. So I'd like to welcome Marcelle and I'm probably, I still don't pronounce your name correctly, say it. I never say that correctly and we've been together for how many years have we worked together? Since I was in high school. Yeah, it's for quite a while. And I remember working, coming to Central High School, teacher there, Marcelle. Curious when she suggested to you that this program that she had heard about might be a good idea. What were you thinking? I was scared. Like she handed me a pamphlet and I was just reading it and I was like, I can't do this. I was just really scared. I wasn't used to being around like a lot of girls or people. So you really thought, what is she getting into? What is she getting me into? And I remember one of the other barriers for me is the fact that I don't speak any Spanish. And that, that's for me has always been an obstacle. I remember with Guadalupe who know, you know, try to communicate with family members sometimes. Definitely a challenge. I'm a good old German girl from Sheboygan and I don't know any Spanish. You know, so that, that was definitely a challenge for me. And I think one of the other challenges for me sometimes was even customs. I mean, there's certain things that, that your culture does. And I'm trying to think, what are those dances that where everybody gets really dressed up? I don't know, is that he called? Why don't you're talking about? Yeah. And I'm going, I don't know, what's the big deal? You know, what are they, you know, what are they getting into me? And just to me, I try to be respectful, tolerant, and I try to, I think, learn more about what different cultures and customs might be and to give students the opportunity to share what that is. The one, as we're talking here, the one thing I'm thinking about is the, the one thing that we still do on a regular basis, especially if we're introducing new students, is we do what's called story box. And I know how people would complain about that as soon as I would say, well, let's do story box.  I can repeat myself and do it all over again. But it was, it always, I think, opened up conversation. It did, yeah. And I, by the time we got done, we're laughing. Exactly.  For our viewers, when I'm talking about story box, I have this Tupperware plastic box with junk in it. The stuff that you find in the kitchen drawer, spare keys, little plastic animals, trying to think what else is in there. I forgot. You name it. It's, I mean, there's some crazy things in there. And we start a story. And I always love to start the story with Fred the Frog. Because there's this little plastic frog in there. So I, I'd pull up for Fred the Frog. We'd start the story. And Fred's having maybe a really good day and the weather's nice and he's excited. And then I pass the box to the student next to me. And they have to pull something out of the box. And they continue the story. And we do that until the box is empty. That usually means the box goes around like at least two times if not three times. So it's kind of fun, I think. Because it's a way to break the ice, you know. But, you know, I'm talking, you're listening. Share with me some of the things you liked about being involved with Horizons for Girls. I like how we all did stuff and we all worked together. Made us like, I guess get along more and interact. And meet new people. That's one thing I did. I met a lot of new girls that I did not know. At first you're shy but then you get comfortable eventually with them. Like they are friends and family. Yeah, and because I still stay in touch with a lot of you. And I'm watching people like you and Guadalupe talking. You and Jojo talking. And it's like, okay, so there's some friendships that have started, hopefully. And that do continue through Horizons. What were some of the things that you discovered as you were doing it? Anything that you found unique that you didn't think you were going to like? Just, I think that's to make you a friend's part. Like when I first entered, I'm like, I'm not going to make any friends. I'm just going to be mean and not talk to anybody. Well, and you did some job shadowing. I think you were with Detective Ramin. And again, I think that's, you know, so you're meeting friends within the group, but then you're also meeting people outside of the group and getting a chance to meet people. Yeah. So, well, and then we do activities like the marathons, where we're passing out water to the runners. That was fun too. And then during the summer, we do the retreats, the camping. And I think that again helps build some of that teamwork. Exactly. One of the things we've got coming up the end of March is we're going to do a retreat. The location is just west of Plymouth. It's called Wind Horse Retreat Center. And it's kind of a self-sustaining place where they have solar energy. And the group was out there once before, right after it started. And I remember, I think that's where they even did the Halloween party. And I don't know if you're a part of the group. I don't think so. That they did a Halloween party. And that's when quite a few girls from Plymouth were involved. And one of the girls was a vegetarian. And I will never, ever forget this because what Linda had done was there was a bowl of hamburger, raw hamburger, that you were blindfolded. And you were supposed to stick your hand into it and try and figure out what that was. Well, went and I can't remember. I can still see her face, but can't remember her name. But when she took the blindfold off and realized that she had had her hand in hamburger, she just got violently ill. So again, something we probably learned is to make sure we ask questions so we don't insult people. I think that's something we've really tried to do. And I think you spent some time with us out at the hobby farm where they had the doggies. I don't think I went there. Okay. I'm trying to remember who was all out there. And well, Linda, who's an animal behaviorist is what her officials. And she would work with animals. And that was always interesting to work with her and find things out. What do you think about, you know, as we're trying to find mentors, get without using any names, tell me some things you liked about some of the mentors and some of the things you did not like about some mentors. What I liked is that they talked to the girls good. And they made you feel comfortable. And they helped you, like if they're your own parents. And what I didn't like, some could be like too bossy, I guess you could say. Yeah. Yeah. I can think of one mentor who would, she was a retired teacher. So I understand, but she would, you know, because one day a week we're doing homework, but she got so insistent sometimes on making sure that people were doing their homework. And that's definitely not what we're trying. We're not a dictatorship and we're not school. We're trying to make it fun and still encourage exploration and discovering new things. So that's a challenge sometimes is to now, did you go with the girls when they went out to the glass blowing studio? I think I remember that. I don't know how many times you guys went, but I think the first time. Yeah, because that, I've seen some of the work they didn't do out there. And that, that to me is real, I like it. Wow. Yeah. Pretty cool. Well, and I think you were out with us when we went out to, and now I can't think of the name of the place, but it's outside of Plymouth where it's got, it's like a retreat center, it's kind of, but it's got a couple of different buildings. And in one of the buildings, I remember there being like a wall of books. And then if you grabbed one of the books and pulled it down, the wall would open. And there was a spiral staircase that went up. We did so much, I don't, I can't remember. It was, and it was interesting because that campus, that destination used to be, belong to the mafia from Chicago years ago, because that's where they would hide out. So, and then they decided to donate the place to a local church who now manages it. So that was always fun to go out there. I think, and as, as I say the word church, I think, thank goodness for the churches that have hosted us when we first started for a while, we were at that church down on A Street that was in that old store. And that was kind of neat, it was close to the library, interesting. Now that's being redone into stores, but thank goodness for First Congregational Church, where we've been for a long time. And I think that's been a challenge sometimes to make sure students understand that they have to respect the space that we're in. Yeah, and that can be a challenge, especially when we look at the kitchen. It's fun to use the kitchen and to cook. We've made some pretty bizarre things in the kitchen, some interesting things. But then always remembering to clean up the kitchen. One thing that's kind of neat, I think you probably, if you think about your prior, remember the, the old stoves that we used to work on with the pilot lights, and they actually have two new stoves now. They do. So it's really nice because now you don't worry about pilot lights and all of that kind of thing. And Tina's mother actually helps us a lot with cooking now, which is kind of neat because, you know, to be able to experiment. I know one of the things they did last week was they made a shepherd's pie. And I, I've never had that before. I had no idea what it was. And it was actually, it was good. And now what they want to do this week is they want to make personal pizzas, which we've done before. And that's always fun. We've made some Mexican foods before. In fact, as I say that, I'm thinking one thing we haven't done in a while is we used to do a taco potluck. Remember that?  And that, that was always fun to do. We should do that again. Yeah. What, what kind of things do you wish we would have spent more time doing? I guess like going more outdoors. Yeah, I think so. Because we went to Maywood a couple of times, but I think we should go more. I think the girls liked that too, instead of just being in a church like all the time. Yeah. I know something, that's something that Sam is trying to do more of. She's kind of in charge of this mindfulness theme, that we do things in just, I know they were at Evergreen Park before it got called out and they were along the river in Evergreen and just spending time. I don't know if you're with them at the time. They were at Evergreen and they were in, walking in the river actually and they had leeches on their legs. Oh, God, no. And then they had to pull the leeches on. So, but yeah, we should spend more time doing that. And I think that when we go off to Wind Horse, that'll be something we'll be able to do because I've got a gentleman that's with the DNR that's going to do a field, even though it's March, he's going to take students outside and try and explore some of the things outside in the wilderness because it's out in the Kettle Marine area, so it's out in the middle of the woods out there. The other thing they're doing is a musician is going to be working with them and they're going to be able to write a song. And then Abby is going to do something with making dream catchers and there is a lady from Appleton that's going to show them what a medicine wheel looks like, which is similar to a labyrinth. And I don't know if you ever noticed that sometimes at the church, they've got the labyrinth set up in that big Lucas Hall. And what a medicine wheel is, is similar, except it's a wheel. And then they're using candles and rocks and you walk it and it's for meditation and contemplation and calming down. The other thing we did earlier this year is, and this was interesting for me, is we took a long piece of string. We used that, Lucas Hall. And like every 10 feet were 10 years of the average life of an adult female. And so then you were able to mark, okay, where were you born? When did you start grade school? You know, when did you go to high school? When do you think you're going to get your first job? It was fun for them to start to put markers around this and start to realize, wow, there's a lot of spaces. There's a lot of time in there of when I can do all the different things I think I want to do. The other cool thing, and I don't know if you were part of the discussion, but they decided this school year to do 100 acts of kindness in 50 weeks, which means an average of two acts of kindness every week. A fork I called one of the things they did was they did some park cleanups where you spend some time. It's water park, I think, where they've got behind wall, you know, wall greens. All water street. And then the river goes back there. Yep, right there. And so they were cleaning up, they found a lot of junk back there. And then they discovered there was a homeless family living in one of the shelters. So then what they did was we gathered up all the spare change that we had, and there was some, there always is, spare change in the van, put it all together and we probably came up with like about eight dollars and we gave it to the family. So it's kind of cool. And they seem to like that when they can do that kind of thing and help somebody else. And I think you were part of the group that one year when there was a family that had a fire and then we collected clothing and the van was packed with clothes and we donated all of that to the families. That was kind of cool to be able to do that. The other thing they did this year, once this was funny, because they actually baked apple cobbler and they were going to then deliver it to one of the fire stations with a thank you card. Well, as we get in the van, one of the girls accidentally tipped it upside down so it's on the floor in the van. So we ended up and said, well, that's not going to work. So the next day we went to the store and we bought some stuff and then we went to the fire station delivered that. So that was kind of cool. And then of course the annual trip to Rocky Null, which you still have been going with us on that thing. That's always fun. What do you think about that trip? I love going. Just feel so bad and just crying. It's so nice for the girls to see. To be able to see smiles on the faces of the people. Even the kids too, like they're happy. I still remember that one lady talking about, because I come in with faith who of course is something to sleep on the floor there, but coming in with faith and then she starts talking about her dog that she had. And so then all of a sudden you see some people crying and then I saw some students crying and then I started crying. It's like, oh my gosh. But I think to be able to see that people care. And even as tough as you guys think you are sometimes. And I've seen you guys fight and argue and insult each other. But I still think you care about each other. And I think that's important to know that there's that. So if you're thinking about the future for you, what are you thinking that you've got planned in your future? Job wise or anything exciting that you're going to try and do? Listening with art because it's always love to do. It's what I always love to do. Now, did you ever spend time with Laurie at RCS? Yeah, I did. Yep. That was really fun. Yeah. Because now she's, I think she still does a little better work there, but she's basically retired. But I know she worked with you. She worked with Guadalupe. And again, it's a chance to really discover art in different ways you can use it. Exactly. And I think it's kind of cool. She's got, she's got a job that uses art. Yeah. She's a therapist using art to help people. That's kind of cool. Yeah. And I think, and I don't remember if you were with us when we did the trip to the Salvation Army Daycare. No, I wasn't. Okay. Because I know Guadalupe, maybe that might have been before you, but I know I've still got pictures where we took the sock puppet kits and we went and we did sock puppets with all the little kids at the daycare. And that was a lot of fun just sitting on the floor and making sock puppets with the little kids. And then of course they got to take their sock puppet home. So that was fun. And I think you were with us when we did the service work at the horse rescue place. Yeah. That was nice too. But everyone wanted to do by herself and everyone wanted to start riding horses already. Yeah. I think the more that we can do service work and whenever possible working with animals, you know, and seeing that interaction sometimes is really interesting. And then comes out like maybe they're bad, like they're bad and but they're actually really good people. One of the things we've got coming up that we do almost every year is we sell flowers. Obviously it's winter out there yet now, but we'll be selling flats of flowers. And the one thing that added this year is that you can even people can purchase vegetable plants. So it should be interesting to see how that works. Yeah. Well, and speaking of vegetable plants, we did a garden for a few years. Yeah, I was going to ask you, is it still going on this summer? We didn't do it last year because it's always hard to get somebody to show up. And it's very hot and just people can they don't have a problem getting it ready, planting it, but then making sure they show up every week to water and to weed. That that has always been the challenge. So last year we didn't do it. So I don't know, maybe we'll do that again. You can take that on as a project. You could be in charge of the garden. But again, being having the chance to see, you know, where those where those vegetables come from and then using them in the in the kitchen and then tasting them. I think that's interesting too to try different things that you haven't had before. But for any of our viewers that are thinking they might be interested in getting flowers or plants, things that they might want to plant, or we're going to be selling baskets that are hanging baskets, all of those we just put up on the website the end of last week. So those are there already that you could place your order. So it's ready when the weather starts to get nice because it will eventually warm up and get nice. And anybody that's thinking about being a mentor, there's information on the website, find out about being a mentor, what's involved. You've got an opportunity to even become a certified mentor. I've got several mentors that are working on college degrees and then becoming certified with us as a mentor. So visit the website, check that out. Definitely find a way to get involved. We are horizons for girls. Find us on the website, find us on Facebook, but definitely get involved and help us ignite the spark.


Hello everyone. So, we were discussing about basic introduction to Python. And in the last class, we talked about how to create variables in Python, how to assign values to them, how to manipulate your strings, how to do some basic mathematical operations on numbers. And then we also looked into how to use a file statements, looping and at the end we talked about how to use this num5 function and we also saw how to read files and how to manipulate files ok. So, today we will continue the discussion and our focus today will be to understand some of the statistics aspects that are available or statistics function that are available in Python ok. So, when we want to use statistics, we want to have to play with data, maybe we also want to use visualization aspects so that we can see how the data pattern looks like. So, for this we would be interested in many libraries. So, here as usual I am going to take import the numpy function and also there is another nice library in Python that is mostly to see visualization of the data it is called cbond that also I am going to import as sns. And then there is another nice library called mathplotlib.pileplot and from that I am going to import a particular fun library this is called a figure and I will also import this function mathplotlib by plot as plt. And also there is another function or sorry another library called psi p and I am going to also take some functions from that. So, from this psi p stats I am going to import this norm function which is going to help us to deal with the Gaussian distribution and also from the psi p I am also going to import stats which we will see that which is going to help us look into various statistical aspects. And I am also going to import beta function as beta underscore dist and I will also going to take beta from psi p stats. So, these two are actually same if you see that, but here I have just named beta as beta distribution here it is simply beta. Now, let us get started with normal distributions how to generate samples using normal distribution. So, for that suppose you want to generate normal distribution with mu and sigma given as 0.1 notice that in python in the same line you can assign two variables here. So, mu and sigma are assigned values 0 and 0.1 respectively. And now in 9 pi there is a function random dot normal which will help us to generate the samples according to normal distribution. We have to just pass on this mu and sigma values and how many samples we want then it will generate us. So, let us see that I am just executing the cells now. Now, I have this I have this data generator S which is like about 1000 data points which are Gaussian distributed. Now, I want to see let us see that now you want to let us say you want to see the PDF or CDF of Gaussian distribution. So, for that you first need to specify and at which point you want to see the PDF CDF. So, let us say I want to see the plots between minus 2 to 6.1. So, I am going to use this function NPA range to get those values ok. And then ok this is the same thing written here. Now, what I will do is I will use this function norm dot PDF notice that norm that we got it from psi p stats which we imported as norm and dot PDF. So, this is going to generate me give me this PDF of a normal distribution at the points x ok. Similarly, I have this CDF now if I am going to call norm dot CDF function this is going to give me CDF of this normal distribution at point x at point 6. So, here in this norm dot PDF can take other variables like the mu and sigma squares, but here we have not passed anything other than the points where we want to see the PDF. So, it is going to give us a PDF which is normally distributed that is with mu 0 and variance 0.1. Now, we want to see that right for that we need to use this plot function which we imported as PLT this math plot lib dot pi plot we imported as plot. Now, I am going to first say I have to first I am going to I think here yeah. So, first I am going to create this variable AX which is plot dot subplots and this is going to create a figure which has of size 10 cross 6 that is 10 cross 10 comma 6 is giving you the aspect ratio. Now, I have this x I want to see the y values of this VDI function and now I can this plot function also help me in assigning the labels I can write label equals to PDF and also use the color for those lines that are going to show. Yeah, first let us see this how it looks. So, now if I do this you see that range is between minus 6 to 6 and this is like a plot of a Gaussian distribution and this is like a plot of a CDF of a Gaussian distribution. Notice that it is at 0 you are going to see the value of half as expected. Now, this things the labels which we put PDF they have come here and color red is assigned to the PDF function and blue is assigned to the CDF function and if you want to label X and Y labels that provision is there you can simply say set Y label as simply probability and which whatever color you want to appear and similarly you can label X and so, that is why this probability and X has appeared with color blue and you can also give the title to this plot and here I have given it as a PDF and CDF standard normal. So, now let us see this plot legend actually plots this legend here if you do not put this then this legend will not appear. So, if I do this there is no legend here, but if I do this the legend will appear. Like this we can generate our CDF and CDF of various distribution now I am going to use another one exponential distribution, but here instead of looking into PDF CDF let us try to generate the sample according to the distribution with the specified parameters. So, suppose let us say I want to generate exponentially distributed samples with parameter 3.45. Now, there is a function for it called ran dot exponential I can pass on that whatever the lambda value I want and how many samples I want and it will generate those many. And now I want to see now I have a data now I want to see that histogram wise how they look. So, I hope all of you understand histogram basically splits the groups the data into various bins and see that in each bin how many points are following and the number of samples in a particular bin will give you the height of that bin. To assume that I am going to use this function figure which has aspect ratio 10 into 5 and then I am going to use this SNS function which we have defined and in that I am going to call this function his plot passing on the data I have ok. Now, let us and let us see what happens now if you see that I have this. So, here it is saying it has basically looks like it has grouped 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 between it has grouped the data into this bins the bins are of shown by this vertical bars and the height of this vertical told us out of this 1000 samples how many samples fill in each of this bins. And if you see that roughly it has this exponential structure to it and again we can label this x and y labels. So, y labels are named as count here and x label simply x. Similarly, we can do it for other distributions like here let us say in this exercise I am going to see the PDF of how comma distribution. Now, first as I said when I want to see a PDF I need to first specify at what point I want to see the specify here I have specified this to be range between 0 to 40 and the 0 to 40 is to be split into 100 points with linear spacing ok. Now, this stats function. So, this stat library we have which we imported as from the SIP package I can call the gamma function and do the generate the PDF I need to pass the points we are going to see now here I also need to specify what is the here I have specified shift and the scale values right. Now, I have plotted actually 3 here for different possible different values of A and scale and I want to also visualize them now. To visualize so now the graph is generated here let us say to visualize what I am going to do is again I am going to use this function subplots in plot and specify the aspect ratio ok and I will call each one of them now I want to see first the y 1 and y 2 and y 3. So, I have passed on them to your plot function and also each one of them I have labeled ok with sorry not I said shift it is actually shape parameter and the scale parameters and this is how it looks and here we have also put a legend and let us see what happens if I do not have this plot here ok and now when I say plot I do not see much difference, but legend is there ok let us see again and now if I put this yeah only see the difference I see is that whatever that some naming was coming on the top that disappeared. So, this map plot legend something came here and if I say plot I think it is just showing me a clean image without any additional things which I did not ask for it ok. Next we can similarly look for beta distribution here again I have this beta distribution, but here see like I had passed on if I want to generate a multiple gamma distribution I specified the scale and shape parameters 1 for 3 set of scale and shape parameters, but and I have to then call this plot function 3 times maybe this can be avoided if we intelligently use our loops and that is what we will demonstrate now for the beta distribution here. Suppose beta distributions we want to generate the CDF for 5 different pairs of parameters alpha and beta parameters. So, this alpha parameters I am taking 0.5, 5, 1, 2, 2 here and similarly beta values have taken 0.5, 1, 3, 2, 5 here and the X values where I want to see that I have taken it to be the interval 0.01 to 1 with increment of 0.01. So, there are about 100 points. Now, this for the plot figure I have taken the figure size to be 10 into 7 and now instead of calling this plot function now for each pair I can try to write a call them iteratively through a loop function. Here I am defining variable i which is going to range length of a. So, I want to have to plot 5 figures here. So, I am just defining that to be length of a and then I can just use the beta dot pdf function and pass X a of i and b of i and then I can simply draw that by using this plot function. So, here notice that first let us plot this. So, now nice we have got a nice plot here. Now, you see that to write the label I have used this R this is useful whenever I want to use this symbols like here I want alpha to be 0.5 alpha I cannot directly write here like this, but I can use the Lattec code for alpha which is backslash alpha here and Python to know about this I will write an R at the beginning. So, now if you see that it is going to be alpha here and then it is equal alpha equal and then I have added a string here. This is the string I am adding and this corresponding to the value of a at location i and after that if you see I have added another string here which is a comma and a space which has appeared here and then again I need to get this Lattec code for beta to let it know that I am writing a Lattec command here I am going to write R and then again I will append this string I want to show bi, but bi I cannot directly put so I will convert into string and append it here. And I can also specify the range of y here which are specified by giving the y limit. So, in this way the plotting and visualization of the CDF is pretty easy just by few lines of code we will get and you can play around with them. And of course, we can label them we can give the x and y label as per where wish and also specify the font sizes. So, there will be multiple options here like size and if you want to add some colors and all if you do not specify any colors by default it is going to take it as black, but if you want to specify some colors you have to pass on that argument here. So, let us add this plot dot show here and see what happens which we saw last time. So, you see that when I did plot dot show it cleaned up like no other text you give other than these figures.


So if you find yourself scrolling for hours on end, getting caught up in social media cycles, we've talked about that in the past on the show, that's actually one of the first signals that you are craving social connection. You are craving those social bonds. So redirecting some of that attention away from the screen and actually to strangers is going to be a very important first step towards helping that mental health around loneliness. What's up everybody and welcome to the show today. We drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that, you're going to have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell. And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this, make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends. Let's jump in first talking about why this is so important. I know as an introvert myself, I've tried to avoid small talk. I labeled it as boring. I went a long time in my high school and college years avoiding small talk because I just didn't find it much fun. But the science proves that we actually should be engaging in more small talk, right Michael? Yes, for sure. There's this concept that we're all familiar with, which is called loneliness and the scary thing. And this is something that I found deeply troubling and also very interesting in my own research for this episode. And that is that you can kind of get conditioned to being lonely. So the definition of loneliness is this discrepancy between how much social interaction you want to have and how much interaction you actually have. Now, this is one definition to talk about, but it's yet another definition to talk about when you're actually the pandemic, which furthers this sort of like healthy need to be lonely in a very scary way. And the important thing here is this idea of getting conditioned to it, just like if you're on a diet for a couple of weeks, it's kind of okay, it's a diet.  But after a certain amount of time, your body gets used to the increased or decreased amount of nutrients, and it's the new normal. And it's the same thing with loneliness. The first couple of weeks, the first couple of months, it kind of hurts us and we feel that deprivation. But after a couple of weeks, after a couple of months, this becomes the new normal.  It's a really dangerous state to be in. And due, I wanted to say thanks to, but due to the pandemic, this has become the new normal. And we really need to be aware of that, that we need to step out of our comfort zone again in a very healthy manner, of course. But we need to make more than ever a conscious effort of reaching out to people and forge that connection. Whether that is talking with a barista when you get your coffee, which is a study we can get into a little bit deeper later, or talking to the person you're sitting next to at the bus stop, consciously bringing more of that in. So whereas a year ago or two years ago, when we last recorded an episode around the concept of breaking the eyes with strangers, back then it was, okay, meet new people. Now it's more important than ever because now we're really talking about your mental and your physical health. And this is a skill that is as important as your ability to get back in the gym whenever, you know, you need to, you need the feel to, you feel the need to work out. And what's interesting is the science is now showing that our need to consume social media is one of the first signals that we're seeing around this loneliness and this need for social bonding. So if you find yourself scrolling for hours on end, getting caught up in social media cycles, we've talked about that in the past on the show, that's actually one of the first signals that you are craving social connection, you are craving those social bonds. So redirecting some of that attention away from the screen and actually to strangers is going to be a very important first step towards helping that mental health around loneliness. Well, our mental health has been on decline since in rapid succession due to iPhone and social media. The hockey stick growth and mental health issues has went hockey stick around 2009, 2010. And the pandemic has expedited that situation even further and faster than the trajectory that it was already on. Absolutely. And I think an important thing of note here, right? Why are we talking about breaking the ice? Well, when we are talking to strangers, someone we don't know, there is tension, there is concern about being rejected, about being ignored, about being judged. And that's what creates that icy feeling. Like we have to physically break something, break that tension in order to get someone's attention, approval, acceptance and get into that conversation. But the science is pretty strong that shows when we are engaging even in the lightest of small talk with the barista, with the person sitting next to us at the bus stop, with the person who happens to be grocery shopping nearby.  We drop great content each and every week, and we want to make sure that you guys get notified. And in order to do that, you're going to have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell. And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this, make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends. There are two studies that really stand out to me in that regard. And I invite everyone listening to this to actually try this out. One study, and I remember we've talked about this study a few times on the podcast. So it's an evergreen because it's that powerful. It's called minimal social interactions lead to positive belonging and effect, being a scientific term for emotions. And what the researchers did in that experiment was they incentivized people to go into a Starbucks or any coffee shop of your choice and actually start a very minimal conversation with a barista as maybe as little as, hey, how's your day going? How are you doing? How's your weekend? And what they found was that compared to the control group, which was told to not say anything, just order your coffee, those that just asked that small little question, they felt significantly better for the rest of the day. And another study was done by Nicholas Epley, who did that a similar experiment in the commute using public transport, where they incentivized people like giving them like a couple of bucks, if they followed up on the experiment to just start up a conversation with a person sitting next to them. And again, in that commute where a lot of us spent a scary amount of time in, those that spoke to the person with just a, hey, how are you doing? How's your weekend? What are your plans for the day? They reported later that they felt a lot happier than the control group that again was told to just look at your phone and just listen to that podcast, nothing wrong with the podcast, but just listen to your podcast, just, you know, just, just check social media, but don't talk to anyone. And I think that's such a big takeaway for us and also to tap into the idea of extroverts versus introverts, that talking to people just makes us as homo sapiens happier. And the difference with introverts and extroverts, and maybe I'm jumping a little bit ahead here, but the difference is that the introvert, if asked, will say, hey, I don't think I'm going to feel that much better if I talk to a stranger. And the extrovert will say, oh, yeah, of course, if I talk to strangers, that's going to be awesome. But the result of that was both groups felt better. The introvert as well as the extrovert, they felt happier after they had that interaction with someone. Now, introversion is not an excuse to avoid human contact. And I know it is a convenient one for many of us who feel shy, who maybe don't have the necessary strategies in place to be more effective with breaking the ice. One of the things I want to talk about is we often overrate our awkwardness and underrate our social abilities. We talked about this with Vanessa Bonds on the show last year, and we even saw that this week. So we had a military training here in Las Vegas working on their emotional intelligence. And of course, these military members go through a ton of training.  And a couple of them, notably before we kicked off the program, said, I do feel awkward in these situations. I do find that I struggle to come up with the right thing to say around small talk. And then of course, much like all of our programs, whether it's our virtual programs in X Factor or in person, we film them interacting with other participants and our coaches. And without fail, whenever we play back the video, whether it's a military program, the bootcamp or the X Factor program, when we're feeling awkward, we're turning inward, we're diminishing our own skill set, we're very self conscious, but the other person doesn't feel that way and does not show up on video, this overwhelming awkwardness. It's an internal feeling and an internal barometer that's often wrong, that often over indexes on how awkward we're going to feel and how awkward the other person feels. And inevitably, at the end of that interaction, we'll ask the other person on the other side, did you feel that awkwardness? Did it feel awkward to you? And they'll smile and say, no, it didn't feel awkward. So if you're listening right now and your first thought is, but I always feel awkward in small talk, I don't know if I'm going to know what to say and I don't want the other person to judge me or feel awkward, you can rest assured that that internal feeling is not what's happening in reality. The other person is not feeling that awkwardness as much as you are. And I think that's that's really interesting because here's what happens cognitively if I were to speak up in a big podcast, my mind is telling me, oh, you could have done so much better. There was this other thing you could have mentioned, I might go back to not back, I might go back to bed after this, this time I'm not going back to bed. So after this answer that I so eloquently gave in this answer right now, I might, I might go to bed and think, oh man, you could have, you could have said this, you could have said that, you could have mentioned your Nobel Prize in Literature, you could have mentioned that quote, my mind knows that, but the person listening to me doesn't know what else there was. All they have is, oh, there was actually a pretty smart remark that this guy just gave, right? They don't know the the the headspace that was to our own answer. They don't know what our inner critic is throwing at us. They only know, hey, that was actually quite interesting. And I have another answer. I have another follow up question to what they just said. I think a lot of people go into social engagements and they wait for people to come up to them. It's a lot easier. It's a defensive strategy. And what we're looking to do is acquire more offensive strategies with our defensive strategies. So that we're maximizing our opportunities. There's nothing worse than showing up to an event and and not maximizing the opportunities that that you have in front of you who who wants to live life just through the tip of the iceberg, right? It's about maximizing the opportunities so that you can save time, you can save energy and showing up to an event waiting for people to talk to you is certainly not the well, hope is not a strategy. And in your in your you're placing your your hopes on on things working out when you could be making those things happen.


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All right, what could derail the rally in stocks? Here now is Andres Garcia, CEO of Zoey Financial, zoeyfin.com. Andres, this has been a pretty incredible run in the S&P 500 2534 record high, assuming we get good earnings growth starting next week. Is there a factor, though, that could offset that? If you look at one of the main drivers, and this is disputable, this is an argument, one of the main drivers has been liquidity, right? Driven by monetary policy here in the U.S., but also abroad with the ECB and the Bank of Japan. So one of the drivers that could oppose that potential strong fundamental picture that you just painted, which I think is true when it comes to earnings, could be that that liquidity starts in essence to come down, right? So with the Fed raising interest rates, unwinding its balance sheet potentially next year, the ECB starting to become a little bit more hawkish when it comes to the monetary policy. I think that is the biggest risk to this rally. Well, and there are so many vacancies at the Federal Reserve. There are now reports that former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh could be nominated to replace Janet Yellen. He's been very critical of the Fed's accommodative policy. So wouldn't that be a concern to the markets if he actually moves ahead and maybe becomes Fed chair? Yeah, you know, we were just talking about this a little while ago, it's important to remember that whatever someone's views are prior to becoming Fed chair have to become a little bit more moderate. So even if he's on the hawkish stance compared to maybe where Yellen is, you gotta remember Yellen was really dovish coming in and last time I checked, interest rates are going up and they are going to unwinding the balance sheet. So I'm not as worried in essence where are they starting from which side because I think once you become a chairman, your chairwoman, you have to become much more in the middle. Yeah, because in that position, you don't want the economy to explode under your watch. Right, and you have to also create coalitions of other people in the Federal Reserve. So it's not as easy as that person just making all the decisions without getting consensus. So for that reason, they tend to kind of gravitate towards the middle. Is it too late to add to your exposure to US stocks? Because you can do the buy on the dip strategy, but it's not much of a dip if it comes with weeks of gains leading up to that dip. I think that's a great question and the way that I would frame it is, what are your goals, right? So if your goals demand 5, 6% returns going forward, in my mind you have to have some international exposure. The last seven years S&P gave you 14% annualized returns. Is that repeatable over the next seven years? I think it's not as probable as it was the last seven years. And for that reason, you have to look at other asset classes that could deliver higher returns. So for instance, emerging markets, that same seven-year period, 2.5% returns. Usually it gives you nine or 10, right? So yes, it's a much more volatile asset class, but I think asset classes like emerging markets, even Europe have a better risk return profile looking over the next seven, 10 years. And that's where I would look for more exposure. All right, so search for yield as always. Andres Garcia, thank you as always. Thanks for having me.


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In this video, I'd like to talk to you about the idea of life's call to action and the up and down cycles that happen between the idea of play and adventure versus rest and learning. This is a kind of off the cuff idea, something I'm theorizing as I speak that's been on my mind for a while and the idea goes like this. So in life, there's the basic fundamental level of living which is called being alive. Being alive is the literal lowest level of living that you have and what characterizes it is the continual attraction to the path of least resistance and the complete giving up on the idea of progress or self-initiated improvement. A person who's just barely living, just alive, just goes about his day, whatever dictums he's been taught, whatever environmental influences were instilled upon him is what he's going to behave like. So there's no initiative, there's no personal volition. You're just why you've been born to be, kind of like an animal or a machine.  He goes by the group narrative, whatever is being taught at the time politically. So if this person was born in Saudi Arabia, he would be a very devout Muslim who believes in everything they teach and if he was born in India, he would be, sorry for the ignorance, but I have no idea what the main religion is there, but he would be that and that would be his life and again, if he's born in America, he's simply the average American without any opinion of his own besides that which has been dictated by media, newspaper, popular culture, etc. That's the lowest level of living you have and of course this person is opportunistic like all people, but from a kind of a dirty perspective where if you offered this person a million dollars and you could press on a button and get it and somebody would have to die to get it, but you'll never have responsibility for it. This person is almost guaranteed to press on that button or again any kind of chance of self advancement without effort. This person will be extremely opportunistic and will most likely go for it, but obviously you who's listening is not that kind of person, but why?  So every time you did that, and of course it's not something that happens once, you did that multiple times, sometimes did it in cycles within cycles, so that means you went out to explore and you found a cave, of course a metaphorical cave. Now exploring the cave is a lot scarier than exploring the just the unknown territory because the cave usually has snakes in it, so are you going to go in there? Because sometimes the call to action says don't do it because you're not there yet, so you're going to die, don't go in there, but sometimes the call to action says you can go further if you'd like, you can go to the next level, very similar to a startup that can get offers to be sold for a large sum of money and it's already ventured into the unknown, that's why it's a successful startup, it did that properly, but also it has now the chance to venture again into the deeper unknown by actually going even deeper and risking everything further because now we have something to lose versus just starting from nothing and the startup chooses not to get bought off and basically go on the safe path but to continue and go even further and sometimes that startup will fail, a big example is I believe it was the CEO of MySpace was offered I think $100 million, again I might be completely making up the numbers but this is the general skeletal frame of the story so he was offered a lot of money and he thought no, I have the biggest social network in the world and a couple of years later Facebook comes and now MySpace is worth next to nothing and there was also another example of I think it was a famous fashion company, again I'm sorry but I don't recall the name and you can look it up though and what happened was the owners thought the company won't really go far, he sold it for I think a couple hundred thousand dollars maybe a couple million dollars and eventually that company became one of the most renowned fashion companies in the world worth billions, again I don't remember which company but what ended up happening was the guy killed himself because he refused to take the call to action and actually go for it, step into the unknown so whatever call to action I've had between age 20 to 22 I took and that's a very rare state for a person to be in where every time their intuition tells them you have a chance to explore and grow you know venturing to the unknown and to the dangerous and you actually go there that's very very rare and the more of these ventures you took the deeper your wisdom will be you know assuming you'll survive because some people don't but the problem is that you'll also become less less you know become disenfranchised with life so the myths of life and the things you've been taught begin falling off you know whatever preconceived notions you had of life of you know people have people are for example people people are just good people are good and there's no evil there's only unconscious behavior that starts to kind of disappear you know just follow the the script you know marry get a job that starts to fall off although it is noted I want it is important to know that in the United States if you are married finished school and I mean didn't have kids before you were married and you're married didn't finish school and you have a job for over a year the odds of you being poor are less than 3% so there's a 97% chance that you'll be at least in the middle class but that aside the preconceived notion of you know just work have a pension blah blah blah you'll retire happy and with money that falls to the wayside etc etc I know various foods that foods that you thought are good for you you get disenfranchised in relationships where you find out that women are evil but men are also evil not all of them of course but many more than you thought again goes to infinite lengths you just get pummeled and pummeled and I used to think that this was a good thing I used to think that the call to action like you know you'll take the call to action and it doesn't matter as long as you survive because because you're going to become wiser and you know be more effective etc but this is what I did just as an example and you know in my case it worked out because even though I did go through some pretty rough shit in the last few years I got way wiser than I would have ever been able to you know I became humble and grounded so I'm I retained all of the knowledge of the effectiveness I had but I also again became humble and it took me a year almost a year to process all the bad shit that happened to me because it was that bad and I'm not talking about like a childhood trauma I'm talking about as an adult that took me a year to get over the traumas that I went through but I came out stronger and like happier than ever and wiser than ever and I wouldn't take anything back but the problem is that again this is something I learned relatively not too long ago when I read Mein Kampf if you probably know the book it was basically Hitler's autobiography and he wrote it while he was imprisoned for going against the government basically that's when his deep-rooted anger became even stronger and he the book was sort of a manifesto of Hitlerian ideology what I found extremely shocking and deeply disturbing about the book was that up until that point I didn't really know too much about Hitler and this was his again his autobiography so it was very personal he wrote it from the way he thought and felt you know Hitler the the the personification and people you know when they talk about him they're like yeah he's the bad guy and the complete dehumanization like he's not a person he's you know something else but things we can all be Hitler's and this is how I discovered it through the book where he was started as a really good person he had something that everybody has in common at least everybody that watches these videos one thing was that he was very passionate and motivated which many of you are another thing was he was very patriotic so he really believed in the country which again many of you are and thoroughly he was very good at public speaking which which many of you are or at least many of you want to be and the book Mein Kampf at least the first it's a 12% of it just you get to see how you know after you go through the first 10 15% of the book that's where he kind of starts turning evil but up until that point it really was I actually have to say I empathize with him like I really I agreed with most of his ideas when he was saying how the the extreme left but which basically ruled Germany at the time Germany at the time it was corrupting the state by making people unpatriotic and completely demolishing the middle class and you know most of his ideas were very sound he would often debate people about these ideas and what happened was he got better and better and eventually he got so good at debating that he would win all the time and he once he started winning people started getting violent towards him so one time in his office they literally pushed him down the stairs and and attacked him physically because he won the argument and they couldn't fight his argument so they had to use fists so this leads me to again the idea of a call to action because Hitler also had a lot of calls to action where he you know he could have kind of stopped at many points but he always chose to do the hard thing and to go into difficult situations into scary situations not of evil just out of his sense of righteousness out of wanting things to be better out of honest passion and he saw stuff that he did not want to see so he at least that's what he claims I can't verify it what I'm gonna say now I can't verify it myself and I'll have to learn about it more and again I'm saying this as a Jew who both my both sides of my family my mothers and my dads both their grandfathers got you know butchered and burnt in the Holocaust so just keep that in mind but he says that Jews were he was anti he's against anti-Semitism in the beginning and then he discovered after a lot of investigation that the people who were destroying the state which again legitimate that these people these organizations the news organizations the political organizations they were all led by Jews so he said the there was not not one organization that didn't have Jews and was political in that sense and there was not a single organization that had Jews that was not anti-state and again I'm specifically referring to the social democratic society that was the ideology that was so-called democratic but it wasn't really democratic it was just called that way to make it sound good and again he even though these ideas were probably correct he did you know go on to murder kids and women and gays and gypsies so you know I'm not in any way supportive of him but where I'm going with this is his call to adventure led him to become what he became you don't you're not born like that he wasn't born evil and secondly he wasn't born effective so that's deeply disturbing and and just beyond belief that idea that the only way he could become that effective and that evil was by first of all going further than anyone else in investigating the unknown and his call to act and going with his call to action which is where you gain your new skills and also he went so deep that what he saw completely corrupted him because when you go into the unknown and answer the call to adventure you will be tempted many times with the growing temptations often to let go of your principles to become again disenfranchised with humanity because when you go into the unknown you're going to see things that you did not want to see you're going to see betrayals you're going to see absolute misery of course you're also going to see a lot of times wonderful things and the call to adventure always starts from a place of positive intentions so it starts from a vision or hope but where it leads you you don't know so you choose how you play your life you choose it whether you play your life safely or or you allow yourself to get exposed to danger and again danger means that you leave your partner that you've been with for 10 years because you know it's not the right partner you just know deep inside and you go after that call to adventure or you open that business that is just in your bones to do or maybe the opposite maybe you'll leave everything behind you just start traveling with the tiny amount of money you've saved everybody has their own call to adventure and these calls keep coming and sometimes bigger sometimes smaller sometimes you take a call to adventure and again you get another call to adventure while you're on a call to adventure which is your chance to go even further on more dangerous territory again the force the going the field versus the cave so i've been in the fields i've been in the caves and i've also been in pits full of monsters on some occasions and every time you go there and survive you come out scarred but wiser as long as you again keep your humanity and your sanity currently my calls to adventure called me to develop my relationship with my girlfriend to the furthest extent possible so to go against my commitment issues and my ideas of you know squeezing the lemons while they're ripe and actually deciding to commit to one person no matter what so not having that option to just get up and leave that's one call to adventure that i took on another call to adventure was going back to making these videos and the way it called me was the idea that it's time to commit and that's why i committed for to my girlfriend that if i don't make 30 videos in the two weeks i allotted myself i would have to smash my phone close my youtube channel and eat a huge ball of usabi and i'm at the last eight videos i have three days to do it and it seems that i'm going to get to that goal get to that goal pretty much 100 percent guarantee and now that i did that things started happening again so tons of coaching calls are booked i've already done a few coaching calls things have started to change opportunities have started to come up so when you take up one call to adventure other calls to adventure start showing up and things accelerate and you can choose to move to an even higher level if you so choose or you can keep going the safe route and see where that leads you although that on the long term may be less safe some of the time and again this is why it's such a philosophically difficult topic because the more i study it and study how the bible stories go into that the stories of buddha the myths of greece and even the earliest cultures the mesopotamians they all share those call to adventures the disney movies pretty much every single movie you can see you can watch every um book that's a fiction or even just people's real life there's always the call to adventure and through those mediums again literature films myths you get to see various projections of the archetypes of what happens on those calls to adventure so hitler is your classic villain story if you watch any movie or read any book or check out any myth story about a villain's origin you'll find the same exact template you'll find a person who started out with extremely promising characteristic which again hitler had very very deep sincerity and innocence which hitler believe it or not you can read his book and see started out arguably more innocent and good with good intentions than anyone he that was in his life the the kids in his school the teachers his parents he was the the chosen one you could say the person who was super smart yet extremely sincere and ethical while everybody else was you know the regular dumb idiots that you know you get in life and that person gets corrupted by the things he sees you know he loses things in hitler's case it was him not being able to get into art school and again getting beat up and you know don't even get started on what happened in the wars of Germany so he got seriously disenfranchised and just succumbed to anger and you know that because how do you know he became a bad guy well because when Germany was losing when they were fighting in the war then instead of choosing to allocate the people who were working for him in the death camps maybe to fighting or instead of using the Jews and the gypsies and the gays in the death camps and actually using them for work and labor he chose to keep systematically killing them not only that he actually accelerated the pace the more Germany came to its eventual defeat so when he saw that they were about to lose he put more focus and effort on killing Jews than winning the war while blaming his generals for being incompetent and that is the true sign of him being evil in my opinion so the journey might very well corrupt you or it might make you a hero because had he chosen to go the respectable route and help Germany from a place of sincere positive intentions rather than his rage we might have we might all have been right now praising Hitler because he would have saved Germany but again when you go into the unknown and you see things that you can never unsee and you lose beliefs that were foundational for your sanity well if you don't quickly adapt you could very well fall into insanity and this is a very optimistic note but also a very cautionary note that you never know so if you've been delaying your call to adventure now would be the time to start because arguably you could say that life is not worth living without the call to adventure depends on how you look at it I mean if a dog has no moral agency and no way to choose how he lives except the way he's been brought up and the way his genes make him be is it a life worth living perhaps but if a human with the capacity the actual ability to take this initiative and to be more and to actually create in this world if that person chooses to relinquish that capacity and only live like a dog instead of his natural ability of change now is this life worth living if you have a car that is a Ferrari and you only use it to go to the grocery store or and never go beyond 30 miles per hour it's kind of wasted so value is relative to potential value or to potential capacity for more value and as a human your capacity for increasing value and growing is infinite or at least nobody ever found it yet because even the most successful will tell you that they can do more and you know they're on a whole different level so the best motivation to do it at least for me assuming that you don't have to do it because again sometimes necessity is the best motivation to going to the unknown but assuming you can live a fairly comfortable life without doing it my motivation was simply the fear of regret and knowing that I would never or almost never regret anything that I've done but I would deeply regret everything that I didn't do because it's like watching a long movie and when you reach the end of the movie the characters had so much developing so maybe a romance was developing between your favorite characters but it never came into fruition maybe the bad guy who you really wanted him to get punished by the good guy he got away with it or you know you never saw the actual relief of the punishment missed opportunities missed potentials are the worst thing ever because they're the only thing that you can never fix because an 80 year old man sitting back and looking at his life and seeing all the the calls to action that he could have taken but didn't he can never fix that and you know you may think it won't really matter but when you actually get there you'll know that it did and how do I know that it's because all those how did I start the video with all those just the live people who are not who never went that far and never even took more than a single call to action all these people have been statistically proven to have one dominating regret which is I regret not doing what I wanted to do not saying the things I wanted to say not being with the people I wanted to be and not following my dreams that is the single biggest regret in all populations of the dying basically that's the biggest one so if that's what normal people tell you the people that you know you'd consider turned off the people that never cared for going to the call of adventure then what do you think you'll feel because you're even more sensitive to that they maybe didn't even notice the call to adventure they just noticed it a bit and then let it go but you're hyper sensitive to it so whatever your call to adventure is I think it's time for you to go at it to go a bit into the unknown and try something new you know live it's exciting and if you're already on a call to adventure keep doing that keep doing that thing that made you take the walk in the first place and if you're in a call to adventure and you're being called to higher levels think very carefully before going into the cave and if you do then remember that the main thing you should be defending is your ethics because an ethical person that goes in the cave will survive but somebody who loses their ethics the moment you lose them you're gone because ethics there's something that is almost impossible get back once you've chipped your ethics by doing unethical stuff you've done it it's like once you're a drug addict you're always a drug addict so maybe you don't do drugs anymore but the temptation will always be there because it's just part of your identity now and even part of your brain so in this note I'll conclude this unscripted rant about destiny and calls to adventure I hope you gain a lot of value from that and let me know in the comments if you have anything to ask or add to this topic and if you're a relatively new viewer I recommend subscribing if you haven't and also checking out my free ebook on business my paid ebook that's the autobiography of my life or just go on a coaching call with me which for now is free hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you soon


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At graduation this year, UGA social work students are encouraging their school to recognize its role in the destruction of the former neighborhood of Linnentown. So a group of students from the MSU-U cohort this year decided to get together and honor Linnentown through our CAPS. It was a thriving community, but UGA contracted a recently graduated MSU-U student back in the 1960s. She was one of the first to graduate from the program to go through and evaluate each of the homes and she condemned most of not all of the houses in Linnentown. And so with the condemnations of all the homes, Athens was able to destroy the homes. We are just urging the school of social work to acknowledge Linnentown, to uplift the name of Linnentown, and also it'd be great if they could incorporate Linnentown into the curriculum somehow to educate future social workers, the impact that social workers can have on communities.