For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by serial killers. Whenever there's a docuseries or biopic about serial killers, I'm intrigued to watch. I love shows like Dexter and recently my beautiful girlfriend Tristan and I binge watched Hannibal. Recently a great docuseries was released on HBO called I'll Be Gone in the Dark which is based on Michelle McNamara's hunt for the Golden State Killer. One of my other fascinations is cults which is why the canceled too soon show the following was one of my favorites because I combined the two. But as a happy go lucky non-psychopath, I've always felt kind of weird that I'm so interested in serial killers. Fortunately, it turns out that I'm not the only one. There are actually a bunch of us out there who are interested in the stories of serial killers. Like me, I'm guessing many of the people who take interest in this topic aren't necessarily morbid or think serial killing is a noble trait. So aside from learning about serial killers, I've always wanted to know why people like you and me are drawn to these stories. There's another YouTube creator by the name of Sarah Hocknison who has discussed this topic quite a bit but she takes a more moral and ethical look at serial killer fandom. In her videos, she discusses people who glorify serial killers by wearing their merch or even going as far as to get tattoos of them. Although she's a massive horror movie fan, Sarah Hocknison believes it's morally wrong to romanticize these serial killers. I personally agree with Sarah that we shouldn't put people like Dahmer, Bundy, and others on a pedestal for their murders. Lives have been lost and families have been destroyed by these murders. But when it comes to our fascination with serial killers, I don't think it's about admiring people who have killed. Aside from reading, watching, or listening to stories about serial killers, there are those who go even further. People have paid thousands of dollars for Charles Manson's hair or a painting from John Wayne Gacy. Then there are others who fall in love with serial killers. Serial killers like Richard Ramirez and Ted Bundy were bombarded with love letters. It'd be absurd to think that all of us who are interested in learning about serial killers would condone the heinous crimes committed by these people. But what about those who are more extreme? What's going on in the minds of those who buy murder memorabilia or fall in love with these serial killers? It also seems to be a bit reductionist to think that this entire group of people believes murder is okay. So what's going on? In this video, we're going to attempt to understand the psychology of those of us who are interested in the topic of serial killers. This is the second video in the series Supernatural Psychology. And now, you're probably wondering what serial killers have to do with the supernatural. Well, aside from psychology, we're going to be talking about our innate belief in essentialism, which often goes unnoticed. From learning about serial killers to admiring them to falling in love with them, we're going to cover it all. But before we get started, if you're new to the Rewired Stole, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. On this channel, we practice critical thinking and skepticism while diving deep into topics to gain a better understanding of them. At the Rewired Stole, we believe that being a skeptic and practicing critical thinking is a great path towards improving our own emotional intelligence. So subscribe so you don't miss any upcoming video essays. When I got sober back in 2012, one of the things I became familiar with was keep the best and leave the rest. It was referring to learning how to stay sober through the experience of others, but being strategic about what suggestions you take. There were some people who were extremely insightful and wise when it came to certain aspects of life, but with others, they were a hot mess. Like the man who could encourage you to go to 7-12-step meetings a week, but he was also cheating on his wife. Or there was the woman who managed to stay sober, but she kept hanging out with old friends who drank and used drugs. The keep the best and leave the rest learning model is a great way to live life. Too often, we fall victim to the belief that people are binary. We see people as all good or all bad, but as people on a mission to learn and grow, we must be skeptical of that binary thinking and realize that humans are much more nuanced than that. Some of the worst people out there have traits that we admire, but due to the horn effect, we feel it's taboo to even acknowledge it. In the last video, we discussed the psychology of the halo effect, which is a bias that makes us think one good aspect of a person makes them all good. On the other side of the spectrum is the horn effect. This bias makes us believe that one bad quality of a person means that they have no traits that we can learn from or should admire. Due to the societal type of black and white thinking, it's no wonder that people like you and I feel a little weird about how interested we are in serial killers. Although I enjoy learning about serial killers, something in the back of my head is constantly saying this is pretty twisted. But is there something psychologically going on that we don't realize? Dr. Julia Shaw may have some answers. Dr. Julia Shaw is a German-Canadian psychologist who specializes in false memories, but her range of knowledge goes far beyond that. Her true expertise is in criminal psychology, and she's often called upon as an expert witness in various trials. In a recent tweet, she says the following. I spend so much of my career as a scientist who studies criminal psychology saying, I don't do that, nope, not that either, also not that. I'm not a therapist, a profiler, a police officer. I don't directly interview offenders, and I spend almost no time in prisons. Instead, I do research, try to understand why people do quote unquote bad things, write books, train police on how to use evidence-based interview approaches, and work as an expert witness who examines case files exclusively on the issue of false memory. If I knew or did all the things that people assume I do as a criminal psychologist, I'd need about 10 different PhDs. What do people get wrong about the area of your expertise of work? For those of you who watched my video on Tati Westbrook and Shane Dawson, you know that I'm really interested in understanding how memories work. And that's how I discovered Dr. Julia Shaw. After reading her best-selling book, The Memory Illusion, Remembering, Forgetting, and the Science of False Memory, I immediately read her other book, Evil, The Science Behind Humanities Dark-Sized. In her book, she argues that the idea of quote unquote evil is lazy, and people are much more complex than that. For example, she writes about this false idea that we have, that serial killers are these emotionless monsters. As a scientist, part of her job is to let go of these biases in an effort to discover the truth. It's considered taboo to empathize at all with serial killers. But Dr. Shaw discusses how someone like Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't driven by our illusion of pure evil. Although what he did was absolutely grotesque, Dahmer was a human being who was extremely lonely. Dahmer ate his victims because he believed it'd bring him closer to them so they could never leave him. He even tried injecting acid into his victims' brains to turn them into zombies who would be there with him forever. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that nobody watching this video would go to these lengths, but loneliness is a very human emotion. In her book, Dr. Shaw is arguing that our conception of evil is that people do awful things out of this drive for bloodlust. She says, that's our psychological defense as a way to dehumanize serial killers to separate us from them. If we were to acknowledge that these people expressed human emotions, it'd mean that more of us were capable of these acts. Although 99.9% of us would never commit these acts, the rational part of us knows that serial killers like Dahmer were human. Aside from discussing the nuanced subject of evil and crime, in chapter three titled The Freak Show, she explained studies on what make people quote unquote creepy and why some of us are fascinated by the topic of serial killers. One possible explanation that Dr. Shaw gives us for why we're intrigued by serial killers is that it's a psychological way for us to confront death. As we learn about these stories, it's a way for us to confront death from the comfort of our homes without being in real danger. In his book, How Pleasure Works, Yale psychologist Paul Bloom has another interesting perspective. Bloom argues that one reason we're drawn to fictional horror movies is that it's a way for our brain to run through life and death scenarios to better prepare us if we were put in an awful situation. Bloom states that although we know a zombie apocalypse most likely isn't going to happen, our brain gets pleasure from watching these movies because it helps us strategize in our minds. On an unconscious level, we're able to ask questions like if I was in this scenario, which neighbors could I trust to help me survive and which of my friends are most likely to betray me? The other explanation that Dr. Shaw brings up is that we admire people with qualities we don't have even though we'd never want to be them or do what they do. This is one of those keep the best and leave the rest scenarios. As we learn about serial killers, although we don't condone their actions, we admire how cunning they are. It takes a highly intelligent person to avoid being caught for that long. Aside from intelligence, we may admire their confidence.  This is actually something that's quite common. There are plenty of non-murdering celebrities that people love for various traits. I'm no fan of our president, but I know one of the reasons Donald Trump was elected was because he never apologizes and quote unquote says what's on his mind. You see this on YouTube as well. It's hard to argue that someone like Tricia Paytas or Tana Mojo isn't a hot mess, but these YouTubers are able to live in a way that many of us can't. So although you may not respect Tricia's moral compass, maybe you admire her body confidence and fearlessness when it comes to speaking her mind. So now that we know that people interested in learning about serial killers aren't necessarily morbid or glorifying these people, this doesn't necessarily explain some of the other human behaviors. In this next section, we're going to switch gears and get supernatural to try to understand why people buy murder memorabilia by learning about essentialism. When I was a kid, I was absolutely obsessed with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In fact, I even wanted to name my son Xander, but his mom only agreed to make his middle name Alexander. Each week I watched Buffy and would watch reruns on repeat. Eventually, I started writing the cast fan letters and one day, none other than Buffy herself sent me a letter back. Sarah Michelle Geller sent me an autographed picture and it made my whole world. I wrote her again with a thank you and she wrote back. But when I opened the letter, I was furious. It was the exact same picture with the exact same autograph. Buffy didn't sign this. She probably didn't even put this fake autographed picture in an envelope and send it to me. So I did what any other rational child would do and I sent her one more letter expressing my anger for this autographed scam she was running. A couple weeks later, I received a reply. In that envelope was the exact same autographed picture. Aside from my tiny little heart being broken, there was something much deeper going on that's part of the human experience and that is essentialism. Why did it make me feel so good believing that Sarah herself touched the envelope and photo with her very own signature? Why did it feel so bad when I realized it was fake? Why is it that when people are touched by a celebrity, they say that they're never going to wash their hand again? And why do people spend insane amounts of money at celebrity auctions? Even weirder, why did people buy Belle Delphine's bathwater? Well, the answer is essentialism. In his book, Super Sense, experimental psychologist Bruce Hood discusses the cognitive phenomenon of essentialism. Essentialism is our belief that objects have an essence to them. Essentialism is our belief that objects have an essence to them. This is also why I believe that that essence is attached to them and can be transferred. While we don't openly acknowledge this supernatural belief, it's one that most of us hold. And through Bruce Hood's studies, he's found that we develop it when we're young children. Bruce Hood and Paul Bloom, who was mentioned earlier, have done studies on children to see when they develop essentialism. In one study, they made children believe that one of their cherished possessions, like a toy or a blanket, was duplicated in a machine. They wanted to see if the children believed that an exact duplicate was as valuable to them as the original. What they found is that at a very young age, we see our possessions as having a certain essence that's special to us. For example, think back to your favorite childhood stuffed animal. If it were damaged or lost and your parents replaced it, would you value it as much as the original? Most likely not, because the new one doesn't have the same essence. So why do people pay thousands of dollars for Charles Manson's hair or paintings from John Wayne Gacy? Paul Bloom conducted a study titled, physical contact influences how much people pay at celebrity auctions. In the abstract, he states, contagion is a form of magical thinking which people believe that a person's immaterial qualities or essence can be transferred to an object through physical contact. Here we investigate how a belief in contagion influences the scale of celebrity memorabilia. Using data from three high-profile estate auctions, we find that people's expectations about the amount of physical contact between the object and the celebrity positively predicts the final bids for items that belong to the well-liked individuals like John F. Kennedy, and negatively predicts final bids for items that belong to disliked individuals like Bernie Madoff. So their study indicated that we'd pay more for something that was touched by a well-liked individual, but why do people pay so much for serial killer memorabilia? Well, as we discussed in the last section, there are certain qualities that people do admire about these killers despite the person being a killer. What's even more fascinating is what they found in a follow-up experiment. The abstract says as follows. A follow-up experiment further suggests that these effects are driven by contagion beliefs. When asked to bid on a sweater owned by a well-liked celebrity, participants report that they would pay substantially less if it was sterilized before they received it. However, sterilization increased the amount they would pay for a sweater owned by a disliked celebrity. Think about that for a second. How much would you pay for something worn by your favorite celebrity? How much would you pay if it was sterilized? If you're like most people, you'd pay less, but why? Because sterilization once again, affects our magical thinking and we believe that part of a person's essence has now been removed. This also explains why people would pay more for a sterilized item from a disliked celebrity. This form of supernatural thinking also explains cannibalism. In a future video, we'll dive into that supernatural psychology, but some people believe they absorb a person's strengths if they eat them. But is this true for essentialism when it comes to items as well? In another study, Brucehood found that people believe they'd be a better person if they wore Mr. Rogers famous sweater. Why? For those of us who remember Mr. Rogers, he embodied goodness and being completely wholesome. So, due to our essentialism, we think that wearing his clothes would transfer some of his essence to us and make us a little bit better of a person. Although magical thinking is a supernatural belief, it actually works. As we've discussed before, the placebo effect is real and it's powerful. The power of beliefs is strong, which is why when you tell a child that something you gave them is magic and will make them brave, they'll act braver. For some of us, owning something of Mr. Rogers or Gandhi or MLK might make us act better as well based on our supernatural belief. Brucehood wanted to know if essentialism could have the opposite effect as well. So he did a study that he calls the killer's cardigan. Fred West was a serial killer in England who committed 12 murders. In one study, Hood wanted to see if people would wear a cardigan that was worn by Fred West and many people who knew of his brutal crimes say they wouldn't. When Brucehood asked who would wear this cardigan to audience when he gives talks, he sees people physically recoil when others say they'd wear this cardigan. Why? Because of essentialism. But remember, the essence of a serial killer is different from person to person. For some people, they'd be honored to wear a killer's cardigan. Regardless of how rational we think we are, we must admit that our tendency for magical thinking of essentialism is pretty fascinating. It explains why people buy murder and celebrity memorabilia and why people would buy something as ridiculous as Belle Delphine's Bathwater. It also explains why it's so hard for us to get rid of things, but more importantly, it gives us some insight into those who struggle with mental illnesses that cause them to hoard. So thus far, we've learned that people are interested in learning about serial killers as a way to unconsciously run through scenarios or we may be drawn to their intelligence or other traits. We also now have explanations as to why people would consider owning items from serial killers. In this last section, we'll try to figure out why people fall in love with some of these serial killers. We all know people who fall for the bad boy or bad girl. While some people go for the motorcycle riding boy in high school or the tattooed girl, falling in love with a serial killer is on a whole different level. We're no longer discussing attraction to someone who is a little on the rebellious side. This is someone who has been convicted of murder. In this final section, we're going to dive into a little psychology, but we don't have time to get into the psychology of why you're attracted to certain people. I've actually covered this in a previous video titled Why You Date, Who You Date, which will be linked up in the info card. Today, we're going to be discussing the psychology behind conventionally attractive people getting better treatment than most. Believe it or not, there have been a ton of psychological studies on this subject. Based on the research, we know why people like Ted Bundy and Richard Ramirez receive more love letters than Ed Kemper. In 2019, there was quite an uproar about the casting of Hollywood stud, Zac Efron, playing Ted Bundy. People were upset that casting this attractive man and making him a sex symbol in the movie was morally wrong and a disservice to the victims. But many women were attracted to the real Ted Bundy despite his vicious murders. Going back to the halo effect, for some reason we perceive attractive people as less dangerous. One of the most recent examples of this went viral in 2014, and it's the story of Jeremy Meeks, AKA the Hot Felon. When his bug shot was released, women and men alike could only talk about how attractive Meeks was. After being released in 2016, he even began a modeling career. Although Jeremy Meeks is attractive, he wasn't in prison for some traffic violations or something minor. In 2002, he was charged with robbery and corporal injury to a child. He was also a member of the North Side Gangster Crips, and in 2014, he was charged with felony possession of a firearm and grand theft. But for some reason, these crimes are dampened due to his physical appearance. In her book, Evil, Dr. Julia Shaw discusses our intuitions about whether a person is creepy or trustworthy. She cites a 2008 study where participants rated 34 people on whether they were trustworthy or not based on photos alone. Half of these people were trustworthy and the other half weren't. How did the researchers decide who was trustworthy? Half of these photos were of Nobel Peace Prize winners, and the other half were men on the America's Most Wanted list. The results?  Shaw also cites a study to see what people categorized as quote unquote creepy. They categorized creepy men as typically lanky or awkward. Think about that for a second. The top traits of quote unquote creepy people were features completely out of their control. This is a prime example of the halo effect. Think about your favorite romantic comedy. If an attractive man keeps showing up at a woman's work or where she lives uninvited, it's cute and shows that he's into the woman. But if this was an unattractive man, he'd be a psycho. Research shows that unattractive people are less likely to get good jobs and they're also subject to harsher punishments. In 2015, Dr. Julia Shaw did a study at the University of British Columbia and found that unattractive and untrustworthy looking people were convicted of crimes by mock jurors with less evidence and they are less likely to be exonerated with evidence that proves their innocence. It's easy for us to sit back and judge these people who fall in love with these serial killers, but they're just further down the spectrum than most of us. Ask yourself how many exes you have where you put up with more of their toxic behavior just because they were attractive. Most of us have at least one or two on our list. As much as people like to talk about how terrible technology has made the world, I often think about how it's definitely decreased the amount of serial killers. As I watch documentaries like I'll Be Gone in the Dark or ones about people like Ted Bundy, I can't help but think about how much sooner they'd have been caught if they had security cameras back then or social media. Today, it's a common practice for a woman to share her location with her friends on a first date just in case. And if I'm being honest, I did the same thing back in my single days. When we think about fear and anxiety, we think about them as these negative parts of what makes us human, but as we discussed, some of us who are fascinated by serial killers are on a higher alert because we're mentally running through these scenarios on a regular basis. Having a healthy amount of anxiety keeps us safe and on the lookout for suspicious activity, but we also need to remember that our gut feeling isn't always accurate. In this video, you also learned how we instinctually believe that attractiveness means trustworthiness, but that's not always the case. We also learned that even if we're not suspicious, many of us still have supernatural beliefs when it comes to essentialism.  Although the essence of the celebrity may have a placebo effect on you, you don't wanna break the bank on it. And if you're like me, ask how much you're really willing to spend on going to a concert. How much is that experience worth and why? Is there an essence of being in the presence of a celebrity? The other day, Tristan introduced me to the channel, Cruel World Happy Mind, where she discussed Jared Leto's quote-unquote cult. With weakened retreats costing upwards of $7,000, we need to realize that celebrities are taking advantage of our essentialism. But finally, if you gain nothing else from this video, I hope you realize that there are some good reasons why you're fascinated with serial killers. Like me, you're not glorifying or romanticizing these killers, but you're interested in the subject because you're a critical thinker and love to learn. All right, everybody, thank you once again for making it all the way through this video. And I hope you learned some new fascinating stuff about serial killers and essentialism and all that. And like I said, I found it really interesting that one of the reasons that we are interested in this or even like scary movies, that helps our brain run through these scenarios. Like, anxious people are much more prepared, on average, the other way of people. But for some of us, like I actually have anxiety disorders, so I do therapy and everything like that.  So if you need help, don't be afraid to ask for it. I personally use BetterHelp online therapy and every video down in the description below, there is a link to BetterHelp online therapy. It's an affiliate link. So what that means is that you get affordable online therapy and a little bit comes back, supports the channel and helps me out for all the work that I put into these crazy long video essays. All right, but I hope you enjoyed this second video in the Supernatural Psychology series. I do have some more and I have a bunch, I have like a billion ideas for videos, all of you. Like so many ideas and there's not enough time. All right, so I'll hopefully get the next one out soon. But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And a huge thank you to everybody who supports the channel, either by being a patron or buying my books from the Rewire Soul website or getting merch from the merch store. You're all awesome. Thanks again for watching. I'll see you next time.


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From San Francisco, it's theCUBE, covering Radio 2018, brought to you by VMware. Welcome back everyone. We're here with theCUBE in San Francisco for exclusive coverage for VMware's Radio 2018. I'm John Furrier, your host. This is the event where everyone comes together in the R&D and the Organic Engineering Organization of VMware to flex their technical muscles, stress their minds, compete for the papers and also get to know each other. And the key person behind this is the Chief Researcher, David Tenenhaus. Thanks for joining us today. Thank you, John. I'm really glad to be here. So you're the Chief Research Officer. We're going to look at the company-wide agenda. But this event is more of a special event organically. Talk about, for the folks out there watching, what's different about this event that goes outside the scope of the top-down research? Yeah, this is really for the developers, by the developers. So when you said I'm in charge, I'm definitely not in charge. And we have a program committee. There's a program committee chair. It's much like the way an academic conference might be organized, where there's kind of a group of academics that watch over the content. In this case, we have many hundreds of folks that submit proposals into radio. They can't all get selected. It's very competitive, because in addition, if you get accepted, you get a ticket to radio. You get to attend. So everybody really wants to do that. Talk about the organic nature, because this is one of the things that I've seen that's been part of a world-class organization, like Amazon has their own process for it called the Big Idea. They have certain working documents, the process to foster any idea across the organization. How important is that as part of the radio? I mean, literally, it's anyone, right? Well, it's not just radio. It's important to the whole company. So I think of this as when you're working on innovation, you're going to have sort of a breadth component. You want everybody doing a little, and some of that's going to be incremental. One thing I learned in a prior role at a different company is if you add up a lot of 2%ers, that's how you can double things and keep on Moore's Law every year. So you're going to get some of that, and you're going to get some really disruptive ideas. So from a top-down point of view, we try to drive some disruptions. Some disruptions show up organically from the troops, and a ton of that breadth stuff shows up. I'm honored to be here. It's the 14th year, and some t-shirts commemorating the key milestones from way back in the day. This is the first year Press was allowed in. I noticed a handful of folks came in to kind of document this. A lot of the brightest minds in VMware here. Again, great to have us. We're super excited. But share with us what's happened over the years. Give some examples of where people were coming together, where there's a collision of ideas, and just that combustion that happens. Can you share some stories around the key notable, or potentially, as Raghu pointed out, there's been some misses, too. Yeah, you're going to get some of that. I mean, you've got to take risks. Not everything's going to work. And just to speak to misses, what I've learned in the innovation and research space is as much as anything, it's about timing. You realize, it's pretty rare that you completely technically miss. Usually engineers have an idea. They'll figure out a way to make it happen. Then the question is, is this at the right time? Are the customers ready? Is the market ready to go in that direction? So that's just to talk to that. Timing is a big deal. Well, there's never a miss, too, in R&D, because if you, like Pat Gelsen said, understand when it's got to be recast it. Know if it works or not. Did it mean it worked? Just understanding. Those are the ones that actually, I feel, what I really hate is if, for some reason, we have to end a project and we haven't actually gotten to the bottom of it, right? And so you don't know yes or no. And sometimes that can be the kind of time to run out, right? You've decided, well, even if it works, it's too late. But getting back to some of the examples, I'll focus on some more recent ones. We had some really interesting work come together on containers. And there were some folks that, and this is going back like four years ago, containers aren't a new story and certainly not for VMware. But around four years ago, there was a proposal, a radio, that had to do with, let's make containers first class citizen on VMware's platform, okay? To the top level, that makes great sense. Let's go do it. Containers are great for developers. The IT folks still want the isolation they get from VMs. Let's put these together really effectively. So that was top level. There was a next level of the idea that said, gee, at radio a couple years before, there'd been this idea of being able to do something called VM fork or being able to clone a VM. And saying, and this came out of our end user computing group, the VDI folks. And if you think about it, if you've got a virtualized PC, you want to be able to clone that so you can start these up really fast. And the container folks said, hey, we've got the same problem. Could we actually try to make use of that technology and use that as part of our bigger container push? So those are examples of things that came together at radio. And they're also examples of things where the market timing may not have quite been there. So we went out with the container work. That was actually post-radio. It was funded. We incubated it. You've got vSphere integrated containers. Hit the market exactly the right time. Timing right there. Timing right there. But what we learned as we actually started doing trials with customers was that they didn't actually need the instant clone on the containers. What they needed is throughput. They wanted to know that they could do large numbers per second as opposed to you'll get that container really quickly. So as the team went along, they actually shifted away from that fork idea. We'll probably come back to it when the time's right for it. Well, you have a nice little positioning there. I like the timing because, by the way, entrepreneurial timing is the same way. You go outside. I was in the VC. Okay, so you know. Okay. Timing's everything. Is the timing is that? I mean, sometimes you see that entrepreneur wicked early on that going, and they keep scratching that edge and finally they get it right. Yeah. The art of the timing. But also the art of knowing when to, what to keep an inventory. Pat mentioned the VCloud Air as an interesting example. Yeah. Recognizing an abandonment there. Okay, hey, let's just stop, take pause. Let's use what we have. Do something else. Do something else. You got to do something else. Yeah. And by the way, along the way, in parallel with VCloud Air, we had built up these VCloud partners. And that's phenomenal, right? So we have, you know, people think in terms of the couple of very large public clouds, but we've got literally thousands of people running public clouds in either specialized markets or particular countries that are running on our platform. And, you know, that whole VCloud Air effort helped push that forward. So where were you at VC? Just curious. I was actually in a company that fits with, with, you know, sort of my role in research and innovation. I was in a specialized firm, boutique firm, New Venture Partners that specialized in spin-outs from large companies. This goes to the timing, right? Yeah. Yeah. I'd previously been at another large company, you know, and whenever you have a research portfolio, you're going to have some projects that you started. They were technically successful. That's your first notch. Then you go look and say, hey, can I find a business model for it? Some of these are both technically successful. You find a business model, but you had anticipated that the company strategically was going to zig, the company's zagged. Now, this is a great opportunity. It doesn't quite fit. So, you know, we did those spin-outs. Well, just, I love the perspective too, you said earlier, David, around not getting to the bottom of it. And that's the most frustrating part, because you just like get some closure. You know, like, okay, this thing, we took it to the end to completion. This is not going to, good try, guys. And we know why. And you know why. Now, let's take it to the next level. Now, the market we're living in now, I heard with Ray O'Farrell, I was talking about earlier, with earlier, we talked about the confluence of these big markets coming together. Infrastructure market, which is kind of declining on paper, but cloud is filling the void. Big data is becoming AI and blockchain over the top. These are four major markets and the center of them, intersecting all these nuances, security, data, IoT. Governance. Governance is like, so there's some sticky areas that are evolving based upon these moving markets. Opportunity recognition is another one. So this is what you're kind of doing now, the research. Talk about opportunity recognition. We definitely do that. And I just, I do want to say on the infrastructure side, you know, something to recall is that as people, you know, they've got their private clouds, those are individually getting actually bigger as they consolidate. But now with IoT, you're seeing edge computing pop up, right? So, you know, the private infrastructure doesn't go away, it moves around, right? It's like a liquid. And you pour it from place to place. It sounds like Ray O'Farrell was talking about in his keynote, early days of VMware. Again, it computes the center of this. Right, compute, but, you know, I'm a networking guy. So, you know, we've grown that. And I think that, in fact, you know, more and more as we make progress with software-defined network and network virtualization. And if you think about that, so, you know, let's look at that. So, it computes definitely, you know, at the center of what happens in the data center, in the cloud, right?  So, today we've got AirWatch. I think that's strategically really key because it gives us a little bit of presence on the edge devices that touch people. That's one of the ways information gets from the physical world to the virtual world is through people. It's an edge device. People are things too. IOT, right? So, we're, you know, working hard and that's one of the projects that we incubated in research and it's now become a business at VMware is to get that presence right at the edge at the gateways that bridge between the things that are connected to the physical world and bring it into the virtual world. Now, if we can put our software-defined network between all that, so you've got it between the public cloud, the private cloud, you know, the mobile devices and people's hands. And the on-premise state center. And exactly, all of it. All right, so here's a question for you. Full out, this is one of those trick questions. Is the cell phone an edge device or an IOT device? Well, I think it's in many ways both. And what I think of it is more of a gateway. If you think about the IOT world, you have the things. IOT is a strict definition, though, in your mind, right? People refer to IOT as more of a sensor thing to a physical device. I tend to think of it as it's got some connection to some physical device, right? It's able to bring information in from the physical world. Okay, so now you look at your cell phone. It can bring information. It's got that microphone. It's got that camera, right? It can bring information in. Can it do a physical person? It can put information back out. Yeah, through a physical person. Well, look, I've been in the space for a long time. Going back to my time at DARPA, we set out to create the IOT world. There wasn't an accident, right? We looked at this and said, okay, the main way information gets between these two worlds today is through human beings, right? The way I used to explain this to the generals is, you know, we can't keep putting human beings in the direct line of fire of information technology. So we've got to get these devices, got to get all these sensors. It's taken a long time. This is, you know, again, timing, but if you look at the research world, this has been a 20-year pull. By the way, incredible work you've done, by the way. From there to here. It's been amazing. Just to, you know, pull this along. But, you know, so when you look at that cell phone, it's got some of those sensors. It's got, you know, actually, a whole pile of sensors in the phones today. It's got actuation, the ability to put the information back out. It's also a gateway. Because typically, you know, particularly through its Bluetooth functionality, and as we get Bluetooth low power now, so it's also acting as a gateway to connect up other devices around your body network. Personal networking, whatever comes on your physical presence.  We've got to make sure gateways stay secure. Because they're really going to be the sort of main perimeter, the line of defense. If you think about all these things that are going to be out there, as an industry, we're going to collectively try, very hard to secure all those things. But let's be realistic. They're going to be supplied from a wide variety of companies, and they're going to last longer than people might think. How much of those devices are operationally, operation technologies, non-IP, versus, not IP, Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol. Yeah, yeah, non-Internet, you had it right. The VC in the brain there, the VC, IP. I'm like, get that IP right. So, Internet Protocol devices, which has some challenges, but that's getting fixed, versus OT, just sensors, proprietary. Yeah, well, either proprietary, let's say, you know, maybe an industry standard, but an industrial standard.  Well, one of our foci is, we're about what are our enterprise customers going to need? So, when we think IOT, we're not really thinking that much about the consumer devices, we're thinking about those enterprise devices. So, a lot of those- That's where you watch Mike come in, so the employees still have phones, though. Employees still have phones, so that's why I said, so there's the human interface, we want to be there. And there's the other enterprise interfaces to all these sensors, that could be in a factory, it could be in a smart city, any number of places. So, as we pull information in from those, we're going to find that they come from a lot of different suppliers, and they're going to last a long time. You know, even if you buy a device, it's got a three to four year lifetime, probably 10 to 20% of those still going to be around 10 years later. Right? If you're smiling, because you know that in your home, you have some Wi-Fi connected devices that are a little older than they probably should have. Yeah, and they have full processing capability threaded processors on it. Right. Which could be running malware as we speak. Exactly. So, as I said, as an industry, we'll try to secure those really edge things, but the reality is we're going to have to draw the line at the keyboard. It's a lot more secure work. I totally hear you. I mean, the light bulb could have a full thread on there. You know, the surface area is so huge now. And there've been attacks on light bulbs. Yeah, I know. So, I got to ask you a question. So, I got to ask, because you bring out this networking edge, which I love, by the way, I love anything that's network, because I think this is the future of work. How is the future of work impacting some of the R&D you're doing? Because, to talk about air washers, having more mobility, the human impact society, whether it's mission-driven and or just human collaboration going digital, you're going to need to have policies. You need to have a networked society. Right, this is super relevant, but it brings back that future of work. It does. And so, a couple different aspects. You know, one, you know, which just relates to a point you raised, is if you look at something like our Workspace One product, I don't know if you've had a chance to do that, it's kind of a win-win, because you get one portal. So, you know, an employee for an enterprise, they've got one portal, they get access, you know, it doesn't matter whether they're getting to a web app, they're getting to a, you know, a DVI supported, you know, application, they're getting to something that's on a server, something on a SaaS player, right? They get through that portal. So, for them, it's convenient. I mean, for me, as a manager, I love this, right, because whether I'm on my cell phone, I'm on a laptop, doesn't matter. I can get to the same, you know, expense app. You don't need to carry two phones, my work phone. And I can do all these approvals really easily, right? So, I also don't worry, you know, I don't see the difference between which device I'm on. At the same time, that you're delivering that convenience to the user, you're delivering governance, because the IT team can be deciding how that portal's populated, how things are connected, right, and how the wiring works. All the authorization, you've got a common identification system and all of that. So, that's kind of, you know, very specific to, you know, let's say, near-term changing the user interface. In terms of the broader future of work, clearly machine learning is the big story here, right? And I think that what we're going to see is, particularly, again, an enterprise, more and more need for data analysts to be able to look at the big data. We're going to see sort of more and more use the machine learning technologies that's going to, you know, basically creep in everywhere. And we're getting this at just the right time. So, if you want to think about future work in the big national and international scale, what you really sort of stop to look at is say, gee, okay, these machines are going to do all this work. What about the people? And, you know, a lot of people then, therefore, get concerned. Gee, the computers are going to take away all the jobs, right? That's you get- I think right now we're worried about fake news and real content. Well, let's come back to that one later. But there is a sense of, gee, you know, the computers will take on all the jobs. And, you know, what I think people are not doing carefully is looking at the demographics. Because if you look at basically all the developed economies for practical purposes, we actually have a demographic problem. Our problem is actually not a surplus of workers. It's going to be a shortage of workers. In fact, actually in the U.S. right now, you're starting to feel this. Now, that's at the peak of the economic cycle. So, of course, you feel it, you know, a bit. There's trained workers, too. There'll be peaks and troughs. There's also people who qualify. Right. So, I think the thing we really need to look at is how do we do a much better job at matching, you know, sort of workers and both folks coming into the workplace, people with existing skills, two available opportunities, because actually we're going to have a shortage of workers. And it's not just sort of the U.S. and Europe. I mean, Japan for a long time. China headed to a shortage of workers. I was out in Singapore not too long ago and was surprised to find out not just that they're concerned, but they went and looked at the Southeast Asian countries around them that are their markets. They're looking at a shortage of workers. So, you know, if we didn't have something like, you know, machine learning and AI coming along, we'd be sitting there saying, how are we going to keep our economies growing? We need augmentation for sure. We need this augmentation. And it's coming at just, you know, talk about timing. You know, it's coming at just the right time. Now, there definitely are going to be some tough transitions along the way, right? So, we definitely, you know, for example, as autonomous vehicles come along, we've got to figure out, okay, all those people that are driving vehicles, you know, what are they going to do going forward? But let's not kid ourselves too, you know, if you've got trucks moving around with high value cargos, you're not going to leave those unattended, right? We're going to have to figure all this out. So, there's going to be a lot of interesting opportunities. What's your take on blockchain? Well, first of all, GDPR, real quick, train wreck, useful. I think it's, you know, if you backed up and asked me, you know, four or five years ago, I've said train wreck. And largely because, you know, we still don't have this sort of, you know, kind of international consensus on what the rules should be. But you mentioned governance earlier, it certainly needs to be at the center of the action. But, you know, if we take a look now, it seems like it's showing up at just the right time, right?  So, I think, you know, part of what's happened is over the intervening years, a lot of countries outside of Europe, because they realized these regulations would apply to them. They've worked with the European regulators to, you know, help the regulators understand the technology, you know, help the companies understand them. That's a good politically correct answer.  It's forcing people to really, I think the value of GDPR is, the big company's going to get hit hard in some suits. Just the trolling thing bothers me, just the trolls that could come out of the river. But I think the positive, it puts the center of the value proposition, making data not a one-off, like backup and recovery, has to be core to technical operations. And making privacy something that's really, you know, in that first class category. Yeah.  There is more to be done. That's hopefully they don't go after us little guys. All right, final question, Blockchain. We are super excited about Blockchain. You have team working on this. I am super excited about Blockchain. Talk about your view on Blockchain, why are you excited about it? Obviously, you know, we feel it's very efficient, makes inefficiencies efficient across all industries, your thoughts. Okay, so again, we look at things through this prism. What are, you know, enterprise customers going to be looking at? What do they want?  We're not looking at the cryptocurrencies, right? That's not the thing. And in fact, we're not even looking at cohabiting on the Bitcoin Blockchain, because do you really want to run your business, you know, in the same place, that a whole bunch of other people are running illegal businesses and, you know, the whole thing. And by the way, this is right. Technical issues. We'll get to that, right? We're going to get there, right? But just even as a starting point, so we pretty quickly looking even, you know, three, four years ago said, okay, enterprise is not going to want to go that way. But this idea of a federated ledger, right? So if you can make federated ledgers and we can have reusable technology, that means now, if I want to federate with other companies or other organizations or, you know, or you need companies federating with governments, or governments federating with each other, anywhere you want to pull together essentially a club for the exchange of data with a persistent record of what happened. You've now got a common way of doing it, right? Or we can drive towards that. It'll be, you know, there'll be a standardization process to get there. But so it's not, you know, to me, federated ledgers means lowering the barrier to federation. And I think that's pretty exciting.  David, we got to get spent some time. You have to come in the studio. I'd love to explore some of these great topics with you. But I got to ask you one final question.  We've talked about standards, the OSI stack. You had all these grandiose standard plans. Not all of them have happened exactly as planned, but de facto standards play a really important role. It galvanizes community, gives people a guiding principles, North Star, whatever metaphor you want to use. The key is the enabling, disrupting technologies. De facto standard. What's happening now in your mind that you see out there that's starting to emerge as de facto? Because certainly there's a lot of standard things going open sources, you know, for tier one citizen growing rapidly, which is greatness, cloud is booming, unlimited resources compute, fingertip compute. Oh, this is good. Yeah. What's, and all these new standards, I got Kubernetes, I got this and going on. Well, again, they're de facto. Right, Kubernetes is an interesting example of basically open source meets de facto. And that's pretty exciting, right? I mean, we're excited about it. I think people are often surprised we're a fan of open source. Yeah. And I guess what I just like to sort of back up a notch because what you touched on is de facto standards and whether it's open source or not have suddenly become a lot easier when I say suddenly over like a 10 year period. And I think what's going on there is this is part of the change to software. So if you're talking about hardware and you got screws and you got threads, these physical things have to match and they have to match exactly, right? Say when you travel overseas, you need to carry converters, physical converters to convert from one thing to another. So if you want to interoperate, if you and I want to have stuff that interoperates, we need it to build like either do the same thing or have a physical adapter. There was a cost to not having a standard. If you think about it in the software world, we can build software converters, right? So if I've got, say we've got two or three or four or even 50 de facto standards in the software world, blockchain, so there's 50 new things. Everybody launches their own. Pretty quickly, the market will drive that down to a small number and then you can put software converters in place. So we no longer actually have to get to one. Yeah. That's a software economic model. It's a big change. And that is huge. So by the way, we had Dirk Hondel on a KubeCon Love is open source mission. Just a shout out to you guys doing a great job. You guys at VMware, certainly we know, love you opener of these shows. Final prediction, final question. Give us a prediction. Give you a prediction. 2018, second half of the year. What's going to happen? What's going to be a notable thing that you see out in the horizon that might happen in the marketplace? That might be notable for people to stand up and pay attention to. I think we're going to see some significant developments in the blockchain space. And it's going to be in the category of people starting to announce real deployments. And if you're sort of looking at that timeframe, you've had a lot of different enterprises try things. We've had people kind of dabble at things. I think you're going to start seeing some people really move significantly in that space. And you think, like another first follow-up on that, you think like in the database world now, where by the way, it's okay to have a zillion databases now, because you talk about databases and you have a distraction. But it can solid data down to a few layers. It's okay to have a view Friday of blockchains. I mean, there's no one block chain. Correct.  They'll be using different technologies. And then the fun race starts, right? As people consolidate, especially with open source, they swap ideas, we boil it down to what's the best of the best. We've got stuff we're doing, certainly, to knock the throughput down. Sorry, throughput up, latency down. And we think we've got a very scalable approach. And most important, it's something that's real. I don't know if you've talked to people about our sustainability. It's key value for VMware. A lot of great centers. You can imagine, we looked at blockchain, we looked at proof of work, and we said, that's proof of energy wasted. We're not going there, right? Gotta make it more efficient. I think you're going to see more and more folks focusing on things like Byzantine, fall tolerant, ours is scalable, SBFT. Performance is key. And the energy is a huge problem. But performance and acceptable energy. You can't just waste, it's immoral to just waste energy. And it really goes against what a lot of the whole IT industry's built up. I think over the decades, we've done a lot of things for the goodness of society, and we've got to stay the mission. I think as the more, I won't say mature, but big world-class organizations join in, I think that'll straighten itself out. And certainly, as any evolution would see the web, I remember dial-up in AOL. It can't go as fast as this mini computer. Well, you don't get it. It's the web, okay. David, thanks so much for coming on. Appreciate it. Great conversation. Here at Radio 2018, I'm John Furrier. Cube coverage of VMware's annual 14th year conference, Radio 2018. Thanks for watching.


We all know the city can be suffocating sometimes, even on quiet days. It's still not the most serene for a lot of us Also routine can be very heavy on the mind and make the days drag into each other repetitively. A good time away is always a welcome idea We are taking you to one of our favorite places, which is fortunately just outside the city on the hills of a breeze overlooking lush green valleys Just a brief rest and Reset Why are you laughing so much? Anyway guys welcome to another video We are coming to you live from one of our favorite places, which is the tree house in a brief And my name is Kwame and this is hi, my name is Elaine. Yeah, so we came here for the long weekend We just thought that we'll just come in to here for a little bit Just get out of town and Especially slow down a little bit sound has a certain pace, which is quite intense You have to like very upbeat. Yeah, and I think we needed to be a bit more in the greenery and Just slow down like mentally but also physically like there are no things on New York to do You can just literally be and feel like what's your what you want to do. You want to go for a walk You want to read or just chill. Yeah Yeah, and this is something that I didn't Like before but now I'm getting you know, I'm getting to appreciate this a lot more Yeah, I think the first time we went our first week in the way He was very uncomfortable and didn't really know how to Relax, but I think you've got some better at it Yeah, I'm getting better and like I was saying I'm appreciating it more because when I when I come here it's one of the few places that I actually do feel at home and Also because of the relationship that you know grew from our first time we came here with the host family Who make it actually feel like a family place to be so it's it's an Airbnb. I'll leave the link in the description and We've not been here in a while But six months in about six months. Yeah, and there was an expansion project that we're working on and we came to meet It's completely finished, which is really great It's really cool. I'll show you some of the I mean how the room looks like as I'm talking now and Yeah for this one it just they just They told us that they're using this one for more of a Short stay. Yeah, the concept. Yeah, the concept of you know working remotely and Actually, you know coming to stay here for a month or a longer term than just a long weekend like we're doing So I think that's a really really cool thing and I mean the idea that also for me now as a creative that I can just unplug for a Few weeks a month or whatever it is and just go somewhere that's completely Different and just recess the change of environment the change of scenery And I can only imagine I mean we've now been here for like 24 hours And I feel so much more at ease so I can imagine if you work from here They really get into the rhythm of the days here that after a month. Yeah, I think it's really Rejuvenating yeah, yeah, it'll be really really cool to have that and also like what we're saying I mean the connection that you you actually form with the host here if you want to stay here for a month, for example As an Airbnb No as a long stay not Airbnb as a long stay and you want to you know, you don't want to cook You want to have home cook meals you can actually request for it or speak to the host family and depending on the current Relationship that you have with them. You can have you know, warm meals and warm conversations with them, which which makes it different than the average average place you would yeah, you know normally Go off to go and stay so yeah, and I like that they are doing like they Taylor made it towards what you want. Yeah, so we like to Have it as a leg so we will want to That's the word that you cannot pronounce aggressively. I learned that a hard way Yes, it's a Dutch word for well, there's no literal translation, but it means cozy. Nice nice Warm yeah, so we Yeah, we like to sit around with them a lot and you know spend time with them as well But it depends a little bit on your needs You can also, you know get work done or go for walks like they really leave you free to do Whatever you want to do, but really it's really a welcoming and at home Like as if you're in somebody's living room. They're literally invite you into their living room. Yeah, I think makes it so comfortable Yeah, yeah, so that's what we wanted to share with you. I did a video the first time we came here but not Into so much detail just our experience, but now we've had more than one experience We've been here a couple of times without actually filming like we're doing today So it's it's it feels like you know the cliche Definite cliche home away from home for us now that every now and then we you know, we hit them up and Tell them we want to come home for a little bit and we spend the time here, which yeah And I think like location-wise it's also great because it's about an hour Maybe a little bit more depending on traffic from Accra. It was very doable. You can Drive away in the morning. You'll be here before lunchtime. You settle in and you have still the whole day Yeah And your journey is also nice because you will move from hustling bustling across and then you go into green arrow It's greener. You drive up the hill.   Yeah, Kitasi the untarged Kitasi road And then you are there like and so it's like even the journey is kind of you're letting go everything That you had in a crime.  Yeah with it with their new expansion. Yeah So, yeah, that's what we wanted to share with you if you're looking for a place to hide a way to work or even live for a few Months or a month or a few weeks just to play your mind I think this is one of the places you should and often when we say this one of our favorite places It's not because we were here once we Often connect on a deeper level with the people who own these places. So when we share out So, yeah, if you ever think of doing that, I mean, it's even December, I mean if you want to spend Christmas away This is a nice idea to do that. So, yeah We'll cut you in the next video. I know, you know, it's been a long time since we brought a video We'll try and record more, but I hope you enjoy today's home and See you in the next


If you want to improve your soccer skills right now, this video is for you. Dylan Tooby, Progressive Soccer, I'm about to show you five simple but very effective soccer skills tutorials that will actually make you play better in your next match. We're going to take a look at dribbling, ball control, passing, shooting, and even some tricks. But before we get into it, make sure you're subscribed. Please remember to like and share. When it comes to dribbling, the most important thing for me is being direct. Purpose. Do something when the ball is at your feet. Don't be hesitant. Don't be slow. Try to drive towards net. Take up that open space with purpose. On the other side of things, you don't want to over-complicate your play and take too many touches when it's not necessary. Some of you are going to look at this clip and say, I want to dribble like that. Yes, you need to have skills. You need to be creative when the ball is at your feet. But you have to do something with the ball.  Be direct with your dribbling. If the space is there, take it without hesitation. You want to be an effective dribbler. You have to develop the ability to go both directions. I'm always going to encourage you to work on both feet. Have two strong feet. But if you favor one foot more than the other, you still have to be able to go both right and left. Otherwise, you become very easy to defend and very predictable. The best dribblers dribble with a low center of gravity. They get low to the ground. Their touches are sharp. They change direction quickly. Most players, when they're on the ball, they're too upright. There's no bend in their knees. They don't get low to the ground. They can't protect the ball. They can't shield the ball. Obviously, this is very overemphasized. But this is how most players turn and dribble. When you're dribbling, I want you to focus on the quality of your body movement as much as the quality of your touches. So bend your knees. Be explosive with your turns. Protect the ball with your body. So my simple but effective advice for better dribbling. Number one, be direct with your dribbling. Eliminate hesitation and do not overcomplicate your play. Number two, develop the ability to dribble in both directions. Obviously, if you can be a two-footed player, you're going to be more effective. But make sure you're able to go both right and left with confidence. And number three, focus on having a lower center of gravity. Bend your knees when you turn. Make quick, sharp cuts and explode in the opposite direction. My first tip for better ball control is what I call making visual contact with the ball. Now, this may seem silly, but most players, when they're about to control or have a first touch, don't actually watch the ball all the way to their foot. So whenever possible, watch that ball all the way to your foot to ensure that you make better contact and have a better first touch. It's also really important that whenever possible, you move quickly to get behind or underneath the ball as opposed to lunging for your ball. This applies to receiving passes and balls in the air. Instead of lunging, putting out your foot quickly move your body as quickly as you can to get behind the ball or underneath it. Even if you have a poor touch, you'll be on top of the ball and you'll be able to react quickly. So instead of lunging for passes or lunging to control balls out of the air, quickly move your feet, get there and focus on a good first touch. Please understand your current skill level is the direct result of the amount and quality of practice that you have put in.  If you can't hit 500 consecutive juggles, I would encourage you to juggle every day until it becomes a reality. Once you become comfortable with that, start working on other ball control techniques, becoming comfortable with all different parts of your feet and body. So to recap my advice for better ball control, number one, focus on actually making visual eye contact with the ball to your foot. Number two, instead of lunging for passes or lunging to control the ball out of the air, quickly move your feet to get there and focus on the quality of your first touch.  If you cannot hit 500 consecutive juggles right now, that is your current ball control goal. Whether it's 50 or five yards, I want you to focus on the quality of every single pass. Most people are lazy and careless when it comes to their passing. I want you to overemphasize your passing technique. Get your body over the ball, make strong foot contact, follow through to your target. Next, I want you to think about shaping your passes. It's okay to play a straight pass, but if you're always playing across your body and you're unable to curl the ball away from the defender, you're more likely to get your passes intercepted. So think about where's the defender? How can I curl it away from him? And also, how can I curl the ball into the path of my teammate to make it easier for him to control? Just like any other skill, it's very important that you're confident passing the ball with both feet. If I know you only have a right foot, you become very easy to defend. Even if you favor one foot more than the other, make sure you can play a confident pass with your weaker foot. Advice for better passing. Number one, overemphasize your technique and take pride in the quality of every single pass. Never give the ball away due to a careless or lazy pass. Number two, shape your passes away from defenders and into the path of your teammate. And number three, develop the ability to pass effectively with both feet so you're unpredictable and hard to defend. When it comes to shooting, the most important thing I want you to start with is actually having the desire to get your shots off. So many players getting good situations and they hesitate or end up passing to a teammate because they're afraid to miss. Whenever you have the opportunity, drive with purpose and get your shot off even if it isn't the best. The biggest mistake players make when shooting is trying to hit the ball with too much power. It usually ends up in losing control of their body or making poor contact with the ball. Instead of focusing on power, focus on good technique.  You'll be surprised at how good your shots are when you start to focus on technique rather than power. And in many situations, it's probably better for you to get your head up and place the ball. Don't rush your shots. If you have time, pick a corner, put it there with pace, but pass it into the corner rather than trying to blast the ball as hard as you can. When most players have the opportunity to score, they're actually thinking about missing rather than shooting technique. Now, this seems crazy, but think about a time when you had a great goal scoring opportunity. Were you thinking about your shooting technique or instead were you thinking about missing the target, the opponent tackling you, your teammates and coach getting upset. When it's time to score, focus on what you can control and that is your shooting technique. Put all the missed shots out of your mind, visualize the goal. Recapping advice for better shooting. Number one, actually have the desire to shoot whenever possible and don't pass up scoring opportunities. Number two, prioritize technique over power. And whenever possible, instead of blasting as hard as you can, actually place your shots. Number three, when it's time to score, focus on scoring, not missing. Visualize yourself putting the ball in the net, focus on good shooting technique. If you want to learn some freestyle tricks to impress your friends and show off a little, that's cool. It will help you improve your ball control, but do not tell yourself that this is actually making you a better player. It isn't helping you get closer to your goals. So number one, you have to focus on real match skills that are actually going to help you perform better in games and allow you to help your team win more matches. Tricks are fun. I went through a phase when I was younger of mastering these skills, but in my opinion, the best trick is putting the ball in the back of the net.


Sometimes I believe that the images that I've created are nothing sensational, nothing futuristic or avant-gardeistic. It is something that is deeply inside of us, dormant inside of us. And I'm the one who can awaken these images. And it's your images, actually. And it's like a brother or a sister, unbeknownst to you, who all of a sudden comes to life and you realize you've got a brother. And this is wonderful if I can create that. And all of a sudden, all of a sudden, in rare moments it happens when you hear great music or when you see a great movie, very rarely it happens that you have moments of deep illumination in moments where you know that you are not alone anymore. And that's the ultimate I can reach. If there's anyone out there who, after seeing, let's say, Stroszek has a feeling I'm not alone anymore, then I've achieved everything I wanted to achieve in my life.


This is the animation minute As always it's over jobs. I'll MC the studio is hiring for the Jedi Academy Including animation Axi Studios is looking for animators as well PlayStation Studios visual arts is having as well. You can see all the positions here and poly art games is looking for a technical animators slash rigor Switching over to news and the good news is that center world gets a season two Edward wants to get with an awesome thread You know, I love these every week. It's goodness. Check it out There's a BAFTA animation masterclass presentation here. You can check it out on the game item site and it's very cool It's an hour and 25 minutes of awesome. So go check it out Sprite fright, which is awesome also has a soundtrack to be available next Friday, November 19th Awesome clip here by Felicia Martin. Check out the full clip here. It is 18 seconds long You know, I love Star Trek. Yeah, these are super cute also start regular decks is awesome So both are awesome dash attack pixel animation. Very cool Love those two defects at the beginning here with this very cool And that's it for an animation minute because I was very distracted with my own animation clips I have too much fun with this but you can find a mission minute every Monday on my channel at 10 a.m