Next up is a returning speaker to the 21 convention. I had the pleasure to introduce him just a few months ago in London. Amazing speech. Can't wait to hear what Euron's got in store for us today. This is Euron Brooke. He is the president and executive director of the Einrand Institute. He's the co-author of an upcoming bestseller. Keep your eyes peeled for it called Free Market Revolution. You can find out more at Einrand.org. That's A-Y-N-R-A-N-D.org. So let me help to help me introduce Euron to the stage. Thanks. Thank you all and yeah, it is going to be a bestseller and I need your help so you can pre-order copies on Amazon as we speak on your phone. So I want to kind of leverage what you just heard from Eric and kind of use the material we just talked about to kind of take it to what I think is maybe a deeper level or the next level and build on the material we've already heard. One of the issues that I think exists out there in the whole if you will self-help industry, which is a huge industry and it seems to ebb and flow in terms of the theories and as Eric mentioned it's been around since the early part of the century and hey, if they got it right, why do we still need more stuff? I mean, why isn't this a done deal? And I think that the whole phenomena brings up some interesting questions of why is there a need for this industry? Why is it so challenging? Why is it such that we keep getting these ups and downs and we keep getting all this contradictory advice? And I think it goes back to something that Eric mentioned and it's this notion that the two kind of ways in which to view self-made or to view self-help but to view what it means to live a good life, what it means to live a life and that is one, this Christian notion that ultimately the purpose of life is not your own well-being. Ultimately you want to become good at whatever you want to do so you can help other people. So the focus of everything in life is other people. That's one approach that I think is very, very dominant in our culture. Think about Bill Gates, right? Think about Bill Gates making billions and billions of dollars in the 1980s and 1990s. How does he make his billions of dollars? He makes it by creating a product. And what does he do with that product? How do you make money? How do you make money? General question. You what? Sell millions of copies. But there has to be an assumption, right? Because if it costs me 100 bucks to produce something and I sell millions of copies for a buck, do I make millions? No. I have to be able to sell it for what? For a profit which means above whatever it costs me to make, right? And it has to be a good enough product so people value it more than what? More than their money. So if I sell you a piece of software for 100 bucks, it has to be worth more than 100 bucks the person who buys it. And in Bill Gates's case, anybody have an assessment of how much that piece of software actually was worth to people who bought in the 80s and 90s? So you paid 100 bucks, let's say, for wood or for DOS or something like that. How much was it worth to the person buying it? A lot. A lot. I mean, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, a lot. Maybe even millions. Because it changed your life. Because it changed computers. And it changed everybody's life. And suddenly we were all networked. Suddenly you didn't have to have a typewriter. You guys are too young to even know what that is. I know. It's those old things. Suddenly everything changed. And the value of that piece of software is a lot more than 100 bucks. So here is Bill Gates. He's making all of our lives infinitely better. Infinitely better. And he's making gazillions of dollars doing that. And as a culture, what do we think of him? Going back to that culture. I mean, is he a good guy? Is this a guy? You know, we all think he's a great businessman. We all want to be gazillionaires, right? But is he a good guy? Is he like, you know, are we going to build statues to him? Are we going to praise him to the hilt? Is this like Mother Teresa's over here? Where's Bill Gates? Right? Way down there, right? I mean, he's not a good... He's not morally from an ethical perspective from the kind of, you know, the view of what goodness is, Bill Gates doesn't rank. He's made all of our lives better, but he's made money at it, so he doesn't count. When does he become a good guy? When he gives it away. And that's that view, 19th century Christian view. It's okay to make billions only if you land up giving it away. Only if you land up serving other people. That's the purpose of life, is to serve other people. That's the essential. And if you make stuff, money, while serving other people, that's not that good. It's okay, but it's not that good. So for example, you know, you know micro loans? These loans, the people going to developing countries, and they give these small little loans to very poor people, and they, you know, to help them start businesses, and it's proved to be incredibly successful in really getting entrepreneurship going in poor countries. So there are companies that do it that are not for profit. And their success is so-so. And then there are companies that do it for profit, and they're phenomenally successful. But who is considered better? The non-profit. Because they're not getting anything in return. So notice that there's a, we live in a culture that in terms of respect, in terms of admiration, in terms of what gets moral, ethical, virtue points, right? You get them when you sacrifice. And what does the sacrifice mean? You give something, what do you get in return? Nothing. Or something less, valuable. Right? Because if you give something and you get more in return, what do we call that? Profit, we call it a trade. Right? That's a trade. When I give you something and you give me something that's worth more to me, you got something more and I got something more, that's a trade, right? And what do we, that's a win-win. We're both better off. When I buy Microsoft product, Bill Gates is better off. I'm better off. It's a win-win. Sacrifice is? Lose-win. Lose-win. Or win-lose, depending on what side of the sacrifice you're on, right? So, and that, that is way up here. That's up there with Mother Teresa, right? That's good. So we live in a culture where lose-wins are good. And win-wins are just okay. Kind of weird, right? Just doesn't, there's something strange about that. But think about relationships. Think about the value we place and just our terminology. We talk in hushed tones and with reverence towards people who sacrifice. How wonderful that is. In other words, losing is good. That comes out of this notion that your life is not your life. The only purpose to make your life better is to serve other people. The alternative to that has always been presented as, yeah, you should make your most of your life and what that means is, whatever you feel like it is, whatever you feel like doing, anything goes. There is no standard for determining what is a good life, right? Whether it's a billion dollars, a hot woman, whether it's this career, that career, whatever you feel like doing is good. Feelings is the, is the guide. Feelings is the motivation. If you think that a good life comes from lying, cheating, stealing, well, we don't advise it because you might get caught and stuff and go to jail, but who are we to say that that's not right? Anything goes. Anything's permissible. That's what being a self-made person is supposed to mean. And nobody actually says it, but it's no because nobody actually tells you to go lie, steal, and cheat. You would actually advocate, right? But the implication is that it's all okay as long as you can achieve the outcome. You know, there's a whole school of philosophy in a, you know, going back to Dewey, right? There's a whole school of pragmatism, right? Which basically says, you know, if you can get away with it, whatever you can, whatever will it get you to your goal, that's okay. And self-interest, when you talk about people being self-interested, when we talk about people being selfish, that's the kind of image we have. Because when you say to somebody, you're selfish, do you mean that as a compliment? No. You mean that as a derogatory term. When we look at somebody and say that person's selfish, what do we mean by that? We mean he's a what? What? Yeah, but what do we mean by that? What kind of behavior is he exhibiting when we say that? What's that? Do we really mean he's being successful?  That's what we mean by it. But what does selfish as a would actually mean? What does the term mean? Yeah, taking care of self. Taking care of self. Which is what you're all here to do, to take care of yourself, to make your lives better, to improve your diet, improve your physique. I mean, this is one of the few self-help kind of conferences that actually has a kind of philosophical component to it. But you're here to make your lives better. And yet that term, making your life better, being selfish, is associated with all this garbage. Backstabbing, lying, stealing, cheating, whatever it takes. The symbol of being selfish today in America is Bernie Madoff. You know Bernie Madoff was? Permit scheme guy, you know? Fifty billion dollars. So the notion is that selfish, and this is how words work, this is how concepts work. Selfish, i.e., taking care of self, equals Bernie Madoff. Who wants to take care of themselves if you're going to be Bernie Madoff?   He's a bad guy. So we've got Christianity over here telling you, take care of yourself only for the purpose of helping other people. And that sounds like a conflicting contradictory message. It's not just Christianity. Everybody says that, right? It's secular philosophy. Everybody gives that kind of advice. And then over here is, yeah, but what selfish really means is Bernie Madoff. So I don't want to quite live for other people. I kind of want to make myself better for myself, but I don't want to be Bernie Madoff either. It's a contradiction, right? And this is where I think a proper understanding of what self-interest means and what it requires and what it takes is necessary if you're going to take on the responsibility of making yourself the best that you can be. Because the psychological traps that are involved in both of these are going to undercut you constantly. So if you believe that Mother Teresa, that giving up everything and going and living for other people, that's a moral ideal. Now we don't really want to do that because we like our lives and life's too good to actually do that and dating and stuff like that. She had no sex and everything. Right?  It does. I mean, and you read her diary, she was miserable. Miserable, miserable, miserable.  But that's okay because she did it in order to be miserable. That was her goal. Right? Because happiness is selfish. If that's a moral ideal and yet we're living this life of sex and money and doing well and happiness, what are we going to feel? If we want to be Mother Teresa, but we know we can never achieve that. If we know that's what good means, but we know we'll never be good, what does that lead to a feeling inside? What kind of feeling? Guilt. Starts with a G. Yeah, guilt. And so many people are guilty out there. So many people do not succeed in life. They're not attaining their values. They're not pursue their own values. And when they pursue them, when they're successful, they don't enjoy it. You know how many rich people are unhappy? Lots of rich people unhappy. Lots of people who, you know, what was it, a hot wife and money and I can't remember the third one, but, you know, are attaining those things, right? But they don't, it's meaningless to them because they feel guilty about it. So guilt kills you. And what this, you know, what this religious base, but it's also secular and everything, this idea of living for other people, generates in people trying to pursue self-help is guilt. And that's why so many self-help programs in my view fail. It's because what are we leading to? You're not going to help other people by helping yourself. That's not, can't be the purpose. That's contradiction. And this notion that you can do whatever you feel like doing can lead you easily to Brunei Madoff. And is that happy? Is Brunei happy? No, he's in jail. Not very happy place. His son committed suicide because of what he did. A year after Brunei Madoff was arrested, his son committed suicide. I can't think of a more horrific thing to happen to a human being than to know that you caused the death of your own child, your behavior. But even before he was caught, you think he was happy? How many of you have ever lied? Yeah, you can be honest. Come on. For a change, you can be honest.  Do they help you actually achieve, talk about relationships? Do you think that you can have a healthy relationship with a woman by lying to her? Do you think that leads to good stuff? I mean lying just doesn't work.  It really is a bad strategy for success. It doesn't work in the workplace. It doesn't work with relationships. It doesn't work the worst kind of lies.  Yourself. Yourself. It completely screws you up. So the Brunei Madoff strategy doesn't work if you want to pursue yourself.  I think that's true.  He says today that he's happier in jail than before he was caught. And I believe him because he doesn't have to lie anymore. Lying makes you miserable. So this doesn't lead to happiness.  This doesn't make you happy because you're always going to feel guilty because you're not actually pursuing other people's well-being. You're trying to make yourself better. It's a no-win situation. Of course, you need new strategies to self-help all the time because there's no way to get out of this trap. Well, there is. And Eric started to talk about it and I think it's Inran's idea of what morality is really about. What goodness, what righteousness, what virtue is really about. And it's not about other people. When people tell you your purpose in life should be to help other people, the real question to ask them is very simple. It's three letters. It's why. And there's never any answer. Why should I help other people? Why should my purpose in life be to serve others? Why? Because somebody said so. That's the only answer that exists. But the real question is, you know, you all will all living beings. We're all living beings. Individual living beings. What should be our purpose as a living being? What is the purpose of every living being? There are no plants in this room. I would have pointed to a plant. But, you know, what do plants try to do?  I hope you have plants. Life is good, right? All life. Plants, you put a plant in a shade. What does it try to do? Life. What's it pursuing? What's it trying to attain? Life. It wants to live. It's trying to figure out, trying to get the value that is acquired for its life. What is the value in this case? Light. If you put it in dry soil, what does it do? Roots. Go searching for water. For the value, which is water. Because the ultimate value for that plant is what? It's life. Face is a choice, just like all of us. Life or death. Existence and non-existence. That's the ultimate choice every one of us faces. Self-improvement ultimately is all about choosing to live. Making the choice that the plant automatically makes. We're the only species, by the way, who can choose not to make that choice.  We can choose to do it fast by jumping off a building. Or we can choose to do it slow by getting Bernie Madoff. But he's chosen to die. He's not living. Life in prison is not life. Life as a lying, cheating SOB is not a life. It's death. Very slow, with lots of torture on the way. Just think about what it would mean to lie every day to your best friends and to your family, which is what Madoff did. That's torture. That's death, wisdom death. So, every species out there has automatically geared in it the choice to live. We have something unique. We have something special. It's called free will. We can make choices. We can make decisions. Should we choose life or do we choose something else? Death. There is nothing else other than death. Rand says that the choice of life is the fundamental choice in ethics and morality in what is good. And therefore it is the context by which we should measure what goodness means. Does it lead us towards life and what kind of life? Well, a good life. Life as a human being. Life to the fullest that we are capable of of human beings. In this sense, this is the morality, the philosophy that should guide anybody pursuing self-help and self-help ideology. This is a self-help philosophy. It's about identifying the good, identifying morality, identifying virtue with living the best life that you can live. Living the fullest, most complete. Eric used the word flourishing. It comes from Aristotle. Aristotle was the first one to identify this notion of purpose of life is to live it to the fullest. It's to flourish in it. Now what does it take for a human being to actually achieve that kind of life? To live a great life. To live, you know, a life of fulfillment. To live a flourishing life. To live a, at the end of the day, what is it all about? If you live a good life, why are you living a good life? What's the purpose? What should be the purpose of every life? Is it the billion dollars and a hot wife and whatever the nice car? Is that the purpose? No, what's that even that? Even if those are values, what is that for? What are we trying to attain? Happiness. It's all about happiness. We want to live life in order to be happy. Happiness is the ultimate goal. So the question is for us, for human beings, what is going to lead to that? We know what a plant needs, right? A plant needs water and it needs sunlight. We know what a cheetah needs, right? Or a lion. We know how lions, what lions need. What do we need? Before we get to the billion dollars and before we get to the wife, what do we need? And what is unique to us in terms of values? What is the most important value that we need?  We are not equipped, we are not equipped physically to survive in this world. Each one of you, I know you work out and everything, it's not impressive.  You try to run down a bison and bite into it. Have you ever tried that? No fangs, no claws, no speed, not really.  There's nothing there. We're just not equipped physically to survive. We're not. Yet, we thrive. We don't just survive, we thrive as a human race, human species. We thrive. I mean, where is the sabertooth tiger? We killed them all. We did. Human beings, how do we do that?  Big sticks. Big sticks, but where did we get sharp sticks from? They're what? Somebody said, they're mine. Yeah, so it's all about what's up here. We don't have a gene, you know, birds have a gene that tells them how to build a nest. You know, they just know automatically how to build a nest. We don't have that gene. You know, we started out living in caves. Not a good idea. Tigers like caves, bears like caves that are bigger, stronger than us. We had to figure out how to build homes and how to build them strong so the wolf wouldn't blow them down, right? It takes thought. None of us, I drop you into the Amazon jungle. We don't have the instinct to figure out how to survive. You don't. If you just rely on instinct, you're dead very, very quickly. You have to sit down and think and figure it out. When Robinson Caruso is on an island by himself, he doesn't know what to do until he thinks about it. And he looks around and uses his mind. Everything we have, everything you can point out in this room, literally everything you can point in this room, is a product of somebody's thinking. Somebody's figuring out. What do we call that characteristic of human beings, that ability to think, that ability to observe nature out, to integrate it, understand it, do stuff with it, right? Figure stuff out. What do we call that? What's that? This is how we self-actualize. Creativity is an aspect of this. Starts with an R. Rationality, it's actually reason, right? Reason. And kind of, again, until he woke up with Eric's talk, it's not an accident that the Enlightenment, what's the other name for the Enlightenment? The age of reason. Not an accident. Not an accident that all of the... Have you ever seen a chart? I don't have a whiteboard here. Have you ever seen a chart of per capita wealth, the history of per capita wealth, that is, dollars that the average wealth the human beings have had throughout history? Have you ever seen a chart of that? I can do it in the air. So it starts at some point, let's say 10,000 years ago, and per capita wealth, that is, the wealth on average that a person has is basically flat and flat and flat until a certain point, and then it goes like that. Just skyrocket. And what's that inflection point? Anybody know what that date is? It starts going up. Now, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, I like to use 1776. It's an arbitrary date. It's anywhere in that period. I like 1776 for two reasons. Two important things happened in 1776. The founding of this country, which creates the political... lays down the political principles necessary for that spike in wealth creation. And one other thing happens in 1776. It's just cool that both these things happen. The wealth of nations is published by Adam Smith, the first real book of economics, right? A defense of capitalism. But that's an arbitrary date. Somewhere in the 18th century, this happens. And it happens because it's the first century that explicitly recognizes reason as man's tool for dealing with the world. Explicitly recognizes the importance of reason in making human life better. And once that happens, what do you get at the same time? You get a scientific revolution and you get an industrial revolution. And you get whose reason? Who reasons? Eric says something about digesting. We can't digest collectively. Can we reason collectively? Is there a consciousness up here somewhere that is collecting all our consciousnesses in which we reason? Now, who reasons? Individuals. Each one of us reasons. We each have a mind. We can share ideas. We can feed off of each other. We can trade intellectually. But it's us as individuals who are the only ones who can actually reason. And it's true that the age of reason leads to a political revolution that's about individualism, which is what the founding of this country is about, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You're right, each one of you as individuals. Not some collective right. You're right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, right? So the age of reason leads to industrialization. It leads to individualism. It leads to that. And that until reason is discovered during the Enlightenment.  I mean, there were some people who lived up here, but they were talking about income inequality. Income inequality was really dramatic back then, right? The kings and then everybody else. But everybody else pretty much lived subsistence farmers like the poorest people in the world today. Just to give you a sense of how, you know, in a sense, not really lucky, but how much we benefited from the fact that this happened. This is all before us and we're benefiting from it. So reason. Reason of what makes everything we have around us, these lights, I mean, Thomas Edison's reason, right? We get electricity. We get the light bulb. Benjamin Franklin. Without his work, we wouldn't have electricity. We wouldn't have a light bulb. These buildings, architects, somebody had to figure that out. Again, no gene. But everything in your life is about that. Everything in your life needs to be figured out. You don't have an instinct for mating. We don't. It's hard, right? You got to figure it out. I mean, you got to talk this morning about some strategies around that and how to think. How to think about relationships. That was the whole point. How to plan. And it's really crucial. This is about thinking. Even when talking about how to think about yourself and how to undo, you know, maybe certain psychological issues, it's about thinking about yourself. There's no other way, you know, they have these rooms that all pattern.  It's fun, but it doesn't help you. The only self-help is from figuring out what the problems are and figuring out what the solution should be. Thinking, thinking, thinking. So if you really want to be properly selfish, not the lying, stealing type, but the type who takes care of self, then the number one value, the number one virtue has to be thinking. Has to be taking reason, taking rationality seriously. Taking your own mind seriously. So we're here about cultivating a body, and that's great about how to eat right and how to have a good physique. And you need that, right? Because you need to be healthy in order to do anything in life. But to really achieve something in life. To really be good at what you want to be, you need to use your mind. You need to figure it out. Even when it comes to diet and exercise, right? Who are we bringing? Who is being brought up here? It's people who've studied it, who've done research, who've figured it out, right? They've used their mind. They've used reason in order to figure out diet. And if you spend, you know, a lot of us spend a lot of time on diet books and reading nutrition books and looking at the labels and figuring out what we can and cannot eat. And we spend a lot of time figuring out what kind of weights to use and how many times a day to exercise, or how many times a day, how many times a year to exercise, I guess, it's going to be, right? Because the whole idea is you shouldn't exercise too much. But, you know, what kind of weights and all this stuff, right? We spend a huge amount of time on that. Well, what I'm saying is that's the kind of time and thought and effort and energy that needs to be spent on every aspect of your life. Every aspect of it. What kind of career do you want? What am I really good at? And it can't just be about the money. I mean, money can be important. But it can't just be about the money, because believe me, if you set the career goal, if you set your goal as, I want to make a million bucks.  Getting the million bucks is not going to be satisfying.  It's not going to satisfy yourself. Rather be poorer and do something that you love doing than be rich and hate what you're doing. It's about the process. It's about what you love and understanding what you love. Take Eric. You know, he could have gone and invented a light bulb or something, right? But he loves teaching. And you know how much they pay teachers? Nothing. I mean, it's like one of the poorest professions out there. True or not, right? Yeah, absolutely. But he loves it, right?  You know, I would have done. I've got a PhD in finance. I could have gone to Wall Street. I could have gone to Wall Street. But I would have been bored in Wall Street. This is much more fun than making millions of dollars in Wall Street for me, not necessarily for you, but for me. I wouldn't exchange my life for life on Wall Street any day. Yeah, I'd have a fancier car. You know, I don't think I could have a hotter wife than I already have. It's true. I'd be married. I'll be married in February. I'll be married 30 years. 30, so. I can't talk about dating because I don't remember dating. So, for Ayn Rand, for the idea of truly being self-interested, the key is to think, but to think about everything in life, including, as I said, career. What do I love doing? Why do I love it? Do I love it for the right reasons? Somebody talked about parents giving advice, right? A parent cannot choose a career for you. Cannot choose a career for you have to choose it. And, you know, I used to ask, because there's this idea that you should choose a career based on what will do the most good for humanity, right? It's this, again, this 19th century notion. I used to ask my students, how many of you made a list of all the professions in the world and then ranked them based on the social utility, where you could do the best for humankind and chose that? And usually there's one poor soul who raises their hand. And then it's to tell the class, you selfish bastards, right? Because you chose based on what you wanted to do, but that's a good thing. That's what it's about. Being selfish is not a bad thing. It's done right. It's done properly. It's done fully in what means, it means to take care of self. So be rational in everything. Now, what does that mean? Does that mean no emotions? Robots. Like me, right? No emotionless. No passion. No. Emotions is what you live for, right? It's the emotion. It's the good feeling. It's the happiness. It's the fun. It's the satisfaction. Those are all emotions. Those are all of feelings. That's what you live for. But they're not mechanisms. Your emotions don't tell you what's good for you. They don't tell you what's right. They don't tell you, you know. And you don't live for the highs. You live for constant high.  So being selfish, being self-interested, doesn't mean that if there's a line of cocaine here, I'm going to take it because, you know what? I'm going to feel better afterwards. Why not? Because I also realize, because I can think, that there's a negative consequence. And in this case, I believe at least, that the negative consequence is greater than the high. So I don't do it. And you can apply this to the kind of food you eat, right?  And we understand when it comes to food that we sometimes have to avoid that and depress, you know, not follow our emotions that we've had. Well, again, that same principle needs to apply in everything in life. You might be attracted to an incredible woman who is going to incredibly destroy you. And if you sat down for a minute and thought about it, you'd realize it, but you know she's hot. But weigh the benefit of one night of hot sex versus she's going to demolish you, right? I wouldn't know what that feels like, in the movie, right? It's just not worth it. It's like the chocolate cake. It's not worth it. But you need to be able to use this consistently in your life in order to be able to make those kind of judgments and be able to be strong enough. And this takes strength because we're not taught this. We're not taught to stop and think. Particularly with modern education, we're taught to emote. We're taught to follow our feelings. We're very touchy-feeling these days. But that's not right. That's not what's going to lead you to the right decisions. We're taught to listen to everybody's advice. Well, most people don't know what's good for you. You know who knows what's good for you? You do. If you spend the time to think about it. So my pitch today is thinking. It's thinking, thinking, thinking. Underlies everything. Everything in life and underlies the whole foundation of self-improvement. Every aspect of it. Everything you hear up here over the weekend needs to be evaluated based on that. Does this make sense? Is this the way I want to live my life? Is this going to lead me to a better life? And that's their burden to show you nationally through reason that it is. That it's going to. I hope I haven't spoiled the weekend. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. So that's self-interest. So emotions, good things, but they're not tools for making decisions. Where do emotions come from? What do we have the emotions that we have? They keep us alive. In what sense do they keep us alive? Yeah, but should we... I just made a whole case for now making decisions in your survival based on emotions. Because where do emotions come from? Are they just random, chemical, whatever in the body? Yeah, I don't... Maybe, but I don't think that factors. Have you ever had a change in emotion? Because change leads one to understand what happens. Because have you ever had an emotion about something and then it's changed? I don't know.  Yeah, it comes from your... It's not even thoughts, it's conclusions. It comes from conclusions that you've come to. It's an automatic response to subconscious conclusions that you've made already. So it's all subconscious, but it's the conclusions. And when the conclusions change, what happens to their emotions? Did they change instantly? No, it takes a while, but they do change. So for example, if you're in love with a woman and you discover that she's cheating on you, right? Do you immediately not love her? I wish it was that easy, right? But it's not. It usually takes some time. Because what happens is our minds are these integrating machines. They like to connect stuff, and it takes a time for the subconscious to catch up with your consciousness. So your emotions over time will change and they will change if you've come to a conclusion. But it takes time. So emotions are responses to conclusions that we've come to in the past. Now, sometimes we've come to conclusions in our childhood about things that we weren't even aware we were making conclusions about. And that leads us to have emotional responses today that we might not even understand, because they're based on conclusions that we came to a long time ago. And the only way to undo those emotions, go see a good psychotherapist if one existed, is ultimately to change those conclusions, identify what they weren't changed. But emotions are just concluding. Those conclusions might be wrong. We might have had a nasty, mean mother and we came to a conclusion about women because of that when we were three or four years old, without even really being fully conscious and being fully rational, that might just be wrong. And today we have certain emotional responses that just don't match to how we'd like to have. And this is why emotions are not tools of making decisions. Because we don't know where exactly they come from. I think the more we introspect, the more we think about ourselves, the more we study ourselves, the more we know about our emotions, the more we can fix the bad conclusions and therefore change our emotional responses. But that's hard work. And you're never quite sure you're there and that's why emotions are not the way in which we make decisions. The only time you want to make a decision based on emotion is in a true emergency. When you just don't have time to think. And then emotions are as good as anything else. And hopefully your emotions are tuned with your conclusions and you're making the right decision. But that's rarity. How many of us really live in situations while survival depends on making instantaneous decisions? Almost none of us. Almost every decision we make, we can afford to stop and think about it. And I highly recommend doing that. Most of us get into trouble when we don't do that. So emotions come from thoughts. They come from conclusions. But we don't always know if those conclusions were right. We don't always know if those thoughts were rational and therefore we can't always trust our emotions. And that's why we always need to step back and think them through. Maybe they're fine. Maybe that emotion is absolutely right. Maybe it's not. We have to be open to that. So again, the mechanism is reason. And as a consequence, this is one of the reasons, you know, lying doesn't work. Because of our means of survival, the way in which we create stuff is through reason. Reason means what? Reason means absorbing information and analyzing it and being what about that information? Being honest about it. We want real facts.  You know if you feed something to a computer that's BS, then you're going to get BS. You're not going to get good stuff out of feeding. You have a computer up here. It's kind of a computer. It's more than a computer, right? If you feed it garbage, it's going to spew out garbage. If you feed it lies, you're going to fail. And you think that you can hold the lies separate from the truth? Good luck. Because as I said, our minds are integrating machines. They love to integrate stuff. Our mind, our subconscious doesn't know what you've defined as a lie and what isn't. It's going to mesh them up. Most people who lie constantly can't tell the difference. Now I'm pretty old, particularly in this room, right? And I have a hard time remembering what actually happens. Like a week ago, you asked me, what did you do a week ago? I have to really think about it? I don't remember. I really don't. Now what happens when you lie? You have to remember what you did and then what else do you have to remember? What you told, the lie. And the lie comes with all kinds of complicated circumstances, right? Because you have to remember what you lied, who you lied to, and who you didn't lie to. I mean, it's, wow, it's way too complicated. And you're going to fail. I can't remember one thing. Now you want to remember two or three or four. It's, you know, and it's layered. You know, I used to do these seminars at this company, and I used to give this example of a guy who, you know, goes out and drinks with his buddies and comes home and tells his wife, all right, I was at work late. And I used to explain why this was, you can't sustain a lie like that. Even a simple lie like that just can't sustainable, because what if the wife meets one of the buddies and other buddies have to know that you're lying and they have to say, yeah, he works late and what if she bumps into your boss and complains to the boss, how come he's working late all the time? And the boss says, he's not. So somebody raises the hand and says, this is exactly what happened, right? This guy was telling his wife he was working late, he was out drinking or whatever, and the wife called the boss and said, how come my husband's working late all the time? And the boss says, he's not. Guess how that relationship worked out, right? Lies don't work because they're anti-reason, because they're anti-reality, because they're anti-fact, okay? So, rationality. Iron Man defines seven virtues to live by for good life and I'm not going to, you know, so it's, I'm probably going to forget one. Eric's laughing. Rationality, honesty, right? We just talked about honesty. And honesty is primarily not faking reality, primarily for yourself. Justice. Justice is being rational in how you deal with other people. It should be rational in how you deal with yourself, it should be rational in how you deal with other people. People should get what they deserve from you. Good or bad. And you have to be objective and rational about that. Not emotional and subjective about it. Independence. You have reason. You have a mind. You are the only person who can do thinking for you. You can get advice from other people. Advice is great. You want to listen to other people, particularly smart and if they have your interests in mind. But you are the one who's going to make the decision. You have to. You can't relinquish that. It's your life, nobody else's. You can't listen to your mother after a certain age. I mean, she's great. And I'm sure she's smart and I'm sure she has your own interests. But you have to, you know, you have to make those decisions. You have to understand what she's saying if she's got your own interests in mind. But you have to make the decisions about what's right and wrong for you. Integrity. If you say stuff, if you believe that you're going to be rational, that rationality is good for you, then you've got to do it. You've got to walk the walk. Of reason. I always miss one. What am I missing? Productiveness. Your life is yours. Therefore, you are responsible for maintaining it. For getting the physical material that needs, that you need in order to survive. Being productive is essential for your happiness. I'm going to end with these two virtues. Productiveness and pride. Pride is your commitment to be morally perfect. To be the best that you can be. Not in a superficial sense. Not just the biggest, the richest, the strongest, but the best in everything that you do. That's what pride is, that commitment. And what do you need in order to have that kind of commitment? You don't need to have self-esteem. You need to know that you are worthy of being good. And where do you get self-esteem from? It gets from other people, from ribbons, from medals. We live in a generation where everybody gets a ribbon. Because they think that's how you're going to get self-esteem. Only you can give yourself self-esteem. Self-esteem comes from achievement. But it doesn't just come from achievement. It comes from recognizing the achievement. You achieve and you pat yourself on the back.  Not your friends patting you back. Not your coach patting you on the back. Michael Jordan became Michael Jordan because he recognized that he could be the best. And every time he was good, he recognized that he was good and he recognized that he could get better and worked hard to get better. He recognized, if you look at Michael Jordan, there's a guy with self-esteem. He's incredibly self-confident. Incredible to have a sense that he's worthy of being the greatest basketball player of all time. It's not just an accident. He's worthy of it because he worked hard. He attained it. He's got what it takes. And so it's getting those achievements, recognizing those. And what area in life do you think you get the most self-esteem from? Where do you achieve stuff in life?  At work. At work. It's not with family. It's not at the gym. It's not in the front of the mirror. It's at work. So if you want to build the life of self-esteem, then find work you love and do it really, really, really well. Not because other people expect you. Not because you'll get rewarded for it, but because you will reward yourself when you make those achievements. Stretch yourself, push yourself, challenge yourself. That's where you'll get the self-confidence to be good at everything else in life. But that's the foundation. The foundation is to be good at what you do at work. Being productive. And I wouldn't even call it work. I'd call it a career. Because a career is something planned. A career is something long-term. A career is something you develop, you move towards. It's not just the work I'm doing right now. It's the career I have. And a career is not about money. It's not about prestige. And it's not about other people. It's about you.  It's about fulfilling yourself. It's about being happy. So that's the seven. That's the formula for success. But it takes work. I like to say that being selfish is the hardest thing you can do. It takes hard work. Because it takes figuring out what is good for me. Which is not easy. And how do I achieve it? It takes using your mind all the time.  But the reward, the reward of that is what life is all about. The reward for that is that flourishing, that fulfillment. The reward for that is happiness. That's the payoff. That's what it's all about. Thank you all. Questions? Thank you very much. I really enjoyed your speech. I have a question. You mentioned earlier about free choice and also how others make you feel guilty and how it's okay to be selfish. But then where does responsibility come into that?  Or maybe you might have aging parents. And are those responsibilities that you have to take on? Are you socially obligated to take those responsibilities or should you have the free choice to say no, I don't want to do those things and I want to pursue whatever I want to pursue? So I don't believe that you have any social obligations other than to leave your neighbor alone. That is not to infringe on his right to pursue his happiness. But I don't consider a relationship with a child or a relationship with your parents as social. They're your relationships. They're your obligations if they are obligations. Now I think there's a difference when you're talking about with a child or with a parent and I'm going to say something controversial. My son's in the room which makes it even more complicated. I don't think children owe anything to their parents. I don't think children owe anything to their parents except to the extent that they love them. If you love somebody, then that love determines your relationship with them. But you don't owe them anything for bringing you into this world. You didn't ask for it. There's no contractor. You are not obliged to your parents other than you have to do what they tell you to do up until a certain age and if they pay for your college and stuff then I think you owe them something in gratitude for that. But if you don't love your parents you don't love their parents. I think there's a biblical commandment that they'll show whatever to your parents but that's just a commandment. A lot of people, not most people a lot of people don't love their parents because their parents didn't own it. Their parents are not that good. They're not nice people. You shouldn't love people who are not nice. You're not automatically obliged to love anybody. Anybody. Everybody's love needs to be earned. So if you love your older parents and you feel that part of your happiness is in helping them out when they're sick then do it. Absolutely you should do it. But it has to be in the context of your happiness. If it's a sacrifice to help your elderly parents you should not do it. It's your life. Your life is not theirs.  So you should help your parents to the extent that it's part of your life. Now I think most of us love our parents and want to help them and don't want to see them suffer. We love our parents but I don't condemn somebody who doesn't. Who says you know what? I don't like my parents. I'm not going to help them when they're old. Fine. I think that's perfectly... It's different with children.  They are your responsibility. Even if you don't like them. Even if you don't love them. You took on an obligation when you had them. You didn't have to have sex. You could have used both control. You could still in this country have an abortion. Right? Once you chose to have the child. You have taken on a mountain of obligation. It's a mountain. Don't have kids if you're not willing to take it on. You don't sleep the first couple of years. They cost you... I did the calculation once. It's an astronomical amount of money. Particularly if you're going to pay for them for college. They're a huge, huge responsibility in Boudin. You should only do it if you really want to. But once you do it, you're locked in. It's like you signed a contract to buy a house. You bought it. You signed the contract. You bought it. You might hate the house after you move in. You might regret doing it. But it's your house. With a child you can't sell it. With a house you can sell. But that's why having children is such a huge deal. Nobody should have children until they are committed to having children. Nobody should have children until they're sure that's what they want. That's actually a healthy thing that Americans are having children later in life because I think they're more mature and they realize what they're doing and they're taking on the obligation much more consciously versus 60, 70 years ago when people would get married in their late teens, early 20s and just have kids automatically and then suddenly realize, oh my God, I've taken on this obligation without having the maturity, the wealth or the thought of having children, you are obliged because you took on that responsibility but you chose it. You can't say somebody forced me. With parents, you don't have that obligation but it's certainly part of most of our lives because we do love our parents. I think you had a question. Right? I suppose my question is a similar sort of vibe in terms of caring about other people or looking after say like the Mother Teresa example. If she generally got from helping other people was purely selfish would that sort of go against your example then? No, if she'd actually got pleasure that is if she had sat down and said, you know I love helping other people it's like teaching, right? I can really help them become better human beings I can help them rise up and she would have enjoyed it absolutely. Being a social worker is not an irrational profession. You can be a social worker rationally. That's not what she did by the way, right? She didn't help them become better she helped them stay poor because she believed the poor should inherit the earth, right? The meat should inherit the earth. She discouraged them from getting an education. She discouraged them from trying to rise up and become middle class. I mean I truly believe Mother Teresa was a horrible human being. I mean I'm on record on video saying that because I think it's true and she didn't pursue helping other people rationally in terms of her own values in terms of make a difference. As a consequence she was miserable. I mean if you read the diary she was even doubting the existence of God and she didn't know why she was doing this and I mean it's very difficult when you commit yourself out of a sense of duty and that's the difference. So I'm all for helping other people, right? I love people. I'm not going to help bad people. Hitler can come and I'll help shoot him. I'm not helping him, right? You want to help people who you have identified as good or who are innocent who have fallen in bad times for no fault of one. I have a soft spot for children because I think they are innocent. Right to the extent that they're poor or whatever it's not their fault it's kind of you know it's either their parents fault or it's just it's the way it is. So you don't want to just be random in your help. You don't want to help. So I'll help children but I'm not going to help them at the expense of my kids. So my kids come first. I don't buy this love the neighbor like yourself. Sorry. I don't love some of my neighbors. Some of my neighbors I hate. Some of my neighbors I like. None of them do I really love and none of them come close to how much I love myself. And their kids I mean if there's a burning house who am I going to save? My kids are their kids. I mean who are you going to save? See I'm going to do it and I'm not going to feel guilty about it. I'm going to say my kids.  I reject that.  I'm going to pursue my values and I'm going to help people that I think deserve help and that I get something out of helping. Am I going to help strangers? Sure. You know, if it doesn't cost me too much. You know, but if somebody is drowning, people always give me the drowning example, right? If somebody drowning, do you jump in and help them? What depends? It depends. Is it an ocean in which the probability of me dying is 99%? I'm not jumping in, sorry. Not my job. Now, if I was a lifeguard, it's my job, my responsibility going back to the contract, then I do it. It's not my job. Is the risk minor and it's just a matter of effort? Sure, human life is incredibly valuable and I would go and jump in and save them. But the fact is, and we all know this that you're going to make a risk assessment of what's the cost. You know, every day, every American chooses not to help dying children, right? Because they're dying children in Africa and you could write a check. You could write a check, but you choose to let them die rather than give up whatever money it would take to write the check and that's okay. That's actually good because your life comes first and you shouldn't give up that nice meal. You shouldn't give up the college education, you shouldn't give up to help kids in Africa. And I'm saying it bluntly even though all of you kind of feel a little uncomfortable with this, right? But it's the reality. We all do it all the time. We all make choices about ourselves. I'm saying stop feeling guilty for it. You don't owe that kid anything. I mean, it's sad, and I feel sad when I see it, but you don't owe it. It's not your fault and you are not responsible. You're responsible for you. And that responsibility doesn't mean to be callous. It means to be thoughtful. It needs to be rational. It needs to be figured out what is really good for you. And kids that are close by are going to be, are going to get more of my help than kids that are far away because they impact my life more because I'm being selfish. We have to cut lunch, food. Thank you.


At a certain age group, young girls develop, they're gonna get a lot of attention. Young boys are simply not. He's gonna witness his female counterparts on TikTok. 10,000 followers, 20,000, 30,000, million followers. What does that do to the dynamics and the hierarchy on campus? Can he get this girl now?  The self-esteem of this kid is going to get killed. The only thing he can reach out now to are Instagram thoughts and pornography.


Live from San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE. Covering Hadoop Summit 2016, brought to you by Hortonworks. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and George Gilbert. Okay, welcome back everyone, we're live in Silicon Valley in San Jose for Hadoop Summit 2016. This is SiliconANGLE Media's theCUBE. It's our flagship program. We go out to the events, extract the signal from noise. It's our third day of three days of wall-to-wall coverage. I'm John Furrier, my co-host, George Gilbert. Our next guest is famous CUBE alumni who launched this company three years ago in theCUBE this October. Prakash Nanduri, co-founder and CEO of Pexata. Welcome back to theCUBE. Great to see you. Great to see you, great to be back. That's the end of the quarter, so always want to know how's business. You launched your company on theCUBE. It was really a proud moment for me because you were the first coming to launch on theCUBE. We had Bill Schmarzel launch his book on theCUBE that same time, Big Data, the dean of Big Data. So it was really fun. I mean, but at that time, you don't know what the future's going to look like. How are you guys doing almost three years later? How'd the quarter go? How's business?  It's so nice to be back where when we launched on theCUBE close to two and a half years ago and we launched the concept of self-service data preparation, as you recall. And here we are now, two and a half years later, self-service data preparation and the data preparation space in general has just mushroomed. It is now one of the most important aspects of driving towards information-driven decisions. And it has become really one of the most critical pieces of every analytical exercise. We are very proud that as a company of firsts, we launched first on theCUBE. We brought the concept of self-service data preparation to the market. And here we are finishing the first half of 2016 with stellar performance. We're very proud now that we don't have to explain to people what data preparation is. We are the leader in enterprise-grade data preparation, having completed a phenomenal first half, having earned the trust and respect of some of the biggest and largest brands in the world, both in the financial services world, in the retail and CPG world, in the high-tech industry. And we are so proud that the biggest brands have selected Paxata and continue to grow with Paxata as their only enterprise-grade data preparation platform. Well, congratulations, first of all, it's amazing. One, two, as a co-founder and entrepreneur, it's always hard because you always want to enter the market and get a nice little narrow beachhead and then it's sequenced from there. You made a good choice, but data prep is changing, right? You're getting, and some say ETL, all this data prep is going to be invisible because the acceleration of data coming in needs to move into these data lakes or whatnot. But there's a real interesting conflict or balance that needs to be struck in this market. I want to get your thoughts on this. And that is that in the data space, having an observational data space is very important, which implies sharing a lot of data. At the same time, there's a governance piece, right? So I need to have access to data, sharing, and governing. How are you guys addressing that dynamic with Paxata? Yes, you're absolutely right that many people have different understandings of data preparation, but enterprise-grade data preparation first begins with having a comprehensive set of capabilities. Those comprehensive sets are being able to do data integration at a quality, governance, enrichment, collaboration, and reuse, all in a single platform and architected on the modern architecture. And then you need to be able to address the needs where data preparation is something that can be done by the mere mortals, the business analysts of us. I like to say that there's a data scientist in all of us. There may be 200,000 data scientists, but there are 200 million business analysts. And all these people need to go from data to information that's ready for analytics. So what is Paxata doing? Paxata is going and helping the largest brands in the world, whether they're in financial services or high tech, by deploying an enterprise-grade platform that consumes both Hadoop and non-Hadoop data, consumes both structured and semi-structured data, is able to go and in interactively allow a business analyst who doesn't know SQL, who doesn't know PIG, who doesn't know Perl, to be able to go from data to information in minutes and not months with clicks and not code. And that's really what we are doing to change the game. The last piece, which is really important, that our customers all have multiple analytical use cases, and as a result, multiple analytical tools. So they use Tableau, they use Palantir, they use Click, they use proprietary analytical models, and that's fine, because that's what their business dictates. We're talking about large businesses with multiple functions, multiple divisions, and what we need to do is to say how can we serve the data preparation needs of all these use cases without being curtailed or pigeonholed as either a tiny desktop product or a small piece of a larger analytical solution. You need to have an independent platform that serves every analytical need and every business function in a large enterprise. So Prakash, bump us up a level and help us understand the sequence of work that has to get done when you bring data into the data lake, who makes it navigable, and then when do you apply analytics? When does that become operationalized? But most important, when you were talking about the governance and lineage, if you're using multiple tools, that must be very hard to maintain the integrity of all that. How does it hold together? So you bet, so it first has to start with what are the business outcomes we're looking for. Right, I was speaking to my good friend, Mike Olson, Chief Strategy Officer of Cloudera recently, and he and I share the exact same vision that at the end of the day, it's not about pig or yarn or this, these are all capabilities that are absolutely important, but at the end of the day, the business needs outcomes. The business needs to pass their stress test or they need to know what product needs to be built for what consumer, and these type of outcomes are what our businesses are looking for. In order to get to the right decisions, they need to be able to get the right information. There's a big difference between data and information. So when you see raw data being deployed into your HDFS or into your any other data store in your enterprise, you need to be able to pull that data. You need to be able to first of all, discover what it is. You need to be able to clean it. You need to shape it. You need to enrich it. And then you need to be able to get the confidence that this information that you've derived out of the data is ready for analytics. And if it takes you 90% of your time just to do that, then you don't have time to get to your analytics.  So what we are doing is we are completely automating the whole notion of going from data to information by leveraging the power of machine learning algorithms, the distributed computing methods, the ability to have interactive workloads and a consumer experience. And then to be able to have a completely independent information creation platform or a data preparation platform, which then can export data to every analytical use case. And because we are sitting on top of your data lake, or your data infrastructure, we're able to get you to be on the same page, regardless of you using multiple analytical tools. That's the power of the Paxata platform. What's the secret sauce of Paxata? The secret sauce is in three fundamental aspects. Number one, it is the eight patent pending proprietary algorithmic and distribution computing techniques that we have leveraged and we have built on a highly parallelized spark-based platform. Second, it is the unbelievably simple consumer experience we're delivering to our business consumers. The difference between the Paxata experience and any of the other solutions you see in the market is that Paxata needs the least technical qualification. Our consumers don't need to know what SQL is. They don't know what an inner join or an outer join is. They just are able to work with their data and be able to go from data to interaction. The third secret sauce is our ability to work with highly, highly large and massive amounts of data interactively. So why is this important? When you're focused on a use case like anti-money laundering, saying that you're going to try to pull samples of data to clean it doesn't cut it. You need to be able to use the entire workload. If you're finding a bad guy and you're working in national security, you need to work with full data sets, not samples. That's where the Paxata platform power comes in. Prakash, how does companies deal with you guys? How do they engage with you? How do you guys price this out? Do I need to just give you all my data? So let's just say that I have a big data pile that I'm, or data lake, or however I store it on an object store. Do I pay you per ingest? Do I pay you for the license? How does the business model work? So the reason why we're the number one enterprise grade data preparation platform in the industry today, and that's because of our customers, is because we've made multiple things easy for them. First of all, delivery model. Paxata is the only platform in the industry that works as a multi-tenant public cloud offering and the same exact product is deployed behind the firewall for the largest institutions. Third, the only platform that works in a hybrid environment that is both on-premise and in the cloud. We've got customers working with that today. So it's very easy to deploy. Second, our pricing is purely subscription-based and it is based on very similar to how our partners like Portnwerks and Clareira and others price their products. So it's very much on a subscription, on per core basis subscriptions. We do not charge for user-based pricing because we have as many consumers as possible leveraging Paxata platform. So you don't need to be curtailed. We say cores, you mean like machines? CPU cores. Okay, got it. CPU cores and no base pricing is what we have. It's a very simple- Clouds, not like Amazon or anything like that. We run on top of Amazon, but we are, again, the only platform that allows our customers to choose. We can run on any three of the major platforms, whether it's Amazon, whether it's Azure, or whether it's Google. So I'm showing my stuff in S3. How do I work with you? Fantastic, go to town. Paxata runs on, we have over 30 customers running on a multi-tenant cloud in AWS today. And you can easily go and pull your data directly from S3, work it in Paxata. You get provisioned in less than 30 seconds, and you're off to the basis. And so you charge me on EC2 instances? We have a special cloud-based subscription, which is also very much centered around how much compute power you use. Okay, so it's not going to gouge someone on Amazon, because you could have some in many instances. We have the most flexible pricing model because not only are we a subscription-based pricing, but we are a very much scalable pricing model. And we are the only platform or company in the world today doing data preparation that allows you to do burst compute-based pricing. So you guys are basically the more that you get used, the more pricing you charge. It's a nice, back-loaded, back-end reward for you guys. Absolutely. And that puts pressure on you to have a great product. We have a fantastic product, and because we have architected it right, and because we have the only elastic cloud architecture in the industry around data preparation, we have operating costs that are manageable, and we can share some of those savings with our customers. Okay, Prakash, thanks so much for coming on theCUBE. Great to see you. Wonderful. And we might see you at Data Week, which is going on in the fall, with conjunction with our event, Big Data NYC, as well as Strata Hadoub. theCUBE will be in New York City this fall. We hope to see you there. You bet. I always love talking to you guys. Take care. Paxata, doing well here in theCUBE. Launching theCUBE, great operating model, very flexible, value-driven. Thanks for sharing. I'm John Furrier with George Gilbert. We'll be back with more live coverage after this short break. Thank you. Thanks.


The temple, Mahakala temple, Mahakaleshwara temple in Ujjain, this year is very important because it is there, Kumbh Mela. This is the twelfth cycle of the twelve-year cycles, the solar cycles. So very significant year for them and it's called as the Simhasta Kumbha this time. This temple was built by a king named Chandraseena. Chandraseena was attacked. He is a great devotee of Shiva. He was attacked by people who wanted to destroy this culture. Ujjain had become a city of devotees and those who sought knowledge, it was almost like the second Kashi of India where knowledge, learning, transmission of spiritual knowledge was the main hub of the town. That is what ruled the town and people came to this town for that purpose. It is not on any trading route. So the town grew. It was called as Avantika at that time. This town Avantika grew big only as a knowledge hub, as a spiritual hub. So there were people who don't like it, there are always people who don't like it. So they wanted to destroy the city and they attacked. I won't go into the entire story so he prayed to Shiva and Shiva appeared in the form of Mahakala and absorbed the enemies in a certain way and relieved him of this trouble so that he could continue spreading what he was doing. Kala, the word kala means two things. Kala means time. Kala also means darkness. How can one word mean time and darkness? When we say time, in your present experience, time means cycles. Cycles means physical nature. From atomic to cosmic, from a single atom to the larger cosmos, everything is in cyclical motion. If there are no cycles, there is no possibility of physicality. Planet turns around once. We call this a day. The moon goes around the planet, we call it a month. The planet goes around the sun, we call it a year. Like this it goes. Our understanding of time or experience of time right now is in cycles. Cycles of sleep and wakefulness, eating, digestion, hunger, like this there are many cycles. It is only through circular movement of things do you know time. If there was no circular motion, if there are no cycles in the existence, if there is no physicality, you wouldn't grasp time. That is, time manifesting through physical existence. This physical existence is happening in the lap of a larger non-existence, which in English language they may call it space. Here we call that kala our darkness. Why we are calling space as darkness is, if you want to see light, you need some opaque object, an opaque object which stops light. You can see my hand only because it is stopping light. You cannot see the air because it's not stopping light, nor can you see the light in the air because it is not stopping light. Anything that does not stop light will not be seen by you, it will be darkness to you. Either you must see the source of light or you must see an object which stops light, otherwise you will have no experience of light. See, you see the sun and the moon. Sun is the source of light for us. Moon is reflecting the light. In between is all darkness, but light is passing, isn't it? You don't see it, but it is definitely passing, otherwise how would it fall on the moon? So, the space is referred to as kala or darkness because space is dark. Only if there is something, it reflects light and you experience light. If there is something, then it is not space.  Between time and space, why are they mentioned with one word because they are one? In the sense, right now, let's say this is point A and this is point B. These two points, these two points are possible only because there is time. It's not because there is a distance, there is time. Because there is time, there is possibility of distance or space. If there is no time, there can only be one point and one point cannot happen in physical existence. There can only be polarities. Things can exist only as polarities. So, if there is no time, if there was no time, there would be no space, there would be no two different things. Everything would… nothing could exist, even nothing could exist, not just something, even nothing could exist. So, the basis, the fundamental basis of existence is known as kala or the time because only because there is time, there is room for space, otherwise there would be no space. As right now, your experience of time is only in cyclical moments. Your experience of time is only an expression of physical nature because physicality exists only because of cyclical moments. The entire aspiration, the spiritual aspiration is to attain to mukti or liberation means you want to transcend the ways of physical. Or in other words, you want to transcend the cyclical nature of the existence. Transcending the cyclical nature of the existence means transcending repetitive process of life. Transcending repetitive process of life means transcending the compulsiveness of who you are, from compulsion to consciousness, from compulsiveness to consciousness. This is the journey. So, if you want to move from compulsiveness to consciousness, the limited experience of time that you have right now, which is an expression of the cyclical moment of physical existence, if you experience time without the basis of physicality or without the limitations of physicality, then we call that time as Mahakala. Mahakala is the lap upon which creation is a smattering of things, huge galaxies. But still, they're just small specks of creation. Rest is all empty space. Ninety-nine percent or ninety-nine and more percent of an atom is emptiness, that is Mahakala. Though the atom is in cyclical moments, over ninety-nine percent is emptiness. In the larger cosmos, over ninety-nine percent is emptiness. Huge galaxies in cyclical moments, but over ninety-nine percent is emptiness. So it is in the lap of Mahakala that creation happens. If you are involved with limited specks of creation, then you experience time as a cyclical moment. This dimension is referred to as samsara, which means cyclical moments. If you transcend this, then we call this vairagya. This means you have become transparent. If you are transparent, you don't stop light. If you don't stop light, this means you have become free from the compulsive nature of life or the cyclical moment of life. If you become free from the cyclical moment of life, then we say you are in mukti or absolute liberation. So those who are aspiring for mukti, those who are seeking absolute liberation, for them this dimension that we are referring to as Mahakala becomes of paramount importance. The Mahakala temple, the linga that is consecrated there is a phenomenal nature. It will shake you from the root of your existence. It is really an incredible consecration. It is just done for this purpose that in some way it dissolves you. There is a dimension of Mahakala in the dhyanalinga, but it is clothed so that only those who seek for them it'll be available. There it is a little more. There is certain flagrants to the way he finds expression. There is a certain forcefulness, raw forcefulness. One must be ready to go into this temple properly because it's of a tremendous power and it is not for the faint hearted. It shakes you from inside because that is the nature of Mahakala that in the very, the very presence of what this Mahakala Rupa is, is when you go there everything is gone. Everything is burnt into ashes. That means you become free from the physical. That means it pushes you, it propels you towards your ultimate liberation. You want to do that gently. We have everything here. You want to do it in a boom way. You really want to be pushed hard and you are not faint hearted. Then Mahakala temple is a phenomenal process and this April, May is very significant. We are planning to transport a few thousand people from Tamil Nadu so that something is shaken.


What's up everybody? Jason here for jasperjasebricks.com 2021 Panini Donners Optic Football 6-Boss half case break pre-gachines number 7 And again all-card ship and there we go guys. Let's go. Oh, there's Joe Yeah, no, that's what I said. I said if anything goes to my mic, but it's been a while But other than that, no, if any heated arguments we ever got into just for sports That's pretty much it But yeah, we all get along here rex we all understand each other so there's no need to be in a heated argument At least not for work But no, I mean like I said It that that would be the day Like Nick just came in your guns blazing Thomas Chris. Oh Chris. Well, you know, obviously Chris I think was just breaking a little bit more because of the training purposes You know, he'll be breaking. I think for sure if he breaks Every other Sunday on Instagram, but he Chris is just more for like in case like I said like say when Joe or I or Somebody takes vacations or when we're out or we're sick and he can pop in and of course cover But he will be breaking a little bit more I Think on Instagram this upcoming month because Teddy's gonna be out for a whole month. So So it's not that he's not staying around. It's just more like, you know It's just more for like the emergency type One two three four left four five six to the right Three One two three But he was break I said breaking a lot more just for like the training purposes All right, we're good. Here we go Yeah, well we we're gonna do a podcast Like last year, but it just we just never got around to it Definitely would be fun. I like podcasts like everyone's doing them But it's like everybody does enjoy them, you know, I think we're gonna start creating more content though guys Like fun to talk content So you'll be able to see that soon So I think that's what the route we want to kind of take to is like I will I think we can break some fun content here Honestly, I think we have great personalities. We'll just become tix-hawk stars Break man Thomas you want me to just start right you want me to just start you want to hear some like I'm gonna just start fights. Yeah, man that guy over there at this place. I don't know about those guys. Oh Jasper's okay, I'm gonna say meals a man want to start something fields Larry Johnson Jamal Williams Just for our dogs Now when we see black Pandora's oh my god, it's a downtown as well when there's been one black Pandora There's been at least three in every box.  Chad didn't like the design for Seattle Where's Chad? I know he's listening That is a 11 to 25 All right, coolio Remember most cases except like I think one yesterday is the only one that didn't have two downtown's most cases did Dude, we had a bet that we had a bet on his Joe borough RPA that He said Kyle Lewis would be re-injured in five games and I said seven and we both lost Today him and Julio Rodriguez were out We're like, oh my god, I don't know how serious it is, but they're both out fields I don't know there must be something in the water in Seattle because I Don't know Jabril Cox To 299 I did we were watching it live. I Was chatting with Tim and then when that happened. He said good night Doc Prescott Rhondale more than 99. I think he's gonna have a pretty good season to start off to That is for the Cardinals and why I think I jinxed myself, but no black Pandora's in this box every other box we've had had three to 290 tonight, you know, I And Darius Leonard all right six left in that pack filler for NT team random. So if that pack filler sells out while I'm breaking this, I'll see if I can quickly repost the second pack filler, but basically guys The way it's looking like is we might be able to get that second case of NT done tonight Two straight-up spots in the team random Plus six spots left in this pack filler plus one pack filler left after that So go and grab those six spots so we can sell that out and then we'll post up the second one and then that's it guys We're done. I think those two straight-up spots would sell Who's the top three quarterback this season Nick? I didn't see what you said and we need details We need we need to know you mean fantasy Overall oh You're asking us.  He has the potential to be I don't know about top three But definitely top ten. I think I'd put Josh Allen in there For sure top for top three Burl can have a top three season I don't know. I can never really doubt Patrick Mahomes though Mahomes Herbert Herbert might have a baller year. I think it's easier to say top five We're now in the league of the quarterbacks. So all these guys are gonna put up major stats David's Mills optic hollow It's nice in there for Roy Christian McCaffrey We have semi fohoco and how about another downtown and another Pittsburgh stealer. What a break for the Steelers Ryan downtown Najee Harris and this downtown look is way different from this one Yeah, I think this is what downtown looks of Pittsburgh looks like Not like this Yeah, the downtowns and this are like lasers now then they have like black Pandora's gold vinyls Trace sermon those are numbered. Those are just normal downtown James Winston Famous James Red hot rookies Kirk Cousins Marcus Davenport. Yeah, I think Rex just always gonna roof her feels until he sells that car then he's not gonna care about him Well, he should have JK Dobbins back this year And I think I'll have people just doubt them are Jackson, but he just performs Juju can be a good addition to this deal to the to the to Kansas City as well He's been a little banged up as of lately and people aren't really talking about him anymore Besides his tick-tock videos. Oh, did that box have not have an auto? Maybe not. I Didn't even notice that Still could be in this one. I did have a box in case number one that had two autos in one. So I could double check it. I don't think I missed anything because they're usually backwards. That is a very hot take Very hot. Muy caliente. I don't know. I feel like Like one of those top three teams No offense Joe, but what if like Devonte Adams and Derek hard don't work out? Like everybody thinks it's gonna work out because of their chemistry, but What if like there's like an injury season for them or it just doesn't I don't know I feel like one of those top three teams Raiders Chargers or Broncos aren't gonna do so well and I just can't never doubt the Chiefs There is no guarantee in life Derek Henry. Well, I guess we're just hoping that Derek just gets the ball and throws it out in five seconds to Devonte Richie Grant Zach Wilson No, it's Put no Nick, I thought we had something here your Cowboys fan. Oh The champ is here Antoine Winfield Aaron Jones Zavin Collins. Oh, wow Okay, well How did that happen? Were you like from Dallas originally or just grow black in the Cowboys maybe because they won in the 90s, you know Kaderi is Tony So you have those Super Bowls in VHS is right like you still have them just in case to relive the glory days They don't have them in DVD. I don't think so Right here Devonte Smith Fly you fly baby To 125 Eagles going to Brody Jamin Davis to 99 Darnell Milani Legend very Tucker That's cool, Nick. It's all good. I'm a big Eagles fan Like I said, I grew up here with an old team in the 90s and then I started really getting into them like night 2001 actually like McNabb's like second or third year and that's that's what I just fell in love watching my I more mainly got introduced because my wife's my sister's husband at the time My nephew's dad. He liked the Eagles in the 90s around the Cunningham. So That's kind of how I started watching the Eagle football with him and then I just Just continue Carl we're trying to fill up that pack filler. It looks like it just sold out So that NT pack filler sold out I'm gonna post up the next one right now really quick To pack filler number 18 22 spots perfect and Then just two spots straight up in the team right themselves out that NT break So I just posted it. I don't know if he's good for fantasy But like he's he actually had sneaky like really good stats last year, didn't he? I think it all just depends on how fields gets protection or not if he's like, you know Think it all just depends on the quarterback to see who can get like the targets Eagles fan honestly Eagles fan base can be a little obnoxious, but that's just like any other any other team There's like fans that just say blab whatever comes out of their mouth and then this fans obviously they're realistic I'm more of a realistic guy. I've never been one to talk smack a lot I kind of like always tell people this like well, let's see what the scoreboard does Let's let the scoreboard do the talking, you know But I'm not gonna just I'm not just gonna say I'm not gonna say obnoxious though. It's like I'm a superstitious guy and then like, you know Boss my mic is like that. He'll be like Eagle Superbowl, baby. I'm like. Oh, no, man I would love that but I'm not gonna say that Now cowboy fan this into the story Let's see. Hold on. I'm only supposed to sell seven straight up. I'm not supposed to sell eight seven gets sold straight up and then We're gonna give away six and pack fillers So I'd make it 13 and then we give a free spot So to my knowledge, I only sold I've only sold five so far That's that's all I've sold So if we sell two more that makes it seven which Carl just got them So that should be it right there. I don't think I've sold eight. Yeah, Travis got one Nick got two right Gretchen got two and then Carl got two the two four six seven yeah so seven sold straight up and Six of them are selling in pack fillers three in each So basically now all you have to do is sell at the pack filler and then we're good Right, did I get that right? Can you double check that for me, Joe? If you don't mind we should be good I Because we're only giving away three in each one. So we should be fine Aaron Jones tonight, you know No, originally Nick was only trying to sell Four spots straight up and wanted to do three fillers So I canceled that third filler and I just created three more spots straight up to make it seven Well, we got a rookie downtown rookie downtown Wow, this is three downtown in a half case Jesus And it's Justin Fields whoo Look at that God There you go That is a Barry David who got the Bears In a team random. How about that? That's three downtowns in this half-inner That is crazy Padding my homes Yeah, we're doing a 14 team team random, but we're only giving away one So it's 13 spots at the cell. So six in a filler seven and team straight up Oh, well, I was supposed to apply for the Black Pandora's but Yeah, it worked out It worked out in downtowns in this half Tray Lance Michael Parsons nice Mack Jones hollow You know these hollows are actually sneaky good Her birds and Matt her birds and all those guys hollows PSA tents don't go for like 700 bucks So if this grades well, this would probably be that if not more Patriots going to Sean Maddox. That's a nice one John who Smith and yeah, we did have a hot case as we did in the last one So this could be another hot case right here Cory Davis legendary logos Jalen Hertz And we got a Travis etn junior elite series rookies Javante Williams pink laser It's a very nice one right there to 79 and I'm already Rogers Wow, I can't believe I'm saying I'm gonna say this but it looks like the team random might sell out before the pristine pack filler Wow Okay, I Figured I was doing it right, but Customer point it. I was like double check. So pretty much this half has had a lot of downtowns more than we've seen before but We haven't still pulled a big quarterback rookie autograph, right? So Leasing to believe if it's not in one of these two case two boxes here could be in the second half But we have seen two downtowns on average, but the fact is that this one has three But definitely another different case that we've gotten so far. All right, here we go. Good luck second to last box Right is Marcus Allen Cowl pits Chase Claypool AJ Green and this card. I don't know if that's like Ben's but it looks a little like dirty Let me see that line right there Black Pandora David Johnson All right, let's see if this one has three black Pandora's White Howe rookies Kaderis Tony and Ronnie Parkins for the Patriots and Marina To 125 Chas Zarat JJ Watt It's a 79 Jonathan Taylor 299 Sam Ellinger and Devonte Parker to 15 9 of 15 Yeah, I think Gareth Bale scored a day. All right last box here guys. Good luck. Yeah, you're that low galaxy fan the funny thing though about Soccer here is that you know galaxy obviously has been around obviously the longest one all the championships, but They have the LAFC has not been treated like the Clippers. I'll tell you that I Feel like the city of LA loves LAFC way more than they love the galaxy now Well, the funny thing is that you know, I like LSE, but they haven't produced at all I mean they kind of choking the playoffs. Let's just be honest but There it is it is very exciting though I I think I had more fun at LAFC game than I did galaxy though for sure And it's honestly probably all of those original like Chivas USA fans that love the Chivas in Mexico that are now LAFC fans and they're They're just more passionate. That's all The stadium the Bank of California Stadium is beautiful. The atmosphere is freaking awesome. Oh, yeah, people love LSE more than the Clippers That's for sure. Jibril Cox. I think I'm gonna go I I I'm sure I can look at tickets. It's gonna have to be secondary market by now, but At SoFi this year LAFC plays against America and then Chivas play against Galaxy on the same day. So I think the tickets valid for both games Which should be fun See memo the other day get get put shoved by What's his name and then People from America had a like dive-in slide and they get like a yellow card James Robinson. Yes for sure You do not want to support America The bats they should have been shipped out already. Yeah Pretty sure that should have been shipped out by the latest this last Monday Darius Leonard Jamaa Chase hot red hot rookies We're talking soccer Redemption Dead Spitz Patrick to 299 It's okay the the American dollar is just as strong as a The dollar overseas now, so it's called soccer now. It's not called football the chance later.  So that should be at a 79 Very David have yourself a break buddy So, you know, although we did have a pretty nice half case. This was the only quarterback We've been seen two to three quarterback autographs in every case There could still be some nice quarterbacks in that second half. So obviously there's still five six teams remaining So let's try to get that going. Well, they're at a 79 in the base, but I don't know about the autograph So David's Mills Parkins Travis ETN. We got a Mac Jones hollow Devontae Smith downtown Downtown downtown Roundabout Moore, but Justin Fields So I appreciate it guys Second half in the store Jatsby's case race.com


You have and I have a remote control. You are not the victim of your thoughts or your feelings. You are the person having those thoughts and feelings but they do not define you or command you or force you into compliance. And one of the reasons we stay on those channels though we know they are not good for us is because we have favorited them and we favorit them because there is some strange sense of comfort and familiarity and certainty in watching and listening to the old reruns of our past life. But the reruns are not good for us because the reruns are focused in on our past mistakes and failures and regrets. It's the woulda, coulda, shoulda channels and episodes. So I want to remind you today that you have a remote control, that you can choose new and different channels for your mind and try doing that today.


In this lecture, we're going to look at the events in World War II and England's role in them. It's only going to be a short overview of World War II, starting with 1940 and moving to the end of the war, victory in Europe Day, when England was out of the war. If we look at England during World War II, once the battle gets underway. As I mentioned before, the primary target was to attack Germany first. Not only was it the larger threat, there was a concern over new technology that Germany was developing and how that would affect the rest of the world and the war itself, the progress of the war. But the idea was if we attacked Japan first and defeated Japan, that still wouldn't end the war. It was only by defeating Germany first that the war would come to an end. There was also a conflict among the big three over the method of fighting World War II and pursuing the war. The United States was going to invade Europe, but the question was where? Russia wanted the invasion to happen as soon as possible. That was Stalin's primary goal, but he was concerned about where? He wanted a land invasion of France and then to take pressure off the eastern front, Russia. However, Great Britain wanted to wait, and Churchill's plan was to attack what he called the soft underbelly of Europe, and this was through the Mediterranean. So this conflict, both over Germany being the primary target and over the method of pursuing the war, both put the big three at odds with one another, although they did agree to attack Germany first. And here is a map of the situation where you have Germany here, Greater Germany, and the Sudetenland, this idea of the Anschluss, Germany bringing into itself the German speaking countries. They attacked France through the Low Countries. Here was the eastern front with the Soviet Union.  This is going to put the Russians, who are going to be very concerned about how the war progresses in their partnership with England and with the United States. The soft underbelly was the answer as far as England and the United States were concerned. In the spring of 1942, General Erwin Rommel in Northern Africa was pretty much in control of the southern part of the Mediterranean, Northern Africa. From late 1942 to the spring, May of 1943, Great Britain and the United States, their troops together, drive the Germans from Africa. In the winter of that year, 42 and 43, there is the Siege of Stalingrad. And this is Germany invading into Russia and causing heavy losses on Germany, but certainly on both sides. Churchill and Roosevelt continued to delay this planned invasion of France, which continues to put more pressure on Russia and in turn on Stalin and his alliance with the other two leaders. And here you see a map of that British U.S. invasion of the soft underbelly as Churchill called it, of Europe across Northern Africa, up into Sicily and then up into Italy. And this threatens and ultimately leads to the toppling of Mussolini. In 1943, the Allied forces invaded. Mussolini flees Italy, however he's captured. The Italians then join the Allies. The king of Italy, who was still on the throne, joins the Allies. Germany moves into Italy to try to prop up Mussolini's regime. By mid-1943, the Allies were able to stop the Axis advances in Europe and in the Pacific. And the Allied strategy, as I said before, is still angered Stalin because of this postponed French invasion. But in the end, after the war, the Soviets are going to be able to lay claim to Eastern Europe as a result. And here again you see this map of Hitler's idea of greater Germany, the countries that were allied with Germany during World War II, and those occupied by Germany as well. In the Soviets and into the Middle East, the Grand Alliance, and you also have the Great Britain involved in it as well, those few neutral nations and the so-called Battle of the Bulge and at the bottom also the Normandy invasion. In 1944, the Allies were able to move in to lead the final blows to the Axis powers. In June of that year, you have the beginning of Rome being liberated. A couple of days later, you have Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion, and Eisenhower was a supreme commander. Now, it was George C. Marshall who was still commander of the Army, and he is the one of Allied forces, and he is the one who put Eisenhower in charge of Operation D-Day. In August of that year, Paris is finally liberated by the Allies, and in December you have that last Battle of the Bulge, the final German offensive. And by spring of 1945, the Allies are actually able to move into Germany. Suddenly, however, in April, FDR dies in warm springs, and the presidency of the United States passes to Harry Truman. And this is going to be of much concern among the Allies, Great Britain and France and Italy. Finally, however, on May 8th, Germany did surrender. This is V.E. or victory in Europe Day. And this is going to mark the formal end of the war for Great Britain. Now, although there are still things going on in Japan for Great Britain, this is the end.