Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we have with us Nandita Narayan. She's a professor in St. Stephen's College and was a former president of Duta, an organization which has been in the forefront of struggles against privatization of education. And today we will be discussing about the draft Bill of Higher Education Commission Act of India Act, which will be replacing the current University Grants Commission Act or the UGC as we know it. So ma'am, if you could brief us on what exactly is HECI and how is it different from what we currently have as the UGC. Okay, so first I'd just like to tell you that for some years there has been a discussion about replacing various educational bodies like the UGC, AICTE and some other such commissions with one body which was earlier when the earlier government was their UPA. They wanted to bring the broader bill in which there was higher education and research commission. We are deposed at that time as well before the Parliamentary Standing Committee because the features of the bill were such that it was making way for greater commercialization of education. And in fact it had been brought in as part of certain clauses in the GATS treaty, the agreement, General Agreement on Traits and Services as part of what they call independent regulatory authority. And all policies of the government were being designed to, you know, in keeping with those provisions where funding was to be reduced gradually, government funding was to be reduced and this would be thrown open to the market. So we had to post it, then it had been withdrawn. Bidron means it was not actually followed through in Parliament at that stage. So it came as a bit of a surprise, not really surprising because you know the way in which policies are being made by the government in terms of education, without having a formal new education policy or national education policy which is being given month after month of extension, they have been implementing certain things which we had seen in the draft which are making for greater, you know, marketization or commercialization of higher education in particular. But it was a surprise that what they brought was to simply replace the UGC by another body. So the logic of having to bring in a new body because it was going to be really new and not merely a replacement of one of them, that logic was not there. So why did the UGC have to be replaced by another body where the UGC could have been strengthened, whatever you thought were the shortcomings, we ourselves thought there were many shortcomings. One of them being that the UGC had not been exercising its autonomy. You know the UGC stands for University Grants Commission. It was brought in through an act of Parliament in 1956 and the twin purpose of this body was to look after both the funding requirements as well as the regulatory part where you regulate the standards. So you make sure that standards are maintained in keeping with various acts of various universities and that there is a justification for different kinds of funding, that recommendation goes to the ministry and the finance ministry gives the money. But it was a buffer between the government and the universities so that there was supposed to be a degree of autonomy that it enjoyed and hence that autonomy would protect the autonomy of the universities as well. The autonomy of the universities required that the funding agency did not put you know did not exercise undue pressure on it and also that it was you know guaranteed funding because without that guaranteed funding you really could not survive, you could not give affordable quality education to the masses which is why these universities were set up. Now what has happened is if you notice first of all in the new body the name grant is missing, the word grant is missing from the name of the institution itself that itself tells you why the UGC had to be done away with because the intention of giving grants itself has changed over a period of time which we have been seeing through many other legislations or regulations such as the graded autonomy regulation one, two, autonomous colleges regulation in which the prime objective is to make universities and colleges self-financing and thereby they would have to increase the fees. Third, the HEFA higher education funding agency in which you would for infrastructure be given loans and not grants and which you have to pay back and you have to show that you can pay it back by raising the fees of students. So and then the latest was the 30 percent of the additional expenditure for revision of day, you have to generate yourselves. So we have been fighting against these provisions, it was giving us an indication of where the UGC is heading, where the government is heading, government funding over a period of time has been reduced instead of being taken up to at least 6 percent of the GDP, it has been reduced further from 4 percent to 3.5 to 3 over a period of time which has really been killing our research, hardly any money for any research grants for scholarships for students and for the normal day to day functioning of universities even even infrastructure. Suddenly you find in the refresher courses of Delhi University they say we cannot pay for your meals and for all the facilities that are given during the refresher course. So every day we are feeling the crunch. So this is the primary purpose of the new system. Now in this HECI what you find is, so first of all the funding part has been completely taken away and given to another body. Even if that body was another independent body even then it is not a good idea for funding and academic regulation to be separated. How do you decide how much funds university needs if you do not look at the academic requirements? These are two joint sort of functions they cannot really be separated. Second is the funding part has been given directly to the ministry which is not an academic body. How will the officials of the ministry decide what kind of funding is to be given to which university? It can only I mean we can speculate that there will be much greater political interference and non-academic considerations will be there for grant of funding, grant of withdrawal. They also say the secretary to HRD said that they will be given by MHRD or some other arrangement will be made. Now that's very suspicious. Function of this new body is to actually either close down institutions or monitor them in a way in which they have to really fall in line. Plus even at the best of times a one shoe size fits all approach does not work in a diverse country such as ours. You can't quantify every aspect of you know standards. You can't standardize and expect standards to be there. So that part is also very problematic. The third part of the composition in which from you had 12 members in the earlier one you have 14 here you had four out of 12 were teachers. Here you have two out of 14 are teachers and the majority of the members are ex-officials all heads of other bodies and director pointies of the you know the ministry to members of the ministry and so on three members of the ministry and so on. So you find that this body in itself is also has much less degree of independence from the government. Even if the government has nominated a teacher you might expect some degree of independence from that teacher but if you have an ex-official member then they will have to throw the line that is given laying down by the government. So we find seven out of 12 are going to be these ex-official members and then they will also be in fear of their positions because the chairperson and vice chairperson can actually be removed. They have a five year term but they can actually be removed for all kinds of reasons including moral repertoire and so on which is very vague and therefore they will be functioning in fear and that degree of independence that they should have which should have been restored is going to be further eroded. So and then there is no representation of you know the vast majority of the country the SC, ST, OVC women at least a line should have been there that care should be taken that they are representations from marginalized communities and from you know the maybe the elected teacher representatives of the two major bodies of teachers our demand has been long-standing demand that both the AI facto which represents state universities and colleges and FED CUTA which represents central universities should have a place in this body. Is there any scope of say lobbying through these new that the policies that you are bringing in is there any scope of lobbying because there is no conversation that takes place unfortunately with this government we have not actually been able to have a dialogue they give you seven to eight days to give your reply you know and that seems to be like a you know cosmetic exercise they did the same thing within seven days give your reply to the graded autonomy regulation now we all gave our replies but it was I don't think it was even looked at there's no place where you can actually have a dialogue you know you need to be able to meet physically and have a dialogue earlier you would find AI facto FED CUTA representatives were called for dialogue but on such important matters where they're changing the nature of public funded education in this country they're not taking it through parliament they're not having any debate through parliamentary standing committee with stakeholders so that lobbying as you say I don't know how much lobbying there is but there is a huge amount of resistance and it's very surprising that for four years they've not been able to come up with an education policy on what basis are they making these fundamental changes which are going to affect the rights of the people of this country to good affordable education on what basis are they doing it what where is the legitimacy coming from we have already mentioned about how when this government came we've had earlier discussions on how since 2014 the policies of the upa have been taken ahead on a really fast pace so what is the role of the central government and this bringing in of HECI that we have now well it's the central government has done interest so how much is it going to play part in the implementation of these and how much interference of the government will there be now in well the government which is being I mean the particular political party which is ruling is actually pushing this change and my understanding is that this is you know our governments have become puppets of corporations which you know in a globalized world are pushing these changes in every country we have had a degree of resistance because we've had some sort of democratic functioning in the past but these days the all pillars of democracy are being eroded otherwise you might have got independent voices of vice-chancellors and heads of other institutions but that has been eroded in this in the last few years particularly I think the erosion started even in the upa time and it's deliberate because all our governments have been puppets in the hands of that you know the international forces which are moving for corporatization of both health and education the same thing is happening in other countries where even democratically elected governments have been under this kind of pressure through their senates and so on there's so many ways of lobbying but there's lobbying that is done is done by people and who have the kind of money the kind of power to actually make changes they decide who gets elected as prime minister they decide who gets appointed as vice chancellor as minister and so on so we're all I mean clearly we're all not free and the people of this country have to realize that we can't allow governments to sell us into slavery but this is really moving towards slavery you know when your right to even a basic education is taken away you're moving towards intellectual and therefore economic slavery I would just like you to tell us why it is important right now to fight against this and if if not if this goes at the pace that it is going if you could paint a picture as to what would let alone the world but India's education system or even a social standard would look like you know when the minorities are pushed out when you don't have girls being able to go to higher education so what would it be like well you see I mean almost 85 to 90 percent of people in this country belong to what we call the marginalized section if you just look at the census even by the most conservative standards the last few census that we've had if you count the just the SCST OBC and then you look at you know add to it the minorities the Satchar committee had very clearly brought out the level of educational backwardness even in the Muslim community which is comparable with the SCSTs so if you add all these up with the marginalized sections which you do not find their representation even these in these government institutions forget about private institutions um little bit of movement in that direction through reservation which has never been properly implemented is also sought to be reversed now by this government if you so coupled with these policies as well as the kind of control that government wants to exercise on what is taught and to whom it is taught and so on we find that we are going backward in time and the vast majority of these people are moving back into a completely unviable situation in terms of livelihood in terms of their education in terms of their empowerment to be able to intervene in their own lives or in the policies of this country which affect them first of all you wanted mission into a good university which is up till now a public funded university only when our public funded when our seats are filled up then only people go to when they don't get admission here they go to amity and other private universities but that's going to be reversed one is the standard will be sought to be brought down by standardization you actually bring down standards and the second is the fees will go up because you have mostly self-financing courses and therefore the difference between public and private will be reduced tremendously and people will then be forced to go to private universities if they can afford it otherwise they take loans if they can't they'll have online non-formal education so that is a something like this we are very much on the same page because none of us believe all of us believe that affordable quality education is absolutely central to not only our service conditions and so on but to the future of democracy in this country so i think that cuts across all political affiliations thank you so much ma'am for talking to us and as these things progress we'll come back to you for more discussion thank you for watching this clip


Y syndig yw wedi'u iswodd y nazisrwynt sgwrdd hynny yn rhaid i fynd i fynd o'r ties. Y nazisrwynt maes ydyna i phob er mwyn i fod yn fwy o'r plob, bydd yn fwy o'r prôl i fwy o'r prrobaeth a fydd yn ddigon i gyd yn fwy o ddigon i fwy o'r prrobaeth, ond mae ance ffodol ar eich ddweud, a ddweud ti'n gyd. Dyna fy sefydl pwynydd ar y dyfodol ychydig ddim yn y gallu siwb yn golygiad at f y sgwrdd. ond ond there is something that they don't take into account. Something that is completely obvious, and when you recognize this the joke is on the narcissist, because while their trying to make you look like the problem, it backfires on them. It has the opposite and undesirable ydw i'r cwylwyddoch yn ei ddim yn gallu, oedd yn bach o'r ddweud. Yn mynd i'w ddweud yw'r hynny'n ddweud. Felly tyfodd, ddweud fe fyddai hynny'n ddweud. Nid oedd yn ddweud hynny'n ddweud, ddweud ddweud hynny'n ddweud. Ddweud hynny'n ddweud hynny'n ddweud. Dyna ddweud am y tro gan'i fynd i'w ddweud yma'r hynny. Cymru ydych yn ôl i gweithio'r oedaf o'r cyffredinol a'r eistedd. Yna'r hynny phobl i'w gwneud yn cael ei gyntafol. Yna'r hyn arnyntio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r eistedd, ond, ychydig o'r tynnu'r cyffredinol o'r cyffredinol, rydych yn ei wneud yn nhw'n ei gweithio â'r cyffredinol. Rydyn hynny'n ei gweithio'r hefyd ac y bydd. You may have less energy now. You may have less time to do the things that you like to do. You may have less money and resources. It puts your life in a downward spiral where you're no longer as successful as you used to be, because it takes a toll on you. It has a bad effect on you. It causes you to struggle in life. It's the signs you were dealing with a narcissist.  They're going to add value to your life, but the narcissist only takes value away. The narcissist always leaves more than they came in with. While the victim always leaves with less than they once had. The narcissist profits from the relationship. While the victim leaves with a loss. They leave with detriment, disadvantage and deprivation from failure. While the narcissist leaves with all of these perks that they have received from being involved with you. They leave with a spring in their step. They leave with more confidence. They leave with your money and possessions. They leave with all of this stuff. And when they leave. They're still expecting something more from you. Because they're very entitled. They feel entitled to privileges and special treatment. They believe that you owe them a living. They believe that they deserve to be paid. Without working hard for it. They expect you to do all of the work. Which is why you will find yourself sticking deeper and deeper into emotional debt. They will leave you in a state of confusion. Where you don't know what just happened. While they leave with confidence and self assurance. Because they managed to trick you into following their narrative. A narrative that was against you. Even while you were doing everything for them. So naturally you're going to be confused. But when you recognise this. The joke is on the narcissist.  If you are so useless and ineffective. Why did you leave with a loss? And why did they leave with more than they came in with? Of course the narcissist's answer to this question. Is that it's a result of your poor judgement. It's due to a fault or mistake that you have made. They will blame you. But you never had this problem before. You were fine before you met them. Your life wasn't perfect. But you were doing okay. But now you have all of these things that you're dealing with. Which they're holding you accountable for. But when you really dissect it and look at it for what it is. It doesn't make any sense. Because if they were really the ones who are hard done by. They would be the ones leaving with a loss. It wouldn't have had such a detrimental effect on you. But this is what narcissistic abuse is characterised by. Failure, loss and disappointment. That's how you know that you've been exploited. Because you've lost something in the process. Something has been taken away from you. And the narcissist has gained something from being with you. But when all is said and done. The narcissist doesn't feel any need to return the favour. They don't feel any need to do something similar in return to you. Because they're never satisfied. They have these insatiable desires that can never be fulfilled.  They believe they've done more for you than what they've actually done. Which is why they will often tell people that they try to help you. Because they don't want to look bad. They have to make it look like they've provided something of value to you. So that it justifies what they're doing. But the reality is that you have taken a loss. You have experienced failure and disappointment. And that is something that they can't hide. Because that's something you have to experience. For them to gain control of you. If that wasn't going to happen. There would be no purpose in them being with you. They had to gain something. But this is how you know what you were dealing with. Because in a normal relationship. People don't take such a big loss. And they also don't leave with so much more than they can win with. That isn't normal. Because a relationship should be 50-50. It should be given take. But when you're doing all of the work. When you're giving everything you have. And you're receiving nothing in return. Of course you're going to take a loss. Because you're dealing with someone who is self-absorbed and lacks empathy. You're dealing with someone who is arrogant and entitled. Someone who doesn't believe they should have to give anything to you in return. Which is the basis of narcissism. This is the whole idea. This is the justification and reasoning behind it. Because if there was reciprocation. There would be no problem. The reason why the relationship failed. Is because there's just one person doing all the work. While the other person is sitting back. And eating the fruits of their labour. They're enjoying the profits and gains as a result of your hard work. But they didn't do anything to earn it. They made your life worse. They affected your health. They damaged you financially. And when you really recognize this. The joke is on the narcissist. Because these are the signs you need to be looking for. That's how you know that you have been exploited. And when the relationship is over. And the narcissist is still expecting something from you. It's just proven this point even more. It's confirming this concept. Because a normal person would recognize everything you've done for them. They would see it. And they would have a cut-off point. And they would know when to let off the gas. But narcissists don't have that. They don't have this filter. Because nothing you do for them is ever enough. Narcissism is characterized by unfulfillment. So when all is said and done. They're not going to recognize everything you've done for them. They're not going to want to hear about it. All they're going to be concerned with. Is what you're going to do next. Because they're only concerned with their feelings. In their minds their feelings are facts. And if they feel dissatisfied in their minds you must be the cause of that. You're responsible for it. It's something that you have to attend to. Because they never learned how to deal with these feelings on their own. They always had enablers to encourage their self-destructive behavior. They always had people to make it easier. For them to do things that they shouldn't do. So in their minds there's no reason for them to stop. Because no one's telling them they're wrong. No one's opposing their false narrative. Because instead of acknowledging and appreciating everything you've done. They've made it out to be a problem. As though it's had an adverse effect on their life. When in reality they have been profiting from it. It's put them in a better position. But as long as they play the victim. It acts as a means for them to keep getting what they want. That's why they do it. Because even though you may have figured them out. They don't want it to stop. Because deep down they do recognize the value of what you're giving to them. They just didn't want to acknowledge it to you. Because then that would mean that you'd have to stop. And then they'd have to repay you for your efforts. Which isn't going to be of any benefit to them. Because they're the weak ones. They don't have anything to bring to you. But this is how you know what you were dealing with. Those are the signs that you were dealing with a narcissist. And no matter how convincing they may be. When you recognize this. The joke is on them. Their false claims and accusations become a sort of amusement. Because it doesn't make any sense. When you look back. And estimate the worth of what you did for them. And then you look at what they did for you. It doesn't add up. It doesn't make any sense. But this is what they don't want you to see. They want you to forget about that. And focus on the present. That's how they keep you on their never-ending hamster wheel. Trying to please them. When you're involved with a narcissist.  You need to do more. Or there's something wrong with what you did. This is how the game is played. And the game never ends. They just find new participants. They find new enablers. They find new sources of supply. But one thing they never do is take accountability. They never look at their own actions. They never look at what they're doing. They never look at what they could have done better. Because otherwise their disorder wouldn't be able to function. They need to have a heightened sense of self-importance. And entitlement to special treatment. They are driven by motives for grandiosity, esteem, entitlement and power. And to get that they need to dominate you. They need to tell you what to do. They need to hold you to their expectations. But they will never let you hold them to your expectations. Do you're not meant to expect anything from them? Because in their minds they're the authority. They're superior to you. So you're meant to give everything you have. And expect nothing in return. While they play the victim. While they act like everything you're doing is not enough. Or something is wrong with it. Because that is how they keep the wheels turning. That is how they cause you to spend an unnecessary amount of effort. To do something that has been done already. But there will be no acknowledgement of your efforts. There will be no gratitude or appreciation. Because they feel entitled to it. They see you as an object that exists to serve them. And they already know that they don't deserve it. So they can't acknowledge something they know they don't deserve. They have to downplay it. They have to make it appear less important than it really is. But if you take it away. That's when you will see just how important it is to them. But they never gave you recognition. They never acknowledged the existence of it. Until it sees to exist. Because that's how they kept the wheels turning. By making you seek their approval and validation. Because underneath it all. You just wanted to do the right thing. You wanted to make them happy. You wanted to make things right. But the narcissist was just using you. They were never on your side. And that is why when all is said and done. It's so easy for them to turn against you. Because they were never with you anyway. They were just there for what they could gain from you. Which is why when it's all over. They're still expecting some form of compensation. Because that's the only reason why they were with you. Narcissist know how to hide their true intentions and motives. But once you stop giving them whatever it is they want from you. That's when you will see who they really are. Because they will either go to extremes to get it from you. Or they will try to get it from somewhere else. But when this happens. It should only reveal to you that it was what they wanted all along. It was their only reason for being with you. They never valued you as a person. They never had your best interest in mind. They were just using you for their own selfish needs. Which is why when the relationship is over. You begin to see just how selfish they really are. All they care about is what they want.  Because you are never a concern to them. They just pretended like you were so that they could get what they want from you. They understand human nature. They know you don't want to be around someone who is just using you for what you have. So they pretend that they want a relationship. They act like they value all of these indispensable qualities that you have. But when the relationship ends, that's not what they miss. Which is how it's so easy for them to move on to another situation. Or to make demands that have expectations for what they want from you. Whatever you lost. Is what the narcissist wanted you to lose. Whatever they gained from you. Is what they wanted to gain from you. Whatever they're receiving from someone else. Is what you eventually refuse to provide to them. They may try to gaslight you. But the signs are there. The joke is on the narcissist once you recognise this. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching inquiries. You can email me at coaching.naughtsurviver.uk. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Hey friends and welcome to my channel. I am Yoshida and this is Norris Cove. Today I just did a video on my Simply Gilded Box the Enchanted Forest. I did a pretty much what's in my box. So now I love the kit so I didn't have to make a kit this week so we're jumping into my B6 and we're gonna do our spread with that nice kit. Let me show you guys the kit because the haul video probably won't come out until afterwards. So you have these pretty bows. We have this sheet here and it has important to do today to pay. We got some nice flags going on here. We have some little mini little things here and we also have some nice boxes and I think the thing with the theme is Enchanted and then we have moths and then we have our day headers and then some flag boxes, some other little small circles things circle things here and well we don't need a German card and then we also have this little box here. So I'm gonna lay my dates. Let's go right in. This is how last week ended up looking like and this is the kit that I made. So we're on Friday so I haven't filled anything over here but in this section I'll tell you guys normally I fill this in later of things that come to mind I need to do. I'm setting up a decluttering section. I'm trying to declutter so this is what it is. So this is things I've had to make a list of for the house and for my spiritual mind I have a list over here and then anything else extra was going there. So this is this week and it looks like I had some bleed through so we'll definitely have to find a way to cover that up. So yeah I'm gonna lay these boxes the date covers and then I'll be back. Okay you guys so I decided to do a voice over and here I'm laying down my washi tape that I got in the simply gilded kit. So I realized it was kind of thin so I needed to white out some of the lines at the bottom so that you couldn't see them. You guys I'm trying something different at least I was trying to. I recorded this with my phone but I wasn't quite sure how to do it so you may seem like the video is moving it's not I was trying to pan out the fact that I didn't that I wasn't quite close in range and kind of bring you all a little closer but yeah so right now I'm just laying the washi tape and then I decide you know let me go ahead and decorate this page that I never show you guys how I decorate because I'm loving this washi tape right here. I've got to use it again and I think I may use it in my classic this week so I was loving it so much I wanted to bring it over to the other side and I decided I would just use this page for memos. So I took that little moth to kind of cover up where I didn't reach over far enough with the tape and I'm going to use this double box here on Monday and Tuesday because they were so pretty and Monday and Tuesday seems to be a little light for me so here I'm just laying a to-do sticker today sticker and this flag sticker and then it came to me like okay you have the smaller washi tape so use that smaller washi tape break it up do something different so it's so funny to me because now people like I kind of know your style of planning and I knew that it was your page and I'm like I really worked hard to try to you know switch it up a little bit but I guess that washi is a dead giveaway so yeah I use the washi is like header boxes to basically just kind of cover up and blend and guess that box is crooked but it's okay we just gonna roll with it so because this tape does stick pretty good so I did try to lift it up and it was just like coming up so I was like I'll just leave it and I'll probably throw a moth or something up there to camouflage it but I do love this kid and I'm not a purple fan I mean it's pretty but I like the lightest of the purple which is more close to pink so but this kid right here I am digging I really really like this kid and as per usual the quality of the paper is just like butter is so smooth so if you guys have not checked out simply guilt is subscription box just get one I mean what you can I think you can order one but just get one to how many ever great pins come in it the paper quality you will be hooked okay you will definitely be hooked so here I'm just basically trying to figure out if I need to add some more or if I shouldn't or you know I didn't want to overdo it but I still as usual want to make it functional before myself because I do come in here I still come into my b6 but I like for it to be pretty but again functional so again I'm just basically looking to see how can I make it pretty how can I just keep it functional for myself without overdoing it because I did fill up I filled up my pages once and I said I will never do that again I couldn't come in and write anything it was just pretty that was it so now I'm coming over to Saturday and Sunday and I said okay let me try to get used to these flag boxes and make sure that I have everything functional and I did pretty much the same thing and add my tape again as header boxes but I'll let you all see how this comes out I don't want to talk it up just want you to enjoy the video if you have any questions or comments just leave them in the comment section below okay guys so I'm back and this is what we have it is gorgeous I love this kid I think out of all the kits I've gotten from her this is my favorite I've only used one other one kid I didn't use that just did a lemonade thing from another one let me show you oh it's probably an older because this is a new insert but yeah she just sent a lemonade one and I didn't use that one because I just don't eliminate thing but this is my favorite out of the three that I've received I actually like the colors I'm a pink and green type of girl neutral and these bright colors are so pretty to me I don't know why something is destroying me to them and these moths they're like like I said I don't do moths but these moths are so pretty I tried to put them throughout without making it look too janky you know so this is it this is what we have going on so I decided to decorate this page with you guys just so that you can see I'm kind of my thought process of what I do when I do what I am decorating this page so I'm in my mind I'm setting it up for the week and things I need to remember so this week I didn't do a declutter because I put declutter pretty much in every spread and all my planner so that's what we have here I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you would love to see more content for myself you would like to see more spreads like this anything else from me please hit that subscribe button also hit that notification bell so that you're notified when I upload content and I will see you in my next video


Can somebody work at McDonald's if they couldn't flip burgers? Yes or no? No, they couldn't. But you can walk into a car dealership and you can walk up to any salesman on a show and say, I need to think about it and I need to talk to my wife. What's your best price? Payments too high. Price too high. I got a couple more cars I want to look at and they don't know what to say. Well, so my first question is let's do first things first. Let's not get into the salespeople for a minute. Who's in charge? So before we go into the sales team for a minute, because I know that you have a lot of leaders, David, a lot of people are like, hey, my sales team isn't as good as they should be. Well, let me ask you a question. Number one, let's go through some leadership stuff. Since we're talking about amateurs and pros, do people want to be led by a leader that reaches for more? Yes or no? Yes, they do. Is the leadership team, the people that are in charge of the team, are they reaching for more? Are you? Secondly, leaders have one thing in common. They have followers. Leaders don't have a rank. They don't have a title. They don't have seniority, David. They are leaders. Those are managers. Managers have rank, seniority and titles. Managers, they use manipulation to get people to do what they need to do. If you don't do this, I won't pay you. Leaders lead by inspiration. I'm going to ask everybody a question on the call. Call your sales team in when you go back to the office. Bring everybody in and say, hey, guys, I want to let you know that I want to look up to the mentors that you are looking up to. So I want to know who are your mentors in life? Everybody in the room, here's a pen, piece of paper. Do me a favor.  You tell your team that. And as they're writing down their favorite people on Instagram that they look up to, the people that inspire them, when everybody leaves the room, go look at the piece of paper of every single one of those people and open them up on the desk and see how many of those pieces of paper have your name on it. I'm going to tell you we're in the era of the worst leadership in the history of time. Everybody got paid a lot of money the last year or two and ego, pride and entitlement has crept across the nation. And I am telling you right now, when trust leaves the company, the Lehman brothers, use them for an example, they were a powerful company, they fell overnight. When stress enters the company, are people going to stress this year to make the same money they made last year? Yes. When stress comes into a company and a leader isn't present and there is no trust, people will leave. We are going to see a lot of people get taken out this year because the only way to wealth is through self-education. And if you're not educating yourself right now, you see, there's some people right now, David on the call, that they're driving and I completely understand why they're not writing stuff down. But there's a lot of people on the call that right now that they're slow to write stuff down, they're slow to learn, they're uncoachable. Could you imagine a leader, a leader who wanted to lead a team but who was uncoachable, him or herself? Doesn't make sense. So a follower, let's talk about what a follower is, David. So if you want to be a leader, let's talk about what a follower is. A follower is someone who volunteers to go where you go, underlying volunteers, okay? They choose to follow you. You can employ everybody and when you say employ them, what are you employing them for? Money. If you're employing them for money, don't get mad when they leave you, go across the street and you have a recruitable team. Because you've only hired them for money and someone offers them more money. You see in the automotive space, I've seen a lot of people that say, hey, my team, this guy left me, he's going to make more money. Well, a leader isn't present. And by the way, how did you motivate and inspire that person? Was it because they believe what you believe and you believe what they believe and you guys have a community and like you built a culture? Or is it because you motivated their entire life in your industry by money? Money is a result of doing a great job. Everybody wants to be led. People want to find a leader who is reaching for more and inspires them. So there's two ways to influence human behavior. Number one, manipulation. Number two, inspiration. You choose. You can inspire or you can manipulate. Most managers have no trust with their people. Right now, if you pulled the rank, the title, the leadership position out from underneath your managers, would yourselves people still follow them? More than likely, most wouldn't. In some cases, some of you on the call have done a great job of being leaders and thank you for that because training doesn't work when a leader isn't present. Okay. Now I want to say this. Doing what you say you're going to do is not trust. There's a lot of people that are in management that are reliable. Look, so write this down. Doing what you say you're going to do is not trust. That's called reliability. Trust is a feeling. Okay. Trust is a feeling. I'll bet Liza on the call her people trust her. I'll bet she's really reliable too, but I bet her people trust her because there's a feeling. Same with you, David. When trust is absent, everybody write absent down. When trust is absent, a follower will not be found. Trust is a feeling.  True leaders know how to breed. Everybody write this down. True leaders know how to breed. True loyalty and create trust. In a world that we live in now and in a time where weak managers and manipulation is the norm. The world is thirsty for real leaders. So I will just say to finish this up on the leader segment, great leaders think, act, and communicate completely different than everyone else. So on the left side of the paper, you see amateur and on the right side, you see pro. Go ahead. Losers look around at everybody and they blame, make excuses. They'll tell you every reason why it didn't work, OK? Winners look in the mirror. And they say, hey, I'm the problem. I'm also the solution. Everything that's happening in my company is because of me. I create my own economy. I create my own reality. If grosses are going down, let me ask everybody a question. If the customer experience was through the roof, would customers still pay a premium? Yes or no? Absolutely. Does your staff know? Does your team know how to create a customer experience that is mind blowing that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world? If you go to a Starbucks right now and somebody was taking a survey, what do you think about car salesmen? They'd say robbers, cheats, thieves, liars. Well, what would they say after they met your team? Because that's all that matters. You see, this is where the great separator, no middle ground, 99% sheet, 1% lion. This is where the great separator is. It's very simple. Amateurs versus pros. In 2023, the prepared will destroy the unprepared. Write that down. The prepared will destroy the unprepared. There are three things we've got to get prepared for. Number one, obviously leadership needs to wake up. Number two, we've got to make sure that on the front gate we're deadly. We've got to make sure that on the phones we're deadly. And we've got to make sure that in the internet department we are dangerous. Those are the three entry points to any car dealership. And I want you to also write this down, because this is extremely important. An individual can be beat, but a team cannot be beat. I have a team of 50-plus guys. We've broken every record in the world. And it is not about me. It is about my people. I feel pain as a parent when I see my people hurting. When I see someone who is not striving or going to another level, my heart breaks, because they're everything to me, they're family. I see managers. I'm in stores every day. We have 11,000 stores on our training system. And I walk into stores and I'll hear a manager look out on the showroom floor and point out a salesman who's on his phone, distracted. Ah, screw that guy, man. I can't believe him. If he doesn't get to work, I'm going to fire him. And he's a barstool warrior. Instead of walking out there and inspiring that young man or older woman or whoever, and say, hey, look, I love you. And the fact that you're here, it's my job and my responsibility to make sure that you make a living. And obviously, I've probably done something wrong. I'm sorry I've been so busy. Let's reset. Everything OK at home? Do you have the resources and tools that you need to be successful? Maybe I haven't explained to you how to win. Number one, that's all my fault. Notice I owned it. OK, I went first. What I would like to ask is, do you want to be successful? Do you want to have this great opportunity that the automotive industry provides to everybody who is hungry and wants an opportunity? We don't even need experience in education. Hungry and an opportunity is how I hire. I can sit down with anybody and have a conversation for two minutes and tell if they're part of my organization or not. If they are and you hire them, train them. Training has the highest ROI on anything else in the company. We spend thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars on inventory and millions and advertising and buildings and marketing and technology. But we spend pennies on our people responsible to make the money on all of it. And that's why we are sweeping through the nation and we have the best leadership training in the world because we believe in total immersion, which every leader should do on the call right now. Every salesperson that you are responsible for, it is a privilege to be a leader. Throw your title in the trash can. It is a privilege. We have the responsibility for these people to make sure that they have the resources that they need to be successful. Going back 35 years from now, David, when you sold, all you wanted to do was be the best. And every single person on every showroom floor has that opportunity to be the best as long as they have the right resources. If managers do the training all day, who's managing? No one. That's why people have training systems. And why our training system is successful is because, number one, I've created the best training in the world that's inspirational, that's fired up, that's motivational, that works on the mindset, skills, that works on the habits daily of how people can be successful. But also, we allowed companies to also go in or in their own training so that it's perfect from every aspect. And we don't believe in vendors.  I'm a partner. You know what that means? I got your back for life, whatever you need to let me know.


Ikisha kwa mouzima, skii mndi kapa nivu wouzimutu.  Nafinu na kutu, kwa hifiru nisha, kwa hifiru. Mubu urutu na kwa hifiru. Yawu kuwadu kwa kusimutu na kwa hifiru. Kwa hifiru kwa hifiru. Yawu kuwadu kwa hifiru. When the man comes to marry the lady in the first day maybe, it should not be like you must bring this amount of money before you marry her. No, let him marry her or if she loves him too and she is ready for the marriage, let them marry each other and then maybe when they come visiting they will come with something. So you are comfortable. That's appreciation. No, that's appreciation. Now that's not buying. That's not buying. That's real appreciation. Yeah, now that's real appreciation. And so for those who said six figures, nasasa this guy, so I'm going to give you half a figure. I can't even give you 500k, so now. Okay, let me put it this way. For example, as you said you love me, right? You don't have the cash for now. It doesn't mean like I will refuse to get married to you since because you don't have money. Love is not bought by money. I'll come to you. We'll get married. We'll go talk to my parents and we'll explain yourself. You don't have the cash for now. And they will give you time. We will be together as you look for the dowry you pay. But not like just taking me. You go tell my parents, I love this girl. I want to check her as my wife but I don't have the money so just give her. They won't agree.  Stay with her. Make a family. But by the end of the day, make sure you go find the dowry and pay. Because there is also a case which was on news. There was this lady who was married with the guy and she died. She passed away and the guy has never gone home to pay for the dowry. So that man was not allowed to go and bury this wife because of that. So it's that serious. Never say you don't have the money. You have all the time before to put a first bond, second one, third one. You still don't have the money. What if he says he wants to pay it slowly, maybe in installments or something. Ya, that's fine. Okay, they will say that too but mostly it won't happen. But the bottom line is you will have to pay the dowry because about what she has said, when a woman dies and you have not paid the dowry, a body in some cases is exhumed. You are not allowed to bury her body. Also you cannot be allowed to take care of the kids. The family of the girl also will have the right to take the hearts away from you because of the bride price. You say that when I tell the parent for now, let's say for example they give me like one year and then one year lapses and I don't have the money. Will you just go? Remember we are loving each other still. You know love doesn't have an on and off switch. That today will be like I don't love this game then I'm switching it on. So if they give me one year ultimatum, then I don't have the money by then and they take you. Will you just go? No. Do you know why you don't go? No. Because of love. Ya, because of love. We don't meet other people here on the streets and they have like a price tag. This person is capable of paying this kind of money. You just water traffic is love. Not the price tag. No you are not cartoons or emojis. I will not go because you don't have. In fact, I love you so much and I want to spend the rest of my life and I'm working and being paid well and even you are working. We can even work together so that I can help you pay the dowry. So you pay for your own dowry. No I don't pay for my... I will tell him like boss let me deal with food. You deal with the... Let me do food and bills and then you do. Because I can't remove my money from my pocket. To buy yourself. To buy myself. So you can pay the budget. Okay. Okay, talking about love and dowry. Okay, I love you, yes. But that will not blindfold me to not talk about the dowry. I'll push you to pay the dowry no matter how much I love you. Because my parents have the right to get that money. What if he can't? He has to. Like he can't. There are so many obligations. When you start a family there are so many obligations. There are so many bills to pay. Maybe house rent, water bills, a lot of bills. Whatever the bills, before engagement is done mostly in some communities like my community there is always a negotiation about the bride price. You cannot tell me that they'll give me away with okay knowing that this man will never be able to pay my bride price. So you want to be married by a man who you see will not be able to pay my bride price. This is so tight. Because I'm here to love him. So that's the point. You'd rather be married by someone you don't love because he can't pay the bride price. Let's hear what team says before we go to the next question just now. I think there's some things which we should avoid saying. Like for example say giving your way. Your parents are not giving your way. That's a lame word. Please don't use it. And this kind of pressing. But they are giving you away. That's just not the right word. What's the right word? They're giving you away. The right word is the right word. Which one? I'm coming the right word. This kind of pressing is what sometimes make men maybe cheat. For example, I love this woman she keeps on pressing. Daily she's like dowri dowri dowri. Oh gosh. And then I find another simple girl and then she loves me and she accepts me. I don't know if they will find the man cheating going to the other woman because she's kind of good. She doesn't have stress. And these are the women whom you chose. She's like dowri dowri dowri and she wants six digits but have only 50 shillings. And we had discussed how do a girl's parents have control over her once dowri is paid that we actually discussed. And you people mostly said no. Me and my parents are not controlling me either way. They're not controlling me. And the next question should be reading whether dowri how much should be placed as dowri. I want us to go back to this question because now we're talking about the fact that love comes in. And there are those ladies who are so simple that who would accept a man even if he doesn't even if he's not able to pay dowri. And so they would say, I don't mind. We can love and live. That's what matters.  Forget the cases where bodies get exhumed. I think those are very extreme cases and I feel sorry for parents who would actually go that far. That's almost mental. So I just think those cases are extreme. But I also think that there are women who can accept love as it is and say, I know you don't have money but tuna jengana. Imaishanku jengana. So we'll build each other up. We'll get this money. It doesn't have to be paid in the form of dowri. Yes.  You just have to pay this thing. And this girl has asked for a certain amount. Let's say five million. Like Nora said. And you have two million. And you're willing to pay that two million. And after some time, the girl agrees for that two million. But the parents refuse and say, no, as we're sticking with five, I'm on party. What happens next? Do you really think that a price should be placed on dowri? Kamatu semi as a country. This is Kenya. Everyone should pay at least a minimum, a minimum of 100,000, because people don't have money. A minimum of 100,000 for dowri. And a maximum of this and this and that. Do you think that that's a step to go? No. That there should be a specific price so that we can all just stop arguing about this? No, we cannot put a price. Okay, the government cannot like put a certain price for dowri because mostly when dowri is paid according to the African culture, mostly they are considering the level of education for the girl. That's what they consider the most? The most, yeah. What do they consider next? Let's say she's not educated, then what do they look at next? If she's not educated, what's the next question? Let's say she's, you know, she's just finished class eight. Kamaja. I think if behavior, yeah. She's not educated, they look at the behavior and the fact that she's a girl. She must be sold anyway. If she had waki. Yeah, she must be sold. Okay. That's why I think, I don't think there should be an amount placed for dowri. Yes. All right, so that's how I see. And let's go back to the question of love and dowri. And that's why I told you to stay with the mic. I needed to know from you, you find a girl who can accept to go without the dowri.  I can do whatever I want. And come in this house at 2 a.m. every Saturday night if I feel like it.  I'm not doing nothing for you. You didn't pay any dowri for me. You didn't do anything for me. Why should I do this for you? Why should I do anything for you? Then how do you feel and what do you do in that situation as a man? Because you know there are women who do that. You know, in any day or any time, respect is very paramount. You know, when you get a girl and you decided that she's the one then you take her to your home and then she starts showing some disrespect. I think the good thing to do is just let her go because respect is very paramount and respect is a two-way traffic. But this is the same girl who said baby, me I'll accept you without dowri. Akituna pendana. No, maze, I'll follow you into a murder if I have to but money does not matter to me. So you fell for that. Change is inevitable. And then in there she became something else because you didn't pay. You know, change is inevitable. So we can't avoid change. When the time for changes come we'll just change.  But when I text you and they kind of refuse a guy always wants someone who disturbs him. And whatever comes easy sometimes can just go away. I was just scared before. There's always first time for everything so this is the first time but we're scared. Okay, also talking about love and dowri. Yes. There are cases where women chip in to help their husband pay for dowri. Also in central Kenya women have formed groups to help raise money for dowri. You can look it up. How does that make you feel? You personally? Bad. Bad? Yeah. So you think that the man is the okay the man should be entirely they want to pay the dowri? Yes. Yeah. If we're really going to do this if we're really going to do this thing let's draw some lines somewhere. Let's make it clear somewhere. Since we can't decide the amount of money since we can't decide how someone will be afterwards the least you can do is pay it to make things a bit more organized. How do you feel? But I hear in India it's a woman that pays a dowri. I'm sure you would like that. You together with all the Kenyan dudes out there who are listening would love to have a lady pay. In India it's a woman that pays a dowri. Yeah.  So at the end of the day what is dowri anyway? Okay. On such a case that a woman thank God I'm not an Indian thank God I'm not coming from India because I want to allow that I'll even have to run away that like I said earlier yeah helping you to pay the dowri it's fine. I will help you but but I can't remove my money paying the dowri for you. It's like yeah you see so you should find a way you work for you to get the money and pay the dowri. Okay. To some extent I think it's better in India when the woman is the one paying the dowri because I think it's absurd yes but when the woman goes to the man's house the man will pay the bills the man will do the shopping the man will buy her clothes so what are you doing there pay the dowri let the man do everything else. I completely disagree with that because the way women are abused in India it's so inhuman they don't talk about it but those women are treated bad they are treated really bad especially if they they don't pay like a certain amount of money they are treated like slaves and also women chip in in building a family at times they buy like household they work and everything so I really don't support why women should pay because everything in the house it's what a woman does a man can sometimes can't even notice that suge is missing there is no so and such so if you disagree with women paying dowri then I think you should disagree with men paying dowri why should men pay dowri I am the one who is living my parents and moving to your family oh my gosh and your family's burden is going to be mine not the other way round men mostly don't chip in mostly as in like okay in rare cases in rare cases you'll find men like completely helping the woman's family but for a woman when you move to a man's family his family becomes your family but you know there are things like pregnancy there are things a woman has to do on her own yes pregnancy is created by two but the caring of it is done by the woman herself and nine months you guys not a short time nine months is a long time kube bananayum zigo kutabika tabika subu suge nini you know and so most of the time people are like ah yeah dowri dowri really makes sense and we need to close this segment I need to know whether there are other views to ask the last question if there's anything at all you want to add that you feel is important to this discussion um I'd like to say that you know here in Africa you look like you're deep in thought you know here in Kenya you find segments be like do you know that Indian ladies pay dowri and I'd like to tell my friend here even Indians are so surprised that women pay dowri but the important thing is just mutual agreement they should just be mutual agreement whenever dowri is is involved just mutual agreement yeah by mutual agreement I mean by you and the parents you have agreed mutually not just a one way traffic um yeah so I think when dowri is being paid the girl should sit down with the parents and say ok the girl should be reasonable enough to tell her parents that don't impose this amount of money to the man I mean I mean they should talk it out like you know buying he's not buying me from you I'll be coming here I'm still your daughter so you should not impose this amount of money maybe a huge amount of money on him like he's buying me for good ok and I wanted us to finish completely the last thing I want to finish with is a very interesting tweet that I will read lastly but we had asked should paying dowri be scrapped and illegalized and we said no that it's not something that the government of Kenya can actually illegalize or legalize it's part of the culture it's part of the tradition and we just need to make do yes because we also have you know people in the older generation would want to hear anything that dowri has to be done and in closing let me read something very interesting for a man called Johnny empowered girls should now start marrying men and paying their dowries see what a man can do a woman can do better because of this dowry thing I'll marry a Hindi because to them it's ladies who pay dowries sadly Johnny Indians don't marry Africans it's very rare and I tell you good luck with that yeah they don't marry Africans okay sawa sawa what do you think of this tweet empowered girls since to make it happen empowered women we should now be the ones to go marry men and pay their dowries no no for Nora it's a no for favorite it's a no okay for Miss Balakwain it's a no a complete no wow okay sasamu meskia viewers meskia Johnny it's a no even if these ladies are accomplished they're well-read they don't want anything to do with paying dowry and from our last man over here I need to ask a personal question are you comfortable with a woman paying dowry for you are you comfortable with that as a man I'm okay because to me dowry is not paramount so they're okay with this this is a fact normally men are not okay with a woman to do nothing apart from cooking and giving birth I'm trying to back up my statement okay back it up quickly and then we shut the show down to me dowry is not paramount whoever gives whether it's me or her what's paramount is love about the dowry I don't care because dowry will fade dowry will fail but you know your parents care my parents care as long as you're an African you look African to me I'm sure your parents care my parents are not dating the girl it's me who's dating the girl so life is what it's about you guys it looks like it's a type to fight for a woman it looks like a type to say this is my baby man we're not doing this thank you so much thank you so much I've had such a wonderful time with all the viewers and all these panelists have had this discussion with us about dowry I just wanted to live with one thing love like Mr. Simba said love is very important love is a basis of marriage and if you find you can't pay the dowry you need to ask yourself am I willing to treat this man with respect the rest of our life even if you can't pay a single cent for me will I treat him with respect will I cook for him clean for him carry that kid for nine months and the men need to ask themselves since I can't pay this woman's dowry and if I can't pay it since I can't pay her dowry what am I going to do for her to make things more comfortable for her in the house can I be helping her a bit more can I be chipping in a bit more just so that she understands for me it's not about money for me it's about the love so with that let's sign out my name is Joy Machache this has been why in the morning and this has been Queens Wednesday specifically WCM and please remember that we need to hear from you that's on Y254 channel and that is Y254 channel underscore Y254 channel on Instagram and on 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