Carolina, good to be here. Good morning, everybody. It's a pleasure to be with you. And my charge this morning is pretty simple. You all know how important your work is. I'm just going to tell you again about how important it is and why the work you're engaged in today, thinking about institutionalizing what you've been building in universities, is of profound significance to democracy, to human experience, to human flourishing everywhere. Let me just back up for a minute, though, and introduce myself so you know a little bit more about me and where I come from in bringing you this message this morning about the importance of your work. I am, as you heard, a Harvard professor. I'm also a democracy advocate inside and outside the university. I focus on work that I call democracy renovation. When folks ask me what I work on, I always give the same answer. It's just democracy, past, present, and future thereof with no question mark at the end of that. I come by that focus super honestly. It's a matter of basic family inheritance. So on my dad's side, my granddad helped found one of the first NAACP chapters in northern Florida in the 40s. And I don't know how much you know about northern Florida. But it was basically the same thing as southern Georgia. So in the 40s, lynchings were on the rise. He was taking his life into his hands. It was super dangerous work. And on my mom's side, my great-grandparents helped fight for women's right to vote. So my great-granddad marched with suffragettes on Boston Common in 1917. And my great-grandmother ended up as president of the League of Women Voters in Michigan in the 30s. What this means is that they were all people who were told that things were impossible. That social equality for African-Americans in the South was impossible. That women having the right to vote was impossible. Their answer to this was, of course, not only possible, but these things are necessary. So the only question is not, is it possible? The only question is, how to achieve it? So I was really fortunate to grow up in a sort of network of super civically engaged people who had that attitude towards the world around them. Also, people who understood that empowerment is the bedrock for human thriving and well-being. And with empowerment as the bedrock, therefore also democracy. So I'll admit, as a kid, I took the value of democracy for granted. It wasn't really until I was watching my own generation came up in the world that the question of democracy's value got to be a lot more complicated for me. So my parents' generation, everybody pretty much moved up. That same granddad was a fisherman. His kids were small business owners and professors. On the other side, it's from factory workers to accountants and so on. But my generation, and I think I'm older than most of you in the room at this point, but my generation has lived through something quite different. It's what I call the great pulling apart. So here I stand in this incredible, beautiful space, this amazing view of the gorgeous city of Boston. Tenured faculty member at a great university. That is a role of incredible privilege. It's like, forget Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or whatever people think is the sort of pinnacle. Tenured faculty member, yeah. Have to admit that is the most privileged role there is. I feel that every day. And I have a brother who's a corporate executive. At the same time, I have cousins who aren't with us any longer. So for all the reasons that are among the hardest things we struggle with in our society, substance use disorder, incarceration, homicide. I lost my youngest cousin Michael in 2009 and that was a moment when I just realized what my family was living through, where some of us were here and others were trapped in really dark and difficult circumstances. Over the course of my lifetime, that's exactly what our entire country has lived through. So my 50 plus years on this planet perfectly coincide with the graphs that show you the rise of income inequality, the rise of wealth inequality, the rise of incarceration, the rise of polarization. And I began to ask myself, hang on, this democracy concept, it's not supposed to be abstractly valuable. I mean, yes, we love the ideals of freedom and equality. Yes, we can name empowerment as something important in human life. But we embrace those ideals, those goals, because in doing so, the idea is it gives us a society that makes it possible for each generation to move forward one after the next, each generation to do a bit better than the previous and as a whole cohort. So I began to ask myself the question of how is it that we can change the dynamics in our society so that this democracy is delivering on that promise? And as I started to do that work and that for me became work of democracy renovation, I realized that when I was a student, when I was an undergraduate, I was graduating into the world where this great pulling apart was just starting to happen. 1992 was the first point when economists and politicians and policymakers really named the challenge of rising income inequality. They were having a debate, like, is it or isn't it? Like, does it matter or doesn't matter? I mean, it should, I don't think the debate should have been as complicated as it was in all honesty, but that was what was happening in 1992. So here we are, 2023. Our students are graduating into a world that we all know is the age of AI, the age of incredible impact from technology. And the most important question really is whether or not that age will make those problems of the great pulling apart worse or better. And technology is truly the most influential force right now for impacting that question. Is technology going to make the great pulling apart worse, more inequality, more polarization, more disenfranchisement, more alienation? Or is it gonna be a part of the solution? Help us come out of those dynamics. I take that question to be the work of public interest technology. And therefore the work that you're all doing on campuses with courses, with research centers, with community engagement programs are fundamental to governing innovation, governing technology, so that we can change those basic dynamics that are delivering so much injustice in our society. Reverse that dynamic and deliver justice instead. There's a moment of great opportunity right now when I talk about that need for the public interest technology perspective to govern technology. That is about the students that you are developing and sending out into the world. There are roles for them in the public sector. There is huge opportunity right now with the CHIPS Act with other aspects of governmental funding for meaningful partnerships, programs that can be sustained on campus through access to federal and state funding, and it's really worth pursuing those. It is also about making sure that every kid who goes into the private sector is ready to say inside technology companies that technology is for human flourishing, not profit, all right? I mean, yes, you need sustainable revenues to support any enterprise, any human enterprise, but at the end of the day, technology, like journalism, like law, even like business is best understood as being for human flourishing and nothing else. We're watching a transition from shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism. It is about that insight that the project is human flourishing, and we need our public interest technology networks on university campuses to ensure that that lesson, that technology is for human flourishing, is embedded in the private sector fully and that the sector is well-equipped and also that that lesson is embedded in the private sector. So I've taken too long, I was just supposed to be the warmup act for your next speaker, so let me go ahead and invite Ruman to the podium.


This meditation is for relaxing the mind and body and giving you a break from the chaos of life around you. Find a quiet space and get into a comfortable position sitting or lying down.  Take a deep breath in through your nose letting the air fill your lungs and belly as much as you can and hold your breath for three seconds there. Three, two, one.    Now take a moment to notice your body. What are you feeling? Do you feel tension or pain somewhere? Do you feel heat or coldness or a tingling sensation as you relax? Any sensation is okay. Recognize these sensations and adjust your body if necessary. Now bring your focus back to your breath and let your deep breathing release tension from your body. Feel the air enter and exit your body and slow your heart rate into a smooth rhythm.  Your body and mind are now fully relaxed. You are here in this moment of time and space. There may be chaos happening around you, but it is separate from you. Whatever may be happening in your life you deserve this break from the chaos. Keep focusing on your breath and with each exhale breathe out any tension. If you notice thoughts arising in your mind or negative emotions arising within your heart simply acknowledge them. Your thoughts are not you, they are yours.  Your outside circumstances are not you, they are yours.  Place your hands on your heart and quietly say to yourself, I am calm, I am relaxed, I am peaceful, I am here in this moment right now.  Rub your palms together quickly to make your hands hot and wiggle your toes to awaken your body from your meditation. Open your eyes, your mind and body now feel relaxed from all the chaos happening around you. This is a brand new moment, you can do it.


Whether Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, or in United States of America, care. The land belongs to the nation of Israel. Not only that, but Jerusalem belongs to the nation of Israel. God speaks of a time and the future that God is going to put his son Jesus Christ up on that holy hill. Hear the word of the Lord, Psalm two. Why do the heathen rage and the people take counsel against the Lord and against his anointed? Psalm verse six, two, six, yet have I set my king upon the holy hill of Zion. Isaiah 62, one, for Zion's sake, will I not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. Here's Zechariah 117. Cry ye, cry yet, saying, thus saith the Lord of hosts, my cities throughout prosperity shall yet be spread abroad and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion and watch this and shall yet choose Jerusalem. I'm leading to something. God said I'm not finished with Jerusalem, Zechariah 212. And the Lord shall inherit Judah, his portion in the holy land. Notice he calls Israel the holy land. He shall choose Israel again, verse 12 says. God is saying I am not finished with Israel. Let me make this emphatically clear for all of those that you're not some terrorist trying to drive them off, but your religion and denomination is trying to wipe them out. The church has not replaced Israel and Israel has not been replaced by the church. God will fulfill his promises to the nation of Israel and to the Jewish people. When the rapture takes place, the times of the Gentiles will be swallowed up and God will again turn his attention to the nation of Israel. He has not forgotten them. He will never forget them. Please don't think you can inherit Israel's blessing upon yourself. You're only here because you were grafted into the vine. Whenever the vine, that is that fig tree starts blooming out as it's doing right now. I can assure you that God is watching and God is seeing and God is gonna turn it in a moment and you'll watch the prosperity and the protection of Israel like you've never seen before. Zechariah 8 and 3 says, Thus saith the Lord, I will return and design and I will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called a city of peace. He's talking about the second coming of the Lord and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, that holy mountain. Hear me church, the riots, the turmoil, the bloodshed is all because of the city of God, Jerusalem. So why is it so important for me as a Bible-believing Christian to support Israel and their claim to the land? Number one, Israel is the only nation created by a sovereign act of God. Israel belongs to God and God gave the title deed to the land of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and to their descendants forever. Genesis 15, 18 says, Ishmael, the father of the Arabs, was excluded from the title deed to the land according to Genesis 17. The modern day Palestinians have no biblical mandate to the land. Even the boundaries of the state of Israel are recorded in Scripture in the book of Numbers 34, in the book of Joshua chapter 11. The boundaries are further explained then in Ezekiel 47 and of all of chapter 48 in the book of Ezekiel. So when God established the nations of the world, he started with Israel. Secondly, Christianity was born from Jewish roots. Romans 15, 27 gives us that reference and Jesus said salvation is of the Jews in John 4 and 22. Consider the contributions, ladies and gentlemen of the Jewish people to Christianity. The sacred text, the Word of God comes from the Jews. All the prophets, Jewish, all the patriarchs, Jewish, all the disciples, Jewish. It is not possible to say that you're a Christian without having love for the Jewish people. Don't lift your hands and shout to Jesus because Jesus himself was a Jew. I just want to let you know we serve the greatest Jew on the earth, ladies and gentlemen. He is Yeshua, he is Jesus Christ and he loves us. Number three, Christians should support Israel because it brings a blessing from God. Psalm 122 and verse number six, blessings are tied to blessing Israel in the city of Jerusalem, the Bible says. Jesus went to Cornelius's house of Capernaum and healed his servant because Cornelius had supported the Jewish people and built a synagogue in Israel according to Luke chapter seven, verse five. God selected Cornelius in the book of Acts 10 to be the first Gentile to receive the gospel. Three times in the book of Acts chapter number 10 a righteous Gentile expresses his love for Jewish people and he's the first Gentile to receive the Holy Spirit outpouring upon him and his house. Why is this so important to support Israel? By personal experience of my first trip in 2018, I never realized just how hated Israel was even among Christian religious denominations until my first trip to Israel. Here's what the Bible said in Psalm 120. When I was for peace, they were for war. This war will affect many things, both there and here. You can get ready. If you think your gas prices have been high now, understand that Iran is the one that's pumping the oil. You're watching the gathering of the nations around Israel, it's happening right now. And I wanna make this clear for all of you, this current war is not the war of Gog and Magog, but it is preparing the way. Just like Ezekiel spoke in Ezekiel 38 and 39, there is a predicted war that is coming and it will be massive on the northern front led by Russia, Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Libya and other Arab states. Ezekiel prophesied this massive force would move towards Israel. You're watching the precursors of it right now when Israel, listen, was dwelling in the land of unwalled villages and in a state of peace and security. This will not be a security due to the state of peace for them, it is a security due to the confidence in their own strength. Which is what I believe happened in the breach of the information that caused them to be lulled to sleep. The same thing that's happening in America where we truly don't believe, even after 9-11, that we could be attacked by those that hate America.  When you're looking at babies' hands being tied up and them be beheaded in front of their parents and then set on fire and charred to a crisp, I can tell you that is nothing more than pure evil from hell, from the very spirit of Satan himself and the only thing for that to conquer is when good men and righteous people will be silent and I say for Israel's sake and for Jerusalem's sake, we shall not be silent in this hour.


Hey friends, welcome back to channel. In today's video, we're on top of the biggest thing that you're doing wrong that is just totally screwing up your grades and your study system. Let's get into it.  And really today's video, I'm gonna walk you through a system where you can say I'm doing that correctly or I'm completely bombing this because this is a video I would have wanted when I was a first year medical student where I was studying 10 hours a day and barely getting any sleep and just hoping that I could make it through. And so if you're struggling in the same way I was when I was a first year medical student, then this video is for you. Now the bottom line, the biggest problem that most students have with their study system is an issue with fragmentation and to really help make sense of what fragmentation means for an optimal study system, it's better to understand kind of what most students do wrong. Now I've learned this to my own personal experience by being a really bad medical student my first few months, as well as working with students who have just been struggling through our one-on-one coaching programs, which if you guys are interested, it's a big link down below. But really being able to see from an observer point of view, as well as my own experience, I'm saying it doesn't really make sense how you go from here to here, here to here and then expect yourself to do really well on the exam. Most students will be exposed to information through a lecture or syllabus. That's kind of the classic starting point. But then how they go from their lecture to something they can use to help review and retain information before the exam is pretty fragmented from student to student. I'll give you a few examples and you can tell me if this is something you're doing. A lot of students will go to lecture, write their notes or type their notes on an outline and then they either review it on their night or they'll forget about it. Ideally, it will come to those notes as the test gets closer and closer. But from the time that they spent creating those notes, there was really nothing effectively done until they had that old beat moment before an exam. On a similar note, there's some students who'll say, okay, I am going to write notes on a PowerPoint as I'm watching a lecture and then when they go home, they're gonna review the PowerPoint over and over and over again. But every time I ask a student that I coach and saying, how much did you actually remember from that PowerPoint when you walked away? And most of them say, honestly, like not very much. And then they may come back to those PowerPoints before their quizzes and tests and wondering why their retention is really not that crystal clear or confident. And as a third example, sometimes I have students who say, you know what, screw lecture, I'm just gonna watch these videos from this high yield resource or company that I paid a resource for and then take notes on like a high yield resource or my notebook. And I ask them, okay, like, well, okay, that sounds good. How often do you come back to your notes that you create? And they'll say, honestly, not very much. And so you can start to see this theme of how ineffective students will get presented information, put it into a sense that feels very natural, but then never really use it into something that they can continue to review over and over again. And even when I meet students, I say, oh, I do review my PowerPoints from the lectures each day or my notes each day. My retention is simply not there. And the biggest problem there is that, again, you're fragmented, you learned your information and you basically took that information and you put it into something you can't review without being very passive about it.  And so before we get into the solution, ask yourself if you're doing this on your day-to-day studying. Ask yourself, are you being presented information and then putting into a form that's not really helping your long-term retention? If so, you're likely wasting time because the amount of time it takes you to gather the information is taking too long and unfortunately retention that you have down the line is not that high. And so the solution of fragmentation is to ask yourself, how can you go from information being presented to being created in a format where information can be tested? So for example, the most optimal situation would be if you went into lecture and then listened or read your notes and then your professor says, here are 20 practice questions that if you know it, then you understand this lecture. Unfortunately, that is not a common practice and so students will then try to fill in notes and then eventually go to some kind of practice questions or quizzing themselves to be able to say, okay, I understand this. And even if there is a source of practice questions that you may have from either a paid resource or an institution provides you, a lot of us just filled the steps from information being presented to being questioned on those information with just a lot of stuff in the middle, with outlines, with videos, with group studying and it just takes so much of our time because we hope that it makes our grades on these practice questions look better. But reality, the most efficient method would be to be taught something, be tested, review your mistakes and then have some system where you can avoid making those mistakes in the future. A few solutions that I suggest a lot to my coaching students is to avoid fragmentation. If you do take notes, take your notes in the form of questions. That way, if you really need to review your lecture, you can say, can I do all of these questions from the lecture when I was listening? Instead of saying hypertension is treated by these five medications, you can say what five medications can you get for hypertension? If you can see that on your notes saying, I know the answer to all that, then you can move forward. But if you don't, then you can go back to your slides and saying, what are those three extra medications that I did forget? And so now you've created a system where you're taking notes in the form of questions, the form of quizzing. Again, you're testing yourself. And then if you do have a source of practice questions that your institution gives you or that a high yield resource gives you, it's also adding to the questions in itself. And so now you've already started to create this very natural and efficient flow of information being presented to you, to information quickly being tested by yourself as you're creating a notes. And the last bit of wrinkled that can really make a study system super efficient is now you go from information being presented to information being tested and then having a system saying, okay, whenever I do miss something, I'm going to either put into a flash card into like an actual physical flash card into a word doc of all the things that I miss.  But now essentially saying, all right, Lux, you're going to learn something, you're going to test yourself based off of the notes you create in the form of questions or just immediately jump into practice questions.  Then I make sure I don't make my same mistakes. I'm learning stuff, getting tested and making sure I don't make my same mistakes. And you keep repeating this process. You can imagine as you get closer and closer to test day, you have made so many more mistakes versus the student who went to lecture, wrote down their notes, never really use their notes to test themselves. And then freaked out when they had two or three days left before exam day or as most of us know in college, which is like cram session over the night, you don't ever give yourself a true opportunity to build that confidence of saying, I've made this one mistake on this one topic eight times. If this topic was to show up on actual test day, I know I'd be able to confidently answer it correctly. But to really have that luxury of confidence going into test, you have to go from a fragmented system to one that says information is going to be presented, information is going to be created in a way that easily can now be tested on versus something I just kind of pass the review and then have some system where you can say, everything I do miss, I'm going to avoid missing in the future. I'm going to review all of this over and over again. I'm just going to repeat the cycle over and over and over again. And that confidence will increase, your retention will increase. And then suddenly, just suddenly, just because I've done this so many times. And again, if you guys are interested in the one-on-one coaching program, you can just see some of the results that some of our students started to see after we create the system for them, which is my time suddenly increases. I'm reading books, people are asking if I'm in medical school or if I'm in college. And that's simply because you just took out all of that fluff in the middle that really wasn't helping with your final grade, although you thought you did.  But that guys is kind of your step-by-step system on how you basically make a perfect study system for you. I didn't specifically talk about one study strategy that will work for me and will definitely work for you because that's not true. But the real question is, how can you go from getting to that study strategy that really works for you as quickly as possible and then avoid making those mistakes as much as possible? So that way, when you go into quiz and test day, that confidence is always there, regardless of what study strategy got you there. Now, like I said, after listening to that, if you're like, I can see opportunities where I'm being inefficient, I can be more efficient, and I wanna see how that process will work for me. If you wanna see what results your old coaching students have gotten or current ones, just after one or two coaching calls, click the link down below to just be able to see the results of our medic night students. And then if you're like, I don't really have the time or luxury of having a one-on-one coach, but I wanna really be able to do this myself, then check out the level up your studying program where essentially we do this on a three-week basis instead of somebody individually walking you, you can then make those decisions yourself. If you're not quite ready to invest from some stranger on YouTube, no worries. Check out this video right here on how to study in medical school step-by-step. And hopefully that video will help you out as well as our entire study playlist so I'll also link down below a full of videos that we made for you here at MD journey over the past few years on how you can get those better grades, but doing it with less time, and most importantly, with the less stress. But that, guys, is how to improve the biggest issue with your study system. If this video did help you, hit that like button down below, really just smash it two, three. Apparently you have to hit it on an odd number because I guess if you hit it and then hit it again, it just un-likes your like. So hit it three times or five times or seven times or 11 if you're a true follower. But most importantly to me is I make this video personally to try to help you, so if this video did help you, possibly there's somebody out there that's just looking for the study tips that really will make their grades and their time efficiency improve.  And like always, if you're new to this channel or if you've just been lurking around, hit that subscribe button, hit that notification bell, join the community and be notified when new videos like this one go out on a weekly basis. And before we close off, if you do have more questions, my friend's field for you to drop them in the comment section, but also consider checking out the Q&A link that's in the description. Basically, if you're like, I really wish Lux were just to answer my question and personalize and send me a video response to it, then if you go into that survey, you can drop your email and then as many questions you wanna ask, I'll make a video response when I have a second to you. And then if I feel like the video is going to help other students out, then I'll also release it for the mass public and I can keep you anonymous. But again, this is one way where I can interact with you guys and also help more people who may have the very same question that you did. So if you guys are interested, check out the Q&A link down below and again, be patient, but I promise you I'll get to the question if it's something that I can feel I can answer for you. But that being said guys, thank you so much for watching to the very end of the video. Thank you for your support. Hopefully it was a little help to you guys on your journey. Thanks for always being a part of mine. If you did enjoy this video, check out this video right here on how you can use Anki Like A Pro and this video right here on how you can learn to study in medical school step by step. Hopefully you guys enjoy these and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace my friends.


When I came to Terry Fox, I was excited to meet Ryan and knew of his reputation in regards to social equity and social justice issues. His passion is truly infectious. When you talk to him, you become a better person, I think, and I truly mean that. He has you think about things in a different way through a different lens. When he does so in a non-threatening way, it just forces you to reflect. He exudes what he wants to instill in his kids. Part of my role here at Terry Fox is to help students figure out what their own values are and how to use that to make the world a better place for them and their friends and family. And a lot of what I do is trying to bring people together to try to listen to each other but also to try to find ways to move forward together. I think what motivates me is seeing my struggles and other people.