Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering Microsoft Ignite, brought to you by Cohesity, and theCUBE's ecosystem partners. Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage of Microsoft Ignite here in Orlando. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Stu Miniman. We are joined by Sai Mukundan. He is the Director of Product Management, Cloud Solutions at Cohesity. Thanks so much for coming on the show. Thanks, Rebecca. Thanks too. Nice to have you guys here at the Cohesity booth. Microsoft Ignite. And thank you for hosting us, I should say, yes. Absolutely, it's been wonderful. So we already had your colleague, Lynn Lucas, on this morning. She was terrific. And she gave us a high level vision of the news. So why don't you break it down for us? Explain to our viewers exactly what Cohesity was announcing here at Ignite. Sure, so broadly speaking, we announced three things this morning. The first one, we've seen a lot of customers, Optic Office 365. In fact, that's one of the first or initial use cases of how they adopt Microsoft's solutions more of as a service. So the ability to now back up and recover O365 has come up quite a bit in our customer conversation. So we announced a solution that will be available shortly so customers can leverage the same Cohesity platform that we had up until now to also back up and recover O365. So that was number one. Number two was around Azure Data Box. So this is a relatively new offering from Azure. It was up until now it was in preview and now it's going GA. So the fact that we can now integrate with Azure Data Box as a means for customers to move data from on-premise to Azure, a great initial seeding for long-term retention and the fact that we integrate seamlessly with that. That was the second piece of the news. And then the third one is really around the hybrid cloud message and the model, right? Really, you know, hybrid, I know it's true you like to refer to it more as it's an operational model. It's not about, you know, what the cloud is, but it's more of an operational model. And in that model, customers are always looking to, you know, leverage it for disaster recovery purpose.  Yeah, and Sai, one of the challenges we have is if we look at cloud and say it's an operating model, well, the challenge we have is it really is a multi-cloud world. If you look especially here in the Microsoft ecosystem, absolutely, start with Office 365. Microsoft pushed a lot of customers to the SaaS model. I have my data center, I might be probably modernizing things there and then I have the public cloud. Well, when I look at my data, I want to be able to manage and interact and leverage my data no matter where it lives. So that's where, as I said, Microsoft lives in other places. It sounds like your integrations are going to help customers span and get their arms around their data and leverage their data no matter where it lives. Yeah, I particularly like the use of the word span because as you may know, we call our underlying distributed file system the span FS, right? So the idea is that it spans on-premise cloud and to your point, multi-cloud as well, right? So the ability to use the same platform and that's really what drives customers today. When you look at sort of what are the three aspects of our solution that they like, I would say one is the scalability, the fact that they can start small and then scale as their environment grows, that's important. The second is around, everything today is around automation, API-driven, API-first architecture, right? And the fact that we are policy-based, API-driven really, really resonates with them. And the third one is the simplicity and ease of management. I mean, you can build all these solutions but at the end of the day, it has to be simple for customers to consume and that's something that really resonates with prospects, partners and customers we talk to. All right, so I'm wondering on the Azure data box, if you can help unpack that a little, we had some Microsoft guests on, Jeffrey Snowver walked us through, there's a couple of different versions of them, some are for data movement, some of them there will be really kind of edge compute and AI capabilities there. Which ones do Cohesity use? What do you see as the use cases that you'll be playing in? Sure, so before I go into the solution and the use case, I think one of the key aspects of why that announcement is important for us is it also shows the kind of engagement and close technology partnership that we have established with Microsoft Azure, right? The fact that we are one of their launch partners both during the preview and now in the GA timeframe and it's important for both customers and partners because that gives them a good sort of understanding that we are there in establishing thought leadership, we are there in working closely with Microsoft in this case, along with other technology partners out there. Just coming back to the solution itself, there are a couple of flavors of data box. So the one that we have done extensive integration with is data box. There's another version of it, which is called the data box edge, which also has compute in it. But the idea here, the use case is really around, you know, when customers are looking at Cohesity, there is backup and recovery that they can do from on premise, but Azure and Azure Blob Storage in particular becomes a seamless extension for long-term retention.  And obviously the network becomes a bottleneck in that case. So with data box, the ability to now transfer that data into your on-prem, like you get the data box shipped to your on-prem is, get it loaded through Cohesity, seamlessly get it hydrated in your Azure account. And from that point on, we only send the changes or the incremental data. So that is really appealing to both customers as well as partners who are really engaged in sort of these migration projects in some cases. I was really interested in what you were talking about with the thought leadership and your approach to partnerships because Microsoft selecting Cohesity as a partner, it's a real stamp of approval for Cohesity, a real validation that this company's for real. How do you then think about who you will partner with, particularly if the company is say, only five years old or pretty new to the space or maybe not as well known? Yeah, I think one of the things that Mohit, you know, Aaron and he's a pioneer in distributed systems and is the founder of Cohesity. One of the things that he established right from the get go is the ability for the product to scale, scale on-premise, but also that the cloud has to be very seamless. It's a natural extension of what the architecture is intended to do or achieve. And so that kind of made it easier for us on the product team to figure out who is it that we need to partner with. And Azure is obviously a leader in that space, particularly over the last few years. And I want to go back to something that was mentioned in the keynote yesterday. It's not a know it all, but it's a learn it all, right? And the learning that we have had as we have grown Cohesity and the product has grown and as we acquired customers and talked to prospects is they want to work with the likes of Microsoft Azure, leverage the infrastructure that they have to offer. So we started there and we said, if customers are asking for it, we do it and we learn along with them on why and what the use cases are. And it started with going back to my earlier comment, long-term retention. And now, as an extension to that with the hybrid cloud where not only storage, but leveraging disks, leveraging Azure compute, that's now become an extension of what we started off with. And so we have Azure data platform cloud edition, which is Cohesity running on Azure. So I would say how we made the decision in this case. A, the product and the foundation really set that for us. But B, more importantly, the customers really asking for it and asking for that integration made it easier for us to determine that, hey, we absolutely need to partner with the cloud vendors. Sorry, I'd like to build off of that, the customers and what they're asking for. This is a very large ecosystem here. To be honest, we know that Azure, Microsoft is a big player in cloud. When I look at the show, Azure's a piece of the overall discussion. So it was a little surprised not that we're hearing more about Azure here, but it's because if you look at just order magnitude, how many customers Microsoft has on Windows and Office, obviously that's going to dwarf customer adoption in general. Where are your customers when they talk about cloud adoption, your customers, do you find them more? Windows customers in their own data center versus Azure, what are your customers doing in adoption of Cohesity Cloud products in general? Sure, so if you look at the typical on-ramp of customers, more often than not, at least I would say over the last couple of years, our customers have typically started with the on-premise because their immediate pain point, while the platform can do a lot of things, customers are always looking to also solve their immediate pain point while looking into the future. So their immediate pain point was really around how do I make my backup and data protection systems, first of all, simple, efficient and less fragmentation. And while I'm doing that, how can I then potentially invest in a platform that is capable of doing more? And that's something that Cohesity offered in the on-premise world. And as a natural extension to that, as both from the bottoms up, as storage admins and backup admins started looking at leveraging cloud or Azure in particular for as an extension of their storage infrastructure, as well as from the top down, more of like the business decision makers and the CIOs driving that mandate of, hey, I want you to think about cloud first and have that mindset, I think it really appealed to them because now they could start leveraging Azure Blobs, again, back to that long-term retention, legal hold, compliance standpoint, and then building off of that, building off of that to do test-app. We have a great feature, it's called Cloud Spin, the ability to take some of the on-premise infrastructure and to your earlier questions too, it's, we have seen customers, both VMware, Windows, Hyper-V environments, and believe it or not, some customers still have physical systems. And the fact that Cohesity can take care of all that in the on-prem world, while seamlessly helping them adopt cloud is really the kind of customers that we have seen in this journey that we have taken along with our customers and partners. Well, this is theCUBE's first time at Ignite, I know you're relatively new at Ignite. I'm really surprised about that. I would think you guys would have made a number of appearances, but I'm glad it's the first time when it's at the Cohesity booth, so wonderful. So we're so excited, but what are some of the things you're going to take back with you from this conference? I think for me, this conference as well as any other such conference in particular, it's really the excitement, right? You go back and you reflect on the last three, four days you spend here and it's about all the great conversations that we have had with customers, prospects and partners. Secondly, we had a session earlier this morning, a Cohesity session. We had Brown University join us and then there's going to be another one tomorrow. We're going to have UPenn and HKS. We are working on your alma mater, Cornell, by the way, too, so we'll get that. Excellent.  Yeah, and so the fact that we had all these sessions and some really great attendance, and attendance from folks who are yet to embrace the Cohesity solution, so it's great for us to get our message out there. Getting the word out. Get our word out there. And I would say the last thing for us is also showcasing to Microsoft here in particular, the fact that we have this big presence here and the excitement it's having is a great message to the Microsoft executives and the leadership team that we work with as well to sort of show more love. We already have enough that we get attention from them, but this is more of a validation for them to say there's more that we should be doing and could be doing with Cohesity. So I think those are probably the three things that I'll walk away with and build on what we learn from Ignite here. Excellent. Well, thank you so much, Cy, for coming on the show. It was great having you here. Thanks. Likewise. I'm Rebecca Knight for Stu Miniman. We will have more of theCUBE's live coverage of Microsoft Ignite in just a little bit.


When the narcissist sends their monkeys after you When the narcissist enforces their flying monkeys When they get their useful idiots to act on their behalf You will often find that the narcissist you're dealing with is part of a group of people They all think the same They're all very invalidating They all try to control you They share the same habitual gestures and ways of speaking and behaving They think and make decisions as a group Which typically results in unchallenged poor quality decision-making They conform to the group Because they feel weak on their own They need that sense of belonging They need to feel like they are an accepting member of the group They all think the same way They all share the same ideas And they don't care about other people who think differently The support of their group gives them the ability to show a confident and forceful personality They can be very opinionated and have fixed views or preconceived ideas When if they were alone They probably wouldn't be so confident or forceful They would probably feel anxious and uncertain about themselves Which is why they need the support of the group They can be very defensive towards anyone who has different or opposing views They can be very anxious to challenge or avoid criticism To defend or protect their group You may not realize it at first But you will soon discover that there are a lot of unspoken rules and regulations Everything has to be done a certain way They have these fixed views and preconceived ideas That they expect you to abide by Without ever questioning or confronting them You're not allowed to have your own preferences or ideas You have to stay within the box that they have created for you They can be unpleasantly overpowering Towards those who they perceive to be different to what they are They will try to assert their will over you in an arrogant way They will bully, intimidate and pressure you into seeing things in the way that they do There's no compromise It's either their way or the highway They have to be in the superior position And they can often have great influence on people Because they can come across as someone who has an overly high opinion of themselves They can come across as someone who is confident But underneath that is someone who doesn't really believe in themselves at all Flying monkeys depend on each other for validation Even though they tend to lack knowledge and experience They just see it as though whatever they think must be right Regardless of the facts or statistics They see their feelings as facts And they will expect you to see it the same way The main narcissist is usually the one who sends the flying monkeys after you You will hear more about what they're against Rather than what they're actually for They can be very negative They can behave in a way that is not desirable or optimistic They focus on the absence Rather than the presence of distinguishing features They have a dualistic mentality In their minds you're either with them Or you're against them You're either right or wrong You're either part of their group or you're not one of them They have this all or nothing way of thinking There's nothing in between They try to treat complex issues and problems As if they were much simpler than they really are When life just isn't that simple There's always going to be subtle differences in meaning or expression There's always going to be a difference or contrast Between similar things or people But with the narcissist flying monkeys Everyone has to think the same Everyone has to have the same ideas and preferences And there's just no room for individuality There's no room for the quality or character Of a particular person that distinguishes them from the rest of the group Because they try to prevent any individuality They try to prevent any free thought Where people can form their opinions on the basis of reason Independently of authority They just see it as though you don't need to have your own separate thoughts You don't need to use analysis or logical reasoning You don't need to think for yourself You just need to do what they tell you to do As though they've already got all the answers Everyone has to conform to their way of thinking Everyone has to comply with their rules and regulations You have to agree with them They want everyone to think in the same way They want everyone to have the same way of doing things They give authoritative commands As though you've got to do what they say without question You have to follow their commands And once you show any form of individuality They will see you as an outsider You will be ostracised You will become an outcast Someone who is rejected And cast out from homo society You will be excluded, looked down upon or ignored Because you don't fit into their group You have your own separate way of thinking You're not willing to submit to authority And free thinkers cannot exist in harmony With narcissists or their flying monkeys Because you think freely and independently Narcissists don't want your freedom They want conformity They want you to comply with their rules and regulations They don't want you to form opinions on the basis of reason Independently of authority If you do, they will reject you They will exclude you from their group Because they feel like you have rejected them They feel like you have rejected their dogma They feel like you have rejected their teachings or beliefs Which can cause them to become very distrustful of you Because in their minds you have failed to observe or respect their rules They hate it when you have a different preference or idea They just see it as though you're deliberately trying to make their lives difficult They see it as though you being different makes you crazy or evil And it makes them doubt your reliability They see it as though you have brought dishonour upon their group Monkeys can also be distrustful of each other They can feel like not everyone really follows the teachings or beliefs of the group They can often be pressured to prove their loyalty to the group Or they have to go out and commit an act against you For the purpose of proving their loyalty to the group As though they have to stand up for what they believe in They have to show you what they're representing And everyone in the group disagrees with it They all think it's okay Because they don't have their own individuality There's no differences or contrast between them There's nothing that sets them apart But they don't see anything wrong with that Because in their minds they're perfect They regard themselves as being better than they actually are They exaggerate their positives and minimize their negatives Everything is based on their own personal feelings, tastes or opinions Rather than being free from prejudice and favouritism Everything they do is self-serving It's an indulgence and satisfaction of their own desires It revolves around them explaining things about themselves Things that they like or are interested in Things that they prefer And they expect you to see it as though their biased opinions are all that matters They don't want you to question their authority They don't want you to think for yourself Because any time that you have your own separate opinion It makes them feel like they're losing control of you They're very insecure So having a different opinion will make them very angry They will feel like you're attacking them And you will often experience conflict from them You will experience a struggle between conflict and ideas While they are trying to force their preferences onto you When you are dealing with a narcissist and their flying monkeys You need to accept that they're never going to be able to relate to you They're never going to be able to understand you Because the strength of the group is too overpowering For anyone to have their own separate opinions They're not going to respect your differences or individuality They're just going to see it as though there's something wrong with you They feel like you have rejected their teachings and beliefs So now they're going to reject you They're going to do whatever it takes to make you feel the way they felt When you rejected them And many people feel hurt when they do this Which is understandable Because no one wants to feel rejected We all want to feel accepted by the tribe It's meant to improve our chances of survival But you need to recognise that this isn't a group that you should want to be a part of anyway Because by being a part of a group like that You would only lose your individuality You would only lose everything that is special about you And you would just be another one of them You need to learn to live your life separate from their group By realising just how great you are on your own The reason why these people tend to gravitate towards the group Is because they don't value their individuality They don't value or love themselves They see it as though being a part of the group Means that they're worth something They don't feel like they're enough on their own And that is why they were willing to erase themselves To be a part of the group When you're dealing with the narcissist flying monkeys You need to realise that you're not even dealing with real, whole and complete people You're just dealing with people who are only a shell of what they used to be They lost themselves when they chose to conform to the group And that is why they need so many of them Because the power is in your individuality Your power comes from being yourself And when these people chose to sacrifice themselves For the sake of the group They lost their power Which is why you shouldn't even take their opinion seriously You shouldn't even care what they think Because they're just repeating what was said to them They don't even have their own independent thoughts and opinions Because they're just a shell of who they used to be They don't even exist Because their group does not honour or respect any individuality It expects everyone to conform to their way of thinking and doing things But you can realise that you are enough on your own You can respect your individuality by walking away And living your own life separate from them With your own thoughts and opinions With your own ideas and preferences Which is all you wanted to have anyway Thank you for watching I hope this video has interviewed you Please like, comment and share and subscribe Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos Check out the new Narc Survival website At www.narcsurvival.uk Where you can read my blog posts, book coaching sessions And join a support forum If you would like to donate My paypal link is in the video description Coaching inquiries You can email me at coaching.narcsurvival.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon


Right, first of all, today's video is out in the sunshine at Pula Golf Resort in Mallorca. That's the good news. The second bit of good news is I've got my hands on a wedge that I was really positive about in the first few iterations. It's from Cleveland, it's a CBX, it's the full phase two, and I've got a feeling this one could end up in the bags of a lot of average golfers out there. So the first question is, why do I think these will end up in the bags of many average golfers? Well, it's quite simply because they are very playable wedge, they're a very forgiving wedge. And I say that based on my previous experience, what I want to see today is what is full phase two all about. Do I like the change in the profile and the shaping of this club? And maybe we start there, and let's just have a quick look at this thing. In terms of a shelf appeal perspective, I still think it falls into that game improvement visual if you like. And what I mean by that, it's a little bit bulky, it's got that wide width of sole, all these things are intended to help. They're there for a reason. And then from that front edge, like a lot of wedges right now, they've gone full face in terms of those grooves and that profile, we'll talk about that very shortly. The interesting bit for me in terms of full phase grooves, I understand them when you're perhaps talking at a 56, 58 or a 60 wedge, because that's often a shot that you will open up the club face and those grooves might come into effect. I'm not really understanding why they appear on a 52, a 50 and a 54. That confuses me a little. Anyway, let's hit some golf shots. Right, we're gonna kick things off from 80 yards out and this is not a full shot with a 52. So you'd be questioning, well, why aren't you playing a full shot? Well, because I like a wedge to be versatile and I like a wedge to be able to be very much playable from a half shot, a three quarter swing. That's my game. I'm not one that carries a whole load of wedges either. So it's not all about full shot with me. So 80 yards out 52 wedge, I think is a three quarter swing. First thing I notice is that the shape and head profile with this wedge is very different. They've changed this up in my opinion quite significantly. The high toe area seems to be higher and it sort of scoops very sort of almost strangely into the neck. And I think that's gonna take a little bit of getting used to. And as ever with my reviews, you get honesty and it's not something I'm overly comfortable with at the address position. That's really odd to be honest with you. But it's almost, I would say like I said for me somehow, the word scoop and I don't know why that's coming as a word into my head, but it suggests that it's gonna help me if you like and maybe that's where this is positioned in terms of the mentality. Right, that all may change if we pick this ball up nice and clean and we stick it near the flag. So three shots from here and let's see how we get on. That's a really nice pick up. It's really interesting that CBX wedges from the day that I've played them are super easy to play. That's what I'm gonna say. And what I mean by that is they pick the ball up really well, they get a good ball flight. This seems to be the width of soul again is a real help in terms of picking that ball up. Now whether or not it's a mentality thing, I've no idea. But all I can say is CBX wedges definitely seems to be on that game improvement spectrum and they do what they're supposed to. Right, let's try a couple more. Right, it's okay. So I mean performance wise, more than happy. Like I said, judging distance meant a little bit of change up in terms of the swings. That first shot I've hit this morning. So working with wedges, as you well know, it takes a period of time to adjust and understand your yardages. And it's very much sort of something that will grow the longer you use them. But first off from a three quarter swing so far so good, we need to change position and throw in a little bit of a curve ball make this a little bit more difficult. Today's video is brought to you in partnership with Shervo, the premium Italian golf wear and sportswear brand. By using some of the most innovative fabrics Shervo produced clothing that is both stylish and incredibly comfortable to wear both on and off the golf course. For more information visit the Shervo website and I will of course provide a link in the description of this video. Right, let's get back to the golf. Right, a bit unfair in terms of testing out our 52 wedge playing out of a bunker with not a lot of carry but we're going to give it a go anyway and again see if we can test out that full face screws and the versatility of the 52. So let's lay this one wide open and give it a bit of a splash. Oh, do you know what? That's not bad at all and the interesting thing is the fact that a little bit of grab there as well so from a bunker's perspective I certainly wouldn't be playing a 52 from there super impressed. Right, so we're going to ram things up a little bit in terms of the difficulty of the shot at least anyway and see what kind of feel we've got in this because I would very much describe this as a field shot. We've got two different cameras before we get to the flag and a 52 perhaps not ideal you'd want a little bit more loft but like I said let's see if we can make this work with this 52 in hand. Once again, first thing I notice and address is just that kind of like I said, slightly odd shaping. This has got to be left of the flag and see if we can just drift one in and then we'll hit a couple more from here. That's delicate enough. It's off the right side of the slope. There's a decent start and I think some decent feel feedback at least maybe a little bit off the bottom grooves. We'll try one more, we'll try two more but we'll leave the camera rolling for a little bit and just see what we can do with this. Yeah, nice a crisper strike to be honest with you. First one off the bottom grooves which again, I don't mind seeing how a club performs when you don't get it quite right because let's be honest, as average golfers that's what we're gonna do more than often. So, I'm happy with them and I really again, look, this is a cast club. I've done another video alongside this today from the same positions and I'm not sure which video comes out first. They were forged wedges and yes, there is a difference. However, I will say that as a cast club, this does a real good job. We might as well stick around for number three. Well, all I can say is from that position I'd be more than happy because believe me, I don't think the camera might show off just how difficult that shot is. Right, we're gonna put it through its test today because all through its pieces rather. Another what I would consider quite a difficult shot again, all about feel with a 52 wedge. You're expecting it to flight in a little bit lower and that's something I mean, do you know what interested in because whilst it's a 52 wedge, it seems to present a huge amount of loft and far greater than 52 at address. And I mean a lot more. I could almost, if you put that in front of me now and said, what loft have we got? I'd be talking 58 or 60. That's how much difference it looks. I'm not too sure the logic behind that. So with this kind of shot, we're looking to pitch up around the fringe and they're released down towards the hole. Good. Oh, hang on a minute. Oh, I killed it. Do you know what, that was so good. I said pitch into the fringe. The bank actually just stopped it dead. I wasn't expecting that, but ball flight was interesting. It was, yeah, like I said, a little bit higher than what I was expecting. Let's see if we can hit this one a little bit lower. Well, we managed to hit it a little bit lower but got it a little bit heavy as well. So not the best results there. In fact, I'm going to try one more ball whilst the camera's on because yeah, I did catch that just a little bit heavy, nothing major. And again, perhaps would have liked to have seen that sole help me out, but maybe even that couldn't help that heavy of a shot. That's a much better clip. That's the shot I was trying to play and that could go in the hole. The reason I try to play it differently is because can we manipulate that loft? Can we make it? It was a bit more hands forward the second or second and third attempt, ball back in the stance a little bit and the idea could we flight that ball a little bit down and yes, you can. So first of all for me, what I like to see in a wedges versatility, first shot was just a standard, let the club do its thing. That was kind of ball flight I got. Second and third effort, hands forward, ball back a little bit in the stance and try and hit that one just in a little bit lower. And it did exactly that. And the third one in particular really did execute what I was trying to do. So I like the versatility of it. Don't forget, it's gotta be classed in that game improvement category in terms of the style of wedge, but even if you wanna play a variety of shots and that's a strong part of your game, I still think it's very much doable with these CBX wedges. That's it. Wedge review done, very difficult to do a wedge review in my opinion. All we've tried to do is demonstrate the versatility of the club, talk about maybe the sound and the feel of it. And let's start with that bit first of all. I've said throughout this video, this is very much a cast club and the important bit for me is that I done another review alongside it, which was Mizuno wedges. And it's a little bit unfair in some ways because they're very different in what they're intended to do but the one noticeable difference between the two was that sound and feel. So for me, that's where you see that this doesn't quite have that sound and feel certainly of a forged wedge. However, what Cleveland do very well is making a cast club feel and sound as good as I've possibly felt, to be honest with you. It is a good overall feeling and sounding club. Then you go on to the lux thing, which is where to me I've got a slight issue. I'm not as keen on the kind of the profile that has been developed. I don't remember it being this kind of, like I said, as high in the toe and a sort of weird shape into the neck. That bit I was a little unsure of. But overall, what about performance? Well, from the longest shots in, I couldn't have picked the ball up any better. Again, I do like the confidence that the wider sole gives. And again, feel shots from in and around the green, super impressed. That one singular bunker shot that I played, well, it was really impressive, to be honest with you. Didn't expect to be getting that out from a slightly wet sandier pool of today, but again, played that exceptionally well. It's a few more shots that I played from in and around the greens. And for me, it's all about just changing the sort of hand position. And now I want to see the ball fire into the greens. And I was able to do that on every occasion. So whilst it's a game improvement wedge, it's still very playable in a number of golfers hands, in my opinion. Overall, what Cleveland do with their whole lineup, to be honest with you, but with CBX wedges, is make a very playable and very forgiving set of golf clubs. And that certainly again, falls into this category. So, very positive for a number of golfers. For me on this occasion, profile not quite on my eye. And from a field perspective, I probably would lean towards something slightly different. But they certainly will, as I said at the beginning of this video, fall into the bags of many average golfers. And I don't think you'll be disappointed. Right, as ever, thank you for watching our here at Pool of Golf Resorts, a stunning few days. And many more videos to come from here. So keep your eyes peeled, that's me done. And I'll see you all tomorrow night.


Hey everyone, it's Isaac and I'm here to let you know that I actually started a Kickstarter for my new book and film. I'm super excited about it. I want you to go check it out right now in the link in my description here saying there's awesome rewards The book and the film is about building father-son relationships and even if you're not a father or a son I think this is something really important to get involved with and encourage and support So yeah, I'm super excited about the project and I love it no matter who you are get involved. Okay, I'll see you there Hey guys, what's up? It's Isaac again and welcome back to the Daily Disciple channel Today we're gonna be talking about four things to look for in a potential spouse Now, disclaimer, nobody does any of these things perfectly You're not gonna find a perfect person so by me telling you these things to look for I'm not saying that you need to find a person that meets every single character quality on this list Or maybe even a character quality on your list It's important to have those things in mind that we're saying okay, you know what I'm looking for a person that kind of meets these kind of character qualities But it's also important to have in mind that you're not gonna meet somebody that fits those perfectly That's a just a small disclaimer as we're going into this topic Anyway, let's get into it Now the first thing is to look for someone who doesn't depend on you for their self-worth Now what is self-worth? It's our worth that is intrinsic that is given to us by God God places worth on us And we each have that individually But all of a sudden when they start, when people start kind of becoming clingy or needy Of someone they're in a relationship with That self-worth you kind of you need that other person to constantly affirm you Constantly help you constantly You know it's this kind of what you might put in terms of a co-dependent relationship And that's not a healthy thing That's not something that we should be looking for And it's not biblical too We ought to have a distinct and biblical sense of our self-worth as individuals Not that we're getting that from other people but that we can get that from God And that's one thing that I think you should keep in mind Now on to number two Now number two is look for someone who sees a relationship as an avenue to love you Not control you Some people just go into relationships with this idea that Oh this is gonna be fun to kind of be together and be in a relationship But also there's just kind of a sense that Hey look I have some say in how you live your life I have control over you and a lot of guys honestly can get into this kind of unhealthy relationships Where they just are either bossing around their girlfriends or girlfriends bossing around their boyfriends It's not a healthy thing to have this controlling nature as opposed to wanting the best of them And love, right? Having that love and everything pour out of that kind of Hey look I want what's best for you because I love you instead of I want to control you Because that's gonna fuel what I want the most There's a difference there and I think it's important that we watch out for Not entering a relationship with someone who just wants to control us Rather look for someone that wants to love in the midst of that relationship That's number two Number three is look for someone who is committed to the relationship With the potential of marriage Not just someone who's trying to get into a relationship to get rid of loneliness And I think this can be a real tendency to jump into a relationship when you're not ready When you're not not ready emotionally, spiritually, financially There's a lot of things that need to come into place before you're ready to enter a relationship And a lot of people don't because don't don't get ready Don't aren't prepared when they enter a relationship just because they want to escape this loneliness And if you're with somebody that just wants to escape loneliness but really has no mindset of looking forward to marriage It can be a tough thing because one person's just about hey let's hang out Let's have all the fun stuff associated with a relationship And that you know it quenches this loneliness But yet it's not really heading towards anything And it's important that we keep our eyes open for that And look for someone that is committed to the relationship as possibly heading towards marriage As opposed to just you know just something to quench temporal loneliness It's important that we do that Number four and what I think is most important is look for someone who loves God more than you And you're like what the what why would I want that I want them to love me I want them to love me so much when our spouse or our girlfriend or whatever When they're depending on us when they love us the most And they put that kind of they see us as the top right if we're on the top They love us the most It's not a healthy place to be for them because then they have their priorities mixed up God should be at the top of all our priorities And our love because our love for others is that which flows out of our love for God We can only love other people we can only love our spouse or potential spouse Based on the love that we have for God it flows out of that into loving other people And if you have that the wrong way you're not going to be able to love well A Christ like love comes out of a love for Christ So you should be looking for someone who wants to fulfill God's desires as opposed to fulfilling your desires Because God's desires are so much better so much higher so much wiser so much properly oriented than yours If your spouse is just all about pleasing you doing everything for you That's not going to be beneficial to you because your desires may be messed up But if the person that we're in a relationship with is committed to loving God the most And doing what God wants that ultimately is going to be the best thing not only for our relationship But for her relationship with God and mine as well these two things work in tandem And that's why I think it's very important that you find someone that loves God more than they love you That doesn't mean they don't like you that doesn't mean they don't love you But it's about where our priorities are and God should always be on the top of our priorities Thanks for watching guys I hope you kind of maybe you gained something from this video These are just some of my thoughts I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments down below If you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe If you like this video give it a like and I guess I'll see you guys next week See you later


We'll get started with Jim. Jim has actually sent us questions, a couple of questions in advance. I know that we'll do this. So give us the first one, Jim. And I'll just read a portion of it because I'm a little bit verbose in my email. All right, first question is essentially how are modern leftists not identical to Marxists? This is something you've said repeatedly on your show in recent weeks. On the face of it, I think I get what you're after here. Among other things, you're afraid that ordinary people will consider this idea out of touch with the present. After all, their primary concern today seems to be identity politics and not traditional class struggle. In some of my charged rhetoric on Facebook, I've chided these leftist identitarians as being Marxist. It's a great effect. I'll get some of them claiming that I don't understand what Marxism is actually about thus exposing them as Marxists. I'll get some of them defending Marx, thus exposing themselves as Marxists. In any case, the thing they never say is I'm not a Marxist, let alone express any disgust for Marxism or try to distance themselves. So how are they really different from Marxists? Well, first I think it's important for us to be accurate in how we describe our enemies. It's easy to call everybody on the left Marxist. And look, everybody on the left is influenced by Marx. Marx is the most influential intellectual on the left. But you could also say everybody's a Kantian, right? And that would include most people on the right as well. And that would be, I think, not very useful in terms of the dialogue. Now, I think it's important to show the connection between today's intellectual and Kant and it's important to show the connection to Marx. But I don't think it's useful to paint them all as the same because I don't think they all are the same. You have those, and this is more popular right now in among the white fragility crowd, the white guilt crowd, the identity politics crowd. That crowd is different than Juan Chomsky. And Nam Chomsky is different than Stephen Pinker. And even Stephen Pinker is influenced by Marx because some of his attitude towards capitalism are influenced by Marx, it's a small influence. All of them are influenced by Marx, but the guys who are identitarian politics have a different emphasis than the guys who are traditional class theorists or believers in the dynamic of history and the class of classes and the inevitability of the result and the victory of the polytherian. I don't think, for example, that a lot of the identity politics people really believe in the inevitability of history and the deterministic nature of the future. And Man is completely 100% determined by his class. They believe he's determined by his race, but they still have this notion that the struggle is not inevitable and doesn't leave the inevitable consequences, which is what the true Marxists believe. And then they're not all exactly like Chomsky, even though a lot of them have been impacted by Chomsky. Chomsky has this, he's like an anarchist, right? Because he believes that the true way towards communism is to anarchy. And so he's- Did Marx also? I mean, didn't Marx- Marx is vague, right? Marx ultimately lives in the dictatorship of the polytherians. That's not exactly anarchy, but we all know that anarchy always leads the dictatorship. So it's all fuzzy. And I think that if they don't want to bring calamity to it, that's fine, but we do need to. So I view Marxist as the traditional Marxist. Now, the other thing is that I view most of the extreme leftists, most of the activist leftists, the, anyway from Antifa, to elements within the Black Lives Matter movement, to the person I will talk about on Monday, who just wrote a book about how looting is a good thing. And it's a sign of progress and movement, sign of the progress of the movement. These people are not Marxists. These people, now they influence by Marx, but they're out and out nihilists, 100% nihilists. There's no theory there. There's no utopia there. There's no thing that they're driving towards. These people are haters. And you know, the woman who advocates for white fragility, it's not, there's no theory there. There's no class, you know, some grand view of the world, the Hegelian conflict.  She's a hater. And her motivation is that hatred and that willingness to crush everything. Now granted, a lot of Marxists are haters. So I understand that there's a lot of overlap, but I think it serves us well to be able to differentiate and distinguish also. And I think, again, it gives them more intellectual credibility than they deserve to call them Marxists. Because I think they're lower than Marx. And you know what I think about Marx? And I think some of these people, I mean, some of these people are lower than Marx and the despicable, disgusting nihilists and while Marx was also despicable, I mean, it's hard with degrees of evil, but these people in a sense are worse than that and more immediately destructive. What's the guy's name at Harvard, the black thinker that I did a show about? What's that? Cornel West? Yeah, Cornel West. Now Cornel West, I think, is more of a traditional Marxist. He's not focused on identity politics. He's not, I don't think he's an nihilist in the same way. I think he's just a classical, what do you call it, Marxist and that's why he's silent right now. You know, you don't see a lot of Cornel West right now. He's not one of the prominent leaders in these marches and in this destructive movement because he doesn't really belong. He's in a sense, and I hate to say this, he's too sane. I mean, people right now leading this truly it's insanity.  I mean, you know where that's gonna lead. It's just, I don't think Cornel West would make that claim or silence anybody who doesn't agree with us. Cornel West is not quite there yet. He's an advocate at least in some sense for free speech. So we have to be able to differentiate the left. Otherwise, I think we lose because everybody's lumped in as the same thing. It's like when they say everyone's racist. Yeah, everybody's a capitalist as a racist or everybody on the right as a racist, everybody. It's just not useful to lump everybody together. And I know some objectivists do that. And you know, but I think it's better to be nuanced. I can't disagree with any of that answer. I mean, it's an excellent answer. And yet I struggle a little bit in part because maybe it's just the Madison bubble. I don't think so though. But when I ask people- Those things all influenced by Marx. They all will give you the class theory. They'll all give you that. But in reality, that's not what they're playing on. Now again, in Madison, maybe they are. Maybe they're more Marxist in Madison because you are in Madison, Wisconsin after all. Maybe they're more, I mean, they're probably more Marxist in Madison, Wisconsin than they are in Beijing. So, you know, it's quite possible that you are in a Marxist bubble. And look, it's all interconnected. It's not like it's just, I think it's worth differentiating between the shades of black. And I mean black in the sense of evil. Yeah, thank you. Good answer. Jennifer. Can you explain that idea of spontaneous order and capitalism? Yes, spontaneous order is an idea really presented by Hayek, but really has its origin in some extent with Adam Smith and later, you know, even with Bastiat, although Hayek gave it the name, spontaneous order. And the idea here is that institutions, organizations, markets are not planned. There's no organizing person, institution organization that allows them to come about. There's basically a certain set of laws and everything just evolves as created spontaneously by the marketplace, by the individual activities of individuals in the marketplace. They create the institutions, the organizations, the markets that then we observe. So there's no stock market. Nobody planned the stock market. A bunch of guys in New York got together at a coffee shop in the 19th century and got together and started trading securities, bonds I think originally, and then stocks of railroads primarily. And then slowly they morphed into an institution called the stock market. Nobody planned it. Nobody had a thought, oh, we should have a stock market and then implement it. Now, there is a certain truth to that and many things do come to be in that way, right? But I think the problem is that both Adam Smith and Hayek and many three market thinkers have, the problem is that it ignores the role of the planner. And the primary planner in markets is D'Entrepreneur. D'Entrepreneur is a planner. He does have a plan. He could have a one-year plan, a five-year plan, a 10-year plan. He has a plan and he has a vision and he puts everything together to create that vision. And while all of that is also within a structure of a market that maybe wasn't planned, the market cannot, none of this can happen without individuals having plans, without individuals having, without entrepreneurs, having a vision and organizing things and creating things. I don't know if you have a red eye pencil. Do you ever see, there's a little video on- And all the things that go into making the pencil. Yes, and the idea with the pencil is nobody knows how to make a pencil, right? Nobody, because if you take it back far enough, nobody, you know, the guy who works in the pencil factory, even the CEO of the pencil factory, doesn't know how to produce lead or doesn't know how to chop down the trees and turn the trees into these things. He can order that from somebody else. So all these elements come together. And the idea is, this is an example of spontaneous order. Pencils just, they just are creation of this market. And I remember once, Fee, I think, was really pushing the movie they made out of eye pencil. Eye pencil is something that the founder of Fee was a story that he created, it's a little booklet that he created to show how beautiful markets work. And it's true, it's amazing, right? Because it's true, no one person has the knowledge of how to make a pencil. But it's also not true that pencils just come out of nowhere. They're just spontaneous order. And when they showed this movie, they hadn't had a panel afterwards. And I said, I really actually hate this movie because it's missing the most important thing. It's missing the entrepreneur who has the idea of creating a pencil. And then hires all these people and contracts with all these people to make all the stuff that he doesn't know how to make. I mean, the fact is the entrepreneur, the CEO probably doesn't even know how to use the machines to turn the wood. He hires people to do that, but that's his role. His role is to organize, it's not to make. And that is so missing. And with a few exceptions, Mises and Israel Kurtzner, who is still alive at the age of 90 something years old, those are the two economists within the Austrian school that really emphasize the role of the entrepreneur. But most of the Austrians don't, things just happen. And you saw this a little bit with Matt Ridley, who's an economist. But like Matt Ridley, when I interviewed him, his idea was progress happens, stuff gets created. If it isn't Steve Jobs, it'll be somebody else. If it isn't this guy, it's that guy. Like a force of nature. Yeah, it's just, yeah. It's, but really is Newton inevitable? Is Aristotle inevitable? Is, I mean, I mean, it's just not, it's just not, I don't think Steve Jobs is inevitable. No, yeah, something like it would have happened. It's not like we would have no progress, but it would have been a different path in history. And that the role of the entrepreneur is what's really, really missing in spontaneous order. And I don't like the term spontaneous order because I think it diminishes the role of the human mind. It diminishes planning. And that's part of, unfortunately, part of Hayek's legacy is diminishing reason. And the idea that we need limited government because people aren't smart enough, aren't good enough, aren't reasonable enough is a conservative and in some cases, libertarian idea, which is very destructive. Thank you. Sure. Oh, yeah, there he is. Hey, Yaron, hi everyone. Good. Maybe I'll just kind of piggyback off of Jim's question. When he started off by kind of asking about leftist. Is another way to approach his question to say, all right, let's kind of borrow Rand's concept of, or her phrase of check your premises. So maybe is another way to approach his question to say, okay, let's start by defining, what do you mean by leftist? Yep. Let's break that down. And in a way, it also suggests there's something called rightist, right? And what does that mean? Yes, and I think, you know, when Rand defined it, Rand defined leftism as collectivism, leftism and statism of all kinds, right? And she actually find the right, this point of individual rights and pro-capitalism. So she defined a spectrum with individual rights on one end and collectivism on the other end, and the right representing individual rights. And she would say, conservatives and Republicans have betrayed that they're not really rightists and fascism is really a phenomena of the left, right? And that would expand the left even broader than Marxism, right? They would expand it to our forms of collectivism and altruism and statism. I have given up on Ein's definition there because, you know, I don't think it's that important. There's certain terms that I think that are important to fight for, right? And there's certain terms that I don't think are important to fight for. I don't think left, right is important to fight for, particularly given that the traditional right, what everybody thinks is the right, has moved away from individual rights and capitalism. So now we have a left and a right for both collectivists and the differences that the left emphasizes class and race. The right seems to emphasize nation. You know, some people on the right emphasize race, but not as openly, right? Because it's, you know, the racism of the left is far more acceptable in our world than the racism of the right. And so they emphasize nation, that's how, and they emphasize religion. So you've got religion and nationalism on the right, you've got class and race on the left. But they're all collectivists of a variety, of a verse meaning. And I think you even have the nihilists of the right. It's a parallel of the nihilists of the left, although obviously the nihilists of the left are far more dominant, vocal, and right now, you know, more in our face and more influential if you want. So I think that, yes, you have to check what we mean by left. I mean by left, everybody who's a collectivist who is an advocate of class warfare or racial warfare of some degree or another who are for a mixed economy because of class issues or because of race issues. And the right, it's a mixed economy because of nation or because of some, something about religion, right? I think there are a lot of people, even in our political world right now, a lot of people within the intellectual framework, that in that world don't really have a good home. It's not clear where Stephen Pinker fits in. He's a collectivist in economics, but not really overclass, and he's not really a Marxist, and he's not really, where is he? Is he really a leftist? I don't think so. But is he a right? He's clearly not on the right. That's why I like this individual rights collectivism spectrum, and I'd say he's a little bit more closer to individual rights than he is towards the collectivism. He's not quite what we are, he's far from it, but he's closer than a lot of people who claim to be where we are, like some of the conservatives who are now much more on the national side. So I think the left-right spectrum is less useful, but it's inevitable to talk about it because everybody else talks about it, it's how they self-identify. But it is important to exactly define who you're talking about, what you're talking about. I think that, do you have a follow-up, Doris? Because I thought I'd catch you off. Okay. No, that's fine, thank you. Thanks. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. 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