Welcome everyone to this Facebook live session with International idea my name is Lisa Hogman I work in the communications team and together with me today is your vehicle Hamada from our PPR team political participation and representation that's right yes and I want to invite everyone who's watching add your comments questions in the field under the live stream we will try and get back to you as soon as we can we will today also talk about one of our databases and we'll make sure to put the link directly under the live feed so that you know how you have an easy access point to the database and today we're going to talk about money and money in politics okay why don't you start a little bit just describe yourself and the team absolutely thank you Lisa so my name is Yuki Hamada as Lisa mentioned I work as a senior program officer in political participation and representation team here at ideaheadquarter in Stockholm so my team has been working on the issue of money in politics for a number of years practically I mean we also work on the issues of political finance regulations how one country adapting and then also supporting the countries reform their political finance regulations but we also look at issues controlling illicit flow of money as well as looking at other risk areas when it comes to money in politics such as emerging trends of cryptocurrencies in political finance for example yes and if we're talking about illicit money we actually did a Facebook live not so long ago so if you're interested in that topic and how that relates to political parties and participation you go back to internationally the as YouTube stream and you'll find it there but let's go back to the basic why does money in politics matter exactly it matters both both positively and negatively and of course let's start with the positives and of course money is important aspects of any democracies we acknowledge that political parties and candidates they do need financial resources to successfully run their campaigns and be elected and of course money from citizen point of view as well any donations that they make is also a way of expressing their political support to a particular political party or candidates so in this sense money is an integral part of any electoral process I would say but however we also recognize that if the money the flow of money into campaigns to political parties is not appropriately regulated those with bigger financial powers or private sectors or or or anyone with with them with a much bigger financial resources could dominate such campaigns or cast a huge influence over political parties and candidates and this will inevitably undermine the integrity of political participation representation so therefore we believe the appropriate level of regulation of money in politics is crucial and that's something we've been working on okay yeah this is very interesting and just concretely what it is working on I know you want to talk about the political finance database because it's just been updated could you talk what is it and what was the rationale behind updates the updates thank you so the this database that I'm going to talk about is called political finance database it was first launched in 2003 so it's been around the block for quite some time it started with a demand from countries and other electoral management bodies that they often know what's what's happening in their own countries but however when it comes to looking for the other good practices or what other countries are doing when it comes to regulating politics there is a very severe lack of resources data so they don't necessarily know how to compare themselves to other countries so then idea undertook this quite a big project and then start collecting information about a number of countries political finance regulations and then put them all together that's how we started and but of course political finance regulations similar to any laws changing quite rapidly and then also landscapes surrounding the issue of money in politics is also changing so we periodically conduct update of the database as well and the most recent update was in 2016 and then it's been two years obvious exactly so we this time around we managed to increase the number of questions to 74 questions and managed to increase the number of countries included as well so I'm happy to announce that 2018 update we currently have 74 questions for 180 countries which I believe made this database is one of the richest source of information in for those interested in money in politics you mentioned that this is a field that it's changing quite rapidly and that countries have a need to actually know what other countries are doing but I guess you also have researchers and for them they like to see trends can you do this with this new update absolutely this is one of the added feature on 2018 version of the database and so users are researchers exactly for anyone who's interested in money in politics and they could actually compare the 2016 data and then 2018 data so in some cases countries have changed their political finance regulations the last two years and that itself is a very interesting findings but also in some cases you can also see some shortcomings still remain in the last two years so even if you do not see the changes that tells quite some stories as well so that's quite interesting feature could you say something sort of what are the questions what does the database cover it's a big field exactly and I said 74 questions that's that's that's a huge number of questions but we just to introduce some structure into this we brought the categorized those questions into four pillars four categories one is about public funding so we look into the ways how countries distribute state funding state resources to political parties that means what are the criteria's or in the first place do a country provide such public funding to political parties and so forth then second category is about regulations concerning the private donations so that's political party allowed to receive political donations from private sources but what are the private sources so we look also into details is whether if there's a regulation on donation from anonymous sources or foreign sources or how about companies with state ownership for example so that's a second pillar and the third pillar is about the regulation on spending so we have a number of questions relating to whether there's a spending cap and spending limits and for example and then the last category is about the oversight who is checking exactly if there is someone exactly exactly parties and for those who just joined let me just recap that I'm sitting here today with Yuki and we're talking about money money in politics and more in detail about international ideas knowledge resources publications and the database that we have so you talked about the four pillars yes could you say something then sort of more in detail what what have you found when it comes to public funding exactly so the public funding is the the first thing probably political parties or electoral management bodies think about when they think about political finance because it is a growing trend and then also it is a major pillar to ensure that the playing field is is actually leveled and in that sense by providing public funding most political parties regardless of their size or the the history whether they've been in establish for long or not and have some type of financial resources to start with so we believe that this is a very good practice to have and then encouraging countries to consider developing public funding system to to to make sure that political representation is accessed equally but the very interesting fact that our new database found is actually 68% of the countries that we surveyed have such a public funding system at the moment which is encouraging but of course the free side of the coin is that the 32% of the countries do not have public funding this means that political parties and candidates in those countries have to 100% rely on the private funding yeah and we'll talk a little bit more about but I know that you're a bit excited and I know there's a book about how you can use public funding to increase women's political participate or representation representation yeah exactly so thank you for bringing this up because one of the perks of having public funding is that it has a very good a secondary objective as well so of course the primary I mean we're thinking about providing the the minimum financial parties but for example if we design the public funding in in certain ways and we could certainly address other programs in politics as well and as you mentioned one of the persist persisting program in politics is the gender gender inequality gen females and the representations in politics and we believe by ear tagging for example the public funding to promoting gender related activities or making sure that criteria for receiving public funding to be linked to the number of female candidates nominated by a political parties for example political parties have more incentive more financial incentive to include female candidates in the electoral list for example and then we believe that's been working in some countries and then we actually devoted that time and then produce a standalone report here gender target public funding for political parties which was just published in 2018 as well and this includes a number of country case studies and according to our database to the best of knowledge currently about 15% of the countries surveyed in the database and have already such provisions and that's about 30 countries but then also this report says I mean it may not sound a large volume just yet but the number has been increasing so in the years to come we believe this number will even go up and this is quite interesting because I think the sort of earlier findings of ideas research show that one of the reasons I mean there are many reasons why women don't have the same possibilities to be elected but one is lack of resources absolutely absolutely this is one way of actually overcoming that by using public funding absolutely okay so we talked about public funding yeah and then we have the other big issues private funding absolutely have what has what has changed exactly so to start with an international idea takes a stance that private funding is not always bad I mean we always acknowledge that this is a very important part of the for citizens to express their political will so therefore we do not advocate to regulate everything or even ban every donation so to say but however increasingly in the recent years as well we see a lot of scandals for example political parties receiving a huge amount of donations from questionable sources or sometimes anonymous donations and citizens also demand transparency and accountability so therefore in this respect and we like to see countries moving towards more transparent and better regulated public private funding scheme and just as an example for example recently in New Zealand a poet politician actually receive a very huge amount of donations from a business person and that triggered a bit of the controversy and then also the reform debate for example from what sources a political party or political or candidate receive donation for example or to how much I mean or to what extent and do they need to disclose the identity of donor for example and you told me when we prepared for this I mean in some countries there is nothing to ban a donation from a foreign country for example exactly so to to answer your questions according to the database we have over 30% of surveyed countries currently do not have regulations when it comes to donations from foreign sources and the same number of countries do not have regulations on anonymous donations either okay this is very interesting have you seen any regional trends can you just sort of this is just happening in one region or no interestingly and this is actually happening everywhere and from established democracies to newly born democracies so really from Europe to Africa to Latin America to Asia Pacific there are countries who have regulations on these issues but there are also equally countries that do not have regulations okay interesting that it's a spread okay so we talked about the income side of political parties and money in politics are there other regulatory trends that you can see absolutely any regulation of money in politics has to have two sides at least one is on regulation on income side as you mentioned and then the other regulation needs to be on the spending side so that means political parties and candidates are required to disclose how they spend and the money they receive and this is also the interest of the in the general public and also the media and then also the civil CSO's that they're interested in the political matters and it's very interesting to see that of course we take this for granted but currently according to the database 77% of the countries do require political parties to submit their financial reports at some point of their electoral cycle and although this is a majority of countries but if you also think about 23% of the countries there's no provision requiring political parties to submit their financial report which is definitely something that we need to work on and then countries to consider regulating and then of course even within the 77% of the countries I just mentioned there's a wide variety when it comes to the forms and then modalities of disclosure and reporting in some countries political parties submit their financial forms in paper format for example in more advanced versions are the countries they have systems to do so online through the digital platform and then of course in this modern age we certainly like to encourage countries to move from the paper base or analog system to more advanced ICT digital platform to allow political parties to report and then disclose political finance this is not just because being fancy it has a number of benefits by using the ICT and digital disclosures one is obviously it will eliminate human errors significantly of course when you do it in you know paper and paper pen even if you do not intend to it could be easily create some type of human errors and then the risk will be significantly reduced if you use online technologies of course and of course and the efficiency and the speed as well this will significantly improve them by using the ICT technologies and then also from user perspectives if you do so online it will be much easier when it comes to disclose such informations users can for example download such information and then use it for their own research for example or they could search or filter so that they can just easily find the information that they're interested without going through the hundreds of files exactly can imagine so really I think there are a lot of benefits we like to think that this is a very modern solution to the a lot of programs surrounding the transparency and then disclosure and then on that note again we're also happy to announce that we actually been working on this issue for quite some years and aside this database we also produce a new guide so-called digital solutions for political reporting and disclosure we happen to have here exactly it's been also a year and it has been proved to be a very useful source of information for any countries or any political parties or electoral management bodies who are thinking developing such platform the good thing about this guide is that it includes a very detailed concrete step by step instructions and recommendations for developing such systems so if for anyone for whatever stage even if you may not even thought about this but this will help conceptualizing the digital disclosure or even if you have a system but if you're thinking about updating it this also provides some concrete recommendations to make it even better more user-friendly source of web so I think this covers a very wide range of audience and then certainly we encourage the viewers to have a look if you have a chance sounds very good also because I think everyone knows that any big project costs a lot of money so anything that can be done to facilitate that process is of course useful when it comes you talked about the expenditure side then you mentioned that the force pillar in the database is oversight exactly yeah could you expand a little bit on the new findings exactly so there's an oversight it's very important and then that's the cornerstone that's the last part of the oversight and then when it comes to what needs to be oversight that's slightly linked to the regulatory trends of income part as well but for example what needs to be reported for example and that's very important and then when it comes to so I'm sliding back and forth between the and you know spending and then how oversight needs to be conducted on spending and we find that placing so for example spending limits on some of the issues is a very important as well and then for example currently 32% of the countries that surveyed in the database have some sort of the regulations on spending political spending and then this seems to be a growing trend but of course oversight bodies need to actually monitor whether it's properly adhered to actually I mean this is very important and then of course it's numbers increasing but if you look into the 32% of course its situations also more interesting for example so there's only currently it comes to spending only 3% of the countries have a specific spending limit on the online media advertisement so as we all know given the recent use of the Facebook or Twitter or even some scandals relating to fake news or online sources the oversight bodies are increasingly aware how this could be properly managed and then regulated as well so we also do receive a lot of questions as well as the inquiries from the country's electro management bodies and then we see that there's no standard way of regulating at the moment and as you also see that technologies advancing very rapidly so the unfortunate truth is that regulations are a little bit lagging behind and a bit slow to react to the fast-changing technological world but only 3% of them have a regulations on online media advertisement I mean that itself is a very interesting finding and then linking to the oversight we like to think the oversight bodies may consider develop some type of strategies how this regulation spending can be monitored for example and then better regulated the spending by political parties and candidates when it comes to the use of online sources and when you talk about oversight and how many countries have this kind of function and function as to the overseeing people and I'm glad to report that about almost all countries have bodies responsible for overseeing political finance but there's a very big variations in some countries and also growing trend as well have a dedicated electro management bodies we call it EMBs so that they are often the independent dedicated agency who are tasked to monitor and then also in some cases they have some legal power to defer cases to prosecution for example in case of the misconduct but in other countries they do not necessarily have such independent bodies and then oversight is in the hand of in some cases parliaments or sometimes with the government ministries or in some cases the audit agencies as well so there's no uniform way of overseeing the money in politics but of course we like to advocate I mean the depending on the country context of course but we like to think any finance and public bodies whose task to oversee the political finance needs to be to some extent independent and has sufficient capacities both human capacities and also budgetary capacities to conduct meaningful oversight and oversight is a catch-all word but if you think about it it's a lot of work to develop policies and guidelines for political parties but also actually audit and verify the financial reports and also in case of the misconduct I mean who actually going to investigate these cases so it requires a lot of resources but however we like to think for any meaningful oversight agencies needs to have both independence and appropriate capacities and that's something any countries were thinking about reforming their oversight mechanisms need to consider yeah no and that's interesting because I mean otherwise you risk having a situation where you might have legislation but it's not really implemented if you don't have a good oversight exactly and as a final point yes and I wanted to ask you sort of what the future looks like and how to use the database and actually how the database is different because I know this is a publication it's it's getting a bit old and could you explain a little bit absolutely so this report is a funding of political parties and election campaigns as one of our best sellers if I say so myself but it's been published it was published exactly it was published in 2016 and then this was based on the findings of the our own political finance database back then in after 2016 update so it's still two years old and a lot of findings are still valid but however after this 2018 update I'm very pleased to announce that international idea is currently working on drafting a new set of policy papers based on the 2018 update so we hope to bring some new fresh issues on the table after this update and then we like to link these findings to the very specific concrete proposals for action for political parties or electoral management bodies or even for researchers for CSOs and media as a sort of food for thought and moving forward and also for the use of 2018 or any database that we have actually it's important to actually say this outright that we all know that the having political finance regulations or laws in place on paper that's not always guaranteed that those laws are implemented we all know that according to database I'm happy to say most of the countries have some levels of some forms of political finance regulations in place already but we all know that they're continuing scandals and also in some countries those rules are not complied at all unfortunately this database does not capture the level of compliance or the level of implementation in each country so unfortunately we do not know whether these laws that we we have in the database are actually exercised however we think and then based on the user feedback as well I think it's important to have a collection of data set in one place so that if a country or a researcher or or or media or anyone who's interested in money politics needs to know or are interested in knowing what other countries are doing or like to compare what their countries perform vis-à-vis the their neighboring countries or other countries they're interested this database will allow to do that and then I hope with this database will serve to be the central source for information for those who are really interested in political finance and then like to see what other countries and global trends are yeah and you have a feedback function so if anyone finds a mistake or or there's exactly exactly exactly so so yes Lisa so we're talking about very big data set now so we have 74 questions for 180 countries we deployed a large number of researchers to to verify those answers to the best of knowledge but of course the situations in each country is changing very rapidly and some data can easily be outdated so exactly so there's a function in the database that you can submit directly your feedback to us so that if any users have ever spotted such inaccuracies or or any changes or new reform ideas or what have you really we'll be very interested to hear from the users and then we consider their each proposal or feedback carefully and then try to update the database as as as soon as possible okay thank you Yuki this has been really interesting for me no thank you very much I want to thank everyone who's been watching and you have the link to the database directly under the the live stream and we have been talking about money in politics that's all for now exactly thank you very much thank you


Sup guys, welcome back to another video. My name is White Morpheus and today we're looking at Xavier Howard Number 56 on the list of the top NFL players in 2022 Let's get into it DB, but he has the ball skills in the football IQ or receiver Xavier Howard said I got it man. Well look what I've been told earlier in this in this series Is that look DB's always wanted to be wide receivers. It's just they couldn't catch the ball I mean is that is that is the really truth to that? My name is White Morpheus. Let me know down in the comment section below It's a 50-50 ball with him Hey, well, that's that's that's what you really want You want to you want a wide receiver playing corner because they can't catch the ball Xavier Howard led I knew he was in the top 20 last year. What's that NFL with 10 interceptions in 2020? That meant quarterbacks kept their distance in 2021 Right, that's the thing.  You've got to at least put your body on the line That ain't right. It was third in short He kind of knew that whenever we're starting short, we were trying to just get the first down So he felt comfortable jumping out route. Okay So now I know you're gonna be so you're not gonna talk about your tackle attempt I see what's going on here Oh Mate you can't do an arm tackle like that.  Uh-huh. He's straining to make a play He just always in the right position at the right time and making plays on the ball Man corner just man.  He looks slight He looks undersized But does an undersized cornerback really exist. I don't know I feel like that is the position that they can, you know, basically get away with Being as short as they want and as light as they want Either way, let's look at some stats. Now. We we did this last year. I'm gonna lie. I remember it well But we will run through his basic stats July 4th 1993 and With that in mind that that that that must mean he's he's born on independence day July 4th July 4th June 4th July anyway, let's carry on age 29 6 foot 1 198 pounds went to Baylor Got picked up in the second round of the 25th Jesus these glasses are actually scratched as fuck. Oh, I am white Morpheus. We can't take the glasses off 2016 round number two pick number 38 went to the Dolphins. He's been there ever since he made three po-bolls 2018 2020 and 2021 he was the two-time NFL interception leader in 2018 and 2020 I do remember that in 2020. That's for sure. He ran a 458 40-hour dash at six foot and 200 pounds 33 inches on the vertical 10 foot 2 on the broad jump and 11 reps on the bench Let's have a look at his latest deal Well, there we go. April 1st 2022 just a short three months ago. He signed a new five-year contract worth 50 million Dollars that in mind. Let's have a look at his stats 72 games played 241 tackles, but that's not what we're looking at. We're looking at 71 passes deflected and 27 Interceptions, okay, he's balling out. He went really really well in 2020 He's kind of dropped off the pace in 2021, but I'm assuming, you know I you know to be honest that dolphins the dolphins are a team that I am looking Forward to following in this current NFL season Hey Gombra great instincts great ball skills attack the ball at a high level He does it all he got everything you want in a corner Well, you got to attack the ball It's hard to be on that island that he's on right now Yeah, I'm gonna score touchdowns because I've been in that defense before and it's a real true island It's always nice hearing an opinion from a fellow cornerback. I'll say that much. It's a real true island X island is not a friendly place for NFL wide receivers One just got it all back to throw looking Interceptor with a greater center by Xavier Howard Every time I see him making a play on the ball been like slants and little you know stuff across the middle You know he real patients that patient at the line and any type slants he always in good position to break up on the ball He good at punching the ball out. He'd scoop one up and take it to the crib Take it to the crib Let's go go Howard get in son take it to the crib production this will make some really great Here we are once again with Another video number 55 on the list We've only got five more players to go until I run out of videos to make and I'll tell you what guys if nothing else that is That's some real hustle that's hustle that I haven't had for a long time and I'm enjoying it And I hope you guys are too. I've come into the series thinking. You know what? I'm just gonna say what I feel I'm just going to Just absolutely thrust myself into this and that's what's happened Much love and I'll see you in the next one from white Morpheus. We're out


seven six five four three two one all right there you go there you go so for those of you just joining us on the live stream and for those of you who just walked in I am very excited about this next speaker Dr. Sherry Walling for those of you who have come to a lot of word camps you see a lot of really great topics on development and business thing and all sorts of fun things this is a treat not a lot of people talk about these types of subjects we have Corey Miller in the community who does that we have a Sean Hesketh who who does a lot of good work in this area as well but what Dr. Walling is doing is absolutely incredible so she comes to us with over 10 years of dealing with entrepreneurs before that she held many numerous faculty pointed positions at universities and she's worked with PTSD folks coming back from service imagine for me I think that's the best qualification at all to deal with entrepreneurs because you know I can't I can't equate it to what happens when you serve our country but at the same time you get that feeling of I'm so alone and I'm so dealing with so much how can I do that so I'm very proud that she was able to join us today and very happy without any further ado Dr. Sherry Walling thank you Karim so I was here last year and gave a presentation in this room and I had all this like tech drama like I didn't have the right dongles and I just you know I was a little bit flustered and so I in my professional life help people who are flustered and upset calm down that's like sort of my job so I'm like okay I got this like I can do this so I got the microphone I stood here I took a deep breath and I sat down and sort of prepared myself except unfortunately this table is on wheels so my Zen moment was like oh okay try not to fall so I here we are again I'll try not to fall sometimes really good ideas don't work out so well sometimes we have a good sense of what we need to do or how we need to show up for our work but it doesn't work out the way that we expect or the way that we think it's going to work and that's a little bit of what my talk is today so as as Karim mentioned I'm a clinical psychologist so I spend a lot of time helping upset people calm down and in the past couple of years I've worked almost exclusively with founders with executives with freelancers with folks who are doing the very difficult job of carving out their own unique path in life and that path as you well know is entirely dependent on you if you're going to be successful in business it's because you have an ability to solve problems in a unique way to communicate effectively with others you have a set of expertise you have a set of skills you have something inside you that helps you get your work done you have a drive you have discipline you have all of the things that go into getting up doing the work shipping selling it to someone and repeating the next day so that is very much a psychological process so I get to talk to folks about the psychological process that drives their ability to do their work and my work has kind of two components one is I'm a doctor I get called in when things go wrong so when you have someone who is flaming out they're burnt out they are struggling with depression you have two co-founders who can't get along you have a team that's imploding so I help solve those problems but the other thing that I get to do and what we're kind of doing here today is I get to try to help prevent those problems because believe it or not we have pretty good information about human functioning and human flourishing we know what contributes to burnout we know what makes our brains fractured and inefficient and we can reverse engineer those problems and try to figure out hey what do we do how do we act what choices do we make so that we're optimizing for wellness and minimizing the chance that we are going to end our business career in flames so the premise here is that your business depends on you and this is a little bit of this sort of ten thousand foot view I'm going to invite you into the process of thinking about your own thinking we call that metacognition fancy words but when we develop the capacity to be self-reflective to understand our own patterns to observe our own emotional life we can use that self-reflective capacity as kind of a superpower in business because we need to understand of course our clients and the context of our work but we also need to understand our part of the equation so I want to talk through five seemingly good ideas that might not be good ideas five seemingly good ideas that might end with you sitting on the floor in the stage of word camp because you sat on a table that had wheels on it so the first one I want to talk about is the idea my business is my baby and I don't know if any of you have babies or have had a baby or knew a baby but they're kind of demanding and they really require a lot of attention really a lot especially at the beginning when your whole life is organized around keeping them alive and that's really not that different from what it's like to start a business in the first couple of years you're really just trying to like keep it alive feed it make sure it sleeps like make sure you just do all the things to keep it alive and so you know you might be thinking I clearly know the difference between a Kaliwali little baby a little mini human and my business but guys maybe not so a team of researchers in Finland did a research study where they asked the question is entrepreneurial love the same as parental love and they must know entrepreneurs to have come up with that research question so what they did is they used functional MRI scans they looked inside the brain while the brain was thinking about certain cues to try to see how well the neurological process of thinking about one's child mapped on to the neurological process of thinking about one's business and it may or may not surprise you to learn that they are strikingly similar in two particular ways so when business owners are thinking about their business there's a part of the brain the striatum which is the reward center of the brain that's very active and this is the part of the brain basically that feels good when we feel like mushy and gushy towards our significant other or towards our child we have this little dopamine hit our brain lights up and it feels good that's what's happening in our brains when we're thinking about our businesses there's an attachment it's not unlike love the other piece of this or the other significant finding from this study the other part of the brain that is not activated but is suppressed is the posterior cingulate cortex and the temporal parietal junction which clearly you know those are parts of the brain that help with mentalization so when I am standing up here communicating with you there my brain is reading your faces and is anticipating if you're bored if you're interested and I'm adjusting myself to you social referencing so I'm getting inside your brain a little bit and adjusting so this is the part of the brain that doesn't function super well when it comes to founders entrepreneurs freelancers whatever word you want to use and their businesses it means that we are so close to our businesses that it is very hard for us to engage in critical assessment our businesses on a neurological level feel like an extension of us we don't perceive them as separate entities they feel like our like left arm so our brain is not well equipped to really engage in objective critical assessment so that's kind of a tough spot so you've built your livelihood on this thing that you love dearly and you really think it's like the cutest smartest child ever and you're really very biased so what that means is if you want to be able to kind of optimize your ability to be successful in your business to some extent you have to build in some mechanisms for critical assessment that honor the fact that you're biased that it's a very hard for you to be objective that can mean a mastermind group that can mean simply the awareness that you're gonna have a leaning when you look at your business data so there are strategies that you will have to develop based on who you are and who your business is and the resources that are available to you to make sure that you're getting as much objective data as you can the other thing to do to kind of mitigate this good idea that has the potentials to go bad is to diversify the things that you love because when you think about the deep attachment that you have to your business and how like a demanding little baby it has the potential to be there's the possibility for you to get really eaten up by your love for this business because as you know business is an up and down game sometimes it's going super well and you're riding high it's euphoric you feel super successful and proud of what you've made and other times you're really not sure if you're gonna make payroll and the ups and downs are part of the journey they are part of the entrepreneurial life but if you can have other parts of your life that you also love whether that's friends or family or community or a bowling league something else that helps to kind of buffer you from the ups and downs of that deep attachment that you might have to your business make sense all right number two hustle good idea sometimes goes bad and believe me I am no stranger to hard work and hustle and getting things done and making things happen so I'm not hating on those of you who are in the grind and are staying up late and getting up early because I know that that's also part of the game but sometimes it goes wrong for most of us it can be frenetic and a little chaotic and probably not super sustainable and when we hustle without being careful we are very susceptible to the mastery of the mighty squirrel which means that we can be all over the place so you combine this get there faster go go go hustle mentality with an inability to be very assessed like very objective or critically assess your business and you can find yourself really going full speed ahead in lots of directions all at one time which sounds like it could be good but it's actually not possible and it significantly damages the way that our brains function we are not our brains at least at this point in our evolutionary journey are really not like equipped well to multitask we think we are but essentially we're not we're fragmenting so one of the best books that I've read recently is a book called deep work which outlines this kind of problem and then outlines some great strategies and simple solutions that can help guide how to work well and essentially the premise of deep work is that if you're gonna do your best most creative most innovative whether you're coding whether you're designing whether you're writing sales copy whatever it is that you're doing in your in your work let yourself go all in on that task be immersive turn off slack turn off all the bells and whistles and things turn off your email turn off your Wi-Fi let yourself really focus on those higher order cognitive tasks that require your most complicated brain abilities because that is how you are going to do your best work innovative ideas genius those things don't happen when we're going a million miles a minute in lots of different directions so you save yourself mistakes you save yourself fatigue you save yourself time spent on things that really don't move the needle forward when you let yourself deeply focus and the other piece of this is course of course is choosing carefully how you spend your effort knowing that you're you are the resource and you are finite so carefully choosing what you give your energy to you can only do a couple things well and so being very shrewd and careful in the kinds of decisions that you're making about where you're going to give your energy to in your business because hustle is fine we're all going to have some late nights and some early mornings and sometimes when you just have to bust your booty to get it done but if that's the way that you live you aren't going to last long in this world you aren't going to last long in this life of of being a freelancer or running your own business number three I love my customers and they love me so everybody loves to be loved that's how we're kind of wired as humans for belonging for affection for connection and the idea is that you develop some way of doing your business that people are just over the moon about and they are you know beating down the door to hire you or to pay for your service but that's not the reality how many of you have ever gotten some kind of critical feedback about your professional work yeah how many of you have 100% satisfaction for all customers ever that dude what you're doing well he's two for two satisfaction guaranteed so the truth is that we are going to hear very negative feedback from our customers about the choices that we make or the way that we do things and given our if we're honest our emotional attachment to our work to our business I mean when you are doing these things you're putting yourself out there right this is your idea your design your code your brain your unique sort of stamp on the world that you're giving to someone else and they're like could it be blue it's painful it's painful and you do it over and over you sell yourself over and over and over and over and over again that's what it means and hopefully if you do it more times more than two but you're doing well that's how you build a successful business but that vulnerability over and over and over we have to be honest about sort of the toll that that can take over time and someday we can do a roundtable of like all of the crappy things that customers and clients have said to us because I'm sure there are some zingers and how do we both protect ourselves from that but also learn from it those are the things that well again sort of help you be successful or not successful in your business so the first thing is that we really have to get as comfortable as we can with discomfort we have to be able to tolerate it and one of the reasons that this is important is because it's your unhappy customers that are your most powerful teachers your happy customers probably don't give you a lot of feedback except high five you're great here's the check those are great customers but if you want to get better if you want to expand your reach or your service if you want to be able to serve a broader audience of people it's the grumbly people who might have some actually really helpful feedback for you and it's not easy to listen to so how do we like you know kind of buffer ourselves bolster ourselves sometimes I actually have people visualize putting on a shield or like a suit of armor to go into certain meetings with unhappy people because it's okay you can take the feedback and not let it kind of penetrate into your soul but it does take some practice to be able to tolerate unhappy people and learn from them and listen to them without it it hurting you too much the other suggestion I have for minimizing the adversity of this is to really filter feedback right we have to choose who we listen to and rather than either shutting down critical feedback or only hearing critical feedback we have to be able to sort of take all of the feedback and balance it some extent so I really had to practice this recently I in the end of February I've released a book which I was very excited about and people began to review it on Amazon and there are like 20 something beautiful lovely reviews about how the book was helpful and then there's one person who is basically like this is all painful he's like this book is self-indulgent and empathy speaking and I was like I don't even know what you mean I don't like your review I don't like you yeah it wasn't my mom I don't think maybe it was her mom we're gonna talk later so I have to tolerate that and I have to understand that for some people who think they're gonna read a business book reading stories of people emotion people's emotional life might not be what they wanted might not be what they thought they were getting that's cool I can maybe think about how I can articulate what my book is about in a way that makes people have informed consent it has like a big sign on it it's like there's gonna be feelings here so people will know so it wasn't my favorite experience but you know you take the feedback and you sort of think about what you can do but the thing that I was tempted to do was only listen to that one and not let myself sort of sit with the 25 other ones to be overly biased in the negative interpretation and that's because the minute that happens the minute there's a critical tweet or somebody gives us bad feedback our our cortisol kicks in we go into this fight-or-flight response and we're really attuned to the potential threat of someone being unhappy with us but the reality is that probably most of our customers are happy enough or we would not be in business and to hold the negative with the full range of the positive and kind of hold them in balance to be like 85% happy and then allow yourself to integrate the critical feedback and see what you can take and if it's just like a really loony person who is not able to be constructive then it's okay to dismiss it but we shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking like in order to be successful people love us and we love them because that is not a good metric guys that's not gonna happen maybe for that guy but not for everybody okay number four this is a nice positive statement I got this and I like it I like lots of things about this and sometimes I say it's myself right when I'm trying not to fall on the table but you know you sort of affirm I got this I'm okay I'm okay here couple little tweaks you might want to make the first is something that Pat talked about this is the we language even if you are a solo founder even if it's just you and the dog in the basement doing your thing there's still a we involved you probably maybe have a significant other maybe you had a mentor maybe you have some subcontractors maybe you have people that said nice things to you when you were in fifth grade which gives you the courage to try to do something hard when you sort of understand yourself and your business as a community effort then I think that also feels like you have these other sources of support when things go wrong so the more that your eye focused the less buffer you have and the less support you have when things do go wrong so just this little adjustment in language I think can be helpful the other part of this statement that I don't love as you know like an affirmation to repeat to yourself is the the got this part it sort of implies this arrival and doesn't give quite the nod to ongoing continuous growth that I think is important when we think about how to sustain successful business over time so a reframe might be we're learning this we're growing in this way we're so excited about where where things are going in the future but the gut is sort of this final not very dynamic way of viewing your success one of the things that we do sometimes psychological researchers do is we look at semantic analysis we look at the way that people use language so for example people who are really struggling with depression use language very differently than people who are not struggling with depression they use a lot more singular like I pronouns and then they use a lot more negative emotion words as you could imagine I have a theory which I haven't tested but maybe someday that successful entrepreneurs people who really rocket in business use a lot of emerging active verbs growing learning climbing reaching running jumping climbing trees but instead of these sort of like finite static words so somebody I'll test that hypothesis but for now I would just say if you find yourself using the generally very you know helpful statement I got this maybe just give it a little bit of a tweak and remind yourself that the best thing you have going for you in business is your ability to grow and adapt and be flexible and keep moving and some of those active words can be a nice important shift and switch for you all right last one disclaimer we're gonna talk about feelings and I said that a little bit jokingly but I do think that there is some confusion about the parameters of what's professionalism what's business and understanding ourselves as whole beings so when we try to overly to make things overly objective we fail to take into account our own internal emotional experiences and this is actually quite dangerous from my perspective as a psychologist this is how people work in a job or work in a business for years and years on end and wake up one day and realize I have no idea what I'm doing why I'm doing it and I hate my life and those those moments happen to people maybe they've happened to you it creeps up on you though it creeps up when you're not paying attention when your heads down hustle and you're not asking the big questions of like is this meaningful to me do I enjoy this is this how I want to be spending my relatively few days that I get on this planet so I think this is one of the most important practices that that entrepreneurs can do is to really track your emotional life so there's lots of ways to do this and I just think that of this is another metric right you're looking at unique visitors to your website you're looking at downloads you're looking at all kinds of metrics you got spreadsheets and things numbers this is another source of metric where you're tracking the high points of your life the low points of your life you're looking at your to-do list in a given day and you're putting like a smiley face or a frowny face next to those activities and I'm being a little bit playful but I'm actually not because when you get a sense of your emotional engagement with each of the activities that make up your business life you're getting really important information about your sweet spots where you're excited where you have passion where you have energy and the kinds of things that are like sucking the life out of you and guess what you're going to do better work when you've got energy and enthusiasm and passion and ideas and not such good work when you're going through the motions and you're feeling exhausted and drained so when you get to the point that you are ready to hire and grow your team take all of those frowny face items and write that into a job description and hand that off because you want to optimize for your own well-being remember it all comes back to you and I think the whole point honestly of what I do and why I do it is to help remind people to pay attention pay attention to what's going on inside of you pay attention to what you're learning pay attention to what you love and what you don't love be curious about your own self so that you can be the best version of whatever it is that you do the best copywriter the best designer the best coder because there's a lot of genius in this room right if we look around like there's there's some interesting life stories some interesting experiences some folks who have innovative creative cool ways of thinking and when we fail to let our own selves flourish we rob ourselves of the satisfaction of a life that is congruent and authentic we we also rob the community so as a group as a community of people whether that's WordPress or Miami or however you slice your community we need the best version of you so be aware of the creep be aware of good ideas that have the potential to go wrong and give yourselves the space to really enjoy and love what you do so that you can do it for a long time and make a lot of money and be generous and helpful and flourish and buy a boat or whatever it is that you want to do with yourself okay I do a weekly podcast it's a lot of content and ideas about the kinds of topics that we talked about today it's free lots of free resources at the Zen founder website so if you are in the early process of starting a business or you're in the middle of the slog or you're thinking about it my husband Rob and I have attempted to come up with a lot of material and resources to help you do that well and stay sane and be happy and all those things all right thanks guys thank you thank you very much don't go anywhere don't go anywhere you're not done yet okay hold on guys so Sherry brought with her today five copies of her book keeping your stuff together I would just like to say that my son who's 11 named the book right I don't know where he heard that kind of language probably from his father so word camp rules we can't give it away but I can make you work for it so I really highly recommend this book it's incredible I know a few audience members who already read it and I think they'll tell you the same so here's what we're gonna do hopefully everybody here either has Twitter or Slack from word camp Miami so please if you can ask a question that we can get to in the panel that refers to anything you've heard so far or Josh when he comes up on stage next we will go through those questions in our panel and the questions that get picked will get a copy of the book so please in Twitter if you're using Twitter hashtag WCM I a hashtag MBA two different hashtags or if you're in Slack in the general in the general channel please tag Ryan our eye and Kenny and we will get your questions clear I need to repeat it nope got it cool those of you watching the live stream I will make the commitment that if I get one of the questions from you that I can use on on Twitter I'll get you a copy of the book up up to one or two so we'll see which ones I use all right so that's the book so so far let's talk about where we we've been so far we have talked about everything from how to think about starting the business then we went to how to start dealing with the first customers and clients and then we started talking about how you're gonna actually work through some of these things and these five tips that you came up with are absolutely amazing thank you I I actually was taking notes because you know I tend to try and make sure them paying attention and I love the Eddie is a quote running jumping climbing trees can you tell us a little bit about what is it about staying active that will help your growth or what is it about that part that just will help the entrepreneur expand what they're doing because I read an article that you tweeted that talked about rough housing what does rough housing have to do with running my business I mean you you all know very well how dynamic changes in WordPress or in markets can threaten the well-being of your business or can be opportunities to expand I think the thing that gets dangerous in many ways is when we we are stuck or we hold still too long that's kind of true in business and true in life so the more that you understand yourself and your business as an active dynamic malleable adaptable entity I think you're less jarred when the thing that you have built has to shift because of these external forces I don't know if that makes sense answers your question yeah absolutely you have to stay agile right so another thing that a lot of folks don't realize is the basic building blocks can you give us an idea of what it takes to actually come to work every morning and like be present yeah so sometimes there's a couple of different talks that I've given and one of the talks that I've given a couple times you know I ask people like would you take away or people will say at the end of the conference what's the thing that you took away from from what Sherry presented and they're like that I need to sleep more and like yeah like your mom probably told you that but I'm gonna tell you again so if we want to show up to our work with our brains functioning at their best capacity there are a couple of things that really have to be in place and we call these the building blocks of sanity yeah have to get enough sleep there's really compelling amount of science that looks at what happens to our brains when we don't sleep well or sleep enough one of the highlights is that our neurons start to die another highlight is that our hippocampus which is sort of one of the mechanisms for maintaining memory doesn't have time to practice new information so if we're not sleeping we're really actually not learning so sleep is one of the building blocks that really have to be in place the other is you have to fuel yourself well so you know donuts and coffee don't work for three meals a day every day of your life it's not going to work for your brain and then the last thing is movement is exercise and this doesn't have to you don't have to like go sign up for CrossFit in order to help your brain function optimally you have to move 30 minutes three times a week and that means an elevated heart rate and sort of some glistening sweat beads so if you're not a gym person and you don't want to be a gym person that's fine but your ability to move regularly is is a really significant predictor of how well your brain will function therefore how well you'll be you know you'll be able to do in your business okay thank you now last question if I wanted to know more about this where do I go that's what I got Zen founder.com I wrote it down I talked about it Zen founder.com yeah alright thank you very much alright three down two more sessions to go next we're going to be hearing in a few minutes from Josh Strebel founder and CEO of Pagely hosting awesome story a couple of reminders as we give people a few minutes to take a bathroom break or just you know stretch before we do our our panel we will be doing a quick exercise warning you right now but nothing deep nothing hard and it's going to be an absolutely incredible afternoon I thank you all for working with us and being here and listening to all this and I hope you find it valuable thank you


Hello and welcome to this minimal Godot tutorial. Today we're going to be looking at exporting variables what that means So when you're looking at those scripts examples online, you might see some variables that have the word export before them We're going to talk about what that is today and why you might use them. So let's go ahead and create a new 2d scene I'm going to change the type of this to be a sprite And we will just call it.  Let's use the the spaceship sprite here textures. Let's go it's right here and We're going to zoom in on it. Let's go ahead and transform that I'm going to rotate it 90 degrees and I'm going to attach a script to it Yeah, move me script. That's fine. So in a previous video, we talked about movement We can say inside our process here. So it's happening over and over and over again position dot x Plus equals and we'll say speed and we will create a variable up here Called speed I gotta say var var speed equals and we'll say five and As we talked about in the previous video, we are not previously with a previous video Why we create variables so that we can change that number Without having to go and change everything in code everywhere. I'm gonna save the scene. We'll save it as Move me and I'm going I control s to save by the way Just like pretty much every other program in the world. I'm going to go to our main scene now And I am going to add an instant. So I'm going to right-click to say instant and I'm going to choose Move me. So now we have this move me here when I hit f6 to run this scene You can see that spaceship this little one flying across the screen That's great. Let's create another one. I'll shift D to clone that put in one there shift D to clone that put one there I'll hit f6 and there we go. We have three of them But let's say I want them all going different speeds. I Don't want to have to write a full script for each one just to change the speeds of them So let's go back to the move me scene. Let's click on here to bring up the script and change this We're going to add to the beginning export Now I'll go back to my main scene 2d and now you'll see over here when I have one of these selected there's script variables and There's our speed variable and it has a default speed of five So if I hit f6 now, they're still all moving at the speed of five What I'm going to do though is I'm going to select this one and I'm going to say one And I'm going to select the next one. I'll leave that at five and the next one. I'll change to ten So now they each have their own speed without having to go and change the code I can change it right there in the editor So again, this one has a speed of one this speed of five this one has a speed of ten and They're all moving along at different speeds and of course I can grab another one. I can do shift D Oh, sorry control D to clone that move it somewhere else and I'll change this one to be speed of seven Now you notice once I change it you get this little Redo icon, I guess you would call it what that will do is it will if you click that it sets it back to Whatever the default speed is which is what I set in the script So now I do seven and now we have one at the speed of one when a speed of five ten and seven Great That's it for the story. Thanks for watching. Please visit films by chris.com That's Chris the K should be a link in the description as always. I hope that you have a great day