Is there a limitless pill that would instantly increase your IQ, increase or improve your performance and make you unstoppable? Well, after I've tried over 100 plus neutropics, here's what I found out. Hey, what's up, Greg here, the founder of your Inception, welcome to my channel where you can learn top secrets about neutropics. Subscribe below to start your journey. Ever since, I've seen the movie Limitless with Bradley Cooper in which he takes this limitless pill, you know, a magical pill that instantly increases his IQ, his performance, his memory and makes him, you know, a superhuman, basically. I've been wondering if such a drug or such a pill exists on the market. Now, I've done a lot of research and I came across a drug called NCT48. Based on my research, based on the homework I've done, this is the pill, this is the magical drug that was used, well, you know, used in the movie and, you know, that can provide all those benefits that I mentioned before. It can actually unlock your true potential, it can unlock your brain, you know, and really provide all the benefits you've seen in the movie. Now, however, if you remember from the movie, after a couple of weeks of taking this magical pill, what started to happen was Bradley started to experience a lot of negative side effects of taking this drug, such as memory loss, paranoia, blurred vision, and so on. And, you know, all of a sudden it just became impossible for him to live anymore. He started aging with a very fast speed and, you know, it was, all of a sudden, you know, it was just unbearable. Now, what I personally believe is that if you take a supplement that provides so strong benefits that really puts you on the edge or even beyond your edge, you know, beyond your normal capability, then you can expect some negative side effects. That's just how I think we biologically work or, you know, that just how the system works. And I believe that's how it should actually be, you know. So, you know, after I done all those research, I figured out that I think that the NCT48, the drug that I mentioned before, it does not really exist. Or if it does exist, you know, no one really knows about it, or it's a completely illegal substance that it's probably impossible to get.  So, at this moment, I'm not really sure if such a magical pill really, really exists and that you could even buy it or at least try it somehow. However, I came across something different, but very, very interesting. So, what I've been asking myself was, what kind of supplements should I take to get, you know, the benefits that are as close to the one you can see in the movie, you know, that my memory would improve, my focus would improve, that I would really be able to work on such an extreme level. And today, I want to reveal what I found out. And just before I do, let me ask you, what do you think? Is there a limitless pill on the market? Can you get it or not? Let me know in the comment section below. So, in my opinion, for a limitless performance, you need a lot of energy, you need extreme focus, you need very fast working brains, you have to be calm and you have to watch any crashes and you need a fast recovery.  So, the question is, how can you achieve all those five points? Well, let's go step by step. Firstly, we said you need a lot of energy and you need an energy push. Now, in my opinion, the best natural safe supplement that you can get on the market and that will provide this energy push is coffee because of the amount of caffeine that it has. Now, there is a special kind of coffee that I recommend taking and it's called Bulletproof Coffee. I actually have it here in this cup. The Bulletproof Coffee is a mix of MCT oil, which is an extract of coconut oil and a small spoon of butter. Now, what's the difference between Bulletproof Coffee and a normal coffee? Well, basically, Bulletproof Coffee gives you more energy. It gives you a stronger energy push and this energy lasts longer, usually from three to five, even maybe six or seven hours. There's no crash that follows usually drinking normal coffee and it really set very strong standards for very highly productive work in the morning. Now, if you want to read more about Bulletproof Coffee, there's a link below, so you can just check it out, how you can prepare it, where you can buy it and so on. So, if you drink Bulletproof Coffee in the morning, first point is covered. You're going to have enough energy. Now, you need extreme focus. To get extremely focused, I recommend Mudefinal. Now, Mudefinal is a drug, is a prescription drug used for treating sleep apnea and other sleep-related disorders. And, you know, you need a prescription in some countries, it's legal in some other countries and it is illegal in some third countries as well.  You know, I really want you to be on the safe side here. Now, if you don't have any sleep-related issues and you consider taking Mudefinal, what's going to happen is it's going to give you a strong energy push.   I've been taking Mudefinal for quite some time. I actually have it here. And the thing about Mudefinal is it really provides extreme focus, a lot of energy, sustained energy. And based on my experience, it works well with caffeine. So, if you take Mudefinal again before you do that, consult your doctor. I want you to be on the safe side. But if you do take it and you combine it with caffeine, I personally experienced amazing results, a lot of focus. And it allowed me to work from like eight to 10 or sometimes even 12 hours per day being in this extremely hyper-focused flow that just lasted and lasted. And it was just amazing. But besides the energy and the focus that we mentioned, what else do we need? Well, we need fast working brains. And to achieve that, Neutropics come into play. Now, here's one of the Neutropics tags that I recommend. There's a link below. You can just check it out. But, you know, Neutropics are basically natural compounds that help you achieve amazing cognitive performance. They help you with memory, also with focus. They speed up processes in your brains and so on. I mean, it really depends from Neutropic to Neutropic. What does it do? What are the benefits? But what I recommend is stacking up Neutropics. So, taking different Neutropics, this is called Neutropic stack, to really get all the benefits out of those usually natural compounds. Now, the good thing about Neutropics is that if you follow the recommended dosages, if you follow the rules, there should be no negative side effects. They're very safe. At least, those Neutropics that are well researched and there are many, you know, keep that in mind. And, you know, they provide a whole range of benefits. Besides all those, you know, short-term benefits such as focus, memory boost and so on, they also provide usually long-term brain support. And that's very good because they allow you to work, you know, on a very high level for a longer period. And that's very, very important. Now, below, you're going to find more information about my favorite Neutropics and Neutropics stacks. Just check it out. And if you have any questions regarding Neutropics, do let me know. Cool. The fourth point that we have to ensure is that we have to be calm during the day.  That's not going to work for you because you might have a lot of energy, but you still won't be able to be productive because your brain will be just jumping from one test to another, you know, it's just not going to work. So, if you want to be, if you want to have a limitless performance, then you have to be very calm, very, you know, relaxed, but very focused. And to do that, again, Neutropics help. Here's another Neutropics stack that I recommend. Below, you're going to find more information about it. And there's certain Neutropics and certain Neutropics stacks that were designed to help you stay relaxed, stay focused at the same time.  So, you know, such a tropics exist, they're very effective, you can find the links below. And the good thing is you can combine them with all other tropics and all other supplements that we talked about before. And last but not least, you need a fast recovery. Now, what we saw in the movie was that, you know, Bradley started crashing after a couple of weeks, his memory started skipping and so on, so on. And we, you know, we want to avoid any kind of negative, any kind of harmful side effects. And for that, you know, to happen, we need a fast recovery and the best recovery happens usually during the night when we sleep. So, what we have to ensure is the best sleep possible. Now, I don't want to talk about all the tricks of how to, you know, get your room ready for sleeping and how to get yourself ready, because that's an art topic. But I want to talk about metropics, again, that can help you with sleep. One of them is magnesium, but there's a link below for all other metropics and, again, the tropics that you can take in the evening just to, you know, make sure you get relaxed when you have to be relaxed that you ensure a better and higher quality sleep. Now, you don't need to take sleep metropics for limitless performance, but they can help you achieve better sleep, which will consequently help you recovery faster and better and give you more energy the next day. That's kind of the whole idea. So, we want to make the whole process work for you, not just that you take one pill, you know, you have this, this, this burst of energy, you work for a while and then you crash and the game is over for you. You need a sustained energy, sustained focus, sustained productivity for a longer period. That is what can make you a superhuman. By the way, guys, I've revealed seven special secrets about metropics that no one else will tell you about. If you want to get my free handbook, download it for free below. So, I just shared with you how you can make your own limitless pill, basically, how you can get, you know, to limitless performance just by taking natural or mainly natural compounds just by combining them in the best way possible. Now, my personal recommendation is this. If you want a cheap limitless performance, here's what I recommend to you. First, drink bulletproof coffee in the morning on an empty stomach, then of course, combine it with certain tropics for improving your cognition, your cognitive performance, then add modephanal to it. But before you take modephanal, keep in mind you have to consult your doctor. You have to see if it's legal in your country. You have to, you know, doctor has to tell you if it's safe for you or not. So, you know, be careful about modephanal. But then in the afternoon, of course, you can take some additional tropics or at least in the evening, that will help you relax after, you know, a very productive day and that will ensure better and higher quality sleep.  Now, keep in mind your IQ won't really increase because I believe this is impossible to do, but you will have a lot of energy, you will have a lot of focus, you'll be super, super productive and you will outperform the majority of people around you. This whole process is miraculous. Seriously, this, it provides amazing benefits for me. It really makes me a high performer and I'm sure it's going to work for you as well. So, cool guys, if you want to join the most productive people in the world, don't forget subscribing to this channel. Don't forget to download your free copy from my handbook. 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and welcome to Virtual Abilities' 2019 Mental Health Symposium. I'm Larry Liborsky and I have high functioning autism. I didn't have the equipment to speak so I'll be using a keyboard while I have narrator speak for me. I have been in Second Life for 10 years and I love the adventures, whether they are created by me or wandering through an adventure created by other residents. I also work in Minecraft as a host for many servers. In real life, I'm a grocery store clerk and have worked at a supermarket for 20 years. Today, I would like to introduce to you Fatima Razae. She is a PhD candidate at Seoul National University. Her research interests are in the area of cyberspace, focusing on the design behind social media platforms that lead to users' obsessive behaviors. Her talk is titled, Designed Addiction. In her talk, she's going to share with us some of the ways that Facebook, Google and Apple are using attention to gain profit, as well as the psychology of how they and other platforms are exploiting our need for attention via smartphones from monetary gain. Audience, please hold your questions and comments to the end so as not to interrupt our presenter, who is very new to the things of Second Life. Welcome Fatima Razae. The floor is yours. Hello everyone. Am I being heard? Hello everyone. I am very excited to be in this virtual conference and thank you for inviting me. Now we are going to look at this picture, this illustration. What do you see in it? Yes, everybody, even the baby in the stroller, is looking down on some shiny device. And I'm pretty sure this is a very familiar scene for most of you. And you might have wondered, what is it about these devices that steal everyone's attention? Do you have your teleprompter on? So an average smartphone user spends 145 minutes on their devices every day and the number is 255 minutes for heavy users. This data is almost three years old and I'm pretty sure that these numbers have increased. And the teleprompter? Yes, please. Yeah, like that? Yes. Okay. You can read it off the screen if you want. This pie chart shows that services and applications developed by two giant companies meaning Alphabet and Facebook, get nearly half of all interactions. There is a correlation between depression and a smartphone addiction among both adults and teenagers. As you can see, the more depressed individuals are, the more addicted they are to their devices. And this chart shows that increasing the amount of time spent on electronic devices also increases the suicidal attempts among teenagers. You need to click quite a bit more. You're way behind. Why? I can only see my script. You can't see the text? There you go. Keep clicking. Okay, now I can see it. Sorry, I'm a very newbie. Okay, so this slide. There's a correlation between depression and smartphone addiction among both adults and teenagers. And as you can see, the more depressed individuals are, the more addicted they are to their devices. Researchers have also concluded that heavy usage of smartphone, aside from depression and suicidal thoughts, is associated with impaired attention, reduced numerical processing capacity, changes in social cognition, and reduced right-perfrontal cortex excitability. And the blue-violet light emitted from phone screens is harmful to eyes and hunching while staring at phones for its back, neck, and shoulders. So how did smartphones become so addictive? Well, Silicon Valley started with good intention and everyone. They wanted free and accessible internet for everyone. But to survive, they turned to digital advertising. And that was when the attention economy came into play. Engineers and designers with the help of psychologists and platforms because they wanted people to engage as much as possible so they get to show more advertisements and increase the ad revenue. For example, this is how Facebook looked in 2004. The next year there's an ad on the left and this is how it looks like now. There are more ads and sponsored contents than posts from friends and family. And this graph shows how Facebook ad revenue has increased since 2009. Now we are going to look at some responses to this problem from movements, challenges, and publications to apps and dump phones. Of course, I'm not able to cover all of the responses because recently there have been a lot of them. In 2013, a former Google employee named Tristan Harris raised his concern about constant attention disturbance and the lack of respect for users' time. He shared his concerns with Google and was promoted to work as a product philosopher. After three years of advocating for the more humane approach to technology, Harris left Google. His proposals were not welcomed because his ideas were in conflict with the attention economy business model of the company. Harris founded the not-for-profit organization named Center for Humane Technology where he continues to raise awareness about the Silicon Valley's attention monopoly. The pioneer of virtual reality, Jaron Lanier, in his book 10 arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now argues about the harmful effects of behavior modification caused by social media. His response to this problem is to urge users to delete their accounts until a humane business model replaces the current attention economy-based business model of Silicon Valley. The Royal Society of Public Health in the UK announced the first scroll-free September in 2018 aimed at encouraging young people to take a break at different levels from completely cutting themselves from social media to limiting the use of it to a certain hours for the months of September. And the National Day of Unplugging movement, a project by the Jewish Organization Reboot, used cell phone sleeping bags as a means for stopping smartphone use one day a year. In 2018, they have already sent 35,000 bags to people who want to put their phones to sleep for a day so as to start living a different life. Changing the purpose and design of the phone itself is another kind of initiative that has been launched to meet the desire in the market for less addictive, overwhelming and distracting phones. Dom phones, opposite to smartphones, have communication as their core function. Dom phones are among successful responses that help people minimize distraction while staying connected. Punked MP01, designed by Jasper Morrison, is a phone that only provides the basic function of making and receiving calls, messaging, an alarm clock and a calendar. Punk sells 100,000 pieces every year and is popular with celebrities. Another phone is the light phone by Joe Hollier and Kai Wei-Tang. It's a successful project initiated on Kickstarter. The light phone has two versions, iPhone 1 with only the capacity to make and receive calls and a second version with added functions such as alarm and texting. However, comparing to iPhone, they are not doing very well in the market. And there are so many apps on the app store that try to somehow solve the problem of addiction. Now we're going to look at the responses from the creators of smartphone addiction. In 2016, Donald Trump presidential campaign powered mainly by social media shed light on how easy it is for Facebook to contribute to mass manipulation and a spread of fake news. A raise of awareness motivated Silicon Valley to act in response to concern regarding smartphone addiction. So on June 2018, Apple added a new feature named Screen Time in iOS 12 to help reduce the amount of time spent on smartphones. Features include detailed activity reports which show the time spent on each app in various categories, the amount of received notifications and how many times the phone has been unlocked. And the users can choose to limit the usage of certain apps by using time limit feature. Do not disturb mode silences the phone and notifications are not displayed until the mode is turned off. There's also a gray scale feature that takes away the colorful screen of the phone. On July 2018, Google announced similar features for Android Pie named Digital Well-Being. Features are time dashboard, app timer, do not disturb mode similar to what Apple had and wind down that turns the phone display into gray scale which is easier to find and use than Apple's gray scale feature. Now we're going to see what is wrong with Silicon Valley's newly added features. The newly developed features by Silicon Valley giants to address the serious problem of smartphone addiction are unavailing, inadequate and possibly harmful. They are unavailing because the addictive and seductive engineering is still in place and the business model of the attention economy is still fully intact. All the new well-being features do is returned in responsibility to the user by telling them that they are in control of their well-being and that the addiction can be addressed with a little bit of willpower. This approach fails to recognize that smartphone addiction rewards the brand with dopamine and users cannot easily change their behavior because controlling impulses stimulated by dopamine requires taking major life-changing actions. Silicon Valley's solution to smartphone addiction relies solely on addicts to activate the optional limitations and stick to them through self-discipline which users often lack. For Google, Facebook and Apple, time equals money, meaning they have made and continue to make profit through getting people to look at the ads as long as possible. The fact that their entire business model is in conflict with people using their devices less makes the recent attempts to add a screen time feature disingenuous. Timers, self-designated app limits, do not disturb mode and gray scale mode seems to be the very first and easiest solution to propose for such a complex issue of addiction. A user who is aware of their smartphone habit is able to modify the phone without the help of such features. For instance, airplane mode, pertaining off the phone is an alternative to do not disturb mode. The gray scale mode is a tasteless and quick response to making the phone uglier while an enormous amount of engineering and design has been dedicated to make the icons, menus and notifications look as alluring and attractive as possible. Facebook is the largest client of neurons, a company that measures the electrical activity of the brain while a consumer is interacting with the phone. However, when it comes to tackling the complicated problem of addiction, the easiest and most superficial solutions are implemented. The app limit feature with its constant reminders makes tapping on the ignore limit or modify the limit more of a routine for people who cannot control their impulses. These quick and tasteless responses are harmful because they hinder real conversation and efforts for addressing the core issue of addiction. Smartphone addiction is a serious problem of our time that was created by neglecting the negative aspects of technology in the pursuit of making the most profit. Technology is not neutral. All the designs and tools are there to serve a purpose. And in this case, the purpose is to extract as much time and attention from users' life as possible for profit. Deep negative psychological effects of this neglection on the brain and society needs to be profoundly studied before jumping to a self-serving conclusion, proposing shallow solutions and hoping that things will get better. Thank you for your attention. And thank you. You've given us a lot of insights into a significant problem that exists in smart phones. So I'm going to start off with questions today. How do you think we, consumers, would first approach the addiction to do less addicted to the smartphone? Is there anything individuals can do to help themselves? Yes. There are some people. Don't worry about typing. Transcribers will type for you. Just talk. Okay. Some people do a lot of things for themselves, but often it doesn't really help because, as I said, it stimulates your brain.  You have to have a lot of willpower to do that. But some people can do. Like some people, they just don't use their smartphone.  Or they go regularly on digital detox.  But again, as long as you have a smartphone in your pocket with all of its function, it's not going to be an easy challenge. I'm going to read another question for you. J.J. Brinkwater says, do you think we should try and find some other sources of dopamine? Other sources of dopamine? Well, something that is beneficial to you if it generates dopamine and it's good for you? Why not? If it's harmful, it's not okay. Along the same lines, Van Bauer is asking, she reads books a lot of the time. Is that an addiction? That's not an addiction. That's something that is good for your brain. You're gaining knowledge. You're not wasting your time. You're not doing things that have no benefits for you. And if you're using your device to read books, that's a great way to use your device. The devices are okay. The devices are not evil.  That's what is not good for you. Okay, and Jesse has a comment, but I think I can make a question out of it. Jesse says, you should try and stop using your lizard brain. What else do you want to talk about? Is there something that you can do, like brain-raining yourself? Brain-raining? Do I get the question right? Yes, can you train your brain to deal with these addictive properties? You know, imagine that the Silicon Valley Giants, imagine them as an army with all the weapons and everything possible, that they want to invade your brain, your attention, because that's what makes profit for them.  I mean, if you are a very strong person, if you exactly know what you're doing, and if you are a professional in training the brain, I think that can be possible. But you are one man against an army. So, I know that many people have tried, but not so many people have succeeded to completely gain back their attention. Okay, Amy is saying, anything smartphone or computer can be used as a tool, leading the person's disabilities. These can be valuable, but it does mean they will depend on it as well. I must take the good with the bad. So, if you're looking at the phone as a tool, you know, is it dependent on it or addicted? I think I talked about smartphone a lot in my presentation, but I'm not exactly meaning a smartphone, because maybe like in five years there will be something else. I don't know. I think the VR is becoming very popular. So, the device, the technology itself is not to be blamed, but the platforms and the whole business model of attention economy. That's what the problem is. If you are using your phone as a tool, it's perfect. It gives you a lot of power. It empowers you. That's a great tool.  We are not supposed to serve the technology. We are not supposed to give their attention to them so that they can make a lot of money and then bring all the advertisers just to sell our attention to them. So, the technology, the device itself, it's great. Like technology, even an axe is a technology. You cannot live without technology. But then again, when it's harming us, when it's taking our life, then it should stop somehow. So, thinking about one of the things we've said about stopping this problem, how much more about the phone sleeping bags? Where did we get those? Actually, in like the last two years, this whole topic is very hot. So, some people are making money out of it. They sell these like anti-addiction, like anti-smartphone addiction merchandise. So, you can just search online. And the reboot that I mentioned in my presentation, they sell sleeping bags. It's more like a campaign. You can buy it and then there is one day in a year that everyone that has that sleeping bag put the phone inside the bag. But also, you can buy a lot of these like merchandise that kind of try to help you to put your phone away when you don't really need it. Okay, and Laxie is asking, what is the difference between this and our advertising-driven society where ads have historically been intended to ask everything to be painted and dedicated? It's very different.  Like they are tracking your every movement. They know every detail about your personal life, the things that you like.  And they are like, they're tracking everyone. They are showing these targeted ads that is very different. And then they design the whole platform based on the ads because they just want to bring you back to the platform. So they get to show more ads to you, which is very different from what you see on TV, like commercials on TV or printed ads. They do not know what you like. They do not know what you have been eating, what you have been searching on Google. And they just print the ad and then leave it there. But the targeted ads, they're following you everywhere. Okay, now we have a true-life story. I would like you to comment on this. Amy is saying several years ago, she was visiting her parents in a watchable news station on television all day. This station kept having a sound like you might hear a breaking news story would happen. But they were playing that sound for almost every story. It was like a petroleum effect. And her parents want to leave this place because it was very, very popular. There are no other examples of what you're talking about. That's the same strategy. That's the same psychology that they used to just bring back people and get their attention, whether it be a sound that people think, oh, something important is happening because people, they always crave for information. They just want to know things because that's how we have evolved. And the same thing in the phone, the notification sound, the small red thing that you see and you have to tap on it because you don't want to see the red. You have to check notifications. That's all the same strategies, same psychology that they use. And Jayden added the acronym FOMO, Fear of Missing Out. Yes, exactly. Also the kind of urgency that newscasters use for almost every story. Yeah. I'm not even in newscasts. I hope so too. She says cell phones are so designed now to provide maps, phone, social interaction, and more. It's becoming part of modern life. It's almost a requirement now to keep up, keeping us all given away. Do you think technology, making our society so addictive for our brains are forgetting to think for themselves? I think that's true. I think that's true. You're always with your phone and you know, I was reading this paper that was talking about, that was saying that how we are not bored anymore. And when you're bored, when you have nothing to do, that's when your brain starts to get creative and do interesting things or have some reflection on your life. But we are missing all of these small moments because we don't want to think. We don't want to be alone with ourselves. We don't want to spend a minute on an elevator. We just have to look at the phone. So I think in the long term, if we do not address it right now, it's going to change us. It's going to change the society. And we will forget how the things were before smartphones. I think we have already forgotten how things used to be before smartphones. And I'm not quite sure if that's what we want to do. But the way I see smartphone addiction is like the way London was during the Industrial Revolution.  Until later they found out it's killing them. So I think smartphone addiction is like, you don't know what's happening, but in the future, imagine babies like two years old babies, they are using them. So just think for yourself what's going to happen in the future if people don't know how polluted they brain are and how difficult for them is to just be alone with themselves, even for a moment. Well, you're getting a lot of interesting questions here. As well as, she found there are apps which only work on her phone and not on her computer. She doesn't consider it all addicted. She finds a cell phone difficult to use. But she's on the screen of some sort most of the day because she's homebound and it is her social interact. She's assuming here that the ads on computers have the same dopamine impact as those on phones. Now that's a good question. But she says she gets swept into the label of addiction and it's her hobby when, if she doesn't do this, to sit silently alone in her home with her cat. Are the ads on computers the same level of addiction? Computers and phones are slightly different because the phone is small. It's everywhere with you. So you tend to just reach your pocket and look at your phone all the time. But if they're using the computer the same way and she thinks that the computer is like drawing her back with the ads, which I don't think is really the case. I mean, if she's using Facebook, maybe. But if she's doing other things. Computers, I think Windows 10 has this notification function that tells you whatever is happening in your computer, which you can just turn it off. But computer, as they don't really notify you or the useless things, which is a little different. But if the computer is helping her, if it's beneficial, I mean, you can decide for yourself. If it's helping you, if it's empowering you, then you are not addicted. But if it's just like making you miserable, making you depressed, making you constantly compare yourself to others, then maybe she can find other sources of entertainment or other sources of ways that she can spend her time on. Here's another one. This is an observation from Mooc. She says, all new well-being features do is return the responsibility to the user. That's what she said. And that is the key point to her. It's the open point.  Because you've held that choice for them. These well-being features sound like the minimal token satisfaction conducted in legislation. We need more information. Yes. That's a very good observation. Yeah. Some people compare smartphone addiction to food addiction and say that you cannot live without food and you cannot live without phones. So if a food addict is being told that here is a food but you cannot eat, you have to just regulate yourself and they are doing the same thing for the phones. People are addicted. Their brain is being stimulated and manipulated but these features are saying, hey, there is this limits like app limit feature. You just use it and then you set a limit for yourself and you can deactivate it anytime you want. I think that's basically the same thing. That's a good observation. She says the phone everywhere is a generational thing. Her kids take their phones out everywhere. Who do you keep to take her first? Do you take the generational issue? Yeah. Teenagers and young people, they use it more. But also middle-aged people where I live, they are playing Candy Crush all day. On some way, I see what they're doing. I sneak under phones, which is not a good thing but it's good for my research. And yeah, I see kids and teenagers, they use more. And then imagine the next generation, they are living with the phone since they are a kid. And so it just says, humankind lived without these devices for endless years. Have we been so fast? New decade? Or was there something or some things in human cultural life prior to that, that functioned anywhere as these phones in the sense of playing something, listening or thought to be in our lives? I guess we're in human history. They love to be loved, they love to make connections, and they crave for information. And as I said, that's how we have survived because knowledge empowers us and we crave for more information and more information and we want to relate to people, we want to connect to them. And that's what these phones are apparently on the superficial level, are providing and our brain is not able to distinguish between what is a real connection, what is the information that is correct, that is like, worth my time to spend on it and read it, or the people, you have so many friends on these platforms but are they really your friends? How many of them you can count as being a true friend? We want to have a lot of friends, we want to be popular, we want to be appreciated. These are basic and very natural human needs and these platforms, they actually took advantage of these needs and they turned it to a money-making machine. I don't know if this is a question that you can answer or not, but I won't ask it. He's been five hours, I think he needs a day, five hours a day on Second Life. Is that considered ill-usage of Second Life? I don't know if you can answer. It depends on you, how do you feel about it? Well, if you feel great, then that's great. So many people don't feel great when they spend time on Instagram or they waste their time on some games, they don't feel great and they want it to stop but they cannot stop it because it's addictive. And Roxy asks if you think cell phone addiction is dumbing down the population? Well, there are... This is a very new issue, as I said, it's very hot and nobody knows what's happening exactly, so they have started to do some research, especially on the kids and how the screen time is affecting their brand and they have found that kids who are exposed to screens and phones and iPads, they are learning slightly slower than the kids who are just playing around and not using the devices as much. So it's definitely having some effect on the brain and we are going to see what's going to happen in the future but my personal opinion is, yes, it's dumbing us down smartphones and dumb people. That's what I think. Wow, that's like a bumper sticker.  Roxy, when you say you mean over all life skills, I'm not sure what you mean by that.  Shida, we're dependent on them, similar to a calculator. If you use a calculator all the time, you become dependent and forget how to do math without it.  Yeah, like before smartphones or before phones, you memorize so many numbers. I don't know if you remember, like memorize your friends' numbers, your relative numbers, and you knew how to navigate, which you don't probably know now. So we are losing the skills but I don't really know if losing the skills necessarily makes us more stupid because we can use our brains in some other fields. But again, it's not very clear what these devices and these comfort is doing to us. And High Sky is pointing out that people no longer use live rules. It's an old technology. It was useful back in the old days before there were calculators, but maybe it was just a new kind of technology. Is that a question? Sorry, I didn't get it. Not sure it was a question. Shida has a question. She's heard you twice suggest that people who are happy or empowered they are not addicted. If the vision is self-defined, while or so many not aware that walking down the street and into a wall might indicate over-attachment. I don't really know how to answer that. You have to go and talk to those people who are endangering themselves by being over-attached. That's definitely dangerous. And if something happens to them, they're not going to be happy about their habits, their harmful behavior. And what I mean by if you're feeling empowered, because so many people are not feeling so great about these devices, but they do not know how to stop it. They want to have a way. They want to have some devices that are serving them, but they don't have any alternative. They just have smartphones and all these giant companies as I mentioned, Alphabet and Facebook, and they just have to use these services, and they don't want to do it. Okay, and I, Skye, so that's the thing is when technology fails like the platforms that knock out the technology, do we know how to use a callback? It's there. That's something I think that... No. Not in a lot of places. Maybe in some places that they have to keep going. Like they have some backup plans, but for the society as a whole, I think no. And it's a real danger. Like if some, yeah, some sunstorm just blow everything up, then we're going to go back to the Stone Age, probably. Okay, let me get this pasted in. There we go. Okay, Carrie asks, do you think we have to accept that we live in digital and optical where we are watched from all sides and although we wish to protect our privacy to be able to use some effect to live in the modern world, we have to tell a bit of our soul or a bit of our account? There is an alternative business model to this chaos. They don't really have to use our soul or our attention to provide us with services that make life easier for us. If you remember, I mentioned attention economy and there is this other business model which is called efficiency economy. And it's basically a subscription-based model that you pay for the service. You don't pay with your attention. You pay with the service and then they use it and that just makes you even more cautious about what you are buying because that's real money. So you pay to a company and then they use the service that they provide and you don't really have this much problem of companies trying to compete for your attention because you've already paid and you are using the service. But the thing is the efficiency economy also has its own problem. It kind of like centralizes the whole...  It has also its own sort of problems and it's not clear if it's going to work but then there are alternatives that we don't have to sell ourselves. It's just a matter of profit like which one makes the more profit for these companies. And Eric has asked an extensive question here. What are your thoughts on the additional risks and rewards of augmented reality not just by using smartphones we need to see the world in a different way but also the rise of augmented reality headsets and glasses that may eventually be more common. I think that's going to make the world a very weird place that living together and public space has no meaning anymore.  They do not share the same world and with that AR it's going to be even worse that's what I think but I cannot predict how the society is going to look like if everyone is using those devices. And David says bubble worlds. Yes. And the bubble world as I said everyone is living in their own world and the world is designed for them because if they're using the phones and these platforms everything is designed for them like if you go to Instagram on the Explorer page that page is just designed for you and no one has the same page you see the things that you want to see you don't know what other people are thinking and like what kind of issues exist for others so you're going deeper into your bubble. Some dire predictions here. I'm sure the bubble is already exposed. Yes. I think we have time for one last question if somebody would like to ask one. I know we've asked you a lot of questions. I'm more than happy to answer. Okay, Shia has got the last question here. Self-employment is a form of business people to hold. Do corporations overly encourage their employees to own and use cell phones? Are the corporations responsible too? Corporations are encouraging people to use to own a cell phone. Yes. That's also a problem. That's also a problem and when you have a smartphone everyone expects you to be available all the time so they just send you a work related email I don't know 2 a.m. or early in the morning and then you are constantly in this stress of work and everybody expects you to be available all the time and I think they are responsible too but there are some cases I think in France that they made it illegal for the corporates and companies to send work related email after the working hour so there are some things happening some companies they already know how bad it is for the employees to be all the time available but yeah definitely they are also to be blamed everyone I think we all expect our friends to reply to the text within 2 minutes if they don't we are just going to be like what's wrong with that person why they are ignoring us but before all of these we had a phone I don't know how to call it a stationary phone that people used to call us or like send us letters and then we just didn't have that expectation but now everyone in the work in the university everywhere they expect everyone to be available all the time and that's a part of the problem too I think we are going to need to let Ms. Resty rest she is responding to a lot of questions so I am going to ask our audience to thank you for sharing your annual results it gives me a lot of pause and maybe I am very glad I do not phone a cell phone because I live in the United States so there is no coverage you don't have a cell phone gentle? no I do not have a cell phone there is no coverage I cannot receive or send any cell phone messages how do you feel about that? I am fine with it I have a landline you can live like that you don't need to be responding to everyone all the time you are an awful retired medical I hope the last person on earth to be zombified two weeks ago I changed I got another phone it's a new series by Nokia it's like nostalgia serious I think they make the old phones the way they were I got one of those and I have been using that for my research purpose and it's been great I told my close friends that I am not going to be on these apps like WhatsApp or we have here KakaoTalk I am not going to reply to you instantly I will check once a day and that's been working great I have a lot of time to do things that I enjoy not just looking at the screen at the black mirror that's what the serious name is so thank you thank you Ms. Jose this was really really good you have given us an honor it was my honor to be here thank you for audiences' sake if you have not heard unfortunately Dr. Shakir from the hospital he had a real life emergency and he can't be with us today we are definitely going to invite him back because the message is really important for us not to hear it so stay tuned for when we will get him to come back he has done some research that indicates that the teenagers with social media do not understand when they are being bullied that's I think really important so instead of having Dr. Shakir with us we are going to have a social hour which is a time to mix and mingle and get to know other people here at the conference who have similar interests in social media virtual worlds and mental health if Ms. Jose can stay we can ask her some questions I see some of our other presenters are here but first what I would like to do is I would like to thank all the people who have made this conference such a wonderful conference I want to work with it first of all we have a conference team that has been invaluable I want to recognize Luke Wheeler and Ice Guy Silverwood they have spent long months helping prepare and then run this conference and I usually do let that conference team take a week off once we have got the conference wrap-up work done before we start planning for the International Disability Rights Affirmation Conference IDRAC which comes in the fall so you're going to want to be looking for that I also want to give special recognition to the community members who are here to introduce the conference speakers that would be Linda starting off this morning Batsai, Moose, Lez, Melee and Larry we deserve recognition we also have a bunch of community members who greeted the audience as they came into the auditorium and that would be Carla DR42 Phoenix, Isabella Lauren, Vulcan Luzona, Leondra Mrs. Dye Gemma, Leandra Ty, Sonetus and Vivi I'm going to recognize N.A. Cappellini who is the director of social media and social media and security and she's also assisted some of our speakers with personalization of their avatars which is a very significant thing to do I want to recognize Pecos and Orange and Suellem and Alex who have worked on the social media presence as limited as it is we have a video team working today that would be Petlove and Marcus and Joey they've done a lot of setup work and they've been here all day we have fantastic transcribers who increase the sensibility of our conference for people who are unable to hear and that would be Lori Bond and Carolyn and Elektra Elektra's put up way late please, please go ice your wrists ladies and of course the most important people at the conference are the audience members and I want to thank them for their interest in mental health and how it can be supported in a virtual setting and now I would invite everyone to adjourn from the formal part of this conference and let's head outside the auditorium or the social hour you can mix and mingle with our presenters and the others who are at the conference


Hey everybody, this is Brian. Welcome to the 39th Lamp Tutorial. Today we're going to be discussing Gitters and Setters, a common object-oriented programming paradigm. Is paradigm even the right word? I don't know. Anyway, so let's make a class. Oops. And in this, we're going to say private. Then we're going to say name. We've learned through visibility tutorials that private is not accessible outside of this class. For example, let's say my test. See? There's nothing there. We cannot modify that. But we want to be able to get this and set this in the outside world. But we want to do extra processing. So this is what we're going to do. Pretty simple. What we're doing here is we have a private variable, which cannot be modified from the outside world. We want to be able to modify this. Let's actually do this for clarity's sake here. The reason why you would do a get and a set, well, is if you want some internal processing to happen to that variable and you still want to expose that variable to the outside world, but of course the outside world won't know what sort of processing you want to do. For example, when we return the name or we get name, we're returning my name is semicolon and then whatever the name value is. So let's actually test this out. By name is Brian. Now the internal variable is still just Brian. But whenever we say get name, we have the special formatting. A lot of programs actually do that. Where they'll hold the internal value and then they have properties, also called getters and setters, that allow you to actually expose the data to the outside world in a different format. Pretty simple, pretty easy concept, but you should be aware of how that works because a lot of programs use that. This is the classic Java slash C++ way of doing a getter and a setter. So that's all for this tutorial. I hope you found this educational and entertaining and thank you for watching.


Be walking back to another episode of kicking the bass TV if you guys are new to the channel If that subscribe button hit the notification bell also with the like button if you guys have been enjoying the content today We're about to be doing some bass fishing, but we're actually fishing with the smallest baits that we bought from Walmart a second ago So let's go ahead and walk over here I'm gonna show you guys exactly what we got if you guys want to check out any of the big bass energy merch Or the new kick in their bass rods. They're only available on kicking their bass comm you can check them out Link will be down below. We got spinning rods right hand bait casters left hand bait casters and plenty of merch on the website I appreciate the support in advance for everybody that goes on the website and supports your boy I really appreciate it So we did stop by Walmart earlier and we ended up getting a few different baits these are like the smallest bass lures that they had there and We're gonna go out to this pond that we have behind us and just see if we can catch them today You know, we had a massive cold front blow in a couple days ago It's starting to warm up now and I'm hoping that these fish are gonna be biting And we're gonna go out here in this pond and just see what we can put together today and more importantly Hopefully catch some big bass on these small lures. So let's go ahead and show you guys exactly what we bought the first bait Is this mini King spinner bait by striking and if you guys want to get a discount on any of the striking lures I have my discount code and link down below the discount code didn't work for like the last couple months I didn't even know so now it works is down below But yeah, that's the first bait just a mini spinner bait.  I'm with a black back I think that thing I end up getting much today. All right in the last bit that we got we needed a soft plastic and The weird thing is we couldn't really find these small soft plastics But we did find this ready for action worm by cream lures and it's already set up It's like a little pre rig. It's already got a hook in it and everything and it's a pretty dang small worm You know, so that's gonna work. This is the one soft plastic that we got You know, we ended up getting that rattle trap the spinner bait and then also that jerk bait So it's good to add like a little soft plastic a little slow-moving bait to the mix today Especially since the weather has been iffy and these fish are probably a little finicky So hopefully we'll be able to catch them on this And you know, I have them all paired up on this kicking their bass spinning rod so that we can get a good cast with it Because at the end of the day these lures are so light I believe we could throw them on a baitcaster, but it would be really hard and that's why we're using spinning rod today So yeah, we're gonna hop right into it got my man Ada behind the camera You guys can check out Ada's channel link to be down below He's gonna be fishing with with us today during the video So you'll have like my perspective and his perspective at the same time So we're gonna go ahead and rig up a little leader on this spinning combo tie on our first bait get out to the pond and Catch some fish. Hope you guys enjoy it. Let's go ahead and hop into it All right, y'all we're about the town got Mr. A dub. So that's good, dude I don't know what happened to this guy. I haven't seen him in a while, but look at this man's hair Like he walked in my house yesterday. I was like, bro. Hey, man. Like what happened? You dude, but yeah, man, we're about the town. So Adam, what do you want to throw? Yeah, like a preference? Honestly, I kind of like all of them honestly, but I think I know what you're about to pick out I don't know. I like the spinner. I like the trap too, but I'll throw the trap you through the spinner bait I know you like kind of picked out the spinner bait So yeah, we'll start Adam off with this little spinner bait right here striking. That thing's pretty fire I think it's gonna smoke them. It's not really like spinner bait conditions today, but it's like They should still bite it. So he'll throw that and then I'll start off with this lipless right here And then we'll end up moving over to these baits We'll probably go catch a few on those and then we'll end up tying these on as well. So yeah, that's the game plan I'm gonna go ahead and tie this up on my spinning combo. He has his down there And we'll see what we can do today guys. So if we wind up catching a lot of fish I really want to catch a big one on this too and we're gonna run our drag really loose. So Even if the fish are a pound and a half at them, they're gonna act like yeah We're gonna feel like it's a seven eight pounder. These aren't really my I guess these are kind of No, these aren't really micro lures, but we've done a lot of micro lure videos and you guys kind of enjoyed them Not only that but I just enjoyed filming them like there's a lot of fun for me But yeah, we're just using these small bass lures today switch it up a little bit.  All right, dude, we're gonna have some fun I just hope they're gonna fight good and I hope we end up catching a big one because I think we'll have an Opportunity today. There's there are some really big fish in here. My buddy's caught a 10 pounder in here Actually, no two people caught a 10 pounder in here. All right, y'all we just got out to the pond water is ultra clear very shallow Adam Very shallow But yeah, Adam's gonna start off with that. He's gonna have his GoPro on so we'll have his angle Like I said, if you want to check out his channel, too, I'll link them down below Yeah, let's see if we can get it started guys and see what we can do hopefully uh Got some big ones, so I thought I had grass on this trap the whole time, but in reality it just barely walk fairly uh Really goes my braids a little messed up. Grab a new line on this Yes, I think barely vibrates like barely. Yeah There's also some rocks out here guys and I don't know if y'all know but when it gets cold outside Fish tend to sit up on like boat ramps or rocks or anything like that because it tends to heat up So when the water temps drop It gets super cold outside is the best will tend to move to some rock if you have any rocking a pond or even like a Little boat ramp or any concrete, you know that heats up the quickest with the Sun being out So I did want to start off on this pond and start off on this side because I was like You know, there's a lot of rock over here and there could be some good fish sitting on this Look at that. You guys hear the difference between the braid and the fluoro. That's crazy braid is so Especially this braid. It's just old braid. I need to put some new new line on You see where all the birds are Adam They're in that pocket. I think we might need to go down there. I will say sometimes this corner is hit or miss Here we go guys I wanna yeah.  Yeah, they're in there Adam first cast on the middle Yeah, I got slammed I Missed them. What kind of jig it kind of rip it off the bottom Yeah, oh god, he hit me again right here down this grass line. There should be one over here Did you hear you? I'm telling you they're in the middle right there They're stacked. It ain't just one fish. There's a lot. It's got to figure out how to get them to bite You think I was hitting the blade might be right out here, too.   They're either hitting the blade or they're so so small You would think that I'd be able to hook one though Mine are you good to the other side? I'm telling you it can be like that sometimes I hear they move around a lot Or they're just finicky dude and they just actin wait they got to be hitting the blade That's the only thing I could think of got that one. Oh, it's a good one Noah. No That was like a four pounder, bro. Dude. Look at the boil Oh Dude, that was a good one Dude, that's that's upsetting bro If it was a small one is like whatever but like that's oh definitely Plus I mean you're throwing it on a spinning roll with your drag loose. I don't just hooked one. It was a freaking tank All right, we got to keep high hopes though. Well, maybe we'll catch a 10 on my micro lure today guys Maybe the big ones are actually biting. We just got we got a hunker down We might not give me any bites, but I love how you're just talking about it like oh, they're small Yeah, let's walk let's walk down here. See where that birds that we're gonna go a little past him. So y'all we got It's a big flat. We just walk past this whole flat, but at the end of the sandbar it has a slight drop off right here Is the break So there's like a little lane right here heading back into this pocket There should be some fish stacked up about where he just threw So let's see if we can get some going we just went to this other side Just got to figure out where they are. It is a little tough today, but we're gonna We're gonna put it to work. Well, we'll end up getting on them. Just might take a second. They do not like this trap. I Don't blame them though. It just looks like I'm reeling in a freaking slice of pizza or something I mean dude, I don't even know how else to describe it. It's like it has no movement I literally think a slice of pizza would have more action than this thing like well y'all I don't know about this thing I told Adam I might as well be throwing a dang pizza roll up in here It just has no action with how these fish are finicky right now I feel like you'd almost need some more rattles some more thump to really get them to trigger off on it It's like I'm in the I'm in the middle zone It's like you either need to throw something really slow like a worm or you need to throw something really aggressive That has some thump and I'm like in this middle zone to where like I said, I'm just reeling a pizza roll in It ain't ain't nothing, but I'm I'm not putting this thing down till I catch one Unless it's just getting to the point of where it's like it's not gonna happen Yep. Oh my gosh. I Got slam, bro. Yeah, I just can't I didn't get the hook in them Might have been a small one. There's some bait moving right here. I want to say they're chasing bait I keep seeing flicker though.  It's all you have to do Got him. That's a good one too. Oh He's not that good dude. He's fighting like crazy though. Look at him He's going crazy Come on we have to land you I Finally got one to eat it dude this time we're gonna was fighting too like Wow Beautiful little winter bass Let's see if I can walk down here give him a nice old release First fish of the day that we've landed Swim away Thank you for eating the hook finally now tell your friends to do the same thing Because y'all are having a problem with that today.   I mean, it's wet. Don't put your knee on there How'd you miss I think it's that rod bro? It's yeah, dude your rod literally been over you It would be better on my rod. We'll throw this then so do I reel this thing out of here?  Yo, dude, I'm telling you this thing is crazy. All right It's gonna get small. I'm sorry.    I just put on this magic wiggler right here I don't know what in the world this thing is. How do they break you off? That magic wiggler is legit Let me show you this little thing looks like me That's what you want to do what in the world Fixed it. All right, dude. I'm going on a hike. Honestly, I can't really tell but I think I'm officially like a jerk bait This is definitely a crank bait. I can definitely tell it's crank bait Oh Dude to one of them was like three and a half pounds, bro. I saw them right.  Like that was insane There was two fish one of them wasn't that big and one of them was like three three and a half pounds, bro Alright guys, we just came back to where these fish were stacked up fishers in the deepest spots Make it difficult It was a good one Adam, it was a good one. He doesn't want to eat it, bro. I don't know why God we He did the same thing he Drove over it like a shark dude like a two-pounder Like either like they're not bad fish. That's what's that's what I'm like. Gosh, this is annoying There's definitely more down there with them. I got one Yeah Dude, I can't believe I got one on that. That's pretty cool This guy choked it to like He's got it in there.  So we've knocked out two of the baits Noah's had some hit on that small rattle trap and on the water. They just haven't committed It's been really difficult at least fish are like super lethargic All right, dude, go the other way Okay, there you go. He finally figured it out. You want to go to another pond? Well guys I think we're gonna head to a new pond this place is just not it You know Adam caught two fish here. He missed a good one. I missed a good one I had a bunch of fish roll on this but they just won't commit, you know I talked about at the beginning too. It's just the conditions today This is our first warm day after a huge cold front. Usually the first day is not the best You know, it takes a few days for the weather to get consistent. Therefore the fish will start biting So I think I don't even think tomorrow would be that good I think the next day I'll start being better But even with ponds like these ponds to get more effective than these lakes and the rivers and stuff like that just because they're smaller Bodies of water it happens, man But we're gonna hit another pond and see if we can catch one on this if I could actually cast this thing out too I think I would have already caught a lot of fish, but this is the widest bait I've ever caught Hey y'all, we're gonna get started and see if we can catch some in this new pond I'm hoping that we can make it happen. This water is so weird in here. It's not clear like the other one It's like almost like it has chemicals in it. I think we might be able to get it done in here guys. I think I think we'll have some good luck. The other pond it was just tough, but these fish are finicky today So let's just hope that we can get a few on the bank I got one Yup Nah, it's a small one Yeah Dude, he is so energetic It's like the most energetic fish I've ever seen He's barely hooked. I had him like hooked on top of the head kind of Thanks pal Honestly dude, I think this is a crank bait. I've been fishing it like a crank bait Oh, I just got bit again Yeah, right here That was like pretty good bite Dude, again Noah Yes There he is You see how small it is Dude, I caught me a minnow on a minnow Look at that Giant baby, giant Look at him putting back See it dude That's so cool though. I mean at least I'm getting a couple fish to bite it I've been getting a ton of bites right here Like just slowly reeling this thing It doesn't even say on the package if this is a crank bait or a jerk bait It looks like a jerk bait but it works better as a crank bait Got another one Dude, Noah has no idea That's like fish number four or five for me, I think I think it's five.  That's cool, yeah I'll get out of your way Well guys, I think we're gonna close off today's video We just got kicked out and usually this place is closed on these days And I've talked to many people and they don't care if you fish it But that guy, he was a little rude man I'm just chilling and like, dude I hate when people do that Like over fishing man and we were just minding our own business Like sitting on the ground and we weren't loud at all I was just trying to catch a dang fish I threw two of the worst lures of my life today I just wanted to catch a dang fish And I did end up catching one Adam caught a lot on that spinner bait and the jerk bait So those were definitely the two Yeah those were the two they liked today for sure The two really good baits I do not know about that worm And the trap just never vibrated So they did not want to bite that It was just a pizza roll man That's what I'm saying But anyways I still have fun in today's video I hope you guys enjoyed it I'm glad we had a dub around to throw those other lures Because I just got my butt kicked today by the fish I don't know what happened But I want to say it was the lures I'm not trying to pull excuses But then lures really did suck But I hope you guys enjoyed this video If you did please hit the like button We're gonna have a lot of content coming out this week So if you could drop a comment down below Let us know what content you would like to see next I appreciate a lot of support And I'll catch you all in the next video


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Next question is from Taylor Bakka. When should muscle finishers be used and how important are they? Who picked the questions today? You did this one on purpose right here. So muscle finishers are, that's bodybuilding jargon, right? And that basically means exercises you do at the end of a workout to give you a better pump. And they typically are isolation exercises, cable exercises, machines. And it's like, okay, so, you know, for chest a finisher would be like a cable crossover, right? Or for delts it might be like a lateral, you know, or for biceps it might be as many reps as possible or something. Exactly, it's just to kinda squeeze more blood in the muscle. So, you know, when should they be used? Well, if you're gonna do them like a bodybuilder, I do them at the end of the workout, obviously. But really, the value of finishers is that these are exercises that don't produce a lot of damage, but they allow you to add more volume. That's really what it is, okay? So I did the bulk of my workout. I know I can add more volume, but if I, let's say it's chest again, and I just said cable crossovers, right? I just finished my chest workout. If I do three more sets of bench press, it's a compound lift, there's a lot of load, it causes a lot of damage, that'll tip me over training. How can I add more volume without overtraining? I know I'll pick this exercise that doesn't cause a lot of damage and just do some more reps. When you're working on the pump, right? So when you're chasing the pump, I see value in these. Or when you are really trying to work on connection, right? Get more connection to a muscle, right? And similar to what we were talking about earlier, about the stretch or the contraction position, I see value in these things. Other than that, I actually see them, I see them abused more in that space. Totally. So I remember training with obviously a lot of competitors when I was competing, and a lot of their programming looked like this. They start with the, and we'll just use chest, since all of them love to do chest, right? They start with either some good dumbbell press or maybe a barbell chest. And then the next three exercises that we would do, okay, because there's times where I'd hop in with guys, let them lead the workout just to see what they would do.  I'm like, all right, coolest routine starting good. And then we go over and we hit like the hammer strength machine, then we do cable crossovers.   And we're just chasing the pump. The whole workout was that, was like we did like one, what I would consider big bang for your buck exercise, the one that's really gonna grow my chest, the one that's really gonna make the most difference. We did one exercise of that, we did three sets and then we're already out of it. And now we're on to all these other exercises where we're just pumping fluid in there. And psychologically, it would trick these guys, the thinking that they're, because they get all pumped full of fluid. You're drinking water, you're doing high repetitions, you're connected really well to it, you get a lot of tension on it because it's cable work. And so they get all this fluid filled in, but then their chest doesn't grow that much because they're missing out on the really good exercises. Now, I prefer if you're doing single muscles or one muscle part or two muscles per workout, I wanna get at least two or three really good compound type exercises, dumbbell, barbell type work. And then the very last exercise, the one exercise I'll do is this machine or cable work to kind of pump. But you would never trade a big bang for your buck exercise for a finisher. Never, never. And that's what's most common. So the people that talk about finishers and stuff, what ends up happening is some kid sees that like, oh my God, I so felt that or they look at themselves in the mirror and they're all pumped up from it. And they're like, oh, it must have worked the best. And then their programming starts to look like a bunch of finishers and maybe one or two really good exercises in there. And it's like, so that's the problem I see that this jargon comes from the bodybuilding space and they're the most guilty of abusing these types of exercises. One of the best things I ever did was to get away from that and train more like a power. What benefited me the most as a bodybuilder was actually training more like a powerlifter and getting away from all these supersetting, finisher, pumping type of exercises because I was missing out on the things that were really building the most muscle.


What are presidential candidates to say about us as the people? The race is on, or should I say the battle, for who we hold the seat for the highest office in the land, the president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the federal government of Nigeria. Just thinking about this title actually gives me shivers. The president, commander-in-chief, two roles that will define the success otherwise about their nation. The president is really from the root word to preside. President, he presides over the affairs of the nation, particularly the growth and development of the economy, which in turn translates to the wealth of its people. Basically, the economy of the nation contributes largely to the economy of its people, which in many cases contributes to the happiness index and can contribute to your level of welfare and therefore happiness. In other words, if I may exaggerate a bit, your choice of presidents can contribute to your level of welfare and your happiness. If you don't believe me, I may just look around you today. It's the 12th of May, 2022. Are you a happy citizen? Does having this do with what is going on around you rising costs of food and welfare in general and doing doing value of your currency and your economic power? On the other hand, also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, this speaks to the safety, security and the protection of the lives and properties of citizens. Again, look around you. Do you feel safe? Does your family feel safe? What about your relatives in the North or in the South East? Are they living a life devoid of fear of kidnap, robbery, assassination, et cetera? Many times we do not actually consider the gravity or import of our decisions when it comes to elections. This time, we're choosing the president of a country like Nigeria. Now, look closer at 10 days we've had, you know, before now, Castleman back, president since 1999 when we decided to take part of democracy. We've had one president, Mr. Gover-Sendra, had a late president, Mr. Yeradwa. We have the president, Goodluck Jonathan, then president, Mohammad Okwari. Assuming we chose the best qualified candidates and indeed the best of us representatives as presidents, then what do these four men say about us as a people? It's another election cycle. The policy is heating up again. Beyond party priorities in which these events are bedeviled with bribery and counter-bribery of delegates, which actually results in the candidates with the most money, you know, printing the tickets versus the most qualified or experienced candidates. So the more money you have, the more your chances of printing these tickets. I do advocate that we actually put the candidates to the test by doing the following one, ask the important questions, ask pertinent questions about how they actually intend to get out of this quagmire and then that helps us to weed out those who don't have a well-asked election. Also, which disqualifies everyone that has been proven guilty for fraud or corruption. Again, we have to slash the salaries of these office holders to slightly higher than the minimum wage. So we can truly see who is really ready to serve. I mean, if you do this, let's see what happens. I'll show you what I will find at this level and we'll find those that truly care about service to the people, not just those that are obsessed with servicing their pockets. Thank you. You know, the part you talked about slashing salaries has always been an issue over the years, but we all know that no member of the legislature or the executive, or even the judiciary, we will be happy to do such, you know, a slash of the salaries. I'm sure our politicians would not be happy to do that. I know there was a particular politician that came online to say that his salary was about 50,000. There was a time and a lot of people debunked that and said that it was in life. So I believe that if you want to serve, you can still end well. You can still end well. We all know that in the UK, what Nigerian politicians earn is far, you know, more than what people earn in the UK if you're serving. So I just think that it's not a function of reduce, you can reduce your salaries, but we all know that Nigerian politicians are there for the money. The money is a motivation. So you should work regardless of whether you're paid well or you're not paid well. You should be ready to serve your people. You should be able to do the right thing. And we realize that when these people, when these politicians do things for us, you know, there's so much noise. Like when we make so much noise, but this is what they are supposed to do. It's your duty to provide good roads. It's your duty to, you know, to do all of that. But you know, there's this assumption that they are doing something fantastic. So that's why they make so much noise. So that's my opinion. I think for me, my thoughts actually is around when Tudu mentioned access to cast our mind-backs to previous precedents. I mean, it's just a reflection of our decisions. I guess some of us around here might not have been involved in that process at that point in time. But regardless, our parents were, our elders were, our siblings were, even for some of these leaders as well, we voted them in. It's just a reflection of who we are. What kind of people we have actually placed across borders. I was just thinking, if probably all of these four leaders that were placed, if any one of them was really qualified, set of, they were qualified to do the work in terms of not just saying that they went through school, because I mean, that was, there was a time that was the mantra that was I'm an educated person. Then he moved on to, I am for the people, I understand the people's plight have been there. But if we're selling beyond those things that are mundane, and we're actually looking for candidates that really would serve the people's interests, I can imagine what Nigeria would have been if those are the kind of people that were elected from 1999 up until today. That just helps us think that really indeed, our elected officials would determine the destiny of the nation and its people in general. So we really need to make wise choices going forward. Yeah. The thing is speaking about making money from politics, it's possible to do the right thing and make any decent living doing the right thing. The politicians in the US and the UK, they are paid decently, but they don't see politics. Politics to them is not just a career part, it's more like an act of service. So I remember the last time I was listening, that was a couple of weeks ago, I was listening to an interview of a Nigerian who is a Briton. She is a British, but a Nigerian. She contested for an office, I think member of the parliament in Britain. And she said, they were asking her how much was your election, the process there, everything. She said she spent less than about 8,000 pounds. Convert that to Nigeria, that's the chicken change. 8,000 pounds. And that money was like some of our friends came together, got that money. The money was made to send me letters, print some flyers and that was all. Not for bribery. But yeah, how much, if you do the mathematics, 8,000 pounds cannot even buy an expression of interest for the least political party. Because their policies is not monetization. They attach value to this thing. And is it possible for political parties to make presidential for almost free, but then let's be men of values that can afford it. If it's free, but the fact that it's free is you still can't afford it. You have to meet a certain level of criteria. So we need to shift our mind from politics of money to politics of values. I'm not saying politicians who cut down their salary beyond comforts. Of course, we know that their salary is too high. But what I'm saying is that they should do the right thing. Where they steal from, where they use misuse fund, they should stop it. They can end a decent living and actually fix the country and do the right thing. You don't have to be poor, blame politics.  It should be a balance. So what I hear, sorry, sorry, I'm talking to add. What I hear you say is that the filter, the set of people that goes through the system actually that we get to elect has to be corrected. Yes, the value system, the most monetization of the process. What has happened with the parties has happened with the teachers?   But nobody wants to go teach because it's positioned as something that is not lucrative. So politics is also positioned as something that is lucrative now, but we've left it to some group of people. I think we need to, it's also a sheet to me personally, right? We come over here, we just talk, we need to go back and, you know, control the options. Now they decide back end who are going to vote and our vote kind of like, it's no longer so as powerful as we think. This might look very, but it's the truth. We need to go back and see, get into the grassroots. Let's not leave it to some people who supposedly shouldn't be there. But I mean, if we keep saying these things, it's a cycle. Kids will grow up and they're going to say, Dad, what did you do? You were just talking and all, but I think it's the reality, the truth, you know, that we don't want to really, we don't want to get involved, but we just want to stay out of it and keep just being intellectual around it. Let's just try and create the, even if you can't get involved, support somebody, you know, find somebody that can actually push to getting involved at that grassroots. Just like you said. If we can do that, I mean, we...  When it comes to campaigning or, you know, electionary process, they want to buy goods, materials or gifts to Leo voters because they believe that too much money still mark infrastructure. We need to grow beyond that and stick to re-value it. Yeah, back to tell you. Growth is nice after the break. Please tell me, guys.