Bingo. That's a capital B bingo. We're back to two o'clock rock, and we're talking about community matters, and we're talking about what do the Tonys mean for Hawaii, but it's just that's just a kind of a place to go segue, right? Eden Lee Murray, professor of theater from HPU, thank you so much for joining us. You are the personification of theater in Hawaii. You are. Thank you, Jay. Thank you. Certainly for something that I love and is very near to my heart at any level, whether I'm teaching it, directing it, performing in it, watching it. What is it about theater that makes you so excited? I think it's the community. It's the idea of being part of something that is way bigger than any one person can do. Even if it's a one-person show, you've got your sound person, you've got your light person, you've got your director, you've got your audience. Everybody, everybody who comes into the theater from whatever capacity comes in with an agreement that they're going to do something together. One of the things I tell my kids, and I know this because I do it, where an audience member walks in through the door of a theater, I don't care how old they are chronologically, they're five years old, and they come in trusting you. Trusting you. And saying, tell me a story, and believing that everybody that they're going to watch from there on has put it all on the line to deliver a story and take them from A to Z, whatever happens in between. To me, that's moving. It's moving. I remember I went to see, it was nice work if you could get it. This couple of years ago, it was the last performance, I didn't know that. Nobody in the room knew that. And they announced that at the beginning, and they told us, rather at the end of the play, they told us that it was the last. And it was struck me, it struck everyone, what a completely integrated experience was. Everybody was together. You felt the person next to you. You felt him breathing. It was the community of that theater was just fantastic. It happens in Broadway, it happens. Sometimes these plays don't work out, and I just wanted to tell you that Garrison Keeler, what was his show again? Perry Home Companion. It was a movie by that name. I think it was an interesting view of art in general, because in art, and I'm excluding present company, there are a lot of crazy people. There are a lot of, you know, innovative people, art people, passionate. They're different than the rest of us. You don't have to exclude present company. I think in order to be exciting at what you aspire to do, you have to think outside the box. Again, I tell my students, the sweet meat is out there on the thinnest limb, and you have to dare to put your foot out there, and you might fall. And you have to be ready to fall or fly. But you know, a lot of people do fall. I remember kids in my class, I grew up in New York. They wanted to go into the theater, and I never heard of any of them again. Well, you look at movies. I mean, old movies, we would do a lot of Turner Classic at home at night, and you look at, there'll be a big star, and then there'll be people, a long list of credits, and you've never heard of them again. You know, and some went on, and some were good for or big for a while, and then chose to walk away, because there's a certain amount of sacrifice that's involved in going to that level of professionalism, whether it's in the movies, whether it's in the theater. That's one of the marvelous points about it. I mean, it's the selection of the fittest. It's a bone crusher, too. Not everybody succeeds, but the ones, the ones who succeed certainly have their gratification, but the other ones who, you know, don't succeed, they have gratification too, even for a moment. You know, 15 minutes of fame. Right.  They're the ones whose marriages aren't pulled apart on the daily news, or inquiring minds want to know, and they plan a bunch of stories about, no. Very happy not to be running in that crowd. You know, I always thought that lawyers, you know, who go to court and try to convince people of their position, they ought to study theater. My family, the men in my mother's side of the family were lawyers, and we're trial lawyers, and my mother, who was a very good actress, would say, you know, a trial lawyer is one of the best actors there, because you've got to perform for the jury, you've got to improvise, you've got to think on your feet, you've got to do your lines, know your homework, have a very strong point of view, and sell your story. And the good, the guys who are good at it, and girls, they really love it.   It's not just that they're being entertained, which they are.  It's one of the most interesting processes in our culture, for sure. You know what, if I can plant something here, there's a really interesting jury story and new play that's about to open up at the end of this summer called The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. Are you familiar with that? Yeah. Stephen Grigis. It's the trial of Judas, who's, the play is set in Purgatory. The two lawyers, the defense attorney is somebody who lives in Purgatory, who is an Irish, she's a split between an Irish father and an Egyptian mother, and the prosecutor is El Fayoumi, who's this really slick Arab gentleman. And they put on this trial with Judas, who's practically catatonic, his life and the balance. And it's all about, it's all about choice, free will, forgiveness, transcendence. It's hilariously funny. It is edgy as can be. F-bombs flying all over the place, but ultimately it goes from being hilariously funny to being deeply moving. And that's going to be at Lab Theater, the Lab Theater Kennedy, a August 18th through September 3rd. I highly recommend, yours truly does it turn as Mother Teresa. Well, you make the point that it touches every part of our lives. And what we get from the media, what we get from, even from our education, is not complete because the human condition is, it's needs to be studied all the time. From inside, from outside. Ideas have to be thrown at us. We have to integrate this. And our lives are not complete unless we have, you know, that special crucible of the theater where anything goes, anything goes. And the beauty for the audience is you're sitting in the dark and you're watching the trial.  And you're watching the trial play out on stage, and then you get to, if the playwright is successful, you walk out with what they want you to think. In the Greek days, it was the catharsis that purged the ill of whatever society was dealing with. I'd love to know what kind of catharsis we need right now, given what's operating on it. Well, I think art will follow that. I think there'll be a lot of art around what's happening in Washington. We're only beginning, and it's too serious not to be art. It must be. We need art on this. We need interpretation of it to connect it up in our human condition. So why did you get into this?  What does that mean to your decision? It wasn't really a decision made. I grew up when I was really, really little. My mom did, she'd had her time in New York. She was at the American Academy of Dramatic Art, and then was with a wonderful national radio company and was working with a cadre of actors who were going to go with television when it broke nationally, right, commercially. Then came World War II, and that put the kibosh on that. So she was one of the women who went down to Washington and was in a forest and went back from Washington, New York, worked with the Rockefellers, at which point, long about 46.  So she came home, she was married to my dad, who she'd grown up with within about six months, and never did professional theater again, but she never was very far from it. So I remember being tucked under her arm when she was part of the community theater, and we'll talk about community theater in a minute, if you like, community children's theater, and they trooped from school to school, and I would sit backstage and watch, as these women that I'd watched get dressed upstairs, one of them three months pregnant, she had a little baby bomb all that business, but now she was somebody else, and they went down on stage and the curtain opened and the light hit them, and they became someone else. That's my mom. That's not my mom. That's Gutenberg. That's the little Chinese boy who says, Rick T. Shin too, to make the tree bear fruit. I mean, my mom is making magic on stage, and I couldn't wait to see her afterwards in makeup, in costume. My sister wouldn't have anything to do with her until she washed and changed. It's so funny. So, but I just, I remember one of, after I learned how to read, one of the first things I remember doing is holding a script for Midsummer Night's Dream when my mom was taking over the role of Nick Bottom, and she had to have somebody prompt her with lines. So I mean, I just never thought I would do anything else. How do you do that? I mean, aside from the lawyer experience, you know, which I can understand, I do not understand how people can put a, put the garb of another character on top of themselves. Is that character living in any way? You know, it's different for every person who's in theater, I think. I love, I love the feeling of sort of creating a conduit for another being to come in and try and understand how they think. You get possessed somehow. I think that's a good way to put it, because you want to leave yourself off stage. You want to let that other character, you want to create a home for them. You want to have your body assume their body. You want to, their voice, their reactions, which is really interesting. How do you, how do you step away and let somebody else react to what's being said to them? Yeah, yeah. It's magic, I think. It is magic. And what's, I mean, really, we must spend a moment just on differentiating how it is to act in the movies and how it is to act in the theater. And I remember seeing, I was so surprised at this, an audition of a number of women who were auditioning for a part. Screen testing? Screen testing for a film? Or for, okay. For a film. And it struck me how quiet their voices were, because they were talking conversational in an intimate fashion. And it's very hard to make a play that, that carries with soft voices and intimate, intimate engagements. And the play, you're really talking to the audience. And whether you have a microphone or not, you got to belt it out. They got to hear what you're saying, hear what you're thinking. It's a different projection entirely, don't you think? Right. I think it's creating a character, analyzing a text, living someone else's life. It's the same whether you're film or live. I think it's a degree of projection. You just said it. In the theater, you have the thought, but it's not enough to have the thought. You have to get it across to the back of the house. A friend of mine who was in my MFA program, a guy who was doing the speech, the Shakespeare speech, it winds up with, he is the head that wears the crown. And he was sitting on stage in the class and doing the speech, and the teacher was somewhere out in the house. He goes, I can't hear you, Buckner. Start again. So he began the speech, and he's talking about a nightmare, and it's very intimate. And the teacher stopped him. I can't hear you, Buckner. Start again. Three or four times. And finally, my friend just said, Gavin, if I'm loud, I don't feel it. And he goes, I don't give a... Whether you feel it or not, I can't bloody hear you. Here it is. Yeah, right? So, and the thing is with movies, and there's some actors who can go back and forth, because it's the same process. You have to create the person who has the thought. In movies, if you've got the microphone just off, just off what do you call it, shot, you don't have to speak very loudly as well. You shouldn't because then it sounds really forced and fake. You have the cameras right here or under your nose, so all you have to do is think something, and it's there. If you do too much, then it's like... It's overacting. It's overacting, and it's really... But on the stage, overacting may be necessary. Well, it has to come from a place of truth. If it comes from truth, and you're just trying to get it out there, it'll work. And being private and small doesn't work on stage. Well, I told you that when I saw the Tony's last Sunday to the extent that I could appreciate them and was willing to spend the time watching all of that, I felt that there was a blending. It showed you the line. It showed you maybe the connection between movies and Hollywood and Broadway. I prefer Broadway, if you want to know. But I was struck with how the two are sort of inextricably intertwined now. They're not as separate as they used to be. I don't know if you agree with that, but that was one of the takeaways that I had in general. And I think that Hollywood is slicker than Broadway, and I want Broadway to be more from the heart. Right. And I don't want it to be slick. Well, when it... I thought, for example, the best television was watching Kevin Spacey do Johnny Carson, and the camera was right there, and he was doing TV-level work, right? And he was brilliant. Did you watch that one? I saw that, yeah. Then for a lot of the big numbers, and given that the audience accepts the fact that they're watching a musical, they don't expect the intimacy of television. And the camera was back for the big picture for the musical numbers. Occasionally they do close-up, but it was with the understanding that the actor you're watching is projecting out there, as opposed to talking to you, the camera, singing really, which would have come across as very fake and false. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I dare you to make Bette Midler's camera size small, although she can do films, right? I do free association with her, and I always think of the same thing, Aya. She was born and raised in Aya. Right, right, right, right. She's a local girl. Well, she does Disney films. She's the witches of Eastwick. Did you see that? She was hilarious, but somehow they got her to where it was, you know, she's doing over the pot like that. She's not projecting to a whole theater because she doesn't need to, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love, can I do a Bette Midler story? One of my favorite, favorite stories ever by the guy who wrote a book called Audition. Michael, somebody. And Bette Midler couldn't get, she was not, she was not a type, a palm olive selvis oak girl, a commercial girl. She couldn't get hired for dog catcher, and she went to this Michael, I can think of his name in a minute, to him, who was also her teacher, in addition to this writer of an audition book, Shirtleff, Michael Shirtleff. And she said, I'm done. I'm beaten. I'm going home on my tail between my legs. And he goes, wait, what is the thing that you want most to do here? And she said, I want to sing for people who get me. He said, figure out a way to make that happen once, so that you have tasted success in New York, right? The Baths. She goes and she does her act for the Baths, Barry Manilow playing piano, and the rest is history. The rest is history. There's one line that I'll never forget. It was in one of her movies. She endeared herself to me forever.  And she said to the character opposite her, she said, but enough about me. Enough about me. Let's talk about you. Let's talk about how you feel about me. I can't deliver it the way she did. No. But that was really a high point. She's a brilliant, I loved it on the, I loved it when we were talking earlier. I loved it when she's giving her, she wins Best Actress. And apparently just that hello dolly she does is showstop. It's a great play to begin with. Right, right. And then I was reading something in The New Yorker about how she had a coughing fit on stage one night and somebody, one of the characters runs off stage and in character brings her a glass of water. She drinks it and then she does this thing and she falls down on the stage and from the back, from the stage, from the floor, she says something that's a brilliant ad lib and the audience came to their feet for her, right? So then she's winning the Best Actress on Broadway, top of the top. And she's giving her thank you speech and she's acknowledging the play and the people in the play and the music begins to play and she just kept on talking. And the music kept playing and she got a little bit louder and the music kept playing and they ran out of music and she had the last word. She kept on. She kept on.  Not that much, no, no, no, no. Well, it was really interesting to watch it and it was a great confirmation. Maybe you want to go to Broadway right now. Somebody told me the John Rampage in the theater, the Ruger theater there, that Diamond had to do. Diamond had to do it, right? Takes a trip every year. He takes the kids. Oh, geez. Did you tell me that? Somebody told me that. He takes, well, shooting stars. There's a trip every year that gets out there to get the kids who are themselves. And this is where we're going to talk about community theater and stuff. I don't know where we are, time-wise. But the Diamondhead shooting stars have sent a number of kids on to New York. It's a chance for, he does his best to expose them to what's out there professionally and they do their training and they get as far as they can get here. And I think you asked what the Tonys mean for those kids, the Tonys and Broadway are mecca. So they see what the best of the best can be, can do. And what John and Diamondhead, and it's billed as the Broadway of the Pacific, he brings as much as possible that kind of scale of musical theater. He'll bring artists who have either been in productions or assisted on productions. He'll bring them in to either direct or be in or both at Diamondhead. And it gives the kids a portal into what they could do if they stay with it. It also gives the people who have no ambition to go further professionally a chance to have a taste of what that is. And that's important too. I think that's... It gets guys like me the opportunity to connect a little more with Broadway. Let's take a short break. Eden Lee Marish, she's a professor of theater at HPU. We're talking about, what do the Tonys mean for Hawaii? We're going to get to that. The topic question, the essential question right after this break. A show dedicated to transportation issues and traffic. We identify problems in the state, but also the show is dedicated to trying to find solutions, not just detail our problems. So join me every other Tuesday on Moving Hawaii Forward. I'm Tim Apachella. Thank you. Which you can see live from 1 to 130 every Tuesday at thinktechkawaii.com and then later on YouTube. I am an energy attorney, clean energy advocate and community outreach specialist. And on Power Up Hawaii, we come together to talk about how can Hawaii walk towards a clean, renewable, and just energy future. To do that, we talk to stakeholders all over the spectrum, from clean energy technology folks to community groups to politicians to regulators to the utility. So please join us Tuesdays at 1 o'clock for Power Up Hawaii. We're back. We couldn't wait to get back. There's so much more to discuss. We'll never finish this, Eden Lee. So let's talk about, you know, let's talk about how the Tony's, what the Tony's mean for Hawaii. Because, you know, when you go, when you sit and you rub elbows with the guy next to you and feel that magic in the theater where everybody is sort of coming together as one, as an audience who is completely, which is completely engrossed in the action on stage. I mean, it's a special experience. It's hard to repeat that. It's hard to do that. You've got to be excellent.  And sometimes they don't do it very well to get there and make that program, make that show. It's one of the most exciting, most fantastic experiences in human conduct, I think. But the problem is it's in broadway. It's in the crucible in broadway. It's very hard to do it outside of broadway. And that's a study that you make. That's a goal that you have to try to get a crucible going here. How do you do that? And how successful have we been? I think we've been very successful. I think I'm very proud of what the conglomerate of community theaters is able to do. I think it runs the gamut of performance being the most important thing, which I think Diamond Head and Minoa Valley, they take stories that are not new necessarily, but they tell them again. They give actors, young, old community, whatever a chance to be part of the experience of carrying a story that they know works forward, learning the dance numbers and being able to perform it. Five, six, seven, eight, go. Well, they're going to do that today, though. No, no, no, no.  The Actors Group. The Actors Group, Brad Powell's Theater. And they are more, it's interesting because you have, you're juggling performance values versus ideas. And I think TAG, TAG is kind of the off-off Broadway here and they take the newest plays, the edgiest plays, the plays that- From Broadway or from off Broadway? No, not necessarily. Oh, from here? So, well, they're just new plays. Whatever. And they do them. They just did a wonderful play and I can't remember the name of it last, but a really edgy exploration of ideas play. Kumu does that for local playwrights and Hawaiian issues. And they do it in a very theatrical fashion. They don't do it like for a Hamilton or where you have to as a playgoer shell out upwards of $1,000 to see the final performance of the original cast of Hamilton. It's like $1,000. I mean, I don't know how good a play has to be before I reach into my checklist. It's a market. Right, I guess. It's a market. I was in New York working when Nicholas Nickleby first came in from the Royal Shakespeare Company and they broke the $100 mark for a play that was eight and a half hours worth of theater, right? I mean, $100 is chump change on the wait line or maybe standing room now, right? Just like, ooh. When I was in school, I was in the school of Manhattan and I went to the plays all the time, but, you know, $5, $2 first, right? Did you have standing room?  Whatever. I mean, there's only recent years that I've been able to get closer to the stage. I like getting close. I like the smell of the paint, the roar, the smell of the roar of the crowd and the grease paint and all that stuff. The smell of the grease paint, the roar of the crowd, right? Or the spit. No, it's the other way. It's the smell of the grease paint. No, the smell of the crowd and the roar of the grease paint. Or the grease paint. Whatever. It was a play. It was years ago. It was a play. Oh, my goodness. So, I mean, you know, what about the audience here? You know, I mean, one of the problems, for example, in the Hawaii Opera area is that it's hard to, it's hard to get young people, millennials, and younger to, to dedicate themselves to opera, to spend the money or to find the money and to go and spend the time to maybe read up a little, maybe listen to a lecture on, you know, on the outside of the theater beforehand and put it in a historical context so that they can appreciate it. And I bet the same kind of thing exists, you know, in the theater as in the opera. Well, I think the opera, and we were talking about this earlier, I think there was a generation that missed the opera that right now, it's interesting because I think H.O.T. is having the same problem that Hawaii Theater was having when the Hawaii Theater was closed and a whole bandwidth of generation of either kids didn't get brought to the theater and they're now the ones who are taking their children to theater and they don't go to the Hawaii Theater because they weren't taken as children. The people who were parents while the theater was closed are now writing philanthropic checks and they don't think of the Hawaii Theater because they didn't go when they were. Right, right. I think H.O.T. has got a bandwidth of, and they're doing a wonderful job. Eric Haynes and his education program, they've got that thing called Opera for Everyone. He sat in that seat. Did he? Telling us about it and then I asked him to sing and he just blew everybody up here with a blooming voice all through the theater. They know about it on the whole floor on the eighth floor. No, he's a wonderful one. I produced him, I brought their stuff into the Hawaii Theater when I was there because I think it's so important to get opera to children.  It's part of what? It's part of theater, for sure. Absolutely. It's an essential, theater is an essential element of opera. I think so, but opera is, I was watching, I actually had the privilege of being in this recent Tales of Hoffman that was Henry Aquinas' swan song. And it was a magnificent production and when you opera at its best, it aspires to so much. It aspires to perfection of sound, of voice, of orchestra, of light, of art, of the... It aspires to the best and when it all comes together, it's almost a religious experience.   But there's that... That's the risk and the reward. You might see one where it sucks, but on the other hand, to see one where it's good, that leaves an impression forever. So what H.O.T. does with the final dress rehearsal is to bring, every people already know this probably, but they bring teachers and students from across Oahu and the kids, I prefer to see the operas if I'm not going to be in them. I prefer to watch it that night because the house is full of these kids who have dressed to the nines because they're seeing opera. See them reacting to it. And they react and when something's funny, they laugh. It's a visceral response. What was really, I watched when they did Midsummer Night's Dream, not the Mendelssohn, but the Britain's opera, that has a countertenor playing Oberon. Okay. And I obviously, no one had told the children who were throwing that house what a countertenor was. Okay. So I'm back in the nosebleed seats up there and whoever played Oberon looked like a transformer toy.  And he steps forward. He done some walking around the stage before that just so people kind of got an eyeful. And then he came forward to sing and here's this, he's got this little teeny-weeny soprano voice and there was a gasp in the house.  They were sitting up to wait to hear what Oberon's going to sing and he opened his mouth and out came that. It was hilarious, but they're never going to forget that. Yeah. Yeah. You know. Do you act now? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I was, well, I just finished. I did, I did three non-singing roles in HOT's Streetcar Name Desire, the last of which was the nurse that takes Blanche to the ground. And we did. We had Blanche in this chair last week. She's wonderful. She was fabulous. Jill, Jill Gardner. Jill Gardner. Oh my God. When I met her, I mean, just a quick side trip, I was one of the principals because I had a speaking part, right? So I get to go to the lunch and it kicks everything off and I met the director first and I said, well, I just watched the movie last night and that nurse took Blanche to the ground and are we going to do that? And he goes, oh yeah. And I went, how much fun? And then I met Jill. I'm like, oh, hi, Jill. And she was a good six to seven or eight inches taller than me and outweighed me by a bit. And I said, do we have a fight choreographer? And he said, oh no, we're going to do this ourselves. I'm going, really? All right.  And it was fine. And then I did Tales of Hoffman as one of the five wicked pieces of smoke that swirled around the villain. That was really fun. I'm going to be doing this piece. I told you about the last days of Judas Iscariot, which Mark Branner is directing. And he's got two ringers coming in who did the production with him before in LA. And one guy, they're playing the two attorneys I was telling you about. And then the guy playing Satan is an amazing actor coming in from New York. Mother Teresa and I'm co-producing while Mark is in China on another project right now. You know the lines? Yes. Well, how about closing here? We're out of time. But how about closing with a line? Let me see you project an emotional emote, if you will, on the stage. Bye. One must take responsibility for one's own salvation. When you turn off God, you're saying, I know better than you. No, good. Excellent. Thank you so much. Yes, thank you, too.  It's wonderful to see you start to do this again. We're only beginning the discussion. Aloha. Aloha.


Hey, welcome to AirmanVision. Today, I will be sharing my experience with taking the D-Lab. D-Lab is not testing you on your knowledge of other languages. So it's not a little bit of Spanish and a little bit of French, a little bit of Russian. It's actually a made-up language. So it's English sounds and letters, just not in the way we know it. So it sounds like mumbling. The overall purpose of the D-Lab is to test someone's ability to learn a foreign language. And there are two parts of the D-Lab. There is an audio section and a visual section. I also made some visual aids to help give you a layout of what you can expect. But the examples I used are not what you will see on the test. They're just things that I came up with to help give you an idea of what it would be like. I just finished taking the D-Lab. That was a very interesting test. I don't know my score yet. I did not study for the D-Lab. We'll find out my score in a little bit. So the very first thing you do, it's made up of I think like five sections. The first section is just a few questions about yourself. Your experience with foreign language, whether it be no experience at all or some experience. Like maybe you have had some experience in high school, but you're not fluent in speaking it. They give you like four or five options to choose from on there.  And also how interested you would be in wanting to learn a foreign language. So that is the first section. And the next section is the stress syllable section. On all of these, it is an audio test. So you will have headphones on and on the screen it will say ABCD. But beside ABCD, it is just blank. When you hit play audio, it will say A, B, C, D. Literally this is what it's what it sounds like. You are choosing which one where the stress syllable wasn't similar to the others. I just went in and took it because my recruiter needed somebody to take it and I was qualified to take it. So he said, well, you go take it. And I did. I have probably bombed it. I just my mind like I'm talking so slow. I feel like just because like my mind hasn't like regrouped after taking that test. It took Spanish in high school, but not enough to be able to speak fluently. Section three, they give you rules to words and sentences. So it could be something like the noun will come before the adjective and all nouns will end in A and all adjectives will end in E, like the I sound like E.  And then you have to know like which one is the noun and the noun is going to end in A. So you have to listen for that. There's another one where it gives you more rules and it could be like sister of the bride. But the words of and the and a and and like don't exist in this language. So then you like take those out, but then they will give you rules of other things like that ends with or starts with or has to be in like the word. And then it just goes on and adds more rules to different things. Like, for example, it might be adjective ends in B, so it could be jump, B, kick, B. You'll have a few different sections where you will only have like a few rules at a time of like examples that I just gave you guys. But then you'll get to the end of the section where it applies all of the rules. And you have to answer like 30 questions or something. I actually ran out of time because these are timed. Actually it was 20 questions and I was at like 18 of 20 and I ran out of time because you also can't select the answer before all of them are read. So for example, if it said A, and then I was like, oh, that was it. And I click a, I can't hit next until a through D have been read and you've heard all of them. I guessed. I mean, I still kind of listened and tried, but I'm just like, oh my gosh, this is way too much to remember and apply and listen to and understand. So a thing that is good is they will give you the rules, but the rules will be on the page. Like they're not shown, but you can hit rules. It'll say A, B, C, D rules and you can hit rules and it'll show you all the rules that you can like look over before you hit play audio. Because once you hit play audio, you can only listen to the audio one time.  Once you hit play audio, that's it A, B, C, D and then you have to make your choice. A tip is to hit rules so it pops up on the screen and then with the ones that you can kind of figure out, then apply those.  So you're listening for like jump B Jim E. It's weird. I know this is not making any sense. I know I bombed the very last section. There were 30 questions and there were four pictures at the top and then it said, you know, some little letters or words or phrases underneath. But it was not anything that is like a known word, for example. It's not like it was a picture of a frog and it was like jumpy or frog. It was a picture of a frog and it would be like E E O. And then like there would be four pictures at the top with like the letters or words or phrases that were like made up just random letters together. And I'm like, what is happening right now? And then there would be three pictures on the side. But then like each picture would have like a question. Basically you were supposed to like decipher a sentence that best fit the picture. But it none of it made sense because even like there would be the pictures at the top and there would be pictures at the side. And like you're supposed to like relate them to the pictures at the top and like figure out the sentence. But then the pictures on the side didn't even like relate to the pictures at the top. And I'm like, what is happening? Like at the top there could be a picture of like a coin, a building and a man and a duck. And then like the picture I'm answering the question about is like two bags. And I'm like, I don't know. So I'm just like click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, send, max, zoom. I'm done. And I was just doing like the simple rules applying like it would have two rules and I would apply it to the sentence or the phrase or whatever. I was during that part, I'm like, okay, okay. You know, this isn't that bad. I could probably do this, like at least like learn these. But then when I had to put like all 10 rules with like one sentence, I'm like, mm-mm, mm-mm. And then when the pictures and the random letters, I'm like, no, I'm done. I'm done. I'm out. I don't want to do this. No. You guys, that was the D lab. Probably the worst explanation ever, but I just. So I thought I absolutely bombed the D lab. I had no clue. I was thinking maybe I got a 50, possibly a 60, but I just didn't know I had texted my recruiter right when I was done. And about an hour on my way home, I got a text from my recruiter that said, um, you almost passed. I was not expecting that at all. So I was like, okay, what did I get? I got a 102 on my D lab and you need a 110 to pass the D lab in the Air Force. So with that being said, I am glad that I did not pass because linguist was not a job I had on my list, but I was qualified to take it. So my recruiter asked me if I would take it and I said yes, but it also was really cool to know that I scored way higher than I was expecting to. And I know this video was pretty confusing, but that is literally how the D lab is. But I hope that you still get a little bit more of an understanding of what to expect on the D lab. And I wish all of you the best of luck.


Nigeria's First Lady Aisha Buhari has reached out to a political associate and the vulnerable across the 21 local governments of a dam or state with empowerment items to mark this year's Democracy Day. She appreciated them for their loyalty, trust and confidence in President Mohamed Buhari, distributing the items to over 30,000 persons in YOLA. Aisha Buhari urged politicians to inculcate the habit of reaching out to supporters and trusted associates on each Democracy Day. People have celebrated Democracy Day around the country but I'm not so sure if there are other people who have reached out to the community the way she did because she celebrated this day by empowering women, youths, vulnerable groups and associations. She gave them deep praises for women especially you know this decision of where people take cold drinks so these women can utilize and take advantage of the decision to start businesses and soft drinks and whatever. I want to thank or thank the excellency our mother Aisha Buhari with this very exciting giving that I have been given. I want to thank her and then I am praying to Allah SWT to make them to achieve their aim. Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates


No, it's like a two-sided coin whether you should write a business plan or not. My personal opinion when it comes to business plans is I think for the most part, for the most part, they're a waste of time. Because think about this, you're trying to literally assume in the best case scenario what would happen if everything went according to plan, right?  And let me tell you something, never ever, ever is anything perfect. Man, I don't know. I've had a couple of businesses in my life. I've had weird ones from Club Promotion to e-commerce, underwear companies in Asia to Block Geeks recently.  If I started off with a business plan, literally within 14 days of my venture, that business plan would be garbage.  I think business plans are completely waste of your time. Something that you could do, something super simple and easy is you can do a lean canvas model. I'll put a link below this video. Bang, there should be an image right there for the lean canvas model. One pager, super simple, super easy, and you can change it on the dime, okay? So you start off with the lean canvas model. Number two, depending on what kind of business you have, each business is different. You can have a physical business, so physical goods, e-commerce, you can have a digital business, you can have a brick and mortar business, but each business is very different. Now let's say you pick an online business. There's no reason why you need a business plan.   You got a product, you think your product is good, you think it adds value towards your clients and customers, great.  A lot of people, they get caught up in the paralysis by analysis. They're trying to analyze everything. Wow, if it goes like one plus one is two, and then if it goes like this, well no, no.  One plus one can be minus two. There's no set formula when it comes to this, you know? It's like in the Wolf of Wall Street, Leo, you know, sell me this pen, right? So I got this pen, or in this case a phone. Sell me this phone. So if you got your product or service, well, there's a digital product, sell it right away. You're thinking of starting an e-commerce company. What do you do? Grab a couple of units of your product and literally sell it. Go physically sell it to people. Go online. Message people one to one. Do things that don't scale. You know, a lot of times people are looking for scalable solutions for the beginning when it comes to business. I always say do things that do not scale at the beginning. So let's revert back to the primary question.  Now, if your investors are pushing you and pushing you for a business plan, I would then question them of why. I would tell them, why can I just give you a one-pager, a lean canvas model and you get to work? I think a lot of people also then assume if you do have a business plan, it's easier to raise money. And if you do have a business plan, it's somehow statistically gonna get you, it's gonna make your company better.   When you're raising money, yes, it's important to have financial projections.  It's hard to assume. What's really important at the beginning is you as the entrepreneur. Because when people are investing money, when you are raising, people are deploying money to you as a person. They're not deploying money to your company, right? When I'm running a check, right? If you're raising money and you're raising half a million pre-seed for your business, people need to trust you as the entrepreneurs to execute on the vision.  So you gotta get better at presentations. You gotta get better at telling your story.  So whether you're trying to think of starting an e-commerce business, a new tech business, get the basic alpha product as you can. And sell, sell, sell, sell. You get some momentum. You get some sales. You get some critical feedback from your customers, which is the most important. Now with that information, what you do is then you can create a better one-pager, a better lean canvas model. Then if you decide, you can go raise money. It's easier. You have proven sales track, even though it's not a lot. You still have people literally...  You should give yourself a round of applause if you sell $1 online. That's a huge achievement. You just convince somebody, you sold somebody through proper copywriting or messaging or whatever you're doing, you convince an individual to open up their wallet, to put in their credit card and buy something from you. Round of applause for making $1 online. That's all it takes. That's the momentum that you need, $1 to $2 to $3 to $4 to $5. Now let's circle back again. No, you don't need a business plan. End of story. Make the one-pager. Start selling. Improve your pitch. Get some revenue, and money will flow to you. All right, guys, that's pretty much it. That is pretty much it, man. I don't know what else to add. Like I said, I've done it. I went through the business plans. I will never ever do them again.  If you have an idea, grab the product, call some people up, sell it, book some revenue, and then just grow your business. And then slowly you can start creating better models and OKRs and KPIs. All right, like always, leave a comment below this video somewhere there. And if you haven't subscribed to this channel so you can get daily notifications, and let me know what you want my next video to be about. And I'll talk to you guys soon. Peace. Adios.


Welcome back to the breakfast and plus see the Africa now we head straight to a second conversation where we'll you know look at some of the issues that the president who has continued to speak about I mean yesterday in that exclusive interview on a sister station the president continually spoke about the issue of making some achievement in the areas of security economy and the fight against corruption we do have a guest joining us this morning via zoom is a public affairs analyst Nika Gulles good to have you join us good morning thank you very much and happy new year to you happy new year it's good to have you join us thank you for your time all right so let's get to the crux of you know the issue now I'm sure that you probably would have actually followed through with the conversation with the president what he talked about you know making some kind of progress in terms of security in the northeastern part of Nigeria and he also talked about the economy the improvement on you know production I mean talking about crude production and the fight against corruption among other issues we'd like to share your thoughts you know generally on the president's statement and speech and that interview thank you very much I have first and foremost I want to wish our president a happy new year I want to wish him good health and grace as he sees through the last month of his administration I also want to thank the president for making that time to have that interview so that Nigerians can hear from him once more I've had a president who has not been in the public eye for a long time so for him to have granted two press interviews exclusive press interviews one last year and this year is a good thing my general view of the president's interview is that to be honest is disappointing because with six and a half years into his administration of eight years you expect the president to be giving us what he has delivered in concrete terms and not really ask to us the challenges that we have in Nigeria the president is not an analyst like myself the president is the commander in chief of the armed forces so he has got everything that is disposed of to tackle Nigeria's problems so we would like to see the president talking about how he is tackling the issues that are confronting Nigeria and not just describing the issues and talking about what needs to be in place or is not in place so on that basis I will say that the president's overall performance in the interview fair below the mark for me well now let's you know look at let's pick out some of the things that he spoke on you know and one of them of course that has become popular is state police the president you know when asked about the relevance of state police and how you know he felt about it he you know he instead you know spoke about traditional rulers and local leaders you know and how you know they need to step up and how important they are with regards insecurity and dealing with security challenges in the country Mr. Goli do you do you agree you know with that narrative or would you say that the president maybe just didn't have the right response you know with regards state police or just doesn't believe in the idea of state policing okay so I have two answers to this question the first one is that yes I agree with the president that the issues of insecurity require multi-sector approach so bringing in the traditional institution is right the president was correct in that instance because the traditional institution is also very important in tackling insecurity because these people who cause all sorts of insecurities in our communities don't fall from the sky they live within the communities within those localities they either perpetrate this insecurity within the communities they are living in or they travel from the communities where they are to another community and perpetrate these atrocities so they are known you know they they are not they are not they are not a ghost they don't fall from the sky they are living within the communities amongst the people of which the traditional institution is superintendent so bringing the traditional institutions into the picture is very correct but the second answer I have to give to this is that the president's response first shot of what you expect him to say because yes the traditional institution is there but it shouldn't be the only approach that we are going to give to local policing the president needs to cast his eyes to all the developed economies around the world I mean at the point Nigeria we had vision 2020 we have vision 2020 which was to say by the year 2020 that is two years ago we should have joined the 20 top developed countries in the world so there's no way we want to join the top 20 developed countries in the world without having to do what those developed countries are doing that's just the only way we have to do what they are doing otherwise we can't join their league and in all the top 20 developed countries in the world policing is pretty much our local pretty much local you you don't have national police as we have in Nigeria in fact policing in some of those developed economies is on city basis city basis so you have Ikeja police different from Ikorodu police different from Victoria Ireland police we're not even talking local government but in Nigeria we cannot say let us just devolve down to city police but at least let us bring policing down to the state level when we bring policing down to the state level two things are going to happen immediately number one we're going to have a lot many more police forces in Nigeria in the united kingdom here where I'm sitting there are 42 police forces in this country so in Nigeria if we bring policing to the state level there will be 36 police forces all over the country they're going to recruit more personnel because the states will start putting more money into policing you know and the the the the excuse that people are given is that oh if we give policing to the governors the governors are going to abuse it this is k-mondry yeah well but the president also expressed you know concern in that direction I mean he he likened the relationship he was making reference to the relationship between you know state government and the local government saying that what has actually happened all through the years we understand that there seem to be a lot of domination by you know by the other party over the other one and so he is also of the opinion that that relationship is not very cordial it does not yield any result and therefore the issue of state policing is not really a solution to the security concerns that were faced with very much for that perspective I have two answers to that perspective you have raised the first one is that if the president recognizes and in his words he said that the governors are carrying out unconstitutional acts against the local government the president saw on oath to defend the constitution of Nigeria so if he sees some 36 boys around the country contravening the constitution of Nigeria it behoves of on him as a commander in chief of Nigeria and the chief law officer of Nigeria to come upon those who are actually contravening the constitution whoever they are it doesn't matter if they have governors so that is one side of it the second side of it is that when we bring that to the policing that we're discussing that a state governor has got a police force does not mean the state governor can abuse the police force and perpetrate illegalities because once he does that we are now in the realm of criminality and the president of Nigeria is there to defend the constitution and he has to take action about that I'm talking about 42 police forces here in the UK if one of the county police chiefs decide that he was going to do an illegal thing the laws of the UK are going to take effect against him you know that you are a police chief or you are a governor does not mean you are both the law so if we have a president who has devolved policing to become local and he's sitting now and watching and seeing who is doing the right thing and who is doing the wrong thing and he's going after those who are doing the wrong things there's nothing is is going to go wrong let me tell you one thing I am today speaking on the private television station I was a student I think a university student as at that time wanted debate on whether the media should be privatized in Nigeria was ongoing a lot of people were scared monitoring all over the place and say oh if you have private tv station private radio stations people will be executing coup every day they will be executing coup it will cost the security and all of that since we have been having private media tv television is surpassed how many coups have been executed using the private media so this has some of the scary monitoring that are going on well like you've mentioned it's you know very likely fear mongering you know and of course the conversation this morning is trying to understand what the president's mindset is with regard to some of these things you know whether you know governors will take advantage of it or not you know the the point is that the federal structure that we have with regards to police is not working well state you know police will be more effective does the president believe that state police will be more effective does the president understand that the federal structure with regards to police is not working and some of all of that you know and of course the argument that you know the traditional rulers know everybody in their community doesn't stop them from being criminals a criminal is a criminal whether he knows traditional ruler whether he's a son or he calls into the ego of the community he's still a criminal and we have the police structure that should arrest those criminals or not i'm sure that you know we're spoken about we're spoken about this thing with with them security experts you know even in northern Nigeria that will tell you that they know these people nobody has ever accused them of being strange faces they know who they are but they are still criminals they're still commenting crimes still terrorizing society i want you to finally speak with regards the president's response to the indicators you know he was questioned with regards indicators on the economy and job creation and poverty and the likes and his response really was that everybody needs to go back to the farm since president Muhammad Bori has some attachment some personal love for agriculture and farming you know and so his response at every time when he is told that he the indicators that are put out by his own agencies of government not anybody else his own agencies of government um he first of all questions those figures and then says that well he thinks everybody needs to go back to farm um Mr Agule what do you think yes before i answer your question of the economy i want to agree with you in the last point that you made we have a federal police now there's a single inspector general police that suppresses over the entire police forces across the country if that inspector general is not effective that means the entire Nigerian police forces ineffective if we have 36 state police forces imagine that 50 of them are effective 50 are not effective it will mean that 18 in 18 states we're going to have strong police policing you know so generally as a country that will be better for us than putting all our eggs in one basket so now to go to the the question of the economy is it the president uh first and foremost answered a question of the economy by saying the crude oil was 2.1 million barrels before he came in at 100 dollars and all of that and for me this is very disappointing because the president seems not to see the reissues with the Nigerian economy because if you talk about that crude let's start with that crude even though we're producing crude now in the 1 million plus barrels the president faced to understand that immediately we say that crude and end the dollars we turn the entire dollars to the to the downstream market to buy petroleum products and import them into the country so the president needed to have arrested them within the first year in office by ensuring that our refineries are up and running once our refineries were up and running that means when we save crude that means we'll bring the dollars back to Nigeria we don't use the dollars now to buy petroleum products that's number one number two the president for six and a half years have seen our gas being fled and then we are going to as far as the united states to go and buy gas he hasn't done anything about that the president came in when power supply was three gigawatts to the economy he's about to leave three gigawatts to this economy in the united kingdom where i'm speaking to you now the power supply every day to the uk economy of 65 million people is 730 gigawatts and Nigeria an economy of 200 million people the economy is being supplied with three gigawatts three one two three not even 30 how can the president expect that economy to do well globally by global standards you are expected to supply one gigawatt to one million people so as nigerians are 200 million people we should be supplying nigerians economy with 200 gigawatts we're giving him so if yes oh i just quickly wrap up you know because we need to end the conversation here so if the president has a tractor if the president has a tractor that needs 200 liters per day to perform optimally and he's dropping three liters in that tractor how does he expect that tractor to work and the president identifies a low-hanging fruit in nigeria which is agriculture in his own words he said that experts have told him that only two and a half percent of nigeria's arable land is being cultivated and yet in six and a half years he has not grown that percentage to about 20 30 40 percent because if he did that then all the plumbing we go food insecurity we go importation of food we go and job creation will be there so this is the concrete actions that you expect the president to be taking but unfortunately it is six and a half years down the road now we have one and a half years we hope the president will not take concrete actions to execute this in which agriculture is something that can turn around within a year you plan to rise you have a thing within a year it doesn't even take long to do that all right mr aghule sadly we have to wrap up here um but of course thanks as always for joining us and for sharing your views with us um on very numerous issues uh we wish you a good day ahead thank you very much and have a nice day absolutely uh of course uh we're going to be back after this very short break uh still talking and president marmada buhari but this time not on his interview yesterday but on his new appointments yesterday we spoke about doin salami who has been appointed on the president's economic advisory team and a couple of other appointments that have been made we'll get back right after the short break


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Hello and welcome to the session. The given question says, construct a triangle ABC in which BC is equal to 4 centimeters and A is 50 degrees and altitude to A is 3 centimeters. Also write the steps of construction. So this construction we shall be doing with the help of construction 11.6 of your book. But just to construct a triangle with given piece vertical angle and altitude to the vertex. Let's write the steps of construction and side by side let us construct the triangle also. So the first step is a line segment BC 4 centimeters. So this is the required line segment BC of length 4 centimeters. Now the second step is that on one side of BC we will do the required angle which is 50 degrees. So here we have drawn angle CBX which measures 50 degrees. Now the third step is angle YBX is equal to 90 degrees. So here we have to draw perpendicular on the line BX. So this is the required perpendicular on the line BX so angle YBX measures 90 degrees. Now the next step is the perpendicular bisector MN of line segment BC YB of line segment BC. And it is the perpendicular bisector of line segment BC such that it intersects the way BY at a point O. Now the first step is draw a circle.  So this is the required circle. Next step is anchor point on MN such that PD is equal to 3 centimeters. Now the seventh step to BC where a line AA dash which is parallel to BC such that the point of intersection of this line with the circle are A and A dash. The next step is A dash B A dash C. And thus we have two triangles ABC and A dash BC such that base of each triangle is 4 centimeters. Altitude AH is equal to 3 centimeters and the angle that is angle A is 50 degrees. Right? Hence the answer is triangle ABC triangle A dash BC are the required triangles. This completes the session. Hope you understood it. Bye and take care.


You know, thanks everyone so much for coming. It's really great to see you all here. When we started Tic T oke in London last year I was really worried Buddhimon y Gweith이시 that gave us the kind of courage and belief to do this again, so he decided to do at Barcelona. We were game worried Who is everyone getting, has anyone going to come to Barcelona? Obviously, Barcelona is awesome, so thank you, thank you all thanks and OK Marty It's awesome, so thank you, thank you all for coming, making the journey to Barcelona. I know some of you have come from a really long way away, and thank you to everyone that submitted presentations, submitted suggestions, submitted papers. We had over 120 submissions, and it was really, really difficult to kind of sift through all of them. Unfortunately, we couldn't provide time for everyone to speak, so it was difficult to make those decisions, and thank you all for kind of believing a dweud fynd i'r cyfrinsiaid yma fel yra gyda'r cyfrinsiaid. Rydw i'n fwy ffordd ar gyfer y llyfr, ond mae'n dweud i'r cresedd, fel y rai'n dweud i'r cyfrinsiaid a'r dweud i'r dweud i'r dweud i'r dweud, dyma. Felly, ddweud i'r cyfrinsiaid. Felly byddwn i'r cyfrinsiaid, ymryd i'r cyfrinsiaid, yw'r cyfrinsiaid, yw'r cyfrinsiaid, yw'r gyfrinsiaid. I actually showed the slide at Tic-Tac last year, you know, why do you research in this field? And as Mark said earlier, you know, we really want to be at a point where we can prove that we're making a difference. You know, civic tech has really matured over the last few years and part of that matureing process has to be moving beyond quite superficial measures of success, like, you know, how many hits you're getting on a website to really showing that you're making a kind of tangible difference in people's lives, in government behaviours. So this is really our focus, you know. We want to do this right. We want to make real impact, be known and be measured. And the way that we've framed our approach is that we've kind of tried to divide the problem into two dimensions, because impact is kind of all-encompassing, you know. Impact covers an awful, awful lot of things from, you know, that first moment when you're trying to get people into using civic technology to the moment where they've left it and they've gone on and maybe done something really inspirational way after they've left the civic tech behind. It encompasses a lot of actors, you know, not just the individuals, we're interested in how civic tech is changing governments, we're interested in how civic tech is changing the wider tech world. So we've got all kinds of fronts where we're trying to look at exactly where we're making a difference. So this is a bit of a scary table. Please don't strain to see it. Our recent frameworks on our website, it looks much prettier on there as well. But this is kind of, we used a Haddon's Matrix to develop this table to try and figure out where individual points of impact might be and try and identify where we can start, where we can start asking questions, where we can start popping answers into these kind of boxes. So yeah, this is on our website. If you're kind of interested in the framework itself, please go and have a look. But the point was that we wanted to kind of fill all these boxes with questions and fill them all, hopefully, with answers, which is a Herculean task, you know, this was never going to be done in two years. I could probably spend the rest of my life asking interesting questions in these boxes. So what have we done since the last tech tech? Well, you'll be pleased to know we have actually done some research. Our friends at Hewlett hopefully will be delighted that we've been doing what we said we were going to do with their money.  I think we've done an awful lot with the last 12 months. So we've published a paper on demographics and public attitudes who benefits from specific technology. I know a lot of you will have read that report. That was really important for us in kind of really just starting at the beginning, you know, who actually uses civic technology. That was one of the questions I asked when I actually interviewed for this job at my society. I said, well, who uses your websites? And the answer was, well, actually we don't know, you know, we use them. We know some people use them, but we don't know who they are.  And as Mark said earlier, one of the things that we've found out is that an awful lot of the people that you're using civic tech at the moment are already quite empowered. They're already quite effective at engaging with civic society, civic life. So that's a really great thing to know. As Mark said, we've done a lot of finding out what we don't know. And because of some of this work that we've been doing this year, we're in a far better position to kind of start trying to find out those newer things about impact. So again, all of our research we put on our website, so if you want to read those reports, please go and do that. And our partners, you know, we don't just do research ourselves in-house. One of the main things that we want to do is actually work with other people. You know, we don't have the resources to do everything ourselves. And we really want to work with universities, to work with students, to work with other organisations, to pool data, to cross-reference data, you know, to have other researchers looking at some of our data in a different light. All of these things are going to be really useful. So over the last year or so, we've done research with MIT, with UCL, with the World Bank. And we've got a few more in the pipeline. Our speaker Guy Grossman is someone that we're currently working with, looking at some of our data. So it's really important that we do work with other people and that we can kind of pool as many resources as possible into looking at these problems. So going back to my matrix, we're slowly trying to populate these boxes. We've only got one or two studies in some of them. We've still got boxes that are empty. My kind of appeal to everyone here is if you have data, if you have resources, if you want to do research with our data, please come and talk to us. It would be lovely to speak to you. It would be lovely to see if we can work together. Because we want to fill those boxes with all sorts of different studies. We want to be able to look at everything from lots and lots of different angles using lots of different data across different countries. On looking ahead, we've got a few research activities planned for 2016. We're building partnerships for research all the time. We've still got a long way to go. So as I say, please, please do come and speak to me. I would love to get a chance to speak to everyone here at some point. So if you see me wandering around, just give me an edge. It would be great to have a conversation about what we can do together. That's really it for me. Please also tweet. Tell people there are lots of people that couldn't come. We are full. We're sold out. We actually had to start turning people away from this conference. We've been telling everyone to follow the hashtags. Don't boast too much. Please do tweet and carry the conversations on that way. Thank you very much.


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A year or two back, I had a conversation with a colleague at a meeting and we had this debate on whether learning to fail or fail often was important or whether you should talk about it. And the argument was not the sentiment of learning to fail, but using the term failure and the implications that has on people. So as a student, can we just say, don't worry about that test, fail. We'll celebrate it. We'll go out and we'll party because you failed the SATs. That's just not true. You can't fail. But the sentiment is true, right? The sentiment is like, don't allow yourself to fail. I don't allow my students to fail. It's not an option. So I don't celebrate it because it never happens. They might come up against an obstacle that they can't overcome and then they practice their resilience and they practice their persistence and they overcome the obstacle or maybe they really identify and say, there is no way over this. I've at the limit of technology or I'm at the limit of my skill set and I've even reached out to other people and it's at the limit of the expert skill set. Well I've identified it and now I'm changing my direction, but I'm not just giving up because it's hard or I'm giving up because I don't know the answer. Giving up is what I would equate to failing and I'm not going to celebrate that. I'm not going to celebrate just saying, I can't do that.


is lying ever okay? Well, that's exactly what we're going to be talking about in this video, so make sure that you stay tuned. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And this is another mental health book review. I've been really getting into Sam Harris lately, it has a very short book, very short book called lying. Okay, like it's so short that I got the audible version and it's like an hour and 15 minutes, and it's only five bucks. So it is definitely worth your time. So in this book, he talks about, is it morally or ethically ever right to lie? All right, so it's a great, great, great, great book that you need to check out. All right. So as you can see, I'm kind of excited and all jazzed up about this. This is a topic that I am so, so passionate about.  So if you're the child of an alcoholic or addict parent, one of the key symptoms of children of alcoholic or addict parents is that we lie when it would often be easier to just tell the truth. It's part of our DNA, I'll make more videos about why that happens.  Not only was it causing more suffering to myself and my mental health, but it was also increasing the suffering of everybody around me. Since working on my mental health for the last six years or so, it has been so important for me to tell the truth as much as possible. I would be lying to you right now if I told you that I've been 100% truthful all the time, but it is close to, I'd say 90 to 95%. There are still parts of my character that spring up every now and then. For example, I was just at the gym and I was actually listening to this book while at the gym and my best friend, he was calling me and I sent him one of those quick reply messages on the iPhone and it said, can't talk right now. I'm working. I'll call a text you later. But I replied afterwards and I was like, Hey, man, I'm at the gym. I just did a quick reply. You know what I mean? So if I do catch myself being untruthful, like 99% of the time I'm being honest, but this book helped open my eyes about the other little aspects that I can really work on to improve my mental health. And this is 100% a mental health issue. I've done another video, which I will link up in the info card about how lying actually fuels your anxiety, like real quick recap on it. When you tell a lie, you build up your own stress about are you going to get found out lying can also fuel depression. One of the symptoms of depression is a lot of negative self talk. So for example, if you're someone who is constantly lying and deceiving people, you are going to beat yourself up and say, I'm no good. I am not a good person. I'm constantly lying. Fun fact, I make half as much money as I used to make because I got out of the sales industry. I knew that I could not do that job and support myself as well as my son. If I was being honest all the time in that industry. So this is very, very important. I knew that it would make me depressed. It would make me anxious. And for me as a recovering drug addict, that can lead me right back to addiction. So before I jump further into this book, I really, really hope two things. One is that you pick up this book, either the audible version or the book copy. Okay. The second thing is, please share this video, please share this video so we can work on creating more honest people and have better communication, better relationships and all that good stuff. All right. So I'm going to dive into a few topics from this book. First and foremost, let's talk about what is a lie. Sam Harris defines a lie as to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication. So he goes into a few different topics about telling the truth and being truthful, the difference between those two things. He also talks about secrets, being different than honesty. He also talks about the difference between being deceitful and lying. Okay. Like there's some little nuances in there that I think are very interesting topics that he covers in this book. Real quick disclaimer, before I jump into a few of the examples, Sam Harris does a great job of saying, even though it is morally correct to be honest as much as possible, you don't got to be a jerk about it. Okay. So I know people immediately are going to be like, wow, that would be rude to say that. He gives plenty of examples on how to be honest without hurting the other person's feelings or minimizing the hurt that may be inflicted. So the first one, let's cover, let's cover the white lie to a friend and more specifically, let's talk about not being truthful about their skills or their abilities by telling a lie. You're withholding the person's ability to either a improve upon their skills or abilities or be completely switched paths. This is something I always have to do. Let's reverse the seats real quick.  If they sucked, I might spend so much time and effort on this YouTube channel, get no following at all, and be completely confused because nobody was telling me the truth about my skills and abilities on YouTube. Now I'm also a writer. If you didn't know, I got a couple books up in the Kindle store.  This could lead to me spending countless, countless hours. Some authors spend a ton, a ton of time on their books. And when they're requesting feedback from friends, colleagues, family members, if they're being lied to, when we publish that book, we might face a ton of criticism. And in some cases, we might ruin our reputation because we say things in the wrong way. By the way, this is why you have an editor. You see what I'm saying? Like, we can waste countless hours if people aren't honest with us about our skills and our abilities. Sure, it might hurt at first, but what's the alternative? Would I rather keep people in my life who I know are lying to me constantly? What else are they lying to me about? Can I ever value their opinion? And this could be rough. Like my girlfriend, she is an amazing artist, by the way, follow her on Instagram. And sometimes she'll ask me what I think about her artwork. And the other day she actually asked me, I'm just like, Oh, you know, like, I think the proportion on the head is a little bit off. But here's where you keep yourself out of trouble. Like, I am not necessarily her target audience either. Like I am not somebody who values art as much as some people. So what I often tell people, especially when they ask me for honest feedback about their craft, is I say that I might not be the best judge of this specific scenario. But when you keep people around who are honest with you, it actually improves a relationship because here's the reason why. Here is the reason why that I can't stress enough. When that person gives you praise, you know they're being honest with you. Like, for example, I make sure to go out of my way to praise my girlfriend when she makes stunning art that actually I'm just like, Whoa, like I tell her I'm jealous of her abilities. And half the time she's like, Oh, I didn't even really like that one.  But I give praise left and right. And it lifts people's spirits up because they know that I'm always being truthful with them. Next, should you ever lie about an illness to your friends and family members? If you're somebody who has lost somebody in your life, maybe it's your parents, grandparents, friends, whoever it is, if you've lost anybody to an illness that you did not see coming that they knew about, you already know the answer to this question. I've personally been dealing with this with my own father. He's had some health issues since last year. Last year, the day of my birthday, he had an open heart surgery and ever since then, like myself, my sister, my family, we've all kind of been on edge. My dad has this ability to minimize everything. Okay. And I told him flat out. I'm like, Listen, all I ask is that you be honest with me.  And you knew that this was coming, but you didn't tell me. When we lie to our loved ones about our health issues, we are denying them the ability to show us love and affection. We are stripping them of that right. And now the worst question of them all that we all get at some point or another, do I look fat? Now, Sam Harris brings up an excellent point when discussing this one. He talks about like the chances are that you know your audience, you know your audience very well. What I mean by that is chances are you're not just walking down the street and some random stranger's going to be like, do I look fat? Like that never happened. So think about who your audience is. For example, is it your wife or husband, boyfriend, girlfriend? Is it one of these people? Okay, something I often try to do is like ask like, what's the root? What's the root of this question? Are they just asking me if I love them? Are they asking me if I love them unconditionally? Right? Are they asking me if I'm attracted to them? Or are they asking because they've had some health issues lately or the doctor said something? You know what I'm saying? Like this helps me gauge my response to it. And like, for example, like going back to this whole role reversal thing, like if anybody, if anybody on planet Earth ever came up to me and said, Chris, you're not overweight, I would never, ever, ever, ever trust a single word that came out of their mouths. Like they are blatantly lying to your face.   Another person who might ask you this, is it like a friend, right? Is it a friend? Is it a family member? You know them very well. Is this somebody who is desperately looking for a relationship? Are they on the path to trying to get married and start a family?  Right? Well, again, going back to the skills and abilities question on, should you lie to them? Like, are you going to let your friend walk out in public looking awful when they're trying to find a potential partner?  But another way of talking to somebody about this is like this. Hey, it's completely up to you on who you're looking for. Yes, there are men or women who prefer a different type of physique than what you have. So if you're looking for that type of person, then yeah, maybe you might want to lose some weight. But, but I'm all about that empowerment, though. Like, I tell people straight up, I'm like, listen, there are people who might like your size, right? Like, that's totally correct. And like real talk, if you are looking for somebody who is purely only going to date you based on your weight, maybe they aren't the best person for you. You know what I'm saying? So I'm very honest when it comes to even the topic of weight, and these are ways that you can talk about it in a safe way. And is the person talking to you or asking you about your weight, because they're trying to get a beach body? You know what I'm saying? Like, again, are they looking for a potential mate? I'd also ask like, are they comfortable with their body? Because, you know, truth be told, if they're comfortable with their body, do your thing, go flaunt yourself on the beach or at the pool. Like, it's that simple. Like, are you happy with you? Like, if anybody ever asks me about weight, it's like, are you comfortable with yourself? If not, if you're not comfortable going out in, you know, a bikini or a Speedo, or even like a bathing suit, then yeah, maybe you should lose some weight. So lastly, when is it morally okay to lie? Basically, what I love about this book is Sam Harris literally suffocates every excuse to lie, except in two scenarios. The first one is like a life and death situation. Okay? Like, if you're in war, or if like a murderer is in your house, or like just crazy scenarios like that, right?  The other example that he talks about is, if you lie, would it do more harm than good? And the example given in this book is, say a guy cheated on his wife years ago, okay? He stopped the affair. Everything with his wife and his children is going great. And now he wants to be honest. Should he tell his wife about the affair? The answer being no, okay? Reason being is because a lot of people can be affected. Two marriages are involved, right? That person's as well as the person he had an affair with. Also, the kids' lives are involved too. So this is something I often teach my clients too, because sometimes we tell the truth just to clear our own conscience, and we don't think about the damage it can do to other people. If any of you are familiar with step nine from 12 Step Programs, you know a lot more about this subject. And basically what Sam Harris says as an answer to this is, if this is the new way of living that you're trying to have, start moving forward, okay? Moving forward with this honesty. So he also covers a variety of other topics in this book. Like, is it okay to lie to children? Should you lie at job interviews when you're desperate for a job? And a really interesting one I found is, should you lie to somebody about throwing them a surprise party? This was very, very interesting. I really enjoyed his answer on this one. So Sam basically says the golden rule, this is the golden rule that I stand by as well is, if the rules were reversed, would you rather the truth be told to you or a lie?  Again, please share this video. Please share this video so other people can start reevaluating the way they look at lying. Even white lies, okay? And if you want to check out this book, it's down in the description below along with my entire mental health reading list, all right? But here's the question of the day. I think this will be fun. Sam Harris did this at the end of his book. And this is something I do with my clients. Leave comments down below.  Let's discuss. I'm really interested to see what you all said. But anyways, anyways, thank you so much for watching. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up.  Click that little route subscribe button right there. If you want to check out some other videos on this channel, you can click or tap on one of those thumbnails, okay? So again, thanks so much for watching. Quit lying today, and I'll see you next time.