I saw one lady with a mask. Other than that, I don't see anybody really with masks. Everyone's keeping pretty much apart. I think social distancing is something people understand at this point. Everyone's kind of spread out. And nobody's really in groups larger than 10. Yeah, it's about 12, 13 degrees right now out here. People are playing volleyball. People on the beach. Everybody is keeping their distance. You can see that everybody is keeping their distance. I did see one person with a mask.  Someone came and spoke to me and actually asked me about my high times investor jacket. It's kind of interesting. That's the view of Kitsilano Beach right now in Vancouver. People are playing volleyball. People are out. People are out. Do I miss Toronto? Not really. Some things. Some things about Toronto, but not that much. The weather is way better here, especially in the wintertime. We don't really get that cold here in Vancouver. And in the summertime, it's absolutely beautiful here. So, this is one of my favorite spots to go. If it wasn't for the coronavirus, there would be way more people out on the beach right now. This would be rammed. So, this is the first time I've even come out in a few days since they said you should be at home. And I'm surprised there's actually more people than I thought that we could go.  I don't like the Toronto weather. I like the summers better here and I like the winters better here. Yeah, I'd rather be here, to be honest with you. People are still living their lives pretty normally. People are still trying to live their lives despite the fact that we've been told that we have to stay home. Everyone wants to stay home, but I guess once in a while you have to get outside. So, people are still jogging and going for walks, but it's not like it's rammed. It would normally be rammed on a day like today. Everyone's keeping their distance. Maybe there are people, but they're all kind of at least six feet apart. Nobody's really... I mean, maybe these kids. No, I'm not wearing a mask. Is he wearing a mask? You can see nobody's wearing a mask. I saw two people wear a mask so far. This is reporting out here right now. I am kind of... Like, is it weird that I... Should you be scared to be outside? Is it bad that I'm not in my house right now? Well, I get arrested for being outside. Like, it's okay for us to be outside, right? Graziano, you're in Toronto. It's like 12, 13 degrees right now. So, if you get into the sun and you're not in the wind, then it's really, really nice. But in the wind, it's kind of cold. Right now, you can feel the wind. But you can hear the ocean. Oh, you're in Burlington. Cool. Yeah, this is way different than Burlington. You don't get anything like this in Burlington. No, man, we don't get snow really here. We really get snow here. Yeah, 12 Celsius. So that's like what? 50... 56 Fahrenheit? No, I'm just by here by myself. This is one of my friends. This is reporting right here. It's scary that you can't even go to the beach without actually feeling scared for your life. This is journalistic reporting here. This is journalistic reporting here. I'm risking my life right here right now. Just even being here.  For the people. To show you guys what's going on here in Vancouver. Showing you guys what is happening here in Vancouver. People are still going on with their lives like... People are still moving on with their lives. Everything is still pretty normal. There's no need to panic, don't worry. There's no need to panic. There's people out here cringing. Because there's people out on a boat. Just came back from a bike ride feeling like you're 18 years old. Nice.  So I've seen two people with masks. Everybody else acting like it's pretty normal. And the two people that were wearing masks were both Asian. But for that, other than that nobody else is wearing masks. Lower percentage to catch it outside. But when you have more people around you you have more of a chance to catch it. That's how it works. If you have more people around you you have more chance of getting it. So just wanted to show you guys. We're doing some real journalistic reporting here. In Vancouver. And trying to show you guys what it's like. We're not living in fear. We're not panicking. We're not wearing masks. But at the same time we are self-quarantining and have been for days. Well I mean this place would be rammed if it wasn't for this COVID right now. This place would be rammed right now if it wasn't for coronavirus concerns. But people are still acting as if it's business as usual out here. Pretty much for the most part. Right? It's Vancouver. People are oblivious out here. Yeah you definitely need to wash your hands. Practicing social distancing. You think it's a conspiracy? No, it's a conspiracy. Some random guy sits beside me and tells me it's a conspiracy. Nice day. I wish it was a little bit warmer in the sun. It's really nice but a little bit windy here by the water. It's like we should be feeling afraid or angry or we should be scared to even be here. We're being made. We're taking our chance. We're taking our chance. But if not, if everybody doesn't follow suit then there's no point. We're sharing the building with the whole... Okay here's a guy on a bike. He's wearing a mask. Look he's wearing a mask. Look another person with a mask. There we go. See? Oh more masks. Here we go. More masks. A little whole row of masks right there. Am I mask watching? I'm journalistic reporting right now. From Kitilano Beach. It's journalistic reporting. There's actually more people here than I thought. There's actually quite a lot of people. It was empty when I first got here but there's more people coming out. People are being brave. People are being brave. They're being brave. It's good. I like that. BC health officials are about to talk. What are they going to tell us? I appreciate your guys support. Thank you so much. Goodbye I'm a mask. We're just at Kit's Beach and doing some journalistic reporting. Like literally front line of this pandemic in Vancouver. Right on the front line right now. Just trying to show you guys what it is. Life in Vancouver is pretty normal. We have been told to go home. Parks haven't been shut down. I have been home for days. I just wanted to come out and see what it looked like. There's actually more people out here than I thought. Everybody is practicing the six foot rule. Social distancing. Nobody is close together except for this guy. He just came close to me. I don't know this guy. Not random. Other than that everybody else is far away. He's getting away now. Reefer says if it's true and those thousand dollar checks do come in I'll send you a pic of the Killios of Silver Eye by. Yeah I'm close to Kit's Beach all the time. Do you feel safe? Yeah. I wonder if you actually feel safe. I went to a supermarket. My job just got canceled at the university. So there are grocery stores. That's going to be the spot where we'll be. This guy loves Trudeau. This guy loves Trudeau. Yeah it's way nicer here than Ontario. We're both from Toronto. We're both from Toronto. We know what Toronto is. Can somebody ask if I'd rather be here or if I'd rather be in Toronto? And I said I'd rather be here. You're by the beach. I said the weather is better here in the summer and in the winter. Technically it's a better place to be. Do you think the Canadians are going to get a two thousand dollar check? Brent says I heard Trump saying it's possibly going to be more than a thousand. Hey. The more the merrier. I don't know what our government is going to do for us. They're going to hand over one? They're going to hand the money bro. Insurance is going to dip. Everybody's going to be like, what are you doing? And then insurance is just going to skyrocket. Everybody's going to be left holding their bag. You'll see. Did I see the mountains? Yeah Trudeau just waits to see. Look at these guys. Greenbull says Trudeau is like a kid peeking over a big boy table. Table top emulating what Trump does. Do you not remember? But not a good. Do you not remember his dad? So many people here now. He was dead here an hour ago. It's weird. Starting to get busy. We're risking our lives out here guys at the beach. So I just want you guys to know we're doing this for you. I just wanted you guys to see what life was like in Vancouver. Oh. Brutal. That's all on tape. Caught it live. Dylan's like go help her. It's still right there. This girl's taking a picture. Like it didn't even happen. Dylan's like get her number.  Oh she's taking pictures of her. Working over there on the. Reefroud Joint says it's official. Coronavirus in all 50 states. Associated Press reported. All 50 states in America have coronavirus. It's everywhere. Did you see that coming a month and a half ago did you? Yeah. We didn't close our borders. What do you think about the fact that we close. Everybody jacked up before laughing a lot about this. What do you think about the fact that they're not closing the borders to America? I think that is the. I mean it's the states that are here and go back and forth. But just be realistic.  Regardless. But if you were to be smart about it. You would stop for at least 30 days. Because if you have enough. Yeah I think you stop all travel. You stop all borders. If you have enough flow. Then you yourself should self isolate. Either here or there.  For 30 days. And then we'll find out who has it. I mean if you have a country like America that's so big and there's a lot of infection there. And they're crossing the border. It's going to affect us. So at the end of the day. We have infection here. And they cross the border to America. It's going to affect them. So by closing the borders to all countries. And all territories. We reduce the spread of the virus. We flatten the curve. Right now they've got a. We have to flatten the curve. Right now it's going up like this. The amount of cases. We have to flatten the curve. Flatten the curve. You know what that means? We don't have the equipment. That's the problem. We have to flatten the curve. It's all about flattening the curve. And right now as long as the curve keeps staying up like this.  But people don't know they're sick. Well when you get sick. People don't know they're sick. Some people don't even have symptoms. You don't kind of scarring on the lungs. Try not to get it. So avoid these situations guys. We're just doing this as journalistic reporting. Right now in Vancouver. On the beach and kids beach. Because there are many people around. It's a very risky situation. We're doing this only as journalists. And reporters right now. I wouldn't tell you to do this. Probably be a good idea just to stay home. Exit your own homes at your own risk. I didn't say one. We are in a global pandemic. And you can see it's not the same. It's not the same feeling out here right now. As it would be. If it wasn't for this global pandemic. If it wasn't for this global pandemic. This place would have. At least two times the amount of people. Maybe more. Would you agree? Yeah there's way less people out for sure. The tennis courts are still full. Alright guys. I just wanted to give you guys a little bit. Of the views here. Give you a different look. Give you a good look. Of beautiful British Columbia. While we can still get outside. While we're still allowed to go outside. I'm going to give you a little look. Of the views here.  So. This is one of the nicest beaches in Vancouver. Kitsilano beach. It's a famous beach. People from all over the world come here. And very subdued atmosphere. Due to coronavirus. This is Rich from RichTV Live. Reporting from Kits Beach. Stay safe everybody. Wash your hands. Peace.


Everyone, welcome to the session on inter-operation parallelism in the parallel databases. This is one of the parallelism technique in the parallel databases. At the end of this session, you will be able to apply this inter-operation parallelism techniques for parallel query execution. Talking about the forms of the query parallelism, you can see that basically there are two types of query parallelism techniques, inter-query parallelism and intra-query parallelism. Again, intra-query parallelism is divided as inter-operation where every individual operation is parallelized and inter-operation where in a query, whatever the operations are there, those operations are parallelized. So, again inter-operation parallelism is divided as pipeline parallelism and independent parallelism. So, today we are talking about, in this video we are talking about inter-operation parallelism. So, inter-operation parallelism, how it works? In a same query or a transaction, if different operations are there, then those are concurrently executing. Those are called as, this is called as inter-operation parallelism. Two different operations or more than one operations are parallelized of a single query, right? Whereas in inter-operation, what will happen? A single operation is parallelized, say parallel sort, parallel joint like that. But here, multiple operations are parallelized. It is having two forms, one is called as pipeline parallelism, the second one is called as independent parallelism. What is there in the pipeline parallelism? Actually, it is working like producer and consumer thing, means one of the query, one of the operation is executing. The result of that operation is providing to another operation as an input. But how it is there? The second operation is not waiting for the first operation to complete. As on the first operation started its execution, as on the tuples are generated, the results are generated, those are given simultaneously to the second operation, ok. Consider here that output of one operation of A, operation A is there, which are consumed by the second operation B, ok, without completing the first operation. Why? Because as on the results are generated, those are provided to the next operation. So, in this one, what happens? Operation A and operation B are parallely working, like an assembly line, where multiple operations are parallely executing, but output of one is given to the input to the second one, so in the same way. Whereas in independent parallelism, what happens? It is totally independent, working independently. It means the multiple operations in a query, ok, are independently working without means considering anything, like multiple operations in a query which are not dependent on each other are executing, ok. Rarely this particular parallelism is working. Consider this scenario here, how the parallel execution is going on? Operation one, operation two, operation M, ok, the processors are associated with them, but the result of operation one is provided as an input to the operation two. Again, the result of this is provided to operation M, ok, but how they, those are not waiting. So, in this case operation two is not waiting for the completion of operation one. As on the data is generated for operation one, it is, it goes on giving that to operation two. So, parallely these operations will work independent, parallely by getting the output of one and providing the output to another one also. So, this is what? This is called as a pipeline parallelism. Take an example, consider the join of four relations here, like R1 joins with R2 joins with R3 joins with R4. Now, if we want to take this operation, this is a query, then how parallelism I can apply in this? See, the parallelism I am applying here is, I am taking the join operation of R1 and R2 and that you may say that I am storing in temp one. As on temp one is generating, that temp one is given to the next join operation, so temp one joins with R3 and the result is again stored as temp two. As on temp two is generating, that is given to joining operation of R4, so parallely what will happen? These three are working, the join operation of this, join operation of this, join operation of this are parallely working at processor P1, processor P2 and processor P3, ok. The scenario is here, you can see that R1 joins with R2, joins with R3, joins with R4, ok. So, the first processor P1 is doing this one, like R1 joins with R2, is done by processor P1. As on the results are generated, those are given for the next processor P2, so that is provided. The data is coming here and parallely, it is taking the join operation of R3, that is done at processor P2. As on the generated data is there, as on it is generating, it is consumed by the next processor P2 here and it is during the join operation of temp two with R4. So, what will happen here, that the pipeline is produced here, the pipeline is provided in these one. As on the data generated, those are given to the next one. So, processor P1, processor P2, processor P3 are parallely working and the data they are somebody is producing and somebody is consuming in a pipeline, this is a pipeline parallelism. So, what is happening in the pipeline parallelism, each of the operations are executing in parallel, there might be some time difference is there, because in our example, processor P1 always starts first, then processor P2 will start and then processor P3 will start, but parallely everyone is executing. And the result of one is provided to another one, so sending result tuples to one computation to the next operation is there for the further result calculation. And pipeline able, what will happen, it will applicable to the pipeline able join evaluation algorithms only, for example, index nested loop join, so wherever pipeline able operations are there, there only it is applicable. What are the limitations of this, what are the factors limiting this particular utility of the pipeline parallelism? What will happen in the pipeline parallelism, it is not good choice if the parallelism is very high, if we need more parallelism, high degree of parallelism is required, in that case it is not a good choice. It is useful with small number of processors, where the less number of processors are there, it is very useful in that, like in our example, we have only three processors, we want to take the join operation, so parallely we have done it in a proper way. But it is not applicable where pipeline is not suitable, for example, consider this example here, select average of salary from employee group by department ID. So, if this is the thing we cannot do the parallelism here, we cannot do the pipelining here, why? Because in this one we want to do the grouping first and then we want to calculate the sum of the salary and then we want to do the average, so in such cases it is not applicable. So, therefore, what we can say, we cannot expect the full spade up for this one. Now, observe this diagram, pause the video and you observe the diagram and see that what kind of parallelism is applicable here, there is a difference in the earlier diagram and this one, see what it is, it is actually the independent parallelism, how you can say operation 1, operation 2, operation M, so all these operations in parallely executing, but those are not dependent, why those are not dependent? Because the output of this operation is not going to give anywhere, the output of this one finally it is collecting somewhere, but it is not dependent on this one, means operation 2 is not dependent on operation 1, operation M is not dependent on any of the earlier operations here, so this is called as the independent parallelism, why? Because here every operation is independently working, ideally it is not applicable everywhere, let us see the example for this, again the same example we are taking, the join operation of four relations R1, R2, R3, R4, how we can do parallelism in this one independently, we are taking two, two join operations like R1 joins with R2, then which is stored as temp1 and R3 joins with R4 which is stored at temp2, you can see here that temp1 and temp2 are parallely and independently doing the work, those are not dependent on each other, ok, so here we have applied independent parallelism, finally what we are doing, we want to do the collection of the result, again we want to do the join operation, so temp1 joins with temp2, we are taking the join operation here, actually the independent parallelism works for processor P1 and P2 for these two here, here for P1 and here for P2, we are applying the independent parallelism and then we are getting the result, so P3 has to wait here for the completion of P1 and P2 or we can apply earlier, we have seen the pipeline parallelism, so we can apply the pipeline parallelism and the result of P1 we are giving to P3, result of P2 we are giving to P3 and then we can combine the output here at the end, so here we have used independent parallelism also and the pipeline parallelism also, so basically talking about the limitation, it is not providing high degree of parallelism because independent parallelism means there are not much operations in a single query where independently they are working, ok, this is the scenario, so here R1 joins with R2, R3 joins with R4 are parallely working, so processor P1 and processor P2 are working, as on the results are generated you may apply pipeline here, so temp1 and temp2 is doing that work and finally the results are provided, ok, so here independently these two are executing the join operation and those are given to the next one, these are my references, thank you.


gone and played at the first part of his quest, travelling from Belfast, South Africa to Belfast, back to Northern Ireland in the spring, and he plans to visit all the Belfast in North America, all 19 of them. And Sean Driesdale is a retired doctor, and let's see if we get Sean on the line here. Sean, can you hear? I can, yes. Good man, Sean, thanks so much for taking the time to speak to us today. So 24 Belfasts in the world. Tell me, what started all this? Well, there's actually more than 24. There's 24 in North America and Canada. There's three in South Africa. There's one in Australia, one in New Zealand, and one in Jamaica. And do you plan to get around them all? So, well, that's the plan. Now, mind you, they're not all, some of them appear to be just dots on the map. So part of the trick is part of the plan is just to go and see what's there, how it got there, what's the story behind it, you know, and just the sort of, you know, to do that. So I might get there and find, when I ask people where Belfast is, they'll look at me and say, where? Especially with your accent. You're lost. But you know, it's about the journey. It's about the journey. And you're doing it on a motorbike from the 1970s? I will, it started back in 1982 when I came across Belfast down in South Africa. And I was a lot younger then and sort of thought to myself, one day I'm going to ride from Belfast to Belfast. And that was something I talked about for, you know, a number of years as time went on. But life sort of interfered with the best plans. And eventually I decided, you know, I better do this sooner. I'm not going to be in any fit state to do it. So just after retiring, I rebuilt my motorbike and and rode from Belfast and said, well, road from Zimbabwe down to Belfast, and then from Belfast back up to Belfast. Tell me, Sean, there must be a lot of logistics, you know, accommodation stuff. That must be an absolute nightmare for you to get to get.  Are you to do all the ones in the States on Canada? Must be a lot of logistics. There are a lot of organization. Well, I mean, the logistics hinge around, you know, transport and visas and stuff more than anything else. Experience has taught me not to plan in detail, because a plan never lasts longer than the next morning when you get up, you know, you're on the road and something happens, and that's that plan gone by. So you just got to sort of work out bits and pieces about visas if you're talking about ferries. But the point about doing a trip like this without without a set timeframe is it doesn't really matter if you get stuck somewhere for a couple of days, or as in some cases coming up through Africa for a couple of weeks, because you don't really have a deadline. And so it works. It works both ways that sometimes you tend to just roll along and not actually get anywhere. And you suddenly realize, hey, you know, I haven't moved in the last week, I better start making a bit of progress here. So you make it up as you go along and you never know. I mean, to be honest, I'm more worried about going to the States than I was about riding up through whatever it was 19 African countries, because I've not really been to the States before. So in Africa, I was always sure I could find somewhere to stay or, you know, make a plan to do something. But America is going to be another story. During your travels in Africa, was there a crisis points that I'm stuck here and the bikes not going or I've run out of food or I don't know where to stay as there's bound to be somewhere along the line that that has happened. Well, there are several hiccups when I had to get the bike put in the back of a once in the back of a truck and once a trucker some long distance truckers took pity on me and when I couldn't get the bike started after a bit of a spill, they they picked the bike up strapped to the back of their truck and took me down to the next but the only real problem I had was was related to an electrical fault and it was it was due to improperly connected wiring and a new part that I had fitted but I found that and then this electronic replacement part and the bike was original basically original apart from these two electronic parts that I had fitted and transistor and one of them blew up when I was in Northwest Sudan and none of the none of the little electronic shops in this town had the right they could fix it they told me but they didn't have the right little part so I had to sit there for 10 days 11 days waiting for the part to come from Germany and tell me what about language I'm just thinking you mentioned Sudan there and I'm thinking what about language are you multilingual? I wish I'm not too bad at French I can get I can get by in French I hope about two or three words in German otherwise it's it's English but coming up East that was one of the benefits of East Africa coming up the East Coast that you know they're all ex-English colonies so most of the way Tanzania Kenya Uganda and even Ethiopia Sudan then it started to get a bit difficult and but by and large you know most people spoke English or you could find someone who spoke English or you know a little bit of English enough to sort of point at something and say I need this or point to a picture or something and tell me what type of bike is this 1970s bike what about this is Kawasaki or Honda what is it no no it's a Honda CB750 very good it's the old four-cylinder inline 750 that was first first came out in 1969 and this model is 1972 and I've owned it since 1978 excellent and tell me this Sean are you recording this for a book or are you recording it full and wise to make and I think it would make a great movie you know the the adventures of who would you get to play me do well you're not you're not unlike uh Falcons or Bruce Willis from what I can see that's very that's very flattering well I kept a blog I did a blog on the on the Africa trip and uh I'm planning I'm planning to do the same thing and and maybe somebody introduced me to Instagram not that long ago so I maybe use Instagram and the blog I mean I can't I had a blog on the on a website you know Belfast to Belfast by bike very original sort of title um and and I obviously still have the you know the the the the the posts that I made although the site currently isn't up and just working on on renewing it now and have you come across on your travels I'm sure you have because I know I know from personal experience that there's there's other places in the world called Sturban there's other places called Derry there's other places called London Derry apart from the obvious ones that we know have you come across any other familiar I know there's quite a lot of London's all over the world as well have you come across any other familiar names actually back in 1982 and we when we came across the town called Belfast we also came up a town called Drysdale the chances not far away it was just it was like you know 10 or 20 kilometers away from Belfast but yeah I mean if you look at the states there's a lot of towns there called Dublin um and I believe I heard on the radio the other day that there's actually a place in the states um called London Derry yeah and about five kilometers up the road there's another place called Derry because they were all there together and apparently they fell I think so they had one called London Derry you're making that up that would never happen so what's next I mean there's a lot of you know so what's next Sean so what were you speaking to me from at the moment you're not in Belfast well I hate to say you're in Belfast at the moment no no I'm in France I'm in little village called San Ferreo which is in the old in southwest France excellent so so what what's the next this is the what we're away today we're on the 29th of January so what's what's next for Sean Drysdale what were you planning well I booked my flight last week so 15th of April I'm flying from Dublin over to Halifax and hopefully my bike will be there to meet me and we go from there and see see what happens and well what's the timescale you're fairly open with with with schedules and stuff like that well the timescale sort of set by the weather a bit because as you can imagine Canada and gets a bit cold in the winter and the other end of the trip is in Washington state which is also in the north that's in the northwest so it gets a bit cold there as well in the winter so somebody said to me a guy who lives in Canada how it was online with and he recommended end of April even beginning of May to start and I'm thinking about six months will take me then through to you know October and I should get it done I mean it's not this is going to sound a bit silly it's not that far actually it's only about 10,000 kilometers six months to cover 10,000 kilometers isn't that isn't too strenuous um so I sort of have planning on about six months give or take and we'll see how it goes I know this might sound solid but you know you can go from bar fast to bar fast use now don't ring just in all round the Donald you don't have to do what you're doing which one would do the rest of the time Sean I want to wish you all the very very best and thank you so much for taking time out I know the time difference thanks you very well and I want to say safe journey as well there you go that's Sean Drysdale there he's traveling from bar fast to bar fast to bar fast and


Have you ever wondered why you can't seem to just be friends with everyone? We're not all men to be friends, really. It is probably because you're really smart. Smart people can differentiate between an acquaintance and a friend. What does it really mean to be a friend? Are friends a group of guys you hang out with? Are they people you play video games with or go to the mall with? Are friends really just that? Figuring out who is really your friend is the first step to actually having friends. Friendship is a relationship that requires commitment and investment by both parties. If you're not willing to invest your time and resources on another person, you probably don't have any friends. In this video, I will share with you 9 reasons why smart people have fewer friends. 1. You enjoy being alone Being alone is really great for some people. Are you one of them? Don't get me wrong. People will tend to perceive you as a snob. But it is their problem, not yours. According to a study conducted by American British psychologists at the London School of Economics, Satoshi Kanazawa, people with low to average intelligence levels reported greatest self-happiness with a group. The exact opposite was true for people with very high intelligence. As a very smart person, you may be less happy if you spend more time with friends. You always feel like there is a lot to do. Hanging out with the guys for over an hour can feel like it is taking too much time. The future is always calling and you may end up not really enjoying the present. Smart people usually have big goals and accomplishing them takes a lot of time and resources. They may only hang out for long if the conversation revolves around their interests. If you enjoy being alone, don't sweat it. You didn't really choose to be the way you are. 2. You don't need people's approval People sometimes make a lot of friends to belong to. They do this to appeal to a flawed sense of social acceptance. In reality, such people may simply be ignored or even taken for granted. In contrast, those uninterested in being a part of the group are always valued and courted. People who build great products and services spend a lot of their time doing it. They don't need validation from anyone or feel the need to belong to anybody. They are focused on their goals and go about executing them. 3.  Imagine hanging out with guys who talk about video games for two hours. They don't build video games or review them for a living. They simply play them for fun. A smart person always wants to talk about productive things. They are more likely comfortable if an idea is being discussed than people. Because most people at work talk about other people, they simply are not interested in those type of conversations. Such behavior can make them come off as aloof. And in some cases, snobs. 4. You have strong ideals and value system Well-thought-out goals drive most smart people. In order to achieve them, they model their lives to align with their vision. Their vision systems are often different from those of regular people. A smart financial analyst may be interested in owning a venture capital firm in his late 30s. He needs a lot of capital to pull this off and may leave minimally, even if he's paid well. Hanging out with people who continuously splurge may be a deal breaker. He may then choose to stay on his own. It is not easy to find people who hold similar ideals, except through interest-based networking events. More often than not, the people around you can be so radically different in thinking. You just want your space. It is one of the reasons smart people have fewer friends. Friends can be really influential in a person's life. Be mindful of who you let in. 5. You have actually identified who your friends are Most smart people aren't looking for friends. They have likely already identified them. The trouble is that many people don't know the difference between acquaintances and friends, and usually assume others are their friends when they are really not. A friend genuinely cares about your well-being and doesn't just hang out with you because it is fun. Don't get me wrong. You can argue any day that a guy who buys you a bottle of beer to cool off from a stressful day at work is a friend. But how much has such a bottle really changed your life? Great friends help you become a better version of yourself every day. Someone who introduces you to girls and new drugs to try may not be adding as much value to you as you think. 6. People may not always understand you Do you feel misunderstood a lot? Welcome to the club. A smart person's ideals are usually radically different from the people around them because thinking is sometimes stressful. A lot of people settle into mediocrity. Voicing out your ideals will be met with a lot of criticisms and sometimes discouragement. This can make you feel misunderstood and underappreciated. A million thoughts can run through the minds of smart people and intervals that may not be able to communicate properly because of how complex what they are thinking about is. It can be frustrating trying to explain something that makes perfect sense to you but zero sense to others. Smart people have this problem a lot. 7. You are more focused on long-term objectives Smart people usually have long-term goals they are focused on accomplishing. This takes a lot of their time and can make them antisocial sometimes. Imagine trying to build a platform to compete with PayPal. How many friends do you think you would have? My guess is not many because it might take a decade to accomplish your goals and almost everyone would think you are crazy when you start. Smart people try to surround themselves with people who get them but they are not always successful. There is no award in the world for the man or woman with the highest number of friends but there are for creating a vaccine for COVID-19, carrying cancer and things in those categories. What do you want to be remembered for? 8. You value your time a lot Smart people know their time is limited so they maximize it. They don't spend a lot of time partying. They have a routine and follow it religiously. They know that every minute lost will set them back. They are usually goal oriented. To keep a smart person listening you have to really have a lot of important things to say. They don't live on social media unless it is a part of your job and they take their time very seriously.  After a stressful day at work they rationalize that sleeping and not partying is a better option. They also acknowledge that they are not Einstein and on wristwatches they track time spent in any activity. 9. You don't need as much social interaction as the average person does. Hanging out is fun and all. To smart people they would rather work on their goals than hang out so much. Intelligent people often prefer hanging out with people that do things similar to what they do so that the hanging out would at least be productive. This is really not a great move because they tend to talk only about work related things.  They are very successful in their areas of interest but do not really spend a lot of time actually living. A smart person is okay. Not hanging out for weeks on end. They have a lot going on in their head. They sometimes have to be dragged out of their apartment by their friends but if you let them be they will be just fine. Most smart people are not lonely. They just like being alone. Sometimes they talk to themselves, pace the room and work for long hours at a stretch.  Being alone is different. You want to be on your own and you do not feel lonely. Loneliness can affect your mental health while being alone is just being alone. As a smart person you will have few friends. It is a good idea if you start on time to select your friends and select only the ones that share your interest and passion. But no matter what you do, keep being you.


Hi, good afternoon everybody and welcome to the three o'clock session Just to make sure you're in the right place. This is leadership of a champion's program with Dr. Monica Chavez My name is Matt Lingard and I'm chairing this session I'll say very little except to welcome you and to make sure Monica keeps on time and then to show your questions So please do post your questions in the comments as we go through the session and I'll keep an eye For those and there'll be five minutes questions at the end of Monica's talk So keep them coming and without further ado, I will hand over to Monica Thank you Matt. Hi everyone Thanks for being here today. It's been a very exciting day So I'm thrilled to be presenting about leadership of of a champion's program. I led a couple years ago 2019 so I'm gonna give you a little bit the context but before I do that I want to show you what what my aim is today So first of all as promised in the abstract I will explain you will be able to understand the principles Embedded in the champions program. It's such a broad concept to say Oh, it's a champions program and when I was given this task I was just told a champions program and I had to develop a model or a kind of Theoretical underpinnings I won't go into detail into that but the resource I'm going to share will explain in detail The these principles There was a roadmap and which I'm going to share and cover Very briefly, perhaps I won't have time to explain all of the activities But I can give you the broad elements of what made the champions program. What kind of activities? Impact and Nationally institutionally and internationally I was I was blessed I was very grateful that I was able to share this in international scale with the project So I'm going to explain how and what what came out of that what were the the outcomes And I think maybe you would be interested in the Access to the is a video resource and you can further explore everything. I'm going to share with you today Isn't that it's an open resource using canvas and so First of all, let me give you the context and why I did this champions program. It was 2019. It was the rollout of Microsoft teams and I was approached by the education manager for Microsoft teams and we collaborated in creating this champions program So I was new to the organization and I was given a leadership responsibility Informal leadership. I wasn't in a formal leadership position, but remember leadership. You don't have to be in a formal Roll to lead to be able to lead So when I embarked on the development of on this champion program champions program I realized I was the post hero hero. I'm not saying we don't need that one person who is able to lead In my situation in my context, I had to be very adaptable And I learned about myself there were what I was trying to do was I was a Transformational leader. So I covered the literature as well. I did some research on that in Transformational because I had a vision of what I wanted How I wanted and what I wanted colleagues across the institution to achieve I thought about what success would look like and I was very ambitious. I wanted everyone to get on on board With this new digital tool But at the same time I realized that I wasn't going to be able to do it on my own And this is when I relied on the principles of distributed leadership And this is a bottom-up approach to lead you Create alliances with colleagues from across the organization and together you lead you can still be The leader plus if you want to call it and you have your colleagues Supporting you and at the same time lead leading. So this is what the post hero hero is to me it's a combination of being a transformational leader and In Embedding embedding as well distributed leadership. So in the reference list, you could probably consult the the literature So I was given the task and I I embarked on this creating a vision for what I wanted to achieve And of course, what do we know is very very difficult the challenges So not only that I realized that perhaps I had an added disadvantage already change is difficult and Obscaling digital capabilities in any organization can be quite challenging Especially in the context of academia and in a special in a Russell group So the complexity of the challenge was very very high. It was very a very complex situation and I had I Guess I I see it as a disadvantage and The literature on leadership People of color in academia have added challenges You have and I had as a woman There was the racial element as well and a third element of being an international member of staffs and as we know perhaps The sector is is very it can be very heterogeneous So I had that added challenge changes already difficult So at the moment I'm developing and perhaps you want to have these as part of the discussion My presentation is not about these but I thought I should raise it because it definitely I don't see leaders of color as many as I would like to and I think is key and To raise the awareness that it is Change is difficult leadership is very difficult But if you are a leader of color in in a university is triple difficult I think so you need another set of skills that perhaps you don't encounter as much in the traditional literature of leadership because a Lot of the models are based on the traditional and male-wide leadership Okay, so back to the model So this is these are the principles behind the champions program the initiative is called champions program But the principles is I call it the champions model and it was I based the whole strategy on community of practice And with the elements of what a community of practice is made of is community domain and practice The domain was the the teaching and learning with a new digital tool Champions roles and I made a democratic call across the university to enlist passionate innovative willing and and and commit and committed to the cause so And the third element is peer coaching so peer coaching I Think it looks different in every context. I gave a lot of an autonomy to the champions in this case and Because is for peer to peer learning. I knew I was very aware Of my limitations as a leader of a project. I was aware that my ability to influence Perhaps will be limited but if I relied on these vibrant collective of Colleagues six champions, but what was what I recruited for this program willingly? voluntarily they participated and Perhaps I was going to be able to achieve and attain that vision of that I had for this digital tool Okay So this is the roadmap and you can I don't know if you can see it, but it kicked off in 2019 in August and this is when I started the activities so Broadly I had four different types of activities embedded Training and support. I think that was the key. I'm gonna tell you in a minute. Why I go back to this dissemination Teaching and learning events and promotion. So I'll go back to the first one training and support was about focusing on the this group of champions from the three faculties across the university and I provided coaching mentoring Taylor support and And specialized training I adapted to them and I knew that this Investment of time of resources in a group of six champions across faculties who were already Influencers within their context. Perhaps I wasn't the influencer. I have to mention. I was also new to the university And I trained them. I had the support of Microsoft as well And I did a webinars. I had guest speakers People who were perhaps ahead in the journey across the sector in the adoption of this digital tool of Microsoft Teams So that went through a period of several months and September October November December And I have to say at this point it wasn't working out That's the truth and there are many factors like I mentioned I don't want to attribute it to leadership. There are contextual factors one of them and the literature and Confirms this that Academic staff is reluctant to engage with technology. We know that but there are for example, the return of investment doesn't seem worthy And the time the lack of support Competing technologies and this the this last one was key because that there was a rollout of a new VLE So logically you don't want to invest. I understand it's a research and Oriented University you don't have time to invest in two different technologies So I continue the support in different ways So and then the pandemic came but I'll go back to this in a minute because I want to explain to you The dissemination what it means just to give you a general idea the next type of activities. I did a lot of Podcasts video case studies each of the champions had the chance to Do a video case that this was part of being a champion It was of require a requirement of them as to graduate if you want to call it from the program and A video case study in which we would embed the curriculum 2021 is the framework of the University of Liverpool curriculum 2021 and we had students taken part in in this video case studies given testimony of How they're learning change as a result of the adoption of a new digital tool and in the resource I'm going to share with you. You can have a look at the outcome this big video case studies teaching and learning events and There were face-to-face when still was possible I would Organize events across the University I will bring the champions and this is where the peer coaching will come into play and the feedback was fantastic when With with from colleagues who would attend the sessions and Face-to-face and the feedback was mostly about it is great to have a champion Who can sit with me and it can show me what he or she has been doing? And just kind of coach me on on on the sport because they know the pedagogical Practices of my area I can trust their advice because they know the context So this was a great great feedback that I got and finally promotion. I did a lot as the leader of the program to Give them recognition Show them show the the contribution they were making institutionally and of course there was an element of accountability as well in it but mostly I Part of my professional values is to give recognition to people for their contributions and contribution itself is one of my values So I put a lot of my professional values in the development of this champions program. Okay, so let's go back to the story So training support it was it was really difficult But then the pandemic hit and this is when The community of practice which is called the champions community exploded. You can see in March it really took off and At the moment and there are 300 plus members of the community and the support we provided In that community was key the workout of the champions or the the emergency period when we transitioned to online teaching the whole university went mostly Now without I don't have evidence to say all of them, but a large number of people Academics and made use of Microsoft teams the support was there So all the work that we have been doing for several months Was really that was the right timing. It's like you cultivated something and You think is not going to is not going to grow is not gonna work out and suddenly it just explodes and Okay, so this is more or less the type of activity and the roadmap you have access to the roadmap as well in the resource Okay, so what has been the impact So far and I have to be very honest at this point. I feel So one of the elements the principles of a community of practice is that you have to decide for evolution and You also have to be conscious that it will go through stages. It is a living entity So I think it has accomplished his mission and is pretty much on on the stage that you have to Collect memorabilia or artifacts. So we have accomplished our mission. So 328 members It has become a model of best practice in the institution One national virtual community of practice five international virtual communities of practice I was hired as a consultant for a British Council project and these more champions model was replicated in Peru and Is to help Peruvian academics and six universities and Transition to online teaching. I want to learning and teaching a fellowship of work for the leadership of the champions more And I got my senior fellowship because of it So this is a resource I want to share with you and I think I think it time is oh But this is what it looks like and it will be shared with you At the end so it's just a no open resource and you will see I'm just gonna show you I have an explanation and What I have presented today, hopefully you will be able to go more in detail and you will find resources literature and and More it will give you an idea of how you can develop it and how you can apply to your context So I hope you find it really useful So if you know if you have questions, I'm happy to answer them perhaps when you walk away from this presentation, I invite you to think about your own context and Think about the potential benefits and barriers You will face in your institution because you will face barriers and it might not work Entirely as the model as it as you work for me But there are elements that you may want to adapt Thank you. Thank you, Monica. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much Wow, it's fascinating isn't it how the timing work work for that one I mean such a different outcome to what you envisage when when you when you started with with the six champions and I just wondered If you could say a little bit more about because that's a huge number of champions now obviously and very different to what you've ever envisaged I'm just I'm interested in how that's working practically now and a bit more about the role of the champions actually Okay, so The champions I made an open call in several Announcements of the University and six people got back to me. Yeah, right? And they had a list of what the role means. I had to write a very inspirational Very inspirational call And I think this is part of transformational leadership. You have to have that vision And so the champions are still champions, but like I said, I think the community has fulfilled its mission Yeah, and they they have moved on to better things And more exciting things, but they I think they having this group of allies Is key it's about the people I always say it is all the people is not about the technology Yeah, and I don't know if you're able to see the comments, but then a couple about how much your talk has resonated with with people and Comments back to the added added challenge that you face as a person of color as well, which yeah, it's just that extra It's true. It's real. Yeah. Yeah, I got a lot of sorry Matt. I love I mean I Would compare I know they shouldn't compare yourself. I will compare myself with My my champions, which are they're lovely or compare a white male who's leading something similar in my institution and he would be hurt and if I Turn up so people tell me it's because of your great. I Don't know as And great as in The system of the universe I was questioned many times and academics will Kind of won't believe it that I had created such thing and I was able to come with a theoretical underpinnings And that I had you I had had an international impact and they still questioned my impact You know, I can't do I all I can do is turn up and be my best self I can't control What people say and I wonder if have observed other colleagues in these Positions and they don't get this kind of Questioning of their worth or contribution. Well, maybe I Don't know this has been my observation I don't have data and I am the I have an out stone auto ethnography that I would like to do but I am very I Don't think I'm gonna get ethical approval because I want to make great an account of of these leadership Perspective of communities of practice from the perspective of people of color but I don't know if anybody has experience of Auto ethnographies and if you can if it's easy to get the ethics approved approved Curious about that especially for such sensitive topic Yeah, okay. Thank you, and I'm sure if anybody has they they can reach There's a question come from The attendees on the on the screen actually Monochron if you'd like to respond to that one Well, there is what is critical for success of a champions model I think the champions and getting that by in from colleagues who say, you know, I believe in what you are trying to do And yes, the students deserve better. We should create a dynamic ecosystem not just the VLE to Put all the stuff the repository and those innovators And who perhaps perhaps are not top senior Leadership but is finding your That people your allies that ski for the success I would say Great. Thank you. And then aside from Dave White in the comments as well Why should grade be an okay reason? Of course, it shouldn't either Anymore I can't change the culture It's across across across the sector higher education. So just just deal with it Yeah, okay. I'm just checking out. I can't see any more questions as such just a moment No, just just lots of comments. I'm thanking you, Monica. So Thank you and many thanks for sharing and such an honest presentation as well We always appreciate we always appreciate that from you And as Monica said, if anybody wants to follow up with that afterwards, she's be very happy to do that so Many thanks to everybody for attending this session and we're back on with sessions in I'm not sure actually a few minutes time Okay, thank you. Thank you everyone. Bye