This is Jimmy Powers coming your way with another Grantland Rice story. There, this is Jimmy Powers transcribed with another chapter from Grantland Rice's autobiography, The Tumult and the Shouting. Today's story has to do with the man who hates to lose, and once again, I'll narrate it in first person. In my travels, I've perhaps covered more miles than those herds of nomadic roamers, the American Buffalo. And I've been asked the same question a thousand times in a hundred different places. Who is the most versatile player of all types of games you've ever known? Right off the cuff, there are four standouts. I've already covered Jim Thorpe and Babe Zaharius, who could play most any physical game unbelievably well. Then there was a tall, dark and handsome collegian named Harry Fisher, who played all sports in season with Williams College back in the middle 1920s. Blessed with uncanny coordination plus the competitive fire and body to back it up, Fisher was from football to fly fishing unquestionably a stick out. And finally we come to my old pal and racetrack companion, that bloodhound of the Daily Double, Arthur Earl Neal, known to the world as Greasy. The raw bone leathery hillbilly from Parkersburg, West Virginia, today a Park Avenue cliff-dweller in New York City, gets my vote for the mostest at the most games. Greasy is equally at home coaching a professional football team or at a bridge table. He's the only man I know who was actively associated with World Championship baseball and football teams. He played left field for the 1919 Cincinnati Reds and he coached the Philadelphia Eagles to the national pro football title in 1948 and 1949. For good measure, he put Little Washington and Jefferson into the Rose Bowl in 1922. In his younger days, Neal regularly shot golf in the middle 70s and once reached the West Virginia State Amateur Semi-Finals. As a bridge player, he rates with the Colbertsons, Jacobi's and Leitner's. A few years ago, a national magazine ran an article on Greasy calling him The Man Who Hates to Lose. That was hitting the nail on the head. He has no patience with dubs and even after being around sports for more than 45 years, he can't take defeat lightly. Greasy tried to instill that smoldering spirit in his athletes. He should have been a professor of applied psychology. He once told me, you got to get tough with some of these kids. I once said to one of my players between halves, you haven't got to gut in your body as soon as you see a giant or a bare uniform you curl right up. He began to cry. Don't say that, coach. He begged. And what happened? Greasy grinned. He was so mad that he went out and scored 17 points. Greasy's major league baseball career suffered from poor eyesight, yet he led the Reds' batters with a .357 average in the 19 World Series. His big league career was shortened when he crashed into the wall at the polo grounds, going after a long smash. When he was picked up unconscious, they had to pry the ball loose from his clenched fist. While Greasy was coaching the University of Virginia football team one year, the baseball coach became sick. The president of the university, Becken Greasy, could you help out? The gentleman wanted to know, is it true that you know something about the game? Who do you think the blankety-blank was that played left field with Cincinnati for 11 years?  He got the job. About the only sport I ever heard Greasy not caring for was track. Asked why, he said, I don't give a darn about seeing a kid run unless he has a ball under his arm. A typical Neil reaction. Neil's football light was more or less hidden under a bushel at Little West Virginia Wesleyan College, but he sparked the first Wesleyan team ever to upset the giant state university at Morgantown. In Neil's first varsity game that fall, a team whipped Glenville State Normal with only four plays, an off tackle plunge, an end run, a lateral pass, and a forward pass. Greasy naturally expected the Wesleyan coach to try something extra special in the way of strategy for the West Virginia game. But the team drilled on nothing but the same four plays they had used the previous week. Don't you think coach we should try some new plays? Neil finally was asked on a Thursday. Bright boy, the coach sneered. You got anything in mind? Greasy did. He dug up an old high school play in which the end tackle and guard pulled out of the line to run interference ahead of the ball. On the spur of the moment, he devised a variation in which a reverse was run from the same play. It caught West Virginia so flat-footed that Wesleyan defeated the State Powerhouse 1914 for the first time in history. Greasy incidentally was a genuine pro by the time he entered college, largely as a result of having played baseball with Al Tuna in the Old Tri-State League at $125 a month. But the fact that he was a professional when he entered West Virginia Wesleyan was blandly overlooked in those free and easy days. Anyone who mentioned eligibility rules was under grave suspicion of being crazy or a revenue agent. Any good-sized boy who came down the road asking for a game could get one and remain as long as he pleased. John Kellison, for instance, was playing his fifth of eight varsity football seasons when Neil turned up on the campus in 1912. Neil's heroics at Wesleyan still are legendary in the West Virginia Hills. By 1915 he had so many offers to coach and play that he passed up his senior year at Wesleyan. Time marched on, and in 1921 he took an ordinary bunch of Washington and Jefferson kids, whipped them together, and produced ten straight wins upsetting such giants as Pitt, Syracuse, Carnegie Tech, and Detroit. When the little school was invited to meet mighty California in the Rose Bowl, W&J authorities hesitated to accept. They couldn't see their team having a ghost of a chance. We'd be humiliated, they said. Listen, said Neil, we may not win, but no team in the world will disgrace us. West Coast sportswriters pour down the razz. All we know about Washington and Jefferson is that they both are dead, they wrote. This drove Neil and his team wild, and when the W&J kids received $80 for pocket money from an alumnus, they went out and bet it on themselves. Then they held the golden bears to a scoreless tie with one of the slickest exhibitions ever seen. California made two first downs, and its heralded passing attack, built around Brick Muller, did not complete a single pitch. To this day, Neil swears the officials gypped W&J when early in the game a 38-yard touchdown run was called back. At first they said the ball carrier stepped out of bounds. When they could not find a telltale cleat mark, they decided that Russ Stein, the all-American tackle, had been offside on the play. Despite his disdain for defense, Neil was responsible for originating the five-man line. He pulled the stunt while coaching at Yale in 1937. The weird formation helped to beat a superior army team 15-7. Neil arrived at New Haven in 1934. Ducky Pond, an old blue, was officially appointed head coach with the understanding that Neil was to be vice president in charge of strategy and the backfield. One day Neil was telling the Yale squad that guys who wanted to act tough on the field had to look the part. I want to see you wear sweatshirts and Levi's on the campus, he was saying. Above all, I don't want to see any of you guys tricked out in raccoon coats. At that precise moment, Coach Pond walked in, wearing a raccoon coat. Neil had a way with young men. Even the hardened pros played with an almost collegiate fervor for him. He was a great hand at talking a kid into signing a pro contract, but I doubt if he'll ever forget one mission that flopped. Banks McFadden, a whopping good half-back from the South, had taken an assistant coaching job at Clemson after starring in the National Football League. Neil wanted to bring the boy out of retirement. His telegrams went unanswered. He hopped a train for the land of Dixie. On the campus, they told Neil that McFadden liked to spend his off hours lollying under a magnolia tree at a nearby park. That's where Neil found him. Son, Neil said in an offhand manner, how'd you like to play for the Eagles? The boy yawned. Coach, he drawled, I reckon I'm mighty well fixed here. But this job's for the birds, Neil pointed out. It doesn't pay peanuts. And fishing a contract out of his pocket added, we're ready to give you $8,000. I'll be honest with you all, McFadden said, I ain't worth no such fancy money. I can't block and shucks, I'm lousy at tackling. You ain't got much ambition, son, Neil said. No sir, coach, agreed the boy. All our crave is peace of mind, and I got it right here. When Neil took a last backward glance, Banks McFadden was still lying contentedly under the magnolia tree. During his college coaching career, Neil made it a habit to get close to the professors. You'd be surprised how many teachers love football, he observed. I remember Billy Phelps. He was the famous Yale lecturer on the poet Robert Browning. Anyway, Billy was a hot football fan and treated our players kindly when marks were passed out. Which gives you the greater kick, a perfect recitation in the classroom or a 50-yard run for a touchdown, he was once asked by a friend. Well, Billy said, I can't get too excited over a perfect recitation. And with that closing line from one of Eli's most glamorous sons, Billy Phelps, this is Jimmy Powers transcribed, closing the tumult and the shouting, the Grantland rice story, until our next session.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com. We're doing a random number block for the random hit break for 2018-19 flawless basketball. Chance to chase that guy right there. He's pretty good. So here's how it works Right, so let me flip over here for a second. Here's the example tab I got right over here So basically the break will have the names of the people who bought in or one spots or however And so that rmb number one will be like someone's name So once we do the randomizing of the names randomizing of the hits Let's say random number block one lines up with so and play or so and so number 13 out of 25 then we go to the random number block list which I'm which we're gonna do right now and Number three will get that particular card So basically we're taking a full random hit spot That's a Julie would have and then we're splitting that spot up into 10 I think that makes sense to everybody who got in right? I think this makes sense to this group here So thank you for getting in appreciate it. There are the numbers right there So that was the explanation case you didn't get it. We're gonna post another one of those So there'll be another spot with random number block in there. So kind of split up a spot with Your fellow collectors. Let's roll it. Let's randomize names and numbers one and a four five times one two three four and Five I think you've seen us do this in in transcendent breaks this concept. All right, so there's five right there Thanks to this group for getting in good luck one and a four five times for the numbers one two three four And a one fifth and final time. Good luck So we've got two down to six All right, Alan with two and four Demetrio seven and nine Samuel five Alan with eight Paul with zero Alan with one Summon with three and Brian with six Let's sort these numerically All right, so so your spot on the list when we get that break done will be represented as R&B one random number block one So good luck. Hopefully we'll be able to get that done in the next night or two I'm Joe for Jasper's case breaks calm and I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


because Chinese they do love themselves some big pork bones I actually have a calpico soft serve this is a durian butter finger sandwich guys and cocoa and flushing queens this is a brand sinful eats can you tell me what's going on with tanghulu all right so as you can see in this brand new food court there's all types of pan-asian food we got viet we have chinese we have korean but we're starting off at this spot what is it uh this is samsab it's authentic isan thai food let's check it out guys isan food next to korean hot dogs next to this and it's very diverse listen to get this type in this level of authentic isan recipes over in a mall is insane obviously it's abtab they're established they have locations outside of a mall but to have this inside is ridiculous you have pork jerky beef jerky you have pork collar you have a mountain volcano of pork bone and then you have a fresh tilapia and you can get your hands into it and it's just this is crazy like honestly i would not have expected this i've been to a lot of malls and i've eaten a lot of food and thai food like this is something you don't find we were so happy that we got zab zab come to tangram because it's like authentic thai street food that you can't find anywhere else starting off i gotta go in with the volcano leng zab these are pork bones topped with chilies they told me that it's very popular amongst the chinese crowd as well because chinese they do love themselves some big pork bones oh my gosh i'm just gonna get dirty with it that is so good a little bit of alarm fattiness from the pork actually super clean taste too this is fire to get this in a mall that's right next to city field i can go to a meds game i could go to orange theory this is just changing the mall experience you can bring that to regal i'll wash a movie instead of popcorn so i'm watching i'm watching the newest michelle yo movie just mmm this is the spicy pork collar traditional dish oh the pork collar it's still hot got the little wrap low fried basil let's go for it i think they do the best thai pork i've ever had i mean you can also come here and get your mainstream dishes like your pad thai is on sausage but come here and try this as i'm going in on the fresh tilapia this is only like 35 bucks here and i feel like to get this experience in a mall is still insane a little tamarin sauce a little spicy peanut fish sauce yeah top it off with a little bit of rice noodles just a little bit is on street food in a mall i don't even know if you can go to a mall in bangkok and get this type of food last but not least we got the thai beef jerky and this mango sticky rice here as you can see topped with some coconut juice the mangoes are ripe in season look how yellow they are in orange amazing i have the signature thai beef jerky this one's sweet this one's more salty and i have the authentic sriracha sauce here shout out to hoi fang foods but there is a real sriracha sauce boom that kitchen is so small and you guys are whipping up the tilapia and the jerky and the isan and the pad thai crazy good job all right everybody and i'm gonna try our very own small oil this is just the test or what this is not the final label but i'm gonna try it on the sweet thai beef jerky mmm it's good let me know what you think about chef brian from zabzab wow it gives you a different flavor yeah wow there you go small lock coming out soon link down below thank you brian this is a dish that we didn't have at zabzab last time in brooklyn this is the isan sausage right this is 10 gram only 10 gram special only guys this is one of my favorite thai dishes in the entire world i get the little fresh garlic here we go we have two different ones one is rice this is northern and that's north and this is the rice sausage right here wow wow much softer oh man all right you guys we are here at da away kitchen this is our second spot i'm telling you this is the most authentic shenghainese food you might be able to find anywhere not just the mall i'm talking about manhandle i'm talking about queens all right you guys are looking at crab noodles with the thin shenghainese noodles in shenghainese it's hafenpo meat that's the shenghai dialect listen guys the noodles are definitely kind of alkaline like a ramen super qq super chewy but in a good way my goodness come get some xie feng pa mian next up guys we've got a sucai bao which is more of a vegetable bun and we've course we've got the xiaolong bao aka soup dumplings aka solongbo real crabby sponge bobs in their crabby patties okay last but not least ah yo i'm telling you in 7-elevens all around shenghai for breakfast you just get the sucai bao all right we're here with queens perry you know from image nyc joining us here at tangrum uh you're trying some very authentic shenghainese dishes with our new small ass sauce obviously not the final label guys but this is the recipe so guys squeeze it all for you yep let's try it boom first time trying your hot sauce give him even more even more boom i like that with truffle i like that hot sauce ma la on the xiaolong bao from dawei kitchen watch it flow down the crevice ah ah ma la hot sauce fire check the link down below of course guys i'm here with sifu from dawei kitchen yo there's so much juice in the middle guys listen guys these are as good as any of the ones that i had at yin's shengjin bao in shenghai no cap this is a piece of wood for cake all right you guys you already saw sifu right here the master he grated the fresh black truffle on top of the pot stickers right there let's try it last but not least we've got the shanghai yue bing uh shanghai what's the word you said come check it out because i'm telling you dawei kitchen it's super authentic it's super good my shanghai ni side loves it ah all right you guys our next part is not tart with filled with don tots yeah wait why is it called not art because natural arts flavors not our flavors actars okay yo p have you ever seen this it's a it's a work of art all these actars yeah have you ever seen actars like this no i haven't uh is this a new idea because i've never seen anybody do anything that's a new idea but based on the original actars and then we made many flavors so what flavors do we have here so we have a mochi and then we have a ube cheese and then salty boy chocolate bobo uh dorang and then uh egg yolk mochi egg tart i got red beans inside ube cheese chocolate bobo oh the thing's going like that one the thing's going like that one durian perry i know you're not a fan of durian but i'm gonna try this oh durian fresh not bad hey the perry said it's not bad i like it i like it like it roll some meat boss hey i never had pork loin on uh egg top before it's not bad very savory taro and salty egg yolk oh the egg yolk is a lot fire yeah don one got a lot of egg yolk in there i'm telling you at gnaw art you know natural art they're doing don tots different perry what are you looking at we have an afogato with a don tot inside with ice cream on top i've never seen a dessert like this i've got a pineapple fizz if you guys know they like pineapple fizz drinks in asia and of course we've got the original don tot don tot portuguese egg tart uh but of course by way of macau so let's check it out all the egg tarts are super flaky let's see honestly i think these are the best egg tarts in new york city maybe america yeah one of the best a new afogato from natart here at tangram mall and we're at sun choy k aka sing choy key aka hong kong street food man we got the dong ling cha ice lemon tea with the little bear in there i got a salted plum drink this is rare to find this is not easy to find i'm gonna pack open it seven eleven after all this food i needed that dong ling cha no let's just bust open this uh say don't see oh snap in my life guys i'll sample it anywhere this is the first time it's entirely burst on me like a wuxi tang bao wow pretty good pretty good man it looks like just a regular butter samanji but um it is not a regular butter samanji why this is a durian butter finger sandwich guys as you guys know hong kong style finger sandwiches it takes after the british tea time and you know what the crust cut off but you know what i think the durian twist is something new to you know elevate the experience just beyond regular butter this is the durian butter salty fatty durian that's actually pretty good though but i like it it's not going to be for everybody but i like it i like it wow oh my goodness andrew this is not a macao curry you thought this was omen gale this is malay gale it's actually malaysian curry pour it on to the whipped egg man it's so crazy man when you talk about hong kong stuff you don't know if it's hong kong curry macao curry malaysian curry you don't know where the curry from india here split that open look wow wow we wow they really do the proper hong kong kentany style all right guys malaysian egg curry over rice that's fire that's fire last but not least we have their special beef taonin with a salted plum drink right here i love this drink this is a very deep cut one only a super hk spot to have this and i'm gonna be pouring our very own smala chile oil that's coming out soon check the link below whoo drizzle baby how the tangram food hall has a little bit of everything from tai food to via food to korean food to taiwanese boba to hong kong street food to matcha to hot pot to chicken sandwiches come to tangram all right everybody our next spot is qingshu spicy hot pot this is actually a chain that is from china and they are doing something that you you have never seen at any other food hall in the world or at least you know in america guys they have the hot pot skewers here now these are a lot of meatballs fish balls um sausages here you have different broths that they're sitting in you have the pepper one you have the tomato one you have the herbal one and you have the mala obviously these are your four main types of hot pot broths that you'll get at hot pot spots see what you're going for let's pick up i'm gonna go for the mala right here oh oh oh you'll be eating spicy lately okay i might go with the mild uh herbal pork bone broth okay and then oh this sausage has been soaking in some sauce qingshu cheers um i got a shrimp in there look that's pretty fire actually ah fish balls really good wow it reminds me of asia you know going into seven elevens and they have all the skewers except it's not the five spice or the soy sauce braised it's it's the different hot pot braised so actually this is a really quick this might be the quickest way to eat hot pot yeah if you if you don't want a whole bowl of hot pot you want something quick on the go you just pick it out it's already bathing in the hot pot you just grab it glizzy time flavors a one check it out guys our next spot is sauce for originally from the lower east side china town they have spots all over now they got one here at tangram here i have the soft swerve swirl of hong kong milk tea and ube and then you got the leechy strawberry here yeah so they're doing both they have the scoop ice cream and the soft swerve so you get two different textures let's go shout out to sauce swerve mikey all those guys doing a great job um ube milk tea we got lai cha and ube the two hottest flavors i love how they mix together because ube is giving you kind of that sweet potato vibe vanilla vibe and then you got the hong kong milk tea hong hong kong lai cha we got the strawberry and leechy the leechy's not too sweet just right really good you can actually see the white and the strawberry like the strawberry and leechy mix guys the best ice cream here at tangram that's some of the best sauce swerve in all of new york it's actually my favorite sauce swerve all right next spot is joju if you guys have heard of them they started out in elmhurst but they've made their way out into the city and now they're back in queens here at tangram uh what do you got here sin these are the kimchi fries here i have the special joju banh mi it has a egg in the middle kind of with the traditional vietnamese meats and then here you you have the pork banh mi guys this is like joju's doing some of the best like vietnamese american food that there is so let's try it cheers cheers the joju banh mi dripping with the egg yolk it's crazy juices dripping today egg yolks dripping everything's dripping mmm it's tangy it's crunchy spicy it's all around good i got the joju fries crack egg on top stacked with kimchi i love how they're fusing like vietnamese flavors and even some korean flavors i think it really makes a lot of sense and it could be kind of a korean via fusion is something i'd like to see more of mmm got some extra long egg rolls here these are the extra long and skinny jazo vietnamese egg rolls you can still see the pork and the little uh wood ear mushrooms and pepper inside i love it what do you love about joju and zap zap being here i was really excited for joju and zap zap because they're local restaurants that start out in queens and we're so happy to have them flushing we don't have to make a trek all the way out to elmhurst you could just like you know come downstairs just have this great food yeah homegrown businesses guys here i got the pork bowl this is like your special pork banh mi uh all the elements except in a bowl form now refreshing next spot we got chicken sandwiches every food hall needs chicken sandwiches um yo perry you have the coco wing wrap it's like a Beijing style burrito oh kind of with peaking duck vibes i like it with lots of scallions and i love scallions and then here i got the chicken on fire guys this is like their chicken signature chicken uh sandwich chicken thigh of course you can see the different layers dark meat we got wings we have truffle fries with truffle aioli solid this is coco kachu this is a chinese chicken sandwich brand and it's fresh made to order cheers when you go to china sometimes they got the chicken pecking duck wraps or the chicken wraps very similar it's really good down to try i'm excited about this one yeah the flats kind of operate like a dumpling bro sometimes like the juices inside and until you break it open wow coco coco matcha i'm just kidding oh what do you have here i have i actually have a calpico soft serve and i actually have the shogun which is matcha with a green i mean with a gold sheet on it guys they are doing super premium matcha here very this is one of my favorite places to get matcha from i'm not gonna lie and one thing about the gold sheet by the way it is actual real gold but it's just a slight amount and it actually just passes through your body and it's totally non-toxic but yes if you're wondering if the gold is real gold it's actually real gold it's crazy go for it calpico one of my favorite japanese drinks of all time this is fire the shogun what i think is so cool is that it really does feel like a brand new mall in asia i mean you can see all the people behind us i'm not saying that you know i think a lot of them are asian americans but a lot of them also are recent immigrants and they're people who live in the building okay who you don't have nice apartments but also people who are just from around the area and want to be in a brand new mall that's catering towards them and again american businesses too but the food food is asian next spot is i milky if you guys don't know they specialize in having fresh milk on their boba's super super high quality they have some locations in the city long island city and now tangram karen what do you have them i'm a fresh mango green tea 50 sugar yeah i got the toro milk tea with purple rice i have the fresh strawberry milk tea all right while it's still sealed we got to shake it up you guys know the deal that's good guys i recommend getting 50 sugar i think that's all you need same thing it's really refreshing i love it i was putting inside here too okay what i like about yours karen is how murky it is like that's like all the real fruit from the mango it's not just that clear liquid mango syrup it's actual real mango but everybody that does it for our tangram food hall crawl we almost pretty much ate everything and there's a whole bunch of new restaurants that are popping up that aren't even open yet syntia what do you want to say about tangram i'm shopping anything you think of they have a beer garden you can watch the game at we're here out at machi machi it's a chain from taiwan that's actually named after jay chow's dog guys jay chow's dog got a boba chain here in tangram all right guys make sure you check out tangram more and fleshing queens they're always popping up with new concepts it's high quality too check it out


So the first thing I'd like to do is to figure out what is the equilibrium constant expression for this reaction, okay? So why don't you guys help me out? So what is the equilibrium constant? kdq equals what? CO2 concentration of CO2 divided by what? Nothing, that's it. Okay, so that's the equilibrium constant Why? Because there's nothing over here that is aqueous or gaseous, okay? so What is the only thing that's going to be? Relevant when we're talking about the Chatelier's principle. It's part of the outside, okay? So if we increase the pressure of this reaction, right? Remember it's going to go to the side that has the least number of moles of gas Provided by the coefficients, right? So how many moles of gas does this at side that? Everybody That's not everybody And this side everyone One, okay, so which side has more? The right, the products, okay? So how about this? If I wanted to Increase the amount of products that I would get from this reaction, how would I do that? Decrease the pressure, right? So I would increase the volume of my container or decrease the put-a-backing, right? It would suck all that carbon dioxide so if I wanted to Push the reaction to the right that means increase the amount of products, right? I would increase or decrease the pressure, okay? If I wanted to push the reaction to the left, what would I do? Increase the pressure, why? Because we're squishing it down. It wants to go to the side with the least number of moles of gas. Is that okay with everybody? Yep, is that okay?


There's a quote from the TV show Bojack Horseman, written by showrunner Rafael Bob Waxberg that goes, When you look at someone through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags. And though the original context talks about red flags and romantic relationships, the same can certainly be true for ourselves too, don't you think? Because as hard as it is sometimes to spot the warning signs in our own relationships and in the people we love, it might be even harder to spot them in ourselves. Because of our tendencies to empathize and rationalize with our own choices actions. With that said, here are six red flags you need to look out for in yourself, according to experts. Number one, unconstructive self-talk. Psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Scott defines negative self-talk as any inner dialogue you have with yourself that may be limiting your ability to believe in yourself and your own abilities and to reach your potential. In fact, research by Kindermann, Schwaner, Ponton, and Tai found that negative self-talk increases the risk of mental health problems such as decreased motivation, feelings of helplessness, and even depression. So if you are guilty of constantly putting yourself down and having a lot of self-deprecating thoughts, even the ones you pass off as jokes, then talking to a professional or applying effective CBT techniques, for example, thought-stopping, mindfulness, etc, can help you minimize this. Two, neurotic need for social validation.  Does your self-esteem often go up and down depending on other people's opinions and feelings towards you? Perhaps you feel a strong need to always get everyone else to like you, regardless of whether or not you even like them. All of these are signs that you may have a neurotic need for social validation. And this is a red flag because according to mental health and wellness author Marissa Pomerance, people with too high a need for social validation often have low self-esteem and stay in, or even chase after, unhealthy, one-sided friendships and relationships, neurotic need for control. Constantly needing to fix other people's problems for them, running to their rescue even when you don't want to, and micromanaging everyone around you are all not only red flags but tell-tale signs that you may have a neurotic need for control. According to Dr. Christine Adams in an article for Psychology Today, people who struggle with this most likely grapple with strong feelings of helplessness and to cope become overly demanding in their way of relating to other people. Number four, toxic perfectionism. Related to the earlier point, Dr. Christine Adams also talks about something she calls self-control freaks, or what is more commonly known as toxic perfectionism. The problem, according to Dr. Adams, is that people like this expect themselves to perform perfectly and without error, and as such, are only setting themselves up for failure and disappointment. This is not only a definite red flag and a weakness but a harmful habit for your mental health. Number five, avoidant attachment. In an article from Better Help, which was medically reviewed by licensed clinical social worker April Justice, people with avoidant attachment styles tend to be emotionally detached and closed off. They often feel uncomfortable with long-term closeness and intimacy in relationships. As a result, their knee-jerk response is to avoid the other person or manifest other self-sabotaging behaviors such as cheating, ghosting, and never asking for help instead of communicating with the other person and collaborating on resolving the issue with them. Number six, social media addiction. Another red flag you might not realize you have is social media addiction. Researchers like Hu and others found in a 2019 study that it negatively affected college students' mental health and academic performance. An article from Healthline written by medical health practitioners Dr. Christine Cherney and Dr. Timothy Legg found that some possible downsides of too much social media consumption are low self-esteem, increased feelings of loneliness, anxiety or depression, the onset of social anxiety disorder, disrupted sleep patterns, decreased physical activity, ignoring real-life relationships, and reduced ability to empathize with others. So, do you see any of these red flags in yourself? Let us know in the comments below. If the answer is yes, then know that you're not alone. Most of us are struggling with at least one or more of these. What matters most isn't that we strive for perfection but for growth and self-development. And as with any other challenge we encounter, the first step to overcoming it is to acknowledge the problem. Dr. Itai Itson, a positive psychologist and professor at Naropa University, suggests that we can change ourselves for the better in a gradual three-step process by setting goals for ourselves over three weeks with increasing difficulty. But of course, if you are seriously struggling with any mental health concerns, do not hesitate to reach out to a psychologist or a counselor today and get the help and support you need and deserve.


Remember all that talking about Justin Fields Nah, Josh Allen is it? Yeah, I'm playing great iron forage right now. Hey AC DC. I don't know what that is Yeah, everyone's like even spin moves jukes.   I'm blitzing this out. I'm fourth and seven right here Fourth and seven. What do you do? What do you do? What do you do? Oh my That's the corner out which is such a touchdown that like I kind of gave Come on. So why so you're in a horror flat, dude. All right that I've noticed so much Come on man. That's acrobatting everything. Come on game. That can't be it, huh? I mean bro. I just can't click on nobody. Just have all have yourself all day right there.   I couldn't click on anybody. I mean, bro That was it. That was who do y'all that was new. No wonder y'all be so All right quarterback snake is just glitched now. He did me dirt. There's one person within 50 yards in a play I would have just ran the on over like what that? Yo, that was kind of glitchy. What was that y'all saw that? All right, this defense is tough. Yo, what is this tough? Hold up. Uh matchup nightmare That was bad right there. Come on like catch the ball like a tackle, bro. Ramsey Ramsey Like you just can not get going My god game real player movement, man I gotta do better there. I gotta do better. Yeah, he was so slow We should have got caught by linemen. You're right. Ramsey slow. We should get caught by linemen Yo, all these linemen getting cut. They're all getting cut all of them are getting cut every single linemen is cut today They're cut. They're actually cut. They're actually all I'm getting all power-ups and everything, dude There's no way to tight ends. Let's get that swagger y'all. I'm just never running match again.   It's just spin move Covered to us so I know huddle just to keep him in the I know he didn't want to run cover two on third and four Whatever it was. That's why I know huddled y'all rarely see me. No huddle But I knew he wasn't in defense. He wanted to be in so I know huddled he audible to man. I caught him See that it's just like it's like come on, man. That's why I know huddled I knew he came out. I knew it was cover two on that third on that second and long But they were back so far that I just threw the drag. That's why I know huddled. He was stuck in cover two I mean, bro, can one of y'all get to the quarterback here boys Let's go about time somebody get some pressure, man. What's this play called? Tighten angle. I gotta guard the vante Adams It's not tight an angle No He quick snaps tight an angle here one million percent one million percent He quick snapped tight an angle right here. It was tight an angle, but it was he did some weird Yeah, sir Yep, I knew it's quick snap tight an angle. We came out in a straight match now Let's get seven in this game, man. Let's go man I told y'all know what match does like there should be nobody that I lose to that I'm this much smarter than That's what I I am this much smarter than him. I should be dominating.  Who knows Let's go, man. This dude's sold my you sold your own for betting on him Let's go, man. All right. I'm gonna stay here. We go second level I'm gonna stay in match unless he does a lot of hot routes Then I'll be back to cover three two hot routes. I'm out somehow. I'm still in match.  Is he the best player of all time? How's he big about playing? I need some tacklers. I need some better tacklers out here, bro That has happened so much dude where they throw the ball right at people like and just like Tapping so much Check The animation is tough to juice boys to juice in the check. I got Josh Allen right now


Item number SCP-4501 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures All companies associated with the manufacture of the popular product Kindle Mint Cake are to be obtained as Foundation Assets, after which they will continue to operate, functioning as fronts for the containment of SCP-4501. In further research, at least two major manufacturers must remain actively producing and distributing the product at any time. Directors of these companies will be responsible for ensuring that no metric of performance over time could feasibly result in the production of a line graph matching the form of any linty section of the Trans Antarctic Mountain Range, as viewed from any angle. For the purposes of this procedure, the term linty section refers to a continuous section of at least 2.2 km in length. Directors will be supplied with an extensive three-dimensional image database and custom engineered software. Foundation affiliate distributors are able to place variably sized orders for the product upon request. Should a procedural failure occur, the company is deceased trading immediately. Any resulting alteration to the form of the Trans Antarctic Mountain Range will be explained as a geographically appropriate event, such as a landslide or avalanche, which can be confirmed by falsified readings from affiliated research centers. All packaging and promotional materials relating to Kendall Mintcake are to be closely inspected by quality assurance operatives immediately following the printing stage. Any instances depicting a likeness of SCP-4501 are to be contained in a storage locker within a secure facility. In the event of a procedural failure, any foundation operatives or affiliates active within the Antarctic region are advised to arm themselves with remotely detonatable C-4 explosive charges concealed within bricks of Kendall Mintcake. Description SCP-4501, informally termed Quigan, or Quigan, is a quasi-fictitious entity with an amorphous form featuring many temporary eyes which emerge upon the surface of its body and quickly disappear. The creature appears to be a narratively actuated plagiarization of author HP Lovecraft's creation, the Shagoth, or Shagoth, albeit with a penchant for Mintcake, a feature not envisioned by Lovecraft. It has been posited that SCP-4501 formed the inspiration for author HP Lovecraft's creation, the Shagoth, although it is not known how he could have been aware of this anomaly. It may be a note that the biographer ST Joshy has commented on Lovecraft's voracious appetite for peppermint confectionery while studying at Hope High School. When Kendall Mintcake manufactures performance over time, does not correspond to the form of any Antarctic mountains, SCP-4501 is only capable of appearing occasionally as a stationary depiction on the product packaging and promotional material. When a procedural failure occurs, a sentient instance may manifest upon the corresponding mountain area. Following a procedural failure, the corresponding mountain area may demonstrate topographical alterations, maintaining continuity with the form of the synchronized graph. Whilst the connection between SCP-4501 and Kendall Mintcake remains unclear, it is theorized that the high glucose content of the product might represent an easily digestible energy source for biologically novel lifeforms. Furthermore, peppermint flavoring has previously been demonstrated to be popular with the diverse range of entities of the Phylum Eldridge. This has been demonstrated in tests, following an incident in which tentacles anomalously featured in polo mint advertisements shown on terrestrial television in Wales on May 11, 2002, wherein they would rise from a massive static at the bottom of the screen in order to steal the mint product from distraught children. Additionally, the product is highly popular amongst climbers and mountaineers, indicating a possible cause for its association with the trans-Antarctic Mountains. The plateau and sales figures for Quiggin's brand Kendall Mintcake in the 4th quarter of 1911 has been tentatively implicated within the minds of a team of Antarctic explorers in March of 1912, when an instance of SCP-4501 is believed to have a anomalously manifested on a corresponding plateau and stolen the party's remaining supplies of mintcake, along with their standard rations. The rations were later discovered in a nearby location, still intact, alongside a small heap of novel fecal matter containing partially digested shreds of foiled mintcake packaging. Update In June 2015, an embryonic instance of SCP-4501 was found deceased to the foot of a shared vertical cliff on the new eastern face of the Antarctic Shield Volcano named Mount Terror, having fallen from a great height. The cliff was anomalously terraformed into the landscape when the mintcake manufacturer J.E. Wilson and Sons entered voluntary administration the same month. This was the result of a procedural failure, which caused a lying graph of the company's annual net profit to resemble a lengthy section of the aforementioned Shield Volcano as viewed from the south. The dissolved company would reform into creative confections limited, and further safeguards were implemented to reduce the likelihood of a similar procedural failure occurring.


What do you get when you combine a handful of congressmen and four tech executives? It sounds like a joke. Oh, he heard it already. We've got representatives from Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Andrew Heaton. Howdy, fellas. I look forward to your objective questions. Any single action by one of these companies can affect hundreds of millions of us in profound and lasting ways. Like the federal government. Simply put, they have too much power. They have too much power. Their ability to dictate terms, call to shots, upend entire sectors, and inspire fear represent the powers of a private government. Yeah, that's our job. The concentration of the economic or political power is dangerous to a democratic society. Nobody's having any self-reflection right now. Can anybody name the three branches of government? Bullying, fear, and panic. Nailed it. Any business that wants to be found on the web must pay Google a tax. Are you saying taxes are bad? Are you flirting with me? What's to stop Apple from increasing its commission to 50 percent? That reminds me, let's raise taxes to 50 percent. Even some of the largest companies in the country fear your power. Well, we're not rolling out unmarked bans in Portland, so maybe lay off, lady. I will be introducing the house companion bill later this afternoon. You cannot force people to be your house companion. Would you agree to this idea? I don't know. Maybe if it's a voice vote? No, no, no. I mean, six months of lockdown. I'm not picky right now. Grab a bottle of champagne. We'll just, we'll see what happens. We all, we all do all kinds of online social media. All kinds of that kind, that outreach, that communication. We all, we all do all kinds of online social media. All kinds of that kind, that outreach, that communication. It sounds like you're very communicative. Ever retaliated against or disadvantaged a developer who went public about their frustrations with the app store. I think you're asking about punishing whistleblowers and I would like to compliment the gentleman on keen awareness of the institution in which he presently sits. America is a remarkable nursery for innovation and entrepreneurship in pursuit of the American dream. You're saying America is a good place to pursue the American dream. In America you should be rewarded for success. What are you gargling? Being big is not inherently bad. Thank you. Yes. Body positive. The committee will stand in recess for 10 minutes while we fix a technical feed with one of our witnesses. There has to be consequences. There have to be consequences. Amazon has said it's fixing. Fixing. It's fixing. Fixing. Fixing. Whatever. It's counterfeit problem. I encourage this body to pass stricter penalties for counterfeiters and to increase law enforcement resources to go after counterfeiters. We would love for you to do your job. If you could do your job better and smarter that would make our job a lot easier. I'm a government official. I know. Thanks, Florida. I'm worried about Google's market power. Everybody's got to go through you. There's really no alternative. You should really Google ballot access. You can use Bing, I guess. Big tech's out to get conservatives. If Facebook is out there trying to repress conservative speech they're doing a terrible job at it. Top 10 most shared articles on Facebook in 2020. Trump suggests injection of disinfectant to beat coronavirus and clean the lungs. I mean, I'm ready to try it. My parents who have a Gmail account aren't getting my campaign emails. They're going to spam in junk folders. Where they belong. They flagged you. Like to redirect your attention to antitrust law rather than fringe conspiracy theories. Mr. Chairman, we have the email. There is no fringe. Excuse me? It's not your time. Jordan, you do not have the time. But see what happens over here. Someone directly controls time. Put your mask on. I don't know why people don't take it seriously. Does Amazon pursue similar predatory campaigns in other parts of its business?  The way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle. Cool. I would love to be far more aggressive and nimble. That would be terrifying. Is it okay to try to extract in that negotiation leverage with respect to getting content from them? In general, I think that when two companies are negotiating, you are negotiating not just the amount of money that's going to change hands, but also what you're going to get in exchange for the amount of money. Yeah, so what you're describing in that negotiation is a negotiation. When users say Alexa buy batteries, Alexa responds, would you like to buy AA Amazon basic batteries? We do promote our own products. Is that legal? Usually in our quest to regulate big companies, we end up hurting small companies more. Google regulatory capture. The whole goal of this committee's work is to make sure that there are more Amazons, that there are more Apples. But no more political parties. People are stuck with bad options. We should still hold the election on time, though. Can you assure Americans today you won't tailor your features to help Joe Biden in the upcoming election? We support work that campaigns do. So yes or no question.  So yes or no question? Amazon strings you along for a while because it feels so good to get that paycheck every week. We called it Amazon heroin. How did you hear about that? Why on earth would they compare your company to a drug dealer? Maybe because they're responsive and make him happy. I want to respectfully disagree with the characterization. To respect, I strongly disagree with that characterization. Great respect. I don't agree with the premise. I would like to disrespectfully disagree. You all are showboating. We could have done this through email. I think that the history proves that Congress does a poor job in picking winners and losers. Honestly, you sound like a cassette tape that's been pulled out and re-spooled. We're back to exactly where we were in 1984. There was a 1984 Super Bowl ad. I remember it very well. The ad ends with this lady running in in color and smashing the screen. It was Apple versus IBM at the time. Yeah, but the point was mob think, cancel culture, group think is not what this country is about. I'm sorry, are you telling the CEO of Apple what an Apple ad is about? Very quickly, can each of you simply commit to improving racial and gender equity at your company? No, but we will automate everyone equally. Can you just make a blanket commitment? I'll take the duvet. This hearing has made one fact clear to me. Let the record show that the Congressman is reading a prepared statement about what he just learned today. This must end. Thank God. Thank you.


way to the shed.  So let's see what we're gonna do. Okay guys so back in there we have a generator. We might be having a storm coming up around the first week so I want to get the generator out make sure it's going around and everything. I don't know how long the gas has been in there but we've had it out here for what a year. So I mean I know it's been in there at least a year and it was it was it was in there the gas was in there when we brought it out here I don't know how long. Yeah I had it started last year but that was last year. When something sets a year you know like I don't know how many times I went and pulled a car out of the woods and people say well we drove it in here 20 years ago you know so I mean that doesn't mean anything. Now when this shed was built I specifically said that I wanted the that generator back there up here by the door for in case we need it because we do live in hurricane territory and it's hurricane season right now but as you can see for some reason that didn't happen so Monkey has volunteered to help me I was going to do this tomorrow but she volunteered to help me so I don't have to do this by myself tomorrow and get winded out of breath winded. So let's get you in the stand. We'll do a montage. A montage?  Yeah I'm wanting. What's a montage? I do the work you watch. No watch the video and you'll see. Yeah okay. I'm sick of it.  I would see if the battery held up and let's see if it'll start. As you guys can see this is a dual fuel. It'll run on gasoline or natural gas while propane. It'll run on propane. It's 7,500 surge watts but 6,000 running watts so that's have a pull-rope too 13 horsepower. Let's look inside of here a screen and I see some some dirt right about the top of your screen area looks like there's yeah see that bubble looks like a leaf right about there that brown thing that brown spot that's water so tomorrow what we'll do is we'll drain the gas out of here it's probably why it's hard it's starting hard because last time I started it it fired first crank but and we'll put the battery on the charger while we're doing that and then we'll see if it'll start any easier I've never tried to crank it by hand but let's give it a try and see if it'll start by hand okay guys so there's an old start on that kid the cold start because we're in Florida and it's July so but it is an old start that's cranking first crank when I pull it that's probably because that battery is low and I'm pretty sure that's the original battery I'll show you how small that thing is it's a never start or should I say ever start whatever so it might not be the original battery I don't know but we may have to get a battery for sooner or later but as long as I know I can crank it and it starts first crank I'm good with that for right now so that's gonna do it for this video tomorrow like said we'll put that battery on the charger we'll put it on a slow charge I also have a battery tender in there I may hook up to that but it's gonna stay in the garage all summer because like I said we're coming into hurricane season we got that Elsa storm that may or may not be coming up to us we just got to see her on the first of week but anyway just in case you never know power goes out for any reason which it doesn't usually but it does flicker sometimes when we have a bad storm but it's only went out out twice one time was a power there was a power grid down for an hour or so something to do with the substation and during hurricane whatever that last bad hurricane we had couple years ago that one we was without power for a week I think so we got a pretty good power company but just in case you never know somebody hits a pole we could take them hours to get it put up we'll just you know I'll just have it in the garage that way it'll be at the ready and then all I got to do is wheel it out the door close the door and it can sit out here and run if it need be but we don't we got by with it through the hurricane with we got by without it in that bad hurricane sorry about that but we didn't have a generator at all I had battery power and inverters no problem but it will be nice to have if we need it so you never know I know they used to run their whole house with it when the power went out during that hurricane I'm talking about what the hell is the name of that hurricane anyway that hurricane at bad one couple years ago her mom and dad used it and they pretty much ran their whole house I mean they was using lights and they was using the refrigerator I don't know where the pigtail is for it or it would probably definitely run this house as long as we didn't have too much stuff on so I mean it didn't run their central air or nothing like that but you know it just ran you just go into any room flip a switch and it came on so but I'm gonna make some room in the garage for this thing I'm gonna get in the garage and tomorrow I was gonna take the day off that's why I wanted to do this tonight but since I'm gonna drain fuel out of here I happen to have a whole can of fuel if you saw my last video working on a Husqvarna push mower that tank is full because she filled that up and we had it just in case when when the pipeline went down or whatever it was starting to get hard to get fuel around here so that's still almost full it's almost six gallons that'll hold six point five which is six and a half gallons I don't know what the leaders is guys sorry but so that'll put pretty much put it on full back on full again so anyway stay tuned for that video thanks for joining me guys appreciate it and thanks monkey for helping me get this thing out of the shed back there there's where the doors close there's that rail in there and what's what's happening that floor is wet in there and what's happening is the the track for the doors I drilled a couple holes down in there so it could drain out but it gets filled up with sand and then it just goes right into the right into the damn shed so I won't have to redesign that somehow or something but anyway that's another video so stay tuned for tomorrow and we'll see you then so thanks for joining me again thanks for helping me out on this guys appreciate it and we'll see you soon bye bye guys she bears with me alleged I'm gone for now take care


So another way that we can use the lightboard is to annotate on top of images. Such as this one here, this is a schematic of sound waves coming out of two loudspeakers. And if I was using this with my students, I'd be getting them to think about the interference pattern that an observer who's standing somewhere around here would be perceiving. I'd get my students to think about the initial phase of the two waves that are being emitted from the loudspeaker. And also to think about this quantity here, delta x, this is the path length difference. And in this particular situation, the two sources are in phase, as we can see from the initial heights of the waves coming out of the speaker. But the path length difference is a half number of wavelengths. So the observer standing here, in this case, is going to experience destructive interference.


If you think I get fired up about flipping, then you know me well. Another thing that I get super fired up about is the external brain. The external brain is something that I learned about from a conference, a human anatomy and physiology society conference, I think, like shortly after I started flipping. And John Runyon from the University of Oregon, Godox, he did a presentation on the external brain and I was like, oh my gosh, that is game changing. So I promptly went home and implemented the external brain. And let me tell you about this thing. Essentially, the external brain, again, like so many of my assignments, it's something that you should be doing anyway. You probably already make external brain type documents in your classes if you are super engaged with the content. It's a notebook. It's held in a notebook, although I have had students, I had a student one semester who did his external brain. I'm not kidding you. He did it in like a little bound book that was this big. And I was like, are you serious? And I'd open it up and I'd look in there and the writing was like microscopic. But can you read that? He's like, oh, I got this. Like rocked the class, like A plus rocked my class. That external brain clearly worked for his learning style. Most people put their external brain content in a three-ring notebook. Most people end up with these giant three-ring notebooks so that they can have all the information that they want in there. But basically, you create a document that will help you with the course. The motivation for you to do this is, number one, I check it so you get points for doing it. So that's awesome. Number two, I give external brain exams, a certain number each semester, and on an external brain exam, which usually happens on the same day as another exam usually. The external brain exam is open external brain, which means you can use any of the information that's in your external brain. There are some rules. You cannot put, like, your textbook chapters.  No. You can't put my lecture notes, like the handouts. I wish I had some to show you, but I don't. If I typed it up and made it, you can't just put three-hole punch and stick it in your external brain. You can't put lab handouts in your external brain. However, you can write anything that you create. You can put in there. So if you wanted to copy the lab notes or the lab handouts, copy it in your own handwriting. Go for it. If you feel like that's the best way for you to solidify the material, by all means. Lab data, I highly recommend, that goes into your external brain. Your external brain is sort of like a lab notebook type thing to keep you on test, because on the external brain exam, I could ask you to analyze lab data. If you've got all your lab data in there with the analysis that you've already done, you're like, dude, I did that, and now I can figure it out. Images, especially in anatomy, where we're labeling parts of bones, it's helpful to have images in there. And not all of us, myself included, are fantastic artists. As you watch the video lectures, you will see this about me. However, you are allowed to put someone else's image into your external brain, as long as it's unlabeled when it goes in. It's unlabeled when it goes in, but then you knock yourself out, label that thing. As long as it's in your writing that you labeled it, that's a totally legit way to do an external brain. So I have an example for you. This is from one of my very favorite students of ever, except she did not put the accurate course name. She apparently reused her Zoology 214 notebook. That's cool. I forgive her for that. But this is what she did for her. Oh, jeez. I want to be able to see too. I'm going to show you in a second. I'm going to put it up there so you can see it, but I have to finish telling you first. This is her choice. There are no requirements for this thing. If you put in just the notes you take during video lectures, that's perfect. If you put in just the notes you take during class activities, that's perfect. It really is your document. You won't be judged on your quantity. You might be advised to include some stuff that's not included in there. That's fine. But can you see this? She included images. Oh, dude. That's my finger. Oh, there we go. She drew some. She included images. She cut them out. They're not labeled. She labeled them. Okay, yeah, that's pretty much worthless. But if you want to check this thing out when you come to class because you're like, oh, I don't know, I would be happy to share it with you. Now, this, the external brain that I showed you, is actually on the minimal end of external brains. Some of them are unbelievable. I had another student who's a graffiti artist. Another one of my favorite humans on the planet.  I've actually asked him to borrow his external brain so I could share it with people. Sort of backfires because then my students are like, oh my God, I can't do that. Well, no one can except for this particular student. But he also was like, Riggs, I know you. I'm not letting you borrow my external brain because it's going to disappear. External brains often become things that sit on your shelf. And for those of you who are going into health care, I've heard many stories of people referring back to the external brains that they built in these courses. Which is, that's really cool. It's your work. It's what you need. It's the way that you're going to remember things. You're building something to solidify that knowledge in your head. External brain checks and external brain exams, where you get to use your external brain to take an exam. That's how you're going to be assessed. Now, let's talk about some specific things for your class. Like the materials that are required and the specific assignments and breakdowns for each class. And then this syllabus lecture is done.


So many times my actions leads to disturbances and counterproductive and they are not correct. And these actions are governed by my past habits or inheritance from the family and the influence of past is very subtle. So I want to change this so that my actions or decisions are coordinated and effective. So what can I do Maya? Well, you know, it's a matter of continuously observing your actions a lot and as you rightly say a lot of the actions that a person actually undertakes in a day are born out of habit, out of socialization, out of just doing things without being aware or conscious of what you're doing. So actually what needs to be trained is the ability to bring yourself to this moment, to the here and now, and from the here and now to act and to do. Because the natural behavior is to simply just do what one is familiar with or in a way one is familiar. And most of the time those so-called familiar things are born out of that whole ego lie. You need to bring yourself to this moment as much as possible. Because if you're in this moment, you will be able to observe what you're doing. It's just a lack of self-observation that causes these things to happen and often brings with it a lot of pain and suffering because they're unconscious actions, you know. You train yourself to observe, what am I doing? What is this thing doing right now in this moment? Is it coming from the truth or where is it coming from? And when you realize that you've made a mistake, it's because it causes you some sort of suffering or pain or discomfort. Then you realize that you've done something which is just an unconscious action. Then you correct it and that you remind yourself that the next time when you're tending towards doing something like that, you would catch yourself, bring yourself to this moment and tune into the divine within, to the source, to the soul, to the truth. Which is not just some concept in a book but is a real thing. It is the center of your being. It's the source of everything that's happening over here. So you have to train yourself to keep bringing yourself to this moment. All those mistakes happen when there is a sort of a falling asleep, a sort of a diving into the so-called comforts of the known which are actually traps. So it's like to free yourself from that trap of ego lies surrounding you and move out of that trap into the freedom of now, of presence, of here and now. Just to feel that presence within, to really feel it not just as an idea that sounds great but to really feel it, to really feel the presence and to feel it every day and as much as possible all the time. Walking down on the road, going to the market, buying vegetables, bathing your children in every action you do. You bring yourself to this moment.


In the 1800s, a compound was discovered in castor beans, which we would come to know as the first of a class of lectin proteins, in natural compounds found throughout the food supply, but concentrated in beans, whole grains, and certain fruits and vegetables. Every decade or two in the popular literature and the medical literature, a question is raised whether dietary lectins are causing disease. It's easy to raise hysteria about lectins. For all that first one found back in 1889 went by the name ricin, known to be a potent homicidal poison used by the Kremlin to assassinate anti-communist dissidents or by rogue chemistry professors, for that matter, and ricin is a lectin. Thankfully, however, many lectins are non-toxic, such as those found in tomatoes, lentils, and other common foods. And even the ones that are toxic, like those found in kidney beans, are utterly destroyed by proper cooking. But you can't eat raw kidney beans. If you do, you'll be doubled over with nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea within hours, thanks to the lectins, which would otherwise be destroyed by adequate cooking. How do you even eat raw kidney beans, though?  Well, in the first reported outbreak, an impromptu supper was made with a bag of beans dumped in a skillet and soaked in water overnight, but never cooked.  Dried kidney beans have to be boiled. Kidney beans should be soaked in water for at least 5 hours, and then boiled for at least 10 minutes. Kidney beans wouldn't be done in just 10 minutes. Exactly. Yeah, cooking pre-soaked beans for a couple of minutes can destroy the lectins, but it takes like an hour of boiling before they're edible, before you can flatten them easily with a fork. So the lectins would be long gone before they're palatable. Without pre-soaking, it takes 45 minutes in a pressure cooker to get rid of all the lectins, but an hour to make kidney beans edible. So basically, it appears that cooking beans to the point where they might be considered edible is more than sufficient to destroy virtually all lectin activity. Even 12 hours at 65 Celsius won't do it, though, which is like the temperature of a cup of hot tea. But you can tell they weren't done, still firm and rubbery. You can imagine someone putting those in like some raw vegetable salad and look, that could make people sick. And it has, with dozens of incidents reported over the years, all of which could have been easily prevented had the beans been soaked overnight, drained, and then boiled for at least 10 minutes. Or if they would have just eaten canned beans, canned beans are cooked beans. The canning process is a cooking process. None of the confirmed incidents were due to canned beans. We've known since the early 60s that conventional cooking methods can effectively destroy lectins and beans, and therefore it's possible to ignore any human problems that could be associated with lectins from properly processed legumes. So yeah, you can show that feeding lectins to rats isn't good for them or to sell tissues in a petri dish, but in these articles that claim dietary lectins may be disease-causing toxicants, the only negative effect they can find on humans are those raw and undercooked kidney bean incidents. Do dietary lectins cause diseases of affluence? How about we test that hypothesis?  Could they not find any people willing to eat paleo? In response to one such review of the evidence, based largely on laboratory rodents, one peer reviewer cautioned that we should not draw conclusions about the involvement of dietary lectins in the cause of diseases without definite and positive proof. That was written more than a quarter century ago, and no such clinical proof has yet to materialize. What we do have, however, is ever-growing evidence that legumes, beans, split peas, chickpeas, and lentils are good for us, associated with a longer lifespan, a significantly lower risk of colorectal cancer, leading cancer killer, considered part of a natural cost-effective and free-from-side-effects solution for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. Randomized people eat five cups of lentils, chickpeas, split peas, and navy beans a week, and you can see the same benefits in terms of weight loss and metabolic benefits that you do with caloric restriction portion control. And the whole lectins theory is based on lectin-containing foods being inflammatory, but prescribe four servings a week of legumes, packed with lectins, and get a significant drop in C-reactive protein. In fact, a 40% drop of this leading indicator of systemic inflammation eating more beans. The purported plant paradox is that on one hand, whole healthy plant foods are the foundations of a good diet, yet we supposedly need to avoid beans and whole grains in certain fruits and vegetables because of the evil lectins. But if you look at the actual science, all whole plant foods are associated with decreased mortality, meaning the more of them people ate, the longer people tended to live. And this includes lectin-filled foods such as whole grains and beans. So maybe there's really no paradox after all.