Hey guys, thank you so much for attending this podcast slash interview. I'm here with Adam Farfan Who's a financial expert entrepreneur and investor Adam has been traveling the world for a very long time? He's been a six-figure earner from the time. He was a teenager He hung out with the cat the people from real social dynamics in the Hollywood Hills He met people like John Maxwell iced tea Bill Nye Seth MacFarlane Tony Shay Shaquille O'Neal and many more celebrities He also mentored dozens of startups and worked with many multi-million dollar companies and helped create more than $500 million in value He's here to help you maximize your wealth save on taxes and get access to tools that only the top Wealthiest people in the world have access to so Adam. Thank you so much for being with us today And I'd love to get some of your knowledge Robbie thanks so much for having me man. It's been it's been great getting to know you the last A little while and it's great the fact that you and I have a you know a little bit of similar backgrounds And I love what you're doing and the kind of service that you give your clients and I'm excited to go and actually You know bring value to your people as well. So thanks for having me. Nice. Thank you. Thank you so much So I'd like to start off with a very simple question. How do you become a six-figure earner as a teenager? Well, you got out the right environment. I think the number one thing is definitely environment You know When when you talk about when people talk about you are a byproduct of the people you associate yourself with it is It's actually bigger than than people realize It's not just a matter of just who your friends are and stuff like that It really comes back down to simple things including energy that you're around that will go and actually help you Elevate the way you think about things your paradigm, you know, I remember my mentor said to me even a couple weeks ago He says you change you help somebody Alter change their paradigm double change absolutely the reality, right when I first learned about this industry You know, keep in mind that I didn't really have you know, the tools that a lot of people have today and believe it or not I'm actually grateful the fact that it happened. I didn't have every shiny toy or every, you know Single opportunity that was out there. I just got involved with some people that weren't fine I had I had made up, you know, people that were doing it. They were doing very well doing it themselves and all I did it was just simulate imitate Duplicate exactly what they were doing. So me making a good amount of money back then Was just a byproduct of what everybody else was doing around me. Does that make sense? Yeah, one of the guys was one of the guys was actually making, you know, 250 that a guy was making 500 The lowest guy at our office was 125,000 and at that time six figures was a lot of money and For me, it was just one of those things that you kind of have to do. I didn't know any better I to be honest with you I didn't know I knew that we were not, you know with my family with didn't have a lot of money But I didn't really know how much my dad made So it was actually years later where I felt like holy crap I'm actually making more money than most people that are out there And you know, I could afford a better lifestyle and stuff like that But it wasn't really too later because all I was doing was just simply, you know Emulating and duplicating what people were doing, you know what I mean in the industry. So that's how it happened Yeah, and tell me how did you how did you get yourself around these kind of people though because you know, I start off from a very kind of middle-class background and The highest earning person I knew I knew was like maybe just a guy in high-tech like how do you actually get access to These kinds of high-level people in the first place Yeah, it was interesting because I I actually grew up like a Mormon kid in Utah And there was a guy in my church that I would go to actually had a nice fairly nice lifestyle This guy had a nice black Mercedes and you know, you had a nice home with a pool And you know, it was it was it was interesting that we were even within the same paradigm to be able to go to the same church I mean, you know the same location I mean and it was interesting because one day this guy want, you know, this guy went, you know What's on my parents house and I remember it coming down the stairs and this guy was there You know, and he wasn't there talking to my dad about, you know, that church stuff he was there talking to my dad about financial services and He wanted my dad to do insurance investments and stuff like that it and my dad was an interesting fact He was actually trying to get my dad to work with them and my dad wasn't interested But I was and I remember I remember two simple things. I mean, you know, I don't I didn't I Dude, I had I barely could finish high school for credit. I love right so I didn't really have a high IQ I didn't really have you know, a massive world of opportunities and then you don't have a, you know Anything right, but I remember him telling two things that stuck with me He says to my dad the financial service is a high speed profession And all my dad had to do is get a simple license Right to go ahead and do this and my ears went up and I remember the first thing that I thought about Robbie I was like, oh my gosh, that means I never have to go to school ever Right and I went up to him next Sunday and then you know, that's kind of how it happened And he I said hey teach me what you can do. I will help you I'll clean for you. I'll do whatever it I can and then you know I started going to this house on daily basis and after school every day and that's kind of how I started, you know Falling in love with the industry and then a few years later. I got some licenses But you know, I started making money out of out of the stuff that he was doing because of the fact I was like I'm like I could help you get clients He had a little marketing company on the side that he would actually help people to do Like signage and stuff like that. I said I can help you pay with your marketing and and stuff like that And little by little it started adding up and I remember he's like I can't believe I'm paying you this much I'm like well the business that I'm bringing you it's a it's a lot of business too and that's kind of how I got it started 18 years old now. I met my first millionaire mentor. This is I actually met him at a You know, it was really interesting I had a chance to meet him and Mike's my vision even expanded him in greater Right because he had not only the money But he also had the the skill set and and the mindset and you know He told me Tommy things that I didn't think you needed to go in do with money So many times people think it's just about making money And who makes more money, but it doesn't work that way it works You know what happened what has to happen is you have to have the right tools the right environment. You have to you know Disciplines right that it habits Right, those are the things that he taught me and I was so grateful that the fact that happened And that's kind of how it's you know I started moving out the ladder of my network to the point where you know I'm a dial tone with people even today in the white house and people that are actually in You know celebrities and people that are athletes and stuff like that today and um I personally believe that it all just comes back down to one thing that held me out in my life Which is giving people value. I didn't know that I was doing that You know what I mean when I first met this guy when I was 16 I said What's one thing that you need to help in your house? And I remember going the first time and he says it's a complete mess Right like his whole office. So that was my formula given value. You know what I mean? So in one form or other Giving value is one of the most significant things that I could do for people You know something that everybody now teaches today. I guess, you know what I mean giving people value and I know that's research for me. So Yeah, absolutely. I mean my one of my biggest challenges as an entrepreneur Was like i'm a very value-giving person when you know when I talk to somebody one-on-one I'm usually very good But then once my business kind of grew and got to a point where I actually spend 95% of the day Not talking to To people directly it became very difficult to Figure out how to scale value if if you know what I mean like because you don't have that one-on-one Personal connection you have to kind of trust the people below you to have that with people And I understand you've grown your your company Substantially and reached a point where you're at that point. So you're like the executive now, right? You're not offering people Let's say value one-on-one But you trust to have people I mean unless it's a very valuable client, but you kind of trust people around you to do that for you, right? Yeah 100% and one thing you never want to go ahead and lose it's those it's those things that Will ultimately help you create relationships, right too many people out there are talking about network Right.  You're like, hey, you and I didn't get to connect with each other Here's my business card and I'm like, okay, but What why I don't know you we didn't talk to each other. You know what I mean What you felt like thousands of people, you know do the same exact thing Right. I'm not you know the chance of me calling you are slim to none and the slim's probably, you know Somewhere out, you know, not not not here, right? So One of the things that you I think is very important is for you to be able to go and develop a connection Right, uh, you know and a lot of times you're able to go to do that with a little bit of a vulnerability And intimacy, right a lot of times when we think about intimacy, we're thinking about it in a romantic way But if for example, you've gone through something That I have gone through And you and I can relate that story in similar ways Now there's intimacy between two people I'm most likely to do something greater for you in vice versa If there's some sort of intimacy because there's a level of connection that's in there And that comes through different forms whether that's stories or you know similar stories or similar Similar you know similar ways of growing up Right, those are the things that happens and and so that's that's what I'm grateful for is the fact that I always still today Is still do that and one thing that many people don't do is still are able to be thoughtful, right? Like I'll got for example one of my mentors today. He is a huge fan of alexander de gray He's Incredibly big in greek mythology. This is a guy that you know, really there's most people would be like I can't really gift anything to that guy Right, I can't really, you know, what kind of value can I bring to this guy? But dude, I'm this guy. I was so happy when I would send them, you know, uh, you know Coming from me coming from my heart, you know an item from you know, like a memorabilia or even a t-shirt I would be alexander de gray shirt, right and what that does he helps you create connections with people Right and when you're thinking about that not just the kind of value that you can bring to others But how to go ahead and develop a connection Uh, your odds of succeeding in business overall are a lot higher Doing it that way you're thinking about it from that perspective too Yeah, absolutely and um, I know I know for me one of my biggest breakthroughs was when I just started treating people Kind of in a very blasé way it was actually Like I had a really good period in my business where things just went up very quickly And then I just got you know, how you experience a lot of success You tend to get a bit jaded like in a negative way where You're just not very, um Excited anymore and things are just a bit more boring so I I ended up talking to some multimillionaires like some extremely successful entrepreneurs and I wasn't aware that they were as successful as they were and and uh They responded to me the same way that the regular prospect would And that that kind of gave me the first sign that wait, maybe if you talk to highly successful people Just like you would talk to a regular prospect that you're serving, you know make a connection build value find commonalities They'll connect with you the same way So it's almost like we put this Pedestal on people and you say oh this person is special. We need to I need to treat him differently And then what happens is you you kind of block any chance of a connection actually blossoming in the first place You're absolutely right. I mean you never know and you want to treat everybody with kindness with respect and At the same time treating like they're human beings most of my friends today that are very very successful that We have a very good connection with I didn't know how successful they were when I first met him You know what I mean, uh, you know, we have a friend in common The guy that you had brought up with my buddy that started rsd. Nick. Oh, you know He's girlfriend used to he's you know, he's he's wife at the time Used to work at my company and he's like, hey, I want you to meet my boyfriend You know and then we started making and being good friends and we went out to eat up pf chanks And we just connected that had no idea the size of business that he asked what he did Same thing with my other I have another one of my very very close friends walter brine fifth highest IQ in the world You know at one point was california's youngest billionaire When we first met, you know the first many many times I think for the first two years We just liked each other, you know, we just like he was a cool dude to me and you know, we had a lot of similarities we would always see each other at events one time we go to melz diner and The guy at the host that you know, he's like, are you walter brine?    So yeah, so I guess the point of this is that you never know And you know, you never know not only who they are, but you never know also who they're going to become as well Right, um, how many times have I have I met people before that were in, you know, uh beginning positions in their jobs And then years later, they're the manager of a hotel or something and I go back to the same hotel and They remember me treating them well when they were Burly starting at their jobs, you know what I mean that that happened to me actually in a In a in a hotel very nice hotel in Puerto Rico that I would go to Right, this guy started in us, uh, you know, he was just, you know, can help me you check in He's now the manager of hotel, you know, when I go over there It's like we're like bros because you know, I treated in a exact same way with total respect and stuff like that To the point where if there's no room sort, I'll be treated VIP very VIP Because I build a relationship with them for a very very long time So that's something to definitely keep in mind is that always stay alert with people that you meet Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I mean for me, I have a rule Uh, when I have a call scheduled with somebody I do the most minimal amount of research possible Like just enough to know, okay, just very generally who this person is Uh, because I don't want to know because I know if I know too much ahead of time Uh, I'm actually at a disadvantage. So it's it's different for people, you know, some people are more tactical Uh, with me the less I know coming in just, you know, just the minimum commonalities the better Uh, and I'm not when I researched somebody before talking to them just like when we talked for the first time I was like, oh cool. We both, you know Had that connection and so that was really good I wasn't searching for like how successful is adam like is he more successful than me or how much money does he have? Like I was just looking for what do we have in common? So I think I think maybe that's a good A good tip for me You know what I mean to be able to and that's that's something that you're striving to go ahead and do is become always genuine Not put on an extra, you know, not add a makeup to the you know, to to the value that you can give them Because the genuinity is enough, you know, I mean and ultimately that's what people are looking for Is somebody to be real with them and be genuine, you know what I mean? And that's something that as people especially successful people Um, you know, that that's very appreciative.  So it's definitely epic that you have that also Yeah, but I think there's also another element that um is like you need to know your pitch You know what I mean? So you need to like know Who am I what am I here for? What value can I give and you need to have that down like you can you know, pull it up at 2 a.m Without thinking like You need to have that down so well That you can actually connect with that person because then you know when the questions actually come and there's an opportunity to create A value for that person. You're like you're there. So you know what I mean? You can be there with them Uh and and and you know, you've got your ammunition ready 100% man Yeah, cool. Okay. So tell me how how do you actually help people? You know, you said you help them with uh Getting tools of the super rich and you know, I'm I'm honestly not that financial financially savvy like for me My plan is just build a business that makes an insane amount of money Uh and figure it out later after you're uh, you know, just invest everything back in the in the business You're not going to pay a lot of taxes And you know, hopefully make it into into a very very uh successful business and you know, we're about the rest After that, uh, maybe that's probably a bad plan. But uh, it's a good plan But at the same time you also want to be able to go in and have uh multiple streams Not only of income but also of resources and also of things that will go ahead and bring you well to You know towards Uh your life and where you're going with it, you know what I mean? And there's a lot of tools and Strategies out there that you could use, you know, how for me for example as I started getting as I started learning more and more and more and be more Um, if I'm familiar with the industry I learned that the industry only caters to people with a lot of money, right? I'm not talking about, you know guys making, you know, Seven six figure incomes. I'm talking about ultra wealthy people Or ultra, you know, successful companies like Wells Fargo and all these companies out there to help They really help out each other and I was thinking to myself. What about what about average entrepreneur? What about, you know, a small business owner like my dad, for example, right? And the reality of is the fact that most people out there don't know when anything when it comes to money Right if somebody's for example, you know a person that's self-employed At least as somebody who's employed. They already have like a you know, they have some sort of something right at 401k Right and and you know people sometimes, you know, they don't know They don't do the research as far as what are some of the things that they can do, right? They cross their fingers and hope it's going to go on and be there, you know later when they retire They have no idea how it works, right? And ultimately even a 401k, for example, was not created to be a retirement plan It was created to be a supplement for retirement plans, right? And right now if somebody's a business owner, for example, they don't even know what to do or where to go They can try to get create a solo 401k and stuff like that.  Everybody will say the same thing taxes Penalties age restrictions the fact that if I pull that money out I have to pay that money back, right?  So if there's that you have access to full market potential So the market goes down My clients never lose a dime if the market goes up they still have full market potential Are these products do no they've been around for decades and decades and decades a problem Is that when these plans were created Or we're actually able to go ahead and be only for the ultra wealthy, right? Some of these plans are even, you know, they don't even if you were to go ahead and get sued Right, they don't actually nobody can even touch this money because the Fed is not regular investment type of capital Right. So when when we sit down with with somebody We look at their goals what they want to do how much they want to accomplish And what we do is we formulate like, you know, like sack game plan of execution With the tools and strategies and I've got access to some of the biggest companies in the world Right multi billion dollar companies that will go ahead and give my clients access to those products regardless of what their net worth is So if they are business owners or they are self-employed or they are You know people that are employers or they have employees, for example You know, no matter what it is I I can go ahead and actually help them and I've sat down with countless people People that were celebrities people that were professional athletes after they were done or their contract was up How many this has happened dozens of times Where they're like adam, I knew how to make money. I don't know how to go ahead and keep it let alone grow it Right. So they essentially really need somebody like myself You know or somebody in you know in in in my company to go ahead and help them establish You know a bulletproof type of plan that will help them ultimately Get to where they want to go ahead and get to and what's great about this is that none of this money They don't you know, what's cool about is that in this particular cases Uh, they don't pay me any money. They don't pay any of my advisors any money We do the companies will take care of us, you know enough when it comes to it All we do is I'm a big believer of this is giving people free education showing them exactly what to do with their money No one where to go What are some of the tools and access things that they can go ahead and do and have And with that, you know, we're able to go to really create a nice game plan for themselves and and for their families and ultimately You know the you know the things that they want to do themselves So so for somebody like me who's uh, you know, let's say we've got uh, like three Types of people. Uh, we got the person with no plan and no income We've got the person with high income and we've got the person with uh, good plan, but not high income Uh, what would you say is the right way to go about it? Because I know the way that I operate and a lot of our clients operate that way as well Is basically just focus on Increasing the revenue just building a big business. But that kind of sounds to me like the athlete's story Of course, it's a bit different because I'm not employed by somebody. So, you know, I can't be fired Uh, but at the same time, you know, you never know what's going to happen. So, um What would be the steps?  What would you think are like the right steps? It goes both well, you know both together as a as a twin marriage that You know, your income growth needs to be a Coordination of your conversations with multiple people when it comes to mining different strategies Yes, I I have met people before Where they're like, hey, you know, I have this business. I'm putting a hundred percent of my money into this business and stuff like that But that's essentially putting all your extra one basket, right? That's what it really comes back down to And if that one if that goes away for and it could go down for so many reasons Right and most people are into this human belief. Well, I know that could happen But that's probably not going to happen to me and that's cool Right because sometimes it doesn't happen But reality of it is the fact how many times how many bits have I have I seen where they've been killed by auditors A lawsuit or maybe a downside of the market or the fact that you know the market, you know For example right now with this whole thing with between elections and all those different things There's people that depending on who gets elected that will massively affect their business Because of the way they do things, right?  I mean, you're able to go ahead and do that and you and I've talked to these two people in the form of Their business or at the same time where they're putting all their money into their house Right, because sometimes people do that. They're just doing different forms They're like, I want to put every single dime that I have into my house And you know so I can pay off my house like that used to be the american dream Right, but then what happens, you know, then now their money is attached to their house or like their business Right and and that's what it's attached to and that could happen many many things But if you have multiple spare tires, multiple floaties around your around your boat Right, you know, if you were to go ahead and have a massive yacht You don't want an execution boat. You know, if you could afford you could you could have a heli So if turbulence comes you're able to bounce out of there, right? You're able to go ahead and do that So you won't have the mindset of being able to go ahead and have multiple windows I always talk to people about multiple windows if you have one big window at your house and that could be your business or your Whatever it is if somebody breaks it you have to replace the whole window But if you break that and you separate those into multiple little squares If somebody breaks one window, you're like, okay, well that happened But you know, I have many other windows that I can go ahead and have I see to replace that one little you know what I mean, so Yeah, I think one of the most inspiring sentences I've ever heard was from Grant Cardone where he said You want to create a situation where no single disaster or even Multiple disasters together Can destroy your financial status Yep That's uh, I mean that that's an insane like Is it is it like a you know, uh Like a pipe dream or something and only I mean, do you need to be like a seven eight nine figure earner to create a situation like that where You're protected from you know many many uh angles or is that something that's like actually Don't do it correctly What it does is how many people throughout my career I have met them where they were making a lot of money, but they were just really broke at a higher level Because see what happens when people make more money? They end up getting the bigger house and that I'm getting the faster car and it is we're at the end of the day I mean, I I literally know people today that are struggling to go ahead and actually Be able to go ahead and take their girlfriends out on dates because the fight that they're like their lambo payment just came in You know what I mean or their house or you know, these things have happened So I don't really see people thinking about it from a wealthy perspective Now, that doesn't mean I'm asking people to go ahead and be like the millionaire next door We're you know, like like an old warren buffet where you've been driving the same car and let us, you know Have that very very Kind of you chill lifestyle. You don't need to be a spicer Right, you need to be able to go ahead and really think about it from that perspective Where you need to have two types of things, right? Like you want your life to be exciting your investments to be a little bit boring sometimes Right where your hours can be your investments can be, you know, uh, you know Timely right where you can go ahead and think about the long term of games So your mindset that can go ahead and be like a Ferrari that needs to be tortured business But there needs to be one that is essentially growing And that's also, you know, kind of having that quantum growth All the time for people to go ahead and do that because ultimately what you're looking for is you're looking for the number Everybody has a number Right, what is your comfortable number that it would I look at partners for example and business partners? That's one thing that I asked like what is your number? What are you comfortable with? Right and and I want to know what their comfort level is going to go ahead and be but because people do come to a point Where once just like just like rappers were to hit their first album And you know, you would never see them anymore Right, there's people out there that once they make a certain amount of income They're like, I don't really have to go through that So the reason I believe why you don't see people much more successful Is because they become very contempt With their lives or the way they are and the way it is and they're like, you know, the the greedy button is not really there Right, you know, we have two little bones here. My mentor told me this one of them is your greed button The other one is your heart button Right or your heart is what makes you keep going but there needs to be a greed button as well That keeps you moving forward that keeps you building right and when people ask you Or you got to have this in mind where you know, anybody that you talk to they have this little thing in their In their foreheads that says what's in it for me? Right, so you got to you you got to figure out all the time What do they want right and my father said this to me years and years ago He says you never know a person until you know what they want Because it is how what they want that ultimately will show you their true colors and that's not a bad thing That's a great thing because ultimately people can be genuine and honest about what they want to do And you have yourself out to be honest about what you want to do, you know to to yourself You know, I mean, yeah, and what and what do you want adam? What do I want for me my for me the most important thing right now that I'm that I'm working towards For the last 10 years. I would say I've been in cruise control In my life and because of the fact I love to travel. I love to hang out I love to you know, like giving with this kovat thing. It wasn't really that much different, right? I've been you know, I travel nine ten months out of the year And but at the same time what I want is ultimately for people to have had some sort of impact in my life Right, like for example, one thing that's very important to me. I remember being asked, you know, this question was somebody years ago And and uh, whether it's me or my company. I want people to look back and say hey I'm adam farfin before I don't know if we ever did business, but you know what? I'm a better person because of my association with that guy Right, or I'm a better person because of my association with you know, with his company and the things that you know He taught or the values that you know that would have go ahead and bring on you know what I mean So that's ultimately right now. What's important to me? I am having a total humanistic type of conversation. I am very much You know thinking about the longevity of life That's something that's a very, you know big motivator in my life today I know that we're living longer than ever And uh, you know, we're living, you know, you know, kids that are born today are going to live to you know, right now Somebody a baby that's I saw this in time making the other day. So whether that's born today is going to live to about 130 Obviously that technology, you know gets better and better and better You know the advances will make so that we're going to live few hundreds of years old So for me All those little things over a lot, you know the year 2000 has made it so that I am You know kind of excited. I'm reaching out to people I am you know, I it's not just about having a you know, great life for myself Which I've been able to build but at the same time, you know a legacy, you know, I mean Having something that builds, you know, that has a leg of its own that I built. So that's what I'm excited about Yeah, and and luckily you have that uh, ultra recognizable beard That I noticed you've had for like eight years or something I saw your pictures from like many many years ago and The the crazy thing is you look exactly the same in terms of the like the makeup and everything Yeah, it's it's pretty cool. You've got like a recognizable thing going, you know So when you're when you're like a billionaire or something, I think people are just going to instantly recognize your face Yeah, I mean I've had I was I always look at pictures. It's so funny. I literally looked the same as I did So many years ago and I'm like exactly the same Maybe maybe it's hanging out with celebrities.  That's what I heard I don't know if it's true I mean if you all you have to do is look at pictures of people like uh, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk Look at them when they're younger And look at them now like all of them look much better. It's almost like the more money you make Yeah, the better you automatically look you have like that smile of like Says money I I love that. So I I I I know we can wrap up with something really cool. Um, I've I've another really cool quote that I heard from Grant Cardone, which really kind of You know those things that you hear that just like bump you in the head and just stick with you like glue was he said that The best thing you can do for yourself financially is create a situation where When you're having a bad day You know, sometimes you have a bad day and you need something to pick you up Create a situation where anytime you have a bad day Just you open up your bank account or you open up your you know, your whole checking and and Your financial situation and that that's what gives you a good That's what puts you in a good mood. So you could have a bad day You know, everything's not working, but you open up your bank balance. You're like, yeah, you know that Oh So so that's a reality. There's something you think average people can can actually aim for and strive for I the number one thing that I get in my social media the question that I get asked a lot is how do I motivate myself? and I really think My the atom at one point that was very driven And why was that atom far from driven the atom far from was driven because he hated the reality that he lived in Not heated it because it was the pressure or anything like that, but you look around you, you know, I always tell this to people you right now You know Look around you. Do you like what you see?  Ask yourself. Is this what I like to drive? Right before you walk into your house. Ask yourself. Is this where I should live? It's where I want to live And then look at yourself in the mirror go to the first bathroom at your house and ask yourself Is this the person that I wanted to become And those things are not where you want them to be that's enough motivation You don't really need a book anymore.  Even if you don't say it a lot. It's listening to you all the time So if you really switch your mode and you're able to manipulate those feelings and you know, I know many people probably You know, I wouldn't agree with this. I don't know But the reality of it is the fact that I know many many successful people You kind of talk yourself to get back in You know what? I mean, it's not so much about how you feel But it's about the kind of reward that you're looking for Right, you know, the kind of game that you want the kind of bank account that you want and all those different things Even by what grant like you're saying grand set is looking at your bank account You're ultimately really like telling yourself you're psyching yourself into You know the future the father I have this I can have more and I can build this and I can go in and help any more people Right, you're ultimately not just letting your feelings sink into you But you're ultimately chasing a different feeling and letting those old belief systems and those old things, you know Get out of you. I believe we're perfect the way we are. I believe that You know our maker or whatever it is people believe in right it made us perfect But there was one little thing in our software, which you know was brought into us, which is feelings And it's been said the fact that you know, the best we're able to go out and master our feelings the most successful will become In our personal relationships in our businesses with our friendships, right?  So be excited about it. You know, yeah Yeah, for me, I mean Like I've I've been through insane ups and downs and and I've been terrified most of my life just to be honest like I've I took huge risks in my life All the time and I I just spent most of my life terrified And at some point I just said to myself it's like this realization that came to me Yeah Because of the stress because I had no choice because I was so overwhelmed all the time that I just said, okay from this point forward The mindset is this No matter what happens, uh, you cannot fail like as long as you're alive As long as you have you can talk or ride or or even communicate with your hands like As long as you're not dead You cannot fail like no matter how bad things get how what happens like you can always Try again, you can always do it again And and I've had to like study comeback stories, you know people like Nelson Mandela, you know Who went to jail for like 27 years And came back and and and became one of the most powerful people in the world um So yeah, I mean it's it's it's it's 90 percent in the head like for sure. It's um 100 percent.  Um You know, uh, last week I had all my stuff stolen, um in south beach my Information my laptop my iPads my literally I don't know why I took this to the to the pool to this really nice fancy pool And when I went to jacuzzi somebody just literally grabbed all my stuff including my IDs and everything else and A few days later. I'm like literally soaked into this and I'm like I cannot believe this happening to me Right. This is insane And I started thinking about a friend of mine that I look up to who has a massive multi-million dollar business And I'm like, oh my gosh, would he be feeling this way if this happened to Right and then after that I started thinking about it. I mean, I'm like this probably kids Problems compared to the stuff that he's gone through So if I want to get to this situation, I want to you know what I mean have this This needs to be something that I got to overcome This wasn't something that I heard it was it was just something that I told myself In the moment that that happened my paradigm about it. It was done. I contacted my attorney said, you know what? Let's let let it all go Let's just I need to move the chapter and if you go and move forward and it was so funny because it was instantaneously That weight kind of came off of me, right instead of thinking to myself. Oh my gosh, and Oh you what you learn is that ultimately that's how life is it is your paradigm That you live in that will alter your reality of the you know the way that you live So that's what I'm grateful for is being able to go in and always be able to adjust that You know to the point where you know you're looking for example all these different guys that are successful What's the big difference? Right just like what is the big difference between somebody who has who makes $50,000 a year and a $500,000 a year guy The difference is just a little bit more You know, right? They you know the guy that goes to bed just goes a little bit later He wakes up a little bit earlier. He shows up a little bit more He makes that one more phone call In little by little their income just starts growing as opposed to the guy that just decides to not do it Right many many many people that are listening or watching this. So you ask yourself that very successful people What's the difference between you and them nothing? Sometimes it's not like there's our you know Beautiful human beings avatar looking dudes Right for crying out loud. What's the only difference of what what happens in there between their two years That's the only difference between you and them Right and that's what happens The crazy part is the they don't necessarily even like go to sleep later work more They they might even be working like half the hours that you are Uh, they just think much bigger in the first place So it's it's crazy like uh Yeah Like you you think bigger like what you did with the The theft incident And then you raise your life circumstances And then that helps you think bigger and then So it's like you just like bounce between the two all the time Yeah, if your life's not going up your thinking needs to go up And then when your thinking goes up your life's going to go up and it it just kind of bounces between the two Yeah, I started with a mastermind alliance in my mind I had a few different people that I I would love and people that I wanted to meet in my life or in a couple of them Were not even people that were alive anymore And the biggest thing that helped me in my life in my business is asking myself What would this person do What would so and so do in this particular case? Kind of like what I did with this particular case that happened to become a week ago It's what would so and so do and you could do the same exact thing Right like when you go through a problem, you know, uh, you know, you mentioned for example grant a law Right, so grant somebody by me somebody that you might look up to so when you're going through things ask yourself What would grant do in this particular case? What you'll find Is that you are able to go in and actually simplify your problems a lot and you're able to solve them a lot better By you know that way, you know what I mean? I I do just to wrap up. I know we've kind of went a bit overboard, but um, I actually it's really embarrassing, but I Anytime I'm in a really bad place. I'm the kind of person that just doesn't go to people for help I'm kind of I like to consult myself. I think you're like that too to some extent um What I do is I I literally just put on my headphones We go take a walk across the street Sometimes just get a cigar or something just take a walk across the street And I literally start talking to myself So I would literally like walk in the street and I'd say okay now you're in this situation What do you think about that and I would like be extremely animated? I would be like Almost as if I'm in like this super intense conversation and imagine like I'm walking on the street I have headphones so everybody's gonna naturally assume I'm talking to somebody else And and I literally would like coach myself through problems By just getting really intense and talking to myself and then By taking it out of my head Just like what you do is you kind of project to another person I would literally like just talk to myself and I would but because you took it out of your head you're able to look at it more objectively and Suddenly like boom like like situation. I could never resolve like at the end of the world You know, I spend five ten minutes just walking around the street just talking to myself and suddenly Epiphany comes and and it's like I have the exact solution to the problem I love that. I mean, that's that's definitely a you know Awesome strategy to do. It's kind of like meditating when you're talking to your higher self Right. Have conversations with your like with your better self, right?  That's not true And I would like argue with myself and and that would be like the higher self talking with the lower and again, you do you do the same thing where you kind of Think things but then you project them against like a successful person that you appreciate and and and then That person says like that's not that's stupid. I wouldn't do that And uh, so that's so cool, you know or or again if you're able to access like a high level person Uh, that's also really good Yep Awesome adam, uh, so just to just to finish up. I know you're offering Free consulting service where you basically coach somebody financially and take them through their entire finances and how to improve their situation Can you kind of wrap up by by giving more information on that and how we Guys want to go to learn about money and learn what are some of the things that you could do? Just get a hold of me. I'll connect you with one of my incredible wealth advisors Um, that will go to actually help you build a strategy for yourself and your business and what it's you're looking for Um, to go ahead and do especially if it's something, you know, if if doing something no matter how big or small Whether it's a few hundred dollars or a few thousand dollars, whatever your small amount is You want to go ahead and start something for yourself? That's going to go to help you elevate Just get a hold of me. You can go to adam farfin.com And uh, you know, just write me an email Contact yourself with me or I miss you to find your social media as well Um, all all of them is the same.  So without being said, uh, Thanks so much man. Thanks for the opportunity My pleasure. You're like the most accessible Highly networked person I've ever met Very cool That's pretty that's pretty cool. Okay. Thank you so much adam and again looking up adam a d a m farfin F a r f a m dot com or just instagram or just google the guy like you'll find a ton of stuff from him So thank you so much adam and uh, hope to have this again soon Awesome bro. Thanks so much. I'll talk to you a bit. Thank you


All right, let's check this out here bling bling I think given that we just see that I think it's okay. I was wondering if we are you know, let's just set the frame emptiness I was gonna say what if You would put you know the phone here ish But then if she brings her arm then we see already the body, which is a bit weird too It's just such a huge So probably say it's okay Comes in grab the phone. It just feels really hard still how Like how hard you hit the phone on their ear also the arm comes over and gets to her ear when it gets there The whole body animation stops. So it's very close to pose. Here's a pose here is a pose And you go in between the two So you're gonna have to do something where she gets to this point Soften how quickly she gets that phone to the ear and when that phone is on the on the ear Then you will continue with a little bit of rotation in the body and maybe her head turns a bit more when a bit up of it You have to layer which parts Come to a stop just like which part starts Right And few things here, which is good her arm is a lot better. That's pretty good. This is a bit weird when she gets to here it's kind of It's almost okay, but there's something about she moves forward while this arm ends back Here to here again. It feels very close to pose. Here's a pose here's a pose. So again, you got to offset sections of the body You need this I'm not sure what she's doing behind the phone here That stopped there and you also extend your arm almost looks like and then it comes out. So maybe She puts that down she can take that arm put up here To get into this this was a bit weird back there and at the end she gets very weird where a She at her eyes are locked again. Like there are no eye dart. There's no blinks You just was like a puppet dead puppets and then that massive turn feels like there's just a rotation in Y in the roots Without taking any steps. There are no way shifts. There's no break up in the chest It's just one big piece that turns and you want to break it up between the chest the pelvis Pelvis chest and the head So that's a bit funky there and then coming back to this one Better I don't know. It still has that massive feel of her roots in the graphite There goes forward stops forward stops forward stops and you want to Soften that a bit more like that where it comes down and it doesn't the full stop kind of Continues to go forward goes back again. So it has him always a slight dip Just doing a massive stop through here It's better though, but you can still Soften it This feels also a bit IK it was like your arms the way those wrists are rotating It's a strange again post-to-post thing where that arm goes down and the and the The wrist counters are rotating up and it comes to a stop exactly when The arm comes to a stop this again feels very post-to-post Good IK there This a lens where it translates looks There wouldn't be that much parallax here Just make sure you're you're changing just the FOV and your camera the lens don't do it translate There's a feeling of a maybe a lens and you translate up. I don't know what you're doing here. Just make sure it's only only a Lens change and then you're going to focus on this which means that you're going to start rotate up to her face All right to reframe this you want to that's the camera. That's the girl You would stay here and just rotate up and over to get to this frame. She sees that the thing is gone Again, same thing here Guys are very post-to-post. They're very twins. They all move at the same time. There's no offset Her arms are moving down while her jaw just moves up and the jaw is just very very Even in timing and you probably close it here, but then you got this big impression here Like This feels better. I kind of like this The problem with that is that your your lids are just massively Your eyelids They have a curve like the curvature on the on the lids like this But you don't want this to be like that. That's fairly broken So you want that lid to be And at a normal angle and then the emotion of hmm or whatever that's being done through eyebrow All right So one thing that I keep seeing though in all of your submissions I don't see in your email. You're saying that you're fixing but I don't know, you know What else you're doing here? How far into you are so for instance on something like this on her arms Or in the previous shot like I don't know if you're just not that far along And you know that you have to offset these But even when you lower her arms, there's nothing in her shoulders And you remember the first shot when she opens the fridge and she grabs something every time there's an arm movement You got to make sure that the shoulder gets involved and because of that the chest gets involved and so on and so on So there's something that i'm noticing that every shot seems to have the same notes Right, so if you have a character, it's my character And you move change of color here. It's fancy If you have the arm that goes up It has to involve the shoulder and because of that it's going to involve the chest The hips and that to a certain extent right, but it's going to phase out to a point where you might have most of the movement here Definitely a lot more in the in the shoulder a bit more in the chest Barely in the hips and almost nothing in the arms. Definitely a lot more in the head So that type of bottom mechanic Uh, I just don't see in your shots Also again when she moves stuff around Like her arms at this point like a lot of times I mentioned breaking up things where you got to look at Things have to be offset for asymmetry and you also want to separate the the head Chest and pelvis through the neck here Uh, so that it doesn't feel pose to pose you want to change your pose and you have to look at Which body part is leading and then you have to offset things and But i'm seeing these notes on every shot So at this point if you submit something like this technically You know all the shots that I've given from previous all the notes that have given from previous shots should be applied to this So you you should already have a pass with Offsets no twinning no even timing. These are all linear keys Like you know how the jaw goes up and your arms go down and the graph out of there It looks like this that's your curve versus some ease in and out You know also all those things at this point. I shouldn't really repeat myself I obviously I will and I want to give you the notes But it's just i'm slightly confused as to why those issues come up in every shot So I would highly recommend that you take note of What i'm telling you right to have a bit of a hit list I got to look at this this this this this and this then every time you do a shot you do Okay. Well, did I do this? Yes. Did I do this? Yes. Oh, I didn't fix this Let me fix this. Okay. I did this and then you can go down the list and say, okay I addressed all of those things now. I'm ready to submit Right, and now I can send the clip for feedback So offsets a symmetry linear timing breakup of body parts all that stuff should be in your Blocking pass because otherwise it feels more like a layout pass which is fine technically But then you got a note that in the email because i'm just not quite sure If you know that something's not quite there yet or Or if something is not quite clicking when I give the feedback So that you you know, so you would implement it in the next shot. Anyway, slightly confused. Let me know what your process is Uh, there's just a couple things that I feel at this point. You shouldn't Do anymore given all the previous notes I hope that makes sense. If not, let me know email me. Thank you All right There's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want you can submit whatever you want You get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


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Okay real quick I came across a couple of things today that I just had to stop everything to make a video and tell you about I had to go to the post office it's right across the street from the big library so I thought I'd visit the gift shop there see if there was anything and as usual there was something let me show you I did pick up a couple of dollar books but I'll tell you about these at my regular monthly reads video but first of all on one of the picnic tables in front of the library box of brownies there's a box of brownies mine now but then when I was walking past the thrift store they had a shelf on wheels out front that said take all you want for a dollar and sticking right out like a sore thumb was this on the shelf I did a double take and then a triple take and I said to myself is this what I think it is yeah it is little mermaid VHS in the classic clamshell and it's that edition that particular edition take a look boy was I surprised and happily so I had one of these originally when they first came out and I sold on eBay a number of years ago and it's actually worth some money so now I've got another one I'll show you a couple other little things to fill out the rest of this video the new mall they're building down the street they put up a decorative light up post out front on the corner take a look it's got a nice tropical design scheme there's some fish and a sea turtle there's a starfish hiding in the seaweeds here I don't think you can see him now there's a seagull very nice and a chair on that same corner just a month or so ago on that same corner about two months ago they installed these crossing signals for the blind you press the button when the light is against you and it tells you the weight which is fine but when the light changes and it's time for you to walk it does this it's been like that since they put it in I mean what a dirty trick


I just want to say a few words about the election on Tuesday. For many people in Pennsylvania, as well as for me, there were candidates for office that we supported that were successful and some who were not. Specifically, I want to congratulate Joe Torcella, who became the state treasurer, Eugene de Pasquale, who was re-elected as the state's auditor general, Josh Shapiro, who is now the attorney general elect. And Pat Toomey, who won re-election to the U.S. Senate. I want to congratulate all of them on their wins and welcome the new lawmakers who are coming to Harrisburg in the coming year. I look forward to getting to know all of them and to working with all of them, and I will be reaching out in the coming days. On a national level, of course, our president-elect is Donald Trump.  I want to also note that many people across this state are still hurting, and I think that came through loud and clear in the election. There are many people who don't believe that the economy is working for them, and they're looking to their elected leaders to hear their voices and take action to address these fundamental issues that are squeezing the middle class and working families. We should not ignore this reality. And that's why right here in Harrisburg, I'm going to continue to do what I've been doing, and that is work across the aisle with Democrats and with Republicans who already hold historic majorities in both the Senate and the House right here in Harrisburg. I'm going to continue to work with them to make Pennsylvania better. That's what we all want. So over the last two years, just to remind you, we have done a lot of good things working together. For example, we've gotten historic increases in education at all levels, pre-K early childhood education, K through 12 and higher education, 640 million new dollars over the last two years. We have a fair funding formula. We've legalized medical marijuana. We have historic reforms to our liquor system first time since prohibition. We've provided unemployment insurance for 44,000 people in our unemployment compensation system, and we continue to make major progress in combating the heroin epidemic in Pennsylvania. Here, we've also shown that we can make things work and we can work across party lines to get things done. There's still more that we have to do. I intend to do what I set out to do, what I campaigned on, one of the things that's still unfinished business, and that is give real property tax relief to Pennsylvanians. We have to reduce property taxes. We need to protect Pennsylvania jobs from being sent to other states. We need to invest in manufacturing and in our economy. We need to ensure that those who work hard can join the middle class. These priorities are values shared across our state regardless of where you live, how you vote, what party you belong to. It's something I've been dedicated ever since I started working in my own business, driving a forklift. My business as I build it, I did that with my employees, not on their backs. I did it with profit sharing system that shared profits. And I treated my employees with the dignity and respect they deserve. That's what Pennsylvanians want for themselves. And I also want to assure Pennsylvanians that I will continue to protect women's health. I will continue to work to make sure that people have access to healthcare. For right now, almost 700,000 Pennsylvanians who are now enrolled in Medicaid who weren't just two years ago. I will keep fighting to staunchly defend the rights of minorities, the rights of people to vote, and for equal rights for the LGBTQ community. I will strive to make government smarter and more efficient while also investing in everyone's future from our children to our seniors. Pennsylvania was founded on principles of inclusion by William Penn and the basis of tolerance, fairness. And I look forward to continuing to work with Republicans and Democrats and everyone in between to continue to build on those grand traditions.


Greetings and welcome to the Introduction to Astronomy. In this lecture we are going to look at formation of the structure in the universe. So we're going to look a little bit about the largest scale structures in the universe. So let's go back and start looking at galaxy formation. How do galaxies form? Do they form top down or bottom up? What does that mean? Top down means that all the gas formed stars early on and nothing much happened. That it was just a very slow evolution. So essentially a great burst of star formation billions of years ago. And then the stars just go through their lives. All the gas is used up so no further stars would form. A bottom up formation means that smaller galaxies formed first and then giant ellipticals formed through mergers of these smaller galaxies. So remember we know that mergers are important. So is it this or is there some combination of these two models that put together to decide how ellipticals form? How about spiral galaxies? Well spiral galaxies we look at bottom up formation because it's over a longer period of time. There is a rapid collapse. Things collapse down quickly forming the basic spiral galaxy. And then mergers would then add to the galaxy. So galactic cannibalization as they cannibalize smaller galaxies would allow that. So we have the very rapid collapse from a hydrogen cloud which collapses under gravity. And then the ancient stars dominate. And then the spiral arms can be built by companion galaxies can be increased by the gravitational interactions which will then cause more star formation and highlight those spiral arms. Can you get an evolution between spiral and elliptical galaxies? Well this is one thing we looked at when we talked about the Hubble classification and could ellipticals turn into spirals? This is not possible. There is no way an elliptical is going to gain gas and dust to be able to start forming stars. However you can go the other way. In fact a massive collision of two spiral galaxies could form an elliptical galaxy and this is perhaps what will happen with our own Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy when they collide in several billion years that we could actually form an elliptical galaxy as now part of our local group. Now this is the smaller scale for just looking at galaxies. How about looking at this on the larger scales? How do we form the large scale structure? Well we know that this large scale structure formed fast. It just took the first few billion years and this cannot be done. It is absolutely not possible using only ordinary matter. Just look at the material we see in stars and galaxies and gas clouds and from radio emission. All of that material and we let the simulations run under gravity. They will form structure but it will take a much longer time than possible. There has not yet been enough time for such structures such as the filaments and voids that we see today to have formed. Well we need something else. We need some other type of material and that's what we've looked at is the cold dark matter. If we have significant amounts far more than we see in the visible matter these can reproduce the structures that we see in the universe today. How do we go about forming those structures? So let's take a look. We form structures. Initial universe was almost completely smooth. If it was completely smooth we wouldn't have anything but since it was not quite perfect dark matter was able to clump. So dark matter because it does not interact with light with energy with other matter except through gravity it was able to form clumps. While ordinary matter was still being affected by the radiation, the electromagnetic radiation the dark matter does not interact through electromagnetic radiation. So its gravity was able to start it clumping. First this gives us a jump start on forming the structures. So the dark matter started forming clumps and these clumps had more gravity and gathered the ordinary matter. And these clumps then evolved into the filamentary structures that we see today in the universe. So it was because of the dark matter that was able to collapse before that gives us the structures that we see and allows us to actually be here seeing the clusters that have actually formed. As these clumps form the filaments structures begin to form from the bottom up. So first you form large star clusters in small galaxies. This is what we see when we look at the very early universe. Remember we can look back and see what galaxies looked like shortly after the formation of the universe. They are not the large spiral and elliptical galaxies that we see today. They are large star clusters, small galaxies. Then black holes would form at the center and they grew through many collisions and that gave us the active galaxies that we looked at. Those galaxies then grouped into clusters and then into super clusters and finally into filaments and voids that we see. This is an ongoing process. This still is going on today. This continues. So let's look a little bit here. One more section on this and let's look at this. So how do we form a cluster? Well first the small clouds formed and these merged to form the galaxies. Galaxies then came together into clusters and then finally super clusters eventually giving us the filaments and the voids that we see today. So small clouds here formed together to form various galaxies. So we form a couple different galaxies whether it be spiral elliptical depending on how those clouds combined. And then those galaxies could then merge together to form larger galaxies and then eventually the galaxies would group into clusters and finally into filaments giving us the structures that we see today in our universe. So let's go ahead and finish up this section with our summary and what we've looked at is galaxies form through a combination of top down and bottom up processes. Dark matter is needed to explain how the structures that we see in the universe today. These are things we actually see could have formed in such a short time. And the large scale structures that we see can be reproduced using simulations that include very significant amounts of cold dark matter. So that concludes this lecture on formation of structure in the universe. We'll be back again next time for another topic in astronomy. So until then, have a great day everyone and I will see you in class.