A couple of months ago, I was challenged to do 30 days with GNOME and do a video about it. And it was an interesting idea, but I never found the time to do it, until now. So I received a new computer about two weeks ago, and I decided to try out GNOME. And for the last few weeks, I've kept GNOME as my primary desktop.  How did you develop for KDE if you use GNOME? Truth be told, I also have a KDE install, but I only really only use it for developing KDE. And as soon as I finish, I'm like, okay, I'm done. I go back to GNOME and start using GNOME for everything else, which means that I've actually used GNOME for everything but working on KDE. And it was interesting. So I really liked the experience. I don't want to come here and say, no, it was terrible. Go to Plasma now. GNOME is really good, half of the people use it. And there are two things that I think particularly justify the use of GNOME, especially on a computer like this. First one being the support for the fingerprint reader. And I know KDE Plasma is getting this in 5.24, but it's still not as good as what GNOME does. So if you're on the login screen, but also at the startup, the, I don't know what's the name, SDDM, sorry for Plasma, GDM for GNOME. And you can just swipe your finger on the fingerprint reader and it works. SDDM, which is the Plasma one, if you get it wrong, maybe you touch it in the wrong way, you're actually stuck and you need to reboot a computer to do an example. So it's not as good. Also the trackpad gestures. Now I'm recording on X, because I haven't yet set up recording on Wayland, but in Wayland you can actually use touchpad gestures. So using three fingers, you can switch between workspaces like that, but also open up the overview. And it feels so nice. Like I'm so waiting for Plasma to implement this. It has four finger gestures, but it's not as good. Like the GNOME one is extremely good. I was extremely happy to use it. Also two things in general that I liked, many people say that GNOME is not customizable and you will go back to Plasma because Plasma is more because, well for sure Plasma is more customizable, but GNOME is not that bad either. And the idea of extensions, for me it worked really. There were just a couple that weren't supported for the latest version, but I just forced them to work and they did. So first one, you can see that I customized a couple of things. I added the blurred background because I love blur. I couldn't live without blur somewhere, so I put it on the background of the overview and it looks gorgeous, like super gorgeous. And then I changed the position and size of the things, but minor stuff. Still, having a couple of extensions I think really helps. By default it was the Ubuntu flavor. I just disabled those extensions and I'm fine. I don't need a dock if there's this. Another thing I liked is the general idea of using virtual desktops that magically appear and you just move windows through them. Well, it fits me. Like on Plasma I used three multiplied by three grid and it did the job for me. I never minimized windows on Plasma either, so I didn't feel like this was lacking in GNOME. I never used folders on my desktop on Plasma, so I didn't feel like GNOME was missing this. So it just worked for me. Like it is the kind of workflow that works for me, so I didn't have an issue except a couple of things. So first, I do not understand why if you go on a first desktop, let's see, and you press the files up, it brings you back to another virtual desktop, because if all the work you do is between virtual desktops, maybe you have, I don't know, six of them, and maybe you forget that you had an app open like five virtual desktops on the left and you just get back to that. I wish that there was an easier way to open an app instead of right click, new window each time. It's a bit slow. I don't know if there's a way. Sure, I could use a dock, but I mean, GNOME Vanilla should be able to do this in my opinion. That's my take. I also would like for some way other to rearrange the virtual desktops. Plasma has this as an example. You can just drag and drop them, which is cool, but at least some way to actually open fresh desktops on the left, because okay, I understand that you're making the older things through virtual desktops. That's what I did in Plasma too, but if I have five busy virtual desktops and I'm on the second and I need to do quickly a sub task, I need to switch four desktops on the right, do it, and then four desktops on the left. It's not that efficient on a three by three. It's a bit better. I don't know. Sometimes I feel a bit claustrophobic. Let's see. Except that it works nicely. So a couple of things that I miss from Plasma, because I do miss something. The instant tray, let's say it's just not as good. Like this instant tray of Katie Plasma is such a cool feature. As an example, every time I plug in my microphone, well, both on Linux and on Windows, my microphone thinks it's a speaker for some reason. So it switches to the microphone as a speaker. And as you can understand, it's not actually a speaker. So audio stops working. And on Plasma, I just go into audio and then click back on my actual speaker. On here, I need to go into settings and then search for audio, audio, and then it's actually sound, not audio. And then output device and the select speaker, Tiger Lake. And okay, I can do this, but every time. And I know it's a bug of the microphone, but I mean, there are other use cases to actually be able to select. And by the way, I saw today a mock-up of this PopOS desktop that PopOS system 76 wants to do. And there's actually a way to select the output device. So that's cool. But in general, okay, things that should work work. But I wish that there was something a bit more on the compact system tray representation. But I can live with this. It's not that big of an issue. Another example, I'm watching a film on MPV. And MPV, for some magical reasons, doesn't actually block the screen timeout. On Plasma, I just went to the brightness applet and clicked on override and do not, you know, turn off the screen automatically. On GNOME, I need to go into settings again, settings. And then I also need to go into what's power.  And then blank screen, I need to put it as never. And then automatic suspend, I need to turn on, off this and this. Okay, I could do all of that. But every time I need to watch a video on MPV, really. And, you know, those are very minor issues. So these were my impressions of the last two weeks. It's actually 14 days with GNOME, not 30, but I'll get to it. And my impressions are really positive. I think that both GNOME and Plasma are incredible products and I'm super happy using either, really. Of course, my personal preference is a bit with Plasma, for a bit of the reasons that I've stated, even though GNOME has also some very strong points. However, what about now? Am I going to keep this nice desktop, which is GNOME? And the answer is actually yes. I'm going to stick with GNOME for a bit more, I don't know, one, two months, I can tell. But I think that I'm not ready to go back to Plasma and lose the touchpad gestures and a good fingerprint reader. Now, if the fingerprint reader gets improved and there is some work on that direction and the situation with touchpad gestures improved and there is actually no one actually working on this right now, but maybe I could give it a shot or maybe somebody else. Well, I'll be happy to switch back, but for now, this situation is fine. And it's a bit weird to develop for KDE and then not actually use KDE because when I develop stuff and then I actually use it as my mainly driver, I actually notice some bugs that I accidentally created in my own code. With using GNOME, I won't notice them. However, I like having a very stable main desktop and then when I need to do development, I switch to the unstable too. Although I gotta say I had some bugs here, too, some crashes. Happens in GNOME too. So, what else? Overall, good experience, I liked it. I'm gonna stick with GNOME, which is why this video is called KDE Developer Switches to GNOME because right now I am switching for not for developing, I'm still gonna develop for KDE Plasma, don't worry. But I know as my mainly driver, I'm gonna kick GNOME for a bit and then maybe probably switch back to Plasma in a month or two. But I was really happy. And what else to say? I think that this extension with the blurring is awesome, this spot. I love being able to rearrange everything this view with all of the application and never used it. And by the way, okay, this is important. Don't click away from the video, this is important. I was thinking, this part of GNOME is so useless for me, I wanted to give it a shot to try write an extensions, an extension singular that actually messes up with it a little bit and actually makes it more useful for me. So, I was thinking, okay, this is my role of virtual desktops. What if in here, instead of showing all of the applications, I could actually see options to switch to other rows of virtual desktops. So, you have rows, but you have more than one. That would improve my workflow so much and I would love to do it. I gave a look to extensions and my impression is that it's somewhat feasible, somewhat to some extent, but I have zero skill whatsoever in doing GNOME extensions. So, if you know somebody that knows how to do extensions and would be like super happy to work with me explaining to me like how something like that would be implemented practically, then I would be really happy to learn something about this GNOME thingy. So, that was it. I hope that you're not like, angry with me because I switched to GNOME for the last weeks and the coming weeks as well, but I think it is a good idea in general once in a while to go around mess with stuff and see if other people are doing things better than Plasma. I think really that the main things GNOME is doing better is its overview. KD is also developing a new overview, but it's not developing the overview in the way that I would personally want to and I actually did more cuffs, but a long story short, I don't think they will be implemented or maybe they will. Can't tell right now, but till then, till then I'm happy with this. Okay, you're not seeing, sorry, but I'm happy with this GNOME thingy. In the future, yeah, I will get back to Plasma, but for now.


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The day where I had to watch a chance to do another round. You can see in there as well, you can see the screen, just so you know. You can see you're not getting a block in the view of my fat. No, no. Grab the lob handle, that's what I'm waiting for. Soon, soon. Oh, so you don't grab one there? No. Okay. Did you want that one? Not really. That's the one I've been sweating about. Was I flexing then? No.  And in the past, when I've done these tests, I've said things like, so I'm about to start an hour of flogging, and I've got to tell you, I'd rather stick my dick in a blender. But in 2023, my friends, I'm going to be doing more gratitude practice. For example, this morning I am very grateful for the fact that I get to use both my legs fully functional and also push my heart as far as I can take it. So, let's get into it. Five down. 20 to go. Time to get some calves in. Not sponsored. I bought this from the local supermarket for half price, and it's actually really terrible. I don't recommend them. Always make sure you get down a lot of fluid when you have a gel. Can't remember the exact amount, but according to Steph Cronin, I'll put it somewhere on the screen. That's 20 done. It's a different type of hurt. That one. What's my biggest issue with my diet currently? At the moment, you're not fueling enough or eating enough at the beginning of the day. So, what that is resulting in is when you get to that mid-afternoon time, you're fatigued, add in some work stress or life stress or just general day-to-day sort of activity.  So, let's have a sneak peek at some of my dirty habits and we'll start off by when I pick my kids up from school, which is every other day. And what we'll do is typically go grab a treat. And nine times out of ten, I'll grab a bag of veggie chips or even better yet my favourite $10 special avocado oil chips and I'll smash the whole bag. If I'm not picking the kids up from school, normally around the 3pm mark, I'll head into the kitchen and unleash on crackers, hummus, avocado, dark chocolate, and so forth. At dinner or whenever there is a platter in front of me, such as at mum and dad's every Sunday lunch, I will fill my plate up twice, sometimes three times. In the evenings, I love a cold beer. Normally a strong one too, IPA 6%. Plus, that's what you're out. And since moving here to the Sunshine Coast about four years ago now, because of the heat, I've got into a bad habit of having one most evening, sometimes sitting there watching the laundry dry, which works out to be about five to seven beers per week. And a few nights per week, I'll grab a tub of coconut ice cream and I'll sit there with Ruby, watching the grassy next generation and I'll smash half of that thing. So back to Steph. So what I'm going to try and do is fuel you more in the morning. That's fine. That's going to support your performance on the bike, but it's also going to support your energy levels over the day and then your hunger and appetite over the day so that by mid-afternoon and by dinner time, you're going to have enough fuel there but enough food there, I should say, but not so much that it's then going to lead into a surplus or energy surplus. You've got a really good starting base. So there's definitely room for movement and you'll find you'll likely lose most of your body fat from your abdominal area. But you've got a really good starting base. So kilogram-wise, it's hard to say based on how much lean muscle you either maintain or build. I would say from a body fat perspective, you've got anywhere from three to five kilos worth of body fat.  That might be equivalent to three kilos on the scales. However, that might actually be less if you're going to build some muscle at the same time and that's going to be based on your training program and obviously the amount of lean muscle that your body's capable of building. So I reckon it's been almost two years since I've done a vlog series on this channel where I'm kind of bringing you along on a journey and I apologize. It's been that long though because I've been myself in front of that thing over there which is unfortunately a computer screen trying to get a business off the ground being the Road Cycling Academy but the good news is over the past couple of years I've been able to hire some really good people, people that I trust and it's taken a lot of weight off my shoulders meaning I can run more series like this on the channel. I can give myself some time back and I kind of feel these are the best videos, best series to follow where somebody is being open, vulnerable and I can bring you along on the journey and we can all learn as we go through the process. So in my opinion, my biggest weakness as a cyclist is efficiency and I'm conscious you can break efficiency into multiple compartments. You've got sitting on the bike aerodynamics. You've got bike handling skills, efficiency in a bunch and we will delve into those as we go through this series which I'm forecasting to be about 12 to 16 weeks in length but for me the low-hanging fruit particularly from a data perspective something that we can sort of measure at the start and at the end of the series is power to weight. Now quickly for those of you who might be unaware power to weight is simply the amount of power you can generate while pedaling in wattage and I get my wattage reading from my power meter pedals divided by your body weight in kilograms so we can actually get a power to weight ratio for different segments which we'll discuss now. Now at the start of this video you saw me doing an all-out five-minute effort and then a 20-minute all-out effort and the day prior to that I also did three all-out five-second sprints and one minute as hard as I could go. In other words I now have a good idea on my current neuromuscular all-out sprint power my anaerobic power my VO2 max power and my threshold power and I also weighed myself at steps during the day and at home the next morning less the foam weight of 200 grams I'm about 78.4 kilograms which did surprise me because typically with this amount of weight in the past I've been closer to 80 kilograms and I haven't really been weighing myself a lot in the last couple of years so I feel probably over the last couple of years I've lost further muscle mass notably my upper body where I have legacy weight from going to the gym for a number of years. Now in my training software today's plan I also have all my history all my history from when I started training with power in 2013 which includes a couple of years when I was racing with an amateur team in form racing so there's a lot of data there for us to be able to reflect on and ultimately what I want to do in this series at the age of 41 now turning 42 in July is to beat my all-time power-to-weight numbers for you guessed it 5 second, 1 minute 5 minute and 20 minute in other words I want to get fitter than I've ever been before on the bike this year and look I really don't want this to come across like a show-off thing or anything like that I am fully aware as a recreational and amateur road cycles which is what I am I am middle of the pack and in terms of efficiency on the bike I have a lot of work to do this is really for me about self-improvement and I'm hopeful for some of you out there a good learning opportunity as I bring subject matter experts into the fold such as Steph Cronin the sports dietician Neil Stambry for another bike fit with me Aaron Turner a cycling specific strength and conditioning coach and my cycling coach Ryan Thomas that's right while I technically am a cycling coach myself I want to have that accountability and I also truly believe Ryan is a much better coach than myself and I'm going to learn a lot through the process so the data what we have in front of us here which I'll provide a link to below it's the official power to weight spreadsheet from Hunter Allen the co-author of the famous book Training and Racing with a Power Meter Hunter and his team have analysed thousands of athletes data over the years and myself and you too can see where you sit relative to novice right through to world championship level from a power to weight perspective across as you might have guessed 5 seconds 1 minute, 5 minute and 20 minute meaning in addition to see where I rank against my previous personal best power to weight numbers in this series I can also see where I'm sitting relative to the general population. Now my numbers from the past not surprisingly too are from when I was racing with Inform in 2014 and one from 2016 just quickly relating to that data as well regarding the FT number. I did ask Hunter overnight he came back to me thank you very much Hunter just trying to understand whether they had extracted that data as people's best 20 minute and taken 95% of that to get functional threshold power a rough average for your hour power which a lot of people do or was it the fatiguing 5 minute protocol first like what I did then the all out 20 minute and then taking 95% of that or was it people's full hour and surprisingly it was people's full hour or their about whether it was 55 minutes 58 minutes as long as it's around about an hour but he did stress if you want to replicate that as best as you can without doing the full hour because it is impractical that you must do the 5 minute all out fatiguing protocol first then doing 20 minutes and taking 95% of that my personal opinion I agree if your condition but if you've never done sustained effort before if you've never done an FTP test before like a lot of RCA members haven't done we advise initially to get some rough functional threshold numbers is to do the half Monty ramping protocol on Wahoo system so where am I now the testing that I've just completed what were the numbers I hear some of you asking well we're going to save that for the next episode because I want to dig it to some of the data and show you what I've been doing training wise in the last six months versus where we're going to be taking things into the future now during the series I'm going to be having a lot of discussions as mentioned with subject matter experts and I'm going to be cutting those conversations down for YouTube content but for those of you who want the full discussions and additionally my weekly coaching hookups analysis with coach Ryan then I'll be sending out this additional content every Friday starting next Friday over email you can join that list below now just know Craig Wiggins who's a continental writer for Pro Racing Sunshine Coast or ARA Skip Capital who's managing the RCA YouTube channel he will be running a similar series to me but on the RCA channel so make sure you check that out which will be at more of an elite level than me and ultimately appreciate your support if you're excited about this series I certainly am please don't forget to drop a like below helps the channel out and the video and I will see you in the next one


We never ever think that we're serving our family food that's cooked with contaminated toxic water. I wanna know, what was your big aha moment when it came to understanding the importance of water quality? My big aha moment is when I ran my zip code through the EWG database.  So I'll tell you, it's the Environmental Working Group. And just so everybody knows, their website is ewg.org. And I'm in this business, I'm in the water business and so when I ran my zip code, I live here in Los Angeles and came back with several contaminants that I had no idea were in my water. So I brought them for you today. So I'll run through the list. So first of all in my water I had arsenic at 10 times the health guidelines. And then also, and this one really kind of blew my mind is I had Chromium 6. So Chromium 6 was in my water at 247 times the health guide nut lines. So Erin Brockovich, she made Chromium 6 famous 30 years ago and I saw the Erin Brockovich movie. So to see that Chromium 6 was in my water at 247 times the guidelines. You know, when everyone knows about this contaminant and it's been so well talked about and covered, really, really shocked me. I also had nitrate and nitrates. I had trial-hello-methanes at 171 times the health guidelines. And that's a byproduct of chlorine that they're actually using to pull, you know, parasites and bacteria out of the water. And then when I did further testing, I had prescription drug residue, rocket fuel, P-F-A-S which is these forever chemicals which we're gonna get into today. I mean, I had never really realized that my water had that level of toxicity in it. And as a parent, as a mother and a homemaker, you know, when you start thinking about everything you use tap water for every day and you realize what contaminants during your water, it just was really upsetting to me. And so I'm really glad that I'm gonna be able to share the message about water today and help educate your viewers on this. So let's take a step back. We're assured by our city, county, state, whatever that there are quality assurance that your tap water meets government requirements. It's safe to drink. And the idea that we should be worried about all these other things is just a bunch of hooey because I hear this all the time. The government is not making sure that your water is safe to drink. It may leave the water facility clean and free from bacteria and parasites but on the journey to our houses, through our infrastructure that is where really a lot of the contamination happens. And so, you know, the municipalities are doing the best they can in the water treatment facilities but even some of the things that they're using to make sure that the water's potable are really not great for anyone's health. Gotcha. Man, I guess we'll get into this but that doesn't even include things like the amount of chlorine in water, the amount of fluoride in water. The environmental working group, I talk about in all my books and I send people to there and you guys really should look at your own community and you can just type in the zip code and it will usually come up. And that's a great place to start. It's a great resource because it also shows you different ways you can purify your water and what you need as a consumer to remove contaminants that you might be worried about. Another thing about the government is that, you know, water and water issues are really, really complex.  And so when politicians run and you know, special interest groups really make it so we don't regulate our standards well enough. So we haven't regulated our health standards for over 20 years. So that's really alarming and what they do is they play with the health standards and then the water standards to keep them if water standards are above the health standards then these companies can continue to not be liable for what they're putting into our water supply. So even 30 years after Aaron Brockovich, we still have these contaminants in our water.  And Aaron Brockovich is still passionately talking about this. So everybody knows about it. The thing is, is that there's really no affordable way for our governments to really provide pure, clean, non-toxic water. It's just unaffordable. And so the EPA doesn't want to get into a situation where they can't deliver tap water. True. Yeah.  Exactly. Except in Flint, Michigan, but that's another story. And that's really what the government is trying to do, right? Yeah. They're trying to keep it safe to a point. So it's potable and it's not going to transmit viruses or bacteria for illness. But the infrastructure is really where the contamination happens. And we'll talk about that a little bit today. All right. Well, what about bottled water? For instance, I rave about San Pellegrino in a glass bottle. I'm beginning to see it in plastic bottles, which bothers me. But I always, I actually am a big fan of them. I have no interest. So that's what I drink as a bottled water at home. What about bottled water? I enjoy bottled water too. And I love San Pellegrino. Well, first, I think it's really important we talk about the environment. And bottled water here in the United States, there are over 80 billion water bottles, plastic water bottles sold every single year. And 38 billion of those water bottles end up in plastic landfills. So as a parent and as a mother, as someone who's really concerned about the environment and what we leave behind for our kids, that's really, really important to me. It should be important to everybody. And then another thing that's really, really tragic is that over a million marine life species die every single year from plastic contaminating our oceans. And so just from an environmental standpoint, nobody should be using plastic water bottles. In addition to that, canned water, canned water can be lined with plastic. And so anything that has any sort of BPA in it can really leech into the water that you're drinking and cause some health issues. And this plastic has phthalates in it. And when phthalates leech into your water, a lot of people are very sensitive to this. And what phthalates do is they're endocrine disruptors. And of course, Dr. Gundry, you know about endocrine disruption. And that can have a lot of wreak havoc on women's hormones and create many, many health issues for several people. Yeah, it actually has dramatic effects on the developing brain. And in my upcoming book, it turns out that microplastics, which are microscopic particles of plastics, which we now are eating in our animals, in our fish, dramatically disturb the microbiome. I mean, who knew? Just these little micro nothings are completely changing our microbiome, for the worst, folks, for the worst. And yet we're using these all the time. Is there any safe plastic commercial water bottle that you can buy? No. All right. There's really not. If for plastic water, if you're putting it into a takeaway bottle, like a Triton plastic or something like that, that's used for multi-use, that's really the type of plastic that I think that is safe to use if you have to. I really prefer glass bottles and bottling your own water at home with a multi-stage reverse osmosis water system. That's the safest way to go. So what's a Triton plastic? How would anybody know? I want Triton plastic, please. Like for instance, Aquachu, our company, that our reverse osmosis system, our water catch is made from Triton plastic. So it's kind of the gold standard in plastic that doesn't leach. And bottles should be marked with a Triton plastic symbol and you could look on websites to see what type of plastic they're made of. Is it usually underneath? Yes, underneath the bottle. Okay. And let me address the elephant in the room. Everybody hopefully knows about BPA. Yeah. And then that it's finally been banned but it's replacements like BPS and one down the line. We're finding out that those are no safer, maybe worse than BPA. Yes. And yet we may see no BPA assuming that, oh good, we're fine now. And that's just not the case. Really the safest way to go is to drink your water out of a glass container. Any sort of plastic isn't really a good idea. Okay. All right. And you mentioned these PFAs, forever chemicals. And these are well-named forever chemicals because we still have no idea how long these things are gonna last or how we're gonna get rid of them. And these are also all endocrine disruptors. Yes, these forever chemicals, PFAs and then PFOS, they come from things that we use every day. So they're in our curtains, they're in fabric, they're in many detergents. They're also used as fire retardant. They spray runways with this for fire retardant purposes and different military bases across the US and most contaminants break down over time. But these forever chemicals, they last forever and they never, ever, ever break down. So there's no way to get rid of them. It's really, really scary. And just recently, a really major orange juice brand, they found forever chemicals in this orange juice. So they're really starting to get into our food and water supply and it's really, really a big problem. The best way to make sure and have peace of mind that you don't have forever chemicals in your water is to run them through a reverse osmosis water system. And that will get rid of them. That will get rid of them, yes. Okay, all right. See, I told you, you're not supposed to drink orange juice. Another reason, thank you for bringing that up. You're welcome. How would people know that they're drinking contaminants in their water?  The EPA was supposed to protect us, right? The Environmental Protection Agency, that's the whole idea. Now I know that they have been defanged by previous administrations. And one of the things that's been fascinating to me is that the EPA knows about these endocrine disrupting chemicals. They know they exist. Their argument has been, yes, these are endocrine disrupting chemicals, but they are in such minute amounts that it would be impossible for it to have an effect on our endocrine system. As I've written about in my books, what they didn't know, most of us didn't know, is these don't act like normal hormones. They actually can hit a hormone receptor. Normal hormones hit a receptor, give its message, and then leave. These hit the hormone receptor, lock on and never leave. So it's pushing the button constantly. And so you can have minute amounts that would seem to be totally non-bothersome, but because they constantly are stuck to these receptors, they act as if you're swallowing gallons of estrogen or progesterone. And there's, at the moment, no way to convince the government that this is actually happening, except when what we observe in animal studies. Yeah, so I mean, I think there are several symptoms that people can get. Like if you constantly have fatigue, headaches, digestive issues, things like that, if you have differences in your cholesterol or blood pressure, these are all key things to really look at your environment and start trying to remove some of the toxins in your life. And so some of these are very common health concerns. Like, oh, I have a headache. If you have it repeatedly, then it's something to really think about, making your environment a little less toxic. And the number one thing people can do to make sure that they're freeing themselves from unnecessary toxins is to drink purified water. But wait a minute now. I want chlorine in my water because I don't want any bacteria and viruses. What's the difference between chlorine and chloramines? They're not the same, right? No, they're not the same. So chlorine is chlorine and it's used to remove bacteria and parasites from water. And then there's also chloramines. So chloramines is a combination of chlorine and ammonia. So and chloramines is the most preferred chemical that they use to clean water in the water treatment facilities. And chloramine is really, really, really hard to remove from your water. And one of the real only ways to remove chloramine is through a multi-stage reverse osmosis system. And the reason that we don't want to ingest chlorine chloramines or a byproduct of chlorine and chloramines, which is trihalomethanes, is because they wreak havoc on our gut health. So chloramines, this is very interesting, Dr. Gendry, chloramines actually will eat through copper piping. So when you think that chloramine, a chemical that they're putting in our water to clean it, is actually chewing through copper piping, it's really alarming. So you can just imagine what it's doing to our gut.  But it's now up to you to get all of these things that they put in there to make sure that this stuff isn't gonna kill you.  Right, exactly. All right, so let's talk about that. What are the actionable steps that people can do? Sure, so I think what's really important is that the big misconception about purified water is people think that if they're drinking purified water and bottled water, they're okay. But the main thing is, and this is really important, if your listeners hear one thing today, please listen to this. Contaminants do not boil out. So when you're cooking and you're making tea and you're making your coffee in the morning, or you're making mac and cheese, or you're making pasta, boiling noodles, all the things that you do daily, contaminants do not boil out. And so it's really important that not only the water that you drink, but what you're using to cook with is purified water. And so some steps that listeners can do is to make sure that they're using either bottled water or they run their water through some sort of reverse osmosis machine that they cook with to make sure that they're starting with pure water. You know, years ago, actually, kind of right after Tiananmen Square in China was doing mission work in China, operating in Beijing. And we stayed at the hotel then and actually had our young kids with us. And we would pick up boiled water from a station on the floor and carry it back to our room. But they also, kiddo not, gave us beer that we had to brush our teeth with because they didn't even want us drinking their boiled water. And I thought, like, kids, you know, brush their teeth with beer. They never forgotten that. That's a great story. Yeah, it's true. So they didn't even trust their boiled water for us to drink. So you're right. They couldn't get the contaminants. Yeah, contaminants do not boil out. And it's just not commonly known. We go through our day, we turn on our faucet, we fill up our pots, we make our coffee, we make our tea, and we never ever think that we're serving our family food that's cooked with contaminated toxic water.  So I find it like most people just don't have that understanding that when they cook, you really have to do it with purified water. I'm gonna be safe and I'm gonna drink bottled water and I'm gonna boil the water for my coffee and I'm gonna boil the water for my tea or I'm gonna boil my vegetables. We don't think that- No. Yeah. During it. Yeah. All right, so there's lots of water filters, pitchers that we see on the market that we see in stores. Walk us through this maze. Sure, so there are several different water filtration possibilities that they have out there. So the most common type of water filter, they're pitcher filters and you see them everywhere, you could pick them up at the store and pitcher filters, how they work is their gravity fed. So water passes through a loose carbon filter. It removes some simple contaminants like chlorine. And so really pitcher filters are used to make our water taste a little bit better. And so, but they're not really meant to remove large levels of contaminants. And then you also have fridge filters and you have faucet filters. Now, fridge and faucet filters are marginally better than pitcher filters. And the reason why they're better is they use pressure to push water through a carbon block filter. So it removes a little bit more contaminants, but generally they don't remove contaminants like chromium or lead or forever chemicals or things like that. And the thing with any type of pitcher filter, fridge filter or faucet filter is that you really need to be on top of your filter changes and they don't notify you when it's time to change your filter. So I don't know if you're like me, but I barely can keep up with my appointments, my children, my husband, what I have going on every day, let alone monitor how many gallons of water I'm drinking. And then, you know, as we've spoken about today, pitcher filters, they're not a really good option because you have to cook, you know? And so you have to fill up a pitcher every time you go to cook and most of the contaminants aren't coming out of that pitcher filter system anyway. So really the best type of water filtration system is a multi-stage reverse osmosis system. So your water goes through several different stages of filtration to get purified. I think a lot of people have heard about reverse osmosis. A lot of the big companies that sell water use that system, right? Yes, they do. Most bottled water that you drink is reverse osmosis water. We've come to accept and it sounds like you're saying, if you're gonna have bottled water, you want a reverse osmosis system that put it in there. Yes, reverse osmosis is a gold standard in water purification. And if you want, I can tell people what reverse osmosis means. Please. Okay, so reverse osmosis is magic, really. But seriously, it's a very, very scientific process. We learned about osmosis in high school and if you were like me, you really didn't understand what they were talking about but luckily I work with a lot of great scientists who have kind of broken this down for me. So what osmosis means is that when you have a living cell, it passes through a membrane and things pass through that membrane from a higher concentration to a lower concentration. And reverse osmosis is the reverse of that. So what happens with reverse osmosis is that through pressure, water is passed through the membrane and the contaminated water stays on one side and clean, pure water is left on the other. So once it passes through, you have clean, pure water. And what do they do with the rest, just? So with our AquaTrue multi-stage reverse osmosis system, it leaves a small percent of the water, like 10% of the water in the tank. And so first of all, that shouldn't be used for anything like you shouldn't cook with it, you shouldn't give it to your animals. That's highly contaminated water. We say sometimes if you have a shrub or something, you can use it to water your shrubs, but nowhere near vegetables that you might want to consume. But typically I just recommend to use it for your indoor plants. So we know that reverse osmosis is the gold standard. Why then do we have all these water filtration appliances in our homes that don't use that? Is it cost? Is it inconvenient? Is it plumbing? Take us through the steps. Well, absolutely. A lot of it is plumbing and a multi-stage reverse osmosis system it has to pass through four different levels of filtration. Carbon filters, it's a good way to pull out some of the chlorine and chloramines that add bad taste. So I think most water filters that like pitcher, sink and fridge, they're there to make the water taste better and remove the chlorine taste from water. But they don't truly purify the water. So tell us about AquaTrue. I mean, why did you guys say the current system isn't going to get the contaminants that we should be really worried about? We gotta go to a reverse osmosis system. When you think about the different types of pollutants that are in the water that are not being removed by your pitcher filters and your fridge filters, they're really significant contaminants. So lead, for instance, lead is in our infrastructure. And so, you know, the water ways, water travels through lead pipes to get to our homes and lead can cause permanent brain damage, most seriously in children. And that's what happened in Flint, Michigan.  Fluoride's been added to water to help prevent cavities, which is kind of ludicrous if you think about it, because you're drinking water, it's not sitting on your teeth, you know? And a lot of fluoride has been shown to cause major severe toxicity in children. And so now they're making changes and they're removing fluoride from water. And then also arsenic causes cancer, chromium-sick causes cancer. Chlorine, chloramine destroys gut health and bacteria. So Peter Spiegel, the founder of Aquatune, who's a really, really good friend of mine, felt really compelled to make affordable, easy solutions for people to get clean, pure water into their homes so they can drink it, they can cook with it.  So we really wanted to make something very affordable for everybody that meets any family's needs. And so that was the impetus, huh? Yeah, that was the impetus. Now, can you do a countertop model? I'll talk to you a little bit about our different Aquatru models and how they work. So we have different models for different size households. So we just launched a great model. It's called the Aquatru carafe. And Aquatru carafe is for households with like one or two people. If you have an apartment, something like that, it doesn't need to be plumbed. So it sits right on your countertop, like a coffee machine. And you basically put your water in the back and clean water comes into a glass pitcher. And you have a half gallon glass pitcher of water that you can use for either cooking or drinking water. And it's really, really easy. All of our reverse osmosis systems, they have the same types of filters. So no matter what Aquatru product you end up with your household, they all go through the same filter process. So the first stage of our filter process is the pre-filter. And our pre-filter removes large particles like sediment and rust. Our stage two filter is our carbon filter. Our carbon filter removes chlorine and chloramines. And that's what makes your water taste really good is by removing those contaminants from the water and also protecting your gut health. And then there's stage three. Stage three is the reverse osmosis membrane. So our RO membrane removes inorganic chemicals like lead, fluoride, chromium-6, arsenic, uranium. And lastly, we have our stage four filter. So that's our coconut block filter and it removes organic compounds like forever chemicals, prescription drug residue, antibiotics, rocket fuel, birth control, all these horrible things that are getting into the water. So as you can see, it's a pretty sophisticated process and filtration process that the water goes through. So we have our carafe unit that's for smaller homes. We also have a bigger unit called our classic countertop unit that goes right on the counter. It's for larger households and it requires no plumbing. You just put water in the back and clean water comes through the front. And additionally, we have an undersink unit and that is for larger households with big families. So we really have options for everybody. So is this like literally brewing a pot of coffee in the morning in terms of how easy it is? Oh, it's so easy. So you literally take the back section of the aqua chew, you fill it up with your tap water, you set it back, you turn it on, it goes through the four stage reverse osmosis process and clean water comes in the front. So you have your drink water in the front of the machine, you have your disposable water in the back of the machine and you also have lights that show you on the units are lit up and they show you what process of filtration it's going through and also when it's time to change your filters. And that's really important because filter changing is key. And we really wanted to make it so easy for people to understand this.  Another filter you change every year.  So our filter life is very, very long and the machines are really, really simple to you. Well, isn't that one of the big misconceptions about affordable water filtration systems that you don't, it sounds pretty reasonable until you realize that the filters don't last very long and you're kind of constantly buying new filters if you should buy new filters because they really don't last very long. So something that looks like a bargain isn't a bargain. Yeah, so this is really interesting and we should probably talk about NSF certification because filter life and a lot of these smaller type water pitchers and fridge filters and that sort of thing. You really wanna make sure that your water purification system is certified to the life of the filters to NSF standards. And what that means is that the contaminants that they claim to remove will be removed for the life of the filters. And so typically some of these filter lives are very short and that's why in AquaTru we made sure that the filters, you're removing all of the contaminants for the life of the filter. What's an NSF? It's the National Sanitation Foundation. Oh, okay.  And that's something you really wanna look for when you're looking at water purifiers that they're certified to NSF standards. And that really like AquaTru is certified to remove 83 contaminants for the life cycle of their filters. And so when you're looking for water purifiers, when you go to the water purification website they'll have performance data sheets and the certifying body's name will be on that performance data sheet where it lists all the contaminants that the water purifier is certified to remove. There's a lot of companies that don't necessarily have third party testing and that aren't certified to NSF standards. So it's really important. That's really, really important in water purification. You've scared us all to death but you've given us action items. Let me ask you a dumb question. Are there places in this country, are there cities where the water is actually pretty safe to drink out of the tap? My answer is no. No one should be drinking water out of the tap because it's been treated with chlorine and chloramines that really aren't good for us or our gut health. Everyone should be purifying their water through some sort of multi-stage reverse osmosis system to make sure that they're pulling out all of those contaminants. All right, good answer. You're definitely gonna want to see this one. Even though it's not like you're chewing on metal, you're ingesting metal flakes with every bite or worse flakes of whatever coating you have on your pan.


If you look at the wealthiest people, they've let software change our life. And if you look at Jeff Bezos, he automated Amazon and built AWS, built Amazon. Everybody's dream is passive income. Passive income is generally not possible in the modern world without a good piece of software. Yeah, it's the work smarter, not harder. That's right. If working hard was the number one thing that created wealth, then my mom, who was a single mom, would have been the wealthiest person in the world because single moms don't want to work three jobs. You know, this is the heart and soul of the world is people just doing everyday farmers, coal miners, all this stuff. But unfortunately, and it's not a good thing, it's not fair, but the reality of the economy is you can not only rely on hard work.


ee cad which is kind of pioneering things at the time uh but definitely the support for the IFC was very very poor since then you know we've we've made leaps and strides but we're still at its infancy this is still alpha software there are only a small handful of firms which are using it from end to end production of design drawings but at the same time there are an increasing amount of really really large companies they're not using it from beginning to end to deliver their products but they're using it here and there kind of like those examples I gave at the beginning of that nuclear power plant or these train stations or these big retail and residential developments so I would say that we're far from where the proprietary software are but we're quickly catching up in two ways from the grassroots of small firms doing end to end and then the large companies as well yeah that's very interesting to see um our next question is what's your vision for the future of free software and open standards in architecture slash engineering and construction and you know what are some of the potential barriers to that vision of yours becoming a reality yeah so I think um on a practical note we are miss we have a lot of weaknesses right now there's a lot of things that free software doesn't do very well um so for example we have we struggle a lot with performance so it's totally fine when you're dealing with a small building um and we're starting to inch into mid medium level development um like small retail fitouts and and retail designs office fitouts uh but definitely for large projects like a hospital um we have performance issues when dealing with the graph that represents uh all all of this all this data or the geometry like blender starts to choke when you throw um 100 000 objects at it and very often a single model on a large project would have anywhere between 10 000 to 100 000 objects per discipline so multiply by that five you might have you know a good 400 000 500 000 elements uh down to every nut and bolt it kind of depends so performance issues is a big issue a drawing generation so a lot of our industry works on drafting so I'll just create a drawing right now real quick um and we can create drawings but the level what's what what's needed to take a drawing um from a simple drawing like I'm about to generate you know that's great it's it's it's it's a fairly simple drawing to a fully detailed uh uh documentation is quite a lot so our drawing tools have a lot to catch up on yeah I guess collaboration is also a big one they're often big teams working on the stuff not sole practitioners so I think uh earlier on today Bruno Basel gave a great talk about that um so hopefully that that's one of the possible solutions of getting this solved sooner rather than later but I think we also have some strengths you know that's important too to note that although we are lacking in feature parity on things like drawings or structural analysis or our MEP modeling like ducks and so on we actually um have some strengths like we are the leading in in this kind of native ISE editing no other proprietary software does this at the moment we're leading in this in the breadth of the standards implementation you know most software they do just structural analysis or just um or or just architectural drawing they don't do cost planning at the same time or construction sequencing whereas all it takes is for me to jump over over here and start creating a work schedule I can start saying that this is my construction plan and nobody quite has that ability uh right now or um I guess another aspect is the kind of modularity we're very cross-platform we work across a lot of stacks everything you see here can be accessed through uh command line or or Python script and so on yeah that is a big thing I mean it's not really the same but talking with friends who are on mac and like the certain things that are just you can't jailbreak um it it can be super frustrating when you are trying to do something and can't cross-platform it the same way um so I think we've got another um can blender bim geometry and data work with the blender open usd connector um there's probably some integration which will be built sooner or later but I think usd at the moment there's a few problems with usd it's great for the cg world but it's not very appropriate for the construction world so for example the geometry it might use to describe uh our objects are just not suitable you know it's it's heavily mesh focused whereas a structural engineer will really want to know my ibeam has five profiles that or it has a you know has five parameters that define my ibeam and it must be extruded along this axis you know that's the type of thing we're looking at um and and usd just doesn't do that and very well and there's a huge amount of non-geometric data that usd also doesn't do so although there might be a translator written sooner rather than later um I don't think it would ever quite replace the the breadth of um uh this semantics the rich semantics that are in our industry right now of course and then the last question is could you expand on the connection with open cascade kernel with solid nerves and blender mesh geometry um the short answer is that the original geometric definition is in ifc in the domain language of ifc this is then interpreted using a software known as ifc open shell uh that's the underlying software that powers all of this um and then it open shell is a wrapper around open cascade but it also is starting support some other kernels as well which which kind of orchestrates these open cascade commands to then generate the shape um it generates in different ways in an open cascade b-rep form where it can be in a tessellated form um because ifc is heavily based off step so so the the models of open cascade are quite influenced by step uh but in blender we take the tessellated form and we just update the the blender mesh data with that tessellation so literally what you're seeing here are tessellations of the raw geometry so that is a tessellated uh filleted um arc but under the hood it's a true arc you know if i dug in the debug panel it is a true arc if you want to find out more there's a talk uh by thomas krainen at uh fosdem which he'll talk about the details of mixing geometry kernels and the pros and cons of each one oh that sounds like an exciting talk um but i have to say this talk was really amazing um if you have any last minute things that you want to get across i know it's uh two minutes over but you know you are the last talk of the day so any little tidbits of information like feel free to let it out now uh sure yes why not so um i guess this is the website of ifc open shell for all of the um the dev heavy people out there who want all the programming stuff uh for the the user facing side this is the website this blenderbim.org where you can go and play with things and you know access it through the the buttons and so on uh if you want to see a demo because i totally don't have any time today or i was very bad at time planning today uh this youtube video this technical demonstrations uh i'll put it in the chat i guess gives a very condensed demo of almost every feature you can think of you know goes from uh creating models a bit of this stuff that was talked about earlier with git uh generating drawing structural analysis cost schedules fm and so if you skip like the first bit in the last bit it'll it'll give you a very very good overview but it but it plays at like five times the normal speed of somebody using software so it's also a bit overwhelming cool will be able to go back to all my engineering friends and be like i think i know a little more after today get into blender there we go oh this is a beautiful website too we're all of the uh people trying to use more open source in architecture engineering construction hangout okay the link there we go that's it for me thank you so much for your wonderful talk um and thank you all there on the stream and in the element chat fair watching the whole day um it's been such a great start today one of the summit yeah thank you dianne thanks for having me of course yeah it was our pleasure so we're gonna just say a few wrap up things uh for your day one here um as madon was saying thank you so much for everyone who has attended today we have two more days of amazing content yet to come um but really the chat was so engaged and asking so many amazing questions so really just thank you uh to everyone who attended and also to our speakers as we closed out the last day um i found the fedora batch is finally working so if you're waiting to grab your attendee badge make sure to check the link that i sent earlier in the chat um it's also in the hack md widget though i know the widgets were kind of being funky for some people so uh we'll be sure to send that again in the morning and maybe i'll send it again after i get off this call after i get off the call here so definitely grab your badge if you're a fedoren um also we put together an attendee survey so if you think you won't be attending for the next couple days we invite you to fill that out to give us some feedback about how the event experience was for you um we try to do as much as we can with the small team that we have to make it um as pleasant and smooth and experience as possible and we're always looking to improve that experience for everybody um try to think there's anything else that i wanted to say before we close out but i don't think so we'll see you back here tomorrow morning and uh i hope you have a great evening or night or middle of the night depending on where you are right now um and thanks madeline for being an amazing host thank you for being um amazing co-host um and thanks to everyone in the chat who is just saying some funny jokes laughing at the jokes that the speakers were doing because i was laughing and i was like it was just a really great time so i'm excited for the next two days all right folks


You're looking really cool because the weather is also pretty cool out here. So what is your work about? I have no separation as to what's my life, what's my work, profoundness of experience and impactfulness of your activity. This is all there is. That's why Inner Engineering and that's my life, Inner Engineering. Sadhguru, when did you suffer the last time? But I've never really had any personal suffering. Namaskaram, Alex. Hey, Sakur, nice to meet you. How are you doing? I'm doing great. I'm here outdoors, I'm sorry. I'm the way I'm dressed because very sunny out here. Yeah, you're looking really cool, to be honest. Well, because the weather is also pretty cool out here. Yeah, you're at the Grand Canyon, right? Yes, just outside the National Park at the Grand Canyon. To be honest, it's not so often for me to talk to a guru. And when I'm thinking about a guru, I'm thinking somebody being in India, being in a temple and now there's a guru in front of me sitting in at the Grand Canyon in California, doing a motorbike tour and wearing really fancy sunglasses. What is, what kind of guru are you? No, just the shape of the sun, nothing fancy about it. The sun is round, so I thought best to wear something round to protect myself. Very sunny out here. So your entire life you have an amazing impact on people today. Many people following are your ideas about leadership, about self-development, about coaching. So what is your work about? What's my work about? I think it's better you reframe that question as what is your life about? Because I have no separation as to what's my life, what's my work, what is my this and that, I just have life. So, so have you and so have everybody. You don't have anything other than your life. The only thing that you have is life. Rest is all imagination. Right now because a few things are collapsing, because of the pandemic, people are thinking their life is going away. Unfortunately, a few million people have lost their life. That's a different matter. People have lost their dear ones. That's a different matter. Rest is all our making. The only thing we have is life. So how to make this life happen at its peak every moment. Everybody has known some peaks. People have known peaks of happiness, joy, competence, you know, ecstasy, compassion, love. Everybody has experiences at some point, but the problem is sustainability. They are not able to sustain it. They hold those moments, cherished moments as if rest of the time they are not capable of it. This has happened simply. See, suppose, suppose because you are German, I'm saying this. Suppose you guys, you're making good cars, let me acknowledge you. I'm also a driving one. I'm even my motorcycle is German right now. So you're making good machines. Suppose you're, you make a motorcycle or a car, which starts once, only once a month it starts. Rest of the time you can't start it. You will junk it or no. So right now people are like this. Once in a way they are in their peak. Rest of the time they are down, simply because they have not engineered themselves properly. So my work and my life is about helping people to engineer themselves so that they are at the peak of their experience. Because when it comes to life, there are only two things, what you call as my life. Profoundness of experience and impactfulness of your activity. This is all there is. Without profoundness of experience, impactfulness of activity is hugely crippled. Without a strong experience within you, you cannot impact the world in a big way. So activity is about impact. Life is about profoundness of experience. People may think, no, that's not what I want. I want money. I want family. I want love. I want children. I want wife. I want husband. Well, all this you want only because you believe it will bring some profoundness of experience. So that's what I'm saying. How you do it is up to you. But profoundness of experience and impact in the activity that we've… maximum impact that we can create with activity is all there is in life. For this, you need to be a well-engineered machine. And that's my work. That's why Inner Engineering and that's my life, Inner Engineering. How do I get profoundness experience to have that inner… inner strength in me? See, right now your whole experience of life is limited to five-cent organs. What you see, what you hear, what you smell, what you taste, what you touch. From this, you have gathered data. From that data, you're thinking things up. Right now, from where you come in Europe, too much significance has been given to human thought. In the yogic culture, we don't give any significance to your thought, but we are very, very interested in the quality of your attention. Because human attention is the most important thing. It is human attention which opens up doors. Most significant discoveries and realizations in the world happened when people had a very keen sense of attention. See, for example, all these things happen in Europe, so I'm taking European examples. An apple fell, apples were always falling. An apple fell, somebody was attentive. Not thinking, just attentive and loss of gravity. Well, a man tired of his work went and got into a bathtub. Water overflowed, you have loss of flotation. A coffee kettle boiled over, there you have the steam locomotive or steam engine. Like this, most significant scientific discoveries also happened when human beings had the attention, not thought process. Because thought is just recycling of your existing data, nothing new will come out of it. Thought is a way of exploring the permutations and combinations of what you already know. You cannot know something new with your thought process, but attention can open up any door. If your attention is keen enough, intense enough and can be sustained, there is no door in the universe that cannot be opened for you. So, yeah, how do I get that state? I mean, Albert Einstein already said you don't solve a problem where you created it, so how can I change that? Well, we sent you in an engineering online program, I heard you did only one or two sessions. See, not ancient. No, already three, already three out of seven, yeah. And I really enjoyed it, it just started this week. See, today people are carrying attention deficiency as a badge on their sleeve. They say, my attention is only two minutes, one minute. Well, if you have no attention, you will not know life, because involvement can happen only with attention. Where there is no involvement, there is no life, anything for that matter. The food that you eat, the people who are around you, the work that you do or anything in the universe where there is no involvement, there is no experience of life, involvement will not come without attention. Attention is needed. With thought, you always go away from what is there.  When you go to that place, you will be thinking about this place. This is the nature of the thought because thought is just recycling of the memory that you already have. So, how do I get on another level, not to thought, to experience, to feel to create my life? There are four more sessions. And to assist, to assist that there are practices.  Yourself and your physiological drama, why this distance is needed is what you call as my body or your physiological structure is an accumulation of the food that you've eaten.  Most people don't get this when they're alive. Only when you bury them, they seem to understand they are part of the planet. Till then, they don't get it.  It's a food that you've eaten here. So, it's an accumulation. What you accumulate can never be you. It can only be yours. So, this body belongs to you, but it's not you. But that's not how you experience it right now. You experience it as myself. Similarly, all the content that you have in your mind is also accumulated over a period of time. Through the sense organs, by seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, we have gathered information. What you acquire can belong to you, cannot be you. So, if you create a distinction between what is you and what is not you, or in other words, if a little bit of space arises between you and your body, between you and your mind, if a little bit of space arises between you and your body, between you and your mind, then you're free from this entire process, now you can conduct your body and mind according to your will. See, your body and mind are supposed to take instructions from you. But most of the people are... See, ninety-five percent of the human suffering is because of their own mind, all right? Most human beings are suffering their own intelligence. To give you this level of intelligence, it took millions of years of evolution and now people are suffering this. Now they want to soak their brains in alcohol every weekend so that, you know, it doesn't work for two days and it gets some relief. Problem is that your own intelligence has turned against you because you never paid attention as to how to take charge of your own faculties. People are suffering their own thought and emotion. People are fifty-sixty years of age. Still they have not figured out how to handle their thought and emotion. When will you figure it out? When? At the end of your life? It's time. This is what inner engineering is about. At least your body and mind should take instructions from you. For this, a little separation is needed. At... probably at the end of this seven sessions, you have a practice called Isha Kriya, otherwise it's just directly available on the app free of cost. People can do this Kriya. It will help you to create a little distance between yourself and everything that you've accumulated in the form of body and the psychological structure. Little space, this is the end of suffering because the only two types of suffering that human beings know is physical suffering and mental suffering. Once there is a little space between you and that, there is no such thing as suffering. Only when there is no fear of suffering, will you walk full stride in your life. Otherwise, every step is half a step. I feel this fear of suffering has crippled human genius, has crippled human competence, has crippled variety of possibilities that human beings could be. Simply because always the question is what will happen to me, what will happen to me? What will happen to me means what? Will I end up suffering? That's what it is about. Yeah, it sounds too easy to overcome yourself and to understand that you are more than your own body and this helps to stop suffering. Can you give us more details? Why is it so important to understand that and what does it really mean in death that you really are more than your body? What are we at the end of the day when we are more than our bodies? So this is crazy. Now you're asking me what you are. Now this is a big problem. See if you don't know what you are, wrong, isn't it? See for example, right now you're using technology. I don't know whether you do it yourself or somebody else is doing it for you. Let's say the camera which is sitting in front of you. Somebody knows how to handle that. How do they know how to handle it? Because they know how it works. What is the engineering behind it? What it is? So they know how to use it. Because of that you and me are talking efficiently. Suppose that person who handles your camera doesn't know what is what and he handles it. It not only will not work, above all in three days it will be ruined. This is what is happening to human beings. They're just ruining themselves because they don't understand the fundamental mechanics of what this human mechanism is without knowing what this is. If you try to deal with such a sophisticated machine, do you agree with me? This is this human mechanism is the most sophisticated and complex technology on the planet. So when you are given such a thing, you must at least read the user's manual, isn't it? So what we are calling as Inner Engineering is a kind of a user's manual. How to deal with this? If you know how to operate this, this is the most fantastic machine. Human intelligence should be a solution for everything.  What people are suffering? See, if I'm with you Alex and I'm suffering, I can say I'm suffering because of you. Always people are doing this to each other. But I'm sitting here alone in Grand Canyon and if I'm suffering, obviously I'm in bad company, isn't it? If people are alone and suffering, people are alone and suffering all over the world. This means what? That you're in bad company. So what should you fix? This is the first thing you should fix. Before touching the world, this must be fixed. So you're working a lot with meditation and yoga. How does yoga and meditation helps? When you use these words, yoga, meditation in the West, it's become so distorted. It's hard to correct the original definition. The word yoga means union, not twisting and turning. I don't know what sort of yoga they're doing in Germany. What sort of yoga that's happening in United States scares me because it's all become like a sport, twisting, turning, doing this, doing that. It's not about that. It's about union. What is union? Is it true that right now we're breathing? Both of us are breathing, isn't it? So what you exhale, the trees are inhaling.  So I'm saying there is already a union with everything around you. We can go this, we can take this into subatomic, you know, particle level. We can talk about atomic energy and see how the whole universe is connected. Now the problem is it's not in your experience.  Not understanding the rest of the creation is sustaining you every moment. So yoga means what is already true you realize and you begin to experience. You begin to experience that everything is one. I just used the simple process of breathing with trees and started a movement with which millions of trees have been planted right now, where the green cover in this particular state has gone up by seven to eight percent in the last eighteen to twenty years time. Simply by people experiencing that what we exhale, the trees are inhaling, one half of my breathing apparatus are actually hanging out on the tree and it's a fact. But people don't experience it that way. When you experience everything as yourself, then you're in yoga. How you get there is up to you. Inner engineering is a scientific methodology as to how you can remove the barriers which is not allowing you to experience that. So these barriers are systematically removed because these barriers are installed by you out of the fear or out of the instinct of survival. See there are two fundamental forces ruling a human being. One thing is the instinct of survival. When the instinct of survival is up, you want to build a wall against the world. But there is also another dimension within you which wants to expand.  If that something more happens, you want to be something more. This goes on endlessly.  Will you be fulfilled or will you look at the moon and the sun and the stars and the galaxies? You will look at it, isn't it? So you have a longing, this is not installed by anybody, instilled by anybody. This is not a teaching or a philosophy. This is a natural longing in a human being to expand limitlessly. If you want to expand limitlessly, can you do it physically? If you try to do it physically, you will end up as a disaster, like Alexander the Great, because half the world conquered a miserable man and in the end an Indian mosquito kills him, all right? That too a female mosquito kills him. Because trying to physically expand will lead to a disaster. So once you understand your expansion or your desire is not about something more, it's about all. It is just that it's coming in installments in your mind. But actually if you sit here and look at it, what would be absolutely fulfilling for you? You want to expand limitlessly. Limitlessness or boundlessness is not possible in the very nature of physical life because physicality always happens with a defined boundary. If there is no defined boundary, there is no physical sense. So there is something within you longing to experience life beyond physical nature. Your tango with physical world is only because of the body that you have gathered, isn't it? It's only because of the body that you have gathered, you have a certain relationship with the physical world. Otherwise you have no relationship with the physical world. So physical body is very necessary to walk this planet but it is your vehicle.  You get involved and entangled in this.  You don't want to live in the car for the rest of your life. As a vehicle it may be a good vehicle but when time comes you must to get off. Right now that ability you are given up. Inner engineering is a process to give you this that if you sit here, your body is here, your mind is there, what you is little away from these two things. Once this happens this is the end of suffering. Once there is no fear of suffering. Once you're joyful by your own nature, not because of something else. Only then you can truly unfold your genius. Right now I see that human genius, human competence, human ability to do things is simply being crippled because of the fear of suffering. So Guru, when did you suffer the last time and how did you deal with that? When did I suffer the last time? I don't think I've suffered. I've suffered with other people but I've never really had any personal sufferings because when I was young before I was twenty-five years of age, largely everything worked the way I want. I was successful with what I was doing. Here and there small mishaps but I didn't care what happened because when you're young you know you don't much care. One thing goes wrong and other things will happen. So I don't think I have any… I'm not qualified to say that I have deeply suffered so I'm like this, no. I have experienced other people suffering as my own many times, many, many times. But otherwise I made myself like this. What happens within me is determined by me. If what happened within you is determined by you, would you choose suffering or joy? Joy. I also made the same choice. You know it sounds so easy when it comes out of your mouth that we only… you shouldn't understand that, that we only need to understand that we are more than our bodies. Can you give us more ideas? No, no, no, no. Understanding is not good enough. You need to experience. If it becomes experientially true everything will fall into place. Right now we are trying to intellectualize everything. No, intellect is not capable of that. Intellect is… would you like a sharp intellect or a blunt one? Please tell me, I'll bless you. Sharp? Sharp. So you understand intellect is like a knife, it's a cutting instrument. So for cutting it is good. You can dissect everything with your intellect. The sharper it is, the better it is.  That's all that's happening to people right now. The more they use their intellect, the more distorted they're becoming.  Uneducated people suffer if they don't have food, if somebody tortures them, torments them. Educated people are unself-help. They torment themselves all the time because they're trying to do everything with a knife.  So I know that you care about a lot about nature, about our environment and that you are maybe a bit scared about what happens over the next years or decades. Can you give us some ideas what you are seeing out there and what do you think, how we can save, so to say our nature, our human future? What is necessary? One immediate thing that needs to be attended to is the soil degradation. One of the UN agencies, they asked me, Sathguru, what are the three things that we must act upon immediately? I said the three things are soil, soil and soil because the soil degradation is doing bio... you know, biodiversity loss at a pace that we cannot replace. If this continues for another thirty to forty years, then the losses that will happen to us is incalculable. We have never seen anything like that, though those kind of things will happen. Probably first it will happen in tropical lands, most probably. We could be wrong, but most probably it could happen in tropical lands. So people who are living in temperate climates think it is not going to affect them. Anyway, others are going to die, that will make it easy for them to go and conquer those lands or exploit those resources or whatever. These thoughts are there in people's minds unfortunately because they want land minus the people. There are many ambitious people who are thinking on those lines. So soil is one thing. There are thirty... On an average, there is about thirty-nine inches of top soil. This soil in the last fifty years time had degraded phenomenally simply because it's not under shade. There is no vegetation, everything is plowed and you know farmed or constructed upon. So if we do not take care of the soil health, the richness of the soil will directly determine the richness of our lives because this body is just the soil that we walk upon. This body is not different from the soil that we walk upon. All life, from microbial life to insects, to worms, to birds, plants, animals, trees, human beings, over eighty-five percent of the life is sustained by this thirty-nine inches of top soil. If we take care of this as an emergency measure, other things can be addressed. There... it'll give us time to address other things. But if soil degradation happens and desertification happens across the world, then all these other things like see air pollution, water pollution, these things can be dealt with very quickly with policy changes and a determined effort within a few years you can fix it. But soil regeneration will not happen in a few years. It's a long-term process. If we start now, in twenty-five years we can have a richer planet, soil-wise. And that will lead to richer life on the planet, biodiversity in the planet, because human beings need to understand worms, insects, birds, animals, trees, everybody has a role to play in our life. If tomorrow morning all the microbes disappear, the life will end right now. If all the worms disappear, in about one-and-a-half to two years life will end. If all the insects disappear in four to six years life will end. But if all of us human beings disappear, planet will flourish. We must understand what is our role here, what is the significance of our presence here. Yeah. I expected an answer on consciousness from you. See, human consciousness is very important if you want to fix any of these things. This is not going to happen without this. As a part of this, we've started a movement called Conscious Planet. All of you who are in this leadership process must join this prayer thing. We want you to own this movement because this is not my individual moment or not my organization's moment. This has to be owned by everybody. The idea is to make at least sixty percent of the voting population in the world conscious as to what are the five things that must happen in their countries, what are the two-three things that should never happen in their countries. We are working on this. We are trying to bring in all the world's political parties in the democratic countries to be part of it. To make sure in every nation on the election manifestos of every political party, at least the number two item must always be ecology. If this happens, then policies will change, budgets will come in, government machinery will fall behind it, only then there's a real solution. Otherwise you and me can talk as much as we want. Without government machinery, budgets and policy changes happening, there's no real change. For these difficult COVID times, you started an initiative. You already talked about your inner engineering course and I promise you I will do the last four chapters as well. And you have a free offer for… You must do a practice called Isha Kriya which is available on the app itself free for everybody.  It's very, very important to do that. If you have a good car, you must be a good driver too otherwise it'll be a mess. You have a free offer for all, for everybody who's now caring for the people out there, policemen but also every healthcare professional. So the whole greater community, everybody who's listening now is invited to do your inner engineering course for free and I'm very thankful for your initiative. And everybody who's not a COVID warrior is but interested as well. You have a special offer right now which is 50% off and I really can recommend it and I'm very thankful for making that possible, Sadhguru. Thank you very much. All the best to whatever endeavors you're taking up because this needs a sustained effort from everybody. You are all the next generation of people. You need to be focused on what we create in this world during our time. This is our time on the planet. What significant things we'll do, what wonderful things we'll do, or what horrible things we will do is just in our hands. This is our time on the planet. We must make this the best time ever in the history of humanity. May I ask you one last question, Sadhguru? You have a lot of volunteers which are working for your ISHA Foundation. They're helping people. We also educate people to get coaches, greater coaches. What is your best advice? You give people who help other people to develop their own potential to serve others. Your best advice. See, the best thing you can do is it's not by advice, it's not by teaching that somebody will change around you. The best thing is that you must become an inspiring human being.  They must see you as the ideal. And when you make this kind of a person, you must also estimate and see the kind of persona that you are exhibiting is it for large-scale well-being. There may be no absolute well-being. There may be always somebody who argues this is all bad, that's always there. But in your consciousness, have you fixed this that you as a person is a conscious person who structures yourself in such a way that you are for maximum well-being on the planet. And that will naturally be inspiring. If you act in an inspiring way, if you live in an inspiring way, people around you will naturally grow up to that. Thank you very much. Thank you, Sadhguru. Have a good time in California. It was a pleasure. Thank you.