Today, we'll talk about single integrated variant coding, and I will try to make you learn how to do that, to understand what's the main principle when we do it, how we can improve all data to get the better results, so it will be a reminder of what we've done yesterday, plus some add-on, and how to filter the data. And at the end, a bit of sleep visualization in IGV. So before we start, I will do a shameless advertisement for what we are doing, especially if you are Canadian, we have a strong partnership with Compute Canada, and if you are Canadian collaborators, I really strongly encourage you to go to Compute Canada. It's a free set of high-performance computing resources available for any academic researcher and his personnel. You see there's more than 2,000 CPU cores available, a lot of data, there's one or two new HPC centers that have been opened this year, so it's a really, really big chance we have in Canada to have this resource for free. If you want to apply, you just need to go to the website, the PI apply, then you choose one consortium, you want to go to work, or one consortium, it could be on the West Coast, it could be HPC for us if you are in Ontario, it could be Mammoth or Calcule Quebec if you are in Quebec, and then you choose which server you want to work on. So you will have to do, if you just reduce it, you will have a standard allocation, which is like, I think it's 2 terabytes of data, and I don't remember exactly how many core years of usage you have, so you can go over what usage you ask for, but if you go over what you have as a default allocation, you will have lower priority on the system. If you want large allocation, you need to do every year kind of field of grant, which is like a two or three page grant, which is the deadline is in November usually, and you ask you require, you make your math, you say I have this amount of data, that will take me this amount of space, this amount of processing, and you ask for that. What is cool with that, we have a partnership with them, and at C3G, we maintain a set of resources for Compute Canada, so the idea was to develop a partnership with a system, which is called CBMFS, it's a virtual machine file system, with the ideas, we maintain one location, all the tools, all the genomic resources, all the pipeline for bioinformatics, and they are spread between the different clusters. So if you use one or the other cluster, you know that if you use more tools, you know they have been compiled in exactly the same way than if you are working in another cluster. So we have a lot of tools, a lot of genomic resources, so 14 different spaces, and we also provide our own pipeline, like what we are doing today, you can do the same directly with automated way, or the NSX pipeline. So all of that is integrated to what a consortium we have called GenApp, which is a consortium to manage all this kind of thing, so the CNFS, the pipeline, but we also offer a private instance of Galaxy, where you could have your data on the cluster, so actually the Galaxy is only on CalculateEbec, so you could have your data on the cluster, and you can run Galaxy directly, and the Galaxy job will run the job of Galaxy, the process on the complicated cluster, so you won't have your data that will be on the University of Pennsylvania, I think, or I don't remember which, so the official Galaxy website. So it's a really interesting system, you also have a data hub to share your data or your track with your colleagues. So I really encourage you, if you are Canadian, or if you have Canadian colleagues to apply to this kind of consortium. Okay, now let's talk about SNV, so people are doing genome reseconcing, mainly to map the genetic variation and the structural variation, so to find variants in individual. So this is the main purpose of doing all this kind of analysis, and it is done mainly for rare disease, but also in concern in agriculture and all of this kind of project, and also to, there's a large project like Southern Genome Project here, that do it just to have a global picture of variation in the human population. So to do that, this is the workflow we are working on since yesterday. So yesterday we saw all the data processing, and today we'll show this second part. So if we can summarize this step, quality control, when you use your data, you do a really important to do quality control, then you preprocess your data to obtain the highest quality of your data, you map your data, you process your mapping to improve your alignment, and then you do the small variant colleague. So as I say, importance of quality control. Before you start your analysis, you need to look at your data. What is really important is when you do an experiment, or if you want to compare your experiment, is to use the same protocol and the same instrument for all the different samples. Quite often, I've got people that came and have done a project a few years ago, and they want to do another project, and they don't use the same protocol and instrument, and for sure we see artefact in one group or the other, so that could be an issue. So that's why we have, we see if we don't, if I'm not normalizing everything, we will clearly see some technical issue. So it's really important to do that, especially for SNV, but if you want to compare like condition, case versus control. So what is a single nucleotide variant colleague? So it could be summarized by that. What we want to do is to find some position where we have the refound genomes, and we try to find a specific position where we observe another allele than what we have in the refound genome. It's as simple as that. What is thought to be a little bit trickier is you want to find this type of position, but you don't want to detect this other type of position. So as you can see, and as I said a little bit yesterday, what is really important to do a good SNP calling is to have a good base quality to trust your bases to try to reduce the amount of possible error you will see, and as you can see here, to have enough coverage. We have here, as you might have like 10 coverage, so around 10x of coverage, it's clearly easy to see what is a SNP, what is not a SNP. Now you can imagine if I only take 3x of coverage, so what is done in many samples in the southern genome, they have 3x of coverage, and apparently I cannot make a difference between my SNP and my errors. So coverage, base quality, really important. So base quality, we talked about yesterday, and so the idea of base quality is if you see these two types of region, where you see two alleles, so two alleles with high quality and 12 with low quality, the color will turn to favor calling these variants instead of the other. So how it works? So it is a general workflow for doing your SNP calling, so the idea is you've got your data from your sequencer, you do base calling, you get your FASTQ, you do the read mapping, to map you improve your mapping, and then you have two ways of doing your other calling, multi-sample calling and single-sample coding. So the two methods are a bit similar, but I really encourage you to go with multi-sample coding if you have multi-sample, because you have an advantage. The principle of multi-sample calling is to, at the beginning, to do the step, the work in two steps. The first step, you take the data of everybody, you merge everything together, just to find a region where you could have a condition for SNP. So the more information you will have, the more depth you will create, the more variation you will be able to detect correctly regarding to SNP error, because SNP error will be random between every sample. So you use the idea, if you have enough sample, accumulating the data of every sample, some variant will be with a given frequency in the population, so you will accumulate more evidence of variant reads. So the idea of this first step is to find these candidates, a region, and so each candidate a region to provide posterior probabilities for each sample, and then you do the maximum like you estimate the resolution of each sample to generate the genotype. When we do with single sample coding, the idea is to do everything at the same time. So it's to find every site and to find the genotype at the same time. So most of the methods will approach close to this one, which would be a vision approach, but if you have, for some color, if you have enough coverage, if you have like, I think it's more than a thousand hundred heaps of coverage, some color to be fastest will just use a three-dollar approach, which means you can say, if I have more than, if I have between 20% and 80% of my variant read, I would be heterocygot. If I have more than 80%, I will be a multigot variant, and if I have less than 20, I will be a multigot reference. So really fast, really easy, but it only works if you have enough coverage. Some T-test approach are also done, but the T-test approach is more used, not in a really single mode, but in a paired mode. When you have one sample and you are looking much versus normal, so normal versus tumor, and you just do a T-test to see at this specific position, did I see more variant treats in my statistically more variant treats in my tumors and in my normal? So I tried this to find a somatic variation. So just to give you a quick overview of the Bayesian approach, I will not go in detail. I'm trying to reduce as much as I can every year, kind of equation in my slide, because people then are scared or bored. So as I did it, you just want to find the genotype knowing the data, so which means finding the genotype knowing each sample type. And if we go fast, it's fine, the genotype, based on what you observe at each read and based on the base question. It's why the base question is really important when you do SNP coding. So it's just a summary and accumulation of probability. So I don't go in detail because every color has its own methodology and own formula to do the variant coding. So I could give you one, but she's another one. It's a user for you. So what are the strategies that we know, how we can do the variant coding, what are the strategies to improve this variant coding? So some of them we have seen yesterday, locality element, duplicate marking, base or calibration, population structure. So just a reminder, locality alignment. What we want to do is to avoid this kind of situation where you have some reads with an indel that are pretty much with the indel and the other don't have an indel that show to correct the position of indel, few mismatch in the region. So if you look, you will, if you don't do indel relevant, you will probably call an indel here, a variant here and a variant here. If you do your indel relevant, all the read will have the indel and all the fake variant will be, will disappear. Duplicate marking, what is important to mark duplicate? Because if you have this read here with a variant, imagine this variant come from a second, from a PCR error at the first cycle and you have all these PCR duplicates. So you have around six copies out of eight that show the variant. So you can imagine your variant color will probably call a variant here, which will be false positive. So if you mark all this data as only one alert, you will have only one, one read variant out of three. And in that case, you won't, you probably won't call the variant of this position. Base quality, as I say, base quality is really important in term of, in the Bayesian model. So it's really important to correct, to not have bias. Otherwise, you will see, especially in the, in the sum, so you need to correct for the position of the, of the, the position of the, of the bases on the, on the read and for the general context. So while you will see, you will, you will start to see some positional effect, some context effect in your variant. So what I did in talk yesterday is how we can improve using family or population structure and invitation. So it's a bit correlated to what I talked about, a multi sample coding. So the idea is to use up the types. If you have, if you know that in the population, you have these two prototypes. So the first one, 80G, the second one, 80GA. And now you are sequencing. You have this base, you cannot trust it because you have bad quality. But based on this information, we could probably guess what the value of N is. So what would be the value of N? Be careful, there's a, there's a, I put a color code if pressed too. It's not G, it's T. As I say, multi sample is really a good way to improve your variant coding. This is an old slide, so it is a tool that I've been, that I have now decrypted. But it was, when you see big early plus multi sample approach, the JTK, JTK, so the goal is for population coding, JTK, multi sample, when we do, it was a unified genotyper in a multi sample mode and genotype, unified genotyper in a single sample mode. So you can see that the, the, the, the, the, it's not a rock curve, but it's not a rock curve. It's quite better when you use multi sample approach. Another way to improve your data is to use trios. So if you have a family and you know this family, this family structure, you can use it to get more information because you expect in the child that each allele of the child comes from one of the parents. So you have duplication of the data. So you can use it to, to be, to improve your code. And you can also use the Mandel, Mandelian segregation of alleles. If you see a variant in the child, if you don't see the variant in the, in the parent, it's probably not a true variant, probably, because we know that there are the novel mutations that arrive in the, only in the child. It's why you can also calculate the novel mutation rate. If you see that this, the novel mutation rate is really high, probably you have false positive in your, in your data. So when we do variant coding, we start from BAM file. And usually doing variant coding is not really a big task. It's around 10 hours. We use several color and it will reduce a lot your data. So you will end up with around a gigabyte of data for your variant for general analysis. I know you've got your variant. What is interesting to do is to understand what the format of the variant and how we can filter and annotate the variant. So the format is a BCF format, a variant called format. It's, it's based on the same principles as the BAM file. In terms of you've got a big header that gives you a lot of information and then you've got your calls. So in the header, what is there's two monetary line, the format of your data. So because the BCF format evolved over time, so it's important that the tool can know which format you are using and the name of the column you will use for your data. Now all this information are not monetary, but almost every program are filling this data. So what's this line correspond? It's a correspond to the command that I've been used to generate your data, but also information because we'll see you have your, you have your so you've got your format, your promo position, annotation, reference allele, alternative basis. Then you have the quality. If you have filtered, try to filter your data. It will give you if you filter or not. And then you've got some information about the variants in general and the format of the genotype code. And these two are described in the header. For example, if I take Dp, Dp is the total depth of coverage at this position. So you've got all these information that are on code there. If I go for the format, GT, GT is the genotype. Okay, the genotype, you produce encoded like that with a pipe or a slash, which is zero, zero for homozygot reference, zero one for heterozygot and one one for heterozygot. You will say yes, but I see, but I see a one two or two two. What does that mean? So it's sometimes in the genome, you're in a multi-allelic position. So here's two possible. You have the reference and you have the two alternate solutions. So it will be zero, one, two. So if you have three or whatever, that could be more. So we will have here, it will be GT for that variant at this position. So it's the same principle of zero one, but if you have multiple allel for each new allel, it's two, three and so on. So now you have this data, you have generated this data. You know what you have in your data. What is good to do is to do filtering because usually all the grow variant code contains a lot of errors. So most of the algorithm tend to do really move more permissive in the variant calling. So there's two ways to do your initial variant for filtering. So you can do it manually using a GTK variant filtration or SNF6 and it's what we will do today because we won't be able to do the second approach, which is data, but to do that we need more sample. So the first method is to do so variant filtering manually. So usually you know which parameters you want to do filtering. You know which parameter could influence your false positive and false negative rates.  So you will use the DP field and say okay filtering everything. So this is done by a variant filtering but it's really efficient but it's difficult because it requires you to know exactly what are the methods to do the variant calling and what are the parameters you need to play on. Now if you have a large quote I really recommend you to go with a second approach which is a variant for calibration which is similar to the base of calibration. So the idea is to really learn with a set of known variants what are the good parameters to call variants and then to apply that to the other. I think I have, yeah. Okay. So you can also use for annotation app map in the bisnip to annotate you better and to look for false negative and false positive and I say variant recalibration here. The idea of the variant recalibration which is really interesting and really efficient. So you have your data you have a set of variants so you take a training set. It's a machine learning approach so you take your training set and in this training set of data you have to select from your set of calls. You look in in this training set which are which one are fine in the really known database like the bisnip or me all these variants that are really known and confirmed and which one are not and which one seems to be false. From that you generate mathematical models of what in your data leads to a good variant calling. So you got this model you generate this model when you have this model you apply this model to all your variants in your data and then you need to choose a parameter here for example it could be 99% where you want okay if I apply this rule on all my data I want that all the all my variants that found in app map all the variants I've got in my in my call in my calls that are called as good variant and are found in app map are found in 99% of the case so it's just a way to turn up and turn your your your final method and it's and it works really well to improve your your variant but as I need you need at least to have the I will say there's no magic number but I think under 10 to 15 sample it's hard sometimes it would crash so it's why you need a big amount of a variant to do that. So when you have done this variant cleaning what is good to do is to annotate your data so one of the annotations we use it's to look for a mapability so we know that the reason all the genome is not mappable at the same rate so some region harder to map some not especially due to the repeated region or due to the gc content so that could impact so if you know that you are in a in a region where it's hyper mutated or you expect to have more more read to map because it's kind of all the repeated region all the copy maps there you expect to have more variant and more so for the variant so it's a good annotation to have annotate your variant with non-variant to know if you already is already a common variant or not find the impact of your variant so either find the variant effect or the functional annotation of the variant and if you are working in cancer to annotate with the cosmic databases which is the database of variants implicated in cancer today we will annotate the variant with databasenip and we will annotate the the impact of the variant using snippet so there's also a tool you can do that but we'll do with snippet and there are you use the reference genomes you use the dataset of transcript and how this variant where this variant is located in the transcript and what the one the what the variant does so which amino acid change could impact and which function it could impact to it it will tell you if your variant is coding non-coding and what has the impact so high moderate low or modifier so it's a really good a good way to filter your data if you are looking for for a specific disease or specific variant picking in disease or in cancer and usually we look first at the high and then and moderates because low and modifier usually your variant but it's like no no impact on your protein so yeah i don't have it's really unlikely that this kind of variant will have an impact on your proteins so as i tell you when we do the processing uh it takes approximately 10 hours to generate the variant generating the filtered and annotated variants ghtk snippet is really efficient but what is really important is you looking at the variant understanding the biology behind the variant and that have no values in terms of time and and cost so a small add-on vcf visualization so you can load your vcf in ijv and we'll do it today so you have your read and you can load vcf and so you have a general when you do the vcf a general visualization of the variants the first bar is the proportion of sample that have the variant and then usually usually you have the detail for each sample so you can then look at your actual data to finish to slide two or three matrix matrix matrix matrix um so this is the classical matrix for uh in effect so still when you do variant calling you you need to look at your stack to be able to choose the correct um filter you want to apply to your variant and also you can look at uh some specific stats if we run the snippet it provides a really good uh set of of stats and you can use to where your variants are located uh what type of variant what type of what type of uh transition so this is kind of of matrix you can use to uh see if your what you see is close to what you expect so that's it now we can do the variant calling any question yeah um in uh so could you i'm not sure to understand if the snippet is in example or in the example the snippet will just find find the why is the impact on the product on the country what the change will uh impact the country and we'll predict the impact is the the variant will change the the the product that i mean i see yeah so if it's on the intron or intergenic region so on intron it will try to assess if it's a splice uh if it's if it's a splice variant the snippet will do that if not if it's in intergenic it will it will put an intergenic or entronic and will it will class as a low or a low or moderate impact so what you can do there's not really many tools for this variant but what you can do is to look at um um for example dna's to find our chipset to find if there's a possible transition factor that could overlap the position of your variant but there's no tool dedicated for that so that's the main problem with that kind of um of variants


All right, how about three daily habits that could hurt your health and decrease your lifespan?  That's why each week I do my very best to help you make your health a top priority. So today I'm sharing three surprising daily habits that could be hurting your health and decreasing your lifespan. Number one, first up, eating breakfast. Now, first of all, most traditional American breakfast foods are loaded with sugar and health wrecking ingredients, cereal, waffles, sugary granola, yogurt, instant oatmeal, and animal protein. But that's not the only reason breakfast is terrible for you. Breakfast was designed to break your overnight fast. And there's very strong evidence that breakfast is a very modern time of day to eat. It looks like breakfast was started in England at the Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s when men went off to factories and worked all day. There were no breaks. There was no lunch break and returned home late at night. Women would prepare men a breakfast before they went to work because they weren't going to be back until late at night and they needed something to start the day. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that concept. In fact, I talk about the Ramadan diet, which is this exact same thing where you eat breakfast before sunlight and don't eat again until after sunset. And as I've shown in my last two books, the Ramadan plan is actually very health-promoting. On the other hand, this whole idea was hijacked by breakfast cereal companies in the early 1900s when cereals were invented. And doctors were paid to actually tell people how healthy a bowl of corn flakes with a sliced banana was in terms of your health. In fact, a lot of the data for cereals making you lose weight was manipulated by these breakfast food companies. Breakfast is big business. And breakfast is not the most important meal of the day. On the other hand, I realize how hard it is for people to give up breakfast. And that's why if you still want to do a breakfast, then I've got tricks in unlocking the keto code to get you through that time period. My good friend, Dr. Balter Longo, has shown that a breakfast, basically of a nut bar called the fast bar, will not stop you from being in ketosis from an overnight fast. And that's great news. And I talk about all the options, including a handful of nuts, to get you through that time to your next meal, which is lunch. So break fast the farther into the day that we can break fast the healthier you're going to be.  I have tons of videos about fasting right here on my YouTube channel. Now, I like to recommend starting with a 12-hour fast. Believe it or not, most Americans are eating 16 hours a day from the second we get up literally to the second we go to bed. But a 12-hour fast is pretty doggone easy to do. That's eating break fast at 8 o'clock in the morning and finishing your last bite of food at 8 o'clock at night. That's a 12-hour fast. Then each day, we back off an hour per week. So for instance, if you're eating breakfast at 8 o'clock in the morning this week, next week, let's eat break fast at 9 o'clock in the morning. So we'll just do that for a week. Come on, anybody can change one hour at a time. And you'll be amazed how easy it is to progressively shorten your eating window. The more we shorten our eating window, the better you're going to do. Probably the best eating window is about six hours. And that's based on Dr. Matheson's work from the NIH. All right, worst habit number two, watching TV or scrolling through social media before bed. Now, I've said in my first book that Thomas Edison may be the cause of most modern diseases by inventing the light bulb. Light bulbs completely throw off our circadian rhythm. This artificial light mimics sunlight. It disrupts our melatonin production. And it signals your brain that it's actually time to be awake and alert. It also stimulates receptors in our brain that actually make us hungry. Because remember, summertime was a time when food was most available. And so winter was a time of less food. So sunlight and exposure to light, prolonged light, makes us hungry because that was when summer was and that's when the food was. This is ancient programming that our poor modern lifestyle never anticipated that we would have 365 days of endless summer. At end of that, that we now have 365 days of endless fruits of summer. And you've got a double whammy for weight gain and misery. TVs and phones have intense concentrations of blue light. And if you've been watching me and reading my books, you know that blue light keeps us up and reduces our sleep quality. And more and more and more, we're recognizing that the quality of our sleep has tremendous impacts, not only on our short-term health but our long-term brain health. On the other hand, yellow, red, and orange lights would only have been present in the winter from fires. And those actually stimulate us not to eat and to go to sleep. So change over to red, orange, and yellow lights or get yourself a pair of blue-blocking glasses. Raw optics and blue blocks are two great brands.  Download an app that filters blue or green wavelengths on your devices. One of the best is irastech.co. Now the other trick is to get lots of natural sunlight during the day. In fact, early in the morning when the change is from the orange and red to more intense bright light, this actually sets you up for a perfect circadian rhythm. And I can't recommend how strongly I urge you to get out in the early morning and get exposure to that natural light. And that's one of the great things having dogs. Dogs will get you out to get that exposure at exactly the right time. Establish that circadian rhythm and get you back in flow and in sync with daylight. All right, number three, eating a high animal protein diet. Now, folks, I am not against eating animal protein. I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin to epicenters for eating animal protein. I eat animal protein. I have nothing against animal protein. But the problem is, number one, there is no long-lived society ever discovered that bases their diet on lots of animal protein. On the other hand, all of the currently known blue zones, those areas with prolonged longevity that Dan Butler described in his book, The Blue Zones, all of these, including Loma Linda University, where I was a professor for much of my career, all the blue zones, the common factor in all of the blue zones. They all eat very different foods, by the way. The common factor is that animal protein is a minor part of all of these cultures' diets. I wish that wasn't true in many ways, and yet it is. So what's so bad about animal protein? Well, I've mentioned this many times, but I think it's worth repeating. First of all, beef, lamb, and pork carry a sugar molecule called Nu5GC. We, on the other hand, and fish and chicken, have a sugar molecule called Nu5AC. They're very similar, but we can make an antibody against the lining of our blood vessels when we eat Nu5GC-containing foods, beef, lamb, and pork. I don't particularly want to do that. Number two, Nu5GC can be used by cancer cells to hide from our immune system. And since we don't make Nu5GC ourselves, cancer cells have to acquire Nu5GC from beef, lamb, and pork. Another reason why it's not a good idea. Finally, animal protein has amino acids that increase insulin-like growth factor 1 and increase mTOR, two things that definitely age us. So why would we necessarily want to turn on factors that we know age us? I've had numerous examples, and there are studies done at Washington University in St. Louis asking patients to switch over to a six-week vegan diet and watch their insulin-like growth factor. And in every case, the insulin-like growth factors plummet. Now, let me talk about other ways of reducing insulin-like growth factor, but lessening animal proteins is a powerful way to do that. And there are plenty of plant protein sources that don't do this. Hemp protein, spirulina protein, protein from nuts like pistachios and walnuts, and just eating plants. All plants have significant amounts of protein. Just ask a gorilla or a horse where they're getting their protein macros from, and it's not from cheeseburgers. It's from eating leaves and grass. Plenty of protein and plants. Make sure to check out the next one here.  So that's why I tell you, give fruit the boot.


Unfortunately, as the traditional diets of East Asia westernize, their breast cancer rates have risen, which some have linked to a quadrupling of animal product consumption. This is the breast cancer rate of Japanese women in Japan. If they emigrate to the United States, within 10 years they're up to here, and if they hang around long enough, here's the risk of resident Japanese Americans living in the United States. Note, though, that's still somewhat lower than the U.S. national average. This may be because some of the dietary habits may carry with them, such as soy consumption, green tea, maybe eating more mushrooms, but maybe partly it's the seaweed. We've known for over a decade that in vitro, in a petri dish, broth is effective at clearing cancer cells. Here's three different types of human breast cancer, measuring cancer cell death. Here's what a widely used chemotherapy drug can do, and here's seaweed, worked even better, and, unlike the chemo, didn't harm normal, non-cancerous breast cells. But what about outside of the test tube in people? Well, a population study comparing women with breast cancer to women without found that consuming a single sheet of nori a day may cut a woman's odds of breast cancer in half. We think it's because seaweed favorably alters estrogen metabolism, likely due to a modulation of the woman's gut bacteria. It appears that the more seaweed you eat, the less estrogen you have in your system, which may lower breast cancer risk. This may be because of all the fiber and sea vegetables, or it may block the enzymes that undermines our body's attempt to flush out excess hormones or even somehow interfere with estrogen binding to estrogen receptors. Either way, to effectively lower one's estrogen levels, Asian women may be able to get away with maybe one sheet of nori a day, but American women are so much bigger that may take closer to two. There's lots of yummy seaweed snacks out there to make it a tasty experience, just to try to get some low-fat, low-sodium ones. Wacame, the seaweed used fresh in seaweed salads, unfortunately did not appear to reduce breast cancer risk, though it has been found to rather dramatically lower blood pressure and hypertensives. Just two teaspoons of seaweed salad a day for a month dropped their blood pressure 14 points, and after two months was associated with up to a 2-inch skinnier waistline. As I've mentioned before, though, I recommend avoiding hijiki, which tends to have too much arsenic and kelp, which tends to have too much iodine. In fact, too much seaweed of any type may actually increase one's risk of thyroid cancer because of the amount of iodine you'd be taking in, but there does not appear to be increased risk at the levels of consumption I'm talking about, like, you know, a sheet of nori a day. And a study of seaweed eaters in California actually found decreased risk, but again, we're talking, you know, kind of modest levels of intake. You know, I've frequently talked about the benefits of dietary diversity, eating different families of fruits and vegetables, eating different parts of individual plants, like, you know, beets and beet greens. If we just stick to land plants, though, we're missing out on all the plants from the other 70% of planet Earth. Sea vegetables have phytonutrients found nowhere else, types of fiber and unique carotenoids and polysaccharides and various polyphenol defense compounds, each of which may have anti-cancer properties. So I encourage everyone to try experimenting with sea vegetables until you find one you like, even if that just means sprinkling some powdered dulse on your food.


Investors just can't get enough of tech stocks. JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade, your clients bought the usual tech suspects during the month of July. We're talking about Amazon, Microsoft, Tesla, and Vidya. Clearly, they're not worried about valuations. Well, I would say this, you know, Apple and Facebook weren't there, which has been two of the stalwarts overall. It's very interesting to me because I hear people say, well, what about value investing, et cetera? I think one of the things that this shows is that people can invest in the fang type stocks, if you will, and perhaps do some value investing, which we'll talk about in a little bit. But overall, what really keeps me encouraged is it's not just one sudden time where people came in and started buying things. Our IMX, which measures investor exposure to the market, as you know, our clients have been buyers six months in a row. And they've participated in the rally all the way up, and as markets have it, new all-time highs, so is our index. All right, and then on the sell side, we had Nike, Alcoa, Arconic, GM, and Twitter. Are these stocks just not getting that much attention? No, they're not. Nike was really interesting to me. They had a little run up there before earnings, so people started selling it out of nervousness, perhaps. As it turned out, they signed this deal with Amazon, et cetera, for distribution. GM, again, had a little bit of a bump, on one of the ones that wasn't mentioned on their caterpillar, had a little bit of a jump. So it's interesting to me that when stocks jump, people are a little bit quicker, perhaps, to get out of them. All right, let's talk about the broader markets. We know August is a tricky month for stocks. We had the flash crash in 2015. 2013, August was a bad month. In 2011, we had the U.S. credit rating downgrade. So, I mean, you know where I'm going here. What kind of tail risk could we might see in the remaining couple of weeks here? Well, I think it's interesting that, if you look at the traditional risk measure, and that would be, I guess, VIX, Bonds, and Gold, none of them are really flashing a signal of nervousness, if you will. We have some things that can come up that could be minor derailment, but what really makes me the most nervous, though, is, will the good numbers continue? We come off Friday when we had the employment number above $200,000 for the second month in a row, and it's a surprise. We had wages increase. We have PPI and CPI at the end of this week. Will we get the inflation numbers that the Fed wants also? I think the Fed really wants to have a rate raise. The economy could use that vote of confidence of a rate raise. That makes me nervous. I think that the political situation, although it's amazing swirl, and keeps a lot of the networks in 24 hours of programming, I think that Washington's gonna get a pass for the rest of 2017 on taxes. And so we go marginally higher from here? I think we have enough runway. Now, to be honest, a little sell-off probably wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, but there's just nothing there that shows that there's gonna be any kind of major sell-off. All right, well, watch how it plays out. JJ Kenahan, thanks so much, as always. Always a pleasure, Scott. Thanks for having me.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss the following question and the question says, let U is equal to the set containing X such that X is an integer where minus 5 is less than X is less than equal to 10, B the universal set let A is equal to the set containing the elements 2, 4, 6, 8, D is equal to the set containing the elements 1, 3, 5, 7, C complement is equal to the set containing the elements minus 4, minus 3, minus 2, minus 1 and D is equal to the set containing the elements 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Find first D complement, second C, third D complement, fourth number of elements in A complement and fifth number of elements in C. Before we start solving the question let us first recall what is complement of a set. Complement of a set A is the set of elements in the universal set which are not in A. It is denoted by, so this is the key idea for this question and using this key idea we shall solve the question. Let us start the solution now. We are given U is equal to X such that X is an integer where minus 5 is less than X is less than equal to 10 as the universal set. Let us first list down the elements of the set U. So U is equal to the set containing minus 4, minus 3, minus 2, minus 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Now in the first part we have to find what is B complement. We are given that B is equal to the set containing the elements 1, 3, 5, 7. So we have B is equal to the set containing 1, 3, 5, 7. So using the key idea we have B complement contains all the elements of the universal set U which are not in B. That is B complement contains all the elements of U except the elements 1, 3, 5, 7. So B complement contains all these elements except 1, 3, 5 and 7. So we have B complement is equal to the set containing minus 4, minus 3, minus 2, minus 1, 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 10. This is the solution for the first part. Now in the second part we have to find C. We are given in the question that C complement is equal to the set containing minus 4, minus 3, minus 2 and minus 1. That is we have C complement is equal to the set containing minus 4, minus 3, minus 2, minus 1. Also we know that C is equal to complement of C complement. That is C contains all the elements of the universal set U except for the elements in C complement that is minus 4, minus 3, minus 2 and minus 1. So C contains all these elements in the set U except for the elements minus 4, minus 3, minus 2 and minus 1. Therefore we have C is equal to the set containing the elements 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. This is our solution for the second part. Now in the third part we have to find what is D complement. We are given that D is equal to the set containing the elements 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 as D is equal to the set containing the elements 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. So D complement contains all the elements of the universal set U except for the elements which are in D. That is all these elements except for the elements 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Therefore D complement is equal to the set containing the elements minus 4, minus 3, minus 2, minus 1, 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Now in the fourth part we have to find number of elements in the set A complement. Now we are given in the question that A is equal to the set containing the elements 2, 4, 6, 8. So A complement contains all the elements of the universal set U except for the elements which are in A. That is all these elements except for the elements 2, 4, 6 and 8. Let us now list down the elements of A complement. We have A complement is equal to the set containing the elements minus 4, minus 3, minus 2, minus 1, 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 10. Therefore the number of elements in A complement is 11. That is the answer for this part is number of elements in A complement is equal to 11. Now in the fifth part we have to find number of elements in C. In the second part we found the set C and we can see that C contains 11 elements so we can say that since the number of elements in C is 11 therefore the answer is number of elements in C is equal to 11. With this we end our session. Hope you enjoyed the session.


I started out right after college and everything. I was trying to become a professional and everything after that. And then things just wasn't working out. Things become expensive, you know? Yeah. So I decided to start looking for a regular job. And in that time, I had some friends who were coaching and everything already. Yeah. And I went along with them, basically, to learn. And soon after, I think about a year after, I decided to apply for a coaching position. I think it was with a U8 and a U11 team. OK. So I started off with two teams. And from there, I basically really found a knack for coaching, which was fun. Yeah. Then after that, I became the director of that club after two years. And after the two years, I was an assistant coach at college as well. In terms of the individual half of it, where I started to do more type training and stuff, it basically started out with one kid asking me, hey, can I do some extra work with you and everything? And I was like, because I'm honest, I didn't know that private training was a thing then. And I was like, OK. And it kind of took off from there, basically. OK. That sounds good. So tell us a bit about cruise coaching, then. What is your business specializing? So we kind of specialized in more one-on-one soccer training. But we do table in small groups as well. We try to keep our groups really small, no more than eight players. Because that way, we can really get involved with every kid. OK. Awesome. So how many clients do you currently work with at the moment? That's a rough estimate right now, about 200. About 200. OK. And is that 200 you see every week? No. So I have another coach as well. He probably sees half of them. But we don't encourage players to train every single week. So most of our clients, they have players who need a little bit more work, train a lot more. OK. Players who want to get extra touches and stuff like that. Yeah. They would probably train three to two times a month. OK. OK. Awesome.  My biggest obstacle, how do I name like three? Yeah. The first one was finding good help. When you're first starting out, especially, it's kind of you kind of pulling every string, right? Correct. And it can become exhausting, especially when the business starts to ramp up on you, you know? Yeah. Secondly, would be finding the right coach. I don't know if that goes the same line as the first one. But finding the right coach is always hard for me, because I got so used to doing everything on my own that trying to bring the right coach, trying to bring someone in was a bit of a transition for me. Yeah. So by me bringing them in and everything, I basically want them to coach like me. But then I kind of realized at a point that that wasn't necessarily possible. And I really needed the coach to learn and improve, but also bring in his own style as well. Correct. Yeah. OK. So for any coach that's going to be watching or listening to this and that they're looking to bring someone on, how did you get your coaches up to the level that you wanted? So first thing first, within the first month, we have a lot of meetings, right? Yeah. And I would basically have that coach talk to me and kind of learn a little bit of how I, not only coach, but how I communicate and everything. Yeah. Then after that, I would also do the same thing for them as well. OK. That's awesome. So where do you see private training going in the next two to five years? Two to five years, I think it's going to keep exploding. Yeah. I mean, I was very lucky to start off early. I feel like I was like maybe the fifth or sixth coach on Instagram. And now it's like it's exploded so much that it's like thousands of training, which is really good. Yeah, which is really good. It's really good. Yeah. I see it in the next five years just exploding even more. Good. Continuing to grow, yeah? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. So how long have you been in business so far? I've been in business. I started coaching 15 years ago, 33 right now. I believe I was, I actually filed for an LLC in 2019. But I've been doing the business maybe three years before that. Yeah. OK, OK, awesome. Cool. So talk to us a little bit about what you look for when you bring on a new client into your into your training business. OK, one thing. The main thing I look for is if the player has balls, if the player has a great attitude, I don't think that I don't think that we can get a whole lot out of training. I should if a player is training without any tool. Mm-hmm. So we either look for the goals or the player's attitude and everything as well, right? So if the player is open learning, if the player understands how to actually learn, if the player is able to take constructive criticism and know that if the player is able to have fun as well, because there's a lot of players out there who come to practices that are really angry, demeanour about themselves. Yeah. OK, cool. And what's your what's your current sales and marketing? How do you market? How do you get new clients? Where are they coming from at the moment? I would always say word of mouth. I think even if you have a pretty strong social media and all that, word of mouth is priceless, man. It truly is. So I would like to say that that's my main source of whenever you're being recommended by someone else, I feel like that's more powerful than someone looking at you from a social media or something. Correct, correct. And is there a specific thing you do every month to get more referrals that you can share with coaches? From being honest, I've gotten to a point where I try to slow down the income of people and try to focus on everyone I have. So I don't necessarily do a lot of marketing at this point because I feel like I have a good base players. Obviously, I do want to grow and everything. But right now, it's me and one coach. I don't want to have us too overloaded. We both currently do about six to eight sessions almost every day, so it's a lot on us. And so in terms of marketing, I just try to stay as active as I can online. OK, OK, really good. So where do you see your business in the next five years from now? Where would you like it to be? The next five years from now. So while I am actually looking for a facility right now, I'm trying to purchase one. I want to see it to a point where we have our own home. I have maybe three coaches. I have a staff of people that I employ. Yeah, OK, good. So last question. What would one piece of advice you would give any trainer that hasn't yet started their business or is looking to start it? What's one piece of advice you would give them? To start quickly. Yes, as quick as you can. Don't overthink things too much because even if you think you're not such a great coach yet, I would say it started because the more practices you do, the more the more trainings, passions and everything, the better you will become. Yeah, awesome. That's that's great advice. Perfect. All right, Cruz.  If there's any coach out there that wants to connect with you or learn more about your business, what's the best way to do that? You guys can reach out to me at Cruz Coaching on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, even on Pinterest as well, guys. Thank you. OK, perfect. All right, well, thank you for jumping on Cruz and we'll speak very soon. All right, no problem. And thank you. Bye.


Okay guys, we are starting off the night with one of my favorite dinners, so I'm making shrimp tacos I'm just gonna give you a brief kind of description on how I do it. It's honestly super easy So I just cut up some of the toppings that I'm gonna put in and I just marinated the shrimp I put cumin, paprika, garlic powder, and cayenne with salt and I just kind of mix it up And I'm just about to put it on the pan and cook it So I actually have these onions right now pickling in the fridge I literally just cut up red onions and put red wine vinegar in them I did this a couple hours ago just so they can be a little pickled for the tacos It's better if I let them sit like overnight or something But I just remember to do it today, but this is definitely a crucial key ingredient to the tacos So got that in the fridge. Okay, so we got the shrimp cooking. It's pretty much done And then we have all of the ingredients that I need so I got my onions I got avocado, tomato, and then this is a coleslaw salad to put in I got that with the wraps and then after the shrimp is done I'm just gonna put one of these wraps on the oven so that it can be toasty, but yeah, so freakin good I'm so excited. Okay, so after all the ingredients are inside. This is how it looks It is so easy and such a simple dinner and it's so good This is probably one of my favorite meals of all time So yeah, this is my little dinner and I'm gonna eat it while watching selling sunset I'm so excited start unwinding for the night But 10 out of 10 would recommend making this recipe. So I just finished dinner I just was eating it while watching selling sunset, and I've just been obsessed like that has been my Show lately currently sitting on the air mattress because our couch hasn't come in yet, by the way Okay So we just finished cleaning up after dinner that honestly didn't take as long as I thought it would But just feel so good to have like a clean space now and just to start really relaxing for the night So now it's the time of the evening that I log on to my Babel account and I do my language courses They sponsored one of my last videos if you guys saw and they're actually sponsoring this video again So thank you so much to Babel for sponsoring. What Babel is is their website or like an app as well And you can go on and you can learn a new language I like doing the language course kind of at the end of the day Because after all my work is done, then I can kind of do like my hobby slash Like my own thing so I personally wanted to start learning Portuguese because my whole family is Portuguese My parents speak Portuguese, and I've never learned how to speak So I just really have been honestly wanted to learn it my whole life So I'm just so excited to be learning it and have this opportunity And it's so cool because like everything is done from on the app and online So I don't have to go in person anywhere It's so easy because Babel has short 10-minute interactive lessons and their lessons were also designed by real language teachers They're actually the best and I found it their lessons to be so interactive and easy to do and also fun And Babel also has a 20-day money back guarantee Learning any language and learning Portuguese for me is just such a good way to improve myself for 2022 and continue learning It's all honestly been one of my goals ever since they reached out is to by the end of the year I just really want to learn like understand at least and just like speak Kind of nice kind of fluently And that's just one of my self-improvement goals for 2022. So if you guys are looking to somehow Improve yourselves learn more than I would definitely suggest thinking of a language that you've always wanted to learn Especially if you're about to go traveling or something that would just be so cool Okay, so I'm gonna be doing a lesson right now Muy tu plazer The thing that's so cool about learning on Babel is that it's so Interactive and they do like really fun games like this text message one That I love and it just makes it so easy and fun like it's not like I'm dreading doing these lessons Look, I actually get excited for them So if you guys want to get 65% off a Babel subscription All you have to do is click the link down below in my description box So yeah, thank you so much again to Babel for sponsoring this video So it's currently 845 right now, and I'm gonna like do a face mask I'm debating on taking a shower or taking a bath tonight. Like do I want the extra relaxation? I am on my period so that would honestly be really nice So I might end up doing that a nice bath with bubbles and a face mask that kind of sounds so nice right now Maybe I'm gonna do that because I was like I'm gonna take a shower But I think I deserve a bath tonight because honestly my stomach has been like really upset this whole day because of my period So I think I deserve that honestly I'm feeling good because I got 22 out of 25 and this is a pretty good score for me. Okay, considering I'm new Okay, so I'm currently running a bath. I'm so excited and we are going to do a face mask right now.  So to remove my makeup I just use the gurney micellar water and with a cotton pad I really want to purchase reusable ones instead of buying these But I'm just trying to use up the ones that I have before I buy like reusable ones just so I cannot throw them out So if you have any recommendations over usable face pads Please let me know because I don't want to purchase them again I want to get reusable ones for next time. So let me know if you have any recommendations in the comments Now after I do the gurney micellar water, I just go in with the syrupy foaming cleanser I've been using this one for like I feel like two years now It's just been my go-to and it's really recently priced and just really good for a cleanser. So So as you can tell I just applied a face mask because this is the one that I did It's by this Canadian brand called blue and it's their glacial oceanic clay mask and I love this so much, I love all their face masks in general, but gonna leave this on while I don't in the bath and We'll chat in the bath. I talked to you guys for a little bit. Don't worry. I have a Bailing suit on I'm not trying to get demonetized today, but anyways So I just wanted to talk about self-care and how it's so important I literally went to Joel and I was like wow Like it's so nice to take a bath when I because usually I only take baths Mostly take baths when I have really bad period crimes because it helps and I was like oh, it's so nice taking Baths when I feel good and he's like yeah, like that's so important You can't just take care of yourself when you're feeling shitty. You got to take care of yourself all the time I'm like, oh my god. That's so true And I was thinking about it and I was like, oh my goodness. It's like nurturing a plant if you My tiger for the face mask, but it's definitely not try it if You have a plant and you don't water it you don't give it the right soil You don't give it sunlight you don't care for it And it's going to die and that's kind of the same things in kind of a different sense That could happen to us if you're not caring for yourself if you're not nurturing yourself if you're not Loving yourself, then you're going to eventually burn yourself out physically mentally you might get Into some sort of bad mental state and you're gonna start to notice the effects If you're not really fully taking care of yourself at the end of every single night I make sure that I do something for myself Whether it's as simple as doing my full skincare routine and really just like putting effort into it to make myself feel good or to Make myself a dessert like anything really that is gonna make myself happy after I Was productive that day and worked hard and even if I didn't even if I had a shitty day and I felt like it wasn't productive it's still important to nurture yourself and take care of yourself and We're in it for the long run like you're you and you're stuck inside your body forever Like that's the one person that you can't get away from is yourself You can let go of friends. You can let go of girlfriends. You can let go of boyfriends. You can Detach yourself with family members. You can do it all but you can't let yourself You can't detach yourself from yourself like you're stuck with your body You're stuck with yourself for your whole entire life And that's why it's so important to nurture and take care of yourself because you're in it for the long run with yourself And it's like I've never really thought about it in that aspect until recently and I was kind of reflecting on it And I was damn Like you really only have you at the end of the day And I personally feel like this past year like last year and this year I've been sort of neglecting like friendships in a way like I've had friends that I used to be friends with that has reached out to me and Like we hung out once it's like I never reached back out to them and I've been honestly neglecting friendships this past few couple years Maybe a year and a bit but I've just been having putting like myself into some friendships And I haven't really been focusing on them and growing relationships with other people because I honestly feel like I've just been Focusing on myself, which isn't a bad thing Like I feel like we all need to go through that period where we only focus on ourselves and it's not selfish to do that Because it's cheesy to say but like if you don't love yourself then you can't really love others We need to make sure that You know you're connected with yourself and I feel like that's just what I've done these past like couple of years is I really just like found who I am and I've been connecting with myself and Looking back on it. I realized that like because of that I've been neglecting friendships and I haven't been like really trying my best Which is fine because I needed this past couple of years to Reflect and focus on myself and I realized that and so I just been thinking like now moving forward in this next chapter and stage of my life I'm wanting to start nurturing friendships because I am doing the nurturing on myself and I've kind of already experienced that I know kind of what I need now I know myself better and Now I can move forward and Nurture puts some water in other plants and other aspects of my life that makes sense I keep making jokes like oh my god. I have no friends. I have no friends and it's like That's partially my fault as well because it's past few years like I was just saying I've been focusing on myself But going forward. I definitely want to start watering other things because once you water yourself and once you nurture yourself That's when you're gonna have water to nurture other things in your life, too That's why you always need to keep your pot full So that you have energy and stuff to nurture other things in your life as well Because if you're not full yourself, you're not gonna have energy to do other things if that makes sense So yeah, that was just a little reflection moment that I've been thinking about That self-care inner care that needs to know yourself and deeper levels is just so important and Self-care doesn't have to be physical things like taking a bath doing face masks skincare Even though like those are things that I personally enjoy it doesn't have to be that for you It can be whatever makes you feel personally happy whatever feels makes you feel like you're connecting with yourself It's gonna look different for everybody. Yeah, that's my little moments with Mikaela. I'm gonna wash this face mask Off right now. It's even focused. I'm gonna wash my face mask off And then we're gonna do the press of my little night routine Anyways, I'll see you guys when I take this face mask off because it's kind of getting a little dry now So okay, so I just washed my face mask off and did my skincare in terms of skincare I use the micellar water and then the Sarah V face wash, but if I'm completely honest I switch between my skincare products all the time like I have a skincare cabinet that I have Products that I've bought myself and also got sent from brands So I honestly alternate every single night. I don't know if this is a bad thing or a good thing But I alternate between all of my products like all of my serums here I'll put a different one on every single night Sometimes I'll do the summer Fridays mask because it's like a really heavy moisturizer and To be honest I everything I have I absolutely love this brand actually is so good This is a very authentic Argan oil brand and they are just so good. It makes my skin so soft and I also use this in my hair So it's kind of a two-in-one Have the words they down blokes. I actually really love them But yeah, so as I was saying I just rotate between skincare products and that's just what I do to be honest I don't have like a set routine right now. I just love trying out the new things that I get and That's basically it to be honest. Everything just makes my skin feel good. I haven't found anything that I dislike so far, so Yeah, to be honest, I just alternate. So now's the time of the night where I make my delicious Drink. This is not coffee by Oasis adaptogens Basically, it's an adaptogenic drink that has a whole bunch of functional mushrooms like Rashi Cordyceps, Lyne's Me and if you guys are familiar with any of those It has like so many amazing benefits for you. It can like reduce stress helps me feel more energized There's just so many good benefits to it and it's all natural I've literally been having this drink every single night for a very long time now And I've noticed so many good health benefits and it tastes so good and it's just like my comfort drink at night Now so I just make it with hot water boiling water Put a little bit of oat milk and a little bit of Sweetened cream or I will have their website linked down below if you guys are interested, but yeah, this is my go-to So yeah, this is what it looks like and it's just so good It's like I said my comfort drink and I love it so much. So I actually just popped myself some Pop more because I am craving it. You know what? It's fine to treat yourself like Gotta listen to my body So hot oh my god, this just looks so good right? Oh great I'm currently on our makeshift couch, which is the air mattress for now. We've got the popcorn This is our little setup for tonight. We got the popcorn. We got the smart sweets because these are my ride or die Okay, got those and then we got a little side table over here because we don't have the furniture yet Oh We got my knock coffee with my ice water ice water is essential as well because you're gonna get Extremely thirsty from the popcorn. So you need the ice water, okay? It all balances itself out and this is just the perfect setup. I'm so excited We got selling sunset on and I'm so excited to watch a new episode Yeah, I'm probably just gonna watch the one episode and then brush my teeth and start getting to bed


Why is dating and like dating women and feeling desired by women always like seem like it's the biggest problem for Asian guys Yeah, I mean, it's probably the most primal natural thing for us to reproduce and want to reproduce and if we don't feel like the Like the mate is having that same desire for us, then it feels very bad Yeah, sure for here's the list of things that your Chinese parents might have never taught you So how many of them do you know? Yeah? We got to talk about it because I came across two viral articles on the internet from people Basically, we're talking about I had unsatisfactory results. I'm not trying to blame my parents But here's the things I wish they would have taught me or made me aware of that They did not joining us for this discussion today is a model activist entrepreneur homie. Jack me ain't yeah What up David good to see you guys love to be here love sharing my insight. Let's keep it real man I appreciate you always letting your shorter friend get a crack at the man. I gotta look out for the bros Yeah, um Andrew first off. Let's analyze the first post is basically a guy who was saying, you know I'm telling you growing up. It sucked being a ABC guy because I was growing up in an all-white class room People would you know thought I was different being an Asian Christian wasn't very fun either because it made you think that you should belong in America But then you don't then your parents tell you to not go into sports if they do tell you to go into sports You're like playing badminton or tennis They don't tell you to go into the arts if you do go into the arts you're going into orchestra and overall It just made me like feel not cool. My dating my life was like super far behind my career Even though I got good grades and I wish my Asian parents or Chinese parents would have just taught me differently Yeah, so I think basically this is a common sentiment that I I know that happens a lot especially on the internet especially from guys who even went to a good college and got a good job, but They never felt like that they were coached properly to handle the dynamics of America because they're at home getting taught one way of life One philosophy and then they're going out in the world and realizing like ooh That doesn't actually play in this world right and that's not actually how you live a good life in America So I'm sure that essentially these guys are unhappy But also I think a lot of these guys have high expectations not to their fault, but they oftentimes do right I mean, I guess you get high grades You get high academic accolades You expect the other aspects of your life to operate or function or execute at a high level to yeah Why do you think so many of these guys writing these posts and I got another one after this or maybe like around 30 I think they put in a lot of work and they were told to work hard in school Put the work in study and then once they're about 30 years old They realize that this is not true like all the happiness and joy fulfillment and love that they wanted It's not actually coming to fruition.  It's supposed to be this way It's supposed to be miserable. I'm supposed to not have any friends I'm supposed to not get love from girls and then the struggle the hustle Yeah, right. Yeah, you're putting your head down and grinding and then you're supposed to reap all these rewards But then at the time that everyone else is supposed to be reaping the rewards. You're like wait, where's my yeah And by the way, we're not saying that every Chinese American guy that's like 30 to 40 years old feels this way But it might be a larger amount than you think just based off the post right Oh, I'm not saying all Chinese guys aren't happy But I think a lot of Asian guys in general not just Chinese can empathize with this sentiment on some level I think Chinese the most though. I mean, I'll get into that later I really think that like every Asian group has a different distribution of this feeling even though this feeling is possible Of course, anyway, what's the second article because this one's from an interesting. Yeah So the first article was from a guy who's a ABC just like I was like born in America, right? This other one was from a Chinese guy who was born in China came from Shanxi at seven years old Which is northern China and then basically he went to an Ivy League institution got into a lucrative career But still wrote this warning post to all Chinese parents that were thinking about bringing their kids to America saying hey man You can do it, but I think there are maybe a couple things that you're not considering and he listed them out He said listen, there are going to be permanent cultural barriers Your son will have a lifelong treatment as being a second-class citizen And it's going to be very difficult if not possible impossible to enter super lucrative business circles due to their race and not fitting in Yeah, I feel that I think I see a lot of suffering in the in the Chinese community specifically Yeah, and it's not the conventional type of suffering, right? It's suffering from disappointment disappointment Yeah, and I want to point out that when people say like oh, I feel like a second-class citizen I think it's important to like kind of specify what you mean because I think that sounds like really horrible to some people But I'm like really what does it mean you kind of feel like a perpetual foreigner Yeah, and that's why you can't get in certain business circles It's hard to network because culturally you're different just like going to golf with your boss that your white boss in the sunday I think honestly intellectually it might be easier if people did have the decimal system to categorize as a 1.5 or 1.75 citizen because second-class citizen might seem you know from from people Yeah, um he said yeah, for example Chinese men in particular are extra hated Whereas Chinese women are more popular though even amongst the Chinese women that date whites only a portion of them Will be fully respected to reap the awards of the dominant class, but for men It is almost impossible entirely off the jump. So let me get this straight. He is writing this this essay He brought this in Chinese writing it in Chinese for the Chinese internet for Chinese parents Who are thinking about moving to America? And he's just for warning them of some of the things they might run into so he's like saying Hey, even if your daughter or son can date into the dominant world Which is usually white right in America that that doesn't even guarantee them respect anyway It doesn't guarantee them I guess get into the circles where like everything life flows like more quickly or more. Yeah, they're just not as easily accepted Yeah, he also said that I a lot of Chinese parents when they're in China Disguiding to move their kid over they take a look at the corruption and the pollution levels and how ultra competitive China is and they look At America as like a perfect land and he said while those things are all true that America has a lot of nice things simply Chinese have a lot of struggle fitting in right So he's saying even though it's true that America has way less pollution and way less corruption on a governmental level That doesn't necessarily mean all the great things in America. Your kid will have access to the right So just as much that America is the land of opportunity and it is the beautiful country may go alright Like that's what we call it in Chinese So as beautiful as it is it doesn't mean that your child automatically is gonna have access to all of it now It's true. America is the land of opportunity where they probably have a better shot Technically right because at least that I guess that environment theoretically exists right right right exist But yeah, it does not mean that even if they work very hard that they will have access of course So he basically said of the four major races in America based off their behaviors Asia men will still have the most difficult social journey regardless. I agree with that I mean we see data from the dating apps that show that and I think a lot of it has to do with girls Yeah, I think that that's what he was referring to a lot because obviously this guy achieved entrance into an Ivy League University Into a lucrative career, but he's still with all that being said he had technically achieved the dream He's still cautioning the parents. Hey think about it. I don't know if it was worth it I want to talk about this because I think a lot of people tend to say okay guys when it comes to Asian guys and dating Just calm down. It's not that bad like why is dating and like dating women and feeling desired by women always like Seem like it's the biggest problem for Asian guys like can we quickly address this why? Maybe feeling desired by women is very important. You know, yeah I mean, it's probably the most primal natural thing for us to reproduce and want to reproduce and if we don't feel like the Opposite like the mate is having that same desire for us then it feels very bad Yeah, sure for sure. I would also add on to this I do think for Asian men in America when they hear or feel like that even A portion of Asian women don't like them and then non Asian men can use that as feel to also Disrespect Asian men because they're like, oh well your own women don't even like you, you know, and that can hurt that Conversations guys that a lot of people do not like having they don't like having it, but it's real is reality So I guess how much do we agree with these two posts? One was from a ABC one was from a fob guy. Like I said, I'm not saying everybody feels this way But I think a larger portion than people would let on feel this way I would agree. I would essentially Agree with it with the caveat of like not everybody's situation is fully the same It depends on how you look how tall you are how much you fit in Did you have a good white friend or a black friend that made your Latino friend that made you feel more a part of a niche community? Do you know what I'm saying like yeah, but essentially I could see where they're going with it Yeah, I mean, I think if you're a sociable funny interesting Dude that maybe isn't even that tall or good looking you have a good shot here But it is true that if you have life you check none of the boxes.  Yeah, I think you need some Riz as they say You can try to raise your way out of this, but some situations you do whatever you're born into or how you look There is no there is no How do you get the Riz? Let's say Riz is the solution How do you get it from your parents and if your parents don't teach you right? This leads to the next Both these posts from the ABC and the fob guy They're sort of like assuming that people want to enter a high white society Because you know me and you especially you we grew up in more like minority or like people of color neighborhoods You know what I mean like urban neighborhoods It really was different fully because instead of trying to be white It's almost like kids want to be be more be more black or Hispanic Yeah, to be honest that that's a whole another thing that I don't think either of these posts are considered Has it changed in six years to like the way the guy was saying it six years ago I could see it being more true than it is now. It has changed. I think there is more Asians in media It's getting a little bit better. I think it also depends on where you move. Let's be honest, man I mean, yeah If you are able if your parents are able to make it in New York and like live in New York Then technically you have all the opportunities in like New York LA these big market cities But if you move and your parents move to like Second-tier third-tier city in Texas or over something like that Yeah, like Midwest not that there's anything wrong with that But it is a tougher environment for you to feel except I think one of the the big macro truths is America's becoming so diverse now It's like you said it matters what state you move to what city you move to and then what neighborhood within that city You move to a lot of things are really conditional and your mileage may vary. Let's get into the comments section Somebody said in terms of lacking job promotions, especially in the leadership sector a lot of Asians are not doing the network or showing their leadership Charisma probably because their parents never taught them and that kind of gets back to the the core of this video Do you think that's true or is it more of the macro racism? No, it's true I mean the parents definitely have a big responsibility to teach their kids how to be social how to be liked how to have Vulnerable conversations, but those are not Chinese things to know. They're not Chinese If the parents don't know and let's just say like I don't know like if our parents like I wouldn't say like my parents are you know They speak English so obviously they're somewhat socialized But they're not like the most care Matt charismatic leaders and most like, you know organized people either So I guess like they're kind of limiting what they can teach you right, right? Absolutely I mean the thing is we can't blame our parents It's it's very easy to blame them But if we look at their situation, it's like they weren't given that many cards or or blessings to right? Like so it's our our responsibility go seek out teachers and masters and courses and books to be like, okay What are they doing that? I'm doing wrong. Yeah, that's true You got to fill in the blind spots and like you said, I think a lot of Chinese culture specifically Like I said, we could make overarching statements about Asian culture But today's video is more specifically about Chinese other Asians may or may not relate I think a lot of Chinese culture if you look through the dynastic system and all the tumultuous revolutions and histories, it's almost like more focused on Preventing downward mobility than it is coaching the kids to have upward mobility And if you want to move upwards in your company to enter that like C-suite or the partner level You do need the leadership in the charisma essentially things that you would might receive zero training on that in the home environment Dude, I'll tell you this man True charisma that you can use that's calibrated for like leadership positions in a Western It takes a lot of time and and you got to get a lot of reps And so what I would recommend is maybe a small solution is like having your kid or you if you're a kid right now Joining certain groups where it gives you Repetition gives you a chance to be a leader It doesn't have to be the track team and doesn't have to be the basketball team Although those are great ways to do it But it could be just like your little group squad or where the club at school or something like that Let's be honest There's a lot more opportunities now in 2023 to replicate some sort of like good training system then 10 years ago And the 10 years ago was better than 20 was better than 30 years ago I'm so I like your point though Jack about saying not blaming the parents definitely You know, I blame my parents a lot, you know, they don't speak English They didn't really pay for my college and then as I as I got older I was like, huh these these people they did the best they can they're still working They're teaching me what they think is best for me But obviously what they think is best for me is not actually best for me, right? That's a good point and that's okay to acknowledge that Yeah, as long as the heart is there, you know, but it's just like I just don't like it when people either like They either resent their parents or they overly listen to their parents and like you said your parents advice as well intention It could be outmoded or just completely not right for the circumstances, right? They don't understand somebody said the USA the one thing a lot of Asian parents don't understand Is the USA is actually a great country for having low education or low technical skills It's not like Asia. We're pretty much like you need the degree in Broadcasting to become a broadcaster America's always had some sense of like being entrepreneurial and like finding a new path to achieving So I agree with that. I see a lot of people who aren't really highly educated, but they still make a decent living Yeah, and I think living depending on their risk tolerance, right there I'm gonna be honest. I think the people who wrote these articles They come from families that might have even came with college degrees from China and they're doing something brainy like in STEM These kids super brain now. Here's the thing They sometimes feel the worst because they know their parents are technically educated But they can't teach them the ways to be successful in America Which as we know in America you do not have to be formally educated And you don't have to be brainy in order to be I think sometimes the merchant Entrepreneur kids have a better time in America than people to be honest in from our background where the parents or one parent is like hyper-educated sticking to the Confucian dynastic National exam, you know, eunuch scholastic system. Yeah, America don't work like that America is almost the furthest country from that even though there's some Lanes in America that may mimic it Chinese kids that I know that are still like Fabia or foreign or like, you know immigrants to this country that end up Adapting well probably have parents who did some type of business because guess what doing business and trade is not that different in China Than it is in America. It's the same principles Adaptation to the circumstances that are out of your control, but to be honest the academic parents They'll be on some other stuff right when you feel like your parents went to college and you're like well, my parents have a college degree Why can't they teach me more? It's like Entitlement with that Somebody said it really depends on what zone you grew up with in America because there are different types of Europeans that settled each zone For example, Seattle has a Seattle freeze because it was settled by Scandinavians from Sweden Finland and Norway And Scandinavian culture is not very open. So even how you move Depends on what type of white people you're even growing up around in America, right? Absolutely. Yeah, or like we were saying any type of person Right, do you think growing up in a more urban environment? You grew up in Brooklyn In the inner city in the inner city Brooklyn, not like Park slope 2023 Brooklyn But it was the old Brooklyn Do you think that made you put you in a sink or swim type situation? Absolutely I was always just around these people who are always Fighting or running or just together and I just I was always in a group or dynamic, right? So I'm watching who's the alpha who has the most charisma who is the leader and at least I get to pay attention to what they're doing So there was a lot of observing on your part and seeing those reps in real life through your social systems Right and now whether or not like they were Professional leaders, but they were leaders of the group But is there kids that you saw from Chinese immigrant families that grew up in the hood that didn't have it strengthen them Yeah, it broke them, right? It really breaks them. So it is it could be quite damaging So it could be a sink or swim and there's a distribution of who ends up sinking who ends up swimming Yeah, I ended a day I think people are ultimately nice, but like it is challenging for sure somebody said Andrew That these guys these two articles because people were discussing the articles are blaming too much on racism I truly believe that this is the comment I truly believe hardcore racism only makes up 10 to 30 percent of people's downfall depending on the environment situation But internet people would love to blame a hundred percent of their problems on racism while ignoring the other 70% of reasons That are actually their own fault or just not due to racism Interesting. This was an interesting comment. Jack Andrew. What do you guys think? I mean, he's basically saying yeah, these guys kind of make a point, but they're over blaming it Yeah, I mean ultimately I think he's right, but as a person who is a high achiever I will never let a statistic keep me down. I'm like, I know these odds are against me But I'm gonna work towards what breaking the ceiling I think that if I had to choose right and and someone's asking me like hey Andrew How should I operate should I operate like race is not an issue or should I operate as if race is the biggest issue? I would tell them to operate as if race is not the right strictly from a functional Yeah, from great right moving forward and being successful Try to operate as if it is not although deep down. I think we know that it can be a significant impact However, you don't want that to hold you back. There's nothing you can do about it Is it sort of like Isaiah Robinson? I know if Nate Robinson and Isaiah Thomas never thinking that their height was an issue even though of course their height It is an issue in basketball Well, I don't think it helps you to keep thinking about it like once you know you're just like, okay You know what it sucks boom? Let's just move forward and I just won't like dwell on it I actually agree that to some extent the hardcore racism just with no other factors take in a consideration No of self agency or none of your own stats It is like probably closer to 30% than 60% for sure I do agree with that But the one caveat I'll say is that if I was to understand life in a more nuanced way There's a lot of like butterfly effects or like domino or cascading impacts It's a little bit like in basketball where let's say for example the main play is to like throw a rim lob But you have a point guard who can only go right because he got to throw it with his right hand But then the defense takes away his right now He's theoretically he gets through still throw the rim lob with his left But you've just taken away everything that guard wants to do so I think that that's like the cascading impact of it That I think is more complicated to explain than oh it was 10% fault. It was 30% fault 60% fault Let's just get into the main things that Asian parents can get their kids into that old-school Asian parents like we had Typically did not encourage that. So you're saying these are the things that could actually help that like let's say your parents are not as Educator or they can't coach you in a lot of this from the old school You know, I think a lot of newer school parents like let's see for example. We all came parents right now We're probably gonna do these things right because we've seen them But we're talking about things that we grew up around we and maybe still to this day some people kids are not getting this Sports absolutely. I mean I was in a basketball team since I was 11 Eventually that became the captain but in the beginning I barely got picked and I just kind of see it was a non-Asian team right non-Asian team What I love about sports it is a meritocracy for the most part There's a little bit of politics, but really it's a meritocracy if you show up and you could do the work and you hustle And you added the team they're gonna value you eventually and that can also just get teach you a lot about life in general Even though maybe business is not fully a meritocracy. It's a lot of connections, but regardless that's a good lesson Yeah, I think a lot of Asian parents are not considering the ancillary benefits because they're like all my kid is not that good at basketball They're gonna play D1 college basketball pay for school. Why would I put my kid in that system? But it's you're learning all the Outside you're learning like how to work with people you don't like to work with how to kind of achieve as a team instead of Just for yourself. I think that applies to your career Yeah, I think you just got to look at like Yanis instead You know how like Asian parents enter the problem thinking like now my kid is gonna be like John Moran with a gun in the club I think there's like a dream on green. It's like what we can achieve You know, hey man, it's all about the team like you said you can learn a lot from basketball But if you play basketball very mindlessly, you actually don't learn anything emotional intelligence. Yeah, you know I've never seen my parents have a high quality emotional conversation It's either yelling or just like laughter and it was my responsibility Go and figure that out. Um, Andrew, what do you think about the combos? We have maybe we add a little bit because our parents speak English You know, I think I saw this but I definitely saw from cousins We's had be like, you know how like you you hear from your cousins where they're just like, yeah, I just like don't talk to my dad Yeah, yeah, I think that's too bad and I think that hopefully the all the whole conversation about You know having conversations and emotional intelligence is growing amongst the younger generation So I think people are able to maybe force these combos a little bit better now Like there used to be at a time like you didn't even want to talk to your parents If you just like me and my parents they're just nagging me I don't even want to talk I don't want to get to know them and then you never end up having a good you never see them having a healthy conversation with each other So you don't know what it looks like. Yeah, by the way I do think this is variable even if your Chinese if your parents are like 50 60 70 or 80 Every decade the parents become more open and less with the old ways, right? Leadership, how do you get leadership training because this is probably one of the number one things that I see impact Yappies or people are unhappy in their professional life in their 30s or their 40s because they're like man I'm doing good at work. I'm getting good performance reviews, but I'm not giving leadership responsibilities Of course all the big payouts all the performance payouts big bonuses. It's all generally leaders Yeah, I think I'm starting bringing this the kids into clubs and social environments or groups Just letting them be in systems where they can challenge each other and grow How did you learn because I know you took some leadership roles at instagram Yeah, you were working there at facebook like what what how did you learn it in college? There was a there was a club and I was you know, I started off as the I guess the the first position and then the lowest rank and I became like the the vice president of the of the club And I ran it like a real organization I helped people accountable and it just put me in that position to experience what that felt like Right, I think sometimes to an extent you have to get shoved into it at a young age You just have to get shoved into these roles and you have to kind of sink or swim as a leader You know even on a micro like sixth grade seventh grade ninth grade level like just you got to be pushed into it somehow masculinity Oh, man, what a toxic word in 2023. I'm just kidding. Uh, but I mean it is important, right and I'm not just not Probably especially for guys, right?  So we have to figure this out And I think not only that too and this is like I don't want to over blame society or anything But when society never looks at you to be masculine, you might never feel like the need to live up to that Because nobody's gonna ask you, right? Exactly. That's where I think this is where the family comes at play or you Seeking those opportunities to even feel masculine or like a leader in small circles at first And you got to get those early wins early on so that it encourages you to try more and to level up Yeah, I mean, uh jack, you were talking about Boy Scouts, right? A passage different types of micro systems you can Enter when you're young, right? Yeah.  Here's what you have to do. Here's why and then you kind of transition into responsibility Maybe like maybe like running the tribe or like becoming the leader of your family and here's here's what you have to do Here's like how to do it So you're saying maybe and it doesn't have to be this big party like some cultures have but like There should be some type of like official sit-down meeting at least when you're like, hey, okay, son You are 18 years old now We expect this and this and this I believe in it. I believe in the passage, you know, I didn't have any growing up, but um That'd be dope to do. Yeah Like the extreme side of things is obviously the 300 but a more realistic something we've seen a lot is the bar mitzvahs, right? Hunter wolf. Yeah hunter wolf staying in the jungle for two days um You also said that Asian parents need to diversify and let their kids pursue different interests hang out with different friends I think a lot of chinese parents in particular All asian parents, but maybe especially chinese parents. They'd be like Kind of very like we said, they're trying to avoid downward mobility more than they're thinking about Getting their kid so diverse they can become More of a leader Yeah, I think like what you said before is like the the boy scouts like some sort of club that You know, they can be in where they can at least express physically how they're like how they feel and How to dominate how to let someone else take over these are all things that we should be learning Obviously boy scouts. They got some bad press in the past couple decades. Maybe they're you you investigate locally There's gonna be some organizations that mimic the same thing. Right, right? um And last but not least Andrew, how do asian parents know what aspects of life they can realistically guide them through because We were talking about how a lot of chinese parents even like maybe the poorest ones They're working two jobs manual labor. They could still check their kids grades Theoretically, right? Unless the kid does the photoshop job, right? Yeah, there's all the grades around or whatever But then I noticed a lot of higher income chinese parents or taiwanese parents They like try to control every aspect of the life from the from who they're hanging out with to how they're speaking I think it's really important for parents and it's hard to speak to this group of parents because like I don't think that like a 50 year old like immigrant like is necessarily watching this video but like I would say It's really important just for people in general to know what they don't know So maybe you're a parent or your parent couldn't provide something But hopefully they could have found somebody else or known That at least if they put you in this system, you would learn something else that they don't know, right? You know what I mean? Like like oftentimes some of they go to church, right? For at least if not for the spirituality It's for the community reason because at church you're gonna have people of them with all different types of jobs Blue collar, they're gonna be everything to white college jobs. They're gonna be engineers They'll be doctors. There'll be church leaders. There'll be all these different things so that you are exposed to all of them And that's what a community is for. Yeah, shout out to church to be honest. I mean, I felt like church was very impactful for me I met my first guy who owned a Rolls-Royce But I knew people who like cut ties you and like see you up, you know the the roast duck and the barbecue pork for a living too And they probably all saw each other as equals, right? Yeah, at least for that Sunday And because that's a whole point of that system, right? Yeah, I guess um, how do How do parents know what they have the capacity to guide or not because you know how it is like Some parents they only just check the grades or some of them don't even check that, right? Yeah, I think I mean my parents were working all the time don't even speak English So they put me in a church system when I was like five six and I had these the church people teach me How to how to fold a napkin after I was eating how to treat all the other kids Like they would actually put me in detention. So I think that's it was really valuable for sure, man Like we said, this is just uh the discussion that we had it was addressing the two posts where people had Unsatisfactory outcomes in their 30s and they were sort of like I don't know I guess some of them were kind of blaming their parents for it. So, um, I guess I'm pretty hopeful though. I think a lot of people are going to be fixing a lot of the blind spots Obviously, especially being Chinese like I said all Asians, but especially being Chinese man They were coming out of a really really old school time Yeah, but I will say to this guy if if this message ever gets out to the 30 year old who went to Ivy League who has a good job And probably I'm assuming still has his health, right? It's not in a bad position to go doing a lot of things right now I mean he has All the things that he he's done now he can have like a rebirth maybe, you know Yes, I'm sure the first 30 years of your life was not fun. You did not feel accepted I get that but now you still have your health and you got money and education and connections at least on some level You got opportunities. So shout out.  You can get coaching. You can get therapy. We got to normalize it. You can go to retreats I mean, I do it. So I think it has benefited me a lot For sure, man. Anyway, it was a dope discussion to have I definitely think it's one that a lot of Chinese guys to be honest don't have Often with each other is a kind of uncomfortable to talk topic to talk about and everybody feels it to a different extent Some people don't feel it at all. But anyway, it was a dope thing Jack check him out on instagram and until next time we the hop hop boys. We out. Peace