Good mental health, a regular podcast series that explores the tweets of behavior expert Dr. Neil Maranello. He's a Solutions-focused life coach in Woodstock, Vermont, with near six decades exploring the human condition. He joins us now on the show where our topic today is trust people to be themselves. And I have to tell you, Neil, I've had a lot to think about this one. But before we get into my thoughts, I want you to join us and share what is the theory behind this tweet? Trust people to be themselves. Well, I remember walking in on my mother who owned a, she lived in Miami Beach, but she owned what she called a taxpayer, which was an office building in Manhattan. And it had 10 offices in it. And she pointed to one of the offices and she said, this office is rented, but the office manager isn't telling me that it is. And I said to her, well, why don't you confront her about that? And she said, why would I do that? This way I know how she's cheating me. It took me a while to figure out that my mother really expected that everybody was going in one way or another, try to rip her off, and that she trusted that that was the case and that she trusted that she couldn't really trust anybody. My father had a slightly different attitude.  The truth is that everyone has secrets and everyone's afraid of getting discovered. Everyone's afraid of being shamed. But everyone also has to live with themselves. My father actually knew that that was an important thing for each individual. And that was sort of the beginning of my understanding that people have ways of thinking, people have to explain to themselves what they do and what they say. And what they say to themselves, if I can understand that, makes them available to be changed. Otherwise, you're dealing with the traditional definition of insanity. You know, the idea that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting something different to happen as a result. The reality is that that that definition works. The best predictor of future behavior is always past behavior, unless you can change the way a person is thinking about their behavior. And that's the key from my perspective to learning how to trust people trusting people to be themselves is understanding their inner dialogue, understanding how they're talking to themselves and saying and doing whatever it might be possible that they can do that would change that dialogue so that their behavior in the future will be different because they'll have to talk to themselves differently. You know, for me, again, I have a completely different read on it as well. Being that I'm out here in in, you know, the real world, not that you're not but for me what was coming up was. To me that because I live in my own reality and what I see here and whatnot, I interpret that I may not see someone as they really are. And that may create a problem for me when I interact with this person, because I'm not seeing them as they really are. And yet, if I trust them to be themselves that opportunity for frustration from another person or whatnot, would be less. That's correct. And the difference between you and me and that is that my job is to explain what a person is saying to themselves while they're doing something that I don't understand. And so, if I don't understand it, I feel like I'm the one who's screwing up.  I don't understand how they perceive themselves. When someone lets you down when you feel betrayed when in one way or another, you feel astounded by something someone does.  How did I not understand what that person is saying to themselves and how can I explain to myself, what that person is saying to themselves. And again, just, you know, kind of even extrapolating on on it a little bit.  And as an example, I'll just bring that back to me. I always like to think that I'm very punctual.  It's not 205. It's not 210. And yet, I, a number of years ago, I had someone, you know, kind of put it back to my face to say, Well, no, Matt, you're not always punctual. I've been late a number of times. And so that was a wake up call for me about my own behavior that I was not aware of and had a skewed vision of who I was as someone who was punctual. So again, that to me seems to be able to feed into this, this theory, you know, to trust people to be themselves, even when they themselves aren't fully aware of who they are and what their behavior is. But it's less punctual if you hadn't had that rule. In my business. I live by the clock. If I'm even five minutes late for anything. There's something wrong. I'm either dead or my clock isn't working. The. But what you say to yourself. In order to explain your behavior is the key. If you want to go directly to how you think or how, how others think we each grow up with with parents who we tend to put on a pedestal. And I know I grew up with seeing my father as a God. And it took me a long time to understand what his particular problems were. My guess is from my knowledge of you that you grew up getting inside your father's head, watching him, seeing how he thought, and not realizing that some of the ways he thought we're pretty screwed up. And it's interesting in that regard only because you know I was born in the early 1960s and I would be a child of a Korean war veteran. And if you look at people probably from my generation and perhaps even a little bit before, we are the children of servicemen from World War two and the Korean war. And more than likely they came back somewhat maladjusted, let's just say, based on what they saw and what they were forced to do in, in times of war. Like PTSD or whatever stars that they carried from that experience that it translated down into how that they raised their children. So again, you know, trust people to be themselves and, you know, I think we grow up thinking that the people who are supposed to love us the most are supposed to protect us the most. You know, speaking on my behalf and I'm sure more on my generation we grew up with violence in the household, probably as a result of these men not being able to process what they've been through. Yes, yes, remember PTSD did not exist in the early 60s. And it was a sign of being more feminine than masculine to not deal with your own problems. And the ways of dealing with your problems had to do with alcohol had to do with denying the violence that you would witness that experienced had to do with the approach avoidance relationship with guns. When you're growing up, and you're witnessing your father's approach to the world. It comes from that subculture that he grew up in. And there happened to be in the second world war, and that was very much of a different upbringing and war than the Korean War. And of course the, the war that I grew up during was the Vietnam War. Each the, but the, the concept of being a man and being masculine and what it means to be a man which always even up until recently did not involve ever seeing a shrink. In fact, that was a sign of being more female than now, being, you know, limp wrist or whatever that was. I grew up as I did in a culture in which having any kind of same sex leanings was considered to be totally terrible. And my guess is that you saw that in your father's thinking by studying him, and you didn't see what was wrong with it. Wow. But, you know, as I look at this, you know, trust people to be themselves are subject matter today. I just see how again, oftentimes we're all looking with rose colored glasses that we want to see the best of somebody. Because I think that's the human condition, isn't it, to, to, you know, ascribe certain characteristics to the other that we're interacting with, given that for most of us, we have that trait to want to see the best in others. When in fact, maybe it's not there, or, or, or whatnot. Well, not if you're my mother. I think the expectation creates reality. One of the first experiences that I had when I first went to college was this is 1961 was experiments done by a guy named Rosenthal. And Rosenthal had a bunch of randomly chosen mice that he was running through mazes.  And he gave half of the randomly chosen mice to the graduate students and said to some of them said to that, that half the graduate students. These are specially bred maize bright grass. These, these have been bred for generations to run through mazes very fast. And then he gave another half of the randomly chosen rats. Excuse me mice to the graduate students, other graduate students said, these are specially bred maize dull rats. And he had them then time them running through mazes. And sure enough, it was recorded that the rats, the mice that were supposed to be able to run through the mazes were timed as running through much faster than the rats that were supposed to be maize dull. All of which made sense because his hypothesis was that expectation creates reality. And the graduate students were pushing the stopwatch a little later on some of them a little earlier on others. Then, however, he got another group of graduate students and he had them actually time the, the mice running through the, the mazes and he found that the mice that were supposed to be maize bright actually were running through the mazes faster than they might still were supposed to be maize dull. And in other words, somehow the graduate students were communicating in the way they were handling the mice, whether they were supposed to be smarter That started me on understanding how you can create expectations, even with an animal, just by what you expect to happen. And it began fascinating me with this concept that that if you expect someone to be a certain way they tend to be that way. And that, that moves it further into the idea of understanding what's going on inside the mind of the person that you're talking to. You know, and this just to me brings up, you know, quantum physics which are actually proving exactly what you just stated here that expectations can affect outcomes. That's exactly right. What you expect to happen is more likely to happen because you expect it to happen. It's the same basic concept of what you attend to changes the thing you're attending to. And I would say that you know if we're putting this into today's context, you know, this is a real good example of racism in that if you have a certain expectation of a minority group or any group for that matter that more than likely you're going to be proven right because your expectation of that behavior is dictating an outcome, and whether that that is, you know, accurate on a larger scale or not, but it's your perception that forms that reality. And what changes that is the capacity for empathy.  An excellent example was a, I believe it was an Israeli woman who was, I'm not sure whether it was an Israeli woman or it doesn't matter but it was an Israeli woman or whether it was a Palestinian woman. And basically what happened was a bomb killed her brother. And she then found out who had set off the bomb, and without telling them, joined the family of the people who had set off the bomb, and got they got to know her she got to know them, of course she didn't tell them that she was actually on the other side.  Right. And, you know, I have a similar story that I recall where again, Palestinians and Israelis thought the other were, you know, monsters, I mean, literally not human. And it was only when they started interacting with each other that they realized, oh, you don't have a tail, or you're not a monster. So, again, yet in their mind and in their perception that was what the other was. And that is the key to what you were talking about before, having an optimistic perspective of things, because it is important to people to live with themselves. And it's important to them to have something they say to themselves while they're doing, they were saying other things to other people. And once you actually get inside the head of another person, once you actually understand how they're thinking, and you see how similar is to how you're thinking when you see that they have secrets, and they want to they don't want to be exposed and shamed any more than you do. It becomes much more of a possibility for you to actually change your racism, your, your good guy, bad guy attitudes, your way of looking at the worlds that bifurcates it that turns everything into a dichotomous way of perceiving things. It's much more complicated than that. And it's much simpler than that. It's much different from anybody else. We're all special people in the sense that we're all have our own way of thinking and looking at things and understanding how somebody thinks and looks at things can be easily determined by just watching what they say and do. Everybody tells you who they are by their behavior. The topic again is trust people to be themselves for me though I, this, this is, I think for children, this is innately difficult and, and by children I mean, you know those up to 15 years old, only because they're, they're not able to differentiate and there is that trust. And, you know, when I was looting to, you know, children of my generation who grew up with violence in the house, that that, in essence, set a behavior pattern, but also a, I don't know how to explain it other than to say that a lack of trust if you will. Again, that those that they thought loved them the most would act out in violence towards them. It's very clear that happened to you. Well, and, and if I can share that a little bit, you know, through the work that you and I have done. And through conversations that I had with my father after, you know, a lot of work that we've done, I came to find out.  Well, yes, actually after that. The truth is that you killed yourself you just happened to survive. I killed a part of myself. And who was it the trigger.  Boy, that's a that's another topic for another discussion but my point being here that, you know, my father shared with me that all his life. He wanted to be a soldier, of course, because he grew up when World War two was going on and, you know, children of that era idolized army men. And so did society, if you will. And so he grew up. What, I think that was true with my father also. Yeah, volunteer to join the army, even though he didn't have to. Wow. And so my father, you know, that's what he wanted to be and then he went to the Korean War, and had an eye opening experience about what the terror of serving during wartime is. And he recounted a story where he was on a ridge and he and a fellow gunner were seeing just these hordes of Chinese coming at them and all they had was a, you know, a mounted gun. And they ran away, they ran down the mountain because they were so terrified at the horde that was coming at them. When they were running away, they realized, oh, we left the gun there. And so they had to go back run back up the mountain, get the gun, and, again, run away. And from a very far distant distance, a general or a colonel or something like that saw the second half, where they ran up, grab the gun, and then took it away. And he was awarded a bronze star and a purple heart for that, you know, valiant effort. And yet, in his mind, he was a coward.  He was ashamed of himself in the time of when he was most called upon for courage, and he failed that and that sense of shame dictated the way he behaved to his children and his wife for the rest of his life. And that's very, very sad. You know, had he seen me at that time, I would have said to him, Why did you run back up with cowardice. Yeah. Yeah. And so I just I think it's interesting that yet here as a as a child I certainly didn't know one. I mean I only realized that and probably the last two years of his life that he was able to share that.  Right, right. But as a as a child I certainly didn't know that and couldn't understand why the violence was in the household. I certainly can understand it and certainly through the work with you. But I certainly at that young age, you know, I'm trusting someone to be themselves but I have a very skewed awareness of who and what he was.  And so you're getting inside his head trying to think the way he thinks, trying to be like him, modeling your behavior after him. I'm saying this because I did the same thing with my father. I happened to luck out because my father had a different experiences during the war than yours. At the same time. The simple reality is that nobody's perfect. And when you put somebody on a pedestal, you have to deal with the part of you that knows there's something wrong with them. And again, you know our topic trust people to be themselves. And I'm always reminded, when we do these sessions, how it all comes back around to some of the things we've talked about before because it's all about expectations again, managing expectations. Yes, and the key to that is understanding what our thinking is, and whether it's accurate or not. I am concerned about truth. I am concerned about reality. Both of those are variables. Both of those change from moment to moment. And until you understand that you don't have the ability to let go of your delusions of those false beliefs that you think need to control your life. Many of those false beliefs are passed on to us by our parents. And we just accept it. You know, why wouldn't we, these giants that seem to be in control of our world are saying this is the way it is. That may or may not be the way it is it may be the way it is for them. And once you understand that that's the way it is for them, you can begin trusting people to be themselves and looking at what the differences between who they are, and who you are. It's interesting because again, I'm going to bring it back to me here on an issue and that one of the things that I'm struggling with right now is, you know, I'm very successful right now in a new business that I've started this past year. And I'm a little bit overwhelmed right now so I'm stressing out a little bit over it because it is so successful. And it's taking so much time. And I'm aware of my patterns and my past behavior. And so what's coming up is that I see the excitement that I had when I initially started my, my business diminishing, and that can usually trigger a behavior where it's like screw it and you throw it all away. And want to go on to the next new exciting thing. And so I have to be very careful to again try to manage my own expectations and be aware of my own behavior here from the past that again this is very much in my pattern here. I'm quite cognizant that I really don't want to throw it away and screwed up because you know I am quite pleased with what I've created but again, I'm a little concerned at my past behavior and how that may come to dominate my future actions. One of the ways of doing that is to recognize that you're in the process of becoming your own man. I see adolescence as a three stage process, rebellion, age 1314 confusion age 1516 and identity formation age 1718. Of course I've had people 75 years old in my office, who were still not past the confusion stage. The, the most important thing to me is that when you hit the identity formation stage, you basically are trying to decide how you're going to be like and how you're going to be different from the same sex parent.  Yeah, you then got to become more your own man, and get in touch with how you're different from your father, and how you want to be different from them. And that means that you're now at a stage of becoming your own person. And that means you're dealing with your patterns, the patterns that are characteristic of you as a man, not as a boy, not as your father, but as a separate individual. And that gives you the opportunity to change your expectations to change the way you're thinking about yourself, and to become even more of a man, because you've already superseded your father. Well, I know that, you know, I've had the opportunity to go down a literally list, all the jobs I've had and I've had over 60 different jobs. And you know I talked to some other people and they're like, gee, I've had more. And you know I'm not even yet 60. So, you know when we look at that, you know and I see that pattern. I'm, I'm loathe to repeat it. And so I'm just so pleased that you and I are again consulting on a regular basis so that I can come to this awareness of this pattern, and be able to talk with you about it. And to help me achieve what I truly seek, which is fulfillment professionally and, and to be able to support myself financially. And, and to actually be in service. Well, the person that you are is someone who succeeds at something, and then gets bored. Yeah. I know I have a low threshold of boredom, you know, right. When you get bored, you tend to self sabotage. True. And what I think is necessary is for you to recognize that there's an awful lot more to life than earning a living. And if the way that you're choosing to earn a living happens to be working. That's good. Especially because in the new business that you have you're actually helping people. Right, and totally good. Yeah, and, and this sort of kind of goes back to expectation and event and then also, again, what we perceive. And, and I can see in that, you know, I had been asking for a number of years to how can I be of service. And then this opportunity presented itself which is a 180 degree difference from anything I've done previously. Being of service is a wonderful thing. At the same time, it has nothing to do with money. Exactly. And, and, and so what I was getting from it initially is diminishing in its excitement or reward for me. Is this experience rewarding for you. It is for me. Well, yeah, I love what you and I do. Okay, so we're not getting paid for it either of us. And we're being of service. I don't know how many people are going to see these, you know, now or sometime in the future. Yeah, it's very exciting to me to think that very possibly after I'm dead someone will watch one or all of these podcasts and get something from it that changes their lives. That's being of service. Do you think that that isn't a human characteristic, the desire to be of service. Everybody wants to feel good about themselves. Everybody wants to explain their behavior in a way which makes them feel like they are being of service in some way. Unfortunately, some of the ways people explain their behavior as being of service involves hurting other people. And from my perspective, any hurting of other people unnecessarily is something that is suspect. And, you know, kind of going back to shame is, is, is that part of it too in terms of, you know, you and I talked about my shame, certainly a lot in the work that we've done. And is this desire to be of service, you know, the desire to basically overcome shame. And there are good ways of doing that. And not so good ways. The good ways of doing it are basically saying, I'm going to make up for the mistakes I've made in the past, and for the shame that I experienced from mistake from those mistakes by doing things in the future. And so that changes that definition of insanity. And it says, I am going to be different in the future than I was in the past and here's how. And if you make the change in a way which helps people more than hurts them, then you're moving in the right direction. And we're speaking here with Dr. Neil Miranello is a solutions focused light coach and behavior expert with near six decades, exploring the human condition you can follow Dr. Neil on Twitter at coach Dr. Neil or topic for today's podcast is trust people to be themselves Neil, share more about that that theory of this. It's been very, very rewarding to me because when I see someone behave in a way or say or rationalize their behavior in a way which doesn't make sense to me, which allows them to hurt other people unnecessarily. And I need to understand what they're saying to themselves that allows them to do that. So for example, in one case, I had a guy who made a deal with his mother to take over a business that she created at the expense of his siblings. And the result of that was that he wound up making the money and running the business into the ground and the siblings wound up losing 10s of thousands of dollars as a result. And I remember being very angry at him at the same time trying to understand how did he perceive that, how did he allow himself give himself permission to do that to basically screw his brothers and sisters. And, and when I talked to him he said well I guess Neil that you and I have different worldviews. I see myself as a businessman. And as a businessman that's an appropriate thing for me to do. And I realized that his definition of a businessman involved it's being okay to screw your buddy. Good. Once I understood that it became possible for me to talk to him without being furious. And for me again I, I think it. One of the things that was coming up as you were sharing that is that we have to be really careful about what we perceive, because it will, it can be conceived that in that it sort of goes back, as if we perceive a certain group or a certain individual to have certain traits and characteristics, you're going to see that that person does have it, because that is what you have put out there in the universe. And it's a, it's a very cause and effect type of relationship. And, and in a sense, it's where I'm sort of now in this place where I see abundance and pride where others see disparity and inequality. And if that's what they're putting out there to the universe the universe is going to respond in kind and show that to them. Yeah, I think that the, the basic principle and we've talked about this, almost every single podcast we've had is everything is projection. And if it's only about anything, you're probably screwed up about that.  That prevents you from seeing what the reality is, because that person, however bad the things are they're doing is saying something to themselves, which makes sense to them. You have to understand what they're saying to themselves, it becomes possible to change it, but you have to get past your own bowl. In order to see that you have to say okay I feel strongly about that, because I feel strongly about that. I'm probably not being fair to that person I'm probably not truly understanding what their experience of the world is. If I understand it from their perspective, then I can change them. And then by the way, that changes me to right right and and so as you're saying this, the thing that was coming up for me was like the placebo and the no sebo effect you have spoken about before to me, and, and, you know, science is actually proving again which you know share a little bit about that as as as it relates to this. Well, during the I don't know whether I used this example before but during the Second World War, there are a lot of things that the German scientists were doing, which was anathema horrible stuff. One of the things that they did was to tell somebody that they were going to drain his blood, and when and when the, and it was in a transparent thing that the person could see, and they said when, when your blood level reaches this point. You will be very tired when it reaches this point you will pass out and when it reaches this point you will be dead. And they didn't drain one drop of his blood but he believed it. And sure enough, when it reached the first point, he got tired when it reached the second point. He passed out and when it reached the third point he was dead. That's how powerful a no sebo can be.  I think it's important to visualize good mental health, as we say or good overall health. And that even, you know, cancer, for an example, may in fact, not even be in your body, it's more in your mind and then it manifests in your body. Yes, yes, I have dealt with many people who were supposedly dying of cancer. Sometimes I've been successful sometimes I haven't, but the key to it is helping them to visualize and helping them to identify with the cancer cells helping them to find a way to deal with those cancer cells that brings them rather than to themselves. And one of my earliest cases was a case of a woman who had been given six months to live. And I work with her, I had her talking to the parts of her that had cancer I had her becoming those parts, switching chairs and dealing with it. And in fact, that woman is still alive now. And that was over 30 years ago. However, when someone who particularly wanted to cause trouble for me said, you can't continue to see her anymore. In order for her children to get the care that they need. I went through a huge reaction. And I was curious. I cured her of cancer. Of course I didn't cure cancer she cured herself I just set up the environment in which you could do that. And it taught me a lot about my own narcissism. Wow.  If you want to win a lottery, you know, actually visualize what it feels like, and to experience the feeling of having that extreme wealth and being in that experience will actually draw the event to you. Yeah, I don't believe that. And what I do believe, though, is that you give yourself a good experience, and you feel good about yourself, but the actual ability to control the future, I think is based on your ability to see the now, in terms of the way the past fits it. Nobody can predict the future, but you can experience now in a way that allows you to see what might happen. If you look at the way the past fits into the present. You can actually experience the now as it is occurring. You can have a pretty good idea of what's likely to happen. If I see myself, as I do most of the time as a catalyst, as somebody that connects with people at a particular point in their life, joins with them, and then make certain moves and changes things, and then gets out of the picture. And that just seemed to get better after that. And that's what a catalyst does, but you have to be aware of all the variables, or enough of the variables that are operating at the moment. It's very easy to get distracted by a variable that you're very emotional about. And that, to me, is the key to my effectiveness. To the extent that I can see myself as others see me, I can understand what power others are given to me, are giving to me, and then I can use that power to help them change themselves, and then get out of the picture. Wonderful. Final thoughts on our topic here today. Trust people to be themselves. It seems like, again, it all comes back to expectation and perceptions, which again, as you said, is almost a constant theme in this podcast series. Yes, it is. And the more, if I've been putting in six decades on this business, it's exactly that it's understanding myself. The more I understand myself, the more I understand other people. As we started off, and I think the first podcast, there's no part of anybody that's not a part of me. If I don't get in touch with the part of me that can be like the person I'm talking to, I'm screwing up. And it becomes very important to me to be able to become the person I'm talking to and predict their behavior, based on their own past history, and what I'm telling myself. Wonderful. Dr. Neil Maranello, he's a behavior expert with near six decades exploring the human condition. He's a solutions focused life coach in Woodstock, Vermont. And he's been tweeting for a number of years on Twitter. We're examining a number of those tweets in his podcast series. You can follow the good doctor on Twitter at coach Dr. He's been talking about him personally as well. If you feel you'd like to enjoy the benefit of his personal consult I can speak highly to his expertise, having been a client of his off and on for the past two and a half decades. On behalf of Dr. Neil Maranello on that Kelly we're both wishing you good mental health.


Now the first question is it fair to say you had a busy social life? We're seeing in purse's lips to the side a little bit and purse lips are associated with disagreement. So if an entrepreneur is explaining their idea to you and you don't think it's as good as they think it is as you're listening to it you might go just a little bit to one side or the other. That indicates that you see a different outcome than what's being presented. For example you may somebody may say do you want to go to Chick-fil-A and you may go Chick-fil-A but you may be thinking I'd rather go to Hattie B's. So when you see the lips pursed most of the time that suggests that the person doesn't agree with what they're hearing or what's being said or what's happening but when the person at the side that suggests they see an alternate outcome to what's going on.


And so in the original setting, we were defining cross products for any scalar field F. For the next discussion, I want to focus on reels here, because that's where we're going to use these the most. Like if we're in a calculus setting or for example, multivariable calculus, we're probably talking about real vectors right here. But even still, if we have three vectors, UVW that live inside of R3, the real vector space there, we can define the scalar triple product of UV and W as the product of U dot V cross W. Now pay attention to two different multiplications. We have the cross product on the right and we have the dot product on the left. And that's actually why we restrict to the real numbers right here. Because for general vector spaces, we didn't define an inner product. We have those for the real numbers. We also have those with the complex numbers. I'm not going to introduce any complex numbers right here because when it comes to inner product there, we want the Hermitian product. And the Hermitian product requires we conjugate, but determinants don't. And so there's a little bit of an incompatibility going on there. So we're just going to look at real numbers for the rest of this section right here. So we get this scalar triple product. We take the product of the cross, we take the cross product and then the dot product. Well, it turns out that this scalar triple product is not that alien of a subject right here, U dot V cross W. It turns out this is none other than just the determinant of these various vectors right here. And I kind of want to show you quickly how that is. V cross W is how it should end. So if we look at first at the cross product U dot, well, we're going to get a vector, which by the rules we saw earlier, this vector would look something like the following. We're going to get, sorry, back up there. V two, W two, V three, W three. That's the first entry. Then you're going to subtract from that the second entry should be V one, W one, V three, W three, like so. And then finally, you're going to get your third determinant there, V one, W one, V two, W two. So if we use that determinant formula we saw on the previous slide, the cross product of V and W looks like this. Well, then if we take the dot product of that, we take the entries of U and dot them with all these determinants and add those together, you're going to get U one times this determinant, V two, W two, V three, W three. Then minus U two times V one, W one, V three, W three. And then lastly, you're going to get U three times this determinant, V one, W one, V two, W two. And you can see that this final expression right here, this is just the cofactor expansion along the first column of this determinant, which then gives us the equality we're looking for. So this triple product that this triple product we have right here coincides with the determinant calculation in the context of three by threes. And so why do we even need it if it just gives us what we already have? Well, one advantage here is that you can then get the determinant without actually talking about determinants. That is, you can get the determinant with just using the cross product and the dot product right here. And so this is really useful in like those physics and calculus settings I keep on talking about where students don't necessarily have a strong notion of linear algebra yet. They're just barely learning about vectors and things like dot products and cross products. So the thing is you can very quickly teach students about dot products. You can very quickly teach them about cross products as formulas. And then from that, you can get this triple product which would then recapture the determinant without all of this theory of determinants. It's sort of like a shortcut to the determinant in the special case of three by threes. That is an R3. And why we would care about that is the following theorem right here. If you take three vectors, UVW and R3, then the area of the parallelogram spanned by U and V, its area is gonna be the norm of U cross V. And then the volume of the parallel pipe head spanned by UV and W. So remember the parallel pipe head, this is like a three dimensional parallelogram. The volume of that thing is gonna be the absolute value of this scalar triple product. Now I wanna mention that this second result right here, the volume of the parallel pipe head, this is immediately true because we saw this earlier as this triple product is the determinant of a matrix. And we saw previously that the determinant of the matrix spanned by the determinant of the matrix whose columns are the spanners of the parallel pipe head gives you the volume. That's an immediate result. But that way calculus students can calculate volumes without determinants. They can sort of use this back door using this triple product. And similar things kind of over here, we can use the cross product which is itself kind of a determinant. Not exactly, but it's kind of like a determinant. We can then get capture things like area and volume which determine its measure without actually introducing areas and volumes. And so one can calculate this triple product right here. So the triple product of u dot v cross w. Admittedly if I were to calculate the triple product, let me switch the color there.  We get three, negative two, negative five, one, four, negative five and then zero, three, two. I'd calculate this determinant. And honestly to maximize the amount of zeros, I would cofactor expand across the first row right there. So you end up with three times the minor four, two, three, negative four and then minus one times the minor negative two, three, negative five and two. And when you do those two by two minors, so three times, you end up with eight plus 12 and then minus, we're gonna get negative four plus 15. Eight and 12 of course is 20 times that by three, we get 60. And then we end up with 15 take away four, which is a nine, so we get a negative nine right there. I'm sorry, not nine, that should be 11. 15 take away four is 11. And then 60 take away 11 gives us 49. So that's the triple product, which would measure the volume of a parallel pipe head and things like that. So if you know determinants, you really don't need cross products whatsoever. But if you were to calculate this thing using the formulas we used for the cross product at the beginning and then with the usual dot product right there, it'll give you the exact same thing as this determinant. Of course, the advantage of you thinking as determinant is that this formula follows from co-factory expanded along the first column right here, which as the determinant calculation, that's not the best column to use. I would actually use the first row. So determinants simplify the calculations of cross products. So use those whenever you need to.


what is the challenge in driving data, a data driven, consistent, omnichannel customer experience for a customer which is present across so many platforms? Thank you. That's a really good question. So as you said, experience is everything. And today the most, I mean, the biggest challenge is consistency is the ability to have a consistent message across the different touch points. And I think for that, I would go back to something that I've written a bit around the four E's because experience itself is not enough. So when it comes to the four E's, we're talking about experience, so ensuring that you have a relevant experience no matter the touch point and that every touch point is here to drive impact. Then you will have everywhere, which is the ability of being convenient. So your brand needs to have a level of convenience for their consumers because we know that consumers are 1% of the time thinking about your brand and 99% of the time really living your brand. So it's important to have your brand as in kind of an everywhere ecosystem. Value exchange and that exchange is very important for experience. I would say that you can't have experience if you don't have exchange. We live in a world where data is alpha, where data is paramount, but it's also very scarce and valuable resource. And I think one of the things that you need to do through value exchange and experience is to ensure that that data is protected, but also given at a point of consent. And then the final one will be evangelism, which is again part of the experience because when we talk about a brand, it's not only about talking about the product or talking about the ethos of the brand, but again, the value that the brand is bringing into people's everyday life and so ends the evangelism and the opportunity to build ecosystem around your brand beyond just your brand equity or your products, but really kind of creating a world in which your brand can thrive.


Hey, welcome to the Linux Security Summit for 2020 North America. My name is James Morris. I'll be giving this brief introduction. I'm representing the program committee today. And I'd just like to thank those who submitted talks and proposals. There's been a lot of uncertainty. Around the event and the various events, and we were still able to obtain quite a lot of proposals for the conference. Okay, so I'm now coming to run the backup on the phone. I'm not sure what happened there. We have about 80 people logged in. I just need to mute my speaker. Okay, so this is the 10th anniversary of the Security Summit, and it was initially we started out in Boston in 2010, and the event certainly grown and expanded out to Europe as well. So thanks everyone for joining us, and let's hope we can adapt to this new format. And with that, I will introduce the first speaker.


Yes, what the thumbnail says is exactly what this video is going to try and prove that the startup ecosystem is the biggest scam of contemporary capitalism. Now, all of us have heard of tech startups and a majority of us have got carried away by the hype around them. In fact, at some point, you must have heard the saying that software will eat the world. Now, what does that mean? It means that tech will replace human beings and human-dependent systems in almost everything we do. Tech startups are based on this fundamental premise. Think of the startups that you know. A large number of them operate in the retail, trade and distribution space. Let me give you a few popular examples. Amazon, for instance, replaces your need to go to many shops and allows you to buy things from across the world with just a couple of clicks on your phone. Zomato lets you access food from thousands of restaurants across India, actually, without leaving your home or going to each individual website to order. Paytm allows you to leave your wallet at home and it dramatically reduces the number of trips that you have to make to the ATM every time you run out of cash and Blinkit delivers your groceries faster than it takes for you to walk to your closest grocery store. Then there are social media apps which allow you to stay connected to your friends and acquaintances 24-7 and also lets you indulge in all your vices. Instagram, for instance, helps you bring out the exhibitionists in you. Facebook makes you a warrior. You can browse through a friend's photos and judge them without them ever really knowing whether you did that. You can sometimes even see photos of friends of friends. And yes, Facebook also lends you social capital. You can let the world know who your friends are and rise up the social ladder.  And then there is the biggest tech marvel, Google, which has revolutionized our access to information, whether through its search engine or through that great video repository YouTube which Google owns. I'm leaving out Apple and Microsoft from this list, even though they're called tech companies for two reasons. First, they're not new. They've been around for a very long time. Microsoft, for instance, gives us old-fashioned computing, word processing, presentations and a very sophisticated calculator called Excel. While these are revolutionary, they're more like paper saving and time saving devices, productivity aids and don't really replace humans on a very large scale. The second reason is that they're similar to old-school manufacturing companies. Apple almost entirely so. Its business is selling phones, tablets and earphones, each of which have to be physically manufactured in factories. Yes, of course, Apple also has a streaming music service and a video on demand service like Netflix does. But, you know, those are not core to its business and they're not very profitable. If you notice, among the tech companies that I've named, many are virtually monopolies. They have no serious competitor. Google has no real rival when it comes to search. Yes, Microsoft has hit back by integrating chat GPT in its search engine, but it is still far away from really challenging Google's complete dominance. Facebook, now called Meta, is a virtual monopoly in social media. Wanting not just Facebook, but also WhatsApp and Instagram. Twitter is the go-to micro-blogging site for everyone, even though it is struggling to make money. And Amazon is without doubt the biggest global e-commerce site. If you look at food delivery in India, then two companies, Zomato and Swiggy, control almost the entire market. And we all use these apps every day, but ask yourself, would you use them if you had to pay a lot of money for them? Would you pay, for instance, 500 rupees a month to use Google search? Would you pay for Facebook or Instagram or Twitter or even WhatsApp? Would you pay a hefty delivery fee on Zomato or Blinket if they didn't balance that out by giving you massive discounts? Would you pay more on Amazon because things are home delivered? Or will you then make the trip to the shop more often than you do right now? Would you use UPI or Paytm if you had to pay a large transaction fee? The answer in most cases would be a resounding no, or you'll pay much less than the company can hope to earn. All tech companies know this. Software does not eat the world. Freebies do. In every case, without exception, every time a tech company, especially a startup, tries to earn their money directly from customers, they fail. Even the profitable tech companies, whether it is Facebook or Google, earn their money from advertisers and not from users. In that sense, their revenue model is even more advertisement dependent than media companies. I mean, after all, old school newspapers and news channels earn some of their money from subscribers. Google and Facebook don't get a penny from subscribers. Amazon is a mega marketplace where it earns a commission from vendors, but it also passes on some of that fee to consumers as discounts to hold them onto their platform. That is why Amazon loses money on its online retail business. Almost all of its profits come from the services it provides to other corporates called Amazon Web Service, or AWS. And by the way, right now, Amazon is a loss-making company. Despite this precarious revenue model and relatively modest profits, Amazon, Facebook and Google are amongst the most valuable companies in the world. And it is the success of these tech giants in the global stock markets, which enables every new tech startup to command fabulous valuations, even though they make absolutely no profit. Even take the big tech names in India, Paytm or Zomato or Baiju, they make huge losses. But they're extremely valuable companies. That is what makes the tech startup ecosystem such a big scam. Some of you might know what valuation means. Some of you might not. In the simplest terms, it is the amount of money that you would need to buy out a company in its entirety. The market value of a company whose shares can be bought and sold on the stock market is pretty easy to calculate. If it has 10 lakh shares and each share is selling at 1,000 rupees, then the company is worth 10 lakh into 1,000, which is 100 crore rupees. Usually, the value of a share is dependent on two things. A profitable a company and what its growth prospects are. So sometimes a company that is less profitable might be more valuable because it is likely to grow faster and deliver higher profits later than a company that makes more money right now. Now this promise of future earnings is what is used to justify the valuations of tech companies and tech startups. This is why Facebook's parent company Meta's market value is 25% higher than that of the oil giant ExxonMobil. Even the Facebook's profits are barely 40% of what ExxonMobil earns. Amazon, which made a $3 billion loss in 2022, has a market value that is more than double that of ExxonMobil. But at least Facebook and Amazon are listed companies. They have to declare their financial data. This is revenues, costs, profits, taxes every three months. The world of tech startups on the other hand is completely non-transparent. So how are they valued? Let us take the hypothetical case of an imaginary company which we will call Ponzi AI. The founders of Ponzi AI have made an app and they've gone to an early stage investor to raise money. Let us call this investor Angel Funds. Angel Funds gives $1 million and in exchange it gets 5% ownership of Ponzi AI. Now right at the beginning without showing any revenues or profits, just a promise Ponzi AI's valuation goes to $20 million. Ponzi AI uses the $1 million that it has raised to give freebies and get customers on board. In the world of tech startups, this is called customer acquisition which is actually just a fancy name for giving things out for free. After six months, Ponzi AI has run out of the money. Angel Funds doesn't want to give any more or doesn't have any more so together they look for second round investors. This is a bigger venture capital fund and let us call it big bet funds. Ponzi AI's founders and Angel Funds negotiate hard and they tell big bet funds that say, look, we have already had 100,000 customers. Don't worry that they don't pay anything but look at the growth potential. They managed to convince big bet funds to put up some money this time at a higher valuation. So big bet agrees to buy 15% of the company for $6 million. Ponzi AI's valuation has jumped to $40 million in just six months. Angel Funds sells it 5% to big bet for $2 million, doubling their investments and Ponzi AI gets the remaining $4 million to reinvest in its game of giving freebies to acquire even more customers. After another six months, Ponzi AI has spent all its money but its customer base has risen to 300,000 people in just one year it has gone from zero to 300,000-watt brilliant growth. Oh yes, no point harping on that small fact that no money was actually made in the process. Now Ponzi AI's founders and big bet funds want to sell shares to a more mature fund and raise even more money at even higher valuations. This time they managed to raise money from a private equity fund called Clever Investments. Clever Investments agrees to buy one third of Ponzi AI and agrees to pay $30 million for it. The startup's valuation has now risen to $90 million in just one year. Big Bet sells 10% to Clever Investments and takes out $20 million while holding on to the remaining 5% for future gains. Ponzi AI gets the remaining $10 million to plow back into the business. This is burnt in another year. Thanks to that magic word called Customer Acquisition, Ponzi AI is still making huge losses and it has not met any of its revenue targets. Clever Investments gets nervous now. Now in any old school business, Clever Investments would write off the money put in, shut the company down, sell all its assets and try to recover whatever it can. But this is the start of world. Here, the exact opposite happens. Clever Investments invests even more money at an even higher valuation. It now takes its ownership to 50% and puts in another $50 million for the remaining one-sixth of the company. This takes Ponzi AI's valuation to a whopping $300 million with no real business to show against it. What Clever Investments has done is that it has sent a message to the market that it has full faith in Ponzi AI's growth story. Now it is time to offload all the shares to a greater fool and who better to do that than the average retail investor in the stock markets. So Ponzi AI's founders and Clever Investments plan an IPO. They bet big-name global auditors to value the company and these firms magically come back with a fair value of a billion dollars. Ponzi AI's IPO plans to sell 50% of the company to the public and to institutional investors and raise $500 million. The founders, Clever Investments and Big Bet intend to sell a large part of their shares in the IPO. Remember the total money that was put into the company various rounds was just $87 million out of which Angel Funds and Big Bet Funds had already taken out $24 million in previous rounds. Now the investors and founders will make huge amounts of money even if they plan to reinvest half of that in the company. As soon as the company lists its stock price collapses because it has no earnings. This is exactly what happened to Paytm and Zomato and the retail investor is left holding dud shares on which they've lost half their money. But this is not the only thing that makes tech such a scam. It is also the only space left where financial speculators can make money without showing any underlying earnings exactly like they did at the mortgage and real estate bubbles of the mid-2000s. This is the last space for finance capital to operate freely without regulation. It is the last space for them to privatize all gains and socialize all losses. That's the show today. If you like the video, comment and share and press the like button. And do subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon so that you're the first to know whenever we upload a new video. Until next time, goodbye.


News Update. Well, folks to the 4pm stock market update, this is Jacob Schumann for Tom O'Brien. He will be back Tuesday, of course. We are off Monday for the federal holiday. Let's take a look at what everything ended up. We have the ES about flat here, the Russell off about 0.25%, and a Q-flat, Dow futures down about 3.7%. Gold and silver did all right today. I can't say the same for my boy Copper, which is a bit of a shame, but gold contract trading about 2051 of about 1.59%. Silver up 2.69%. Of course, we have these crude oil futures blowing out. It's good to look into Tesla trading down 3.74% on news that they were going to halt production of their Berlin factory due to conflicts in the Red Sea. So dynamics trading at $1.1322, the dollar about up 0.24%, at $102.44%. Of course, we want to see that go down. The banks, Bank of America down 1.03%, JPMorgan down about 0.73%, and Citigroup up about 1.04%. I want to talk about before we end, because I know we only got about $1.40 left here. This was super interesting. The ETFs went off for Bitcoin, obviously, SEC said it's a, I'm just kidding. They didn't say it was a great thing, but they did allow us to invest in it, which is pretty cool. This is BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. Is this is the first time you have a really established, I guess, investor really say that this is a protective asset, which is Bitcoin, and I made the argument really even against that. In some ways it might function this way, but I've seen it function opposite ways and be much more of a way just being treated as a quickly appreciating asset as opposed to somewhere like gold where you can store it. It's pretty notable. He says, I believe it goes up if the world is frightened, if the people have fearful geopolitical risks, they're fearful of their own risks. It's no different than what gold represented over thousands of years. It is an asset class that protects you. Unlike gold where we manufacture new gold, we're almost at the ceiling of the amount of Bitcoin that can be created. What we're trying to do is offer an instrument that can store wealth. Interesting. The statement comes just two days after the SEC approved BlackRock alongside 10 other asset managers spot at Bitcoin ETFs. Anyways, kind of fascinating to look into and if you're not hip with it, try to. It's pretty neat. Folks, thank you so much. We're gone Monday. We're back Tuesday with Tommy O'Brien, Basil Steve, Larry, and then finally the man Tom is back. Have a great rest of your weekend.


A bienvenido to Hispanic Hawaii, I am your host, Richard Concepcion. Today's program is going to be about brain training with Dr. Melba Stens.  Also, she is the CEO and the owner of Biofeedback Therapy Hawaii Clinic. She takes your time to help others who need help with PTSD, ADHD, stress, TBI, and teach and train to keep your brain in a good condition. Just like if we train or about it to be in a good physical condition, we should also train our brain. So welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Alright, so let's start the show by asking you what inspired you to become a psychologist and it's such a difficult subject that is the brain. I think the brain is so interesting, so intriguing, and we still don't know it all, don't understand it completely. My father is a physician and my mother is a physician, so I've always been in the medical field. In the military, I was a research psychologist. I retired two years ago, a lieutenant colonel, and my background, my licensing in Hawaii, and my degrees are more work psychologists or big performance, so I help people train their brains so it works better and the behavior is better and they're happier. Alright, tell me a little bit about the nail you created, Biofeedback Therapy Hawaii. Thank you. So I used to call it by the waves, by the brain waves or ocean waves, but I understood that some people were looking more for something specific, so I changed the name to Biofeedback Therapy Hawaii because I don't only put my clients to systems to capture the biofeedback or the biological feedback information from the brain or the body, I also talk to them and give some counseling, confidential counseling, military and others, and to unsubcoaching. So Biofeedback just means giving feedback from the psychophysiology. Oh that's perfect. So you mentioned that you retired from the military lieutenant colonel. You was born in Puerto Rico. Yes. You stay here in Hawaii to provide service to the community. Tell me a little bit about your military background and what you do for the community here in Hawaii. So I started as an enlisted ortho-tech because I wanted, when I was in Puerto Rico, I just wanted to move on and move on, so then later on I finished my bachelor, my master's, while I was in the military, and then when it was good enough for the military system, I transferred to what I would do my PhD to research psychology. I've been helping a lot of people, even when I was deployed to Iraq, I went to Afghanistan, I was stationed in Korea, Panama. It's all about helping the pain, the psychological pain that we have by retraining, reframing. I like doing work also with Dr. Sinbardo about keeping people in the present and the future more than in the past time perspective. So tell me a little bit about how the whole program work.  Can you talk to me about those different areas? So yes, they can contact me via email, text, phone, or my website, biofeedbacktherapyhawai.com and we set up an appointment. Most people come to my office in Kailua over the weekend or in the evenings. I'm also starting to see some clients in ADHD center in Honolulu and then with another clinical psychologist just to help those people that need to use their medical plan. I don't take medical plan at this time, but it's very affordable. And anyway, so I first have an intake. I talk to them about their needs, their wants, their main goal. I also do a QEG or quantitative electroencephalogram, which is a brain map, to see what their signature wave, for example, is the slow or fast and what part of the brain. If they have fast waves in the frontal lobe or they have slow waves in the frontal lobe, that's going to affect their behavior, their thinking and their work environment, their life environment, their sleep. So we talk about all that and then during this session, sessions tend to be one hour, I tend to train them via either electrodes in their brain per se that they see their brain waves and they start doing things like playing chess or a video game or something to modify their brain waves or they can either or I modify as needed. They can have some sensors in their skin to capture, for example, hardware variabilities, skin conductance, skin resistance, different things that tells me and tells them that they're being stressed or not and how to work on that. I also have brain stimulation, which is just some sensors here in the cranial area and or music or life that just help with the mood and the brain waves again. Because my goal, I tend to see them once a week for an hour because my goal is that it transfers, just transfers some training. They can actually do this at home. I don't want it to depend on me or my equipment. It's not so always in the clinic. They can do outside the clinic, at work, at home. And I give them links that they can find from different places that can retrain their brain etc. So after like 10 sessions, typically I do another test, another brain test and then we'll see the results and then we talk about if they want to continue more sessions or if they feel comfortable enough they reach most of their goals of what they wanted the main goal and they want to just come like once a month for a booster session or etc. So I had the opportunity to come into your office and able to do the neurofeedback, the biofeedback and the brain stimulation. Now, can you tell me what is the benefit about these three different stages that a patient get when they come in and go through other different stages? I think it's mostly be self-conscious, create consciousness about how they feel. Many times when I was in the military I was doing clinical research protocols for PTSD, stress management, TBI, traumatic brain injury, etc. And a lot of soldiers will tell me I'm not stressed and then I will use the blood pressure machine and it will be way out. Exactly, so we'll practice different techniques like diaphragmatic breathing or different things and then later on we'll test them again and the blood pressure will go down so we'll associate. That's like the situation when I came in and I'll tell you I was not sleeping and we was doing the neurofeedback and you say you're sleepy and but I was denied, I was sleeping but I was really sleeping. That's the beauty of this, I love technology because it gives you the right feedback.  However if I put some system that you can actually see it and gives you feedback about it then it makes you feel more conscientious of what's going on in your life. For example if you're playing a game and I'm asking you to, we agree that we want to be on beta waves or attention in the frontal lobe and all of a sudden the game is like a spaceship stops working, you can tell me oh the software is not working, I'll be like no, no, no, you need to focus more. You know focus on the task. Exactly. So when we was at the office you mentioned about ADHD and on a child and you was talking about it and I thought what is the correlation between these two? Many people do not know, ADHD has a generic predisposition meaning it's in our DNA. So I feel sad but on at the same time when many parents come to my office to my clinic and they bring their kids and they basically say help me or fix them and I have to politely tell them you know there's a high probability that you have some of these symptoms too and then we start talking about it and many times the clients, my clients, it becomes the child and later on it's half the session because sometimes I have one hour for both, half session the child because after 30 minutes they don't want to do anything else, it's enough for them a lot of intensity and then the parents and then I believe it improves their family dynamic because they're both like kind of understand each other, the parent identify oh I didn't know I had these symptoms too because the psychiatric association, American Psychiatric Association did not come with this diagnosis until around 2013-2014. Yes so a lot of people that have ADHD, like myself, we didn't know we just thought we were clumsy, we thought we only heard a lot of negative things about us and we didn't know it's a neurochemical disorder just like diabetes so many times we have to use medication to help us control our thoughts so the rate is fast but we can slow down and actually prevent saying or doing something that could be high-risk or not needed at that time. We tend to be ADHD very smart however it's not a disorder, the gentleman, the psychiatrist that came up with that name or suggested that name, it made a disorder, it's not really a disorder, it's just like selective listening, like your spouse might just listen to something, it's selective attention, like we can know a lot about something and about other things, we don't care. You can take me to a trivia show and I'll lose because I don't care about a lot of things but the things that I know, I know it to the to the hundredth level.  I think it's all good because I work with good neurologists like Dr. Liao, I work with good psychologists, I have a system okay however so I'm not I'm not gonna preach about this is better than this I think is everything's complementary. Matter of fact I have some clients that sometimes I'm the one suggesting you know maybe they should go to your primary doctor or a neurologist or someone that will give you something to for your child to relax and be able to learn could be temporary so this helps the neurochemistry medication does the same thing so the only difference because between medication and what I'm doing is just that it gives you puts like a mirror in your face okay so when you're getting upset just like with the medication a lot of people just wanted to fix something or to numb something with this you're actually seeing at the same time and you become more conscientious about it so it's a complementary system. Now let me ask you a little bit about Yuda, Yuda is over 90 years old now and he's showing sign or memory loss and Alzheimer's can we use this program can we use this program for the same thing to help and test and maybe train the brain to be able to get any good shape? Yes the efficacy of neurofeedback by a feedback has been very high for a long time for ADHD but it hasn't been it wasn't being used as much for other categories of groups you're talking about working with focus that's focusing is part of cognitive health and it's part of pre Alzheimer's etc my father has tried this too and the good thing about it is that it gives you feedback to stay focused the more you practice it's like the brain is like a muscle the more you practice focusing and concentration and memory the more you're gonna prevent this type of detrimental or progressive diseases however it won't cure it it won't prevent it completely but it will help exercise your brain. Oh wow so you give them tasks they had to do a home they had to do a work any place for the daily life so how does it work you just after you do the the the map of the brain and you identify the issues and then you start assigning different activities so they can do at the clinic when they come in once a week and they also can do it at home as they going back to the regular life right so yes so since I'm not a clinical psychologist I'm an organizational psychologist which is about school work and pick performance I'm very holistic and therefore to me it's all about balance I don't want the client to believe that I am that I that I think that the tools is the only good thing no okay I don't have to have tools I just I talked with the clients about how they are feeling at home are they sleeping what and know how many hours they sleep but do they wake up rested are they eating healthy are they drinking a lot of water for example are they having hobby do they work the school and I correlate all that with their main goal which you could be getting a new job or graduating or whatever and so their homework is to be conscientious of that right they can keep a journal or not but we will discuss it before every session and the whole is always after the session so oh wow that's a great program so we are going to take a quick break and we're going to return and we're going to continue talking about brain training with Dr. Melva Stance thank you Aloha and welcome back to Hispanic Hawaii we here talking about brain training with Dr. Melva Stance so we're having a good time talking about all the different things that we do and I know you're a very busy person so tell me a little bit about all this stuff that you do beside concentrating helping those who are stressed who have PTSD TVI and sadness oh well a after almost 30 years in the military I retired Southern Colonel 2014 I'm doing a lot of work on stress PTSD TVI I realized that I I was not ready to completely retire I tried but I couldn't so the energy line was still there yeah because ADHD and I'm trying to do a call in Hawaii for I'd also have ADHD or any ADHD symptom please call me because I'm trying to make groups and support groups for that because we have like Greg Gregory Mason said we have superpowers we have a lot of great stuff so I do brain test or electroencephalograms at Castle Medical Center and was just local hospital I also teach HPU to the military campus program about psychology bio psychology military psychology organization for psychology I also teach for UH Community College per Harvard to the the trainees for the submarine and I teach them psychology at work and I have my my clinic I'm also lately a few weeks ago I started with the ADHD Center in Honolulu so I'm seeing patients over there so I like staying busy but at the same time I've published on work family conflict so I try my best to stay with the family enjoy with the family my pets my house and the beautiful Hawaii well that's so nice to do also you participate it for the boxing championship match and you you was there watching and you volunteer your time to help those boxers and tell me a little bit about those people they they are doing a sport and sometimes they get hit in the head and they really don't take it seriously very sad very sad my father as a physiatrist he took care of I mean one of his clients was Pele the soccer player yes and everything has to be with traumatic brain injury people do not we're getting to know understand people don't understand completely is how important it is an impact to the brain even if it's a closed heat or open they start bleeding etc a concussion a concussion a mile a more traumatic brain anything that hits your brain is gonna be a problem when you see teenagers hitting their locker with that's bad that's bad you can have headaches later on you can have maybe a minor stroke and then you're in the floor I do a lot of I see a lot of patients at the ICU in a castle and it's because something happened they ended up in the floor so boxers they're always having hits in the head and I mean Muhammad Ali is such a brain such a beautiful person but ended up having problems with the the brocade area and the Wernicke area and the brain that has to produce the information the brocade area and it's sad because it affects his life so also like I said soccer players everything that every sport we sport that has some involvement we hit in the air in the military a lot of soldiers didn't want to wear the helmets or didn't want to hear the the audio and that affects your you know with tinnitus and a lot of problems happen so we have to cover up I know how I seem to you know the helmet the motorcycle but I'm saying every time you can word word because it's about your head so you were we groups individual retiree military and you do consulting in English and it's oh yes I'm pulling bilingual because I'm Puerto Rican and my father Peru Peruvian and he lives with us and I want to help also in Hawaii I want to help the Hispanic population so please contact me I don't know where you are I'm in Kailua so let me ask you one more question here reference about a DHD how can you identify when a child a DHD is there any way to identify them easy for me that I know what it is and I see it on my father full blown and I can sense it right away but with a map with a brain map or in subphalogram what I see is the signature mostly theta waves and high beta meaning super fast like 20 to 30 Hertz a second and then it goes to a 4 to 8 Hertz because it's like doing doing doing the brain super fast it's like a mother change and then it's I'm exhausted part of the mood swing as well yes some people said that bipolar whatever but yes the the brain has so much going on I mean we're talking about Einstein will Smith a Michael Phelps yes who'd be go over some many people are Jesus Timberlake that he sings Justin Kennedy yes John F. Kennedy Pression of United States can you believe that some presidents have ADHD some are medicated some are not some are treated some are under diagnosed but anyway ADHD is a beautiful thing and my mission is to try to support that as a beautiful thing just if schools don't understand ADHD kids that I'm telling you see them in the front and moms stop giving them anything that excites them after five o'clock have them in some type of healthy and safe sport to get the energy out let them do what they want because those are the future genius the engineers we have a lot of great stuff in the ADHD community so it's so lucky we were talking before it's a correlation so sometimes the parents that you would tell me the parents bring the kids and say hey my child have a problem they don't realize that that maybe it came genetic right yes yeah so nurture and nature okay the nature will be the genetic predisposition the DNA the message that we have in our blood in our genes and nurture is the home environment so if the parents all the time hyper-focusing that's one of the skills of ADHD hyper-focusing five six hours and they don't go to bathroom they don't eat they don't anything just concentrating one thing yes and then the child does it and the father is like the parent is like hey you need to stop doing that you're giving them a mix message because you're doing it but you're not in your child do it so once we have more knowledge about hey it's a family thing it's neurochemical we might need some medication we might know we might need some brain training feedback or we might have to do take other tools to help us then I've seen so many families improving and being happier because of that so then you take into the clinic as a family that's when you do group you do group session so you can do the bottom of the dad you can do all together the spouse so for a lot of spouse you can ask my husband they suffer a lot because they don't know they don't know that you have like like like five monitors open because you have five boxes five projects open and they don't know sometimes how to connect the dots for you it makes sense but for them it's like what so it's a retraining the spouse is re-explaining the path the the spouse what's going on the children the mom the school the worker like when I go to castle I like working when I'm doing my my analysis I like being in the corner not being interrupted because I get distracted so I put all my energy my brain power into into that so my typical bosses they love me because every time they ask me for produce I'm like right there exactly so let's talk about PTSD just a little bit about PTSD you know ex-soldiers and we was deployed many many many times and we return home how the whole symptom of PTSD work it is so difficult to understand yeah I'm not gonna deny it is that I have symptoms of PTSD and I've been treated I think it's very important to know that that's another investment in this invincible one I was thinking in Spanish another invincible invisible wound meaning that people cannot see it but it hurts us at many levels and actually a lot of people that have ADHD which is part of what I'm putting on my new website a lot of people that have ADHD they can have PTSD symptoms because they've been bullied okay and they've been told this little you're a mess up you can do that because ADHD is considered also a learning disability true because we learn at the beginning when I learned something I look retarded it but like once I learned is get out of my way get on my way because I know what you know and what they know and you know what I'm saying so so a lot of ADHD or they they end up having PTSD symptoms because it's traumatic the whole life they've been treating them like bad and then once they realize everything then they have to forgive forget move on but it's very painful well so is anybody want to get in contact with you to what way they can get in contact the only signature about PTSD that I failed to mention is anger frustration and that's what the society medication or training or tools can help ameliorate that they can contact me at a AOA 347 for 6 to 6 they can text me AOA 347 for 6 to 6 I'll go to my website website yeah my old ways website was by the way is how I dot com but I'm changing it to biofeedback therapy how I dot com with the help of Ben and Patrick all right well we want to say I want to say thank you so much to come into his spanish Hawaii help us to understand how our brain work and what we need to do to keep our brain in a good shape and then we want to say thank you so much any final thoughts please AVS deers adults contact me and if you have some PTSD military and you want to keep it confidential contact me I'm here to help you thank you all right don't forget we're here in spanish Hawaii with Dr. Melba stands she is a licensed psychology and a brain trainer and if you need to get in contact with her you can call 808 347 for 6 to 6 and we're going to return with his spanish Hawaii for the next show and those who miss the show don't forget you can go to thinktechhawai.com and we want to say thank you and if you want to get in contact with me you can call me<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can send me a tweet at RichardConception on Twitter.com thank you so much gracias and aloha


In this video, I'm going to demonstrate how you can set up a hypothesis-enabled reading in your detail bright space course using the new assignment workflow. This will make it a little bit easier for you to create a hypothesis-enabled reading without having to copy and paste a URL that was required in the older process. So I am in the content area of my bright space course. So I want to navigate to the area where I would like to add my hypothesis-enabled reading. Then I'll click on the button that says existing activities and scroll down and find hypothesis in the list. Once I find hypothesis in the list, I'll be presented with the file picker. This will show me the different sources from where I can grab a document that I'd like students to annotate. I can use a URL of a web page, a YouTube video, or a JSTOR article. Or I can grab a PDF from my Google Drive, OneDrive, or my D2L course site. In this case, I have an article open in another tab. So I'm going to use this URL. I'm going to copy this URL, go back to my bright space course, and click on the URL button. I can paste the URL in here and click submit. At this point, I can change the title of my hypothesis-enabled reading. This can reflect either the title of the reading or the assignment name that you would like to give it. I can select whether or not I would like to make a group assignment. If I leave this deselected, then everyone in the class will be able to annotate the document together. I'll click continue, and then my new hypothesis-enabled reading will be added at the end of my module here. I can click the little down pointing arrow and click on edit properties in place if I would like to add some instructions as part of the description. With those steps, you should be able to add your hypothesis-enabled reading to your D2L Bright Space course site.