the enemy studies you. The enemy knows you. The enemy watches how you behave in certain scenarios. The enemy watches how you behave around certain people. The enemy watches where your eyes go, watches what your words say, watches what you choose to listen to. He sees what you do in secret. He sees how you behave in private. And he uses all of this information to create the strongest temptation and place it before you. He has many strategies, but all of his strategies are ultimately based on deception. The only power that the enemy can have over you is the power that he deceives you into giving to him. Now there are many deceptive strategies of the enemy, but I want to focus on just two right now so that we can really dig in and see exactly how these work against us in our everyday life, but I want you to write in the comment section right now, write, open my eyes. Let that be your prayer for discernment. Let that be your commitment to being vigilant about the supernatural realm. Remember this, everything about the kingdom of hell is built on shifting shadow. All the weapons, all of the attacks, they're just formations, shadowy figures. So the moment that you introduce anything that has to do with the kingdom of hell to the light of the Holy Spirit, the power of darkness dissolves. Light eradicates darkness. What does light do to darkness? It dissolves the darkness by their very own natures, by the necessity of their natures. Light and darkness cannot coexist. The presence of either means the absence of the other, and so in your life you have to receive the light of the Spirit. Now you have the Holy Spirit living in you. You have the power of God residing in you. You've been positioned in Christ. You are in Christ. Christ is in power and you are in Christ. You're seated in heavenly places. So why then do we not always see the manifestation, the realization, the attainment of that power? Why does it seem as though sometimes we live defeated even though in the Spirit we know we're positioned in victory? Well, I want to show you how the enemy attacks. In fact, you may be under the power of this attack without even realizing it, so it's my prayer that it's exposed and eliminated in your life. So first we must understand that Satan is called the tempter. Look at 1 Thessalonians chapter 3. I'm going to read verses 4 and 5. Even while we were with you, we warned you that troubles would soon come, and they did, as you well know. That is why when I could bear it no longer, I sent Timothy to find out whether your faith was still strong. So the apostle here has some concerns about the faith of the people. I was afraid that the tempter had gotten the best of you and that our work had been useless. Think about this here. The enemy's primary goal is to weaken your faith. Why? Because if he can weaken your faith, he can keep you from accessing and becoming all that God desires for you. When the enemy deceives you, he convinces you to not use your power. I think we make the Holy Spirit jealous when we exaggerate demonic power and minimize the Holy Spirit's power. Well, what does the scripture say?  Well, I have a great strength. You have a great strength, the power of the Holy Ghost residing in you. We have been given dominion, power, and authority over the forces of darkness, and we are beings of light because we reflect the glory of God. Yet the enemy deceives us, not wanting us to use the strength of the power that we've been given. Instead, we freak out when he attacks us. What do we do? We panic when we don't understand how the enemy is coming against us. When we face trials and tribulations, we somehow take this as proof that God has abandoned us, proof that the enemy somehow gained power over us. No, my friend. You have the power of the Holy Ghost residing in you. I think far too believers understand their identity in Christ. This crisis of identity is what prevents many believers from walking in and realizing the strength of that power. We have been delivered. We have been rescued. We have been filled with the Holy Spirit, but many of us don't realize or actualize or experience the fruit of that freedom simply because we're deceived in not embracing it. The enemy deceives you. He exaggerates his power over you. He wants you to feel like you're bound. He wants you to feel like you're cursed. He wants you to feel like he's this great immense force over you that you just can't break no matter how hard you try. That's a lie of the enemy. You're being held in place because you don't realize the power that's been given to you. The scripture calls him the tempter. What does he do? He places before us the things that he believes will cause us to choose sin over God. Well, think of Matthew 4. When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, the enemy three times attempted to offer him something that would satisfy the cravings of the flesh. Well, Jesus of course resisted, but the truth of the matter is if sin were a product, demons would be salesmen. But here's the reality. Though demons may tempt you, they cannot do the sinning for you. Many times Christians try to blame their sinful disobedient decisions on demonic powers. Well, I can't stop doing this because it's a demon and I can't get delivered from that demon because I don't understand the secret to the demon's power. And this is the belief system under which many believers become stuck. They never break free because they just don't realize all of the lies that they've already believed. They grant the premise that they're under the power of the enemy. They grant the premise that the enemy has control over them in some way, completely neglecting the reality of the fruit of the Spirit which is self-control.  But what the enemy does do is present the sin. What the enemy does do is try to make the sin seem appealing like he did in the Garden of Eden. The serpent did not eat that fruit on behalf of Eve. Eve ate it. Adam ate it. But the serpent spoke. The serpent used its words. What is that? That's deception. Remember this. All successful temptation is ultimately rooted in dark deception. All successful temptation is ultimately rooted in dark deception. Why? Because you believe the lie, somehow, some way, that that sin will satisfy you. You believe that it's worth trading the precious fellowship you have with God for whatever it is that the enemy's offering to you. So the enemy presents it. And he will not tempt you with something that doesn't tempt you. Think about this. The enemy studies you. The enemy knows you. The enemy watches how you behave in certain scenarios. The enemy watches how you behave around certain people. The enemy watches where your eyes go, watches what your words say, watches what you choose to listen to. He sees what you do in secret. He sees how you behave in private. And he uses all of this information to create the strongest temptation and place it before you. And so the enemy will not tempt you with something that doesn't tempt you. He's going to use something that you've grown to crave.  And yes, you do train yourself to desire things. That's the fact of the matter. When we choose a vice, a temptation, again and again and again, we are programming our bodies to crave that which we are choosing. And demons do take advantage of these desires. They take advantage of these weak points. This is why it seems like just when you're doing right, just when you're doing well, just when you finally feel connected with God, suddenly here's a temptation coming your way, something offered to you in the form that tempts you. Now James 1.14 says, temptation comes from our own desires which entice us and drag us away. So there we see we cannot blame demonic powers. The only reason we're tempted in the first place, please hear me when I say this, the only reason we're tempted in the first place is because we've allowed our flesh to grow in strength. If our flesh wasn't strong, the enemy would have nothing to tempt. If we kept the flesh weak, the temptations would be weak. The stronger your flesh becomes, the stronger the urges of temptations become. And so instead of keeping the flesh subjected, instead of learning to live in the spirit, instead of living a lifestyle of prayer and the word and subjecting the sin nature, we feed it what it desires and we starve the spirit. We starve the spirit when we neglect prayer. We starve the spirit when we neglect the word. We feed the flesh when we choose entertainment over the spiritual on a constant basis. When we're so distracted by the cares and things of this world that we completely forget about the spiritual reality in which we primarily exist. You are not a citizen of this earth as strange as that may sound. If you're a born again believer, you've been translated from the kingdom of darkness and you now exist in the kingdom of heaven. Now this is how it works. Demons understand us, they seek to tempt us, and then they present a lie and here's a lie that they use. This will satisfy you. Or, or, or they'll say this isn't that big of a deal. Now you may not say that outright, you may not think that directly, but somewhere deep down when you're giving into a sin repeatedly, somewhere deep down, you've lost that sense of urgency unto holiness because you do at some deep subconscious level believe the lie that it's no big deal or that it's not really affecting you. Look, here's the reality.  It's robbing them even of the person that you should be. So this will satisfy. God won't punish this. It's that big of a deal. The presence of God isn't satisfying me. These are lies we believe or I can't help it. There's nothing I can do. And thereby the way, if I may go off on a tangent, thereby the way is one of the lies that is founded upon this idea that demons have this control over us. Well, there's nothing I can do anyway. It's a demon. So until I get that special prayer, until I find that special technique, until I uncover that ancient mystery, until I dig up the information from Ancestry.com, I can't be free of this spirit. So there's really nothing I can do. And that belief in the fact that it has complete control over us is partially what contributes to us giving in again and again. And so what happens?  You become double-minded. You feel like you're switching from one person to another and you don't know which one's the real you. And then the action that manifests from this is more and more you give in again and again. So first it's the lie. Once you believe the lie, that becomes deception.  And so when you feel condemnation, guilt and shame, what do you do? You distance yourself from God. And in distancing yourself from God, you strengthen the flesh and guess what? It gains more power to sin. And then you live in this state of hypocrisy. You sin more and more. And what results from that sinning again and again and again? That consistent sinning. Well, you form a habit. And what does this habit become? This habit becomes a life cycle. Six months you do good, two weeks you're back on sin again.  It just goes back and forth and back and you go through cycles just when you thought you were free. It's right back in. Why? Because when you finally do get free, you're not living in such a way where you keep the flesh subjected. Many believers don't realize that once you're free, you have to continue to walk in submission to God in order to stay away from that temptation. So now what begins to happen? A secretive lifestyle, sinful habits, guilty conscience, you feel distant from God. And here's the problem. People try to address just the symptoms. And this is where they come to me or to a preacher or maybe they've come to you before, they say, Hey, I'm dealing with this particular issue. And I can't seem to overcome this sin right here. Or I'm dealing with this particular habit and I can't overcome this habit. Hey, I have a problem with this kind of attitude, this kind of mindset, these kinds of thoughts, whatever it may be, however the sin is manifesting, we have issues with it and they become habitual in our lives and we feel stuck. Here's the problem. You're addressing the symptom. You want to address the habit itself. And you should. You want to address the sin itself. And you should while also neglecting the root and you shouldn't neglect addressing that root. You must address not just the result, but also the root, not just the symptom, but also the source, not just the chaos, but the cause of the chaos. What is that? It's the lie you believe. It comes back to, you see here now deception.  It could be, you believe that the sin will satisfy. It could be that you believe that you have no choice that you have to sin. It could be that you believe that it's no big deal. It could be that you believe that you're just never going to be free of it. So you might as well give in from time to time.  And ultimately, all of that giving into temptation is rooted in that deception. Temptation is a form of deception because you must first question the word before you contradict the word with your lifestyle.   Period. Jesus said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall what? Right in the comments, the truth shall set you free, set me free. So then if I'm still bound, if it's the truth that sets me free and I'm still bound, then if I'm bound, there's a truth I've not yet come to believe. Yet people again just want to address the exterior. They want to address the habit itself when they need to look inside and say, okay, what's the lie I'm believing? And this is where repentance comes into play. My goodness, we as the church have greatly misunderstood what repentance is and what renouncing is because we imagine that repentance is to turn away from something. That's not what it means. Now don't hear what I'm not saying. I absolutely agree that we should turn away from sin, but turning away from sin is to renounce sin. To repent is to change your mind. It's a change in mind that results in renouncing, forsaking, turning from sin. But many people try to address the habit before they've addressed the mindset. So what does repentance look like? Well, repentance looks like this. Lord, I agree that this sin is wrong. I agree that it's wrong in all forms. I agree that it's wrong in all measures. In other words, I'm not going to allow myself or my flesh a little relief here and there. And I agree that it must go once and for all. And until you come to that place where you acknowledge this is destroying me, whether I see it or not, and either way, it's contradicting the nature of God. Once you've come to agree with God, this thing has to go now. This thing has to go in all forms and this thing has to go forever. Well, now you've repented when you've come to truly believe that. Now you've repented. Once you repent, then you can renounce. What is renouncing? No, my friend, renouncing is not picking up a list like this and going, I renounced this, I renounced that, I renounced this. I mean, you can do that if you want. There's nothing wrong with it, but that's not what renouncing is. To renounce is to forsake, to renounce is to actually turn from. But many people try to turn from sin before they've changed their mind about sin and then they just get stuck in a battle with themselves. This is why you have to come to the place where you've removed all deception with the help of the Holy Spirit. Identify that root lie. What is it I believe about sin that gives me and my flesh permission to give into it? What is it I believe about sin that gives my flesh permission to engage in it? And once you've identified that lie, well, now you can actually renounce it. So this is temptation. It's one of the attacks that it may mean. Now watch this, watch this. And by the way, 1 Corinthians 10-13 makes it clear that God provides a way out. That's scripture. There's no temptation that comes against you that God has not provided a way out of. So we are without excuse here. Let me say that again. We are without excuse. I'm going to look right in the camera and say it to you.   Here's the truth. Nobody chooses to sin for you but you. No, it is not a spirit sinning for you. No, it is not a demonic force forcing you to disobey God. We have to grow up. And if you don't grow out of that mindset, you will never be free. Hear me say this again. If you do not grow out of that mindset, you cannot be free. Why? Because you will be constantly blaming demons for your undisciplined flesh. Now, I know this isn't popular to say, but I love you and I want to see you go free and it breaks my heart every time I receive a message from someone who says, I've been dealing with this addiction. I've been dealing with this struggle for years and I just can't break it. And it breaks my heart to see that they've been lied to again and again. My friend, yes, there's grace. Yes, there's mercy. No, this is not a message of condemnation because there's hope. And the hope is that the Holy Spirit lives in you and the Holy Spirit has given you self-control. Once you finally realize I am responsible for the decisions that I make, then you've begun the process of repentance. Then you begin to agree with God about sin. This is wrong. It has to go. And it has to go in all measures for all time. But God has provided a way out. God has provided a way out of every temptation. So Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that you would cause your people to encounter your presence. Let your power flow even now. I rebuke every demonic attack in the mighty name of Jesus. Every attack I rebuke you now. Say this out loud. Say I rebuke. Say it out loud with authority now. Say I rebuke every demonic attack in Jesus' name. Now say Holy Spirit. Say it out loud. Say Holy Spirit. Help me to walk in truths that I might walk in freedom. Now Holy Spirit, let your power flow through them. Let them sense you near. Come on, stretch your hands toward mine. Ask Him to touch your life right now. Many of you are sensing like a heavy weight coming on the room. 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Hi, I am Dr. Ayya Panna. I am a consultant orthopedic surgeon at Manipal Hospital, Whitefield. So, today I will be talking about a very hot topic, especially in the post-COVID scenario, and it is called as bone death or avascular necrosis or AVN of the bones. So, AVN is a condition sometimes found in the hip or sometimes in the ankle or in the shoulder or around the knee where the blood supply reduces and gradually the bone dies. And the most common symptoms the patient come to with pain, dull pain in the hip and the thigh area. So, awfully, we are fighting a lot of patients who come to us because of this particular pain. They would be post-COVID, recovered from the COVID or immediately after COVID, and they would come with non-specific pain. And on examination, everything almost is normal and even X-ray could be normal. The release investigation which will pick up this particular condition is an MRI scan. So, if you are a post-COVID patient, if you have got pain, non-specific pain in the hip and the thigh area, please meet your surgeon to get evaluated for AVN.


Welcome to episode two today. We're gonna talk about the myth of innate skill to be a great artist What I wanted to talk about is that all award-winning or Competition or display level pick your pick your favorite topic all the best miniature painters have an innate talent Right that there's something innate about skill you have to have to be a great miniature painter. I would say That's a myth Why do I think that because if every award-winning miniature painter would be a natural talent? Then that will be an awful lot of talent out there I've got to say Travarion hit me with a really solid point here right away Like all you have to do is come to something like golden demon calm or demon winners or anything and just scroll through this page Take a look at all of the different names behind all of these incredible pieces and yeah Sometimes you see repeating there are certainly some people who've won multiple awards over the years But what you'll actually see as you scroll through is just that there is a tremendous amount of talent out there and this is just one of Hundreds of miniature painting competitions the list for salute or Monte Sansevino or Crystal brush or the capital palette or whatever would all be different people and the idea that every single one of these people Was born with some kind of innate talent? It just seems statistically unlikely now all admit that's a gut feeling you might say well Yeah, it's still a relatively small part of the population. Maybe it's possible and maybe you're right But to me I just am willing to bet if I went out and asked every one of these people Hey, do you feel you had innate artistic talent or did you train pretty hard to get there? I would be willing to bet that the vast majority of them would not tell me that this was something they painted with very little training Practice and time. I think all these people probably put in a heck of a lot of hours to get to this point There's so many talented artists out there and yet people still say this all the time I could never achieve this. So the question then is why Why do they say this? Well, I think we've got some ideas I don't want to you know be rude and and say everyone It's lazy, but it's A bit of a shield that it can put up and say, okay, I cannot go any further than what I can do Because I'm just not that talented and other people will always have a I will always be ahead of me Because I'm not talented enough But I think and I'm pretty sure because I feel like I also had that approach People always forget that the people that they see On instagram like you mentioned they all have a very long History of painting miniatures and they had they put in a lot of work And sure some are going to have a natural knack for something you know, however Paint behaves or how paint interacts or color harmonies and all of that But I'm pretty sure with a lot of people. There's a lot of work And a lot of trial and error and a lot of investment That we don't see I just believe innate talent has almost nothing to do with it Uh, certainly in professional athletes, that's the case If you think of maybe the greatest athlete one of the try the greatest basketball player Maybe one of the greatest athletes of all time somebody like Michael Jordan He was an incredibly innately talented guy Right upcoming up through high school and everything else and then he went to college and he got cut Because he wasn't putting in any any actual work and he had to go and he trained hard and for the rest of his Life he would train very very very hard. You know, he didn't become The greatest of all time accidentally Uh, it was it was through hours and hours and hours of hard work Yes, he had a good leg up over some competition But by the time he got to people when he met then on the field people who had put in the hours His natural talent was found wanting So the question is Does that also apply to miniature painting in some form? Yeah, I think there's probably some levels of like Dexterity or just kind of the way people it might even not be genetic It could be just training in other ways Like some people are naturally good at recognizing things like color and understanding color balance and still like you mentioned earlier I don't know how like I don't know the brain well enough to know how much of that's, you know Truly like quote unquote genetic and how much of it's just sort of nature versus nurture, right? But some people do have those kinds of elements and I think that can make the learning curve More or less shallow right this this art has quite a shallow learning curve If you really are just starting from zero There's a lot of nuance to it. There's a lot of things to to learn and understand And so I think you could start, you know farther ahead on that curve But in the end the answer is those people who you see Painting that stuff they put in the hours Also a factor is that when people come over from other Art professions, but there is multiple people like that So when they come in with a certain training and a trained eye Into not a field of art then that can look like Magic and the important part there is they didn't show up with innate skill still, right? It was still just training in a different artistic field. They had they were interested in art Maybe they had been you know, they had been drawing and stuff since they were young But they still went and trained they spent hours in university or something like that doing The work learning the stuff, right? So they just they happened to shortcut their miniature painting training time by spending that training time doing something else another example for someone who really put in the work and within A short amount of time accomplished. I'll say a sword win is Vincent Haddon or Haddon, I don't know how to pronounce his name. I think it's Vincent Haddon Who painted magma tracks if you remember that one? Yep That was a really great miniature and I think it was in 2007 And he started from zero artistic experience and from obviously a zero experience in miniature painting and he painted a seya sword winner And he also mentioned that he put in about 18 months of time into getting that one figure right and Whenever you put in that amount of time And you're willing to learn so you always say deliberate practice um Yeah, then you can achieve a lot of success and a lot of progress Do you think there's any parts of this that are specifically tuned to where innate Where we're sort of innate talent or innate skill things Maybe they're born with it right where that actually has real Weight and impact like is there any element of this where that does shine out to me? They're this this thing we do seems to split largely into two Conceptual categories and I'm I'll admit I'm making a bit of a logical fallacy here But let's just walk down this road for a moment the It seems to split into the technical and the sort of purely artistic now obviously there's no actual bright line between those those are highly overlapping circles But what I mean is like there's a technical craft Understanding your brush control how paint is going to react what you know when you add water to it What does dilution do how to properly? What are colors going to what what when you put two colors together? How are they going to interact right is it going to be a positive thing or a negative thing? Understanding how you can glaze one color over another and if you keep them separate versus mixing them There's lots of little technical picadillos how to get paint to flow smoothly off your brush and yada yada yada, right? And that's all very technical stuff. It doesn't feel to me like innate Has almost any impact there like that's just stuff you've got to learn and in the end Most of those elements are what great miniature painters have have sort of internalized through hours and hours and hours and hours of practice and experience And then I think there is something of like the artistic side of it is the other half where you just kind of have an eye Understanding what colors are going to look cool together being willing to experiment With using different colors or interesting compositions or things like that you can learn all of that There's nothing that's un-learnable About that But I do think if there's anything where maybe it has a slightly higher percentage It's that just because some people we often hear it said like oh Just in casual conversation somebody who always dresses nice You'll say you have a you have such a nice eye for for color or something like that, right? You pick out outfits that look really nice or or things like that So I think that that could be one where they have a slight Leg up, but it's still largely you're gonna have to stack a ton of training on top of that So I want to take another moment to talk about the technical In the artistic I mentioned that I think these are two distinct Components of miniature painting and when we look at something like the technical It really consists of those elements that we learn brush control Paint dilution, you know how to glaze and stuff like that The techniques and the application of the paint these are all learned skills And other than perhaps a slight edge of manual dexterity It's hard to imagine how anybody could have an innate talent at stuff like this If you put this into any other realm if you're training to be an HVAC repair person No one expects you to have innate skill at Fixing an air conditioner or a broken coil or something like that Those are learned skills where you have to understand the parts the components and how everything works The artistic side of it though when we think about things like the ability to understand good composition Or color balance or even channel emotion into your pieces I think that's a part where sometimes people just happen to have a brain or a way of thinking That is more attuned to these sorts of things where they can Because of either their imagination or their upbringing or maybe it's just something in a gene who knows But they have a better eye for that sort of thing However, just because you might not count yourself as one of those Doesn't mean that there's no hope for you or that you can't learn it as we're just about to find out when I'm sitting down and I'm Planning my next project I always have to look somewhere else. I I rarely Have that picture in mind sometimes I do but It's like one out of 10 times and then I just have to look somewhere else Maybe a movie maybe an artwork by someone else um, maybe someone who already did the topic in miniature form and then I'm just Trying to find an angle that I like and then I try to do my own version of it I think that's um, yeah, that's something What you call the artistic side of it Is I is what I feel less comfortable with so with the technical prowess I had 15 years to practice that um, I have not always thought about composition and all of that during that time. So it might be that I just have a Have less time invested into studying it But I I feel like That I always have to look somewhere else But I think you can Or we must not say that's a bad thing we kind of have to Be aware of the weaknesses that we have and also the strengths and maybe focus on your strengths And and have them play into what we do um, which also again Plays into style or developing a style and whenever we have weaknesses We we have to again deliberately See what we are lacking And how we can compensate for that for me It is looking at artworks for example to get inspired and get the creative chooses rolling Yeah, I think that's I think you're dead on there There's sort of that element of the artistic side that is inspiration, right the muse The how readily to these are you someone who ideas are just kind of popping into your head constantly and you're always thinking Oh, I want to do a fake that looks like this and all this piece could look like this or this or this We live in a world that's full of inspiration constantly You know, we live in a world with centuries and centuries of art at our fingertips You mentioned looking at at art like you can you can look at every piece of art done by every old master for the past Five centuries online in seconds browsing thousands and thousands of galleries You can look at You know hundreds of thousands of other people's miniatures at tons of incredible like real world vistas and stuff like that So I think we it's it's a nice time to have that challenge So a reasonable question you might ask is all right. I want to be inspired I don't find myself readily having that muse available What do I do when people come to me to ask for advice that comes up a lot So how do I get inspired and I always ask well, did you did you work? Did you look at any Particular artwork or any any other art form or anything like that that could inspire you and Most of the time to say no, so that's not really a concept that is in the public A mind or the the hive mind for whatever reason And yeah, maybe we can inspire a lot more people to to do that and go out there and look at that stuff like that I I think one of the the final nails in in sort of this the coffin of this myth Is the idea of just how many hours people actually put in So most of the artists that I've interviewed or talked to or you know people who I Just look at their their work and I'm blown away by it people such as yourself it's Amazing how many hours not just years I don't like to think about years because years you could paint like one million a year and that's a year Right. I like to think about actual hours of painting So so let's do this real quick. How many hours a week would you say right now? You paint on average or you're engaged in some, you know form of the hobby I would like to go back maybe to when I had more time and when Painting was a hobby I definitely painted Sessions that were 10 to 12 hours long Where everything I did was painting And then I just got up for food and went to bed and then just did it again So there was definitely a time in my life where Mostly painted and did nothing else. Yeah, I think that's right. It's like I think people I mentioned it earlier But people don't see the hours. I mean you've been painting for you know, pretty Uh, you know pretty regularly and at a high level now for 15 years. Is that right? That's your said earlier on and off. Yeah and To me that's when you think about the number of hours you would have spent in that time period learning and then again Doing it a deliberate way because you were also competing in a lot of that space You were getting feedback in a lot of that space, right and that stuff that accelerates learning So I what what always bothers me is the and you kind of mentioned this earlier Is I think it's an easy defense to say I could never paint like that Because I don't have quality x and I think that that is somewhat of a defense You don't have to feel like you need to paint like that. You don't need to paint like that paint however you like that makes you happy That's fine Okay, there's nothing wrong with painting just at like tabletop standard constantly and you make armies and you're happy with them great That's fantastic. You're you're living vicariously in your hobby and that's wonderful But at the same time if you do want to improve you can't it's just the hours in the deliver practice That's all it is. That's every artist. I've talked to Who's put in 5,000 10,000 15,000 20,000 plus hours That's what it is It's just they put in that time And so even if you don't have a lot of time every day if you set aside one hour and you focus on some deliberate thing You're working on I think you see that's when the benefits happen. That's when the breakthroughs happen Right, that's when you start learning So what's the summary in the end? I think when you look at what we discussed you see how you Only witness what these painters do on their most recent piece And it's easy to look at that destination which seems so far away Over the horizon on your own personal hobby journey and go I could never get there But it's no different than looking at the real physical horizon And seeing how far away it is and thinking I could never get there But if you take enough steps or get in your car and drive or get in an airplane You'd be amazed how far you end up and it's the same here Those hours of deliberate practice that focus that training Is what will end up advancing you if you're willing to put in the time And yes, some people might have some amount of skill and might be able to start slightly ahead of you on the curve They might be a little better at understanding colors or understanding composition But in the end, there's no reason that if you want to you can achieve the same thing So there you go. 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fed up with the everyday grind Tired out from the summer heat Want to get away from it all? We offer you escape Escape designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure You are making your painful way over the great India desert Alone and dying of thirst While behind you pursuing you Are the fanatical coffees who once bowed to you as king and now call for your life Tonight we escape to India and two soldiers of fortune who pushed fate too far as Rudyard Kipling told it in his famous story The man who would be king One Saturday night. It was my unpleasant duty to put the paper to bed alone It was a pitchy black night and stifling as a night can be in India and June It was very still Save for the ticking of the clock above my desk Which seemed to shatter the black heat of the night as the hands crept toward 3 a.m. And then from the passage outside my door. I heard voices Yeah, who's there only yes, and who are you? Oh, so you don't remember us, right? No, I can't say the job per border then job per border and having the authorities turn us back for impersonating newspaper men You was people and then there was the train.  Conor. The same well what you two want this time if it's money I haven't cut it and if it's a fight. It's too beastly hot Yeah, you can rest yourself easy sir because we have come asking for not accept some information We've been all over this country and we've concluded that injure isn't big enough for such as Daniel and me So we are going away to be kings kings in our own divine right What I We shall be king. Yeah, we've signed a solemn contract each to help the other And neither of us to look at liquor or women until we have become king I've never heard of such a fantastic idea. Now. Well, what do you want of me? No, but a look at such maps of Kaffiristan as you might have a bat maps of Kaffiristan That's where we decided to go Don't you realize that not one single Englishman has ever gone into the Karakfiristan mountains and lived at Mount again You're a good deal more likely to become dead men and kids anyway I don't believe you have the slightest intention of traveling a mile outside of Delhi Then you should come down to the Sarai marketplace in the morning Don't where the caravans leave for the north now look look you to I'm a newsman not a no man Now why should I come down to that filthy pest? I'm not so sure that you're either What do you mean? You say you're a newsman But here's the chance to see the start of the greatest story of all time And you'd pass it up because you're too blasted lazy to get up that early in the morning come along Yeah, but if you should have a change of heart come to the Sarai in the morning and see whether we'd be liars or not And so they left those two lovable scoundrels and I sat alone in my office thinking the kings of Kaffiristan Kings indeed But then perhaps just perhaps They might pull it off and it would be something to cable home And so it was that the next morning I was making my way through the dirty milling crowds of the Sarai marketplace You should not laugh at him say the witless around the protection of Allah quite so boy Quite so who is the fellow anyway a mad presaib was arrived only this morning from a smear Oh, I see I see You sahib come look at my camels loaded with toys to please the eye of an army Yeah, now now go about your business. I haven't any use for toys. These are wondrous toys indeed sahib Fit for a king of Kaffiristan. What? My good Lord Daniel Dravet quiet come along. I have two camels just beyond the wall here The blessings of pure car on the gracious sahib the consents to look at the poor toys of a priest from Arj me Over this way. Where's Conor Henry? Yeah, we are Permit me to present my servant as a me a card at your service governor Well, how do you like our disguises?  Yeah, and so was Lord Clive and Rhodes and Bonaparte Drive out the camel's peachy. We have a long way to go before we become kings As I stood and listened to the camel bells fade away in a distance. I wondered I Wondered if it might not be a glorious thing to go to kafiristan and be a king Three years pass in India much as they pass in any other land it grows hot then the rains come and then they heat again some kernel at a hill station puts down an uprising and New vice Roy comes out from London the paper Julie records the death of a Sultan in Rajputana and the trees in the courtyard grow a few feet taller and Finally time in its circle turned up another night much like the one three years before Once again, I sat alone in the office listening to the clock and waiting for some unimportant item to come over the wire from Europe It was long after midnight when my office door slowly opened Well, I say you might knock first, you know knock knock Good Lord man. What's wrong? Oh? I You don't know who I am do you know? No, I haven't the faintest idea. Oh, but here you'd better sit down old fellow. You're in a bad way. Yes, sir Thank you It's a whole year. I've been walking Right here in this very office.  Yes. I was the king of kafiristan Me and Daniel traveled real crown kings. We was Just as true as gospel and what in the name of heaven have they done to you peachy peachy I knew peachy carnahen once He's a king Who is a real golden crown on easy told me he does? He's dead now. No. No. No. No, no your peachy carnahen.  All right. All right. No, tell me what happened to peachy We left the caravan at Jagdala, and we struck off into the halls alone Yes, go on weeks. It was we traveled Daniel and me first there wasn't no roads in after a while no food But there was always the drums Sometimes there was close Sometimes father off Most of the time we could hear them somewhere Yeah, no, it's no place to be stopping up with it. I'm feeling it's no use Daniel What's got into all the poor beasts are done in and starved same as ourselves.  Oh Oh Men they are Says a score or more of them and one goes ahead of the rest in naught But bows and errors they got a pair of the rifles peachy right you are Daniel It's now that we stop to become kings here here and some cartridges too easy now peachy I'll drop the stragglers the rear first then we'll lay a few at their feet. No arm to the one in front We may need him Hold it Daniel Look at him. Ah flat on the bloomin faces. It's their leader. He's coming out alone Well and good and we'll go partway to meet him peachy, but keep your rifle by look at him Daniel He's as fair as us with yellow air. Oh, so he is Part of the lost tribes these people are stopped. I await your command for you who speak with the voice of thunder By the lord airy peachy, we're in luck. It's the old afghan tongue. He speaks Speak up. Who are you and whence do you come? I am high priest and the chief of the village of Bushkay a Journey of only a few hotbeats this bush guy. How many people they are numbered in the thousands There are more villagers in the hills more than a man has fingers and toes. Yeah, you're that peachy Here's our kingdom made to order and you You're going to take us to bash guy.  I Understand the voice of thunder that you speak. Oh, he's a smooth one peachy. He knows a thing or two What's your name? That's too long Hey, what hey, we'll call him peachy. He has the look about him of an old soldering friend of ours Billy fish so he does We bestow a name on you from now on you'll be Billy fish and put this on your drums Tell him two kings have come out of the mountaintops Two kings that speak in words of thunder. So the earth trembles Tell them two kings have come to Kaffiristan At you peachy Daniel Why are you sitting out here in the dark? I've been thinking man has to stop and think sometimes But anything special Daniel look at him peachy Look at that blink and campfires are gleaming in the dark like the jewels in a crown. Yes Daniel You're done a fine job for sure all 23 villages. You're joined together as what it is the army you trained to be Thankful it 2000 men with a fair knowledge of better now some of them's a bit green at it yet Yeah, there are now every man Jack woman and child. We own them body and soul. Yes We're kings now Daniel not proper Kings yet, but we will be yeah sooner than you think bitchy How's that now Billy fish told me something today that fair amaze me these people know the craft I mean they're free maces Daniel is I'm possible so well me it's gospel true He give the grip and everything it's all the craft is older than the memory of men and Up here in the hills. They've been preserving it all these years Why some of the eye priests know up through the fellow craft, but they don't know the third degree You see it peachy. They don't know the third degree, but we do Daniel What is it? You're fixing to do do we're going to be proper Kings We've got them going and coming now I'm going to turn the whole country into one grand large raise some of the priests to the third degree and For me, I'll be the grand master of Kaffir is done. Are you ain't got the right to we've never been officers in no lodge Right. What's a king got to do with asking for a right? I'm against it Daniel It's no good to go fooling around with the craft. You talk like an old woman The thing will work. I know it will we'll make it a bloom and sedimentary regular aprons with the symbols and the marks All for us peachy That King's a kaffir is time Everything is prepared master and the priests and the people wait well having much longer Billy Yeah, now peachy. How do you like me apron? Yeah, it's a wondrous sight for fair Daniel made a white omen skin it is and the master's mark with emerald studded the mark You know the meaning of the mark what I do What's got into you Billy? It is a thing that's passing strange master. That's strange and rubbish. Come along now Ready peachy right with you Daniel then out we go onto the temple steps And we'll give them what for not the blinking eyes out.  I don't cause a good thing to be a king Daniel The mark behold the mark Yeah, now what's wrong with the priest Billy it looks like trouble Daniel no Stand where you are master They recognize the mark. Yeah that great stone on the floor. Why did they turn it over wait? Oh, it's the same he bears the mark Speak up Billy fish. What's the meaning of it? See for yourself Look Daniel Carved on the back of the stone It is the master's mark all right and the same as the sign you wear Only a few of the priests have known of the hidden mark on the stone What does it mean?  I muster I think that now It is the time for these Daniel Golden crowns. Hi. How they glitter Fit for the brow of the king. It's what we came for here now. Put them on we'll crown ourselves in our own right I'll listen to them You know something peachy We come here to be kings and that we are all right But blamed if we ain't a couple of bloomin gods to boot with a million people bowing on their knees Well enough peachy so it was gods you became as well as kings, but then what happened what became of daniel dravet Dravet dravet I knew daniel dravet once He's a king now daniel is Where's a golden crown? Peachy peachy try to pull yourself together now. Yes. I'll try good Now you became kings you and daniel kings of all kafiristan. He was a fine figure daniel was With his red aid wearing that golden crown He kept himself aloof from the people so to speak when he walked out in front of the temple They fared a crawl on their stomachs to worship him. Yes, but what happened man? happened Well, I I figure mostly it was a winter come in Winds was starting up and Clads was blowing down from the north Oh, it could blow beastly cold that winter wind Who's out there That's you billy can't found it anyway Yeah now watch this I have brought you food master stew of the wild sheep With curry and rice Up off your knees girl bring it inside. Thank you master Place it there Hmm Yeah, no You're a well favored wench I do not understand Why are you crawling on your knees? It is a fitting way to approach the god of kafiristan. Hmm. What's your name girl? Marum of danger Marum, huh?  I mean How do I seem to you? You find me pleasing or what? Your face Is more wondrous than the noonday sun And you look The look of eagles Well Very well You may leave now. Thank you master Hmm Marum marum Peche Peche Oh as you calling me daniel All the foods here, right? Huh good Mark that window son You know winter's about due to strike and fill the passes with snow There'll be little moving about before spring. Yeah, you're right Peche I decided to take a wife But you can't do it daniel. We made a contract that was till we was kings Well kings we've been these many months now snow good. I'll tell you now. I'm against it against it You was against using the craft too, but look what you've done for us. This is different Billy fish will tell you no the same as I do Billy fish there. Who's the king here him or me? My mind's made up Three days from now. I shall have me a wife And you can put it on the drums and tell every blighter out there in the hills The kingdom of kafiristan It's gonna have a queen Let's keep an impeachy They should have brought her in half an hour ago. I don't know daniel How about you Billy fish? You put them up to stall and off Deliberate like certain preparations must be made master She's across the court with some of the priests.   Why are you master? It is against the laws of heaven for a woman to marry a god I'm not a god. I'm a man. You know that by now Billy. No And I should not want to think so master But either way this can mean only trouble I beg you to reconsider and I beg you to keep your mouth shut Billy. I'm through waiting I'm going over there to talk to the master, please. Oh, we've got to go with him Billy I think it's gonna mean trouble, but come on How many men can you depend on no more than 20 with rifles? Most of my men are in boshkai. Then what shall we do? We shall have to make a run for it.  Don't let them see the blood. Look see the blood He's not a god. There is everybody only a man He blasted what is this rot? I said it is too late back Daniel. They're coming with knives. They can't do this. I am the king. I must run for it master. Come on Daniel. Come on Gun-founded evens I'll come back I'll come back and pick the blasted edging. That's what I'll do. Yes, Daniel. I will be back. All right How much further Billy? Only a short way beyond this ridge master. Well So far so good Huh At least them blooming drums has stopped. Well, we're at the top Daniel. Yeah And our right good climate's been Oh wait Look, it seems the drums have come before us muster Cut off No less than a thousand of them Standing there quiet like With them wicked long knives in their ends There'll be no getting past them Daniel. No We're done for Go back Billy fish.  They want I did it Me the king. No, Dan I'm sticking with you Billy fish you clear out. I am your friend I stay with you You're a good man Billy They're coming now Daniel. Yeah peachy. Forget it Daniel. I'll forgive you freely fully Then let them come There'll be one thing they can't change peachy We've been kings Kings in our own right Kings Yes It's sliced open poor Billy fish like a blooming earring. They did Here in the snow and the rocks. Good lord, man But you peachy you got away from them Got away from him. Did I oh no This strongly out on a tree I drove nails right through me and said didn't you see look think But I fooled them all right because the morning come and I I wasn't dead And then I made them think I'd I lost my senses And there was a freight to army because I was protected by Allah Cut me down then and After a while Let me go. You poor devil What have driven what happened to Daniel? Daniel Daniel's a king He wears a golden crown. No no now. Now what happened to him? He's never left me All them long months Walking on the road back. He kept me safe The mountains they danced at night, but Daniel held up his hand and Peachy came along bent double I never let go of Daniel's hand Hey, he's with me now Here in this bundle You knew oh Daniel sir. Even if it was a monochrome Look at him now And I have seen that we was really kings Beyond my way you Pardon me, sir I let him go There was little else to do He was only hours away from his death I sat there and stared at the bundle he had left lying on my desk Stared as the pale shafts of dawn Struck fire in the red beard Stared at the golden crown Sitting too large and heavy Upon the wrinkled mummified head of Daniel drabott The man who would be king Escape is produced and directed by Norman mcdonnell Tonight we have brought you the man who would be king by Rudyard Kipling Adapted for radio by less crutchfield with editorial supervision by john dunkel Featured in tonight's cast were ben right and wilms herbert with john daner peggy wever and jack crucian special music by Ivan ditmars Next week you are trapped in the dark streets of a french town With only two remaining avenues of escape The workshop of a fearsome knife maker For the arms of a dangerous woman While behind you hunting you through the dark night Swirls a mob of men Eager for your capture Next week we escape with vincent starrett's strange story the fugitive Good night then until this same time next week when once again we offer you escape This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system


Hey guys, how is it going? This is lab 5 of our STM32C0 MOOC. So in this lab, we will look into the low-layers drivers, also known as LL. We offer both STM32Cube HAL and LL. So those are complementary and covers a wide range of application requirements. HAL drivers offer high-level and functionalities-oriented APIs with high portability level and high product or IPs complexity to the end user. LL offers low-level APIs at register level with better optimization but less portability and require deep knowledge of the product specification. The low-layer or LL library offers the following services. A set of static inline functions for direct register access provided in the header files. One-shot operations that can be used by HAL drivers or from application level. They are independent from the HAL and can be used in standalone. They offer full-feature coverage of the supported peripherals. This is the block view of the STM32Cube packages. So as you can see, we have one STM32Cube per series. And we have, of course, the C0, that is part of it. So we support all from C0 up to H7. So the way it's divided is first you have the drivers here with the HAL and also the low-layer drivers. And then you have some examples for that. So you have HAL drivers examples, you have low-layer drivers examples and a mix of HAL and LL examples. Middleware, so middleware you will find, for example, the networking stacks, the USB host and device stacks, the graphical stacks, like the .lgfx, file systems, and RTOS. And we support different boards. So we have a BSP board support package available for evaluation boards, discovery kits, and nuclear boards. Here is a real case scenario, so an application. So this is a USART used in a transmitter with interrupts. So we have GPIOs, we have USART peripherals used with interrupts. And this is the type of improvement that you can get between the HAL drivers and DLL, so the low-layer drivers. So in the table here, I'm putting the size of the code and also the RAM used by the example. So as you can see, for the code size, we see a significant improvement as we divide the size of the code by four. We also observe a RAM size reduction. So in conclusion, LL offers smaller footprints and higher performance, but is less portable and requires expertise. The HAL offers high-level API, so to hide the complexity, and is more portable, but it has a higher footprint and is less performance. Let's get started with the lab. The objective of this lab is to generate a SMPH2 QBID project using the low-layer drivers instead of the HAL. And then we look at the improvements comparing to a HAL project in terms of flash and RAM usage. So we're going to create a new project, use the LL instead of the HAL. And then, like we did in the first lab, with the Blinky, we're going to toggle a GPIO, so PFI, and we're going to compare the size of the code and the size of the RAM that is used to see the improvements.  So that's the IO connected to the LED. To use the low-layer drivers, what you're going to do is you're going to go to Project Manager, then click on Advanced Settings, and select all the peripherals to LL instead of HAL, that are by default. So that's the way to do it. Let's do it now. Okay, so we're going to go Project Manager, Advanced Settings, and you see, by default, the drivers used are HAL, so instead, we're going to select DLL for the RCC GPIO and also the Cortex M0+. Save the project to generate the code. Yes, and yes. We will look into the generated project and look at the drivers, so in the source folder, and you will see the LL indicating the low-layer drivers used instead of the HAL. And then what we'll do is we're going to add some line of code just to toggle the LED like we did for the Blinky. Alright, this is the generated code. We'll look at the drivers and now you see that the drivers that are used have the LL, so for low-layers. So all of this is using the low-layer drivers. In main.c we are now going to add the code in the Y loop to toggle the LED. So you can notice that we're using some functions here starting with LL underscore. So this is the low-layer drivers. So one function to toggle the GPIO and one function to add a 100 milliseconds delay. Let's build the code and plug your board if it's not plugged and then we're going to execute the code just to make sure that it operates properly. So we should see the LED blinking. Let's just run this code. Switch and I'm going to run it. And yes, I have the LED blinking as expected. So you can terminate. So now we're going to compare the flash and data usage. So RAM usage between the HAL and the LL projects. So when you build your project in the build console you will get some data that will give you indication about the size of the code and the data usage of your project. So we'll get this is the data that I get from the blinky using the HAL and this is the data that I get from the LL project. So the project using the low-layer drivers. So here are the data right there. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to put that in a table to show you really the comparison between HAL and LL projects. In this table I summarize basically the HAL project data and here the low-layer drivers data. First row is going to be flash size or read only code memory in bytes and here we have the RAM usage which is the read write data memory in bytes also. So as you can see we see an improvement of about 20% when using the low-layer drivers. We also see about like a reduction of half so divided by two for the RAM usage. This gives you an example about the kind of improvement in code size and RAM size that you can get using DLL, so the low-layer drivers. We finish Lab 5 so you can close this project, so the LL project you can just close it.


As the new associate director of the Center for Mission or Outreach, I just see that God is using 1 plus 1 in a way that allows us to enter into schools for the power of discipleship and for the power of being in relationship in our communities and so every opportunity to serve, every opportunity to be in partnership with our communities lies in a public school. Children love quality attention and they love when you care, like I have kids and everything we watch on TV is about caring and being a team and being friends and so many children grow up in the world and they do not know caring, do not know sharing, do not know friends, they know neglect, they know being underserved, they know what it is to be overlooked and so when you see these children engaging these adults so many questions as to whether or not you should have a partnership, get answered and just watching them interact because so many things that we think are important or are needed for the child it is really not that deep at all, it is pretty simple, I just need someone here. You know the message of the church is to be involved in the world and what is more worldly than a public school, what is more important than a public school. There are great challenges to public schools and public education not just in Dallas, not just in Texas but in our country so churches need to be in public schools because public schools have huge challenges that volunteers from churches can help me. At the end of the day I am really impatient and I am always trying to push our congregation to see themselves as I see them. I see this congregation and many of our congregations in the North Texas Conference as a group of people who are called and compelled to share the good news and all they have to do is step outside of their church and do so. Church school partnerships helps us to move in a new and dramatic way to be who God is calling us to be. Yes for our church but more so for the kids around us.


Live from Atlanta, Georgia, it's theCUBE, covering Citrix Synergy Atlanta 2019. Brought to you by Citrix. Hi, welcome back to theCUBE. Lisa Martin with Keith Townsend coming to you from our second day of coverage, Citrix Synergy 2019 in Atlanta. We are very pleased to welcome to theCUBE the SVP of AMIA for Citrix, Sharif Sadiq. Nice to have you on theCUBE. Fantastic, thank you very much for having me here. It's great. So we have spoken the last almost two full days here on set with a whole bunch of your executives, customers, analysts, the excitement over not just Citrix Workspace Intelligent Experience, but the announcements of deepening partnerships with Microsoft at Google are so exciting. Absolutely, I mean, we are very thrilled with kind of, I was actually talking to David Henshel, our CEO earlier today, and I was going, we just announced so much stuff. I don't really, I'm not sure everybody grasped everything that we announced. So it's exciting times for us, as you said, from an innovation point of view, from a speed to market point of view, and definitely partnerships. Yeah, I would love to hear, I mean, the deepening partnership with Microsoft, the Google announces, the experience, Intelligent Experience, and zero in in this announcement with Microsoft. This is like something that's been pent up demand. The ability to run desktop as a service, Citrix in a cloud, specifically Microsoft, because there's a lot of overlap in partnership. What have customers been more excited about getting this pent up demand and answering for this partnership with Microsoft, or this surprise in the Intelligent Experience, both very exciting announcements? No, I think what we're getting most excitement about is really the Intelligent Workspace, because every customer that I talk to these days has an employee experience project going on. They all call it different things, but it's really focused about that. How can we get our employees to get what they need done as fast as possible? I was talking to customers who are actually starting to measure to the nanosecond, how long does it take an employee to launch app A or app B, et cetera. So that's really the thing that customers are more excited about, the fact that they can give their employees such a beautiful consumer-like experience that guides them through their work is really, customers are seeing it as a game changer for what they can do for their employees. And that's an enabler, what's essential, for to have a great employee experience directly affects your customer experience.  And the statistics and the studies recently have been quite staggering about employee experience. You see the Gallup result from a couple of years ago that said companies with engaged employees have 20% higher sales, 21% higher profitability, but the reverse of that was that only 20% of their employees were really engaged, nearly 20% were actively disengaged. So companies that can really flip that dynamic can achieve growth and business results, and as you said, greater, greater customer experience. I'm also really interested in this unique balance when it comes to customer experience and employee experience. You're in the MIA, so there's a great, I think, distrust between big companies, especially big American companies, and data. In order to deliver these experience, you need data. What have been the conversations with your customers as you help to ensure them that Citrix definitely respects their data, GDPR, and all of that, but the exchange of data for value is definitely there. I mean, I think one of the key things is every customer conversation now has a deep analysis of data and the data flows and where they go, and we've taken great steps. So we've, one of the first investments that we made in the cloud was creating a plane in Europe and that's based in Amsterdam, so that we make sure that data is available in Europe within the EU, et cetera. But on top of that, we also don't keep a lot of data in our cloud environments. We just focus on what do we need to make sure that it's the right employee or the right user and that they only get access to the things that they can access to. But it's every customer conversation. They want to understand, tell us exactly which pieces of data do they keep and where do you keep them and how long do you keep them for and all of that. So we've invested a lot of resources into making sure that we comply with all of the different European rules. And as you said, I mean, there's GDPR now that's an umbrella, but in Europe, some countries have some good and, yeah, they go deeper than that, and we make sure that we work with our customers to make sure that we give them every level of comfort around privacy and data privacy. So you talked about the customers being very excited about the intelligent experience, the news, the capabilities, that it's really going to bring the actions to the user. So really what we've heard and felt in the last 24 hours is citrically pivoting towards the general user. But I'd love to get your perspective on AMIA customers influence on the development of the intelligent experience. How vocal have they been? How, especially because if you just even look at compliance and standards alone, there's so many. Talk to us about that feedback loop that your customers and AMIA have had. It's been fascinating. A couple of years ago, I was visiting one of the largest French banks and big part of the conversation, they were actually talking to me about, okay, how are you thinking about virtual assistants in some workplace and kind of how are you going to bring that in? And where does that fit with your focus on giving customers choice? Are you giving us choice on that? How will you integrate that? So customers, as I said, are very, very focused on how to take advantage of that. And the big difference in AMIA, I guess, is always that balance between, okay, how do we make sure that we're continuously to enhance the experience that we provide our users with the capabilities? And at the same time, making sure that we are compliant. However, some of our, the other interesting thing is the speed at which some of the customers themselves changed. Again, I met a particular customer two years ago and they were like, we are in a regulated industry, we are never going to do BYOD, we are never going to allow our users to work from home. And I met the same person 12 months later and it was BYOD is our new standard. We've even allowed our traders to do something, some work from home so that shift in perceptions and actions that the European customers are taking has been phenomenal over the last 18 months. That's a pretty fast turnaround from no BYOD. Everybody needs to be on site too. We have got to deliver an experience our employees need. What do you think were some of the catalysts for shift of that magnitude in the course of 12 months? I think the biggest thing is probably the war for talent if you like among organizations. And everybody is thinking whatever data you look at again, there are employee shortages, there are skills shortages. So with Generation Y and Generation Z coming into workplace, they are very demanding. It's interesting how many customers I say now that one of the questions that employees or potential employees ask when they're coming in is what are the tools that you're going to give me? Can I choose whatever device I want, et cetera. So that's the first thing. The second thing has been things like pragmatic things like costs of real estate and kind of how do we optimize that? And that drives certain things. And if you can get them comfortable around the security and the privacy aspect, then they start focusing on these other business benefits that they can get. But I would say talent attraction is number one. So let's talk about kind of your role, your sales role, as you have AES account executives and SE sales engineers out in the field having these conversations, this is very volatile. I visited this account three months ago, six months ago, and they said no to the, they were at Citrix. They said no to the intelligent workspace. They were, you know, there's no to BYOD. How do you prepare your staff for the volatility in conversation? I think one of the first things other than the staff is I think we have a very unique position around that enabling the customer choice. So because we are definitely very, very much on that, it's going to be hybrid cloud. Customers need to get the choice of deploying the technology in the cloud or on premise, et cetera. So regardless of the customer position, we always have a solution that we can offer. And as long as we are very clear on, okay, if you go this option, these are some of the capabilities you're going to miss about. So that enables a continuous conversation with the customer. However, the other thing that we are driving with our team is really focus on the business outcomes that the customer is driving for. And as you focus on that, then you can get customers to change their view, but just make sure the other thing is we want all our employees to really understand deeply the security and privacy concerns that the customers have and be able to respond to these. Because once we, in here, actually yesterday, we had a meeting with one of the large European telcos. And the meeting started with, okay, we're not going to do cloud, et cetera. And once we explained to them, okay, let's walk you through our data flow. Let's walk you through what we keep. And then we, ah, we didn't realize it was like this. Then maybe they didn't say, yes, we're going to go for it straight away, but it opened the conversation. And that's the key of what we need our teams and sellers. Focus on the customer, focus on the business outcomes. And within those customer conversations, employee experience, we're hearing more and more is being elevated to a C-suite imperative. Are you starting to see more meetings with CIOs, chief people officers, chief marketing officers? Is that opening up opportunities for your sales guys and gals to really educate the executive management team at a company rather than traditionally IT? Yeah, I think absolutely. It's interesting because particularly when we start to talk about the intelligent workspace and saying general purpose and being able to, many of our CIOs can say, that's great, but this is not a decision that I can take on my own if that's what we're talking about. So let's, we have to bring our HR teams into play. We have to bring our business owners into play. And there's now becoming this, let's go together. So they are now becoming opening the doors for us to go and talk to the business leaders because that is what is required to make a decision that impacts every employee, not just a small traction. Wow, so that's a huge cultural shift internally to your sales team. You know, I'm used to engaging Citrix's sales team talking about, well, this VDI capability is available and this product, this isn't available and this product checklist, checklist, checklist. The conversation of shifting to having a business outcome conversation is very different. You know, one day your team may go in and talk to HR, another day they may go in and talk to marketing. It is a skillset beyond any single team. How are you guys adjusting to that business outcome conversation and preparing your team and giving them the tools from an employee experience to go out and have this multitude of conversations? We're doing a number of things. We're doing a lot of training and enablement. So one of the things that we do is we're doing training around talking to business people. And what we do is we actually bring business owners from the customer to educate our team. Sorry, my voice is gone. No problem. What is important for them? What's the priorities? What are the languages that they use? But the other thing that we're actually doing is we're encouraging our teams to talk to their colleagues because we have HR professionals in our organization. We have finance professionals. We have marketing professionals.  So these are a couple of the key initiatives that we are doing to enable our teams to have these conversations. That's brilliant. We had a conversation yesterday with your chief people officer, Donna Kimmel, kind of just about that in terms of looking at the employee experience, not just as the apps I'm interacting with to do my job, but starting up the chain to even recruiting and needing to have the right, I can even think of a job description that's attractive. But like you were saying, and I've been doing this to some of my clients, what kind of tools am I going to have? Can I bring my own tools? So the employee experience kind of starts up the chain of you more so than I thought. I kind of really narrowly focused it on once I'm on board and the onboarding process. And then getting to making sure that that seamless and me knowing beforehand as a new employee, these are the tools that you're going to have. And knowing that a company, like what Citrix is doing with intelligent experience, is going to be able to look at my behavior and my interaction with the different applications and help tailor that experience is game changing because the employee experience is directly related to the customer experience. They are inextricably linked. We all know Discord employees can be, especially with social media these days, very vocal and very impactful and wanting them to be impactful in the best way possible. So really smart to hear that you're bringing in more of your line of business leaders to articulate that value just makes perfect sense. Yeah, and it's actually broadening the horizon of everybody because I mean, we've told our HR people and you need to be able to talk about our technology and how it enables you to do your best work. And at the same time through these interactions, our sales teams who kind of, as you've said, come more from a, we understand the technology background are learning about all of these different parts of the business and it's even driving more closer working relationships within our own organization as well. So it's benefiting every aspect of what we do. I can see that. And also, I mean, you know, we've talked to so many companies and one of the challenges that they have that they probably don't even address very often is how many of our people that work for us can actually articulate what it is we do and the impact that we have to customers. The voice of the customer is so potent. We've talked with all three of the Innovation Award finalists, all different industries, but all making huge strides to make that experience for end-user employees and customers so much better. So even just having those three examples alone. Two of them are from Europe, by the way. Yes, yes. Shoders and Zed, we spoke with them. Yes, but it's really, that's it, I would think a differentiator even from Donna Kimmel's perspective of attracting talent because people understand and are able to articulate the value as Citrix employee of this is what we do. We use our own stuff and let me tell you how much more efficient and easy it's made in my life. And we've also done something else as well, which is now whenever we come up with a new offering in the market or a new capability in our product, we actually now ask our teams to certify themselves that they can tell the story. And what we do is we say you get one of your colleagues to certify.  So we are doing so many things to make sure that everybody in the business is capable of telling the story and articulating it from a customer perspective not from a Citrix out perspective. I think we've definitely heard that articulated very well over the last few days. Shuri, thank you so much for joining Keith and me on the queue this afternoon. Very cool that two of those three finalists are from Amia. I'm very excited about that. We'll be excited to hear tomorrow who the winner is. Looking forward to that. Thank you very much for your time. Our pleasure. For Keith Townsend, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE Live from Citrix Synergy 2019. Thanks for watching.


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