So today we're going to be going through my March wrap up, checking about all the books I read, well not all the books, because now how I format these is we go through my reading statistics, which I think is the most important thing, I love statistics. And then we talk about my disappointments, my surprises and my hits. So I don't talk about every book, because typically almost every book that I have read I vlog. So this is kind of just a recap of what I've read in a month and kind of thinking back on the books. So let's just get straight into the statistics and check out how my month went. Okay, so in March I read 13 books, which I'm really happy with. You guys know I struggled at the start of this year with reading a lot, and I feel like 13 is a good number. I'm pretty happy with that. I'm going to try and make April like loads because I'm still eight books behind my Goodreads goal for the year. That's not happening. But I feel like we've made good progress. We've cut down the lag a little bit, but a lot of them were short books as you'll see in a second. I read a total of 3,569 pages, which makes an average pages per day 115, which again is pretty good. I always say it has to be over 100, bare minimum has to be over 100. This makes my average book length 274. So although I read a few, well like one really long book this month, I also read like quite a few that were like novellas essentially. That's why it's evened out. And I did want to read more short books, more novellas this year. So I do want actually my average book length to be a bit on the shorter side. I really am liking actually, we'll get into this when I talk about some of the books I read, but I'm really enjoying the art of shorter books on novellas or short stories and how to make them good and emotional and connect with you. I'm finding that really interesting this year. So actually I'm hoping to read a lot more shorter books throughout the year. I had an average rating of 3.5, which isn't like amazing. Feel a bit down actually. That is I think on the lower side for me. I think my like average ever is like a 3.7 or something around that. As you'll see again, we had some really higher books this month and some really low books this month, like really, really low books this month. And a new thing that I'm tracking is the average time on my TBR, which this month was only two months. I had quite a few books that actually hadn't been on my TBR, so I marked them as zero or literally just come onto my TBR, which I'm really happy with. I'm glad that. Oh, my God. Why is it snowing? Well, today is going to be the best day ever. It's snowing outside, whereas five days ago it was like 20 degrees. I do want to like in the next couple of months get some of the books open on my TBR for like forever off. But this month I pretty much read a lot of books that I only recently just come onto my TBR. Okay, we're going to get the spreadsheet out. So in terms of my star ratings, I had five stars. One of them was a reread, though. One four star, three three stars, one 2.5, two two stars, and one one star. So it's not typical for me to have like so many 2.5 to one stars, which is why my average rating is lower. That is the sign of like, you know, being a bit disappointed for me. Usually I have a lot of four stars, so the fact that we only had one this month shows me that my reading was kind of like at polar opposites, essentially. In terms of genre, I read one contemporary, one fantasy, one humor, three mystery, three nonfiction, two sci-fi and two thriller. I read so many nonfiction because of like the drag race video that I did. I also read one on my own. Listen, celebrities love nonfiction. They love self-help nonfiction. Can't relate. I just don't get it. Why aren't any of you reading fiction? Pick up a good thriller. Pick up a good fantasy book. I mean, come on, girlies. Anyway, oh, something. I've changed two different things, which you'll see. I've added two new categories to the tracking. So in terms of format, I read one audio book, three e-books, two physical books, and seven mixed media. So this is the new thing. This is the new thing. I read a lot of the physical book and the audio book together. I do that all the time, but I would always just, like, class that as physical on my spreadsheet. But I just like to add a new category, and it shows you just how reliant I have become on having both the physical book and the audio book. I was avoiding this issue, and I stopped myself and I said, don't avoid it. Go look at it and go be with it. I think because I've been struggling to read this year, my attention span hasn't been very good.  Before that, it was a myth. It wasn't happening. But it's actually been really helping me. Like, the book I'm reading at the moment, I'm loving. I know I just want to read it physically myself. Like, I don't want an audio book. It's like a real fantastical book. You'll see it this weekend. And so I just want it in my own brain. Like, I want to imagine it. But I know I would read it a lot quicker if I had the audio book, but I'm like trying to hold strong and not get the audio book. But I use Scribd a lot to get audio books. I do have Audible as well, but I predominantly use Scribd a lot. If they have stuff on there, that's where I go to. But yes, you can tell. I love reading the two together. In terms of the audience, oh my God, I read 12 adult books and one children's book. I didn't read any... This is... Oh my God. I think this is the first month ever. I haven't read any YA. I think that's just because of the videos I had. I've got quite a few YA lined up for April, actually. So that's okay. But I read no YA? Who am I? Oh my God, that's so weird. I feel for me too. In terms of where the books were from that I read, one was from Audible, one was from Book of the Month, three were GIFs, one was in Kindle Unlimited, six were books I had bought myself, and one book was from Scribd. In terms of author status, three were debuts, six were authors I'd read from before and four were new to me. And then another really exciting statistic, I have added partway through series or first in series. Because I think this is fun to distinguish because obviously my goal is to not start many series, but to continue a lot of series. Now in the previous months, for the year, I have not started any series. I started one series this month. So I had one book that was the first in series, two books that were partway through series, and 10 books that were standalone. I read a lot more partway through series books in January and February. It wasn't as much of a goal this month. But yeah, I'm pretty happy with that. So that is our statistics. I really love that I've added that partway versus first through series. I think that will help us when I am reading more series throughout the year, because I've got to start like three series, I think, in April, which like... So before we actually get into the disappointments, surprises, and hits, I've just got two things I want to talk about really quickly. I did finish another series, but I didn't vlog it. So I thought I'd just let you know. I finished the Binti series. I read the Nightmasquerade. I ended up only giving us two stars. I don't want to talk about too much because I don't really have any thoughts about it. But I loved the first one, Binti. And then the second and third ones, like I almost didn't read the third one, but I didn't want a DNF because it was like, it's only like a 200 page novella. And I didn't want a DNF because I had got that far in a series. And I thought, listen, you might as well just finish it, but it took me ages to read it. I didn't really have like much desire to read it, but I am glad I finished the series. I just didn't really like the route that the second and third books went down. Like fun things happen, but I was just kind of bored. Overall, I feel like this world, this like sci-fi world in these series is so amazing that it needed to be like Jade City-length books, essentially by Fonderly. Like it needed to be like 500, 600 page books to really understand the world. Cause I just didn't really understand any of the world building or the political maneuverings that were going on or like the social context. Like I feel like we really could have gone so much more in depth. I think the first book worked really well as a novella. Like that was a perfect novella. But then in the second and third books, the world is, you know, it's attempted to be expanded. But for me, it didn't really work. My disappointment is immeasurable. And my day is ruined. And then I just realized it's not in either of my, any of my categories for this month. But I did say I would talk a bit more about The Maid by Nita Pros. I think I gave this four stars, but maybe on the section now it's maybe more of a 3.5. I read this and I enjoyed it, but I think we do need to talk about it. I talked about this in the comments of the video a little bit. I actually talked about it when filming for the video, but I didn't feel like I'd done a good enough job of like giving my thoughts. I'm a bit nervous about doing that because I feel like I'm not very good at giving my thoughts on this subject. So I cut it out of the original video, but I feel like we do need to talk about it in that Molly, the main character in this, is like coded as neurodivergent, right? That she's spoken about in a way, has traits that kind of make you think she's neurodivergent in some way, but it's never actually explicitly stated. And I think that really is a drawback of this book. I think if you're gonna give that kind of representation, you need to actually give it. I'm not kind of skirt around it. And like, I feel like a lot of books do this, like use neurodivergency as a kind of like, oh my God, quirky, like also different rather than actually getting into the actual real life consequences and factors and like what neurodivergent people have to experience. It does touch this a bit, but it does do it through a cosy mystery lens. And I think the cosy mystery is like, sometimes this can happen where real world issues like are kind of skirted around, but not explicitly examined. That can kind of happen within the genre. But I feel like for a book that has been so mainstream and marketed as not really a cosy mystery, like as a, you know, cosy mystery is kind of like a more like subgenre. This is like, you know, in the front and center. I feel like it is a flaw of the book and it needs to be discussed and that people should be aware of going into it. So yeah, that is a drawback for me. And it was a big reason why I was thinking giving it 3.5 and I think now probably I do need to change it to a 3.5. And the ending of this isn't great. The more I think about the ending of this book, it's annoying. I didn't like it. Disappointments is I have to expect it something. So as many of you know, if you read my drag queen pick what I read video, I rated 10 and the art of it. So I can rate it as one star, but I don't view that as a disappointment because I expected nothing going into that. One disappointment I have is Not A Happy Family by Sharon Lapina. This was the book club pick for February for my patron book club. All of my Sharon Lapina's before this have been four stars and this was a three. This is a story where we have this really rich family. All the siblings go around to their parents' house and like before for dinner.  They're murdered.   It was like one of the most boring things I ever read. Like it was so obvious to me throughout who the killer was. The way this is pitched, you're like, oh, it's a horrible family. They're so horrible to another. Oh, they're so mean, but like where? Like they're all a bit messed up. Yeah, they are messed up. I won't tell you why, but like they're messed up. But like if you're gonna promise me that, give me flavor. Like give me real like horrible caricature people, like cutthroat people. And that's not what I got. This really was just such a disappointment to me in terms of Sharon Lapina. I usually view her as like a solid, really enjoyable thriller, four star. But I've noticed a problem with some of her books is that it's rich people sitting around in their living rooms waiting for something to happen or rather than like actually being involved in what's happening.  Like just waiting, just like sitting there chatting. Like what the hell? It's like kind of boring. But this one especially just wasn't plotted well. The characters weren't convincing. And not a lot of us really liked this one. A semi-disappointment. I didn't expect this to be like five stars, but a semi-disappointment was Suckless by Willem. I read this for the drag queen video. And I didn't expect this to be like a work of literature, but I did expect to go into it enjoying it. And I spoke about in the video how there is like, I would say like a 20 page section of it, joking about eating disorders. And I think I minimized my reaction to it a little bit in the video. I did find it very triggering, especially because this book does go into like methodology and like half jokingly encouraging you to do that. And I just found that as someone who's trying to like repair my relationship with disorder eating throughout my life, I found it very triggering. And I was like unable to enjoy the book after that. Now it won't bother some people. You go into this book knowing Willem's gonna make like controversial jokes or like, you know, we know if you watch Willem, you know his humor, but I just personally switched off from the book at that point and it was a disappointment because if that hadn't been there, if that section just had been cut out, I probably could have enjoyed it a lot more. And then finally, I'm not gonna tell you even what I rate at this book because the vlog for it is coming out this weekend. I don't wanna spoil it, but I will just tell you, I'll flush it up quickly, a disappointment this month, a real disappointment, shiver by Addy Reynolds. Now. I'm sad about it. You'll see all my thoughts on the vlog that's coming this weekend. Okay, surprises I have too. These can actually be classed as hits because they are both five stars, but they're both actually very short stories. So I've classed them as surprises because I really wasn't expecting anything. First, we have the giving tree, which again, I wrote in that vlog and this was like the sixth sense of that vlog. It's only 50 pages, this is by Shel Silverstein. This is a children's book about a tree and a boy who love each other and the tree like gives to him. And it made me cry. It was like just so gorgeous and poignant and something I think everyone should read. Some of you commented like, oh, I went and read it and I cried. Like I shouldn't trust you. Like it will make you cry. Like it's like so emotional. And this is what I was saying earlier and I'll talk about it actually in our next book as well. I'm really admiring like short stories, novellas, short children's books, picture books that can elicit such a strong emotion from me in like 50 pages. I think that's a real skill. I've really been appreciating that lately. I just think it's something I'm really enjoying. I think it's, you know, one thing to read like, we're getting to say it about a 700 page book and cry when something happens. But it's another thing to read a 50 page book and become so invested in the story in such a short space of time that I think that's really special. So the other surprise this month was Ark by Veronica Roth. So this is the series I've started. It's the forward collection over on Kindle Unlimited an audible collection of sci-fi authors who have written these short stories. Again, this is like 50 pages long. All of these, I think are kind of like end of world situation, I'm not quite sure. But this one, an asteroid is gonna hit the earth in like a couple of days. And our protagonist is kind of one of the last scientists. She's actually a horticulturalist. If I don't know if that's right. Kind of examining flowers and trying to get examples and like specimens of flowers before they fly off in a couple of days. And I cried at this one as well.  You will not get one tear out of me tonight. I finished it yesterday. And this was such a surprise to me because I'd only really been interested originally in N.K. Jemisin and Andy Weir's short stories in this collection. But then I decided, this is a good way to get your goal up. Like let's just read them all. And Veronica Roth, I knew wrote Divergent, which I DNFed when I was like 11. I was like, not, not for me, not for me. So I really didn't expect anything. But this book is so, it's such an interesting sci-fi, like end of the world book. Cause instead of being chaotic, it's melanchonic. It's deep, it's emotional. And I just loved it. I really, really loved it. I, it hasn't even got very good reviews. I think it's like one of the lowest rated in the collection. But it's so like, melancholic is the right word, like emotional and deep. I'm like really getting to the root of human, the human brain and human psyche. And I just found it so, so interesting. So I would really recommend if you have like Kindle Unlimited or I'm using a free trial at the moment. I haven't bought it, but you know, they're on audible, I think as well. Although I'm not sure if you can get them without having Kindle Unlimited. I'm not sure, but I just absolutely loved this. I was so surprised. And then let's talk about my two hits of the month. I have two hits. These are my top books that have like contenders, you know, contenders to be in my top books of the year, essentially. First we have Jade Legacy by Fonda Lee. I loved it. I gave it five stars. It's amazing. It's amazing. Jade Legacy is absolutely amazing. Just reading this, oh my back really hurts. Just reading this book and like having that the ending and this culmination of this long story was amazing. It makes me wanna read series more. I feel like I've been cheating myself out of like this connection to the characters you get as this goes on. So this is the last book in the Greenbone Saga. This takes place over about 15 years, this book, I would say, maybe even more. It's like a very long time span that goes on throughout this book. And obviously I can't talk much about the plot because it will spoil the first two, but we're still following the kind of the family that we followed in the first book, The Calls. I just absolutely loved it. I think Fonderly is masterful at how she builds this story from book one. Everything is perfectly plotted. The characters, the journeys that the character goes on, how I can hate Hilo one minute with like, you know, the depth of me hate him and then have forgiven him like a hundred pages later, which I never do. I never do. I just think it's so, so wonderful. I just absolutely loved it. One of the best kind of fantasy, you know, conclusions to a series I've ever read. It just really felt so satisfying and I read this so far. I think I've read it in like three days for like a 700 page book that is absolutely crazy.   And then finally we have The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley. I gave this five stars and listen, I know this book hasn't been super popular, but I will defend it to the death. In this, we're following our character Jess. Yes. He goes to Paris to stay with her brother, but when she gets there, he's not there and he lives this in this like apartment building with a few other apartments and Jess is trying to get their help to find out what happened to her brother and everyone's being very secretive. And it was just so good. Lucy Foley just gets what I want. A simple mystery. Do I think this is like the perfect five stars? No. If I didn't love Lucy Foley's writing and her characters so much, it might be like a 4.5 because there are a few flaws in the plot, but I just loved it.  I love Lucy Foley. I love the way she writes.  I love the way the plot twists go in this story. Sometimes you read a thriller and there's like three plot twists and it's like, well, I can barely remember the dynamics at the start of this book because by the end, everything has been shifted and like moved around so much that you can't remember how it began. And that's how like a thriller or mystery with twists should be, in my opinion. Like it should be so twisty and everything has changed. Like it should have so many reveals and changes in it that you can't remember how it began. I think that's really, really important and she does it so, so well. I loved the parasetting. It is a bit over the top. It is a bit cheesy, but like what, you know, whatever. Like I loved it. I love a bit of cheese. I love a bit of over the top. I loved it. I loved the setting. I just absolutely loved it. I think Lucy Foley is like one of my favorite authors. Yes, I gave the Hunting Party two stars. So like I am capable of it. I am capable of it, but I just really liked this. I think it just gave me what I wanted and I wasn't disappointed. I was really, really happy. And yeah, not as great as the guest list for me, but still a very solid atmospheric. The setting is amazing. Mystery. So there we have it everyone. That is my March Rep Up. I hope you enjoyed this video. Please let me know what you read in March down below, what your disappointment, surprises and hits were. I would absolutely love to know. Thank you so much for watching. I love you so much and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye.


Hello, sir. Hello, sir. Greetings, sir. Greetings, sir. It's a great pleasure to talk to you, Sindhu. You are the pride of the nation in many ways and Telugu people, right? Telugu people, Telugu people, you are the big pride for us. I too am Telugu. Oh, yes, sir. Actually, I wanted to ask you something, sir. You came to Telugu after coming to Mars. But really talking in Telugu is definitely a great thing. Yes, it's like that. If you say, I went to the Alwath Lake, it's Telugu. How are you, sir? I'm fine. I thought of coming to Coimbatore many times, sir. But I'm not sure. I'll definitely come to this year's festival. You should come to this year's festival, right? I'll definitely come. Within this year, you must come. Yes, yes. I will, sir. Definitely. A few questions are nice, sir. I wanted to ask you some things I wanted to know. So, firstly, it's a great feeling talking to you. And now, we all are on standstill. We all are at our homes. So, as you know, I am a nature lover, sir. I feel that, you know, a lot of... Whenever I'm out there, you know, I feel that I have that peace. I'm very peaceful. So, make sure to listen to this. COVID-19, we have noticed a big dip in pollution levels across the world. And the rivers are cleaner, the air is fresher and we are producing less waste. So, please sustain this momentum and motivate people to care for the environment. I just wanted to know. So, if you're a nature lover, you must come to Isha Yoga Center because our backyard is 10,000 square miles of rainforest. Oh, definitely. It's absolutely spectacular and beautiful out here. Well, you know, in the last 40 years, I have stayed home for more than 40 days for the first time because of this virus. Thanks to the virus, unfortunately it's taking lives. Otherwise, it's a beautiful opportunity for me. So, about talking about less pollution, all this definitely has happened. So, this is something we've... I've been addressing for over 25 years continuously. You must have heard of Rally for Reverse and Cauvery Calling projects and things like that. My engagement with nature has always been very profound. I'm not an environmentalist or I'm a scientist or something. I'm... I'm like a worm in the soil. You know, I know as much about the soil and river as a worm knows. But I think worm generally knows more than the PhDs know about it because external knowledge and intrinsic feeling and experience of what it is is very different. It's like, suppose I've done a PhD on badminton, will I know what you know? I will not know.  That's very different. So that's been my experience and it's... it's a welcome thing that a whole lot of people are talking about how air is cleaner, water is purer. See, if we say... if... if we have to go by the definition of what is life, right now if somebody asks you how is your life, maybe you think of your medals this year, somebody thinks of the money they're making, somebody thinks about their wealth, their relationships or something like this. But essentially life means, within ourselves, because this body is made of five fundamental elements of water, soil, fire, air and space, life essentially means how wonderful is these five elements within you. Right now we are talking about five elements around us. But if five elements around us are not in a very good condition, they will not be in good condition here either, that we know that.  Delhi was one place where you could see the air that you breathe. So these things are happening, it's very good, but we need to also understand we shouldn't get too excited about these things because you cannot create an ecological or environmental difference without a long-term commitment and action towards that. So this short-term thing, six weeks we have closed down everything, everything seems to be okay. Once the economy gets back into thing in the next two months time, everything will be back to how it was. Because there is no fundamental policy change, there is no fundamental attitudinal change, or there is no industrial revolution which is taking us from polluting industries to some other dimension. Nothing like that has happened. So it is just that we've been locked down. So the simple thing is the human footprint has been minimal. Because human footprint is minimal, everything seems to be doing better. So this is something continuously I'm talking and because of this one thing, all major religions have been against me. You know, the Hindus are against me, Muslims are against me, Christians are against me, because I've been saying without reducing human population, there is no way out of this situation. Because for, you know, right now we are 7.6 billion people, United Nations is estimating we will be 9.7 billion people by 2050. If 9.7 billion people are on this planet, it doesn't matter what wealth we have, what money we have, what education we have, we will not live well, no matter what. So in a way we are living as if we are the last generation on this planet. So now this virus has come, reminded us of our mortality in a strong way. So this is definitely the time to think instead of making these kind of predictions that by 2050 we will be nearly 10 billion people. Why can't we have a plan? By 2050 will be 3.5 or 4 billion people. If you do not reduce a human footprint, no matter what technology comes, what decisions we make, nothing is going to work because it's a human footprint essentially. So because we need to understand in 1947 when we got our independence, we were only 33 crore people in this country. And average life expectancy of an Indian was 28 years of age. That means I must be dead by now, only you can be alive. Fortunately now we have moved this to some 73 or 74 years of age, which is a very wonderful achievement for the nation. But when we push the death, when we postpone the death, we must also postpone the birth, isn't it? We have done it in a minimal way, but we have not done it significantly enough to make the difference. If we don't do that one thing, we can go on talking about it, but disaster will continue. Because the level of ecological disaster, most people are not conscious of their only thinking pure air in the city. That's not what it is. From 1970 to now in the last 50 years, nearly seventy percent of the vertebrate population has come down, animal population. So similarly insect population, bird population, everything is going down. We need to understand our life is not independent of all these lives. Only when all these lives are functioning well, our life also will happen well. So this little break, if people are enjoying pure air and pure water and things like that, if they value that, we must change our concept of how are you doing means if you say I am well, it means all the elements in me are doing well, all the elements around me are doing well. I am feeling wonderful. This is what it means, not the money in my bank. True, sir, I agree to that and definitely adding to that, sir, are you a river person or like a mountain person? I know you've been like travelling and doing these valley-for-river things and definitely it's a great thing and I just wanted to ask if you were... Mountain person or river? See, I can't live without mountains. But because now that you ask this question, there is a thing to it because once you have mountains, rivers normally always come out of the mountain. So a river also is an add-on. But if you just choose the river, you may end up in the delta. Yes. The mountain together add-on with the river. Both here in our background is, you know, we are at the foothills of Wellingery Mountain, which is part of Western Guards. In United States, our ashram is in the Piluchin Mountains. So without mountain, I cannot live. Live. I agree to that, sir. One more, sir. I wanted to ask was, yes, as you know, we've been at home and, you know, education is one of the vital elements of the society and this long-term has brought a serious break to learning and teachers across the country have risen to their call of duty as corona, you know, by working nearly twice as hard to make sure the learning is continued. They are teaching children online on Zoom calls or Google calls and taking care of their homes. So what message would you give to the teachers of our country? Because I know, you know, before there were schools and, you know, they were teaching, but now it's become much more harder for the teachers. So what is the message that you give them? Well, this was bound to happen. I've, you know, I've been predicting this for the last six, seven years that these schools will become redundant. But this is by being my wish since my childhood that school should become redundant. I went to school only when it was absolutely necessary. Considering your sport, I think you are also my kind, you have not been to school much. Yeah, yes, not regularly, yeah. So, so this, our idea of schooling is coming from Manchester version of industry, you know, mass production, everything. So this is a English version which we took on, they are changing their education, but we are not changing ours in India. So it's important that this changes because there is something, this is a information age where information is available everywhere. It is not like you have to read a textbook, it's all over the place, whatever you want to know. So when information is so widely available, right now the whole schooling system is just delivering information to the students, which is redundant. Once artificial intelligence comes, schools will become completely, absolutely redundant. I think virus is only hastening this process. It is not necessary that we have to come together to learn information. We must come together for inspiration, for focus, for interaction, for various other things, but unfortunately only for information. I would say, right now we have school for five, six days, and then one day or one-and-a-half days or weekend is a holiday. We must just reverse that. That two-day school, five days you just learn wherever you learn. That's how it should become in future. But we have built enormous amount of physical infrastructure, the amount of buildings around the world, in the name of schools and colleges and universities, phenomenal. This will become not so relevant in future and it would happen anyway in the next 15, 20 years. But now with this virus, it may happen very quickly, because going and sitting in one place is going to be a problem anyway. So this is a very welcome development. It is not even necessary teachers should be teaching on Zoom or whatever, this that is part of their profession right now, but actually in future this won't be needed. Let us say you want to learn physics. The best physics teacher in the world, whatever they have thought, it's available to all of us. Why is a local teacher who's not grasped physics fully is trying to teach me, I'm asking. You and me want to learn physics or chemistry. The best possible teacher who's taught in the world is available. We must learn from that. But we go to the teacher for inspiration for, you know, certain experimentation, integration of things, that should happen. So this just throwing in information at the children and thinking we're educating, that is gone because these days a ten-year-old child is better informed than their parents actually on many aspects of life. Yeah, as you said, definitely yes, I agree to that because there's information everywhere nowadays and you know everybody is just one sitting like away from the information and there's this overwhelming information everywhere. So how to shape up our own individual personality and preserve our individuality. Like is there a balance between adapting to the change time or changing time and saying to yourself, like how? See, when you say individual personality, see what the word, the word personality comes from a root word called persona. Persona means a mask that you wear. To perform a certain kind of function, you have to wear a certain mask.  When you are on the court, you have one kind of mask that is needed. That mask must be aggressive, bringing fear in your opponent if necessary, whatever. You need to wear that kind of a mask. You don't wear that mask at home. You don't wear that mask with your friend. Because this mask means you must be able to wear by choice and take it off. In this virus time, everybody is masked no choice, a different kind of mask. But that is what personality means. To perform different types of activities, we need to structure ourselves in a certain way. But what happens over a period of time, by the time people are 30-35, they've gotten stuck with one mask. They're not able to take it off. Everywhere they are the same way. Now it will become a painful experience.  But slowly it becomes so grave and long.  One mask they wore and they can't remove it. All the time it's stuck. So we don't have to crystallize our personality. It's very important we keep our personality so flexible. To perform different types of activities we should be able to put on different kind of masks. Without a mask you cannot work. Without a personality you cannot function in the world. But you don't have to be stuck with one persona. You can be a different person as the situation demands. You can be that kind of a person.  It's a prison that you build and get stuck to it. If somebody imprisons you that is unfortunate but understandable.  But that's what is happening to 90% of the humanity most of the time. But to this and sir we just asked that talking about masks I feel that it's not just to yourself. I know you want to be happy you just want to remove your mask be happy, stay happy but it also depends on the other person that you talk to or you react to. So I'm sure that time your mask is again on. So what do you do for that like for example you're talking to a person and you don't like that person and you have to act accordingly to what he say and you might say like okay you know what that is what he said and I have to act in a way that okay I need to be nice to So how do you react to that See Mass Because a lot of times it happens like for everyone I'm sure. Tell me tell me who is that guy first of all No, no, no No This is going to be news in the country No, no, no I meant to say like you know with a lot of people like when you're talking to a friend you know sometimes you might be angry at them sometimes you might not like what they do like for example your best friend is doing something and you know you might not like it but then you're like it's okay never mind you can't say it on their face saying that you know I didn't like it don't do that they might get offended is what I'm saying I'm usually saying it on that face most of the time Because I have faced a few times like you know when you're talking to your friends or other people you might feel that they're wrong but you hesitate to tell them you know I sometimes can't tell or you know there are a lot of people who can't tell on their faces See it is not about people being right and wrong it is just that every human being is acting and living and understanding life according to their understanding and their intelligence not everybody can perceive life and understand life to the same extent if you see people are the way they are because of the limitations that are there you would strive to see how to help them to break their limitations rather than making a judgment right wrong good bad all these things there are different types of people everything that everybody does it is not necessary that you must like it or I must like it it's not so but there is no need for us if you wear a mask to perform a certain function you are still who you are within the mask but right now the problem is the mask sits so tight on your face you cannot distinguish which is the mask so when I say a mask or a persona what it means is you consciously wear when you consciously wear it it is there it is there for the function but you don't become that see when I say you don't become that right now you are a tall girl I saw on any podium you stand you are like taller than anybody so you were not born like this you were born just this much and now you became this much this is just accumulation body is just an accumulation similarly what you call as my mind my thought, my emotion are accumulations what we gather belongs to us cannot be us isn't it it is not us right now this clothing it may belong to me but it can't be me similarly the body, similarly the structures of the mind if we become conscious of this body and what is not me if this one thing everybody settles within themselves if they are conscious of this all these are not a issue we will use this body we will use this mind to the best of its capabilities and that's all especially for you as a sports person using your body and mind to the best of its capabilities all that matters in the end so right now you yourself would have noticed as every human being would have noticed in their day to day activity sports person I am saying for you because the consequence of you not functioning at your best is immediately right there for others if they don't do something well today it may take two years before the results come to them for you it is immediate there is a bad shot right there if you don't function well at that moment so because of that it is far more easier for you to notice this that how many times in your life your own thought, your own emotion your own opinions become a barrier to your function so in the world there are many many challenges right now we are in a very challenging time but you yourself your own faculties your own thought, your own emotion your own functioning of your body should not become an impediment in your life that is the most important thing every human being should do what the world will allow us to do or not we don't know at times we are in see today because you are in 21st century you are welding a a racket but probably if you were here a thousand years ago you would be welding a sword or something else you know I am saying it is the times which is allowing us to do what we are doing so at this time as there are possibilities there are challenges in this if an individual human being you know is here without making our body our thought, our emotion our energies be a challenge by itself if you just remove this one challenge in your life you will perform to your best your best will be the best in the world we don't know that is subject to various realities but the important thing is whether I am the best in the world or not is not important to your best you are always on you are never a barrier to yourself other barriers in the world we will have to cross well yes sir I agree to that but at the same time like you know when we play like you know I am a badminton player and a lot of people say that when we lose sometimes or when we are disappointed when we lose a match people say that it's okay you've done really well you are a great player you are a good player so people say that when playing like people say that you shouldn't be too much thinking that okay I am a great player I can win whatever match any match I play and you shouldn't be overconfident but you should be confident what is the difference people say that you shouldn't be overconfident when you go into the court you are being overconfident that's not really good for you but at the same time you have to be confident that you can win a match I wanted to know the difference because a lot of people told me this I hope those people who give you this advice have played some game in their life you know one day I was I was walking in the Chennai airport then the Indian hockey federation secretary saw me and said our boys are going to Germany for the champion please can you talk to them a few years ago the entire team was with us for eight days and we made a big difference for them at that time way back I am talking about almost 27 years ago so this is a few years later it is a completely new team he said especially that hockey team at that time largely came from the tribal areas in you know Assam, Odisha this kind of places so many of these boys have never even traveled outside the country for the first time they are going all between the ages of 18 to 22 most of them only two-three senior players everybody else is very young first time they are going into international trophy but they are good players they all come up in that Tata academy of hockey whatever that is they are good players but they have no exposure they are fearful so I went there to speak to these boys and there was one there had one psychologist somebody they had invited to speak to in the airport they are just about to board let's say in another hour they are leaving so this guy is telling they I can't repeat this word he is saying your parents this thing their you know honor is upon your shoulders something something he is saying okay these boys are just looking open mouth you know one billion people's expectations is killing nobody can carry it on their head so I looked at this torture they are doing to these boys and then they said ask me to speak I asked these boys do you like to play hockey they say yes then I said I am sure you know I played a lot of hockey when I was young I said I am sure you can't play hockey you don't know how to play hockey then suddenly they are proud so now we can play hockey we took a stick and a ball and dribbled around a little bit in the airport and then I said I don't think you guys you all gammads you come from tribal land can you play hockey you don't know how to play hockey then they got said no no we can play hockey better than anybody then what is your problem if you can play hockey put the damn ball in the goal that's all don't worry about your country worry about your mother about your father all this nonsense your only thing is you must have lust in your heart to put the ball in the goal that's all you don't try to carry India with you after you win the thing then India will come into picture at that time only thing that matters is the ball and where it goes whether it's with you or it's going to somebody else and you know like we are having a conversation was in Hyderabad I was having a conversation in Hyderabad and one of these person has after all the conversation the last question is this Sadhguru how to beat Pakistan in the cricket game I said beating Pakistan India Indian army should do Indian cricket team should not beat Pakistan they must just hit the ball they must just hit the ball what are you trying to beat Pakistan so with all this emotion you will do stupid things right now this is a thing that I am seeing that you know all the sports people have become like this it is not at all necessary to do that there is substantial medical and scientific evidence to show that when a person is of a pleasant experience joyful and well your chemistry is very pleasant this means your body your brain your instincts everything will function at its best there is enough evidence for this but now everybody is going like this they think only with aggression they can win it's not that you don't have to have any aggression you just have to hit the ball or shuttle or whatever you're hitting well that's about it so people believe unless you create a certain level of anger and this thing against somebody you can't play that is not so if you're enjoying the game you will play at your best and this trend is caught up like this that's why I said you must watch Ronaldinho how deceptive it is and how joyful he is have you seen Ronaldinho no I didn't you must see on the youtube you just go and watch Ronaldinho you must see because I thought in your game everything is fantastic no deception you're too direct yes yes I agree I agree to that because I think yes I am practicing on that and as you said you know how much ever you just play a stroke you know the opponent if the opponent knows he's going to take it easy and I'm sure like when you play against someone and it's just the difference of like 2-3 persons but I think if I improve my deception as you said definitely I'm going to raise you know some percent higher and I think you know talking about tall people and you know me having that good reach as you said yes definitely I have to utilize that and you know I'm definitely going to improve a lot more if I really focus on that yeah today morning I watched watched you playing did you find any mistakes sir like no see what I'm seeing is you're playing with a Japanese girl whatever her name she is both of you are international classes of players there's no it's not for me to teach Batman to you but what she is covering with one and half steps you are covering with a single step that the space this I mean don't take me wrongly I'm not saying anything that way you're actually you're actually built for tennis but you're playing shuttle I'm saying it's a much smaller court compared to your tennis court so you're covering it so efficiently and you know it's much easier for you to do that but a shorter person a shorter person is always much easier smaller person always is much easier to bend fold their body and get it back quickly a taller person always has little more difficulty in folding the body and unfolding the body so always it is important that you don't waste those those folding the body kind of shots for your opponent when the person is shot because they will easily take it in your mind because you're a tall person it's so difficult for you to go down and take it you give them those shots they will take it because they're so small and they're effortlessly going there apart from this see there are five elements in our body water, air, fire, earth and space this is called Akash there is there is a certain dimension of energy in the human body the way it functions the dynamics of yoga is related to these five elements it's called Bhuta Shuddhi that is if you cleanse these five elements in a certain way your body will function at its best that includes when I say body in yoga there is no mind and body separately mind is also a mental body everything is body that's how it is seen there are certain simple ways that you can enhance the dimension of Akash in you where if you do this your ability to perceive will be such if you can read the opponent one second ahead of their own intent suddenly you'll have a huge advantage over them you must do that there is a simple things I can either send someone to you so you can learn but if you can come here for three to four days we can do a good job on the whole thing because I feel just that one thing see you are able to play better than them on many when I watched a particular match which you won that is the world championships whatever in a very dominant way what I saw was that girl has to take nearly two steps to match your one step so you're clearly using that advantage but there is no deception and your your ability to read that girl is simply logical it is not intuitive if an intuitive reading comes into the thing that you know what she's going to do before she does it you will be definitely a few percentage points ahead these things are not just natural and accidental we can also cultivate them see every human being has this I'm sure as a sports person at that level you have some intuitive way of looking at things but it can be cultivated as you have cultivated your body and your skill of playing the game you can also cultivate your intuitive nature so that you're able to see what's going to come now just one second advantage if you have nobody will be a match I'm particularly concerned because the shelf life of a professional athlete is so small you must exploit it fully when you are there I agree to that completely because as we said deception and knowing you know one second ahead of your opponent that will definitely make a huge difference in my game and as you said I will definitely come visit and I will only come with my family and stay there for a couple of days and I'm definitely going to enjoy it because I was thinking for a very long time that I would come to Coimbatore but you know after this lockdown or whatever I'm definitely going to come there so I'm sure I will enjoy it because as you said rivers, mountains and lot of nature I think it's going to be great so as you know I've been travelling all around the world and I've gained a lot of knowledge from a lot of people and I've been seeing everywhere around the country a lot of things happening but I think mostly I see there's been a lot of difference in the people on how they greet each other you know like a lot of importance has been giving to the physical appearance these days like for example on their appearance, on their wells or like for example once my cousin written back from abroad and then people instead of his friend, instead of asking how you were he's just like oh you became so fat I mean the physical appearance how do you deal with these things like nowadays it's become a lot more no no what is your weight is just as good a question as how are you how about what is your wealth what are you worth financially well you're in Hyderabad that doesn't happen everywhere but Hyderabad which car are you using like a lot of things not one or two yes see the thing is we went towards market economy market economy is fine because other financial arrangements that we tried to do in the world didn't really succeed for whatever reasons so this has been a reasonably successful model though it leads to a lot of exploitation of environment and also people in many ways but this has been the only financial successful financial model on the planet but we did not understand market should be in the marketplace right now our minds have become a marketplace everything is a transaction so you are in Hyderabad I mean I'm sure you are well about that but for most people if a girl or a boy has to get married first thing is how much wealth do they have that is what they are checking up how much are they worth and they will get their properties evaluated before they get married so it's very very unfortunate that's come because market has entered our mind market should be a successful market market should be successful if all of us have to live well our minds and hearts need not become a transaction transactions are for our external well-being we have to do transactions and we must do it well of course but everything in our life need not be a transaction unfortunately right now every human relationship has become a transaction whatever you do it is all about what will I get what will you get so the entire spiritual movement in the process here is what a spiritual movement or what a spiritual process means is you first get rid of one question in your head whatever you are doing one question what about me you eliminate this one question ninety percent of your spiritual work is done the remaining part is very easy you you never think in terms of what about me in your playing a game you don't think of the medal or the cup or the fame and all you want to do is you want to do this well that's all there is no what about you you just want to play well if everybody gets that everybody gets that in every aspect of their life that what you are doing you do to your best there is nothing more there is no greater joy than the world allowing you to do what you love to do what should you get out of it you don't have to get get anything out of it you're doing what you care to do and the world is allowing you to do it that's the best that can happen in human life I agree to that I think definitely I if I have I mean I'm sure sir I just wanted to ask you that you know like for one question you have like ten answers and very different and I don't know how spontaneous you are you just like very quick and you know a lot of people are very shy you know they hesitate to say sometimes and they're very shy they just keep it to themselves so how do you overcome shyness? Shai I'm not a young girl like you no I mean I mean a lot of people I'm not asking you Sam just saying that you're very spontaneous and people out there hesitate to you know say a few times they're shy I mean initially before when I was very young I was very shy so how do you overcome not do you but how do people overcome is what I meant so see people this is what I said people making their own thought and emotion a big impediment see human beings are the only creatures on this planet who are referred to as beings isn't it we don't say an elephant being ant being tiger being no only human is a being this means we're supposed to know how to be how to be means right now you're here you're supposed to know how to be it doesn't matter what I say it doesn't matter what you say I should know how to be if you knew how to be would you be blissful or miserable huh of course of course the choice is that so whatever the external situation is whether you're winning losing you're a champion you're not a champion you're rich you're poor if you knew how to be you would be blissful isn't it because human experience is generated within so if you're blissful your body will function at its best your brains will function at its best and this is all you can do in your life that your body your brain everything within you is functioning at its best from this depending upon the times in which we exist as I said earlier if you were here a thousand years ago maybe you will be a Kakatiya warrior I don't know did the Kakatiya woman fight huh I think they did so now 21st century no sword so you're welding a racket so this racket sword is a consequence of times that we exist in but the important thing is are you doing your best when can you do your best how can you do your best when you're miserable is it possible so you can call it being shy you can say I am tense or I am agitated or I am anxious I am this I am that these are all different words essentially what this means is your intelligence turns against you for some reason when your intelligence turns against you no gods in the world are going to help you that's for sure it is very important everything that you got if it functions for you in spite of that there are challenges in the world isn't it you're a sports person there are crucial moments when you know even if you play to your best something doesn't work hello any number of times isn't it even if you think you're doing your best well either the other person is better than you or something is not working something doesn't happen the way you want because the more you take yourself to a peak the more you notice it that the difference between success and failure is such a thin line people think successful people come from one set of stars and failures come from another set of stars no between success and failure the line is so thin it's a silk thread one moment you fall this way one moment you fall that way for this when there is this is the nature of life you must know how to be you know how to be means just this what is it that makes a person shy or confident or whatever confident means you're stupid shy means you're lost because confidence means what where there is no clarity you're trying to build confidence you don't need confidence nor do you have to be shy because what is needed is clarity if you see everything the way it is absolutely then you don't need confidence you will do it to the best of your capabilities that's all will I do something as good as you maybe not but I will do it to the best of my capability and that's the most important thing so this whole problem is just this two very significant faculties that human beings have is we have a very vivid sense of memory it is because of this in our lives learning is more important than just going up big in the body if we were just elephants or bulls or buffaloes or whatever growing full in the body was the only important thing we also have to grow but in our life learning has become more important why because we have such a significant sense of memory our lives are rich compared to any other creature because of this vivid sense of memory now this vivid sense of memory translates into a very fantastic sense of imagination naturally if you didn't have memory you wouldn't have imagination either right now these are the two things these two fantastic faculties are the two things that human beings are suffering what are they suffering what happened ten years ago they are still suffering what may happen day after tomorrow they are already suffering they are not suffering life they are suffering memory and imagination isn't it so this is why it is very very important that you take charge of your faculties why when everybody is talking about God and this and that I am talking about religion to responsibility talking about engineering yourself into the highest possibility because this is the whole thing that most human beings are an impediment by themselves forget about external challenges they themselves are a challenge I am shy I am confident I am angry I am miserable I am resentful means you are a challenge by yourself you don't need any outside help to be miserable most people are in self help they don't need any outside help you just leave them in one see right now this lockdown time just being at home they are suffering all kinds of things I was in conversation with some police officers some IPS officers and they are saying the domestic violence has gone up in a big way in Chennai domestic violence has gone up in a big way what is this nonsense all these days you are crying that you know you don't get enough time with your family too much work this that now when you have time with your family you are beating each other yes sir I think you are right well there comes the decision obviously when you said that you know between winning and losing there is just this thing lying sometimes you might play brilliantly you just lose and the opponent might play extraordinary do you believe in superstition sir do you believe in luck I believe in I I always make sure I am lucky okay okay you should also make sure for your sake for the country's sake and for all our sake we are all your fans so you must make sure you are lucky don't wait to be lucky I will teach you how to move the stars a little bit yeah please sir I will ask them to send you a link of in engineering online please do that it's seven powerful sessions you do that you will understand how to move the stars yes thank you sir one last question you know a lot of people when they start this you know new project or when they want to start their new work they think that okay this is a good day or even if you didn't start your work on Tuesdays or Saturdays are not good when is your Thursday like how do we know that you know people say that this day is not good we have to start this particular thing on particular day so what do you have to say about it see these are all people who do good things once in a way if you are doing it every day then every day is a good day see most I take it as every day is a good day no no whole lot of people are successful by chance not by their own competence just by chance because their father was influential they're successful because they had a bag of money they're successful because of something else they're successful if you were successful because of your competence you wouldn't look at all this because you're successful by chance there is so much fear about failure all the time so if you you're a good player okay you lost a match so what the hell next match you will win alright but if you you're winning only because of the influence of course it will create a big paranoia within you I'm saying within any human being this is what they're doing instead of enhancing themselves they are looking at the stars I want to inform them all those who are looking at the stars many of the stars that we actually see in the night actually does not exist you know that Sindhu yeah no sir I don't know they died long time ago because it takes many many many light years for the light to come the light is still coming but the star doesn't exist so a star that does not exist is deciding your future all the best for such people you just see the shuttle don't look at the stars no stars only the shuttle yes I am lucky I have to say I am lucky I was just thinking when you said shuttle I just three days ago I did a painting for a feather of a feather just a single feather I'll send a picture to you yes please please do send thank you wonderful we look forward to having you here please come with your family if you if you come for like five mornings if you're here for about three to four hours every day if you're willing to spend spending in your system which will be hugely beneficial for you some simple practices which can make a lot of difference in how you function definitely sir I will I will come with my family and stay there and once again thank you so much for giving me an opportunity to talk to you thank you so much tell your elders say hello to them they watch your videos they really like so when I told them that I am talking they were like so excited and they just looking forward for it thank you thank you


Jennifer. Bob. Good morning. Good morning. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Well, about 2.53 I think was the moment because I was literally sound asleep and a phone rang and I saw it was a reporter who I know, you know, I picked it up and she said, hi, this is Heidi, you know, calling from nature and I wanted to get some comments on the Nobel and I thought she was calling to ask me to comment on somebody else winning the Nobel. And I was just really dead asleep and I said, oh, Heidi, gosh, I haven't even had time to look at anything yet. And she said, oh my gosh, you don't know. And I said, no, what? And she said, you want to know more about it? What did you think about this? What's the significance? This is the first Nobel Prize given only to women. Is that true? Yes. Ever? Ever. Ever? My feeling is that I think among women and girls that, you know, sometimes there's a sense that no matter what they do, that their work will not be recognized the way it would be if they were a man. And I just, I hope that this prize and this recognition changes that at least a little bit. There's a lot of stuff, a lot of texts. Yuri wrote me. Congratulations. Enjoy the ride. I'm sorry, Jamie. This is going to be crazy for you too. I don't know. We need to get going. Yeah. Are you ready to go? Yeah. Are you going to come with us? Yeah. Yeah, okay, good. I'll ride in the backseat this time. Okay. Okay.  No. This is a journalism school. Yeah. Welcome. Good morning. Good early morning. My name is Chris. Hi, Chris. I'm well. Good. Good. And so we'll be setting up here. Okay. We're going to keep our distance. We're going to set the mic up. Make sure you're okay. Good morning from UC Berkeley, California, where we are over the moon with the news that the Nobel prize and chemistry has been awarded to Dr. Jennifer Doudna and her colleague in Manuel. Jennifer, at this point in the ceremony, I present you with the most prized of all Berkeley perks, a free parking space. So I expect you'll never have trouble parking on campus again. Thank you very much to Roké, to Chancellor Christ, Dean Clark and Dean Botchan. I'm, I'm over the moon. I'm in shock. And I couldn't be happier to be representing UC Berkeley. Wow. It's a wild day. It's a weird day. Yeah. It's fun when you've been up since four. Uh, two fifty-three to be exact. Okay. You know, getting party stuff ready. So that's important to shot. It feels like a hundred years since we've done this, but it's awesome. Yeah. I'm just, I'm so proud of the lab. I'm so proud of Berkeley. Such an honor to have worked with Kai Hong. For twenty-seven years we've worked together. And we couldn't have done it without Kai Hong. We super-cluded on, actually. Really exciting day for the, for the lab, for our science, for all of our colleagues. I really want to just say how grateful I am to be doing all of this work here at Berkeley. Public university opens to everyone. I think this is something that really is near and dear to my heart. Cheers.


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The best thing would be, you know, the parabolic kind of move. I don't want to be shorting, you know, into the grounds like this one, like this. And it's just like giving me more edge when I see a parabolic move like that. And then it's the kind of stock that kind of dies, right? Like basically the broken stock. Before I get into a trade, and I should have a pretty decent idea where would be my entries and where would be my exit, right, basically. And as you can see here, you know, the stock went from, let's say, five to all the way seven, right? So technically the range of the stock is like two bucks, right? So let me just cut it down. So the range, two bucks here, let's say it's only half like, you know, 1.5. The ideal target would be 1.5 to me, right? I mean, you could wait for it to kind of tank all the way to this low, but I just want to kind of cover a little bit ahead of the major support or like, you know, like the last support kind of. And on this one, okay, so I'm going to scale from 6.5 to seven, let's say like that. And I know beforehand, right, I'm going to stop out over this 7.20 and my average would be, I don't know, somewhere around like 6.8 and my stock would be 7.2. So it's like 40 cents, right? So you can calculate that based on your sizing, your account, whatever, one or two percents, whatever dollar amount that you're comfortable with. So on this particular case, okay? So seven, 6.5 and seven, right? So my average would be 6.8. So where would be the best case scenario for my target and you know, for my profit taking? As you can see here, the stock kind of like, you know, put in like, pretty much like a line in the sand. As you can see, like from this line, 4.3 and then, you know, 4.5, right?  And also this is the line in the sand. That's pretty much, you know, if you can get that target, I mean, that's pretty the best thing that you could get from this stock. So I always look at, you know, how much it ran and what was like, you know, basically the support of this stock. It's like this trading is not that easy, okay?   And so that's why I try to kind of adapt to kind of my personal style because I'm not really that patient. You know, I have to go with the scalping kind of. And for someone like Bear, you know, his main goal is like to try to have a position size in here and then try to be patient for the rest of the day. But I'm just not that type of person. So that's why I have to choose something that fits my own personality and also, you know, what I'm feeling comfortable with, right? Yeah, so that's the idea before, you know, that's the idea about the profit taking. You have to see the over picture of, you know, how big of the range of the stock it could offer you, right? I mean, you know, this is the line, the sand around five, it went to seven. So technically you have like $2.  And I'm not sure, I think this one the other day. Yeah, this one is pretty good. Hey guys, my name is Tosh Bradley. I'm one of the head mentors and moderators at my investing club. If you have any questions about getting started in trading, getting started in the MIC, MIC in general, text me at<PHONE_NUMBER>. This is not a robot, it is me directly on the other end of my business line and we'll get you in the club. We also have special promotions going on that I can get to you depending on your trading needs. Hit me up, back to the video. When you see the range right here, you can see the stock went from one to like 1.7, right?  And, you know, because the spread is really tight and it's like the stock is really moving like one cents, right, at a time and tons of volume coming in. So on kind of those particular stock, I mean, if you short right here, 1.7, you're risking basically like only 10 cents, right? So, I mean, the best case scenario on this type, you know, of stocks usually, you know, it's under two or under a dollar. The best you could get is maybe 10 to 20 cents. And so, you know, you have to kind of base on that range because you risking 10 cents here, I saw, I think like in the best case scenario, like in the perfect world, you could get like 20 cents out of this. Oh yeah, me, so that one is, it's over 10, you know, $10 kind of stock. And you can see here, you know, line is saying here, 11, 12 went all the way to like 20. So basically you have like $8 out, you know, the range of the stock. So let's say you just being very conservative, you know, you just want to cut down maybe $8. Okay, so $6 sounds good to me or even five, right? So you have to keep in mind that if you want to short here, you want to risk at least a dollar or two because this is just how the range of the stock or like, you know, how the stock kind of move and you have to kind of adapt to that. And like I said, there are three different, you know, trading style, either you scalp, okay? On something like, you know, $10. If you want to scalp that one, I mean, you know, even though you have a tight risk, maybe 20 or 30 cents, try to aim for at least, you know, like 30 or 50 cents, right? Based on that, that's a scalping basically to me.  Let's say you want to short here at 19 and then 20 or whatever, right? So, and then risking $1. The worst case scenario is gonna, you know, hits your breakeven point but you'll still end up with some money, right?  He knows he's set up. He knows that out of 10 times, 20 times, okay? So he's gonna stop out, right? Some of the day. So let's say he got stopped out like 10 times but all he needs is, you know, only one time for the stock to kind of work for him, right? Because that one time is gonna pay back all the 10 times that he was waiting for that stock. So you have to ask yourself, will you be able to do, you know, as he does, right? Or, you know, if it's something that you can do that because you're not patient enough and you know, for someone like me, I just can't hold it that long. And I just have to take some profit.  And so that I have to kind of find something that's worked, you know, for me. So I have to kind of adapt it a little bit.  But it all depends on a personality of the stock.  And stock went to four. So technically you have $2 kind of range, best case scenario. So try to be conservative about that. Okay, so maybe one or 1.5. Okay, so the best I could get is like $1 or $1.50 here. Okay, and as you can see, you know, 4.2 and then 3.2 a dollar, right? Another 50 cents. That's pretty conservative way for me. I would like to kind of approach it. And you know, it's been working well for me. So, and I just, you know, can be greedy. Yes, sometimes you cut an offering and you can get it really, you know, down low here, but I just wanna put the probabilities out there and try to, you know, stick to something that's been working so far. So guys, yeah, so that's pretty much about the profit-taking today.  No, look at the chart, look at the big picture, see where the line of the sand is and basically you can tell the range, right?  So that's really up to you, right? And everyone is different, profit-taking is really hard and sometimes I've got a good entries, but my exit just sucks, right? No one is perfect. So, yeah, so try to find your own style, either scalp and figure out the range here. Okay, so risking 10, 20 cents, you aim for like 40, 50 cents here, whatever, right? Whatever you wanna choose. Scalping, all day fader, but keep in mind for the all day fader, you get a good entry and you have to be patient because you're gonna get stopped out a lot of times, right? But those paper cuts are along the way. You have to accept that because you know when you are right, it's gonna pay back that, whatever 10 or 20 paper cuts before that. And all recycling, you know, short here, risk, and you know, basically same thing as gal, but it's just like you cover down here, wait for the new loads, like add to winner and then recycle the shares, right? And just set it for breaker even. I mean, it really doesn't matter what setup you choose, what kind of personal style you choose, the risk management always comes in first, okay? The risk management is everything. Either I scalp here, risking 10 cents or 20 cents here, whatever, right? If you wanna all day fader, you don't wanna be shorting here, okay?  So no, you have to kind of base on the facts that the lines are working here. Sometimes it's better just to take the paper cuts and then, you know, you can jump right back here once you see a death candle like that. Okay, guys, so I hope it's helpful and you know, that's, you know, it for the profit taking kind of video and if you still have any questions, you know, you can DM me at any time. And yeah, guys, have a good one and I see you guys on next time. Take care. I post a new video every single day. If you have any questions about MIC or any general trading questions, please text Tosh using the number here. Also, stay up to date by watching some of our most recent videos right over here.


when I played chess the first time. This was 1973 in the autumn. I was 10 years old. I have a brother who started to play in the club half year earlier, and I did everything my brother did. But when he went to the chess club, I said no. But half a year later, this first day of the season in September, I followed him to the club, and it was there when I played chess the first time. I didn't know how to move the pieces. I didn't know anything. But from the first moment, it was like magic for me. It was a little bit like the feeling you have when you start reading. A new word was discovered for me, and I loved it from the very first time. The first tournament I won was a tournament held inside the club, and it was when I was, probably I was, between 11 and 12. And because the first year was just about learning, learning the pieces, how to speak together, it did to each other. And then when I was, yeah, after a year, I started to win some small tournaments in the club. When I was 12, I was even winning some tournaments outside the club too. I knew that chess would be my life. When I was 13, we had just played the Swedish school championship, and it was during a weekend, and I won my class for girls and boys, age 13, 14. And it was a big surprise, I was an underdog. But I remember when I got the prize, we got the chess clock, and when I went to the podium to take my prize, I said to myself, this is something I will do my whole life in one way or another. If chess does involve sacrifices for me, in the beginning I don't think so because chess very quickly became very important to me.  I really loved it so much. And of course, I met Juan Beón, so I moved to Spain, and I could make a living together with him, traveling around. But of course, chess takes a lot of time, so this is what we were doing. I didn't have so much time for other things. And of course, when you decide to play chess, at that time, this is 30 years back now, it was not so easy. It was not easy to make a living. And I remember also when I got my daughter, then I couldn't play during the pregnancy, I had problems, so I was without playing chess for 10 months, which was a very long time. And what I didn't have to do, I had to stop playing when she was only three months. And our daughter always went with us. And this is of course very, very special. And a little bit, not so easy for a girl to be brought up like that. So, but I think in general, I have been so lucky, I have been doing something, I love so much. So there have been some sacrifices, but I'm very, very happy that I could be able to play chess so long time. The status of chess in my home country, it's, yeah, it's a little bit complicated because Sweden used to be very important chess nations. We had the Olympiad back in 1935. It was 3,000 people coming and watching. Sweden organized the free of the first four in the semnal qualification for the word chess championship. We had Mr. Rogard, who was the feeder president for almost 20 years. So for a long time, chess was very important, but you can say that the last 30, 40 years, it has become less important. And we have a problem that chess is not the sport in Sweden. It's not culture. It stands alone. So it makes us more difficult. And so I would also say that chess doesn't get the same publicity, the same recognition as other sports and it makes it more difficult. So in general, if you look at the chess place we have at Sweden, there are some few who try to make a living from chess, but in general it's very, very difficult. So I would say that if you go down to Spain, you go down to France, Germany, in all these countries, Holland, it's chess has a better status than it has in Sweden. So I do hope that chess will become an Olympic sport. That would be an enormous difference to Sweden. And I also believe that chess now is becoming an esport, that that will benefit Sweden a lot. And that more people will know about chess and that it will become a bigger sport, both as a esport, but also the classical way. When I heard about the format for the Battle of the Sexes, I was very excited. I was very curious and I was very, very pleased to see that. And I think it's just a very lovely idea to have two teams. We have a lady team, we have a men team and the two teams are matched according to rating. It's not the big difference between the two teams, but also according to age. So in all way trying to make two teams as similar as possible and then to see which team will prevail, will win. And now I think it's just fantastic. And also there is history of course behind this because during the Gibraltar Chess Festival, there always have been a lot of social activities which is so fantastic, so beautiful. And the highlight of the social activities was the Battle of the Sexes every Saturday. And then it was played with six players, six lady players, six men players. It was played on a big board.  And now we're going to play this for real. So I think it's just very, very nice, very, very beautiful. And I'm very much looking forward to play this match. When I play in a team competition, yes, I feel more pressure because I don't only play for myself. So you have more responsibility.  So it's more responsibility, but it's also more happiness when things go the way of the team when we are successful. If we have any strategy in the lady team, I think maybe we should keep it secret. We shouldn't tell anything to our opponents. But in general, I think the main thing is to be happy, to play and to enjoy and just try to take away the pressure because if you feel too much pressure, you just stop playing chess. And the main thing here is that we're going to play a friendly match. It's going to be so exciting. And I just really want everyone to feel at home and just to enjoy chess. I think that's really the main thing. I'm very honored that I have been selected as a captain and I'm very excited of course, though, but I feel a little bit of responsibility being a captain as this is something I never have been, I think, in my whole life. So this is a first time experience for me. And but yeah, but I'm very, I'm very happy that they asked me and I'm very proud of the team. I'm going to play together with, I think we have a very exciting team with 10 players from 10 different countries. That's very nice. And it's led by two women world ex-champion. And we have also the winner of the Grand Prix last year here. What I think we can learn from a match between a lady and a men team with similarities, with strength, with age. You know, I think this is just a first try because I have played match matches when we play ladies against men players. I played the match late against the veteran, but then the players were not picked out according to age. The veterans were natural, so much older now. They were also normally so much stronger according to ratings, but it happens also that the ladies won. It was the men won natural more times than the ladies. So I think this will just be a first try, but it's like with everything, you need statistics. This will be the first unique match and I just hope there will be more to come to follow. And so whatever happens, I think we will, yeah, we will look at it, but I think it's more that this is a very nice way of promoting the ladies chess. This is really what I think we can learn from it, that this is a very nice way of promoting chess for ladies. Yes, one of many ways to do that. If the gender of my open play, any part when I sit down and play my game, not now and no longer, because I have been playing chess for almost 50 years, a very long time, but I was brought up in Sweden where we almost didn't have any girls tournament, any women championships. We always played together.  And when I was kid, it was difficult for me when I had to play against a girl. And it was not because it was a girl or a woman, but it was because I felt so much more pressure that I had to win against her, even if this woman or this girl had the same rating as a boy. So I always felt more stressed when I was kid playing against a girl or as a woman. But then when I was later on, especially the last 20 years, I played in a lot of women events. I played a woman world championship several times, the Grand Prix, the European Ladies Championship. I played here in Gibraltar, where I also played against lots of ladies and other tournaments. And so for me now, it doesn't make any difference if I play against a woman or a man. What makes different is the player, who it is. Of course, I think as long as there's so few women playing chess, in general, it's about 10% overall. That's a very small part. If you go to my country, we are 2.9% of all the active chess players is very, very low. And so as long as this person, the part of lady players is so low, you need to make, you need to give the ladies double chances. So that's why I think it's very important to still have tournaments where the ladies are very many together. One way is to do what they have been doing here in Gibraltar. This is a fantastic way to invite also the ladies players to come and play, even if lots of ladies don't have the same high rating as the best male players coming here. So what has been done here has been very generously for the ladies, very important. I think also we need to have tournaments where the ladies are in majority or at least like here we are 50%. This is just fantastic. And that makes it very difficult. If you don't have ladies tournament, you can make it like here, but this is why it is to have tournaments for ladies. Then you get lots of them. And I can also say that in my country we have actually one girl tournament a year. And this girl tournament can have over 100 players. It's only once a year, it's a weekend. It's up to 20 years old, different classes. But when you have the same, it's a school girl tournament. When you have the same school tournament with the boys, the maximum who are playing are 40 players. So you see that when you have a tournament with very, very many girls, you get so much extra. So this is what you have to do. And you have to, I think also in the different leagues, it's very good, the rules you have that you play. At least there have to be one lady in the teams or like in foreign cell, you have to have a man and a woman the same for the juniors. And when you have the now the Olympiad online, they have two boards for the open class, they have two lady boards, they have a junior boy and a junior girl. So all the time you are giving spots for the ladies. But I think it's not only about the tournaments. It's also about the arbiters, the organizers, the people working in the federations. We have to get women in the whole world so that the chess world will not be only for one sex. It will be normal like the societies we have both women and men. So there are lots of things to do, but it's going on the right way, it's improving. So I'm very happy for that. Who is going to win this tournament? I am captain for the latest team, so I'm sure we're going to win the tournament.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we are going to discuss the following question and the question says that Joseph is six years old. His brother John is five years older than him and his aunt Mary is four times as old as John. Write an expression for his aunt's age and simplify. Let us move on to the solution. In this question we are given that Joseph's age is six years. That is, Joseph's age is given as six years. His brother John is five years older than him. Therefore, John's age will be five more than Joseph's age here. More than means five years added to Joseph's age. That is, John's age will become x plus five years. Now, his aunt Mary's age is given as four times. John's age and Mary's age is given as four times. John's age here four times means into four which implies aunt Mary's age is equal to four into John's age. So, the expression for aunt Mary's age will be equal to four into John's age. That is, x plus five years. And this can also be written as five into x plus four into five by using distributive property. On simplifying this expression, we get aunt Mary's age is equal to four into x that is four x plus four into five that is twenty. So, we get four x plus twenty years. Hence, this is the simplified expression for aunt Mary's age which is the required answer. This completes our session. Hope you enjoyed this session.


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can say a thousand words, so how we represent things has great significance. This iconic picture, for example, represents a specific moment in history, we all know. And as such, the meaning of this picture is shared among all of us. At times, new concepts emerge that need to be represented in images. And at the moment, one of these concepts is artificial intelligence. So how do you see artificial intelligence? Probably, it would look something like this. These blue, science-fictional, and for many people, scary images have to tell you something about what is AI and what can it do. Now, AI is already being applied in areas such as health, mobility, biodiversity, and material science. But would you argue any of these applications are represented in these images? These unrepresentative and limited views of AI today can significantly restrict the impact AI can have on our society in the future. So with my research, I aim to address this challenge. I want to change how we see artificial intelligence. And I aim to do so in two steps. First, I want to team up computer scientists with graphic designers in order for them to interact and create alternative images of artificial intelligence. And as a social scientist, I want to know the different ways in which these participants make sense of artificial intelligence. And secondly, I want to showcase these alternative images in an exhibition. An exhibition open to all of you. And during this step, I want to know whether and if so how these alternative images can change the perception and reception of artificial intelligence. So with the Scholar Award, we can create these interdisciplinary teams, organize this exhibition, and open it up to you so that we can rebuild our connection with this important technology of the future so that we can gain a different image of artificial intelligence. Thank you for your attention. Thank you, Amber. Yeah, thank you, Amber. That was great. I'm seeing AI in whole new colors now. Now, Josiparika, do you have a question for Amber? I certainly do. Thank you very much. It's an utterly complex topic. Can you elaborate a bit more about the exhibition bit? What would be your ideal collaborations to make sure that the ideas, the best ideas, the new ideas in terms of visualization scale on a societal scale? Can you elaborate a bit more about that? Can you explain the scale part? What kind of ideas of how to make sure that the exhibition, for instance, what would be an ideal exhibition or collaborator on what's to make sure that these images and ideas reach also the popular audience? Yes. Okay. I understand. Basically, I want to have as big as an audience as possible for this exhibition so that you can really gain a new image for artificial intelligence. At the moment, it is still restricted to where I work as a scientist at Alter University or Helsinki. Preferably, I would also use the web for this to reach a wider audience for these images so that you can actually see, okay, these are alternative ways but you can also find, if you are working on artificial intelligence yourself, you can find someone who can represent what you're doing in a really good way. So this is how I would like to scale this. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much.


Climate models project increases in globally averaged atmospheric specific humidity that are close to the Clausius-Cloparin, C-C, value of around 7% K-1. Previous research has shown that the wet-git wetter and dry-git drier when the projected changes are averaged over latitudinal zones. In this paper we find the simple latitudinal average C-C scaling relation does not hold at local, grid box, scales over either ocean or land. This article was authored by M. L. Roderick, F. Sun, W. H. Lim, and others.