Hello family, welcome to another NARC survival live video. In this one I'm going to be giving you the reason why the narcissist ghosted you. And no, it's not about new supply, although they may have moved on to new supply. But why did they do that? Is it because the new supply is better than you? Because of course, as we know, that's exactly what they would want you to think. Or is it because you're simply not good enough? It's another thing that they want you to believe? No, that's actually not it at all. You see, you've been manipulated, gaslighted, brainwashed into thinking that it's you. But I can tell you that no one in their entire lives probably did even a fraction of what you've done for them. And they'll probably never find anyone else on your level ever again. They'll never find another chosen one, another empath, they're never going to find that. That is never going to happen. So here's the question, if you're really as great as I'm saying you are, and you're a chosen one, an empath, you've got all of these wonderful qualities, you've got all of these things going on, doesn't make any sense. Why would they ghost you? But I'm here to give you the answer to that question right now. And I can tell you that, believe it or not, the narcissist ghosted you because they knew that they weren't good enough for you. And yes, they knew this the entire time. I mean, that's why in the beginning they manipulated you, they gave you a false character, they lied, they future faked, that was the whole point of all of that. And that is also why they then moved to the devaluation phase. They began to devalue you because they began to reflect on the fact that they were not good enough for you. That's what caused them to stop love bombing you. The fact that they knew that they weren't good enough for you. Because I can tell you any narcissistic person.  If they really think that they're the shit, they're the best thing since like bread, they're going to go all out and show you that. And they're not going to leave any stones unturned. They're going to show you just how great they are. They're going to pull out all the stops. They're going to go to extreme lengths. If they're really what they say they are, you're going to see it, you're going to know about it. So when you don't see it, when you don't know about it, there's a reason for that, and the reason is because they believe they're not good enough for you. That's really yet. That is actually how it is. Because if a narcissist believes that they are good enough, and this could be in anything. It could be in sex, in money, in intelligent conversation, whatever it may be. If they believe that they are good enough for that, they are going to completely dominate the situation. And it may seem as though they're giving or sharing something with you. It's still all about them. It's all about them getting the validation. And they're going to get their validation in any way that they can. Whatever they think is going to work for them. So if they don't think that manipulating and love bombing you is going to get them the validation that they need, they're not going to do that anymore. And instead they will resort to devaluation. And if even the devaluation isn't working anymore, and you still have this belief and confidence in yourself, then they're not even going to bother doing that. They're just going to completely ghost you. It's whatever they think is going to work for them. Whatever they think is going to get them the validation that they need. And that's why the cycle runs in this specific order. Because their diamond supply, what they really want, their first choice is to love bomb you. So that you will then validate the false character and make them feel attractive and desirable. Which as we know, they can typically only get that from either buying you stuff or getting you to validate them in conversation. If they are a cerebral narcissist or if they're a somatic narcissist, the only way they're going to get that validation is through sex, through performing sexually. But if they know that they can't do that, if they know that that's not going to cut it, maybe you've had too many experiences already in terms of people buying you stuff or maybe it's conversations, you may be very intelligent yourself, but even sexually, maybe they think they can't please you, they can't satisfy you, then they're going to stay out of that arena. They're not going to get involved. They're not going to put themselves in a situation where they could be humiliated and rejected, where you could get the chance to laugh at them. They're not going to give you that satisfaction. They're not going to do that at all. And why? It's because they believe that they are not good enough, despite what they may say to you.  Remember in the beginning they were manipulating you, they were love bombing you, and then they changed the devaluation because they could see that their love bombing was not effective anymore. That's why. And that's really the only reason why it goes from love bombing to devaluation. The narcissist is going to do whatever they think is going to work, whatever they think is going to be most effective.  I mean that's why it's what they do at the beginning. And in fact as soon as they start devaluing you, then they're off love bombing someone else. Because that is what they would prefer to do. But if they can't love bomb you anymore, they're not going to fall in for it. Or if they can't please you, they can't satisfy you, if they're not good enough, they're going to stop doing it. They're not going to keep doing something if it's not working for them. They're not going to waste their time. So they ghost you when you stop believing in their lies, when you stop validating the false character, when you choose to live in reality instead of sharing their delusion. Because that's the only way that they're ever really going to remain around you, is if you do share their delusion, if you do choose to exist in their fantasy world. But let's be real, even when you do that, you're not really happy because when you're sharing this fantasy, your happiness isn't coming from within. It's coming from this external alternate reality that doesn't even exist. It has no basis in reality. And that is why, even when they're manipulating and love bombing you at the beginning, you still feel like something's missing. You feel like something's wrong. You feel like something's not right because it isn't even real. They're not grounded in reality.  They have to impose a false character onto you so that you can even be around them. Because otherwise you would argue, you would fight, there would constantly be problems, but at some point you begin to wake up. You begin to realise what you're actually dealing with and that is when they begin to devalwg you.  They make you think that you need to do more. You need to be something else. You need to be better. And when you stop believing in that, that's when they completely ghost you. But that's not really what they want to do because that's like their coal level supply. Their diamond supply is when they can love bomb you. And sure it may look like there are for this new supply that love bombing them now. They don't need to love bomb you. That's not going to be the same. That's not going to be anywhere near what it was like with you because you are an empath.   You're highly receptive, highly satisfied with whatever a person does for you, whatever they may buy for you, or even if it's something sexual, you're highly receptive. You're highly sensitive to that. So of course if they buy you a gift or if you're listening to them, talk about themselves and their achievements, or if you're involved in them sexually, that is such a potent source of supply to the narcissist. Unlike something that they could find anywhere else because most people are not like that, most people are not going to give them that emotional response, that high grade fuel. They're not going to find that anywhere else. This is why on average a narcissist will return to their victim seven times before it's finally all over. Yes, they typically come back with a hoover even if they have moved on to someone else because then they realise it's very different. They're not getting that type of response. They're not getting that grade of fuel and they start to miss that because it's like with you when they could elicit a reaction out of you, when they could please you and satisfy you and make you happy. Even if it was just this fake happiness, to them it made it seem real in that moment and when they could do that, it was such a spike in their energy. It inflated them. It fed their egos and it shot up like a rollercoaster when they get with the new supply and the love bomb in them. It's kind of like, well with you it was like a rollercoaster and they climbed up and when they devalued you they went down a little bit and then towards the end of the scards by that point it was all the way up the bottom and then that's why they ghosted you and then when they get with the new source it just comes up a little bit so it's better than what it was at the end with you but it's nowhere near what it was like when they were love bombing you. So then they do begin to think back. There's no difference between bad, good and incredible. They do know the difference and they see that that type of fuel that you're giving out it's just not the same anywhere else. No one can do it like you do. No one else can give that to them and this is just how it is. When we're in our energy it's in our responses, our reactions most of it's in our eyes that's where the energy is transferred it's in our facial expressions when they can see when we're happy, we're smiling when we're sad, we're frowning when we're excited when we're angry maybe some of you you may even cry at times but with other sources they don't get that full range of emotions they don't get that emotional depth and I think that's what it is a lot of times with my videos that's what keeps people coming back I see through my work it's not just the words and what I talk about but it's how I say it you can tell that I am passionate about it that it's authentic and that it means something to me you can tell that it's real that's really what people want they want something real they want something authentic that's really what they're looking for is something authentic and real innocent and natural pure and untouched uncontaminated the problem is they got with you and they contaminated you they made you impure and that's what affected the potency of your fuel in the beginning it was high great but as time went by they began to deplete you and then it was no longer as powerful it was no longer as effective and that's why they eventually ghosted you and they went off and found someone else but here's the thing finding someone who is pure and uncontaminated in this world someone innocent that is extremely rare that is extremely rare because most people are being indoctrinated by television music, movies, social media maybe their peer group their family or whoever it may be they're not innocent, they're not pure they're not thinking for themselves they're not playful curious like a child who has never been exposed to anything negative anything that makes them think that the world is not safe anything that might otherwise put them in a state of fear and yes things may happen to you but unlike them you come right back you return to your pure and innocent state they do not they were contaminated a long time ago and they've stayed that way ever since but when you're around someone who is truly innocent and pure such as another empath I mean even for us I've experienced it myself but it is a very powerful and uplifting experience because you know straight away this person they're not being indoctrinated even if they are they're just not even susceptible to it they're not absorbing it, it's not affecting them it's not changing the way that they might otherwise behave it's not doing anything like that and they're still able to be themselves they're still innocent, they're still pure, uncontaminated they're unaffected, unmoved and changed and that's what makes that experience so powerful because then they're able to connect they're able to be intimate with you and you're able to share this emotional depth with them of course narcissists aren't able to do that but as long as they can elicit an emotional reaction from the empath because it's that contrast if they can get you to the opposite of what you would normally do that's what makes it so powerful so normally you're just walking around the world on this earth and you're not overthinking anything you're not over analysing you're just being you're not doing, you're just being living, experiencing and then when they can pull you out of that state and elicit an emotional reaction out of you it's so powerful for them and it's so addictive because that's not how you normally are as a pure and innocent empath or chosen one and I know many of you who are watching this right now you will be able to identify with that because that's what makes it so painful it's how they change us they take us from one state to another they alter our condition because otherwise we would just exist in such a pure and uncontaminated state and I know that's exactly how I am as a super empath and a chosen one when I'm out in the world I'm highly sensitive to everything to everything I see everything I hear everything I smell everything I touch and taste I'm highly sensitive to it all and I notice everything I pay attention to detail when I go out into nature I notice the colours of the trees of the grass I pay close attention to the birds, maybe I see some cats the colours of them the sounds and it affects me on a very deep level in a positive way because this is just how it is to be an empath a chosen one a highly sensitive person of course we would be sensitive to the world because we came here with a gift and with a purpose to uplift everyone and raise the vibrations and of course when you're vibrating at a very high level you will be highly sensitive narcissists are emotionally dead they're very unsensitive they don't experience things on a deep level like we do because they are low vibrational they're shame based but this is why they ghost you because they've contaminated you they've ruined polluted your supply and it's no longer effective so then they run off and they'll come back later on in the hopes that you have recharged just so they can drain you again and this is why typically they will try to return to the love bombing again they're not going to come back just to devalw you or just to cause problems for you they will keep trying to go back to the love bombing because although you may not even realise it it's so powerful just that rush of adrenaline that it gives them when they love bomb you and they get your emotions your reactions your validation I mean I can't even describe it in words the effect that it has on them it's unlike anything else that they have ever experienced in their lives and they feel like it's something they've been missing forever they've never had anything like this before and that is why they typically get addicted to it but because when they realise that they're not good enough for you they have to devalw you and they don't really want to but it triggers them when they realise that your qualities of yours are not theirs they realise that all of these good things that you have it's you and not them so then they turn against you even though they don't really want to I mean they wish that they could just remain around you and be good enough for you they do that's why you will see them bringing back the false character that's the whole point because they wish that they could be around you and be good enough for you that's why they keep bringing it back that's why they keep trying to impress you because they want to be good enough for you but typically they will try to impress you or make you envious or jealous of something from a distance they don't want to get too close at a certain point because then it's more believable it's more believable for them to be giving something to someone else rather than to you and you being the recipient of it because then you're in a position where you can judge and they don't want you to be in that position because they already believe that they're not good enough and it's like what if they can't make you happy what if they can't satisfy you and then you get the last laugh you've got one over on them you can reject them, you can humiliate them and they don't want to give you that satisfaction so that is why following the discard they go off the new supply they flaunt them in front of you maybe on social media because in a way they're still trying to impress you and they want you to think that they are good enough they do have something of value that they are sharing with someone else because it's much easier for them to do that when you are not the direct recipient of it when you're just an observer of it and you assume that it must be true, it must be correct because that's how the person seems to be happy with them so how can it be wrong when in actuality they've just fallen for the false character just as you did in the beginning that's all that it is and they know that they can't fool you with that anymore so they go off and fool someone else and they also use that as a punishment for you so that's what they're doing and this is why they ghost you but yeah, they're never going to find that supply that they got from you anywhere else it's not going to be at that level it's not going to be high grade what you have is very unique and this is how they were able to manipulate you in the beginning they were able to manipulate you because you're innocent because you're naive I mean here's the thing, they can't really manipulate people who are already contaminated that's not going to work if people are broken and damaged they're going to see it a mile away they're going to know that they're being manipulated and in actuality people who are broken and damaged they're going to be highly paranoid they're going to assume that they're being manipulated even when they're not they're going to assume that anyway but you, because you're so pure innocent and contaminated and at times maybe even naive that's what made you so susceptible to the manipulation that's how they got you because if you weren't and if you realised what was going on if you were maybe exposed to this so many times already to the point where you can no longer operate in a natural state then you wouldn't have been fooled you would have seen that a mile away but as I said that is very rare what we have as chosen ones, as empaths where we are pure we are natural, we are uncontaminated yes we may have been exposed to certain things but it doesn't have that much of an effect on us to where we refrain to where we pull away and this is why we just fall for it so many times we're always the fool we've been fooled so many times, why? because we are pure we are innocent and at times we are naive which isn't always a curse in many ways it is a blessing in disguise we are also highly sensitive we can experience things at a very deep level we have emotional depth and people who tend to be more manipulative, deceptive they're liars, cheaters, deceivers, future fakers those types of people, they lack emotional depth they're not highly sensitive they don't experience things at a deep level they don't experience deep satisfaction at a moment like we do and that's why they're so miserable that's why they're the ones who manipulate and deceive and they try to get one over on us because we've got what they want they want what we have and what we have is this gift as empaths has chosen ones this emotional depth this high sensitivity yes they want to experience feelings, deep satisfaction just as we do but they can't and this is why they can't be alone this is why they need so many people so many sources of supply so many enablers and flying monkeys because they just can't be by themselves that experience deep emotion deep feeling deep pleasure with life, they can't do that and yet they come around us because they want to experience that and they know that the best chance they've got is by being around us because they can't find that anywhere else but they can also be very cautious at a certain point and tend to keep their distance because getting close to us puts us in a position where we get to judge them and it has the potential to make them feel inferior to us if they fail to satisfy or please us and that's not what they want they don't want to be put in a position where they're going to feel like they're not good enough they're trying to avoid that at all costs they're looking for the validation and yes, while they most definitely can have the opportunity to receive the greatest supply of validation they're going to get from anywhere from us it can also have the opposite effect as well if they do fail to satisfy us so that is why they may just go off the new supply, ghost you and settle for what really is low grade supply it's kind of like you know you've got like one of those extreme roller coasters at an amusement park and you get on there for the first time and you might scream you might close your eyes you might be like, yeah! in contrast to maybe like a kid's ride and you get on there maybe you're on it with your children it's kind of boring for you but you're doing a ruin the mood you don't want to ruin the fun for the kids so you're like, yeah! it's kind of like that that's what the contrast is like between you as the innocent pure chosen one or empath and just any other source of supply that's the difference and that is why they may come back if they believe that they can I mean I can't even put it into words but the supply that you have they're not going to find that anywhere else they're never going to get that again they're never going to find someone else at your level so let's take a moment to be grateful for these wonderful qualities that we have this high sensitivity this ability to experience emotional depth I know at times it may seem like a curse when you're around the wrong people when you're around narcissists who manipulate and exploit it they use it for bad for evil but when you're around another empath someone who knows how to use your gift to their advantage and to your advantage at the same time when you're around someone like that it can be an incredible feeling it really can and the best way to describe that it's kind of like you know we have these nerve endings in our bodies and it's like you might be ticklish on your neck because there's a lot of nerve endings here for an example so if someone tickles you there it's going to be a very strong sensation and it may be highly pleasurable but at the same time if someone pinches you there it's going to cause you a lot of pain and this is what it's like with our high sensitivity with our emotional depth yes we may experience low lows but that means we can also experience high highs not like that for narcissists they experience far lower lows than we do that's how they rage they experience depression, anxiety but they don't really experience points of emotions at all they make it look like they do but they really don't I mean you've got to think if they did then why would they be so manipulative and abusive there would be no reason for that to begin with and this is why they come around you to elevate themselves at your expense because you have what they seek you have that innocence about you you have that ability to experience positive emotions and they will not be around that that's why they love bomb you in the beginning because your positive emotions will be valid in the first character that is such a potent source of supply for them yet then they have to settle for your pain your suffering which is not what they really want that's their cold level of supply what they really want is the diamond supply the problem is they're emotionally bankrupt they can't afford to sustain that level of supply if they could believe me they would but they get insecure, they feel inferior they feel like they're not good enough and then they've got to pull back then they've got to devalw you and it's sad when you think about it because the truth is that's not what they really want and you can see that but the amount of times they try to bring back the false character and manipulate you again it's telling you what they really want the problem is they feel insecure they feel like they're not good enough they don't want to put themselves in a position where you get the last laugh where you get to humiliate them because as many of you have experienced the reality is they're not good enough narcissists aren't good enough and that's the whole point of their arrogance their entitlement they show an exaggerated sense of their abilities and importance it's exaggerated because deep down they are inadequate this is why they're leeches they're parasites, they're bottom feeders they lack the skills, the qualities, the capabilities they've manipulated people their entire lives so they've never had to do the work they've just relied on their manipulation but that can only get them so far especially with an empath, a chosen one but this is just how it goes they want to have the best but the reality is they're not even good enough for it it's like they apply for a job in accounting and they haven't even got the qualifications they haven't got any experience but they want the money, they want the payout so they stay in that job and then all of these things go wrong there's all of these problems but they still went for that job even without the qualifications even without the experience just because they wanted the payout the getting situations where they're really just not even fit for a purpose they're really not they can't handle being around someone like myself someone who is high energy highly intelligent, I'm direct, I'm real I don't like manipulations I don't like lies I don't like any fake stuff I like to be open and honest I like to be real I enjoy deep intelligent discussions I can stay in high vibe 24 hours a day, there's no problem for me at all I'm highly motivated, I'm hard working and I'm sure many of you are as well they can't be around someone like us for long periods of time but we are exactly what they want the problem is they can't sustain someone like us so then they feel inferior they feel like they're not good enough and that is why they devalue us they try to cause all of these problems for us they want to sell and charge our lives because they feel like they're not good enough for us and the last thing they want is to see us walk away and share these amazing qualities with someone else because then it's like oh that person is good enough but I wasn't and then they feel jealous it triggers them to reflect on their insecurities on their inadequacy and that's the last thing they want they don't want that to happen so they've got to bring you down they've got to destroy you in the end to prevent that from happening so that they don't have to be served this reminder of just how inadequate, irrelevant and insignificant they regard which they try to cover up with their arrogance and entitlements their exaggerated sense of their own abilities and importance but they can only do that for so long until you start to figure them out and then even when they ghost you the last thing they want is to see you moving on they want you to be left alone and isolated without any help or support they want you to just stay in the ditch where they left you because when you climb back out and you move on and you become successful you become happy maybe you get into a new relationship you get married, you have children you start a business all of these things this all becomes a reminder to them of where they have failed of how they were never good enough for you and although deep down yes they may know that that is true they do not want to be reminded of that they want to feel like they were on your level or the fact that they were superior to you even if it is just in a fantasy even if it is just in this delusional world that they have created in their minds that they try to pull you into or maybe you have your own fantasies maybe you like to read certain books watch certain movies the certain characters that you admire and then they try to impose themselves on you as though they are that like all right if you are that let me see you be that let me see you actually do the work but of course no they can't because it's all a lie it's all manipulation, deception, gaslighting lies and future faking and the reality is that they're never going to be anything but once you separate yourself from them and you move on you have some time to heal and it's like despite everything they made you believe about yourself you can heal move on and become successful just as I have done I've got a YouTube channel now with over 170,000 subscribers with over 40 million views and my TikTok as well with over 18,000 followers massive achievements and I was always told that I'm not good enough I'm never going to be anything but guess what, that's by people who knew they weren't good enough for me I knew that if I could be my authentic self and live up to my true potential I would quickly elevate and leave them behind and then they would be forced to recognise that in fact they're the ones who are not good enough for me it's really sad but this is just how it is this is exactly how it is and this is why they devalue you they leave you in such a state and then they discard you and then just to make it even worse they may even start a smear campaign against you triangle it with someone else inflict all of this pain and hardship on you just to bring you down even more and sustain this false reality because that's just really how it is all along they knew that they weren't good enough for you but they're in denial that's really how it is and I know for a lot of you this may be difficult to accept it may be a shocking truth but I'm telling you after six years of research five and a half years of making these videos I can say that this is actually the reality and if you look back I've been saying this from the very beginning I just don't really make a big deal of it anymore because it's nothing new I mean I've known this for over six years and in all honesty I think I knew this from the very beginning I knew this since I was a child and you may have noticed on my community page I posted a poem that I wrote back in 1999 when I was just ten years old a poem about how it's not my fault I was being blamed and punished for things that I didn't even do and I'm sure many of you were as well when you were a child by your parents, your family maybe your teachers or someone else and yes believe it or not it's actually because they feel inadequate they feel inferior to you that's actually what it is it does not matter what they say to you or what they do it doesn't make a difference that should not change anything of course they're not going to come out and just tell you yes okay you're better, you're superior you're more intelligent or even you're more attractive you're more successful you have more potential what kind of analysis is going to come out and tell you that that is never going to happen but that is exactly how it is they're never going to tell you that but I'm telling you that right now and as you know I don't like to sugarcoat things I am a truth teller and if the opposite was true I would just tell you that and I would tell you to work on yourself be better but this is the reality of it they already know that you are far greater than them this is why they target you this is why they bring you down this is why they talk about you behind your back to as many people as they possibly can this is why they do all about this is why they do every negative thing that they do just look at their behaviours they're negative and what is a negative behaviour it's where they're trying to take away from you because you're already too good you already have too much in their eyes in comparison to them a negative behaviour stem from a negative emotion what are negative emotions they are emotions that are at the lower end of the emotional vibrational frequency chart emotions such as pride fear, guilt, desire, shame, apathy the types of feelings that they are experiencing when they are being negative towards you and yet sometimes they can be negative even while displaying a smile and in that moment they're still taken from you which is how you should know when they move on they broadcast their new source they're trying to hurt you, they're trying to punish you they're still miserable they're still trying to take away from you and they're always going to be that way because they feel inadequate and just being around you it causes a narcissistic injury every time because they know that they can never measure up to you they feel inferior and many of you don't even realise just how great you are you really don't but that's the thing I mean of course at this point in my journey maybe I don't fully grasp just how great I am but it's like even with this channel I mean there's like 326 viewers watching right now and 170,000 subscribers 40 million views of course I recognise this must make me quite a valuable person the message that I share it is in demand I'm wanted, I'm needed by so many people around the world I get that but at this point I don't really care that much it's not something to where it goes to my head as it would for a narcissist where it's like I'm such an amazing person I've got all of this attention all of these people looking at me all of these people listening to everything I say it's really not like that at all and when I read the comments I get hundreds of comments every day it really doesn't change my emotional state that much my happiness, my confidence it comes from within it's not dependent on what other people say or do for me even though at some level yes I do realise my worth I'm just not that concerned about it but just as it was many years ago where I underestimated myself I do believe that even right now I am underestimating myself I really do believe that I believe that I am far greater than what I believe right now I believe that I am capable of so much more and I don't even know it but at this point it's like even though that I could be more it's like do I really want to do I really need to is it really that important to me because for me as an empath rather than just consuming everything mindlessly for myself it is more about sharing the experience with other people I mean everything that you see in my past videos that you see on my Instagram even all of those times where I'd be staying in five-star hotels, villas driving luxury cars it was rarely ever about me it was more about me thinking all of the victims, the survivors everything they've been through they may feel hopeless, helpless like nothing's ever going to change and as though nothing could ever change for anyone else who has been through this for me when I showcased the hotels, the cars or my YouTube and in the Instagram when I did that it was more about me seeing it from your perspective and how it would feel for you to see this man who was once a boy and went through so much pain, trauma and abuse now sitting in the car of his dreams sitting in a five-star hotel that you never believed you could afford and despite it all now has a smile on his face I can still be happy and of course I've seen from the comments but that was the experience that many of you had it did make a lot of you very happy and that is why I continue to do it because I already knew when I was taking those pictures making those videos I knew it was going to make a lot of you smile just as it does for me there's some YouTubers I follow many of which, the REM paths they went through a difficult time there's one, I won't say the name but he has a very good channel and I saw not too long ago he had a new girlfriend that he was really happy with and he also bought a new Lamborghini and yeah that really did make me smile made me really happy for him, for his success and sadly although yes there's always the haters I think it's important to do that to work hard and then show your success to your followers because yes they will be happy for you if they are empathic if they do appreciate your hard work but sadly yes there's always going to be those out there who will get jealous and they will want to sabotage it they won't want to see you with anything despite all of the work that you have done and that's really sad because for us of course we would never have that experience with them if we've seen them and they've done the work it's like they climbed the mountain of course we would want to see them proud of themselves satisfied with what they have achieved but unfortunately it's not always like that because some people do feel inferior they feel insecure they have no belief, they feel like they're never going to be able to achieve what we can achieve so that's just really how it is sometimes we get all of the five star hotels the cars the trips around the world of course I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy that I'm someone who didn't really get to experience too much in his life probably compared to most people didn't have many holidays didn't have many nice cars vacations, stuff like that when I was younger so of course I did enjoy that but for me the best part was to be able to share it with you to show you that hard work does pay off if you're putting the work for many hours every day for many years you will get something back and you can be happy, you can enjoy your success despite all of the pain, all of the abuse that you may have been through there is light at the end of the tunnel I've asked really what you wanted to show you but unfortunately these days we can't just go broadcasting our success because people will see it and they will hate us for it they will want to tear us down they're not going to share our happiness and I hate to say it but it's true you can't just go sharing your happiness and accomplishments with everyone share it with people who will be happy for you not with people who are only going to seek to destroy it but yeah that's why I wanted to share it with you because I knew you guys would love it just as I love it when I see my favourite YouTubers it makes me so happy to see that they have moved on they've got the house that they want maybe with a pool they've got the car of their dreams, a Lamborghini a new girlfriend nothing brings me more joy than that even if I haven't got that even if I'll never have that because I know that those people have worked hard and I know that they have suffered they've been through a lot in life so naturally as empaths of course we want to see that anyway being on here for over an hour and I've enjoyed sharing this message with you I know that you all resonate with a lot of my work and it just feels good to know that I am helping so many people but you 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Hi, I'm Rusty Komori and this is Beyond the Lines. We are broadcasting live at the Pioneer Plaza in the beautiful Think Tech Hawaii TV studio in downtown Honolulu. This show is based on my book, also titled Beyond the Lines, and it's about leadership, creating a superior culture of excellence, and building winning teams. My special guest today is a fantastic example of all of this. He is the winningest college volleyball coach in U.S. history and the legendary long-time head coach of our University of Hawaii women's volleyball team. He is Coach Dave Shoji and today we are going beyond volleyball. Coach Dave. Thank you, Rusty. That was quite an introduction. Well, I have to say, Coach Dave, that you've been an inspiration to me for a long, long time. I mean, long time. So I'm so thrilled to have you on the show today. Well, thanks for having me on. I'm happy to be here. Now, I want to ask you... We go way back. Oh, no, you're going to mention that? Yeah. Okay. I want to ask you about your background, where you grew up at. I grew up in Hawaii. I wasn't born here because you asked me that I was born in California and moved here when my dad moved here to teach at the University of Hawaii when I was three. So I grew up here, but I had to go back to high school on the mainland because of circumstances and then went to Santa Barbara. You see Santa Barbara and then moved back here after that. Now, what sports did you end up playing before getting into volleyball? Well, when I was a kid, I played all the sport. I played football, basketball, baseball, whatever there was I was playing. Whatever season it was, we played. So I've got a pretty wide variety of background in sports. And then when you went to Santa Barbara, you went there on a baseball scholarship? I did. Wow. I went there on a baseball scholarship. After one year, I decided I wasn't going to make the varsity. I wasn't going to be a real impact player. I wasn't very strong and didn't have a great arm. So basically I gave it up and just was a student for a few years. Geez. And so when did you start volleyball? I started fooling around with volleyball because my roommate played a little bit and we would go to the beach and we would play some games on the weekend. And then it took volleyball class. And then the actual instructor was Dennis Berg, who is today my close friend. Wow. He's got a couple of famous daughters too, but anyway, he asked me to come out for the team. He said, hey, just come out, try out, see how you do. I think you can do well. And I did. And then I guess the rest is history. So you played college volleyball like for three years then? I did. My third year in school, fourth year and fifth year. I see. Yeah, it wasn't like it is now. It was really a kind of a cult sport, I would say. We had some really amazing characters on our team. And we didn't train very seriously, but we love the sport. We love the game and we would play every chance we got. Nice. And then your family, you have an amazing family, Coach Dave. I know your wife, Mary, Kovica, Eric, Kobe. Eric is my state doubles champion for our Punahou Boys Varsity Tennis team. What are they all doing now? Well, Kobe's married. She played volleyball in college. She went to the University of Michigan, but she's married to a football coach now, which has been very exciting for her. And she's got two kids. And so we have two grandchildren. Nice. If her husband coaches at the University of Southern, I'm sorry to say that, South Carolina. Oh, yeah. The Gamecocks. Gamecocks. Very exciting. We've been really involved in watching their games. And then Kovica, our oldest son, he's in Poland now. He's been a pro volleyball player, Olympic player for eight years now. And Eric, our other son, is in Russia playing professional volleyball in Russia right now. And if people don't know, your two sons are USA Olympians, bronze medalists. Yeah, they are. Must be the Jeans, huh? Well, I don't think it's the Jeans because I'm not particularly athletic.  And to make the Olympic team, there was a lot of luck involved. But basically, they knew a lot about volleyball. They grew up in the gym. They grew up at our practices. And so it was just natural. They were around it all the time. And I think that had a lot to do with them making the Olympic team, because certainly, physically, they weren't the most gifted players. So the mindset, I mean, they're just the internal climate. I mean, they're just awesome with that. Well, you know, we talk about volleyball IQ, and they certainly have volleyball IQ just based on being in the gym, watching every single match of ours. And when there were three or five, you know, they were in the gym watching games. So I think that's why they're such good volleyball players. So Coach Dave, when did you start coaching? I started after I graduated from UCSB, and I did a little stint in the Army, came home looking for something to do, and started at Kalani High School. Wow. Coach in the Varsity, 1972. Okay. Wow. Yeah. And then what, you also became an assistant coach at Punahou School as well? I was taking some side kind of coaching jobs in and up at Punahou, coaching JV, volleyball, JV, basketball. Geez. And so that was the same time I was doing kind of Kalani, and so it all kind of started back in the early 70s. Yeah. And then so how did the UH volleyball situation evolve? They had a team in 1974. Alan Kang was a coach, and it played strictly a club kind of schedule. It wasn't a very big thing. They started to have scholarships, but Alan couldn't do it the second year. They asked me to do it. In fact, Chris McLaughlin and his wife, Beth, were involved in the team. Yeah. And I was kind of hanging around, and they asked me to do it temporarily, and so I said yes, and the rest is kind of history. Temporarily, yeah. Now were you also a coach of the men's volleyball team, or were you always the coach for the women's? No, I did the men from 1978, I think, to 82, four years, and I was doing both the men and women, and that was really exciting, and got the program started, and today they could win a national championship this year. Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. I never knew that you coached the men as well during those four years. So Coach Dave, you're the head coach for 42 years. You won four national championships. Why are you successful? Why was I successful? Why are you successful? Well, a lot of it was, I guess, luck. A lot of it was luck. Everything kind of fell into place for us. We were always pretty close, 75, 76, 77, we were always top three, and at the time it was kind of a West Coast sport. Yeah. We had to beat Long Beach and UCLA and USC, but it wasn't the sport it is today, but it was quite competitive, and people asked me about that, but the main thing was that we recruited one superstar from the mainland, and that was Diane Sebastian in 1977, and so she was our big star. I think you have to have a superstar to win the national championship, and then filled around her with good local players. Yeah. We had great local players, Angie Andrade, Diana McInerney, or some of them, and Cheryl Grimm was on the team in 1979.  Same thing, 82 and 83, we had Deetra Collins. Oh, yeah. She was the superstar, filled in with really good volleyball players around her. 87 when we won, Suzanne Agie was the big star, and Tito Huna and Mahine Elaneki, local kids filled around them, so that was kind of the key to our championships. So, Coach Dave, what is your team culture of excellence? I mean, every CEO, every head coach, they have a culture of excellence that they try to implement. What was yours? Well, back then it was, and pretty much throughout my career, it's all about technique, you know, how to pass and how to set and how to block, and most of our practices were just technique. We would go 20 minute blocks kind of thing, where you work on just blocking.  And so I think that that's where our players got better. Technically, I think they were better than most of the teams that we played. A lot of teams were better maybe physically, but we, I thought we were better technically. So we would, I think, 60% of our practices were just technique. Sure, we had the ball ball, but there was no six on six kind of thing. And I think that's where I was good at. I was a good teacher. I felt that was what I liked to do. I liked to break it down and our players got better by doing that. Yeah, so the fundamentals, the foundations physically was just rock solid? Well, I think it got to be rock solid. You could see players develop over the years, like a Suzanne Agee, and all of our players got better because they just worked on technique all the time. At the end, you know, they were very good volleyball players. So how much of the mental part did you focus on? I mean, the mindset, the internal climate, when did that all, how did you do that? Well, it came to the forefront a little later in my career. You know, we started to incorporate, you know, a team psychology doctor kind of thing we bring in people. In fact, Chris McLaughlin, who you knew very well, worked with our team. We had other people work with the team on the mental aspect of the game. They were experts at it. I wasn't an expert at it, so I did my own kind of thing, but I left it up to the people that had more education in that respect. So that became very, very critical at the end because, as you know, working with women, it was difficult because they had to balance all these kinds of things in their life with not only school, but just personal life and then have a big obligation with me in the volleyball area. So that was a big hurdle, and I think we did very well in that area. So coach, as a coach, as a leader, what is your leadership style? It changed, Rusty. It changed over the years. Early, I think, I was, you know, take a lap, kind of, and coach. You messed up, take a lap, and the kids, they didn't know any better. They didn't respond negatively. They would just do it, and that changed. And that changed over the years where you had to be more of an encourager and more of, you know, come on, let's, we can do this. Rather than demean somebody, and that just doesn't work in this day and age, as you know. So I've had to, I did, I would say, change with the times, and I was more nurturing at the end. And Robin Amole, who I coached earlier in her career, said, I got soft. You got soft, eh? That's not the case, though. I mean, inside, I was still tough, but, and I wanted our players tough, but it was just a different way to approach things. Well, the greatest coaches, the greatest CEOs, I mean, they have vision. They can adjust, they can adapt, and that's exactly what you did. And coach, I want to ask you, how did you get your players to rise to the occasion, to have that peak performance level consistently? That's a tough question, Rusty. I think in just overall, if your team is prepared physically, and they know that they're capable of winning matches, and I think that's the start. If you didn't have the talent, and you weren't up to par physically with the other teams, then you're probably not going to win. But I think our teams were, I think they felt they were prepared physically, technically, mentally. And so I think our players always thought they were going to win. I think there was any doubt. They had no doubt they were going to win or win the majority of the games, and I think that maybe answers your question. Yeah, and you know what?  That was very impressive. I want to ask you, coach, what is something that irritated you as a coach? I think what irritated me was not following the game plan and just kind of going off on your own. Well, the other five people are doing one thing, and then one player decides, well, I'm just going to do something else. I think I'm going to hit cross-court rather than hit line, because that's just what I want to do. That would kind of irritate me, because we talk about our strategy or game plan. And getting back to the other thing that you mentioned about me, but I think my involvement in sports in general, baseball, basketball, football, really helped me in volleyball. Because volleyball, you know, a lot of people can know about volleyball, but just to kind of see something that was going on in the court maybe wasn't necessarily related to volleyball, I think I had a really knack for, you know, when the substitute or this person's not doing well, but because of my overall background in sports. Yeah. You're just a great coach. A lot of good coaches. Coach Dave, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we're going to continue going beyond volleyball. Great. You're watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii with my special guest, Coach Dave Shoji. We will be back in a quick minute.  So join me every Friday on Stan Energyman at lunchtime, at noon on my lunch hour. We're going to talk about everything energy, especially if it begins with the word hydrogen. We're going to definitely be talking about it. We'll talk about how we can make Hawaii cleaner, how we can make the world a better place, just basically save the planet. Even Miss America can't even talk about stuff like that anymore. We got it nailed down here. So we'll see you on Friday at noon with Stan Energyman. Aloha. Aloha. I'm Yukari Kunisue, the host of Konnichiwa Hawaii, Japanese talk show on Think Tech Hawaii. Konnichiwa Hawaii is all Japanese broadcast show. And it's streamed live on Think Tech at 2 p.m. every other Monday. Thank you so much for watching our show. We look forward to seeing you then. I'm Yukari Kunisue. Mahalo. Welcome back to Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii. My special guest today is the winningest college volleyball coach in U.S. history and the legendary longtime head coach of our University of Hawaii women's volleyball team. He is the one and only Coach Dave Shoji and today we are going beyond volleyball. Coach Dave, through the years, what would you do as a coach to keep improving yourself? There are a lot of ways to do that. I think watching a lot of volleyball, nowadays I watch a lot of men's volleyball because my sons are playing overseas and so I would watch a lot of games and if you're a young coach, watch as many college games as you can, maybe some professional games just to see what the trends are with what people are doing, the games evolving all the time so I would try to stay up. Some people live in the past and this way is the only way. But the games evolving, every games evolving, look at basketball, three point shots prominent now back then you had to work it in and centers are big but now it's to guard. Anyway, I would look at a lot of games. The other ways to do it are go to clinics, learn from the best guys, look at where Russ Rose is speaking and maybe at a convention or something and try to pick their brains if you ever get a chance to talk to somebody but I would just watch games and see what the trends are. Knowledge is power for sure. In my book Beyond the Lines, Coach Dave, I talk about welcoming adversity and looking forward to challenges. How would you do that with your team to get them in the right mindset to look forward to these challenges? Well, I think you can always look at a loss. That's what we used to do. I mean we take a loss and that's where your weak points are brought out by the other team and so even though you hate to see, you lose on tape but I think that's the best way to go back and see what happened why you lost, what they exploited on you and then get better at it because the next guy is going to watch a film and say, hey, they aren't really strong in this area and then they'll exploit that so that's what we used to do is just, hey, we lost, let's find out the reason, let's go back, look at it, go back into the practice gym, work on those kind of skills. Maybe the next time out will be better. Yeah, you definitely learn a lot more through losses and when I coached your son, Eric, I mean he rarely lost. He's a tough doubles player. Well, he had a good partner in Alex Cheng, I'm sure. Alex Cheng and Eric, they were pretty dominant. It was fun to watch those guys. And the other thing that I should mention is that I love the dual sport or triple sport athlete. You know, Alex played golf and tennis and Eric played tennis and volleyball but I think nowadays the kids are two, one kind of sport. They get a lot of burnout, yeah? You see burnout in kids now because it's just too much. They started when they're 10 and they only play one sport and their muscles get broken down, they get hurt. Alex and Eric were multi-sport athletes. I think that's really good. They played basketball and golf and volleyball. So I really believe that Alex and Eric drew on the most other kinds of sports to win in tennis. No, I totally agree. Coach, what's an important lesson you've learned in your life so far? I've learned that nothing comes easy in the world at athletics. There's no shortcuts. If you take a shortcut, someone else is working harder and you're going to get beat. So I would say I just know that you can't cheat on any drill. You can't say if you had to do 10 reps in the weight room and you do 8 and you're not going to be the best person you can be. So I think that's the one thing that I've learned over the years in athletics anyway. Now you're so right because so many players, so many coaches, they're doing so much in terms of hard work and it's just whoever does more tend to have that little advantage. Well, a lot of people are natural athletes and they get by on that. Sometimes they think they can get by but like I said, if you get two equal people in athletic ability and one's working harder in the weight room and training and just living a better lifestyle, that person's going to win.  In my life? In your life. Trying to marry my wife. What happened there? I didn't want to get rejected. You know, I've been really fortunate. I haven't had many obstacles.  I see relationships that you form that are more important, so I've been really fortunate that somebody said that, hey, you didn't work a day in your life. I kind of agree with that. Well, you worked a ton. Yeah, and we won and you know, we try to win every year but those are obstacles and recruiting is an obstacle. Things at UH were always obstacles in our way but it is nothing major or rusty. Okay, now I want to pick your brain about this. What do you feel the best leaders do? I think the best leaders, you know, they take charge. They're not afraid to ask questions. They're not afraid to go out on a limb. They might get criticized but you can't lead if you're afraid of something. You can't lead if you're not going to speak up. I think the coaches that are strong people and they won't take no for an answer in some cases are the best kind of leaders. Yeah, and the greatest leaders, they're never complacent. They're always, you know, taking calculated risks. What are your thoughts about risk? Well, I think you have to take risks. You know, the one thing I can look back, we had a player, Nicky Taylor, who 6'4", had a great arm and she could hit. At the time, the trend in women's volleyball was to take that big person because she didn't play great defense because she's so big and she didn't move well but that wasn't the case with Nicky. We let her play back row and then we started setting her in the back row. No one was doing this. The men were doing it but none of the women, because we always had these back row specialists and let's get a better, faster kid in there and take the big kid out. But we left her in and it became something that was a weapon for us. We started setting her in the back row. She played pretty good defense for someone at 6'4". So that was a risk that we took as a coaching staff and we almost made a final four with that particular system and no one else was doing that. Coach Dave, who was a coach that impacted you the most? Dennis Byrd was my first coach and Dennis Byrd as a daughter named Lindsey Byrd who played the three Olympics and you're going to have her on pretty soon. He was my inspiration. He was my PE teacher at Santa Barbara who said, you need to come out and try out for this team. So he was my first college coach in volleyball. So what did he do that was so good? Well, he was a fundamental kind of guy and we worked a lot on skills and so I think that's what influenced me most that later in my coaching career which was five or ten years later but he was one of those guys that we worked on skills and that's how I became a good volleyball player or a decent volleyball player because I would work on this and this but he was my first coach and through this day he's one of my best friends. So you're so loved by so many people in Hawaii and you're retired now for two years? Two seasons. So what are you doing right now in your retired life? I knew you were going to ask. I golf and I surf and I travel. That's just about it. I have a honey-do list in the afternoons and work around the yard and sometimes work on the house and things like that but basically I'm not doing much other than having fun.  There's different parts of the world I'd like to visit. Like where? Well New Zealand is first and foremost I think my wife and I both that's maybe our next trip. But we're still following the boys we're still Eric's playing in Russia and I'd like to go to Russia Mary's been to Russia so we're still traveling. The secret desire for 2020 or 2020 is the Olympics whether Eric or Kofika could make the team again we're definitely going to be in Tokyo. So they're going to try for it? Oh yeah, they'll be on the US national team this summer and they'll just see how things go it's a tough business because you've got to keep beating out the next guy. Coach Dave, in my book I talk about a part where there's assistant coaches that become head coaches or assistant managers and they become general managers and they fail. Why does that happen? I'm not quite sure.  I think people fail because they kind of go off in tangents I've had coaches that have coached for me maybe 10 years they go on and they completely change what they've been used to in the last 10 years I don't know why, now they're a head coach and maybe I've got to do this I think maybe they should maybe go back and see what was successful for not only me but other coaches and go from there but a lot of people when they get that head job well I'm going to do this man I've been waiting to do this and this is going to be awesome something that's tried and maybe it's not tested maybe I don't know maybe I think so that's good now before we wrap up coach Dave I want to ask you one more thing what one piece of advice would you give to younger coaches right now? I would say take care of the details a lot of young coaches want to be in the gym and obviously that's where the passion is in the gym coaching, dealing with players but there's so much more being a head coach and administratively you've got to take care of that stuff the details because that's what's going to bring you down eventually if you're not successful coach on the court on the field everybody can do that kind of thing but they're really good coaches so with the training room with the administration with the facilities those kinds of things are really really important coach Dave I love the insights and you're so right about the details and that's why you are the legend I appreciate you for being on Beyond the Line today thank you coach Dave you're welcome thanks for having me and thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii with the training sponsor Eolani Incorporated for more information please visit my website RustyKomori.com and my book is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and all Costco stores in Hawaii I hope that coach Dave and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs Aloha


The Caribbean Digital Transformation Project has dispensed approximately US $200,000 for the rollout of 20 smart classrooms within selected primary schools around the island. Information Systems Manager with the Ministry of Education, Joshua Verna, reinforced the many opportunities this technology will facilitate for both the teacher and student. We are here to conduct some training, our smart schools, smart rooms training. The whole idea is that we are hoping that we can now infuse or continue to infuse technology and education to make the classroom setting a little more interactive so we could better reach some of our students who might not really enjoy the traditional chalk and talk. The smart classroom project incorporates deliverables such as the purchase and installation of equipment, the supply of furniture and now has commenced the train-the-trainer component with teachers from selected schools where the smart classrooms are installed. Francilia Solomon is a project coordinator for the Caribbean Digital Transformation Project. The training here today is to ensure that the smart classrooms do not become white elephants, that the teachers at the respective schools have competence in the use of these smart classrooms, that there be maximum benefits of the smart classrooms to the students. Twenty teachers from the north of the island benefited from hands-on training at the Dane Poulet-Louise Primary School, while another twenty teachers from the south of the island received similar training on the use of the smart classroom at the Bunsla Grass Primary School in Labry. It is a project's intention for the smart classrooms to be fully functional by the next academic year. And so with that goal it is our intention to provide training, support and hand-holding to the teachers until they are competent and capable to fully utilize the system to deliver online learning to the students of not only these schools but also others in their vicinity. The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the need to transform the traditional classroom into a more technological environment, incorporating digital tools for greater student engagement and effective learning. Everybody wants to touch their excitement, what is this, what's going to happen here, will we be using it? The teacher at the Millet Primary School, Mary George, relayed the excitement of the students to the new technology and her expectations of the training provided on the use of the smart classroom. I must admit that I am very impressed with the transformation so far. Even the smart classroom happening now when the students come in, they too are eager and excited to be part of what's happening. So I know that it is going to bring a new methodology, way of teaching, way of students interacting and we're all eager to see what's going to happen. Out of the training today I expect that I will get the necessities to be able to use the equipment that we've been given because it's quite a bit and it will really mean that I must have the skills to be able to use it. The OECS Commission also facilitated the smart classroom training. The Caribbean Digital Transformation Project previously donated to the Ministry of Education 2,100 tablets for grade 6 students and 2,100 laptops for Form 1 students. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, Glenn Simon reporting.


When I was 10 years old, I always saved up my little bits of pocket money, and I would spend time in the second-hand bookshop. And I found a little book about this size, and I just had enough money to buy it. And it was called Tarzan of the Apes. I decided I know what I want to do when I grab. I'm going to go to Africa, I'm going to live with animals, and I'm going to write books about them. That was my dream. And everybody laughed at me, except my mother. And she said to me, Jane, if you really want something, you're going to have to work very hard. You're going to have to take advantage of opportunity and never give up.  One chimpanzee, David Greybeard, who one special day showed me that chimpanzees can use objects as tools. So I saw his hand reach out, break off a piece of grass, a stem, push it down into a termite mound, leave it for a moment, carefully pull it out. And all the soldier termites were biting on with their jaws, with their mandibles.  At that time, scientists believed only human beings could use and make tools. And so when I saw David Greybeard and then all his friends using and making tools, it was a very exciting time. Mr. H is my symbol for the indomitable human spirit. Mr. H was given to me 29 years ago by a man who went blind. He was in the U.S. Marines, very brave. He was with the helicopters. And he went completely blind. And for some peculiar reason, he decided he wanted to become a magician. Imagine a blind man being a magician. Everybody said, well, Gary, his name's Gary Horn. Gary, you can't be a good magician if you're blind. And he said, well, I can try. And if he was standing here, you would not know he's blind. Don't give up. There's always some way forward. Do any of you ever think about what's happening in the world and how we are harming nature so much? Does anybody think about that? Roots and Chutes is about hope. And there is hope. You're the hope. You're my hope. Everywhere I go in the world, I find young people like you wanting to tell Dr. Jane about what they've been doing. So if I come back here in a year, you'll be able to tell me what you've been doing to make this a better world.


My name is Nancy Afandi. I am a first-generation student. I transferred from California to be able to study material science and engineering and I'm thankful for financial support I received from the College of Engineering. That helped me speed up my graduation time because I was to graduate in 2022 due to financial issues that I faced being a first-generation student. So scholarships do help first-generation students reduce the burden they do have. It helps them focus on their education and it also gives them the motivation that someone else out there also cares for them. Someone else out there wants them to succeed and it helps us improve our GPS because we are now more focused on our inner education and we also have more time to be able to join study groups, be able to go to the library, be able to go to professor's office work and not work two or three jobs. First-generation students have family members they take care of. They do create the paths for themselves because in their families there is no one to support them or give them any form of guidance towards achieving educational goals and when they do get support like the financial support I received it enables them it gives them that boost that they need to be able to succeed and actually open doors for other family members they have or other people that never knew getting a college degree is actually something very possible. Being a first-generation student to me does mean a lot because it does show the resilience I've had to endure the perseverance and also the hope because it's all about hope it's all about dreams without that you really can't scale up any mountains and being a first-generation student there are so many mountains you have to scale up. I'm really thankful and ever grateful for the support Padu has given me so far I'm excited to graduate and my only hope is one day I'll also be able to give back to Padu. Thank you


Hello, in this video, we'll have a look at some typical mistakes which might happen during operating system-based embedded application development. Let's start with the most common possible issue. What would happen if we will use the same timer, it is by default cystic, for HAL library, time-based management, and for free R2S. In free R2S it is used to generate the time slices. If we are generating the code using stn32cubemix or stn32cubede, only receive a warning message prior code generation, but we can still generate the code with those settings. Possible issue during runtime could be improper timing management within the system where we will use HAL library functions. Please remember that within free R2S, cystic and pentasv interrupts are configured within lowest possible priority, so all operating system functions will freeze those interrupts every time will be in a critical section. In such a case, all planned delays timeouts within HAL-based code will be negatively affected, so delayed. Solution for this is selection of different time-based timer which would be used for HAL libraries. It can be done within sys, peripheral group, in stn32cubemix or stn32cubede. The best choice is either timer6 or timer7, as those two do not have any input nor output channels. Once we did it, after congeneration we can observe a new file in case of stn32l4 it would be stn32l4xx underscore harl underscore timebase underscore tim dot c file which would contain harl time-based timer functions implementation like HAL init tick to insuline selected timer to 1 millisecond time-based timer, HAL suspend tick to stop interrupt generation by time-based timer and HAL resume tick to start interrupt generation by time-based timer. Additionally, within stn32l4xx underscore it interrupt file there would be a new interrupt vector implementation of selected timer which would be used to generate our time-based for HAL libraries. Next possible problem we may face is once we call the operating system function from interrupt routine. In case we observe no effect of this function execution we should check its return value. If it is OS error ISR, so this is minus 6, it means that function mustn't be called from interrupt but only from the task code. As an action it is necessary to call the function from any task code or change the function which should be called from the interrupt. Another option is to use interrupt to trigger any task to perform this action instead of the interrupt directly. Another possible problem is related to not properly configured interrupt priorities. Please remember about the split with an interrupt vector into three groups once we are using operating system. The first group is completely independent from the operating system. Those interrupts have higher priority than configmax syscall interrupt priorities stored within 3.0.sconfig.h file and those interrupts are completely not affected by the critical sections used within operating system. The next group which is specified is the group which is below configmax syscall interrupt priority group and those interrupts are dedicated to fully cooperate with the operating system by calling its functions. And this is why those interrupts will be blocked by operating system critical sections. And within our coding we should call operating system functions only from those interrupts from interrupts from this group. The third group is collecting the interrupts related to scheduler tools. We've got here two of them, it's cystic and pentSV. Those interrupts have lowest possible priority to not block other hardware resources of the embedded system. The most common mistake is using interrupt from the first group to call operating system functions. In such a case once we would perform any modification within operating system, so for example changing the task state, its priority, switching the context, etc. And interrupt with higher priority will come, it will change operating system settings which may result in system crash at the end as interrupts from the first group are not blocked by the operating system critical sections. It is up to the user to monitor a proper level of interrupts which interacts, so calling operating system functions. There is a warning mechanism within freeR2S as well, it is enabled by default. It is enabled by setting config assert within freeR2S config.h file once and once interrupt with higher priority then maxSyscall and will be called, will call operating system function will land within vPortValidate interrupt priority function where we can implement a corrective action. What could be the root cause of the situation when the task is never selected by the scheduler? There are a few possible scenarios, task can be in blocked state waiting for other operating system component like queue, semaphore, flag threads or event threads which are either not released or are taken by other task first. It may happen that expected operating system component should be given from interrupt which is either not enabled or blocked. Solution here would be a correction of interrupt priority level or in other action to unblock requested operating system component. Another scenario is that higher priority task is constantly in run mode. In this case, if it was intended to send this task to the blocked state please verify whether OS thread yield has not been selected instead of OS delay. Please remember that yield operation is sending task from run to ready state not to blocked state but to ready state. In such a case higher priority task will be selected immediately for execution and lower priority tasks will not be in run mode. Solution here would be a replacement of yield function to, for example, OS delay one. The first scenario is that you can use cooperative configuration of our operating system. We can check it within free RTS config.h file in case use preemption option is clear to disabled it is our case. In such case an active task will perform its operation still it will decide to finish the job by calling yield or OS delay. So we can observe the situation that other tasks are completely blocked by this. Last scenario I would like to mention here is improper task priority. As we are using CMC OS version 2 layer over free RTS OS it may happen that in some areas of the code we will use numerical value of the priority once in other places we will use OS priority underscore t type def. Please notice that once you are using stm32cube IDE or stm32cubemix you have set a 56 priority levels which is not configurable it can be changed manually in free RTS config.h file within config max priority field. Please note as well that there is a numerical gap between OS priority idle coded as 1 and next one OS priority low coded as 8. If we select something in between and within the code we will use other components from this type def OS priority underscore t we may face an issue with correct task execution or it's completely blocked from the run state. You can find more information about OS priority underscore t type within CMC's underscore OS section of this training. Sometimes we can face the situation when the task which is waiting for the semaphore is unblocked immediately even semaphore has been not given yet. There are some possible root causes of such a situation. The first of them is when there is a too small timeout specified in the function and lack of monitoring of the returned value. Please remember that semaphore and queue wait acquire function can wait for the component so semaphore or queue for a specified time it is a last argument in a function and then after these those functions return a negative value it is OS status underscore t type and task continues its execution even the requested object has not been received. So this is important to check the return value of the functions which are waiting for semaphore or queue and in case we didn't receive them a perform a different action. Another option here would be an increase of a timeout would like to wait for other OS component. Let's consider the second scenario so nonzero initial number of tokens during semaphore creation in such a case it is important to check how the semaphore has been created. Please remember that within OS semaphore new function we have three arguments. The first one is maximum number of tokens in case of binary semaphores it is one then it is initial number of tokens in case there is nonzero value here it means that semaphore will be available directly after its creation sometimes it is let's say desired state and the third argument is an address of attributes structure of the semaphore. Critical point is this initial number of tokens in case we don't want to have a semaphore available just after its creation we should keep this value at zero and in case we are using the code generators which are setting it to one we should change it manually within the generated code. There is one potential trap within software timers configuration which might cause issues with software timers callback execution. The root cause of such situation could be wrong priority assigned to software timer task. By default it is set to two it is third within 3R2S config.h file and it is configurable within stm32cubemix and stm32cubede within 3R2S configuration. Please have a look that it is set to two while there is a gap between one and eight within os priority underscore t type depth specified within cmcs underscore os version two. This is why it is important to change these default settings default two into other value which is inline with other tasks priorities. Otherwise software timer callback will be not executed as expected or not executed at all and where we can modify it we should modify it within 3R2S config.h file within filled timer underscore task underscore priority field or we can do it the same within 3R2S configuration using stm32cubemix and or stm32cubede. Another possible issue is related to two small stack assigned to the task. What are the possible effects? Also before code generation so within stm32cubemix or stm32cubede we will receive a warning that we need to change the size of the operating system heap so total heap size within 3R2S config.h file or within 3R2S config parameters. Once we will have a problem within our code so for example after local variables declaration within an entry function of the task we will land in a hard fault interrupt. Solution here is to increase the stack size defined within task creation function. Please remember that the stack size for task is defined in words. Let's assume the situation that the operating system heap size is too small within our application. It is easy if we specify all operating system components at the beginning during project creation. Then in case of operating system heap when it is too small stm32cubemix or stm32cubede it will generate a warning so that 3R2S heap size stop within 3R2S configuration and it will display the requested size of the heap versus a specified one. So we can correct it quite easily. It is a bit more complex, more difficult to detect such a situation if it will happen during the runtime of the application. And it could happen in case we are creating some operating system components from our code. This would trigger an additional memory allocation which has not been considered at project creation phase. In such a case it is good to monitor return values of all of the functions which are creating new operating system objects. In case the value is this return value zero it means that the object has not been created due to lack of the memory. In both of the cases the solution is to increase total underscore heap underscore space within 3R2S configuration. So it can be config parameter stop within stm32cubemix or stm32cubede application or manually within 3R2S config.h file. Thank you for watching this video.


Katy Perry was brought up by strict Christian parents who would only allow Katy to listen to Christian music. Katy seemed to be too sheltered to achieve mainstream fame. However, Katy discovered her flair for music at a young age though she would only sing gospel music at home. Young Katy would secretly listen to other types of music that she got from her friends. At the time, her family was also very poor so they would only survive using footstamps to eat from the food bank that was used to feed the congregation in her family's church. At the age of 15, Katy began visiting Nashville where she gained experience in songwriting and recording demos to cultivate her passion for music. She first signed a record label under her birth name Katy Hudson with Christian outfit Red Hill but the album flopped. Helping for better luck in Los Angeles, Katy worked with producer Glenn Ballard at the age of 17 but the collaboration didn't attract any record deals. Even though she recorded some songs with a few music levels, for some reason the albums failed to be released. She signed a deal with the well-known mainstream label Columbia Records in 2004 at the age of 20 but the deal didn't improve Katy's luck. She was later dropped. It took about four extra years before Katy was able to prove that she really had what it took to be a star. She soon signed a deal with Capital Music in 2007 and this began to move Katy towards fame. Katy and producer Dr. Luke co-wrote the song I Kissed a Girl which ended up being the lead single on her next album. Katy released her album One of the Boys which enjoyed a rave review by Madonna and propelled her to fame. Her plays in the music industry were solidified when the single hit number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. But Katy turned out to be far more than a one-hit wonder. Her music was almost always found at or near the top of every major pop song chart. She soon garnered four Billboard Music Awards, five MTV Video Music Awards and a whooping 11 Grammy nominations. When her success was carried over to the film industry, in 2012 her autobiographical film Katy Perry, part of me, gave fans a glimpse into her life and raked in $30 million worldwide at the box office. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Katy is now earning between $30 million and $50 million per year. There is a proverb in my country that goes something like, if you want to achieve success, you have to endure troubles. There's no better way to put it. If you want to achieve success, you have to be willing to go through hell. The problem with most people, however, is that a few failures make them back from pursuing their dreams, like Katy. So many people wish to become successful musicians, but after three or four setbacks, an average human simply looks for something else to do. So many people want to build businesses, but after two or three setbacks, they look for who to blame. The problem about blaming someone else for your failure is that you tend to think there is nothing you can do about it. But if you look at the mirror and blame the person you see there, then you can sit back and look for how you can improve yourself, become a better individual and try a game and a game until you achieve success. If you're humble enough to point fingers at yourself, you're strong enough to endure great failures, as Robin F. Kennedy said, only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Look at every great success in the history of the world. They are at the same time great failures. They suffered rejections after rejections, made mistakes after mistakes and endured failures after failure. That's why they succeed. Are you considering giving up because of your multiple failures? Remember the story of Katy Perry. She was born into poverty. Her music was rejected. Her hopes were dashed. But she wouldn't look back. Never look back. Never give up. Never stop trying. If you like this video, do subscribe to this channel. So you'll be notified when we publish our next video. Also, like this video or share it with your friends on social media. Thank you. We love you.