Hey guys, it's Nate, aka the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. It's another Friday on FIFA Ultimate Team. Are we going to have a promo today? What's going to happen today? I want to talk about it because basically we're at the end of Flip Birthday, the two week promo that has brought some decent hype to this game, especially with week one. You know, some solid SBCs, some solid content, some good pack polls for many of you guys out there, and just some really cool cards that we can use is now coming to a close. What is going to happen today? It doesn't look like we're getting a new promo. So I want to talk about the answer to that question. And that that question, the answer to that question is based upon this code that was dropped into the game a couple hours ago. And I'm going to show you guys that the market impact from this code, you know, people are getting smart. They know that these SBCs a guaranteed foot birthday player, these types of SBCs have so much hype that they drive the market crazy. And you can see what that EA knows that as well as we look at this pack code, we're basically getting the foot birthday party bag SBC again, we're going to be getting that SBC again, and it's also going to be coming out with an 86 plus rated rare player. And that basically this is what EA is doing, right? They're dropping an SBC that they dropped earlier this week, which instead of it just being a foot birthday player from set one, it's now going to be a foot birthday player from both sets. So I said earlier this week, I could see this SBC being rereleased again. Now, you know, I thought it would have come on Thursday, but it looks like it's coming today. And this is kind of our Friday content, I guess you could say is this player SBC. So again, this is just like the foot birthday party bag from before with a foot birthday shapeshifters or winter refresh card going to be in the pack. And it's going to be a guaranteed player pack again. I would expect it's probably going to be the same, the same cost, which what it was an 86 rated team with a team of the week moments, I think is what you needed for the first SBC, I would expect that again for today's SBC. But you can see here that EA sports is trying to maybe stop a little bit of the rise in the market with a 86 plus rated rare player. Now I don't know if they're going to release this as an SBC. In my opinion, I think they're going to release that this pack is going to be available as like the foot 20 SBC.  And today for foot 19 84 plus rated rare player, I think the foot 20 SBC will come out today and it'll be an 86 plus that's my hunch. Now if they make that 86 plus repeatable, that could get really interesting really quick. But for this SBC, what is this one going to require? I don't know, to be honest with you, I don't maybe an 84 rated squad that sounds crazy.  Maybe an 83 rated squad or an 84 rated squad for an 86 plus player. And I guarantee you that SBC is going to be heavily, heavily weighted towards 86s and 87s, which is still, you know, you're getting an 87 rated player, that's 30,000 coins worth of value in an untradable or 20, 25,000 coins worth of value in a untradable 86, which then people are probably going to go turn in for the guaranteed foot's birthday shapeshifters or winter refresh player. So basically, what we saw earlier this week, what day was that SBC come out? Did that SBC come out on like Monday or Tuesday or something like that? Whenever the first party bag came out, we're basically going to be looking at the exact same things they looked at then. We're going to be looking at today. And you've already seen this, this happened with the team of the week SBC as well. I want to show you guys the market impact since this SBC has been put out into the code. This is ridiculous, man.  If you're getting in right away, a lot of people are smart with this, but the amount that these cards have just risen in the past couple of hours is ridiculous. The index 86, which is an index of all the 86 rated cards on this game, 139 points before the SBC code is put out on Twitter and it's released publicly, boom, we're all the way up to 100, a 43% increase in literally an hour and a half, two hours. Ridiculously crazy. Let's look at some of these 86 rated players. Timo Werner, 24,000 coins at the moment. Is that even correct? It was updated 37 minutes ago. He's probably even higher now. He was 17K earlier today, man. The reward supply, this dude was 16K. He's already back to 24. You know, is this guy going to go higher? Technically, when the SBC came out, looks like it came out on Monday. These guys were higher than 25K, which is what the graph shows. If you bought cards, if you bought high rated players tonight before the SBC, I would be very careful with them. I would sell in the first hour, the first hour that that SBC is released. I would either take the coins before the SBC is released or sell in the first hour because we saw that happen with the index 83s and the guaranteed team of the week pack is that you made the most coins if you actually sold in the hype, which is selling before the SBC comes out. You made the most coins there. So basically, I think this is the 83s after rewards today, basically. Yeah. So they boomed after rewards, which is crazy. Maybe the SBCs that came out today helped that a little bit, but the team of week SBC, this is how the 83s looked as well. They went up, the SBC came, they went up a little bit more, and then they dropped down after that. So if you bought high rated players, I mean, again, you're looking at some of these prices, sterling is 42,000 coins right now. He was 45K, it looks like for the first SBC earlier this week. What was he on a Wednesday? Wednesday, he was 44, 45K all day, and then started to drop after that. So if you bought cards tonight, again, if you bought some high rated cards on the market, or maybe even in some informs, I would consider getting those out either in the hype or getting them out right after the SBC drops. That's kind of your options in my opinion, because these cards have risen up so much already, and that's a lot of investors that are buying these up. Yes, there's a lot of hype for these cards because this SBC is a big one, getting the possibility of getting a guaranteed foot birthday player from either set one or set two. That's huge. That's huge. The possibilities here for an Mbappe, for a Hazard, for a Griezmann, St. Maximon, Hernandez, a lot of big possibilities. But this is what I want you to remember. Who did you pack and who did you see people packing from the first set? A lot of us guys I packed Shapeshifter Maris, which that was actually a dub, 355K for this card. A lot of people packed this guy, Hatebauer, Nandes, Canes, Renato Sanchez, or some of you guys got Winter Refreshes. I saw a lot of people pack Ericsson, oddly enough. Cornet, she is like, the odds are that you're probably going to pack one of these guys. So again, this is another opportunity for us to watch the panic selling on some of these cards, right? Watch these cards, see if they get panic sold. This areola is actually down. He was over 100K today, I think. Yeah, he was right at 100,000 coins earlier today. Not really down that much, 90K. But watch the panic selling on some of these cards. They've risen already after rewards. And again, this is basically whatever happened with the first party bag SBC. We're going to be watching that same panic sell. Again, I think it was either Sunday or Monday. I think it was actually Sunday when that SBC came out. Yeah, it was Sunday when that SBC came out the first time. So again, just watch the panic sell on some of these. Remember which ones are hype because those are the ones that are going to rebound the most. And of course, the ones that have the best links, the most meta, those are going to be, wow, this Kante is 783. The shapeshifter cards are crazy rare anyways. But if you're somebody who wants to buy a foot birthday two card, I know I was talking to you guys today about the buy time for these was probably right before rewards or right after rewards. This is going to be another opportunity if you didn't buy to possibly get in on one of these guys for your team. If you see Lacazette down below 1.05, 1 mil because these guys are going to be going out of packs again today at 6pm UK. But they'll be available in that SBC. I still think a lot of these guys have potential to rise up. Douglas Costa was like 540K at his lowest last night. And I think he had 570 at one point today. Yeah, he definitely did 570 right here, 572, 573. Now he's back to 555. So again, this morning, as you guys are waking up, as you're wondering what's going to happen today on foot, it doesn't look like we're going to get a new promotion. But it does look like we are going to be getting some panic selling on the market because people always panic sell on Fridays to begin with because they just magically think a promo is going to appear for some reason. You always see a little bit of a downturn on Fridays. But again, if it's a foot birthday card, especially like a Pugba or a Bayo, how many people are going to be packing those cards from this guaranteed SBC? Just about nobody. Let me tell you, from the pack weight that we saw on the first SBC, this is going to be a great time to pick up on some of that panic. If you do see it, you know, like Dacosta, right? I like Dacosta because he's bounced around a decent amount of price since he has been in Pax. Right now, Footbin says he is 209,000 coins, which I think is right around his lowest. 208,000 for Dacosta still in Pax, possibly some panic selling this morning. Right? Take a look at some of a guy like this, right? If you would see him at 100,000, under 200,000 coins might be my buy situation because he has not been that low. And I do think that he could easily bounce back up to 210, 215, literally hours after the SBC, which is, you know, taking care of your tax on that card. And then, you know, we can leave people going to try them out. I think it could hit 225K. And if you wanted to hold them the extra week, we saw what has happened to the set one of foot birthday cards, you know, after they've been out of Pax for a week. This is a Griezmann card was 1.5 mil, 1.55, 1.6 mil-ish at the most when he was in Pax. And now the dude is like, I think he hit 1.75 today at one point. Right now he's 1.7. There's probably a few people selling, getting ready to sell. Before this pack could come. And then you have guys like Mbappe as well, man. This price right here, if you're somebody who bought foot birthday Mbappe, I would highly consider taking the coins. And this is something else that I wanted to talk about today because this team of the year, oh my gosh, this card is 5.4 million coins. The best version of Mbappe in FIFA 20 is 500, 400,000 coins less than the 5-star week for the version. I know this is crazy, 5.795 million for this card. Bros, I'm serious, if you bought this card, I know the 5-star week foot is huge, but we're in this part of the game where, yes, this card might stay a decent amount higher for, you know, maybe the next week or two. But this might be a peak for this card is we continually have SBCs that are taking coins off the market and no coins coming onto the market via lightning rounds, via packs being opened, promo packs, etc.  I know some people that have bought this card for like 4.6, 4.5 million coins last week when he was in packs, it is very lowest. The dude is now 5.8 million, all right. I would take the coins. I know that you want to use that card, maybe you've used him for a week. If you want to play with him this week in league, maybe you play with him for, you know, Friday's games and sell him on Saturday and then, you know, take your coins there and go play with either the team of the year or go play with like the 93 inform and save yourself some coins that way. But I think this card is just ridiculously overpriced at the moment. And you know, I'm a little curious about this one too. I'm a little curious about Alan St. Maximon. The dude is one, he's over 1.6. Is he 1.6? This guy is so expensive, man. 1.65 million coins for this card. The hype's going to stay there for a while because 5 star, 5 star is massive. French right now. French is just dominating foot, you know, with the Bacchiocos and so many French players in this promo. That nationality is dominating FIFA at the moment. So I think it might take his price a little bit longer. I think he'll stay around the 1.5 to 1.6 range for a few weeks. Although I could see the Mbappe dropping down to like a 5-3, 5.2. And I do envision the full birthday and the team of the year kind of staying close-ish in price. And again, we don't know what team of the season is because team of the season is going to affect these player prices a lot. And these full birthdays are actually going to be pretty interesting to follow during team of the season because some of these guys are not going to be getting team of the season cards. Paul Pogba is case and point number one. I don't think, wow, 2-6, that is cheap. I don't think this guy would be getting a team of the season. And I think a lot of you would agree that some of these, maybe a bail probably wouldn't get a team of the season. Di Maria could, Lacazette no. So these guys are probably going to have some panic selling heading into tots. But then there could be some interesting, you know, trades and I think these cards will retain their value a decent amount just because of the weak foot and the skill move upgrades, which makes these cards just different than any other cards in foot. St. Maximon, I think he'll maintain his price really well too. But that doesn't mean that I don't think St. Maximon could be back down at like a 1.2 or 1.1 million coins in a couple weeks if we have another problem that comes out or if they release team of the season or something like that. So again, the most important thing today is this SBC is coming out. Price is already sky high. I do think you'll see some panic selling this morning. If you see panic selling on cards that are not a part of this, and it's a popular inform, meta, good nation, good league, for weak and league teams, if you see panic selling at all this morning, that is a buy for me because I do think it will rebound. Again, make sure you calculate tax in there. I mean, you have to see a card drop a decent amount for you to want to pick up on that and resell it. So watch for panic selling this morning to pick up some of that panic and sell it Friday later in the night. And then if you have bought high rated cards, man, I'm serious, this index 86, it's the highest index we have on foot bin. But this tells the story for me right now, man. And these cards are just going higher in price. These 86 is Marquinhos 34k, man, I sold Marquinhos this morning. I packed him in my weak and league rewards. I sold him for 25k. I sold him for 25k because I had no idea this, this SBC was coming. And he's 34, it looks like he went to 47. The last time the SBC came out. So if you want to take a risk there, you know, the centerbacks and, you know, centerbacks and probably left mid right mid left back right back, those always go up the most because of the links that they have. But, you know, these cards are going to be flying. So I would say if you want to take the safe route, a lot of people have invested, but a lot of people want to do these SBCs. So either sell before the SBC comes out or maybe throw the marbles out a little bit more and sell during the first hour of that SBC. So either sell before or sell in the first hour or two of that party bag SBC coming out in foot. No new promo today, I would think. I mean, we did get this Nick Pope SBC today, which is fun, right? This is cool. But other than that, the card is just kind of useless, right? Three star week foot, five star skills, you're probably see some people try to play in the striker, which is funny, which is cool, right? But, you know, the second week of this promo, I think has just been kind of first week was great, right? Incredible player selection, team two was solid. But the SBCs in week number two have not lived up to the hype that the first week did. So again, that's kind of foot, that's a wrap for foot birthday boys. This SBC today is kind of going to be a wrap for foot birthday. I don't see any content coming out this week. Maybe we'll get a promo next week. It is Easter weekend, which, you know, EA picks and chooses which holidays and which things they want to, you know, do stuff with in FIFA Ultimate team. But I would expect some sort of like maybe a kit SBC or a pack SBC, Easter related, because that's a pretty popular holiday across the world. I mean, they did something for St. Patrick's Day. They did stuff for Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rats, which is the TFO that I still rock and game. Shout out to EA for that one. Yeah, I would expect a little bit of stuff this weekend in SBC or something related to Easter. So just look, be on the lookout for that. I don't think it'll be a new promo though. And again, we'll probably see some market rise in the Friday night. Watch the panic this morning, sell your high ratings if you have them.  If you want to try to craft the party bag SBC, I guess you could do a couple of the 80 plus player picks. These give out a lot of 83s and 84s. And then maybe if you snag an 88 or an 89, I've had decent luck with these. You might be able to craft yourself that party bag SBC as well as maybe doing this, the foot 18, the foot 19. And if they put out that 86 plus SBC today too. There's a lot of stuff you can, SBC wise, you can drain your coins into right now, but the market stays high just because of the amount of people on the game and the amount of coins that were put on the game a couple of weeks ago. It's kind of like a, I don't want to compare it to Team of the Year, but it's kind of creating this bubble where we had a big promo. A lot of people are on the game spending FIFA points, opening packs, market is just high. And now we have all the SBCs trying to drag it down, trying to drain those coins for the people after again, put money in a little bit later. So that's my take on what's coming today in foot. Good luck with your party bag SBC polls. If you have any questions or comments, drop them down below in the description. Of course, subscribe to the channel if you are new. And you know what, hit this video with a thumbs up while you're at it too. You know what I'm saying? Hit the video with a thumbs up if you enjoyed it. I'll catch you guys later. It's been Nate, Foot Accountant. Peace out.


Many of you have written to me to ask me to give an example of cognitive dissonance and its resolution, and I'm going to do so in a minute. Today's video is going to deal with two very difficult issues.  Should they assist such a patient in committing suicide? Should suicide be part of the conversation? One option on the menu, a possible resolution away out, or is suicide illegitimate, utterly beyond the pale? Question number one, question number two. When people come to us and say they're unhappy, should we impose on them the ideology of socializing? Should we serve as mental health practitioners? Should we serve as socialization agents? Should we tell people the only way to be happy is to have friends, to interact with other people, to socialize? To go out, to have fun with others, to trust others, to confide in them, to share, to some extent to vent? Should we tell people this? Is there really a strong connection between socializing and happiness? And if there is, is it a universal rule? So these are the two topics of today's video, and of course both of them are connected to depression. And we're going to discuss depression to start with. But before we do this, my name is Sam Vak Nin. Now isn't this a simple family name? It's like two syllables, Vak, Nin, Vak, Nin, a little like the tinted ablation of a demented bell. But well over, hold your breath, well over 98% of you can't get my name right. Valkin, Vankin, Vadkin, only two out of every 100, only two get my name right. And this is despite the fact that my name is all over the place on my YouTube channel and my website. It's very easy to get it right. So why don't you get it right? You don't get it right because of cognitive dissonance. Here I am helping you, according to some of you saving your lives, changing your lives at the very least. Here I am providing you with information, with insights. Here I am making your lives better. But on the other hand, I'm a narcissist, a hate figure. So how to reconcile the two?   Now this creates dissonance. This is exactly, this is an example, a perfect example of a cognitive dissonance. Cognition number one, this guy is bad. This guy is evil. Cognition number two, this guy is helping me.  This guy is changing everything. This guy is great. How do you put the two together? The only way to do this, one way to do this is to get my name wrong. If you misspelled my name or get it completely wrong, it's as if the person you are thinking is not me. The person you owe your life to is not Vaknin, it's Vadkin or Vulkin. The person you should be grateful to is not Vaknin, it's Vankin. It's an amazing example of resolving cognitive dissonance by falsifying reality, impairing reality testing, and then displacement. The first thing you do, you get my name wrong and then you displace your positive emotions towards that other guy with the wrong name. Not towards me, with the right name and the personality of a psychopathic narcissist. Get it? Amazing. Simply amazing. Okay, Shoshanim, Chmadmadim and so on and so forth. We start with depression. Depression has been classified for a very long time now as a mood disorder. However, I beg to differ. I don't think it's a mood disorder. I think depression is a cognitive distortion. A cognitive distortion is a way of perceiving reality wrongly. Cognitive distortion, as the name implies, distort reality, impair reality testing. In the case of depression, the mechanism involved in falsifying reality is catastrophizing. The person, the depressed person, the person with depression develops helplessness and hopelessness. And the hopelessness derives from a scenario of everything is going to be bad, everything is doomed, everything is gloom, nothing is ever going to be as it used to be or nothing is ever going to be good. This is known as catastrophizing and it's a mental pathology. Catastrophizing is a pathological mechanism and we deal with catastrophizing in cognitive behavior therapy. But depression is a cognitive distortion. It's a filter. It's a glass darkly. It's a filter through which we misperceive reality, extrapolating the negative elements in our existence. Add infinitum to extremes, add extremis and minimizing the positive elements to the point of vanishing, actually overlooking the positive elements. So depression is all the hallmarks of cognitive distortion. Now mind you, cognitive distortions are sometimes positive adaptations. For example, when the baby says goodbye to mommy, when the baby separates from mother and starts to explore the world, the infant develops grandiosity. To separate from mother and then to venture out into the unknown, into this huge globe with these giants known as adults at the age of two or 18 months, you need to be seriously deranged. You need to be grandiose. So infants around the age of 18 months develop grandiosity. This grandiosity, which is a cognitive distortion, the baby believes in itself to be omnipotent or powerful. The baby says, I can take on the world. I'm a hero. I'm the greatest of all. I'm godlike. Of course, the baby doesn't use these words, unless the baby is very gifted the way I have been. So the baby develops grandiosity. Grandiosity is a cognitive distortion, but in this particular case, this infantile cognitive distortion is a positive adaptation, because it allows the child to separate from mommy and to take on the world, to explore it and gradually to develop object relations and become an adult, individuate, create an individual personality. So cognitive distortions are not always bad. If you're an inmate in Auschwitz, depression is a positive adaptation. It is still a cognitive distortion, because being depressed in Auschwitz is the same as saying the Nazis will never be defeated. Auschwitz is forever, which of course we know to have been counterfactual. The Nazis have been defeated. Auschwitz has been liberated, but depression within the context of being an inmate in Auschwitz is a cognitive distortion, and yet it's a positive adaptation. It allows you to survive, because having hope in Auschwitz would have been a seriously bad move. Hope in Auschwitz would have led to reckless behavior, constant frustration, and ultimately aggression, which would have resulted in execution. So depression kept the inmate within narrow behavioral confines and limits. Depression, this cognitive distortion in Auschwitz caused the inmate to channel the inmate's behavior in a way that would not endanger the inmate's life. So depression is not a mood disorder. It's a cognitive distortion. Sometimes it has its merits. We tend to give currently, in current psychological practice, I'm not a therapist and I'm not a psychiatrist. So when I say we, I mean mental health practitioners. I just don't want to repeat this phrase, ad nauseam. Mental health practitioners tend to give today two pieces of advice. Number one, if you feel hopeless, suicide is an option. It's legitimate. You should consider it. You can consider it. I'm going to help you. I'm going to facilitate it. I'm going to assist you in committing suicide. I'm kidding you're not. This is the current trend.  You see, it's a spoiler. I'm telling you what I'm about to say. I am dead set against suicide as a solution. I cannot conceive of a single situation where suicide is a solution when we deal with mental health. Physical health is something completely different. Euthanasia, physical health, physical terminal illnesses. Euthanasia should be a legitimate option, but never in mental health for reasons I will discuss soon. Number two, the second piece of advice that we give today, I mean mental health practitioners give today, all over the place, is the key to happiness, the key to contentment, the key to functioning, the key to mental health is socializing. You need to socialize and if you don't socialize, something is wrong with you. You should be treated. You should be medicated. You should be coached. You should be something. Well, that is manifestly untrue. People who socialize, people with social networks, constant touch with others, the ability to confide, close friends, these people are much happier than other people. That happens to be a fact. We will discuss it a bit later. However, socializing is not always a solution. Depending on your period, the period in your life depends on your circumstances, depends on your environment. Socializing is not always the solution. Socializing in prison, for example, is a seriously bad idea. Trust me, personal experience. Additionally, socializing is not for everyone.  I am the happiest when I'm by myself. The longer the period I'm all alone, the happier I am. People make me uneasy. I am stressed. I'm anxious. I hate the feeling of being with other people. This is an excruciating torture for me to spend time with other people. Small talk kills me when there's a need to discuss more serious issues. I lecture. I never dialogue. I'm not built to be with people. I have strong schizoid elements. And so do many other people. So the advice you should socialize is not universal and should not be presented as universal. And yet, in the mental health profession nowadays, both these pieces of advice are trundled about as if they were God-given. And that's a serious mistake. Suicide. Let's start with suicide. Let me be clear. As far as mental health goes, suicide is the enemy. The main obligation of a mental health practitioner of all kinds, psychiatrists, coaches, therapies, counselors like me, I'm a counselor. The main obligation, the main duty, the main goal of a mental health practitioner is to prevent suicide and avert suicide and fight off suicide and banish the thought of suicide and present alternatives to suicide. This is the main focus. This is the raison d'etre. That's the reason for the existence of mental health disciplines. What is it all about? It's all about prolonging life in a way where the patient or the client flourishes and thrives. How can suicide enter into this? Before I proceed, I refer you to the literature in the description. A good friend of mine, Afshalom El-Itsur, at the time he was in Bar-Ilan University, and another guy called Haim Omer from the Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University. They published a seminal piece of work titled, What would you say to the person on the roof? A Suicide Prevention Text. It was published in Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior on Volume 31 in the year 2000. It's an amazing text and the authors say, the purpose of this anti-suicide text is to provide potential helpers, professional and lay, with clear guidelines for communicating with a declared suicidal person, particularly in real times. When time is crucial and the act cannot be physically prevented, the text may also have a preventative effect when diffused to the white public as an anonymous address to potential suicide. I recommend that you somehow get a copy of this text. It's amazing. Now, let us enlarge the scope of the conversation a bit. Let's acquire some kind of philosophical dimension. There has been an ongoing trend, which started in proper medicine, legalizing clinician assistance in a patient's death. The term is Medical Assistance in Dime, made MAID. Physician Assistance Suicide, not to mince words. So it started with, OK, if someone is very critically and terminally ill, their life quality is horrible, they are suffering, they are tortured daily and by the minute. There's no hope whatsoever, no known medicine or procedure currently extant or available or about to become available within the lifespan or the longevity, the remaining time of the patient. Well, in this case, the patient should be given the option to choose suicide. And one could argue that the clinician is more an ethical obligation to assist the suicide, for example, to render it painless. So it started in countries like Belgium and the Netherlands and Switzerland was Physician Assistance Suicide there and spread to Canada. And today Physician Assistance Suicide in terminal stages of physical illnesses, which are irremediable, in other words, is not cured, is pretty common actually all over the world. In many places, even where Physician Assistance Suicide is illegal, doctors turn a blind eye and they let the patient expire. Or in cahoots and collaboration with the family, they disconnect the patient from life support systems. This is common practice. But then a very worrying trend started to occur. In several places, and again it started in Belgium and the Netherlands. In several cases, Physician Facilitated Suicide for Psychiatric Conditions is now becoming a norm, a reprehensible norm. In a minute, I will explain why you think so. Patients are provided with medications and lethal injections. And these patients, nothing is wrong with their bodies. They have psychiatric conditions. This is legalized actually in Belgium and Netherlands. And Canada is now on the verge of legalizing it. In Canada, Physician Assistance Suicide is legal since 2016. But now they're going to expand it and they're going to add serious mental illness as an eligible category where the physician could assist the patient to commit suicide. What is a serious mental illness? Only God knows.  It was listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Men. Homosexuality. Schizophrenia used to be thought of as a mental illness. Now we know it's a brain disorder. Autism was attributed to refrigerated mothers, bed mothering. Now we know it's Bushetism, neurological disorder. The field is in flux. Our knowledge is transformed all the time. Our understanding of diseases like tuberculosis or cancer is not philosophically fundamentally different to what we knew 100 years ago. We know a lot more about the molecular mechanisms and pathways. We know a lot more obviously. But the outward symptoms and manifestations of cancer in the year 1923 were the same like in 2023. It's not the case with mental illnesses. Our understanding of mental illness and particular mental illnesses is transformed by the year, sometimes by the week. And transformed from the core, fundamentally. So serious mental illness cannot be defined or captured with any accuracy at any given moment. And we are at a huge risk of mislabelling specific mental health conditions as serious mental illness. And serious mental illness which is actually we're going to discover nearly physiological or bodily. For example, bipolar disorder, bipolar disorder. Today we know that bipolar disorder is a physiological condition. And so the Canadian government planned to make serious mental illness an eligible category in March 2023. Luckily there was an announcement and they deferred their decision to March 2024. But this decision should never be made. It's wrong. The government said that the one year extension would, I quote, provide additional time to prepare for the safe and consistent assessment and provision of made. In all cases, including where the person's sole underlying medical condition is a mental illness. It will also allow time for the government of Canada to fully consider the final report of this and that. This is unmitigated nonsense. Unmitigated nonsense. There is no mental health practitioner or professional alive or dead. Who could, with any certainty, even minimal, design or assign a mental health condition to a hopeless category. In other words, there's no mental health practitioners who can declare that a mental health condition is hopeless. All mental health conditions are intermittent. Exactly like cancer. They have remission periods. All mental health conditions. Many mental health conditions dissipate and disappear altogether. For example, borderline personality disorder with age. Mental health conditions can be treated in a variety of ways and treatment modalities and vectors. Many of them are reclassified as bodily and physiological conditions. And I think what I'm trying to say is this classical medicine, conventional medicine is probably 4,000 years old. Psychiatry is less than 100 years old. What am I talking about? It's 50 years old. It's an infant discipline. Infant discipline populated by infants. Professional infants. Infants not in the psychological sense. Infants in terms of knowledge. We know nothing about the brain. Close to nothing. And we know nothing about the processes, biochemical, electrical. In the brain, in the intestines, which are somehow connected to the brain, we are finding out. In the spine, which is connected to the brain, we are finding out. We are finding out things every single day. We are not in a state of knowledge to make such a decision that a mental health condition is hopeless. And therefore suicide is a reasonable option. We are not, we don't have sufficient knowledge to say this. It will take another few hundred years before we will be in the position to say anything of the sort. Think of medicine 2000 years ago and medicine today. Psychiatry is where medicine used to be in the times of Galen 2000 years ago. Treatment, treatment, refractory conditions. Treatments, patients with treatment, refractory conditions. These are conditions which are resistant to treatment. These people, these patients, they go from one clinical trial to another. This psychotherapy, this medication, this and that. Electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation. I mean you name it. And they keep trying. They keep trying because they have hope. Hope sustains them. This becomes the meaning and essence and purpose of their lives to find some relief if not cure. And yes, there are treatment, refractory conditions, conditions that are not amenable to treatment. And yes, there are patients with such conditions. It's all very true. But to offer them death as a treatment modality that defies everything that I have come to learn about mental health. This is a betrayal and abrogation of the most basic duty of any mental health practitioner. And that includes coaches and counselors who are not licensed. When a psychiatrist tells you your only option is suicide or even when a psychiatrist tells you it's okay to consider suicide. This creates dissonance. The psychiatrist, exactly like a mother, should be a secure base. Psychiatrists should provide you with a sense of containment, of holding, of safety. The clinic, the therapy should be a safe space, not a source of terror, not a death threat.  Most of it is the outcome of conflicting signals by parental figures.  I love you, but I'm going to torture you.  I love you only if you perform. These conflicting signals create mental illness. So if a mentally ill person comes to a psychiatrist and the psychiatrist says, yeah, suicide is one of the options. Killing you would be a solution that creates dissonance, which then triggers early childhood conflicts, the very root and source of the mental illness. It aggravates the patient's condition. It renders it more treatment refractory. Where is the line? Where is the line? How does one decide whether this particular patient is hopeless? No treatment is going to work. There's no point in trying anything else. Who could make this decision? In medicine, the decision is clear because we have a gigantic body of knowledge. We know what works and what doesn't work and what will never work. That's not the case in mental illness. Not the case. Never is the case because the field is evolving. Medicine as a field is evolving technologically. There are new medical technologies, but there's little new fundamental medical knowledge. What is going on today in the field of medicine is fine tuning, refinements or discovering underlying mechanisms and pathways that lead to outcomes that were known before. As far as the phenomenology of medicine, we have almost 100% knowledge. As far as the what, what is happening, what is about to happen, we have almost 100% knowledge. As far as the why, why things are happening, we're still learning. When it comes to psychology and psychiatry, as far as the what is happening, we have about 20% knowledge. And as far as why, we have 1% knowledge. It's a young field. It is grandiose. It is hubristic to claim that anyone, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists or committee of these people can have sufficient knowledge to render a decision who would react to treatment and who wouldn't. And what treatment, by the way? Every single day there's a new approach, new theory, new score, new treatment. Physician assisted suicide for psychiatric conditions is, in my opinion, murder. It's murder. It's murder because suicide is intimately linked to depression. Depression is a cognitive distortion. The patient believes that he would be better off dead than alive. The patient believes that her nearest and dearest would be better off if she were dead. The world would be a better place if she were dead. These are catastrophizing cognitive distortions and we have the tools. We have very powerful tools to deal with cognitive distortions and to reverse them. Automatic negative thoughts and others. This is part of the illness. The chain is catastrophizing cognitive distortion, depression, suicide. That's a chain and we can break this chain. Today, mental health practitioners are lazy, indolent, self-indulgent and avaricious. You get a pill. Who wants to talk to the patient? It's too burdensome. Too boring. Just give him a pill. Just give him a pill and that's it. And the next stage is going to be, who wants to talk to a patient? It's too burdensome, it's too boring and pills cost money. Let's just advise the patient to commit suicide. It'll solve everyone's problem, wouldn't it? I can envision a future, very near future where physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists would be remunerated. They will get money for getting rid of patients via suicide. They will charge. Physician assisted suicide, 500 Canadian dollars. I can see the price list in the making as we speak. This is a very terrifying and serious development. There are also issues of racial bias, asymmetrical effects on the poor versus the rich. Competence of people with serious mental illness. I mean there's a conundrum here, isn't it? There's a paradox.  Isn't there an insanity defense here somewhere? Shouldn't we say, well, this guy or this girl, they're not in the condition to make such decisions, life and death decisions? Or is it comfortable and convenient to pretend otherwise? They can't make decisions about their money, they can't make decisions about their family. But they can make decisions whether to live or die. Mental illness, anyhow, is stigmatized. And patients avoid treatment because they don't want to be labelled. They worry about the consequences of getting care.   And so, in this recent piece by Diana Miller, Diana Miller is the co-author of Committed, The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care. She's assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. And she wrote this piece, as I said, titled As Psychiatrists. Do we offer hope or do we offer death? And in her piece, she quotes someone and I think it would behove us to listen. Susan Kalish, she's a doctor, a geriatric and palliative care physician in Boston. She does favour the availability of facilitated suicide, facilitated death. She actually, in favour of this kind of practice, she says in the piece that she's in favour of expanding acceptance of and access to medical aid in dying patients who choose to exercise autonomy over their dying process. For those who remain with irremediable suffering, despite provision of optimal palliative care. But she says, many countries have lowered the threshold way too far. She says it is complicated and harmful to the general issue of medical aid in dying. I think rendering suicide a legitimate option in the case of mental health is not okay.  Mental illness is intermittent. Mental illness is reversible. Mental illness is a new concept. It's 150 years old or if we go very, very far 300 years old. It's an infant. The profession is in its infancy. We keep getting things wrong all the time. We keep classifying and reclassifying and declassifying. We keep labelling things, mental illness, which later are considered normal practices. We keep saying that some conditions are very serious and then we medicate them and they go away. Psychotic disorders, for example, bipolar disorder, depression itself to some extent. Although we got it wrong with many antidepressants, to some extent, anxiety disorders. Many things used to be untreatable. Only a few years ago, a few decades ago. And they're not anymore. We need, when a patient comes or a client comes, all hopeless and helpless and fearful. And contemplates, this patient or client contemplates suicide as a realistic way out. We need to fight back. We need to refuse to listen. We need to decline. And we need to equip the patient or the client with all the tools at our disposal. From the fields of psychology and philosophy and religion and culture and society and history. All the tools, most recent research, discoveries, treatment modalities. All the tools. We need to fight tooth and nail to prevent suicide. Because if we don't do this, what the heck are we good for?  What are we here for? Feel good factor? Pretend knowledge where there's none? Facilitate the pseudoscience known as psychology? What is this show of reality TV pretensions to science? We have a humane mission to keep people alive so that they can be happy, which leads me to the next issue. And that is the issue of happiness and how we place happiness in a straight jacket with a single prescription. Universal, good for everyone. And if this prescription doesn't fit you, nothing's wrong with the prescription.  So there was a study on, there's a study still is, a study on happiness. The Harvard study of adult development. This is by far the most comprehensive study ever conducted. It has been following its participants for their entire adult lives. The study started in Boston in 1938 and has already covered three generations. Grandparents, parents and children. These children are now considered baby boomers. So more than 2000 people have been followed for 85 years of longitudinal study. There's nothing remotely close to this. This is by far the biggest study we have. Maurizio Weingarten, MD, wrote an article titled Lessons from the Longest Study on Happiness, again in the literature in the description. And he mentions that in January, Robert Wildinger, the current director of the study, published a book titled The Good Life, Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness, co-authored with the study's associate director, Mark Schutz. So they were following this huge population of 2000 people for eight decades, their descendants and offspring and grandchildren and so on and so forth. And they analyzed the factors most correlated with well-being and with happiness. And they came up with a series of factors. They discovered that the happiest participants had two major factors in common throughout the 85 years of the study. Number one, they took care of their own health. And number two, they built loving relationships with others. Now, being in good health, eating well, exercising, exposing yourself to the sun, taking supplements if needed, etc., etc. We all know that if you're not healthy, if you're sick, you're not happy. So reverse the sentence. If you're healthy, you're happy. My grandma could have told them that and saved them a lot of money. The second factor was that good relationships were the most significant predictor of both health, health and happiness during aging. In other words, if you just take care of your body and of your health, but your social life is lacking or you don't have any meaningful connections with friends, family, and so on, your health will not survive, it will not stand ground, your health will deteriorate. The condition for health and happiness combined is meaningful relationship, good relationship with others, loving relationship, significant relationship with others. So there are physiological mechanisms that translate social fitness, social skills, socializing as an activity, social being embedded in social networks. There are physiological transmission mechanisms, physiological vectors that connect these to your health.  But not only any social environment, but the social environment where you keep getting positive feedback, you can share with, you can confide in, you can obtain support and succor, affection, compassion, empathy, and so on, and so forth. This is a very specific profile of a social environment. What about professional success? What about career? No. Professional success, career, money, do not guarantee happiness. They are gratifying in the short term, but they do not generate long-term happiness. And this is also something my grandmother could have told you. Alas, she's dead, so I have to refer to the Harvard study. The study revealed that the happiest people were not isolated. They had valued relationships. They fostered and engendered relationships, and then they invested in their relationships. This was somewhat correlated with level of education, cultural awareness, and so on, and income, level of income. Because these people tended to have healthier habits, they had access to healthcare, and strangely they tended to have more functional social networking, social fitness skills. Loneliness creates challenges and stress. And if you don't have anyone to talk to, anyone to confide in, anyone you convent to, I mean, you're in trouble in this sense according to this study. Loneliness is the greatest predictor of both unhappiness and shortened longevity and bed health. It's not quite clear whether loneliness itself is the cause, or whether when you're lonely, you develop habits such as drinking or drugs, doing drugs. Which affect your health. It's not quite clear what leads to what. But somehow there's a correlation, a very strong correlation. However, a caveat here, this is not for everyone. People with schizoid personality disorder, or people with schizoid personality organization, myself, for example, we are extremely unhappy when we are with other people. I, when I'm with other people, I'm stressed, I'm anxious, I'm unhappy, I can't wait to get away. My happiness increases exponentially. The longer I'm all alone, and when I say all alone, I mean all alone. Like when I don't travel, I don't talk to anyone, I don't meet anyone, I don't chat with anyone, I don't correspond with anyone. I'm incommunicado, if I'm incommunicado for a day, I'm happy, if I'm incommunicado for a week, I'm seven times happier. If I'm incommunicado for a year, I'm 365 times happier. There's no limit to my happiness. It is directly correlated with the amount of time I'm all alone in solitary, self-imposed solitary confinement. So, in this sense, I have a schizoid personality organization. And so we cannot generalize this. I think many, many people have grown used to loneliness, developed a habit of loneliness, especially after the pandemic. But the pandemic was just a tip of a iceberg. People were becoming more and more lonely since the 1980s. And they passed on their loneliness to their offspring and children. Loneliness may be the new normal. And so these people who have been lonely for 10 years or 5 years or 2 decades or all their lives, these people would find socializing a very stressful activity. They would become annoyed and irritated. Having to talk to other people, having to spend time with other people would be perceived as an imposition, as a burden, as an obligation or a duty, the equivalent of going to work in the old days. So I wouldn't generalize. I wouldn't generalize. Waldinger recommends to assess how to foster strengthened and broadened relationships. He calls these maintaining social connections. It's like physical fitness. Let's call it social fitness, which requires constant practice. So friendships, relationships, commitment is investment. Investment on a daily basis. Commitment has to be maintained via regular investment. If you don't maintain the commitment, it fizzles out. A phone call, a single sentence via WhatsApp, this is maintenance. If you participate in activities that bring you joy, encourage camaraderie and friendship, sports, hobbies, volunteer work, whatever, this broadens the relationships network and enhances its depth. In short, experiences, common experiences are the glue that holds relationships together, providing these common experiences are uplifting, joyful, or and or meaningful. Happiness is not a constant. Happiness is not a constant. Life is about difficulties, about losses, about challenges. We need to develop resilience. Social fitness is about social skills, but also about perseverance, about tenacity. So it's not true that you can attain a condition of happiness and then it's like a plateau. It's not like that. You have to work daily at being happy. It's hard work. It's a full-time job. And life throws at you all kinds of curveballs, some of them are negative and some of them are positive. Things happen, new experiences, surprises, the least expected and suddenly you're faced with the distinct possibility of being happy. And of course the opposite also happens, tragedies. So you need to be on your toes. You need to be on your toes. You need to cultivate your relationships as buffers, defenses, firewalls against the exigencies, vicissitudes and ups and downs of life. To become healthier, to achieve happiness, to overcome challenges and difficult moments, you need to be surrounded by people. This applies to the majority of population, but we need not make it a general principle, universal principle, it's not. There's a sizable minority who react adversely to the presence of other people. And this minority is growing by the day because loneliness is a muscle. Use it or lose it and people are using it more and more. People are becoming habituated to loneliness. I think socializing would be considered abnormal by the end of this century. Totally abnormal because we will have alternatives like the metaverse and so on and so forth. It's out of fashion and individual psychology shapes itself to positively adapt to the external environment.  So I think this study reflects the past. The youngest people in this study are actually baby boomers. It reflects the past. I think the future is happiness through loneliness and self-sufficiency. Now it sounds ominous to baby boomers like me, but you know, Generation Z would find it normal. Generation Z would consider socializing, slimy, smarmy and pretty disgusting, revolting. I have to meet someone, revolting, they're sweating, they're smelly, they talk so much.  That's the face of the future.


The police hierarchy has won private security outfits to stay away from the upcoming general elections to avoid embarrassments. Speaking to journalists at an election security briefing organized by PR Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja, the force public relations officer C.S.P. Olumiwa Adejobi said the Nigeria police force and other security agencies are taking the charge of President Mohammad Ibohari seriously and will deliver as mandated. To assure Nigerians that we will do the needful, we have acquired what it is. Almost all security agencies in Nigeria have got one or two equipment that can actually place all in primacy when it comes to managing or midwifering to election security in Nigeria. I know almost all agencies have gotten what they should. So we are working together, we are collaborating together. But as you want to repeat that for us to have proper security architecture for election, some security units are not involved in election security management.


And Ghana has confirmed a community infection of the Delta variant of the coronavirus COVID-19 on Friday. And the Ghana COVID-19 Task Force said on Friday that the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been recorded within a Danian community. The Information Ministry said all relevant agencies are taking the necessary steps to contain the spread and that a positive persons are in good health. And on June 22, Ghana first confirmed six cases of COVID-19 Delta variants among passengers arriving in the country. The West African country confirmed 85 new infections on Friday bringing the national count to 95,914 with 796 deaths. So you get notified about fresh news updates.


Thanks for joining me for this episode of brutal battle beer break today going with another beer and can this one is by Temperance beer company. They're out of Evanston, Illinois And this beer is called gatecrasher and gatecrasher is an English style IPA I was told this beer is actually a medal winner from the great American beer festival 2014 I didn't really check that myself, but Usually when I hear those things I would just believe them Because who's gonna lie about that? 6.6% alcohol by volume for this since it is an English style IPA I'm assuming it's gonna be significantly more multi and have a lot more earthy piney type notes and there it goes if everyone could see it's getting Hmm up here really wants to get out of that can well We'll see what this means I can bet it's gonna have a decent amount of head to it and tell you that much I had another gusher not long ago on an episode. I forget which beer it was but What's going on here? I think it was the grotzer that I had by Westbrook. So go ahead and check that out Oh, anyway showed you can oh look. It's people's legs. I don't know some designs. I'm just like Okay, so the coloration is probably what you would assume for an IPA Very amber deep deep orange-ish coloration. It's very Very clear. You can see right through it. There's no sediment in there very filtered There is a citrusy aspect to the nose But there's also a decent amount of Maltiness and some piney aspect earthy Definitely gonna be like a deeper multi or IPA which you know, you'd expect for English style IPA's Trying to see if I can pick out anything else, but it's just kind of like some citrus and some earthy piney-ness Smells good though. I think it smells like it's pretty balanced between that kind of earthy note and the citrusy note Let's see pretty clean to be honest for an earthier English style IPA Not bad you get a little bit of the citrus kind of peeking through on the end But upfront it's very malty It's very earthy Because obviously, you know, if you know what malt tastes like it's pretty earthy aspect But the like I said the citrus is peeking out just a little bit. The body is nice and present It's kind of like a medium body and for not being like a Imperial or anything Hmm, I'm not a massive fan about of this because you know, if you know me and you know the way I am on the podcast I typically really like the more citrus forward IPA's but Knowing what I was getting into with this Not bad. This is this is more of like an easy sipping IPA in my opinion the flavors are not crazy like I said, you know Earthiness and a little bit of citrus and I and the actually the bitterness is not out of kilter either Which is pretty nice So I feel like this is a type of IPA you could just keep having a sip a sip a sip a sip and keep going and in No time just be like oh man that I just finished that whole can not because it's like oh god It tastes so good, but it's one of those situations where maybe you're engaged in a conversation And you're just not paying attention There's nothing about this beer that's going to slow you down from drinking it because it's very harmonious, and it's easy to drink so Say what you will about that Maybe it's for you. Maybe it's not for you for me. I don't think I'd seek it out But if somebody was giving it to me, I think I'd say yeah, thanks I'll take that and I'll drink it and have no problem with it. So temperance beer company not a bad English IPA Thank you very much. Everybody. Thanks for checking this video out and go have yourself an awesome beer


When you're only focused on the short term, one of two things is going to happen. This was one of the biggest eye openers for me in the book. When you're eating better, you're going to feel better, you're going to make better choices. When you're not, you're making worse choices. Your nutritional strategy, your way of eating really comes down to mindset as well. I want you to think of your health as a system, not as a goal. All too often, we're focused on the short term goals. We're just telling ourselves, I want to lose the 20 pounds. When you do that, when you're only focused on the short term, one of two things is going to happen. You're either going to be successful, you're going to lose the 20 pounds, and then you tend to say, great, now you can go back to what I was doing before, and you end up gaining back the weight and more. Or more commonly, you don't lose the 20 pounds, and you get discouraged, and you give up, and you say, well, I might as well go back to what I was doing before.


Meet Amy Brightle, the owner of a department store outside Huntsville, Alabama. 14 years ago, Amy lost her left hand in a car accident. Today, her job's a little easier, thanks to a simple but unique device derived from NASA Robotics Technology at the Marshall Space Flight Center. After her accident, Amy was fitted with a standard prosthetic hook, as it's commonly called. She found its strap suspension system cumbersome. Putting the prostheses on is one of the problems. How about operating your terminal device? Moving her right shoulder to operate the device was painful, and she couldn't do all she needed to with something that simply opened and closed. And so, shortly thereafter, I just put it aside and just went back to using what I had in my one hand. The new devices developed for Mrs. Bradley at NASA Marshall, attached to a socket which slides on easily. She works with this spatula type attachment around the kitchen. And she's come up with a number of other applications for the clip she uses at work. I'm able to do things that I have not been able to do before. And so, they've just given me a little more self-confidence. They've relieved a lot of pain that I was having from overuse in my right shoulder. And, of course, I can curl my hair. It was Jim Cardin who got NASA started on this project. An engineer at Marshall for 30 years, Cardin lost his left hand in his small lumber business shortly before he retired. When I looked out there and there was nothing available but a hook, I said it's a sad case for his amputees. Cardin talked to some of his co-workers at Marshall, including aerospace engineer Pete Belcher, designer Tommy Vest, and John Richardson from the Technology Utilization Office. Borrowing from robotics technology, they came up with a number of devices. Though simple, this bell-shaped attachment is one of Jim Cardin's favorites. It lets him crank his fishing reel, something he just couldn't do with the hook. The project has also produced this heavy lift design which Cardin uses around his ranch and lumber business. I think still do the things I want to do and smile about it. The people at Marshall are now working on a lightweight alternative to the standard hook for small tasks around the house. Rather than the bulky shoulder harness, it is triggered by the rotation of the forearm. The simplicity of all these devices not only makes them easy to use, but inexpensive to produce. NASA is now negotiating with a rehabilitation facility to manufacture and market them. NASA's prosthetics project, developing simple economical alternatives from robotics technology that meet the demands of individual lifestyles.


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Hello, how are you doing? I am Dr. Will and these are my three steps for Engaging students number one, I believe that you need to create a culture of aspiration Meaning that your students have to know Who they are what they are and what they are able to bring to table and what this does is create an ideal in Their minds of what is able what is possible for them what they are able to achieve Now you can do this with culturally responsive teaching. You can do this by giving your students access to mentors you know via community school partnerships or Have you know experts come into your classroom via Google Hangouts Zoom or any other video Skype a video other other video conferencing tool, but what you want to do is to get your students understanding that Their dreams are attainable Because here's the reality teachers I'm gonna tell you something that Hopefully you already know But you cannot wheel your students to succeed You cannot make them learn they have to do the work And so in a way of getting them to do the work is creating that culture of aspiration in Your classroom because if they hope for it if they see it They can work for it. My second tip is creating a classroom full of student Ownership what I mean by that is if you are working harder than your students you are doing too much Your students have to own The learning right so I know this is cliche to say that your kids must be creating Content that your students should go beyond just consuming facts and dates and Content and that is so true you have to have your students and put them in the driver's seat of Their learning now and this is something at just so simple of if you are a history teacher For example, your students can actually Create a blog Where they are assigned a Historical figure so let's say for example you are W. E. B. Du Bois. I want you to write a weekly blog post in the voice of Dr. E W. E. B. Du Bois. So what what is that student having to do? They have to research Okay, I have to do all kind of research about who W. E. B. Du Bois was they have to read his work They have to watch YouTube videos. They have to check Pure review journal journal articles a lot of different things and then they have to sit down and work on synthesizing that information being creative writing those blog posts Working on writing skills creativity, etc All of the skills that people are say these are 21st century skills that skills that are needed in the workplace and they're also with their blog are posting to a An original audience the last thing I will say because I know this video is probably longer than What I was probably asked to do is to create a culture of never quit Never quit Don't quit on your students and don't allow your students to quit on themselves Always tell your students that they have to show up no matter what they have to show up No matter what and if they don't show up love them hug them But hold them accountable If you allow them to quit on Themselves, they will always quit on themselves So make sure they show up and you demand That they do not quit on themselves, but they they show up every day So those are my three tips for Engaging students