My name is Sam Baknin, and I'm the author of Malignan self-love, the Narcissism Revisit. Lige Rangelovsky advanced the idea that some children who are subjected to abuse in dysfunctional families, children who are objectified, dehumanized, their borders and boundaries reached, and their growth stunted. Well, these children develop intense feelings of shame. Some of them turn out to be co-dependents, others turn out to be narcissists, owing to their genetic makeup, or innate characteristics and character. According to Rangelovsky, children who turn out to be co-dependents are actually the strong and resilient ones. The fragile ones turn out to be narcissists. They seek to evade shame by co-cocting and then deploying a false self by distancing themselves from their selves in a way. As Lige Rangelovsky observes, shame motivates normal people and those suffering from cluster B personality disorders. But it motivates them differently.  Owing to the disparate functionality and psychodynamics of true and false selves, the ways shame affects behavior and manifests in both populations differ markedly. In other words, shame manifests differently with normal people and with abnormal people such as narcissists, psychopaths or borderline. Additionally, pervasive, constant shame fosters anxiety and even fears or phobias. These can have either an inhibitory effect or, on the contrary, disinhibitory effect. In other words, shame can paralyze and freeze or it can motivate to action. The true self involves an accurate reality test with minimal and marginal cognitive deficits, as well as the capacity to empathize on all levels, including and especially the emotional level. People whose true self is intact, mature and operational are capable of relating to others deeply, for instance, by loving them. Their sense of self-worth is stable, it is grounded in a true and tested assessment of who they are. Maintaining a distinction between what we really are and what we dream of becoming, knowing our limits, our advantages and disadvantages, our faults and shortcomings. All this self-knowledge, self-awareness creates a realistic sense of our accomplishments and it is of paramount importance in the establishment and maintenance of our self-esteem, sense of self-worth and self-confidence. Shame threatens the true self by challenging the affected person's ego-syntany, by forcing her to feel bad about something she had said or done. The solution is usually facile and at hand, to reverse the situation by, for instance, apologizing or making amendments. No situation, no shame. In contrast, the false self leads to false assumptions, and to a contorted personal narrative, to a fantastic worldview, and to a grandiose inflated sense of being.  This grandiose inflated sense of being is rarely grounded in real accomplishments or in merits. The analysis's filling of entitlement is all-pervasive, demanding and aggressive. It easily deteriorates into the open verbal, psychological and physical views of others. When the patient with a false self feels shame, it is because his grandiosity, the fantastic narrative that underpins his false self, is challenged, usually, but not necessarily, publicly. There is no easy solution to such a predicament. The situation cannot be reversed, and the psychological damage is done once and for all. The patient urgently needs to reassert his grandiosity by devaluing or even destroying the frustrating, threatening object, the source of his misery. Once challenged, once the grandiosity of the narcissist is breached, undermined, exposed for what it is, fake and fantastic, there's nothing the narcissist can do, but devalue the source, devalue the origin and found of the challenge, of the criticism, of the disagreement. Another option, perhaps, is to reframe the situation by delusionally ignoring it or by recasting it in new terms, but this is far less common. So, once shame motivates normal people to conduct themselves pro-socially and realistically, if they have done something wrong, to apologize, if they damage someone to make amends, to conform, to go with the flow, to commune, to be a part of society, this is the role of shame. Well, when we are talking about disordered people, people with personality disorders, shame has absolutely the opposite effect. It pushes the disordered patient in the exact opposite direction to antisocial and delusional reactions. Shame is founded on empathy. The normal person empathizes with others. The disordered patient with personality disorders empathizes only with himself or herself. But empathy and shame have little to do with the person with whom we empathize, the empathy. There may simply be the result of conditioning, and socialization, and acculturation. In other words, when we hurt someone, we don't experience his or her pain. We experience our pain. Hurting somebody hurts us. The reaction of pain is provoking us by our own actions. We have been taught a learned response to feel pain when we inflict pain. So we attribute feelings, sensations and experiences to the objects of our actions. It is a psychological defense mechanism known as projection. Unable to conceive of inflicting pain upon ourselves, we displace the source. We say, it's the others pain that we are feeling. We keep telling ourselves that it's not our pain, but someone else's pain. Additionally, we have been taught to feel responsible for our fellow beings, and to develop guilt and shame when we fail to do so. So we also experience pain whenever another person claims to be anguished. We feel guilty owing to his or her condition. We feel ashamed and guilty that he is in pain, or she is in pain. We feel somehow accountable, even if we had nothing to do with the whole affair. We feel ashamed that we haven't been able to end the other person's agony. But with narcissists borderlines, and to a lesser extent psychopaths, the problem is completely different. It is what I call the grandiosity gap. It's the difference between the grandiose self-image, the way the narcissist perceives himself, and reality, which does not conform to this grandiose fantasy, which contravenes it. The greater the conflict between grandiosity and reality, the bigger the gap, and the greater the narcissist's feelings of shame and guilt. So there are two varieties of shame when we talk about narcissists in effect. There is narcissistic shame, which is the narcissist's experience of the grandiosity gap and its affective correlate. So subjectively, narcissistic shame is experienced as a pervasive feeling of inadequacy, worthlessness. It is the dysfunctional regulation of self-worth. It is actually the crux of pathological narcissism, as Masterson observed. The narcissist feels invisible, ridiculous, down-to-earth, if you wish, common, average. The narcissist feels pathetic, foolish, deserving of mockery and humiliation, because he doesn't measure up to his own inflated, affectionist, grandiose, yardsticks and benchmarks. Narcissists adopt all kinds of defenses to counter narcissistic shame. They develop addictive, reckless, or impulsive behaviors. They deny, withdraw, rage, or engage in compulsive pursuits of this or that kind. All of them are unattainable, of course. They seek perfection. They display portiness, exhibitionism, and so on. All these defenses are privity, and involve splitting, projection, projective identification, and intellectualization. But there is a second type of shame. I call it self-related. It is a result of the gap between the narcissist's grandiose ego ideal and his actual self or ego. It's a well-known concept of shame, and it's been explored widely in the works of Freud, I, Jacobson, Cobb, Kingston, Sparrow, and Morrison. One must draw a clear distinction between guilt or control-related shame and conformity-related shame. Guilt is an objectively-determinable philosophical entity, given relevant knowledge, considering and regarding the society and the culture in which it arose. Guilt is context-dependent, in other words. It is the derivative of an underlying assumption by others that a moral agent exerts control over certain aspects of the world. This assumed control by the agent imputes guilt to the agent, if it acts in a manner incommensurate with the pervasive mores, or if it refrains from acting in a manner commensurate with them. Shame, in this case, is the outcome of the actual occurrence of avoidable outcomes. Shame happens with events which impute guilt to a moral agent who acted robbing or refrains from acting. And so we must distinguish guilt from guilt-feelings. Guilt follows events. Guilt-feelings can actually precede events. Guilt-feelings and the attaching shame can be anticipatory. Moral agents assume that they control certain aspects of the world. This makes them able to predict the outcomes of their intentions. And they feel guilt and shame as a result of their intentions of merely thinking, as if, and even if, nothing happened. It's a kind of magical thing. Guilt-feelings are composed of a component of fear and a component of anxiety. Fear is related to the external, objective, observable consequences of actions, or inaction, by the moral agent. Anxiety has to do with inner consequences. It is ego-dystonic. It makes you feel better. It threatens the identity of the moral agent because being moral is an important part of it. The internalization of guilt-feelings leads to what we call shame. Thus, shame has to do with guilty feelings, not with guilt, the same. To reiterate, to explain again, guilt is determined by the reactions and anticipated reactions of others to external outcomes, such as avoidable waste or preventable failure. Guilt is therefore about fear, fear of what others might say. Guilt-feelings are the reactions and anticipated reactions of the person himself to internal processes, dynamics and outcomes. It is the consequence of helplessness or loss of presumed control. It is kind of reaction to narcissistic injury and it has an anxiety component. There is also conformity-related shame. It has to do with the narcissist's feeling of otherness. Narcissist feels alien, in a way dysfunctional.  We are at the next stage in the evolutionary ladder, but they know that they are different. They know that the classes are the other. They feel that they don't belong and that they are not accepted. This conformity-related shame, the shame of not being a part of a community or a group, not belonging, this shame involves a component of fear because of the reactions of others to one's otherness. It also involves anxiety because the narcissist is afraid of his own reactions to his otherness. So there is fear of how others might react to the narcissist's alien character and there is also anxiety how the narcissist might react to his own alienness. So it's a complex emotional reaction to being different to other people. Guilt-related shame is connected to self-related shame. Perhaps your psychological construct akin to the superego, conformity-related shame, is more similar to narcissistic shame. Guilt and shame, shame and guilt. The twin brothers, they drive all the pathologies of class to be.


Hey everyone Lilo here from smartoptionseller.com today is Saturday October 1st 2022. Yes, we finally made it to October That's a good thing and I'll tell you why in the video. So welcome back to another edition of the Saturday synopsis What do we do here on Saturdays? We look at charts. That's what we do been in this business for over 30 years now and and Chart reading technical analysis has been the way that I decide when to get in and get out of my trade So I'm here to make these free videos to help you up your Technical analysis game and how to start reading stock charts and for us here as option traders One of the most important things if not the most important thing is to learn how to read charts Why because if you're going to trade options, whether you're buying call options selling put options Selling call options doing covered calls spreads, whatever You have to know where the stock may or may not be going because you can't just trade options in a vacuum by themselves Because then options value is derived from something else and that's basically the stock price So, you know when you when you hear people touting or you see these websites showing you We can find the best option trades for you. All you have to do is look for high volatility Stocks and and here's the best spreads you you should do well You know, that's all well and good, but if you don't know where the stock is going Then all those option trades will fail So in addition to knowing how to trade options, you have to learn how to Look at a stock and and decide where it's going. Is it up down sideways? So if you get that under your tool in your tool belt as well, then your options trading success will go skyrocketing So i'm here to show you how to look at charts How to see what things are doing how you know, which way things are trending stocks are trending the indexes are trending And it'll help you understand whether it's time to get in or get out of a play So that's what i'm here to do on these Saturdays that look we look at charts We look at the indexes we look at some of the more popular stocks And I try to show you what i'm looking at and how how I set up my charts to help me decide when it's time to Get in and or out of an option trade. So here we go. Let's just jump right in As we typically do every Saturday Um, we always start with looking at the indexes and and to me the s and p 500 is is the best View over the of the overall market. So we look at the sp y which is the exchange traded fund for the s and p 500 So the sp y's chart will look exactly like the s and p 500's chart Okay, and you can look at the that you can look at the s and p 500 futures as well Those trade almost 24 hours a day the sp y trades during the regular market hours of the stock market Which is 9 30 a.m. Eastern till 4 p.m. Eastern. So we look at the sp y and we look at the triple q's the q q q and And the the diamonds the dia for the dow Jones and those all track the indexes So we look at the sp y and and if you've been with us for a while You know that we always start looking at the sp 500 but for those of you that are new what we do here is This is my chart setup. Okay, this is what I have I look at daily bar charts open high low close bars And I have three moving averages up here along the the price action I have a 20 day 50 day and 200 day simple moving averages. Here's the 200 day right here We've got the blue line here is the 20 day and this Line right here is the 50 day moving average down here I've got the 14 day rsi overbought oversold indicator and there's so many indicators You can put on charts some people think the more indicators that you put on charts The better chart reader you will be and and and I disagree with that because If you have a chart of so many indicators, it's just going to be a jumbled mess And you won't know what you're looking at So I try to keep it more simple 30 years in the business This is what I've decided to help me and along with that we look for support and resistance areas We look for these patterns and you know, I'll show you on the charts how I mark things up So anyway, um, so what are we seeing here? Basically, this is the chart of the s the sp 500 using the sp y going back about two years in time Okay, it all depends how you set up your charts You can look at six months two months five years doesn't matter, but I look at a daily chart I'm looking more long term. I'm not an intraday trader. I'm not a day trader. I don't try to trade off one minute charts This is not how I how I do it We look for longer term And so if you've been in the market or you've just been starting to trade You know since january 1st 2022, which is right here We've been in this downtrend the market's been in a downtrend Since since the beginning of 2022 and before that we we had been in a nice uptrend since the the the pandemic started in february March 2020, which is the big drop right here We've just been going up since since march 2020 the market's just been in this nice uptrend And you can see this blue little channel that i've drawn in here and a channel is a great way to see where A stock is trending. Okay, you can just see how the s and p 500 was in this nice uptrend And i've kept this channel on here for a long time just for for educational purposes So you can see the price action the price action is just all about which way the market is moving And then um, we had some sideways action still going upwards till january 2022 and we've been in this in this big downtrend And right here you can see this inverted v now We're going to talk about this because this was the last area of support just this week for the market So what I had here is as the market had been coming down since january We hit this low in the middle of june right here and we had this nice two-month uptrend till the middle of august and what stopped it right there is it came across the Downsloping 200 day moving average and the price action of the stock came right up to meet the top edge Of this uptrending channel. You can see the channel right here And it stopped right at the top it hit the Hit the resistance at the top of the channel and it hit resistance on the 200 day moving average this was also where um, we really started to see inflation really kicking Well inflation has been kicking in for a while, but the federal reserve in the us really started getting aggressive with raising interest rates And it just put us in this just back downtrending channel since the middle of august And the last line in the sand was this Support area which was the june low of about 362 dollars on the spy Okay, so I was hoping that we would find the support. It had been finding support this whole week Let's open this up a little bit. Here's the action this week So it was finding support right around 362, which was the low back in june and just yesterday friday September 30th We broke through the support and you can see the spy finished at 357 dollars So it broke through the line in the sand and for those of you who are fibonacci fans Fibonacci is just another indicator. You can use these are um retracement levels So if I if I pull up my fibonacci, um Tool here, let me move myself over here a little bit And pull up the fibonacci tool Where am I here? Okay, so the fibonacci retracement So you can take the low from june you line it up and you take the high in august and the retracement Is roughly let me just reset this here. The retracement is roughly Okay, move that there move that there was around 361 87 that was Basically the low here from june and the market just went through it yesterday September 30th now There's a couple things we can make note of this number one September has historically been the worst month seasonally for the stock market every september even august parts of august august september Have just been very bearish for the for the market in general seasonally over the decades Now now that we've entered october, you know, maybe this was the last exhaustion for the for the bears You know, it's yet to be seen next week. We'll see where the market goes But i'm hoping that and there's a couple other things that could jive with that This could be the last gasp for the bears The other thing i want to show you is a couple things and number two seasonally now that we're out of september You know, maybe people will start thinking out, you know, a lot of these stocks have been coming off We're hitting some value areas. It could be time to start buying also. The other thing i want to show you is What's the other thing the the fear and greed index and i bring this up and i show this to my newsletter readers sometimes The fear and greed index shows us, you know, what people are thinking out there How people are thinking and when we have extreme fear, which is what we're at right now 15 on the index it goes from zero to 100 When you get extreme fear everyone's leaning to one side everyone's leaning to the sell side everyone's selling everything Because they're very fearful the world's coming to an end. They're selling all their stocks And that's exactly when the market starts to turn around and go higher So not only do we have this extreme fear kicking in let's go back to the charts We also have the vix. Let me show you what the vix is We have the vix And here's the vix. Here's the daily chart of the vix. Now the vix is what's called the The fear and gade the fear indicator in the market. It's also a measurement of volatility in the s&p 500 front month options And the vix is here. Here's a symbol vix Now what the vix tells us is How people also are leaning in the market the vix moves inversely to the stock market So you can see the vix is moving up and we know the stock market prices are moving down So they move inverse to each other and when the vix gets really high it also means there's a lot of fear in the market And it also can determine turning points in the stock market So when the vix gets really high that's when the stock market starts to go back up again And the vix starts coming down. So you can see in the past This is about you know a couple years worth of time I've drawn this this resistance line up here where the vix will spike you get all these spikes in the vix That's when the market has big down moves And then and then the vix starts to come off and the market starts to go up So they move inversely with each other. So you can see here Since basically the middle of august when we hit that top in the market and the market started to fall The vix starts going up and so here, you know, we hit some top levels here So maybe not only are we hitting a top in the vix We got the fear and greed index and we also have that flush down on the spy chart of the sp500 chart And I'll bring that up again right here Maybe, uh, you know now that september's over This maybe could be the last gas for the bears and then we'll turn around and start to move higher towards that more bullish Fourth quarter last quarter of the year yet to be seen We also had the fibonacci had the full retracement of this move.  Well in order to do that you have to look back in your charts So we're about 357 right here on the sp500 So you have to look you have your look back period Where was the last area of support for the market before it really went on this nice uptrend here? Well, the last line of support around 320 you can see right here this little w pattern, which is also You know a more of a bullish pattern you can kind of see what a w looks like here And the last support was right around 320 and then the market started to move up So if the market does start to come down over the next week or two Look for 320 as the potential support area And beyond that then then you know now we're just we're heading back down Every, you know every 10 20 dollars in the s and p 500 or the sp y And and the covet low was right around to just under 220 a share So we really don't want to get down that far. I mean i'm bullish for the long run I have my retirement money in the stock market. I want to see the market go up My portfolio has been going down to bleeding money just like everybody else's but i'm in for the long haul I know the market goes up over time. So i'm holding buying bits and pieces on the way down And you know, I bought some more just hoping that the The support would hold here, you know, not a lot just nibbling on the way down Getting you know lowering my dollar cost average here And i'm going to wait till next week see what happens. Maybe returning the calendar to october Is going to get this thing moving up, but there's no guarantees. All right, so that's where we are That's what's happening with the market this week went got through major support here at 362 And um, you know, we want to see the market go up The market is made up of businesses. It's not just numbers on a screen These are real companies that we're talking about here that make real products that that people buy and pay for So as long as these companies in the long rung are in the long run are profitable The stock price has to go up. Yeah, we're going to get pullbacks over time. It's just how the market works There's always ups and downs. This one's really long long on the tooth for sure Um, but we know what's happening out there inflation is still high. The the Fed is going to raise interest rates We know that's happening Companies will start to pivot they'll learn how to you know, reprice their products. They'll learn how to Continue to be profitable in the long run every company is going to have setbacks Over time But as long as a company can figure out how to deal with these these headwinds And and continue to produce profits the stock prices will go up, you know, and that's what's going to happen You know once inflation comes down once the feds, you know stops raising interest rates sometime next year probably in 2023 And then we'll see the market start to go up and earnest for now You know, we may start to churn around churn Sideways and then hopefully as you know, the end of the year comes in we'll start to move higher again So i'm going to take off the Fibonacci here But anyway, we've come through the the support here So we have to wait till next week to see what's been happening now for us in our in our services You know, we're we take more bullish trades. We sell put options. We sell put option credit spreads So we've been extremely light. We don't have any positions right now in in our spread newsletter In our put selling newsletter, we we have just very few positions on we still have cushion on those So even still we can you know, we can make We can take defensive measures which we've done we roll trades. So We're being very cautious. We've been cautious since the beginning of the year I think this so far this year We've taken the least amount of positions that we've ever taken only because the market is telling us It's not time to get into bullish positions in earnest The market is telling us it's going down. So why stick your your neck out there? Why put more money on the line when you know the market's just going down? You want to wait for the signals that the market's starting to go up now also what we do If you want to learn a little bit more about what we do, you know, we sell put options Like I said, we still put put option spreads and If you want to learn how to sell put options go to our website smart options sell.com click on the put selling basics This is our ebook free ebook Come here put your name and email address down here And we'll send you an email with a link to get the free book if you also want to know about what we do Here's our services tab right here. We have our newsletters And we have our coaching as well So if you if you're just learning about options, even if you want to learn about buying options or spreads or anything else How to check volatility what volatility is our coaching Sessions are a great thing. We have a lot of students that that really enjoy the coaching So if you want to learn a little bit more about that come to our website, all right, so let's move back to the market Let's check the cues Let's check the cues see what they're doing just like the s and p 500 These are the triple cues came down got the inverted v has fallen below the support line here Here was the june low head is also falling below. So same thing as the s and p 500 The market is on the defensive really on the defensive here It couldn't hold this level, but maybe this is the final washout. We'll see could have some more selling come in There's no guarantee. So play with caution. Let's look at the diamonds This is the dow Jones looking even worse than the s and p and the nasdaq Really sold off hard this week has really fallen below the june lows which was here And has gotten through that support. So the the dow jones Probably looking the weakest of the of the three indexes right now. All right, so we looked at the vixx We looked at indexes. Let's look at a couple individual stocks and see what's happening We look at apple we look at the more popular stocks. I can't go through all 3 000 stocks that trading You know in the stock market. So we look at more popular ones now now apple this week We'll have the the regular looking v had that nice bounce in middle of june when everything else was bouncing middle of august has come down to but this week Um, it it sold off pretty hard apple came out with some news that they're that they're they're telling suppliers this to um They're not going to make as many iphone's or some some sort of news item like that Which really accelerated this this down move the last three days of this week wednesday thursday friday So um, although it hasn't come back down to the june low. This was a pretty big move this week It was about 175 dollars a share in mid mid august And now it just ticked under one 140. So that's a pretty big move So we had the v had the inverted v now and hopefully we'll we'll see some support coming So apple on the defensive this week as well tesla. We always look at we look at tesla Had still been trading around this 300 mark for a long period of time had the congestion pattern here Here's a couple congestion patterns where the market will the stock will typically blow out One way or the other when it finally gets to the apex of the congestion pattern tesla's been holding up pretty well as far as a technology stock people love tesla their their permeables So so tesla's been holding up pretty well in the market. Um amazon amazon coming back down Let's open this up a little bit middle of august just like everything else started selling off Here's the low had some has support just above 100. So this is holding so far We're not there yet, but if the rest of the market comes down in the next week or two It's probably gonna come to support right here at this level. So keep an eye on amazon. This is amazon Um, let's look at some biggies. So there's a couple stocks. I wanted to highlight this week coca-cola Um, you know, it's a stalwart. It's it's just a great company for the long run Let's look at the interval here. Let's look at the the monthly chart for coca-cola In the long run, you know, coke's going up just all We're going back to you know, the 1980s here in the 70s even Over time it's been a great player dividend paying company strong stock And when you get waterfall moves like this, it's just you have to take notice Because there are times where you just need to stick your neck out and buy and is this one of the times where it's time to just You know plug your nose and and buy because you know in the long one Long run you will be rewarded. Okay apple. Uh, coke doesn't move this fast this far in that short of a time It's a slow mover. So this is a pretty big move. It's coming down to some some oversold levels on the r side We put in an unofficial trade one of the things I do in our newsletter as well As we put in some unofficial trades every once in a while For those who are looking to take have some more action It hasn't didn't meet all my requirements that I like to have met to get into a new trade But it's it's almost one of those things that you can't pass up So, you know, I issued a unofficial put sell trade on coca-cola. I can't give you all the details But you know keep an eye on this It's just one of those times where you know, maybe it's time to step up and buy Another one and utility stocks also during times of turmoil in the stock market utility companies usually hold up pretty well This is con Edison. Let me move myself here. Ed is the chart. I've been showing this the last few weeks Utilities typically go up. Um, let's look at the long-term chart Uh con Edison, you know, you can see bottom left to top right over the long run This is what you want in your long-term portfolio stock that moves up up up up up over time con Edison It's a one of the biggest utility companies in the northeast of the united states Look at this just waterfall getting down to oversold levels. You know, maybe it's a time to consider con ed As a potential long-term hold same thing with southern company southern is another utility companies so Um, also just look at that just look at the the the escalator the elevator down You know, the market takes the stairs up and the elevator down when it has down moves Getting sort of near the oversold levels. It was oversold back here in june Look at that nice pop it head. So maybe as it gets a little bit more oversold It'll pop up again as well. So this is this is southern company utilities hold up pretty well in times of turmoil What other stocks we want to look at nike nike had earnings that came out Towards the end of this week and just didn't do well. Here's the air pocket gap lower $83 a share, you know nike Everybody knows the company nike Can it be held down for for this long? Let's look at the monthly chart of nike Just you know, look at this if you're going to hold for the long run, you will be rewarded So how do you do that? Well, you have to find times when You think it's it's it's okay to step in and start buying now Nobody likes to buy when things are selling off like this, especially if you had nike in your portfolio This is not a fun thing But if you believe in the company, do you buy more or do you get out? That's up to you to decide But there are also times where you have to figure You know night when was the last time nike was at $83 a share and that was roughly um back in You know the summer of may of may of 2020 after the pandemic started. So right here Here's may of 2020 you can scroll down look down here at the bottom 2020 of may It was in the low 80s and it just went up from there So it will it finds the support here Getting near oversold. So, you know, something like that nike same thing Federal Express.   Where's 50 on the nike chart? Let's take a look Let's go back to the monthly. Where's the last time that nike was at $50 a share Back in, you know, 2016 2017 Five six years ago was a big area of support right here And it's also coming upon the up sloping 200 month moving average. Let's put a little let's put a little line here You know, here's a You know the support right near 50. We can keep this on the chart. We'll look at this for the next few weeks See what's happening But that's right around $50 here's 52 which coincides with the 200 month moving average So 50 is just below that you can see all this support right here around $50 a share So, you know for me is nike worth buying at $50 a share possibly So, um, you know, that's some of the things i'm looking at Let's take a look at some other stocks disney another company Shut down for a day or two because of the hurricanes in florida and I hope any any of you who are in florida I hope you all made it out okay and are doing well during this hurricane season On disney coming down to the last area support right around 90 which it hit back in july You know, disney is another one of those stalwart companies that you know in the long run is going to go up Let's look at the monthly chart of disney Over the long run goes up. Here's the pandemic right here And just shot back up. So it's coming back down to pandemic levels. $80 was the area You can see the 200 month moving average support right around 80 80 dollars for there as well Could it come down that far and bounce yet to be seen? But you know, it's an area that i'm keeping an eye on let's take a look at our list here and see what else we have walmart So we we draw the the channels. We draw the congestion patterns. We draw the uptrending channels So walmart was in the uptrending channel here. You can see the two lines And it's falling below it this week. Okay, just like everything else walmart's not immune But you know, it's a great company for the long run for the long run You hold on to walmart for years and years and years and you'll be rewarded Bottom left to top right you want to see stocks that have been moving up over time That that helps you decide, you know, which companies are worth potentially taking a stake in so that's walmart Let's go through our list here We looked at the vixx microsoft's getting hit this week back come back down in this channel Just like here you can see it popped above it But hit this resistance right at the 200 day moving average middle of august just like everything else And it's now come back down into the downtrending channel intel Chip stocks just it just keeps going down This is just not a fun chart to look at As well and it's but it's also getting down to some oversold levels You can see the 20 level those are my levels 20 getting oversold Does it mean a balance is going to be imminent? No, it just means that you know Maybe the selling is is getting overdone And maybe it'll find some support amd another chip stock. I love amd But it's caught up in that chip chip mess All these chip stocks going down amd really going down hard we had a Put spread on amd that we sold but as the market was telling us it's going down We got out and we're glad that we did because our loss would have been even bigger So we got out amd low 60s here breaking through all kinds of support Nvidia This is Nvidia Same thing moving down moving down chip stocks getting hurt pretty bad Micron same thing moving down, you know chip stocks are going to go up computers are here to stay But just they're just getting caught up with everything else. So everything's going down. So You know if you've been trying to you know buy bottoms here pick bottoms It's hard because the market's still telling you what's going down And you know keep some of your money On the sidelines until you get the cues from the market that it's going up. What cues will that be? We'll have to see upside action for a period of time We have to let the market, you know show it show us its hand first before we can feel confident about moving back in Um Let's go through the list a little bit more Let's see Cisco We also have a play on Cisco. We had a roll that but you know when you sell put options The end goal could be to potentially buy these stocks at really cheap prices and you can roll them out We've been rolling. That's what we're doing. So Cisco proctor and gamble great company, but but hitting some lows here coming down I'm trying to find some other stocks that that are going up Eli Lilly the healthcare companies Eli Lilly One of their drugs was just found to be really effective For something. I think was alzheimers. You can see the gap up hit all-time new highs just this week Let's look at the let's look at the monthly chart for for Eli Lilly and see what see what's been happening I mean, look at this thing just going ballistics health care Everyone's going to need health care drugs doctors, whatever. So the health care industry should be doing well. Let's take a look Um We've got Eli Lilly Bristol Myers. We had a play on Bristol Myers as well Pfizer Merck You know if you want to get all these in one shot. Here's the xlv the xlv is the exchange traded fund for all a lot of these health care farmer stocks, okay um We look at Verizon Verizon still going down Um, still haven't gotten in keep my eyes on it. AT&T same thing two biggest wireless carriers Here in the us PayPal kind of kind of scraping along doing okay um hanging in there. Let's look at um netflix as well Here we go netflix still holding on to that support right here Support in the you know around 225 dollars a share. So netflix, um, I you know the bottom may be here If it hadn't got if it didn't get sold off really hard this week when everything else was going down Uh netflix is holding up. Okay So, you know once the the general and everything else general market and everything else starts to go up Netflix will probably go up pretty hard. It's holding here. So that's a good sign for for anybody who got into netflix recently Uh, what else do we have cosco? Um, you know the big big companies big retailers like cosco hanging in there. Um What else pepsi McDonald's, you know McDonald's got hit pretty good this week. You can see the big move down Maybe coming to some areas of support. So you want to watch to see where the the prior support is And you know, here's the channel that I was in before the support right around probably high 220s You can see some more support here Right around this level here. So McDonald's may have a little bit more selling to do Um Warren Buffett we look we talk about Warren Buffett Here's the inverted v It popped through it just the other day, but came back up again. So we're still looking at around 263 264 support for Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and uh, I show this as well if you want to Take a look at another options trading strategy that I write about that I wrote about Um, here's here's the thing that I wrote


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If you've ever wanted to walk your cat on a leash there are some breeds that will make this more possible than others. Below I have created a list of the best breeds that you can walk on a leash or lead. There are many different cat breeds that have the qualities that are needed to be trained to be able to walk on a leash. Of course, even within these breeds, the cat's willingness and ability to do this will vary. It's important that your cat is happy to do this. And that you are guided by his needs. The cats listed here are most of the cats that are also suited for indoor cats as house cats are more likely to be the ones that are needed to walk and be walked to give them the extra exercise they need. The Burmese Burmese cats are energetic and curious cats especially when they are younger. They love to be with you and can be taught to walk on a leash. The Burmese are medium-sized cats of about 3-5 kg. They have lovely short smooth coats in lots of different solid colors like chocolate, blue, sable cream and red, etc. due to their short coat, their grooming needs are very low. They do however have medium to high needs for attention. Ragdoll cats love to walk on a leash. Ragdolls are sweethearts for walking on a leash. They're called puppy cats for a reason. They love to be with their human at all times and will naturally follow you. The only issue that I can think of with walking around is there is a tendency for ragdolls to be maybe a little too easy going and soft-natured. You have to be careful about where you take them. Most ragdoll cat owners will only walk their cats in the garden or safe areas outside. The Willful and Intelligent Bengal Cat. Bengal cats are much more willful than many other cats mentioned on this list. However, because they are highly intelligent and have a curious nature you can train them to walk on a leash. Due to their strong will, however, it is more likely that it will be taking you for a walk rather than you taking it. The Abyssinian is perfect for walking. The Abyssinian is perfect for walking as it enjoys being out and meeting people and getting all the attention and is great for training. It is quite a highly energetic athletic and energetic cat with amazing green or gold eyes. The Abyssinian has a high need for social interaction and attention. It has medium-length silky soft fur which only needs a little grooming and low shedding. It is a medium-weight cat of between 3 and 5 kilograms. Siamese Cats. The Siamese Cat is another cat that is a highly intelligent cat that is curious and has some dog-like qualities. Many Siamese Cats will take to walking on a leash. They have a smooth short low shedding coat that comes in many different colors like cream, blue, lilac, and seal for example. Of course, they have those stunning blue eyes. They love a medium to a high amount of attention. Hello. This video is sponsored by Beemix Pets. Are you looking for high quality cat collars at an affordable cost? Check out, BeemixPets.com. Use coupon code KittenLife, to get 20% off. The Maine Coon. Maine Coon cats are huge cats and they are another cat that many people consider to have dog-like personalities. Maine Coons are gentle giants, and they are fun-loving and love attention. They are also curious and will learn to walk with you on a leash. Turkish Van. The Turkish Van is another energetic friendly cat that is a good hunter and will take well to going out for walks with you among other tricks it can learn. They are quite independent cats. However, they are also affectionate and loving as long as it is on their terms. These are one of the larger cats topping 8 kilograms. They have beautiful white and auburn fur although these days there are other colors. The British Shorthair. The British Shorthair cat is a friendly cat but is not very energetic so you can walk it on a lead, UK term for a leash. They are more of a sit and look at the world go by type of cat so may not be the first choice if this is a priority for you. The American Shorthair cat. The American Shorthair is an easygoing cat that learns quickly and will take two going out for walks with you in a harness and lead leash. The American Shorthair cat is really affectionate and adaptable. It has a medium level of shedding its fur but low maintenance grooming. Savannah Cats. Savannah Cats are so much more energetic than either the ragdoll dolls or the Karats they can be indoor cats however because of their energy levels they do need lots of outdoor experience. The Savannah cat is another cat that is classed as a cat that has dog-like traits and because of this they are able to walk on a leash. Here I have included the good old domestic Maggi as an example. Although the success rate of walking your Maggi on a leash may be less than that of some of the breeds mentioned earlier some of these cats will take to leash walking. In my own family we have varying success rates at this. Again I think it's down to your cat's own personality type and willingness to learn. If you enjoyed this video kindly press the like button. Also don't forget to subscribe with notifications on so that you don't miss out on videos like this. Thank you for watching.


What's up everybody just here for jazby's case breaks calm 2022 panini luminance football four box break picker teams number seven Just sold out. Remember this has a little break ready giveaway if you buy two or more teams Or have two or more teams. You'll have a chance to win of the $250. We'll randomize customer names about two or more teams and 125 will be given out to each customer So we did do a little team random filler. So there will be customers that grab teams and fillers so like let's say example for Jeff since he did get three teams in a filler and Has three spots here. So technically he has two teams at least that'll be an entry. So same thing for everybody else So we'll do that at the end right there now we do have Two sets of boxes four on the left four on the right for seven and eight Let's see which boxes we're gonna use here one two three for the left four five six for the right roll It's a three. So one two three left. So we're gonna use this one for number eight, which will run right back I'll just put right over here to the side There you go. We got a Drake London to 100. We got a Isaiah likely to 149 and a Perion Winfrey Number to 100 And that is a Cleveland Brown With a Trelong Burks Insert there. Oh, that was a great shot right there We got a Justin Jefferson at 249 and a Jaquan brisker To 349 that's for the Bears and little shoes Indianapolis Colts David's Mills to 149 and a sky more. I said on card year one RPS and Some of these will have the team low on that some of them won't so let me see did they put out the checklist already I Know they were late the other day. Yes, they did Skymore's a Kansas City chief So that'll be going to Gabe a little Justin feels there Should has asked you Gilo. Thank you, buddy. We have a Tyler baddie and Justin Jefferson a little dynamic there to 25 For bright patch. All right first box. We got to 100 of a stage Christian McCaffrey we got a Mathis and a Kingsley autograph for the Green Bay Packers But I don't know the dynamic there out in tomorrow. I can't really read this phone Taylor redemption a little savage Taylor the redemption boom George Pickens rookie luminance autograph vertical and of course George Pickens that'll be going to What is that? Steelers, sorry. I was blanked out there for a second Breeze Hall and a David Bell Year one signatures David Bell is a Cleveland Brown So it's Brown's Chateau. We have a Deebo salmon to 249 and a Thurman Thomas Relic With a Max Crosby insert there. That's a fusion Insert next box The Marvin Leo. Hey, do you have big box on your no, I don't think so. No Davis Mills a little Cooper cup sheesh I would have to relic out of the way. So technically you should all be autographs now Dynamic deck press got a 50. We have a Clyder was alerted 99 and David a job. Oh It's a 349 That's for the Baltimore Ravens going to Brennan and then a vision and Antonio Gibson Bailey's app.  I really do Really just freaks me out 400 points been given away there. We got a Roger McCreary and a Kyle Hamilton red ink year one All right, and I believe that's another Raven, right? Yep Baltimore Raven this better Brennan You never know wolf pack someone might come in later and just just buy up all those spots I mean, honestly, I've seen it happen before especially like icons and other hiring products That are just like a random number block away, but right now it seems like we probably won't see it tonight, but You just never know charming Tindall You got a baby zap Zappy I think someone said his name is that pronounce is that you're right there. I can't read it 99 Another one another point That one was backwards again, but I saved this one and thank God I saved this one. This was 1500 points. Good Lord That was a lot. Thank you. I didn't show the code on that one There you go It's actually a good amount of money right there 250 points usually goes for about like seven to ten bucks So that's actually a good amount Danny dimes and Bernie Kozar the relic there with a little shoes For Della Patterson my last one here folks. Good luck. Kyle fits a 35 Hamilton to 149 and a McBride Trey McBride to 100 Cardinals I believe so Rex I just think that you have to have enough on the visa card the gift card If you use it'll actually be a debit card, but you have to have enough Like the purchase has to be enough for the whole card like you can't like I don't think it's gonna work if it's partial Like the way a gift card does where it's like You can use your partial gift card than the remaining balance is X amount So you have to have the quantity has to be enough to cover the whole card Sometimes in some websites it won't work, but I think on ours. It does work You just like I said the visa card has a hundred bucks in it Then you can't buy something that's worth more than a hundred dollars And sometimes it might actually might only allow you to buy it if it's like the full amount It's a little tricky those like kind of visa debit card credit cards I kind of like to use them in the stores that I've purchased it in kind of like the big retail stores like You know Target and Walmart Macy's because I think they treat it a little easier But a lot of e-commerce websites some says a little little tough on those All right, so we're gonna do the 250 dollar break credit giveaway plus the points number one will get 1500 number two gets 400 and everybody will have a shot at that. Yeah, it's a prepaid debit card. So You would put it in like if it's a credit card So of course, let's do this list here first though. So company has a total of five. So that is just the two entries Brandon with two That's one entry Brody with two that's one entry Chad with two that's one entry Chris one Eddie one Eric with two that's one entry Gabe just one Jeff with three. So that's one entry Well, some places allow you to split bills So if we had to set up that way We could allow you to use two cards basically so you can put like X amount on a credit card X amount of debit card or vice versa, but I think our website isn't set up that way The only time it allows you to use two different Payment methods is if one's a gift card from our website and then your debit credit card slash PayPal Jerry with two a Nestor with five So just the two entries there And then Patrick Davis with four so that's two entries as well and Stacey with two and that's an entry as well There you go 13 out of the possible 16 All right now I'm gonna get a new dice roll here, but second list everybody gets an opportunity at the points and We'll just copy and paste all the names I roll it So four and a four eight the hard way top to get 125 back on this list here one two three Four five six, excuse me seven eight So boom eight times eight nester and cupperman 125 each for you guys and Then eight times here on the points one two three four five six seven eight Eight times Wow nester in the top two So that's 1500 points for you and 400 points both for nester. So appreciate you guys coming up next is number eight


Hey, you know, we got Rishi over from the finance department. We're gonna hire him as CEO now. Hey, if it's working out for Microsoft, it might work out for Great Britain. I want to see the UK go down for stealing $14 trillion of wealth from the India. Reporting from BBC News, 42-year-old Rishi Sunak has now been appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. And yes, the reactions are quite mixed. Welcome everybody to the hot pot boys. David and Andrew here, guys. We have an Indian guy who's leading Great Britain now. He just got appointed, stepped in for the Prime Minister who resigned after 45 days. Man, it's kind of crazy. David, what's going on? Yeah, I'll tell you this. The internet has so many different angles and so many hot takes on this. Obviously the one from sort of the Pan-Asian or like the pro-brown crowd, which is like a lot of people in India, obviously even Daisy people in America, not all of them, but it's kind of like, I salute you Rishi Sunak, the colonizers have now become the colonized. This is a day I never thought I would see. This is great. That is not how the Prime Minister works. It's not like he's the king of England and it's like 1820 or whatever. But there is also moderate white people in England being like, I don't know why him being a person of color and being brown is such a big deal. I just want him to lead us out of this economic crisis that we're in. That's the only thing that matters to me. And of course, Andrew, there's more blue collar people in England that are like, you know, the England's 85% white. I don't know how this brown Hindu guy is gonna lead us out of anything. It's not wrong for us to have all look be the president. And there is a lot of other people who are even Asian in Great Britain that are just like, you know, at the end of the day, I don't care. He's just a rich billionaire elitist who only cares about all the rich people for the conservative party. He's not going to help the people. Yeah. And it is complicated guys. Obviously progress is not perfect. I don't fault anybody for feeling how they're feeling about it Andrew because everybody's like exposure is different, right? Like us in America, obviously, we don't care about the labor party. We don't care about the Tory party. We talk about Tory, we talk about Tory lanes. Because it doesn't affect us. We're not in that country. Typically Andrew, the rich party that Rishi Tsunaka is representing, I believe he's from a millionaire family and he married into a billionaire family. Andrew, they believe more in top-down economics, right? Like giving tax cuts to the rich people and somehow that will build stability in the economics. Obviously, I guess the labor party are more of the left. They believe in more of a middle-centric approach or even a bottom-up economic model. So Andrew, we did a lot of research on British politics. We're not going to get into it. We ended up looking into it for hours and scrapping it all because it's just way too complicated. I'm sorry, I'm not an expert on UK politics yet. I didn't get there yet. Well, show some respect Andrew. I believe the language you're speaking is English. Well, I guess the question is, how should Asians globally feel? Especially Asians who are outside of Britain. Let's talk about people who are not necessarily directly affected. I think a lot of people are affected maybe by Britain's economy, but not directly. So I guess how do we feel as like Asian-Americans, East Asian Chinese-Americans? Well, I do think that Ronnie had a really funny joke on Daily Show saying like, you know, Indians are not Asians. Just run the clip. Well, Ronnie said it. Ronnie said it. Everyone is really excited that this is the first Asian prime minister, but let's be clear, Indians are not Asians. Okay? Okay? They're still people, great people. They're just not Asian people. Okay? No, no, no, answer me this. If this guy is Asian, how come when he became prime minister, I felt absolutely nothing? All right, this was a funny clip. By the way, I'm not saying that everybody agrees with this. It was just a funny joke. But I will say this, I do think a lot of Asians are like pretty interested by this, right? Because visually, it's just somebody who visually represents Asia, even though it's South Asian and we're East Asian, right? Or in Britain as they like to call us Orientals, because obviously Indian people in the UK actually Asians wear Orientals. David, I haven't said the word Oriental for about two decades, but yeah, we used to use that word a lot, yeah. I would say this. It's nice to see you ascend to like power in the Western world or like the white Anglo-Saxon world to a place that you maybe thought you would never see somebody, right? Yeah. No, no, no, I mean, this is groundbreaking. Let's not, I don't wanna like play it, downplay it. Like this is big to have a brown guy, you know, of course, Britain colonized India back in the day and then, you know, they took a lot from it and whatever, but they also did some other stuff. But anyways, now a brown guy's in office and he's gotta run the show and he's gotta figure things out and he's actually inheriting a whole bunch of problems. Right. Is it at all similar to Obama where obviously when Obama took over, there was some white people being like, I don't know what he's gonna do. I don't know if I could trust him. He ain't white, like white people been building America, running America for a while.  Right. Yeah, they thought that he was gonna be extra biased towards his group, his tribe, you know. And as it turned out, I mean, I think a lot of people would say that Obama didn't do as much as he could have or maybe he would feel like his hands were tired or whatever. I guess there's debate about it. But anyways, I'm just saying, I don't know if that's the case because it seems like Britain is in a slightly different situation where they're a little bit more socioeconomic focused. Like they're like, they're really in an economic ditch right now. And I think that everybody kind of agrees that's a number one concern. Yeah, not only that, I do think the UK is like 85% white. So social issues and sort of these racial tribal issues that are a bigger deal in the US are just simply like not on the top list of priorities or they never were. Yeah, I mean, Rishi Sunak is just a minority of a minority because he's, he's of the 5% Indian, but he's of the 0.00001% class because this dude's family, him and his wife combined are nearly worth a billion dollars. And it's mostly from his wife's side though. Right. He did marry the daughter of an Indian IT billionaire. Andrew, you know what's really interesting that I looked into because I did my research for this video. I went into the Indian subreddits and some people were like, I am so glad that Rishi Sunak is now the PM of UK because an Indian gets to be the helm at the helm of this Titanic ship. When it hits the iceberg, I want to see the UK go down for stealing $14 trillion of wealth from the India. They need to turn the kind of poor diamonds.  And then other people were like, I would really like to see Rishi Sunak lead the UK back to prominence because it will show that we are great leaders and we are the great people who can forgive them because even within India, Andrew, there's like different perceptions on what they want the final outcome to be. Yeah. I mean, Andrew, some people are hoping that the Britain goes downside with India at the helm or some people hoping that it goes upside.  Obviously like one of the centers or the center of Western culture, right? If you care about Western culture, right? You don't want to see it go down in this way, but I think it's good that there is diversity in the office because also it's, you know, with the Queen passing, it kind of like one of the old British guards of like the British Empire is kind of gone, you know? So things are changing for Great Britain now where now you have a brown guy and he's leading the way and he's got to figure things out. So I guess it's just changing. It's very different for people. Well, I'm just glad that the Queen didn't have to shake a brown hand to be handing over her country to one of the peons of the old days. Well, I believe his position before he became Prime Minister was like minister of finance. Hey, you know, we got Rishi over from the finance department. We're going to hire him as CEO now, just like they did for a bunch of Fortune 500 companies in America. So hey, if it's working out for Microsoft, it might work out for Great Britain. Who knows guys? And I did see in the Indian subreddit someone was like, now we got Google. Now we got Microsoft. Then if Kamala takes over because Biden stepped down, then we got Rishi Sunak. He's just going to be brown boys taking over the Western society. Let's go. Dude, going on the subreddits. Andrew, what do you think? Like, is there like some sense that like Rishi Sunak is going to like call up Modi and it's going to be just some like insider thing like Obama dappin' up all the black people? You know what's really interesting? Is it like some people view it more like class but some people view it more as like race? Like immediately now like Rishi's going to like team up the UK with India and Modi. Like Rishi, hello, this is Prime Minister Rishi. I'd like to speak with Modi. Hello, Modi? Hey bro, we did it man. Yeah, happy Diwali. I'm just kidding. Rishi doesn't talk like that. He's born and raised in the UK. But yeah, I mean, I think it's funny to think of all these things and these are like jokes and these are cultural things that everybody's worried about. I think I'm sure Indian comedians in the UK are about to write 75,000 jokes. Yeah, yeah, but the truth is guys obviously, yeah, I mean, you know, I'm hoping the best. Like I hope he figures it out. I do know that there's a growing sentiment because he wasn't elected. He was appointed because Liz Truss resigned. So it's not like he really got voted in and a lot of people are like, yo, we need like, we need a general election now. We need to actually elect our leaders. So I'm like no more leaders that are just appointed to sit in for the failed leader. It does seem like some people think that he's just going to be used as a scapegoat. Once the Titanic inevitably hits the iceberg because it's too late to turn the Titanic. You know how big ships and submarines and things are. I don't know what the truth is, guys. I don't really study European politics at all, but I do know about identity politics. All right, everybody. You let us know in the comments down below what you think, all right? Are you excited for Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister? Do you think he's going to do a good job? Nobody really knows. He's only been there for like a day or two. And how much does the representation matter if you do agree or disagree with the politics? I will say this, Andrew. This is a big win for crazy rich Asians. Andrew, think about it.  Just like in the movie Crazy Rich Asians, they were not depicting your average Malaysian, your average Singaporean. It was the zero dot zero zero zero one percent level of wealth and power and elitism. All right, everybody. We're going to leave it right there. Let us know what you think about this whole situation. And please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the hotpot boys. And until next time, we out. Peace.


Hi, my name is Angela Kegler and I'm going to be your instructor for this upcoming course. Allow me to take a moment to introduce myself. You may be wondering, what does she know about this course or why she qualified to teach me? Well, I want you to feel comfortable in knowing that I've sat in your shoes and I have a PhD in organizational development. In addition to my academic experience, I also have several years training and teaching in an organizational environment and leading teams, folks just like yourself and helping them to advance their career. I hope that the content you're about to review will help you and you're able to take it back to the workplace so that you can become more effective and more efficient in your job. Enjoy the course and happy learning. We'll begin by looking at identifying basic communication techniques. Let's begin with how communication works. Communication is the transfer of information from one communicator to another through the use of written or spoken words, symbols, touch, or gestures. For communication to be effective, both parties need to understand the message that's being transferred. All communication relies on the fact that there is a sender and a receiver. The sender is the communicator who originates the message. The receiver is the communicator who receives the message. The message conveys the sender's communication intent to the receiver. The process begins with the sender wanting to share an idea or message with another person or receiver. The sender encodes the message into a form that the receiver can easily understand. The sender transmits the message to the receiver via a communication channel. That could be email, phone, face-to-face, or any other type of communication methodology that we discuss. The receiver receives the message, decodes it, and provides feedback on the sender. Effective communication occurs when the sender and the receiver share the same meaning for the message. One of the key elements for communication to be effective is listening skills. Both the sender and the receiver have to have strong listening skills. Let's look at some best practices for improving your listening skills. First of all, for you to be able to listen, you'll have to stop talking. When you're talking, you cannot hear or decode the message that others are giving to you. So when you stop talking and start listening, you can then begin to understand and hear the message that's being conveyed to you. Another strong listening skill is to not interrupt the speaker. When someone is speaking to you, it's natural for your brain to start thinking about how you want to respond, and often we find ourselves interrupting the speaker to engage in dialogue on our own. It's important to not interrupt the speaker, knowing that your brain may be going off on what you want to respond with. Try to be present. Turn off what you want to say as opposed to interrupting. Try to be present and listen to what the speaker is saying. Concentrate on what the speaker is saying. This allows you to understand as well as hear what the speaker's message is. Pay attention to the speaker's body language. In addition to the words that the speaker is conveying in his or her message, the body language will tell you a tremendous amount about what they're trying to convey. It will speak to how they feel and what they really think, tone, pitch of the voice, as well as facial expressions, gestures, and how their body is moving. When you hear the message that the speaker has given to you, paraphrase the speaker's words back to the speaker after the speaker finishes. The reason you would want to paraphrase in your own words is to ensure with the speaker that you understand what he or she is saying to you and through paraphrasing, your mind will comprehend the message well enough to engage in additional dialogue. And finally, the best skill you can begin the practice when you're listening is after the speaker has communicated with you, ask questions about what they have conveyed. By asking questions, you can engage the speaker in opening up and giving you more information that will allow you to deeper understand what the speaker's message is about and engage in dialogue in such a way that the sending and receiving of messages is more understandable and you comprehend better. Perception plays a large part in communication. Let's talk about what perception is first. Perception is the way in which communicators view or understand a message. It's going to be unique to each individual and it influences how the receiver understands the sender's message. Because of perception, there's often misunderstandings and that's why paraphrasing is so important. It's also important to have what we call a perceptual filter. A perceptual filter is a conduit in which an individual screens and interprets a message based on his or her beliefs or values. Now gender and culture are perceptual filters. Let's think about what a perceptual filter does in that messaging. When a sender conveys a message to the receiver, the receiver has his or her own perceptual filter in which the message goes through. The receiver of the message hears and perceives that message a certain way. Now we spoke about listening skills and the need to paraphrase back. The perceptual filter will take that message and when the paraphrase in the receiver's own words is communicated back to the sender, in the event that that perceptual filter is incorrect, this is where paraphrasing comes into play. It will allow the sender of the message to say yes or no, you understand it correctly. So as the receiver of the message receives the message, the perceptual filter conveys the message back through paraphrasing, it then confirms understanding or misunderstanding. There are some key rules to effective communication and to make this simple, we're going to call it the ABCs of effective communication. Let's take a look at the three ABCs that you can follow. The first one is always be concise. Don't say more than you need to. If you can keep your message to one topic or one point, this will allow you to be concise. Although your thinking process may move quickly from one topic to another, others that you are speaking with or writing to may not follow your logical path, so try to be concise and keep your points to one message. The second ABC is always be clear. Get to the point. Other than maybe a courteous introduction, you want to get to the heart of your message directly. If you can't describe what you need in two or three sentences, then you may want to go back and examine if you really know what you want before you communicate. And the final ABC of effective communication is always be courteous. Good manners are always important. Making people politely shows respect, and it helps to ensure that others are receptive to your message. Please thank you and excuse me are the most powerful phrases in both spoken and written messages. There are two types of communication, and we engage in them on a daily basis. This is definitely something you would engage in in the workplace. The first one is synchronous communication. This is communication that occurs or exists at the same time. Face-to-face communication or talking on the telephone or even listening to a talk radio show. That's synchronous communication. Let me explain what that means. If we are face-to-face and we're communicating, we're in the same time period and we're having dialogue back and forth. That's synchronous communication as opposed to asynchronous communication. Asynchronous communication does not occur or exist at the same time or even in the same time period or phase. Think about voicemail or email or written communication. Thinking of email, you may write an email and send it and may not receive a response until maybe the next day. That's asynchronous communication because it does not happen in the same time period. There are several different types of communication methods. Let's take a look at them. There's face-to-face communication. This is the most direct route to send and receive a message when you're face-to-face. There's also written communication. Now, written communication is the most effective way to document a message. There's also telephone communication. When we use telephone communication, it's the second most direct route to send and receive a message. Voicemail communication is effective when you don't need a written record. And then email communication is very effective when you do need to send a very short message.


This is stock number 11321A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep and Jeep Grand Cherokee headquarters. Today we are checking out this extremely clean 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited. This vehicle has the award-winning 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 motor. It has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this Jeep is 100% ready to go. Diamond black is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the Jeep before seeing it in person. This one comes with the 18-inch painted and polished aluminum rims. And it has Goodyear Wrangler Kevlar 26560R18 tires. These are the all-terrain adventure tires. So definitely an all-terrain tread pattern on them. And they have probably about I'd say 60% of the tread left on them. Front fender is in excellent shape. No denser dings. It does come with the HID headlamps, the LED running lights, and the LED fog lamps. So we'll turn those on at the end of the video here and so you can see those running. They're really nice feature. Comes with the chrome trimmed grille. Has a nice bug shield on it. And the hood is in really nice shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on there. Passenger side front fender. Same there. No denser dings. And the passenger side rim. No scuffs or scrapes. As you go down the passenger side, take note of how clean the body is. How reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle, and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. And that's why we offer the Summit Auto FastPass option in the upper right hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home. So when you get here all you have to do is drive the vehicle of it. You'll be all set to go. Back rim is an excellent shape. Back tires have just as much tread as the front tires and it does have brand new brakes in the back. Rear quarter looks really good. Rear bumper is in nice shape. No dents or dings or cracks on there. It does have towing package which includes the receiver hitch and four pin wiring. You do get the chrome tipped exhaust and the backup parking sensors. The LED running lights in back as well. And the gate is in really nice shape too. This is a power lift gate. Back storage area is in nice shape. You do get the factory subwoofer in here and the spare tire and jack tools. Those seats do fold down for extra storage and they go almost completely flat and we'll check that out in a second and just press that button and then that gate will come on down for you. So it's nice and solidly and going down the driver's side just as clean as that passenger side. Rear quarter looks really good for full disclosure. This is the last rim here and that one looks really pretty good as well. Down the driver's side doors look good. Didn't see any dents. Didn't see any dings. Has the entering go system. You just have to have the key fob in your pocket. Doors will unlock. You do get heated mirrors built in directional signals.  There are no rips. There are no tears on the seats. They're in really nice shape. Both of these seats are heated and cooled. You do get power driver seat with lumbar, factory floor mats, auto headlamps and power tilt and telescopic steering wheel. You also get audio controls on the back of the steering wheel. Power windows, power locks and power mirrors and memory driver seat. We'll hop inside. Take a look at the instrument cluster and radio. You can see that this one has 66,539 miles. You do get the 7-inch LCD display, compass, outside temp display and digital speedometer. You get the heated leather wrap steering wheel, cruise controls on the right, Bluetooth and information center controls on the left. You get the 8.4C radio which gives you AM-FMN series XM radio capabilities. The factory navigation system as well. There's your radios including your Sirius.  That backup camera lines right up with the middle of your receiver hitch so it can get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer first time every time. And then you have all your different apps in here including the projection manager where you can project your cell phone to the screen via Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. So if you don't like the factory navigation you can project a different navigation such as ways or Google Maps to the screen and use it on the screen. We actually did a demo on Android Auto if you want to check that out. It's in the upper right hand part of the screen. So click that and check us out there. And then if you don't like using the controls up there you can use the climate controls down here as well as a volume and tune control from our tactile buttons. Back of parking sensors you can turn those off and on. It has the start-stop system so you can turn that off and on, eco mode, sport mode, and your stability control buttons are all right there. 8-speed automatic transmission. You do get the keyless entry with remote start. And the passenger side seat and floor mat are in excellent shape. I didn't see any rips or tears in there. And then this one does have the panoramic sunroof.  Here are your homelink controls for your garage door security systems and lane systems, power sunshade controls, and for the sunroof itself. Rear gate controls and you do get assist and SOS buttons in that rear view mirror. We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up, check out under the hood, and check out those HID headlamps. Back seats are in excellent shape as well. No rips or tears back here. It does have heated seats on the outboard side. Latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Factory floor mats. There are your heated seat buttons and two USBs as well as 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in. These seats do fold down for extra storage and they go almost completely flat, which is really nice. And then you do get child safety locks on the back doors as well. We'll start it up and take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HG video. You will have been able to tell just how clean and good looking this Jeep is all the way around. You can see those LED running lights, HID headlamps, and LED fog lamps. They are super bright. Under the hood we have the 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 motor. Engine day is very clean, runs very smooth. Shock's doing a nice job holding that hood up. Like I said before, this truck for this Grand Cherokee has been fully safety inspected as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this Jeep is 100% ready to go. And to see more pictures of this Grand Cherokee or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, Grand Cherokees, Cherokees, you name it we got it on our website right there www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at www.summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to www.youtube.com slash www.summitauto.com. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more Jeep Grand Cherokee videos like this one on your right if you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website. Click those check us out and we're super excited to help you with this extremely clean 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited in Diamond Black Crystal Pearl. Thanks again for checking out the video.