If you've been following the hype on all the talk about the differences between introverts and extroverts, you've probably already heard that introverts typically prefer quiet environments, whereas extroverts often enjoy exploring new places and meeting new people. While this is true, it only remains half-truthful for those who identify as highly-sensitive extroverts. Wait, what? But aren't introverts usually the highly-sensitive ones? Turns out introverts aren't the only ones who face misconceptions. So if introverts and extroverts can both be highly-sensitive individuals, are introverts still the ones more likely to identify as HSPs? Well, according to Dr. Elaine Aaron, author of The Highly-Sensitive Person, 70% of the HSP population identify as introverts, which leaves 30% who are sensitive extroverts. Although the percentage of HSP introverts definitely outweigh HSP extroverts, this only creates space for harmful labels and stereotypes, such as the belief that extroverts only act or behave in a particular manner. Whether someone is an introvert or extrovert, the following four criteria is used to determine high sensitivity. One, depth of processing, two, overstimulation, three, emotional responsiveness and empathy, and four, sensitive to subtleties. If you want to learn more about how highly-sensitive people function, check out this video after here. Although Susan Kane is known to be the catalyst for the big introvert movement, Elaine Aaron's research on HSPs disproves her broad generalizations of what being introverted and extroverted means. In Kane's book Quiet, she describes extroverts as one who is sociable, gregarious, excitable, dominant, light-hearted, bold and comfortable in the spotlight. She then describes introverts as being deep thinkers, preferring to process slowly, sensitive to stimuli, emotionally reactive, needing time alone and so forth, which, according to Aaron, are all qualities of a highly-sensitive person. But as an HSP extrovert, she identified with all of those traits. And if that wasn't contradicting enough, her husband, a non-HSP introvert, wasn't able to fully identify with these listed qualities. Confused? We were too. So, then what differentiates HSP introverts and extroverts from non-HSP introverts and extroverts? According to Aaron's research, she discovered that those who score highly on the MBTI tests with NF or NT temperaments usually identify as highly-sensitive people. Meanwhile, fewer HSPs lean more towards the SF and ST temperaments. F and T stand for feeling and thinking, but it's the differences between N and S that contributes to high sensitivity. The N stands for intuiting, while the S stands for sensing. Intuitive HSP people are more interested in exploring theories and ideas, whereas sensing non-HSP individuals care more about what's real, rather than abstraction. Hence, they enjoy the stimulation the physical world provides, because it's their playground and where they make meaning. Meanwhile, intuitive folks don't mind escaping and living in their imaginations. So, in conclusion, both introverted and extroverted HSPs enjoy alone time, less stimulating environments and prefer deep discussions over small talk. But what differentiates them is that HSP extroverts prefer to talk about their thoughts and feelings out loud rather than writing about them. And if they spend too much time in their heads, they'll start to grow restless and need to explore the outside world for rejuvenation. We Are Kims is an amazing channel that focuses on marriage, relationship, and well-being. Please show them some love by following and subscribing them. Until next time, bye guys!


So thanks for coming everyone. I am indeed going to be talking to you about emotions and what's up with those Which is something that no one ever told me until I had to figure a lot of it out And so hopefully I can save some of you the pain I Thought I would just start right in with a worked example worked example I'm surrounded by spiders for some reason just as well. Visually provoking some strong emotions. No This is my actual worked example, but they weren't kidding about the spiders Which is This talk itself. I was procrastinating all right in this talk. I'm like wondering to you you might have experience of procrastination I know this is like a rare experience, but But I think most people who procrastinate like they have the wrong idea about Procrastination how it works like procrastination isn't something you're doing because like you're lazy It's not some weird mysterious thing going on That you're where you're just like self-sabotaging for no good reason procrastination is mostly just like you don't want to do the thing On some level and that was very much my experience here. Like once I pinned this down I was like I had original plan for this talk and Like I was procrastinating because on some level just like this is a bad plan David You don't want to give this talk this way like what's wrong like something's wrong here and I Despite my claims to be emotionally aware it did take me a couple of weeks to finally pin down what this was So I'm talking through this like there's a strong fear. I wasn't qualified for this talk like I'm just some guy This isn't my this isn't my background like I'm a computer scientist. I am or a software developer I didn't even finish my computer science PhD but like There's definitely some part of me going like no don't get this talk It's not you're not your field and this is like a reasonable concern, right? Like there are definitely talks which if I was going to come up and give you a talk about cell biology I really hope I would be having like this feeling of I'm not qualified to give this talk because I don't know a thing about cell biology I'll ask the biology in GCSE But I am actually qualified to give this talk like I'm not like I have been working on this on my own and with other people for Like most of five years now. I've written about us extensively I'm not telling you this to like show up my credentials like I'm just saying that This feeling that I'm not qualified to give this talk. It's pointing at something But it's not pointing at like I actually can't give this talk There is a problem like which is that they're This taught another I am qualified to give this talk in so far as anyone is qualified to give this talk and also nobody is qualified to give this talk if it was the type of talk I was originally conceiving of because There's a wave engaging with all of this material like from the therapy literature from the psychology literature Which is that basically if you read it and you believe what they are saying You're gonna go wrong because everyone is talking really confidently about how emotions work out here this is like the one theory that fits everything and It were and they tend to work really well for the subset of people they worked really well for and really badly for The subject of people they didn't work really well for Which is it sounds tautological, but I mean like there are people in both groups And I've known a lot of people Sort of in the course of trying to learn about all this who have basically been Messed up because they've gone to all in on some particular theory that wasn't working well for them and so at this point I've got like This starts to be like okay. I'm no longer procrastinating for a mysterious reason I'm procrastinating for a very good reason that I'm about to do that. I was going to do a bad plan So there's a very simple answer to the question like what did they take me to seriously? Let's make sure you don't hardly by giving a worked example about how bad I'm a giving this talk, but more importantly I want to sort of get go in like giving you some Guidelines on how to seriously take this talk I'm pretty sure almost all the things I might be saying to you are useful like this has helped me This has helped other people. I know I'm not going to just be spouting a bunch of nonsense that you can't know that won't help at all Some of the things I say might even be true it's I think like Most of what I'm saying is going to be approximately true and It certainly isn't stuff I've made up like it's based on a whole bunch of different and reading and practice and so on But it's definitely not completely right and I can't necessarily tell you which bits are and aren't right This is just how I currently understand it It is how I currently understand it again like based on all sorts of other work But this is the sort of the bits I've since the size together that work well for me and people like me so Like if you two are a highly analytical nerd who likes thinking about things too much I think we might have one or two of us here Then this should probably be more useful to you than a lot of like the therapy literature If you are very if you think about things very differently, you might want to like a try a different approach This is mostly stuff. I wish someone had told me much earlier than they did Unfortunately, it's gonna be very high level every because I only have half an hour And so I can't like take you through a detailed therapeutic breakthrough in which you like get to the bottom of any emotional problems You may have but like it's sort of I'm trying to point to in the direction of like where I Think healthy emotional brushing lives and like give you some guidelines on how to get there But yeah, I actually you do actually have to do the work if you want to use any of this Like you're not gonna come out of this suddenly like I'm going man emotion snakes. It makes sense now Yeah, so this is stuff I figured out in the last five years or so I got to my mid 30s and went and started a PhD and Was as traditional in the PhD miserable? Went and decided to fix this Sorry, I'm speeding through this slide a bit more to get to the interesting bits, but the I did also go to therapy For me personally the books were useful if you find a great therapist then the therapist will be more probably more useful But this is the path I took Things got better partly because I quit my PhD. It's one of the advantages of being emotionally more emotionally aware is that you can tell when what you're doing is a bad idea and I turned out the PhD wasn't for me And now it's now and I'm gonna tell you about Okay, so we turn to the question like emotions. What's up? What's up with this? I'm now just going to tell you what's up with this So the first thing was like emotions They are fundamental. They start with labeling behaviors like The reason there is an emotion called anger is not because you can feel angry. It's because you can behave angrily It's it's not that you can't feel anger, but the description starts with it starts with the externally visible behavior When you feel it when you're feeling an emotion That is basically saying you want to behave that way in some that on some level Like it may not in the sense that you totally endorse feeling like that feeling that way but Some part of you is going anger anger would be good now or fear fear would be good now like this And this is like the procrastination. It wasn't that I didn't want to write the talk, but some part of me didn't want to write the talk This is because it thinks it's a good idea I think one of the easy traps to fall into is basically going emotions are irrational things They're happening for no good reason that's not true Like almost all the time when you're experiencing some strong emotion It's because like some part of you is like this is a good idea Like this is this is the thing that I need to do right now in order to get what I need That doesn't mean it's right like sometimes An emotion is telling you something useful and important and true and sometimes it's just to get confused like your emotions are you and If any of you are infallible like please come talk to me afterwards because I'd love to know how you did But I'm certainly not When it's wrong and this is like one of the important bits is like you can change this you can Basically go. Oh, right. This is the emotion. I'm feeling right now. I don't need to be feeling an emotion I can feel another emotion And when it's right, you can like improve on your behavior.  Oh, right. That's useful information. I'll act on it Like I didn't fix my problems with procrastination on the talk I basically like making the emotion go away I fixed my problems with procrastination on the talk by going ah, this emotion is telling me useful information Let me do something about that Here's another worked example in for the other category of problem again, this one might be slightly relatable Which is help I'm at a festival cool. Lots of full of lots of cool people. I don't know any of you and I should say this isn't a current one for me This one I fit this one out is something that I more or less fixed a couple of years ago, but It's still useful to go through You would presumably like to talk to people at the school festival like we're all here to socialize but Many of you don't know that would be awful. Like can you imagine just going up to someone and saying hi? this is I'm David like the worst right and like what why why is it awful and the This is the sort of that like the core concern I find I or I found is that like you're gonna go up to someone You're gonna make it weird.  You're going to In some way screw up and But like why is that bad like people make mistakes and And it's not necessarily the end of the world I know it sometimes feels that way, but it isn't I promise But for me like it feels like oh no everyone's gonna laugh at me Everyone's gonna like no I'm one of the weird kids everyone's gonna there's gonna be all sorts of social consequences for this I Don't know if you've noticed but this isn't so this isn't a school like we're not a bunch of food in the word case We're not most of us. We're not gonna see anyone here again unless we really want to the social dynamics are totally different This is very much like a for me for me a school reaction It is a like I'm gonna be seeing this person every day for the next four years And they're gonna laugh at me with all their friends and so on But that's not where we are we're like we're all the weird kids here. Everyone's fine Like Things are basically going to be fine. There will be almost no major social repercussions first growing this up if and when we do and So maybe this isn't so bad. Maybe you can just go up and talk to people and like that's basically okay and For me the going through this sort of thought process genuinely does change the emotional response Like it doesn't suddenly make the emotion go away. I don't suddenly go. Yes, go and being awkward. That sounds great I love being awkward but The sting of it does less and and every time you do this the it does get better And for me personally like it's embarrassing how often this isn't a school is the key emotional revelation revelation I need Because we and I apologize to anyone here who is still in school because I know there are some children in the audience For for you school situations are the learn to do it better rather than they learn to not be in it to recognize the emotional difference But for me like a lot of your sort of patterns of emotional reaction are laid down in childhood If when sort of therapists talk about like small tea trauma Like what they generally actually mean is this is an emotional pattern that you have learned when you were younger and no longer applies to your current situation It's like it's a bad emotional lesson And For some people those come from families for some people those come from school. I'm a school person. My family was great but but school not so much and like Recognizing that this is the sort of shape of the reaction emotional reaction you're having and Noticing the ways in which your current environment is different from where that reaction was learned Really sort of starts to shift your emotions in like a more like situationally appropriate direction Um, I'm just gonna go through like the points of the theory in detail now and Like the first one is just like emotions label behavior This is I think the more counterintuitive most counterintuitive part of my claims because like everyone is very much used to thinking of Emotions as various sort of internal things like the emotions are what you're feeling not what you're doing and It's worth through the labor now Elaborate on like why this is backwards in terms of where emotions come from as a concept The basic answer is like you can tell that emotions are an external thing because there are a lot of words When we have lots of words for things it's because you can point to them If you think about trying to explain pain to someone It's incredibly hard to explain your pain like the current pain you're experiencing because pain is not a shared reference like I can't say it's like it's like this and then Stata beer or whatever like that's considered antisocial so So you end up with very fuzzy references and similarly like flavors are much harder to describe than things you can look at because Like with a thing you can look at you can just point you can say look it's the thing I'm pointing at with flavor like What you're currently tasting you can maybe show you can show the food, but um, it's It's harder and so the more in the share in the shared world things are the more we have words for them and we have a lot of words for emotions and Also like as descriptions, they're clearly made up like it's this does not say that emotions aren't real things but like Where are the boundaries of an emotion are like emotions blur into each other like they're just descriptive words for general patterns of things The word the metaphor I usually like to use is that emotions are like colors and like anger irritation Annoyance are no more real things than like red fuchsia magenta like they They are descriptive Words for observed things, but they just They just they're just sort of described broad regions of the ends of space oops, I thought I have a more point there and so like Often I think what people get hung up on when trying to describe emotions is Like am I feeling angry am I feeling grumpy am I feeling like one of these different fine-grained words and like often The question is about as useful as there's a hot dog a sandwich it's like the thing you were trying to understand when you try to understand your emotions is your behavior and emotional words are Useful labels that those but not necessarily like very clear cut distinctions And Obviously like there is an internal counterparts to emotions. This isn't if your behavioral theory like but You can feel like you can behave angry, but you angrily, but you can also feel angry I keep using angry as an example because it's a really easy example But the same thing applies to any other emotion like similarly you can behave afraid and you can feel afraid Some emotions easier to see what the behavior is like than others, but there's usually an external counterpart and that external part and The way this usually works is that basically the emotion you are currently feeling is the behavior that comes naturally to you so When you feel angry It's very easy to act angrily and it's very hard not about what it's hard not to act Angrily you can you can control your behavior, but if you sort of naturally let yourself do gravitate to a To sorry if you do the behavior that comes naturally like what will come out is anger You will sort of your voice will raise you will sort of take an aggressive aggressive posture, etc and Importantly, this happens even where you're not aware of your emotions I mean, I'm sure like most of us have encountered someone angrily shouting. I'm not angry Or like someone going no, I'm completely calm while their hands are shaking on stage or something and like there is when When like the part of you that is handling these emotions is doing its thing even if it is Even if you're not consciously aware of it doing us thing And in fact most like when you're not aware of your emotions It's very it's even harder to not act on them because if you don't know you're angry You can't withhold withdraw from being angry if you don't know you're anxious you can't take steps to do it like because of the fact that Emotions is doing what comes naturally you have to notice that like what that you could do otherwise and If you want to essentially say, okay, I'm angry, but I don't have to behave angrily Okay, I'm afraid but I can do it anyway. It like it really helps to have that bit where you say I'm angry. I'm afraid When I say you feel emotions I like what I really mean is like literally you feel emotions There's a common experience that people have like assuming that Everyone is using metaphors. I got to experience this with visualization for example Like I don't visualize and so I assume everyone who said they had pictures in the head was using a metaphor I know that they just have pictures in their head and this is the same thing with feeling emotions like When people say you feel your emotions like they are literally talking about physical feelings in your body Like when you feel angry like your skin flushes when you feel afraid you might feel sort of tight-knit here It's not necessarily the same physical sensations. I think there's a lot of commonality, but the If you are currently bad at Noticing what your emotions are the thing you need to do is start paying attention to physical sensations that map to those behaviors There are some subtleties to this and Like not all emotions are like super obvious physically, but if you're not paying attention to physicality of it That is where you need to start The general sense you see acts as this is called inter-reception. It's some it basically is just The way we are aware of internal feelings It's like when you notice you have an upset stomach when you notice that something is hurting that's inter-reception And this is also what you will you use to actually like learn what you're feeling and what emotions are experiencing Sorry, I said this one already, but yeah, like basically The way to notice what emotions you're experiencing is to pay attention to these physical changes and sort of learn to Identify them and recognize them And this is just something you can get better at I will provide a reference to a Book to an annoyingly named therapy technique called focusing later Which is essentially just the skill of getting skilled at inter-reception in order to understand your emotions it's um like it's easier for some people than others, but it's It is just a learnable skill I mean talking about parts like part of me wants this part of me wants and I believe that and This is from this is another therapy thing But it is also just like literally like part of the normal language like people say this sort of thing all the time and It's once you start sort of paying attention feelings like it's really annoying because like the A lot of the things people say about parts sound on tentacle until they sound obvious And like the most nonsensical sounding one is it is useful thinking of these parts as people in their own right Like it's useful imagining like there is a little version inside you that is angry you or their oh and Is currently the bit going no I want to shout I want to do this This isn't literally true probably like some some people experience it is more literally true than others Like I've I've had experiences and sort of doing work with parts and feelings where I know where Like the best way I can describe it is that the part informed me that yes It had a name and this as I say this feels ridiculous until it seems obvious But like don't worry too much by the literalness of it The way I think is most useful in fact is you know the thing that people say if I'm a different person when I'm with my family With them for when I'm with my friends or in this context like your parts are Those different different people like they're different versions of you and those different versions of you are all Simultaneously present and just come out when in situations Needs them and you can access sort of like the feeling of what it would be like to be that version of you you've independently of those situations by just basically poking after with interception and Again, I will provide a reference to a book afterwards for sort of doing parts work but But this but this is what I mean when I say a part I mean like a version of you that you can access in some circumstance Like say feeling an emotion is a strategic choice like the part that the part of you doesn't feel an emotion because like just for the laws, I mean it might if the emotion is humor, but Like it has learned at some point that this is a useful reaction like When I'm scared of screwing up by introducing myself to people That was a legitimate fear back in school like it wasn't that I made up in my own head that No, that that things could go badly wrong. There were actually circumstances in which things could go badly wrong and I learned that in that reaction And yeah, I got ahead of my slides again, and yeah, so so these emotional responses are learned from experience That doesn't mean they're right and it doesn't mean they're right either because like they've over learned them They've learned them in the situation where it doesn't apply It also just it's also just like sometimes they're wrong because like sometimes we're wrong it's Certainly I've learned emotional responses But in response to things that existed entirely in my head at the time and don't actually make sense even in retrospect But like usually they are more right than wrong But most importantly you should probably take it seriously regardless of whether it's right or wrong like one of the reasons why it's useful to Think of emotion of parts as people in their own right is this teaches you how to treat your emotions if Like if a friend of yours is current comes to you and it's just like I'm really afraid of this scenario happening You don't go. Oh, yeah, you don't need to be afraid of that. It's some Nothing's wrong. You're worried for nothing. You're ever reacting like it fuels about as bad when you treat a part like that as it does when someone else roots you like that and so I'm going in and sort of taking these reactions as seriously and treating them as like in principle likely to be right even but Not necessarily completely right is the way to go Sorry, I'm just gonna skim through this. I have slightly missed timed everything Yeah, so one of these sort of important things to access within to reception is like the sense of what feels true it's when you Like when you say something out loud pay attention to the sense of like, ah, is that right? Is that or is it more like this? and so you can basically gain more actual access to a lot of this information by saying things like Part of me believes this part of me wants to do that. I'm seeing like how the feeling changes how the feeling responds And exercises sometimes get people to do is just go around saying like obviously nonsensical things and seeing like what the feeling of like Oh, that's not right is like The population of the UK is 400 million population UK is not flagrantly just to clarify this this guy is pink like Noticing the instantaneous reaction basically, you know, that's not right and correcting from that and you can Do this with emotions as well. You and you see you can see this if you go through some of my work to examples like Trying to pay attention to where the feeling is coming from what it means and honing it home in on a true version And Using this you can sort of take these emotional beliefs these reactions like I should be angry or should be sad and go Like why where is this coming from? Does this still make sense in context and No and What are the emotionally salient differences? It is hard to do this in the moment Usually I find this is better in advance of the thing. I'm worried about or doing essentially a post-mortem of going So that's how this felt. Was that right? Could I have done this differently? But I think like all this actually starts with not like trying to change your emotional responses But basically just learning to treat them as useful information And asking like what do you want to do and then actually doing it? You can I think those of us who are bad at emotions I guess I would pass dense from Sometimes past tense for me Often is very time you just override the emotion and go no, this is what I've got to do But paying attention to these feelings and going okay, how do I take this into account where this is like what what should I do based on that? What I want to do is The first start Often this is pretty quick what would make this feel safer like if some part of us is worried about things going horribly wrong You can just make plans to stop things from going horribly wrong and Yeah So yeah, basically just don't treat your emotions automatically wrong. It's very easy to do that and like Don't and will tend to not help But don't treat them so badly right either like go in with sort of open curiosity and go maybe What's up? What's up with that like? and either and either act on it or Try to it doesn't You have to be prepared to like take it into account with and Act accordingly But you don't have to do sort of a naive thing just because you're angry doesn't mean you have to shout dick And it can mean you calmly explain to someone why what they did was wrong And you're gonna get this wrong It's impossible to get this right all the time because getting it right all the time is essentially acting perfectly in all situations And nobody does that But every time These things come up you can do better for the next time Yeah and so basically what I want you to take away from this is to Integrate your emotions better into your life try to learn to understand them and try to Feel better every time things go wrong Feel better in future Here are some for some further reading I've written an article about this which has some overlap with us talks it elaborates in some bits and this is out some others These are two books. I do recommend I'm sorry. These books are quite woob All of the best books on therapy are a bit strange and you do need to go in taking them not even less or differently seriously than you would me but certainly not too seriously and I wish you all the best of luck Thank you very much, and I will be around for questions afterwards


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In this video I'm going to teach you how to shift your reality in nine seconds and this is really a powerful technique and it's basically not really what you expect. If you don't watch this whole video it won't work. You need to understand every aspect of it, I'll keep it as short as possible but you need to watch this whole video. So what you're going to do is from now on you're going to basically go and get a notepad or just open up the notes app on your phone and you're going to basically write a very detailed description of exactly what reality you want to have. It needs to be detailed it can't just be go to Hogwarts or go drive a car down the street you need to be very very detailed you need to write down specifically what you'll do why you'll do it how it'll make you feel who's involved you know description right at least a page and you're going to basically keep that description near you ideally on your person for the whole day and then when you get to you know when you're going to go to bed you're going to put the description under your pillow leave it there and then when you wake up in the morning you take it out read it and then keep it with you all day. If it's on your phone just do the same thing but have your phone under your pillow ideally turn the wi-fi kind of turn the wi-fi and bluetooth off so you don't fry your brain with frequencies that you don't need but that's how it works for the first step. Then what you're going to do is several times throughout the day ideally two to three times throughout the day you actually take out this piece of paper or this notes thing on your phone and you read through it and you visualize it and you try and tweak it in a certain way to give yourself more emotions. I know that sounds really weird but just try to stick with me here you need to basically make this statement as emotional as possible for you okay. So let's say if you want to shift to a reality where you're living in a forest and you have unlimited passive income and you are able to do woodworking every day for example. Really get emotional and descriptive about that so in the notes literally write down like I every day will be doing this woodworking by the lake I can hear the birds chirping it makes me feel you know completely free unhindered I don't have to worry about anything it allows me to really be myself and I can just take this time and it feels great because of this there's no whatever reason right really be descriptive of this the way this is going to be good the way this works is because that engages your emotions which is a very powerful way of magnetizing what you want to yourself very important and this goes back to basic manifestation concepts right to make this work you actually need to feel and believe like it's already there so when you're visualizing this you don't want to be visualizing it as something magical in the future that you might get one day you need to visualize this as in this is happening now you're actually in the forest right now what do you see how does it feel you know can you hear the birds chirping you're looking around and really try and bring that feeling that emotional feeling into your body I know this sounds a bit weird if you haven't tried this yet stick with me you know I guarantee it works so you need to bring this emotional feeling into your body do this two or three times a day and when you write it by the way it should be in present tense it should be I am currently sitting in the forest doing this doing woodworking because of whatever reason makes me feel really happy I feel really free and as you do it really believe it make yourself believe it really like bring the emotions into your body do this two or three times a day okay the next stage the next kind of layer of this is to look to consider the alternatives spaces right if you haven't heard my previous video it was like a 20 minute video about how this works or if it hasn't been posted yet you'll watch it soon okay whatever the reason the idea comes from this book called reality trans surfing if you've never heard of this book I highly recommend that you go and read it it's about 20 pounds on 20 dollars on amazon it's not my book but it's very good I highly recommend it and so the way it works the way it kind of explains things is that from any moment you have an infinite number of timelines or alternatives that you could choose to go down right and you really need to watch my 20 minute video about this but the way it basically works is you need to from every given moment you need to basically choose which life path am I going to go down what like if I make this decision if I go and watch Netflix now what will that move me closer to or let's say if you want to do this woodworking thing where you live in the forest and have passive income what step will actually lead towards that and what step will lead away from that I'm kind of simplifying but for now just bear in mind just think about it and leave in the comments what you think the answer is and what you the alternative that you want to actually shift to this is not how you've been told this works it works slightly differently and in the next kind of few videos I'm going to be basically explaining how really how it works and I would love to hear what you think so let me know about that by the way if you are interested in lucid dreaming I have launched recently my lucid tribe which is basically like all of my stuff pretty much for one low monthly price at the moment at the time of recording this is like nine dollars a month you can access to a growing library of binaural beats tracks they can be used for shifting meditation audios guided meditations videos live coaching group stuff live streams it's all there okay so go and check it out how to lucid.com slash lucid tribe or just click one of the links in the description and you'll be able to see it there so yeah check it out and let me know what you think


The American Association of Psychiatric Pharmacists, AAPP, developed a best practice model for outpatient psychiatric pharmacists by using multiple modalities to refine 28-attribute statements. A confirmation survey was distributed among licensed pharmacists and resident members of AAPP, resulting in more than 90% agreement on the proposed practice model statements. The high degree of agreement will be used as the basis for the outpatient psychiatric pharmacist best practice model, with next steps including establishing implementation guidance, determining appropriate metrics for evaluation, and establishing field testing methods. This article was authored by Kelly C. Lee, PharmD, M.A.S., B.C.P.P., Richard J. Sylvia, PharmD, B.C.P.P., Gregory H. Payne, M.B.A., and others.


Okay, welcome to space arena the ultimate python turtle graphics game tutorial. Let me show you what I'm going to teach you how to do in the tutorial So here is my splash screen Space arena by tokyo attack. There is some background music. I'm just gonna turn it off for now Well, I think I can leave it on and so splash screen comes up and Prints it out nicely old-school style asks us to press S to start We basically got a player. We got an enemy and some power ups So I didn't hit S and there's the player There's the power ups and there are the enemies notice there are different types of enemies Some enemies will attack you once they get closer. Some kind of just sit there. Some will run away from you so we go ahead and Move around so you notice how the player moves and everything moves relative to the player Now I can shoot Now when you start the game, you won't have that many missiles, but Okay, so you see there's some particle effects and There is a nice little radar over here and some you know text keeping track of what's going on in the game I've got some stars in the background that move by parallax There's the arena walls and we bounce off of them. So let's take a quick look at the code And that keeps playing the background. Let's take a quick look at the code and just basically show you This is a pretty advanced tutorial. This is not for beginners If you are a beginner, please do not watch this yet Watch some of my other tutorials like space invaders or pong and get used to that one of the things this Tutorial relies very heavily on is the concept of classes and of course with classes you have objects Now I'll walk you through what that means and how they work But if you have a little background in it, it'll probably help you quite a bit. You notice This is a very long program. It's actually about a thousand lines long and there are a number of classes. There are quite a few different Aspects to this there's some math that you really got to think about and again, I'll explain it So but you need to do understand the basics of mathematics and it's a little bit of geometry What will help here for sure and you notice this is all still just the class definitions This isn't even the game and then once we get down we start setting up the game Okay, our enemies etc. We do the stars. We do the power-ups and There's just there's just a lot of different concepts in here. There's keyboard binding There's a timer. I may or may not need that. I'm not sure and then there's our main game loop And this is what the code looks like so I'm gonna take you through that step-by-step And I'll just real quick the sounds did come from here so I did want to give credit because this is an attribution license and Yeah, I'm just gonna take you through it step-by-step Hopefully in a way that everybody can understand it at least if you're at the point where you're ready for this level of Yeah of code a couple things I'm gonna be using the turtle module. This is not pie game That's why I call this the ultimate Python turtle graphics game tutorial I've been using this thing for like five years And this is a combination of everything that I've learned About the turtle module and how to speed it up and how to make an actual working game out of it So I hope you stick around learn a lot and enjoy click like subscribe for updates. Peace out


Fawr, mwy fawr yn gweithio ar y 13 yma yn y Cymru gael Gyfrifolwr Rhywun Gyfrifolwr i'w cael eu cymunedau cymwylltu cymwyllt. Mae hyn yn cyd-dillidau'u clywed ym mwy o gwbl senedd ei wneud i'w holl gael gyda sicr i gael Pheilwyr, ac mae'r ymgylchedd cymwyllt yn ddifu'r ymgylchedd cymwyllt yw ymgylchedd cymwyllt ddifu'r ymgylchedd cymwyllt, ac mae'r ymgylchedd cymwyllt yn gyfryd yna gweithio i ddechrau gyfoeth Cymysgol, RpP 3, a Gweldol 5, y gweldol dechreuadau gyda Llanfyn Cymysgol yn gweldol. Rwy'n credu'r gweithio'n gweldol. John Lylew. Gweithio'n gweldol dechreuadau gyda Llanfyn Cymysgol yn gweldol dechreuadau gyda Llanfyn Cymysgol? Rwy'n credu'n gweldol dechreuadau gyda Llanfyn Cymysgol yn gweldol, a'r grateddau iddynt o'r gwaith i ddweud i chi oedd ei gwybodaeth dros gyferitterau. Felly mae'n meddwl â'r barhau. Mae'n meddwl i ydw,"Doliad i chi, Oedden. Na yw'r newid i ddweud i ddweudio ddi passechadau a dd teachers a oedd yn digwydd. Rwy'n credu i'n ddysgu cyddiadau arall. Rwy'n credu i'n credu i'n credu i'r ddysgu, i ddysgu i't i'n credu i'ch ddysgen. Rwy'n credu i'ch ddysgu i ddysgu i dirwch o'r holl. Mae gennym yn sicr ddim yn sicrhau thati'r bautyn gweithio y ffordd iawn nifer. Mae gennym yn sicrhau ffordd iawn. Fodd y gwaith o'i cyfnod. Fodd ar gyfer y clywed o Maith honno? Diolch. Fy hwnna'r gweithio y ffordd iawn y pwg ac mae'n ffordd iawn i'w ganweithio ddochol ac maith hwnna i'r ffordd iawn i'w pwg ac mae'n gweithio ddochol i'w pwg ac maith i'w ddochol i'w pwg ac mae'n gweithio i'w pwg ac mae'n gweithio i'w pwg ac mae'n I will make a record of my observation and the committee's thoughts on it afterwards. I would rather do it that way if I may, please, John. Okay? Thank you. So, I ask, are we all agreed on that matter? Yes. Thank you. The second item on consideration is two negative instruments as detailed on the agenda. These instruments relate to agricultural holdings. The committee will consider any issues that it wishes to raise in reporting to the instrument on those issues. Members should note that no motions to a null have been received in relation to these instruments. Are there any comments from members relating to these instruments? I note that there are no comments received, so therefore, is the committee agreed that it does not wish to make any recommendation in relation to these instruments? Yes. Thank you. The third item on the agenda is the committee's invite to note the draft memorandum of understanding between the Scottish Government and the Maritime and Coast Guard Agency has outlined in paper 2. Members should be aware that, since the paper was issued, it has emerged that there would be no requirement for the committee to report the MOU to the Parliament and for the Parliament to formally approve it. The Parliamentary Bureau has therefore referred the document to the committee for note only. This is because the Scottish Parliament is not named as a party to the document. Members will note that the memorandum of understanding states that the Maritime and Coast Guard Agency accounts and annual report will be shared with Transport Scotland, enabling them to be laid before the Scottish Parliament. Also, if required to do so, the Maritime and Coast Guard Agency will submit relevant reports to and appropriate officials will appear before the committee of the Scottish Parliament regarding the exercise and functions relating to the Coast Guard and the safety of ships and seafarers in Scotland. I would invite any comments from members on the committee on the memorandum of understanding. We have more than two. Stuart, if you would like to start, please. It is just a technical point that I don't think should lead us to take any action, but it will be useful to put on the record. At 3.2, Scotland is defined as being—as defined in the Scottish Association Waters Boundaries Order of 1999, which in essence defines the seaward limits as 55 degrees, 26 minutes, 37 seconds north, 6 degrees, 34 minutes, 40 seconds west. However, that is only for certain purposes related to fisheries. The other piece of legislation that matters is the continental shelf territorial sea order of 1987, which uses a different set of coordinates to define the border. There is an area of—this is my approximation—6,000 sq miles, which for purposes of fishing is not in Scottish waters, but for the purposes of exploitation of oil and gas is in Scottish waters for the legal purposes. It is worth making the point that the excluded area related to the memorandum of understanding is not an area in relation to the oil and gas law that would be applied by Scottish law enforcement agencies and courts. It is not an area where we have legislative competence in this Parliament, and therefore it is proper that we merely note that difference. I personally would have preferred to see the memorandum of understanding, which is no legal force but represents something serious to talk about the 1987 order, but having made that point, I do not propose the committee's response to it in any way whatsoever. Your point is made. Sorry, John Mu. In light of your opening remarks, I was just to clarify that it says here in the paper of the action that the committee is invited to consider whether it is content to recommend that the Parliament approve the MOU. Is that actually correct? That has changed, because we are being asked to note it, so it is ready to say that we have seen it coming through. Thank you. That is fine. It is on record that, in fact, this was raised in the Bureau on Tuesday of this week, and it was made clear that we could, if we wished to—and I am not saying we should, I am just saying that if we wished to—we could produce a report and there could be a short debate on the floor of the chamber. Considering the memorandum itself, I do not think that there is any need to do that, but I think that it should be noted, certainly for the public, that we have that power if we wish to do it. Thank you. Jamie, do you want to— The first question, I think that John Mason asked, which is just to clarify, would be a nice to consider rather than approve or give consent to, that is fine. Therefore, for any questions that we have, who are they directed to or any points of clarification that we have? Are they directed to the transport of Scotland or the Scottish Government? We could write to Transport Scotland if there are specific points that you would like. So, may I, for the purpose of the record, then ask that on the section 4 of the operation of the MOU, which is page 3 of the body of the appendix, it says that Scottish Government ministers may appoint a name to the individual to the MCA advisory board. My question would be who would make that decision and by what process they would follow. There is no requirement to answer that question here or now, but that is just for the record. It would be interesting to know. As a result of that question, then ask what the process will be just for that question. I just didn't make sure that we do—that we encourage the Government to make full use of the MOU by actually appointing someone, sending somebody or a deputy to those meetings that the board has so that we know what's happening at that agency. The only other point I had was just a general point on these MOUs in that—again, for the purpose of the public record—is that they seem to be following a slightly different format in terms of the role of the committee and the Parliament in each of the MOUs. Perhaps the clerks may take that up later. That is definitely noted, Rhoda. On the appointment of the person to the board, I'm wondering if that person is going to be the route for consultation with the Scottish Government or is there another route for consultation? If there's someone on the board, what is their role? Are they going to be feeding back information or is there a separate, another kind of working in tandem consultation process? The committee's content, what we'll do, is we'll write and ask about the process of selection of that person and how the Scottish Government feeds into it. We could definitely do that. Sorry, John. You wanted to— It was more a comment. It might be opportunities further down the line for this committee to take evidence from someone who is appointed and, of course, where they are in place would be able to do that in relation to the shocking situation in the Murray Firth regarding ship-to-ship transfer of oil, where there's a dearth of interest, apparently, from the Scottish Government on this. This is a dearer-reserve matter, but the communities, as you'll be fully aware, convener, are deeply concerned and I hope you would join in that concern that there is about the potential environmental disaster that this could bring about. If we did have someone in the air, we'd have an opportunity to discuss that. Thank you, John, for that very good constituency point that you raised. I will try, if I may, to say that it's not for me to answer that here, but I think the process and how the Coast Guard Agency feeds back to the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Government is a thing that we can raise with the Government. If you look at Paragraph 3.5, pollution response operations are not part of this memorandum of understanding, so it's not with the competence of this. It's a licence grant and not a pollution response, though. Right. I'm just reading that again just to remind myself. It might be useful to look at section 4.6. If required to do so, the MCA would submit relevant reports to, and appropriate officials would appear before the committees of the Scottish Parliament regarding the exercise of functions related to the Coast Guard. That seems all-encompassing and the safety of ships and seafarers in Scotland. That ultimately would be quite a useful thing for us to bear in mind here forth. I think that the point is that, once that person is appointed, it is very clear that we can ask them to come to the committee, and if it's the committee's wish to ask them to come, I will make every steps to ensure that that happens. Sorry, John. It was just to pick up on Mike's point. Of course, there will be consultation and strategic priorities in what would be more strategic than protecting the Highlands and Islands main industry, which is tourism and our environment. I would suggest that we need to be ambitious. John, you've made it twice, if I may, on that particular issue, and Richard, I'm going to let you come in there. Thank you. Based on the fact that we could ask the official to come along, we could also ask the maritime to come along too at agency to come along too, because it would be possibly interesting to, based on the point that my colleague has made just a minute ago about the ship-to-ship transfer of oil, it could be a subject of something that we want to get into. I absolutely believe that that's right, and we can ask the committee—the committee can ask if they so want that the Coast Guard Agency come along and also the person appointed by the Scottish Minister. So, rather than delay this as we're being asked to note it, is the committee happy that we write and ask for the process for selecting the person to go on to the agency or represent the agency? Fiona, that we've been notified of who is appointed in due course. Okay, and that we've been notified, and at the appropriate time, we look for somebody to come to the committee to explain the work that's going on. Is everyone content with that? Can I ask that you, therefore, as a committee, we are happy that we've noted the memorandum of Amazon. Right, that concludes the public part of the meeting, and I'd now like to spend briefly to allow us to move into private session.


Yes, there's always is Whether I go four innings or eight innings I was I always want to take the ball for the next inning and keep doing what I was doing tonight How would you compare the quality of your cutter tonight from some of your previous starts? Yeah, I mean I've I've adjusted did some things and I think I was a better today Commanding it to areas. I wanted to Did you feel any extra energy going toe-to-toe with Castillo? No, no, no, obviously everybody knows a great picture. He is I think it was just two guys out there competing But there was no extra edge As for what are some of those things you've adjusted? Just you know throwing throwing to my areas, you know, not not not big adjustments. Just Going back to what I've I've been doing for the first 12 12 starts Obviously those those those audience are pretty good. So I'm watching the video late with some stuff and and try and be that guy again No, I mean I have made a couple good plays out there for me obviously, I I don't know how comfortable he is out there playing right field, but I Guess he was trying to go to second base of the bathroom first was in advance you know, I I might have I might have You know, there's some some reaction behind him, but totally understand where he's coming from and then and he's he's playing his art out there. So


Hey there, Saplings. My name is Danny and welcome to Esoteric Moment. Today I wanted to do a video to share my thoughts on the changes in the YouTube Partner Program. So if you haven't heard today, YouTube announced all of these changes that were supposed to help encourage and reinforce the relationship with advertisers in making sure that they wanted their material on YouTube and therefore creators get paid and YouTube gets paid and also to kind of help crack down on creators who are just taking videos from other people and uploading them or, you know, doing spam or other items that were against the YouTube kind of code of conduct. All of these changes meant that in order to reach the threshold to be a YouTube partner and to make any money on YouTube and more importantly have access to a specific set of creator tools that help you grow your community, you needed two things to have a thousand subscribers and to have in the last year, every year, the 365 days, to have 4,000 hours of watch time or more. Now this change affects this channel and what I'm doing here in a few ways. I have reached the threshold of subscribers and I've been making money from YouTube for the last year and a half. When the program was happening previously you had a different set of thresholds to meet and then every month, whatever income you generated would go to your AdSense account and if AdSense total was above $100 you would get written a check. Now I didn't make a lot of money and I wasn't making videos to make money but those small checks in the last year helped me, you know, invest in the channel and invest in the type of connections that I can make with the awesome people I want to make here on YouTube. These changes mean that I do not have the threshold of 4,000 hours of watch time which I think is a surprisingly high number to require in order to even get involved in this program. I'm not going to stop making videos. I love connecting to people here, having conversations in the comment section and really being a part of the dialogue and sharing more about druidry and the books I'm reading and a little bit about permaculture. I love that but it does mean that I can't invest in extra software. It means I can't really upgrade my equipment and it means that this hobby and passion of mine that I would really love to see grow and devote more time to might have to take a backseat because I don't have the resources to just invest in it on my own. I need it to be creating something itself. I don't think I'm alone in this position where you have a lot to offer and you're a smaller YouTube creator and you're trying to make a million views or subscribers or have a whole team behind you. You just want to make good quality and interesting content. I'm really disheartened by this change and this change will mean that I no longer receive funds even though I did actually get a check from YouTube last year and use that money to reinvest in this channel. I just wanted to provide an opportunity for other smaller creators in the comments to share whether you are in this situation. If you're close to one of those thresholds and you were previously making money or really close, let us know in the comments and maybe we can help each other out. It just means that smaller YouTube creators are going to have to stick together a little bit more tightly and make sure that we're subscribing to the content that we really want and watching that content so that we get more of it and it's not just about clickbait thumbnails and you know kind of trashy daily vlogs. Not that all daily vlogs are trashy but you know if you're trying to do quantity versus quality there are some things that change and I would like quality not just quantity. So if if you'd like to help my channel out you could certainly go back and watch some of your old favorite videos or put a playlist on. That would be lovely. I in in full disclosure I would have to get about 1400 hours in the next 30 days to keep the benefits of being a YouTube partner. Keep monetization. I don't know if that's really going to happen with the amount of subscribers I have but that's where this channel is at. I would love to know where your channel is at and if you need assistance. I'm going to shout out three channels myself today. Rich who's Monday's host on Pagan Perspective. I know he's pretty close to the subscriber limit of a thousand so if you enjoy him on Pagan Perspective definitely go check out his personal channel. There's a link in the description. Sarah MP or I think it used to be like itty bitty Celtic Witch. She has a really beautiful Instagram page and she has the subscriber count but I checked in with her but not the watch time so if you want to put one of her playlist on or if you've already watched your videos maybe put her playlist on but mute it and have it running in the background. Definitely check out her stuff. Bella Moore has an interesting channel where it's like half beauty vlogger half witchy Pagan stuff. I believe on the YouTube Pagan Facebook channel she said she had the subscribers but not the watch time so I've definitely got a playlist that I've been checking in on and watching some of those videos regularly. She would be another great small creator to help out with. Of course there are more people who could use assistance and if you are one of those people let us know in the comments below. I personally would love to help more creators get those final subscribers or help with watch time which I really think is where a lot of people in the Pagan community will especially need assistance with. There are those YouTubers who post really long videos and get people to watch 30 minute videos but I think generally most people prefer videos that are between like five to eight minutes and that is edited well and concise so we just need to make sure we watch our favorites so that we can keep investing in our community. Change is good and I'm sure that we will find the benefit of this change soon but it is hard to be one of those people who used to get some funds for their channel and will no longer get that and now see this new barrier that feels unattainable and feels like it is driving us to create content that isn't really what we signed up for. We signed up for content that was good and for maybe a smaller community but you know reach the people we wanted to interact with. I do have to say that there are some larger YouTubers who have on Twitter said things like you know when I started it wasn't hard to reach a thousand subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch time you know if I could do it in five months you can do it for five months and I'm sure that's true but when many of those people who are making those comments started it was seven years ago and there weren't as many creators there wasn't as much competition and the internet was a very different place and the videos that were attracting views were very different you stood out more so it's not really a apples to apples comparison to say that the stuff you created five years ago is the same as the material that people are creating now and in the environment that people are starting in now. There's also been talk about going to other platforms which in many ways seems like a viable option but those other platforms don't have the views right now and they aren't where the conversations are happening and for all of these stress and frustrations that YouTube has really put upon creators it's still in many ways the easiest and most accessible for creators to build an audience some of the other platforms you know you've got to pay right away and that sucks when you're trying to get those thousand subscribers. Thanks for watching if you would like to help me out definitely subscribe but more importantly go back and watch your favorite videos I'm gonna try and upload more videos this month and we'll see what happens and hopefully I can keep creating the way I would like to and you can enjoy the content that I've promised to put out there for us. Thanks for watching and as always may you find peace in the sacred grove.


At Spring's train station in South Africa's biggest city, Johannesburg, Sinfiue, their tea and her partner wait their turn to board. But they are not going anywhere. Instead, they are getting COVID-19 jabs inside a stationary train. The initiative is by South Africa State's logistics firm, TransNet. It's meant to bring vaccines closer to people and save them from traveling long distances as the government ramps up its COVID-19 vaccination drive. From the Spring station, the TransVacco train will be in the first week of September and will move to rural Eastern Cape province, so bring in relief to poor communities who are often without basic health facilities. It will also be stationed there until November. For this moment for a very long time especially, we work in industries where you need to be at work like all the time, so it was very crucial for me to get this vaccine. It's a good initiative because it's a slap to go and drive and vaccinate, queue first, vaccinate it, so once it's closer. Look, as you can see it was very quick here. I don't think I even spent 20 minutes here, so there should be more of this. I feel like I can just go anywhere around, so that fear of getting a virus now, it looks like it's getting away. We are basically bringing the vaccines to the people, so it cuts down on patients having to travel long distances, wait in long queues and sometimes even be turned back because vaccines are maybe finished or they get to clinics or hospitals late. My personal skepticism around this vaccine, the safety is not safe. I can go to that particular vaccination site and don't get a proper vaccine. I will get a vaccine that has lost its potent. It's like I'm being given placebo water for injection because it has lost its potent like they're moving from one cooler box to the other. The fridge that they are storing those vaccines are not proper. I've been infected with COVID. I think when it initially started last year around about June, thank goodness I was asymptomatic, but I cannot imagine how it would have been had I been having heavy symptoms. I wasn't looking forward to the journey and I interact a lot with people with my work, like I've mentioned. It gets quite challenging because you constantly need to be on guard. People must just keep away. It makes working very challenging. I was scared in the first place that I tell myself, no, take your vaccine because it's very unplaceable and keep you strong and healthy. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Welcome to digital asset news to get top stories and crypto current angel assets and break amount of bite-sized pieces. So today there's really only two stories. The first up, what is the future of the Cardano blockchain after the merry hard fork? And if you haven't heard, there is going to be a hard fork coming at the end of February 1st of March, which is going to massively upgrade Cardano and what it can do. And it's the big reason why I stopped dollar cost averaging Ethereum and I'm only going heavy into Cardano. So we'll take a look at that and there's a lot of layers of the onions to peel back. Now on top of that, there's a little article talks about JP Morgan Report. JP Morgan, friends of the show, just kidding for not. It states it's okay to have up to 1% of a multi-asset portfolio in crypto. This is just another example of if you wait for the big people and the smart money to tell you what to do, you're usually way behind. So we'll take a look at those two pieces. But first, let's take a look what's going on in the market. So today it is February 25th, 3.30pm, El Paso, Texas time, beautiful day here, 70 degrees, can't beat it. And what do we have? Well, Bitcoin has taken a little bit of a tumble as it had before and we still cannot reach that 50,000 dollar barrier. Some people are talking about Bitcoin going on a 35K. Some people say it's going to go up to 62 in March. I don't know. All I can tell you is that there's one person I trust. His name is CJ over at Market Rebellion. He says if we can close out this month at 45K, then we'll hit around 60 next month. So not financial advice. I'm not a financial planner, but sounds reasonable to me. Ethereum looks like, wow, down 2%, 2% around there, 1538 from its all-time high of 2,000. Binance coin looks like it's up a little bit. It's great. Pez is Tether. Somebody cares and that somebody is me. If you watched the show yesterday, we talked about how Tether had actually they had settled with the New York Territory General and they paid somewhere in like 18.5 million somewhere around there. And I just I said, this is great news because now Tether can keep printing. If it's backed up to the dollar, I don't know. I guess them and the New York Territory General had to straighten that out. And some people would ask me, well, why would you pay me money if you were innocence? Because it's easier.  So that's pretty much exactly what happened. Anyhow, Cardano is up 12%, not surprising after what we're going to talk about. XRP, watch out down a little bit, but it's pretty good for let's be honest, XRP is amazingly good for facing a SEC lawsuit. And people have told me, just watch out for the assets that just do not go away and are resilient in the tough times. Those are something to watch. Let's see what else we got. Litecoin, Litecoin's up a little bit. There has been talk about some privacy feature, nimble, wimble and things like that. I've been hearing that for a long time. So whatever. I'm not a big supporter of Litecoin. Some people love it. I just don't get into it. That's just me. On this channel, if you're new, first of all, welcome. And if you're new, just let you know, I'm very biased to the ones that I actually invest in. I'm not going to lie to you like some other places. If I invest into it, usually I cover it and that's just pretty much how it goes. So I'm just honest. Bitcoin Cash up a little bit. He's doing fantastic. Not really. All right. So let me go down a little bit. 5% for synthetics grade. 10% for sushi. DeFi making a strong comeback. Sure. That's about it. 30% for MATIC, which is a Layer 2 solution for Ethereum. They're going to need that because those fees are outrageous. All right. Let's jump in today's top story and see what the heck is going on. Okay. So this was an article and it was a bit ago, but it's found new traction especially because of this little tweet, which I'll get into in a little bit. But the article just talks about what's the future of Chrono Blockchain after the merry hard fork. So if you don't know, they're going through a hard fork. And if you're just a little bit new to cryptocurrency, you may understand that, okay, I've heard of a hard fork. The biggest one that I can always think as an example is Bitcoin to Bitcoin Cash. That's a hard fork. And then people say, well, that's really not good because you can create other things. But really a hard fork is in essence an upgrade. So that is what is happening here. It's just an upgrade and it's a major one. So this is what is going on. So merry a hard fork. It's going to transition the Chrono Blockchain protocol from the Shelley decentralized era closer to the Gogh and Smart contract.  But when Shelley came along, it became truly decentralized. It opened up a lot of things, especially for people who want to do like stake pools, like myself and my team, we have our own stake pool for Cardano. And it just really opens up a lot of different options to really make things truly decentralized. Now we're going to the Gogh era, which is the smart contract era. And this is going to be big for many reasons because this hard fork was successfully deployed on February 3rd as a test net. And what does it do? It brings native assets to Cardano and allows developers the ability to create custom tokens or migrate existing projects to Cardano. So here's the thing. This is why this is so big. Because if you were, we're not around 2017, remember that ICO craze? Well, what were ICOs always built on? It was on Ethereum. And everything seems like everything's built on Ethereum. DeFi is built on Ethereum. You have stable coins like Heather and USDC that's built on Ethereum. You have a ton of different assets that are built on Ethereum. ICOs that actually made it and ICOs that actually didn't make it, but they're still built on Ethereum. Now we have an opportunity for developers to create digital assets, cryptocurrencies on a new platform known as Cardano. So this is going to open up just a plethora of options for a lot of different developers, companies, third parties to really get into the fray and use a platform that is really developed not to be super expensive, like what is going on with Ethereum right now.  Ethereum is a second generation, did a lot of great things, but Cardano really is a third generation platform. And they kind of learned from all the different mistakes that came before it to make something a little bit better. And I think it's going to be massive. Now again, not to throw shade or to talk negatively about Ethereum. I own Ethereum. I own a lot of it. Not a lot of it. I own enough of it. But for right now, I will not be dollar-cost averaging anymore into Ethereum. I'm looking to Cardano. I don't know which one's going to be great. I don't know. Here's the thing. One's going to be great and one is going to be awesome. I don't know which one it is. That's why I own both. And that's just why I hedge my bet because I think that's the best option. So when I hear about stories like this, I'm like, this is just another bullet in the chamber for me to think to myself, I really need to really get heavy into Cardano. Again, this is not a financial advice, not a financial planner. These are just the things that I am investing into. All right. So when this hard fork occurs, of course, this will unleash the full promise of Cardano for a wide range of services and solutions such as DeFi. That's pretty big. We've heard about that. Non-fungible tokens. We've heard about that. That seems like a pretty big deal. And stablecoins. Also, a huge deal, especially if you're a bank looking to get into this area, stablecoins could be enormous. And not a stablecoin where you have to pay a ton of money to transfer it. Have you tried to transfer USDC off of Voyager to anybody else? It's expensive. If I want to transfer anything around as far as a stablecoin, it's pricey, especially with Tether, USDC. Actually, I don't use Tether. So really, is it that good of a service if it costs so much? And there's just tons of examples I'm not there. So when I hear these things, I'm like, this is a pretty good deal. And this was a tweet from IOHK. They said, today, 2020, the next testnet will hard-forth the Cardano testnet and apply the Gogan native token upgrade, aka Mary, transforming it into a multi-asset network. Next comes Mainnet, targeted for the end of February. And this is what I was talking about as far as the tweet, because that was the old one. This one was from yesterday. They said, we're on. We can today confirm that the Mary Cardano protocol update is now fully confirmed for March 1. So this is one of the big criticisms of Cardano. People would say, you know that they'll have like an announcement to another announcement, they won't get anything done. Well, here they have an announcement, they said we're going to do something, and it's actually going to be done. So again, take it with a grain of salt. But if they say it's going to be yet March 1, then that sounds pretty good to me. They've been hitting their milestones so far. So I have no reason to doubt them. And then, excuse me, going back. To finish up, project tokens launching at Cardano do not need smart contracts built on top that's blockchain to be issued. This design reduces the possibility of human error. So this is a confusing topic for me, because I'm not a developer, but I'll tell you who is. There's a real smart guy and his name, not me. This guy right here, Ashoshi. He's one of the guys that I have actually in my recommended YouTube. It's in the description of every one of my videos. You just scroll down to almost the bottom. He's one of them. And this is a fantastic video. I'll link at the very end. And he talks about why that is such a big deal to not have everything kind of so much ingrained into the smart contract aspect. And he really gives it a really good view from the developer's point. So the last part here is it states ADA and tokens on Cardano will be fully exchangeable from day one, greatly simplifying DEXs and DeFi applications. So right now, if you use Uniswap or use any decentralized exchange, you know what I'm talking about. You know that those fees are crazy. What if you can go to a DEX and use the Cardano token to get any kind of other token that you could want that would be on the Cardano network and you could just swap them out and it'd be super cheap. Wouldn't that be great? Sounds pretty good. On top of the fact that I know some people say, well, everything's built in Ethereum. So how's it going to work? Well, if you video we did about a month ago, they are rolling out an ERC20 converter. So what that means is that if you have some type of token that's created on the Ethereum network, you can just put it into the ERC20 converter and spit it all out and into the Cardano network it goes. So this will be a pretty big deal, especially for large companies that are building or working in conjunction with Ethereum.  I don't know what's going on with this Ethereum 2.0. He says it's going to be six months, maybe a year. That's a long time. Maybe we'll just go some other place that might be a little bit faster, might be a little bit better, it might be a little bit cheaper. So we're going to go this route and then once you guys figure it out, then we'll talk. These are one of those things that I think about as far as business owners and whatnot. So what does this mean? Right now the DeFi and DAP ecosystems are being held back by high transaction fees. We just talked about that. Reynolds was designed to be of low cost and this will not change. Great. Very hard work and the Gogans are upcoming for deployment. We'll bring more third-party developers to our Cardano, helping to increase its overall network effects. And this is one of those other criticisms that people would always ask me, like, well, who's building on Cardano? What are they really doing? Well, they really couldn't do much because now they need this hard work. Now that they have it, we'll see exactly what happens. Will developers come over and start to use Cardano more so than Ethereum? Debatable. I have no idea. But from what I was listening to Hashoshi who told me, he says, look, it's really easy with Haskell language. It's simple to do things. He's like, I can do it. He's a developer and so sure. And then they also have a lot of very easy other parts to do for non-tentacle people like myself. So again, we'll see what happens in the future. But if it's that easy and all these things are making it really easier for where people want to go, it just makes sense. So it really all comes out of this. Where do you go for the things that you want to do? Do you like to make things tough on yourself and to make it a little more expensive? Or would you just like to go someplace where it's like, oh, well, I need a dentist. There's a dentist 20 miles away and they're expensive or there's one right on the street and they're half the price. Once you just do that, I mean, just seems like that's how it is. I know it's a very oversimplified example, but these are the kind of things that I think about. And then lastly, finally, ADA will be fully tradable with native tokens from the start and put out on transactions between native tokens, do not generate high fees, making DeFi applications even more affordable. And this is also one of the problems with DeFi right now. So that is what is going on. And then there was one more piece I wanted to bring about, which it talks about, this is the Codon roadmap. I will link this also in the description. And it talks about Gogan. So we're going the smart contract era, functionality, these tokens being able to be made, non-fungible tokens, DeFi, all this great stuff, right? There's this thing here called Marlowe. The Gogan era comes as work to make around accessible to wider audiences via Marlowe.  Well, Marlowe looks like this. So instead of you having to write code, you can just like, okay, look, these are the things that I need to do for my company. I want to have a smart contract, right? So I'm going to take whatever this is, like we'll just do this one, right? And then I'm going to do an observation or an action or a value or something like that. I want to do is I'm going to click it in here, a constant parameter, whatever that parameter is, right? And then if I want to do like, what would it be? Let's move this out of the way. Let's just say we want to make it even simple. The amount of, then we put the amounts, the payee, the party, whatever this one slides to, and then off you go. And then the token, whichever one you want, ADA, of course. And then you can just make this work. And then you can spit it out as actual code. And then that is your smart contract.  This will be great, especially for someone who knows exactly what they want is know how to do the actual coding. So that is what is going on with Cardano. And just to summarize real quick, I'm always looking at things as far as like, where will the next big run come from? Because in 2017, we had this huge run with Bitcoin. And then everything was, of course, built on Ethereum like we just talked about. So to me, it was kind of like, I didn't really understand the whole process. But now that I know more about like, everything was like, the network effect, and how there's interoperability and interconnections, and the more people that you have, the more users, Metcalf's law, those types of things, you're going to see that utility drives everything in this market. So the more utility you have, the more people that are actually building on it, the better off you will actually have as far as like a project. So when I take a look at Cardano and all the different things they're doing right now, it sounds very promising. Do I know for 100% fact that they're going to make it? I don't know. I don't know. I can only look from the eyes of a small business owner, which is what I am, just go, okay, this would make sense to me, right? If I needed some type of cryptocurrency or a smart contract or something to actually move forward as far as a business. And this one's running. It's got a lot of different options. It's got a pretty great powerful team behind it. It's very cheap as far as the transactions. I'm probably going to go this way. And this is just how I see it. Anyhow, that's what we have for this one. Let me know what you think in the comment section. Let's move on to our next piece. Actually, next piece is this, I forgot to mention this.  We just did an update for one of our staking videos, which talked about that for every staking pool that you stake with Cardano, just so you know, you can only, right now it's 63 million that you can stake with for one staking pool. And after that, if you do more than that, you actually lose rewards. What am I talking about? So real quick, this is a staking pool ADLT. I think that's the AdaLite wallet.  So that's not a pool that you'd want to stake to. And also for ours right now, it's not this one, we are, we have actually two stake pools. One is at almost 31 million. And you see right here, it says 47% saturation. We did this video over here because we didn't want to have anybody have more people state to this our first stake pool, because at the end of March, the Cardano foundation is going to reduce the maximum supply that you can stake to one staking pool operator to 32 million. So just so you know, I'll link this video at the very end, we are almost at saturation point for the new criteria. So we're going to want you to stake to our second stake pool. And that is the information that we have. So if you were looking for like, you know, how do we compare to everybody else? How does it all work? How do I stake with, you know, three different wallets? I talk about the Daedalus, Yoroi, and the ADA light wallet. If you go to any of our videos, there is a link. Let me just open this up real quick. There's always a link in the description of all the videos, and it looks something like this, Dan Cardano stake pool. Once you click on that, it'll take you to our 100% free website over here. And you don't even need to do anything for this page.  This is the new video, which explains how to stake, how to do everything, and whatnot. So that is it for that piece. If you have any questions, just put it in there and I'll answer them to my best of my abilities. All right, let's move on to our last section, which is not really a story. It's just kind of funny to me. And that's why I wanted to talk about it because JPMorgan is ridiculous. Let's just be honest because at first they were super, if you think about it like this, JPMorgan is kind of like every other big industry out there. At first they're like super against it. Then they're like, well, you know, stablecoins. Well, you know, maybe this, maybe that. And then all of a sudden they're like, you know what, now this thing comes up. Okay, well, maybe 1% of a multi-asset portfolio. How much you want to bet that down the line? They're going to be holding a boatload of Bitcoin because they're like, we don't see any way, any way else around it. Anyhow, this story, I'll make this very quick. It was a report published by Bloomberg on Wednesday. Joyce Cheng, Global Head of Research at JPMorgan, talked about cryptocurrencies in a note to clients. And pretty much she just said it's okay to put like 1% of your portfolio into crypto. So first of all, I'm not going to badmouth JPMorgan because what's the point, right? I'm just going to say this, it's about time. And if all of these big institutions and these hedge funds and these different financial planners and even like endowments or retirement funds, if they would just tell all their clients like, look, yes, it's volatile, we know it's volatile, but they are some massive asymmetrical returns. You cannot get any more returns like than anywhere else. So what we're going to suggest is put between 2% and 5% of your portfolio, something very small. So if you lose, it's not going to crush you. And that will probably offset anything else that could potentially happen as far as any other black swan events that come about. So let's just do that, Pete. And we'll put it in there. And that should be great. If every single place did that, which they should already do that, because I mean Bitcoin is the best performing asset in the last decade, then I think people will be doing a heck of a lot better. They do a heck of a lot better than just investing in the gold. And I can tell you that. And that's something from that. That's coming from somebody who owns gold and silver and Bitcoin. I don't understand the point of not telling people to get into cryptocurrency if you're a financial planner and analyst. I just don't get it. Anyhow, well, that's it. So hey, thanks for sticking with me through the whole video. I really appreciate it. If you liked the video, give it a thumbs up. Also consider subscribing. A lot of things we talked about are very time sensitive. So that would be great. And then I'm going to link those two videos, one with Hashoshi, where he does gets a really good breakdown of what's going on with Cardano from a developer's perspective. On top of the DNews stake pool, the updated one to tell you exactly how to stake your Cardano to make passive income between four to six percent APY, which is the standard average. All right. So that's it. And thanks so much for watching. I appreciate it. And I'll see you on the next one.


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