My name is Fatima Zehra-Haliru. I'm Advice for Learning Support Services at NMPC Limited. The training by the Brown Consulting on Infographics and Data Management has been truly enlightening. I enjoyed every bit of it. The hands-on session was very valuable at helping me hone my skills at Microsoft Excel, Power BI, and Microsoft PowerPoints.


If you want to succeed in business, you have to keep going. That's the only way to succeed because to become successful means you have learned so many lessons to become really excellent in your field. And to become excellent in your field means that you have inevitably experienced a lot of failures. And that's what I'm gonna talk about in this video. The premise is there is no failure. There is only redirection. You are being redirected by your audience to try something else. You're being redirected by your market to offer another product or service. You're being redirected by life to try another method for going where you wanna go. There is no failure. There's only redirection. And one of the models in history to teach us that is, of course, Thomas Edison. And I wanna tell you two quick stories about him. One story, and these are all true. This one came from one of his interviews when he was creating the light bulb. And you may have heard this before, but this is an actual quote from him. This is from Thomas Edison here. I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with creating the electric light. Each one of those theories seemed reasonable and apparently true. But only in two of those 3,000 cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. Okay. Two out of 3,000 became what created the light bulb that we know that has changed history and changed billions of people's lives. So how many experiments are you willing to do? Have you recently launched a service? Have you recently announced an event? Did you recently launch a book? Did you recently try to announce a webinar or a product? And it did it fail? Okay, that was one experiment. How many more are you willing to do? Okay. The problem with experiments and failures, of course, is that it's discouraging, isn't it? Well, why is it discouraging? It's discouraging because you had the expectation that it was supposed to work. What if you instead had the expectation that it's probably not gonna work, but I'm gonna do it for feedback and to see what happens, what I can learn from doing this launch or making this post or sharing this product. I'm gonna see or contacting this person. I'm gonna see what happens. Now, sometimes you are lucky enough, right? And one out of 3,000 chances or one out of 100, you'll succeed and that's great. And then celebrate that and learn from what seemed to have worked. But more times than not, maybe sometimes you get negative feedback and from the negative feedback you can learn to say, huh, now that person felt negative about it, is that person a good representative of my ideal clients? If it's not a good representative of your ideal clients, don't listen to them. But if they are actually a representative of your ideal client pool, then you should listen to their negative feedback and improve on it. But I'll tell you, the vast majority of the time, the problem is you don't get any feedback. Isn't that right? You put something out there, crickets. Crickets, silence. You don't hear anything, right? That's the hardest piece of feedback to take, but that's the most common piece of feedback to take, especially on social media. You post a video out there, you post a thing out there, you don't get any likes, you don't get any comments, right? I experienced that for years before I got to this point where thank you for those of you who are actually live here with me, Nick Ward, Vicknes Vary, Jason Stein, thank you. But that didn't happen for years, but I kept going, okay? The hardest feedback is lack of feedback, but lack of feedback is also feedback. Do you hear me? The lack of feedback equals feedback from your market, from your audience, from your life, saying, oh, okay, that was okay. Try something else now. That's what life is telling you when you get lack of feedback. Try something else. Do another thing. Try something different. Let me tell you one more story from Thomas Edison. And this was when he was working on creating a storage battery, which by the way, I didn't know this until I did the research. The storage battery actually created more wealth for Thomas Edison than the light bulb, okay? So when he was trying to create the storage battery, one of Thomas Edison's colleagues said this, and this is a quote from his colleague, I learned that Edison had thus made over 9,000 experiments in trying to devise this new type of storage battery, but had not produced a single thing that promised to solve the question. 9,000 experiments and not a single thing that solved the question, right? Okay, the quote goes on to say, in view of this immense amount of thought and labor, my sympathy got the better of my judgment. And I said to Thomas Edison, isn't it a shame that with the tremendous amount of work that you have done, that you haven't been able to get any results?  Why? I have gotten a lot of results. I now know several thousand things that won't work. That's what Thomas Edison said, is a quote from his colleague. So what about you? Are you on your third launch? Okay, great, keep going. I have been doing content now consistently since 2014. And if you ever find any of my videos from 2014, it's thankfully kind of buried now. That's the great thing about the internet. I have to tell you this. If you just keep pumping out content out there, just keep putting content out, your mediocre stuff, your bad stuff will get buried because people can't find it because you have all those new content that's being pushed up there. That's the truth. So you can't find this, but I'll tell you that in 2014, I made a video where literally during the video, I was desperate and I said, why isn't anybody liking this? Why don't you, nobody cares about me? What's going on here? I literally said that during a video in 2014. I kept going. I kept going. Nobody was liking my videos. Nobody was commenting on it. For 2014, 2015, I got maybe a few likes per video. Okay, it was a year later. I was just getting a few likes per video. 2016, I got a few more, 2017, now 2018. Four years later, thank you everyone for all of your support and love. I'll cheer her, thank you for joining live as well. So you got to keep going. Same thing with your launches. I've had lots of products and services and packages and one-on-one coaching and group programs that fell flat. Nobody signed up, not a single person signed up for some of my offerings, not a single person. Even last year, last year, 2017, which was almost 10 years into my business, okay? I launched a program and I have thousands of subscribers, email subscribers, thousands of Facebook fans and I put this thing out there and I really tried to launch it. Two people signed up. Two people out of thousands of loyal fans and subscribers and followers, two new people signed up. That was last year, almost 10 years into doing lots of experiments, being like a Thomas Edison, trying lots of different things. So I had to cancel the program. That was last year, I tried hard. It was gonna be really, so I still fail all the time. Are you willing to fail? There is no failure. There is only redirection, okay? So in the comments, in the notes of this video, I'm gonna put a blog post that I wrote in relation to this video that gives you several things you can test in your business and several things if you keep doing it, will make your tests easier, okay? So with that, I'm gonna end this video and I'm just gonna encourage you. Remember Thomas Edison, remember all of the success entrepreneurs, men and women, people of all races, ethnicities, genders and everybody who has succeeded really in any field, not just in entrepreneurship, in sports, in music, in art, in parenting, right? Of any field has failed lots of times. You've got to learn to love the journey. And by the way, my cat's jumping around my desk. That's why it's shaking. You've got to learn to love the journey. And by loving the journey means to take a curiosity, attitude of curiosity and attitude of wow, everything I'm doing is benefiting my growth. How beautiful is that? How wonderful is that? And I get to learn to reframe every less than positive experience as a learning and growth opportunity. So with that, keep experimenting in your content, in your offers, in your launches, in your contacts with potential clients, keep on going. Be well.


So EA dropped an anime promo. This is actually so cool. It's called Genki Force or Genki Force Hux. Do I look Japanese to you? The Field Pass has a ton of season XP. You can get power-up tokens for Jamal Williams, who is of course in this promo. And there are some nasty, nasty players in the promo. Now I'm not gonna lie, the promo itself really cool.  They're horrible. Don't even mess with them. So I just picked up three players that I badly wanted to play with. The first one being, dude, and I cannot believe this, the fastest player in the game. Limited Genki Force, Kyle Pitts, is the fastest player in the game. 97 speed, 95 route running, 96 short route running, 96 spec, 97 catch. Now that's only the very start with these cards. You'll notice with these cards, they actually have eight ability slots, which is insane. And the way that you power them up is either you get an elevation pass high, which you can get from the Field Pass or from Solos, or you can add another champion.     There are elevated X factors. For example, this is double me elevated three.  Like what does that mean? Naturally, there's only one way to find out, and that is by doing it. So I'm gonna buy three of the 96s and I'm just gonna feed them to Kyle Pitts. And I guess we're gonna see what happens. Like I genuinely have no idea. All right, so we've got our 97 Kyle Pitts and I'm gonna feed him his children here. We've got three Kevin Byards, 1.5 million coins in total, more like 1.65. Who's doing math? Not me. Interestingly, this is giving an attribute boost to kick return. I have to imagine this was just a coding thing. Like in order for this to work, they needed to increase some stat. So they made it a stat that was utterly pointless like kick return. I can't figure out any other reason you'd do that. Now after doing that, I now have access to Kyle Pitts max security, level one, two and three, and double me, level one, two and three. Oh, I just figured it out. So it's not that it makes double me any stronger because like how could you really make double me any stronger? You already win aggressive catches. It's the unlock requirements. Take a look at this. So this is elevated level two. You need to make two 20 plus yard catches to activate. Double me elevated three. You need two 10 plus yard catches. Honestly, that's not as crazy OP as the Superbowl lighted ups.  This is definitely very easy to activate, but it's probably not on for the entire game, unless it is. Let's see what discounted abilities we got. We got tight end apprentice and third down threat. We'll go through down threat since it's free. And then he has blocking abilities. Post up our natural talent. I'm gonna get them posted up. That's awesome.  I'm poor.  Slot apprentice. No, thank you grab and go or red zone threat. Probably go red zone threat.  Honestly, I don't even need any of these abilities. We're gonna go match up nightmare for one, post up for one and third down threat. Post up on Kyle Pitts is interesting because he's not really a blocking tight end. So it actually might make him a really good blocking tight end without any good blocking stats. Very good. Let's see if I'm over the AP limit now. Yeah, I am. I'm over by one now that we did that. So I'll take abilities off of Marquez Valdes scantling. I'm cool with that. Yeah, I apologize guys.  So halfway through this video, I'm gonna switch shirts. It's gonna look a little weird, but just enjoy. Same team. It won't matter. All right, beautiful. So we got Kyle Pitts. I also went ahead and picked up 96 overall DK Metcalf. Now what's interesting about these cards is they have a unique archetype. Like DK Metcalf, you look under wide receiver says Dasher, that's never been a thing. Kyle Pitts has Renegade. You can see that under his card. And then I grabbed one player on defense which was Tremaine Edmonds. I wanted one of the defensive players. There's Tremaine Edmonds. There's Kevin Byard. I can use their Tremaine Edmonds. He's got Guru. He gets Avalanche. He gets Lurk Artist. And I think the best thing about this Tremaine Edmonds dude is six, five.  But I cannot stress enough.  Like they're actually so doggy. This is supposed to be the pack and play account but I'm not gonna like, I'm not actually gonna throw money at EA just because I wanna make the video. This video can still be sick and we don't have to give EA any money. I'm a sucker for a good deal. I am. I like when there's some good packs in stores but look at how far we have fallen. What is like, is it October?   I'm sorry you guys, it was an 85. These cards aren't even good in October.  I don't know man, I remember back in the OG days there were always just pro packs in the store and you legitimately had a shot of pulling like 90 plus 95, 96 overall players in any given pro pack. Now it's like you either, all right, this might be the first time in my life I'm excited to see Jarrett's to them. But even like this is actually a good example.  Anyway, the limited aren't available right now but just to humor you, I'm gonna get three straight 83s here.  I think there's only gonna be two more times I spend money on this game unless they really pull a shocker out. And I think that's Easter. Easter promo should be really fun. It's usually really sick. The eggs are usually really good.  So it's kind of scaring me for the eggs but Easter historically is a great promo and then obviously golden tickets.  But even the Ultimate Legends, dude, look at this Ultimate Legends launch pack. You get an 87, you get two 93 pluses. Like, ultimate legends bundle guarantees a 96 or potentially a limited. So this actually isn't the worst buy in the world. At least you're guaranteed a really good player.  Look at this Genki Force bundle. You get five 93 pluses. They're all 93s.  One thing I will say I'm very excited about is my absolute favorite house rules.  So if you guys played Baton 20 Superstar KO you know that if you went into overtime it went into tug of war. Tug of war is, oh, it's so sick. You guys know how tug of war works. And if you don't, you're about to find out. Additionally, you start the game with your X factors activated. They stay activated the entire game. So Kyle Pitts with elevated three double me and Tremaine Edmonds with avalanche will all be activated the entire game. Evo City.   Let's see what he does. He has a double me.  Oh, I just missed. So here's my like diabolical combination here. I've got Patrick Mahomes with running gun meaning he can chuck 60 yards downfield with perfect accuracy so long as he's on the run. And of course we have Kyle Pitts with double me. So we're just gonna send him as deep as we can and let's just hope he catches it, right? Like why complicate this? Let's block Pacheco. Let's try and roll out, right? Let's see how this goes.  Pitts down there somewhere. Here we go, here we go, here we go. First play. Oh my God, I could have just racked. I could have just possession caught that. How did I miss it? Bro, I've moved out of the way a little bit too much for I had a shot there. All right, let's go with the Blitz here. If we sack him, we get the ball where we sacked him. Oh, oh, oh. Pitch it. Let's go. Did I win? Wait, it says win. It says win on my screen. What do you mean? If I won, then I won. I guess I'm not in. That's what I get for sure. But dude, if I don't punch this in, I'm actually gonna cry. All right, here we go. I form stretch. I zap Pacheco with freight train. He should break the first tackle. Break it. Shit, oh my God. Dude, when that happens to me, it's just time to get off the Xbox. It's just time to not be on the Xbox anymore. I'm gonna be honest. There is also an alternate form of currency called stars. So if you notice in this house rows, if you get a win, you get 15 stars. Actually, I do really like this. You get 15 stars per win. You can get it from solo challenges. You can get it from the field pass.  You can actually get a 96 overall champion like DK, Matt, Kaffer, Tremaine, Edmonds for only 700. Granted, you can't auction them, but that is pretty solid. You're no money spent player. It is not hard to get 700. And you could put some disgusting players on your team. A baked wizard. All right guys, this is my last game in this attire until I switch over to my other footage. So let's make it a good one. It's all the same thing. Niners versus dolphins matchup. Here we go. Let's try a deep post route to Kyle Pitts here. It's probably pretty obvious who I want to go to, but I mean, come on, no way, no way. Good stiff arm. Absolute 40 yard bomb on the opening play. Let's go. Joey Montana. He probably wants to hook it up to his double me, right? This isn't exactly a wait. Oh, wish he was in bounds. Now the good news is he's gonna stare at Kyle Pitts so hard that he might forget about my boy DK Metcalf. That's the hope anyway. Let's see how this looks. No, he just is gonna leave Kyle Pitts in single coverage. That's insane. What are you doing? He's gonna catch it every time. All right, we have a serious advantage here in Tug of War, but it's not over till I put it in the end zone or we run out of plays. So it don't matter quite yet. I just put Carl Aftis in pass coverage. That should be illegal.  I just got defensive pass interference. Oh, and I lurked him too. As if that DPI matter, I was just standing there. Not only do I lose the 38 yards, but he gets another offensive play. That is so bailed out. All right, here we go. We're gonna go with the Blitz here. Oh, Ronnie lot. I'm gonna go for the post bomb again. Oh, no, that is, you gave me pass interference. Can we watch that again? You gave me pass interference.  He had him cooked. I'm actually so mad. I'm getting hosed. Oh, no. I just guessed pass. I guess pass, I used to tag him there for some sense. Okay. I cannot lose this one, boys. I think the post is gonna be there. Dude, he just cannot guard it. Okay, you know what? We're gonna take the dig. We're gonna take Debo Samuel on that deep dig. Nice play, nice ball, 17 yards. You think he goes back to that corner route? I wonder if I can lurk with Marcus. Oh yeah, he does. Oh, he'll check it down. Fine by me. Good work, boys. Here we go. I'm gonna hail Mary, and I'm just gonna put it up to pits and he's gonna catch it. So that's simple. Do you think this is possible? Do you think he comes down with this?  Oh, it was knocked out. Dude, he honestly had a very good shot to come down with that. Dude, there's no way I lose this, right? I don't think he runs the ball again. I don't think he's got the cahones. That's a play action.  He gets six yards, that's fine. Dude, I'm telling you, he's literally just staring at Kyle Pitts. Let's go DK Metcalf.  What a play! Sorry, DK Metcalf, I had to make that play.  Stepped up in the pocket, moved to the right, playmaker. If that just doesn't tickle your little wiener. What do you mean by that? George Carlaftus, George Carlaftus, George Carlaftus! Light it up! He's so unfair.  I'm not gonna lie though. I feel bad for my boy DK and I just wanted to get a rep. Someway, somehow, let's get him a rep. Here we go DK, here we go DK. DK, single coverage, I like that! Honestly, that doesn't even matter in Tug of War, low key. Cause all it does, he just skits the ball. It's basically an incomplete pass. Let's go Carlaftus, go on Ernest Jones here and cover. Ooh, that was a beautiful ball in a beautiful window. Respect to that play. I am not mad about that. DK had a shot there though, he really did. I'm just gonna send DK to the end zone. Go DK. You don't need double me DK, you don't need double me! Oh, he did, he did, he needed it. So I'm gonna have the final play here, which is honestly a really big advantage in this game mode. He's gonna check it to Pacheco. Oh no, that's fine. You're not gonna get much out of it. Gets a little gain to 12 yards there, nice play. What do we think about a Debo Samuel corner up? What do the feds say about that? The feds haven't guarded but they, what? They're having a stroke over here. That was a wide open ball. I think my switch on took me away from it but he 100% should have just reached for that. Just really hoping he'd break that tackle. So no, I started with the ball. This is my last play. It's all or nothing right here. Okay, so it's tug of war and right now I'm losing. So I gotta go get all this right now or we're washed. I have Metcalfe, I need it. What a dunk! But I gotta hold him, he doesn't need a lot. He's just gotta get across the 50, he gets across the 50, he wins. Oh, no, he only needs 12 yards. I'm gonna go with a really hot blitz and just pray basically. I'm on 86 here. Get home, let's go! Oh dude, we barely won that. All right, hey, I'll be switching clothes but big W, Kyle Pitts match class. We're taking on off the perk. Ooh, it's a Niners versus Chiefs matchup since when was I in Niners uniforms? Oh my God, it's 30 of the Super Bowl except I have my homes. That doesn't make any sense. I just want Kyle Pitts, does he follow?  No, that's actually a horrible ball. I mean, I have double me every play, right? Dude, he's got my homes too. What's he want? I like that. Nice tackle. All right, he only got four yards. All right, we got slot wide receiver backfield, one of my all time favorites. Do you think he's in man coverage? Like what is he in here? That's not a good ball. Damn, Steven's giving me trouble. Oh, I couldn't get up to that, damn. Uh-oh, he got 21 yards there. We've got to fight back here. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Ooh, he got a little defensive pass and interference. I can do whatever I want here. Damn, I should have chucked that deeper. Wait, if I accept, I keep the ball. Oh, interesting. Although it says loss of five yards, what just happened on that penalty? Did I lose five yards? I'll be honest with you guys, I don't know what just happened, but whatever, we ball.  Oh my God, balls. Let's go. I can't tell what he's doing here. I can't tell, I can't tell. Motion's out Gus. Dude, I don't know how we got no pressure there, but we got no pressure there. We're going empty, baby. Dude, I haven't seen anything on a DK Metcalfe yet. Let's just take the easy one, see if we can pick up. Wow, what attack. I was going to try and pick up some rack yards, but no, what's he got, what's he got? We can guess pass. Hey, George Carr laughed this. He's unbelievable, he's so good. I kind of liked this. I did, I feel like there's definitely some chances here. DK, DK Metcalfe, let's go, baby.  You can't be dropping that. All right, let's stay in this defense. This is tough though. He's been in my territory about the whole game. I just can't let him get in the end zone. So long as he doesn't get in the end zone, we always have a chance. He could go half-back. Oh, I dove. Oh, I dove, I was just under that, damn it. Wow, DK Metcalfe, another drop. I mean, it's not really his fault. It's the zone KO's. If you throw it a zone KO, people just kind of drop the ball, but dumb, that's dumb. Ooh, good defense, Marcus Peters. I'm going to go for this deep post, MVS, needed it. 21 yards, get out of that scary territory down there. That's a big pickup. He's got me right now, but it's never over. Huge, you know, sack from Ernest Jones. And we're in his territory now. Okay, he's in my defense. I should be able to hit Nibo. Yup, yup, go Nibo, go Nibo. I love that it's a Super Bowl matchup. Super Bowl matchup in Fordfield. What do we got? Damn it, dude, he keeps grilling me with that. Oh, I got to make the tackle. Dude, he double covered Kyle Pitts and it didn't matter. Holy shit, we still got it to him. All right, we're only four yards in his territory right now though. Bagged, bags. This is my final play. I wonder if I can hit Kyle Pitts. I think so, I think so. Yes, take the yards, take the yards. That's fine. That's a good game. Game of 11 yards right there. That was my final play. This is his last play too. He's got to get 18 yards.  Oh no, I left 19, no, he snapped it so fast. Wait, wait, wait, Avalanche, Avalanche. That was totally my fault. I was setting up all my adjustments and he snapped it. Nice play. Dude, that was a great game. You can't end on a loss, right? But you can't end on a win either, so taking on the Houston Texans this time around, all right. All right, you know what? Maybe I'm just, maybe I need to be a little more impatient, right?  Let's give him the Oppenheimer. I have double me on. There's a decent chance I can come down. What have I been doing this whole time?  That might be the world record fastest tug of war game right there. I don't take any world record I can get. It's Chiefs versus Lions. You already know what's gonna happen here. This guy's name is you ain't comp. I'm not comp for you, is that what you're saying? All right. I'm gonna take my little check down here. Take my nine yards. I think he's looking for the double me. Okay. What? That was a crazy way to get vertical. I wanna win now because of his gamer tag. I think a lot of people don't expect the post. Everybody expects the corner up. They don't expect the post. Exhibit A. Not really, he actually played that pretty well. He was about a millisecond away from intercepting that. But guess what? He didn't intercept. He's got Valdez scantling with the X-Factor, so I kind of just gotta watch him for the double me. Oh, he wants to dig. Oh no, that is what I was scared of. Hey, Savian Howard. Yo, what? I can't believe he just came down with that. All right, I'm gonna put a double team right here. I've got run and gun on my home, so I should be able to just roll out and hit Kyle Pitt. I don't think he just did to me, actually.  He's got four down there. That's insane. Dude, we're definitely in the end game. You know when I was talking about being in the end game?  What are we doing here? Oh, don't try and juke on me. All right, this is gonna be a slow and steady game. He's playing against the double me and so am I, so we just need to chunk yards. We need to get 10 to 20 yards every play until we're in scoring range. That might be, oh. Honestly, I thought Kent Riley was gonna jump up and take that, but we're good. Let's go. We're in his territory, but he has the final play. Him having the final plays bad, I think we gotta score a touchdown. That's so bad. Just over my head and he, dude, he's almost fat. Why was he so fast? He's fast as hell. Hey, he didn't make it though. He did not quite make it. No safeties. We give up the safety we lose. Oh my God.  Oh, Madden is so cooked. This game is over, man. It's over. Edmunds through the middle and he still made that throw. Dude, why is he so fast? Dude, he's like, that's just Vernon Davis. Am I fatigued or something? It was a drag route.  But still. No, actually, that does make sense. Marcus Peters has like 92 speed. Damn, after that insane play, it's a pretty sad way to go out, but it is what it is. Carl Aftis, the user.  Dude, literally, literally, literally, literally. No shock. Dude, getting a quit out and stuff.  Dude, what happened to fatigue? Okay, it's definitely fatigue. That made no sense.  We just won.  I was on my phone for a hot second. I didn't realize the game had loaded up. Then I was on Carl Aftis. Then I lurked him. And then that happened. All right, whatever.  Let's go straight to Deebo's annual.  I'm on the one. Wait, why does it say win? Oh, that's his team name, isn't it? Wait, why does it say win? What is in the middle of the screen now?  Is it saying I won?  I'm fairly certain the game thinks I've already won.  All right, we actually won this time. Dude, the game couldn't figure it out. That's funny. All right, boys, I'm gonna call it right there. That was an absolute blast. Dude, the Carl Aftis almost pick six. All right, y'all, hey, love you guys. Don't promo. Not the best execution. Definitely should be a better way to get the players. Should be better packs. Always should be better packs. But hey, I love you boys. Thanks for watching as always, and I will see you guys in the next video. Peace.


I, young adulthood, a time of learning, of change, of pretending like you know what you're doing. This season of life can be really stretching, with all the necessary adulting that we're forced into, and the big decisions that we need to make. We are often left feeling alone and overwhelmed. I know I've been there. In this video I'm going to share with you three things that I think every young adult needs to hear, and hopefully you'll be encouraged to share these things with other people in your life. But first, I want to give a huge shout out to my patrons on Patreon. You guys are awesome. Thank you for being gospel partners. If you want to become a gospel partner and make what I do possible, head on over to patreon.com slash daily underscore disciple to join today. Now back to the show. Okay, you know what time it is. It's story time with Isaac. Yeah. Okay, so this is kind of a sweet story, sentimental story. I remember as a kid, whenever I'd go to bed and I'd be kind of, you know, maybe I was like eight or nine or whatever, I'd be kind of waddling over to my bed and I'd be kind of like, okay, I got to go to the bathroom. So I'd walk over to the bathroom before I went to bed and I'd look to the left and there's my parents' room and they would always say, Isaac, we love you. Isaac, we love you. But at that time in my life, I didn't really know what that meant. You think of a toddler. I had lots of younger siblings and when they were a little bit younger, you know, toddler age, I could have went over to one of them and, you know, explain to them, look, I had this delicious apple for lunch. It was absolutely delicious, so crunchy, so juicy, so tasty. Oh, so good. There's a tear to my eye because it was so delicious and this toddler's just like looking at me like, because there's a sense of disconnect. They don't really understand what I'm talking to them about. Maybe they can try to visual visualize it. But until you actually give them an apple, right, and show them, oh, this is a crunchy, this is a juicy apple, there's a disconnect. They don't understand what you mean. And similar when we hear, I love you from somebody, there's that disconnect. If we actually can't see or touch or feel, what is it that that means? What does it mean that I love you? So that's the first thing that I think every young adult needs to hear. Every person needs to hear, really, is I love you. And it doesn't just stop there because if it's simply just, I love you, there's a disconnect. But if we can show our love, then that's the game changer. Just an example of this is my dad. When I think of my dad, and actually that's part of the reason that I wrote my book that I'll be talking about a little bit later. When I think about my dad, how did he show his love by his presence in my life? He wanted to know me. He wanted to ask questions about me. He didn't see time with me as an inconvenience. You know, when we say I love you to someone else and we show that love, we're actually becoming a picture of what God's love is like for us because God loves us. He accepts us, not based on our merit as people because we're that awesome because we're that good. No, because of how good and gracious God is. He loves us. He accepts us and he wants to know us. And that is an amazing thing. And when we can give that same love and acceptance and grace to other people by just wanting to be present with them, that's an amazing picture of the gospel, amazing picture of God's love for us. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us and we can show that same love by sticking by somebody by saying, I love you to someone even when it's hard. Okay. Wow. This is so exciting. I'm actually getting worried that we have another sponsor. This is fantastic. Two sponsors in one month. This is amazing. Okay. 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I'm Isaac Moguleski and this is my masterclass. Okay. So we're back. Pick up that masterclass if you're interested in that. The second thing that I think every young adult needs to hear is I'm proud of you. I think it's part of our human nature that we look for acceptance and validation from other people. Often that comes from, you know, we're looking from that from our friends, from our parents. So some of us have complicated relationships with the sentence, I'm proud of you because maybe you feel like I didn't hear that a lot going up. I feel like there's this tension within me that I'm kind of pulling to try to work towards people saying I'm proud of you because I just want to get their validation and their acceptance. So when I was about 11, 12, I took part of these things called triathlon. So a triathlon. I don't know if you know much about it, but it's basically torture. Okay, but for real, it's swimming, biking and running. So at the beginning of every race is swimming, right? I would get ready. We'd all line up and we'd all be ready to go. So I'd be like, okay, this is my time to shine. This is my moment right here. So I'd start going, I'm swimming as fast as I can. My arms are going. My legs are kicking. I'm just like, please Lord deliver me to the promised land. I need to get to that finish line as fast as possible. So I'm hustling down, I'm swimming and I look behind me at all these people. There's multitudes of people behind me. Yes, I am winning the race and my 12 year old, you know, self got a little bit overconfident because as I went into transition, the point where you transition from one part of the race to the next part.  And so in triathlons, when you wanted to pass somebody, you'd say on your left. So we'd all be on the right side of the road. You'd be biking along. And if somebody wanted to pass you, they'd say on your left. And so I'd be biking. I'm in first place. Let's go. Let's go. And what proceeded to happen was as I'm biking, I hear on your left, on your left, on your left, on your left. By the end of the bike portion of the race, I was, if not in last place, second last place, I'm just demoralized. I get my bike, I leave my bike, I'm starting the running portion of the race. But at this point, it is too late for this boy. I'm like, oh my goodness, how could I have let this happen? This is the greatest, you know, this is the greatest collapse. This is the greatest collapse since Golden State lost to LeBron, since the Falcons lost the Patriots in the Super Bowl. This is the greatest collapse since Goliath lost to David. This was bad. I was absolutely demoralized as I went to the finish line. But who do I see there? My parents. And my parents, they say, hey, we love you. We're proud of you. Good job. And I'm just like, proud of me? Why are you proud of me? What do I do? I lost. Like, you know, like, I've lost. Like, you can be proud of me when I've done something. You can be proud of me when I win. But why are you proud of me when I lose? When I have the greatest collapse of all time. But you know what that does? When you can say to somebody, I'm proud of you. Even when things aren't going the greatest, even though they maybe didn't just win the race, maybe they didn't just, you know, get the job. Maybe they didn't just, you know, accomplish what they wanted to accomplish. Even when you can say, I'm proud of you. It shows that person that they're more than their accomplishments. They're more than their achievements. Their life is worth more than just goals being accomplished or work being done. They are valuable, not only in your sight, but in God's sight too.  I just want to tell you, I'm proud of you. And other people are proud of you in your life because it's not about the achievements. It's not about the goals being achieved. It's not about the accomplishments.   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You know, we talked about, I love you. You saying that to other people, having that people say that to you. That means a lot. I'm proud of you, right? Just having that confidence and knowing that you're not just your accomplishments. And the last thing is I'm on your side. I'm on your side giving you that confidence and saying, hey look, you know what happens, whatever adversities we're going through, whatever challenges we may face. I'm going to be there with you. I'm going to be on your side. So from the ages about 12 to 18, I was on a basketball team, what we call Wreckball in Manitoba here, there's probably called that other places as well. But we'd actually have a name for it. It was called the Rejects League. And it was because whenever you got played Wreckball, usually it was because you couldn't make your high school team. While I was homeschooled, I never tried out for a high school team. Maybe I could have made it, probably not. But I was on the Wreckball team, the Rejects team. And there was something about being on a team that was just interesting.  Does he like basketball or what's going on? One second he could dribble the ball off his foot out of bounds. Another second he could shoot a half court shot and win the game for you. You don't know what this kid's going to do. But the amazing thing about a team is when a team is formed. You don't get to choose your team. You don't get to decide, oh my goodness, this is who I want on my team. No, it's just like this is your team, especially in Wreckball, because everybody makes the team.  He's just wild, right? You're on his team. You say, hey, I'm on your team. I'm here to support you, man. I know there's going to be challenges. I know there's going to be, you know, adversity along the way. But you know what? We're all a team. So for bringing this basketball analogy to the real world, we know none of us are a perfect basketball player. We all sin. We all fall short of the glory of God. We all make mistakes, right? So the fact that any one of us can say to the other, hey, look, I'm on your team through thick and thin. I know you're going to make mistakes. I know you're going to dribble it off your foot every once in a while. But I care about you and I want to stay by your side. It reminds me of a verse in Galatians where it talks about bearing one and others burdens. And I think this is so important for young adults as communities, as, you know, just being able to pour into each other's lives to be able to say, look, I want to bear your burdens with you. I'm going to stick by your side. I'm on your side. I love you. I'm proud of you. By doing that, we're actually helping to bear each other's burdens. And maybe as you're thinking about these things, you know, whatever young adult needs to hear, I love you. I'm proud of you. I'm on your side. Maybe you haven't heard these things recently. Maybe you're in the situation where you don't have those kind of people in your life that are telling you these things. And if so, I'm really sorry. I'm really sorry.  And by his grace, he's given his life so that you could have forgiveness for your sins, right? And he can be proud of you because of his grace, right? And it's not based on your accomplishments.  And he can say, yeah, I'm proud of you because you're my child. And he can also say, I'm on your side. And he is on your side. He will never leave you. He'll never forsake you. Well, guys, if you enjoyed this video, give it a like down below and subscribe to the YouTube channel. Thanks so much for watching. I really appreciate it. Leave a comment down below and let me know what you think is another thing that every young adult needs to hear. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time. See ya.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here soon to talk about screen six in this video here again today This will be something of a prediction one of the earliest predictions Related to what screen six could do in its opening weekend domestically over the three days that it's out This is coming to us from exhibitor relations now if you're familiar with them You know that they always report on things related to the box office things and guarding What a movie is made during its opening weekend And of course they have media annual lists that work alongside them So if you want to talk to them to kind of gain an understanding of how they're coming up with this prediction I'll leave a link to the tweet that I put out yesterday down in the description But this prediction again is coming from them. This is just an early projection Of course when the tickets go on sale a more accurate projection Most likely will come out Given the fact that of course with tickets actually being on sale That'll be a better gauge as to what the movie will do in its opening weekend domestically But they're predicting screen six is going to be on a forty million dollar opening weekend domestically Now, of course these early projections come from analysts And if you again want to question how they have come up with this prediction you can go ask them However, this isn't an unreasonable number to expect screen five was a hit commercially and critically It's a sequel to a well-known horror franchise screen six that being it's got Jen or take it in it Who is doing nothing but just making a name for herself left and right 2022 was a breakout year for her As far as I'm concerned and anyone who wants to convince me otherwise I'm just not going to listen to you a debut like what Megan just had Which was around what like 30 million during its opening weekend That to me is just a sign that IPs that are more well-known like scream and Characters that are more known like ghostface They should be fine as long as you are marketing the movie correctly Whether that be for a month or a month and a half kind of like what Megan was doing And all the stuff and antics that they had to hype up that movie A well-known IP like the ghostface costume and scream and some of the big talent You have attached to it like Courtney Cox and Jen Ortega Hayden Pantiers comeback stuff like that All of that being used to hype up the next screen movie You should be having no issues securing a 40 million dollar opening weekend domestically I think screen five made around 30 million during its opening weekend Which means this would be like a 10 million dollar increase if screen six were to actually pull in 40 million And that to me sounds good once the marketing really starts rolling in during the month during later this month I'm predicting and then all throughout February all the way through till early March when the movie is supposed to be drop Then everyone will really start to see the excitement speak for itself If they're getting that tick tock stuff back involved if we get the snapchat filter back All of that stuff that was just present and heavily involved when why screen five ended up being so successful The fact is if a movie like jeepers creepers four can catch a case Do invisible as marketing i'll describe it and then make six million dollars worldwide in the end There is no reason why screen six cannot double that at least 20 times or more the general public also just really doesn't care And they're not obsessed with things like backstage politics cast drama and all this other BS that people like me and you Who watch videos like this care about they're not focused on stuff like that they carry very little It means nothing to them when it comes to Waking up on a friday It's friday night They just got off work and they have a craving to see the latest horror movie If they want to go see what everyone else is seeing and what everyone else is seeing is screen You're gonna have a monkey see monkey do ass scenario That's gonna lend itself to the box office numbers. That's just how it really works That social media outrage that people swear represents billions of people It just isn't going to matter when march rolls around it.  They just aren't they'll show up They'll watch you because it's a screen movie and they are a fan of a screen of the screen franchise in casual fashion I have several fans several friends who have I told them Nev Campbell isn't returning.  They're not those die hard fans die hard fans Are not the only thing that make up box office You have so many people that make up what happens at a box office A lot of them are people who again will wake up on a friday. It's friday night They want to go see a new movie. They'll go see the latest horror movie. Oh, hey, what's that movie? I've been seeing tv spots on all throughout the month of february january. That looks good. Oh, that's a new screen movie I'm going to go check that out. Everyone else is going to check it out. So why don't I go check it out? you know word positive word of mouth could play a factor in it too, so There's so many things that are good that are just going to lead to this movie being excess if they Have everything lined up as they should be because again if they don't amp up the marketing obviously It's hard to me would be shocked if it made a 30 million or 40 million dollar opening weekend again Some aspects of me was kind of going to lean in the side of saying this is going to do a $25 million opening weekend and just slowly over the course of the weeks Kind of just progressed from there because a positive word of mouth uh, but like I said if jeepers creepers 4 is a Is is damn near making like 6 million Negotiations has nothing to worry about now over the next of the three weeks after that after its release I'm going to say the movie can can do 100 million worldwide not domestically, but worldwide Uh, a majority of that I can not a majority but a a section of that I can see Coming from the other markets that are not that that are outside of the states because the last screen movie I think domestically finished at 80 million if I recall correctly So with six I could see a similar scenario play out And maybe the march competition Causes it to dip to maybe 70 million domestically or 60 million domestically, but I'm going to go with 70 million But then over overseas you have you have an extra 30 million there you have it There's your 100 million mark and that would be enough to justify a scream seven That would be a hit not a flop if they announced a seventh movie Then the last one was a hit it was not a flop because you know if they announced scream seven And scream six's numbers dipped down from the 140 that scream five did people are still going to say Oh, well, you know, it didn't make as much as five. Who cares they're still doing seven because it was a hit It was not a flop your thoughts on it being a flop did not come to fruition And I'm certain it's not going to happen. There's just so many people who I think They they have a mindset That's solely tied to outrage they see on social media And they think that that outrage on social media now applies to this person or that person The people they work in the office with the people they might be Sharing a bus ride home with or a bus ride to work with or sharing a train or whatever it is you do Not everybody is entertaining this social media shit. They're just not the general public Is going to show up and they are going to show out for scream six Let me know what you guys think about all this down the comment section below What do you think about this early prediction? I'll leave again leave a link to the tweet in the description If you haven't already, of course, make sure you go ahead and subscribe turn on post notification I can never miss a video in the description. I will have links on my social media accounts I'm on facebook twitter and instagram you can message me there, of course Then there's any movies news or reviews you'd like me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


Here we are zooming into the ring nebula, one of the earliest and most famous of all planetary nebula. As you can see, it closely resembles the helix nebula we covered earlier. We are looking almost directly down one of the poles of the structure, with a brightly colored barrel of material stretching away from us. From Earth's perspective, the ring nebula looks like a simple elliptical shape with a fuzzy boundary. But the new Hubble observations show clearly that the nebula is actually shaped more like a distorted donut. The main structure of the nebula is a broad ring of nitrogen. That's the red ring you see. The hotter gas is oxygen, seen in green here, and it fills the interior. What's even hotter still is helium. Being here as blue oblong lobes, stretching out perpendicular to the nebula's main structure and looking like a rugby ball, our first planetary nebula we're facing the Earth so that we could see down the tube. From this one, the retina nebula, we are viewing the donut from the side.


Joy to the world. Wait, the whole world? Even the parts of the world I disagree with? Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea? Joy to the people who voted differently, who pray differently, who love differently? Is it joy to the world or joy to my world? Because I tend to be much more concerned about one over the other.


What's happening guys? It's Shane here. So in this video, we are going to be ranking the best and the worst art degrees from S tier, which is really good to F tier, which is awful. Now, before we jump into this, you know the drill. What I want you to do is tap the like button because tapping the like button is modern art. Okay. So if you tap the like button, you are officially an artist. Congratulations. First one on the list is going to be animation and 3d animation. So this one is becoming more and more popular as video takes over the world as well as the internet. Animation graduates can expect to earn around $42,000 a year right out of college within the first five years and then $84,000 a year after the first 10 years. So that's what's called mid-career pay. So this one isn't so bad and I see it being good for many years to come. This one is going to go into B tier, B for boss baby. Architecture is going to be next on the list and this is where you learn how to design houses and other types of buildings. Now, if you want to become a world famous architect and design all kinds of amazing buildings, this of course will take you a long time. Turns out they don't let just anyone design $100 million buildings darn it. Now, at this one, you can expect to make around $47,000 a year right out of college and mid-career pay is going to be around $87,000 a year. Of course, you can become an architect with this degree and with that, you're going to be making around $80,000 a year. There's 133,000 jobs available and it's growing at around 8% which is faster than average. Overall, this one is pretty good. I'll go ahead and put it in B tier, B for Bob the Builder. Next one on the list is going to be art history and this is where you study the history of art. Now, at this one, you can make around $43,000 a year and the mid-career pay is going to be around $67,000. You could become a curator for an art museum, for instance, or maybe you could become an archiver. They make around $49,000 a year. There's 35,000 jobs available and it's growing at 9% which is much faster than average. However, it's really difficult to get a job and on top of that, if you do get one, it's going to be very low paying. This one is going to go into F tier, F for my student loans are due. Next one on the list is going to be fashion design. Now, this one is exactly what it sounds like and honestly, I was pleasantly surprised by the stats. They make $43,000 a year starting out and the mid-career pay is going to be around $84,000 a year. A career that you could go into would be a fashion designer, of course, which makes $73,000 a year. There's 25,000 jobs available and it's growing at about 1%. This one actually isn't that bad for an art degree so I'll go ahead and put it into B tier, B for Balenciaga. Next one on the list is going to be a film degree and this is one of my favorite subjects. With this one, you're going to start off around $42,000 a year and then the mid-career pay is going to be around $83,000. Now, as you probably know, it's ridiculously hard to get a job in film. However, there are a few skills out there where there's a lot of need and one of them is video editing. You can make around $59,000 a year. There's 69,000 jobs available and it's growing at 11% which is much faster than average. This one really isn't as bad as you might think. I'm going to go ahead and put it into C tier. C for Can Disney Please Stop Ruining Star Wars Movies? Seriously. Next one on the list is going to be Fine Arts and this is mostly going to be about art that's created purely for its aesthetic or visual beauty. Now, with this one, you're going to start off around $39,000 a year and mid-career pay is going to be somewhere around $64,000. Now, you can get a job as an artist but it's probably not going to pay very well and to be honest, you probably also don't need a degree to get the same exact job. They make around $48,000 a year. There's around 50,000 jobs available and it's growing at about 1%. Fine Art is going to go into F tier. F for I freaking love modern art, don't you? Next one on the list is going to be Graphic Design and this is where you combine text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, as well as books. Now, you can make around $44,000 a year starting off and the mid-career pay is going to be somewhere around $69,000. As a graphic designer, you're going to make around $52,000 a year on average and there will be around 290,000 jobs available and it's growing at 3% which is a little bit slower than average. Another job that graphic designers oftentimes go for is going to be Creative Director and this one is going to have a little bit better statistics. They can make around $96,000 a year. Now, the amount of jobs available here when it comes to art degrees, you know, when you compare it to other art degrees is pretty unique. However, the pay isn't anything to get excited about and one big problem here is it's very easy to outsource this type of work to other countries that can do pretty dang good job honestly and this is a problem with a lot of these types of degrees but it's especially bad when it comes to graphic design. Seriously, you can get some amazing work done on websites like Fiverr or Upwork. I mean, it's ridiculous what you can get people on Fiverr to do but this is also a pretty good degree that can translate to a lot of other professions and different industries just because of how useful it is. So for that reason, it ranks pretty well. I'm going to go ahead and put it into A tier, A for actually pretty useful. Next one on the list is going to be illustration and this one is all about drawing stuff. Now you're going to make around $42,000 a year first and then the mid-career pay is going to be around $67,000. This one isn't as good as graphic design though and there's just not that many jobs available. I'm going to go ahead and put this one into D tier, D for Dilbert. Next one on the list is going to be interior design and I was honestly a little bit surprised by this one. It had decent stats. You can make around $41,000 a year starting out and then $67,000 a year in mid-career pay. This is the most common degree for those that end up becoming design directors which make around $92,000 a year. A lot of interior designers end up working in real estate and doing stagings as well. So I'll go ahead and put this one into A tier, A for all right, but you might end up working in real estate which you don't need a degree for. Next one on the list is going to be industrial design and this is actually a pretty good one. This is where you help to design the products that are going to be manufactured and distributed and as you can see this is a pretty useful skill just about any industry out there is going to need this. Now with this one you can make around $51,000 a year starting out and then mid-career pay is going to be around $91,000. Now there's a bunch of different career paths you can go down but the most obvious one is going to be becoming an industrial designer. You can make around $68,000 a year. There's 43,000 jobs available which is pretty good for an art degree and it's growing at about 3%. None of the art degrees are amazing to be honest with you but this is one of the better ones and one of the more useful ones out there. It's going to go into S tier, best for super useful. Next one on the list is going to be music and this is exactly what it sounds like. You can make around $41,000 a year starting out and then mid-career pay is going to be around $65,000 a year. It is going to be tough for you to find a job and a lot of the careers and jobs that are out there, you don't actually need a music degree in order to land them honestly. So overall I'm going to go ahead and put music into D tier. D for Damn the Weekends album After Hours was good. One of the only good things to happen in 2020. Next one on the list is going to be painting and again this is exactly what it sounds like. You're going to start off around $39,000 a year and then mid-career pay is going to be somewhere around $58,000 and to be honest with you this is one of the worst ones on the entire list. There's not much demand for this skill as a job. Listen, I'm not trying to be mean here. I'm just trying to paint a clear picture for you. No pun intended of the reality of this situation. It's much better for many of these degrees if you just learn the skill on your own.  This one goes in F tier, F for Funny. Next one on the list is going to be photography and this one isn't great either. It's another skill that's better for you to learn on your own and you can expect to make around $41,000 a year starting out and then mid-career pay is going to be around $61,000 and this is another one where pretty much all the jobs you could land out there you could land them without a degree. People don't really care about their degree. All they care about is your portfolio. How good are your photos? So the best thing you can do for yourself is just go out there and practice, practice, practice. This one is going to go into F tier, F for $14,000 lenses. Next one on the list is going to be textile design and this is going to be all about designs that are printed on different types of fabric. You're going to start off making around $46,000 a year and mid-career pay will be around $83,000. Now this one isn't too bad actually and it kind of relates closely to the fashion industry. Not as good though so this one is going to go into C tier, C for cat shirts. Next one on the list is going to be theater slash drama and as you can imagine there's not that much demand for these skills on the market. Now if your dream is to become a Hollywood actor you know going and getting a drama degree or a theater degree it's probably not going to help you that much. In fact there's a good chance that it would hurt you because you're going to be so deep into debt that you're not going to be able to take advantage of potential opportunities that you might have in the future. Now if you're lucky you might be able to get a job helping out film crews or different theaters. You're going to start off making around $39,000 a year and then mid-career pay is going to be $74,000. Overall I got to put this one into D tier, D for $118,000 in debt for a useless drama degree. I actually forgot to put this one in here at first but I remembered it at the last moment. This is going to be dance. I've got a really good friend from undergrad who majored in dance and she regrets it. I'm not going to go over the stats on this one but it goes into D tier, D for damn it I forgot to put this one on the list. Now let's talk about a few important things when it comes to potentially picking an art degree. And I really want to talk about the three types of value when it comes to selecting a degree. The first type is going to be market value. This is basically going to be a broad type of value and what it boils down to is how much are people willing to pay you for different careers out there once you get a degree. So for a degree like engineering for instance it has quite a bit of market value not only in engineering itself you can become an engineer with an engineering degree but it's also pretty well respected in a lot of other fields. So you might end up becoming a software engineer or something along those lines. Now the second type of value is going to be niche specific value. So this might not directly translate into getting a job or making money however it's something where you might be respected within a certain niche or a certain circle. Because of that later on down the line you might be able to get a job or you might be able to start your own business and indirectly it can lead to you making a good amount of money. Now the third one that I'm going to talk about is by far the best argument that I've heard when it comes to getting an art degree and that is personal value. There's a lot of people out there that have gotten art degrees that will say that it was worth it even though they probably didn't get a job and they weren't able to make any money from it and oftentimes they're going to be deep in debt because of the fact that it had a lot of personal value. They'll say things like it was a unique experience I never could have had that experience anywhere else. I met some of my best friends getting my music degree. Maybe I met my wife there you know all kinds of things like that. Now to me this is the best argument that I've heard but it's still a little bit of a flimsy argument if I'm being honest. The problem is is you can't really argue against it because it can't be quantified or qualified. You know maybe meditating in my room for one year would have a lot of personal value to me but it wouldn't have a lot of personal value to someone else. So even though it might have had a lot of value to them that doesn't mean it's going to be the same for a lot of other people. Thank you for watching the video. I made it just for you. Go ahead smash the like button, hit the subscribe button, ring the notification bell and comment down below any thoughts, comments, criticisms, etc.


In this video, I wanted to give you some advice relating to when you open your business, how do you actually market yourself? How do you get your service out there? How do you get people knowing about you and what are the biggest misconceptions that people have when they start a business regarding marketing themselves? So imagine that this is you and that you have a business. What most people do when they open a business is they try to reach out usually on one channel. So for example, they try to reach out through emails or they try to reach out through Facebook messages or they ask their friends to recommend about them to other people. The right way, the correct way to market yourself would be to actually market on ten different channels at the same time. So you want to market on YouTube, on Facebook, on Facebook ads, AdWords, emails, telling people about you, called calling. You want to pretty much market on every channel you can think of, send people messages on WhatsApp, use every single channel and use it based on the way that it's meant to be used. So if you're going to send WhatsApp messages, make sure they're more focused on emojis, they're shorter, just more click here and get there. If you're going to do Facebook, you can use a lot of pictures, you can use long posts. If you do email, you can really structure your emails and highlight them and make sure that they look really amazing. So every medium, every channel, again we're talking about Facebook, about YouTube, about emails, you want to really go hard on every one of these channels, like as many channels as you can think and you want to push as much as you can ten times more on each. So if you thought you're going to need one email per week, start doing one email per day. If you thought you're going to need three posts per week, starting 30 posts per week. You thought it's going to take one video per week, starting 10 videos per week. Basically 10x everything that you thought it's going to take on every channel. So instead of one channel, you're going 10 and instead of once, you're going 10 times more on every single channel. Now how do you actually promote? Well the easiest way to promote is just to shout, hey, I'm here, check me out, look at this, check this out, this is called promotion. It means to make people aware of a product or an offering. But if you're like me and if you have a bit of an issue with straight out promoting people who don't know you, one thing that you can do is actually create a bait offer. A bait meaning you can create a free value that is very much related to your product. So if I'm going to sell let's say an online course for $197 and I'm going to sell the course about YouTube marketing, I can bait people by selling the, giving them for example a free e-book that will help them with their marketing. And they go from the bait, the bait is actually a way to get them to sign up, putting their email and then they get exposed to the actual product.  But again, even if you have an offer like this that supposedly people are supposed to come to you, you still want to make sure that you reach out on as many platforms as possible 10 times more than you thought. So this is a very basic model for what I would do if I started my business for the first time or if I started a new business, how would I would go about getting people to know me?  And if they don't know you and they're not thinking about you, they can't do business with you because you don't exist in their mind. So make sure you go hard on these platforms and do 10 times more than you thought you're going to need and let me know if you have any questions. See you in the next video.


folks is Dr. Elizabeth Strom. She is an associate professor of arts. She's an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of South Florida. She's previously been the director of the USF Office of Community Engagement and Partnership, and Dr. Strom is an expert in urban development and affordable housing. We're going to talk to Dr. Strom. Elizabeth, welcome to TFNN. Thank you. It's great to be here. So, bottom line, urban affairs, affordable housing. Why do cities have such a problem supplying affordable housing? Well, because cities are expensive places to be. The things that make cities attractive, why we all want to be there, why employers want to be there. There's a lot of demand on the real estate. As you know, if there is a lot more demand and the supply is limited and the prices will go up. Have you seen, I have personally quite a bit of experience with this. I have a construction company, but I'm in the real estate business in a large way. What I've found, and I've been doing this 40 years, is that every time that there's a downdraft in the market, the cities don't buy or don't take care of the land that they have inside of cities. When it's cheap. When it's cheap. I mean, the bottom line is that the city of St. Pete. I'm from Boston. I started happening in South Boston. I started happening at St. Pete. When 2007 to 2012, you could buy all of St. Pete, and the city never did anything. You know, one of the things that's frustrating for those of us who work in affordable housing is that you're absolutely right that just exactly when land is cheap, cities should be buying it or counties should be buying it, land banking it. Cities and counties are usually having their own fiscal problems because when land is cheap, it means that property values are down, property tax collections are down. And so they're often laying off workers and feeling like they're pretty broke. So you'd think that that would be the time for them to be in the market. That's why I'm hopeful that some of the federal aid coming to our cities and counties right now, thanks to the most recent bill that was passed by Congress, will actually give them some capital that they could invest to buy land and bank it for future affordable housing. What do you find is the biggest challenge? I guess let's talk about St. Pete. What do you find is the biggest challenge in St. Pete? You can take any city you like, basically politically and fundamentally getting housing built. Well, I think that some of the challenges are that a lot of our zoning regulations aren't necessarily hospitable to increasing density and that often residents who kind of like being in a single family neighborhood may be opposed to greater densities. But if we're going to have more affordable housing in cities, we're going to need to have neighborhoods that have higher density. So I think just having that conversation about where density is appropriate and how could we encourage it so that the design is good and we still have open spaces. I think that's a really important conversation to have and one that I see happening in St. Petersburg. And you bring up a great topic. And you know, for the folks right across the country, the zoning issue is a monster issue because it always seems that and this can happen. And I've seen this happen in liberal neighborhoods that, you know, someone that is on the liberal side and say, okay, we want affordable housing, but guess what? I don't want next to me. That's right. There's a reason that one of our favorite acronyms in the planning area is NIMBY, not in my backyard. And there's certainly other places where dense building may not be appropriate. We have to be mindful of environmental problems. We don't want to build in flood zones. We don't want to impinge on wetlands. But where you already have development, where you already have infrastructure, those are places often that can take a little bit more building. And so we need to make sure that we're not wasting well connected areas to single family homes when we could be actually encouraging townhomes or garden apartments that would that would be really lovely in cities like St. Pete. Sure. Now you've done a lot of work across the country. Have you found that some cities are better than other cities doing this? I think they, I think they all are a bit resistant. Now, I do know that Minneapolis recently changed their zoning code to basically eliminate single family zoning. And so just before people get like very upset about that, it's not that they're saying you can't have single family homes. What they're saying is we're not going to have neighborhoods that are zoned exclusively for single family homes. So maybe that there are places where the market says single family homes are the best use of this land. Yes. But there's not going to be any neighborhoods where you cannot build multifamily housing just because of the zoning. So I think that that's a good step. Let let the market decide whether this is a good place for multifamily housing and don't have our zoning codes dictate that. Right. And we know that as soon as that happens, of course, developers like myself will basically will be all over that. And that raises the prices also. I'm just playing devil's advocate here. But what do we do about that? Right. Well, I think I mean, you're right. And in fact, this is the thing I discussed with my students that there's some literature that says like anytime you do anything good in any city, prices are going to go up. So does that mean you never have a park? You never have a community garden? And so that's why I think we have to have the market, but we also have to have public policies that help those who can't afford to purchase a rent housing on their own. If you look at what people earn at, you know, at or below the median income, there's really no way that the market's going to create housing opportunities for people who earn twenty thousand and twenty five thousand dollars a year. So that's why we have government. We need governments up to these so that people can afford to live in cities like St. Pete. Yes. And the tax credits are great. There is no doubt about that. I mean, the bottom line is that you get a tax credit when you're coming into a city to do affordable housing. If you do affordable housing, whether it's an apartment building 50 percent to subsidize 50 percent market rate is a great way to go. What do you think is the so in urban settings? What else do you think should be done in urban settings? That we get better cities? Well, I'm a big fan of density not only because it's going to help with housing costs, but also it's only through density that we get transit and transit also helps with housing costs. When you look at what it costs to live somewhere, we need to think about not just the cost of your rent or your mortgage, but how much you pay to get around. So if you live in a place where your family needs two or three cars, it's going to add a lot to your cost of living. So I think density brings down the cost of housing, brings down the cost of transportation, allows for greater commercial development. So I think that density helps in a lot of ways and not just with the cost of the apartment. Well, I'll tell you God bless you because the bottom line is and folks across the country know it. And listen, I'm a big proponent of both of the affordable housing and the density. And in St. Pete, folks, what has happened is that we're getting more transit. There's no doubt about that. But as transit goes from one community to another community, the other community is always saying, Well, not my backyard. The last thing they want is someone from St. Pete coming to St. Pete Beach. We've had this discussion, folks. Okay. And underlying it is a lot of different issues. But the bottom line is that, you know, every community faces us and transit is where it's at. I mean, it's amazing, but you've got to get through those social issues, right? You do. And I hope that people realize, first of all, that if they think about the cost of having that extra car in their family, they may be more amenable to transit. Also, we all benefit from a more mobile population because if you want to hire someone, let's say to work in your restaurant out at St. Pete Beach. Yes. How are they going to get there? And so we have to think about this as a community that that we benefit from more mobility. We all have more options when we're more mobile. And so I hope that our political leaders can make that case well to their constituents. Great point. Well, listen, we appreciate the education. I'm sure everyone's gonna put some good thought into it. And we'd love to have you back again, Elizabeth. Thank you so much. It was a pleasure talking to you. Thank you. Have a great one. Have a safe one.


Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Code Emporium where we are going to talk about some mathematics that you need as a data scientist. I currently have two years of full-time data science experience and I'm hoping that this video can help impart some knowledge onto how we actually use mathematics in real-time real projects in the industry for data science. So in this video we are going to be breaking down mathematical concepts into five major tiers. I'll start by mentioning these five concepts and then for each concept we're gonna go into details of how we would actually use these with certain examples and also sub-concepts. Before getting into the video though, please do give this a like because the more you like, the more that this video is spread to everybody in the world and the more they like, the continuous process just goes on. And so please be sure to give it a like, subscribe if you like this content and also we do have a Discord server so please do join because we're gonna be talking about some amazing things over there and we would love to have you. So with that out of the way, let's get back to the video. Our first topic of mathematical interest is probability. So under probability let me just mention a few concepts that we actually do use. So starting with distributions. So distributions gives us the probability of occurrence of every item that is of interest. Now these distributions of items can be in many forms. The normal distribution can be used to model data with the central tendency. The log normal distribution can be used to model data where we have a lot of samples which have a small values and then there's a small number of samples which have large values. The uniform distribution can be used to model data where the probability of picking every item is the same. And like this, we can have so many more applications too. So it's super important to just at least understand these distributions at a high level and then probably get into details of how they could potentially be related to each other as well. The next topic in probability that I think is super important is maximum likelihood estimation. The broad framework of MLE tries to state that let's say that we're given a model, right? And we're also given some training data. We want to estimate the parameters of the model such that the probability of seeing that training data is the highest and we do this with maximum likelihood estimation. This is typically used during the training part of machine learning and is kind of behind the scenes where we're using maximum likelihood estimation to derive a certain loss function that we wish to optimize or in this case minimize. And so if you've ever been interested in like how loss functions for certain machine learning algorithms actually appear, then learning maximum likelihood estimation will help you better understand where they come from. So it is a super important topic to know, although we do not use it directly as much in your field of work. The next topic that is of super interest is Bayesian testing. So Bayesian testing is a framework for conducting AB tests while also combining the idea of well, the Bayes theorem. So it's an implementation of AB testing where we have a certain assumption about how a system works. We then gain some experimental data, we try to conduct an experiment, and then we update our beliefs of our prior knowledge in order to create our new understanding of the system. We are now able to use this new understanding of the system to make certain decisions on whether or not, for example, to make certain product feature changes. So it is super useful in the context of AB testing, and I do encourage everybody to know about this coming up on concept number two, we're going to do statistics. And for this, we're going to segue like Bayesian testing, another very famous AB testing framework, which is hypothesis testing. So essentially hypothesis testing, it is a framework of AB testing where we state a hypothesis, gather some data, and then try to prove how ridiculous that hypothesis is or is not. And then based on that, we would make certain product level decisions.  So for example, we can use the t test to have two samples and try to compare their means. We can have the chi-square test, which is used as a test of independence or goodness of fit tests to see if two categorical variables are in any way independent or dependent of each other. We also have some less strict tests, which have less assumptions about the distribution of data. And they can be used. For example, we have the man witness test or the signed ranked test. Learning all of these types of statistical tests, what they actually prove and don't prove is super important, especially in just doing anything or testing anything in data science. And so I super encourage you to learn a lot more about it. The next topic of interest here is the central limit theorem. So essentially, the central limit theorem is more of a hidden concept within the confines of AB testing. So it tries to relate the sample to a population. The population is a group of interests and the sample is a subset of that group. The core of what the central limit theorem states is that the distribution of the sample means is a normal distribution, and it is typically a requirement in many of the statistical tests, including the t tests. And so understanding the central limit theorem will actually help you better understand where the derivation of the t test is coming from, where we get a test statistic, how we get p values. Coming up on our next concept, we have the law of large numbers. When I think of the law of large numbers, I typically think about convergence. So basically, let's say that we have a dice, right? Now what is the expected value of the die? It is essentially going to be the sum of probability of getting each side times the value of that side itself. And that expected value will turn out to be 3.5. So as you perform simulations of rolling that dice, you roll it once, twice, a hundred, a thousand times, you will see that the average of all of those rolls taken until that point will eventually converge to 3.5. And so what the law of large numbers states, more technically, is that the mean of performing a large number of trials is effectively going to converge to the expected value of whatever that system entails. And so this I feel is super useful, especially when we're carrying out Monte Carlo simulations. In fact, I've created a video on how I simulated a game of bingo with Monte Carlo simulations and inherently the law of large numbers does come into play because of convergence. So please do check that out for more details. Now another concept of interest is confidence intervals. So confidence intervals comes into play whenever we're making estimates of anything. So for example, we could be making estimates of the coefficients in a regression model, or we can also make estimates about the output of the regression itself and how confident we are that it is close to a true value. So for example, let's take the first example of the coefficients. So in this case, when we make an estimate of a coefficient, we can say that, okay, we can create a little confidence interval that you've probably seen if you've used something called stats models, where we can say that we now predict this coefficient to be this value, but there is like a 95% chance that it lies between the range A and B. And so that range between A and B is the confidence interval, the more narrow that is, the more higher confidence we have typically. And also if they are of the same sign in the case of feature selection or in the case of like the stats model sheet that you get. Now this other second application that I mentioned, which is the output of a regression model, if we want to determine a confidence interval, we want to determine an upper and lower bound. And this is typically done with something called quantile regression that I've illustrated in pretty detail in another video. And it just shows that, okay, we made this prediction right now, but it can range between A and B with a certain like 95% chance that the true value lies between A and B. And so this overall becomes the confidence interval. And it's pretty useful just to get to know the uncertainty of certain estimations. So very important concept to know, and I do encourage you to learn it. Coming up on topic number three, we have calculus. Calculus is the study of how things change. A lot of what we use in calculus is not necessarily rooted in day to day work, but it is required for understanding how certain, for example, loss functions are created. So I mentioned before about maximum likelihood estimation. And if we wanted to derive a loss function from the maximum likelihood initial statement, we would need to use a lot of calculus in between. And so I've put that in here as just a requirement to understand and to learn. So although you're not going to be using it in day to day work, calculus in your day to day work, you still do require it for just understanding how like loss functions are created or how optimization works and how things change, for example. And so I've mentioned in this list. Coming up on topic number four, we have algebra. So algebra is a huge umbrella of just anything containing variables, right? But here there are so many subtopics that are of quite high importance. For example, matrices and vectors. Computers tend to process information in the form of matrices and vectors to take advantage of parallel processing and just make millions and millions of operations happen much faster. This is how data is typically input to any model and also is processed by your machine learning models too. And so understanding matrices and vectors and how matrix and vector calculations are performed, like multiplications, additions and even matrix calculus can be super useful. Another point of interest here is linear regression. So in this case, I put it as its own bullet point because I encourage everyone to take some data, take some like two dimension set of points and try to actually fit a line through that data and try to also use mathematics to simplify what the equation of that line would be. Now, this is kind of a very base fundamental of how you can expect other machine learning models to work, although with other models, it's going to be really hard to kind of derive on paper. But with linear regression, I think it's a great start. Another topic of interest here is graphs. So graphs, I mean like the visual Cartesian coordinate system. In this case, we can use graphs for so many things from like data visualization to actually just visualizing how the loss decreases over time during training. So in terms of like data visualization, though, some of the graphs that you would need are like line charts, box plots, scatter plots, correlates, which are like heat maps and so many more. So understanding and having all of these data visualization tools in your arsenal would be great for you because it'll help you in just like visualizing any kind of data that's out there and also just making an explaining data in just in the form of pictures. It's just so much easier for stakeholders to understand, even for you to understand internally. So please do learn that as well. Coming up next, we also have evaluation functions. So for example, if we were to do some classification problems and to evaluate how wrong or right is our model, we have certain metrics like precision, recall, the F score. And for regression models, you would do something like the mean absolute error or the mean squared error. And so learning these metrics will actually help you determine performance of your models, so it's super useful to learn. Coming up on the fifth and final topic of today's video, and it is optimization algorithms. So optimization algorithms essentially decide or they determine how we are learning. A big prerequisite for understanding optimizations is functions themselves. So functions can have maxima and minima. Typically when we're learning in machine learning, the loss function is at a certain arbitrary point. And then we have to figure out a way to minimize that loss as much as possible in order to find a global minima. So understanding functions, understanding the concept of maxima and minima is all intertwined in this understanding of optimization algorithms in general. A good first start to this is understanding how gradient descent works. And from there, you can try to, you know, just tweak this a little bit in order to make it stochastic gradient descent, then mini-batch gradient descent, Atagrad, AdAdults, RMS Prop, AtomNatom. There's so many out there that you could probably just continuously tweak these strategies of learning and just get these new and potentially even better strategies, depending on your problem. I made a video on optimization algorithms that you can check out. And essentially it describes everything that I just mentioned and also says like what the difference between each of these optimization algorithms is. And so I do encourage you to check that out. And that's all I have for you today. So just note that all of the five mathematical concepts that I mentioned is definitely non-exhaustive and probability statistics. These are used in so many more places that I could, I could just go on and on, honestly. And I think you've noticed that in this video there's a lot of overlap between some of the concepts and also where they're used. But I hope this still gave you a good idea and a good starting point of where you can start trying to focus your time depending on what you want to learn in mathematics so that you can become a data scientist really soon or maybe just continue to be a data scientist if you already are one. All this is super fun and I hope you get started learning. Thank you all so much for watching today and if you like the video, please do drop that like. Please subscribe, ring that bell and also join us on Discord because we're going to create an amazing community with you. And until next time, I'll see you soon. Bye!


Okay, wow, just all the difference in quality between using my iPhone and using the Oppo 15, the cheapest phone I could get. I would have thought that spending money on a phone would produce higher quality. So, what are you here? Could you each distribute in Sydney's eastern suburbs? So, I'm reading an essay here in the Atlantic, Land Acknowledgements to Just Moral Exhibitionism. So, is all moral exhibitionism automatically wrong? So, I would think that in some cases we're actually signaling it's a good thing. Right, if you're trying to raise money, then you get someone on board who then provides a matching grant. And so, when other people start donating or when you promise us to match whatever you donate, then that seems to me like a positive example of moral exhibitionism. Knowing that someone else has chipped in doesn't make you more likely to chip in. So, I don't think moral exhibitionism or virtue signaling is in and of itself bad.  So, Thanksgiving relies on a cartoon version of the settlement of the Americas. So, the English is settled in the United States. When it came to the United States, they did not want to repeat the harsh treatment of the Spanish in the United States. That's what's happened in the United States of Israel. That seems to be the nature of the human condition. So, Thanksgiving focuses on that moment of concord between the victor and the victor. So, now, if the settlers had just been nicer, they would have been wiped out. So, it's like, if Israel was 25% nicer, it wouldn't exist anymore. So, it's all very well and good to talk about how people need to be nicer. But sometimes, when you lose, and I think it's more. Land acknowledgments are created to stroke the sentiments of mostly non-indigenous audiences by enabling their preening self-criticism. This is great more than right here in the Atlantic. So, Microsoft's annual Ignite conference began with the land acknowledgment, so bewildering the viewers that it went viral. But it was not abnormal among land acknowledgment statements of this sort. The MC acknowledged that the company's headquarters, one square mile of land outside Seattle, was occupied by the Samamish, the Duwamish, the Sunnokwami, the Saqquamash, the Mokkushu, the Snowhomish, the Tullalip and other coast-sillish people. Since time immemorial. Yeah, but who did they displace? They didn't grow up out of the land. They would have had to displace someone else and then use force to keep control of their land. She noted that the tribes are still there, but offered no connection between the past and today. So the effect of this parade of names was to suggest that for thousands of years, indigenous people were crammed onto the Microsoft campus uncomfortably like Ken Salmon, doing who knows what until Bill Gates arrived in the late 20th century to turn them into computer programmers. So maybe this is a victory for these indigenous tribes who would be named at a Microsoft conference. So the fence of land acknowledgment statements is that they harm no one. And the educated Americans about a hidden history. I just, I don't see a lot of wisdom in the moral approach to land ownership, right? If you can take it and you can defend it, then it's yours. If you can't take it and you can't defend it, then it's not. I mean, you can't exaggerate the superficiality of these statements. Like, why do members of the acknowledged group, what do they hold sacred, what makes them unique? Who are they, where do they come from, where are they going? So the speakers making these acknowledgment statements, they demonstrate no knowledge of the people whose names they read carefully on the left. Good day, May 40 here. And the speakers don't make anything but the most general connection between the event and these people, other than this ancient one. And no one grows up out of the land, right? Everyone took the land from someone else. Some people claim that these land acknowledgments are statements of respect. Land acknowledgment is an easy way to show honor and respect to the indigenous people.  No, it wouldn't feel terribly respectful to me. So sharing the respect, the easy way, is just as cheap as it sounds. Yeah, it's cheap grace. Like, if you really want to do something to the indigenous people, learn to rattle off these incantations. And they're alive, but could you beat your life? See these eastern suburbs. Real respect occurs only when accompanied by time, work, effort, giving you something of value. So most of these land acknowledgments are considered by the speakers and much of the posh audience is moral acts. They bear witness to crimes perpetrated against native peoples and call for redress. I always thought Australia was a sun-drenched land. That's what I want to know. Like, Sydney in November is supposed to be warm, but it's rain every day that I've been here. It's been overcast and rainy every day that I've been here. I don't think we've gotten above 73 degrees Fahrenheit since I've been here. So we've hit lows of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit. And we've hit highs of about 74 Fahrenheit. Many, many things are named after the Indian... Yeah. And how does that make them feel?  Art and history serves this purpose well. Reality, not so much. These land acknowledgments never include any actual material redress, which is the return of land, meaningful connection, corrections or wrongs against Indigenous communities. There's sophisticated moral reckoning, and there's no easy way to reckon with the past, right? If you want to take a land, then you're going to have to subjugate, if not expel, if not destroy the Indigenous inhabitants, and then you're going to have to use force to protect your land. So, most Native Americans were wiped out by Europeans, not so much through active genocide, but just through the spread of disease. Yeah, does China owe Europe reparations for the black debt? Or for COVID? Or should China take two opium wars, two opium wars and call it even? Yeah, to acknowledge these are Indigenous homelands, that someone else used to move here. It's just rhetoric without action. If Microsoft truly felt bad about the location of its offices, it could move its operations to soil less blood soaked, if indeed there is any. Is there any soil that's not soaked by blood? So, it just seems like moral preening and fostering and exhibitionism. I mean, if you want to go and do something for Indigenous peoples, that could be noble. But in the final analysis, Indigenous peoples are going to have to work out their own destiny with fear and trembling, just like all of us. So, for Jews in the West of the world now, our primary problems are with the Jews. Chinese in America, their primary problems are with Chinese. No one's going to come along and rescue African Americans or Mexican Americans or Chinese Americans because of the height of smugness. I think that you can be an outsider, come along and rescue some people. I remember a synagogue one day, a friend asked me, did you do anything for the Aborigines? No, I haven't done anything for the Aborigines. I barely know any Aborigines. My end acknowledgments are just empty words and hollow and nauseating. Probably in most ways, Australia, in its official organs, its media, its elite are even more politically correct than in the United States. But yeah, the fireworks could be spectacular. If you have the illegal, as fireworks are often happening in the Interest Nation, or South here, South from Fujian, distant suburbs. So really posh shops here by the beach. So, this ice cream, it's like $5, $7 a scoop.