Hi everyone. In this video, I am going to teach you how to get your first job as a UX designer. I'm Dee. I'm a product designer here at AJ & Smart, and I've worked in product and UX design for over 10 years. In this video, we're going to talk about how to get your first job as a UX designer, whether you're changing careers from another field, or you've just studied UX design and are trying to land that first role. As you're watching this video, if any thoughts or questions come up about UX design or getting your first job, just pop them below in the comments. We're going to talk about how to build your network, how to get that first job when you don't have any practical experience yet, what hiring managers are really looking for, and I'm going to give you three secret tips that you won't see anywhere else. Let's dive into the first topic, how to build your network. The most important thing to know is that building your network means you actually need to go and meet some real people. There's tons of ways you can do this. The first one is looking for meetups near you. There's a great website called meetup.com, where you can type in something like UX design and find tons and tons of local events all about UX design with other experienced professionals there speaking and attending that you can go and meet. There's also things like conferences where you can volunteer your time to help with the conference, but that way you often get a free ticket to the conference. So you're building your knowledge by actually attending lots of talks and also then mingling and meeting lots of other really senior professionals in your area, but also people who have traveled from other places in other cities. So that way you really can get to meet a lot of super interesting and highly skilled people. And then there's also online. There's a ton of great communities like UX Mastery is one where there's actually community forums where lots of people discuss and ask each other questions about things like getting your first job in UX design and you can participate in those forums and also build networks and meet people there and ask questions about UX design too. UX design is a really people focused field. So if you feel a bit uncomfortable about going and approaching people and mingling and networking, you'll really need to work on this if you're going to be comfortable with a job in UX design. So use this opportunity now to practice those skills of forcing yourself to approach people, having topics of conversation and things that you can actually offer those people and start conversations because you're going to be needing to do that throughout the rest of your career. Really engage people and get people motivated to do things. So start really honing those skills now while you're building your network. Something that you might not be thinking of at this point at the beginning of your UX career is that you can actually volunteer to give a talk or run a workshop that you want to practice and this can help you get over that hump of being really nervous about presenting or nervous about actually practicing your field, your new field. So you can actually contact people that are running meetups or events and offer to give a talk about something that you do know. Maybe it's something you've studied in a program or something that you're bringing from another field and offer to give a talk on a specific subject. If you don't have to be the world's expert in the room, you just have to have one topic that might be interesting for other people. This is a great way for you to actually get practice and also get your face out there and get yourself seen, especially if you can record the talk for example and have something to put in a portfolio. So that's my first piece of advice to really build a strong network by going to meetups and free events, volunteering at conferences and building that network of really senior experienced people and volunteering to give talks even if you're nervous to get that practice and get your face out there as someone who knows stuff. The next topic we're going to talk about is what hiring managers and employers are actually looking for from a junior or entry level UX designer. The big thing that everyone underestimates is how hard it is to actually find good people and this is not just about the skills that you've learned because if you've done a UX course or you've started to get some experience those skills as you know are all learnable. You can learn the fundamental steps and processes to be a UX designer. What's really hard for hiring managers to find are people who are great at communicating, great at activating other people to collaborate and get work done and really good at having a thought process behind their work. Those are things that are much harder to learn and that's where you can really set yourself apart. Here comes secret tip number one. If you're already working in a job and trying to change into UX take what you can from the job that you're currently in. Whether you're working in a restaurant, in customer service or in a completely different office job. Try and use what's around you whether it's other teams or situations where you can practice the things that you've learned how to be a UX designer in the situation that you're in. This will give you really practical experience of what it feels like to solve complex problems through the mindset of a UX designer. For example, if you're working in a restaurant or a cafe or a bar maybe there's some process something that's going on there where there's something difficult whether customers have to wait a long time at certain parts of the day or something about the way the tables or the restaurant is laid out is making it difficult for food to get delivered. Anything that you can find that's a problem that you know could be solved but you don't quite know how, you can apply a UX process to that by analyzing what's going on, interviewing the people working there doing some research, making some tests and prototypes and then crafting a solution and actually testing to see if it works. You can apply any UX process to any situation then you'll have a really tangible practical experience that you can draw from and even showcase in a portfolio. Another really common question from new UX designers is how do I get that first job when I don't have any real paid work experience to show? This is a really big question and it's got to actually really easy answer. While you're in the position of looking for your first role you can do a small personal project. If you know someone in your friendship or family network that has a small business you could do some work for free. Make sure you set some boundaries so you're not working for months for free but offer to do a little bit of work for them. Maybe they need a new website for example. You could offer to do that design for them. You can interview them, do some sketches, make some mock-ups, prototype some ideas, test them with real people to get feedback and then actually make a real design and then you've got a real showcase of something that you can also put in your portfolio. Now that we've mentioned the word portfolio let's talk about that. In most cases you will need to have one but the most important thing to remember here is that it doesn't need to be as huge an effort as you think. I hear a lot of people spending months working on a really flashy slick online portfolio website. The most important thing to have in your portfolio is your thought process, the way you think, the way you work, how you solve problems. Tell a story about who you are as a designer. I've got some great examples to show you here and also how you can actually get inspiration from other portfolios. The best place to look is not by just googling and searching but actually go to somewhere like Twitter and then search for great UX portfolios. Twitter is a great platform for designers to communicate and that's where all the great design stuff is. If you search in Google you might come up with a lot of junk but Twitter is the place to find real stuff. Here are some examples that I found earlier. There's three portfolios I want to show you really quickly and this is all from searching through Twitter. This one is really clear and easy to read. You can see instantly the work that she's done and while she's actually designed some apps here and she's got some nice moving images of what she's done, the really key part of this is that she's got a very clear simple story of what the challenge was, what the goals were and what the process was that she went through to actually solve those challenges. You can see she's got just sketches that she's done and she's put those up on the site to show how she went from sketched ideas to actual concepts. You don't have to have worked on really big cases before but just show the actual thought process that you went through. The second portfolio here is a super simple site and of course you don't have to build a site from scratch yourself. There's tons of website builders. The thing I want to show you with this one is just how simple it actually is. You can tell it's probably using some kind of template. There's big blocks showing the things they've worked on. For you they might be not these big brand names like this but even if you just have three of those sample projects that you've worked on, they can go very simply on a webpage like this and then when you click into one, it's a clear story of the process that person went through to design this outcome. So there's of course screenshots of sketches and the process they went through but they're clearly talking about their role, what they did and the thought process they went through and actually photos of the steps as they went through them as well. The last one here is also very simple with a picture of the actual person talking about who they are and what they care about and then education and experience. They have their primary skills which is the things that if I was a hiring manager looking at this portfolio, I would be able to look at this and say those are the values and skills that I care about too and this organisation cares about and I can see clearly here they've just outlined the three most important things for them. So this is how simple your online portfolio can be. The key point is don't over complicate it and try and make it super flashy. Make it really clear so a hiring manager can see who you are, how you work and what your processes and methods are. So secret tip number two is make sure that you have three simple things that you offer as a designer that you can put in your portfolio. I'm not talking about stuff that you've done but a simple workshop that you run for problem solving a clear simple process that's the one that you follow in your UX design methods and maybe one other artifact or tool that you believe in and that you can do. So then your portfolio won't be full of just a list of things that you've done but really clear outline of three ways that you work and ways that you think. Okay, so that was all about how to show your skills when you haven't done any paid work yet. The first one is do a personal project especially favours for friends and family so you can show something. Then you need to actually make a portfolio but don't overthink it, keep it simple and about who you are and how you work and then find three core things they could be tools, methods or approaches that you can showcase in that portfolio to really show how you work. Now comes to the challenge of actually finding and applying for jobs. Most jobs aren't actually advertised online and you can find yourself spending hours and days trawling through job sites, applying for everything and then waiting to see what happens. You can do this but you should also be actually hunting down and thinking about the companies that you really want to work for. If you don't know yet what the great companies are and what might be really good fits for you talk to other people on those online communities and forums at those meetups at those conferences and specifically ask especially senior professionals what companies they admire the most and what were the best companies that they've ever worked for. So you can start to make a short list go home, research those companies look them up, look at their careers page look at their culture if they talk about company culture and see if you really would want to work there and then you can actually directly contact those companies and show them that great portfolio that you've made that shows who you really are and tell them about how you work and why you think you'd be a great fit. This can be really intimidating to write an email or a message to a company when it's cold, a cold email where they haven't ever talked to you before but there's great ways, simple ways that you can do this well. If you look online you can simply search how to write a great cold email to get a job I've got an example here on the screen and you'll find tons and tons and tons of examples I've got one up here just to show you an example so this is a blog post or an article that just outlines the fundamental steps the really clear steps of what you should do starting with researching in that company who the best person would be you don't just want to email HR you want to find the person that's actually maybe going to be hiring in the team that you would want to work in so research and find that person that you want to contact take time to come up with a really good subject line, there's all this information in here you can read yourself and then it gives you really the instructions of how to construct and write an email that's going to be meaningful and interesting for the person that's going to do the hiring so really researching this and then spending more time on fewer applications that are going to be a really great fit for you and what you're going to enjoy and want to work there is going to make a huge difference for your career and you'll actually love the first job that you're in are you ready for a secret tip number 3 this tip is all about speaking the right language you may have studied UX design you may have really already researched a lot about the field but what you'll also need to have is business lingo and product and marketing language so that maybe the manager that you're talking to or the teen that you'll be working in or with you can actually really communicate well with them if the marketing person is talking about metrics and sales numbers then you want to be able to not only understand what they're talking about but also be able to speak the same language back and so they can tell that you understand their business you understand how things work that way you'll appear as a much better communicator so to summarize while you could spend a lot of time looking at job lists and applying for everything you see it's better if you find the companies that you actually want to work with and think could fit well with and reach out to them directly with a great cold email and lastly find out and familiarize yourself with that business language and you can use the jobs around you and the people around you to start to do that if you just have your awareness out it'll start to happen organically so hopefully that's taken some of the anxiety out of this job in UX design if you had any thoughts or questions we're happy to answer them just pop them in the comments below if you want to see more videos like this we have weekly videos on YouTube and you can subscribe to our channel we have daily vlogs on Instagram please subscribe at A.J. Smart Design and we have a fortnightly newsletter that you can sign up for there's a link in the bio below and if you're interested in product design and tech news we have a great podcast that you can find on all the podcast services called the Product Breakfast Club thank you for watching, I hope you enjoyed this video and see you again soon so that's my first piece of advice to really try and build your network by so that's my the big thing that a lot of new UX designers don't think about is that this is the first secret secret quick, keep shooting oh my god


My god, we're doing something crazy. I'm Madeline Steven right when we get there. We're just gonna have a peer I'm gonna have a period X and all over. Oh my god, what are we gonna do? Man, you might want to is it okay? I I feel uncomfortable It's not Oh my god, it's so nasty What is good mama's quote and welcome back to our channel this is the first video after Christmas He's finally home.  I hated being away. It was the worst feeling ever seeing him yesterday I was like, oh my god, he's here. Throughout Christmas and everything we get New Year's together though But I was in Florida. She was in you know back here with her friends and we were apart So now we're back and I'm glad though that we pre-filmed for Christmas So you guys would not miss out on a video Our new post schedule is Monday through Friday It's about to be so lit. 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Oh my god We're doing something crazy on Madeline Steven So we are going down and we are going to be seeing Madeline So we're gonna send them for a whole week and super excited. We are currently in Chicago We are in our apartment. We're flying to Texas within a couple hours. We thought it'd be a perfect idea We got to go strong. We got to get them hard, you know, right when we get there We're gonna just kind of appear. I'm gonna have a period X and all over the bed all over their sheets This is bad. I have the period blood that we use for last week with my twin sister If you guys have not seen that make sure go check it out. That wasn't that's what this isn't video is inspired by It's inspired by her pranking me her and her twin sister had a period X at the same time great idea But I was so uncomfortable. So go check that out to this video But little does Madeline Steven know we're in Chicago right now plotting a prank and we're gonna prank them They have no idea. They have no freaking idea So get ready guys because we're gonna be going down there pretty soon Imagine has someone coming over to your house someone from another state even I then just like Getting that all over their sheets at their new house. We've never been at their new house, too This is gonna be crazy I want you guys to comment down below.   All right before we leave we're literally shutting everything down, but look at this. We got everything packed up Even our babies Taco and snap they hated each other when taco first came here But now they're seriously best friends they they were scratching at each other and now they're like sleeping with each other Scary at one point. Well, I said they're both boycats, but anyways, that's not the point. We have snap in here He's going to their house. So he's not gonna be in here for a long time. Just for a little car ride Oh my gosh guys. We have to get all of this stuff in the car now Guys we just made it on the airplane look at this come out there look at our view Kind of sunny Chicago weather is looking pretty good. I Can't wait to get there This is gonna be a two-and-a-half-hour flight and then we're in Dallas and then we can prank Madeline Steven I cannot wait guys. We already have the bed sheets and the in the blood waiting and ready I'm surprised we got on the plane with that. Like what about they stopped us there like what's the bottle? Hey, but we did it and now it's time to prank him. Let's go All right, so we made it to Texas We're starving and Madeline Steven did pick us up But guys it's so funny because they're in line literally over there.  What is up? That was not energetic at all. It's all right guys. It's late all out here But guys look at the lighting in here. We're gonna get some good content. Are you kidding me coming here for the We need a house. Yeah, we're only using your house And then we're different. Oh My gosh Michael All right, what happened to him guys explained really quick five seconds Okay, so he was up there He tried to sneak attack you fell on the ground of the broken steam and now he's right here with a broken Pima he looks like he just fell and stay here, but no he's healing and he's healthy, right? He's doing good. Yeah, you're good, bro. Give me some nukes This is the cutest part look at what they did for our Christmas docking so they have the B&M Well for me Madeline had a little backup. Oh wait what? Oh, that's funny. I didn't even notice that Oh, oh, don't show that. Oh, yeah, we cannot show we can't show we said we said that to comment down below Who's coming here as well? They have our stock is up here and now we're just chilling out I found it crazy because the last time we came here We couldn't even show the place like I was taking stories at my phone and Steve was like hey Don't post those dudes because they literally didn't even move to this house. Yeah. Yeah, I was taking like Instagram stories. Yeah I know looking how beautiful it is guys. Stay tuned for our marble house. It's coming and it's gonna look just like this hopefully Uh-uh we have been friends for so long that I think it's just valid that we don't Now is the time guys Yes super quiet we're about to change sheets, and I actually feel really bad. I show them the better All right, so they actually surprised us with stuff guys. They literally got us a bunch of stuff like we already said thank you You got me in her the same matching like Christmas bottom. They got us candy She made us a cup with our names on it. I got my birthday thing Cheeto guys everything literally they are so nice. We already said thank you, but now it's the time We got to do this we got to pull through with this prank. That's what the title is That's why everyone clicked on this video for this moment right now So what is the plan babe? Okay, so we're gonna change the sheets. We got to do it quick, and we also have this What the sheets? Yeah, yeah, we also have funny story is they were actually in the room Yeah, so like we were going through the whole freaking drawers. We have no idea where and we're putting this below the sheets So we can when we put the blood on the sheets.  I know I know guys now is the time Let's get this set up and let's get this going right now They're gonna freak out guys So this is the new sheet guys and so we have the parchment paper right here you can hear it right here, but Let's go spray it all down You can't be moving a lot too because then they're gonna hear the sheets.  No way like I'm gonna make like a big deal about it, and then I'm hoping they're gonna come in They're gonna get up like shit. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, and I can just like so like up You can slowly get up and then stand next to it Yeah, and look at it and be like because by then they'll probably be in here, but we'll see we'll see either way We're gonna get them over here either way I'm gonna call them over let's spray it right now so we can get this set up because they're gonna be wondering what we're doing It's gonna be changing into our pajamas right now Yes very farther away All right guys, I think that's way more than enough that's perfect. That's perfect. All right All right, so we're gonna dab it up make it look good setting up the camera next scene is gonna be us doing it Oh my god, I'm so excited. We've literally been waiting all day. Oh my it's only all day a whole plane ride All right camera set up. It's right there. It's right there. Let's go guys. We're doing it right now What's wrong what happened?  I'm their bed, right? What are we gonna do? Yeah, we're fine. It's literally stained on their sheets. Oh my god Me too She can help out okay, well you're off the bed, so she could at least see what happened Madeline you might want to She had an accident Go to the bathroom It's We can get new sheets you want me to help change it or I don't want you guys to do it. I could do it. I don't want you guys to do it. I got it. I got it Don't be embarrassed Did it get on like the camera? I think you guys should just I think you guys just slowly lift it up and just yeah, I think you're gonna set my feet dripping. Oh my god. It's so nasty Yeah, I need to show you guys something Oh my hold on hold on where these even are sheets guys Before okay, look at this. How real does that look? I think I don't know like that I think it would be a little more like brown, but I also wasn't thinking about okay But we had you guys going They looked at this on Marvel Squad. Look at that. That's what they saw. They're like, uh, what the heck Yeah, I know we don't want to actually get on the sheets Why you weren't helping us Yeah, I thought that was so funny guys. We literally been playing that that was the whole reason why we came down We're leaving now.  We found a prank you guys Remember when we filmed the Chipotle we like waved at you guys Yeah, we were like low-key. They had no idea that we're about to prank them and Oh, did we get you? Yes? That was a perfect. I don't even care She did a period prank on me the other day and we were like, oh my gosh What about we had a period prank on our best friends like in their own house on their sheets the first day We literally just arrived here what like an hour ago Yeah, no, we're good. Yeah, you don't have to worry about that at all But guys, this is Madeline. This is Steven if you're not familiar with them. They have a YouTube channel It's awesome as well. We literally love coming down here in Texas It's good as well I'm just kidding. No, they're awesome. Yeah Let's get it guys one million twenty-twenty-one That's gonna happen guys. We're probably gonna close out today's video I know it's been a roller coaster like if I'm going on the plane Everywhere And you know we pranked them so we're in the lead right now for the couples prank war I mean, I don't know if you guys are gonna ever try to come back, but if you do we're gonna be ready to say Yeah, right booby trap everything yeah, I want to come out here because the lighting is way better. Oh my gosh Look at this lightning babe, but we're probably gonna end the video right here. Thank you guys so much for watching I hope you guys enjoyed today's video make sure you guys give me a big thumbs up if you guys haven't all right This is insane. We're gonna have so many more videos planned for all this whole get ready super excited Oh, we use We use fake spray blood So you could actually bring that on the plane or was it yeah, we did Now we fully brought on the plane no issues at all they didn't But anyways almost what we'll see you guys next video, but until then peace out you guys


You two team keep it clean. What's going on? I seen Graven here with another video with another episode of NFL questions from subscribers I think just like the fourth the fifth one we did this morning But anyway, this question came from a guy Devon he hit me up on snapchat and he said in graven Do you think the Ravens regret not keeping Timmy Jernigan? Defensive tackle who was a nice player, but at times he did disappear From the team. I mean not from the team but from from the games Sometimes you didn't even know he was playing But anyway Good question. Good question. Good question. But before we get into that question before you answer it And it's gonna be a quick one. Let me introduce myself for me. I mean Graven vids This is my YouTube channel engraving vids and I'm a Ravens fan But even though I'm a Ravens fan on this YouTube channel, we just talk football So if you're Ravens fan, if you just love any football team, make sure you subscribe turn your notifications on and leave a like on a Video like my guy Ryan Maddler said it's completely free. So again, this question was from Devon on snapchat and he said Do you think the Ravens regret not keeping Timmy Jernigan who just got a big contract in Philly? So congrats to Timmy Jernigan answer to this question. No No, I don't think they regret it simply for the fact that like I said, he did disappear in a lot of games especially down the stretch at the end of Last year. He's a good when he's a good player. He's a good player. He can make some plays happen He can disrupt the backfield. He can stop the run. He can do it all as a defensive tackle. He's a great player But when he disappears, he disappears for long stretches and long periods of time and doesn't get it back going fast enough Well, at least that's how he was on the Ravens on the Eagles. I'm not sure how he's doing up Well, I guess he's doing pretty good if they just gave him a new deal in the middle of the season So he must be doing something right over there. So I'm happy for him I'm glad for him, but I don't think the Ravens regret not keeping him Simply for the fact that that is one thing and one position where the Ravens usually excel at that is finding talent on the defensive line Whether through the draft whether through undrafted free agents They they are always good at finding talent on a defensive line And that's one place where they don't usually they don't go crazy with a free agents along defensive line That's a place where they usually can draft and develop guys or like I said Even if it's undrafted free agents, you look at Lody Nada, you look at Brandon Williams You look at undrafted guys like Michael Pierce who's been killing it man He's been killing for the past two years.  He is the stuff But when he disappears he disappears, but my point is the Ravens know how to do this They know how to draft and develop guys at defensive line They know how to do that and they homegrown guys.  I think what might have been Trevor Price I can't think of anybody besides that who they were all from now I was about to say the Elvis Dumanville, but he ain't defensive line. He's just outside linebacked So past Russia, but that's it. They don't they don't do that because they know how to do it So do they miss Timmy Jernigan? No, they don't cuz the D line been pretty good I mean the run defense as a whole hasn't been great. They were at the beginning of the season But then they just fell off But um, I don't think they miss no so they answer the question my answer would be no So I appreciate the question Devin. Thank you. I appreciate y'all


About 2 weeks ago, I read a book about the history of my continent, Africa. I read about powerful kingdoms and great kings. I read about imperialists and conquerors. I read about the slave trade and colonialism. I concluded that almost all human history has been about a strong desire to defeat and conquer. We as humans want to rule others. Sometimes this desire hides in our ambitions. Occasionally, through unreasonable wars and oppression, sometimes we just do it even in public. Humans and desires are inseparable. But there are some desires society don't encourage and one of those is the desire to be rich. In most of our societies today, riches is closely associated with frauds, lies, deception and so on.  In this video, I'm going to be sharing with you how to defeat poverty and I don't really mean how to become a billionaire. If you're an entrepreneur or an ambitious person, we specially invite you to join our motivational channel which was designed to give you daily inspirations so that you will have the strength to pursue and achieve your most important dreams. We call this channel Hunt TV and you can join in the description box below. What riches mean to me? Sometimes last year I discovered that some people who know me were going to Google to search for my net worth. I never expected that so I became surprised. But why do people care about my net worth? Well, we're living in a world where most people think Bill Gates is richer than Seth Godin, which isn't true. Yes, Bill Gates has tens of billions and Seth Godin only has a few million but in the real sense of what money is needed for, 50 billion isn't different from 3 million. Here is what I mean. Anyone who can afford what to eat, what to drive and where to sleep with absolute comfort is rich and you don't need a billion dollars to do that. While I don't think it's a sin to become a billionaire, it's not my goal. Instead, the freedom to leave the way I want, to afford anything I need, is my goal. Now that you understood what I mean, whatever I talk about being rich, let's get into how to defeat poverty, which to me is the inability to afford your freedom. 1. Desire Desire, desire. Most all of us have read the book Think and Grow Rich, but it's easy to forget great lessons in such books. To me, the most important lesson in think and grow rich is that every individual that ever became rich had a desire, a strong desire to be rich. I love to use the word desperate because I think it conveys the message better than the word desire. Do you wish to defeat poverty? Then you must have a strong desire to be rich. You need to be desperate.  In the year 2008, I let school without any degree or certificate and decided never to sit down in a school classroom again in my life. I had almost no money, but I was willing to sacrifice a decade of my life if need be. I believed that if I could figure out how to turn a dollar to two and two dollars to five and continuing doing that, I could eventually turn one dollar to a hundred thousand dollars and then a million dollars, even though it might take years. With this mindset, I was not afraid of making mistakes. I was not afraid of failing multiple times and I wasn't afraid of ridicules and rejections from fellow humans. For eight long years of struggling, I got all of the pains I mentioned above. I made several mistakes, lost businesses, got ridiculed and rejected and remained broke for years. But in 2016, I had my first breakthrough and things changed for me very fast from then. Now let me ask you, what do you think is responsible for some people's ability to endure pains? What do you think is responsible for some people's commitment even in the face of death? Why do you think Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to conquer the world? Why do you think Nelson Mandela refused to give in to the enemy even after twenty years of imprisonment? Why do you think people dare difficult things even though they could lose their lives trying? Desire, desire, strong desire, which I love to call desperation, I mean holy desperation. If you want to defeat poverty, you must have a holy desperation. By holy desperation I mean you have to be willing to make sacrifices, do difficult things and forget whatever other people think about you.  Holy desperation doesn't allow you to hurt other people for your own good or vested interest. Instead, what holy desperation means is that you're willing to put your life on the line, dare your dreams and confront your fears. 2. Desperation and fear I know a few intelligent poor people. There are millions of smart individuals all over the world who can't afford a good life for themselves but why is this so? Why are smart people broke? Fear, fear, fear. Many people have dreams that can help humanity and make them rich but such dreams often come with some risks. Many people know they can do better with their lives than what they are doing now but the fear of the unknown keeps them from leaving out their calling. So many people have what they call great ideas but never execute them because of fear. Fear is by far the greatest enemy of human progress but there's a piece of good news and that is a drug that cures fear. That drug is desperation. I mean holy desperation. When your desire for success is greater than your fear, you'll dare your dreams no matter what. When your desire for financial freedom is greater than your fear of failure, when the spirit of holy desperation possesses you, you'll fear not succeeding than you fear failure. This is what I mean. Most people focus their lives on what might go wrong if they try something new or different. Try focus my life on what will happen if I don't try something new or different. These are two different ways of looking at life. Take for example, if you have a well-paying job but you're not happy because something else is your dream, you have two choices. You can either focus on all that might happen if you leave your job to follow your dream or focus on what will happen in the next 30 years when you look back at your life and have lots of regrets. Most people like to focus on what will happen if they fail. Don't focus on what is likely to happen if you make mistakes or fail. Instead, focus on what will eventually happen in the future if you don't dare your dream now. A personal example of this is when I was starting out in the business world. Almost everything was against me and the best I could have done with my life is to seek a good job. Well having a good job isn't a bad thing but with what I know about myself, I will be the most miserable human even with the highest paying job in the world. I love building stuff. I love trying out things. I love doing things my way and a job will never allow me to leave that way so instead of focusing on what might happen if I fail in business, I focused on what will happen if I didn't follow my dream. Larry Ellison said, great achievers are driven not so much by the pursuit of success but by the fear of failure. In other words, you should actually fear what life would look like if you don't achieve your dream. So much that you don't fear the mistakes or temporary failures you might have now. Poverty is powerful. Just like Satan, it's evil. And just like every powerful obstacle, you can't defeat poverty by merely thinking about crushing it. You have to be positively ruthless. You need to have a strong desire for freedom and wealth. 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What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. We've been 22, 23 at Panini Prison Basketball Hobby. Four box break number 33, random team style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find those on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat. Good luck, guys. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I don't blame you, illegal. And especially if you do standard envelope. I mean, I buy my bubble mailers like 500 at a time. So I just put all of them in bubble mailers because it only costs me like under $0.05 per bubble mailer if you buy them in super, super bulk. So just to be safe most of the times, I'll just bubble mail them. Ty's Jones, red wave. Jay Nivey, luck of lottery. Hyper, Musa Diavata. Shade on Sharp Rookie. And Chet Rookie. So Sharp and Chet together, I thought that. Come on, cabs. Go Cleveland. Drew Ubix. Blue Ice to 125. Trey. Silver, Kelly Ubre. Busman, Jane, and Josh Bernat. No, not with PWE. I usually just do it with, I always do every, I do that with bubble mailer. That's Austin Rivers, red to 299. Ron Harper Jr., nice one there for the Raptor, sensational signatures, Rookie Otto. Yeah, I don't think I ever do PWE. It's too much risk. Commodore Diallo. Isaiah Mobley. What, shipping? Yeah. I do it all the time. Do you do stamps or do you do like, buy tracking for it? I just do it every UAE with those. Oh, gotcha. Pete Maribitch, red power to 75. Prismatic, that's very silver. Chris Paul, Jay Griffin. I love the people that say that they're not responsible for lost or damaged mail. You are, so are. Grayson Allen to 149 for the Bucks. Zion Blames, Chris Middleton. I usually just buy them on eBay. Like you could just, just type in bubble mailers, like the four by sixes. And usually it'll come up and it'll be like, if it's like a wholesaler, you could select your quantity and the more you buy, the cheaper it is per. So I always buy the biggest deal. Georges Nien. Pulsar, Paolo. There we go, congrats. Magic. Nice one there. Wesley, Dominique Wilkins. The PWE is up to $20 for the seller. Yeah, that's not a bad idea. That's what it probably should be. Silver, Prismatic, Donovan Mitchell. Silver, Dyson Daniels rookie. Walker, Kessler rookie. And Paolo rookie. Yeah, I mean, if I had something over 20 bucks, I'd do a bubble mail here. Yeah, no, for sure, for sure. I mean, you kind of have to. Right. Silver, Loco, Lottery, Jeremy Solan. Shade on Sharp, Silver Hakeem. Pulsar, T-Man, Terence Mann. Clips, the Sol, Coloco, Christian Brown. Silver Auto coming up here. Blue to 199, it's gonna be a Trey, Murphy. For the Pelicans, nice one there. We've got Jake L'Arabia. Silver Auto for the Grizzlies. Gallantary, Sohanra. Red Wave, Jordan Pool party. Okay guys, let me drop you the link to Eminence now as the only group break remaining with spots tonight. Eminence, random hit style. Obviously you're chasing the rookies from last year's. Well, big vets, everything's game used. There's gold and platinum and all that kind of stuff, cut autos in there. It's kind of wild. Had some really good cases of Eminence, too. Some of these cheap cards listed. That's honestly not a bad idea. Blue Demacus Sabonis, 2199. We've got Auto E.J. Liddell for the Pelicans. E.J. Liddell, Bones Island hyper. Diabatte and Ben Walls. Red Wave, Montage and Odley. Bites and Daniels. Gary Payton, The Mitten, and Brandon Ingram, the active act hyper is interesting. Score here, it's essentially over. 299, Denny Avdia. Yeah, probably. The Wizards, Silver Onyaka Akamwu. Jalen Williams, Jay Will. Bronson's gonna take that shot for sure. Blue Ice, Kevin Porter Jr., 2125. Silver Nenius Keita. Terry Eason. Bass, Kevin Love. For the Cavs, 2199. Sohan Rookie, Wendell Moore Rookie. That Quentin Grimes, Miss. Red Wave, 1140. Immaculate, basketball, or football? No, we have not, David. Walker Kessler, that's not gonna be till the end of the night. Around like 1140 Eastern time. Malki Brannum. Yeah, we got a while to go for that. We're still in basketball. We're going into football probably next. Prismatic, Cade Cunningham. Hallow Bankero, Silver, Jabari Walker. Keegan Murray, Rookie. Danny Green, and David Roddy. Silver Luck of the Lottery, Keegan Murray. Silver McGrady. Handler, Peyton Watson. Just scroll all the way down. It'll be at the end. Scroll all the way to the bottom of tonight. There's Jalen Smith, Hyper. Desmond Dain, John Davis. Red Magic Johnson, 2199. Oseman Zhang, nine of 10. Gold auto for the Thunder. There we go, okay, C. It's gonna be, Sean M with that one. Congrats, Sean. Let's do it, Sean. There you go, buddy. Like that. Jerry Peyton. JB Baldwin, Andrew Barker. Silverage Moemer, Paul Pierce. Eric Gordon, Red Wave. Jalen Williams, J-Doug. Brandon Clark. Red Wave, LeBron. Nice one there. Ja, Silver Anthony Simons. Like Wesley and Bace. Jalen Williams, Red Wave, Brandon Anger. OG Anubi. B-Clark. Diabata, T.J. Warren. Fred, Aaron Nessmith, 2199. Auto, Roy Hibbert. There we go, congrats, Pacers. Love it, dude. Pulsar, Bryce McGatins. Nigeliovic, shh. And Devon Pickerman. Oh, Mojo, come on, baby. We've got Mojo, Aaron Gordon. 225 for the Nuggets. Three of 25, AG. Nice one there. Denver, Keegan Murray. Silver De'Aaron Fox. Scott Pippins, Steve Nash. I'm never forgetting, like, 2018 or something. Campaign, it's a 125. Like, 2018 or something. I bought Will Barton and a random player-style case break of Prism. And I was just like, oh, that's probably just the wrong one. It was like 99 cents on eBay or something. Yeah, Max Holloway, I think it's fighting. And I hit a Mojo, it's a 25, actually. So 125 is Contavia, it's called Will Pope. 199, excuse me, I still have it. There's Daniel Tice-Pulsar. Trace McGrady, Jibari Walker. D-Wave, Kings Warriors, not nice. Red Wave, Lori Markin. Oh, God. Bryce McGowins, I knew that was coming. Jalen Williams and Sohan on the back. Oh, God. What up, Mike? Silver Shrek. Silver Dallantari, rookie, nice. Silver Locolari, Jaden Ivey. Silver Gary Payton. Isaiah Mobley, Dyson McDaniels. There's Purple Ice, Dwight Powell. Nice one there too, 149 for the Mavs. Otto Vince Carter, nice one there. Congrats Raptors, taking that one up. There we go, it's more like it, Mike. DC, Davion Mitchell. I gotta watch more Yankee games, dude. Pepper, O.J. Nuttabee. Kim Elijah, A.J. Griffin, and Triple J. Here in Jackson, Junior. And guys, just four to go in minutes. Four to go, only group break with spots tonight. Four to go. Four to go. Last box, everybody. Yeah, yeah, I kind of agree. Honestly, a win for me is if we don't get swept. There's no chance they win that series, but I like Berks, Red Wave. I want to see him take one game. Hyper Carmelone, Arabia.  He's like, thank you for beating the heat. I didn't want to have to play them in the first round.   Purple Dwight Powell to 99. Johnny Diggs, Silver Miles Turner. Clark Diabatte, Bubble Goat, T.J. Warren. Silver Jalen Brown for his medic. Yeah, I think so too. Silver Trevor Keels, I think they'll get a win. Hopefully in Atlanta too. Very nice. Red is Damian Muller to 299. Joel Embiid. Yeah, I think so too. Jalen Suggs, unfortunately, I think so as well. Terry Eason. I don't know if that's the right move, to be honest. I don't know. I don't think that's the right move. Red, Jane and Ivy to 299. Nice one there, pistons. Walker Kessler, Rookie Otto for the Jazz. Congrats, Utah. Here you go, Harper. Congrats, buddy. Robert Williams, Jane and Ivy, Rookie. David Robinson. Silver, Nikolay Yokic. Yeah, I know it was. It looked like it. I will give the next stat. Malachi Brannum. Not thrilled with the outcome, obviously, but Red Wave, Tim Hardaway Jr. Silver, Obi-Toppin. Hulsar, Jalen Suggs. Keegan Murray, Rookie. Yeah, they just didn't even look great. They were playing offensively the entire time. They were playing to not lose. They weren't playing to win, and they still lost. There you go. Bloop, RJ Hampton. The Magic to 199. We've got Otto Braddarty. Nice one there for the Cavs. Sadiq Beck. Red Wave, Josh Minot. CJ McCallum. Jalen Williams, J-Dubb. And last pack, everybody. So it's 20.26, I think. 25. Austin Reeves to 125. 2025, Jack. Silver, Hiro, and base. Do a quick recap here, everybody. Of our, of our, our autos. Braddarty, Vince Carter, Roy Hibbert, E.J. Liddell, Jake Laravia, Ron Harper, and a Walker Kessler, Rookie Otto, and a Palo Bancara, Hulsar, Rookie, and a gold, Osvain Zhang. Nine of 10, Rookie Otto for the Thunder. I'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up, we've got number 34.


Remember the anim in Fuji-DV called Parappa the Rapper, right? It's an anim based on the Pirappa series. However, there was one time, Fuji-DV accidentally aired an episode that was never supposed to be aired in DVD. This episode alone scared the kids for life who watched this episode. Parents flooded production IG with complaints that this episode scared their kids to death with all the content in it. Very few people remember it, and it never got to go on YouTube due to copyright reasons. If you managed to capture this episode when it aired, consider yourself very lucky. But whatever you do, don't post it on YouTube or your account will be suspended due to a copyright claim from Fuji-DV, Production IG and Sony Computer Entertainment. Last night, I was playing Sonic R in my Sega Saturn in my room. I like how you foot-trace in the game, then I got bored and went on my computer. I found a file called Pirappa Anim Original on air at episode dot zip on Foreshared. As you would expect, I was interested. I downloaded it in Foreshared. There were two files, a .txt file called Readme. I opened it. This is an unreleased episode from Pirappa the Rapper, dated September 30, 2001. This originally planned to end the series. Watch at your own risk. I closed the .txt file, and there was a movie file that went by the name of Pirappa-Pyro-Perunim-Unired-Point-Hally. I then double clicked the movie file, as Windows Media Player popped up. At first, there was a minute off pure static. Then it cut to the intro, but something was wrong about it. The animation looked very rough, like it wasn't finished yet. The audio was also pitched down to octaves and laws in G major. So after the intro, of course, the name of the episode appeared.  As you would expect, I was very shocked. But I thought at first that this was maybe just a morbid joke, seeing how this episode looked somewhat unfinished. It skipped the pre-title card thing. I snagged a screenshot of it, imported it to Paint.net and saved it to my computer. I still have the file, called it image40.bnt. So I finally got to see the episode. It starts out with Pirappa playing a video game or something. Then Katie Cat comes in and says... Pirappa? Then Pirappa says... My life breaks out of everyone. Katie Cat then says... Okay. And walks out of Pirappa's room. She wants hang out with all of Fox. Pirappa went back to playing that video game. But Katie Cat came here to make funny sounds. Then, Pirappa was very angry to get out now. But Katie Cat lost feeling a little worried. Act 1 ended with the shot of Katie Cat. When Act 2 started, Pirappa was sitting on his bed with a sinister look on his face. It goes on for 2 minutes until it fades to black. Act 3 opened with Pirappa laughing demonically while he was watching Friday the 13th.  His mouth is completely done. I snagged another screen shot at it, imported it to Paint.net and saved it to my computer. I still have the file, called it Pirappa.bnt. Trust me, the picture scares the f**k out of me. The Sonic Dot Egg's laughing is heard in the background. The screen switches to a man's dead body in the ground laying. Pirappa hated Katie Cat. Act 3 ended with a clip of Jason Moore he's killing somebody which has much a-tay. When Act 4 started, Pirappa is trying to kill Katie Cat with his shotgun and she died instantly. The final image was Pirappa killing himself and lays in the bed, but all drawn in hyper-realistic. Then the lost episode ends with a black screen in text saying, Pirappa killed himself in Pirappa Town. The series is over good-bye. Then the credits roll, for some reason only listing, screenplay, Hiroki Sakurai. I deleted the add-on TXT files. I will never experience something like that again. I had nightmares about this episode, sometimes I dreamed about the creepy Pirappa picture. Sometimes I saw it at night, when I tried to sleep, just out of the corner of my eye. It's always brief, but I always felt it watching me. However in 2014, I got to the page where I downloaded the episode, but it was gone. So, I was happy. This is a warning to anyone, downloading something odd from 4-chaired laws and a good thing to do. Sometimes you have to expect what you didn't expect.


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