Hi, my name is Jacob Moore. I'm the associate director at the Temple Hohen Buell Center for the study of American architecture at GSAP and Wanted to give you just a quick orientation here for open house To the the Buell Center as we're known and a little bit of the work that we do. I wish we could show you the center in person but The digital realm gives us some opportunities we might not otherwise have so Really quickly. So I'm the associate director. Reinhold Martin is the director who you might encounter in your other sort of tours for open house And Jordan Steingart is the program manager so the three of us are The sort of core of the center and then I'll speak a little bit later, but we always have team of students working at the center as well graduate research assistants who are really essential to the work that we do and Yeah, I want to explain a little bit about some of that. So I'm going to show you my screen and True you around a little bit. So this is our main website That you can see Buell Center dot colombia dot edu Gives us a very zoomed back sense of some of the kinds of things we do is we do different we do conferences. We do Issue prizes we have publications Etc. But what I want to focus on is that we do the bulk of our work our long-term research projects That lasts, you know multiple years to interact with the curriculum and various programs at the architecture school But also we're kind of a bridge between the school and the rest of the university between the university of the profession Sort of a lot of inside-outside activity I should say we're an independently endowed center, which means we sort of operate with a little bit of autonomy Which is important for the kinds of projects that we do that are entirely, you know pegged to Let's say one semester or one program But get to sort of move in and out. So The project we've been working on for A few years now Is this power here of this project here? You can see it's called power Infrastructure in America and it has a dedicated website there power dot bill center dot colombia dot edu That I encourage you all to check out That is about probably speaking infrastructure. You can see here connecting infrastructure politics and life um, and we are There's a lot of moving parts of this project. I thought I would just show you a few One is um You can see the sort of different Formats here. Uh, so we do events. Um, so I thought one recent event that we organized Was in in zoom land. We did a project. It's a workshop Under the umbrella of green reconstruction um about how curricula of the built environment professional schools in the built environment um Might need to change, uh In under current circumstances. Um, so we brought together, you know over 30 Teachers and students, but I mean teachers were leading the workshop, but then Um students joined to talk about The current curricular systems all from all across the country these professors joined To think about how things like climate things like racial justice Are taught should be taught. There was some historical context different themes you can see here were addressed And this relates to sort of in pre pandemic times we would do events like this in person We run conferences, etc. So, um, uh, anyway just to give you a sense of, uh, the kind of Events that We've recently been doing another one Is this, uh Event we pulled together Last year, uh, so a lot of what we do is um In collaboration with Other institutions partners Colleagues from inside and outside the university And this event Called the green new deal public assembly. We did at the queen's museum here in new york. It's out in queens. Um last november, uh, obviously related to the theme of the green new deal, which, uh We have done quite a few projects around And this event brought together over 200, um Uh artists activists community members, um elected officials, uh So the queen's museum is in alzendria casio-cortez's Congressional district and she was one of the co-authors of the green new deal So, uh, we had she sent a video in we had a representative from her office speaking about the green new deal Um, anyway, the point of the event you can see here some of the Material was to talk about, uh, what a green new deal Could mean in the built environment for the built environment and how something like a green new deal might be Collectively democratically Designed, uh, so we had all sorts of people gathering to speak about that Under the rubric of public assembly thinking carefully about Not just product but process For something like a green new deal um, so that was uh A big production for us last year that I think was really well received. We're really excited to keep that conversation going um, uh Not just with events but also with, um Uh editorial projects or you know to keep the conversation around this connected with students with professionals um, uh of, uh You know in different spheres. So I wanted to link that to um Some of the other parts of this power project, which is all these essays that we have published And we're always bringing in new new ones. And so one of these related to the green new deal Was by the science fiction author that you might have heard of and if you haven't I definitely recommend his work Um kim stanley robinson. He wrote an essay for the power site about the the basically kind of reviewing the HR 109 the house resolution that laid out the sort of terms of the green new deal Which if you're not familiar is basically a sort of really broad rubric put forward by certain members of congress and the senate Last year about the sort of scope and Way in which climate change and climate justice um ought to be addressed in the united states and it's been subject to really intense debate and so The buell center among other things through this power project. We're trying to sort of bring critical attention to that conversation From within the discipline and the profession and uh to make sure that we're participating in that in that very public and Intense debate that will have a lot of uh already is having great impact on the On the bills environment. So this is one essay that I would encourage you to read where this You know Author science fiction is speaking about the green new deal. So thinking about these things in cultural terms is something that we also um take very seriously at the buell center thinking about architecture as a as a contributor to Culture thinking about things from the perspective the humanities not just from let's say the engineering side or the science side or the technical side but from the The side of history and theory and culture And so I also wanted to mention so in the realm of essays and the sort of collaborative spirit of a lot of our work we do a lot of editorial work with Other magazines publications and we have a few different open collaborations running right now One is a project with A magazine two magazines in the south one called scallow ag the other one Called southerly southeast united states The initiative is called power lines, but we're basically just publishing essays together We've been doing it for over the last year and a half and this is the most recent Essay published as part of that series about international connections around energy and infrastructure and environment and justice and race And daniel purr foyer is the author and she's collaborated with us on a few other projects whose work. I really encourage you to check out um, so Anyway, I don't want to go into too much detail about the essay, but it's just another Facet let's say of the project and the kinds of conversations that we try to support At the center And so the power lines initiative as I mentioned is one of several sort of collaborative Things we have going with Within the power project, let's say And I wanted to mention that you can see a few others here. This is a prize. We're running with the association of collegiate schools of Architecture There's anyway too many to name But I wanted to maybe End with another one an initiative here that is actually mostly internal to the center Part of the power project that we're calling the a&e system public works in private interest in architectural and engineering services 2000 to 2020 it should be coming out By For the end of october so by the time you're seeing this It might even be out. We're going to release it as a pdf, but also On instagram you can see the the handle here Basically the it's a publication that's trying to think critically about How architecture is Made today And where sort of power lies in our field and architecture broadly construed to include large infrastructure projects like the ones that are increasingly happening In response to to climate change and and other sort of Looking like the crises that we're facing are calling for large-scale responses In the built environment and and so this project is trying to situate How how our fields allied fields of planning architecture engineering our sort of position to respond and where the pedagogical Agendas are and are not Thinking about some of those questions So Anyway, again, there's much more to say and it'll be out soon so you can see but I wanted to come back here because This is one of the parts of the project for which the involvement of the graduate research research assistants at the center has has been so key and we are a tiny little center, but So we couldn't do so many of the things we do without the really intense and leading involvement of students from all across the program So here's just some of the names that have been involved of students at the last like two and a half three years Who've been involved with this particular project? And I can't credit them enough. I mean really it's uh, it's been a Wonderful to work with all of these students and just more generally to be involved in conversations with students from GSAP over the last I've been at the center for seven years and it's um uh really privileged to to develop these really co-develop these projects with students Who are coming from all over the place with different, you know backgrounds and interests and priorities perspectives so to think about Questions like some of the ones here at the top of this Page to really form those questions together and then begin to try and enter them together It's a it's a real like I said a privilege and it's exciting and it's a challenging time to be in our field, but I think also an exciting one for some of the same reasons so Anyway, that's like a really brief Tour of the power project As a way of learning a little bit more about the Beale Center I'm gonna stop my my share here Uh, but we are we do other things that are outside of the power project And are involved in the life of GSAP and all sorts of different ways So I encourage you to send us an email fuelcenter at colombia.edu My name is jaco morgan. You can write to me directly Or to jordan or to rinehold, but we are um Really looking forward to the year that's to come and to continuing to sort of Explore where all these things are going to take us specifically but also the school it's a it's a There's a lot that's happening this year in this country in the world and The built environment plays a big part in that so Anyway, we look forward to hopefully connecting with some of you individually if you if you choose to come and And in the meantime are happy to answer any questions that you that you have So thanks for sticking me out if you've stuck it out this long


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So as we grow as a research university, no event is more important or more emblematic than this student research conference. You're seeing growing numbers of students not only engaged in research but eager to present the results of their research and their discovery in this forum. And we're seeing today more than 300 of those presentations. We looked at executive function which is inhibitory control, decision-making, and planning and trying to relate that to certain things like physical activity behavior and diet. So essentially we're just trying to see whether or not you can predict how someone participates in those things based on their scoring essentially with executive function tasks. I worked with Connie Tompkins up in rehab movement science and she's been absolutely fantastic. It's nice to have that experience in the classroom, textbook experience in the classroom and then come out and have hands-on research experience. It's really helped me get into grad school. Are you a walker or a biker at all? Huge biker. Interesting. Okay. We're trying to look at what factors affect people choosing to either walk or bicycle or not walk or bicycle in Vermont. And we're looking from a very broad perspective across the whole state, typically these studies focus on cities only. We're looking across the whole state and how some of those built environment aspects affect who chooses to walk or bike or not. Just being able to formulate the process and really go through that process has been an amazing experience. I think it teaches you so much about how to answer a question. How to first formulate the question, you know, take those thoughts that you're having and put it into a question and go out and answer that question. So we're studying mesothelioma and trying to figure out how asbestos causes mesothelioma. It's been shown that there's an inflammatory profile and asbestos has been shown to cause the activation of a molecular scaffold that leads to production of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Knowing that mesothelioma is difficult to treat and diagnose, it's very resistant to the current treatments out there. So we're trying to help improve the situation in any small way.


In this video we will discuss Z scores. So the motivation behind Z scores is imagine you're in a class with an instructor and you take a test and you get like a 90% but you have a friend who's in a different or the same class with a different instructor and then they get a 95% well who technically did better. Can you instantly say the person that made the 95% did better? Not necessarily. You both took different exams that were made by different instructors even if they were on the same topic. Maybe the one professor gave a more difficult exam. It had a tougher, tougher set of questions on it. So that's where Z scores come in handy. It allows us to kind of standardize our test scores to make accurate comparisons or fair comparisons between pieces of data or subjects across different groups. So Z score or standardized value is the number of standard deviations a given value is above or below the mean. So if you have a Z score of two it means your data value that you were working with is two standard deviations above the mean. So what the formula is to calculate the sample Z score is you take your data value and you subtract the mean and you divide by the standard deviation. For a sample the means X bar are the standard deviations S. For a population the mean is mu and the standard deviation sigma. So that's Greek letters mu and sigma. So those are the formulas. Data value minus mean divided by standard deviation will typically want to round your Z scores to two decimal places or whatever they tell you to do on your practice assignment or practice exercises. So first off the cool thing about Z scores is the vast majority of sample values lie within two standard deviations of the mean. So that means Z scores that are between negative two and two are considered to be called usual. So usual values are two standard deviations of the mean or within two standard deviations of the mean. So if you ever want to find the minimum usual value for a data set you take the mean and you subtract two times the standard deviation. You take the mean and you subtract the standard deviation twice. That will tell you your minimum usual value. To find your maximum usual value you will take your mean and then you will add two times the standard deviation. You will take the mean and you will add the standard deviation twice. That's how you find what is known as the minimum and maximum usual values. So in terms of Z scores, remember anything but within two standard deviations of the mean is considered usual. In terms of Z scores which tell you how many standard deviations of data value is above or below the mean, any Z score between negative two and positive two, so any data value between two standard deviations below the mean or above two standard deviations above the mean is called usual or ordinary. Anything outside of that is called unusual. It's called unusual. Whenever a value is less than the mean then it will have a negative Z score. So if I give you a data value and it's less than the mean you better get a negative calculation when you find it's Z score. We'll practice that in just a minute. So ordinary values have Z scores that are between negative two and two. So again this is just a mathematical representation of our picture or diagram at the top. And unusual values are less than negative two or have Z scores that are more than two. So you're looking at more than two standard deviations above or below the mean. So there's this class. And this class took a history exam. And the class average was 78 with the standard deviation of 4. One student made a Z score of negative two on the exam. What was the student's actual exam score? So for this question here we need to think about our Z score formula. Data value minus mean divided by standard deviation. So Z equals, so we have our data value which is typically X minus your mean. So for example it's X bar for a population it's mu, we're about to replace it for a number so we really don't care which degree notation to use. And we're going to divide by the standard deviation. So what this means is we go through the question. We're trying to figure out what was the student's actual exam score. We're trying to figure out what was that data value. So my Z score in this case was negative two. My data value was, we don't know, call it X. The mean was 78 and the standard deviation was 4. So it's up to us to do a little bit of algebra here to solve this. We're too much because literally it says basic as saying multiply both sides by 4. Both sides of the equation get multiplied by 4. So you're left with X minus 78 and to find the data value we'll just add 78 to both sides. What was the student's actual exam score? Well negative 8 plus 78 is just 70 and that is our data value. The student score was actually a 70 in this case. So occasionally if you have a Z score you will be able to convert it back to a data value if they ask you to do so. Let's talk a little about Jack, shall we? Well Jack scored an 83 on the exam. The class average was 78 with a standard deviation of 4. Find the Z score for Jack's exam grade. Alright so I'm looking for my Z score for Jack. So Z score equals, remember, data value minus mean over standard deviation. I will write it out one more time. Data value, subtract the mean, divided by the standard deviation, we'll round to about two decimal places I suppose. So we have data value of 83 minus a mean of 78, that's the class average, and the standard deviation of 4, divided by 4. So what you end up getting is 5 divided by 4, you get a Z score of 1.25. Remember what the Z score tells you, it tells you how many standard deviations above or below the mean a data value is. So I will say Jack scored 1.25 standard deviations above the mean. That's what that means, that's how you interpret a Z score. So that's good, he was above the class average clearly by 1.25 standard deviations. Usual exam scores, or ordinary depends on what word you like better, are Z scores between negative 2 and 2. Is Jack's score usual or unusual? Well, is 1.25 within negative 2 and 2, is it between those two numbers? I will say since 1.25 is between negative 2 and 2, Jack's score is usual. Now the poor student that scored like 4 standard deviations below the mean, who had a Z score of negative 4, now that's unusual there. That's where you don't want to be when you take a test. So Jack's score is usual because 1.25 is between negative 2 and 2, it's within 2 standard deviations of the mean. So the scenario I portrayed to you at the beginning of the video, let's talk about it. You have 2 students who take different math classes, had exams on the same day, on the same stuff. Jack's score was 83 while Jill's score was 79, which student did relatively better given the class data shown. So if you look, you see Jack's score to 83, Jill's score to 79, you're like well Jack did better. Not necessarily, maybe Jill's teacher gave a really easy test and pretty much everybody got hundreds, and Jack's teacher gave a really tough test. So we look at the Z score, when we talk about who did relatively better, let's look at the Z score. So I know Jack's Z score from the previous example, Jack actually had a Z score of 1.25, and then we need to do some investigation here with Jill. Jill's Z score, we don't know it yet, so we need to calculate it. So Z equals data value, which was 79, minus the mean, which is 71, 79 minus 71 divided by the standard deviation of 5, this is for Jill. So I pretty much have 8 divided by 5, Jill's Z score is 1.6, so I got 1.6 for Jill. So relatively speaking, Jack was 1.25 standard deviations above his class average, whereas Jill was actually more standard deviations above her class average, she was 1.6. Since Jill had the higher Z score, she did relatively better, Jill did relatively better since she had the higher Z score. So when you're talking about who did relatively better, you should look at Z scores, because that's how you standardize data values. Jill did relatively better since she had the higher Z score. So that's all I have for now. Thanks for watching.


On episode 217 of The Anxious Truth, we're going to do 10 more of the most frequently asked questions about anxiety and anxiety recovery. So let's get to it. Hello everybody. Welcome back to The Anxious Truth. This is podcast episode number 217. 217 we're recording at the end of July 2022. Welcome. I am Drew Lincellata, creator and host of The Anxious Truth. This is the podcast that focuses on all things anxiety, anxiety disorders and recovery. So welcome if you're new here. Welcome aboard. If you're a returning listener, welcome back. Today we're going to do part two of our frequently asked questions. These are 20 of the most frequently asked questions about anxiety and anxiety recovery that I encounter in my many years in this community and doing this work that I do. Last week in episode 216 we did the first 10. So go back and listen to that if you have not. And today in 217 we're going to do the second 10. The show notes for these two episodes are quite detailed. So you can find the show notes for this episode at the anxioustruth.com slash 217. And I have included in there all the links to all the other resources and podcast episodes that I'll talk about here. So go to the anxioustruth.com slash 217 and check that out. And while you're on my website, I would like to remind you that the anxious truth is more than just this podcast episode. There's 200 and somewhat other podcast episodes. There's a ton of free social media content. There is my free morning newsletter called The Anxious Morning. And there are three really excellent books on anxiety and anxiety recovery that I have written that are helping tens of thousands of people around the world. So while you're on the anxioustruth.com, check out all of those resources. They're good. Most of them are free. Go ahead and avail yourself of them. And if you are enjoying my work and it's helping you in some way, then you would like to help me keep it free of sponsorships and advertising. All the ways to do that can be found at the anxioustruth.com slash support. So check that out. Never required. Always appreciated. So let's get into part two of our frequently asked questions. And we'll get right into it. We're going to do 10 today. So question one this week is, is recovery possible, even if you've suffered for many years? And the answer to that is it sure is. This is a short answer. Many, many members of our community can turn things around even after years of dealing with disorder and anxiety. For me, it was over 20, 25 years of my life on and off in three or four major episodes. So yeah, the amount of time that you have suffered with this, I'm not going to say it doesn't matter completely, but it is certainly not a reason why you could not get better. You can do that. Yes, you may build some habits, but at some point the whole can only get so deep. And I think that's what people worry about. Like, oh, I keep digging a deeper and deeper hole. I've been digging for 20 years. So how am I ever going to crawl out of this hole? That's not the right way to visualize it. I like to say the hole can only get so deep once you are to the point where you're avoiding everything, your housebound or stuck in one room, or you've got yourself down to eating only three foods because you're afraid or, you know, you're super restricted. There's only so much restriction you can impose on yourself. So assume that the hole has gotten as deep as it has, is it ever going to get? You just start decorating and get comfortable in that hole. You personalize it, you hang artwork, like you put in a stereo system and listen to your favorite music while you're there. So if the hole doesn't get deeper, you just get more comfortable in it. That doesn't matter. You can turn this around. It doesn't matter how long you have suffered. I promise you can get better. I was 20 plus years, 25 plus years. I know people even longer than that that have dealt with this. I know one woman over 40 years, and she has turned things around. She's well on the way to recovery. So yes, in terms of resources, episode 124 of the anxious truth talks about that. So you can go check that out. So question number two today, what if I don't have panic attacks and I just feel anxious all day? So there's two things that I really want to address in this question. First of all, there's a misconception that people that have panic attacks are somehow calm or not anxious between attacks. And that is 100% not true. Like people with panic disorder, I had panic disorder. I was anxious all day long too. So if you're in that boat and you don't have panic attacks, the first thing I want you to be aware of is that that's not necessarily a special condition and it's not like people that do have panic attacks have attacks and then are calm the rest of the day. It doesn't work that way. So don't feel bad about that. Now being anxious all day can be the result of the same mechanism that drives things like panic disorder. You could start to learn to be anxious just because you're anxious. And the longer this goes on, that becomes part of the puzzle for a lot of people. Like I'm anxious all day long. I can't figure out why. So now I start to become anxious about being anxious. That's one of those things. Or another reason why you might be anxious all day long. And this starts to get into the realm of generalized anxiety or generalized anxiety disorder. A lot of people that have GAD are anxious all day long, but not everybody that's continually anxious has GAD. So really GAD is defined by excessive worry and focus on external things. The health of your family, your own health, doing good at work, not letting people down, taking care of everything, being perfect, being a people pleaser. Like those are things where we are trying to control the world to an excessive degree. And that's sort of the hallmark of generalized anxiety disorder. It's based on that sort of stuff. And then it gets off the rails and gets carried away. So people with GAD can have a general background anxiety that lasts all day long too. So there could be that. And then you could also begin to just be anxious about being anxious because you can't solve the anxiety problem. So it's not that this is a special thing or it can't be fixed. Sometimes if you're in that GAD camp you got to look at some of the underlying things that go with that, things like excessive worry, overthinking, overplanning, perfectionism, people pleasing, things that can drive anxiety state but that you think are, could be good things about your personality. You got to look at that. So I talked about this in episode 119. I had Dave Carbonell on and we talked about generalized anxiety disorder. And episode 148 of the podcast covers this. But if you're anxious all day long you don't have panic attacks, it's okay. You can still get better, I promise. So question three. How can I drive during a panic attack or anxiety spike? It's not safe. So this one, I did two podcast episodes that specifically talked about this. Podcast episode number 55, podcast episode number 105, were specifically about driving and driving anxiety. So there's an assertion here that people will make that when you are in a high anxiety state or a state of panic that you literally lose control and have no agency anymore. Like some external force rolls in and possesses you and makes you do things or prevents you from doing things. This is a thing that you really have to start to challenge. Has that ever been true? Now you are most certainly afraid. You're very uncomfortable. But the choices that we make in those moments in an attempt to alleviate that fear and escape from the discomfort are not involuntary. So when talking about is it safe to drive during a panic attack, you have to realize that, yes, a rapid heartbeat during panic is involuntary. You can't control that. Yes, maybe feeling a little short of breath is involuntary. Yes, feeling nauseous is involuntary. Feeling a little depersonalized is involuntary. That's all true. But the things that we do to add fuel to that fear fire, OMG, OMG, calling for help, trying desperately to get to a safe place, trying to run away from it, those are voluntary. Those are choices that we make. So you can't control how you're going to feel, but we do have some agency in what we do about that. And you have to realize that the uncontrollable feeling or the idea that you will completely lose control of your of your mind and your body or that you do lose control of your mind and body is really, you know what you're doing and you know what that activity looks like and you're calling that uncontrollable. But really, we do have choice. We are making choices to do those things. So it's important to consider that because that sort of challenges the narrative that says it's not safe to drive because I lose control. Well, no, you choose to help to fuel a frantic state in your frantic effort to try and get away from the fear. But there is choice there and there is agency. That's really important when you talk about driving. And I would urge you to consider another thing. And that is all the times that you have been anxious behind the wheel or experienced full blown panic behind the wheel. And you have run home with that car or pulled over immediately or gone off the highway or the motorway. In all of those situations, you were surprisingly adept at maneuvering your vehicle even though you're insisting that you can't and you must stop maneuvering the vehicle. So sometimes we have to insert a little bit of an objectivity here.  It's horrible. And really look at the facts. Like, am I out of control? Or am I just worried that I will be? And have I ever even shown any sign of being unable to control my vehicle? Now, I'm not saying that driving with a panic attack is comfortable or easy in any way, shape, or form. And it's okay to pull over and let it pass. It's totally okay. But you got to start to challenge that narrative. But in the end, you're the only ones that gets, you're the only one that gets to decide whether you should drive or not. I can't tell you, yes, go ahead and drive. I can tell you to start to really try and think objectively about the way you're evaluating that and let reality be a bit of a guide. But I cannot tell you, no, go ahead and drive. Only you can determine that. Again, take a listen to podcast episodes 55 and 105 and maybe those will help. So let's go on to our next question. Question five, what if you have a real medical condition? Okay, this is unfortunately common. Human beings have medical conditions all the time. More than one thing can be true at a time. So when this happens, you have to remember that you have an actual medical or health issue and can also be caught in the grips caught in the grips of disorder and anxiety. Those two things will get glued together and you will stick them together and think that they are one big giant ball of fear. But really they are not. So there's two things in the face of a health challenge or a medical condition that medical condition can cause actual restrictions, lifestyle restrictions, but it can also cause fear, uncertainty, vulnerability, anxiety, worry, normal things like human beings that are having health problems will normally experience those states. But then there's the extra state on top of that. So that's the medical condition itself and the normal human reaction to that. And then there's the disordered part that comes on top of that, which is now I am going to excessively worry beyond what is actually helpful about my health condition. I'm going to try to make predictions. I'm going to write giant horror story screenplays in my head about what might happen, even though it's not happening now. I'm going to ruminate and worry and ruminate and worry and research and Google. And I'm going to try to solve this problem in my head, but you can't. That's the part that you don't have to do. That part is not required. That part is actually not helping you in any way. It's actually kind of hurting you in terms of mental health. Right? So you have to recognize those two things. Oh, I'm worried right now. I'm concerned. I'm afraid. I feel uncertain and vulnerable because of this medical condition. Okay, that's okay.  And my heart goes out to you, but that's part of being human. But the part where you latch onto it and spend 24 hours a day every waking moment trying to solve this problem and writing stories about it in your head, that's not needed. And then in many cases, your anxiety level goes up because you're doing that. And then you're anxious because you're anxious. So it's important to step back again, try to insert a little objectivity and say, oh, I see what's going on here. I don't have to say, well, I have a health condition and it sends my anxiety through the roof. No, I have a health condition and that makes me feel certain things. And then I am adding on top of that with some of my habits that I think are safety or protection for me. And I can recognize that and begin to tease that apart and start to work on those other habits. So that's my answer to what if I have a real medical condition? People will often say like, well, I have a real medical condition. So all bets are off too bad. Like I'm gonna have to be an anxious mess. No, that's not true. Now I did an episode of the podcast with my friend, Jessica Seidner. Jessica doesn't have anxiety disorders like we are aware. But we did a great episode together where she talked about having to deal with the increased anxiety of breast cancer diagnosis, which came right on the heels of losing her husband. So she had a lot going on. Medical condition and a huge life loss. And her anxiety went up because it normally did and we talked about how she had to work through that. That might be helpful. I also did an Instagram live on this topic. Oh, probably a year and a half or two years ago. So again, if you go to the show notes for this episode, the anxioustruth.com slash 217, under this question, you'll see that link to Instagram. So next question, we are on to question number six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Okay, so what the question, I think five or six. How do you accept anxiety or surrender to it? So this is a question I get every day. And this question is really like other statements in code. This question is really, it's super scary to surrender. So please tell me how to do it without being afraid or uncomfortable, right? So there is no way to do this without being afraid or uncomfortable. And I know that's a glib answer, a brutal answer. It sounds like a cold answer, but we need to confront these things. It doesn't help us to try desperately to make it easier or fluffier. It doesn't work that way. So you also have to recognize that when you ask the question, but how am I supposed to accept this or surrender to it? What you're really doing is insisting that you must continue to resist it. But why? Why do you think you have to continue to resist it? So if you are in this camp right now where you want to keep asking, but I don't understand how I'm supposed to surrender, or how I'm supposed to accept it, what you're really telling me is, number one, I don't want to be afraid, which I understand, I'm not picking on you for that. Nobody wants to be afraid. And number two, no, no, no, how am I supposed to, I can't, if I drop all this resistance, then it's going to come and get me. And my answer is yes, correct. So how can I accept or surrender really is an insistence that you're not supposed to accept or surrender because you have to continue to fight it and resist it because if you don't, you won't be safe. And if you want, one big step that you can take toward acceptance and surrender is to face the harsh, brutal, cold reality that all of the things that you are doing to resist it, stop it, make it go away, all your rituals and safety behaviors and escape behaviors are literally doing nothing. I'll leave a big pregnant pause there, literally doing nothing. No amount of tapping your cheeks, sniffing oils, drinking cold water, popping mints, calling for help, snapping rubber bands, chanting, counting backwards from 100. None of those things is actually doing anything because that danger has never actually existed. So in terms of how can I accept and surrender, I will say, if I walked up to you and said, I am so tired from having to hold up the moon all the time, but I can't stop holding up the moon or it will fall to the ground.  If it doesn't fall to the ground, it's okay, you can let go. Same thing applies here. So the thought that you can't possibly accept anxiety or surrender it, and by the way, acceptance doesn't mean liking it. Do not get confused. You can still hate it. You can still want it to not happen.  That's human. You're allowed to be human. Accepting doesn't mean liking it, but accepting and surrendering means you will drop all of those safety behaviors, all of those resisting behaviors because you must face the realization that they are literally doing nothing. They have no impact on your safety at all. They're just designed to make you feel different, but feeling different isn't safer at all because you were never in actually danger from feeling anxious. Right? So you're going to have to confront the reality behind that question, but how am I supposed to surrender or accept? Well, look what those questions really mean. So next question is, what exposures can I do to get ready for dot, dot, dot? Pick an event, a wedding, a concert, a family vacation, something. And so in the end, this is a simpler answer. You have to remember what exposures are there for. People think, or they get confused and they think, well, I'm learning to drive on the highway again. I'm learning to go shopping again. I'm learning to stay home alone again. You're actually not learning to do anything. The only thing that you're learning to do, which is portable across situations and challenges and contexts, is you're learning how to get better at experiencing anxiety and fear. So we only do exposures, do specific things like drive or go for a walk or stay home alone or eat a food that you're afraid of so that it will trigger that anxiety. We were intentionally triggering anxiety, fear, and comfort, discomfort, uncertainty, all of those things. We're intentionally triggering them so that you can practice feeling them and moving through them in a new way, a more productive way that ultimately teaches you that you don't have to save yourself from them. So if the exposure is not to the event or the task or the place or the food or whatever, the exposure is to the feelings, then every exposure is an exposure that works for other things, right? So if you're getting ready to go to, for instance, you're going to a concert, oh, I got tickets to a concert, how can I expose myself to that? I mean, yes, can you do things that sort of mimic a concert? Yeah, that doesn't hurt in any way. But remember, you're not afraid of the concert, you're afraid of how you will feel at the concert. So if you want to take a cruise around the world, get better at staying home alone for two hours. That's what I tell people all the time. If you want to go back to work, then get better at walking around your block because you're really, in the end, you're learning a new way to relate to anxiety across all contexts. And if you can adopt this, then you don't have to worry about specific exposures for every single thing you might have to do in your life. Life gets a lot simpler that way. And your recovery starts to become a little wider and more durable. So it's really important, like, think about that. I'm only doing these things because they trigger my anxiety. The anxiety, the fear, that's the exposure, not the task or the place. So let's move on to question 910. I don't know which one I write. I think we're on 7 right now. This question is, does this method work if I have trauma too? So first of all, I always have to say, this is not a method. Like, I'm not teaching them. This isn't a dream method. It's definitely not my method. I didn't invent any of this. These are just the principles of a cognitive behavioral approach to anxiety disorders. So there are parallels between anxiety disorder recovery and trauma resolution. That's 100% true. A lot of things will look the same. If you're working with a trauma resolution specialist, some of the things that you would hear would sound a lot like the things that I talk about. But they're not exactly the same. And the issue here is, let's assume that you do have a traumatic background and you've experienced some traumatic events in your life. And maybe that trauma did spawn your anxiety disorder. That can happen. But then what I always say is that one problem, the trauma, has now become two problems. You have trauma and an anxiety disorder. Right? So you have to realize that. It doesn't mean that the anxiety disorder doesn't count because it's only the trauma. If you had one problem, now you have two. That's okay, though. Don't freak out. You can successfully deal with both of those issues. A lot of people do, right? A lot of people do that work on both fronts. But traumatic experiences do not mean that the anxiety disorder doesn't count. So some people are under that assumption that, well, this all sounds well and good, but I have trauma, so what you're saying doesn't apply to me. Okay, you may have trauma. And I'm very sorry for the things that you've lived through. That's possible. But in the end, if you have learned to be afraid of your own heartbeat or your own breath, or you have learned to be afraid of depersonalization or jelly legs, and you refuse to go out of the house, or you are convinced that you have some sort of health problem and you will only eat four foods as a result, maybe there was some trauma that spawned that, but knowing about that trauma doesn't help you become less afraid of your own heartbeat. Now you're afraid of multiple things. So maybe you were having, you were afraid of the past experience, but now you're also afraid of yourself. So you have to do both of the things, both of them. You have two problems, you can solve them both. So traumatic experience can be a roadblock, 100%, to executing the recovery plan that we're always talking about here. It's 100% true.  Trauma can do that to you. And if you have those beliefs about yourself because of your past experiences, that can 100% present a roadblock to doing the work that I always talk about. Have to acknowledge that. And I always will, always will. I'm never gonna invalidate that. So in that situation, you're gonna have to work on that too, right, you'll have to work on that. It's kinda hard, and this is different for everybody, right? There's no set answer to this. On the other side, so in that situation, you may find that you have to do a little bit of work on yourself before you can actually effectively do this recovery work that I'm talking about. For some other people, they find that their anxiety disorder is so bad that they're so wracked with panic and irrational fear that they can't really do the trauma work until they put out this fire. So some people have to do this first and then go back to the past and do that work. Some people can do it at the same time, it's individual, it depends. So there's no set answer to this. But I can definitely tell you that you can recover from both trauma and anxiety, and the things that I'm writing about, which are really geared toward the anxiety recovery, can be effective while you do that. It's just a very individual situation to please don't feel that since you have lived the traumatic background, you can't get better. That's not true, that's not fair. And I understand why you might think that, but it's not true, you can get better. It's not easy, but there's hope for you too, I promise. So last few questions. This is a really common one. I'm accepting, why am I still anxious? So I might argue that if you are asking why you are still anxious, then you're not actually accepting. We can't qualify our acceptance. I'm accepting this, but I will also want it gone. Well, you can't have both of those things. Think about that for a second. I know it sounds a little bit glib and a little silly, but think about it, there's truth in there. I'm accepting this, but I also don't want to accept it and I'm not really accepting it. I know you want your anxiety to go away. But accepting and doing all the things we talked about, it's not a recipe for banishing it, right? If that's why you're doing this, like you are hoping that if you do the Claire Weeks Acceptance or the Drew Surrender or the Josh Fletcher Willful Tolerance, if I do this, then it will stop. You're trying to skip the part where you have to experience the anxiety and use it as a classroom. It's super important. So if you're trying to skip that and you're just hoping that, okay, I accept. Wait a minute. How come it hasn't gone away? You're missing the whole process and you're going to wind up disappointed, frustrated and asking this question. I don't understand. I'm accepting why hasn't it gone away. So expectations are important. Understanding the concepts of recovery. Why are you accepting? Is that the whole thing? Or is it just part of it? That's important. Aiming at the right target is important. So in this situation, I did Episode 192 of the podcast which is linked in the show notes here. Go listen to that. That will probably help you. And this is related to question number nine, which is I'm doing my exposures, but it's not working. This is where you think you're doing, I'm doing all the things. I'm doing exposures, but not working why. And there's a couple of common explanations for this. Number one would be, I'll ask you a couple of questions. And this is right out of the show notes. Are you trying to do exposures without being too afraid? Are you trying to do your exposures without triggering high anxiety or panic? Are you only doing exposures now and then when you're forced to or when you're having a good day?  These are all red flags as to why exposure might not be working. So remember what I said a couple of questions before. The point of the exposure is not doing the task. The point of the exposure is experiencing the fear, the anxiety, the discomfort. You want that, you need that. If you're trying to find ways to do your exposure tasks without feeling that or minimizing it or soothing it or calming it or making it easier, then don't do the exposure. There's no point in it because you're not, you're not learning to drive again. You're learning how to get better at experiencing anxiety. So this is one of the main reasons why people will say my exposures aren't working. Well, okay, but you're not really doing exposure in some cases. Very common mistake. The other thing would be that you know that you're supposed to experience that, experience panic, but you are still hanging on to those like escape behaviors and those rituals. So some people get close to like real exposure, I would say real exposure, but most effective exposure, but they still hang on to like, well, there's a line that I just can't cross with anxiety and panic. And when I get close to that line, I will break out all of my coping skills. And I will break out my safety skills and my make it go away skills. And that's the response prevention part. So we've talked about exposure and response prevention, ERP, which is very commonly used in the OCD community. You hear ERP in that community all the time, but really even for all of the anxiety disorders, exposure is always ERP. So doing the things, you're doing the things, you're intentionally triggering this comfort and you're doing that without using your old responses, your safety responses and soothing responses. You're preventing those responses. So one of the reasons why another key reason why exposure might not be working are quotes for you is, first of all, what does working mean? It doesn't mean make it go away. Remember, it means teaching you how to get better at being anxious. But why do you think it's not working? Well, one of the reasons is doing the exposure without doing the response prevention. I'm out there driving on the highway, but I've got my mints and my cold water and I got my radio on and I'm calling and I'm talking to my friend or I bring my husband or my girlfriend with me. That that's one good reason why it might not be actually working, right? So if you go to the anxioustruth.com and just search for the word exposure, you'll see quite a few podcast episodes where we talk about this in more detail. And then question 10, final question for the day. This is a big one. How do I deal with a setback? So this question here every single day and the word setback I almost want stricken from the vocabulary. Many times when people are in the recovery process and they feel like they're doing great because they're not experiencing anxiety or panic like they're feeling good. That's awesome. We want everybody to feel good. I want you to feel good too, right? I want you to have good days. We all want to have good days. Everybody deserves a good day. So when you start to string good days together and you're feeling pretty good and it's been a while since you had a panic attack or it's been a while since you had those scary thoughts or it's been a while since you've had a really anxious day and then you have an anxious day or the thoughts come back or you have a big panic attack one night. A lot of people will say, Oh, it's a setback. That's not a setback. That's literally not a setback, right? If the core principle of recovery is to learn that anxiety and panic are not emergencies, then how is feeling that a setback? It's no longer an emergency. You are trying to learn that it's not an emergency. We do not declare it a special event. We don't retreat from it. So setback is usually a red flag word and it indicates that you are still insisting that the only successful recovery is one year where you will never ever feel anxious or panicky ever again. And if you are trying to recover to that degree where you can guarantee that you never panic or never have another scary thought in your life, you're going to be really disappointed and frustrated. So setback is not feeling things. If you haven't felt anxious for two weeks and then today you feel anxious, well, your job today is to move through those feelings and practice being better at being anxious. That's not a setback. That's just life happening and that's an opportunity to get even better. Like we really want it. We get to the end of the road to recovery and we don't care if we're anxious or not. And I know that if you're in the thick of it right now, you are thinking that is an insane statement but that is truly where you are headed with this. That is when the war is over. So if every time you experience anxiety, you yell setback and want to know what do I do with this setback, you're kind of missing the point and you're not being fair to yourself. So the only true thing that I might call setback setback is also is really what happens when we say all bets are off and I'm going to return to my old rituals. I'm going to go back to my figuring it out, trying to fight it, trying to resist it, hiding from it, going back to my compulsions like that might be setback. Yes, if you start to revert to those old habits, I'll call that a setback with you but how you feel and what you think is not the setback. But even if you do start to revert to those old habits, as soon as you wave the setback flag and want advice, just remember, oh wait, I have to start doing what I was doing before. No problem, that happens to everybody. Move forward again. So if anxiety returns after some time, right at the show notes here, your job is not to wring your hands and try to figure out why and how to stop it and declare disaster. Your job is to surf through it, move through it, like you presumably did as part of the progress that you said you had made. So I did do an episode on this early on in 2015 of the podcast episode 14, talks about the non-linear nature of recovery and goes over setbacks. But I know setback is the thing that we talk about all the time in this community. Hopefully this helps. And that is it. Those are our second 10 frequently asked questions about anxiety and anxiety recovery. We are done with episode 217. If you have not heard 216, go ahead and listen because those are the first 10 questions. You know we're done because music. Anyway, I will play you out as usual with Afterglow by Ben Drake. You can find Ben and his music at bendrakemusic.com. Go check him out. Tell him I said hi. I will ask you a favor. If you are listening to the podcast on iTunes, on Apple podcasts or Spotify or some platform that lets you rate and review, please leave a five-star rating and maybe take a second to write a review because it helps other people find the podcast. If you're listening on YouTube, sorry there's no video this week, but if you're listening on YouTube, like the video, subscribe to the channel, leave a comment. You know the deal. I appreciate you guys coming by all the time spending time with me, giving me your attention. Hopefully I'm able to help you. I'm doing the best I can. I'm hoping it's working out for you. I'll be back next week. We're going to do it again. 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Welcome to the AI for Good Global Summit. I'm now joined by Saiza Onoe, who's Director, Telecommunications Standardization Bureau of ITU, of course. Good to have you here. So tell me, what is the summit aimed to achieve? Actually, as its name suggests, AI for Good Summit aims to find AI for Good, or a positive thing to ensure that the AI solutions accelerate toward the sustainable development goals. This is the main goal. But the recent rise of the general table AI, that has intensified the discussion on AI governance. So with that background, this summit has some function as a platform to discuss global AI governance, to facilitate some discussion for the finding about some kind of frameworks or guard rails to support safe and responsible AI. So we need to careful about this. OK. And so why does the ITU organize this summit? And how does it further its mission as an organization? The essential value of ITU is that we foster the collaboration to support innovation on a global scale. So this summit brings people together and to achieve, create some impactful partnerships. So that was a major motivation for launching AI for Good in 2017. So we need to continue such activities. OK. Can you share a few examples of these ITU contributions? Yeah. Actually, we have some activities on standardization. AI and machine learning becomes an important part of the ITU standardization in some areas such as network automation and also the some multimedia coding and environmental efficiencies. So for this, just one example is we are offering one of the examples we are offering is a pipeline architecture to implement machine learning into a 5G or future networks. Also, we have some other focus group activities with a collaboration with other organizations. For example, we have a focus group for the AI and IoT for digital agriculture. This is a collaboration with FAO. Also, we have a focus group on AI for natural disaster management. This is a collaboration with WMO and UNEP. Also, we have a focus group on AI for health with a WHO. Actually, just yesterday, we announced that we will scale up these activities to by establishing the global initiative for AI for health together with the WHO and WIPO. OK. Interesting. So finally, what are the reasons and there's lots of reasons to be optimistic about AI being a force for good. Tell me about that. I think that just because of our effort, we are trying to find AI for good so that we could be optimistic about AI. We need to continue such effort, considering the governance as well as the technologies. But I would say that optimistic or not, that's different from the country's country, from the culture to culture. Actually, I see some Western movies that depict fears. But in Japan, most cases, AI robot is always on the side of justice. That's very different culture. So we need to discuss such issues as well. OK. Really interesting. So especially on the cultural differences on appreciation of AI as a force. So anyway, thank you very much. Saiza Ononi, Director of Telecommunications Standardization Bureau of ITU. And we'll have much more on AI for Good Global Summit right here. Stay with us.


Good morning, everyone happy Monday, Monday, November 6 2023 Everybody had a great weekend. We got stocks up just a little bit Not much thousand 12 points NASDAQ up 27 S&P futures up a little over six points So not enough too big of a gap up this morning Tessals up one and three quarters Roblox up below one and a half Bob up one and a half DK and G up one and a third square up a third of a percent So most stocks flat to in the green the VIX is up two and three quarters percent So just something to keep an eye on here is we've got some stocks in the green and Vixen green Bell is rung so we're off and running Last week was a pretty good week for the indices. We'll see if they Continue here March upward Dow up 76 points NASDAQ up 47 S&P up 12 S&P pushed up quite a bit out of the gates morning mum will be I'm gonna look at a Zero DTE iron condor here in a little bit. I'm gonna give it a little bit time here Vix up almost three percent now. So I'm not not convinced things are gonna continue upward as a definite push out of the box, but Coming down here a little bit now it getting kind of a mixture of Red and green bars here for these first ones getting our second bar here. So we'll look for some volume for Upside or downside for a volume runner Apple pushing up Boeing coming down Well, two little two-way action going on here Boeing getting some volume potential Downside volume runner here. It's really all I'm seeing kind of at the moment here now Boeing flipped. So Square flipped as well It's getting close Apple pushing up Video pushing up. So don't see any volume runners out of the gates here that I like Bobble was close to the downside, but it's gonna be patient here Yeah, we are trading the Ford DTE today. It's correct. Yeah, we we want them in the same one to be same color So looking for some mighty 90s here Just not seeing much Amazon getting a potential mighty 90 But actually that bars Gonna get as big as the first so Not gonna be a mighty 90 M you potential mighty 90 long So Amazon getting a big boy volume bar to the upside But take a look at an M you long here and you I would trade the 72 calls trying to get filled at Buck 30 Little the buck 34 in the 72 calls So look for two green bars in a row Coming down a little bit. So Definitely could get a better fill than I got AMD No, I mean about that bars bigger than the first but look what price is doing. It's just it's not moving anywhere, so Downside volume runner like to see a push down with another, you know, then another push down with a big bar This is down up down up PayPal mighty 90 long for sure. I would add to my MU at $1 20. So I'm gonna look at a PayPal mighty 90 here 55 calls and PayPal trying to get filled at a buck 20 bill to the buck 20 Mighty 90 in PayPal and I'm gonna add to my MU. It's coming down below where I wanted to add something. Go ahead and add right now Little to buck 17 To add to MU Amazon Getting some conflicting volume there Vicks up over 3% now by doing Bob a fallen Apple though pushing up So looking for two consecutive green bars in MU and PayPal some long both those Like to see a nice little two bar push up here in MU Every all the industry still in the green the dows kind of flipping back and forth though and Apple stands strong Microsoft kind of setting up like an upside continuation runner you can see push up hasn't moved much Well, it will it break through to see We keep my eye on it and you I have an order in at $1.34 To close half might lower that here. Yeah, I'm gonna lower it to $1.30 close half Since I added to it. Hey, I'm not really going anywhere Though not much not much action right now. It's a couple mighty 90s So far or it looks like Me wants to give us a green bar here. How much else going on? Yeah, so looks like MU is gonna give us one Green bar PayPal coming down Keep my eye on that. That could be a potential Add in that as well Nothing else shaking. I'm gonna add to my PayPal if it comes down anymore We're in order in at $1.08 to add I do That would be a downside volume runner actually because that bars as big as the first But it got it got a green bar that it's popped up above there already. So it would be a no trade for me on that one Build it a dollar eight to add to PayPal Microsoft not moving at all, man And you gives us two green bars be able to get out here build it a buck 30 close half my MU at a kid I'll get out half my PayPal at a buck 20 much else going on for unfortunately in Microsoft Just not moving. That's a 356 dollar stock It's not moving. So I'm gonna close out my MU So I'm getting two green bars got about 30 seconds left here build a dollar 35 to close MU So nice mighty 90 nice add two green bars Winning trade now if PayPal would do that same thing and be much bludged Pretty tight range today and a lot of these. I was really looking at a upside Continuation runner in Microsoft, but man, it just hasn't come down any it's just not moving I mean it might break out here, but I would want to get a way better fill than where it's at now But since the initial fight the first five minutes ten minutes into the open. It's really a Pretty muted price movement Now look at MU you should left a little on for that. I do have a Zero DTE iron condor on that's looking good so far About ready to close out 20% nice We paper trade you you can do you can go a lot bigger, you know when it's paper trading I'm most likely when I start trading real money. I'll I will be a Trade for contracts now when I do I guarantee I won't start with four contracts Probably when I do real money, I probably start with like to build a buck 20 PayPal Hey, look at that It's a little push up there. Oh, right blockchain taking off Although I guess that's a pretty tight range the bar just makes it look big Ooh now look at Microsoft coming down a little bit folks. Okay, so the question is Do I want to look at upside? Continuation here with a push up Consolidation here. I'll jump in a little bit Microsoft here pretty low risk because it comes down below this consolidation I would bail 355 calls Built at 375 So if it comes down below this consolidation point, then I would bail on it Disney getting a little mighty 90 short, but it's pulled back already and has a real tight range I would close half of my Microsoft at 415 Airbnb with a big red bar built at 415 and Microsoft So you can see it's a good learning lesson if you're new So I wanted it to come down to get the better fill So I when I saw it, you know come down towards the bottom of this consolidation I that's when I Got in if I wouldn't have gotten it or if I would have gotten in when it was up here But it went against me and now I'd be back to about even but since I waited for it to come down I was able to already get out of half that's the That's why you want to really You know sometimes be patient on your fills and if you miss it you miss it. Yeah, so You know, I could have gotten in like any time this was in this consolidation up here But I waited and when it pushed down below push down and had a you know Reasonable push down with a red bar down towards the bottom of this consolidation That's when I got in if I would have gotten in up here Well when it came down it would have went against me and then it popped back up it would have been right about where I entered But because I waited for it to come down more before entering when it did pop up I got was able to get out of half Otherwise I would be otherwise, you know, I would be I would it would have been negative and then it would have popped back up and I would have been You know pretty much even if I would have gotten in too soon or when it was up here So, you know, I will close another one right now Filled at 455 to close a quarter of Microsoft See now it's trying to bust out of that Let's paypal do it. Ah I thought I was gonna give us a green bar. Yes. He Disney's got a nice mighty 90 in terms of volume, but it's already come down It's just such a tight range There are a lot of stocks that are really going nowhere just chopping Coinbase potential big green bar. Pull this over. Here's my Here's what my zero DTE looks like So still setting right there and then pretty much a little left of center So setting pretty good right now. I love that Theta decay helps helps you so so quickly there and in those trades They're still up 3% Nasdaq down 20. I'm sorry down 20 Nasdaq up 27 Yep. Yep go with 20 deltas and then 50 points wide on the regular iron condors Amazon's kind of got that consolidation going on like Microsoft did So again, here's another so if I was to jump in now and then it came down to the bottom of the Consolidation it it would put me in the negative right out of the gates and And if I if I got in now and it came down and I'd be negative and then let's say it popped back up Then it puts me back to where I got in so I'm not profitable So that's why you don't want to you don't want to jump in when it is where it's at right now And if it if it blows up through highs of day, you know, you just missed it. I mean you're missing it So that's is what it is. Um PayPal still just Not not doing much PayPal no green bars at all from it So you would think we're due for some green bars here PayPal Oscar really firing up so PayPal Not going well for a mighty 90 getting hammered in PayPal at the moment Not freaking out Not looking at my p&l S&P did come down through lows of day though. No bueno Things have been strong. They were strong last week S&P had a Really good week last week. So We had to wonder if it was gonna you were gonna see some type of Pullback that really hasn't been many many signals to the downside today really Hasn't been many signals all honestly. Yeah, you know, I looked I looked to see when earnings were and There was no earnings recently So here's a situation like if this bar gets bigger than the first it turns into a downside volume runner. So then I'm bailing on it if it if this bar is bigger than the first because it turns into it That's what we had we've had that a couple times here recently Peek at toss to see what it looks like over there Not as big as the first It's not going to be as big as the first so It's not it's it's actually another it's another mighty 90 signals what it is You know, also, I just noticed this But the volume pop in PayPal is a lot better in orion than it is Think or swim. I doubt I would have taken it If I would have saw this think or swim volume, I'll show you The screenshot in here real quick Okay, so you can kind of see here like yeah, it's a little bit bigger, but I ended up getting in right here where this It pushed down Added to it down here, but you know, that's not a big volume separation I don't really you don't usually take those mighty 90s when it looks like that Not not not in think or swim Oh and tasty it was okay Yeah, I mean it's you can just look at the difference here between orion I've got them both pulled up now Orion and think or swim definitely looks good and orion does not look have that separation and even look at the The third bar in think or swim is bigger than the previous but it's not in orion so If I see differences like that, I'm usually not taking that trade This is what it is.  Let's see. Where's that? Here it looks a lot better in think or swim than The first one. Oh amd had a mighty 92. I didn't notice And it's getting a green bar Yeah, real real nice looking mighty 90 there in amd probably would have gotten in on that one Yeah, I saw piton. It's just that stock man that poor stock $4.92 Used to used to trade piton all the time when we started these strategies Okay, so microsoft pushing back up. I do have a few contracts in microsoft. They'll play can Continue upward and I can scale out of those amazon see it's uh It's kind of similar to microsoft where, you know, if you could have gotten in down here and then it popped back up here push up consolidation Sometimes I should talk less probably and look for signals More definitely missed a couple there looks like Paypal is going to give us one green bar real close to getting filled on 20 of my iron condor zero dte I got filled at 675 I got an order at 540 to close half All right paypal's giving them one green bar can it give us two Meta pushing highs of day D would have been a good mighty 90 and if paypal It's looking like it's probably gonna Push through lows. I may have to just cut it. I don't know. It's like Nope there. I got fill at 540 on my zero dte Easily always wait for two green bars But like I said, I probably wouldn't wouldn't have taken paypal thought of seeing the volume in thinkorswim So paypal holding The order to get out of another 20 percent of my zero dte iron condor at four bucks So no second green bar out of paypal Not a lot of good movement here Look at bowing bouncing all the way back. It's kind of what I wish paypal would do but Not looking good so Still gonna still gonna try to wait for two green bars consecutive here You know not not not not much uh action in terms of other signals Walmart flirting with highs of day And yeah, that mighty 90 and amd would have been really nice Remuted price movement on a monday honestly Yeah, exactly. That's why I'm still holding there honestly It's got it's it's had two mighty 90 longs really. I don't know sometimes Sometimes you run in this You know something like this where it gives Pretty good signals, but for whatever reason it's just Doesn't do what it's supposed to do something something I've done in the past is You know when this happens and I know I'm getting getting down quite a bit here in the mighty 90 because for whatever reason it's just not Getting two consecutive bars in the direction I need Sometimes some things I've done is when I've gotten a good second mighty 90 like this is I add a completely new position with new strikes Take a look at that so for example Like the 54 calls would be A completely new position and I would I would really be playing this um The second mighty 90 which you know looks pretty good based on the volume And it looks really good in Thinker swing as well. I'm gonna kind of see how this last Minute goes with paypal. I'm gonna add a position at 54 calls Fill the buck 40 And if you're not in paypal and you want to get in paypal for the first time, you know, that's a good spot to get in So if it pushes up and we get two consecutive green bars, then I'll just close out both positions I mean at some point it's gonna get two green bars. It's just Don't know when I mean here's the thing like crazy part is is All the indices are green except the russell I would close half of my uh, the 54 calls in paypal at $1.55 Walmart pushing through highs of day Yeah, bumblebee Well, microsoft Popping back up. Oh man. Look at meta pushing through highs now Roku is another one. It's staying weak. Although roku was up pretty big last week after earnings So some people might be Selling off profits or you're taking the profits It's 9 30. I don't central. I don't think I'm gonna take any other trades. So if here's what I'm gonna do I've got a few contracts and microsoft left. If it breaks below this um consolidation, I'll get out And then I'm just gonna wait for two green bars consecutive green bars and paypal. I mean It's gonna happen at some point So I will be back tomorrow. So everybody have a great rest of your day and I'll see you tomorrow peace


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