This week on the movement strength and play podcast. We are talking about who to trust and Timbo I can think of two people that come straight off the top of my head One is you know anyway We'll get into that is the meat of that in a second And you can set the tone in a minute as to why would we even have that as a topic of conversation for the podcast? But before we get stuck into that just tell them about the podcast sponsors And the special gift they have for you to come and join us I'm absolutely buzzing for this podcast once we've had some great podcast sponsors on in the past Jackie And these guys the Spartan race team are joining the ranks Of very kindly sponsoring the podcast and not only are they sponsoring the podcast, but they are giving away Free spots at the Spartan race. We are going to be doing the Spartan Midlands on the 16th and 17th of July and Spartan have very kindly gifted us some free places. So you have an opportunity to come and do it with us What's it? What's an opportunity to get out your comfort zone come and do something or you might be a seasoned obstacle course race And you like you know what we've done this one before right is a little story We did a tough one a few years ago and there's a couple people turned up like proper pros at it And there's a few people there that were like European Name she was like I don't know I've done like 25,000 of these I'm actually I'm doing your one and then I'm going off and like So but if you want to Excuse if you want a reason to kind of come and do something with a few other people have a bit of a laugh We've got a Spartan race for you Set yourself a little child one of the things that we do when we first I didn't cast dates It was like Strength training for this five in the urban jungle was the the notion that you came up with Tim wasn't it? But just this idea of like can you be strong outside of him like the challenge the enjoyment I'll I'll enjoy the running part of it as well but the can you Use your muscle-up skills actually or your pull-up skills or you have human flag things or whatever else that you're learning with You can't say train can you actually go and do that in? It's still not the real world is it because when some monkey bars are you throwing a spear or whatever it is that you're doing on the Obstacles of the Spartan race, but it's a bit more like Get from there over there through that thing and like you've got to use your body a little bit more Onaturel rather than gripping. Can you pass me the chalk for the Tape on them to help me with the grip says there's none of that It's raw and it's going to be it's going to be some good fun and we're going for that In that as you can imagine with the true Notion of the movement strength and play podcast there will be some fun along the way There are a level for everybody. So there's a 5k. There's a 10k There's a 21k which is like half marathon and the details will be in the show notes. The website is race.spartan.com But to get the three Free not three. There's 50 free spots available You've got to jump through a couple of little hoops because you know, you got it You got to earn it and you got to show prove your worth and that is You need to take you need to join on social media on Instagram You need to take a video or photo of you training or preparing for your Spartan race You need to tag Spartan. So at Spartan you need to use the hashtag Spartan race And then you also need to tag us school of calisthenics and then very importantly to make sure that we see it Send that to us send that post that video that picture to us in a direct message in a DM and then we will authorize the fact that you've passed all of those those criterias of the correct tags and whatnot and then give you the code You can then just go book on to the whichever race it is that you want to do on the Spartan website And that's is how you bag your one of 50 free race places with me and Timbo be quick because they're gonna go I'm glad you're here Jack because you are you are so much better than I am at Conveying the details of these things. I read the email. I read the email Right, let's get into who you should trust this isn't a self-promotion This is just generally helping you to navigate the minefield of social media and working out who actually knows the hell What the hell they're doing? I thought I thought it was just a case of that to pick between me or you Yeah, probably yeah Who's got more credibility? Well, let's dive into it. So sit back and enjoy us having a waffle about who you can trust Roll that jingle Listen players You're listening to the movement strength and play podcast by the school of calisthenics here are your hosts Tim and Jackal so Timbo the I've only just set the scene of something of The conversation I had the other day and this was just like a bit of a realization for me And then actually I've been seeing a cranial osteopath. Thanks to Cole Clayton, he said I need to have someone work on the head. It's been amazing crazy and I then had the conversation with him and he's like this old guy that's like Seeing it all right.  Yeah. Oh, yeah. He's like just the way he talks. She like this guy knows it. Anyway, anyway So and he was like he was laughing along with this notion that Had a conversation with them. I mean it was it was Mrs. Jaco. I was having a conversation with the missus and she was This is gonna sound a bit too. She was talking about conversation. She had with her friend But just stay with me. But basically they had some like pain in their ankle from running, right? And I said to her I was like, you know where with all these different people that we've listened to on the podcast and how How will you start to appreciate the? What's causing the pain in that ankle? I was said to her I was like, well, I I could I said to be fair to I was being a bit hard on myself I was like I could probably have a bit of a decent like have a look at her and have a bit of a decent guess It may be some stuff that might be going on. I was like, but where I'm at with everything is I'm like There's so much that it speaks to Poe Nixon. They tell it might be something wrong with the liver Well, he speaks it's awesome. We're on the brain or eyes or this or that and I'm like the more Just the fact that I've just the more I've delved into all this stuff I'm like it could be anything could be anywhere Don't know where to start and and then and then I and then so then I go I don't know anything and then and we're not saying that we're dead But there's but I quite like that openness of just being like like I I'd prefer to feel like that Than be like, oh, I know everything and I know the answer to this because actually that's one thing I'd probably say is a starting point of if someone thinks that they know it all I wouldn't trust them Because you can't There was a great you're like this great you like an Einstein quote great Einstein quote heard the other day Um, what do you say it said the universe is under no obligation to reveal its secrets to us Good I don't know if that is that relevant. Is it relevant to the conversation? I like the quote We can well we can sort of if you know what I mean, let's shoehorn in I agree meaning basically that like no, we can't know everything is basically what that was that that sprung to mind for with well, I've During I don't know when I read it now a while ago Adam grants think again if someone tells me what books to read I tell them to rethink again because it The subtitle to that is the power of knowing what we do not know And to start with knowing what you don't know and being comfortable with that you need to be comfortable with being wrong So it's kind of like this idea of just like questioning everything taking a scientist mindset And that's what scientists would generally do is they're open to kind of testing a hypothesis to see what happens And well what we have in the current kind of let's say the fitness landscape is a lack of scientists Now some people and I'm going to pitch this as a spectrum because I think there's an important range of how we can kind of Think about where someone is that we can trust on this spectrum. So Physiotherapy you've got lots of people at the moment I'm going to take physios because they're quite vocal around exercise prescription And it's evidence-based you cannot do that unless it's in the literature And that means it can't be just 12 people from a crap university somewhere that like did this thing It's got to be a certain population size with a well-designed methodology And the results have got to be pretty like nailed on So don't do anything less in literature on the other side you've got Old like whoever Do you know what happened then there was a load of names of people that I think of running through my mind I didn't want to say any of them because I didn't want to call them out and get in trouble with people So let's call it John Smith because there's we're going to keep it steady It was well good. Whatever it is that you want to do individually But has got no real kind of like experience or expertise other than What he's done himself Now those people are good teachers right to some people but they are so for those people that aren't into academia research And this is I'm not massively in statistics, but n refers to a sample or population size So n of a thousand is like 1000 people showed these results And therefore we can have some confidence because it was a big sample size n equals 1 is means that works for you and nobody else basically So if you find that you've got and social media is an absolute minefield for this If there's loads of people who are really good at what they do in their own practice Who then Assumed that that gives them the authority and credibility to tell other people that that's what they should do And for me that and that brings a level of credibility Because you learn through experiences that you can share with the people for sure. That's part of it But there has to be There's a central point I think where you are not completely bound by the evidence And that's kind of the art and science of training and coaching And but you've also through your experiences taken what you've learned from a practice perspective, but also from a Principles perspective let's call it and you've got to try that out on other people than just yourself Or maybe a few people, but you've actually gone and tested your your hypothesis And that's where you get people that are experienced coaches like who've been in the game for a long time Like you've had time to go out and try things and see them through see the results Learn a little bit more try something a bit different and I just think that that we have to Just because someone can put together a nice reel and they've got a big following I've got a big book bear about this at the moment that social media does social media following Does not determine credibility Like in terms of actual like it's that's not the game Instagram algorithm is not going You're a really credible source. So I'm going to promote your content to the people It's going to be like your reel has got the right number of right music on it It's got this this this and certain people engage with it. So it's like I think it's becoming really difficult to seek out people who you can actually trust and I'm not talking about calisthenics Like talk about nutrition talk about Whatever but like I just yeah, sorry. I feel like I've just offloaded some stuff there. No, it's good. I've got I've got something for you in that area of the The sort of evidence-based literature stuff as well just to also consider And or two things one very small one is like if all you ever do is evidence-based stuff Like you're never going to find out anything new You're about five years behind Yeah, you've got to do some there's got to be Like well, maybe you're not the person that needs to be doing the new stuff But someone somewhere has got to be something that isn't evidence-based to like find out whether something new is going to be Better than what we used to do Everything that we do now was once an idea that somebody thought I'm going to try this and it caught on And then suddenly an academic somewhere went let's count some beans and see what happens if we actually try and Understand what's going on I've got a third thing actually and it's more it's more to do of like um I think meditation is a great example of this so monks have been meditating for x number of thousand years Now that we've managed to scan their brains and show that it's actually worth doing Then people say that we should do it and it's like But why did we need to have that because the monk said that it was good to do and he's benefited from it for thousand and because this is something around like that you have stuff you can trust if it's been there forever You can probably trust it Because stuff that you can't trust like you know if it's not the truth it it dwindles out So stuff that's been around for a long time is is one thing um But back to my back the the main point I wanted to make around the the sort of evidence-based research stuff and a good example for this I think is um Patrick McKeown for the Oxford Vantage you've ever been on the podcast a couple of times he's who taught me um To become a breathing coach myself He's gonna share a bebon soon aren't you I'm parking my camper van Patrick on your front lawn. He gave me a side window He gave me permission. He said I can park on his front lawn. I'm assuming he's got quite a big pan That's a different story. Anyway, that's a different story I'll have to do a debrief podcast of like my trip smiling buzz it That'll be the podcast of the year. Keep your eyes on my stories Around the 25th of august the absolute fanboy. We're digressing where this is um That's a total engine offline chat. I know. I know. Yeah carry on basically I'm going to visit patrick in ireland as part of an event in august and never meet heroes jacko That's what they say, you know, I'm scared for you. I know I'm scared for him meeting me I am too. He you're here. You're his hero Right, so but what he's right what what he's done is gone and looked at the 20 years of research that Researchers scientists that people have been doing on Breathing and a lot within the sporting realm and then taken all of their conclusions all their things that they say work And then formulated a framework and exercises that fit all of that research and then gone Simplified it in a way that you can coach it. There you go. There's the thing. It's it's not If which is very different to me going I've developed This mouthpiece or I've developed this training protocol And I've also paid for a research study to be done on it to prove that it works And then you should now this is evidence-based.  Who would have thought it? And but there's so many people we do need to You did this in the the other podcast that we do Speaking to people out there like we need and this is to all of us line. I include myself We need to open our eyes to what is What is actually like Fair what is what is what is real? What is what is truth and not and you need we need to look someone me saying This is based on science Like that just that's just a phrase. I've said like is it actually and then what was the actual thing done? And now most I appreciate everyone listening bar probably like 0.1 percent are going to be like, yeah, I ain't got time I'm not going to sit down on google scholar and start reading Uh research papers, but it's it's just to have that appreciation that we do have to question Or at least look at if you're interested rather than just following stuff blindly of going Well, if this if we're having that evidence-based question like who funded the study No one does research for free someone has to fund it and and and it's worth knowing If it was about breakfast cereals if it was Nestle Then you got to take it with a a pinch of salt or probably a pinch of sugar But there are some people that are wise to this this game as well And they'll often quote a research paper and I can find a research paper to prove any point I want to make it's like it's called bias Right, so often what research people would do is they'll go and search all the literature Ignore the papers which don't agree with them to find the paper which does agree with them And then they'll put a paper in the journal of Finish hands and elbow signs or whatever it is like some kind of relatively obscure journal I don't even know if that one exists And and it will be one of those things about a sample of 20 people But because it say oh in research has shown that just because it's a published article There's this there's a massive kind of spectrum of like Of quality of research and of publication rankings in fact And so I just think and and that is like oh, okay. What's in the research? It depends like not all research is equal and this I appreciate you're sat there go Well, who do I trust and I'm going that is exactly the point Ask that question because if you go into social media world or whoever and just go is this person credible Should I be trusting them because What we're doing by investing our attention in people and giving them potentially financial Or that we're paying them for services or support is we are We need to be careful that those people are going to be able to give us the right support from a level of expertise Because if you buying a training program from somebody who has never programmed for anybody before apart from themselves Like that's that to me is something I should be going Okay, well, are you the right person for me? And maybe you are if you're an absolute beginner or you're doing a certain thing and this is outside of kind of sense Right, so it's not kind of pigeonhole it in I would just like to kind of like say to people do your research Around these sorts of things find out what they've done before Because there's so much stuff out there and Yes, it might take a little bit of work and but please don't pick based on social media following And we've got a relatively big social media following that but that's not Um, there's people with bigger social media followers and there's also really good people who've got less social media Followings than we have Um, I'm asking people to just do a little bit of diligence in a very tricky space of knowing who has actually got the quality qualifications experience and right Mo uh, what's the right word? Best intentions, let's say Yeah I've never just gone and pointed everyone towards what we're doing is I try to be one of those people Ross Hedgeley isn't one of those people a friend of the School of Personics like Well based in both practice and research Yeah, we've had loads of loads of amazing guests on the podcast that tick tick those boxes I think some of like for me I think of um, just a sort of final take home from me would be if I was trying to simplify it I'm thinking about like how long has that person been doing what they're doing? So how long has it stayed about for um, what experience and it goes in hand to hand with that But you're talking about what experiences is that personal that organization? Got in terms of who is it actually been working for and what sort of results are they generating from that? and then my third one is like if Is it like joined up with other people's thinking that you already trust? So it might be in a different area or different something different but you're like, okay, that's new But actually their their their principles are aligned with these other people over here That I do trust and do think that their work is good And and that for me if they're ticking those three boxes, it's like, uh, it's let's get them on the podcast Yeah, yeah Well, you said before as well like it's also you don't necessarily always have to be an expert in the thing yourself Like you said I think you said before Alex Ferguson was not an amazing footballer But he's a hell of a football club manager like Yeah, um So that's the irony. I was gonna the example I was gonna say actually was around Football managers make me it always gets me. It's like right um Multi-billion pound business Um Right, you've got no experience whatsoever other than you played football You've got no experience to be like you've never been a manager before. Um, why don't you be it because you were the best player Yeah, Martin Johnson did that for england didn't last that long No, no in no other like business world Would you just get give someone the top job? With them having zero experience of it at all because they were quite good at it Yeah Anyway, I hope that's not come across to run. It wasn't supposed to be but I just look out um onto the We like your ransom anyway. We like I don't know but these are the things that go into my mind You know the other thing just to close it goes on my mind's day I was gonna put this on instagram but it didn't Um, what is it? This is completely unrelated to who to trust apart from maybe it's about threat perception Um, what do you think about this right? What is it about the human? Behavioral system social behavior where it is impossible to walk side by side Down the street with somebody that you don't know So if you accidentally kind of come out of a shop and somebody's like at the same Like level with you there's then this kind of like strange game of either do I speed up or slow down? But I'm not staying the same pace. I'm thinking of like two magnets like It's exactly like that. It's like it's like they can't they can't But one meter in front or behind is okay like that's safe So I'm like it's my brain kind of going we don't know this person We can't possibly be all like what but I just thought that's quite that interesting sort of social dynamic It happened to me today and I put my foot down. I'm like I'm getting in front of you But I don't know whether she was also kind of put the gas on and we were then going to be in a more more complicated situation Having a walking race down the street. I get my hip waddle on and all of a sudden I think I'm going to the olympics I wonder whether when someone's side side by year and you're not talking to them So you're not turning your head and you probably can't actually see them in your peripheral that well that that that is that threat threat Perception being like because you don't know them Is it like I need to have them in my vision or anything needs to be far enough ahead of them that they're not a problem Or the only time that we ever like yeah, or we only ever because if I go forwards or behind me So that threat perception you would think would be like worse Is it that we only ever kind of walk closer to people in a social situation? So if we don't know them we feel like we should talk but we don't want to because we don't know them So we just like avoid it. It happened to me today And I just thought I was I was thinking about and I thought this is just an interesting thing of human behavior that I found quite entertaining You know, so I'll round up the podcast with that little little thought for people Well, how do you know who to trust not somebody's walking the same pace as you? Either you need to speed up or slow down because we can't carry on like this not working Next time that happens to somebody people are going to think of me and they're going to laugh Because they'll be like this is this weird thing of like do I slow down or do I speed up? I'm typically going to go faster.  I mean that's that is if you want to make that situation more awkward That is definitely one thing you could try to smile at them. Do you know what's do you know like the I did a little experiment Um, you know, I made a mate of mine used to do an experiment. Um When uh, when we were in sixth form he was like he'd been keeping a log I think more mentally that whenever he went to the toilet the urinals and the men's He'd always have a little look either side of him and and he came up with a theory Where's this going? Where is this going? I know it's it's I'm coming back. I'm coming back around the size He reckoned he could make a judgment because he'd seen he'd had a sneaky look at that many people's Weenus Um, he could buy their body language the way someone would hold themselves whilst pissing in the urinal He could he could make a judgment on that whether they had a small medium or large shlong Anyway, that's not in a journal that one is it that's not been published. That was no n n was quite large on that literally my my social experiment the other day was around um It was when I was out on a big run and I was like, um I was smiling at everyone trying to like get trying to make eye contact with them and smile at them And do you know what every single person did? ignored you smile Of course they did people love to smile Yeah, but and you can't it's it's almost like you can't You can't not reciprocate it I mean I had like I had a guy it was actually it was when it was when I was when I did snowden twice actually and I'd come down There's this guy looks I love it. I love how you put it. It's when I said snowden twice not just you could just said I didn't know he's a snowden But you had to get in there twice then didn't you?  It's true Well think of the people that you might meet if you just if you started intentionally What people could do is actually start intentionally walking the same pace as people and say hello and see what happens You might meet some interesting people.  Give me one back Yeah, I'll be running in front for about 3k and then you'll probably overtake me because I'll be Hang in And right very very slowly We were gonna try to keep this one short. We have big that was my favorite part of the podcast Yeah, we always save the best bit for the end. Um, we get the importance. Well the Yeah, the meat out of the way and then we we can freestyle the end right Um, do that thing that jack has said about Pog about spartan and yeah come join us. Yeah, it tells you all things 50 spaces be quick tag spartan at spartan Use hashtag spartan race and then send it to the dm and send it to us We're school of calisthenics if you didn't know and make yourself look well spartan When you're doing speeders on if you want not compulsory, please Um, there's some things my eyes can't unsee Um, right until next week keep exploring your physical potential with movement strength and play class dismiss


A house in the woods is the concept behind the proposed veterans home in Bemidji. State officials, local leaders and area veterans gathered today to get their first glimpse of what the facility could look like. Multiple options were presented, each with slightly different design concepts. While the home will be designed to reflect the elements of northern Minnesota, the facility is similar to those in neighboring states. We took the Chippewa Falls veterans home and we did somewhat of a modeling after that. It's not going to be exactly the same, but some of the household designs will be the same. The spaces for families, for meetings, those sort of things will be a little bit bigger and a little bit nicer. April 15th is a key deadline for the proposals for the project. If the project moves forward, the groundbreaking would be held next fall with the facility opening in the spring of 2021. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


The proposed method is a novel approach for enhancing the spatial resolution of hyperspectral images, HSI's. It combines the spectral information of HSI's with the spatial information of multispectral images, MSI's, to create a higher resolution HSI. This is achieved by using a deep convolutional neural network, CNN, with two branches, one dedicated to the spectral features of HSI's and another to the spatial features of MSI's. These features are then combined and passed through fully connected layers before being used to generate the final HSI. The proposed method was evaluated on a virus and NMAP datasets and found to outperform existing methods. This article was authored by Jing Xiang Yang, Yong Chang Zhao, and Jonathan Chang Wai Chan.


Now, Ogun local government pensioners have staged a peaceful protest by the state secretariat demanding their outstanding gratuities. Speaking with newsmen, the protesters claim that the present administration was not unmindful of the plight of their senior citizens, hence they eager to meet with the governor. Reacting, the government said it would ensure a comfortable course of retirement life for its local government pensioners irrespective of the challenges they now face. First, they've died. They have nobody to buy drugs, nobody to care for them. We are hungry. We don't see banjins, 3,000 or 5,000 in a month, can you imagine? We should fear God. We want to, for example, they did not follow the circular that whenever they increase pension workers salary, five, five years they should increase pensioners, but they did not. We will be able to talk to them, to plead to them, and we have resolved with them that we are going to get a firm debt for them to see its excellency within the next two weeks. So hopefully, before then, we'll be able to get a confirmed debt with its excellency so that we can invite them one-on-one to resolve the matter.


I want to share with you five ways that prayer will change you. More than it will change anything or anyone else, prayer will change the one who prays. My prayer for you is that as you hear these truths from Scripture, that your spiritual hunger is cultivated. My goal is that as you're listening, you develop a desire for the deeper things of God, that you develop a hunger for prayer. I pray that your prayer life would not only be re-established if it's faded somewhat. My prayer for you is that it would go to the next level, higher heights and deeper depths. Now, why does prayer transform you? Second Corinthians chapter 3 verses 16 through 18 say this, but whenever someone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. So now we can see him. Verse 17, for the Lord is the Spirit and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. I would often read this and I would say, well, if the Holy Spirit is omnipresent, why isn't everyone free everywhere? Well, that's because this Scripture is talking about the presence of the Holy Spirit that abides with the believer. The Holy Spirit abides with believers in a much different way than he abides in his omnipresence around the world. This is his influence. This is his dominion. So where the Spirit of the Lord is, where that dominion is, where that influence is, and that's his dominion, his influence in you, the believer, there is liberty. So all of us who have had that veil removed, so unbelievers have not had that veil removed. You have had that veil removed. And so now we can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. Look how powerful this is. So all of us who have had the veil removed, now we can see him, we can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. Well, that's why prayer changes you, because prayer is glimpsing at God's glory. Prayer is seeing Jesus. Prayer is looking unto him. And the Lord who is the Spirit makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image. It's impossible to accomplish nothing in true prayer. For every moment you are praying, you are transforming. As you pray, you're looking unto Jesus. And as you focus on the Lord with the eyes of your heart, things within you begin to transform.  It's the transformation of your being, because prayer is seeing him. And as I see his glory, I reflect his glory, become like him or become a reflection of his light in the earth. That's what prayer does to you. It's looking unto Jesus, being transformed by the Holy Spirit, communing with God himself and having your very nature, your very being transformed. If you desire that, I want you to write that in the comment section. Watching live or on replay, simply write, show me your glory. Make that your public prayer. Express your desire to know the deeper things of God.  And I know that those who are of the Spirit can sense that too, that connection, that pool, that magnetism.  So what are some of the ways that prayer transforms you? Now, we could talk about a hundred ways that prayer can transform you, but I'm going to focus on five of them here. Number one, unusual peace. Those who are people of prayer have unusual peace. Isaiah, chapter 26, verse three says, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusted in thee. If you don't have perfect peace, then you don't have perfect focus. If you don't have perfect peace, then you're not truly looking unto him.  Philippians four, six and seven. Don't worry about anything, instead pray about everything. Worry is the flesh's powerless counterfeit for prayer. Instead, pray about everything. Those who are people of prayer understand that we do pray about everything.  Some might criticize you saying, why would you involve God in this or in that? Why would you involve him in every detail of your life? But you understand that you're wanting to walk in perfect alignment with heaven. And in order to do so, you must be in constant communication with the heavenly Father. Tell God what you need the scripture says and thank him for all he has done. So it's possible, at least scripture makes it clear, that you can ask God for something. You can submit prayer requests, while also having a heart filled with gratitude. Tell God what you need. Tell him he doesn't mind hearing it and thank him for all he has done. You can do those things simultaneously. Verse seven, then you will experience God's peace. Well, when? When I'm praying about everything. When I'm submitting to God my prayer requests. When I'm unburdening myself and removing distraction by taking all my cares and responsibilities and worries and placing them in His hands. Now, this doesn't mean that you shouldn't tend to your responsibilities. This just means that you shouldn't worry about them. You can give them to God, place them in His hands and then be free of the worry and the clutter of the mind that prevents you from moving to deeper places in prayer. Verse seven, again, then you will experience when or when I stop worrying and when I start praying. When I submit my prayer requests and when I have a heart filled with gratitude, then that peace fills me and that peace exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ. So that peace around you acts as a fortress or a wall. It's a protection, a shield against the cares of this world because the moment hear me now, please, the moment we begin to worry, that's when the flesh begins to try to take control. Worry is the entry point of the flesh's control, or I should say an entry point for the flesh's control. In other words, when you begin to worry, it's a demonstration that you don't trust God because you don't believe that He's actually handling it. You don't believe that He can handle it. You may not say that out loud. You may not think that out right, but in the flesh, that's what you're thinking in a very deep level of the flesh. Now, the flesh begins to reach for control. The flesh begins to try to pilot the situation. The flesh now begins to try to do things in its own ability. Why? Because you're not praying. But people of prayer experience this peace that passes all understanding. Look at what the Bible says in Romans chapter 8 verse 6. So, letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death, but letting the spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. Well, if you lack peace, that means the spirit doesn't have control of every aspect of your life. You've given it to the flesh. For the believer, you can either operate in the flesh or you can operate in the spirit. You can either be self-reliant or spirit-reliant. If you're self-reliant, now everything depends on you. And the moment that things begin to fall apart, the moment that you begin to recognize that some of these situations are bigger than your power is capable of handling, then worry begins to set in. But when your faith is in God and your trust is in Him, then you recognize that no situation can come your way that's outside of the capability of God's power. Fear is of the flesh. Peace is of the spirit. You want to know if you're in the flesh? If you're worrying. Fear is a manifestation of the flesh always. Perfect love casts out all fear. Now again, fear is different than tending to a responsibility or being aware of a situation or exercising wisdom. Those are of the spirit. I'm talking about living a life of fear. That's a demonstration that you're in the flesh.  Why is it they always seem to be walking in such peace? Why do they seem so unbothered by everything? And this doesn't mean that things don't affect us mentally and emotionally. It just means that there's this great stability, this anchor for the soul that is in your life that's recognizable. And you walk in the spirit when you begin to become a person of prayer. This is how prayer transforms you. It gives you unusual peace.  Why? Because they've given that responsibility of their reputation to God. When you walk in a way that's surrendered to the Holy Spirit, your reputation is God's responsibility, and it's none of your business. And people of prayer know this. When people of prayer come under financial pressure, instead of worrying from morning to night, staying up late, scratching their head wondering how everything's going to work out, instead of allowing those agitations of the flesh to begin to affect the way they are with their family, affect the way they are with their children, their spouse, instead of allowing the flesh to gain influence in that way, those who are walking in this unusual peace, even under financial pressure, peace. Even in the midst of health scares, peace. Even when others reject them, peace. Even when the future looks uncertain, peace. There's this great stability about people of prayer when it comes to peace. And others can sense it on you.  You're like an anchor. They feel grounded, level-headed when they're around you. Maybe there's chaos and confusion in their world. When they come next to you, a person of prayer, well now they're grounded. I know people like this, and for several years when I was first beginning to serve the Lord, I would often deal with these attacks on my mind, and I just couldn't get past them. And I would get around certain people of God just to be around them for an hour or so, because I knew that if I could get around them, the peace of God on them would start to, in some ways, affect me. And I've seen men and women of God, generals in the faith, come up against some of the most horrific attacks from people and from the enemy, and they walk in peace. That's how prayer can change you. That's number one. Number two, people of prayer have strength under temptation. In Matthew chapter 26, I'll begin reading at verse number 36, the Bible says this. Then Jesus went with them to the olive grove called Gethsemane, and he said, sit here while I go over there to praise, talking to the disciples. He took Peter and Zebede's two sons, James and John, and he became anguished and distressed. He told them, my soul is crushed with grief to the point of death. Stay here and watch with me. So now he's asking his disciples to pray. He went on a little farther and bowed with his face to the ground praying, my father, if it's possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine. So here we see Jesus coming now to his assignment, some of the final moments of that assignment. He's in the garden. He knows the crucifixion is imminent. He's asking his disciples to pray. He's anguished in his soul. He knows what's coming. And now he's saying, Father, if it's possible, let this cup pass for me. There was, I'm sure, temptation to just move beyond that moment. I'm sure there was temptation to reject the cross. Well, look at Matthew 4. Did not the enemy tempt Jesus with a way out to have the kingdoms of the world, to have dominion and power without the cross? That's what the enemy tempted him with. Dominion and power without the cross. I'm sure it was a temptation. Verse 40, then he returned to the disciples and found them asleep. So imagine here, there's a moment where he's experiencing anguish of the soul.  And so here, in one of his most vulnerable moments, his friends fall asleep. He said to Peter, couldn't you watch with me even one hour? Keep watch and pray. Watch this now, verse 41. Keep watch and pray so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak. Then Jesus left them a second time and prayed. Now watch this. My Father, if this cup cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will be done. Now he embraces the will of the Father. Why? Because he was praying. Under that moment of temptation to deny the cross. Under that moment of temptation to take a crossless path. He's able to stand firm in the will of God. He's able to stand firm and obey the commands of the Father. He's able to stand firm and go with what heaven wanted because he was in prayer. That's why he was praying because there was a temptation to resist the cross. That's why he was praying because there was another path that was calling for him to walk it. And he decides now in this moment of vulnerability, in this moment of temptation to give himself to prayer. And that's when he tells his disciples. Keep watch and pray so that you will not give into temptation. If you find yourself giving into temptation too often, it's a lack of two things and two things only. The word and prayer. That's it. The word and prayer. You begin to walk in the spirit through prayer and the word and there's no bondage or temptation that can hold you. Now in James chapter four verse seven, the Bible says submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee. Well here in the garden in what we just read in Matthew 26, we see that the disciples chose the flesh instead of the spirit. Now think about this. The disciples chose to sleep instead of praying and because they chose to sleep instead of to pray, they denied the Lord. They fled from him. They rejected. They didn't have boldness. They didn't have power to stand. They didn't have the ability to come up against the pressure that was coming up against them. Why? Because they weren't in prayer. They were asleep and because they were asleep, they fled. Well either you will flee or the enemy will flee. It's only going to be one of the two. But the Bible says in James four seven, submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee. So Jesus demonstrated how prayer strengthens us against the pool of human will. And the enemy often takes advantage of our will. What does the Bible say? That when we are tempted, we're tempted by our own desires. So the enemy uses our own desires against us. And if we're not in prayer, those desires will be strong. The cravings of the flesh will be strong. If you are not a person of prayer, you can't possibly keep your flesh weak. That's why, by the way, your flesh resists the place of prayer. You ever notice that when you go to pray, your flesh starts to squirm. You get agitated. You want to get out of that situation and into something more entertaining and move on to something more fast paced and you want to get out of the place of prayer. That's your flesh fighting its own death because prayer is the death of the flesh. Matthew six, seven through 13 says, this when you pray, don't babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. Don't be like them for your father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him. Verse nine. Watch this. Now pray like this. And we all know the Lord's prayer. Our father in heaven. May your name be kept holy. May your kingdom come soon. May your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need and forgive us our sins as we have forgiven those who sin against us. Now watch this verse 13 is key and don't let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one or lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. What's the Bible talking about? The Bible here. Jesus here is talking about prayers that deliver you from temptation. Specifically, the Lord's prayer is talking about deliverance from temptation. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. What does the evil one do? He tempts. So how do you come away from that temptation? Prayer. How do you break the power of that temptation? Prayer, prayer and the word. How do you break the power of the enemy in your life? The Bible says it here. It's very simple. You know, I think sometimes because of religious thinking, we complicate the issue. And by the way, religious thinking does not like the simplicity of spirituality. Religious thinking doesn't like the simplicity of spirituality because it places the focus on the Holy Spirit's power instead of man's ability. And that hurts the religious ego. But here clearly the Bible says, submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee. What does it say? Submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee. Resist the devil, and he will fight. Resist the devil, and he will resist back? No, resist the devil, and he will flee. Why? Because the moment the enemy recognizes that you're submitted to God and now you're turning against him, he's out of there. Why? Because the believer that is submitted to God has absolute dominion and the enemy fears that kind of believer. You submit your life to God, resist the devil, and he will flee. Well, that's how little power he has in the life of the believer. Now, if you're living in sin, yeah, he's going to gain more influence in your life. But if you are walking with God, you're submitted to that authority, there's nothing he can do. In fact, he can't even fight. He flees. That's what the Bible says he does. This is biblical truth. So to stand against those temptations of the devil, he comes to tempt you, he comes to show you what the world has to offer. He plays on your cravings and desires, presents it. Look, if sin were a product, the devil would be a salesman. And so he presents these things before our eyes. And if you're not submitted to God, those things will begin to pool you in. But the moment you submit to God and you resist that temptation, enemy's out of there. Resist the devil and he will flee. How do you do that? How do you submit yourself to God? Prayer. How did Jesus do it in the garden? Prayer. Matthew 6, how does Jesus tell us to pray? He says, deliver us from the evil one. Don't lead us into temptation. So it's in prayer that we submit to God. It's in prayer that the wheel is crucified. It's in prayer that the flesh is weakened. Prayer gives you strength against temptation. So that's number one, unusual piece. Number two, strength against temptation. Let me just add this by the way. I've never met a Christian who had a consistent deep prayer life who dealt with habitual sin. Never met that Christian. I've never met that believer. I've never met a Christian who was daily in the word, daily in prayer, walking in the spirit, and stuck in spiritual bondage. You want me just to be blunt about it? If you're in spiritual bondage, you're not living the Christian life. Spiritual bondage is not meant to be a part of the Christian life. And I think sometimes we've accepted the idea that it is and that's a lie from the enemy. Well, you know, that's just my cross to bear. It's spiritual bondage. We all battle it from time to time. Spiritual bondage, no. Trials, yes. We'll all face trials. Persecution, yes. We'll all face persecution. Heartache, tragedy, temptation. We will all face that. But spiritual defeat that is inner defeat, lack of peace, lack of joy, lack of love, lack of the influence of the spirit. No, my friend, that was never meant to be a part of the Christian life. And some believers sadly even have some sort of validation from the fact that they're suffering because they think that the fact that they're being attacked so much is proof that they're spiritual. When in fact, the spirit filled Christian, the one who walks according to the will of God knows victory is theirs, and that spiritual bondage is not a part of their life. And so if you're in prayer, temptation will not have hold of you. You're in the Word, temptation will not have hold of you. Or we believe that prayer doesn't have power. Or we believe that the Bible doesn't have the power to set us free. But the Word of God does have the power. Prayer does have the power to cause us to walk in victory. So you become a person of prayer, you watch that temptation begin to weaken. You want to see how strong your flesh is? I'll give you a little test here. You want to see how strong your flesh is? Go try to pray for an hour. Look at how your flesh fights you to get out of there. You want to see how strong your flesh is? Go wait before the Lord and just be silent before Him. Try to do that for an hour and watch the activity that begins to try to pull you out of that moment. Watch the activity that begins to look for a distraction. Watch the pool of the flesh. You'll see just how strong the flesh is. But I've never met a Christian. I've never met a Christian who was consistent in prayer, consistent in the Word, and walking in the Spirit who also walked in a spiritual bondage. Now again, don't get trials confused. All of us will face trials. Don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying your life should be perfect. I'm not saying everything will go the way you want it to go. I'm saying inwardly, you should always have the victory. That's number two, strength against temptation. Number three, divine wisdom. In 1 Kings chapter three, verses five to 14, we read the story of Solomon. Now the Lord offered him favor and he said, ask me for whatever you want. Solomon asks for wisdom and God says, because you asked for wisdom, I'm going to give you that wisdom and then everything else that you didn't ask for. But here's the truth. Solomon prayed for wisdom and God gave it to him. James chapter one, verses five through seven says this, and this, by the way, this verse, this portion of scripture, I should say, was a catalyst for my teaching ministry. I remember the days when I would read the scripture and have no idea what I was reading. It's embarrassing for me, but I think it's beneficial. I share it with you. There were times when I would read a whole chapter of the Bible and then I'd go, hmm, I didn't understand anything I just read or I would read through the entire chapter and I would go, I was distracted that whole time. Let me start over. And so there was this season of life where the word made no sense to me. The things of the spirit didn't quite click. And it wasn't until I came across this portion, James one, five through seven. In fact, James was one of the first books of the Bible I read as a new believer. If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, that's prayer, and he will give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking, but when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waiver for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind. Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. And so I looked up and I said, Lord, I'm an 11 year old boy. I definitely lack wisdom and I need your help. And the Lord began to impart wisdom. He gives you a discerning heart. He gives you the ability to navigate difficult circumstances. In fact, that divine wisdom is seen by others and they begin to become drawn to you because now they see that fountain of wisdom pouring out of your life. And they say, I want to go to that person and ask a question.   That's wisdom. Read Proverbs. Wisdom always leads to prosperity. Now when I use that word, don't hear what I'm not saying. I'm not saying wisdom leads to luxury. I'm saying wisdom leads to prosperity. That's simply fruitfulness. Wisdom leads to fruitfulness in every area of your life where it's applied. And so when you become a person of prayer, suddenly now, remember you're looking to him, you're becoming like him. I'm praying daily and over a transformation period, I begin to notice gradually I'm transformed and then suddenly. So there's this period of gradual transformation and then there are these sudden leads, these leaps in the spirit that we take. And now wisdom is beginning to pour out of you. And now you begin to think with the mind of God. And now you begin to think according to his word. And now you begin to reason with the mind of the spirit. You know, people often say, well, you shouldn't be too intellectual. You shouldn't use your mind too much. And I think that's just nonsense. It's just like saying that you shouldn't be able to fill in your emotions and encounter with God.  Both of those were created to respond to who he is. So sometimes when the presence of God moves, you're going to fill the emotions of that. And that's a good thing. Now emotions can't lead to an encounter with God, but an encounter with God can lead to feelings, certain emotions. And it's the same with reasoning. God wants to give you a divine mind. God wants to give you, and I have to be careful with the way I say that, I'm using that term in the biblical sense. God wants to give you what I mean by that is God wants to give you the ability to reason according to his word. He wants to give you the ability to reason according to his will, his nature, his ways. And many people just dismiss that. Well, that's too much head knowledge or you're overthinking it. Or, you know, I don't want to use the, well, no, the Holy Spirit anoints the mind too. In fact, revelation is knowledge set on fire by the Holy Ghost. You read the scripture, look at the many patriarchs, look at the many prophets, people who are of the Spirit have a sharp mind. And that comes from divine wisdom. So that's number three. You'll begin to notice divine wisdom. Now watch this too. You'll also begin to notice you become a person of prayer. Boldness begins to abound now. Look at Acts chapter four. I'm going to read verses 23 through 24, and then I'm going to jump down to verse 27. Verse 23 of Acts four, as soon as they were freed, Peter and John returned to the other believers and told them what the leading priests and elders had said. When they heard the report, all the believers lifted their voices together in prayer to God. Oh, sovereign Lord creator of heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them.  Now Peter and John were held captive and they come back to the people of God. They report about this persecution and this was the church's response. They had a prayer meeting. Verse 27. In fact, this has happened here in this very city for Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate, the governor of the Gentiles and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, your holy servant, whom you anointed. But everything they did was determined beforehand according to your will. And now, oh Lord, so here's the people of God, the church of God crying out to God in response to this persecution. And now, oh Lord, hear their threats and give us your servants great boldness in preaching your word. Stretch out your hand with healing power. May miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. After this prayer, the meeting place shook, guys, the building shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Then they preached the word with great boldness. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Peter and John among this group, by the way, Peter and John walked with the Lord and were a part of His ministry before the crucifixion.  So they had some measure of the Holy Spirit's power. John 2022, Jesus breathes on them, says, receive ye the Holy Spirit. Of course, they're going to receive a measure of the Holy Spirit's power. Acts chapter two, Peter and John were there when the Holy Spirit came upon the church and they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues. Yet here they are again in Acts 4. Now, that's a totally different message for a totally different time. The constant infilling of the Holy Spirit, the ongoing baptism with the Holy Spirit, different lesson, different time. Look at Ephesians 5, 18, Acts 2, Acts 4. We can go into that another day. But what I want to point out here is the fact that they received this refreshed boldness, this intensified boldness, even though they were already Spirit-filled, even though they already had the Holy Spirit, even though they already had measures of His power, after this prayer meeting, another measure of boldness comes upon them. That means the more you commit to prayer, the greater the influence of the Holy Spirit in your life. I don't think they were receiving more of the Holy Spirit here. I think the Holy Spirit was receiving more of them. I think they were surrendering in greater measures and because of that boldness begin to abound. If you kneel before God, you can stand before anyone. Look, you need to be filled with this boldness because the hour calls for it. You need to recognize that you can't cancel who God has called. If they didn't call you, they can't cancel you. If they didn't anoint you, they don't have the authority to remove you.   God is the one who imparted that anointing. People can't take that away. Nobody has the power to speak against you and cause others to turn away from you if God has called you. It's impossible. Why? Because God backs the ones He calls and people who are of prayer, they are filled with this boldness because they understand where they stand with God. Now, if you lack prayer, you may feel, oh, I don't deserve to have that. Oh, I don't deserve to have power. Oh, I'm unqualified and all of these insecurities begin to become stronger if you lack prayer. But the moment you begin to become a person of prayer, you become an individual who's committed to being in the presence of God, now boldness begins to abound. Look, there are things that I preach that the world does not want to hear. There are things that I preach that religious people in the church don't want to hear. But you know what? I preach it with boldness anyway. What can they do? There's nothing that man can do against you when you're preaching the truth. There's nothing that anyone can do to cause you to lose influence, to cause you to lose power, to cause you to lose favor. In fact, the attacks they bring against you are just going to work against them.  The world can attack you because you love Jesus.  Who cares? No, I'm not saying that we should be rude and unloving and mean.  You're backing this and I'm involved in what you're doing. Why? Because prayer aligns you to his will. Prayer puts you in alignment with his will and when you get in alignment with his will, you have his backing and you need to have that confidence. If God before you, who can be against you? Tell me, who can be against you? There is a spirit in you, the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit in you has more power than any spirit that may try to come against you. The Holy Spirit in you has more power than any person that might try to come against you. Favor will shield you from those attacks. Favor will shield you from persecution. This doesn't mean you won't be persecuted. This just means that there's ultimately nothing anyone can do to you because even if they can destroy the body, guess what? To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. It's constant victory. There's victory on all sides. Why? Because we are in Christ and when you're in prayer, you're very mindful of that victory. When you're in prayer, you're very mindful of standing in that authority that dominion and power. When you're in prayer, you recognize, you remember who you are in Christ and so it gives you great boldness. Number five, prayer will cause you to have a heart for people. Look very carefully here. This is very interesting. Matthew chapter nine, I'm going to read verses 35 through 38. Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the good news about the kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness. Watch this now, verse 36. This is the Lord now. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. He said to his disciples, the harvest is great, but the workers are few. So pray to the Lord who is in charge of the harvest. Ask him to send more workers into the field. I want to point out firstly that Jesus was filled with great compassion. And that great compassion is what caused him to instruct his disciples. Pray to the Lord of the harvest. Please pray that God would send help for these people. Now this is what's so interesting here. Jesus instructs his disciples. You pray that God sends workers. Okay, that was the instruction he gave. Now look at this. Very next chapter, first verse of the very next chapter, Matthew chapter 10, verse one. Jesus called his 12 disciples together and gave them authority to cast out evil spirits and to heal every kind of disease and illness. There we see the scripture making a delineation between a demonic spirit and a sickness. Verse two, here are the names of the twelve apostles. And he lists the twelve apostles, of course. And then, of course, Jesus gives instructions for this outreach. Verse seven, go and announce to them the kingdom of heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy and cast out demons. Give us freely as you have received. So Christ sends them now into the harvest field. Wait a minute. Were these not the very same disciples who were instructed to pray that workers would be sent? So imagine this. The disciples, in response to the compassion of the Lord, in response to the command and the compassion of the Lord, begin to pray. Lord, send workers. Lord, send workers. Lord, send them help. And then they become the workers that they prayed God would send. They become the help that they pray that God would send. Prayer will sometimes demand that you become the response that you're praying for. People of prayer understand this. Look, I'm talking to spirit-filled people now. I'm talking to people who love the deep things of God. That's why you're watching right now. You love the deep things of God. So you understand that when you pray, sometimes God will cause you to become the answer to that prayer. Lord, bless them, bless them, bless them. He says, okay, I'll use you to bless them. Lord, heal them, heal them, heal them. Okay. I'm going to use you as a vessel of my healing power to heal them. Lord, deliver them, deliver them, deliver them. Okay. I've given you authority to go and pray for deliverance. This is what prayer does. It transforms you to become the response for which you are praying. Prayer is most powerful when the one who is praying is willing to become the response to that prayer. Prayer is most powerful when the one who is praying is willing to become the response to that prayer. Well, that's what prayer is. Prayer isn't me trying to get God to do my will. That's not prayer. Prayer is becoming like him and being pulled into alignment with his will. That's what prayer does. It transforms you. And so here we see the disciples saying, send workers, send workers, send workers, so he sends them. Prayer gives you a heart for people. That very same compassion that the Lord had now became the compassion of the disciples who prayed. And this is what begins to happen. In fact, people can feel the love of God around you because when people come near, your heart just goes out to them. I've had this happen several times where when I'm meeting someone, I can feel the love of God for that person. Now, maybe not in its full measure. In fact, I'm certain not in its full measure. Or I'm positive I would break down weeping. I wouldn't be able to handle it. But the Lord often will allow me to sense his love for his people. When I'm preaching the word, when I'm teaching like I am on a live stream, when I'm praying for the sick, praying for those who need deliverance, praying for those who want the baptism with the Holy Spirit, as I'm praying for these people, as I'm ministering, I can often feel the love of God for these people. And that love of God causes me to get angry at the enemy. It causes my heart to go out to them. And that's what happens in you. When you pray, suddenly these desires begin to develop in you for others. Now, others become your focus. You become a person of compassion. And in fact, it gets to the point sometimes where you're meeting the needs of others, even when your needs are going unmet, where you're praying for others, even when you need prayer, where you're praying for the sick, even when you're sick. That's the compassion of the Lord. And you begin to develop this heart for the loss, for the broken, for fallible believers who are struggling. That's what prayer does. Prayer causes you to have unusual peace, strength against temptation, divine wisdom, boldness, and a heart for God's people. Now, Lord, I pray that you would give that one watching a hunger for the deeper things of your spirit. Cause them to become a person of prayer. Help us to behold you and be changed into your glorious image as we look through and beyond that veil. Thank you, Jesus, that the veil has been removed.  Draw us by your spirit, I pray, into the deeper things. Lord, I pray for healing over your people, sickness and disease of every kind we rebuke it. Lord, I pray for deliverance for your people break every spiritual bondage in the mighty name of Jesus. Empower them, Lord. Draw them to deeper places, higher heights and deeper depths. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray, you receive that. I want you to write amen in the comment section right now. If you enjoyed this teaching and you think others need to hear it, be sure to leave a like on the video. Also, don't forget to subscribe if you haven't done so already for more teachings on the Holy Spirit prayer and spiritual warfare. We also live stream events where the power of the Holy Spirit moves. People are saved, healed, delivered and empowered. You don't want to miss those live events either. Subscribe now and click the notification bell when you do. 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Hi children, my name is Mansi and I am going to help you solve the following question. The question says, prove the following by using the principle of mathematical induction for all n belonging to natural numbers. 1 plus 1 by 1 multiplied by 1 plus 1 by 2 multiplied by 1 plus 1 by 3 up till 1 plus 1 by n is equal to n plus 1. In this question we need to prove by using the principle of mathematical induction. Now before proving this we see the key idea behind the question. Now we know that the principle of mathematical induction is a specific technique which is used to prove certain statements that are formulated in terms of n where n is a positive integer. The principle can be explained with the help of two properties. If there is a given statement p at n such that first p at 1 is true and second if statement is true for n equal to k where k is some positive integer pk is true then statement p at k plus 1 is also true for n equal to k plus 1 then p at n is true for all natural numbers n. Now using these two properties we will show that statement is true for n equal to 1 then assume it is true for n equal to k then we prove that it is also true for n equal to k plus 1 hence proving that it is true for all n belonging to natural numbers. Now we start with the solution we have to prove that 1 plus 1 by 1 into 1 plus 1 by 2 into 1 plus 1 by 3 up till 1 plus 1 by n is equal to n plus 1. Now let p at n be 1 plus 1 by 1 into 1 plus 1 by 2 up till 1 plus 1 by n be equal to n plus 1. Now putting n equal to 1 p at 1 becomes 1 plus 1 by 1 that is 1 plus 1 and that is equal to 2 that is equal to 1 plus 1 and this is true. Now assuming that p at k is true p at k becomes 1 plus 1 by 1 into 1 plus 1 by 2 up till 1 plus 1 by k is equal to k plus 1 and let this be the first equation.   For the we see that k plus 1 and k plus 1 they are common in numerator and denominator so they get cancelled and we left with k plus 2 that is equal to k plus 1 plus 1 and this is same as p at k plus 1. Thus p at k plus 1 is true wherever p at k is true. Hence from the principle of mathematical induction the statement p at n is true for all natural numbers n. So to solve this question we used the principle of mathematical induction we assumed that the statement is true for n equal to k and then we prove that n equal to k plus 1 is also true hence proved. I hope you understood the question and enjoyed the session. Goodbye.


Hello and welcome to the session in which we would look at the contribution margin ratio. When we say ratio it means a percentage. In the prior session we looked at the contribution margin, how do we compute the contribution margin. In this session we're going to be looking more at the contribution margin ratio and how do we use this ratio to make business decisions. So what is the contribution margin? Well it's the selling price minus the variable cost. Basically put if we have a product and we're selling a product for ten dollars it's costing us six dollars to buy the product. Six ten minus six will give us a contribution margin of four dollars per one unit. Now we can take this information and compute a percentage to figure out how much each unit we are selling is contributing to our margin, to our contribution margin. Well to compute the contribution margin ratio which is a percentage will take the contribution margin which is four dollars as computed above divided by the sales. Sales is ten dollars we're only considering one unit and this gives us the contribution margin ratio of forty percent. So what did we do? Why did we do this? Well because for some companies they might have sales of for example one hundred dollar sales and the contribution margin is forty dollars and for some companies they might have sales of one billion dollar. Then how can we compare a company with the sales of a hundred dollar, you know don't read it literally, all I'm trying to say is there's a difference in size and a company with sales of a billion. Well we can take the company with sales and billions of dollars figure out their contribution margin and let's assume their contribution margin is actually three hundred million. If their contribution margin is three hundred million and their sales is one billion we would say that this company has a contribution margin of thirty percent. So notice although the size of the companies although I'm being extreme here but extreme to make the point this is company A, this is company B. If I'm comparing company A to company B once I compute their contribution margin ratio one is forty percent one is thirty percent then I can compare them then they are both we are basically factoring the size out and using percentages. So this is another way how we use the contribution margin ratio to make decisions and this is this is used in when you conduct an audit when you conduct financial statement analysis you would use those contribution margin ratio. So this is the company that we are working with Adam electronics retailer remember Adam sells tablets and the price per tablet the price per tablet is five hundred dollars and for this scenario we are selling four hundred tablets four hundred tablets times fifty dollars is sales of two hundred thousand if you're not copy this information down because we're going to be using the data from this example throughout this session variable cost per one tablet is three hundred dollars so we're selling tablets so the variable cost is three hundred times four hundred is one thousand one hundred and twenty thousand our contribution margin which is sales notice sales less variable cost is eighty thousand then we deduct the fixed cost and we happen to have a net operating profit of zero but we can also compute the contribution margin for this company well how do we compute the contribution margin we can take two hundred divided by five hundred and this is the contribution margin per unit the contribution margin ratio same thing we can take the total contribution margin divided by total sales and it's also going to give us forty percent so the contribution margin whether you use the price per unit or the total contribution margin divided by total sales it's going to give us the same percentage now also we could compute what's called the variable expense ratio. And the variable expense ratio is taken variable expenses per unit divided by sales per unit or total variable expenses divided by total sales. Sometime you might be giving the individual price, sometime you might be giving the total, you can go back and forth and we'll see in an example later how we can go back and forth between those two ratios. Now what does that mean? What does it mean that we have a 40% contribution margin ratio? It means each dollar in sales, each dollar in sales that we can generate, each increase result in total contribution margin of 40 cents. So every time we sell for $1 we can add to our contribution margin 40 cents. Now if we sell $100 we can add $40 so on and so forth. Now how can we use the now this information to make a prediction to do what if analysis? Well before we proceed most likely you are looking for some help. You are looking to learn about the contribution margin. 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Well we can use it to predict what would our profit be if things changes. What if tablet sales increase from 400 to 500? Remember in the original example we sold 400 tablets so it's an increase of $100. Well we sell each tablet for $500 so that's an increase in sales of $50,000. Now knowing what we know we have a contribution margin ratio of 40%. Well guess what? If we increase sales by 50,000 it means we should increase our contribution margin by 20,000 and this should flow to the bottom line because in the example that we worked remember in the example that we worked we already covered the fixed expense. So let's prove this. Let's show you this in a contribution margin format. Well total sales now is 250,000 because we increased tablets by 100 tablets again 100 times 50 will give us give us an additional $50,000 in sales. From the sales we deduct the contribution margin which is 500 tablets times $300 that's the variable cost. Sales minus variable expenses or variable costs will give us a contribution margin of 100 minus 80 will give us a profit of 20,000 which is an increase in profit from zero to 20,000 and it's basically what we predicted even before we went through this computation. We could also use the contribution margin ratio using what's called an equation and basically what is an equation and this is what you need to be very familiar with the contribution margin ratio income statement because the equation is derived from that. What is the contribution margin income statement? Let's take a look at it one more time. It's sales minus variable cost equal the contribution margin minus fixed cost equal to your net profit or net operating income. So we can express profit too if we can take profit. Profit should equal to you could use the contribution margin ratio for our purposes is 40% multiplied by sales that's going to be our contribution margin then we can deduct the fixed expenses. So it's basically in a sense it's a shortcut but it's derived from the contribution margin income statement. So we are not doing anything that you should not be familiar with except we are expressing this information differently or another way to compute profit is to take the unit contribution margin which is $200 per unit this is this is dollar amount unit contribution margin versus the unit the unit ratio the contribution margin ratio multiply by quantity. Quantity is how many units we are going to sell then we can deduct the fixed cost. Now let's take a look at an example. What do we expect the profit to be if sales is 600 tablets the selling price is 500 and 300 variable cost basically the same data well let's use the contribution margin ratio of 40 percent remember for this example three 200 divided by 500 is 40 percent our contribution margin is 40 percent. So here what we do we'll take 40 percent times sales that's going to give us 120,000 minus fixed cost will give us 40,000 of profit or we can use the contribution margin per unit which is $200 times the quantity we're selling 600 that's going to give us 120,000 minus fixed cost of 80,000 will give us a profit of 40,000. So make sure you are familiar with this formula because you will need to use it you will need to use it. So let's take a look at this exercise which can be found at farhatlectures.com and this is what you need to do after you learn the concept you really want to go to Farhat Lectures and practice exercises like this one practice multiple choice zinc talk company manufacturers and sells a single product has provided the following data concerning its most recent month of operation sales 6,300 unit at total sales of 415 800 variable cost of 289 800 contribution margin is 126,000 fixed cost 98,500 and the net operating income based on the scenario is 27,500 simply put what they're given us here and if you're giving this on the exam that's a great this is the contribution margin formula or ratio or income statement which will be very very easy for you once you know how this is all structured so sales minus variable cost equal to the contribution margin minus fixed cost equal to net operating income they're asking you what happened if sales is 6,100 unit what will be the net contribution margin actually immediately you should be able to eliminate two choices it cannot be 27,500 it cannot be 122 because it has to be less than 27,500 it's either B or D so if you're guessing you just have to guess and you're better off with 50% chance well you don't have to guess we're gonna go ahead and work this problem well for one thing I can find the contribution margin ratio immediately by taking 126 126,000 divided by 415 800 and it's gonna be 0.30 3030 rounding okay it's not it's not a good ratio to illustrate but all I did is I take 126 contribution margin divided by sales this is the contribution margin ratio I don't know my selling price per unit but can I find my selling price per unit sure I can if my total sales is 418 415 800 for 6,300 unit I can take the total sales divided by the number of units I sold and by doing so I will find my selling price per one unit which happens to be divide this by 6,300 is $66 also I can do the same thing for my variable cost per unit because it varies in proportion to sales so my variable cost total is 289 800 divided by 6,300 unit and this is gonna give me my contribution margin for one unit and that's $46 now if I take sales minus variable cost easy $20 if I take $20 divided by 66 it's gonna give you back to this ratio 0.3 0.30 3030 forever which is not gonna be good one if we do the contribution margin it's gonna round but we don't have to use the contribution margin would use the contribution margin per unit now the question is back to the question what's my operating operating income well if I'm selling 6,100 unit and my contribution margin per unit is $20 if I take 6,100 times $20 that's gonna give me that's gonna give me $6,100 times $20 that's gonna give me a total contribution margin of 122 I multiplied by the contribution margin because I know that it's $20 right here now from the contribution margin all what I have to do deduct my fixed expense and that's gonna be 98,500 that's gonna give me 23,500 now if I use the other formula which is the percentage first I have to find sales it's 6,100 times sales is selling price per unit 66 so if I take 6,100 unit 6,100 times $66 that's gonna give me total sales of 402 600 now you have to multiply by .303030 repeating because this is gonna be a rounding issue I did this and it's gonna be if I do it you know for several one it's gonna be it's gonna give me if I do it .30303030 okay it's gonna give me contribution margin again of 122 so I'm using the percentage again if I deduct 98,500 it's gonna give me 23,500 the same answer so this problem can be found with detail this problem and other problems for that matter can be found on can be found on farhatlectures.com and this is where my farhatlectures.com can help you learn in addition to your the lectures so take advantage of the subscribe invest in yourself the CPA exam is worth it your accounting education is worth it stay safe and good luck


I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence and the CN making. This is module number 74 and we are going to talk about that how we can be innovative act with creativity and be artfully political. When we talk about artfully political, we have to sometimes be diplomatic. We have to sometimes be acting in a way that our perspective is in accordance with the other people and for that purpose dear students remember that there is a very famous quotation about leadership that leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it because your follower becomes your voice in that case your follower thinks in the same perspective in which you want to do things. So for that purpose you have to be artfully political and how can we be artfully political remember that politically smart people are the people who know how to manipulate self-interest and while manipulating self-interest remember that you do not need to do exploitation. The second thing is that they care for all, you have to care for all. Thirdly, they are the people who are tactful and they are rightfully diplomat and the diplomats are the people who take care of other people's motives, their perspective, their thinking patterns and at the same time they are the people who can reinforce their thinking path. Another important thing is when you are there to be artfully political that they are people who can overcome the resistance so you have to be politically engaged with the followers in a way that you can overcome the resistances in their mind so that they feel motivated so that they feel energized and so that they should not be resisting the change which is actually required for them. Another thing is that you have to move with your stakeholders in a win-win perspective that your victory will be theirs and vice versa therefore remember that this will happen only when we focus on this with positive thinking and mindfulness that what are the needs, wants of the other people, what are the emotions and thoughts of the other people and how can we act in accordance with that. Remember that you have to be artfully political and to be artfully political this quotation is very important to understand that making mistakes is not failure, the only failure is the failure to try to make an impact. So remember you have to formulate yourself in a way that your impact on the other people should be more because that impact is actually going to create the difference for the purpose we have to do one exercise this is exercise number 17 that we are focusing upon and in this particular exercise we have to serve their interest and from this word there we mean to say the four domains we are having so this exercise which you can do at any point during your experiments like in the previous exercises we developed certain experiments to support and promote our stakeholders so upon the experiments designing we can do this exercise at any time so during your experiments extends the previous exercises by focusing on your reactions to the impact of your experiments so the most important thing here is our impact which we want to put on our stakeholders our four domains so for that purpose take few moments sit down and think about how to improve your chances of success because by again considering what is in it for them and this is the key expression what is in it for them so the people affected by the changes you are making also how do you feel about serving their interest so these are the important aspects that you have to focus upon your differences you are going to create and you are focusing upon the feelings and the emotions you are going to have when you are serving the interest of the other people so this particular exercise is there to tell us that we can balance the interests of our stakeholders dear students as we have seen in this particular exercise that we can balance the interests of our stakeholders and they are balancing it when we are creating that balance in equitable terms that is the time when we are feeling confident that we have gained what we wanted now if we conclude all the things dear students remember our stakeholders interests are our interests and likewise our interests will be their interest only when there is a relationship when we are putting all our effort, when our experiments, when our score card outcome is in a way, in which we can remove exploitation and we can focus on this, that we have put our entire effort in the concern of our stakeholders, so that that effort is not just in terms of time, it should be in terms of empathy, it should be in terms of our support. Thank you.