Father is in electricity board. Yes sir. He works in the North India. Yes sir. He has been staying there for a long time or has he been going around? In this plant we have been over 14 years sir. 14 years. See plans for this plant. Yes. He won't go to other plants. He was in metro earlier sir, before this plant. What does he look up? He is majorly involved in paperwork sir. He is in the chief engineer's office. So he was, earlier he was supervising the boiler maintenance that then he was promoted and he is now involved in the chief engineer's office, majorly paperwork. What is the matter? She is a homemaker sir. You have done a lot of sports activity. Yes sir, in college. What is your interest in? Sir, I am primarily interested in cricket and volleyball sir. Cricket and volleyball. Yes. Change combination. Yes sir. In our college we had a limitation as in, it can be only part of two sports teams. So we had to prioritize which team sports we had to choose. To give opportunities to a lot of people, it was a system like this in there. So naturally I became interested in these two sports. Cricket, what were you playing? What position? What was your role? I like to think I am an all-rounder sir.  Yes sir, off-spinning all-rounder. No sir, off-spinning all-rounders, batting and batting. Spinner and batsman. Yes sir. Can you tell me what happened of the Indian immense cricket? Sir, right now in limited cricket, I think it is Smriti Mandana sir. Okay. Udhees and... Okay. So why are you interested in this? Go for something more technical with your father. You are not inspired by your father. In fact I was inspired by my father. It was his suggestion initially to pursue civil services. And I thought it was right for me because there is a lot of dynamism involved in civil services. Apart from giving us the opportunity to be of service to the public, it takes us on a lot more levels like leadership, communication, emotional intelligence. This combination of opportunities and challenges drew me to civil services. Since you are in the government service, do you realize that there is a lot of corruption in government? Yes. Why do you want to come into a corrupt service? There is, you know, in private service there is not much of corruption. Sir, I believe it would be an overstatement to say that the whole government service is corrupt sir. Of course my understanding comes from my father's commitment to his service. And his reputation has been of being a very straightforward person. He doesn't have any blemish on his records. So even otherwise I believe that if your intentions are right, you will get the right support from the system and you can bring about the right changes. How do you learn corruption? Sir, I think ultimately it will be the moral responsibility of each individual officer. So it has to come from the right upbringing, right values from the time he comes into the service. Its intentions has to be right sir. But from the administrative level we will have to enforce measures like an unofficial compliance box in each department where people can say information about corruption happening at the level or strict enforcement of the existing mechanism like prevention of corruption act. So this has to be taken forward sir. That's all. You want a prison plower, you want people to be good by themselves. Moral region. The moral region. Enforcement also yes sir. Enforcement also. Building up transparency via initiatives like digital governance and e-governance. So when you bring transparency as part of the system itself, I think the scope for corruption will be lesser I think sir. So this also has to be there. The entire department is corrupt what do you think? Sir, I am not exactly aware of the legal... Any department which is totally corrupt. I think we will have to approach them informally and... Yes sir, yes a very rosy picture of all the departments. Anyway, so tell us something about transparency in tenders. Transparency basically. Sir, specifically to tenders transparency is brought about by the system of bidding where the whole process of from the initial requirement it is being published in the media and the advertisements are published and then the participants are brought in then the bidding is undertaken through digital means and the results of the bidding is also published widely sir. Is transparency enough? I am very transparent. Is it enough? Certainly not sir. Transparency is only one of the values that is necessary in public service. So what else is needed? I think individual integrity, transparency and accountability and serability to the people and openness, transparency and accountability are two sides of the same coin I believe sir. So this has to be rightly enforced. See I am asking this because you have a physics background. Yes. This is in Thaini. They are trying to set up a laboratory. What is the laboratory? The Indian Utrino Observatory. Utrino Observatory. But there are a lot of objections from the public. What is the reason for the objection? What is the problem? This will really take the frontiers of research further. Do unique laboratory in the whole world? First of all, why did they prefer the Thaini region for this laboratory? And why do we have some kind of opposition from the public? So from my understanding, this region was selected because it is relatively away from the industries and from the urban life, sir. And one reason, but more importantly, do you know how the laboratory will be constructed for this? I think it is underground laboratory. Into the mountain, the kind of cave lighting. That was necessary. You needed that kind of… Since it is in hilly region, I think… You think into the mountain. Since it is in hilly region, I think… Why do you need that kind of region for nutrino? Sir, I believe when observing cosmic rays, there are a lot of other particles as well, sir. So a relatively undisturbed path underground will filter out the other particles. Nutrino will penetrate through everything. Right, sir. It will not. They have to remove that. Remove that. Then what is the objection from the public? Sir, I believe it is because of the miscommunication and misperceptions among the public that there will be health hazards among the people. And I think they correlate, conflate the words nutrino and nuclear energy, sir. So they think radiations… I think it is nuclear. So I think when we use terms like observing radiation and cosmic rays, cosmic rays such terms might kindle their fears, sir. I think it has also been unnecessarily politicized as well, sir. Some parties tap into their fears and exaggerate these things, sir. This is my understanding. There is a conspiracy to stop progress in the state. See, they do not want all those hydrocarbon projects. They do not want nuclear projects. They do not want any projects. Is there a conspiracy? Sir, I would not go that far to state that there will be a conspiracy against progress. In fact, Tamil Nadu is one of the most developed states in India, sir. That will not go. At that time, they left everything broke. Now they are stopping everything. Sir, in each of these projects, there are certain valid concerns, sir. So for example, even the hydrocarbon exploration project, it is in the rice bowl of Tamil Nadu, sir. So people are not sure how their land will be rehabilitated if their rehabilitation happens properly and all such concerns are there. But say opposition parties can come in and portray it as if the government is working against their interests and easily spread fear, sir. So that is where the distinction between fact and fiction comes in, I think, sir. You mentioned psychology as an optional subject. Right, sir. So India has done a lot of ancient research. Right, sir. So for example, effects of meditation. Yes, sir. How can it help? I am sorry, sir. Meditation, meditation. Benefits of meditation, sir. Somebody has some psychological problem. Or even without psychology, they want to sort of inspire themselves. Right, sir. And meditation help? Certainly, sir. Meditation can help. How would it help? How does it physically help? Sir, physically, when we meditate, I think there are two types of meditation, sir. One is mindful meditation, where we do not necessarily concentrate on a mantra or an object, and we just let ourselves be and say concentrate on our breathing. But the other type of meditation is concentrating meditation, where we select a certain object and direct our focus towards that object, sir. See, mind itself has a subconscious mind and conscious mind and so on. Right, sir. Right? What is a subconscious mind responsible for? Subconscious mind is just beneath our level of awareness, sir. So... See, conscious mind, whatever we do, you know, reading, writing, speaking, something, when you are awake. Right, sir. Right. So what does subconscious mind do? Sir, subconscious... How will meditation help? My question is to word that. Towards meditation. Sorry, sir. Not able to relate subconscious mind and meditations. Now they say that it is responsible for all your aspirations and long-term goals, emotions in general. Right, sir. If you control that and train that, this is possible to... Perhaps it is possible, sir. Medication is a way of filling your own mind. What to do? Right. Okay. Sir. Last year, China went to the other side of the moon. The invisible side of the moon. Right, sir. Last year? Thank you. January 1st week? Yes. Why? Why the other side of the moon? Sir, I think it is one of the relatively less explored part of the moon compared to other earlier missions on the moon, sir. So they perhaps are searching for... What is there in the other side of the moon? But if it is less explored, then why is it less explored? Now, why they have gone to the other side? Not just because of academic reasons, but from practical reasons. I think the sunlight is always facing on only one side of the moon, or only slight variations. Yes, that's the visible side. Right, sir. They went to the other side. Yes, sir. Why? Sir, my educated guess would be that if they perhaps established a post on the other side, their communication with satellites, the range of communications with which they can relay signals using that post on the other side will be... Yes, from there, from Pukau, they have a relay communication system also. Right. Okay, but why did they go there to the other side? What is the advantage of the other side? I am not entirely sure, sir. The biggest advantage is radio astronomy. Okay, sir. The visible side of the moon is not radio silence. Okay, sir. Even Earth's mobile towers can disturb that also. So radio astronomy gives us a completely new picture of the universe. Our knowledge of the universe will be much better. Okay, sir. If we go to the radio astronomy, a place where radio astronomy can be done well. But it is completely radio silence. Just to clarify, sir, it will be undisturbed from the radiations from the Earth. Yes, from the Earth's... Did you ask me? Because there is no disturbance there. Okay, sir. In Atacama Desert, we have that big telescope. Right. Because there is no civilization nearby. Right. So even vehicles can cause disturbance. Right. Okay. Like Mauna Kya. Yes. Establishment. Because there is no civilization, obviously inside the ocean. There should be ocean. Okay. That is the major advantage of that. Okay, sir. Can you tell me something on fusion energy and the projects that are taken in the world today? What is fusion energy? Sir, fusion energy happens at the nuclear level, sir. Generally, what is being established at the nuclear level is fusion energy, where an unstable atom finishes it, sir. It is fission. Nuclear is fission. Right, sir. So fusion? Fusion energy is when the two atoms combine and the amount of energy released is much greater than what is released in fission energy, sir. It is about that. It is about helium atoms. Yes, sir. What are the major projects now? Sir, one I can think of is the ITER project, sir. Where? I am not exactly sure where it is located, sir. But India is an active collaborator in that project and is exploring the viability of this fusion energy to... That is in Kaderche, France. South France. Kaderche. South France. Okay, sir. That is the thermonuclear experiment. Experimental reactor. Is it? Yes. So in France. Okay. So where India is a collaborator? Right. That is still being set up. That is not yet working. Okay, sir. Okay. Right. National Ignition Facility in California where it has become energy positive. Right. What is the energy positive? Energy positive is... It has become successful. What is the energy positive? I believe the amount of energy generated from the reactor will be greater than the energy spent to create this. So in California, it has become energy positive from years back. Okay, sir. Most of hard thing called artificial sum. Yes, sir. Signals. No, it is there. Okay. In California. Okay. Signals project is based upon what? It was something similar to artificial... Tokamak technology. Tokamak technology. And Germany has got which kind of technology? In fusion energy. Not entirely sure. Okay, sir. These are the techniques. Right. But why fusion energy we are going for? I think energy efficiency is high, sir. In the sense of... Yes. It has no environmental consequences. Okay, sir. It is completely cleaner. Like fusion energy. So why every country is competing to go to moon? What is the advantage? From moon, what can we get? For fusion energy. Metals, the necessary material for fusion. Which one? This is which one? I am not sure, sir. Helium-3. Helium-3. Helium-3 is abundant in moon. Okay. Whereas it is very rare in earth. Right. That is the reason as to why most of the countries are going to moon. Okay, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Well, this I... Yes. What is Telugu Ganga project? Correct. Not about Telugu Ganga project. Because CSI Foundation was associated with that. Okay. Telugu Ganga, you know. What is Telugu Ganga project? I am not familiar with the term, sir. But the association is involved in a lot of drinking water projects. To get the drinking water to the rural hinterlands of Anantapur district, sir. I am not exactly sure what Telugu Ganga stands for. You know that we are getting Krishna water from Chennai. Yes, sir. Right, sir. So, Telugu Ganga canal only we are getting that water. Yes, sir. Pundi, Kandalaya rural reservoir. Kandalaya. Telugu Ganga canal was built by the Sathya Sai. Yes, sir. Right, sir. Well, what is Paris Agreement? What is the, what are the features? Two features, can you tell me? Sir, it was signed in 2015. Majorly to push the nations to recognize that the increase in temperature is not something we can neglect anymore. And it aims to reduce the temperature rise within 2 degrees Celsius from the pre-industrial times and within 1.5 degrees if possible, sir. That is an aspirational target, sir. Very good. Global temperature. Global temperatures. Or is it global temperature or is it the temperature of the sea or is it the temperature of the land? I think it is. Exactly is the temperature of the machine. Any idea? I think it is the average temperature throughout the globe, sir. That is my guess. Well, why plastic has been banned? Tamil Nadu plastic has been banned, sir. Yes, sir. Kind of throw away plastics. Yes. Why plastics are being banned? Plastic is such a technique. Yes. And it is so light. And it is not affected by bacteria. Most importantly. So light. So why? Oh, versatile. So versatile. That is why wherever we were using wood, now we have started using plastic. Right, sir. Why being banned? Colorful. Sir, one major aspect of plastics is not biodegradable, sir. It takes thousands of years and it persists in the environment for a long time, sir. So it is partly... Isn't it split only? You can reuse it. It is not affected by bacteria. There is no problem. But since it is partly the irresponsible management of plastic from the human side, a lot of plastics end up in the sewer network and in the marine life as well, sir. In fact, a lot of estimates suggest that by 2050, half the mass in the oceans will be consisting only of plastics, sir. So this is just a supply-side measure to reduce the use of plastics, sir. So that is the reason... So what happens when it gets into ocean? Sir, I think the plastics disintegrate and take a granular form and it can be ingested by fish as well, sir. So in turn it can come and accumulate in humans also. Microplastics. What is bio-magnification? Have you heard about bio-magnification? Yes, sir. What is it? Sir, I think it is the increasing accumulation of certain heavy metals across the food pyramid, sir. So when one organism, say, contains 10 parts of that said heavy metal and if the next level, if the animal has the next level consumes, 10 such organisms, so it will amplify. So 10 into 10 becomes 100 parts in that second level organisms. That is bio-magnification. Like DDT. DDT. What is it? Like DDT? Like DDT. DDT. Diplofenacry over? Yes, sir. Diplofenacry over? Yes, sir. Diplofenacry over? Yes, sir. So the diplofenacry over is vultures. Vultures. It has reached to bio-magnification only. Diplofenacry over? Vinkilar. Vinkilar. Vinkilar, which we used. We also take those tablets. Vinkilar. It is used as a pesticide. And vultures ultimately consist of vultures. Yes, sir. Vultures, it is bio-magnification. And you have, what is digital detox? Digital detox. Digital detox. I am not familiar with the terms. But we are all familiar with the digital. Yes, sir. Everybody has got a mobile phone. Young people should know about digital detox. Digital detox. Digital detox. All of us should have a digital detox. Because we are all glued to our mobile phones. Keep your mobiles away. Keep your mobile and other digital equipments away. Digital detox. Well, there is a black belt in karate. Do you still practice karate? No, sir. What web series? You watch or you make web series? No, sir. I watch web series. Art of cinema, what is this? You have written here. Yes, sir. You should have written with some kind of idea. Right, sir. You must be able to explain it at least four, five sentences. What is art of cinema? Sir, I have always been fascinated by cinema, sir. How using a certain story, certain music or certain plot line, it conveys one to an entirely different world, sir. So over the course of time, my hobby being that, I try to analyze a movie. I do a lot of post-mortem on movies, sir. So I try to analyze the non-obvious aspects of a movie. Do you write reviews to the newspaper? Nowadays, some of the newspapers, they ask for citizens' review. Website. Citizens' review, they ask. In fact, they don't put formal review. They put these citizens' review. But they newly released movies. I don't try to newspaper, sir. But on an informal level, I write to my friends. So a lot of friends ask me about movies. Oh, you give their advice? My suggestions are not. You saw the movie, Hey Ram. Yes, sir. That Gandhi's specks and cheffels are reserved by somebody. Yes, sir. What is the meaning of specks and cheffels? But still, I am not able to understand why you have written as art of cinema. Art of cinema. Review. That's all okay. Art of cinema means making cinema. Making cinema. How do you make a cinema? That's why are you involved in production or something they may ask you. So anyway, you have now got your written. You have to justify what you meant by... Sir, I was involved in dramatics in my college days, sir. So I know what it means to be in the creator's mind, to conceive an idea and to expand it to a satisfying level, to bring about a storyline, to write character arcs, why the character is meant that way, sir. So as much as I would like to be behind the cameras and be part of that world, I just vicariously experience that world, sir. That's why I said when I see a movie, I do a lot of post-mortem. Basically, he wants to become a film producer. No. Not a bureaucrat. As a hobby, sir. Hobby. Perhaps he thought... Those who are connected with films have got into politics. Politics will be the next better. Anyway, this quiz-champion. So what I would suggest best outgoing student of our class, then Baluika's quiz-champion kind of quizzes you have attended. Is it a general quiz or a quiz? No, sir. Baluika's comes under the aegis of the Sathya Sai University. What kind of quizzes is it? It's basically based on the epics Mahabharata, Ramayana... Then maybe you can engage them with some time on that. Yes. What kind of quizzes you have attended. Okay. Which position you used to play? My strength is defense, sir. But there is something called round robin, where all the... Of course, all of you have to go and serve also. But my primary strength is defense. Sir, all right. Continuing with the digital talks, you are a student of psychology also. Yes. Tell me, is the social media saving us or enslaving us? Sir, I think it highly depends on the individual's intentions, individual's control over himself as to why he or she is using social media, sir. But statistically it has been shown that people are connected. Right, sir. Because the coming generations, right from their engage, they have been exposed to social media, sir. So a lot of complicated things happen when we spend excess amount of time in social media, sir. We compare with others' lives and... No. Sorry to interrupt here. You are assuming that the fault people, rather than the people who create... People have written these algorithms. They have got very much written to make it... Right, sir. I believe one aspect towards what Sir is referring to is that self-fulfilling nature of the content, sir. Where we like certain things and only topics related to that certain topics keep coming into our feedback. So our world view is further strengthened in only one direction, sir. That is one aspect, sir. And second problem with the social media itself is since it's filled with user-generated content, the regulation is a little trickier. In the sense that a lot of... School for fake news and... Regulation and all is a different aspect. Talking about the psychology of it. It's not also... Stimulite. We're a student of psychology. Yes, sir. It's not stimuli-based, where you are getting satisfied, where you are actually getting more like... There are a lot of studies on this. Right, sir. A student of psychology should be kind of have a basic awareness of where exactly. The world is moving towards this. Right. Right.  All people are... You are not... And if you are not like my posting posts. So your instant of mind, certainly of your mind is being revived in a certain way. So looking for a short term... We try to depend on others' approval in terms of these things. Only it is more short term. You are not looking long term impactful. The relationship has become... So what I am trying to point out here is that we can have a very fruitful interaction based on this particular topic. Okay. Ready for that. Okay, sir. That is the idea here. So maybe you could look into it. Fine, sir. So what is the stroke terms and terms? Very complicated. Sir, I believe it is the development of affection towards the captor in a situation, sir. It's a commonly used plot in novels and movies. It's very complicated. Sir, when somebody is being kidnapped... You will start liking the kidnap. Yes, sir. The person being kidnapped... Why is it called that? Why is it called? Sorry, sir. I wouldn't know that. All right. All right. You are also a student of 50s. Yes. Recently, about a year back, we also started having quantum computer. Sorry, sir. Quantum computer. Oh, yes, sir. How was the business from analog computers? The quantum computers work on the basis of qubits, sir, where in the normal digital computers, all our information is brought on to the level of bits as either zero or one, sir. But the advantage with quantum computers is that in qubits, the storage is much less, sir, for the same information. So it is not clear as to how the technology is deployed to store zeros and ones, sir. But my understanding is that the storage is much less to store the same information in quantum computers and the pace of computation is much faster. No, that is a common answer which most of the people give. That is the pace of speed. Both in speed. Sir, I believe it has something to do with... Eventually, it is different. Superposition. I believe it has to do with superposition, sir, where a qubit can be both zero and one at the same time, sir. So which means there is a lot of possibilities. A lot of possibilities. A lot of data can be stored. So please have a view on this whole. Should I have started with this? Because Google has started up. Because I think there is a picture of Mr. Pichai standing next to the quantum computer. Yes. Articles being written. So maybe you could look into it. There has been a term which has been used in the popular... regarding, see an accident. It is called bystander effect. Yes, sir. What is this? Sir, I think when we keep getting exposed to a certain level of... certain events numerous times, we get used to it, sir. So bystander effect is where the person doesn't feel that it is his responsibility to take some action in case an accident happened. And he just prefers to be part of the crowd where inaction prevails. Not really. In fact, the studies have shown that if number of people are less, then you would take action. Okay. And it is a diffusion of this in making in a lab. Okay. The study is that. Right. When you have few people, you will take action. All right. Since we are talking about movies, just one question here. Can you name some movie directors? Sir, in English there is Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan. And then My Mother Tongue, I follow Maniratnam, Gautam Vasudevan and Thiala Rajkumar. One movie of Alfred Hitchcock? Psycho. Psycho. Right. Okay. Just wait for a minute. Sure, sir. Stop. Please sit down. So a general impression is that we are very impressed. Okay. Okay. You talk well. Okay. You have a pleasant disposition. Okay. And you are quite confident. Perhaps there are only two things I would like to say. Okay. Only one thing is talk with some passion. Okay. On issues which are passionate to you, there must be some issues which are passionate. I should talk with passion, sir? Yeah, yeah. On some issues, at least, where you feel strongly. Okay. Okay. If you feel strongly about corruption, you should talk. Okay. Okay. Same like, you know, a professor, you know, saying this, this, this, this. Thanks. Yes, sir. You got the point. I get it, sir. Second thing is, I think you can prioritize very immediately.  So, you first start with what is the most important thing. Okay, sir. I think you started saying it should start with individual. Yes, sir. Correct. What you should say is, first, I will set the stamp. Okay. Okay. That's the first thing. Right. And then, you know, other procedures. Right. I try to reduce it. I try to find areas, try to reduce it. Okay, sir. It's possible with some technical, with some disciplinary thing. Okay, sir. If some person is found very corrupt, as you show others that, you know, you cannot behave like that. Right, sir. Some model. Right, sir. So, try to prioritize it, you think. I'm not talking only about corruption. Okay. Just thinking about, when you try to solve a problem, try to prioritize the things that you, I think you did a good job. Okay. Yes, I think you did a good job. But prioritization can be a little more. And generalization can be a little better. Okay, sir. Okay, sir. Okay. I think you have done science. Yes, sir. Not science. No, sir. I'm an undergraduate in physics. Physics, sir. He is the armor. He is the armor in physics. Physics, yes. But in science, advanced learning is something. Yes, sir. Institute of higher learning. High Institute of advanced learning. They must have given you a certain amount of focus. Yes. I don't think we have molded you well. I don't think we ask. I don't think we see that. I don't think we ask many questions on science. But I think you have been able to hold your hand. Yes, sir. Yes. I think you should be able to do very well. Thank you, sir. The only thing is your priorities. See, logical sequencing and prioritizing. See, every answer is there. Mine, sir. But how you prioritize the answers and logically sequencing is important. When you come here, you write about values earlier. Correct, sir. Everything depends upon your values. That is very correct. And then, of course, what action you will take, that will depend on making the system more transparent, setting an example for yourself, then also taking action against those who are incorrigible. Okay. It's like this. It should be followed in a logical sequence. Okay, sir. But your answers were likely... Incoherent. They are not slope-ordinated. No, but the way you answer is good. Okay.  And you are also looking at everybody, and you are quite pleasant. I think that way, your form, the way you present, the form is good. Okay. Only a little bit movement is there. I think it should be good. Yes. How long has the pressure? 21st this month. So current effects and other things you can... Yeah, because we have not touched upon many of those things. Yes, sir. It's... Write down those points, and then... It's expected, and it should be quite good about... Okay. So... In corruption, the interface between the citizen and the officer, that has to be reduced. Okay, sir. And number one, that has been done by e-governance or by computerization. Yes. And the greatest advantage... So the person doesn't have to come to office. Yes. If he consults, they'll give it to corruption. Two, three years back, corruption... Bhagavati wrote a good article on corruption. Two G-scan... First, they do not touch the common citizen, but touches the common citizen against which we are all completely... Corruption at the global level. Yes. For an electricity pole, for giving meters, for anything that you have to pay a price. So that is reduced by e-governance. Yes. So interface between the citizen and the officer, that must be reduced to zero. Yes. As much as possible. Okay. Okay. With the greatest psychologist of 20th century. Greatest psychologist, sir. Huh? Freud, Master... With the greatest physicist. Physicist, Highland... Instance. Instance. Take time for that. Instance. You can know why Freud did not get Nobel Prize. Freud, sir. Huh? He is not about Nobel Prize. Huh? Because of his radical views and the existing... No, no, but why? Because last time, 13th time, Einstein objected. Okay. At the relationship. His name was suggested 13 times for Nobel Prize. Okay. 13th time Einstein said, I am not very sure of his theories. Finished. If Einstein tells this, then who will give Nobel Prize? But you know the issue of psychology, the social media, and how, you know, it is also said to democracy in certain ways, how it is manipulating. So monetizing the primal nature of human beings is a very important strategy. So please try it, sir. This is a very important...  Yeah, yeah. There may be a psychology professor in the board. I think it's going to be a short one. Yes, yes. There may be a psychology professor in the board. Yes. Okay. It's very... It's all I have. It's all I have. I hope. Because everybody disciplines everything. There will be an anomaly. There will be a knock. There will be a knock. See, in fact, the autocratic approach in total became not so. I have already brought. Yes. Allow the... Yes. Autocratic... Autocratic country, so they can order anything. But it is a democratic country. Yes, sir. That's its problems. It will affect the free flow of information. Here also, see, when there is a need, then they have to improve everything. But a certain amount of comfort will have to come. They don't... There are people to know even what they should know. In the country. In the country. In the country. In the country. Okay. All the best. You've done well. Thank you. Because we have not asked many questions in the current phase. So those aspects will have to be covered. Okay, sir. From your Kashmir issue and then... Yeah. Yes. All the... All these things... Which are... Only... So after the... Then you might see some major events happening. Shaheen Bagh. Shaheen Bagh. Okay. You are welcome. Okay. Shaheen Bagh. Thank you, sir. Thank you all. Thank you.


When we've just wrapped up the Western Sydney Wanderers Future Wander Programme, it's the inaugural program that we introduced for development for kids growing up in the Great West. It's a great opportunity for players to just come in and develop their basic skill sets as well as get new coaching perspectives, get new influences from WWE players as well as mixing in with players that they probably play against week in, week out, but this is a great opportunity to come in with a bunch of kids that are at the same level and just continue working, refining their skills. The quality is quite outstanding, so you can see it's been, for women's football, is definitely progressing and progressing in a positive way. We're playing a lot more possession-based football, so that just goes down to the programs that they're starting from grassroots level and just working on kids with developing their finer skills, and then you can see that it's a lot more possession-based football that as opposed to us growing up here in Australia being athletes and trying to use fitness and athleticism to our advantage, we're actually using football smarts and decision-making as well. So it's to see the basics of the passing receiving, their first touches, the communication levels, to already be noticing them on the pitch for the age group that we've got, R14 to 17, to already be noticing that on the pitch already, then it's a good step forward. Having assistants that are from players that play for Western Sydney Wanderers and play for, have had opportunities to step up and play Matilda's as well, it's been phenomenal. So they are able to bring what they learn at those top levels, bring it down to these girls here and introduce what they're learning up there to this level. It's amazing that they have this program, you know, cost-free, and the coaches they have here in the facilities are the best in Australia, in my opinion. And so just, you know, just take every opportunity that they can to get better. And from what I've seen since I've been here, they've never improved immensely. So yeah, it's been good to work with them and sort of get a bit of coaching under and, you know, just pass on advice as much as I can on to them. So they can improve every day. They've definitely, a lot of them have got a lot of potential and they're so young. So to be in this now and sort of get that taste of this environment, I think it's only going to benefit them to know what it means to get to the next level. And, you know, if they can keep improving and working and more programs keep coming up like this in the future, it's only going to benefit women's football and these girls.  So it just shows how many girls out there are willing to play. So to be able to do this, like I said, have access to the facilities and the coaches here, I think it's amazing and they've improved so much. So I think it's very valuable to them and we'll really see the next crop of, you know, future Matilda's coming through. We started off really, really good, really strong, developing really well, got a good six weeks into it and then the lockdown happened. But then to bounce back, get the girls back in here and kind of start, pick up from where we left off. I think it was pretty awesome to see that. And then just the gelling of the players that, as I've mentioned, that they probably play against each other week in, week out, but to come here and just gel as a unit and take away a lot of what they learn here back to their clubs, it definitely has good value to it.


Thank you for staying with us. You may change your career due to two reasons. It is a loss of current job or dissatisfaction with the existing job. However, it is almost impossible to open quick today and find a fantastic opportunity just waiting for you tomorrow. Changing your career requires a lot of deliberations. It can have a strong impact on your psychology while disrupting your finances. Career change may come with a loss of income, loss of financial benefits, unemployed phases, additional expenditure on courses, changing lifestyle and so on. However, it is important to have that courage to make a change if you are unhappy with your job. So we are asking how can we mitigate the financial implications that come with career transitioning. Please let's hear what you have to say. Remember, you can join the conversation soon as an SMS or WhatsApp to<PHONE_NUMBER>3. You can also tweet us at WeishuaAfrika1 with the hashtag Weishu. Ladies, I would like to hear your thoughts about this actually. And I want to start with Uti. Yeah, let's go. Career transitioning, right? I think not enough people think about it. Not enough people think they can do it. A lot of times people, in fact funny enough that we are talking about this today, I was just watching a show earlier today. And it just was a show that seemed to be full of people doing really interesting jobs. I mean, high pressure jobs, but really, really interesting jobs. And I was having a conversation with myself and I said, you know what, there are people out there doing amazing things. And almost the kids of myself, oh, should I be doing something else or do I want to be doing something else? And I find that these conversations perhaps a lot of us don't stop to think about it because if you ask probably, if you ask 10 people, probably at least six or seven would tell you they'd rather be doing something else. But they're taking the action towards doing something else. You usually is where the problem lies. People don't know where to start. So some people, it doesn't even cross the radar that is possible. And the fact that when you start to think about it, are you taking action? Are you properly looking at yourself, assessing your skills? What transferable skills do you have? Because people think about going into a different industry and they're like, oh, you know, how can I go into this industry? I don't have any cognitive experience. But then sometimes it's not just, I mean, of course, in certain fields, yes, it is about having experience and having qualifications. I mean, you can't just pivot into being a doctor without getting the training. But for a lot of other skills and other career paths, right? There are a lot of transferable skills that people just don't realize. So when we talk about, you know, the communication, the leadership, all of those things that really lend themselves to getting you on that path for transitioning in your career. I think the other thing as well, which is the key part that we're talking about today is finances. People are thinking, do I want to jump out of the known where I'm safe, where, you know, I'm confirmed in a job? Do I want to jump, not just, you know, I mean, jumping into the new company is a risk in the same type of job, but then jumping into a completely new industry or completely different skill. Right? Is probably, you know, ten times the risk. So people are thinking, do I want to have that risk? Do I want to take that risk? Right? So finances becomes a huge part of it. So people don't know how much they need to have saved. Do I need to have a year salary? Do I need to have five years? Like how much do I need to have? What is, what should I be thinking about from the financial side of it? Because we just think I don't want to put my income. Whether the income is enough or not is not the conversation. But the one that I have, I don't want to be at risk. Right? So I think that is a fantastic topic to be talking about. I certainly got my pen and paper here. And I'm looking forward to taking a few notes from our guests because, you know, no knowledge is wasted. Knowledge is power. Very true. Yes. This is actually a very related topic for me. But then before I give my thoughts, let's hear from NJ. NJ, what are your thoughts on carrier transition and the financial implications? Because, you know, I've heard a lot. But for me, I wanted to look at it, I like to look at it from the phase. There's a particular phase, which I call the unemployment phase. And I'm speaking from experience. There's a lot that has to be considered when you're considering carrier transition. How it affects you and your personal life. In order to actually transition and then new courses and certifications that you have to take and you have to do the daily paid or paid, the daily free, you have to consider the period whereby there's no income coming in. How many months are you going to be out of a job and how are you going to survive? When the benefits you are going to lose from your current job, depending on it you have, as against what you have where you're heading to or what you're looking forward to, how this transition is going to, or that phase is going to impact your personal life in terms of how you spend money household-wise, your whole budget. You know, you have to cut down on the whole lot of things in order to survive that phase. Because you never know how long it will take unless you already have a job before you know where you're headed. You know, just even how much it will cost you from the new office to the old one, from your new, maybe your new location, your new office location to your house, if you use public transport or if you drive, what it will cost budget-wise, if you have to relocate, whether you have to take a pay increase or a decrease. So a lot of things to consider and just like we see, also here with the pen and paper, ready to enjoy them. So you seem like you already, you have so much experience and then you can literally walk us through career transition in as a matter of fact. No, and it's just the unemployment phase that I can't talk about. Okay, so maybe before I come see you. So for me right, I have actually experienced career transition in big time.  We are. So first right, I used to be a teacher and I did that for seven years and I became bored because they were not accepting I'm a disruptive teacher, right? I'm not your regular classroom teacher and a lot of schools don't understand that and they don't understand my style. So I got very bored and fortunately at the time I got another job opportunity which was now outside, completely offered education in real estate and then this person is saying to me oh you know what I've had used to become a new business development and I'm like excuse me I've been in the classroom for seven years yes I've had leadership roles and whatnot but then how do I now transition into business development but I'm like the pay is can you hear us? Okay, the pay was like very very and we know how it is in Nigeria educators are not properly paid or compensated so this was actually a whole lot more money for me and I'm like okay great opportunity seems like there's going to be travel opportunities and whatnot as well you know let's do this and that's how I transitioned into business development and then real estate and all of that and even now say if I'm now in between again well yeah very very interesting I also can't wait to hear from our subject experts tonight so Mary let's hear from you I think there's a lot to learn from this topic I have so many questions but what I'm also learning is that it's almost an undefined part you can't really say it takes a bold step to go into it change is very difficult for me change very difficult I find it hard to adapt to change any sort of change you're pressing in the office and I just want to be by myself I just want to be in my lane so changing karaz as well it takes it brings out that decision maker in you because you're going to have to know what you want and everybody's going to be on your matter like you really have to know what you want sometimes you actually don't know what you want you just figure things out on the path but there's the Gen Z nature which I'm in the era of we want to literally try everything we want to try new things we feel like this thing isn't working for me and your parents who have stayed thousands of years on a job because it's just status quo because of that fail trying something you're just telling you looking at you like we think you're really crazy the financial implication now is where the millennials are also saying okay but you guys want to be free jumping around trying jobs and everything but we're still the ones funding your lifestyle most of your parents you're still under your parents' roof you're not really ready to take it up to say you know what you might be homeless or you have to actually plan your rent and stuff like that but we Gen Zs we just want to actually just go and try this out today today is candle making tomorrow is another thing you want to do and which is actually also fine in my life I've gone to make up school I paid for it myself and my mom is like but you never practice this thing I'm like okay I'm tired of this we went to learn how to make candles together which was the start of everything which is beautiful but I call them the connecting dots in my life and I don't know where exactly I'm going I don't know the destination but I want to enjoy the process if this is what I want to learn today let me learn it but you know I have questions on how to plan as well because the last unemployment phase took me by by surprise so I mean if I'm going to do it again I'm going to be wise at this time in terms of probably budget for like yeah so that's it women is the chief executive officer for the history of consulting which is the coaching and consulting firm specializing in commerce acceleration career coaching women empowerment facilitation and training on the African continent with presence in Nigeria South Africa, Botswana, Kenya United States of America, Rwanda and affiliate Namibia Ghana and Uganda she has coached in multinationals such as Google ABSA Sri Lanka, FNB Vodacom and Anglo American and tonight she is joining us virtually hi for me so great to have you in well not in the studio but to have you on the show tonight how you doing good evening ladies it's good to be here welcome okay so let's get right into the conversation my first question would be I mean we're talking about career transition and its financial implications so how do you financially prepare for a career change or a career transition so when we're talking about career transition it's always become a symptom of the fact that there have been two types of transitions the first is voluntary this is when you plan for it it's completely up to you you're deciding that you know like you mentioned perhaps you've been a teacher for a long time deciding it's not for me and I want to transition into something else that's a choice so you can determine the time period the second is involuntary which is what we were talking about a little bit earlier which is unemployment it's when COVID hits completely unexpected and now you're forced from a survival perspective to then go into a career transition and how we financially prepare for these two are a little bit different so in looking at involuntary it's tapping into what in essence is your emergency fund so what we anticipate is when we get our salary whether it is on a weekly wage a monthly perspective you should be putting away at least 10 to 30% of that salary for in case of emergency which can in future help you obviously take care of your bills maybe utilize the seed money to transition into another career help you perhaps studying if you have to so that is in preparation for involuntary career transitions if it is a voluntary career transition then you're determining what is the time period you're currently employed to do a career transition are you planning to do this in 3 years in 2 years in 1 year what is the plan I know for myself I gave myself a 10 year period so I went into corporate realising that in 10 years I will then become an entrepreneur so I had 10 years to put away my capital and make sure that my finances were in a space that I was ready so it does depend on whether it is voluntary or involuntary what your financial strategy is going to be okay let's see so if we're looking at voluntary if you're looking at your market so in the space in South Africa on average it's going to if you're looking for another job as opposed to entrepreneurship your amount is going to be different so in the job hunting process in the South African context on average it's going to take you 6 to 8 months to find new employment in Nigeria it does tend to take you a little bit more because of how competitive the market is and how many people are also job hunting so looking at the stats in Nigeria it's going to take you anything between 9 to 16 months to get a new job which means you're looking at your expenses and saying do I have a minimum of 16 months worth of savings for me to be able to do that career transition so you're looking first of all at your goals the second thing you then have to consider is what is required for me to do my transition so maybe you may have gotten into the market where your undergrad sufficed 5 to 10 years where you're wanting to be the requirements substantially higher so now you've got additional costs to consider you might have to do training you might have to go and do your masters you might have to go and do a completely different degree is that factored in your savings so looking at that will then determine what that amount should be that's from if you're looking from a job hunting perspective if you're looking at being an entrepreneur it's very difficult to determine that number because who knows how long it's going to take for your business to finally take off break even and turn a profit so then you start looking at what are the trends within my particular industry so I was going to the human capital space the coaching space which is great because the very low costs but I did have to factor in the education and training costs paying for how it was going to happen by itself so I had to budget for all of that then I could say okay I'm giving my business three to four years in order to turn a profit so I knew what my bills were what my expenses were potentially with the salaries I would have to pay and that became the number I pursued in my ten year journey so it is dependent on the industry it is dependent on your current expenses and it is determined on the trend that you anticipate of course you can put the money away and then the unexpected happens like COVID thank you NG NG initially I spoke about the unemployment phase you just mentioned that in Nigeria it will take an average of about nine to 16 months to get another job or to be able to replace get something to do so I just wanted to find out what and in it okay hi NG okay I think we lost okay Andrew we can hear you now we lost you for a bit okay so I was asking that during what do you do to survive that period that you know transitioning what do you what are the things that you have to do what are the things you have to cut down what do you have to look into how do you survive that process so I think the first step is taking a lifestyle audit right so if you're doing a lifestyle audit you're taking a look at what do I currently spend money on rent, food, where am I buying my food where do I live can I perhaps know are my existing expenses in order to make sure that whatever I've got saved away I can actually cover and stretch to meet my goals so that's the first thing to consider so if you currently living in a very expensive apartment can you perhaps look at converting the apartment to also be an Airbnb and generate another form of revenue or do you have to move back home so having a lifestyle audit is the first thing the second thing is once you know that baseline where can you reduce what can you reduce in your lifestyle the third is then to say how can I diversify my revenue stream if my main stream is drying up a little bit it's not going to be as abundant as it used to be so for me it's looking at things that potentially passive income do I have any assets that I can leverage do I have any skill set that I can use to tide me over in this period so I know for me for example I had an honest and finance so consulting from a financial planning perspective wasn't necessarily my passion I was passionate about career coaching but I could offer those services to mitigate me really reducing my lifestyle really reducing on my costs and expenses so that's the first thing to take a look at then you have to look at what's the 90th century so a lot of the time we think this is so important I need to get it and if it's not essential or it's not going to help in the generation of revenue you might have to cut that out and then of course in looking at diversifying the income and looking at that side hustle we have to be strategic it's important that we don't only look at our geographic locations so if you're sitting in Lagos, Abuja in a kitty wherever you're sitting can you perhaps offer some consulting services to someone outside of the country are you looking at what people are doing in Kenya what people are doing in South Africa could you potentially leverage the advantage of where you find yourself locally and export that to someone else in the world while it's tying you over during that involuntary phase or that voluntary phase okay thank you Mary so if I hear you correctly you're saying first things first you need to do a lifestyle audit so you need to be sure that this is what I have to survive on for the next few months meaning that I need to cut down the expenses that I would usually incur when I was in my previous job okay nice thank you Mary I think my question will come from points where it happens involuntary so let's say you got another job before you left the first one which is also into a new a new direction a new path you know it's somewhat related to what you are doing but obviously it's new so there's also understanding from the company that you should be able to learn on the job and pick up a bit but then you get into the job and it's almost worse than what you are coming from which is an unforeseen circumstance and I think it gets bad you can't really stay there anymore so you are unprepared for the next phase which is the unemployed phase because you leave would you rather have the passing stay and still plan or is it advisable to just up and leave so I think it does depend what you mean by that so there are two types of phases the first is when you're having an experience where you might be frustrated with the culture you don't get along with your boss but it is manageable and then there's the second which is toxic which has a direct impact on your physical health a direct impact in your psychological health so if we're not looking at a life or death situation due to employment my first call to all my clients will always be take your life and run the way they do things here is so archaic I wish we could do things differently then for me that's a learning opportunity and for me whatever you are in a space where you're frustrated it's a reframing so that's when you reach out to a career coach you reach out to mentors and you say help guide me through the season of my life I would rather someone walk away healthily then someone run away because it's just it's hard and I don't like my boss it's just a fundamental different things one is a learning opportunity the other is a threat to life so if it's a learning opportunity learn the lesson because often when we say I've got a narcissistic boss or I'm unhappy with the culture what you're running away from will generally follow you and you need to master that lesson and understand that the opportunity to learn from someone you particularly on fond of is the reality if you're going to run your own business one day I'm always sitting with clients they're my favourite but I've had to learn how to engage them how to create a cordial relationship that is productive for both parties but if it is a toxic work environment and your health is literally on the line then of course you look after yourself first and preserve your life and then you leave so those are the two very different circumstances hence my advice would be different on both of those Mary okay I'm liking this conversation is actually going to but then let's take a short break and when we come back we'll continue the conversation see you shortly thank you for joining us if you just tuned in we're talking about this kaira transitioning and its financial applications with women's swelling please let's say what you have to say remember you can join the conversation send us an SMS or WhatsApp to<PHONE_NUMBER>3 you could also tweet at us at weishoafrica one weisho so Vumi I was going to say I hear most times when people say oh before you leave or if you're planning to transition from a kaira for example if it is voluntary like she has said you need to you should usually maximize the benefits you currently have at your presence face over so things like your HMO and things like that Vumi what do you have to say about that I'm sorry can you repeat that so I was saying that sometimes people would say that if you are making a voluntary kaira transition you should in most cases maximize the benefits you are getting at your current place of work so I was thinking that is critical if you are having a strategy to meet use the resources given to you and I think a lot of the time when we look at our careers or look at our current employers we don't see the advantage you are often with a brand that's recognized that brand when you walk into certain spaces opens up doors for you how are you leveraging that to increase your network something as simple as when you're at work you don't have to pay for wifi how are you leveraging that to prepare for you to go you want to utilize every single resource given to you to help catapult you to your next level in your career that is what I think will give you that credibility it's also being strategic so if you know that you are going to be leaving there is a career transition you are wanting to do so let's say for example you are currently in finance and your career transition is fundamentally different and you wanted to get into marketing use your current employer spend time with the current marketing team understand the lay of the land learn from them the experts of what they do so by the time you pivot to your next career transition you have utilized what has been given to you previously every organization I have worked for I have learned from so when I was at Barclays I learned a lot that helped catapult me to vote a phone which catapult me into my own business every career transition every organization gives you an opportunity to walk away with something often when we think about career contracts we only think about they give me remuneration for my energy and money and time spent on my intellectual property what we don't realize it's the resources it's the network it's the exposure it's the experience leverage every single thing to catapult you to your next career transition space nj nj you are going to say something just go ahead yes well for me I would to say you should use every resources within the current working space I I used to think that it would give you for me I used to feel guilty using it because you know your way out so you feel like oh now you're using their resources to either do meetings and try and send out cv and do all this job search online and all that so for me I felt guilty at the time using those resources for meetings just putting it to us that is actually your right to actually use those resources because that is part of the benefits of working without work environment because most times we don't use all these things all these resources and then you're leaving you find out that you haven't used your leave and you haven't used seven days so and sometimes that's why I said you feel guilty that you now want to use maybe you have 15 days left and then you take that time off and then you come back and you turn in your letter so yeah it's a bit much but well now I know so looking forward to the next you know transition can I say something that you that I always say and my clients always it's jarring for them your first loyalty is to the CEO that is you your employer enjoys the benefits of you so your loyalty and your prioritization must always be you once you are able to admit that and align with that then you are able to serve your clients accordingly because your employer will change if it is if it's your business then your clients will change but if you are able to always keep loyalty to you first it's very very easy to know when to prioritize and who to prioritize with because you will walk away having not leverage what was freely given access to and your competitor next door would have done so then you wake up five years down the line and say how come they further down the line than me you simply did not take advantage of the opportunities presented to you hmm I like that because so I'll use myself as an example again where I used up my I made sure I went to the dentist I made sure the first step no I had to trust me because I was like really I didn't have time to do a couple of those things but in many times I was like wait I hope it for how long and then I haven't no I have to I have to take advantage of my benefits and I may try to maximize it to the laugh and I'm very happy that I'm very happy that I did I would also want to add to what Vumi said about creating a budget so I remember we were having this conversation I think on Wednesday with Jennifer and we were saying you know plan I think that's just a big I wish I knew that at some point in my life that things might not just remain the same things things are going to change so that's Alfredo Paster that you always go to hit on Sunday afternoons you know that for now it's not going to happen I can't applaud as much as I will normally do because I'm currently going through a phase right let's see let's hear your thoughts no jokes I sent my pen and paper it's scribbling all the way but thank you so much my question really sits around the cultural viewpoint that we have in Nigeria that everyone who's working it's almost like this thing where being an entrepreneur is the thing right why are you working for someone you should have your own business so when we think about the voluntary side of transitioning and maybe even sometimes in voluntary that papers people into those kinds of situations but more on the voluntary side what when people think about career transitioning what should be the signs what should I be looking out for to say perhaps the time is right for a transition because I think a lot of people just don't realize that it's an option so what are those signs that our viewers can look out for so in looking at some of the signs when you're ready for career transition most of the time if you've got a side hustle or you've got a side business that's an easy one for me because then you're saying is my current revenue for my side business superseding one of my expenses has it been consistent and has it now matched to superseded what I would be earning as a salary so that for me is the first check to say okay financially as a part time entrepreneur I think I'm ready what are the benefits what are the benefits of me leaving my current employer would the revenue double triple what would that look like and for me I always want to say you want to test this a little bit so if you are currently only doing your side business on a Friday to Saturday resting on Sunday then say okay what happens if I started also doing it after hours during the week and adding those hours and seeing if there is revenue cater to say it might be ready for me to take this full time if you are a little bit nervous then you say can I potentially hire someone to grow the business whilst I'm still employed and if it starts growing okay I can take over this full time so those are some of the signs you can take a look at the second is there is no side business that you're doing but you're finding yourself in the space where you're bored you're frustrated and you're ready for the next challenge and you're now saying you actually need to transition so for me the things you need to be considering there is one what would an engaged work space look like for me what kind of stimulation am I looking for and is the stimulation something that I need to give for my work or is this a stimulation I can give from outside of work I know for myself when I find that I'm itch and need to perhaps leave an organisation because I'm bored I can do this with my eyes closed I usually pick up a degree I'm like let me take my time off the hours to mentally stimulate myself but if I'm noticing that even with additional studies going to work is now a drag and I'm really frustrated I'm having a conversation with my employer then for me I know it's time for me to transition and I think often we are afraid of transitioning not realising that prior to COVID we anticipate that the average human being working is going to have a minimum of 8 career transitions in their lifetime so it's something you need to do at least 8 times so the moment you're able to say I think I'm ready I need that transition then you ask yourself why why do I need that transition and what is it that I'm looking for sometimes we'll find that we're looking for more meaning more purpose in life as we climb up Maslow's hierarchy of needs our need even from a work perspective changes the first time it's all physiological we're just trying to make sure we're taking care of our bills the roof of my head is the food on the table also then it gets a little bit more actually I want psychological safety why do I not feel safe in this environment I'm kind of scared of my boss I need more than this then as you transition you see yourself getting into the seasweets it becomes about legacy and self actualisation so understanding where you are and what you need is will also help guide you when you're ready for that change and if you can't supplement that change with other things in your life so when I was looking for purpose I started volunteering to teach and it subsided that need to career transition for a good year because I was now exploring and expressing that need in another faculty in my life so look at all those signs and look at holistically I think for me are good indicators when you're ready for that next career transition okay thank you very much I was also going to say what would you say to people who are experiencing some sort of would I say fear fear is holding them back because I would call it the fear of the uncertainty so they are not sure what it is that they are supposed to go into so some people might even have the financial ability to sustain themselves like you said in Nigeria you should usually give yourself between nine to sixteen months so some people might have been able to save up enough money but then there is still some sort of fear that is holding them back what would you say to such people is that if you are going to do anything and it's unknown you're going to be afraid and for me to wait for fear to subside you'll be waiting for eternity I don't know one entrepreneur who went full time and said oh what a pleasure it was so easy and everything went according to plan it just doesn't exist even if you're changing careers when I changed from the financial services sector to the telecommunications sector there was great fear I was comfortable there going into it's not comfortable it's going to be scary so for me courage is not the absence of fear courage is doing it afraid so you have to be able to determine for yourself what am I afraid of what can I do to circumvent the very worst of this happening am I comfortable with what I put in place to mitigate that risk and then working within myself to say I'm willing to do it afraid all right maybe I do know how to phrase this question per se but it is you mentioned something about learning I know sometimes we're quick to say oh this is hard and so you just want to jump out and leave but in the process of in that process where you're learning and is it's like there's no guidance to watch your learning through you might be trying to learn but the environment is actually toxic to your mental health but you don't want to see or sound cliché because you know it's going to seem like oh yeah some things are meant to toughen you up so I would like to say how I don't know I don't know how to phrase questions will I say how do you learn or how do you learn through the process how do you know when to say okay this is a learning point and this is actually affecting me because in that learning process sometimes it feels like okay just endure for a bit you actually endure you actually pick up some strength from the situation but the same scenario keeps playing itself over and over and over again in the company and you're just trying to say oh I know I'm supposed to learn something you know from this but it's actually taking a toll on my mental health it's like I'm drowning and I'm seeing myself drown and I do not know how to pick yourself up or you pick yourself up from something and you think that and you're falling back into the same thing because I've been through living a job and going back to the job because there's a bit of passion in which I actually like something there but there are a whole lot of things that outweigh that passion that I have for the job so it's like you think oh okay I can do this again I think I'm stronger this time and then you go back in but then it's the same mental phrase you know you're going through so what will be your advice for survival so for me it's about you've learned something and mastered something when there is no longer an internal impact on you so I recall having a very narcissistic boss and every time she would walk into the room I'd get ready to literally pass out and until I had built the mental fortitude and spoke into my coach and worked with my mentor to get to the point where even though she continued her behaviour mentally I created a sacred space where she couldn't impact me I didn't burst out crying anymore I wouldn't get home and die of frustration I got to the point where I was starting to make notes and say she is this kind of leader and as this kind of leader what can I learn because even badly this teaches what not to do and as I mastered her not having any control between my internal in my internal campus and the conversation I was having with myself then I was ready to leave because for me I was no longer running away from the situation I was walking away from what no longer served me and I think there's a difference one is an escape where we don't master the lesson which means at some point in our life I truly believe the lesson will come back and if we haven't mastered it we'll have to master it a little bit later but also in knowing that this is now toxic and when it's toxic it goes back to what I said earlier where it's becoming a mental psychological life and death I'm getting suicidal I can't get out of bed I'm falling into a depression then you can't learn if you're in a space of survival if you're in survival you're in self-preservation mode so you need to then be comfortable to say I cannot learn in this environment I have to look after my health first so I think those two for me are the the differences but in that learning process you study the environment you study the person from an objective perspective which is hard because you are experiencing it but you can't study and be subjective it's like an exam in high school you can't say oh this is my experience with biology you have to say this is objective this is how the rules work and once you're able to understand comprehend and thrive from an objective perspective then you're able for me to be comfortable saying I've learned the lesson if I were to meet another person version two point of this I would quickly master the environment I would quickly master the boss because I've learned and have been able to pivot and turn around what was in essence meant for my harm to actually be what can be the trajectory for me thriving in the future thank you very much ladies any final words NJUT any final words I think we've just learned so much and just the idea that we need to think about career transitioning as an option I think too many people just don't think about it so really if it's the right thing for you and it's just the plethora of options I think that one of the things that we also don't process enough of is how many actual careers or options there are out there I think so our scope can be limited by experience or by environment but I mean really there are I mean I know this is maybe the one percent but I mean there are people who get paid to travel, there are people who get paid to watch me, there are people who get paid to taste food so I mean there is just so much out there that is interesting so if you don't like what you are doing I think my my mantra is if you're not a tree so if you don't like what you're doing move I like but you're not a tree you can actually move you're not a mobile nice thank you so much Uti NJ final words from everything we have said and all the ladies all the contributions it's very very important for us to understand where we are and if there is first of all do an analysis to be sure that a change is required or a transition is required be able to know what you require for that transition process and be able to plan for it ahead of time and for us not to allow any form of fear to be the motivation for our transition I think we have learned a lot and I have my note hand filled with a whole lot of thoughts so I just want to say thank you for the time and for all the knowledge and insights you have given this evening I must say it was quite an enlightening conversation and I learned quite a number of things so thank you so much Umi it was great to have you on the show again and we also look forward to having you some other time before we go do an show you follow us on instagram and most importantly follow all our social media engagements I remember to like, share, comment and invite your friends and family to watch us and follow us if you missed today's quotes here it is again your career is like a garden it can hold an assortment of life's energy that yields a bounty for you you do not need to grow just one thing in your garden you do not need to do just one thing in your career as well and this is by Jennifer Richie-Piot today at 8pm as we bring another great conversation thank you so much ladies


So we can predict whether a process is spontaneous or not, at least if it's happening at constant volume, by looking at the change in internal energy minus t times ds. So this combination of the energy and the entropy together tells us whether the process is going to be spontaneous or not, spontaneous if it comes out negative, equilibrium if it comes out equal to zero, non-spontaneous if that quantity is positive. So that quantity is important enough. We're going to want to give it a name. So to do that, we will define a new quantity. So since this looks like some energy minus t times some entropy, changes in the energy and changes in the entropy, we'll start out by defining this quantity, this new quantity, energy minus temperature times entropy. And this turns out not to be exactly the same as this criterion we've got up here, but it's going to be very close, as we'll see in just a second. This new quantity that we've just defined is called the Helmholtz energy. So we can go with the Helmholtz energy, or we can go with the Helmholtz free energy, either one. And for now, we've just defined that quantity. I've just made up a new variable, energy minus t times entropy. We're interested in knowing the differential of u and minus t times the differential of s to predict whether a process is spontaneous or not. So let's take the differential of the Helmholtz energy on the left. A becomes dA on the right. The differential of u is du. And product rule tells us the differential of ts is tds and sdt.  So here's what I meant. This quantity, dA, is not exactly equal to du minus tds, the quantity we're interested in. It has this extra term in it, sdt. So in order to make this quantity look exactly like the property, the combination of things that predicts whether a process is spontaneous or not at constant volume, we have to do one more thing. In order to get rid of this last term, I have to say, let's also do this at constant temperature. If I do a process at constant temperature, then dt will be 0. If I do it at constant temperature. So then I have dA is equal to du minus tds, and the last term has gone away. du minus tds is exactly the quantity we know that must be negative or equal to 0 for a process that's actually going to happen. For a process that's spontaneous or equilibrium. So we've learned that dA must be less than or equal to 0 if we're doing the process at constant temperature and volume. Constant volume, so that this expression is correct. Remember that was because that we needed the PV work to be equal to 0, and constant temperature so that this term, the sdt term, disappears. So under these fairly restricted set of conditions, if I do something at constant temperature and constant volume, this new quantity that I've defined, the home holds free energy. If that change in home holds free energy is negative, the process will be spontaneous. In fact, I'll write these conditions over here. If I do something at constant temperature and constant volume, and I measure the change in the home holds free energy, this new thing that I've just defined. If that's negative, the process will be spontaneous. If the change in the home holds free energy is equal to 0, the process will be in equilibrium. And if the change in the home holds energy is positive, that's a sign of a non-spontaneous process. So with this definition and this extra restriction on constant temperature, then we've got a very useful way of predicting whether a process is spontaneous or non-spontaneous under this set of conditions under constant temperature and volume. So soon enough, we'll find a way of doing this under other sets of conditions also, but for now, we'll focus on the home holds free energy.


Alright guys check this out. We got a 12 by 12 piece. I'm gonna add some epoxy to it to make it pop. Let's go So I've mixed my resin and my hardener. All I'm doing now is spreading it onto the middle of the piece Just like that. Ooh Let's go Then what I'll do is I'll just spread it around the piece just like so Let's go look at that What the epoxy does to a piece it makes the colors pop and the overall piece just come to life So this is before my blowtorch now. Let's see what it looks like after Don't want to get too close because I don't want to burn the epoxy or the painting. Yo check out that surface, bro That's just straight glass my guy. Oh, this piece is gonna look so so good


Welcome to Spotlight. Hey, that's my job! Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Liz Wade. And today I have an assistant with me to make a very special food. We are going to make... Ice cream! Ice cream! Yes. So, join us in just a moment to see how we make homemade ice cream. In this week's featured program, we talked about the history of ice cream and how ice cream is different all around the world. Ice cream has been a popular food since a thousand years ago. Did you know that? No. Yeah, ice cream has been around for a thousand years. And people used to just gather snow from the mountains and cover it with fruit juices or honey. Or they used to mix milks together and then they would try and make it colder. And they called that ice cream. Or they would mix ice and fruit together. And that is sorbet. And we eat all of those kinds of ice cream today. And there are different ice creams in different cultures. So, in India they have kulfi. What are some other ice creams? Gelato in Italy. Here in the US, we like just a... I don't know what we would call it, like a churned ice cream. It's usually made with cream and sugar. And sometimes fruit, strawberries or chocolate. Yeah. Do you like chocolate in your ice cream? No. No? Sometimes. Sometimes. But the great thing about ice cream is that you can make it at home. And so we wanted to share this very simple recipe with you. This recipe is also on our website at www.spotlightenglish.com. So you can follow along there if you don't get all of the measurements here. But we have two bags. We have one of these small plastic bags and then a larger plastic bag. Then we need some salt, some kosher salt. Now this is a sort of larger salt. I'll show you here. We also need some sugar. What are you doing? We have some vanilla extract. And of course one of the most important ingredients, maybe the most important, is some half and half or cream. And you can also use milk for this recipe. And we need some ice. And with those simple ingredients, we're going to make some ice cream. I have to tell you, I've never made ice cream before. Like this. I'm a little. You haven't either? Mm-hmm. So, wow, we're all in the same boat. There's an ice idiom for you.  Now the first thing we are going to do is we are going to start with the cream, the ice cream mixture. So we need, here, you hold this bag. We need one cup. And I think that's 242 grams of half and half. So we have, are you ready? Okay. So we have half and half, which half and half is half cream and half milk. And it's already mixed together. So Freya, hold on to that tight. There we go. Okay. Now we need a half teaspoon of vanilla. It smells like ice cream. It smells like ice cream, huh? Mm-hmm. All right. And this is very sweet, I think. It says two tablespoons of sugar. I've also put that, we're only going to put one. This smells like a lot of sugar. No, too. It says two. Okay, we're going to put in one and a half, because that seemed like a lot of sugar to me. Okay. Freya, I am going to... That's like coffee. Oh, like coffee. All right. We need to take all of the air out of this bag. So that's a grown-ups job, isn't it? Yes. Okay. So, Freya, why don't you kind of mix this together? Do you see how it's got that sugar in the bottom there? Why don't you kind of mix this together with your hand? Now we need this big bag. It's fun to play with. Yeah. Yeah, it's so fun. Okay. Now in this bag, we are going to put ice and salt. So, I'm going to go get the ice and I'll be right back. Can I go and get the ice? Yeah, you can help me. How much ice is there? We need three cups of ice. We are back with the ice and I think... Okay. So, we actually put more like five cups of ice in here because the bag is so big and I just thought it needed more ice. So, that's what we did. Now, we need one third cup of kosher salt. So, Freya, why don't you hold that cup measure? We're going to pour this in here. Oh, that's a lot of salt. Keep it over the bag. All right. Pour that salt right in there, Freya. Nice. Okay. So, now we take the cream mixture. Did you mix this up really well? Yeah. Perfect. And we're going to put it in this larger bag. And now, here's the fun part. Guess what we do? What? What do you think? Now, we shake it. So, Freya, would you like to shake it? You have to shake it for about five to ten minutes. Now, I'm going to take a break. I can see that the ice is melting a little bit and it is forming a lot of condensation on the inside. It's very cold to hold. Very, very cold. So, we're grabbing the sides of the bag and shaking it like that. But it is shooting water everywhere. It is getting harder, though. Oh, my goodness. My hands are so cold. Good to do with a partner because then you can take turns freezing your hands. Handsome. All right. We've got two minutes left, Freya. Can we do it? Okay. So, we're going to check in again. It is about a minute and a half left. I can tell that the cream part is getting much harder. And all of this ice is mostly melted. I'm really glad we put in extra ice. The time is done. We have gone for about six minutes. Let's check out this ice cream. Okay. So, now I know that it won't be as hard as normal ice cream. Oh, my goodness. It's very hard. It's a lot harder than I thought it would be. Yeah. Look at that. Okay. Freya. Let's put this in the sink. And I have two bowls. Do you want to try the ice cream? Yes. You sure? Yes. All right. We'll try it. Just because Freya wants to. Oh. Do you smell it? All right. One second. Wait until we both get them. Scoop that off of there. There you go. This. Did you just sneak some before I was ready? You could just eat this right out of the bag. You could just make yourself a bag of ice cream. Okay, Freya. Let's taste it. Okay. So, again, this is half and half and sugar. We didn't even put in all the sugar, did we? It's pretty good. Mmm. Oh. I know. Oh. This is delicious. Mmm. It's not like a smooth ice cream. It is a little bit more icy than an ice cream. But. It's a little more colder than ice cream. And the flavor is actually really good. It is a very good vanilla flavor. And I was kind of afraid that the sugar would not dissolve. So that maybe it would be a little crunchy. But it's not. Yeah. It's very, very good. Would you eat a bowl of this ice cream? Yeah. A whole bowl. Mmm. And a whole thing.  Yeah. So there you have it. Freya would eat this whole bag of ice cream.  And if it turned out, I know that some people make this all the time. Or what kind of ice cream is your favorite? Do you like vanilla? Do you like flavors in your ice cream? And also what kind of ice cream is most popular where you live? Is it Kulfi? Is it Gelato?  Let us know in the comments below. If you liked this video, subscribe. If you like this video, please subscribe. Hit the little bell so that you always get notified when we have a new video. And we hope that you can join us again for the next Spotlight program and the next program that talks about U.S. culture. Thanks for joining us.


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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here? So this will be the recap for Chucky season 3 episode 5 We know part 2 return tonight, so let's just jump right on into it And I'll have some teases related to episode 6 for you guys So episode 5 starts with president Collins given a press conference about the tragedies happening at the White House Specifically the ones that happened last night at the Halloween party. He says while this is the White House It's also his family's home Collins becomes distracted by voices and ghostly appearances of his dead son Joseph saying daddy. No repeatedly Collins storms out of the room after it overwhelms him. It just becomes a little bit too much to handle Charlotte goes to a room and discusses with price how Collins doesn't know about their little project still that they've been working on Charlotte Asked price what he's found and says the chandelier from last night was tampered with it didn't just fall on its own Wow, you don't say he suggests exposing some of the truth to the media But Charlotte shoots it down in favor of protecting her family price Shows her some footage of Henry's ghost appearing and disappearing at the party from last night But she just brushes it off and tells him to just find the killer. He's supposed to be finding Collins encounters Grant and Henry while wandering the White House and he asked Henry Where his doll is and Henry says he's resting because he's sick obviously he's talking about Chucky who he again calls Joseph his deceased brother He asked Henry if he sees Joseph not the doll but his brother Charlotte interrupts the conversation between Collins and Henry before he can give his answer telling Henry It's time to go to school and suggest to Collins that he gets some rest Devon and Lexley and Jake are back at their motel or whatever place they are staying talking about why Chucky could be at the White House Jake and Devon stressed that they need to get back into the White House and Lexley says she'll make things right with Grant Since he's very into her Chucky is shown in bed resting a maid comes in saying she isn't paid enough for this shit She drinks some water from a cup she has and then begins cleaning up the room while she's doing that Chucky puts bleach into her cup and she begins to cough up blood when she takes another sip Gags for her breath or gags for breath and then Chucky stands over her watching her die But he says ah, what's the point because her death isn't causing any thrills for him He's very disappointed in the lack of excitement that her death brings and is upset that he has to now clean this mess up Devon and Jake go over a plan related to finding underground White House tunnels so they can sneak back in but Devon says it's a bad idea But he loves when Jake comes up with creative solutions Devon realizes something and suggests he and Jake need to go on the dark web while they keep looking for a way to Be Chucky the dark web Exploration seems to lead to them tracking down the witch doctor Which seemed very random and then they they drive to Georgia to go confront said witch doctor Henry visits Chucky while he's resting saying he wants to make him feel better Offers or he offers to use his favorite blanky But Henry notices blood on the walls when he goes to get said blanky and runs out screaming for mommy and daddy Chucky makes a joke saying it must have been his face that caused Henry to run out Charlotte tells Henry she'll go check it out So she makes her way into the bedroom finds Henry's drawings observes them for a bit walks around the room some more Chucky is pretending to be sleep Charlotte makes her way to the closet where the maids dead body is but she only finds the ghost of 1600 book and then leaves the room Now while she was doing that Chucky was behind her ready to kill But he apparently was too weak to get it up as he states. There's an obvious erectile dysfunction joke there, too Later that night Grant is ignoring text from Lexi in his bedroom and Charlotte comes in to talk to him about it He says he thinks it's over because Lexi wasn't into him really she can she comforts him saying a relationship requires trust And Lexi broke his and the right person will see who he is outside of his presidential connections The next day a secret service member advises Grant to be a big boy and just talk to Lexi while he's going to school Rather than ignoring her texts Grant walks over to Lexi who apologizes and says she's been trying to get a hold of him Lexi says he knows she knows what it's like to be the child of a politician and to go through some serious shit like losing Someone you love before asking if they can start over he offers a handshake and says Lexi is the first person He's like so much ever and she likes Grant too is what she says Lexi starts to tell Grant about Chucky but homeroom is starting so they make plans for later and kiss goodbye Devon and Jake are at the witch doctor office He asked why they're here and Devon shows a picture of Chucky asking if they know who this is the witch doctor Refuses to tell them anything at first but tells them Chucky is dying permanently since his soul is tainted with Christian magic due to a botch Exorcism Collins is in his office looking at a picture of his two sons before noticing blood on the carpet He gets up from his desk to go look he dips his hand in the blood while it spreads and cow and cowers in fear before realizing The blood was never there Collins goes to his bedroom and to find Charlotte and ask why she is home He tells her things haven't been okay for some time He tells her about Henry's obsession with ghosts and Joseph Charlotte Thanks, Teddy's death is bringing up unresolved feelings for Henry Collins tells Charlotte. She believes Henry Or he believes Henry because she saw or he saw Joseph's ghost too He says he didn't tell her because he didn't he wasn't sure about it at first But now he is and goes on about how Joseph was watching him at the press conference from earlier Charlotte says if he needs to meet with Dr. Schneider again to cope with law She can arrange it because she can't be the only one keeping this family together Chucky is shown watching doll horror movies He gets mad at dolls like Brahms the dead silence doll in Megan He tells Megan to f off and then stumbles on to an update on Tiffany's time behind bars Devon and Jake are driving home talking about things they want to do together Jake and Devon stop at a motel for the night and make out the next day They pack up and head out to keep driving Jake suggests they go on a cross-country trip once everything with Chuck He is over Devon wants to run off now though because he's scared and doesn't want to lose Jake Jake tells Devon they cannot run off because they are final girls Charlotte tells price She needs to come clean because he her loved ones are rambling on about ghosts He does he tells her he doesn't think there's a killer, but a supernatural force in the White House Charlotte laughs until she notices a ghost trapped in the breeze of the American flag back at Tiffany's cell She gets a phone call from Chucky She just basically tells him to go out in a blaze of glory and that's what he plans to do The episode concludes with Collins walking around the White House. He's distracted again by Joseph's voice So he investigates like a fool Joseph's ultimate final distraction costs him his life as Chucky kills him bashing a va a vase over his head And he gouges his eyes out starts tearing at his face Before telling him that he's got it from here and the president is no longer necessary Chucky gains access to nuclear codes and last it in the episode now the teaser for episode six one You're gonna see Devon Sawa once again I think he returns next week if not next week you're gonna see him one more time after that too He plays three different three different roles Chucky's gonna blow something up next week and Something very big is gonna happen to Charles's body aka Chucky something very big is gonna happen to Chucky Next week to conclude episode six, but let me know what you guys think about this down in the comment section below Did you enjoy episode five of Chucky season three? Why are why not? I will say that I found it enjoyable Although when it's all said and done I will review it because I found some of the dialogue bits to be quite Disgusting particularly the Jamie Lee Curtis one being ultimately cringe But again, let me know what you think about this down in the comment section below if you haven't already of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post notification numbers video in the description. I have links on social media accounts I am on Facebook Twitter and Instagram you can message me there So let me know there's any movies news or reviews I'm gonna cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you next week


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