 Hi everyone, this is Chih-chou. Welcome to my channel and welcome to a little experiment or certain something I'm going to start sharing possibly with you guys. Now, what I do with my students that I've worked with over the years, what I've always done, is I've always told them my door is open if they need to bounce off ideas or whatnot, even after, you know, we finish working together. And one thing I've had happen is one of my students has contacted me and they want to bounce off some ideas. I've gone to university. They want to bounce off some ideas and work through some of the things that they're dealing with, maybe course related, maybe university related, maybe life related or whatnot, right? So we started Skyping. We decided to start Skyping or Hangouting or Streaming, I guess. And I asked them who would be okay to share some of the discussion we're having. And the way I'm going about it is I've set up my headphones and, you know, I'm talking with this former student of mine that became a friend as well, right? And, you know, we're basically streaming or live chatting online, okay? And I'm listening to him and he's seeing me through my webcam and stuff and he's listening to me and we're having a little discussion. And I asked him who's okay for us to record this. And what I'm going to do, I'm going to cut up these little segments of, I guess, advice or certain something we might be covering, maybe math related, economics related, whatever it may be. During discussion, I asked him who was okay for us to record this then if I could share this on my channel because basically the way it's going to work is whatever questions he has and he's in his first year university, whatever questions he has, other people have as well. And whatever he's dealing with, other people are dealing with, right? One of the main things I, you know, I try to make my students really appreciate is that they're not alone. Whatever questions they have, other people have the same questions, whatever problems they're dealing with, other people's are dealing with the same problems. So whatever it is that's ailing you or you need help with is something that other people need that assistance with as well. And I, you know, we talked about this a little bit and he mentioned for sure, you know, if it was going to help other people, he beat 100% into it. So we're sort of recording this right now. And we sort of already recorded our little first session. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through that little discussion I had with the student mind, I'm going to maybe cut it out. I'm not 100% sure because what are we going to do? I'm not going to use, you know, if I've ended up using his real name or real locations, I'm going to try to edit those out. So it might be the complete discussion that I'm going to upload or it might be segments that we're going to upload. And you're only going to hear my voice. You're not going to hear their voice. Okay. And if it's something very specific question popping up, what I'm going to do is write out what the question was or what the topic of discussion was. But the odds are I'm just going to let the discussion just flow the way it is. And you can just, I guess, hear it from my side, what I'm saying. And if that works out fine, we'll stay with that format. If not, what I might do is also start recording the full discussion and then maybe sharing that information, the full discussion, their voice as well if they're okay with it. If we think it's important and it's something that people would get a benefit out of. Okay. So for now, what you're going to see is basically a discussion I just had with one of my former students that's in first year of university and they wanted to touch base and figure out how they're going to deal with, you know, this progression into university and how they're going to deal with their courses and some of the things they're encountering at university. Okay. I hope it's a good format. I hope you appreciate it. I hope it helps you out if you're also dealing with the same things as well. And we'll take it from there. We'll see where it leads us. And if it's a format that works that you guys like, we'll continue it. Okay. That's it for now. I'll see you guys shortly and in the next video. Bye for now. Okay. So basically what I've set up here, take a look. Can you see this guy that I'm pointing to right now? Okay. The reason I got headphones on, I got this guy going on. I have a mic set up here. Okay. I told you we do this. I'm going to record these sessions. If you're cool with it, if you're not whatever, I don't have to record because whatever we talk about, one thing you have to appreciate is you're not the only one. Right? Like whatever questions you have, whatever ideas you want to bounce off me, whatever thoughts you want to bounce off me, whatever you want to talk about, there's tens of millions of other people just like you that have the same questions, just like me, that I was your age, had the same damn questions. Right? Okay. Because yeah, and I think it's going to help out other people because what I'm going to do is basically take a look at this, you know, whatever we're talking about, whatever recording, if it's okay to load on YouTube, what I'm going to do, I'm going to cut it up. Right? And present the idea so other people have a chance to you know, get a perspective on something that they're not going to get it. It's cool, right? You're not going to, you know, yeah, it's, yeah, and even if it was, it doesn't make a difference, man. Man, when I was your age, I wish there was like an internet like this. Right? The only way we could get information was to download. Right? And we were downloading at one time, I had like five computers downloading and uploading at the same time. Right? Like there was no video streaming and shit. We just had torrents going or peer-to-peer or Napster or whatever just to get information, just to get podcasts, just to get lectures, talks, books, whatever we could get our hands on. Right? Okay. So anyway, that, that done, as long as you're okay with it, we do this. Yeah? Okay, man, whenever you want, you can stop and I'm not going to, when I'm going to talk to you, I'm not going to use your real, like, your name. Okay. Yeah, yeah, I'm not, I'm not going to, and if, and if I end up using it in the videos, I'm going to, what do you call it, take out that part, do a little bleep out or whatever the hell it is. Right? So I'm going to try to, I'm going to try to, because I want this not only to be private, anonymous to a certain degree, I want the, I don't want the information to be private. I want the information to go out to anyone. Right? I just want us to be private, right? You to be private, to be, to be whatever it is. Okay. Okay, man. So how, all that over with. How's it going? How's life? Yeah? Okay. Yeah, man. I mean, you're learning when you're working too. Like, don't, don't, don't get the wrong idea. You don't have to be, you don't have to be perfect. That's, you know what? That's the way, that's one thing a lot of people don't do. As soon as you're either in work or in school or wherever you are in personal relationships go through ups and downs and stuff, but wherever you are where you're trying to work or learn or whatever it is, if you find out or even training, like people move around when they're physical trainers, they change their trainers if they're competing professionally or if they're trying to improve, right? Whenever you feel like you're becoming stagnant and you're not learning and you're caught in a loop and it's repetition, repetition, repetition. And yeah, you're not growing, then it's time to change things up. You don't necessarily have to drop everything and move away or, you know, tell everyone to f*** off, right? What you can do is slowly introduce things into your life that consume a little bit of your time and see if you like what it is, right? Okay, okay, good. This is your first year going to university, you know? Okay. Oh, nice. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, yeah. Man, what are you guys doing in econ? Like, what are they teaching you? But what are you guys talking about? Like, what's the, what are they, like in econ, like it's introductory econ, right? And like, what are they talking about? Are you messaging with someone right now? Oh, you're looking at it. What is it? What are you guys covering? Oh, God. So, these are, so there's a little mathematics of what you're doing, right? Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Look, basically, econ is this, right? Let me give you general understanding. And I'm going to send you a link to a couple of articles. I want you to read. Okay. So, here, let me send you, while I'm here, let me find these articles. Okay. Yeah. Where is it? Okay. In terms of what? Like, taking all these courses, right? Is that what you're talking about? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You told me. You told me. I think you told me when I saw you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You told me you were playing guitar and stuff. You picked it up. You loved it. Yeah, yeah. How was that? Good? Okay. Yeah. It comes naturally. It comes naturally. You love it. It's something you love. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Like, it's not, like, one thing with our society, right? With our economic system, with our political system, with the way are the whole thing structured, right? Words are defined in a certain way, which we think they're supposed to mean this, but in real life, they really don't mean this, or they basically, the words have been defined in a certain way, where they narrow the meaning of that word to a level where it has no meaning. It doesn't apply where it's supposed to apply. So, for example, what you're talking about, that this stuff, when you're doing guitar and stuff, it comes naturally when you're studying this. It's just, it doesn't feel like the word you're looking for, it doesn't feel like work. That's the word you're looking for, right? Because throughout our life, all the way, you know, graduating, even if you start working, people associate work with something you do for money, right? That's not really, that's bullshit, right? Like, if you love doing something that you're doing, okay, you might be spending a lot of time, spending a lot of energy, spending a lot of money to learn what you need to do to excel in whatever you want to excel. If it's guitar, if it's this, if it's this, it doesn't make a difference. Everybody has something, right? Now, according to the traditional definition of work, people will come up to you, well, what do you do for work, right? Or what are you working on, right? Usually, they're defining that to mean something that you're struggling with or it's a chore. Work doesn't have to be chore. You could put a lot of work into something you love and it doesn't feel like it's taking away anything from you. It's giving something back, right? So, what you're doing with your guitar and stuff is giving something back to you, right? It's perfect, right? You have to make sure you have those kinds of things in your life, okay? However, everybody, I don't care who you are, you're going to have things that you need to do that you may not really want to do, right? Like, pardon me? Otherwise, how are the good things supposed to be good? And it's something that, you know, it's part of the game, man. Like, when it's a struggle, like life is not supposed to be easy. If it was easy, it wouldn't be fun. How many easy games do you play now? Like, really, when you're playing guitar, do you sit there and play the same damn chord all the time that you know how to do? No, of course not. You're trying to learn new things, right? That's a struggle, right? Education, life is not supposed to be an easy ride. It's not supposed to be simple. It's not supposed to be any of that. It's not supposed to be happy all the time. People say, I want to be happy. I want to be happy. I talk to them. I go, you're an idiot because only completely, you know, I'm not going to be politically collect. Only completely retarded people are happy all the time. That is insane. You have to be insane to be happy all the time. I'm sorry, right? You're going to go through ups. You're going to go through downs, right? Now, by the way, if I get a little intense every now and then, let me know, but with you, yeah, with you, yeah, with you, I'm very personal and in general, when I, with my students, and it's not just with you, with my students, and by the way, you're not the only one. Whenever I've worked with people, I've told them my door is always open later on in life, university life, whenever you want, you get in touch with me. We'll shoot the shit. Okay. Now, one thing, one thing I was leading to when it comes to the this work stuff, right? Let me, let me give you one of the secrets to life. Really. Okay. One of the secrets that's going to make you, and by the way, I'm going to like some of the stuff that I'm going to talk about, I am planning on making like other videos also. I'm sort of giving you content information that I'm creating or I'm going to be creating and stuff like this, right? Just to give you a lowdown, right? But one of the things, one of the main tricks to making sure in your life, you fill your life full of things you love to do, right? It doesn't mean they're going to be easy. They may be a struggle. It may, it may take a lot of work, right? But one of the tricks to filling your life full of things that you love to do, right, is to do the things that you hate to do first. Really. I'm not, like, I'm not kidding that, right? It's, it's basically the same concept procrastination, but procrastination is so general. Procrastination, people don't procrastinate about things they love to do, right? People procrastinate against things they really don't like to do. Okay? But I think the better way to think about it is do the things you don't like to do first. That way, what's going to happen is there's going to be less things you have on your plate that you need to do that you don't like and more of the things you'd like to do, right? Because one thing that happens when people procrastinate or just, you know, I used to do this too. I used to procrastinate a lot. Okay? Like really, everybody does. When you're younger, you procrastinate, right? Because one of the reasons maybe, because maybe you have, you think you have a lot of time on your hands, right? And as you get older to a certain degree, you don't procrastinate as much, right? Like seriously, you don't, like I, I don't know when I stop procrastinating, but I do still procrastinate a little bit on little, those little annoying things that I really don't want to do that just hang around, right? That just like, it's like, ah, finally you bite the bullies. Okay, man, I got to take care of this damn thing. And then you do it. It takes like 10 minutes. You're like, man, this weight I was carrying on me for like weeks or months that I didn't want to do this thing. And it took like 10 minutes or it took half a day, four days, whatever it is, right? All of a sudden it's lifted. Now you're like, oh, God, I can breathe. I can do this. I can do this, right? So just keep this in mind. I don't expect you to do it. Like really, no one, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Same with me, man. Same with me. If anything, yeah, if you got something that's bugging you, there's no way you're going to do really well in something you're trying to focus on, to do well on, right? So just look, it's, I'm sorry, but by the way, for you, it's going to be a lot harder to do than for me, right? Because me, I started doing this a long time ago. So I got a lot of the crap that I needed to get done out of the way, right? So there's no backlog and all the things that were being built up for me to do that I've been procrastinating to do for years. Man, because, because you just came out of, not just, you've been out of high school how many years? A couple of years now? So you just went, so you, when did you start school? Oh, wow. So, and you started in September or January? Okay, so you took whatever, eight months off? Not even. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's whatever, six months off, okay? So you've gone straight to your nursery. Okay, okay, okay. Yeah, look, coming out of high school, everybody coming out of high school is messed up. Private is the same man. Public school, private school, it's the same crap. It's the same crap. Okay, just different color. No, it's not, it's the same garbage, man. It's the same garbage. Professional, yeah, professional. All right. So look, that's one thing you have to appreciate. Okay, right now you're coming out of a situation that has played with your emotions, filled you full of garbage, made you, made you question who you are, right? Like before you start school, like, no, no, no, private, oh god, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%. Yeah, no, you shouldn't, you shouldn't have anxiety about it. Look, I have a, I have a friend that basically a few years ago, right? We're talking stuff like this. I said, no man, this is not going to work. He goes, I'm going to use my name. He goes, it goes chicho. Listen, shit sells. Right? Now, that's only happening or has been happening because there hasn't been an open form of communication for decades. Okay? You're just coming in to, like, you're sort of the first wave of transition of basically the internet really kicking into high gear with sharing of information and stuff like this. You're just, you're not supposed to keep up with it all. No, you're not supposed to keep up with it all. No, you shouldn't have those social laughs. Those are distractions, man. No, no, but, no, but you have one thing I have to understand. You're saying every single person that's in the cafeteria, every single person that's in the hallway, every single person that's on the bus, you know, when I hop on a bus, there's tons of people just their heads down, but it's not every single person, right? Don't focus on the ones that are doing things that you don't like. Like, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're bad things that they're doing. It's just things that bug you or things that you don't like. Yeah, don't let it piss you off. But that's what you're going through right now is the natural progression of being let out of a very bad situation. You came out of, look, you got to appreciate, you're, you just been let out of jail. Really? And you didn't know you were in jail. You didn't know you were being played with. You realized kids in high school basically towards the elementary, towards the end of elementary school and when they go to high school, they start to realize, they start to question, why am I here? 100%. You didn't feel, the reason you were able to handle it is because you didn't feel bad? Okay, so you saw, you saw through the curtain, right? Perfect, perfect, perfect. Basically, it means you figured out they're bullshit and you called them on it, right? So, but it's not, look, it's not, it's not a point of, but that's the thing, right? Yeah, but one thing you have to appreciate now is you got to, now that you figured, yeah, by the way, I'm going to let you this, let you know, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to, you know, rustle your feathers, burn your, you know, do certain things that may piss you off, but right now, a year ago, whenever you all of a sudden figured out that something, the gears weren't grinding and all of a sudden went, oh, wait a second, this is BS. Oh, I have to regurgitate their BS to be able to, to be able to get the marks that I need to be able to pass this course or pass the high school to get this piece of paper that they can give me so I can continue on to where I really want to go, right? So, you figured out that it's just an obstacle full of BS they put in front of you that you have to go through or jump through or jump over or whatever you want to think to be able to progress in your life, right? And you having to do that piss you off, right? Yeah, no kidding, I don't blame you, but I can honestly tell you this, don't let it get you so angry that it's going to prevent you from progressing to wherever it is that you envision or you want to go or even if you don't know where you want to go, you're going blindly forward, if you want to go in that direction and the system is putting up obstacles in front of you saying, hey, you have to go through this before you can go this way. Now, you got two choices, you can try to bring down the wall, which I don't suggest, not until at least you're on the other side of it so you can see what the hell is holding it up, right? If you're hitting a wall, you don't know what's like, don't try to break the wall, don't try to go through the wall, right? You can either turn around and go in a different direction if you don't want to go that way anymore. If you think this obstacle is too heavy, right? Or you don't want to deal with it, it doesn't even have to be too heavy, you don't want to deal with it, you just say the hell with it, it's not worth the effort. Or you decide to run through the hoops, jump over the wall or go around the wall and look back, see if you want to deal with this wall to make it easier for other people to come through. Maybe you want to work towards breaking down this wall because you've got a friend over here that wants to go through the wall, right? And they can't go through, you've got to help them, help them through, right? Which is one of the things, one of the things you have to appreciate right now, right? We're going through the age of competition, which is what our school system is set up on, to the age of collaboration, okay? So one thing you have to learn which the school system really hasn't taught you, it hasn't really taught, it's taught very few people, most people don't learn it, right? It's not about competing anymore, right? It's about collaborating, helping other people to come along with you if you can, but you can't help everyone, right? Because what happens is there's going to be, because as soon as, you know, if you and a bunch of friends are able to go through this wall, through this obstacle, then the next obstacle you hit, then one of your friends might be the one that can figure out a way to go through this obstacle easier than you, right? Like you said, there's so much going on right now, there's so much going on right now, it's very difficult to be able to absorb it all, to be able to deal with it all, right? Really, it's very difficult. I can't do it. Personally, one of the reasons I do what I do is because I learn from doing what I do. Like really, I'm not kidding you. Like there's multiple reasons, but like even that's one thing I figured out when I was going to university. One thing I figured out about in year three, third or fourth year university, we did, I did a little bit of it in second year university, but I stayed to, basically coming out of high school, I was in your state to a certain degree, I was pretty pissed, right? Because it was garbage. And then I went to my first university, right? And I went to that university and I looked around me and everybody was a kid, like not age-wise, but they were doing things that I might have done in grade eight or nine. So I was looking around me and sitting in the classroom and people were doing things that we were doing in high school. I'm like, man, this is university? I thought I was done with that crap, right? Which is something you're saying. You're just going to cafeteria, you're seeing people on their cell phones and all this jazz. This is just, yeah, the whole structure is like, I'm not going to defend our education system. I'm not going to defend the university education system on all this jazz, right? However, there is information there worth having, right? And it's up to you. You're going to have to figure out for yourself what it is, what that information is that is relevant to you, and how you're going to deal with it, okay? And how you're going to manage if you're going to stay at university for a while, how you're going to manage your curriculum, your school, your personal life, your relationships, to be able to learn what you need to learn, to be able to take the next course that you really want to take, right? So what you should be doing right now at university is not just focusing on what you're taking right now, is look ahead to see what type of courses are being offered in second year university, third year, fourth year. Take a look at what possible career, you know, I'm calling it career because that's what the people call it, right? But where you want to go, where you want to put your time and energy, if you want to go into, you know, work in the company, if you want to start collaborating with people to create your own whatever it is you want to create, if you want to go travel, if you want to go to grad school, if you want to start your own business, have some kind of depth to your experience at university, okay? Do you appreciate what I'm saying? Yeah, it's going to take time. Look, dude, it's going to take time. Like, don't be like one thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And sometimes you're right. Sometimes you have to step back, man. Sometimes if you're taking something, you have to sort of go, oh, you know what? I stepped a little too far. I got burned. So take a step back and rethink, reorganize yourself. Like, for me, I failed my first year calculus. Like, really, I tried to cram and I failed. I got like 34%, right? I bombed it because I didn't really put any effort. My first year English, I went to I went to class and it was boring. Like, it was ridiculous. It seriously felt like I was in grade eight doing English with this some dude. It was ridiculous. It was ridiculous, right? So I, you know, I took the hit and, you know, failed that course, failed the math, right? It didn't mean I sort of said the hell with everything, right? I reorganized, rethought things, took a little time off and then went back and redid things, right? When I was mature enough to deal with what was happening, right? It has, and it, you know, some of the stuff happened when I got less angry, right? Some of the stuff happened because I had a lot of stuff, you know, progression. For me, you know, it's about progression when you're not stuck in a rut, right? Some of that stuff happens. You can get out of that rut by doing things that you've been procrastinating on, that's been building up, right? If there's a lot of things on your plate that you, again, it goes back to the thing, do the things you don't want to do first. That way, the majority of things left in your life to do are things that you really want to do, right? And then when that queue is done with, when you dealt with all the back, you know, the backlog of all the crap that you have been piling up that you needed to deal with, you haven't dealt with, once you get rid of that backlog and you're filled with basically almost everything in your life that you really want to do, and then when something comes up that you really don't want to do, do it right away, right? Because you've already dealt with the backlog. Don't let it pile up on you. Do it right away, and then you don't have anything that you really don't want to do. Everything left is what you would love to do, right? And then something comes along that you really don't like to do, you hate it, and then do it right away, that's gone, and then, oh wow, my life is full of things I love to do, right? And then something else is going to, oh, I don't want to do it, done, right? That's the way it works. Yeah, yeah, how's that? Yeah, no, no. Here's one thing you're going to have to manage your university, okay? This is one thing you're going to have to manage your university. It's efficiency, it's your effort, okay? Let me give you an example. I had, in the last five years or so, these are the two students that I've had that I use in this example, right? I had two students that went to private school in Vancouver, right? And expensive private school, okay? Both of them were sitting in the 96% average, 96%, 98% average, right? So they got accepted into the universities they wanted to get accepted into, right? They got accepted into multiple universities, and they both went to the university they wanted to go to, right? Both of them failed out within two months, okay? Both of them had a nervous breakdown, okay? Do you know why? This is, this is the reason why. Yeah, because, yeah, you're done for, right? That's one of the reasons, because it was a private school, they were given the marks, right? Because there's a whole system behind the private school education system where they give marks so people can go get into university, and they say, oh, a higher percent of our students go to university so parents pay a lot of money to get their kids to go through the whole cycle. But the main reason that these two students bombed out, right? Within two months was because they hadn't learned how to manage their time. They would, they would put five hours of work in high school, five hours of work into something that they should have put in 20 minutes of work, right? They were trying to get 100% in everything they did, right? Now, you don't have to do that if you're at university now anymore, right? Because you're in, supposedly the reason people do that in high school is to get the marks they need to get through university, right? But now that you're at university, you don't have to do that, right? So when they give you a project that you're not really that interested in, if you're not really, if you don't care about, especially in first year, first year, second year, third year, fourth year sort of matters because fourth year you do want to go, if you want to progress, go into grad school or whatever it is, you do need to get high marks, right? You do need to play the system a little bit, play the game a little bit and, you know, cozy up to professors and see if they'll take you in as a grad student, you know, do the extra stuff. So it, you know, there's a little element of the system creeping in, right, in grade and fourth year, fifth year university before you go to grad school, right? But first year university, the one thing you have to appreciate is you're free, right? You don't need to get 80%, 90%, 70%, you just need to maybe, if it's worth the effort, pass the course, right? You just need to pass enough courses to make sure they don't kick you out of university, right? Because there's no way right now that you know what you really love to do for a long time. You're sampling, like you're sampling, you just got out of jail, they open the doors and you got all these options available to you and you can go play around and you really, there's no one sitting there phoning your parents saying, oh, he wasn't in class, they don't care, like you already paid them their money, right? They got paid, they don't care if you're going to show up or not, let's work for them, right? They really don't care, which is good and bad at the same time, right? Use that opportunity to sample, use that opportunity to learn efficiency, okay? So if you get a project in this course that you like taking and there's like this dance course that you're taking, you love it but it's overwhelming you, right? Like with the amount of work you need to do. So manage the time, man. Manage the time. Work really hard on the projects that you really want. You're getting the most out of and the projects you're not getting, you're not appreciating as much, put less effort and be okay with a lower mark or just getting a pass on that and getting 80% on the other one, right? If they're doing percentages, I don't know. If you need to do a project to pass the course, do that project. Like don't do any projects that you need to do, you know, don't skip any projects that you need to do to pass the course, okay? Who do you have in mind? What are you going to do? Interview a dancer in the next week, right? Okay, what have you done so far? Okay, go walk downtown, okay? If you see someone doing some kind of street performance that involves a dance and say, hey, can I talk to you? Like don't, it doesn't have to be, it could be someone that you've, like do you know anyone that, have you gone to any shows, any electronic shows, any bands, any music events with any friends? Do you know any friends that love dancing? They don't have to be a dancer, they just like, maybe they just like how to dance. Are they supposed to be professional dancers? What do you mean? What do you mean? Could you ask someone that's a street performer? Okay, so what are you supposed to ask them? What's the interview question? Like, what are you supposed to find out? What? What do you mean? It just says interview a dancer? It just said, what are the seven? And you're supposed to come up with the questions. Have you done any research into this? So go online, go online and just type in interviews with dancers, find out, like take two questions from one video, two questions from another video, three questions from another video, you got your seven questions, sit down and ask what are your friends? Hey, what you're like, on your paper, if when you're submitting in your work, you can make this BS, you can make up, you're a dancer, you like dancing, ask yourself the same questions. On your paper, if they, you know, if you're supposed to say who you interviewed, you could just say anonymous. The person I interviewed doesn't want to be known. Like, look, you're in an education system, right, that is using words that you think have certain meanings. They're teaching you in a certain way, which you think is supposed to be this way, but it's open. It's a system. You can take out bricks, you can, you can play with it, you can manipulate it. Okay, the interview question doesn't, you don't, you could just sit down in your room and interview yourself. Like, so far what you, so far what you've told me, why not? Like, if you like, here, I know you've gone to my site, right? Yeah, you've checked out the videos on math and whatnot, right? Have you checked out the videos, the first, the second set of, the first set of videos I loaded on, loaded on my channel, right? There were, I went to a Tai Chi celebration expert, like martial arts, and I was, it was my first time, so I videotaped that and I edited it and loaded up. The second time I put out a bunch of videos, right, was I went to an electronic music event, and for, I stayed away for like 30 hours, right? I had just bought a camera and I did what I, what I like doing at electronic outdoor music festivals, like it was a weekend festival, but I only stayed like 30, 40, I don't know, whatever hours. I stayed awake throughout the whole thing. And I, and, and what I did, I took my little camera that I just bought, right? It was on Vancouver Island. I read the instructions on the ferry, right, how to work this thing. I bought it. It was little mini dv tapes, right? And I went to this festival and I brought the camera and I started recording, videotaping, right? And basically what I videotaped was DJs playing music and people dancing to it. Have you looked at those dancing videos? Okay. I think you'll like it because you're talking about dancing a lot. Basically, for me, I love dancing, right? Like, seriously, I could do for hours, right? Okay. So one thing I, I tried to capture in those things was how people danced, right? And it was, and it, everybody's different and it's beautiful and it's intense and it's, it's magical. The body, the mind, you can, you can see if, if they're just going through the motion, if their whole being is dancing, moving, if they're moving with the terrain, if they're doing whatever with the music, if they're, if the DJ and the dancers are bouncing off each other, like if it's magic or, or, or musicians, right? Sometimes you catch performances where the people playing the music and the people enjoying the music with the dance, they're in sync. Like they're pumping each other. Like it's magic. It's incredible, right? Yeah. I just brought that up. I just brought that up because you're talking about dancing a lot. So those, those videos are, there's a lot of dancing going on there. How do you stay up for 30 hours? I don't know, man. You just do. That's funny. That's funny. Awesome. Awesome. Good, good. So what do you got planned for today? What do you got planned for today? Oh, nice. Nice. How's sociology? Good? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that one hasn't started yet. No, but you can, if you're on a waitlist, you can still go to the class and sit down and listen. As long as this is a big class, if it's a small class, you should approach the professor and say, Hey, can I proctor your class? I'm on a wait list. Can I just sit in your class and listen? How many classes have you missed? You missed three classes. Oh, four classes already. That's a lot of university. So you got some serious catching up to do. Yeah. So how many classes are you taking right now? Four? Four classes. So you're doing okay. You're enjoying three. You're not enjoying one. The econ. Okay. Okay. Okay. Think about it. Because you need minimum three classes to be considered for full time, right? Okay. Okay. Have you got the, what program are you in, by the way? Okay, sweet, sweet. Okay. One thing about, I mean, right now, your first year, so you're just managing, you know, you're managing things. You're, you're just, you're getting your footing. You're just like, it's like going out to sea, right? You don't have your sailor, sailor's footing right now, right? Sea footing or what, what did they call it, right? So you need, you need to be able to do that first. So do that with whatever courses, whatever credits you think you're going to need to be able to do that with, right? But once you get your footing, once you get your sea legs, right? Really challenge yourself at university. You're going to see a lot of your peers at university that, that are in certain programs. And when it comes to electives, whatever choices they have, whatever their program they're in, they take the easiest classes they can take. So their workload is the least, right? That's not the best idea. Okay. Huh? Oh, you sent me something. I was actually looking to send you something. Here, while I find this, I'm going to, I'm going to send you a link. Okay. If you're taking econ, you must read this. Okay. Hold on. Let me close this guy. Exit. Okay. I'm going to send you an article. Okay. Here. Where's the messages? Okay. Open this link that I just sent you. It's called, it's called shelling out the origins, the origins of money by Nick Zabo. Okay. Do you see it? Okay. It's a long read. Before you take any type of economics course, you need to read this. Okay. Like it's a must because it basically explains to you what money is. Okay. And one thing you're going to find out with anybody in economics, anybody, most people you talk to, you ask them what money is, they won't really know what money is. Okay. Really read this article. It's a long article. It's well worth reading. It'll give you a crazy perspective on our current economic system, how society has formed, how we function, how businesses, how politics is, how resources are managed, how everything is. Important article must read. Okay. Here's another article I'm sending you. It's called behind the curtain, the full Monty. Okay. And it's about Wall Street. Okay. How Wall Street functions and what liquidity means and stuff like this. Okay. Now this stuff is not going to be things you're going to talk about in this course that you're taking right now. Okay. But this should be. This should be the beginning. This should be the introduction to any economics course. Okay. Pardon me. The full Monty or the shelling out? The full, the full Monty is longer. Read shelling out the origins of money first. It goes into, it goes into human history, right? Our evolution as a society. So it's not just economics. It's the core, the core of it is economics, but it's really about our society. Okay. Our civilization. Okay. Now I'm on your site that you sent me. I can't. So you're in the chapter, which is the classical, the classical marketplace. Hold on a second. Oh dude, the article I sent you, the first one, this is what you would need to read. So the table of contents for where you are, the chapter you're in, is the classical marketplace, demand and supply. Is that correct? I'm just reading chapter three. The classical marketplace, demand and supply. Correct? So 3.1 is the marketplace trading. 3.2 is the markets building blocks. 3.3 is demand and supply curves. Okay. Now for chapter three, what we just read, where you are, that article that I sent you, that's what you need to read. Okay. Read that article because it talks about basically the marketplace. It talks about demand and supply. Okay. It talks about trading. Okay. The introductory part of it anyway. Non-price inflation. Now what you're taking is going to have a little bit of mathematics in it as well. Okay. Like and the equations, the way it works with economics, what they've done is there's a lot of hocus pocus in it, what they're teaching. But that's the system that's been in play for decades and there's models that they use and stuff like this. And one thing with economics is, I forget what the number one rule is when they say, when you're learning economics, when you go in there is, I think one of the first things they say is we're going to assume these models are true, right? Or the models that we're going to be using. So the variables that you're, you know, the equations that they give you, all you're really doing is finding the variables and just plugging in a quantified value, a number associated with that variable and doing calculations and coming out with another number, which is really quantifying whatever the word is you're talking about. Whatever the terminology is you're talking about, right? If it's a good investment, you know, if something is a good investment, you know, the simplest method you could do is, you know, have a little mathematical equation, you punch in all your variables, whatever you understand, whatever you think, and you get a number. And if that number is above one, it's a good investment. If it's below one, it's not a good investment. And the further it is above one, it's a better investment. The further it is below one, it's a worse investment. Like that's the simplest version you can think about this, right? So that's, that's what your basic introductory economics is. They're going to give you a whole bunch of numbers in it. You look at those numbers, you graph those numbers, you look at charts and all that jazz. I'm not sure exactly what it is you're looking at because you don't know what it is you're looking at. You haven't gone through it yet, right? So you sort of have to take a look at each little model separately, okay, and try to understand it. The key with understanding economics is learning the system that they're teaching you is to learn the terminology, just like any system. You've got to learn, you've got to learn the language, right? So have you spent any time learning this language? Did you take econ in high school? Are you going to continue with this econ course? Yeah? Okay. So you've got some serious catching up to do. Okay, first order of business you want to, you want to do this thing? Don't read anything from your econ course yet, read that article I sent you, not the 60 page one, but the origin of money by Nick Zabel. Okay. Yeah. Okay, but what you need to do is look at that stuff yourself first, and then narrow it down and figure out what we need to learn first before you can progress to the next one, right? Because I got a pretty good idea of what you guys are doing now, like just looking at that, the table of contents, yeah, on the book. I got a pretty good idea of what you guys are doing. I don't know at all. I really, I've looked at the stuff in the past, and I've looked at it a little bit recently, and for me, economics is, oh, what do I need to do as long as you know the mathematics, right? As long as because on a simple math, like economics is, it's just simple math, right? So all you need to do is know the math, and then whatever you're trying to understand, go to the beginning of the chapter and start reading it, learn the words, what they mean, right? There's terminology there you need to learn, right? Like for me, a lot of the economics I do, when I come across words, if I, you know, if I got a general idea of what it means, then I read it and I continue. If I really need to understand what that word means, that word usually is associated with a ratio, right? Almost everything that you're going to look at in terms of words, what they mean, not almost at the beginning stages anyway, what you're going to learn, they're basically ratios, which is basically meaning they're fractions, okay? So you have to appreciate, because economics, you know, I'll send you more stuff regarding economics, but one thing you have to appreciate about economics, economics is all relative. There's no absolute economics. There's no absoluteness to our economic system. Everything's relative, right? So for example, when you say if something is a good deal, a good deal relative to what? Do you follow what I'm saying? Everything is relative. Basically our current economic system is based, you know, our education system sort of mimics our current economics. It's all sort of a, it's all together, right? It's all sort of a, in our civilization, right? Is it going to progress the same way? I don't know. I don't think so. I think there's different models coming up, different systems coming up. There's different terminology coming up, right? That is challenging, that is going to be incorporated into our economic system. It's going to change our current economic system, right? So this is all sort of fluctuating, right? So for you to really appreciate it, you have to understand the language. You have to understand what those words mean. And a lot of the words that you need to understand, they're associated with ratios in economics where something is relative to another thing. This relative to this, this relative to this, okay? You know, that's the best general thing I can give you right now, just to open up, you know, open up your mind to the information coming in, okay? Yeah. Yeah, read that article today. And if you really like it, and if you're thinking, let it simmer a little bit, let it, you know, think about it for a bit, right? And then read the other article, the full Monty, okay? Because that article and those two articles go together, they go hand in hand, okay? Because the money one, the origin of money is talking about human evolution. And the full Monty is talking about how our current economic system is set up, specifically Wall Street related, okay? Yeah. And what do you call it? By the way, you're going to end up having to read a lot at university, a lot more than you did at high school. Like, dude, either did I, I didn't even read a single, I didn't even read Finish, a single textbook they gave us. And I just had, I read a little bit just to get the idea. I got Cole's notes just to do whatever. And I got friends to, sometimes I would sit there just before a test. I'd say, Oh, what's, what's this book about? I don't know. Like, give me the general just to be able to pass the test, right? Right? Okay. I don't, yeah, I don't recommend doing that because it sort of put me in a jam when I got to university because I was, I am still a very slow reader. But you're going to have to read a lot. Now, one thing, one tool that have you tried a text to speech reader? Do you know what it is? Yeah. Yeah. So for example, here, I use text to speech readers a lot. And I use, and I've, yeah, you can download free ones or if you have a new computer, probably has one. So for example, here, let me, let me, here, let me highlight something that'll, here, my text to speech reader, you're going to hear it. Okay, I'm going to get it to read it to you. You just highlight things that are perfect. Yeah. That's exactly what you want. Okay. So if you're finding certain things is best to read yourself, right? Because you need to take notes and stuff. Certain fluff, not necessarily fluff. I've read pretty intense articles using text to speech readers, right? But when you find out that your eyes are getting tired and at university, your eyes will get tired. If you're not, your eyes aren't getting tired, you're not doing it, right? You're not consuming enough information. Because right now, you're in a state where you're supposed to be learning as much as you can. As fast as you can and taking little breaks and processing the information. Okay. So use the text to speech reader to help you read some of the stuff you need to read. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. And how much work are you doing? How much homework are you doing? I don't want to say homework. I don't want to say homework. How much, how much, what, yeah, you need to read. That starts on the 20 seconds of labs you need to read. You need to read, read this article today, the one I sent you and then go to your econ course outline, start reading everything. And once you start reading everything, what you're going to realize is you're going to get into a groove and you're going to understand the way they're communicating, the way they're talking to you. Okay. And once you reach that stage, it's going to be a lot easier to read this stuff. It's going to go a lot faster. At the beginning it's going to be difficult, really. At the beginning it's hard, man. It is what it is. You're learning something new. You have to put the, it's not, learning is not supposed to be easy. And it's not, you know, it's not supposed to not necessarily come naturally, right? Sometimes it's a struggle. A lot of times it's a struggle, but it's well worth it, man. You're acquiring tools that you're going to use for wherever you want to go, right? Okay. Okay, man. Listen, do you want to, should we continue doing this on a regular basis? Dandio? Dandio. No problem, man. And for sure, do some readings, come with questions, and I'm not going to have all the answers, but I'll work with you and, you know, whatever we need to look up, we'll look up and see where it takes us, okay? Okay, man. Good, good. And do things, you get rid of some of the stuff that's been piling on. Get that stuff done. Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay. Good stuff, man. You look good. You look good, man. You look good. Yeah, man. Okay, man. We'll talk later, okay? I like it. I like it. Okay, brother. We'll talk Sunday. Bye-bye.