 This is Chicho. Welcome to my channel. What I wanted to do is create a sort of introductory video to this new playlist that I'm putting together that I'm calling ASMR math. Okay. Now, what the videos that are going to be loaded on on this playlist, on the set, on the series, are basically going to be a merger of what I've been doing with my ASMR videos and what I've been doing with the math videos that I've been producing. So it's sort of a marriage, sort of integration of these two different concepts, right? As for what ASMR is, ASMR stands for autonomous meridian sensory response and it's it's something that I got introduced to about three years ago, a couple of years ago where I read an article on ASMR and there was videos linked in that article and I clicked on one of the videos and what I was watching was fantastic and it was very familiar to me, but I wasn't really sure what it was that I was seeing, what it was that I was reading. So I found a forum and I went on to the forum and I asked them a question because previous to reading this article on ASMR, I've been producing beard videos and if you've been following my channel, you'll know I like facial hair and I've produced some just beard videos sharing what I do with my beard and what my philosophy, what my belief on facial hair is and why I grow beards and how I enjoy beards, right? And two of the videos that I had produced for the beard playlist was basically me combing my beard and I went to the forum on the ASMR forum and I asked them if they considered this to be ASMR because the sensations that I feel when I do, when I have a full beard, when I comb my beard were basically almost identical to what the ASMR articles were saying or what the ASMR article was saying with the videos that I was watching were giving me and you know, I basically asked the forum if they considered these two videos to be ASMR and if they did I had more footage from these two sessions that I could cut and make an extended version of those two videos and everyone in the forum by by far and large they loved the videos and they did consider that stuff to be ASMR so I went back and re-edit the videos and put out extended versions of the two beard videos that I produced and that sort of kicked off the ASMR playlist, the ASMR work that I do and after that, you know, since then we've put out a whole bunch of videos on pomegranates, put some videos together on Backgam and me and my grandmother playing Backgam and put a whole bunch of videos recently together on comic books that have a serious ASMR slant to them, right? And I ended up producing a couple of videos specifically that I called ASMR Math, okay, and after putting those videos together, I got a fair bit of comments and actually before that too, there were some comments coming my way when people noticed that I was producing ASMR videos asking me that I should start producing ASMR math videos and that hadn't really occurred to me because if you've been following my math videos and I have approximately about 200 math videos up on my on my site that are divided into two different two different categories, one of them is called the language of mathematics and the videos in the language of mathematics are basically teaching the syntax of the language of math, right? And the other section, the other playlist is called Math in Real Life, which is basically taking the syntax of the language of mathematics and using it in the real world and and the reason I've decided to start this this set, this series, this playlist to merge the ASMR work with the mathematics work that I'm doing was specifically related to a comment that was posted on one of the math videos that I put out where I was sort of just showing you how the two hand tricks that I knew, right? And the comments basically stated that the person would get math anxiety when trying to learn math so she would shut all the doors to the information coming in and it would find it really hard to learn math and by watching those two videos, just two simple hand tricks because they were sort of ASMR centric, they had an ASMR slant to them, she was able to relax and allow the information to sink in and she learned those tricks, she learned that that concept right away and that really pleased me because my main thing is I really want to teach math, I want mathematics to become more prevalent within our society and if you've been following my site, you know that my work is very mass centric so after reading that comment, the idea started bouncing around in my head thinking about how I can produce, how I can merge ASMR mathematics together and basically for me ASMR is very intimate, it's calming, it's relaxing and that's not really the way I teach mathematics, what I've done with the language of mathematics and math and real life, right? So I had to look at it from a different perspective and I've decided to make these videos in more of an intimate fashion in more of a way that I do mathematics myself instead of teach mathematics because when I do teach math, I get really excited because for me it is exciting teaching mathematics and seeing the reaction from the people that you're teaching at and light bulbs going off and you can see the machine churning in their brains, right? But when I do math myself, I really do calm down, I sit down and if it's a new concept that I'm learning, I sit there and you know read and do a little bit, practice a little bit or if it's just me just straight up practicing some of the techniques that I know, I sit there and you know just practice, you know it calms me down, right? It lets my mind wander and you know sometimes I sit there and just look into the horizon or look into space and you know let the mathematics flow and think about different ways that I can make videos for the language of mathematics and math and real life and how I'm going to present an idea, right? So personally when I do math it is sort of ASMR-ish to a certain degree because it does tickle my brain, it does put a smile on my face, it does calm me down and that's sort of something I've learned to do with time, with age, right? I've learned to calm myself down because I function and you know with most of us anyway it's a very chaotic world that we function, there's a lot of information coming our way and we do need to be able to relax and meditate to a certain degree and let the mind wander and mathematics is one of the things that I do for that, right? One of the things that is part of my life that allows me to achieve that state, right? Along with eating pomegranates and playing backgammon and a myriad of other things that I do, right? So that's sort of what this playlist is going to be about. It's sort of a merger of ASMR and mathematics and just a heads up for those of you who have been following me for the math videos. As you know I sort of spun off the math content on Chicho into two separate sites, one of them is called mathandreallife.com and the material on that on that site, on that channel is basically just the math content that I that I produce that I work on and it's me putting filter on myself and trying to remove my biases so basically I don't want my biases, my belief to interfere with people trying to access that information and learn mathematics, right? Because for me it's really important that math becomes more prevalent within our society so I sort of try to remove my personal beliefs from the content and just present the math information maybe through the language of mathematics or math in real life. So if you're only interested in the math content, math material that I'm producing, that's the site you want to be in and that's the channel you want to follow, okay? The other site that I've spun off related to the mathematics is basically mirroring everything that I'm doing on math and real life on mathandreallife.com and all the math content that I'm producing but it's also geared towards supporting organizations that are working towards ending prohibition because that's something that's dear to my heart, right? So if you're okay with the math content and supporting organizations that are working towards ending prohibition, 420 math is where you want to be and I do explain why sort of advocates of ending prohibition is sort of why it's dear to my heart and why I think it's important that the war on drugs ends, right? Or prohibition in general ends really. And if you're okay with everything that I produce, maybe the math videos, the ASMR videos, the food, the music, whatever it is, if you're okay with all of my content then Chicho is where you want to be, okay? And that's where we are, sort of that's what this playlist is going to be about. That's what these videos are going to be about. It's sort of teaching mathematics with an ASMR slant and it's going to be more intimate than what I've been producing with the language of mathematics and math in real life because it's going to be more chill, more the way that I do math myself instead of me specifically teaching it and putting the stuff together in a way that I think is people are able to absorb as quickly as possible from the way that I've learned to teach my students personally, right? So these are going to be a little bit more intimate. The videos most likely are going to be much longer in duration than what's presented on math in real life and the language of mathematics. And it's not going to really follow a specific pattern because for math in real life and the language of mathematics, what I've done is started off with the real number set and I'm sort of building it from there, right? And the plan is to create enough content, enough modules to cover all of high school mathematics from the real number set all the way up to an introductory course and calculus and one for probability and statistics. And as you can guess, it's going to be very long project and it's going to take me a long time to do this, right? And hopefully by the time we get all of that done, we would have created a lot of content for ASMR math and who knows, maybe at some point we'll catch up to the contents for the language of mathematics and math in real life and sort of spin off an ASMR math series, specifically modules that also cover all of high school mathematics from the real number set all the way up to a module on calculus and one for probability and statistics, right? But the information right now is going to come to you sort of in chunks. I'm going to be jumping all over the place in high school curriculum, okay? And after thinking about it for a while, the series that I decided to start with, the topic that I started to decide to start with is going to be trigonometry. So that's the topic that we're going to start off with and there's going to be, you know, just a handful of videos, hopefully we'll be able to cover most of the information in trig, may it be trig ratios, trig functions and trig identities, right? And we'll pick a certain topic and start it from beginning and take it all the way to the end or to a good ending point where we can kick off to another topic that's related to that, right? So these videos will be extended and hopefully by the time we're done, we would have covered most of trigonometry, okay? As for the series that's going to follow trigonometry, I think it's going to be logs because it's something that I do love teaching just as much as trigonometry and logs is another thing, another topic that really gives people problems in grade 12. That's when it's taught in my area anyway. And hopefully we create a set of videos for logs as well and cover that topic as well and get people over some hurdles that they might be encountering in high school, okay? And that's about it. I hope you enjoy and if you have any recommendations, comments or any specific topics you want covered, send me a message and I'll try to slip them in there, okay? And again, this is going to be an extended and open playlist and hopefully we'll be doing this for a long time to come, okay? I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.