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[Assistant] I saw a stylish stay at home mom swiping her card quickly at a local natural tea cafe. She told me that she went during her lunch break because she loves unique herbal teas.


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[Assistant] Guys, that is how you use these five simple steps, the five W's, who, what, when, where, and why.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I'm so excited because it literally will change your English learning journey.


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[Assistant] You will start speaking and you will start feeling so confident when you're in conversations because the person listening to you will be able to tell that your fluency has improved because you're giving all of the necessary information. Now, again, guys, when you're practicing, remember this, the five W's again, who is involved in this situation? What is exactly happening? When is it happening?


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[Assistant] Some of you may be wondering, teacher, what's the order? Again, the five simple steps, who, what, when, where, and why. When you're making your sentence, you can put them in any order that you'd like. Okay. So actually in the comment section, I want you to try make your own sentence.


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[Assistant] Using the five W's, the steps. Okay. These steps right here. Now you can make a sentence or you can make a short.


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[Assistant] Description of the image we actually saw today. But guys, I really hope these steps help you. I'm so excited that you guys are finally learning how to think in English and I will talk to you guys in the next video.


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[Assistant] I have a question for Mr. Seeker. Uh, you've hinted on a post-living era, a post-human era, post-anthropocene.


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[Assistant] Do you want to speak confidently in English using English expressions, English vocabulary and English idioms like a native English speaker? Well, if you do today's lesson is just for you. I'm teacher Tiffany. Let's jump right in.


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[Assistant] This is the formula we are going to use in order to speak confidently about relationships in English. Now, let's jump right into the first part of this equation. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Now, the letter Q stands for qualities.


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[Assistant] The letter E stands for experience and the letter L stands for lesson. So looking at the letter Q.


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[Assistant] We need to give three qualities related to the relationship.


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[Assistant] These qualities can be chosen by you. They can be details about the relationship or just extra information about the relationship. So let's look at a few different relationships to see how this will work. Again, we're seeing how we can speak confidently about relationships in English.


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[Assistant] All right. So let's say for example, we are looking at a relationship with friends. So the friendship relationship. Now we're going to start again with looking at three qualities, loyalty, happiness, and communication. So let's start.


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[Assistant] When I think of friendship, three things come to mind.


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[Assistant] So again, the expression is come to mind. Okay. Now you can try to make your own sentence using this expression. Just put it in the comment section and I'll look at it for you. Okay. So again, come to mind. All right. Now back to our example. Here we go.


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[Assistant] A friend is someone who is there for you when you need them and will have your back in every situation.


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[Assistant] So you see what I did? The first quality is loyalty. And then I expounded or gave extra information about that quality.


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[Assistant] Now you also see I said have your back. Now guys in English, have your back just means we'll support you. We'll be there for you. And it's an expression that we use very often. Okay. All right. So let's move on to the second quality. All right. Still dealing with Q. Now the second quality is.


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[Assistant] Happiness. So I said, the second thing is happiness. Spending time with friends makes our lives happier and more fulfilling. Okay. Now let's move on to the third quality, communication.


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[Assistant] Finally, friendship is all about communication.


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[Assistant] Through friendship, we are able to learn how to express our feelings and understand the feelings of others.


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[Assistant] So again, guys, for this first part of the formula, again, learning how to speak confidently about relationships in English.


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[Assistant] I gave three qualities following the Q part of our formula. Okay. But let's say we're not talking about friendships. Let's move on to a different type of relationship and see if this actually works. So let's say we are looking at.


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[Assistant] A romantic relationship. Okay, so I've chosen my three qualities. Love.


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[Assistant] Something you're going to notice is that I don't have them separated. Remember in the previous example, I had the quality, then I had another sentence after the quality giving more of a description about that quality. So in this example, I'm showing that you can change it up a little bit. So let's go back to my screen. What I did for this example.


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[Assistant] I actually explained different relationships. So let me read it. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Romantic relationships can be seen wherever you go in the world.


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[Assistant] You can see teenagers dating in high school. You can see adults spending time together right before they get married.


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[Assistant] And you can also see old married couples enjoying quiet dinners together. So guys, what I did was I gave some examples of romantic relationships. Again, you can change it up a little bit.


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[Assistant] However, I still included three specific qualities of romantic relationships. Why? Because this is a part of our formula for speaking confidently in English. Okay. So let's read the final sentence that includes all three qualities. Here we go. The final sentence was or is.


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[Assistant] These relationships are filled with love, compassion, and tenderness. Okay? So, one more example. Let's look at this relationship. The family relationship.


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[Assistant] Again, for this one, I haven't broken down three different qualities and I just said first, next, and finally.


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[Assistant] So for this example, the quality is not just one word. It's actually a description. So you'll follow along and you'll see how I did it for this example. Okay. Now guys also remember.


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[Assistant] If you want to follow along with this lesson and you want to practice, remember that you can download the PDF. Okay. The PDF it's free. The link is in the description. So don't worry as you're following along, you can always review with a PDF that is totally free just for you. Okay. All right. So back to my screen. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Families are the foundation of society. This is because a family relationship can teach a person three key principles related to life. Again, guys, I'm introducing you to the next three qualities and in this example, I call them


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[Assistant] Principles, okay? Here we go. Now, the first one.


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[Assistant] First, a family relationship can teach a person how to work well with others. Moving on.


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[Assistant] A family relationship can teach a person the importance of loyalty and dependability.


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[Assistant] So again, in my opinion, these are the three qualities or key principles of a family relationship. Always remember, when it refers, when we refer to speaking confidently in English,


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[Assistant] It's really about relaying your own ideas or thoughts about a specific topic. So in your opinion, what are the top three qualities of a family relationship or a friendship or a romantic relationship?


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[Assistant] You can decide because your ideas make you feel more confident. Alright. Now I want to teach you something else. Okay guys. So again, still looking at this first cue.


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[Assistant] You can use some vocabulary words, and I want to teach you this vocabulary word right here.


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[Assistant] Characterized. Again, characterized. Now real quick guys, just for pronunciation, watch me. Characterized.


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[Assistant] Very good, last time. Characterized.


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[Assistant] Excellent job. Now, this word characterized just means to describe the distinctive nature or features of. So, let's see some examples really quickly.


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[Assistant] That generation was characterized by greed. Okay, they were known for being greedy.


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[Assistant] Or I would characterize this as a positive change for our company.


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[Assistant] Or finally, the historian characterized the period as the decade of revolution. Now again, as always guys, you can always download the PDF. So don't worry. All of these examples are in the free PDF. Okay. All right. Now.


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[Assistant] The question I want us to look at now is how can we apply this vocabulary word to our examples that we've applied to the Q in our formula?


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[Assistant] This is where it gets good. Here we go. Alright, so we learned characterized. Now,


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[Assistant] Looking at the friendship relationship. In our initial example we had, when I think of friendship, three things come to mind. Well, we can change this sentence using characterizes. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Three things come to mind when I think about what characterizes friendship. Okay? Or we can say, in my opinion,


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[Assistant] Friendship can be characterized by three basic things.


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[Assistant] So you see how I changed the sentence and used this vocabulary word. You can do the same thing. So again, when you're speaking about relationships and you want to speak confidently, you can change it up too and use this vocabulary word. Okay. All right. Now.


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[Assistant] Let's see what it will look like for the romantic relationship. Remember my initial sentence was.


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[Assistant] These relationships are filled with love, compassion, and tenderness. So here we go.


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[Assistant] These relationships are characterized by an immense amount of love, compassion, and tenderness. So again, we changed it up. And finally, we looked at the family relationship and we said,


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[Assistant] This is because a family relationship can teach a person three key principles related to life. Now we can change this sentence and say.


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[Assistant] This is because a family relationship is characterized by three key principles related to life.


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[Assistant] So you see what happened guys, I just changed the sentence we already had and I used this new vocabulary word.


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[Assistant] I also want to remind you guys, if you want to continue studying with me, you can join my academy because in the academy I teach a lot more of these principles, a lot more vocabulary and also how to think in English. So if you want to keep studying with me, just hit the link in the description. You see the link also on your screen.


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[Assistant] Speak English with TiffanyAcademy.com. I would love to be your teacher permanently. Okay? Alright, so going back to my screen now guys, we're going to look at the next part of the equation, the letter E. Okay? Now the letter E, remember it stands for experience.


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[Assistant] You're going to talk about a personal experience related to the relationship. Okay. Now guys, remember.


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[Assistant] Another aspect of being confident when you speak in English is being able to connect yourself to the topic you are speaking about. That shows that you are really confident and comfortable. So we're speaking about relationships and now we need to figure out, mm.


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[Assistant] What personal experience do we have that connects to these different types of relationships? So again, let's go back to my screen.


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[Assistant] And we're going to start with the first one we looked at, which was the friendship relationship. So here we go. I've highlighted right here.


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[Assistant] But I met one of my closest friends eight years ago. Now you see what I'm doing is introducing my own personal experience. So let me read, let me read the example to you fully right now. Okay. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Personally, I have many friends, but I met one of my closest friends eight years ago. We were both teachers, so we experienced a lot of the same challenges.


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[Assistant] Through our friendship, we were able to lean on each other and encourage each other. This made our challenges a lot easier to overcome.


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[Assistant] So you see guys, I connected myself to this topic and I told you more about me because I revealed to you something about my personal experience with my friend who I met eight years ago. And this is a true story.


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[Assistant] Why? Because I want you to be able to understand me more and you also feel that I'm more confident when I'm speaking to you. You can do the same thing. All right, now let's move on to the next relationship. Okay.


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[Assistant] The next relationship again was what? Romantic relationship. And I've highlighted right where I began to speak about my personal experience. I said, I remember a guy that I dated when I was a teenager in high school.


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[Assistant] Now you guys are getting to know me a little bit more. So I'm not going to give you too much information, but again, I'm telling you about me personally. So it makes it more interesting and I sound more confident as I'm speaking in English. Okay. So let's find out what happened. All right. So here we go.


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[Assistant] We were young, so we just basically hung out a lot, but one day he got really sick at school. So after all of our classes ended, I sat with him in front of the gym waiting for his parents to arrive.


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[Assistant] He laid his head on my lap and we sat in silence. Again, I'm giving you a personal experience that happened to me related to a romantic relationship between my boyfriend and I when I was in high school. Okay?


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[Assistant] But remember we have one more relationship, the relationship we're going to talk about now again, you guessed it, the family relationship.


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[Assistant] And I highlighted case in point. Oh, let me explain this to you guys really quickly.


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[Assistant] So this expression case in point is used whenever we want to introduce an example. I've told you something and now I want to give you an example. We use this expression case in point. So for example, I can say, whoo.


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[Assistant] I really love Mexican food. That's true.


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[Assistant] Case in point, I eat haystacks or I eat, uh, haystacks are just taco salads. It's a term that we use, but I eat taco salads every week.


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[Assistant] So I gave you an example, right? I gave you an example of


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's go back to the example. Here we go.


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[Assistant] My family and I are extremely close. Case in point, whenever my niece has a soccer game, my entire family goes to watch her play.


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[Assistant] So again, I gave you a personal example, a personal experience connected to this topic. Remember this is part two of the formula, experience. Now what I want to do is teach you guys something that you can apply as well.


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[Assistant] We learned a new vocabulary word, but now I want to teach you an expression that you can use for this part of the formula.


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[Assistant] For instance. One more time. For instance. Now this just means as an example. So, remember a few moments ago I taught you guys case in point.


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[Assistant] Case in point and for example mean the same thing. And you're going to see the connection in a second. So wait for it. Here it comes. So let's see some example sentences using for instance. Here we go. The first one is.


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[Assistant] For instance, my mother cooked a huge or a large meal for me when I got back in town. So again, I could have said, for example. All right. And finally.


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[Assistant] But now we need to see how can we apply this expression to the examples we created related to relationships. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Going back to our examples for the friendship relationship, I said, personally, I have many friends, but I met one of my closest friends eight years ago. I can change that to.


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[Assistant] Personally, I have many friends. For instance, one of my closest friends who I met eight years ago. You see, I changed it up a little bit. Then romantic relationship.


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[Assistant] We were young, so we just basically hung out a lot. But one day he got really sick at school.


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[Assistant] I can change that too. We were young, so we just basically hung out a lot.


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[Assistant] For instance, one day after we hung out at school, he got really sick.


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[Assistant] Again, all I'm doing is using the sentence we already created and just changing it a bit using the new expression, okay? Now finally we're gonna look at the family relationship. So, for the family relationship I said,


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[Assistant] Case in point, whenever my niece has a soccer game, my entire family goes to watch her play.


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[Assistant] And remember I said case in point and for instance are similar. So I changed it to, for instance, whenever my niece has a soccer game, my entire family goes to watch her play. So again, you guys saw how I was able to easily.


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[Assistant] Change the old expression to the new expression we just learned. Again, for this part of the formula, experience, you can also use this new expression and you will sound even more confident. Alright, now we're going to transition into the last part of our formula or our equation. Remember, Q stood for? You got it, qualities. E stood for?


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[Assistant] Exactly, experience. And now we're moving to L, which stands for.


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[Assistant] Lesson. So, let's find out more about this last part of our equation, okay? So the L stands for lesson.


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[Assistant] Explain the lesson you learned from this type of relationship. Now guys, this step is so important because remember I explained to you the first part when you're talking about the qualities basically shows that you know about, mm,


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[Assistant] The topic of relationships, you know, general information.


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[Assistant] Then you connect it to your personal experience and finally, you're going to give the lesson you learned, which connects the person that's listening to you.


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[Assistant] Guys, honestly, if you use this formula, I guarantee...


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[Assistant] Going back to my screen guys, we're gonna look at how we can


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[Assistant] Use this formula to go, this last part of the formula,


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[Assistant] To apply to relationships. So we have friendship relationship. Here we go.


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[Assistant] It is better to listen than to speak. I've already highlighted what the lesson is. So let me read the entire part of this. Okay. Here we go.


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[Assistant] One of the main things I learned from our friendship was that it is better to listen than to speak.


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[Assistant] Puppy love, maybe you guys have never heard this expression, puppy love. So in English, we say puppy love to describe.


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[Assistant] When young people, usually teenagers are dating and they think they're in love, but really they don't understand fully what love is. So we call it puppy love. Just young people liking to be around each other and.


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[Assistant] So we call it puppy love. It's really a good expression to know, okay? Alright, so moving on.


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[Assistant] He really appreciated me sitting with him while he waited for his ride to come. All right. So moving on finally to our family relationship. Okay. Family relationship. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Highlighted, for us to support her and show her that we care about her. That's the lesson. Folliers, she is only 9 years old, but we feel that it is important for us to support her and show her that we care about her.


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[Assistant] That's what families do. Alright, so again, you see how I expressed the lesson for each relationship. L being the final part of our formula or equation, okay?


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[Assistant] Now what I want to do is teach you guys an idiom that you can use for this part of the equation, okay? So going back to my screen guys, let's see the equation. Here's, well not the equation, the idiom. Here's the idiom.


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[Assistant] Have or got your back. Now this came up earlier, but remember it means to be willing and prepared to help or defend someone or to look out for someone if they need assistance. So for example, let's say that.


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[Assistant] My friends and I are traveling somewhere and one of my friends gets out of the car and another person, a stranger walks up to her.


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[Assistant] And an altercation starts or an argument starts. Now because she's my friend, I want to support her. I want to protect her. I want to help the situation to.


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[Assistant] Uh, decrease. I don't want them to get in a fight. So I will step out of the car and walk up to them to try to help them calm down.


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[Assistant] Why? Because I am a supportive friend. I support her. I have her back.


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[Assistant] I don't want her to get in trouble. I don't want her to get hurt. I have her back. Okay. Alright, so let's see three sentences using this idiom. Okay. So going back to my screen, here's the first sentence. Don't worry about them.


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[Assistant] I've got your back, okay? Next, you can always rely on your parents to have your back. Now you know what guys?


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[Assistant] I want to tell you a quick story. This is something that, uhm,


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[Assistant] Really as close to me, alright, because my parents always have my back. Now again,


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[Assistant] They've always reminded my sister and I that no matter what happens, they will support us and be there for us. I remember there was a time I had my own house, I had my own job, but I was having some financial struggles.


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[Assistant] And I called my parents and they said we'll give you the money. Why? Because they supported me. They had my back. That's what families do. So again.


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[Assistant] This idiom means a lot to me because I have supportive parents and parents who always have my back. Maybe you also have parents that have your back. So if you do, in the comment section, write your sentence using this idiom. Who has your back? Do your friends have your back?


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[Assistant] What about your parents or someone else in your life that has your back? Okay. All right. Let's look at the last example sentence. Here we go.


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[Assistant] The last sentence is I will always have your back. So now let's see how we can use this idiom in our examples. So again, for a friendship we had, when we take the time to listen to people, it shows them that we care about them. Now we can change this and say,


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[Assistant] When we take the time to listen to people, it shows them that we have their back. Okay. All right. Next we have the romantic relationship. I said, even though I know that it really was just puppy love.


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[Assistant] It still taught me a lot about caring for someone else and I can change that to say.


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[Assistant] Even though I know that it really was just puppy love,


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[Assistant] It still taught me a lot about having someone's back. Remember guys in this story, I told you that I sat with him.


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[Assistant] As he was waiting for his parents, I was supportive. I was there to help him. I had his back. Okay. Now the last one remember we had was the family relationship. So here we go.


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[Assistant] She is only nine years old, but we feel that it is important for us to support her and show her that we care about her.


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[Assistant] Here we go. She is only nine years old, but we feel that it is important for us to support her and show her that we have her back. So guys you were able to see again.


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[Assistant] How we applied this idiom to this last part of our equation, the L, for lesson, okay? So now, let's look at it all together, guys. So again, we looked at three different examples, right? But the equation Q was for qualities. So again, we have the friendship relationship, the romantic relationship, and the family relationship.


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[Assistant] And the first part is always going to be the qualities. Okay. Then we moved on to our personal experience. We connected our life with the topic of the relationship.


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[Assistant] And finally we express the lesson that we learned in each of these situations. Again.


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[Assistant] When you do this, when you explain it like this and when you follow the equation, you will speak confidently in English and the people listening to you will be impressed with your abilities. Okay. So again, last time looking at the equation we have again.


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[Assistant] The Q stands for qualities, three qualities. The E stands for personal experience and the L stands for the lesson that you learned.


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[Assistant] Guys, I really hope you enjoyed today's lesson and I hope that you remember if you follow this simple equation, you too can speak confidently in English about relationships. Remember to download the free PDF you see on your screen by clicking the link in the description.


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[Assistant] And also remember if you want to keep studying with me, teacher Tiffany, join my Academy by clicking the link that is at the bottom in the description section. Remember the speak English with Tiffany Academy.


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[Assistant] I'll talk to you guys next time and as always, remember to speak English.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. You've never been one to shy away from a good tip.


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[Assistant] All I want is that crate. Everything else is yours.


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[Assistant] Doesn't always have to be this way, Ash.


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[Assistant] Alright Ash, here it comes.


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[Assistant] Sorry about that, Bob. No hard feelings.


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[Assistant] Well, that's a story for another time. But I got a call. They're getting the band back together. They want me. But really? They need you.


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[Assistant] Good. You have to throw the ball to each other and I have to try and catch it. I'm the piggy in the middle.


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[Assistant] I've got the ball. Pepper, now it's your turn to be piggy.


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[Assistant] Helping hand? Of course you can, Peppa.


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[Assistant] This is the main field, or what remains of the main field. All of the big favourites are in there. Sepp Van Mark is in there. Peter Sagan, Greg Van Avermaet, as we're now looking at this four-star section of cobblestones that we're entering to now with the main field.


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[Assistant] Maybe one of the biggest names, Craig Van Avermaet, was delayed earlier on by a crash and he had to fight his way back into this group, but so far on my count, every one of the pre-race favourites is right there.


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[Assistant] A five-star sector. There's only three five-star sectors in Paris-Roubaix. This is the first of three, the Truet-Darenberg. Two more after that, Mont-Saint-Pével and the Carrefour de l'Arbre.


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[Assistant] As, uh, you've got the general regrouping in this leading group. And I'm pretty impressed by the 24 year old Spanish rider there, Marc Soler.


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[Assistant] Philippe Gilbert, because there's still an awful long way to go. Here's Gilbert now.


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[Assistant] 61, the Belgian champion and the French champion have managed to get themselves also back into this group. And 31, Matty Heyman from Mitchelton Scott, he's there too.


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[Assistant] I think tactically now, if I'm sitting in the team car of Quickstep, uh, with the team manager, I'd be a little bit more comfortable by this move here from, uh, Philippe Gilbert, because they've now been joined by Nils Pollet. Now he's a very strong rider to have in a chase group. He's the right from Katusha Alpecin.


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[Assistant] Well still, as you look at that group of the main peloton and nearly all the pre-race favourites are there. There's Daniel Oss from Bora Harnsgrove.


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[Assistant] Well, Peter Sagan, I just wonder how much he would be rattled by the...


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[Assistant] Another Mitchelton Scott rider that we've not really seen very much of, uh, Luke Derbridge. He was also in that group. He just stopped at the side of the road with a mechanical incident.


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[Assistant] No, you're so smart. She's calling you out, you fucking piece of shit.


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[Assistant] Hey everyone, it is good to finally meet you. I am teacher Tiffany. This video is starting a new season for this YouTube channel and moving forward, I will be teaching you English directly. So let's jump right in.


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[Assistant] Alright, now for today's lesson guys, we are going to be looking at how to speak properly in English when you are speaking about making a decision.


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[Assistant] Now this is something that is going to be very important for you all as you continue on your English learning journey.


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[Assistant] You see many times you have to express yourself, but you don't know the right vocabulary, the right expressions, or the right idioms to use.


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[Assistant] That's what we're going to talk about today, but specifically about making decisions. For example, when you have to make a decision about what to eat or where to go or even what to study.


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[Assistant] I'm going to show you some key words and phrases that will make you sound more natural when you speak in English. So we're going to start with an English vocabulary word.


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[Assistant] Now our first word is contemplate. One more time after me, contemplate.


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[Assistant] Now this word means to think about or to think profoundly and at length.


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[Assistant] Or to meditate. Now, once again, guys, for pronunciation sake, repeat after me. Con-tim-plate. Excellent. Very good. Contemplate.


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[Assistant] Now we use this word when we're trying to express thinking about something for an extended period of time.


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[Assistant] He was contemplating about the difficult problem. Remember I told you guys something that requires deep thought. Okay. Next.


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[Assistant] Just to tell you guys a quick story, I remember many years ago when I bought my car. It was my first car that I was paying for because the other car I had my parents had purchased for me when I was in university.


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[Assistant] Now, before I bought the car, I thought about it for a long time.


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[Assistant] I thought deeply about which car I wanted, what year, how many miles I wanted on it.


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[Assistant] So I contemplated about buying a new car.


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[Assistant] You understand, right? Very good. Now again, I want you to try as always, every time you learn something in a lesson with me, I want you to try to make your own sentence and put it in the comment section. Okay. All right. Now let's go back to our last example sentence. Here we go.


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[Assistant] The teacher told them to contemplate.


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[Assistant] About the meaning of life. So again, in this situation, the teacher wanted his or her students


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[Assistant] To think deeply about what life really is. What is the meaning of life? So remember with this vocabulary word, you use it when you think deeply about something for an extended period of time.


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[Assistant] Now I want to show you guys how to use this word in certain situations, real life situations. So going back to my screen, here we go.


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[Assistant] How to use contemplate in various situations. First, when buying food. Example one.


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[Assistant] We are contemplating about which restaurant we should go to for dinner. So again, think about a time when you are with your family or your friends and you want to go out to eat, but you don't know where to go.


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[Assistant] But you can think about it for a long period of time because you want to go somewhere that you will like as well as your family or your friends. So you can contemplate about where to go. All right. You got it. Okay. Now the next sentence we had for this situation is.


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[Assistant] My husband was contemplating about which ice cream he should buy for dessert.


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[Assistant] Remember there are many different types of desserts, okay? Now, the next situation when going on a trip.


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[Assistant] Now I want to pause real quick guys because there's a PDF for this lesson where you can print and study exactly what we're going over. It includes all of the sentences. Now you'll see that it says speak English with Tiffany Academy.


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[Assistant] Now guys, I want you to remember that the only way you can get these PDF lessons is if you're a member of my Academy, the Speak English with Tiffany Academy. Now you'll see at the bottom of your screen right now.


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[Assistant] The link for the academy, you can go there, you become a member and you can start getting the PDF lessons attached to these YouTube lessons. So you can study even more by printing them out. Okay. All right. Now back to our example. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Alright, so again, now what we're looking at is when going on a trip. Example number one.


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[Assistant] I'm still contemplating whether I should travel around Asia or the UK. Again, this is a situation where you want to take a trip, but you're not sure where to go. So you're thinking deeply about it. You're contemplating where you should travel to. Okay. All right. Now our next sentence is.


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[Assistant] Michael is contemplating going to Paris next year. Okay. I actually remember when I was in high school, we took a foreign language trip and we went to Paris and it was beautiful. So if you ever have an opportunity, go there.


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[Assistant] There's so many museums and the sights. Everything was great. Especially the croissants. Uh, croissants are a special type of bread that


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[Assistant] The French make in an amazing way. So I remember my trip to Paris as well.


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[Assistant] This individual is saying that he is contemplating about going to Paris. Okay. Alright. Now our last sentence for this situation is.


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[Assistant] She is contemplating about taking a trip to Bermuda later next month. All right. Great. Now our next situation is when you are at work. Okay.


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[Assistant] Now real quick guys, I think these sentences are going to be very helpful for you. If you are in an environment where you have to speak English with international clients, the more vocabulary, you know, and if you know how to properly use it, the more fluent you will sound. So pay close attention to these sentences. Okay. All right. Our first example sentence is.


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[Assistant] I am contemplating about how I should respond to his email. Okay. When you get emails from clients next.


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[Assistant] My boss is contemplating about which team he will choose for the new.


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[Assistant] Okay, so guys you see now how to properly use the English vocabulary word contemplating in various situations, okay? Now we're gonna move on to our next, okay, our next group. Now the next group we're gonna look at deals with


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[Assistant] On the fence, which is our idiom for this lesson. Okay. Now you'll see these circles. I'm just emphasizing the pronunciation. Okay. So after me on.


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[Assistant] The, remember the th sound, stick your tongue through your front teeth.


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[Assistant] On the fence. Now for the F sound, you need to put your front teeth on your bottom lip. So one more time. On the fence.


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[Assistant] Great job. Now let's look at the meaning of this idiom. This idiom means he or she is faced with a situation which they haven't decided on yet. So again,


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[Assistant] In an easier terms or an easier way of understanding this is you're kind of going between two options or two choices. Should I do this or should I do that? I'm on the fence. So let's go back and look at some example sentences to help you understand it even more.


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[Assistant] The first sentence is people are sitting on the fence because they are afraid of the results. It means they're not making a choice because they're nervous. Next.


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[Assistant] He's still on the fence about whether he will take the job or not.


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[Assistant] Now again, remember I explained that on the fence just means you're kind of going back and forth. So I want you to think about an individual, this man in this sentence, who has been given a job offer.


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[Assistant] But he also has an idea of moving to another state next year.


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[Assistant] So he doesn't know if he should take the job or if he should move. So he's on the fence. All right. Okay. Now our last sentence is going to be, she is still on the fence about whether she is going to travel abroad or not. So again, great sentence. Now,


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[Assistant] Let's look at some different situations and how we can use on the fence in these situations. So back to when buying food. Example number one.


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[Assistant] Now in English when we say go out to eat, that expression just refers to any time we don't eat at our home or someone else's home. So when we go to a restaurant or a fast food spot,


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[Assistant] These places are outside of our homes. So we go out to eat, but this individual was on the fence. Should I go out to eat or should I stay at home? Okay. All right. Now back to our second example.


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[Assistant] My husband is on the fence about which dessert he should choose. Again, we looked at this with the vocabulary word. My husband is trying to figure out which dessert he should actually choose. He's on the fence. Okay. All right. Now our next situation is.


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[Assistant] When going on a trip, example number one, I'm on the fence about taking a trip to Asia this month. Very good. Example two, Michael is still on the fence about going to Paris. Now guys, remember when we looked at the vocabulary word, which was?


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[Assistant] Great job. Contemplate. Remember we said he or Michael was contemplating.


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[Assistant] Similar situation, but now we've learned an idiom that has a similar meaning that we can use in this situation. Okay. All right. Now the last sentence for that situation.


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[Assistant] I think she is still on the fence about taking a trip to Bermuda next month. Great job. Now our final situation.


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[Assistant] When you are at work. Okay. Here's the sentence. I am on the fence about the issue he mentioned in the email. Okay. Now when I was a teacher in South Korea, I remember one of my students, one of my advanced English students.


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[Assistant] had this issue. She worked at a company and sometimes she received emails that were in English from international clients. And sometimes she didn't know how to deal with the issues because they were very


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[Assistant] Touchy or very serious issue. So she had to contemplate and think about them deeply and try to decide how to respond.


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[Assistant] My boss is on the fence about making a final selection for the new team project. Okay. Great job. Now what we're going to do guys is go to our expression regarding making decisions. The expression is figure something.


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[Assistant] One more time, figure something out. And this just means to come to understand a problem. Okay. So again, for pronunciation practice, figure, remember the F sound, to figure. Very good.


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[Assistant] Something th your tongue through your teeth.


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[Assistant] Last time, to figure something out. Again, I want you to imagine there's a problem or an issue and something you are contemplating and you're trying to figure out the best way.


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[Assistant] You see, even in my explanation, I used figure out because it's such a natural English expression.


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[Assistant] So when you're contemplating something or trying to find a way to solve an issue or a problem, you can say, I'm trying to figure out a solution or an issue. Okay. All right. Now let's look at the first example sentence. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Maybe you're at a restaurant with some friends and you're trying to figure out how much the bill will be after you guys have finished placing your order. Okay. So you're trying to figure out.


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[Assistant] What the price or the end result of the price is going to be. You're trying to figure it out, okay? Alright, so use this sentence when you're out with your friends, alright? Here we go. Next sentence is...


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[Assistant] Were you able to figure out how to solve the problem?


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[Assistant] All right, great. Now again, we're going to look at some situations, how to use figure something out in various situations. The first situation once again is when buying food. Here we go. I am trying to figure out if I should go out to eat or just stay at home.


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[Assistant] Once again, I have this dilemma. I'm trying to figure out, should I go out? Should I stay home? Should I go out or should I stay home?


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[Assistant] Next, when going on a trip. Here we go, example one.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to figure out how I can take a trip to Asia next month. Alright, so now in this situation, again, the person wants to travel to Asia.


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[Assistant] But this time they're trying to figure out how. So maybe they have a big project and they need to finish the project before they leave.


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[Assistant] So they're trying to figure out how to accomplish all of their goals before they leave or go on their trip.


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[Assistant] Michael is trying to figure out how he will buy his ticket to Paris next month. Again, you understand that one as well. And finally, I heard that she is still trying to figure out the details for her trip to Bermuda. Excellent sentence.


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[Assistant] Finally, when you are at work. Here we go.


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[Assistant] I am trying to figure out how to respond to his email. Okay.


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[Assistant] Now this is a pattern that I want you guys to memorize. You can try to use this often.


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[Assistant] I am trying to figure out how to dot dot dot. Again, remember in the comment section, I want you guys to try to use these expressions, the idiom and the vocabulary word making your own sentence. Now for the expression, try to use this pattern.


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[Assistant] Guys, I hope you understood that expression because it's so useful as you are continuing to go on your English journey. It will again, make you sound so much more natural and like a native English speaker. Okay.


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[Assistant] Alright guys, I really hope you enjoyed this lesson. Remember to write your sentence and use the expression, the idiom, and also the vocabulary word and put them in the comment section. I will talk to you guys in our next English video lesson.


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[Assistant] I'm teacher Tiffany and remember to speak English.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, this is my first sort of deep dive into Bataille that wasn't, you know, the story of the eye or some of the more esoteric papers from the Asaphal collection. And this is something that really sort of cleared it up for me because


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[Assistant] This all sums up how Bataille thinks about the economics of matter, and not just the more immediate sense of society, or even just on this planet, but in a very cosmic sense. Even to the level of the literal sum, which is always expending energy in this unconditional way.


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[Assistant] And I think, yeaah, there's uhm, there are some parts of this reading in which I do think the expenditure is doing a bit more work than it needs to be in terms of taking on aspects of production which Bataille holds back for a very sort of conservative notion of production as simply as what is socially utilisable, what is social utility.


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[Assistant] Over here, I think this is a pretty much the best introduction you can get to Pattaya. And I think especially in how he conceives of the sacred.


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[Assistant] Really cuts at the heart of what you get in the Asphalt papers and even to an extent the kinds of metaphors he's using in stuff like Story of the Eye.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I mean, so Asafel, well, just to take the precursors of Asafel, it's definitely something that's born out of, uh, Bataya's disaffection with, sort of, uh,


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[Assistant] Orthodox, the orthodoxies of Marxism, uh, Leninism at the time in France as well as...


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[Assistant] Particularly his break with, uh, the Surrealists and Andre Breton. And I think, yeah, there's a sort of.


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[Assistant] Three headed or three headless beast that you would get with, with, uh, as a folly have the.


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[Assistant] A magazine, which is Asofiles. You have its public.


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[Assistant] You have asafoil, you have, as the magazine, you have the Asphalt Secret Society.


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[Assistant] And you have Asafal's public persona, which is the College of Sociology. And I think.


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[Assistant] The main thing that all of these different people are operating with, whether it is, you know, Kosovsky or it is Kowal or it is Masson.


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[Assistant] It is the, the idea of the sacred and this idea of the base and it's very sort of transgressive.


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[Assistant] Just real conception of material life in a way that is not quite so much Marxian, although it is undoubtedly revolutionary, but thoroughly Nietzschean in how its materialism goes for, and especially Dionysian, not just in sort of Nietzsche's sense, but also in the sense of studies of Dionysus that were


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[Assistant] Sort of contemporary at the time. So, for example, Walter Osso.


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[Assistant] His book on Dionysus is actually, there are actually segments of it in the Assafile papers, the papers of the magazine, not the Secret Society. And this actually puts him a bit of a distance from, uh, people like Deleuze that were to use Nietzsche in this way, because


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[Assistant] Even though we might see there are some ways that the lers and also Guatari are built on, but I...


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[Assistant] Water Otto's Dionysianism is really something that, uh, delers.


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[Assistant] Really can't, I think this is quite a castrated Dionysus, one that doesn't really quite fit in with the, the exerces of return and return SECs, although the figure of exercese, I think, will come up quite a lot as we go through Pattaya.


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[Assistant] Mill is a, yeaah, he's definitely under fire here. One for his, you know, quite, he's quite a paternalistic thinker in that sense, especially when it comes to


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[Assistant] Bass and higher pleasures. There is, is there really a less Italian or even less Nietzschean


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[Assistant] That's a better motto than that of John Stuart Mills when it comes to pleasure, which is, you know, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.


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[Assistant] Just utilitarianism, but the sense of economic utility conceived of only in terms of


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[Assistant] The categories of production, acquisition and conservation, you know.


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[Assistant] The way he talks about how these categories are applied and how they are recognised, they are seen as rational, has the hint or the latent anti-edifalism of being associated with the gaze of the father. It's talking, you know, because he associates the rationality of


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[Assistant] We must do productive things in order to acquire things and conserve as many things it requires to keep production going, keep the energy of society circulating in a very, uh, utilitarian kind of way.


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[Assistant] Where he's getting to this is that really it's just sort of paternal prohibition on another kind of economic activity, another kind of...


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[Assistant] Motion of the economic motion of energy and that is the expenditure which is something that the father may prohibit.


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[Assistant] Ever be eliminated. This escape is expenditure. It's the.


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[Assistant] Not simply expenditure in the sense of productivity and then, you know, sort of expenditure of energy you need to.


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[Assistant] Is that your, you know, the father would have to stop his son shitting.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, going back to the sort of, yeah, the idea that the father, some relationships always sort of, territorialize in different ways. I mean, you always have the idea of collective father, the idea that sort of,


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[Assistant] I think this is something, yeah, maybe I think, but I could have considered this a bit more, given he's quite...


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[Assistant] Uh, in common stage of a lot of anthropology at the time, as, as old as it was at the time, obviously. But yea, it's definitely something I think to those quatari sort of bring out in its more sort of explosive multiplicity.


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[Assistant] You know, and he's talking about stuff like jewels, you know, conspicuous consumption, jewels, cults.


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[Assistant] Uh, competitive games, all things that require, they're all social modes of losing products or losing energy, losing


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[Assistant] And wasting energy in a sense produces something which is not integral.


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[Assistant] They could sacrifice their people to the gods, because they could actually integrate in their society. Here's a nice quote.


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[Assistant] Value seems unconditional. I mean, if you, if you know anything about the fucking disgusting cartel that runs jewels, you know, it's differently, but


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[Assistant] Just to build on the idea of sacrifice and the sacred. I mean, honestly, this one page of visions of access page one one nine, the second bullet point on the cults and the sacred.


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[Assistant] That puts really, not even a very anthropologically convincing notion of the sacrifice, but a very incredibly ferociously materialistic version of the sacred that inverts the entire, um,


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[Assistant] The entire sort of topology or hierarchy of sacredness, because what is sacred typically we think of as sacrifice is that


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[Assistant] The thing sacrificed is elevated to a transcendental realm. You know, it's, it's essences of now of the gods. It is now for the gods. For Bhatai, this sacrifice is inverted because


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[Assistant] What is sacred about this is the material fact that it is sort of no longer there, that it is set aside. And this inversion is what carries on throughout the entirety of the atafal papers. You know, uhm, the project of


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[Assistant] As a file, it's public form as, as you know, as, as Roger Cal was put it in the winter wind is to


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[Assistant] Conduct this sort of transgressive, ultra transgressive societal expenditure that hyper-sacredizes everything.


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[Assistant] The notion of ex- excessive expenditure, sacral endearing, because there is a constant state of loss, of exertion, of what he, what Kailua also calls intoxication.


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[Assistant] Intoxication in the sense of you have lost.


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[Assistant] Uh, sort of rationality, you have lost sort of productivity. You've certainly become ecstatic outside of yourself. You have lost yourself in this intoxication.


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[Assistant] And this is something that Bataille wants to sort of, and Kaowah and everyone else in Azathar wants to kind of expand societally.


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[Assistant] This idea that societal loss, societal loss of oneself, societal intoxication in a very connective rather than individual way.


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[Assistant] It's what can take us into this new phase of humanity where everything becomes so good because it's always being lost and expended upon and transgressed and intoxicated.


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[Assistant] The imminent flow of life is, is something cosmological. It's, it's, it's literally the sun, you know, it's, it is constantly expanding energy.


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[Assistant] The universe is constantly expending energy to the extent in which its own expenditure is actually accelerating. You would have noticed at the time this fits into it quite well. So you actually tap into the imminent flow of life in the same way that life is always intently flowing out expenditure, expressing itself in ways that aren't necessarily productive to


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[Assistant] The, you know, the head of reason of, of utility. I wouldn't say it was, I would actually disagree with you, Craig, a little bit say that it's not impossible in the utilitarian realm. It is. It's just criminal.


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[Assistant] This goes back to the sort of problem Deleuze and Matari bring up with Bataille, which I think is ultimately right. Why is Bataille ceding the notion of production to utilitarian conception of economics? Because, I mean, Bataille is automatically


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[Assistant] So I've taken on in the first few pages of Antedipus.


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[Assistant] He feels something, something is produced. There is actually production there. It may be an excess, may not, it may be a crime in the face of one's father, you know, in the father of utilitarianism. But there is, there is production here and it is, it does have meaningful, there is meaning produced, there are connections being made.


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[Assistant] Uh, sort of the aristocratic mode of, of expenditure, I guess. Uh, one of the ways in which he ties us back to potluck is the idea of expenditure having


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[Assistant] Well, for example, having an obligation built in. So part of luck is the obligation is, you know, in that sort of competition is to, you receive it, the obligation is to give more back and so there's an obligation as well in


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[Assistant] aristocratic society, which has gradually eroded, given its Christianity.


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[Assistant] Charitable voluntary arms, it can be, you know, and that's a little clout boost. And I think this builds up a bit, in so far as Bratai sees it, into the bourgeois, uhm, mode of expenditure in which


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[Assistant] Actually, the board trauma expender is just one class spinning all for itself.


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[Assistant] So eventually they get hooked on it. They sort of go again and again and again to expend more and more. But in order to expend this more, they need to produce more. And because the Porsche Armada production is so extractive,


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[Assistant] Due to expenditures, you know, the more diamonds you need, more people need to mine them. The more intense the mining is.


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[Assistant] And so this destitution has a sort of inverse correlational relationship with the expenditure the bourgeois class can produce. Actually, yeah, it's, it's, the more destitute the proletarians, the greater the expenditure of the bourgeois class. Now, where my tides analysis gets a little bit flat for me.


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[Assistant] It's where he sort of tries to explain philanthropy because he goes, okay, yes, we do have philanthropy, but that's because.


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[Assistant] And he's like, okay, eventually you can only destitute the proletarian so much. So eventually this kind of, this pleasure just kind of levels itself out.


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[Assistant] And occasionally for their political interests the board of RSI might, you know, expend a little bit on philanthropy to keep, you know, things roughly going in this kind of neutral day state.


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[Assistant] Destitution of the proletarians stays there and there is this latent, even in a destitution, there's this latent potency for an even greater expenditure coming from this proletarian class. And that is the social expenditure, which is revolution, which is of unconditional


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[Assistant] Pure, I guess, maybe, maybe, I'm not sure if it's resonant or not, but definitely in terms of the hatred of the destitution.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think this force of excess is in, in social evolution is seen as something that's very Dionysian in the Asaphal project, because the Dionysian sense of people become intoxicated


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[Assistant] By the fault of excess in conducting this excess, I want to go to a quote from


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[Assistant] The Dionysian virtues from the asset developer issue too.


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[Assistant] So, and it's talking about the marginalization of the Dynastian cult, which is typically rejected in Rome society in favor of more sort of stable cults, but it has an inherent social aspect to it.


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[Assistant] I think the social aspects of marginalization shines through much more in the proletarian condition than it does in the feudal condition because there was at least more parish arms to an extent, you know, there was, you know, there was less destitution in the sense that everyone had sort of land they were given to tend for their lord, but let me just go to the quote. So.


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[Assistant] Crystalizing and setting them in motion and hence became a force of super socialization.


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[Assistant] The social aspect, the connectivity of this boundless access of social revolution becomes


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[Assistant] In that sense, this Dionysian sort of excess, this intoxication of revolution becomes something that the esophage guys call virtuous because it is connective. It's not like a separate kind of excess that is cruel in the individual sense, in which, you know,


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[Assistant] Cruel, individual acts of cruelty separate people. These sort of excesses of cruelty separate people. The connective excess, the expenditure of energy which says, I want the entire social order to change, you know, we must become completely different or cease to be at all, is at the heart of this project of class struggle which he's outlining in this essay.


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[Assistant] But now we have a capitalist who, we have an example of a capitalist, one of the most famous people on the planet in terms of capitalism, who is an example par excellence of pure expenditure. We have a capitalist who made their money family-wise extracting jewels. We have a capitalist who made their fortune on top of that.


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[Assistant] Setting off energy credits to other companies so that they can expend more toxic gases.


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[Assistant] We have a catalyst who goes on to spew shit on Twitter all the time, who says we will coup whoever he wants and doesn't care who hears it at dev or behind any club closed doors. We have Elon Musk, who is a being.


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[Assistant] You know, the outside in a sense that, I think De La Scartari sometimes talk about the outside in the same way as they think of, you know, an outside sort of thing as a global church. Is, is, is, is this an attempt to try and make a


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[Assistant] Hypersocial, hypersacred religion, which is anti-individualist in the sense that Caldwell says in The Winter Wind from the College of Sociology that


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[Assistant] They are doing the opposite of Stirner. They are making everything sacred. And this is an attempt to sort of, you know,


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[Assistant] What a body can do. It shows that a body can found this new community because the, the,


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[Assistant] The sacrifice is willing. Everyone else is willing to sacrifice. It's a communal transgression starts.


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[Assistant] So the society that we're trying to make a Blade Runner 2049 is.


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[Assistant] It's not ever heralded, but the idea is that there's a chosen, sort of a chosen one. This is a person who is uhm...


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[Assistant] What they do is, is they're the programmer who makes the dreams and the false memories. Or just, you know, the memories of the replicants when they're created. Right. It is the dream weaver. But I don't know if that's, I mean, would I think of that in Delus and Kataria? Sometimes I do think if you're caught in the dream of the other, you're fucked.


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[Assistant] That gives them the personal history. It's the method of subjectivation and this new method of subjectivation is coming from this


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[Assistant] I think what's interesting as well is that other ways replicants hide themselves from these forces is they have their eyes changed or removed entirely.


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[Assistant] From page 127, if you've got your visions of excess with you, it's, uh, the meaning of Christianity is given in the development of the delirious consequences of the expenditure of classes.


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[Assistant] And a mental agonistic orgy practiced at the expense of the real struggle.


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[Assistant] It wallows in revolting impurity as indispensable to as ecstatic torment.


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[Assistant] So Christianity is a religion founded upon loss. You know, it's the loss of Christ. It is.


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[Assistant] The expenditure of classes is repressing Christianity because they sort of enjoy their destitution and the expenditure of it in the way that this is something sacred for them, but something properly challenging.


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[Assistant] To the revolution, to the class order in the revolutionary sense. There is something latently revolutionary to it. Uh, you know.


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[Assistant] That happens in Christianity because especially in the act of communion, Christ is sort of reinstantiated in the host, if you're, if you're a Catholic at least.


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[Assistant] Nietzsche finds in Christianity, although something corrupted in St. Paul. I mean, he's very pro Christ in the Antichrist.


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[Assistant] The anti-Christ should not be called the anti-Christ, he should be called the anti-Paul.


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[Assistant] I think it's even quite a nice, uh, it's, it's always, whilst reading it, I was thinking a little bit about, uh, the, the letter I'd mentioned in the podcast before that Hegel sent to an educational minister.


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[Assistant] When he said that to worship, uhm, the host is having the real body of Christ in it, the actual.


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[Assistant] Substance of God in it. To worship this biscuit as God is too equally to worship the rat shit it becomes later.


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[Assistant] And Batai, Batai looks at that and thinks, actually, in his incredibly base materialism of this, materialism of baseness.


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[Assistant] Uh, this, it's very, it's very provocative. It's meant to be transgressive in its action. That's why it's not entirely bloody accurate, but this is here. There is this worship of excess, which is not.


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[Assistant] It's never really quite coming out there because the revolution is always infinitely delayed because revolution is simply the judgment.


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[Assistant] of, of, of hell. It's, you know, it's Aquinas talking about one of the pleasures of heaven is to look down at the sufferers, uh, below, you know, it's, um,


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[Assistant] As in his beautiful South Texas ways, you know, I too was created by eternal hatred. And there is a sort of a line of flight in Christianity that tends towards excess, tends towards this.


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[Assistant] Lord of light, this expenditure, this God that does kenosis, who gives himself into the filth of life, is born in between, you know, is born for in like the mess and the stank in his corner west calls it the funk of life.


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[Assistant] I started at YC in 2013 as YC's first director of outreach. And that meant outreach to potential applicants, so people who were starting companies, so basically people like you. And when I started at YC, uhm, we had grown totally organically up until that point.


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[Assistant] So that meant that most of the people applying to YC had heard about YC through Paul Graham's essays, through reading Jessica Livingston's book, or because they were hacker news readers. So, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, uh, hacker news started out as a Reddit for tech and startup news. But if you've ever read the comments, uh, it might not shock you to realize that, uh, most of the hacker news community is, is male. And if I had to guess, even though we, we don't have those specific demographics, I would guess white male.


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[Assistant] So uhm, basically I was tasked, you know, I, I, I realized, and I think, you know, Paul and Jessica realized also that there are smart, hardworking people.


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[Assistant] All over the world, uhm, who should be starting startups who weren't users of hacker news. So I was tasked with figuring out where are these smart and hardworking people, uhm, and how do we get them to consider applying to YC? How do we get to them to consider, uh, starting a company if they hadn't started already?


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[Assistant] And so, uh, one of the things I end up working a lot on at YC, uh, is finding ways to recruit founders, um, from what is typically underrepresented communities in tech. And then I also think a lot about what do we do to support those communities once they're here, once they're starting companies, once they're in Silicon Valley.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so to be honest, uhm, I was not super aware of, uh, the, you know, particular challenges that a lot of women and people of color face, uhm, in tech when I started in 2013. So in 2012, I know the big mantra, the big thing everyone said is tech is a meritocracy.


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[Assistant] But, you know, in my, you know, and I have been personally very very lucky.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to work in an environment that is, is very, you know, supportive of me. So, uh, working at YC for example, with Paul and Jessica at first, then with Sam and the other partners, uhm, I was really lucky that they took a chance on me, uhm, that they give me a lot of autonomy and a lot of opportunity, uhm, to do great work.


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[Assistant] I've had moments and I've had experiences that make me wonder whether my life, whether my job would have been easier, uh, if I were a man, right? I've, I've struggled with a lot of, uh, you know, anxiety about, you know, am I meant to be here? Am I qualified for this job? Uhm, and you know, there are certain experiences, for example, uhm, not so long ago,


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[Assistant] There was a founder, for example, who had a meltdown. He had a meltdown about something that, uh, frankly, I or none of the partners had any control over. And frankly, he didn't have any control over it either. But what does he do? He calls me and he yells. He starts yelling uncontrollably.


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[Assistant] And as I'm on the phone with this founder, I'm thinking, why am I the target for this? I don't see him yelling at other partners. I don't see him yelling at other male partners. And it just really bothered me and it really set me back for a little while. Uhm, and so, frankly, uhm, you know,


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[Assistant] In the work that I do with founders, uhm, that is what sort of, uhm, really makes me realize that we have such a long way to go.


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[Assistant] So for example, just in the last batch, I had founders tell me stories about being asked out on dates by customers or by investors. We had one woman who was told by an investor that she needed to find a white male co-founder to pitch for her.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we had one woman at Demo Day, she was a non-profit founder who an investor came up and said, hey, I'll give you two thousand dollars if you babysit my kids. And I'm like,


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[Assistant] Like, we, I think what strikes me is that we are living in 2017. We are living in one of the most liberal places, most progressive places in the United States, if not the world.


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[Assistant] So what I believe is that we have an opportunity here to do better.


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[Assistant] And I'm excited for you because I think that, uh, you know, one of the things that's most exciting is that you have this opportunity to build a culture from scratch. You know, companies are basically like their own countries and you have to, you have the opportunity to build the world that you want to live in.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so some of the best founders I've worked with are ambitious, uhm, they're idealistic, they sign up to solve these big problems, uhm, because, you know, they see that, uh, they're unsatisfied with something they see in the world and they think like, hey, I can, I have the opportunity here to make real change.


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[Assistant] So you end up creating an ecosystem with its own rules, its own structure, and its own culture. And that will be modeled based on your personality and your beliefs as founders.


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[Assistant] So when Sam asked me to host this workshop, uhm, I realized that YC doesn't have a playbook. We don't have a playbook that we just go to that walks early stage companies through how to think about D&I issues. Uhm,


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[Assistant] But if you've paid any attention to the tech news in the past few years, you've realized that there's a momentum building up around the conversations around D&I. And basically, I think you all realize at this point, as I have,


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[Assistant] That most companies, uh, really feel and wish that they had thought about this stuff earlier on in the life cycles of their company.


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[Assistant] So what I decided to do was I decided to talk to as many YC companies as possible. I wanted to find out how, you know, how they thought about D&I at their companies, why it was important to them. I wanted to figure out what was working, what was exciting them about the space. And I think most importantly perhaps what is not working.


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[Assistant] So I brought six of the people here today that I thought I had the most interesting and thoughtful conversations with, and they're going to share their stories and observations with you.


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[Assistant] So the folks up here, I believe, will have, you know, basically enough knowledge in this space to fill a book.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but for today, we have pretty simple goals. So first, we wanna better define what diversity and inclusion are. So I think the words are sort of so overused these days, especially in the media, that they become a little empty. Uhm, and so, uh, we'll talk briefly about how we define each of these terms in this context.


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[Assistant] And then finally, uhm, we want to talk about how to build a culture that embraces hard conversations. So diversity and inclusion, even for me as a woman and as a person of color, can feel like really scary and awkward topics, and uhm, I, you know, have a lot of anxiety about, uh, you know, offending or angering other people.


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[Assistant] That's what scares and kind of like stresses me out the most, but I also realize that having these hard conversations with your co-founders and with, you know, the folks that work with you, these are some of the most important conversations to have.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so many of you today and many of you watching are pre-hiring, so we're not gonna get into the nitty-gritty of...


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[Assistant] Uh, things like writing job descriptions or how to conduct interviews, uhm, because, uh, I will, but I will share a page of resources for you that you can reference when you're ready for that stage. But today I think we'll talk about things that you can bake into your culture from day one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, that will help you lay the foundation of building a company where everyone is set up to do their best work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so hopefully you'll leave here today with at least one thing that you feel excited and like prepared to try to implement or try out. So,


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[Assistant] Really quickly, diversity and inclusion. Uhm, these are broad concepts and they're going to mean different things to different companies, uh, to different companies and to different people. So one of my favorite definitions that I've heard


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[Assistant] Uhm, is by Verna Myers, who is a lawyer who does a lot of D&I consulting for the legal world. She describes diversity as being, uh, invited to the party, whereas inclusion is being asked to dance.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so diversity in this context I think will relate to finding and hiring people from a range of backgrounds.


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[Assistant] Diversity is not is a code word for gender or race.


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[Assistant] And so, uh, diversity I think can mean a lot of things. It can mean, uh, you know, it can mean different academic backgrounds. It can mean different ages, national origins, religions, work experiences, perspectives.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's going to be up to you to decide what diversity means, uh, for your company and what you'd like to focus on first. And what you decide to focus on first is going to change. It's going to change depending on certain factors. It might, uh, depend on where your company is based and what the demographics are like in that region. It might depend on your product, uhm, what is going to be important, uhm,


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[Assistant] And so, uh, if you want to build a diverse team, you have to think about it deliberately. Because one trap that happens...


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[Assistant] Is that uhm, people focus on hiring individuals. So what happens is you come up with a template in your mind for what an ideal employee would look like. And then suddenly, you have a homogenous team.


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[Assistant] So uhm, many of the alumni I've talked to who are doing this really well have said they've had to stretch themselves. They've had to think about hiring a team.


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[Assistant] So uhm, basically like every, you know, a great team won't all have the same strengths and weaknesses. The individuals won't have the same strengths and weaknesses. Uhm, they will have skills that complement each other. And if you think about it, in your, some of your contexts, if you're trying to choose a co-founder, for example,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you wouldn't want to work with a clone of yourself. You would ideally want to work with someone who had complementary skills. Uhm, and so, let's see, moving on to inclusion. Uhm,


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[Assistant] Most founders I talk to say that after fundraising, sort of the ongoing, hardest part of their job is hiring. It's hiring great talent.


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[Assistant] But, you know, one thing that, uh, a people-related challenge that is kind of less talked about is retaining. How do you get great talent to stay at your company? So, you can do the work to recruit talent, but if your culture is garbage, they're probably not gonna stay for very long.


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[Assistant] So uhm, the Kapor Center just released a tech leaver survey, which talks about why people voluntarily leave their jobs in tech.


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[Assistant] And I recommend you read the whole thing. It's really interesting and it's not incredibly, uh, long. Uhm, and these are just four main takeaways. Uhm, so, you know, as the Kapor Center has laid out in their study, this is a huge problem, and it's a very expensive problem for tech.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's, you know, they've seen that D&I initiatives, if done right, uhm, can improve culture and really reduce turnover. Uhm, and so, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] Jen, from Leverhul, you'll meet soon, was talking about, like, what does the flip side look like? You know, there's a lot of these, like, terrible cases of what happens when you don't think about culture early, but if you do build a culture, that is great. Uhm, you know, what do you get? You get a place where people have strong personal bonds, they are loyal to your mission, uhm, you know, they stay a long time,


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[Assistant] And so Lever, I've been specifically really impressed with. They're at about 100 employees and they have a 50-50% gender split. And I hope when Jen gets up here today, she talks a little bit more about the positive benefits that she's seen at Lever as a result of them having thought about culture and inclusion from a very, very early stage. So,


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[Assistant] In all my conversations with YC alumni, the thing I heard repeated over and over again is that inclusion is just one aspect of building a great culture from scratch. Inclusion is really about building a culture where everyone can feel safe.


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[Assistant] And where people don't have to shy away from having these like really tough and awkward sometimes conversations. So we'll talk about some of those ways that companies are tackling that challenge on the panel, but first let's talk really briefly about why you might even want to start thinking about this right now.


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[Assistant] So there's a great McKinsey study that came out in 2015 that I included in the resources doc that I suggest you read, but here are some thoughts from YC alumni.


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[Assistant] So Porter Broswell is the founder of a company called Jopwell and they connect black and Latinx and Native American people with jobs and he described why it's important in this way.


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[Assistant] How can you build world-changing products or services if you don't have a complete understanding of the different perspectives that exist in the world? Uh, the founders of Exvivo


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[Assistant] Another company, uh, YC Company, learned this the hard way. They said,


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[Assistant] We figured out early that if we hired people who came from the same academic background, they approach problems in the same way.


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[Assistant] Exvivo brought up a really great example to illustrate that point. And I want to kind of like do a quick experiment here.


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[Assistant] So, uh, how many of you keep your ketchup in the fridge, in the refrigerator?


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[Assistant] So there's a great episode of the podcast Reply All, where they interview Scott Page, who's a professor at the University of Michigan who studies teens. So Scott says that language, age, you know, geography, personal hardship, that is all going to influence how we solve problems. Uhm, and he gave this example of where you keep your ketchup. So,


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[Assistant] It turns out after, you know, he did this study, if you are British or African American from the south, there's a strong probability that you will keep your ketchup in the cupboard. And if you are not either of those things, there's a strong probability that you will keep your ketchup in the fridge. So you might think like, why does this matter? Like this seems like a really trivial point. But, uhm, what happens if you run out of ketchup?


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[Assistant] So if you are a ketchup in the fridge person, you open the fridge and you might replace it with the things that are next to the ketchup in the fridge, which are usually mustard or mayo. But if you are, you know, a ketchup in the cupboard person, you might open the cupboard and realize, ah, I'm out of ketchup. So you might put malt vinegar on your fries.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so I, I love that example because, uh, basically it showcases that like the more diverse backgrounds you have represented,


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[Assistant] So like honestly, before hearing the study, I had no idea that humans even put their ketchup in the cupboard. I didn't know people like that existed. So I was like, wow, this is blowing my mind.


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[Assistant] So anyway, recruiting might not be something that you're thinking about right now.


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[Assistant] But, uh, you know, inclusion is, uh, in the words of Machinde, who you'll meet very briefly in a couple minutes. Inclusion is something you can tank early on.


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[Assistant] So, there are really well known stories about what happens when you don't start thinking about this, uh, at an early stage. There, you know, there is...


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[Assistant] Issues with the ride-sharing company who will not be named. Uhm, but let's also talk about Airbnb. So last year at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference, the founder of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, was talking about how they were struggling with claims that Airbnb enabled discrimination, especially against the African American community.


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[Assistant] And he admitted, he was like, I think we were late to this issue.


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[Assistant] Uh, he said, you know, we realized that when we were building a platform, we were three white guys, Joe, Nate, Brian, and, uhm, and he said that there were a lot of things we didn't think about. Uhm, so there were a lot of steps that they're having to reevaluate now. Uhm, so.


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[Assistant] Now that we've talked briefly about DNI, how to define it, why you might want to think about it, I would love to invite the panel up to share their stories and observations and have them introduce themselves as well. And let's bring you guys up.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I would love you to go down the line and introduce your name, your company, uh, uh, your role and how big your company is today.


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[Assistant] And they're at 50-50, gender split. Which is, so yea, among other things, but I was, it's hard to do.


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[Assistant] Awesome. So uhm, one of the things that was very clear to me as I talked to a lot of YC alumni is that diversity is sort of defined differently for every company. So I wanted to ask a couple of you why was ZNI important for you and your company and how did you define it? Let's start with Jen.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I really liked hearing about, you know, why you thought it was important and like both for your business case and for culture.


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[Assistant] And I'd love to hear a little bit about Stripe, like why it's important, um, you know, how you've defined it, how you interact with the founders as well.


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[Assistant] So giving you that autonomy and that ability to actually make change where you see needed. So one uhm,


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[Assistant] The next question I had is like, when did you first start thinking about DNI? And a couple of you had some interesting conversations and I'd, so uhm, I want to talk to Ashu about Make School.


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[Assistant] And your experience sort of being two guys starting this company, when did the conversation first come up?


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[Assistant] Can you give one example of something that she experienced that you didn't realize, uhm, was making, was like giving her a hard time or making her, like, uh, less able to perform well?


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[Assistant] Uhm, one, one, uh, example that you gave, uh, that I thought was really, like, stuck with me was that, you know, when she didn't know something, you know, some of the very young men in the class, high schoolers, would be like, oh, you don't know that. And, and I think just like trying to,


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[Assistant] Like, I guess, like, coach people through, like, here's an appropriate reaction when someone asks a question. Uhm, I think what, like, sharing a really, like,


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[Assistant] Small personal side note on that is that like for the first year, for example at YC, I didn't, I used to wear dresses all the time and I didn't, I wore like jeans and like a graphic tee because I was like, I just want to fit in. Like I'm like, I realized I was using like way more brain cycles to like really try to like fit in and like be taken seriously than, than I.


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[Assistant] Like, needed to be, but I think if, I wish I'd had this conversation, uh, because, yes.


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[Assistant] I think that other people have, you know, felt the same thing and I'd never talked about it until actually right now. So, there you go. Sharing the story. First time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, and I would love to talk to you Mitch about Penny because you are, uhm, one of the, kind of, you and I think, uhm, Devcaller are probably the...


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[Assistant] You had mentioned, and I mentioned it briefly, uhm, that you think that, you know, uh, inclusion is something that you can tank really early on. So are there any, uh, examples you've seen, uh, either on the positive or negative side of companies, uh, that you've worked with that are doing this really well?


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[Assistant] So one of the things that I think I heard from all of you and all the alumni I talked about is that like one of the major kind of obstacles to start implementing like really


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[Assistant] You know, impactful D&I programs is like getting people to have tough conversations. It's getting people...


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[Assistant] Uh, even if they're uncomfortable to, to have, to share and have these conversations. So, uhm, Jen, can you talk a little bit about, uh, you, uhm, what's gonna come next is sort of inspired by, by, uhm, what Jen told me about a panel she heard about at Pinterest, but then also, uhm, talk about how you've implemented, uh, that at Lever.


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[Assistant] So, uh, in the spirit of getting people to talk about hard things and having hard conversations, I would like everyone on this panel to share a story about, you know, a mistake they made, or a misstep, uhm, something that they wish they could have a do-over on, uhm, when they started thinking about, you know, D&I, uh, at their workplace. Or, so, uhm, let's talk about our mistakes. Do you want to start? You can, you can get a volunteer.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but like, you know, shifting a little bit from the mistakes that you've made in the past or, uh, that your organizations have made in the past, let's start talking about, uhm, things that you're trying, that you're excited about, that, that are, you know, paying off, that are, uhm, that you think are going well in terms of, you know, building this, you know, great culture from scratch.