Youtube daily Aug 1 2018

Today, August 1st was supposed to be the day that a company called Defense Distributed

was supposed to release blueprints online for average citizens who happen to own a 3D

printer to download these blueprints, and be able to print pretty much any kind of gun,

including assault rifles that they wanted.

Luckily, Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge stepped in and said, "Absolutely not.

We cannot allow for the safety of this country these blueprints to be available to the public."

Now, originally some of these blueprints had been posted online by Defense Distributed

back in 2013.

They were forced to remove them because they violated federal laws.

But then, somewhere along the way the federal governement decided to settle with them, rather

than continue to fight back agist the release of these blueprints.

They set yesterday, or excuse me, today is the date.

Luckily, we had a federal judge that had enough sense to say, "Yes, this is going to get people

in this country killed."

But more importantly, it's going to get people in this country killed with untraceable firearms.

That's the real threat here.

And you can whine all you want about this infringing on our second amendment rights,

but lets not forget that the first sentence of that second amendment begins with "A well

regulated militia."

Regulated being the keyword.

If we allow regulations to go out the window there is nothing to stop the most dangerous

people in this country from getting their hands on some of the deadliest weapons imaginable.

And, if they don't have to go through background checks, if they can just spend a thousand

dollars on a 3D printer, they can start making guns left and right, sell those for a major

profit, pay off that printer in a matter of hours.

This is a national security issue, here.

I don't think any reasonable person in this country would think that this would be a good

idea to allow the average Joe to be able to print a working firearm at home.

And again, these are firearms that do not have serial numbers.

Nobody had to go through a background check, so you cannot link any of the guns to any

of the people should they be used to commit a crime.

We have a very real problem in the United States today, a problem that is unique to

us in the industrialize world.

And that problem is mass shootings, mass death at the hands of psychopaths who get their

hands on these high powered weapons.

That's the problem.

If you wanna own a gun because you feel like it makes you feel safer in your home, go for

it.

It's the people who go out there and buy these weapons capable of firing dozens of rounds

in a minutes.

That's the problem.

Those are not needed on our streets by average American citizens.

There is no way to argue that we should have those.

No argument holds any ground.

People don't need that kind of fire power.

You don't use them for hunting.

You don't need them for protection, unless your home is being invaded by several hundred

people, in which case even that's not gonna stop it.

And those people who say we have to defend ourselves against the Government, do you think

that your AR15 is gonna hold off a fighter jet?

Is it gonna hold off a nuke, a bazooka, a missile launcher, anything like that?

No, it's not.

So again, there's no argument as to way average human beings in the United States need those

weapons.

It's a gun culture.

It's something that makes people who feel small feel bigger.

That's why they do it.

And the last thing we need as a country is people being able to print out these weapons

of death in their homes, to be able to go out, nobody knows they have them.

Made of plastic, so probably gonna get through some metal detectors, depending on the pieces

that you use.

I know some of them do require metal pieces, but some of them don't.

You see the danger there?

If we cannot detect these things, if we cannot trace them, if we cannot track them, if we

don't know who's carrying at any given moment it's only going to create more death and destruction

here in the United States.

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Breaking the Surface with Christine Spiten - Duration: 1:43.

I have always been drawn to the ocean.

To me, the ocean represents some sort of freedom.

As soon as I can go with my boat out at sea, it feels like the world is

just open, and I can go anywhere.

My name is Christine Spiten, and I am the Co-Founder and Chief Global Strategist

of Blueye Robotics. My first memory of

the ocean as a child was actually when I accidentally fell into it, and I just

remember a complete stillness. Everything was moving slowly, the sea grass and fish

and animals; seeing a landscape that I've never seen before. And it just made me

very curious and eager to learn more about the ocean, and I think that's the

interesting part of where technology can be a way of reconnecting people to the

ocean again. The first prototype that Blueye Robotics made was actually one

that I took with me across the Atlantic Sea. We were a group of 14 women, and what

we did with the Blueye was to investigate the connection between

marine litter on the seabed and people's health. We all depend on the ocean for

resources, such as food, energy, medicine – also the oxygen we breathe. Every second

breath we take is produced in the ocean by a small creature called phytoplankton.

To understand the fragility of life in the ocean, I think that's something

that could really help us take better care...

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Optimus Prime Returns | Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters (2013) - Duration: 4:59.

( suspenseful theme playing)

( both grunt )

Your mission was most illogical.

Scrap.

( both grunting )

Ultra magnus.

You are no optimus prime.

What in the name of paul revere's horse

Is taking them so long?

All invaders have been taken captive, master.

There was no sign of optimus prime.

So tell me, commander...

Where might your leader be?

Take my hand, optimus, and join me.

Join with the allspark.

( peaceful theme playing)

Optimus, no!

This isn't how the story's supposed to end.

( grunts )

I will not ask again!

If I knew, I wouldn't tell you.

Very well.

Execute our prisoners, and fire each cannon

At the nearest metropolis within its sites.

It is time to show the known universe

That this planet belongs to megatron.

Master, something's coming!

( dramatic theme playing)

( bumblebee whirring )

The predacon!

Not beasty enough.

( grunts )

Ratchet: How is that possible?

What? An autobot signal.

But it's airborne.

I know that color scheme.

( dramatic theme playing)

Wait! He can't fly! Can he?

( action theme playing)

( grunts )

Commander?

Sir, you're looking...Robust.

It is paramount that we disable the fusion cannons below.

Understood.

All units...

Optimus prime has returned.

Yes! Awesome!

Thank the allspark! Sweet!

Ultra magnus ( over comm )

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Christian Tissier - Finding one's own place through Aikido [Interview Part 4/7 - EN/FR] - Duration: 12:46.

Christian Tissier is a French Aikido practitioner.

One of the very few non-Japanese in history to have reached the title of 8th Dan Shihan.

He started Aikido at the age of 11

and is now one of the biggest influences of the international Aikido community.

Willing to get to the roots of his art,

he embarked on a trans-Siberian train at the age of 18 for a journey to Japan

and started to train at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo,

where he stayed for 7 years, honing his skills and learning the language and culture of Japan.

Now, at the age of 67, he gives seminars all around the globe, throughout the year, including Japan.

It is on one of these occasions that he offered us the opportunity to sit together in the legendary Butokuden of Kyoto,

to talk about his personal relation to Aikido for over an hour.

From the experience you had in Japan while you were there and given how foreigners were treated etc,

did you think Japan would ever open up the way it did?

I never asked myself the question, I never asked myself that question because...

Perhaps because I have no imagination,

but...

because when I arrived, things were that way.

I never anticipated...

For me...

I don't know, I imagine when you want to go to Japan, you are 30-35 years old - in Japan or in another field,

so you get ready, you get an idea of it:

"What am I going to find, how am I going to do";

Naively, I did not research much; I learned some Japanese but... I took some books, but...

I didn't know what I was going to find.

And everything I though I would find was different.

So...

I went with the flow,

I was there, I was in a...

in a rhythm, the morning, the afternoon, training and that's it!

My job on the side, training, training and then little by little... that's it.

Without judging, without...

Without... well, especially without judgment.

There were many things that I was not understanding. I was not understanding.

Have you never tried to be, as it happens to many foreigners, more Japanese than Japanese?

It happened, but I corrected it very quickly.

Very very quickly.

Very very quickly because...

We are "tatamised" as we say, [Jordy: yes, we say that too...]

I lived the Japanese way of course, I lived on the tatami mats,

but...

Never, no. But it can happen sometimes. You've just arrived there, you're a kid...

a guy stamps the ticket... you (bows the head)

No! At some point, you tell yourselves "No need".

Everyone has his place, right...

It's a little like what I explain in my teaching as well, right?

Do not feel sorry for yourself either, OK? so...

Everyone has a status, everyone has a place,

in your practice you acquire... you are what you are, you are neither higher nor lower,

that's it, period.

So, you practice a movement with someone, with a Senpai, with a Sensei

that's it, he does the movement, you participate in the action, you react as you have to react,

but you do not victimize yourself, do not...

You must remain what you are, with all your sincerity, and...

So in everyday life it's a little bit the same:

first you have to observe,

so you come, you watch, you see how people behave,

and you see how people behave in relation to certain things.

I mean, when you are 18-19 years old you arrive... well, you see how a young person of 18-19 years behaves.

And a gentleman who is 45-50 years old, you see how he behaves in relationships.

So if you're paying attention to that,

well, you're not 45, you're 18.

So that's it, you...

But on the other hand,

you did not receive the same education, so you will inevitably make mistakes.

How far you will bow, how...

Back home too, you adjust...

If there's sincerity, freshness,

even if there is something wrong, it's alright.

Whereas if it's just monkey see, monkey do...

It's a little too much...

Even personally after a while I think that when you imitate and you're not sincere it's...

Yes, because you lose your own identity, you see.

I mean, I think that the mix of cultures is...

There's nothing better,

because you add a culture to your own.

You improve yourself and it improves your own culture at the same time.

Do you understand what I mean?

But if you lose a certain...

identity for something that is not truly your culture either, it's complicated.

It's complicated, you don't know where you are anymore.

I understand this very well,

it's something that echoes in me a lot...

It's important, yes, it's important...

I had a period when I was not well,

I was close to stopping everything, to leave.

And it's by realizing that and refocusing on...

To stop defining yourself...

in opposition...

and to define yourself with more...

more sincerity,

to tell to people what you sincerely want to do, and...

it helped a lot...

That's right, because in fact rules of politeness in a general way, are used to...

are used not to put barriers between people, but for communication to flow better, OK?

And actually, the less freshness there is, the less sincerity there is, the more you need rules, OK?

... to make up for it. So you have to adjust those...

well, what comes from your heart,

and at the same time, what is holding you back so that it makes just what you need, you see?

And it's complicated, because I travel a lot.

It's very very different.

There are many countries where people touch each other a lot...

In Spain, in Italy...

they touch each other.

In the United States... even though they are dressed like us, have the same culture and watch the same movies...

If you have a problem with someone, I don't know, you'll say:

"I'm sorry, it wasn't on purpose", but if you touch the shoulder, it's an aggression.

It's...

So that's why...

To observe...

Well, is the person able to receive what you... how you say it...

It's this communication...

It's also Aikido actually...

It's this communication which is difficult.

Here (in Japan) it's easier, because rules are stricter.

So it's easier to understand how to... well.

It may be a little less sincere too.

I don't know, but it allows people to situate themselves... That's Japan.

Human relationships are fairly hierarchic here.

So...

Well, that's what the rules allow.

Everyone in their place, everyone in their position,

"I give you my card, you give me yours, I know who you are,

how I can talk to you,

according to your status"... that's it.

Back home it's a little more complicated than that after all.

Beyond your level, is it not also the fact

that you have acquired multiculturalism for many years in Japan

which has given you a certain...

a certain vision of things and a way of teaching, a contact with people which

goes well when you teach internationally.

Is it part of your Aikido and your personality?

Maybe, maybe, maybe, but...

[Jordy: You were already like this before?]

Yes, I mean, I meet a lot of people I've known,

who knew me when I was much younger, I mean, I have friends near my place,

well, who live near my home now but...

who knew me when I was 12-13 years old, who are a bit older than me

and we did a lot of trainings together at the time,

then we lost sight of each other because I went to Japan but,

in their memories, I was a kid rather...

rather cheerful, rather pleasant, easy to talk to...

So that did not change much.

I think that...

inevitably with time it matures.

So, one way or the other, we can be...

I'm very approachable, there's nothing hidden,

my personal phone number is on my website...

Anyone can call me, anyone can send me an e-mail

and people do not hesitate, and I always answer.

But that does not mean that,

sometimes I put barriers.

Sometimes you answer someone once, the next day they ask me a question,

so you say: "Listen, I answered, now I cannot teach you Aikido over the phone,

we do not know each other."

That's it, you do it nicely, but at a certain point, you have to...

but in general...

I see the intention of the person, OK?

There are people who need this and I know it.

I know it and I know it makes them happy

and that it may be the only communication they will have for one day or one month, some of them.

So I do it because it doesn't cost me anything.

And for the person sometimes it means a lot because they need it and that's it.

Well... it's...

There are many people who...

who have an image...

who have the impression that you are distant because of your 8th dan status.

That's true too, but also because...

I've become... some people think I'm cold, some of them.

Those who don't know me, even very close students.

They don't dare to talk to me about certain things.

So maybe it's also... I don't protect myself.

But that's how it is...

I am approachable for everyone, but on the other hand...

I put no barrier between people and me, the barrier exists.

It is there, I do not need a barrier.

Someone wants to take a picture...

A picture, it doesn't bother me.

Someone's arm on my back doesn't bother me, it doesn't deprive me of anything,

it doesn't give me anything, it doesn't deprive me of anything.

You see what I mean?

Often when people say "No, you can't touch the Sensei"...

It's Ok, why not, I mean... I can stay like that.

Careful, I'm not going to lie down on the floor with someone, I mean, don't get too comfortable either.

But what I mean is: things have to be natural.

It's not because someone gives me a pat on the back

that he will take something away from me.

Well, sometimes I do not like it.

Well, I don't like it...

I'm not going to start a discussion about it either, it depends on how it's done.

"That's nice, I appreciate you a lot."

OK, I'm happy.

Now if it's insistant, then OK, enough.

But people don't do it.

When they do it, it's always with kindness,

It's never unwholesome.

It happened, but it's rare, it's very rare.

I had this impression...

the first times we met.

I went to "a seminar with Christian Tissier" for the first time,

but I admit that very quickly...

At the first contact we had, I quickly realized that...

humanly speaking...

it was consistent with what we saw on the mats.

OK very good.

It's not always the case so it's...

Maybe because people often want to protect themselves, so... yeah.

Today you are...

probably one of the biggest influences in international Aikido,

if we except the Japanese, among the foreigners, there's no doubt,

do you live this well, or is it sometimes difficult?

I don't think about it, I live it normally, so very, very normally.

Sincerely, I have no...

no, that's it...

That's the way it is, very good.

Seeing the evolution...

that sometimes is not even driven by you,

these things that happen by themselves around you.

I'm often surprised, yeah, surprised.

It happens sometimes, I go somewhere...

How come there are so many people? I mean...

Sometimes I go somewhere and I think...

We saw each other last week,

I'm in Paris, or I'm in...

he is from Finland or Sweden or...

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Steven Cohen: Deregulating Environmental Protections - Duration: 6:11.

LBW: Every other day it seems like I read an article about Trump signing some some

you know thing into law basically are you know some sort of deregulation a lot

of it it seems to be with the EPA under Scott Pruitt deregulating a lot of the

environmental regulations that we have had up to this point it seems to be the

trend and I know this may be temporary and I know that we may only have Trump

for another few years unfortunately maybe longer than that we'll see but the

trend seems to be that currently are in in Washington that there's a lot of

deregulation going on regarding environmental policies I don't know if

you had a few comments on that or if you see that as a temporary thing that we

can remedy or is this a something we should really be concerned about

STEVEN COHEN: Well we should be concerned about it but at the same time we have a federal system and

even before Trump you know most environmental laws are

delegated to States and local governments that implement them EPA itself is a tiny

agency in fact people don't realize it had lost 1,500 people under Barack Obama

so it's not it hasn't grown in a very long time and most of its authorities

are delegated to State so where the state's serious about environmental

protection I'd say about 20 of the 50 states are really serious this won't

have any impact at all the other thing I would say is that it takes a long time

to change a regulation or even to issue a regulation so in 1976 we passed the

vote was called the RCRA the Resource Conservation Recovery Act which

regulated hazardous waste the regulation of final regulations under that 76 act

warrant issued until 1993 the back-and-forth between industry and the

government and the iterations but took a long time to put that regulation in

place taking regulations out will take a long time also and a lot of states

aren't going to do it they're going to continue to be pretty serious about this

because their public wants it I think what is not understood by

particularly Pruitt and the some of the folks in Washington is that America

supports environmental protection they don't want an intrusive overbearing

government but you know on the other hand when it comes to air and water

pollution if it's if the air pollution in my backyard is coming from the next

state you know and that next days and do anything I want EPA to do something

about it and you know even though they're they're trying to weaken the

regulations the structure of the law is still in place and those laws are pretty

pretty serious and it's not clear that some of these deregulations hold up

after the courts get hold of them because the laws themselves are not

being changed because they know that they couldn't get it through the

Congress if you look at polling data support for environmental protection I

mean climate change is a little bit different because people don't

understand it well you talk about water and air pollution and toxic support for

environmental protection there's well over seventy five percent no matter what

your political background is in part because everybody likes to breathe it's

just one of those things people don't learn learn to enjoy and and people

don't want their children to be playing in a toxic backyard or to be

drinking water with lead in it that affects their brain development so I

think that what's going on in Washington is unfortunate and it represents the

kind of backward thinking that doesn't really make a lot of sense I mean if

this idea that somehow regulations inhibits economic growth is simply

factually incorrect reasonable regulation actually helps modernize

industry and helps bring about technological change automobiles

are probably the best example automobiles are fairly heavily regulated

in terms of safety and pollution but what it did is it made Detroit and the

auto business hire a lot of engineers and those engineers when they finished

working on the pollution stuff they started working on you know deal essentially the

automation of your car so there's all sorts of electronics in a motor vehicle

today that that have replaced mechanical parts that were there 20 years ago all

that and the cars are lighter and they're more fuel efficient all that

came about because we put because the regulation force these companies to

modernize what they were building and you know safety is probably the best

example Ralph Nader writes this book in the 1950s about cars unsafe at any speed

and the auto business said you're gonna put us out of business by making us put

seat belts now a family goes to buy a car they want to know how safe it is

and they'll pay more money for it they want airbags and structural steel and

seat belts at work and you know they're they're spending a fortune on child

seats that protect their children so this idea that all regulation is bad

that it doesn't help economic growth you know somebody's got to make those

airbags somebody's got to make those seat belts those are jobs and people

are willing to pay for that people are willing to pay a little bit more for a

car if it's safer well although interestingly even the cars if you

control for inflation today's automobiles are no more expensive than

they were 20 years ago it's just that they and they have a lot there they're a

lot better technologically

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Simple Present x Present Continuous - Duration: 4:07.

Hello, everyone! My name is Cris. My name is Ana.

And this is Great Ideas for Teachers and Students!

Subtitiles are available in English and Portuguese.

On today's video we're gonna show you the difference between the Simple Present and the Present Continuous.

We use the Simple Present to talk about routines, habits.

Hi, Cris. What do you do every Monday morning?

I go to the gym.

I see.

We also use the Simple Present to talk about universal truths.

Cris, when does water boil?

When it gets to 100 degrees Celsius.

We also use the Simple Present to talk about things that we don't expect to change.

Cris, where do you live?

I live in São Paulo, Brazil.

And where do you work?

I work from home. I have a YouTube channel.

Nice.

We use the Simple Present with every day, every week, every month, every year.

For example, I go to the dentist every year.

And also we use the Simple Present with adverbs of frequency, like

always, often, usually, rarely, never

For example,

I never go to bed before 10 PM.

Now let's talk about the Present Continuous.

We use the Present Continuous to talk

about an action that is happening now.

Hi, Ana, can you talk?

I'm sorry, Cris, I can't talk to you now.

I'm shooting a YouTube video.

Oh sorry, I'll call you later.

OK, bye!

We use the Present Continuous to talk about an action

that is different from the routine.

Hi, Cris. What do you usually do on Mondays?

I usually go to the gym, but today I'm going shopping.

Cool!

We also use the Present Continuous to talk about an action

that is happening in a very near future.

Hi, Ana, what are you doing after we finish shooting the video?

I'm going out with my friends. Do you wanna come?

Sure! Great!

We use the Present Continuous with today, this morning, this afternoon, tonight

now, right now and at this moment.

For example, We are teaching you how to use the Present Continuous right now.

But pay attention!

There are some verbs that we don't usually use in continuous tenses.

What are they?

Verbs that express thought and ideas, like

think, believe

mean, understand, remember

and agree.

Ah, so know is a verb too that you don't use with -ing

I know!

And verbs that express feelings.

Love, like, hate, want and prefer

So even if you say "right now"

you still have to use the Simple Present

Do you understand?

Because you cannot say

*I am understanding

because it's wrong, ok?

I don't like it

OK, but you cannot say I'm not liking it because that's wrong too.

We have prepared some activities about the Simple Present and the Present Continuous

And it's available in the description below.

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If you like this video, hit the like button.

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3 Things I Learned from the Billionaire Michał Sołowow - The Billion Dollar Secret - Duration: 16:56.

Hi! Today from London, from Belgrave Square.

Here in Belgrave Square we have several billionaires' houses and this is probably the spot in the world with the highest billionaire density.

There are 20-30 multi-million dollar houses on this square. Some of them belong to billionaires, some of them belong to embassies of different countries.

But generally on this square alone there is more than 1 billion dollar in property.

Speaking of real estate, of property development, speaking of billioinaires I have always to think about Michał Sołowow.

Michal Solowow was the first billionaire I have interviewed. He is the 2nd most wealthy person in Poland.

He is also the only guy who intruduced five public companies into the Polish Stock Market.

He manages right now 4 international public companies simultaneously and several smaller companies.

And was chosen several years ago the best entrepreneur in the post-communistic Poland.

And today I want to share with you what insights I have learned from him.

I have interviewed Michal some time ago for my book project "The Billion Dollar Secret".

And today I want to share with you some of the things I have learned from him.

Stay with me till the end of this video. There will be a contest and something to win.

[Music]

The first thing I want to tell you is about raising opportunity.

There was a period in the 90's in Poland shortly after the communism crashed and new system got established.

New government, a capitalistic system and this was time full of opportunities.

There was hardly any professionality in the market. The market was accepting almost every business model.

Because everything was lacking in the polish economy. So, practically everything you did you could become successful with that.

Or you could sell. You could sell practically everything.

Many of the state companies failed and there was a lot of services and products failing on the market.

Suddenly from one day to another. A free market appeared. So, many of the non-competitive state companies failed, got bankrupt.

So, there were many services and products lacking on the market giving opportunity for ambitious, creative, young people to provide these services.

To provide these products, to manufacture these products.

And Michal Solowow was one of these people and he said it was substantial to raise this opportunity.

And it didn't matter what you did. It mattered that you were active. That you did something. That you made things happen.

And then you were able to make money. And Poland had at that time very adventageous legal and tax system.

Especially in the development. It came to real estate development boom because taxes were so favorable for that industry.

And if you did something, if you developed something you were able to profit greatly from that.

Of course, there were many shortages in materials at that time but you needed to be creative, to steer your way around it.

But as you know, it's not only opportunity, it's not only about being at the right time in the right place.

Because all the people in Poland or even in Eastern Europe...

But in Poland only 3 people became billionaires. So, not everybody profited from that.

And you know that success appears when opportunity meets preparation.

And Michal Solowow was prepared for that opportunity. He was eager, he didn't accept the reality he was in.

He was eager to go into business and he also was financially prepared. Before the system change in Poland,

He went to Western Germany to work for a car repairer in order to save money and to be able to invest that money in his business.

So, he saved up around $10,000 at that time which was in the beginning of the 90's a substantial amount of money in Poland.

He was able to invest that money in his first business.

And believe it or not, he was able to start his construction and development business with only $10,000.

So, raise the oppurtunity but opportunity favors the prepared people.

So, be prepared, be educated, be financially prepared. Have the knowledge and the know-how to raise the opportunity in certain industry.

When the opportunity appeares.

That's why I'm telling you about cryptocurrencies, about the technical background, about the philosophical background, about how they work.

And I encourage you to learn about them. It's not about investing, it's about learning how it works and how to invest, how to trade.

How to cope with these cryptocurrencies in order to be able to raise the opportunity as soon as the opportunity arrives.

And you decide what is the best moment to raise this opportunity.

Instead of panicking, or starting to educate youself when the opportunity is there. And it may be too late then to actually profit from that.

Another thing I learned from Michal is how discipline is important in your business success and how sports help in achieving that discipline.

Michal owns majority shares in 4 publicly traded companies. And he juggles all these companies simultaneously.

How does he do it? How is it possible? It is only possible by discipline, by planning, by being commited to invest time and time into these businesses.

Getting up early, getting to the office, being in the office and being available for his managers and setting time off for them.

Meet them to speak to them and to make the important decisions.

And he says every day when he gets up he invests 40 minutes into sports.

And he considers hmself to be lazy in that topic. You may not know but Michal is also one of the best car racing drivers in Europe.

He is actually several time europe vice champion in car racing and this sport gives him the balance needed for his business.

And it also somehow satisfies his desire for competition. He is extremely competitive.

Sports support your competitiveness. I was talking about the role of sports in business and in billionaires lives earlier in a video.

I will provide a link down here.

So, watch that video and you'll see how sports help you in business.

Michal loves also every ball sports. In his youth he wanted to play voleyball. He used to play volleyball.

He also profesionally played basketball for 18 years and he still likes to play some soccer with his friends.

And in order to keep in shape for that, to stay competitive and also to stay competitive in his car racing he needs to exercise regularly.

And this is something he says he doesn't enjoy; he actually doesn't like; he is pretty lazy about that.

But he forces himself each and every day after he gets up to 40 minutes of sports.

He does push-ups, curl-ups, he does swimming and some general exercise. 40 minutes every morning and sometimes also 40 minutes in the evening.

Of course when he gets up he gets these excuses, "I'm too late; I don't feel well; maybe another time; I will skip it today."

But then he realizes this is just an excuse and in reality he is just lazy. And he forces himself to these exercises.

So, he keeps this discipline and this discipline gets him also disciplined in business.

He told me he is extremely motivated by competition and this is something that drives him both in his sports and in his business enterprises.

And also from sports, from basketball, from his trainer he has learned this "never give up" attitude that helps a lot in many situations in business.

If you're in business, you know there are so many situations when you're close to giving up, when you're close to financial colapse

Or maybe failure of a project of this investment, of another investment, of this undertaking.

And in many cases the solution is just to hang on to endure or to not give up; to proceed and to go on; to push through the crisis.

And another thing I want to tell you I learned from Michal is this incessant improvement.

It's not only about learning, about studying. It's more about learning from your mistakes, from your defeats, right?

Drawing conclusions from what went wrong and improving upon that.

And Michal told me what makes him happy is to do things right. Not perfectly, but right.

And to be better today that he was yesterday. So, this is something that many billionaires have in common.

This strategy of small steps, of small improvements; of doing something today; of improving a little bit today and being better today than yestarday.

And it sums up in a long-term to huge, huge improvements, to huge business adventages, to huge cost savings.

And in the consequence also to huge profits. And at the end I want to tell you the message Michal sent to the young entrepreneurs in the world.

That I want to share with you now.

Have plans, dreams and make an effort to realize them consistantly. Don't give up easily. Fight above else with your weaknesses and limitations.

You see the last part. This is the incessant improvement. To improve upon your weaknesses; to improve upon you limitations.

To become better today than you were yesterday.

And raise the opportunity, make an effort to realize your dreams. And do it consistantly.

Be disciplined in doing that. This is the main message Michal shared with me.

And of course, I've learnt many other things from this great, humble man. One of them is about thinking big.

You will find it in my previous video. I will provide the link here and up here. And the other thing is how to think about money.

And you'll find it in my video when I talk about the differences between how poor people and how wealthy people think about money.

I will provide the link here and maybe here.

And of course I learnt a lot more from this great, humble man.

You will find it in my upcoming book "The Billion Dollar Secret".

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