The Art of Active Learning: Techniques to Enhance Your Learning Experience

1.     First, keep on learning to be aware of what is possible. We can all shut down and need to find our way out of that.

2.     Know your style: Are you a visual or auditory learner? Do you need others to learn? Figure it out and don’t be afraid to change it up.

3.     And Third, maximize trust by connecting with others who are learning with you.

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0:01 hello we had intro music but we do not
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today but that's okay how are you doing
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hello I'm good thanks so much Charlene I
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thought we had the intro music it didn't
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go on it didn't just imagine it in your
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head everybody
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sounds good
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welcome how are you doing today I'm
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doing really good I love our weekly
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chats it's so nice to connect with you
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each week and with everyone in our
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audience we are so glad you're here
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joining us again today I yes it's uh
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it's been nice learning and thinking a
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little bit more and that actually brings
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us to our overall today's topic is how
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when and why to learn a little bit more
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every day
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yes so we were talking about uh building
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trust last week right and it really got
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us thinking about this right that we're
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in an era where we really cannot stop
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learning because of the massive volume
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of new tech that comes with us that
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comes to us we're talking about chat gbt
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and what are we on version four like
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that's within two three weeks
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yes and it's funny is I wonder how long
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it's been in process because for us in
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our world it's been two three weeks but
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I wonder the people who made it have
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they been working on this for for years
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probably I mean for sure I I really was
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thinking about this trust and learning
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more
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I saw a tick tock video of somebody
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um uh kind of breaking down if you've
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seen The Tick Tock filter that makes you
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look younger and saying like it's so
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cute and fun that we're all doing this
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now and looking at our teenage selves
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but just think about how somebody could
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use that technology right like in the
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most awful way people can misrepresent
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their age and their self and I started
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thinking about you know
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trust and where that is and and I I
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think when you and I were talking it's
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about just being aware being aware that
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somebody could actually do that
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it's true and I think what's harder now
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is that you know when you're in the
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actual physical world we're very we're
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very much able to make our world small
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so you live in a town or you go to a job
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where you know X number of people but
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when we go online that world is blown up
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and so we have to become a little bit
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more Savvy it's kind of like walking in
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the big city versus walking in a rural
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neighborhood right you go to the big
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city you better watch your pockets
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you're going to get pickpocketed there's
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so many other people out there The Good
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the Bad the Ugly right and so I think
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when we enter into the online world and
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into the metaverse where that's
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happening now oh my gosh right and
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that's going to be a whole new layer of
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being able to on one hand so beautifully
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show on the outside what you feel on the
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inside in all multitudes of ways but
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then on the other hand being able to
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mask it just the same
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it's true it is it's definitely very
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tricky I mean I know we were talking
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about this uh a second ago as well that
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I think that this whole Tech universe
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that we're living in and building trust
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I think it's more conducive to people
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who feel more comfortable and fluent in
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the tech world and I and I don't think
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that has anything to do with age I've
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met a lot of younger people who I don't
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think navigate it so well because it's
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just too too techy for that
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well we absolutely know that people are
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reverting some people are going back to
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the old flip phone and and doing and
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doing different things but I I think the
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most important is why we learn is just
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so we know what's possible right I think
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you know we've talked a lot about chat
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gbt et cetera you don't have to become
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an expert on that but you have to know
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it exists right you have to there's a
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there's another tick talker who um uh
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she goes through and finds people's
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birthdays and it's like you can't find
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me and like she does in about 30 seconds
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and it's like deep in right she finds
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your Tick Tock then goes to your
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Facebook and then your dad wished you
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happy birthday 10 years ago and she can
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tell you your exact Birthday and I'll
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I think you just have to know that all
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of that is possible
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I think so and I think that when it
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comes to trust what's happened is the
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same way that some people don't want to
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be in the big city just using that
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analogy again I don't think some people
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really want to be online because
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building Trust online it's a little
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trickier because all the same uh the
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same basics of the physical world still
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apply you need time and a relationship
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to get to know someone you need to to
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prove yourself you need to network to
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make sure that person is real but it's
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ever so much more complicated to do it
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in an online world where everything can
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come at you yeah and and
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going off of that exactly everything can
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come at you there is so much access and
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I think that's in my opinion that's sort
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of one of the barriers to learning we
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are inundated all the time with so much
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illusion that we actually sometimes just
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want to shut it down and sifting through
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you know
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between just Social Services news
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Services your trusted sources your
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friends it's it's
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just trying to navigate I think is one
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of the barriers to even beginning to
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start to learn and grow
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Charlene have you ever shut down because
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I think you're like super techy and
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you're really all into it like do you
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shut down or I have to say like a chat
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Forum out I'm out like I was like all in
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on it and then I'm like I just I can't
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do it anymore I like I I need to like
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pause I get what's possible I get all
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the super cool things because you know
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there's also just gonna be a lull
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between like knowing what's possible we
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talked about like the super users like
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the the early adapters right and then
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there's going to be like a long span of
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time until we are all using whatever the
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various technology right I'm not
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currently in the metaverse I don't know
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palette are you but some people are
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right some people are meeting that way I
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presume so I I think I was like so in it
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and I and I to me that's what um
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one of the downsides to our socials is I
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was all in it that all of my social
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feeds were all AI all the time and I'm
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like it was so much and now I'm like I
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can't do it anymore and I like scroll
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quickly past it I would love it if there
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was a mix of like here's some AI here's
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some fun dances here's some cook it
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whatever right but because our
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algorithms just keep learning and
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feeding you what they think you want
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what you want becomes like this and so
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yeah recently I'm like I can't learn
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anymore so you basically binge watch
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chat gbt and then by the end of it you
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just want to pick your bro out because
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you just like wasted all this time
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you're like I can't take it anymore I
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just think like that's a major barrier
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to learning right that you um that it's
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too much coming at us and it's like hard
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to keep track of it I think the other
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barrier another barrier to learning is
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that I find that a lot of this learning
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is just very much by yourself right it's
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not as if oh let's go learn Chachi BT
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together in a physical classroom with
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other people in a very Dynamic and let's
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all discuss it like it can happen I
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think in in some cases
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um I actually at uh I work somewhere
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where we brought a group of people
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together and that makes a difference
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you're in an office and the group of
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people are physically discussing it and
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going back and forth there's something
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about that that that helps people learn
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it's really interesting because I
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actually think long before the pandemic
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YouTube started to change that right
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where when someone wanted to learn
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something in the past maybe they would
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have sought out somebody who knew it
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right and now it's like okay I'm gonna
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look it up on you the YouTube first
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right I'm gonna look it up and see how
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to do it and on one hand it's like this
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beautiful way and there's so many as you
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call it like two-dimensional right like
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you can be auditory learner and listen
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to podcasts and visual and
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um but in the end it's like
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sometimes you need that person
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um or p people to to really like learn
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and I think it's more than a kinesthetic
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learner I think what you're because you
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could still do that on your own right
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that's still touching and feeling and
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doing the something but it's it's the
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come like Confluence of different ideas
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that push us forward
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I and I actually really think that the
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physicality of another human being in
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your face and in your space
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does a lot I actually just went to a
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Bruce Springsteen concert okay stick
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with me it's all going to come together
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I'm ready and when you're in a concert
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right or if you're singing in a choir
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people's heartbeats actually begin to
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synchronize right and there is just an
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energy in the space so I could be at
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this concert not know a single song and
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still be moved and be excited and
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enthuse and be a part of it and that
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physicality is missing even though like
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you and I are sitting here and we're
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talking with each other you're on one
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Coast at least U.S I'm on the other
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coast right and thank God for this Tech
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that's connecting us there would be a
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different Synergy if we were sitting in
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a room together bouncing off of each
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other so I do think that that is one of
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our barriers of learning that this lack
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of in-person connection yeah I think
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that
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to wrap us up actually we're coming
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towards the end of the podcast today but
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it's really I would say learn your
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strength right like yes absolutely you
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should know if you were a visual in the
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auditory learner what you learn when
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right like I love listening to business
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books I don't love reading them but I
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love reading other things right so it's
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like just because you're you like
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learning one way for one thing doesn't
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mean you don't like learning another way
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also to the opposite right sometimes
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people are like are processors and so
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being in group in community on something
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they haven't had a chance to think about
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first is really overwhelming so if you
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there could be several stages to learn
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it right so first maybe you go on your
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own you look up that YouTube video you
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think about it you give your time self
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time to process then you find somebody
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and in community
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um you get to work on it together at
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your own speed because I don't think
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it's one or the other I think it's
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really diving into knowing yourself and
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knowing how you're gonna learn
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and I think this is what's gotten a
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little bit complicated in this world
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today right because we have to be a lot
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more involved than Generations before us
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right so we're talking about trust and
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how to trust other people and you can't
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anymore and any longer just do
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whatever's been done you have to really
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understand your own strengths and
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weaknesses and really know what
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resources you have and what works for
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you and what doesn't work for you and if
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you're in a position and you think oh
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I'm around too many people this isn't
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working for me then know to go online if
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you're online and you're not getting
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enough interaction go find someone
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outside and doing all of that I think is
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part of what allows us to to know who to
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trust when to trust where to trust
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because it allows us to build those
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networks of connections that that work
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for us yes and I think the more like
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everything the more you practice the
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more you'll know what your go-to is and
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and how to build on that
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completely agree well Charlene I think
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you know we've come on to the end of our
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of our day today thank you so much again
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I love that we do this each week and
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hopefully that those of you who are
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listening in are learning and please
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feel free to reach out to us and text us
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listening to us whatever I'm saying and
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uh as always I'm going to do our tagline
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or you can do it let's learn a little
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more every day right yes yes thank you
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everyone and I will see you next time
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bye bye
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yeah
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yeah



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