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- Hello everyone, my name is Mandi Lynn,

I'm the author of the fancy novels

Essence and I am Mercy, and thriller novel She's Not Here,

and it is six days until She's Not Here is published.

In honor of the publication day of She's Not Here,

I am posting every day on YouTube

until this book is published.

So as the countdown begins,

today I am talking about all the different things

you need to plan when you're self-publishing a novel.

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So there are so many different things you need to plan

when you're self-publishing a book

because it is all down to you.

If you won't do stuff, then the ultimate success

or non-success of your book comes down to you.

So today I'm gonna be walking you through

all the different things that I planned

and kinda-sorta how I went about planning them.

So the first thing you need to do, is,

plan to release the title.

So this is something may or may not need to plan for;

if you've been talking about your book for a long time

and people already know the title,

obviously you don't need to do a fancy release for it.

However, if you've been talking about your book

but you've never given it an official title,

then you will need to do, like, some sort of

fancy way of announcing it.

This can be, like, a blog post, a post on social media,

or if you have a YouTube channel,

it could be a special video on your YouTube channel.

Once you've officially decided that

you're gonna be self-publishing a book,

you need to choose a release date,

and then plan everything backwards from there.

Or, if you would like, you can plan everything

and then, depending on how long you think it'll take

to do all those things, then you choose a release date.

But either way, it's very important

to choose an actual release date

to give people something to look forward to,

because as soon as you announce

that you're self-publishing a book,

people are gonna ask, when can I buy it.

And that's a great thing, but if you don't have an answer,

then you might lose a sale, you never know.

So with that said, what are the different things

that you need to plan for?

So the first thing you need to figure out, is,

who's gonna design the cover of your book

and who's going to professionally edit your book.

So I'm gonna talk about book editing

because that is the longest part in this whole process;

you need a professional book editor,

and I actually have a video that I'll link down below

as well as up in the cards

about finding someone to edit your book on a budget,

we talk about all these great resources

that you can look into,

but basically, you wanna give yourself a few months of time

to actually go ahead and do all this editing.

So you need to think, how long is your editor gonna have

the book, how long are you gonna have the book,

and how many rounds of edits are you doing.

Do you need developmental edits, do you need line edits,

and naturally, you will most definitely need proof edits.

And again, that takes a few months, so keep that in mind

when you are choosing your release day.

Next thing you need to plan for is your cover designer.

So there are many many different cover designers

that you can choose from,

I will actually have a video releasing very soon about

how I worked with the cover designer for She's Not Here;

if you don't have the budget for a cover designer,

or if you are good with Photoshop

and you wanna design a cover yourself,

I do have a video as well that will be up in the cards

and down below, on how you can do your own DIY book covers.

I've worked with Damonza Art Design this cover,

she did an amazing job but it did take

almost maybe two months, but that's just because

I was very picky and I kinda had her change

a lot of really subtle details.

Once you have the cover, you also want

to plan to release the cover, like do a really big she-bang.

So I like to do an actual little mini social media campaign

when it comes to releasing my covers,

I like to gather as many people who will like to help out,

and the way I do that, is that I create a Google form

where people just give me their name and their email

and they tell me that on the release day of the cover,

that they will post it on social media,

so I collect all those emails,

and then a few days before

the actual release of the cover,

I email everyone the cover and tell them when they can

officially share on social media,

and when that day comes around,

not only am I posting about it,

but dozens of other people are posting about it

and getting really excited.

The next thing you wanna keep in mind

for your release day, is, formatting the book.

So you have to decide if you're gonna format it yourself

or if you're gonna hire someone else to to format it.

So it can be very tricky to format a book;

I'll have a video very soon on

how to format a paperback or hard cover,

but I also right now have a video on how to format an ebook,

so if you'd like to watch that,

it'll be up in the cards, or down below.

Give yourself at least a month's time

if you are formatting the book yourself,

and I think, if you're working with a graphic designer,

it's at least a month, as well,

but some graphic designers you need to, like,

reserve your spot with them,

just because that's how many clients they have.

So sometimes you need to reserve with them

a few months in advance.

The next thing you're gonna wanna decide, is,

if you're gonna do a pre-order.

So when my first books Essence and I am Mercy came out,

there actually wasn't an option

to do pre-order for self-published books.

But now there is the option to set your book up

to be able to pre-order the ebook as well as the paperback.

The ebook is super simple;

you can set up the pre-order through Kindle,

but the paperbacks are a little more complicated

because when people pre-order the paperback,

you actually have to approve their email

and that they ordered it and stuff like that,

so it's a little more tedious,

but either way, you should decide

whether or not you would like to do a pre-order.

Some of the different decision-making processes, is,

what your goal is with this book,

is your goal to make as many sales as possible,

or is your goal to kind of hit the Amazon bestseller list.

If your goal is to make as many sales as possible,

I would definitely recommend doing a pre-order,

but if your goal is to end up on the Amazon bestseller list,

I would think more clearly about it.

So when someone pre-orders your book,

that tally does not count towards the tally

for the Amazon bestseller;

the tally counts for the day that they buy it,

so if people buy it during the pre-order period,

you can actually become an Amazon bestselling author

just based off of your pre-order,

but again, it's just something to think about and consider.

Another thing you wanna consider, is,

if you're gonna do a pre-order campaign.

So a pre-order campaign is

when someone pre-orders their book,

and you kinda give them like a

little ha-ha happy incentive for doing it.

So what I do is that for

my online course AuthorTube Academy,

anyone who pre-ordered the ebook is gonna receive

an exclusive coupon for AuthorTube Academy

that actually gives you AuthorTube Academy for 50% off.

So with that said, if you have not

pre-ordered She's Not Here

or you still would like to pre-order She's Not Here,

that will be linked down below,

and then you fill out the other link that's down there

to give me proof that you pre-ordered it,

and I will email you that coupon.

You can also do a release week campaign,

which is basically the same thing,

but instead of doing the pre-order period,

it's during the first week or so of the book being released,

this is actually something I'm doing for She's Not Here,

and it may or may not include signed book plates

for whoever orders the book.

But I will be telling you more about that

when that actually becomes available.

The next thing that we're gonna be talking about is

a big topic and I might actually end up doing a

more in-depth video about it but that is on marketing.

So there is many many things you can do

to market your book when it comes to release

and I'm just gonna name a lot

'cause I've got 'em listed on my phone; it'll be easier.

So when it comes to marketing your book,

you may want to decide if you want a street-team,

which is a whole bunch of people

that will promote your book,

you're gonna wanna figure out

how you're gonna get advanced reviews of the book,

this means it's sending out advanced reader copies

to social influencers or different things like that,

you wanna decide if you're gonna be doing

different ads on your book, so ads on Facebook,

ads on Amazon, or Goodreads giveaway,

you're gonna wanna decide if you're gonna do a book trailer

to help promote the book,

which, by the way, there is a book trailer

for She's Not Here, so links below.

You're gonna wanna decide

if you're gonna wanna do giveaways,

I'm actually doing a few fun giveaways,

so be sure to follow me on social media,

because I actually teamed up with a few people

who make book-ish items, including a book sleeve

that's exclusive to She's Not Here,

and a candle and bookmark as well,

so if you would like to win that

as well as a copy of She's Not Here,

be sure to check it out.

You wanna decide if you wanna do some sort of YouTube tag

where it kinda helps promote your book,

and I will be having a YouTube tag

that's also gonna be an Instagram tag,

and with that said, you're gonna wanna decide

if you're wanna do an Instagram tag.

And now, of course, you wanna have your author newsletter.

So you should be building your author newsletter

way before the book comes out,

your author newsletter is just a supply of people

that follow you and are dedicated to you.

So newsletters are essential

because social media algorithms may change,

which makes it harder for your post and things

to pop up in front of people's faces, but newsletters

your information goes directly to someone's inbox.

It's a lot harder for someone to miss it

if it's in their inbox rather than their social media feed

where they follow oh-so-many people with oh-so-many posts.

The next thing you wanna plan for is the release day itself.

What are you gonna do on release day to celebrate your book?

Are you gonna be doing a livestream,

and if you are doing a livestream on either

YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook,

are you gonna be doing it with someone else,

are you gonna be doing giveaways,

and different things like that.

You just wanna think what can I do

to get the most excitement on release day.

With that said, I will be doing a livestream here on YouTube

for the release day of my book, which is October 2nd,

and I will be having a few special guests,

as well as some fun giveaways.

So be sure to stay tuned for that.

And the last thing you wanna plan for, is,

what's gonna happen after the release?

So release day is really exciting,

it's really easy to get people super excited

to read the book; however, after release day,

it's hard to keep that traction going.

So you're gonna have to brainstorm

on how am I gonna get people

to continue talking about the book.

How am I gonna get people to review the book online

so more people buy the book.

And there's endless opportunities to just do that

and there's just a ton of fun, creative ways

to do that, as well.

So that is the breakdown of all the things that

I like to plan for when I'm releasing a book.

I like to plan it out in a notebook

and I also have a bullet journal that I write everything in,

so it looks pretty because I like to do it that way.

Let me know if there's anything that you plan for

when you're self-publishing

that I may have not mentioned here.

If you would like to stay up-to-date on my book

and my publishing house,

be sure to subscribe to my author newsletter down below,

you'll get my free How to Conquer Writer's Block Mini Guide

as well as the first three chapters of my novel,

She's Not Here, for your viewing pleasure.

Otherwise, that is it for today's video,

thank you all for watching!

Be sure to give a thumbs up,

comment down below, and subscribe!

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How to Become Consistent and Achieve Success (BE PRODUCTIVE!) | Self-Help Yourself - Duration: 9:56.

hey self helper I have a very important question for you do you train with a

system in mind you have a system in place to actually show you the way to

guide you through whatever it is you want to accomplish I want to break down

for you the importance of having a system in place to achieve anything that

you want for yourself remember that a system is something that has a proven

result something that has worked in the past and even if it isn't the system

that you're following at this point of time it's a system that you need to

inculcate into your life at some point of time to do anything that you want for

yourself because the system is what fetches consistent results and if you

want to get better at anything you need to make sure that you have something of

a system in place for example I'm uploading daily videos for you to become

the best version of yourself it's important to make sure that I have a

system in place that allows me to quickly transition through all of the

activities that need to be done in order to consistently upload those daily

videos so how do I do it I either upload them on my phone if I'm outside

somewhere I either upload it at home or I upload it at my office and then it

streamlines the entire thing wherever I am I allow myself to have the

opportunity to track called and shoot whatever it is that I please because all

of the information is in here so I can just record and put out the videos

whenever I want to a system is in place where I can either edit or I can put

everything together compile it and then put it out for you so there are multiple

options when you have a system in place however things are extremely happy xored

if you do not have a system in place for yourself because

things are going to be strewn about you won't know what to go about doing first

you won't even know what to do there's the sad truth of it because think about

it different areas of your life waited struggling with getting something done

the biggest flaw that you're probably facing with it is the fact that there is

no true team that is no particular order in which things need to be done imagine

if you are sleeping at home the first thing that you did when you woke up in

the morning was go take another nap check your phone go out and check out

the sunrise there are a multitude of things that you need to consider with

regard to this because today the way things are the difficulty that comes

with having to follow a system it needs to be questioned not everyone can really

follow a system and not everyone can do it consistently but that's the beauty of

it a system keeps all of these external factors in check it allows you to push

through any barrier that may otherwise come around because it is a proven

system it has been shown to work when you wake up in the morning the routine

is to brush your teeth use the washroom have a bath eat your breakfast head to

work come back relax and then go about the rest of your date the thing is

whenever we go about shifting from this routine that's when problems start to

happen people today instead of waking up and rushing their teeth like you and me

we check our phones first that's where the issue comes from the system is

already in place we have been ingrained with the habit of checking our phones

instead of the habit that was taught to us while growing up that we need to get

up brush our teeth and go about our routine no we need to check whether we

have received any messages and emails or we just need to browse because

apparently that is more important than following the system think about it

are so many areas in your life right now that demand a system be in place to keep

you in check so that you are able to go about achieving whatever you want for

yourself that's the power of a system imagine if we didn't even follow this

imagine if we just let things go alright a trainer would not be able to train his

student we wouldn't be able to go to school we wouldn't be able to head to

the training center for sports practice we wouldn't be able to show up for work

so many issues associated with this one simple thing and what is it our

inability to commit we can't commit to a system this is why

majority of people fail to lose weight because they aren't able to put in that

commitment people want to lose weight but they aren't committed to lose weight

that's the thing when we look at it that way immediately the importance of the

system comes into place it's not that systems are complicated

what is the system with losing weight simple eat less of the bad things and

work out more work out vigorously and at the same time be consistent now we can't

rely on ourselves to be consistent all the time that's why a system is in place

that's why there's a system that most people organize for us with regard to

how we should eat how we should plan our workouts how we should go about doing

different things in different situations that's the beauty of the system because

it's not that people are the problem here or the system is the problem is

that the people and the systems do not meet at the same time they do not see

eye-to-eye and that's where the problem is we know

that there is a proven system however we choose to do it our own way we want to

try and find something that is easier now there's nothing wrong with finding

an easier solution however there is a degree of hard work that needs to be put

to achieve anything that you want and this includes having a system systems

are not easy to fall however it's something that needs to be adhered to

regardless any sportsman went about doing the things that only he enjoyed

played for the fun of the sport what would be the results that that

person would see a person who was doing a business venture did only the things

that he liked oh I just want to collect the money I don't really want to go

about putting in the effort I'll just leave it at the team a relationship that

is going off track you know what I don't really want to be involved in this as

much you take care of majority of the things I'll just be there on the

sidelines this attitude is what causes different problems for you think about

it systems save you systems to what you are not willing to do when you don't

want to do them systems are what make people successful when you can't rely on

yourself relying on a system because it's systems that make complicated

people simple if there's any area in your life right now

that demands you having to create this change by shifting and doing something

consistently and achieve what you want for yourself

create a system and if you cannot create the system on your own find someone who

can create the system for you a trainer or a mentor who has been there and done

that they can create the system for you but it's up to you to follow it remember

systems make complicated people simple keep that in mind ponder upon that and

if you found this video useful make sure you leave it a thumbs up comment down

below tell me what you want to see in future videos I'm in the process of

writing my book years of your training and this is a small snippet from it if

this is something that you're interested in or excited about let me know down

the comment section as well I'm really excited for you because once this book

comes out it's going to change the face of how you view your mindset and your

training really exciting all the psychological factors and a lot of

stories from different aspects of my life that are going to tell you how to

go about shaping your mind and your training in order to save years you

heard me years so think about that keep this in

mind have a system in place because it's going to change everything for you if

this is your first time here make sure you subscribe hit that notifications

because we are dedicated each and every day to making you the best version of

yourself in every area of your life that's my promise to you let me coach

you let me give you a chance to change your life to perform like a champion

this is the place for you check out all of the videos down below and of course

this is Vikram signing off and I will see you in the next session

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[화양연화 더노트 SELF버전 해석] 지민의 추가된 비밀과 결말!? BTS HYYH THE NOTES 방탄소년단 Answer 궁예 1탄 Theory l 수다쟁이쭌 - Duration: 6:24.

HI, my name is SUDA JJ

Today we will analyze the BTS [HYYH THE NOTES: Jimin] through three themes.

[LOVE YOURSELF Answer] If you buy an album, you will find a mini book.

That mini book is [HYYH THE NOTES: SELF ver].

On my channel [HYYH THE NOTES] Those who have seen the old theories will understand the content.

I will try to summarize the theory of what was added in the SELF version of [HYYH THE NOTES].

I will give a brief explanation for those who have not used the old [HYYH THE NOTES] theory.

Many of the contents of the BTS share the BU view.

[BU World View] is a way in which several works share a world view, like 'Marvel's MCU'.

It is [HYYH THE NOTES] that the story that constitutes this [BU world view] is written.

BTS music video can also be seen as a part of [HYYH THE NOTES].

To help you understand Jimin, you can enhance your existing timeline with the "SELF version" and take a look at the second theme!

April 6, 11

Elementary school student Jimin was alone on his picnic day because his parents were busy and could not come together.

After the picnic, jimin walked alone, not listening to his teacher telling him to wait at the arboretum.

But when it came to rain, he covered his head with his backpack and hid under the tree.

He starts running in the rain and arrives at the back of the arboretum. There he finds a wing open.

Ji-min enters the warehouse inside the wing, and experiences a trauma there.

Because of this trauma, he feels fear and pressure on the water throughout the works of 'BU World View'.

May 28, 19

"What is your dream," Jung-guk asks. J-hope replies, "I want to find my mother and be happy."

Jimin asks J-hope, "Are you unhappy now?"

J-hope asks Jimin, "What is your dream?"

Jimin replied, "I wanted to be president when I was a kindergarten, but after that I do not know my dream."

June 12, 19

As a high school student, jimin is walking with the members of the BTS and finds a sign saying [2.2 km of the flower arboretum].

jimin looks at the sign, his face gets tired.

When SUGA calls Jimin, Jimin does not move.

SUGA feels Jimin is strange, and says, "Let's go to the ocean, not to the arboretum."

They are headed back to the train station, and SUGA will remember the flower arboretum.

August 30, 19

Jimin often went to hospital because of trauma in his childhood, often in hospital and discharge. He becomes friendly with J-hope, who hangs two hours together on the school route.

March 20, 20

Looking at V's diary, Jimin is seen to be with J-hope.

July 17, 20

On the day of the summer vacation, Jimin is still with J-hope.

September 15, 20

jimin has a seizure at the bus stop and is brought to the hospital.

The mother of jimin who arrives in the emergency room meets J-hope.

Jimin's mother calls a doctor and a nurse and moves Jimin out of the ER.

Jimin's mother watches J-hope.

Ji Min does not return to school after that.

September 28, 20

Jimin lied to the doctor while he was in hospital, saying he did not remember anything.

His appearance at this time was seen as [WINGS Short Film].

May 12, 22

Jimin finds J-hope slipping on the stairs and grabs J-hope.

Jimin tells J-hope: "I've been in the hospital since I was in the emergency room at high school."

J-hope tells Jimin, "Let's get out of here."

May 15, 22

J-hope will try to get Jimin out of the hospital with the members of the BTS.

Jimin takes a T-shirt from J-hope, but falls in thought.

Jimin also thought that he wanted to stay out of the hospital. But his parents treat him like a man without a hospital.

People said he had a mental illness.

Jimin is worried that J-hope might also think of himself as strange.

May 16, 22

Jimin escapes from the hospital following J-hope, then comes to J-hope's rooftop.

Jimin decides to meet his parents someday and tell him he will not go to the hospital.

Jimin worries again about seizures.

May 19, 22

Jimin lied that he could not remember what happened at the Flower Arboretum, but he thinks he should stop hiding in the hospital and causing a seizure.

So he went to the bus stop to take a shuttle bus to the flower arboretum but could not get on.

At that time, SUGA appeared and Jimin got some spare time, and Jimin asked SUGA if he could go to the Arboretum.

This scene is portrayed as SUGA blindfolding Jimin's eyes in Blood Sweat Tears, which deals with the inner psychology of the BTS.

May 31, 22

Jimin is practicing dancing in the practice room of J-hope.

June 15, 22

Jimin tells SUGA about Jung-guk's traffic accident.

July 3, 22

Jimin, who has only recently learned to dance, remains in the exercise room alone and practices choreography he learned from J-hope.

July 4, 22

Jimin collapses with her older sister who is dancing together and then blooms. When he was 8 years old, he recalled the work of a flower arboretum that experienced trauma, and washed his arms like crazy.

Jimin thought that he had overcome his trauma by going to the park with the SUGA.

He still wanted to run away, wash away, and turn away.

After he is upset, he comes back with his sister up and then comes back to the umbrella to put J-hope in the rain.

July 28, 22

He practices alone in the practice room.

He has created a small and helpless fantasy of himself in his mind. But as he dances, he feels he is not small.

He thinks that dancing increases honestly every time he practices, and that he grows as if it were his fingernails.

Ji Min loves himself for the first time through dancing.

August 13, 22

Ji-min shows a dance performed in front of J-hope.

J-hope finds Jimin's dance and expressive power.

I thought Jimin's fear was 'water' even in the early days of [HYYH THE NOTES].

But through previous versions of HYYH THE NOTES theory, I said Jimin's childhood trauma was 'child sexual abuse'.

In addition to Jimin overcoming his hurts with Timeline interpretation, let's take a look at the third theme of what he would say through Jimin in the [LOVE YOURSELF] series!

He was busy with his parents when he was a child.

When he was feeling good he was praised by his teacher at the 'drawing contest'.

Jimin, a elementary school student, suffers child sexual abuse at the storehouse of the Flower Arboretum to his trusted teacher.

When we look at the lyrics of "Lie," where we see the flower arboretum, the part that says, "Find me the innocent."

Jimin thinks he is dirty, is suffering from trauma and is washing in his bathtub for life.

Jimin does not have fear of 'water'. Because of his childhood sexual abuse in childhood, he is in a trauma that rinses the water with a little bit of other reason.

Victims of child sexual abuse are afraid that if this happens, they will be accused or branded as dirty persons.

More than half of the victims of sexual assault suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome and interpersonal gangrene.

It is because of these things that Jimin goes to school and confines himself to the hospital.

Jimin's parents are afraid of this, so even if there is a problem, Jimin is trying to lock him up.

However, with the release of [LOVE YOURSELF Answer], Jimin escapes from the 'Hospitals' where he is confining himself with the help of BTS members in the SELF version 'HYYH THE NOTES'.

He grows up to overcome his trauma through dance, which J-hope learns.

Jimin is growing through LOVE MYSELF who loves herself.

He has been horrible in his childhood in the [BU Worldview], but he restores self-esteem through caring and dancing with people with similar wounds.

Jimin confronts himself honestly and acknowledges himself as it is.

So far we have analyzed [HYYH THE NOTES: Jimin] together.

Next time, SUDA JJ will come up with better news.

Thank you!

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Avenatti Majorly Backpedals as His 'Case' Against Kavanaugh Self-Destructs - Duration: 1:49.

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Self-sustaining government agency helps US business invest in emerging markets - Duration: 5:47.

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Kavanaugh defends teenage self as Trump attacks accusers - Duration: 3:45.

JUDY WOODRUFF: Senate Republicans are largely circling the wagons around Supreme Court nominee

Brett Kavanaugh tonight against allegations of sexual misconduct.

A Thursday hearing is still on tap, and President Trump is accusing Democrats of a con game,

tactics to defeat the nomination.

Lisa Desjardins begins our coverage.

SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, White House Press Secretary: He has been strong and unequivocal

in his denial.

LISA DESJARDINS: From Republicans, a multipronged, all-out defense of a Supreme Court nominee

today from the White House communications team.

QUESTION: Does the president still have full confidence in Judge Kavanaugh?

MAN: Yes, he does.

LISA DESJARDINS: From Republicans in the Senate.

SEN.

MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), Majority Leader: We have never been and do not wish to be a society

in which a single uncorroborated allegation can float out across decades.

LISA DESJARDINS: And even from nominee Brett Kavanaugh himself, taking the uncommon step

of sitting down for an interview that aired on FOX News last night, all to knock down

two on-the-record allegations.

Christine Blasey Ford told The Washington Post that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her

in high school.

and Deborah Ramirez told "The New Yorker" he exposed himself to her in college.

Today, at the U.N. General Assembly, President Trump went on open attack, particularly at

Ramirez, who said she was drinking when her incident happened.

DONALD TRUMP, President of the United States: And there were gaps, and she said she was

totally inebriated and she was all messed up and she doesn't know it was him, but it

might have been him.

Oh, gee, let's not make him a Supreme Court judge because of that?

LISA DESJARDINS: Kavanaugh himself didn't criticize his accusers, but instead defended

his teenage self.

BRETT KAVANAUGH, Supreme Court Justice Nominee: I was focused on trying to be number one in

my class and being captain of the varsity basketball team and doing my service projects,

going to church.

I think all of us have probably done things we look at back on in high school and regret

or cringe a bit.

But that's not what we're talking about.

We're talking about an allegation of sexual assault.

I have never sexually assaulted anyone.

LISA DESJARDINS: But other accounts emerged with a different picture of Kavanaugh, including

one from a freshman year roommate of Kavanaugh's at Yale.

James Roche said in a statement that: "Although Brett was normally reserved, he was a notably

heavy drinker," and that he became "aggressive and belligerent" when he was drunk.

As for Ramirez's allegation in "The New Yorker," Roche says: "Debbie has a right to be heard,

and I believe her."

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders signaled this morning that Republicans would

be open to seeing Ramirez appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.

On Capitol Hill, the halls were jammed with reporters looking for information amid all

the rhetoric.

Judiciary Democrat Dick Durbin took issue with McConnell's defense of Kavanaugh.

SEN.

RICHARD DURBIN (D-IL), Minority Whip: One moment, he sounds like he's sympathetic to

Dr. Ford and what she's been through, calling for fairness.

And then, before he catches a breath, he calls her charges unsubstantiated smear.

LISA DESJARDINS: Attention and journalists have focused on undecided senators, like Republican

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who could decide Kavanaugh's fate.

SEN.

LISA MURKOWSKI (R), Alaska: Well, it's very important to take allegations of those who

have come forward, to take them seriously.

I think it is important that we have a process that is viewed as credible and respected.

LISA DESJARDINS: That hearing with Ford and Kavanaugh remains scheduled for Thursday.

"NewsHour" has confirmed that Republicans hope to vote on final confirmation for Kavanaugh

by early next week.

For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Lisa Desjardins.

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The Gamification Report | Episode 20: Self-Organizing Systems in Higher Ed., and more! - Duration: 15:49.

David Chandross: Well, hello folks.

This is The Gamification Report, Episode 20.

We have now made 20 of these reports on what's going on in the gamification VR/AR literature,

as it relates specifically to learning.

This week, we're going to take a dive into the area of self-organizing systems in higher

education, and let's have a look at Luhmann's autopoiesis and game design.

Let's take a little bit of a jump there, because that terminology itself may have been a little

bit difficult to follow.

Let's look at this work by Jason Hoelscher on autopoietic art systems.

Now, what this essentially means is that if you look through this diagram you can see

that there's different systems of art.

This is Duchamp who did the urinal, one of the most famous bits of art from all history,

talking about the fact that anything could be art if its intention is to be artful.

Then you could go look at Pollock's work, which of course was part of the new abstract

art movement that we saw develop in this century.

Post-formalism, we can see the work of Manzoni here, Kosuth, art and language and Baldessari.

These are all different areas of art, and think about these in any academic discipline

as separate systems.

You could replace this influence of Pollock, for example ... be the area of anatomy.

You could look at this giant wheel which includes Duchamp, for example, as being something in

the area of physiology of the lung.

Each one of these would be an independent field with its own subsystems of study, and

what we're essentially doing with a student in a game system, which we would call an open

world autopoietic game system, is ... they would be allowed to study these different

spheres, these different domains of knowledge.

If we think of these as a domain of knowledge, it's a little easier if we untangle a picture

like that.

Again, according to his work, each system contains subsystems, but we can break them

down so we would have the whole subsystem ... Suppose you were taking an art course.

This is all the different artists that have worked in the area of cubism.

These are your abstract impressionists, expressionism, and dada.

These would all contain subsystems of knowledge, but they're different topics and clusters,

but they are a system of knowledge.

What we mean by system is interesting, and it's what we want to explore today and try

to make sense of that in terms of the game context.

Subsystems have inputs and outputs, so a system is designed ... anything that takes an input

and then produces an output.

A simple system might be one student with an input of what they're reading, and the

output of what evidence they produce in behavioral change as a result of learning, whether it's

a quiz of an acquisition of a job skill, and you can see that these kinds of inputs and

outputs are used even in setting up cell networks.

These are called self-organizing cell networks.

You can see each one of these groups of users are using a technological device is a little

system which they're linking to a main output.

These are all inputs, and that output is looking at signal.

You can actually build technology networks using these kinds of systems.

Think about these being groups of learners, and each learner is a system, as it were.

The topics themselves, of course, form a separate set of abstractions or systems.

We can talk about a game world.

That is, a game that you would play in which you would enter a role and be in an alternate

reality, if you will ... what we call a virtual learning environment ... as a system of learning,

and look at it from its system properties.

Now, self-organizing systems have specific qualities, and that is ... there is a sense

making capacity of the system, the information in the system and in the relationships in

the system.

Here might be the learner, here might be the knowledge, and this might be the relationship

that they have to other learners, or relationships to the formal knowledge, to the professor.

These are conversations about who we are in creating this idea of self-organization to

emerge.

If you simply create the right kind of system in game design, then these will start to interact

in very interesting ways.

There's an interesting quote here that nature is good at networks and self-organizing systems,

but social systems are top-down and hierarchical.

We draw the basic assumption that organization comes from centralism, and we see this happen

in universities.

You have a dean and directors, and then program coordinators underneath that, and professors,

and full professors, and then associate professors, and on to teaching assistants.

These are hierarchical structures.

Hierarchical structures have some difficulties because they tend to silo knowledge.

The dean knows things that the professor will never know about the organization.

The professor may know things that the dean never knows, and so they're functioning in

a hierarchy system ... whereas an open system and a self-organizing system, the knowledge

would move fluidly through each of its components.

We would talk about a complex system without centralized control, and this is how it might

look.

You might have portals which could be places on the web or the student would encounter

learning, and then you would enter into a virtual system which would involve across

the web as various portals put in.

This is the kind of approach we've used in our recent virtual internship game that we've

designed with Bay Crest Health Sciences and other partners to look at ... how do we create

a virtual hospital where each student is traveling through the hospital, but learning different

things in different part of hospitals at the time.

You don't have the whole class marching from ward to ward together.

Students are allowed to explore any part of that virtual hospital and to take on activities,

and they maybe engaged in very different activities than each other in different parts of it.

There are many, many different types of systems.

This is fractal geometry, but we have what we call complex adaptive system, self-organizing

network systems, willful systems, et cetera, swarm systems.

These are many different ways of, again, speaking about game design and games and learning as

a system of processes of learners ... They engage in them, rather than a motivational

tool.

There's some interesting work looking at how birds fly.

Birds fly up and down and back and forth, of course.

What they do that's very interesting is they have these microscopic adjustments in the

actual position of their wings, and that allows them to make these delicate, nuanced, and

very creative moves.

You can't predict exactly what a bird will do when you watch it fly because it's not

just going to go straight up and down or forward.

It can have all these variations depending on wind and other factors, how the bird will

actually move.

This is what we mean by an open system.

You can't predict where it's going to go at its start, because you've got so many factors

that can spontaneously create new sets of order.

Self-organizing factors generating knowledge system are what are called paradigm influences.

That is that ... the idea here that with every student, this is going on inside them.

We have understanding and curiosity at the base of the system, and then we have the students'

own cognitive abilities, the methods they use and the instruments for learning, their

current understanding, and their epistemology.

That is, the structure of learning and how they understand it.

Epistemology might be if you're teaching engineering students, they may have a whole set of assumptions

and knowledge about engineering which then lays a framework that these sit in.

What happens when these all interact together is you see what's called an emergent structure,

which is a knowledge system.

This is called a paradigm, or a different model, a way of understanding it.

What you're effectively trying to do is building a game world is to produce not only emotional

landscaping, which we talked about in other podcasts, but you're trying to produce this

self-organizing system in which each student is able to have knowledge emerge as a result

of shared experience and cognitive abilities and landscapes and leaderships and all of

these different factors working together.

Again, this comes back largely to the work of Niklas Luhmann's system theory.

Niklas Luhmann passed away in 1998, and he was a sociologist at his core.

He talked about society as being what was called an autopoietic system.

So autopoiesis is something which is itself generative.

You can think about knowledge being generated by students in the knowledge as an autopoietic

function.

Let me just put this in real terms.

In our game Healer's Quest, which we piloted at Ryerson University between 2002 to 2004

in the teaching of science students, there were case studies that were given out, and

there was different degrees of difficulty in the case studies and as they solved them,

each group that was tackling the case might be looking at different aspects of the case.

One group was interested in acupuncture and nausea in chemotherapy.

After chemotherapy, when you get sick, acupuncture has some clinical that it reduces that nausea.

That group was very interested and began to explore that.

Then you had another group on the other side of the room that was more looking at the sociology

of cancer treatment and trying to understand a little bit more of how we should incorporate

things like alternative medicine versus conventional therapy for cancer and psychology.

I couldn't plan exactly where each of the students would be in the course, but we set

what were called limit cycles and attractor regions, and we'll talk more about those in

a second.

There are ways that this doesn't just become a random learning experience.

Again, to put that in simple terms, if I give you case studies that are about heart attacks,

and everybody's got different case studies about heart attacks, then surely by the end

of that module, people will know about the anatomy and physiology of the heart, and they'll

know a lot of the basics, because they had to keep thinking about that in terms of looking

at the heart attack.

You can set, and that's called an attractor function, so you can create something like

a set of learning objectives or competencies, which are an attractor region within the system

that encourages autopoietic activity.

There's these different influences, and this autopoiesis in biology of cognition was very

strong, and he's known for his work of starting this.

This is the idea of what we call a center of gravity.

I called it an attractor region in the course.

You've got pure chaos on one level in a course where anything goes.

People could go off and study automobile mechanics in a biology course, it would be fine.

Then you've got command and control, which is a lot of, quite frankly, what we see in

higher education, where you have an instructor dispensing information, whether it's online

or in person.

When you create an environment, which is called a center of gravity, that systems can organize

somewhere between chaos and command and control...

This is the ability that we see in good game systems, where command and control has to

do with the learning objectives and competencies, but chaos has its influence, and students

are allowed to pace their own learning, but not just pace their own learning, that's kind

of a benign dictatorship.

They're actually allowed to generate their own learning experiences based on interaction

with the simulation.

The simulations function as a center of gravity to drive the learning.

We can see that this gives rise to all kinds of fluctuation behaviors.

I just want to look at this for another moment.

That is that systems can be in steady state, and can then become excited, and can become

ambivalent, and enter into refractory modes.

That means that in the course of running a gamified, open world course, there are different

sets of changes that happen within the system itself, where new learning opportunities are

opened, but then they may return again to steady state conditions where they would want

to use very conservative inputs, such as lecture and PDFs and resources to anchor their learning.

Then from there, they would get excited, and then they would start to move out and discuss

new content.

We're applying some human behavior to what are thermodynamic laws.

These equivalencies have been written well in the literature over the past 40 years,

ever since Ilya Prigogine won the Nobel Prize for his work on self-organizing systems in

thermodynamics.

Now, these are Mandelbrot groups.

This is kind of interesting.

This talks about self-similarity in self-organizing systems.

That is that ... This is Koch's snowflake using Mandelbrot equations, and you can see

that by building these basic structures, as these get more and more amplified, you end

up with structures which resemble the previous structure.

This is the idea of interaction channels between similarities so you build a more complex system.

In terms of learning, you have a basic structure of knowledge about the world, an epistemological

structure.

This might be the agreement, the physics and chemistry and mathematics are all correct

and accurate.

We would take that core understanding and then we would be able to apply it to a clinical

problem.

We would then look at the different nuances within the clinical problem, again building

off these core principles of psychology and biology and physics, et cetera, that they

get more and more complex as we proceed.

This is what we mean by a self-organizing system, that the core principles that a student

might bring into learning can be amplified.

It's very hard to do this in linear instruction when we're in a classroom giving lectures,

because students aren't allowed to take all of these side explorations and begin to build

off these models of systems, because we're prescribing where their learning is going.

You can see that what happens here in the ... This is birds migrating.

You can see that these chaotic systems, somewhere, again, these gravity points or attractors

in systems ... What would normally be a chaotic phenomena, birds flying all over the place,

they're actually in great order.

There's command and control and chaos expressed in these kinds of open systems that we see

in nature.

This idea of a self-organizing system gives rise to one other area that we want to touch

on today before we finish, and that is the idea of a dissipative structure.

This is the work that Ilya Prigogine won his Nobel Prize for, talking about dissipative

structures.

What it is that dissipative structures in physics are those in which energy, entropy

is accrued in a system, but it's dispensed in the form of higher organization.

Entropy, as it builds in systems, is normally in more conservative systems, and what are

called non-dissipative structures, conservative structures ... You would heat up a cup of

water, and when you turn off the stove, then the water stops boiling, it goes back to its

original state.

When you look at something like time and you look at something like chemical clocks or

the formation of yeast and mold populations, or the flight of birds, these are dissipative

structures.

That is, higher order structures emerge.

They're emergent functions.

That means that in the course of your learning, if we move it back and we talk about information

here as being an input ... It can be material, information ... that there is a dissipative

structure that we form within the game system.

That is that we can't predict, at the beginning of the course, what each student will learn

precisely.

We don't know where the journey is going to take them.

It has to do with all of these other limit processes, such as their own prior experience

and their social connection within the learning, and their strategies for dealing with case

or scenario.

Self-organizing systems, very interesting topic that we've looked at today, and how

to build game systems which allow learners to pursue their own learning paths and to

really create an exploratory atmosphere in the classroom.

Finally, we finish here with a great piece of art that is inspired on the basis of self-organizing

systems.

This is what self-organizing art might look like.

It is something which follows patterns, but those patterns are diverse and are unique.

Yet, there is a central pattern preserved, and we see this done beautifully in this relief

of a giant sculpture.

I'm David Chandross with the Centre for Teaching and Learning at Humber College.

I hope today's got you thinking about how to turn your classroom into a truly living,

organic process.

We'll talk to you next week.

Thank you for watching.

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Are You Programmed? Morning Conversations with Jim Self and Roxane Burnett - Duration: 9:23.

Jim I have this really great

story that happened the other day when I

was when I was going to the gym. Okay I'm

excited. Is this you excited. Yeah. We're in trouble. Yeah we've been in trouble for a long time. So

I eat pretty clean I mean I have my

occasional white crusty bread with lots

of butter on it but you know six days of

the week I eat really well. And I've

noticed just I'm sure this happens every

time I go to the gym but the other day

was when I really consciously noticed it.

So I'm going down Franklin and here's

all the box stores and the Pizza Hut's

and the -the good stuff -hamburger stuff just all of this

junk food and I'm driving and I was fine

before I wasn't the least bit hungry

when I left the house. I'm driving

down Franklin and suddenly I want a

hamburger I want pizza oh there's a

smoothie. It was it was so fascinating

that it -that you stopped and ate

everything on the street. That I'm watching

the programming happen. I'm seeing it

with my eyes somehow it's registering in

my brain and it's telling the body yeah

you want pizza. Yeah. It was so

fascinating. Yeah programming. Yeah

programming. And how many I mean I'm

sometimes pretty aware if people out

there on the street who are not aware of

that they get sucked in. Well it's it is

simply what is we've bought into the

whole formatting of advertising and

promotion and and it's it's basically

programming. So there's a mechanical

process to it that you see something

enough and you make a decision I would

like that. But some of these places I've

never even been into. Oh but no we're

talking all the way back to you were six

years old. It's the mechanism oh look I

want that oh look at that shirt I want

that oh red car I want that.

And it's the system that basically says

you should keep up with the Joneses in

the old days and you need to and this is

how you present yourself and if you

don't do it this way you won't be

accepted that way. So all of that becomes

programming whether it's on a sign or

Pizza Hut or whatever it is. Right. And that's a

lot of the stuff that it begins to be

hypnotic. Hypnotic yeah. Is it is it also

well maybe not addictive? Well a very

addictive but you get hypnotized -yeah -into I

want more -programming -you want more you need to

have this this is important to your

well-being. It just is it's not as it's

not it just is it's so fundamental in

this society as how we have been moved

into this aspect of life where we're

playing. And it starts out as you need

this and then you resist it or you

embrace it. But eventually it begins to

be this mantra every time you open your

eyes or drive down the street it's a

mantra. Eat me. You know it's just right

there. And that process begins to be

large across the foundation of you. It's

not just this topic or that topic. And a

lot of times you say I don't eat meat so

you don't you just block out all the

steak houses. But there's a lot of things

that you don't have an opinion about. I

don't resist this or I don't embrace

that. And that just begins to sit there

and repetitively in patterning not the

not this subject matter but the

better to patterning. It's been there all

their life it's just how this this life

has really been structured. And and

there's something we used to say we

haven't been saying this phrase for

years and it really applies here that if

you want to make a change I'm not gonna

get this tell tell me if I get this

right 96% of making any change is simply

being aware of the pickle that you're in.

Becoming aware and then three percent is

being amused at ah look at

what happened I wanted to eat this thing.

Yeah. And then 1% is simply doing

anything different. Just simply changing

it. The change everybody says it's so

hard to change. No. Change isn't the

hard part. It's 1%. Change is simply the

action so it's a matter of beginning to

recognize the programming and the

hypnotic nature of I need this. Or the

addictive nature of it also. And

and just starting to recognize do I

really need this and do I want this and

then there's a then really it is an

amusement with it it's like wow I've

been doing this and it the amusement

allows it to be fluid. And it's not a

beating yourself up. No clearly -or judging.

No it's because here I am

I'm becoming aware of being aware of

something I have been either

subconscious to or unaware of. Yeah. So

we're where we're playing where

everybody's playing here this transition

is about moving through this transition.

So be nice to yourself. There's gonna

there's lots of things where once you

realize I've been doing this some things

you could be absolutely horrified at and

or stop right there. The really big piece

is stay out of the oh I'm so bad. Yes. I

didn't do it right oh I'm so embarrassed.

No. Maybe but here you are what would you

like to do? And it's this exact minute

okay I'm going to choose not to do this

anymore.

Does this really support me? No. Allow

yourself to be conscious of it and then

make a choice in your choice you go get

white crusty bread. No but you beyond

that you're a much higher being now. I'm a much higher being. It's

you're now evolved. One of the

things I've started doing it with this

one trainer suggested this is when I

have that craving I write it down in my

notebook. I keep track of all my

exercises and everything I eat and when

I go to bed and all of that. And so what

I've noticed is that when I write down

juicy hamburger I circle it and then

it's kind of like I just okay I took

but it's now on the shelf -yep -and it

goes away. Yeah. And then I allow myself

allow myself I indulge and enjoy on

Sundays one of those things I craved and

had circled during the week but what's

happening is I get to Sunday and that

doesn't interest me. Yeah. It's almost

like by writing it down circling it it's

like okay you're taking care of. Allowing

it. Allowing it. Oh no judgment. And no resistance. Oh yeah

I want a piece of pizza this Sunday. Yeah and

don't resist it or I'm bad. By Sunday it's ---

Yeah so a lot of times you become aware

of something if you think about it it's

like okay I'm not going to do this

anymore

and almost before you get that word out

of your mouth you just forgot that you

were saying that. And you you walk away

and you go back and you pick it up and

you eat it it's like wait I just said I

was going to stop that. So the mechanism

for engaging is something where the

awareness and the decision doesn't

really get anchored so you're writing it

down and beginning to notice

oh I've written this down four times and

I really don't want it. Yeah. That begins to be

the decision that begins to be the point

of change. It's like you're you get

de-charged from it. That's what it was it was

de-charged. Yeah. The attraction was no longer on

it when I wrote it down. Yeah yeah. It's good. There's some unconscious belief

that this is of value to me so when you

go right back to the fundamentals where

we started this system the society says

you must consume. And here's the best of

the best. Well who said that? You know and

will do -we should do another one of

these and do it on facts you know what

are the facts is that really how does

the facts work? Yeah. What its truth in this

context? But in this case the programming

you needed -yeah is becomes very

addictive in itself to the game. So I'm

happy you're all done with white crusty

bread. I didn't say that I said hamburgers and pizza. Oh I see.

Except on Sundays. Yeah. But this is this

is a this is another one of those pieces

how do I become conscious of being

conscious? Yes. And then aware of being aware

and then the part is 96% I'm aware get

amused at yourself.

Allow it. Don't push against it change

happens relatively easy in that space.

Yes. Well I'm excited for you. We'll come

back next week and see how you're doing.