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Using AUTISM As A Superpower (HOW YOU CAN DO IT) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  In today's episode of the podcast.
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  This is a sound recording taken from a talk that I did for the
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  autism conference in North Wales or mid Wales in aberystwyth in
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  the aberystwyth university in 2018.
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  I hope you enjoy it. It's all about superpowers and
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  using autism superpowers. It's a great piece that I wanted
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  to put out. So, please enjoy if you wanna
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  hit me up on Twitter to discuss anything.
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  I'll just have General comments on this episode, please at me at
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  the SP world. Yeah, you know what guys?
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  All right, enjoy. Okay.
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  So yeah, it successfully busy in here.
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  We're all trying to make this as fun as possible.
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  So I'm done. I run a YouTube channel called
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  the ask me world. There's no air in there.
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  A lot of people get confused easily Aspire but I've just
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  asked me well, basically I advocate for autism and neuro
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  diversity. So I've got a diagnosis of
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  Asperger syndrome and a bunch of other stuff.
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  That won't burn tool just say I feel he's in trouble but so yes,
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  I think YouTube channel and my YouTube channel actually it has
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  Just in thirty-four Thousand subscribers with won two Awards
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  it won YouTube nextup award which is an award for like
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  up-and-coming channels in the UK the same thing as one was a the
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  best like out of all the blogs talking about autism and the
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  world it went like number of nine out of all of them.
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  So anyways, let's kind of course.
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  That's why I do. This is like my brand on a
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  reason. I'm pacing through something
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  about 15 minutes or going to make sure that I'm doing this in
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  time was somebody to kill me or something.
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  I don't know anyone who can sew YouTube.
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  Why do I use application on the VG y de Africa?
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  Also on YouTube YouTube has a buffer over 1 billion 300
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  million active users, which is an excessive amount of people
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  accessing a lot of data think you'll see something like 50,000
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  hours of watch time of day which is a lot but the idea of
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  YouTubers that it's a open and free community where you can
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  actually just say your mind and so I started on YouTube fucking
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  2013, but I didn't actually do anything on the until 7:15.
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  So I want to start building community on YouTube it led me
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  to do I do solution. I use YouTube.
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  Specifically as because I'm able to build a community of people
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  who are like-minded and who can see for real life examples.
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  So I talk about things. I knew how things affect me and
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  how I know my girlfriend on a daily basis, but you know, and
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  so people can relate to that and they have fun with it and then
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  they can ask me questions and the idea is to build a solid
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  community of people Authority and the authority is what I
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  guess you lately which is your overall goal of the channel.
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  And so yeah, so that's one reason another reason is that
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  it's creativity. I feel like the answer to
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  everybody's focused. Creativity know what you're
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  doing and will feel on so YouTube allows for creativity
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  across the board. So when when I started YouTube
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  and rubbish our camera will be rubbish.
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  I couldn't film anything but and I studied and I learn because I
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  hyper focus on something I obsessed about I got obsessed
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  YouTube to stay up all night looking at YouTube algorithm
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  changes, very exciting stuff for me my often to please but you
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  know, I really get into it and I love that because you can learn
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  how to manipulate something but it's hyper-focus with creativity
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  and that's like number one for me.
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  I'm big, okay. Nativity my brand, you know, I
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  advocate for all of them and stuff and I say of creativity is
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  everything and so that's what we do.
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  And then the other thing is that it builds confidence.
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  Now, this is quite interesting. A lot of people ask me this and
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  I've done a talk before in different parts of shows and
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  people ask why doing, you know, and if their kids games with a
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  good and I say it's a good thing because it builds confidence
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  before doing this I would be able to get up and speak to
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  everybody because I don't have nothing to talk about but by
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  having something I really nerd over like YouTube and talking
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  about my experiences I get to build confidence and confidence
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  is everything and without confidence you have nothing is
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  over. This will just fall apart and
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  everybody strives for confidence because I think it's the key to
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  success in a society based on your typical kind of value.
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  So we need confidence to get to these barriers.
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  It doesn't always work, but it's definitely the basis of what I
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  do on YouTube and it's I'm just pacing through this or please
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  moving. So it's freezing I usually do
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  because it inspires me as finally to do more on.
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  The reason inspires me is because I see there's a there's
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  a message to give to anybody who has access to a computer and
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  access the what I'm doing. So the idea is to inspire people
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  to come on board apartment community on growing online with
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  everything I do with with YouTube and the community will
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  build an authority or something earlier and the authority is
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  that I'm currently 34 thousand subscribers and my goal is to
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  get to a hundred dollars as great as I want to get to
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  100,000 subscribers and gives me a basis of authority to start
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  changing the way social and public services.
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  You have to treat people with Autism on neuro diversity.
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  And the reason I say this is because we went back to like the
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  50's. Or even you know, there's no The
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  Fall season 20s, you don't wheelchair access was nothing,
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  you know now just stumbled because people inside okay
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  disabilities. It's physically see the
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  wheelchair now have to get in if you didn't have me up drunk just
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  to shop. You've got a going to face
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  everyone will sue you and stuff. And so that's a standard and
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  this is kind of people respect. I'm going to respect that but
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  like you're shopping is tough task alights a horrible.
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  These are perfectly to Great like there's no accommodation
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  for people with University or Autism in general.
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  So the idea is I want to be a voice of reason or authority or
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  a channel to say look. I've got a hunch Thousand people
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  were interested in signing anything I put out.
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  So that's a lot of people, you know pushing some in for them
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  idea. So it's to give the idea where
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  you can see momentum and that's what I'm doing.
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  The yd has inspired me to do more every day because so many
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  people come on and I get like, it's crazy the amount of
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  communications I get from people and I say this to everybody I
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  get thousands of messages a month.
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  I'm going to get about 10,000 in a in an average month.
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  I get 10,000 Communications, and that's that's parents people
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  with Autism carers nurses everything you can think of just
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  ask me. Questions like I'm some kind of
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  like, dr. Special another.
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  No, I'm just putting this stuff over how I know you people and
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  like it's crazy. So the idea is that there's
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  people that he want to learn. So what I did was I set up a
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  Facebook group, which is getting also a thousand Army.
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  I've set up a couple of months ago.
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  And the idea of the Facebook group is to to get people in
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  there and talking to each other. So it may be like something else
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  to experience in shopping with kids as a result like that, you
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  know young diagnosis and they don't like beans like theme
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  parks. And so they know they can share
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  that idea. So it is get building community
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  and the community will build support muscle.
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  Holding back something in the facts an idea and the idea is
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  that we can change the way big conglomerates are big things
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  Public Services even hospitals are always in the car crusher to
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  this hospital as long as there's horrible.
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  There's a most unkind of like, I don't know like satisfying thing
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  ever like not muscles been good, but it was not a comedy and we
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  need a wheelchair you can Inspire them to be awesome.
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  But like so if you're awesome, it's like Donna I need Satan's
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  real I am not trying to also wild sheep.
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  He's training also the neurodiversity bunkers.
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  So that's kind of what we're trying to do.
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  So, yeah, and so the I have a sales is my superpower.
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  I'm going to go see Pace to this and the reason I say so
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  superpowers because why did differently my channels bunch of
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  people talking to autism on the internet lows will be time
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  enough berries on the Internet or whatever or whatever you say
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  that people have had better days horrible.
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  So it's like I've got you watch it you feel worse and I've
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  watched it I do this like because I got diagnosed at the
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  19 of ours Big Cinema ADHD. I was like, I don't know I'm
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  talking about so I want in their time in Africa simple.
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  Let's go to impress me. Let's get that much and I just
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  felt horrible, all's I want to do that and thought well, where
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  am I? New videos looks like a
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  variously as well. So please bear with me but like
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  I'm nervous but videos that make you really happy to watch the
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  videos. I'm going to arm isn't this guy
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  talking absolute nonsense, but no reason for 20 minutes.
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  I love it. I was like, yeah, that's a cool
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  idea. So I decided to use my super
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  power rather than drag me down and and and inspires me, so I
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  decided that because we have hyper focus on wrong things.
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  So it's a downfall in other ways where like my daughter goes on
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  between us like just long enough to something else.
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  Go get him just thinking about this anyway, so that was like I
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  could focus on the wrong way. So I know this until you listen
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  to anything. I just said and I was like, I'm
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  sorry. I was focusing on this wrist
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  thing. I heard about six years ago and
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  I was thinking about it and probably you know, how did you
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  just computed the together and I was thinking about abstract
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  anyway, so I decided that why don't I put it to the test when
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  I push myself to the limit, so I did and then I'll just give you
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  an example of how I use this for my superpower.
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  So I decided the first thing I did I was like hyper focused on
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  things that were very intricate like chemistry.
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  I've never done anything and I don't Increase it at all.
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  If anything before I don't know School complications of overall
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  and then I decided I would try to do the degree.
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  So I went when I was at 27 or something wanted access causal
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  when they're never going to master.
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  My life Easter is not so then they offered me a place
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  universities do chemistry but there's a chemical reason I have
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  a degree in chemistry and everyone will love this my
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  dissertation of a the teaching tool for complex chemistry
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  Concepts in Minecraft. So I made a Minecraft world that
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  I had it's called Truth. Period it's a it's a point group
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  theory of Michael symmetry, which is really awesome stuff.
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  I know you're excited about it, but I made my perfume this one
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  can teach kids this that's awesome is amazing actually
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  Microsoft religion to the buying it all the cool stuff.
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  Anyway moving on from that was my home.
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  I did that and then so I wrote a book whilst you might be also
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  brought by the right. Look I haven't go straight.
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  Help me write a book because like I'm dyslexic as well.
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  So I really have a right and I kind of got my own right Horizon
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  down man. I don't even I just said so I
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  had to get somebody to help me not be right around girls.
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  It helped me write in sorrow, and I was told when the books
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  I've got publishing deal. It's all over would you going
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  around for my book? It's crazy.
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  I mean, I've got number one and I was the three times anyway, so
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  that was kind of cool and then another thing was not only
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  building my YouTube channel and I'll take the last thing I'll
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  blend on my YouTube Channel girls, so I don't take tension
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  time. But the last thing I'll say
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  about I'm using my super powers like I'm a multi-position
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  self-taught musician, so it doesn't make you play guitar
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  with a when I was like 13 of them know so I thought maybe I
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  could so I pick up the tablet. It's bad enough that would be up
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  to the base without the drums do piano and violin cello is are
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  getting a lot of different things.
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  But so I decided that I was in a bunk reason we doing anything so
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  excited to use Focus my attention on goals which focuses
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  attention on goals your whole world how you interact and
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  everything shift and it's just as far as the gold once using
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  vision board. So I made a vision board is the
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  right one. I'm a wreck about Japan.
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  I don't know who's cool, isn't it?
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  So I was like done. Tomatoes like wow, this is my
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  mom city was then it's like when can I see you drink days of this
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  is the weirdest thing of all but it's cool.
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  But it means that the downfall is yeah and a new typical
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  environment, but it's people off but and in my environment I can
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  do amazing things, but it's not just because I made because you
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  know, I'm individual everybody who hasn't University can
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  actually help push themselves forward using the super power.
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  And the last thing I'll go finish on is that my channel was
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  my crazy times like 10,000. I was with of crap of crap
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  making YouTube videos and I want it.
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  To make it amazing because I thought you know, I never really
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  go half-assed internet will go right in and do it properly.
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  So I was like, how am I going to do?
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  So I decided that I wanted to get a hundred thousand
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  subscribers and because again the Authority's how am I going
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  to do anything about it? And I learned about the YouTube
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  algorithm and then when I made a vision board of survival and a
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  thousand subscribers, when it did this vision for I was on
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  some are 13,000 subscribers and that was in November just gone
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  now the town's just hit 34 thousand subscribers like two
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  days ago, which is crazy so that success Growth of a small period
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  of time because of the focus that I gave to a specific topic
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  because I line my mind with that Focus which is crazy, but it's
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  called work. So what I do is I go around
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  output for it. One of the main things I tell
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  people is to like don't use it as a as a bad thing to say.
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  What am I good enough. I'm going to talk about maybe a
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  rappers and behave on like Iraq is over then having heavy old or
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  whatever, but apart from that nothing much me.
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  So yeah himself describes here I go.
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  Thank you. Listen to my stupid talk and if
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  you want to talk to me. Hey guys.
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  Thank you so much for listening to this podcast.
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  If you haven't already, please share this with anybody and
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  everyone who you think can get some benefit from it, and also I
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  this podcast, but listen, so, please go over and subscribe to
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  it now, so you don't miss an episode also from hit me up on
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  So that is be World. Alright guys.
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  Thanks.