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Carlos Granados Podcast
Welcome to the Carlos Granados Podcast. In this podcast, I will discuss my health journey, news, updates, and educational content surrounding my life, and anything and everything that I enjoy. This is my introduction to my new podcast through "Youtube Podcast". I decided to expand my horizons and let you into my life outside my health journey. You can watch clips and full videos in 4k on my YouTube channel "Carlos Granados".
Carlos Granados Podcast
Exploring Sleep Habits, Space Wonders, and Life's Challenges with Alexandra
What if your nightly routine could be a hidden culprit behind poor sleep quality? Join me, Carlos Granados, as we celebrate reaching 4,000 subscribers and 750,000 views with a fascinating episode featuring Alexandra, a passionate physics student from Georgia State University. We dive into her academic journey, grappling with complex subjects like physics and organic chemistry, and explore our shared need for background noise like podcasts or music to drift off to sleep. Could this common habit be affecting our rest? Listen in to find out.
Our adventure doesn't stop there. Alexandra and I switch gears to discuss our love for nature and the cosmos. From sharing camping tips to avoid bear encounters to marveling at the northern lights, our conversation spans the wonders of the great outdoors and the mysteries of space. We delve into the potential of human colonization on Mars, the risks and rewards of such a monumental endeavor, and the thrilling discovery of water on celestial bodies like Europa. How close are we to finding extraterrestrial life? This episode is packed with awe and curiosity.
Lastly, we reflect on the transformative power of education and the transition from academia to the real world. Alexandra opens up about a pivotal 11th-grade writing assignment that shaped her love for creative expression, while we also touch on systemic issues within education and the impact of inspirational teachers. We dig into the challenges of living with autoimmune joint inflammation and share personal stories of overcoming such obstacles through discipline, exercise, and the joy of forming new friendships. This episode is a heartfelt tapestry of life experiences, insights, and inspiration that you won't want to miss.
what is going on. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the carlos granados podcast. As always, thank you guys for listening and thank you guys for watching. Um, if you guys don't know, you can watch this uh episode on youtube at 4k and you can also listen to all the audio platforms. We are on Spotify, we are on Apple Podcasts and also on Amazon Music. And, by the way, thank you guys for 4,000 subscribers in my channel. I appreciate that's another milestone that we have reached in my channel with 750,000 views. So we're a quarter away from a million views on my channel, which I'm excited about, and I'm going to keep grinding and keep posting a lot of good content for you guys. But today I have another special guest in my podcast, alexandra. Welcome to my channel. How are you doing, my girl?
Speaker 2:Hi, I'm doing pretty well. How are you?
Speaker 1:I'm doing well. Are you excited?
Speaker 2:Yes, I am, and also congratulations on 4k, thank you listen.
Speaker 1:It's been a long time coming. It's been hard. I've been trying to expand, expand myself when it comes to, like, you know, different things that I want to do my podcast. Uh, I haven't posted a podcast episode in a while, but you know we're doing a little bit of different things here in the channel. So, uh, no worries, listen, I want to introduce you, but I want to, I want you to talk to us a little bit about yourself. What do you do? Um, introduce just so that people can know you. So after you ever come back, people can know who you are.
Speaker 2:So yeah, okay, so I'm alexandra. I'm currently a student at georgia state university. I'm in my fourth year, um so what are you studying? I'm studying physics with a concentration in geology listen.
Speaker 1:Physics. I love physics but for me it was really hard back in in high school and in college it was hard for me too wait. So what is that you don't? So I'm assuming that's your favorite sign like part of science, physics um, it's definitely interesting.
Speaker 2:I like kind of all the sciences in its own way, but I feel like physics really gets into like all the deeper aspects of things, just because it really talks about the motion of objects in our universe. So it really simplifies everything to kind of understand it better awesome I.
Speaker 1:I had struggles with um, uh, what's the? What's the? What's the basic chemistry, chemistry, class bro. Chemistry was so hard for me, man. What's the one they give at class Bro? Chemistry was so hard for me, man. What's the one they give at Georgia State? That's really hard. I forgot what it was called, but it was like the second chemistry that I took.
Speaker 2:Was it Orgo Organic?
Speaker 1:Organic chemistry. First of all, I got a C. It's so bad, I know.
Speaker 2:I did not take Orgo. No, no, because for physics you no, because for physics you only take principles of chem one and two.
Speaker 1:Oh okay, so I didn't know that I think if you're in biology or chemistry, you have to take orgo organic chemistry man, you know I was taking the second uh, organic chemistry that I'm telling you about, and it turned out that for my major I didn't even have to take a chemistry class or a science class. I well, technically science, but I I had to do geology and I was like what? Yeah, I was like why not? Why did it count? No, so it did. Geology counted, but I had the route to take geology but instead I went with organic chemistry and I'm like I didn't know that it was an option. So I switched after because I was like dude, I'm, I'm blowing this class, I can't do this anymore. So I took geology and I passed that with like pretty good grades, with that, with those, with those with those yeah yeah, so before we started talking uh, we started talking about sleeping, uh, with something on like in the background.
Speaker 1:You know so I typically now I don't know if it's since I started suffering from my health issues but I started sleeping with like something on like a podcast or the TV or something in the background that makes me fall asleep faster. Do you have the same issue or are you the opposite?
Speaker 2:Um, I think there are. There were times where I felt like I needed to hear music for me to calm down and to fall asleep, um, which I guess I could try that again because I've been sleeping well, as of recently. Um, but I feel like with music I don't know to fall asleep. I feel like I have to make the habit for me to make it always, but I'm trying to fall asleep without really anything and go by the man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, you know I feel like that's a bad habit too, though I'm not sure if it's healthy, because I mean you've heard of researches where, like, if you have your phone next to you, sleep, your phone charging like it's bad for your brain or until some point I feel I heard like you can get like cancer or some shit like that, but I don't know. But I feel like it becomes a bad habit because now when I go and like, for example, if I go on vacations or I hang out with friends and stuff, I feel like I gotta put my head, like my my headphones on because I don't want to have, like, the audio running, you know, while they're sleeping or somebody's sleeping in the same room with me.
Speaker 1:So now it's like it's become a little bit more of a struggle. But I wonder why that is. I wonder why is it like your brain falls asleep while there's something in the background? I wonder if there's any science behind that, you know?
Speaker 2:um, I wonder if it just calms you down, because there are some people who really can't concentrate or do anything until they hear some background noise. Like I realize sometimes when I do math if it's very repetitive. Sometimes it's nice to hear instrumental music, um, or something doesn't have lyrics. I can understand, um, but then there are other times when I need silence.
Speaker 1:So I think like sometimes just having a little bit of background kind of just makes it so that you don't get distracted by the one your own silence yeah, because there's also like um, I think, either on youtube or you can find them as well like apps you can have, like what's like the, the rain falling down, so you can listen to it and like fall asleep like I think in the future I'm not gonna lie to you if I have a, you know, obviously when I have a room for myself, I have my own house I'll probably have like, um, probably some like speakers and then like have like my phone running, some like water falling down, like raining and stuff.
Speaker 2:So see how that helps, because people I see people fall you know what I'm saying like well, I kind of like it to sleep when there's actual rain yes, because I love it when it's raining, especially when it's like the deep kind of rain, but it's not like bum dream right you just feel the droplets going down. I don't know it makes me feel like I'm kind of I don't know, I feel like an out-of-body out of out-of-body experience a little bit but see, why is that right?
Speaker 1:like I, I wonder. I was like why is it that when it's raining, it's you're naturally more susceptible for sleep and it's easier for you?
Speaker 2:it's like more at peace.
Speaker 1:You feel like more something about like if you have your room cold and then it's raining outside and you're just like, oh, it's like very cozy you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:Yes, I think it's definitely the cozy factor, because I feel like when you're, when you hear the rain, you just want to like cover up or stay sheltered, and that's already like bringing comfort to you that makes sense.
Speaker 1:I have a uh, weighted uh, and I feel like that makes it even feel more. Have you ever tried those?
Speaker 2:I want to. I think I did just a little bit one time, but I didn't get to fully appreciate it because I don't have a weighted blanket. I think I borrowed it from someone somewhere. I think I was watching a movie or something, but it was really good. I was like no, I want to try that again. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So originally I uh one that was 25 pounds. That was too heavy. I couldn't sleep. Yeah, I feel like that was too heavy for me. Maybe I needed to like scale up a little bit. So I returned that in about a 15 pound um weighted blanket and, to be honest, I see why people like I've been using mine for man a lot of years, actually my weighted blanket, and that's what I use as my, my cover. I think the science behind that it's that it makes you feel like cozy, it makes you feel warm, um, but the materials that it's made out of it doesn't make you feel like super warm, like a regular blanket. You know what?
Speaker 2:I mean like you're not burning in there.
Speaker 1:But when it's cold you feel good. When it's hot it still feels good, and I'm just like man, this feels really good. I feel like I might always use a weighted blanket for a long time you know this is slightly different, but it's kind of similar.
Speaker 2:But I went camping for the first time and so I was in the sleeping bag and it was actually really cozy. I didn't feel like it was too hot or too cold, because it was like kind of chilly during the night and it was really cozy. It really felt very enveloped. I felt where did you go? Where'd you go camping? Um, it was for a? Um for my class. Uh, we had a project to do. It was in sheha state park or um over in alabama wait.
Speaker 1:So you had a whole trip. How long were you guys there for?
Speaker 2:um, we went for two weekends, so friday, saturday and sunday, and we did that twice oh, that's so cool.
Speaker 1:I've never gone camping I've always wanted to do it.
Speaker 2:I've always wanted to do it well, if you do go, take a sleeping bag, but bring a pillow as well, because I okay the first two times I did not take a pillow and it really did feel like you were sleeping on the ground, um, but then the third time, I went camping and this was like with a group of friends yeah um, I brought a pillow and it was just like. You know, this is really nice, it's like really cool. It feels like you're on the like in your own bed. It wasn't that bad.
Speaker 1:My goal, I think, this year might be to go camping, or either that or next year. I'm literally going to plan that way. So when you went, it was like an actual like camping site where you have restrooms, at least that you can go to.
Speaker 2:OK cool, go to. Okay cool. It wasn't like yes, um, I will say like when I went with my geology class, which is what the.
Speaker 1:The course was for um like the.
Speaker 2:The campsite was called primitive. The bathrooms weren't that bad, but like it did feel like a little primitive. But then the, the third time I went camping, it was a little nicer oh, okay, so there's, like, different types of campsites depending on how um like I guess, how rugged you want to be. Yeah, that's right, that's what.
Speaker 1:I figured I'm like what if, like it was like kind of like raw, like where you just went camping and you just, you know, probably bears outside or something, that's what looks really creepy.
Speaker 2:Well, I know that when we went with the class I felt very comfortable because my professor is a geology professor and we had like a teacher assistant and so like they tried their best because we knew that it was my first time camping and, um, they really tried to explain everything but they made sure that everything was clean. So they put all the trash in a bag, um, and up on the tree so that like no, critters would try to get in it and to kind of avoid bears oh, so they were actually trying to avoid bears.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what is it that you have to do with bears when, when, you gotta scream really, really loud?
Speaker 2:I think when they're near you or something like that, I think that's the black bears, and I think that was not all the bears.
Speaker 1:No, yo imagine me going into a white bear.
Speaker 2:Oh the polar bears, they're aggressive. Um, I could be wrong, but I think the black bears they're a lot more, um, harmless, and I think if you do like scream or something, they'll be bad. The grizzly bears, which are the brown bears, those are more aggressive oh, okay, so not screaming at the grizzly bears then no, I think, like if you're with a grizzly bear, you gotta like run or pray for your life, either, or that's fun I'm gonna.
Speaker 1:I gotta see what camping sites are here in in georgia because I want to go. I mean, it's a little bit hard for, like, my health issues, but I think one night I can do like if we go one night and we camp out. It's just so fun to try to experience, uh, nature, what I always wanted to do. It's like, when it comes to nature, like that too, what are the lights that are in the north, the northern lights?
Speaker 2:the overall lights. Yes, northern lights, I love those I would love to go one day I haven't seen, one I haven't seen one myself.
Speaker 1:I heard there was one recently here in georgia. Or something.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I was in el salvador during that time, so I missed it oh yeah, I didn't know there's one going on here, it was in may because 2024 I actually been reading about it because, like I said, I really want to see the auroras. 2024 is said to be like the like the most activity right now with solar flares, and so that's why northern lights are really expanding down into, like further down, the hemisphere, yeah, and so, um, that's why we're seeing a lot more about it and how, uh, some people were able to see it in may.
Speaker 1:Um, man, I wish I would have known like. But what is it the, the? Where is the um, the country that you have to go to so you can have like a better chance to look? Is it a green greenland or something?
Speaker 2:yeah, I think there's a lot of places that you can go. It has to be in that northern arctic circle so I think, uh, for the united states, I think we could see something in alaska, alaska is probably because that's what I was thinking, because I was trying to see if I can plan a trip over there and I was thinking hey, what's up?
Speaker 1:no listen, I would love to see the northern lights one day, like it's so beautiful, especially with the clear sky, and you can see everything. I'm just like bro yeah, yeah people don't know this, but you're into space like myself and we love some. We just love space you know what I mean. I think, that's like one of like the coolest thing ever. Do you think that which one's more scarier the ocean or space?
Speaker 2:I'm not scared of neither.
Speaker 1:No, no I'm so curious.
Speaker 2:I think both are wonderful. I think there should be interest in both areas, and I think they are, because they're. We're trying to know more of the sea so that we could understand space more oh because there's a lot of geology, stuff that we're trying to understand, um on the sea floor as well oh my gosh, I'm sorry. I just kind of got it because everything is interconnected.
Speaker 1:I love your passion though, that everything is interconnected. I love your passion, though. That's so awesome. I love your passion, I love the sciences, oh my gosh, um.
Speaker 2:But I think there's a lot of cool things to see in the seafloor. I don't know if it really is just mystery and we're trying to make a fantasy out of it. Maybe it really is just boring, because sometimes that happens in science is that you think it's going to be so wonderful and interesting, but then when you really get more into it it's kind of like oh, it's not that fascinating, but I think you can romanticize it anyway yeah, yeah, actually, that's a good, that's a good point, that's a good way to put it in, like for myself.
Speaker 2:Uh, especially recently, I've seen videos, um, of like how deep the ocean is, and I heard somewhere that we haven't we have explored more of the moon than we have our own ocean because so deep it's because the pressure is so like heavy yeah, it's high it's like it's very high, and so it makes it hard for us to um go and look at it more, but I feel like technology is improving so now we can really expand more of our reaches yeah, I wonder why is it that it's hard?
Speaker 1:obviously it's hard for us to go down there because you know we're humans but like there's fishes that are able to live under that pressure. I know and animals and I'm just like how does that make sense?
Speaker 2:I'm like the math isn't massive in my head but I guess I think it's because life is can be so I don't know it could be it can survive in the extremes, because this goes with like finding life on Mars or in other places. It's because you can get like algae or bacteria that can survive in very extreme conditions. So that's why people are really trying to go into the desert or where the temperature and pressure is really extreme to find life there.
Speaker 1:And then that can give us insight with maybe in the planets we can look for microbial life over there so you're saying is we're trying to find answers here so then we can understand how they would work in other places.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's really interesting yeah, and I'm excited to know how the animals would adapt. Down in deep pressure like I can't because I here's like pitch black. So I wonder if there's like a little bit of like animals that have bioluminescence like you know how the angler fish they have. I've seen that, yeah I would wonder what other animals, if they have a little bit of um, if they emit their own light?
Speaker 1:that's actually really cool, I wonder. But I wonder how, like, like, the biggest animal down there would be, you know, like something crazy, because I've you know, you hear, you hear like myths and like stories and stuff.
Speaker 2:I'm like cracking what?
Speaker 1:yeah, what if, like, there's something like really crazy down there that obviously we can't even get to?
Speaker 2:yeah, my nephews loves that kind of stuff. He likes imagining the scary monsters yeah and I think that's just really a lot of imagination.
Speaker 1:But if we could get down there and really know that would be so interesting, yeah, I wonder man, I wonder if we'll actually like, actually take like our time to go explore, like and actually go into depths. No pun to you know, to try to, to try to just find everything, and I feel like the more questions we have, the more answers we have, the more questions we're gonna have eventually that's why we need more funding for the sciences, yeah have you felt like that's been uh lacking a little bit?
Speaker 1:um I know, when it comes to space and nasa, that got you know the, the funds, for I feel like people didn't take that into consideration after, like we landed on the moon and we beat russia to the moon and stuff like that, which some people don't believe. Do you believe landing on the moon?
Speaker 2:of course, okay, just making sure you know, I hope so I'm like wait, or the earth, the flat earth oh my gosh wait, have you not gotten on the plane?
Speaker 1:and you can literally see like the curve of the world.
Speaker 2:It's interesting how people can really get into like false theories yeah I don't know. It's like a sect of people who really like to be like contrarian. I feel.
Speaker 1:feel like, yeah, is it a symptom of wanting to be different? I think that's it.
Speaker 2:I think a little bit, because I think people get a little bit of a hit of having like an unpopular opinion or like I have a hot take.
Speaker 2:I've met people like that and I can't stand them Like there's nothing wrong, but I'm like this is too obvious for you to think otherwise you know what I mean, like, and then I think from there it's like maybe a little bit of pride, I don't know oh, maybe I mean that makes a good point though, but yeah, like the flat, like flat, that's crazy I think there's also like there's a lot that you can believe if you're very like ignorant or you don't know too much, because there's like this like curve where you know. They're like if you really don't know anything, you think, think you're really confident about something, but then once you start to know more, your confidence begins to plummet a little bit and be like I don't know nothing, and that's where imposter syndrome comes in oh, that's actually yo.
Speaker 2:And then until you know a little bit more. You start to get a little bit of confidence, but you still always have that little healthy skepticism, because I think there's always a little bit of humility that you need to have when you're trying to learn something new.
Speaker 1:Right, especially when you've always thought and believed of something and now it's probably deemed wrong.
Speaker 2:And you're like maybe I was wrong this whole time so I'll keep my mouth shut, yeah, but it's good to ask questions and to be curious, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I feel like the more questions we have, I mean we'll never get the. As long as you understand that we'll never get the answers to like everything in life, but at least you know, find more answers and be more curious and see what happens, you know and that's what makes it fun, because there's always more answers to um.
Speaker 1:There's always more questions to ask yeah, and no rabble's lie, especially in like the like space. I mean, supposedly I was reading um I don't know if I was reading or I was watching something on youtube that if we wouldn't have like half like I guess, slow down when it comes to like after we landed on the moon, that we could have had so much more progress If, like, we would have like invested a lot of our resources into trying to go farther because everything slowed down, like budget got cut off from the government for NASA and stuff off from the government for nasa and stuff. This is why spacex and nasa are working together now, because it's spacex now, it's not government, it's its own identity. So at one point I was reading that they wanted to have like a landing um, I guess what is that called? Like a landing space or something, and at the moon, so you can take off from the moon to go to mars.
Speaker 1:Does that make sense? So you won't have to waste all the resources to get to the moon? Interesting, yeah, can take off from the moon to go to mars. Does that make sense? So you won't have to waste all the resources?
Speaker 2:to get to the moon interesting yeah I. I don't know how exactly they're trying to do space tourism or civilization? Yeah but it is exciting to hear that is very exciting.
Speaker 1:Do you believe one day we'll um live in? In mars in mars or other kind other uh countries other planets.
Speaker 2:I I I think I'll definitely be reading the the news for it, but I think it could be possible. We're trying to figure it out now how feasible it is and how many resources and whether it's worth it. So I don't know. If we were able to be on the moon, maybe it could be possible that we could be on mars as well I think yeah.
Speaker 1:So what you're saying is see if we can live on the moon which is closer to us, and then see if we can go to well, I don't know if we should live in the moon.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know science. The science is science, right now, would you?
Speaker 1:would you consider if there was a possibility, would you consider going and living over there, at least for, let's say, for a year?
Speaker 2:no no no, I think I will have to wait until I I know more information about it and see other people try it, and then I'll go. I think I would prefer to work in nasa and, I think, trying to make things work, you know like working from earth.
Speaker 1:I feel to let other people take the higher risk?
Speaker 2:yeah, but I can help them along that way yeah, um, I think I wouldn't want to live in mars, just because I don't know exactly how long it will take to travel, and then because I I don't know how time how the time difference would be, and I feel like I would want to spend more time with my family and friends yeah like I don't think I have as much exploration to kind of just go on my own yeah, no, of course not.
Speaker 1:That's scary to another planet. Yeah, imagine if anything goes wrong. Let's say you're just in space, floating away from everything. That's crazy. Yo, that's like really, really crazy. Do you have a favorite planet?
Speaker 2:um, no, I I need more about all of them I like uh, but what about, uh?
Speaker 1:what's the one with the rings? Is that saturn?
Speaker 2:oh wait, I do have a favorite moon.
Speaker 1:Yes, saturn wait, can I guess your favorite moon? Yeah, is it titan no, it's europa I heard that moon. Is that the saturn's moons too, right, yeah, why um, I think europe, but it's kind of.
Speaker 2:It's kind of similar to the curiosity of, like the ocean. I just think the mystery is pretty cool, because europa, um, is said to have possibly have water underneath the ice oh so I'd be so curious to know how, like if life could exist there and technically, where there is water, there might be life. Yeah, exactly, and that's another reason why people are becoming more curious about the ocean. Because they're trying to see if um trying to plan projects to study europa more oh, I think we need to go.
Speaker 1:I mean, there's nothing wrong with studying, like further things, but we need at least to try to go to mars and you know?
Speaker 2:yes, for sure. I think um mars is definitely like the most realistic right now because it's the most um like their conditions are habitable.
Speaker 1:Is that the right word?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's not happy not yet for for humans. But I think they're like seeing it's the most realistic that we could probably figure out conditions in which humans could survive on there and it's a lot closer. So I feel like the investments to go to mars, in there it's probably a lot more realistic, a lot more feasible than, say, the gaseous planets are oh, yeah, no even farther away yeah, no, no I feel you on that. That makes sense, man.
Speaker 1:I wonder how that's going. I wonder if one day we're going to need to leave.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know yet, but it is interesting to know that we're seriously considering it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:To get to a point where we're really like trying to figure out okay, what? What do we need to have for this to happen?
Speaker 1:Hmm, hey, hey, maybe they know something we don't know, but I don't think it will happen in our lifetime, so that's unfortunate. I don't think it will Like, maybe by the time we get like old old. Yeah, we'll probably have to see, but I don't think it will happen Like cause.
Speaker 2:I don't I just don't know with how fast the internet is going and, um, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I guess it depends on how fast science moves because, like I know that are trying to make innovations for 10 to 15 years from now. So, by the way, this, um, this water tastes better in the cup that you can buy from the online shop. That's a crazy plug right there. That's a crazy plug right there, um. But yeah, man, now you got me into space and I'm a. I'm glad you're a nerd, because I don't think I've had friends on the podcast that are really into like space. You know, like it's just something about. Space does something to you. That is like how small we are compared to the universe exactly.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right. Yeah, it just makes you think just how, like, how big everything is, like, how much there is like not yet to know right I don't know. It just makes me feel like full of wonder and that makes you feel full of life. You just want to keep exploring.
Speaker 1:I think in our nature though, as humans we're kind of not naturally explorers, we want to go find answers, you know we're curious yeah, 100.
Speaker 2:I think we have to be though yes, I do, and it makes me sad when people aren't as interested or ask questions.
Speaker 1:But I think it's because maybe during their schooling or something they haven't haven't had like a fun teacher, that really got them thinking or picking their brain to think of things a little differently did you feel like you had professors or teachers that, like like, heightened more of of your interests?
Speaker 2:honestly, I I think I gave a lot of thanks to my second grade teacher, really yes, all the way to second grade.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think she just made everything.
Speaker 2:Like she made school fun, like I love the way that she decorated her room and I just remember just being so happy to come to class and wow she was just so nice where it made me kind of like want to raise my hand more and I don't know, it was just, it was fun, yeah.
Speaker 2:And so she inspired me to really think of teaching um a lot more seriously because, like, how great is it to bring joy to kids and to have fun at school when school is usually seen as like a burden and I will say, sometimes school still does feel like a burden and I think over time, I think, um, I think I started to mature a little bit on what I think about education and learning I think in 11th grade is another big influence. Keep going.
Speaker 1:No, go ahead. We'd love to hear it. I love your passion for this. Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Okay, so in 11th grade there was a writing assignment that we had to do, where had to like ask what is your relationship with reading and writing over the years, like, did you have like a good relationship with writing or reading, or did you have a bad relationship? How was it? What was your journey and how has education felt for you over time? And that made me, like, really think, because I liked writing, because I had a teacher where creative writing was introduced and I thought that was really fun.
Speaker 2:But then I started to become more insecure about it when we had to, like when there was an assignment we have to write, like informational or narrative, and I just felt like I don't know, I just felt like I was like doing busy work and I wasn't having fun with it and I wasn't sure if I was a good writer and I would compare with other students. And so I started to not like writing as much. And I guess in the 11th grade I kind of started to see the value of writing and to express your thoughts and to share your thoughts. And it was tied to the book called the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, and Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist because he was a slave, and then he became free.
Speaker 2:And he did that because he learned how to read and write and he was able to write down his experiences and to share that with other people and to change how people viewed slavery and how it should be abolished. And so there is great power in learning more and having the education, and that's why I think a lot of slave owners during that time didn't want to teach them how to read and write, because if they, did, they would have yeah.
Speaker 2:And so before I felt like it was kind of cliche yeah, knowledge is power, education is good.
Speaker 1:But I think that was the time where I felt like, oh, I think I really understand it now right, it made more sense to you, and so I think that's kind of like my appreciation for higher learning really started to grow and I think kind of gave me that curiosity of just trying to learn as much as I can but I've you know, see if we had more of that, like I feel, like in schools, instead of having just an agenda to try to teach some things that are probably not even necessary into, because I think there is a limit or a point where you have to see what works for students and what doesn't really work right.
Speaker 1:What actually, what process and how efficient do you want to be for things to work for students, so you can get more enlightened into things or maybe not make it so, so boring all the time, you know? Or maybe, like you were talking about writing papers that sometimes are just useless. You know what I mean. There's a lot of papers that you write in school that is just like bro, there's no point to this this is more like punishment or homework do you use?
Speaker 1:do you use give out homework just to give homework, because you have to give homework, or is there a purpose behind the homework, like, are you actually going to learn something that in the future you can actually learn? You know what I mean. I feel like if we had more of that and kind of had like a process of like, okay, let's make this actually valuable and not just throw shit out there you know it's shit on the wall and hope it sticks, or something you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think education is like, has so many like issues because, part of it. Sometimes it's just funding, or where are the students backgrounds coming in? What are the mentalities that come in? And there's, like so many factors where sometimes it makes it more difficult and I know like teachers are also expected to do so much and they're like paid they're not for payroll. That's true, that's so true, not only do we need to have funding for science? We gotta have funding for education in general.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, no, that's 100.
Speaker 1:True, though I think teachers are definitely to be paid more I don't think they get paid enough, especially sometimes to deal with kids, man, that are not even yours, and when they're acting up and I would be like yo detention all the time. No, it's. I think it's hard for them, though I I think it's a especially a struggle planning every time your lessons and stuff like that. There are some teachers, maybe like your teacher, your second grade teacher, that probably you know, went out of her way and actually to make a great impression in your life for education.
Speaker 2:I think she was a first year teacher and I think she was like really excited.
Speaker 1:So I think that's probably why she had all the motivation in the world. I wonder where she's at now and be like hey, are you still the same? I think same energy.
Speaker 2:I think she is still in teaching. I actually um, I think I saw her around my freshman year of college because I was uh previously I was thinking of becoming an elementary school teacher.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then I switched my major.
Speaker 1:To physics now.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I did that because, well, I wanted to be a teacher because, like I said, I just had this love of learning. I just thought it was so cool to learn new things and to have that insight. I just wanted kids to feel the same way. And then I was like 18-year-old and then I had to take a class where you had to figure out a philosophy for teaching, like what is your general view as a teacher? Like, do you feel like kids have their own knowledge and you just got to bring it out, or do you? Or are they like a blank slate and you got to pour into them?
Speaker 2:right and so like what is kind of like your methodology or like how would you want to, what are the values or experiences that you would want to like share with the kids? And I'm like and I.
Speaker 2:I was sitting by myself. I'm like I just got out of the school system. I haven't lived life, I have no idea what I'm gonna share with these kids, and so that's when I was like you know what? I want to continue my pursuit of love, learning, figure it out for myself, see what it's like out in the world to figure out like okay, how does the career world go?
Speaker 2:because I feel like for, because one of my thoughts was thinking like, like, because if you're like a high school teacher, right, and people are thinking of going to college or trying to go into academia or something, you're like stuck in that education realm and like you don't know, like the other opportunities in which, um, like other jobs that you can have right, like I don't know if I'm making myself lenta, but like um, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I just feel like, uh, I just feel like there's more to life than school and I felt like if I stayed with teaching, I will stay in that same circle. I wouldn't have known like what other opportunities are there? Right and I feel like that kind of like fueled a little bit of my um struggle with the sciences.
Speaker 1:It's because I didn't realize there's so many opportunities and routes that you can go on right, and it was like in the midst of me going through my college education that I realized that there were so many options like my gosh no, that makes a lot of sense and and, to be honest, some of the best even professors, uh, when, when I was in school or in college in general, were from the people that had a lot of experiences and taking different routes right like life experiences like, I feel like, when they came back and applied, yes
Speaker 2:that real world knowledge and experience, like, hey, I'm teaching this, but it's more like this, because I've been through this exactly and that's kind of like if I were to be a teacher, like maybe, because I still don't know what I'm doing with my life, it's okay you're young, you're good yeah, but I have options out there. But one of the options would be like, after I live and have a real world experience or something, then maybe like maybe retirement or maybe when I'm a little older, or something I could come back to it because I would want to be one of those professors that'd be like this is how.
Speaker 1:This is how it was right and that I feel like it's like would make you even a better professor than you would have if you would just came out of college. I'm not saying that you couldn't be one, but I feel like when you apply that real world knowledge and bring it back and like, hey guys, this is what I've experienced, this is always gonna go. I had a professor um that taught he. He taught um business class but he taught it in the sense of like law, because he was a lawyer and he had like real like experience with being a lawyer for for years, many, many years. So he will apply that into like business class and it was really interesting. And in some classes he would actually bring his like friends from like you know, from the places he used to work that were all lawyers and he would have like a whole panel and we can ask some questions to see if we want to become lawyers or not.
Speaker 2:Yes, you know what I'm saying and that's why I feel like um education becomes a lot more real to you because you start to see hey, can, am I actually interested in this? Can I do that? Right and so yeah, because, like I remember, when I first started college, um, I, I loved seeing students who, like, were a little few years ahead of me talk about their experiences and see how they did like, for example, I, I was able to go study abroad to costa rica um and I did that in my like freshman year and it was because college or in college and it was because they had, like these first semester experiences classes that we had to do, and then there were speakers that would come to visit and
Speaker 2:so one of them was a study abroad representative, but she was a student and she said that she was able to go and kind of did it for free in a way, because she got a scholarship and she used the, the refund from school and that helped her to pay for the city abroad program.
Speaker 2:And she talked about her experience and I was like whoa, if she can do it right then I can do it too, and so, um, I feel like stuff like that, I don't know, it makes it more real, yeah it makes it and it can actually save you so much time.
Speaker 1:Like imagine having, for example, you're pursuing a career or you're pursuing um you know any type of field that you have the um, you have people or a panel lined up where you can actually ask them questions. Hey, is this, is this the way, is this the way it is? Or you know, if we had different type of lawyers too, by the way?
Speaker 1:like, we have uh, you know lawyers who work defendants for defendants what are they called? Defend um criminal lawyers and stuff like that and whatnot. And I'm like because I was interested in becoming like you know something along the line, but then when I learned a lot about it's like yo, this is really a tough field you know what I mean like.
Speaker 1:This is not like the shows you watch online. You know suits or stuff, but shout out to suits. But yeah, um, professor gorlack, I still remember his name. He was, he was great. Like him teaching us all of that was was really amazing and even showing us like, hey, here's what you're gonna look like if you decide to become a lawyer, right?
Speaker 1:this is what your world would look like. Ask all the questions that you want, and they were great man. Those are the classes I feel like we need more in. Like school. I wish more professors and, and would do that instead of just handing out like a lot of homework for no reason, you know, in school when I was in el salvador. This is why we're kind of well, we're not saying kind of, we are lacking. There was a teacher one time that made us write math teacher. He made us, he gave us a homework that was right from one through, I think, 40 000 or 50 000 oh that's homework.
Speaker 1:Write it out over the weekend, right? So write the numbers out like one, two, three. So we go back home and I'm over here on a paper notebook one, two, three, four, five. And I'm like at that time you don't understand what the purpose of that is. But even now there was no purpose behind it. It was just so you can give out homework. It was so dumb and I actually have like, uh, you see my finger right here, it's like a bit like a little bump from riding for so much.
Speaker 1:This was when I was 10.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:It was bad.
Speaker 2:It makes me feel sad because I feel like there's a little bit of I don't know what the term is, and this is me observing. I could be completely wrong, but I feel like there's a little bit of like, a little bit of an education lack, like a little bit of a like education lack, like we're like a little bit of a fog, and I think it's because of the effects of the civil war. I feel like so many people had to leave el salvador because it was so dangerous, and so it makes me wonder how much talent could come like, for example, like two of my aunts were, they went to school to become teachers, but they weren't able. They came to america instead, and one of my uncles studied to become a doctor, but he came over here.
Speaker 2:now he's a painter, and so it makes me wonder how many people like went to school to study like higher things, but because things weren't stable in el salvador, like they had to come back, and so I feel like there's like a lot of talent that wasn't able to really bear fruit in el salvador you just made a great point.
Speaker 1:You just made a really good. You got me thinking now like how much of the really good, um or I guess more intelligent people came here because of the war that was going on in the in the 80s, and then maybe the people that were left.
Speaker 2:It's what we got stuck with and they were, you know they decided yeah, they decided to do the most with what they had, and maybe that's what the reason the teaching was not as best or as good I think there wasn't that much like support either, because I would imagine that the government was pretty corrupt and so I I wouldn't know if the money was really going for to the people, which I think that's why I like book.
Speaker 2:It is very interesting because he's trying to invest so much into education, so I have a lot of hope for the students now that they have the stability of time like eight years four years now but like another four years where they have that time to really focus on school like it makes me wonder, what seeds are planted now.
Speaker 1:That would then grow I'm not gonna lie to you and this sounds crazy, but at the same time it doesn't, for because we know where we've been, I wouldn't mind after this five years of bukele, like another five years that he died. I do not mind at all. People might have a problem with it because of dictatorship, but unless you've lived over there and you've seen what El Salvador used to be, you don't want to go back to that shit. Nobody does.
Speaker 2:I feel like I think countries should figure out what works for them. Like I remember, I took this class called comparative government and how like the different types of leadership in different countries and why one works for one and why it won't work for another Right, and so I feel like maybe sometimes like a small dictatorship in different countries, and why one works for one and why it won't work for another right, and so I feel like maybe sometimes like a small dictatorship.
Speaker 2:I feel like it has like a big connotation because, you know, because of hitler.
Speaker 1:I mean, let's be honest, is it? I'm?
Speaker 2:not, it's true. Exactly we're talking about education.
Speaker 1:It's it, it, that's true because, when people think that dictatorship, if you've been to school at all, you think of him. That's, that's what I think about. Or what's the other guy? Was it Mussolini or something like that?
Speaker 2:back in the day. Yeah, you think about those people Stalin.
Speaker 1:Correct. No, you're right. So it's nothing out of the picture, but I think it's giving a wrong. Well, I wouldn't say a wrong idea, because we've learned from some of the lies.
Speaker 2:I think, like sometimes, I think the controversy that lies is just are we really sure that this is going to have like a long-term solution, like what happens if, like, at some point, bukele's presidency needs to end? And how would the next people would? Would there be stability or would it become unstable?
Speaker 1:but then.
Speaker 2:I think, I think about that and I sit on it. I'm like America ain't that good either, and we have like the we have the model democracy yeah and it's so polarized. So I'm like I don't know if we should really like judge other countries for like trying to become more stable when I don't know there's a lot of issues that we're sleeping on. United states has a lot of good qualities.
Speaker 1:It has benefits for sure, there's a lot of opportunities for one.
Speaker 2:I can study physics and I I could do it affordably thanks to Georgia State University.
Speaker 1:Gang. Shout out GSU.
Speaker 2:The support they give to minorities, and so there's a lot of great opportunities, especially in the sciences and in health, but I think there also sometimes needs to beg the question of who really benefits, you know, because there's still a lot of like inequality that happens depending on the place that you go to. Versus, I feel like there are other places like that have a more of a social democracy, I think, like finland or new zealand, um, or some of those countries where they take some of the values of america, um, from their inspiration from it, and then they they apply it, yeah, they apply it more to what works best for their, their people yeah, I think at the moment.
Speaker 1:Again, I think the reason I'm okay with it is because, like, I don't give us or the Salvadorian people too many options, the role with what's working right now, what the country's doing. Well, Listen, it's not like the economy is going to go from you know bad to gray in a matter of five years. It took a long time for it to you know mess, all the corruption that was going on, especially from all the presidents. I mean we, literally we have convicted presidents from stealing money. Like there is no ifs. You know, that's an actual fact. So if we keep him for you know he wants it personally, but for what he believes is best for the, for the salvadorian people and right now it's working at tourism is like gone off the roof, you know, and I'm like let people experience our country.
Speaker 1:You know, that maybe some businessmen or or companies will come invest in el salvador. They see potential in us and we can start growing as a from a third world country to a first world country eventually, one day, you know I think he believes a lot in that and I'm like dude send it.
Speaker 2:I am excited.
Speaker 1:I'm excited to see what he does hello you've been told so later, like you said you was it looks great right in may it's good man, it's a good life over there, like now that people talk about retiring over there, I'm like you know what? It's not the worst thing.
Speaker 2:Before I was like nah hell, nah like, but now I'm like I can see it no, I, yeah, it definitely does open my mind to other ideas, because I I low-key, because I sometimes, you know, I don't know what I'm doing with my life. So I have my ideas. I think it might be fun to kind of live there for one year, yeah, and to see what I could grow, because, like I don't know if I'll be saying too, but like my dad has like a house there and there's like a little community. So it makes me wonder, like if I were to find work or something, because I hear that there's like scholarships or opportunities to maybe work with the scientists there.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know for sure if I could maybe work in science there.
Speaker 1:Why don't you listen? Why don't you give it a shot? Why not?
Speaker 2:We'll see. I have to see um, but it is. It is an idea in the back of my head because I feel like when you work and you know you pay your taxes or you're being a community like that begins to grow so it makes me wonder, like if we put like some of our love or some of our labor in el salvador, how much more can it grow?
Speaker 1:right, but see, even you thinking about that in any shape, form or fashion, it's a statement to what he's done and he's doing in the country. You wouldn't have been doing, able to do this six years ago that is true seven years ago, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, and I'm telling you, man, I know people think some people, there's some people out there that really don't like him because, again, I think it's the same syndrome that, like I want to be different, you know I don't contrarian exactly, bro, for no reason I, your country, is doing great, like the murder rate has gone down.
Speaker 1:There was, there was listen, and I was born over there, so I think I'm I'm. There's a lot of sentiments that go into things, but there was at one point and this is not me exaggerating for the people that are listening or are watching at one point I remember when the gangs were really really, really bad. There was at least one person that I was hearing, that I knew of, that I grew up with, from el salvador, that that got murdered once every week or once every other week for like years and to some point you just become desensitized from all of that and to get to that point where you become desensitized for death.
Speaker 1:I'm like yo, it's, that's how bad it was. But people don't understand that. People just like, oh, you know he's taking over and it's a you know dictatorship. I'm like no, bro. I used to have listen about people dying from my home not just the country itself from where I'm from like the, the, the community that I'm from dying, murdered for no reason you know innocent people and I'm from like the, the, the community that I'm from, dying murdered for no reason.
Speaker 1:You know innocent people and I'm like I prefer it this way than that way I definitely for sure believe that some change is better than no change yeah, I feel like there are, like some people who like for things to stay the same.
Speaker 2:But I feel like because they think that if there might be a new change, then it might make things even worse but I I feel like I don't know. I feel like it's good to have innovation and to try new things. Get us new ideas. New ideas, yeah, which I think is great because, like before, it was the two political parties were the two people who fought in the war, and so I just love how he got like a third party in there.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, right?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah even still, that's crazy, um, but so I I think it's great when there are new ideas taking place where it's actually like trying to tackle the root of the problem and he did and he did very well and he continues to do it.
Speaker 1:So I mean I'm all in, but before, uh, we get into ending, you know our session. You suffer from some health issues and we're going to transition to that because obviously I have suffered from a lot of health issues. People who are listening or who have been watching they know I've suffered from some health issues and stuff and I want you to share your experience. I forgot the name. You told me that you were suffering, but I want you to just open up and then share.
Speaker 2:Okay, so I have rheumatoid arthritis and so basically it kind of like arthritis shouldn't really hit you until like you're older and so I think for me, I think I always had the gene and I don't know if I did something that kind of like.
Speaker 2:Triggered it that triggered it and then I just started to like my joints really started to hurt and it was very hard to move. So I think, like it was probably October 2022. Um, it started to progressively get worse and then December was the worst, worst month, because I really couldn't like walk, it was hard to stand and, um, I remember one time I had to like not take any ibuprofen or any pain stuff because they were trying to get x-rays and so I was just in a lot of excruciating pain until I got like the diagnosis and then they could give me the prescription. Um, but it was hard. It was hard to wake up in the morning, um, just because, like I don't know, it was hard to like pull the covers on my bed to make it.
Speaker 2:So there is like time what was hurting, like your hands, my hands, like right now it's okay because, yeah, I guess I'll get there, um, but yeah, basically, like there was just a lot of swelling in my joints and so I think it's an autoimmune disease where it there's inflammation in your joints and so that's what makes it really hard to move, and so it used to hurt a lot more on my left knee and now it hurt a bunch. But I think once I got some medication I started to slowly do well. So I have to take methotrexate and I'm taking another pain med called sulfasalazine, and so those two help with reducing the inflammation, and then I have to take vitamins. But that was like such a big change because before, like, I used to walk normal and then when I started to take medication, because of the, the pain, I just couldn't move the same way, and so that was hard. I think for a couple months I was like why is this hitting me so young? I'm like 22 girl.
Speaker 1:Hey, who you telling? Who you telling man?
Speaker 2:and so I had a lot of frustration because I'm like, what did I do? Like it kind of came out of nowhere, and so that was kind of hard for me to grapple with.
Speaker 1:Um, so is that hereditary?
Speaker 2:no, I don't think nobody in the family really really got it. I think there is one person has rheumatoid arthritis and so she's working through it, and so I remember when my mom heard about it when I was first getting it, she was like trying to talk to every family to try to figure out you know what they're doing to kind of manage it. Um, and they're like foods that I can't eat. So if I eat like too much red meat then I get a lot more inflamed I can't eat as much sugar.
Speaker 2:I can't have as much papitas um, so I have to be really cognizant of what I eat, because if not, then it would like yeah so basically you have to eat good, alex eat healthier healthier. But I mean it was.
Speaker 1:I mean I didn't, I wasn't eating that bad, I just, you know, had to eat a little bit more clean are you afraid that maybe, or have you thought about this that maybe, like you're on medication now, but like how long can you be on the medication for? Because it sounds like you might need to be on that, for that's what it's looking like.
Speaker 2:So that's why it was very hard for me to grapple that this is going to be my life now. Um, it's okay now because I manage it. I I can't go without my, my medicine. If I do miss a day, I feel it in my hands. I'm like oops I forgot I forgot to drink my morning pills.
Speaker 2:So it's like it sucks, but I guess, like because I was, that was in december 2022 and then so it's been about like a year and a half now that I had it, so it's becoming more routine and it seems like a daily thing, so it's not as bad and I am starting to move a lot more regularly. Um, like by the beginning of 2024, like I felt really happy because, like I think, in that that first few months it was just very hard for me to imagine to move the way that I am now and so I'm really grateful now, but I you feel it's because of the medication um, and I do think that by being more active which, thank goodness, I could be more active I was so scared because I, you were scared of being active
Speaker 2:well, it's because, um so, december 2022, I got diagnosed and I was in excruciating pain and then they finally gave me a diagnosis. And I was in excruciating pain and then they finally gave me a diagnosis and I was trying to really make it work, because that january of 2023, I had to go to two weeks to costa rica for a geology um work project.
Speaker 2:It was like a reu, which is research experience from the graduates where we were supposed to install like these little gps stations, but anyway, there was going to be a lot of like hiking and I was like, how am I gonna?
Speaker 1:yeah, are you gonna do that?
Speaker 2:and they gave me steroids, so that was like that helped a lot the steroids beginning different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been there.
Speaker 2:I've been there so those steroids are really good, but those can't. It can't be a forever solution right so, um, when I came back I had to get the regular medication and hopefully that it um ticks into into right into effect and so that's why I was like scared and then when I had to get off the steroids, I had to go back into that kind of awkward movement. I sometimes still feel like I have some awkward movements where I can't like. Sometimes, when I like, go like this I, I don't know, sometimes it hurts.
Speaker 1:I can't be as flexible as before. So do you feel like, is there like a maybe natural things that you can try to to to get better? Yes, that's what I'm hoping.
Speaker 2:Cause I think other people they have to inject stuff. I'm like I do not want to inject stuff so I feel like if I were to work out more, I'm hoping that would increase my flexibility. So, again a reminder. You got to work out, alex.
Speaker 1:You have to, you have to make some time. You know what I think? Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2:It just made me realize I really have to take my health a lot more seriously. So it's kind of crazy, I don't know. It feels like no, I'm doing better and I was like okay, no, especially when you're younger like you, don't?
Speaker 1:you don't appreciate how much like your body can just take and handle. Exactly.
Speaker 2:I was like I'm supposed to be 22 and, like you know, I'm supposed to have that high metabolism and good energy and now it's like I got like back pain and I have to walk. A little weird, like I saw I'm old, life is preparing you for the future.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I'm glad you should.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely looking to try to, you know, make things um in the more natural sense, because you know, I think, depending you don't want to be like your body, dependent on pills the whole time, because as soon as you get off or you don't take them, like you're going to get into a really bad situation I feel like I I probably need to talk to my doctor again, because I think there are like three situations as you described. That happened one you know you take your medication and then by miracle it goes away and you don't need to take it anymore right two you stay with the same medication and you can live life normally. Or three, it progressively gets worse and you need to have like a higher dosage higher dosage or try other treatments.
Speaker 2:And so right now, lord, if you give me a miracle, I would greatly appreciate it but, in the meantime I think I'm really trying to do number two. Where I could, I try to not do as much injections or treatments, so that it's manageable and I don't have to think about it as much.
Speaker 1:But it's gonna, it's a daily thing I'm gonna stay on top of you so you can get your exercise in. You can do the stretches I haven't hiking. Good, I miss hiking I miss hiking back when I was healthy. Now I can't do that no more. I walk a lot, though I do a lot of walking as much as I can now.
Speaker 2:That's my cardio yeah, I think, like I, I've been um able to find new friends this year, and so I've been able to go to the park with them more and play volleyball and frisbee.
Speaker 1:So that's, that's been kind of exciting that's fun, though volleyball and frisbee, those are such, those are so fun so I think that's been my way of being active.
Speaker 2:I I used to be consistent at the gym for two months, but then for two months I used to be consistent for two months I was good you tried. That's the start um I always say I'm gonna try again tomorrow and it doesn't happen um yeah, but like I said, I feel like I don't know. I feel like volleyball and frisbee is kind of an active thing but yes, you're right, you're right, you're right, I do need to be more on top of my gym.
Speaker 2:I I do appreciate. I like the lifestyle that the gym can give you. You makes you feel better, man yeah, absolutely like I loved it when I was consistent. I just got to get back to it you know what I started doing recently?
Speaker 1:um, I'm actually gonna make a video about this, probably after you guys leave, but I I decided to start taking cold showers oh so I'm gonna do a video of, like me, my experience of taking like cold showers for 30 days and then eventually probably for like three months. Right, so I've been already going into two months now, but I'm really like a 30 day update, update and be like you know, what was my experience with 30 day like cold showers? Because, um, I shiver too much too quickly when and like anything gets really cold or, like you know, I want the warmth really fast and I'm like, no, I gotta, I gotta get out of that mindset. I gotta have some discipline in me and see if, like you know, the the claims and studies of cold shower actually apply to me. That you know that I've read online and you know we'll see we'll see, so I have an update for my channel later.
Speaker 2:I'll tell you that much oh, but discipline outside I don't know go ahead, go ahead. I yeah, discipline, discipline, that's been like such a big theme onto mine because I the d word.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you that's one of the biggest things people need to have mentally. Yeah, that's hard.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's like one of the biggest things why I want to get back into working out is just to have that discipline. I think for now I've been nearly because I'm not like the best of students, but I passed hey, what was that? Six degrees, but I did get a b in my math class.
Speaker 2:I'm quite proud of that good okay, but anyway I know that I have to be more disciplined and that has been such a big theme like as of recently, just trying to like be more on top of homework and especially prayer. I used to be like a lot more spontaneous in prayer, where I'd be, like you know, just talking about my day or something um talking to the lord yeah, just talking to the lord, but I feel like I wanted to be more intentional with it.
Speaker 1:So I have like a morning routine for prayer and I feel like that's been one way I've been trying to increase more discipline that's good, though, man, discipline, I'm telling you, it's something that I feel like it's so hard to grasp and people that's why some people don't, you know, succeed in the things they're trying to accomplish. Because it's hard, bro, it's hard to just have that mentality of always wanting to do something.
Speaker 2:You have to get better, you know that like the hard way and it has. It has taken me a quite a while, but there's this word, idleness, and I feel like that's like the biggest thing that I feel like bring, takes, like holds me back yeah, is that sometimes, like during the day, a veces la pereza yeah this is so hard and it used to be a lot worse when, especially with my rheumatoid arthritis, like yeah, my better.
Speaker 2:So really increased a lot when, yeah, when it was hard to move but I felt like, um, I feel like idleness sometimes, like when you don't really have something to do or to think about. That's what really, I don't know really like hold you back sometimes and I feel like discipline is the way to fight against it yeah, I mean, we're creatures of habit, right?
Speaker 1:so we have to rewire our brain to in order for us to change something, and right that rewiring it's what's hard but, once you rewire it, then you're locked and now, like you have, you build that foundation and then try to make it happen on different levels of of life that you want to accomplish, for example, the cold shower thing. You know, there's times where I don't want to get into the shower and I'm like yo, this is cold, man like, but you just have to do it gotta lock in, gotta lock in.
Speaker 2:I like that.
Speaker 1:I like that, I'm pretty good, uh, is there anything else that you want to share today? Um, or anything else you got for us? We had a really good conversation. I'm telling you, I love the nerdy conversation that we had I love I'm glad.
Speaker 1:I'm glad you enjoyed it I'm so glad you it's a good time. But if you didn't have anything, ladies and gentlemen, thank you guys for listening. Thank you guys for watching today. Remember you can subscribe to the channel. You can also listen to this podcast on all the audio platforms that you prefer. Again, thank you guys for 4,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel. I really appreciate that, guys. It's been a long time coming. I promise to keep putting more good content for you. Guys. If you're watching or listening, don't forget you can watch this podcast in 4K on YouTube all the time. 4k resolution and 4K subscribers. I don't know, I like that. I like how that sounds, alexandra. But thank you for coming to the podcast. I appreciate you. I hope to have you again so we can have more nerdy conversations, because I need that in my life, and maybe we'll talk more about discipline and see how it goes with your issues later on in life. How does that sound?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean hopefully by the end of the summer I'll definitely improve, especially by the end of the semester. I plan to take modern physics, you will.
Speaker 1:I'm sure you will. I'm sure you will. But thank you guys, see you guys on the next one. Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe and show some love to the channel. As always, peace and love, familia deuce. Bye, good job.