What sort of level do you need to be at where you will completely cut an entire library of art, an entire... of your life because you can't bear the artist or because the artist has somehow disappointed you.

It suggests that the level of emotional investment that you have in the parasocial relationship that you have with that person is extremely deep.

As you said before, parasocial relationships are one way unreal relationships that we have with people in the public eye.

Now, we may think that we don't have parasocial relationships because we're not particularly obsessed ourselves.

That's not true.

According to Giles and Maltby's absorption addiction model, which they proposed in 2006, and that identified three levels of celebrity worship.

And I guess the level that you're at may make it easier or more difficult for you to either keep the art and the artist separate or for you to react in a way that everything must be dismissed about them point blank.

I know, Jerry, that you are as human as the rest of us, if not more so.

What is the overall impact of the fundraising? It was just $1,400, or is there more besides that?

To go back a little bit further since we last spoke again, it's all in connection again with AbleGamers.

Earlier this year, AbleGamers went over to Milan and held an adaptive e-sports competition alongside the Paralympics.

So whilst we were there, the Paralympics was going on in the city of Milan as well.

Um, and basically, they were holding competitions across Brawlhal- Brawlhalla, as well as FC.

I went along to Milan to compete in their FC 26 tournament, of which I won both the adaptive and open class.

I got a gold medal in each of them.

What are your biggest goals and projects for content creation, raising stuff for charity, advocacy? What, what do you s- expect, uh, for the next time we talk? What do you, uh, what are you looking for to tell me next time we talk?

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Um, I don't know.

If they did, psychologically they'd probably be people who would score really highly in openness in terms of personality and fairly no- lowly in terms of neuroticism, so they wouldn't be really suspicious of, of, of anything that was offered to them, um, very open to new ideas, creative thinkers, et cetera.

However, people with that sort of personality structure aren't as likely to be disappointed when that future doesn't arrive because they pivot.

They have that ability to think a lot more flexibly and a m- a lot more adaptably than, than other people.

Um, so they would adapt to their circumstances.

I guess people with those sort of modes of thought would probably be quite entrepreneurial in their approach and would, would maybe be a bit more driven than your average, than your average human being if you like.

Yeah.

He pauses class and invites students to write before asking them to contribute.

So there's lots of ideas for sparking better conversations, but one that was recommended to me by a master teacher of psychology and that I think works splendidly well is not just to invite discussion, but rather to pause the class to invite people to write for a minute in response to some question, and then having written, to invite people to contribute what they've written.

And now lots of people have something to say 'cause they've collected a thought, and so you don't just get blank stares when you invite a question.

And by the way, uh, other instructors will pause and ask people to think about the question, but I sort of like the idea of the pause to write.

Interrupt the class, invite people to write for one minute their thoughts in response to a question, and then welcome people's contributions of what they've been thinking and writing, and you'll have many more people with something to say than you otherwise would.