Good afternoon everyone Ash was here and for the next long while I am going to be focusing on and sharing on technologies of the self and I'm going through a transitional phase in my life where you know my youngest is 15 my older two are adult children I am 19 almost 20 and then 21 almost 22 and I am figuring out who I am outside of being a mom I was 17 when I got pregnant with my younger or older so I should say and you know it and I and their amazing children on that kind of stuff but I know I didn't have that time and actually I'm grateful for not having a time in my 20s To figure out who I was because honestly cognitively we're not even fully developed you know our brain is not done growing until we're 25 and so I'm going through that process of who am I where do I stand for what I stand against you know what is happy all that kind of good stuff so and I've studied this stuff since I was 14 and I continue to learn that's the paradox of learning right the more you know the more you realize you have yet to know and so I'm gonna focus on Michelle focal defined technologies of the self as reflected in voluntary practices by which humans not only fix rules of conduct for themselves but seek to transform themselves to change themselves and their particular being and to make their life worthwhile So what is focal mean by technologies in the first place technology belongs to focus distinctive vocabulary of social and political critique any refers to the ways in which modern social and political systems control supervise and manipulate populations as well as individuals more than

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