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Hey, I'm Avi, Dean of the Flatiron SchoolI haven't gone through either of the other programs (though I did create the syllabus for the original GA Intro to Web Development), so I can't tell you what the differences are, but I can try to explain some of the things that we think make us unique. First though, I think it's important to point out that I think you're asking the wrong question. If you're looking for a credential, then brand matters. But in this world, nobody cares from which of these programs you graduated. All anyone cares about is whether you can do the work.We believe that teaching is a craft. Having a practitioner give a one-hour lecture is one thing. But if you want to master a subject, having an incredible teacher is invaluable. The reason kids like math in 7th grade, history in 8th, and bio in 9th, is that great teachers inspire people to connect to topics on higher levels. No matter how much you love a topic, if you don't have a great teacher, you won't learn nearly as much. To that end, all of our teachers are employed full time. They do not lead semesters without TA'ing at least one first, and we take 4-6 weeks off between semesters to focus on teacher training and curriculum development. We could be way more profitable if we didn't do that, but we believe it's the only way to ensure quality.I love teaching. I've been doing it full time for years (here are some skillshare reviews). Our syllabus has been developed over years of trial and error. Some other folks like Dave Hoover and Shereef Bishay at Dev Bootcamp and Jeff Casimir at gSchool have the same motivations and I really respect the work they do. Lots of other programs seem to be started by people who can barely code or have never taught.Ultimately, whichever program you're considering, find out who will be teaching you. How long has that person been teaching? What's his/her philosophy? Do you connect with that person? Sit in on a class. Speak to students who learned with that teacher. Find out what those students are doing today. Find the person with whom you connect the most, who inspires you the most, and choose that teacher.I can drone on about this but if you want to learn more about my philosophy, I was recently interviewed for a podcast where I get into it in some detail (you can also feel free to reach out and come by the school any time to talk to me/students/alumni.As far as the program itself goes, here are some things I think make the Flatiron School unique.1. Logistics - This is the easy stuff. Our program is 12 weeks long, on campus, full time. Before starting the program, students go through about 100 hours of pre-work ( Flatiron School Prework ). Additionally, after the 12 weeks, we work with students one-on-one to help them with job placement. So the 12 weeks are entirely focused on learning but in all we're working with students for anything from 14-20 weeks. Last semester we ended up with 100% job placement within 5 weeks of graduation.2. Culture - We currently have a 10% acceptance rate into the program. This allows us to not only have a class that's incredibly smart and passionate, but also extremely diverse. Our current class is 40% female. Former student backgrounds have ranged from pro-poker players and Major League Baseball Scouts to Wall Street Traders, Lawyers and even Customer Service reps. We could probably pack an entire class with bankers, and they'd be great, but this makes for a lot more fun. (check out our instragram for some more on that).Also, while there are a lot of great reasons to learn how to code (start a company, execute an idea, get a job, etc…), those are not the reasons people come to the flatiron school. Our students see programming as a lifelong craft that they want to continue to improve, not as a means to an end. They'd rather be developers at boring companies than do anything else at sexy startups.3. Focus - We Don't have fancy offices and millions of dollars in venture capital. We're also not opening locations all around the country or the world and don't offer tons of classes. This is definitely detrimental if you're interested in things like UX Design or Marketing while you're in our program. We also don't have strong employer networks outside of New York (though our students who looked for development jobs in SF, DC, etc… all got jobs). The advantage to this though, is that we have a maniacal focus on creating the absolute best developers in NYC. No other locations. No pressure from VC's to scale. Just great people building great things together.4. Learning Philosophy - All of these programs will teach you how to code (I hope so, at least). We think that's the bare minimum though - the lowest common denominator. There's so much more to being a developer than knowing how to define a method.First, there's a rich history and culture to this craft. We spend some time every morning learning about how these technologies were invented and who these great programmers are, so we can connect to the craft in a more meaningful way.Second, all of our students maintain active technical blogs (google around - you'll find a bunch), and present at technical meetups. This helps our students get deeply embedded into the developer community in NY (it works - they've won hackathons, volunteered at places like CoderDojo, and one alum is even speaking at GORUCO, the premier Ruby conference in NYC) More importantly though, we believe that the best thing we can teach our students is "how to learn." As a developer, you'll spend the rest of your life learning new things, and we want to help you get great at that, whether by forcing you to distill your thoughts by blogging and presenting, or by getting used to being outside your comfort zone by taking dance classes and learning to make balloon animals (yup, we've brought in teachers for things like that). Whether you've been programming for 12 weeks or 12 years, you won't know everything. But if you continually push yourself to learn new things, you will master this craft. We want to teach you how to do that.5. Teaching Philosophy - When I first started teaching I got inspired but his quote by Antoine de Saint-Exuprey (the guy who wrote The Little Prince).“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”The only way to truly connect with a craft is to fall in love with it. That's how most developers who are self-taught were able to endure endless nights alone, coding in their parents' basements. They fell in love with it. This is the guiding force behind everything we do, from teaching the history of code, to bringing in guest speakers, to building real-world applications. If we can get you to fall in love with this craft, the way I and the other teachers here have, you'll never give up. You'll continue to push the boundaries of your own knowledge and continue to get better. (I know this sounds kinda touchy-feely, but I get that way sometimes- just ask some alumni :)Well, that's the longest Quora post I've ever written- not sure what brought it out of me. I'm sure I've left stuff out, but if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me any time at [email protected] .Wherever you end up, enjoy the ride. Your life is about to change in a big way :0Avi

Hey, I'm Avi, Dean of the Flatiron SchoolI haven't gone through any other programs (though I did create the syllabus for the original GA Intro to Web Development), so I can't tell you what the differences are, but I can try to explain some of the things that we think make us unique. First though, I think it's important to point out that I think you're asking the wrong question. If you're looking for a credential, then brand matters. But in this world, nobody cares from which of these programs you graduated. All anyone cares about is whether you can do the work.We believe that teaching is a craft. Having a practitioner give a one-hour lecture is one thing. But if you want to master a subject, having an incredible teacher is invaluable. The reason kids like math in 7th grade, history in 8th, and bio in 9th, is that great teachers inspire people to connect to topics on higher levels. No matter how much you love a topic, if you don't have a great teacher, you won't learn nearly as much. To that end, all of our teachers are employed full time. They do not lead semesters without TA'ing at least one first, and we take 4-6 weeks off between semesters to focus on teacher training and curriculum development. We could be way more profitable if we didn't do that, but we believe it's the only way to ensure quality.I love teaching. I've been doing it full time for years (here are some skillshare reviews). Our syllabus has been developed over years of trial and error. Some other folks like Dave Hoover and Shereef Bishay at Dev Bootcamp and Jeff Casimir at gSchool have the same motivations and I really respect the work they do. Lots of other programs seem to be started by people who can barely code or have never taught.Ultimately, whichever program you're considering, find out who will be teaching you. How long has that person been teaching? What's his/her philosophy? Do you connect with that person? Sit in on a class. Speak to students who learned with that teacher. Find out what those students are doing today. Find the person with whom you connect the most, who inspires you the most, and choose that teacher.I can drone on about this but if you want to learn more about my philosophy, I was recently interviewed for a podcast where I get into it in some detail (you can also feel free to reach out and come by the school any time to talk to me/students/alumni.As far as the program itself goes, here are some things I think make the Flatiron School unique.1. Logistics - This is the easy stuff. Our program is 12 weeks long, on campus, full time. Before starting the program, students go through about 100 hours of pre-work ( Flatiron School Prework ). Additionally, after the 12 weeks, we work with students one-on-one to help them with job placement. So the 12 weeks are entirely focused on learning but in all we're working with students for anything from 14-20 weeks. Last semester we ended up with 100% job placement within 5 weeks of graduation.2. Culture - We currently have a 10% acceptance rate into the program. This allows us to not only have a class that's incredibly smart and passionate, but also extremely diverse. Our current class is 40% female. Former student backgrounds have ranged from pro-poker players and Major League Baseball Scouts toWall Street Traders, Lawyers and even Customer Service reps. We could probably pack an entire class with bankers, and they'd be great, but this makes for a lot more fun. (check out our instragram for some more on that).Also, while there are a lot of great reasons to learn how to code (start a company, execute an idea, get a job, etc…), those are not the reasons people come to the flatiron school. Our students see programming as a lifelong craft that they want to continue to improve, not as a means to an end. They'd rather be developers at boring companies than do anything else at sexy startups.3. Focus - We Don't have fancy offices and millions of dollars in venture capital. We're also not opening locations all around the country or the world and don't offer tons of classes. This is definitely detrimental if you're interested in things like UX Design or Marketing while you're in our program. We also don't have strong employer networks outside of New York (though our students who looked for development jobs in SF, DC, etc… all got jobs). The advantage to this though, is that we have a maniacal focus on creating the absolute best developers in NYC. No other locations. No pressure from VC's to scale. Just great people building great things together.4. Learning Philosophy - All of these programs will teach you how to code (I hope so, at least). We think that's the bare minimum though - the lowest common denominator. There's so much more to being a developer than knowing how to define a method.First, there's a rich history and culture to this craft. We spend some time every morning learning about how these technologies were invented and who these great programmers are, so we can connect to the craft in a more meaningful way.Second, all of our students maintain active technical blogs (google around - you'll find a bunch), and present at technical meetups. This helps our students get deeply embedded into the developer community in NY (it works - they've won hackathons, volunteered at places like CoderDojo, and one alum is even speaking at GORUCO, the premier Ruby conference in NYC) More importantly though, we believe that the best thing we can teach our students is "how to learn." As a developer, you'll spend the rest of your life learning new things, and we want to help you get great at that, whether by forcing you to distill your thoughts by blogging and presenting, or by getting used to being outside your comfort zone by taking dance classes and learning to make balloon animals (yup, we've brought in teachers for things like that). Whether you've been programming for 12 weeks or 12 years, you won't know everything. But if you continually push yourself to learn new things, you will master this craft. We want to teach you how to do that.5. Teaching Philosophy - When I first started teaching I got inspired but his quote by Antoine de Saint-Exuprey (the guy who wrote The Little Prince).“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”The only way to truly connect with a craft is to fall in love with it. That's how most developers who are self-taught were able to endure endless nights alone, coding in their parents' basements. They fell in love with it. This is the guiding force behind everything we do, from teaching the history of code, to bringing in guest speakers, to building real-world applications. If we can get you to fall in love with this craft, the way I and the other teachers here have, you'll never give up. You'll continue to push the boundaries of your own knowledge and continue to get better. (I know this sounds kinda touchy-feely, but I get that way sometimes- just ask some alumni :)If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me any time at [email protected] .Wherever you end up, enjoy the ride. Your life is about to change in a big way :0Avi

1. My amazing wifeAbout 36 years ago, I fell in love with the girl next door. Unfortunately, we were both (quite miserably) married to other people at the time. I had been married once before, and in committed, “significant other” relationships several times. I was definitely a serial monogamist.Initially, we were just going to engage in some harmless swinging, but my wife objected. I didn’t find her then-husband sexually appetizing, so we eventually decided to just go off as the two of us and have a “meat-slappin’ good time.” We were careful not to lie or deceive our respective spouses, but we were determined to finish what we’d started. We checked into (I am not making this up) The Aloha Motel, and yes, it did have a blinking neon sign where the hula girl’s grass skirt appeared to move by flashing back and forth. We attempted to romantically hit the hot tub, but there were several 10-year-old kids diving in it, and cigarette butts floating on the water.Thus, we retired to our room, and eventually wound up naked between the sheets. At first, it was good, if not great sex. We went for a second time after a bit (and a snack) and it lasted a LONG time. At one point, I looked down into her eyes, and she looked into mine, and we shared one simultaneous thought: “OH MY GOD, IT’S YOU!!!’In that instant, we recognized each other from hundreds of past lives, and from “Home,” the “place” we all hang out in between our various lifetimes. We had no need for long, drawn-out philosophical or theological discussions. There was no great intellectual meeting of the minds (not about US, anyway.) We just KNEW that we knew that we knew! No words were necessary.We moved in together within a couple of months. She arranged for equal custody of her two wonderful sons, and I did the same with my two beautiful daughters. We had our own blended family! It didn’t take long for us to realize that we saw perfectly eye-to-eye on child-rearing. We were both intentional, authoritative parents who refused to spank or punish, listened to and respected our children, and put love and kindness first. The next move was obvious. We had a son! Up until he came, there had been an unsurprising level of friction between the kids, and us as “step” parents. We weren’t stupid enough to expect the boys to call me “Dad,” or vice versa with the girls. No, she and I had to EARN that, so we did.Nine years later, we had just gotten done leaping from the top of a 30’ telephone pole in an attempt to catch a trapeze bar hanging in space. She finally proposed to me, and I am not an idiot, so I said “yes!” We were on a beautlful Maui beach, across the road from our dream house, with our family and friends there to bear witness. It was truly Divine. It still is. We are still on our honeymoon, and it shows no signs of stopping.2. My kidsIn addition to the five I just mentioned, I already had a son and a “step” daughter from a previous relationship. I was estranged from them, and I experienced a great deal of protracted grief over that loss. The mother had poisoned them against me in my absence, and I have yet to truly heal those relationships. Once we had all 5 kids in the home at once, we began collecting “strays.” We somehow always seemed to meet parents who were unable to give their children what they truly needed. They began by just sleeping over a lot, and one day they didn’t leave anymore. Somehow, it never seemed to be a burden, and I love them just as much as my own “blood” children.I did not teach my kids about spirituality. Instead, I LIVED my spirituality, through unconditional love and giving, kindness, gratitude and radical forgiveness. They are all adults now, most with kids of their own. I am, of course, very proud of all of them, but I also know from an objective view that they are all deeply spiritual, not even slightly religious, and they are questioning all authority while leaving the world a better place than they found it. I trust my grandchildren will pioneer even farther in that direction.3. MusicSince I can remember, I have always heard music. Anything I touch becomes an impromptu instrument, one that I just HAVE to coax a simple tune out of, a catchy rhythm, or a resonance of some kind. At age 3, I knew I wanted to play saxophone. No, check that - I knew I WOULD play saxophone. When I turned 13, I did just that, entering Jr. High School band, then on to HS band.I also joined numerous rock bands, playing the greatest hits of the day (Beatles, British Invasion, etc.) I learned quickly that women were quite fascinated with the sax player, and everybody wanted to buy me a drink. That would come back to haunt me later. Ultimately, I began to write original lyrics and compose original songs with them. I’ve participated in five different album projects of music I wrote or co-wrote, plus countless single projects.Despite the fact that I detest using sheet music or playing other people’s material, I became one of the most sought-after studio artists and subs for local bands. I was too busy PLAYING music to waste time READING the dots on a page.Lately, I’ve built a home studio and am finishing all those songs I wrote over the years, having developed at least basic mastery of digital recording andmusic production. I never really mastered the whole “gotta be a businessman too” part of professional music, but for me, it’s a deeply spiritual practice, anyway.4. ApplauseYou might think this is ego or vanity on my part. True to a small extent, but not so much, really. I remember the largest audience I ever played for – about 15,000 people in an outdoor concert setting. Their love, adoration, and applause broke over us like waves of pure energy. I could see colors like I’d dropped 10 hits of acid, and I felt VERY appreciated. In other words, applause lets me know that I am fulfilling my spiritual purpose. I am doing what I was put here on this planet to do – MUSIC. I even have a mission statement that has guided me for many years:“ I AM the voice of God, singing a love song into the ears of The Beloved.” And YOU are the beloved! Applause just affirms that I am on mission.5. Spiritual/personal growthWhen I was about 15, I was quite religious. I attended a church youth group, and we always discussed the great questions of life together. We didn’t believe, we LIVED our faith! I attended a “youth leadership conference” on a beautiful, wooded college campus in Northern Wisconsin, I had been really boasting about myself a lot, until one reverend stopped me and said. “Do you know what?” I stopped talking and said, “No, what?” He stunned me next by saying “I think you’re just about the phoniest guy I’ve ever met!” I was gutted! “W-w-w-w-haddya mean?” “Think about it.” So, I thought about it. I started with “What the Hell is so phony about me?” Then, in a fit of existential dread, I realized “Hmmm, I’d better do this the easy way. What’s NOT phony about me?” My dears, all I had left was one utterly stunning truth: “LOVE!” It looks so impotent when I just type it out like this, but I was dropped to my knees, my eyes welled up with tears of joy, I was too choked up to even talk, except for that one word – LOVE. I immediately went out to share it with my fellow students. It appeared to be contagious! A few days later, I went back to my home town and began hanging out with a few close friends. Again, it was contagious. I no longer had Faith – I had certainty!.Just a few years later, I discovered LSD. It was in the heyday of the whole “peace, love, and flowers” hippie thing, and the sexual revolution as well (Yes, I really did love all those women I had sex with back then!) I tripped hundreds of times, often taking thousands of micrograms of LSD, and each trip was a true spiritual revelation. I never thought of it as “getting high,” or a “party drug. Nope, it was a true soul journey every single trip. I got sent away for a while to prison over a possession of cannabis charge, and I tripped a couple of times inside. It was a revelation! I was fortunate enough to be able to have my records, and a lot of metaphysical, spiritual, and new age books. I learned to meditate, and left prison far more enlightened than I had arrived there.I did trip with my current wife a couple of times. We did heroic doses, and merged completely with each other, beatifically and permanently. We ARE each other! Some years later, after our kids were mostly raised and we’d moved to Maui, we got involved with some amazing personal growth seminars from PSI Seminars. These were not mere classes – they were full, immersive experiences, teaching us advanced ways of owning our integrity, vision, manifestation, and the power of giving. Sometimes we’d be hanging off a cliff, other times the cliff would be a metaphorical one as we participated in deeply moving experiences in the seminar room. We were transformed and transmogrified. I haven’t gone in to reaudit a seminar in a LONG time, but it’s as fresh today as it was during my first Basic Class.6. Supporting othersI have always been the guy to push a stranger’s stalled car, give someone my last dollar, feed ANYONE who was hungry, or just listen without judgment while they poured their hearts out. I always wondered why everyone I met seemed to immediately want to open up to me very deeply. It served me well in later years when I reinvented myself as a therapist. Being of service is truly the highest spiritual act one can perform!7. GratitudeThis goes a lot deeper than you might think. I’d already been a professional counselor for years, and I had my BA in Psychology. I was pursuing my MA, and burning out severely. I was tired, easily confused, my blood pressure was through the roof, and my memory was failing me to the point where I went in for an alzheimer’s assessment. A simple blood test revealed an abnormally high calcium level, and I got the diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Yep, the big fucking C! I dropped out of college, and moved back to my home town to be near my family. I didn’t want to die. So, I did what the docs told me, but I also decided I would practice gratitude every day. I wrote lists of 100m 500, 1,000 things I am thankful for today. I wrote long essays and treatises and posted them on Facebook, sharing my realizations with all my “friends” there. 12 weeks later, the tumors had receded. I was judged cancer-free a few years ago, and am now in full remission. I expect to stay that way. I no longer have the need to get sick. I listened to the Universe, and was rewarded with vibrant health.8. SexMy first sexual experiences were quite hellish, because they were at the hands of an older male cousin, who forced me to masturbate him and perform oral sex on him when I was very young. It took me a LONG time to forgive him, and even longer to forgive myself.It was the ‘60s and early ‘70s. Free Love was in full bloom. When I met someone new, we didn’t shake hands or hug – we tottered off to the boudoir for some harmless, consequence-free fun! If someone had an STI, who cares!? We’ll just all go down to the free clinic and get penicillin shots together, right? Hell, let’s make a date of it! Little did we know! I did threesomes, experimented with a few guys, (though that never made the bells ring for me.) It was sexual FOMO turned up to eleven! By the time I met my current wife, we had both tried just about every novel position, partner, and technique we could find. We actually did not commit to monogamy when we got together, thinking we would probably continue to have fun with others (preferably together) over time. 36 years later and it never happened! Our magic was just SO potent, tantalizing, strong and profound that we simply didn’t want to waste our time on lesser magic. To my mind, that’s the only way you can be monogamous without becoming monotonous.9. WordsI learned to read when I was three, a gift which drove my first grade teacher absolutely bat-shit crazy a couple of years later! I was a true prodigy, reading technical radio manuals, encyclopedia entries (remember those? The bound paper ones, I mean?) and my parents LOVED showing off that I could read the nighly headlines upside down. I was a spelling champ several years in a row, though my handwriting never really survived the ordeal. I was smart enough to learn typing at age 14 on an old manual typewriter that sounded like a machine gun being fired, and left my with tired arms after a bit. I ultimately became an essayist and wrote many scholarly papers while in school.My real passion, however, was writing art. I wrote prayers. I wrote poetry. And I wrote SONGS, oh yes indeed I did! I would be yanked out of a deep sleep to go scribble down an idea for lyrics. Half my first drafts were on matchbook covers (remember those?) often while driving down the road, at work, or sitting in a classroom somewhere. Sadly, most of my career involved putting these on hold, because I was in demand as a sax player for Rock, Blues, and Funk. I’ll never forget the first time I performed a song I wrote with my brother entitled “Secret Need.” (see item 4.) I knew then that I owed it to the Universe to get these songs produced, even if nobody ever heard them in my lifetime.In later years, as a therapist, I led a lot of therapy groups, many of which were “psychoeducational” meaning I was a teacher. I also led my patients through a lot of personal growth exercises as a facilitator. I loved speaking in public, almost as much as I loved performing music. These days, almost all my words are here on Quora. I pray someone is touched every now and again.10. TravelAs a child, I used to go on cross-country driving trips with my grandparents. I got to see the great National Parks, and drove the entirety of Route 66 when it still existed. Yes, they really did have those funky little roadside attractions. Once I got out of prison, I was unbelievably restless. Hitchhiking out to California to join in the Summer of Love was an important rite of passage. Never mind that that event had been dead an buried for 5 years already. I hitchhiked out there, stopping a while in Albuquerque to work with a traveling carnival for a while, cadging meals off the local mission houses, and crashing wherever with whoever. I had a “child” bride. She was 16, but I had legal permission to marry her, partly so I would become her legal guardian and I could protect her from a string of predatory foster “dads” her social worker was pimping her out to. Unsurprisingly, we met a lot of lonely, single men who would put is up for a while, just so they could fantasize about her for a while. Some of those situations were a bit hairy, but we escaped with our hides intact.A few years later, I popped off to Maui on a lark with my current girlfriend, 20 years my senior, who became a professional clown in later years. She had worked in some of the sex clubs in NYC in earlier days, so I got introduced to the swinging lifestyle there for a while. I wasn’t really that good at it – I got a little too attached sometimes. I left Maui to try and reconcile with my eldest son, to no avail. I’d missed my chance by being too absent in his life. Ouch! My second wife and I settled in Santa Cruz briefly, where my oldest daughter was born. After a brief pit stop in Wisconsin, we went off to Maui, where I got into the local music scene. I was in heaven, but she was bored senseless. We had a second daughter who was born there on the island.We left shortly after that, and moved into one side of a ranch-style duplex. The neighbor guy was a fellow hippie, with two sons about my daughters’ age. We became fast friends and visited each other often. We were both stay-at-home dads, while our wives worked. We babysat for each other, drank a lot of beer, and listened to great music on his stereo.Then one day, I met his wife. She wasn’t sure if she liked me very well at first, mostly because hubby was in the bad habit of inviting some truly flakey, if not downright dangerous characters into their home. She thought I might just be another creep. Then one day when my wife was briefly out of town, she knocked on my front door with a smile. They were into swinging, and did we maybe want to play? Nothing serious – just for fun. I told her I would wait until my wife got back to discuss it. As much as we fucked around, we did not cheat – no lying or sneaking or covering up. My wife rejected the plan, but she and I pressed ahead.And that’s when I fell in love with the girl next door!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~“Secret Need” By Patrick Dieter, music by Joseph Dieter:Know there is a Secret Need within youThere’s an urge that’s burning deep insideStronger than the steaming sexual hungerStronger than your mind and time and tideDrives you in your every waking momentDogs you in your deepest, darkest dreamsSomeone else’s heartbeat there inside youPumping life into your own bloodstream(CHORUS)It’s just the need to know yourself – You wanna feel all rightThe warm desire to love yourself so your harmony is tight.It is not a need to be ashamedPlease don’t feel you have to cover upBecause the sweetest wine you ever tastedIs filled to overflowing in your cupIf a song could sing inside our heads andI could ever get a chance to pickThen we would sing a love song to ourselvesAnd I think that that would do the trick(CHORUS)It’s just the need to know yourself – You wanna feel all rightThe warm desire to love yourself so your harmony is tight.I wonder, how am I supposed to love youIf you can’t learn to love your own self firstThe magic things I send you don’t get throughYou close the door and nothing could be worseThan for me to be in love like this andThen to find that we don’t have you in itThis love’s so sweet that being here without youIt would spoil in less than half a minute(CHORUS)It’s just the need to know yourself – You wanna feel all rightThe warm desire to love yourself so your harmony is tight.