Welcome back. This is still why in the morning and we just into our second conversation from that amazing one that we've had with Ramaguka on youth and politics. Now we are talking about today's question of discussion which is about you know habits of the successful and we are asking you what is the first thing Yanikitu ya konza you do in the morning when you wake up in the morning what is the first thing that you do when you wake up. Now talk to us the hashtag is why in the morning at 254 channel on Facebook and Twitter. Talk to us and tell us what is this thing especially being a Monday Monday nile sekuyan you have the morning blues and everything. So take your time close your eyes for a minute or two don't sleep and then think about what you do in the morning or what you do today morning when you when you woke up. So we have been joined by amazing guest here in studio we have Klaxon Okach at my father's right. We also have Ian Sisanga right? Yes we have Ian Sisanga and Klaxon Okach help us with this conversation. Start one then and then Ian tell us what you do kwanza before to to engage into this matter. Ok for me actually when I wake up in the morning first I must spread my bed. I think our most most tend to think that that's not a routine for boy child which I tend to prove wrong.  Wash your face if not shower or so then do some exercise and take the day on. Ok so we are getting back to you spreading your bed. Klaxon tell us what you do. I as Klaxon being brought from Christian religious family background. The first thing that I have to do I have to give benediction to God. I have some kind of prayer which will carry me through the day. That is the first thing that I normally do and it is also making me to have the connection with God. That is the first thing. Then others will now proceed from there after.  Klaxon umesama the first thing you do is have a benediction your time with God. So is that prayer or is that reading the Bible? What does that involve? Actually it is just like a short kind of prayer where I do normally pray for my family, my family man. I also have to pray for other things so that my daily activity can now go. That is the first thing. Ok so what other things are you praying for? Generally when you are praying you have to pray for the well-being of the family. You have to pray for the well-being of you as a person. You have also to pray for the well-being of all the activities that you have planned. So you may be able to plan your things as per the human being perspective point of view. But if all of them are not dedicated to the Almighty then probably they might not. So we assume and we hope that everything when we commit it to God it will be successful. That is the first priority. Ok and I know there is a verse where you are told commit your plan to the Lord. So you are going to check and that works for you. It has been working for you. It has been working for you. Yes. So Ian umesamukyamka you make your bed. How does that work for you? Being the first thing that you do? Actually I tend to think it is habitual because I just found myself spreading the bed. Then after upon you you take a shower or so. So having my discussion with Rami in the morning, the discussion you had with Rami, ali sama there is a famous person who said that when the people who make their bed as the first thing they do when they wake up, they usually have that day organized. That day will highly tend to be more productive than others because there is one thing that you have already accomplished. So Ian umesamukyamka you make sense to your routine. So how do you do that? Actually you know early in the morning is when you start your day. That is the basis. And then like any other thing, when you start even like cooking, you start with the taste will depend on the first move in your cooking. So move because you are putting cooking oil. And ingredients. So that will make the taste of the food. That's the first move. So it's just the same way in life. The first move will depend on how you are doing. It's just like the sauce. It has set mood. It has set secret kwaaji. Because when you wake up, it's sad. It's very hard to do what you don't know.  It will be hard. It will be hard. So what's the claxon? I think it depends on also individual personality. Because one, when you wake up, you know that you should have the priorities of sets of activities which are supposed to be taken out for the day. And this one will be determined on the first footstep that you take. So the first action that you will be taking early in the morning will determine. From where I'm coming from, there is a saying. Which goes that how you wake up in the morning will determine how your day will be. A good morning starts in the morning. A good day starts in the morning. It is upon the person or individual to determine on how the activities of the day will be. Will be. Yes. So that's why the first thing that you do matters a lot. The first interactions, the first activity that you do will carry. It is a series of activities which will be chained one after the other. For example, after having benedictions, I go texture that is an obvious thing. Then have a cup of tea. Then is when I live. You're getting it. So as immediate I live, I know as soon as I step in my office, I know these are the things that I need to do. You're getting it. So it has been back grounded on what I did in the morning. What you did in the morning. So your morning started well, your day is going on. Yes. If you started day on a long foot. The rest of the day. The rest of the day will be. It's great. Yes. Okay. What do you think about, you agree with this? Yes, I agree with him. Especially that point when you start your day with a bad foot. In Aribikayani. Yes. So people, you might wake up in the morning and you brush shoulders with someone. Of course.  Let me give you another example. I'm a married man. I assume that as soon as you wake up, then you have a couple of misunderstanding or quarrel with your partner. Then obviously you will have a bad day when you get into the office for those of us who are holding the offices. The first person who will come in your office, at least you will try to pour out the anger. You're getting it. Yes. That is obvious. You are from your house. You had a bad omen in the beginning. It's a bad omen. Yes. Okay. So automatically anybody who comes across on your way through the day will either in one or the other experience a dose of your anger. All right. So Ian, turn back to you. Could you say that niharali basumutu anze money nyaike in silence bila kusumbuliwa so that you make sure you keep it intact? Yes. Upa tima kaseriko somewhere? Yes. Physically, I have experienced because klaxon is a teacher.  So they come to pour out their stress on you. You don't know. Nini umefanya makwasa. Una shanga ehe. So I think that way waking up to bad bad bad day starts in the morning. It starts in the morning. So klaxon, what do you say about this? You know being a teacher. Yes. Umetoka umetoka maybe you have had a quarrel with your wife. You are meeting your pupils. You know teachers are not isolated cases of personalities and they are all human being. In one way or the other we do have our side falls. But now what matters is how you carry out. You may get yourself in such circumstances but how do you carry yourself? Because one, the person that you are pouring the anger to did not commit any crime. Had no any effect over what happened. That is unfortunate. It is unfortunate. So you shouldn't pour out. So now the question I'm asking you guys. Do you think people who wake up in silence. Otaki kelele, is it okay? Should that be a morning routine for someone? Is that a healthy morning routine? We are social human beings. And I don't subscribe to such kind of thought. Because one, you can't just wake up.  But you don't want to interact with anyone. That is not good. Because we have to socialize. We have to interact. As much as we are interacting, there must be bounds. Okay. But it's not like this person is not a social person.  Some people say I'm not a morning person. They want their space. They want to meditate. They just want their space. So it's that bad really. What do you think of this? I tend not to believe people who wake up in silence. Because actually burning inside in silence is probably the worst day of all. I am still disagreeing because you're not burning in silence. It's just you.  And then after maybe you're ready. You're prepared. After maybe two hours in, uko saha umneza cheka chekana. So what do you think of your space? You know, such people are there within our society. We do normally interact with them. Maybe you go to these public offices. You get all your bang in an office. And someone is moodless. You have gone there to get service. It is morning eight in the morning. And someone has just flown. You had nothing to what is happening to her or him. You're getting it. But this thing is now coming on your way. How do you do? Yes, because one, the person is committing something which should not be there. Because as much as you are froning, you want to have your own space. Yes, you can go ahead and have your space. But it should not deter. Or it should not create a boundary between you and others. So if you are in a social space you say that you learn to interact with people. You know how to balance yourself. But kama kwa kwa in the morning you can choose to have your silent time. Okay, that is also because I've also seen some kind of families that you get into their houses. They are just quiet. They are quiet in the morning. They are quiet. In fact, they are much comfortable. They don't see something is wrong. Someone has come in their house. It is okay with them. But it is a scene it is something which is not morally acceptable. Because how come?  Okay, I'm from this and this. Blab, blab, all those. Then the end of the story. It is not a good scene. Jan, you want to say something about that before I go to the comment? I want to disagree with the klaxon. Because you know actually that this group of people who tend to come to your house early in the morning very early in the morning. Even before you plan your day, check your emails, plan your to-do list or so. They just woken up, come to sit on your house. Why? Actually mostly you find them back at home rural areas because they come just to idle maybe to chill. They want at the end of the day. But the breakfast, you come, you know. So people should stop such habits. But anyway, the bottom line is as much as you are entitled to your right, that is yours. And as much as you are doing it, if you will not create a conflict between you and others, you get in it. That is the bottom line. So we get your point. So let's check what the guys are saying in the socials. We have Elisa Steve saying yawning, sit-ups, thanksgiving. Ii to Leona, alia in the morning. Ii o ikosawa pia. We have Fazili. Atumani say we always pray when we wake up we give glory to God. We anagri with the klaxon, of course. Waking up with God and setting your day. King Superman Simba nasama, thank God. Okay. Just okay, he says immediately na pe ga blanketi na kutoka kwa kitanda. Puna wala wana ruka kwa kutoka bed, wumisumu na making a bed. Puna wala wana kutoka bed. Yo bedi taji paga later on. Ghazma na nasama backup. In the morning. Okay. We have Antonio music head nasama na washa wufa. Yasayona volume yote na tiza mangoma zikona joto na masama jirani masaya zakute seka imefika. Aoni wala kusumbawa. Antonio kwa mpole. Kijana mamama nasama to switch on my data to see what is new on social media. Okay, so to what Kijana is saying punatu na mkaga na social media in the morning. Is it a healthy habit to have, you know, in relation to habits of the successful? No, actually I tend to think not. Because when you just wake up turn on your data or your wifi start checking WhatsApp messages actually that will waste most of your time in the morning. Because I tend to think you should wake up maybe check your emails what you are supposed to do during that day. Than just waking up to you know, when you log into WhatsApp you will not spend some few minutes or so messages will start streaming in. Is it a idea? Is it a idea? No, then you just even when you had an appointment maybe at 8 am you find out that it has reached 8 am you are not yet planned. Then you just be confused actually. Yes, we actually had someone you know, put us in your comments he says I think coming or getting into social media in the morning hours depends on how you have program yourself. For example in my case as soon as I wake up in the morning after having that benediction prayer with your almighty God then I rush to bathroom to make sure after which I come and take the breakfast then I live immediately. So I don't have that time then if I will have to do it at the work place. At the work place. So social media you don't wake up with it. It only depends on the kind of the schedule of activities that you have. You know you have people who are reporting at 10 so it depends. So if you are reporting for example in my case by 7 I have to be early. Yes, I am in work place at 7. So you have limited time. Okay, so do you think kwa wale wa namkana There are a lot of important emails that you want to carry out in social media? Yes no problem. In such a circumstance that is what he does but it will now force him the social media will determine what because of action is going to take the first activity because there is a certain item which is there he needs to work on it Who is into social media a lot? Is this a bad habit for a person who wants to attain success? Actually it will hinder you from attaining your success because when you get in, you will start now procrastinating your daily routine, you procrastinate your issues and actually you know procrastination is a thief of success so actually you will not be successful obvious because you will start procrastinating because you want to see more on your social media you want to stream more, you watch more Let me ask you another question so you have talked about setting goals so should one set goals that morning or should one set their goals for the next day the previous night so that I wake up I leave my morning stress free I know what I already want to do so like that night, your evening na andika vitunatak wachiv I have to do this, I have to do this so I have my to-do list so which way is better? So it depends on the jurisdictions of one who is each person of area of specialization one we have in my case we have what to achieve on a weekly basis on a daily basis so as soon as I wake up I know okay this week this is what I have to do it has been subdivided into daily activities so I simply know today this is what is going to happen so that's why I'm saying it depends on what you are doing it will determine on how you are going to set up your goals but before let's say you wake up first you must have considered that probably you should have enough rest the previous night so that when you wake up


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What's the word, y'all? The Devin Nuggets are going to the NBA Finals, man. What a story, I'm super excited for them. Now, of course, we've known that they were gonna go to the NBA Finals after they went up 3-0 a couple days ago because no team in history has come back from a 3-0 deficit. Even though there was a moment in the post-game after game three, where LeBron was com cool, collected when asked about potentially making history again because of course he was the first person, he was a part of the team, the first team to come back down 3-1 in the NBA Finals and was very reminiscent of the 1. Interview where he had the shades and it said, no team in history has come back down 3-1. That he felt good about it? Yeah, nah, nah, there was not a lot that I looked at in those first three games that made me think that the Lakers had a chance to win four in the row against this dominant Devin Nuggets team and I didn't know if it was gonna be a four or five or six or seven, but I definitely knew that they was gonna win this series and they got it done in just four. This has been an extremely dominant run from the Devin Nuggets. First round was what it is. I told them in these videos that the playoffs don't start for the Devin Nuggets till they get to the second round because we got respect for Anthony Atwoodson, all these duels, but the most they're gonna take was one and they took one. In the second round, I think it was kind of split. A lot of people believed that the Phoenix Suns had enough to win the series. I personally picked the Phoenix Suns. I saw some comments on yesterday's video when I admitted to the fact that I picked against the Miami Heat, not when any ill will involve but I just thought that the other teams were better and of course I've been wronged on that tip. And there was comments like, you couldn't pay me to admit that I was wrong three times in a row, but this is what we do around here. We talk ball, we try to give logical answers and sometimes those logical answers don't end up a reality, it is what it is. So I picked the Phoenix Suns because I thought that Kevin Arendt and Devin Booker were gonna be good enough to do a lot of the stuff. We also saw Chris Paul go down. I don't think Chris Paul would have changed the series too much, but for the most part in that series, the Devin Nuggets coasted as well. Now you do have the two games in Phoenix where Devin Booker didn't miss a shot, but as long as Devin Booker was a human being and not a cyborg, they did what they were supposed to do. And now they get to the conference finals where they go against the Lakers to one of the greatest stories in basketball. They're one of the worst teams in their conference through the first 12 or so games. They make some big moves to the bet line and they went from a team that nobody had a lot of hope in after they started off two and 10 to beating the defending champions in the series and then get into the NBA finals. Like that team, that Lakers team was good. You know what I'm saying? Like we might look back on history and say, oh, it was a furrow sweep. That's not it. No, the Lakers were a good team, but the Devin Nuggets were just better. Before we talk more about this series and the Devin Nuggets and the Lakers, I do wanna let you know in about 24 hours, I have a drop when it's my enjoying basketball brand and icy dog. When I was a kid, you could not keep me away from icy, bro. And to be here, to have a collaboration with them is crazy. In about 24 hours, this ball is dropping and it's about as clean as can be. Even got my ciggy down here. This is actually the best version of my signature. If you got something signed by me today, it looks nothing like this because I'd be speeding through, but I wanted to make sure it was perfect. We got the ball. We got the cups. We got the cups. And we also got tee shirts and hoodies. So I'm just giving you a 24 hour heads up around this time tomorrow. They will be live and they are limited as all of our drops are. Shout out to icy, shout out to y'all because they wouldn't be interested in any of the stuff if y'all then sell out the last couple drops. So thank you for that. But be on the lookout in 24 hours. The Denver Nuggets are a great story, man. No matter what. Again, the Lakers were too, but the Denver Nuggets are definitely a good story because this is a team that has drafted well throughout the years, made timely trades, and they made great acquisitions through free agency. For the Aaron Gordon trade was dope. When Aaron Gordon got traded to the Denver Nuggets, he played like, I don't know, four or five games. And then Jamal Murray tore his Achilles ACI. All of those leg injuries looked the same to me. I don't remember what it was. And of course, when he went down, the championship odds went out the window with them. But in those small amount of games where you had Yokech and Aaron Gordon and Jamal Murray, they were dominant on both sides of the ball. You could see the vision for this team to be good. And if Jamal Murray didn't get injured, they might've made this one two years ago. But boom, Jamal Murray gets injured. And Yokech said, all right, I'm gonna thug it out with Campazo as my starting point guard. I'm a winning MVP and I'm gonna get to the playoffs regardless of our team not being very good. And I'll never forget this series because this series corresponded from when my daughter was born. So I remember being in the delivery room, watching Warriors versus different nuggets. And then after my daughter was born, SportsCenters on TV or one of those talk of head shows and they were talking about how difficult it would be for a team that Nikola Yokech is the starting center of to make a deep, deep playoff run as far as championships because his inability to garden space when you go against so many players that would want to bring him out and try to ice on him. That's the real Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors. They really did that to Yokech last year. But again, what was this starting line up? You know what I'm saying? It's a lot tougher to win series when you don't have your second best player and your fourth best player on the roster with you. But either way, there's real conversations about that. And again, I'll never, never forget it. So to see in 2023, Yokech have three straight series where there wasn't a second that I was watching them and it's thinking that they might be better defensively with Yokech off the floor. Like the Warriors putting him in a high pick and roll Steph Curry killed him on the ice. So they were just very cerebral. Obviously the Warriors went on to win the championship and they deserved that because they were just picking apart everybody. But they genuinely made Yokech look like a terrible defender. And if you've been watching Yokech for the last couple of seasons, you know that Yokech is not obviously the best defender in the world. He's not the best defensive center in the world but he has been a good defensive player for a few years now. But you've got to think about it. Some of these people that are watching basketball, they only really watched the moments that mattered the most was the playoff. So some of those people didn't even recognize that Yokech is a good defender in the regular season because once he got down to the nitty gritty in the seven game series, he got exposed. And the first round he went against Anthony Edwards, not a problem. And the second round he went against Kevin DeRent and Devon Booker. And though again Devon Booker didn't miss a shot for two straight games, Nicole Yokech is defensively held it down. And then this one against Anthony Davis, against LeBron James and against some of these other weapons, not a moment. Not one singular moment. So the narrative is completely dead. It's gone. And I love, I absolutely love when a negative narrative is just obliterated like that. You win a championship with Yokech as your center because the defense, man, cut it out. I talked about it a few weeks ago that if we are saying that Yanis is no longer the best player in ball because they got eliminated by AFC, whatever, whatever. Yokech is the best player at ball, man. You saw it again today. He hit the shot that eventually ended up winning the game, but he had the one jump shot. The shot clock is winding down. The Lakers are again, when the Lakers blew a big, big lead. And we're gonna talk about the Lakers, but I want to just praise the Denver Nuggets for a couple more minutes. The offense that was stagnant for the Denver Nuggets late in this game and Nicole Yokech had to throw up an absolute prayer and it fell in. And I feel like I've seen him throw up that absolute prayer a couple different times and this series is low. Now none of them were bigger than this in the fourth quarter and the game four to win the game. But like, you know, you had the one on Anthony Davis a few games ago where Anthony Davis had to put his head down and just smiled at the idea that Yokech hit that shot. Like he, give it to him with two seconds to go. He gonna make something happen on more times than not. But obviously it's not a one-man show because it feels a one-man show. They might've got business done last year against the Warriors. So now we have Jamal Murray back on this game. And in the playoffs, Jamal Murray is one of those dudes. You know what I'm saying? We talk about payoff P, even at this point, that's got different connotation. Jimmy Butler, Kawhi Leonard, these players that like in the regular season, obviously are very, very great. But once the lights are bright and they're in the playoffs, they improve their game. Jamal Murray is dead as well. And throughout the series, you saw that there were genuine times when Jamal Murray was unguardable in this series, man. And everything was going so great that they had the Lakers just tried to find a recipe. Tristan Thompson today? Tristan Thompson, not on the Tristan Thompson play. He had a couple of minutes that looked pretty good. But they called a post up for Tristan Thompson in 2023 in a game that you needed to win. They did that because Darvin Hammond and them didn't know what to do because they were just struggling to get stops. And then eventually they were struggling to score as well. And that's when the Nuggets went in that big run in the third quarter and it was no looking back. Aaron Gordon had missed every single three-point shot in the first three games of the series. And then tonight, he had three of five. I even think he hit one where his toe was on the line. So it almost was four made threes tonight. KCP was crucial. My boy might be watching all of the Lakers games on Twitch and every time KCP hit a shot, they were saying, he know these rams because of course he won the championship with the Lakers back in 2020, was that that long ago? This seemed drafted amazingly. Obviously drafting the two-time MVP, maybe greatest player in the world. And the second round was at a Taco Bell Subway commercial, one of those. They drafted Jamal Murray when they did. They drafted Michael Porter, Jr., even though he had the back issues and he fell all the way late in the lottery. That's three players that you drafted that are great. And then you also make timely and crucial trades. The Aaron Gordon trade, again, is magnificent work. The KCP for Monte Morse trade was one of the most underrated trades of all of the year. And I called it out at the time that Contagious Carwell Pope is the prototypical shooter guard.  He's a 40% three-point shooter. And he also guards up. He is the prototypical shooter guard you want to put in the Cole Yolkets because he's not just a spot of do. He will run all around if you need him to. They're picking up Bruce Brown for what you did. Bruce Brown is one of the best contracts in basketball. So you have an MVP, one of the best players in the world. You have good management. You have good coaching in Mike Malone. That is a recipe for a championship appearance. And so far, they got that. Even Christian Brown, who didn't play tonight, good draft pick, at least that's what it seems like for his rookie season. And this team plays with that chip. If you watch it in the interviews for coach Michael Malone, like he is really upset about what the narrative is around him and his team, especially in this series versus the Lakers because the Lakers are the Lakers, right? They were the most talked about team of basketball because not only are they in Los Angeles, one of the biggest markets, but they also have one of the greatest players of all time suited up on a team. So in game one after the different nuggets won, the conversation about, oh, we really had more was guarding the Cole Yolkets and it looked kind of good. Even I was talking about that on this channel because for like a four minute stretch, it seemed like the Lakers might have found a little bit of a thing. And then they tried to go back to that thing. Didn't market's good, the rest of the way. So Mike Malone was really upset about the narrative not being about how great we are, how much we do. It was more about what the Lakers aren't doing and how they can get better. They did the thing and I'm excited about it.  So we'll see exactly how this is gonna go. But again, we might have a week before game one of the finals and now. So we got a lot of time to start thinking about who's gonna win and what is gonna do. But to see Mike Malone are exposed or potentially going against each other in the finals should be fun, even though Spose got the advantage. But that don't mean Mike Malone ain't great. On the Lakers side of things, this was something to see LeBron James do what he did in that first half. There was a lot of hope for Lakers fans that this was gonna be the game that they take. And we just take a game by game, take a game by game, we take this one, we go to the Malhass City, maybe we still win at ball arena. You know, we right back into this series. LeBron had an amazing first half. There's the most points he scored in the first half. Maybe ever? I don't know, I think I saw a graph. It might have been ever if it wasn't ever in the long time. AD ended up with 24-14. A lot of those ended up being like in the fourth quarter. So, but the first three quarters, it felt like Anthony Davis was kind of sleepwalking through this one. And it started to gauge how to feel about the Lakers right now. You know what I'm saying? Whenever you have a 37, 38 year old superstar player that is of course aging and maybe showing a little bit of his age, the objective is basically championship or bust. And it was something we talked about months ago before Rob Hulink made those trades where he's like, man, Rob Hulink and him owe it to LeBron James to give him a roster that's competent enough to compete. And he did. The Rihachi War trade looks really good. The Angelo Russo trade looks maybe better a week ago than it did now. But it's better than what you were getting with Russo Westbrook on the roster. And that's not a shot at Russo Westbrook, but objectively, the team looked better once they added a little bit more spacing. So the trades that he ended up doing ended up helping the Lakers get to the Conference Finals after a slow run, but it is also championship or bust. So was this successful? Was this a failure of a season? I can't really call it. I guess it's all up to interpretation. Now this off-season gets really interesting because there's a lot of buzz through the first month and a half of the Angelo Russo being on the team about how excited they were to bring the Angelo Russo back because again, Angelo Russo was doing good stuff for them for the majority of these things. But we just saw in the series, well, sometimes it's hard for him to play at all. So from my understanding, it's only Anthony Davis, it's LeBron James, it's Jere Vanderbilt and Max Christie. Those are the only people that have guaranteed contracts for next season. And I read somewhere this morning that if everything breaks perfectly, and that means renouncing the rights of the Angelo Russo and potentially moving out of Jere Vanderbilt, that they can open up a space for about $35 million. And though $35 million is not a max contract, it's a really good number if you want to bring in a third star. But do you want to bring in a third star or do you want to continue to build the roster with the idea of depth? Because if you commit that $35 million to a third star, now you sign a minimum players for the rest of the way. And again, that hasn't been a recipe for success in this Lakers regime. Austin Reeves is about to get a ridiculous offer from some team. I don't know what team that is. It might be the Charlotte Hornets, it might be one of these younger teams that could just use good bodies, but he's got to get paid, you know what I'm saying? And the Lakers have the opportunity to match that contract, but he's about to get paid. And for good reason, he's a really, really good basketball player. But like now you look at some of those pieces from the big trade, the D'Angelo Russell, the Jair Vanderbilt, the Malik Beasley, none of those people in this series specifically made a positive impact on it. So should you feel attached to those dudes? Even though on the regular season, they were crucial to the turning of your season. I've only got a lot of the sense to make, man. I don't envy that man at all. Actually, I don't envy nobody in a front office job because if you mess up, it makes what is on your head, you know what I'm saying? They on your head. So I think I'm going to end it right there. Again, we got a week to start thinking about the matchup and everything. So I will take some of that time. I also have another channel named Hint of Hoops. I will put the link in the description. Why did I create another channel? Just the, I don't want to say troll, but sometimes I'd be looking for a way to talk about basketball in a creative way or do videos creatively about basketball that don't fit on any of my channels. And that's going to be it. I made a video where I watched every single Michael K. Gilchrist jump shot. That's fun. I made a video about the time that Bismek Beyond Boatrick, the team, to giving him almost $80 million. That was fun. And I made another video about Kevin Knox in Fortnite. I don't know. I got a list of fun videos that are going to be five minutes or less. And that is Hint of Hoops. I'll put it in the description if you're interested. Yeah.


No money spent no money spent no money spent one day a week. That's what we're gonna do We're gonna play no money spent. I have not bought anything on the tag. No level packs. No legend packs nothing zero dollars are on this team I'm only gonna play on Mondays and weekend league. That's it and we're gonna try to have a competitive team I'm not gonna play any solos. All I did was do the kickoff to get to level 50 that I showed you guys No solos no draft champions straight head to head one day a week So a little bit of time put in the game just the weekend league and we try to build this team So I hope you guys are like that man This was my second stream of no money spent man if you guys want to watch these games They're absolutely pure entertainment twitch.tv slash dub dot you guys know that link is below now. I'll be honest It's rough.   I last stream I was 10 and 5 this stream. I believe I was 8 and 2 this stream. It was great I got a bunch of highlights to show you guys But let's take a look at how I improved my team and if you guys don't remember what my team was those last couple videos I'm gonna keep these all in a playlist so you guys can watch my team But let's go ahead and get into how I improved the team and I use the team builders The team builders are the best sets the best cards you can add if you're going to be a budget team I know you guys heard me praise Jerry Judy and you're gonna see in these highlights that he's pretty much The best budget card in the game bar none. He's amazing But let's go ahead and see what I did now defense We're pretty similar to how we were we really didn't change anything the main thing I did I Identified one defensive formation. I feel like kind of like salary cap playing salary cap It's easier when you only got to buy 11 players. Now if you run multiple defenses 34 dollar Nickel now you have to get you know, 60 bees for linebackers You had to add so many more people now. I kind of just said, you know what? I'm gonna find it in between defense. We're just gonna run nickel that way. We need no linebackers Really, we're gonna use all safeties and corners So we're gonna use what six seven safeties and corners and then we're gonna use for alignment now I'm using nickel normal if you guys want this defense man Madden turf comm this e-book will be out really soon If you have the VIP membership you guys will have access to that for sure But I find a way to get my defensive ends at the tackle and my linebackers at the end So I have I have TJ Watt. I have Bradley Chubb. They're gonna play Defensive and for me and then we're gonna have Montez sweat and the free the markers Lawrence that we got They're gonna play the tackle for me Then we're gonna have an outside shell of Dante Jackson and Denzel Ward Both of which are pretty tough for budget squad very very fast and they hold it down against the fastest Tyree kills anybody out there. We're gonna have Justin Reed Who is just barely fast enough solid player and we have Darnell Savage who was fast enough But honestly is he's a 75 overall for a reason he looks like he's never played football when he's on the field So Sometimes I think maybe I should get somebody like a McCordy who might be a little bit slower But can also play some zones or something like that. So he doesn't just get thrown at all day And then in the slot we're gonna keep this free Patrick Peterson now. He's a dog You know, he's my favorite corner and Madden, but he's gonna play the slot So we don't have to worry too much about him being 84 speed and he's gonna make some plays And user we have Troy Apke and we also have on The number one user that I have and you're gonna see make some plays is the base Isaiah Simmons Not the good one just the rookie card 76 overall. I think 84 speed Not fast. He's still tall.  He's still dumb. It's rough I did pick up Grant Delpit and you see I have 41,000 coins. That's probably enough to get another team builder I did not play a game yet with Grant Delpit. I'm gonna probably put him a user I'm looking to get Edmunds and Jeremy Chin as well These team builders can really build your team But let's take a look at the offense because that's where I put all my effort in last night During, you know, this six-hour stream. I I added so many pieces before before I just had Rugs I had Lamar Miller running back and I had Evan Ingram at tight end after this stream I wound up upgrading to cam acres at running back another team builder Absolute stud if you guys don't have him you're struggling and running back And you don't want to spend 300 K for work done or a million for Barry Sanders cam acres is your guy He he just his agile. He's fast. I can't say enough about how good he is John O'smith The fastest tight end in the game Once again, I mean, I honestly feel like Finley's one of the best cards in the game But if you don't have Finley John O'smith is the next card and then I got Tyler Lockett I have the full Tyler Lockett. How did I get the full Tyler Lockett? It cost me about 300 training and two of my power-up passes But I was able to get the full Tyler Lockett and we take a look at the full Tyler Lockett He's sitting here at 89 speed 89 speed for a card actually really good route running You know, he's agile after the catch So if I put him with Jerry Judy and Ed McCaffrey, I think that's a three solid wide receivers Now all these cards aren't in the game at the same time, you know I built these cards up game after game But I said and I'll show you guys the team builder set the team builder set honestly I mean if you guys are playing some type of Some type of budget team or some type of trying to save coins or make coins or anything like that I feel like it is the best set in the game for making coins for me We could team infinity we go right here team builders Series and we go this team builder you get 84 overall man So you're gonna get six golds 77 to 79 and two low elites if you can get the six golds for 3k Right then then you're looking at what 18,000 for the golds and then each of each of the elites could be 10k So that's 20,000. So for a cool 38k you can get one of these 84 overalls John New Smith Cam Acres Jerry Judy Grant Delpit. You can get AJ Torrell from the Falcons Trey Wayne's is another great option Jeremy Chen this safety from the Panthers is another one that's on my radar So if you're struggling to make coins if you're if you're trying to find new players for your team And you don't want to spend money and you don't want to grind solos This is a great way to add these cards and they made a huge impact on my team. I got showed you guys man Jerry Judy. I honestly I want to put him on my main team. He's been that good But I will show you guys man It is definitely tough to play these games with this low team and part of it It's a pet peeve of mine a lot of my friends growing up man Or that I played Madden with for the last 15 years are kind of out of man because they think it costs too much money One it does cost money, you know, it does and but it also costs a lot of time And honestly if you're not willing to put in the time or the money I don't think you should be able to compete on the highest level You know, I think it's got to be one or the other and this team I'm actually not putting up either not no money and really not a lot of time And I want to show that it's able to be done. If you if you're really good enough at the game, you know And I think that's a big thing I want to show everybody that that you can compete without spending a dime or without having 15 hours to play Every single day and that that's one of my one of my goals with this series I hope you guys are liking it hit the like button Let's get into some of these highlights for the stream if you guys missed no money Monday's All right first game of the day we hold my man to a fourth down We're down by seven got to make a play got to get off the field and my man right here Darnell Savage comes up with a huge pick and man coverage We are down by seven and I'll tell you the good thing about no money Monday I'm in a hell game with everybody so make sure you guys tune in I'm on a money drive now have to make a play and we find that man Jerry Judy right up the middle of the field Touchdown we tied the game up with the rookie out of Alabama now We got to hold my man right here We got to hold him back and I would be honest stopping the run with these bad linebackers and bad the lineman is rough And that's what he goes through a little bit of inside zone picks up a couple yards nothing crazy But he's getting 10 yards to carry next play dumps it off to the running back I got to keep him out of field goal range right here. He hits me with the no huddle gets to the line I'm worried about the inside zone and he goes ahead and he hits this little pass play But he hits a play action. I bite on he hits over top the kiddle in the field goal range So we got to see if he cares about ice I mean this guy is not going to hit a ice field goal, you know a 47 yard ice field goal, but He does and we lose the first game of no money spent Monday But we've been down before we step back up next game My man isaac Simmons that rookie card gets a huge interception early in the second quarter Takes this one to the crib 84 speed isaac Simmons. He's a budget player Not very good, but you see him here again huge play right there isaac Simmons I wish I had the real one on my team on my budget team might be a goal for me down the line We're winning this game by a cool 12 points and then jamar taylor the rookie out of indianapolis Taking one to the Baja to seal the victory right here But that's why I picked up acres before this game I had lamar miller and that jamar taylor and here we see him a little roll out in the next game That's that speed that darnel savage, man. He's not the best in coverage But makes a huge play right there Uh gets it done gets me the ball back evan ingram and tight end breaks a tackle right there But fumbles to the crib and after that play Jono smith was picked up Pretty much after this game because I need a better tight end to make some plays But here we go with edmond calfrey tying the ball game up big body slot receiver touchdown Great player.  It's looking rough. Um Like I said, they only show kickoff for two reasons. So either a good thing or a bad thing and for me This here was a bad thing as he's going to take this to the crib with tyreek hill and nobody on my team is in the screen Um, that's a bad thing tyreek hill this tyreek hill is a little bit too fast for me So we're down by 14 got to make some plays.  This card is insane I'm telling you i'm going to put him on my real team have to hold this guy out of the end zone right here Get him to a fourth and 30 he goes up top Denzel ward you're not going to get behind that guy pick to seal that game Get into the next game. We're down by seven early. Who else is going to catch a touchdown for me? But jerry judy again rpo this time the rugs To the end zone that's that speed, but he's been replaced by tyler lockett We give up an inside zone for this man to take the lead right here, but we got to get down We're going to go ahead and find jerry judy right there It looks like he kind of let me score to give him a chance to get the ball back And he's going to run a little inside zone as we see simmons holding him up right there Um got to make a play in the secondary throws the kiddo right down a little bit slow I don't have a 90 speed user a 92 speed release gets a spike no time left on the clock 17 seconds He throws the out route we're playing really passive prevent defense prevents you from winning sometimes as he has 12 seconds left in the game. He's going to throw it underneath right here to heath miller I click on make sure nobody you're not getting outside gg's games over we win that one next game We're going to get into this one. Uh, this guy actually had five Oh line chem so I was a little bit scared right here as we hit the c-route over here to rugs Inside inside the five-yard line read option inside the end zone goals lamar jackson as we take a lead here 14 to 10 get a ball to cam acres inside the two minute warning. He's going to seal this victory for me I get this when it was pretty easy now We're in the playoffs my first playoff game with this team camp acres getting outside touchdown early We take a seven nothing lead uh, and right here we're going to give up a Angle route to the running back cam acres and denzel ward I love you buddy, but you've got to make that tackle and justin reed. You just don't have the speed To catch cam acres he scores a touchdown at when this one He's going to take off with lamar and we're getting blocked by wide receivers And we get just justin reed gets juked and we cannot catch Lamar jackson another huge touchdown We're down by three got to make some plays here before the half who else but jerry Judy i'm telling you if you guys watch this and you don't have this man You are tripping even if he's a backup on your team. He has to be somewhere Right here. We're up by four He's going to roll out hit a throw on the run in the back of the end zone to mark clayton touchdown I'm down by three. He actually is going to go for a fake here for some reason. He's insane So now i'm only down by two perfect time to waste four minutes Run the clock and kick a field goal. That's what we're going to try to do here We're going to try to establish some clock We're going to try to you know milk this down So we kick a game winning field goal because he went for that fake questionable decision But we got to take advantage of him make the mistakes lamar out of the pocket ed McCaffrey big ed with a huge that gain We're close to field goal range now read option and grady. Jared just disengaged Oh, that was almost a touchdown right there. Once again, we're going to hit cam acres underneath I told you man that guy gets busy two minute warning third and three We're going to run a read option and we get to a fourth down Got to go for it. We're not kicking now. We see man covers. We're at the line. He's going to bring a blitz I see that as the offensive mind. I am max protect motion out jerry judy. We see him on the right side We're going to go to our new acquisition tyler locking and boop Fourth down. This is how we lose the game In the playoffs just like that I mean that happens, you know, it's obviously I've done that route a million times and that's a rare occurrence Sucks it was in the playoffs. Um, but tyler locket has been balling. I've only played I think two games with him He's been really good, but jerry judy. I'm I can't tell you guys enough about how good this card is So if you don't have him on your team, please add it man If there's any players you guys think I should add to the no money squad on no money spent squad Please let me know in the comments, man. I hope you guys are really liking this series It has been a struggle, but it's a blast trying to play with a budget squad


So, and the Lord Vaknin said, I have surely seen the affliction of my viewers, which are in Egypt, and in other member countries of the United Nations, and I have heard their cry by reason of their addiction to my videos, for I know their sorrows and my need for narcissistic supply. Exodus chapter 3 verse 7 Hello, guys and gaiets! Welcome, girls and girlettes, to my YouTube channel, where stand-up comedy is made sit-down tragedy. Nicolo Machiavelli was born today. I mean, not today, but in 1469, when I was still in my infancy, May 3rd, to be precise, and Machiavelli lent his name to Machiavellianism. Machiavellianism is one of the traits of the dark triad, together with subclinical narcissism and subclinical psychopathy. Narcissism and psychopathy cannot be diagnosed, but the features are there. So, from Machiavelli to a feature of many mental health disorders, over-perception. And about over-perception, my name is Samvaknin, I'm the author of Malignan self-love, Narcissism Revisited, and I'm a former visiting professor of psychology and a very current professor of finance. Now, this video, like everything Jewish, is divided in three parts. The first part is behind you. Phew, what a relief, the introduction.  And the third part, we're going to discuss the clinical and theoretical underpinnings of perception biases, cognitive biases, and cognitive distortions. So the third part of the video is highly academic, but still could be of interest to you. The second part is more kind of self-help-ish, and the first part is best-forgotten. Okay, shoshanim, shpanpanim, pashoshim, palpavim, palpavot, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, let's delve right in. And no, I'm not talking about six. Over-perception. Over-perception is when we mis-perceive another person's emotions, cognitions, behaviors, traits, propensities, and more generally, the solality. But we mis-perceive by exaggerating, mis-perceive by hyperbole. So over-perception is, in layman's terms, exaggerating someone else's motivations, intentions, wishes, fears, qualities and traits, personality, behaviors, et cetera, et cetera. Now, over-perception is very strange. It's a strange animal because it misleads us. And according to evolutionary psychology, anything that misleads us should have vanished a long time ago, otherwise we would not have survived. And yet over-perception is still there, very much there. Why is that? We're going to discuss it in the third part of the video. But first, let's go on a grand tour of over-perceptions. Over-perception is a cognitive bias. And we start with the most famous over-perception known as sexual over-perception. It is unique to men. Sexual over-perception simply means that when a woman is kind to a man, when a woman smiles at a man, when a woman gives a man a compliment, when a woman agrees with a man enthusiastically and overtly, the man is very likely to believe that she's coming onto him. Men interpret female behaviors as invitations to have sex, to copulate. But this is known as sexual over-perception. And it gives rise to many sexual assaults and many misunderstanding in the bedroom and outside the bedroom. Over-perception, sexual over-perception is unique to men. And women have the exact opposite.  They tend to believe that men are not interested in them. They have problematic body self-image. They have a somatiform disorder. Women tend to devalue themselves, especially when it comes to looks and appearances in general attractiveness and sex appeal.  Even when men are interested in them, disinformation takes a lot of time to trickle down. Pardon the pun. And men are exactly the opposite.  Get your minds out of the gutter right now. This is a lecture in P, psychology, not P, pornography. Sexual over-perception is very famous. Google it and you'll find many articles, many analyses, et cetera, et cetera. So I won't dwell on it. I suggest a host of other over-perceptions. Start with intimacy over-perception. Intimacy over-perception is when gestures of kindness, affection, affection, compassion, attention are perceived as falling in love. People with this trionic personality disorder, they suffer from intimacy over-perception. They misjudge the depth and the intensity of their usually casual relationships. They think that the counterparty is in love with them. They believe that a relationship they're having is very deep and low-blasting and would lead to an eternal union. This is very common in histrionic personality disorder. It's very so common that it is one of the diagnostic criteria. Intimacy over-perception leads to bitter disappointments, anger and vindictiveness in women who are histrionic. Now histrionic personality disorder is highly comorbid with borderline personality disorder and with psychopathy, with antisocial personality disorder. And that's a very toxic, dangerous cocktail. The histrionic woman misperceives the level of intimacy in a relationship. She attributes much more intimacy to the relationship than there actually is. Or she attributes intimacy to the relationship when there is none. For example, after a night of casual sex, you remember the movie, Fatal Attraction? And so when she discovers that this is not the case, that the intimacy is either gone or has never been there, she becomes very bitter, furious, disappointed, vindictive. And then her borderline traits and her psychopathy, secondary or primary, take into action, she becomes a very, very, very dangerous person. So intimacy over-perception. Then we have paranoid ideation. Paranoid ideation or persecutory delusions are effectively a form of over-perception. The paranoid over-perceives the existence of threats in the environment, human and inanimate, but mostly human. In order to feel, in order to gratify his grandiosity, the paranoid renders himself the center of the world, the focus of malign attention, the butt of conspiracies. And then he exaggerates the threats around him real or imagined, anticipated or existent, past, present or future. All these so-called threats, some of them real, most of them are pseudo-threats or quasi-threats or non-threats. All of them are exaggerated, embellished, amplified, magnified, and this is a form of over-perception. The narcissist has multiple, as usual, has multiple forms of over-perception, but I'm going to focus on one, the over-perception of slides, humiliation, insults and shame. The narcissist is sensitized to shame. This is why the narcissist is hyper-vigilant. That's why narcissists have referential ideation. Hyper-vigilance means that the narcissist scans his human environment using cold empathy, reflexive and cognitive empathy. The narcissist scans his human environment for potential humiliation and shame, especially in public. This could lead to modification, so the narcissist is very wary. And so hyper-vigilance emanates from, is founded on, over-perception of slides, insults, humiliation, shame and disgrace.  In this sense, referential ideation is often paranoid. It's often a form of persecutory delusion and it's common in narcissism, over-perception of shame. Similarly, the narcissist over-perceives narcissistic supply. There's an over-perception of the exact opposite of shame. There's an over-perception of glory, of achievements, of accomplishments. The narcissist magnifies and amplifies out of proportion the slightest compliment, the most innocuous agreement to prove to himself that he is God-like, perfect, omniscient, all-knowing and omnipotent, all-powerful. So grandiosity, which is a cognitive distortion, meets narcissistic supply, which is a cognitive bias. It's a pretty unique situation in mental health where bias teams up with distortion to yield over-perception. And the over-perception is intended to reframe and falsify reality in a way that would buttress, uphold and support grandiosity, a grandiose, inflated self-image.  Defense mechanisms do exactly the same. They falsify and reframe reality to render it bearable, palatable and tolerable to prevent egodistony and dissonance, especially cognitive dissonance. Narcissistic supply is a kind of defense intended to support or prevent challenges to grandiosity, which is a cognitive distortion, and this is done via the bias of over-perception. And finally, in borderline personality disorder, there is over-perception of abandonment, and it leads to separation insecurity, a.k.a. colloquially abandonment anxiety or separation anxiety. Borderline over-perceives the potential for abandonment or the reality of abandonment. Similarly, she over-perceives the potential for enmeshment and engulfment, and these twin over-perceptions, abandonment, engulfment, engulfment, abandonment, enmeshment, abandonment, rejection, enmeshment. These twin over-perceptions generate the behavior, the behavior pattern known as approach avoidance, repetition, compulsion, which is very common in borderline personality organization. These are examples of over-perception in mental illness, but we have over-perception in the social sphere as well. I refer you to an article titled Over-perception of Moral Outrage in Online Social Networks in Flays Beliefs about Intergroup Hostility authored, written by William Brady and his colleagues. It was published in Nature Human Behavior this year. And I read the abstract to you. It deals with the way over-perception plays in society and in social interactions among healthy, otherwise healthy people. So this is the abstract. As individuals and political leaders increasingly interact in online social networks, it is important to understand the dynamics of emotion perception online. Here, we propose that social media users over-perceive levels of moral outrage felt by individuals and groups, inflating beliefs about intergroup hostility. Using a Twitter's field survey, we measured authors' moral outrage in real time and compared authors' reports to observers' judgments of the authors' moral outrage. We find that observers systematically over-perceive moral outrage in authors, inferring more intense moral outrage experiences from messages than the authors of those messages actually reported. This effect was stronger in participants who spent more time on social media to learn about politics. Pre-registered confirmatory behavioral experiments found that over-perception of individuals' moral outrage causes over-perception of collective moral outrage and inflates beliefs about hostile communication norms, group-affective polarization, and ideological extremity. Together, these results highlight how individual level over-perceptions of online moral outrage produce collective over-perceptions that have the potential to warp our social knowledge of moral and political attitudes. This is very common in victim-moved movements and I advise you to watch my interviews that I've given and videos that I've made about victim-moved movements and their dynamics. Now, the whole issue of perception cognitive biases, one of which is over-perception bias, it's part of what is called error management theory, EMT. It's a very extensive theory. The first writings in this field of error management theory were by David Bass and Marty Hazelton. These two scholars set out to study how humans think, how they make decisions using biases and heuristics, rules of thumb, rather than rational processes. They discovered that thinking and decision-making are actually founded on many biases. And then, in Israeli, another Israeli, Daniel Kahneman, an economist, together with his colleague Tversky, another Israeli, so these two Israelis, they demonstrated that cognitive errors, psychological cognitive errors, underlie economic decision-making. And this became a whole field known as behavioral economics. Cognitive biases in error management theory refer to biases and heuristics that have survived over time, so they must have some adaptive value. There must be a reason for them to exist. And the initial belief was that cognitive biases and heuristics help you to reproduce. In other words, they guarantee reproductive success. The more biased you are, the more you rely on rules of thumb, the more, somehow, mysteriously, children you're going to have. Now, the connection is not exactly clear, unless, of course, you assume that intimate partners, most notably women, are very irrational creatures, so there's a bit of gender bias in all this very early thinking in psychology. I love wine, I don't know whether you have noticed. Cognitive bias is systematic, it's a pattern, it's not a one-off, it's not a reactive event, it's a way of thinking, an ossified way of thinking. It deviates from norms, and it deviates from rationality, rational judgment. Cognitive biases are forms of subjective reality, kind of a paracosm, virtual reality, and that's why narcissists are very, very prone to cognitive biases, because they live in fantasy land. Narcissism is fantasy defense, gun or eye, and writ large. Individual's construction of reality is not based on objective input. It doesn't dictate, objective input doesn't dictate behavior in the world. That's a myth, we are not rational creatures. This is why if you lack empathy, you are disadvantaged, you're seriously disadvantaged, because you are likely to misjudge other people and reality at large. A lack of empathy undermines reality testing, impairs it dramatically, prevents perspicacity, insight, the ability to predict behaviors, and the construction of effective, efficacious theories of mind. In other words, a lack of empathy predicates, creates a dramatic decline in self-efficacy and the ability to secure positive outcomes in one's environment. We need to be irrational and biased and highly emotional and empathetic in order to survive in a human environment. Those who lack these features, like narcissists, they end badly. And they end badly not necessarily because they are bad people, but they end badly because they can't read other people. They misjudge situations and they end up misbehaving badly. So cognitive biases, even though they lead to perceptual distortions, inaccurate judgments, illogical interpretations, irrationality overall, cognitive biases, when coupled with emotions, which they usually are, are actually very, very useful. And that's why they have survived the evolutionary hatchet. So cognitive biases on the surface appear negative, and the very word bias creates a negative bias in us. When you hear cognitive bias, eh, bias is bad, bias is wrong. But they're not. They're adaptive. They lead to more effective actions in giving context, especially contexts where emotions play a part. And today we know that most people engage in emotional thinking and emotional decision-making. It's seriously bad for you if you are unable to tap your own emotions and if you lack the ability to recognize emotions in others and then resonate with an a.k.a. empathy. Allowing cognitive biases actually was demonstrated in multiple studies that when cognitive biases are in control, your decision-making is faster. And so faster decision-making is crucial in specific situations, in many situations, actually. It was proven conclusively that it's better to make decisions fast than to make the right decisions. And this is known as heuristics rules of thumb. I'm going to repeat this very counter-intuitive statement backed by a vast body of research. If you make decisions fast, you're better off than someone who makes the right decisions, but more slowly. And cognitive biases and heuristics help you to make decisions fast. They accelerate decision-making. Some biases are byproducts of the very limitations of our ability to process information. You know, we can't take in all the information. We can't have a perfect picture. So we need to speculate, we need to fill in the gaps, also known as confabulation. We confabulate all the time. There are no appropriate mental mechanisms which allow us to process 100% of information and fit it into theories impeccably. This whole situation is known as bounded rationality. There are many, many variables of play. Your biological state, your body, your constitution, this is known as a bodied cognition. There's limited capacity of information processing. A typical human being processes between 1 and 5% of the information in the environment. 1 to 5%. So you need to have models that help you to somehow interpolate and extrapolate this very limited information in ways which would make sense, which would be plausible. In the case of the narcissist, the situation is even much worse because of memory gaps and dissociative aspects of his precariously balanced disorganized personality. You can imagine the mess. The narcissist is walking, talking bias. The narcissist is nothing but cognitive distortions. Not only does he absorb only 1 to 5% of the information, but then he goes on to forget most of it, as opposed to healthy or normal people. Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman introduced the concept of cognitive biases in 1972 when they studied people and found out that people are innumerate and illiterate on purpose. They avoid knowledge. And there was an inability to reason intuitively. And so they realized that too much knowledge and too much rationality can be a hindrance. Tversky, Kahneman, others, they demonstrated ways, replicable ways in which human judgments and decisions are completely different to rational choice theory in economics. And they undermined all of economics until that existed until then. They explained human differences in judgment and decision making in terms of rules of thumb, heuristics. Now heuristics are forms of derivatives of intuition. And intuition in the best case is right half the time. It's a best case scenario, usually much less. So heuristics are wrong at least half the time, if not most of the time, in these shortcuts. They provide swift but wrong estimates of the possibility of uncertain occurrences. The compensation is for acting fast. These shortcuts accelerate decision making to the point that the acceleration compensates for the inaccuracy. Heuristics are very simple. The brain processes and computes them very fast. They do introduce severe errors, systematic errors. So the heuristic of representativeness, for example, is defined as the tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood of an occurrence by the extent of which the event resembles a typical case. It's mostly wrong. Most of the times it's wrong. It yields wrong results. Now there have been critiques of Karnaman and Tversky and behavioral economics and bounded rationality and so on and so forth. And they said that heuristics should not lead us to conceive of human thinking as riddled with irrational cognitive biases. They should rather conceive rationality as an adaptive tool, not identical to the rules of formal logic or probability calculus. In other words, some critiques said that we are misperceiving rationality. We are defining it wrongly. Rationality is not logic. Rationality is not probability. Rationality is something else. But this criticism is self-defeating because if rationality is not logic and not probability, then Karnaman and Tversky are right. Then rationality, defined this way, is irrational. A cognitive... So these are cognitive biases. A cognitive distortion is something else. It's the exaggerated or irrational thought pattern involved in the onset or perpetuation of psychopathological states such as depression or anxiety. Cognitive distortions are known in cognitive behavioral therapy as automatic thoughts. Now they are negative automatic thoughts and automatic negative thoughts but they are also automatic positive thoughts, acts. And they are both exaggerated. Both types are exaggerated. Both types are irrational. And both types are attendant on mental states, for example, moods or anxiety or happiness. Cognitive distortions are thoughts that cause individuals to perceive reality inaccurately and this way regulate or affect their internal mental states. Self-states, for example, in my work, self-states are closely associated with particular specific cognitive distortions. According to Aaron Beck's cognitive model, a negative outlook on reality, negative schemas or negative schemata, these negative thoughts, their factors in symptoms, in emotional dysfunction or dysregulation, in poor subjective well-being and so on. Beck said that cognitive distortions actually underlie mental illness. Negative thinking patterns reinforce negative emotions and negative thoughts which in turn create depression and anxiety, which in turn create dysfunction, which in turn create deteriorating self-efficacy, which in turn enhance depression and anxiety, which in turn creates other forms of mental illness or interacts with them. That's the picture. These are the negative aspects of cognitive distortions. Some cognitive distortions are actually positive, grandiosity. Grandiosity is a cognitive distortion and when the narcissist obtains, obtains, over-perceives narcissistic supply, obtains proof that his grandiosity is justified, he feels wonderful, he feels elated. So these are positive, automatic positive thoughts, automatic schemes or schemas, automatic cognitive distortions that help you feel good. The internal regulation for better or for worse does rely on cognitive distortions. So cognitive biases are about the world, refer to the world. Cognitive distortions refer to internal states. And grandiosity or narcissistic supply is an example of a meeting, a confluence between a cognitive bias about other people and the supply or attention they are giving the narcissist and a cognitive distortion what this input, also known as narcissistic supply, does to the narcissist internally, how this input regulates the narcissist's sense of self-worth, self-esteem, self-confidence, mood and so on and so forth. Same with borderline. How it regulates modulability. Borderline also has a false state and also has a shared fantasy. Many respects, borderlines and narcissists are very much the same as Otto Kernberg had observed long before me, unfortunately. The meaning or interpretation that people give to their experience, influence, these influences, how they react and these reactions are what we call mental states. So, if we are hopeless, if we are helpless, and there is, by the way, a hopelessness theory in psychology or a helplessness theory, learned helplessness is part of helplessness theory or hopelessness theory. So, if we are hopeless or if we are helpless, then of course our cognitive distortion will generate moods like mood disorders like depression or anxiety disorders. If, on the other hand, we are divorced from reality, we think we are God-like, then we will be in a state of euphoria rather than dysphoria. The narcissist problem is that he fails to maintain the over-perception bias all the time. So, there is always a grandiosity gap and the narcissist is prone to collapsing. But you have many videos on my channel which deal with collapse. Cognitive behavioral therapy challenges cognitive distortions. And that's why, in my view, it is not fit to treat narcissism. But that's the subject for another day. Okay, my people of Israel, I hope you feel elated after this presentation. 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Hey everyone, happy Monday April 5th here with your day trading recap nice day that nice way to start the week plus 1697 let's go over these. I'll show you what we did Three mighty 90s all three winners booked a winner in Amazon 465 JP Morgan plus 116 Tesla plus 235 and Then the only losing trade I had today was a pairs trade in silver versus gold ended up losing 189 I put this on pre-market. It was before 7 30 a.m. Central and Before the market even closed. I was up about 300 dollars I was thinking about taking it off, but it looked the price action looked like it was gonna continue in my favor Unfortunately, it didn't so I ended up coming down. I ended up just cutting out of it taking the loss So that very well could have been a winner had I taken it off early But it is my one loss of the day and then on the runners three for three as well Boeing plus 420 by Do plus 160 and PLTR plus 490s Let's take a look at these and I'll show you what happened here. Let's start with the mighty 90s and Amazon So Amazon had this big push-up volume right into the pivot. We got short right here Came down. I got out a half on this little push lower Then it kind of chopped around when we finally got we got two barely red bars in a row So I ended up cutting out the rest of it right there Which ended up being a good move because it ended up kind of trailing up from there So following the rules today had a couple of mishaps last week And so I am extremely strict on my rules Going forward. It's kind of been a refocus thought about a lot this weekend And at toward the end of last week. So good stuff there feel good when I do well Book profits and follow the rules all works together All right JP Morgan so JPM JP Morgan financials start off really weak is pushing push and pushing had a nice little pop and volume there as it was Pushing into the unchanged mark got long right here Went down a little bit took a little bit of heat then pop back up got out a half right here I kind of chopped around chopped around. I was looking for two green bars in row So finally I got it here cut out of the rest and booked a small profit. I was really small in there So booked 116 and then Tesla My friend Tesla Gave us a little profit of 235 on this push down. I was looking for Higher volume as it pushed into yesterday's high got long right here Chopped around I was waiting for it to get I was gonna I was gonna scale in I was gonna add down it here at this level It never quite got there So it would have been even better, but it did bounce for me and so on this little push up Cut out of it there for a nice mighty 90 for 235 on to the runners First one in Boeing Boeing was a nice one plus 490 on Boeing So if we take a look here, I had this big big volume spike on the second bar here So we're looking wait for a pullback. I actually on this pullback here just down to yesterday's high Friday's high I got long right here took some heat I didn't like how it kept pushing up and failing trying to get back through there So I didn't add to it. I just held on in fact I was close to bailing right here But it bounced up really quick and then started making some shown some strength came all the way back down I was close to bailing again, and then it really fired up. And so I scaled out of my let's see I I got out of everything except for I held on to one contract here and Gonna kind of chopped around chopped around chopped around I was considering adding but I was good, and then I was patient it kept grinding kept grinding back down to the top of this consolidation area so I did end up adding back in here after we ended the live stream and And just kind of a little pop here and then when it started to fail again I ended up cutting out of the rest here. It's kind of done for the day So it's done. What time was that? Yeah, 11 11 a.m. I was out of everything So nice $420 profit in Boeing in Baidu Took a short runner Baidu has been acting really weak even with the market strong today Baidu was acting weak and so when it bounced up to this unchanged area here Got short kind of chopped around for a couple bars and then flushed lower and got out of my last piece down here So nice trading Baidu just stayed really small there I was kind of already up a lot just trying to take a little more profits out of the market and then PLTR so PLTR This big push up big spike in volume.  I was still holding a quarter Look like it was gonna bounce again, and then it started to fail So I just cut out of the last piece ended up booking a nice profit of 490 So good way to start the week plus 1,697 look to hopefully build on that tomorrow We'll be streaming Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday this week will be offline Friday So we'll look forward to seeing you in the live stream here the next couple days. See ya