Wizard101 has a 13 year old story, so it's about time we go back to the beginning and remember how far we've come. Welcome to the story so far. Arc2 follows Morgenth, a necromancer who was expelled from Ravenwood. She is attempting to become the Shadow Queen, destroying the spiral and making her the sole ruler. Arc2 starts in Celestia, one of the lost worlds of the spiral, sunken below the seas by the Storm Titan. The Spiral Geographic Society is trying to recover the world. We are originally tasked with helping find Thurston Plunkett, a friend of Professor Belstrom and the leader of the expedition. Whilst we are in Celestia we learn a brand new form of magic, Astral Magic. There are trainers located all over the world. We are tasked to restore the Grand Astralab which will open the Trail of Spheres. To fix the Astralab you need three Astral Relics, Sun, Star and Moon. The Star of Celestia is the first relic which is located in the Stellarium in the district of the stars. However to get to the district we must rebuild the teleporter. The pieces are spread out in the Survey Camp and the Grotto. The second relic, the Moon of Celestia is in the Lunarium. To get there again we have to rebuild the teleporter. However it is stuck in Stormriven. To get to Stormriven we have to fix the submarine. We take a quick trip to the airship on the islands above Celestia to retrieve the parts. Once we collect all the teleporter pieces in Stormriven we find one is broken. The archivist teaches us how to fix it and we open the teleporter to the Lunarium. The final relic, the Sun of Celestia is in the Solarium. Again the teleporter is broken and we need to find the pieces. We get the first few pieces from the Science Centre but the last are in the Crustacean Empire, a brand new empire claiming Celestia's waters as their own. Here we find the final teleporter piece to the Solarium. We also manage to find Thurston Plunkett who is negotiating with the Crustaceans. We enter the Solarium and retrieve the Sun of Celestia. Install it in the Grand Astralab and open the Trial of Spheres. Inside the Trial there are three levels, one correlating to each of the Astral Magics. All contain puzzles and guardians the wizard must beat. We get to the top and come face to face with Morgenth. She explains Celestians denied her access to Astral Magic so she started the war that was their eventual downfall. She concludes by stating a prophecy. The mirror will break, the horn will call from the shadows I strike and the skies will fall.  This leads us on our own adventure to Zafaria. We start by talking to the counsellors of Zafaria to get permission to enter the Savannah. Once we get to the Savannah we notice that strange things are happening. Morgenth has made her way to Zafaria and is causing chaos all over. We help the tribes of the Savannah and rescue a few of the students. They mention that other students were heading to Zamunda. We free the Lion King and clean the waters of the Savannah and then head to Zamunda. Zamunda has a problem with its leadership too. We again have to cure the king. After curing the king he gives us a message to take to the Elephant Queen in Stone Town. We repair the boat and head to Stone Town. The Queen's son has been taken along with the students and we are tasked to find him as well. One of the students is being kept in the zoo to be studied. We manage to negotiate her rescue and head to the waterfront in search of the counsellor. He has been controlled by Morgenth to cause chaos around the world. We raid the Black Palace and destroy the anchor stones which have placed a curse on the Elephants, thus restoring the Queen's rule. Tim Tim Snake Eye, a face that looks familiar wherever we go in Zafaria, says that the Umbra Queen has taken the Elephant Prince to the Drum Jungle. That's our next stop. Morgenth has trapped Coco Smoke Sign, a gorilla witch doctor. We free her and learn that Morgenth has headed to the Elephant Graveyard. We enter the graveyard and find Elephant Prince in one of the tombs. There we find Morgenth. She tells us we are too late. She is about to fulfill the first part of the prophecy by breaking the mirror. The Elephant Prince says she is talking about Mirror Lake. Inside the lake, Morgenth offers to teach us more than we can ever know. We learn that she is reclaiming her Deck of Shadows which Ambrose locked under the lake. The Council of Light was founded by Ambrose and is the best chance we have to stop Morgenth. Ambrose sends us to the Emperor of Mushu to learn more. Meanwhile, Morgenth returns to Wizard City and confronts Ambrose and Gamma. Ambrose tells us we need to obtain the Sword of Kings from Avalon as it is the only tool to defeat Morgenth's Deck of Shadows. Finding the Sword is quite a challenge. Most of the knights who had the sword at one point have passed it on to another knight. This leads us on a wild goose chase all over the world. However, to make it pass the guards blocking off the most important parts of Avalon, we must become a knight. The first step is to become a squire. To do this, we simply restore the Shrine of Courage. Then we become an armager, again a simple task all we have to do is restore the Shrine to hospitality in Chialion. We are then allowed access to the wild. We find the third host of the sword, only to find that has been lost. We learn that it was taken to the weird by Spectres. To get to the weird we must become a knight errant. This requires us to defeat the mighty Jabberwock and restore the Shrine of Loyalty. Once entering the weird, we learn the sword has been given to the Pin Dragon's Horned Soldiers. We find Sir Mallory who has betrayed Artorias and has claimed the sword for his own. However, the Lady of the Lake stops him from being able to use it. Mallory leads us to Gwendolyn in Dandara to fully learn the sword's power. She says we need to become a full knight to wield the sword. To do this, we bring back a Silver Rose to her and she knights us. She helps us reassemble the Knights of the Silver Rose. With their support we head to Avalon Castle. We use the Horn to call the Knights to battle against the Pin Dragon's army. We head to Lakeshore to find Lady of the Lake, who is trapped in the Dolores Tower. We learn we have been prophesied to save Avalon. We restore the Shrine of Mercy. Lady of the Lake says there's just one more Shrine to restore, which is under the Castle. We sneak under the Castle into the Catacombs. We must head to the other side, a past vision of Avalon, and use the Shrine of Justice before the Pin Dragon took over Avalon. It is finally time to storm the castle, defeat the Pin Dragon, reclaim the Sword of Kings, and cure King Artorias. As Tekka is under threat of being destroyed by Shiborba, a comet that Morgenth is using to forward her master plan. We receive a message from P'Karl Red Mask, a mystic who is desperately seeking help for his world. We need to find the two other mystics. The first is Tezcat 3 Star. He has fled into the Cenote, however the way to the Cenote has been blocked off. Once cleared we find Tezcat and repair his axe. The last mystic is Zaelin Reedwalker, who has been captured by Morgenth's agents. Once freed the mystics want us to find out the extent of Morgenth's plan. We get a recommendation from King Aksia to explore the pyramids. We find out Morgenth is after the Horn of Horakhan, which she believes is the horn referenced in the prophecy. We race to the pyramid of the Storm Eye in Salt Meadow Swamp to try and stop Morgenth. We learn from the storm caiman that one of the king's advisors is working for Morgenth. Yakate is the traitor, and stole the badge of leadership to allow him access to all the pyramids. Morgenth uses the enhanced power of Death Magic in the Black Sun Pyramid to raise a dark servant to help her honor conquest. We head to the Zoltan Islands to find King Niza, King of the Avians. Morgenth's soldiers are swarming all around the forest trying to find Lady Zin Zin 7 Star, the king's granddaughter. We head to Elto Elto and find King Niza hiding. However this leads Morgenth to follow us. She confronts the king, seeking access to the pyramid of Mother Moon. This unfortunately leads to King Niza's death. We seek out the head of the sun to find Princess Zin Zin. The head reveals a hidden sanctuary where Zin Zin is located. We head to the House of Flowers to cleanse ourselves before seeking the pyramid of Mother Moon. We head to Terra de Brea and make a pyramid key. We head into the pitch black lake and reach the pyramid of Mother Moon. In the pyramid we meet King Niza once more. Morgenth's dark servant pulled him from death to stop us. Unfortunately again Morgenth has beaten us to the pyramid. However Niza, after he has cured of shadow, says there is another pyramid located in the floating mountains. We head to the mountains and seek the Oracle. She tells us the pyramid is located on the Twin Giants. Morgenth beats us to the pyramid and calls Harakan to open a portal to Shiborba. Morgenth flees to Shiborba. We use Stormcamon's Celestial Bow to shoot us up to Shiborba. We break the mirrors disrupting Morgenth's song. However, once reaching her, she says that we are too late, as Ticker's fate is sealed. Morgenth has mastered the magic of Celestia to manipulate the comet. We go up against an old foe, Malistia, who was brought back by Morgenth. However, at the end of our fight against him, he gets launched off the comet as parts start to break away. Chrysler starts with us gathering the Council of Light to reforge the Chrysler's spiral key. We then free a borrower named Divim Whiteheart. The borrower is trying to overthrow the Umbra Queen and her Mentus minions. We learn through Divim's informant that the Umbra Queen is going to destroy the borrower's strongholds of Peppergrass Nook and Queen Myrtletown. We need to head to the last wood to warn the borrowers. However, to do that, we must go through Mooncliffs, and the only way into it is locked. We obtain the Moonroon and unlock the gate to Mooncliffs. Divim looks for a tunnel the borrower has made into the last wood. However, the Umbra Queen's forces have collapsed it. We trick the Beegards to let us pass. We get the Comb Key, which unlocks the gate to the last wood. In our battles, Divim gets stung by the Broodmother. We get into the last wood and meet their resistance. We reconnect the two strongholds together after a flood, and we delay the Umbra Army at Camp Havoc. We then head to Tyrion Gorge in a plot to destroy Camp Havoc. We disrupt the operations at Tyrion Gorge to push back the Umbra Queen's plan to drop Kermes Fire on the borrower's. We hatch some dragonflies and make them suitable for flight. We take control of the Banyan Tower to allow the borrower's and their dragonflies a safe takeoff. We light a smoke signal and the honeycomb wall gets blown up by the flying borrower's. This allows the borrower's access to mooncliffs to fight against the bees. We defeat the Broodmother and the plague of Shadow leaves her. We then storm the Eclipse Tower. We free the caretakers of the Tower from Morgant's control. We learn about Shadow magic, a dangerous variation of moon magic. After our success in the tower, we restore Bastion to what it was before the war, a stronghold for Light. We make peace between mice, sugar gliders and bees and focus all their forces on stopping Morganth. The B-Queen heals Divim as a sign of peace. The new plan is to storm Fort Rakyus to get the dying Starstone, which will help us navigate the Starfall Sea to reach Morganth. We make our way into Fort Rakyus opening the gates to the main keep. We make it into Ghost Dogs Den, freeing the mice prisoners on our way. We force our way to Ghost Dog, Morganth's first warlord, and defeat him even after Morganth's tricks and recover the dying Starstone. With the dying Starstone, we are able to head to Radiance Reborn and disrupt Morganth's Star magic. We head to Crescent Beach and meet Taylor Collarage, who agrees to help us sail across the Starfall Sea on the Great Beast. We land ashore at the ruined Alcazar, an Alcazar once built to teach and host Star magic. Morganth came and couldn't master the magic and destroyed the Alcazar by ripping the stars out of the sky. We find the caretaker of the Alcazar and open a portal to the Star Castle. We are told Morganth learned her shadow powers not here, but in the Solar Arc, which is dedicated to Sun magic. We get to enter past visions of the spiral and get brought along on Morganth's journey. First to Navalon, then in Wizard City, and finally here in Chrysalis. Once learning the story of Morganth, we head to the Mantis capital, the Sardonyx, in search of the Solar Arc. We win over the people of the Sardonyx by raising a mystic Colossus statue. We free the mantises by storming the palace and defeating Warlord Baelor. We open the gates and head into the Conditizat. We meet up with Diven once more and find Desert Hoppers, who are able to lead us to the Solar Arc. Once inside, we need to obtain a lens from each school. Once collecting 7 lenses, we head into the heart of the Solar Arc and free the caretaker from Morganth's clutches. The caretaker explains Morganth and the Spider Magi open the Arc to Shadow magic transforming the Arc into a shadowy place. The caretaker now versed in Shadow magic, teaches us some. We make our final approach on Morganth by entering the Hive. We meet Taylor Coleridge once more and he leads us to the Black Hole. He believes that the bottom of the Black Hole is the only thing that can destroy Morganth. At the bottom, we meet Old Cobb. He leads us through the Hive, straight to the Shadow Palace. We fight the Shadow Tree Moros and he opens the Celestial Bridge to Morganth's palace. When we enter, Old Cobb says Morganth has nearly mastered the Song of Creation, meaning we have little time to act. We head into the galleries and free the Lords of Night. After getting through Morganth's warlords, it is finally time to face off with Morganth. In a last ditch effort to rewrite the spiral, Morganth sings the Song of Creation, but the power is too strong and she can't hold all the Shadow magic. The glass beneath her breaks and she falls into the void. We absorb a lot of the Shadow magic as a result of Morganth's defeat. We redirect it back into the world using the Zelos and Rubicon Colossi. Old Cobb then sits as children free to roam the spiral they have missed for a long time. Surely nothing could go wrong.


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My name is David Stanik and I'm the head of the robot of RNA biology at the Institute of Morcology and Ethics in Prague, the Czech Republic. And our research is oriented on RNA splicing and diseases connected to RNA splicing. And one of these diseases is so-called retinosis pigmentosa. Retinosis pigmentosa is a hereditary disease which affects one out of four thousand individuals. And during the disease the retinasos are dying, people are losing the night vision, they lose the peripheral vision, going to so-called the tunnel vision and eventually they can be totally blind. Most mutated genes that cause this disease are somehow connected with the function of photoreceptor cells or developmental of retina. But surprisingly five genes which are mutated and causing retinosis pigmentosa were connected to primary splicing and formation of splicing machinery. And all these genes are part of the core spliceosomal particles called small ribonucleoprotein particles or SNURPs. And five genes connected to the disease were HPRP8, HPRP6, HPRP31, HPRP3 and human birth 2. And mutation in all these particles were studied and all causes problems in assembly of the core spliceosomal particle SNURPs. However the initial research only suggested that mutations in birth 2 doesn't affect SNURP assembly and that's why we decided to study birth 2 mutations in human cells. And that was the task for my postdoc Suska Cvacikova. Hello, I'm Susana Cvacikova, I'm postdoc in this lab. We studied two mutations of BRR2. They both results in amino acid alteration and are situated in N-terminal helicase domain of BRR2 that plays an important role in RNA duplex unwinding. BRR2 is a large protein of 200 kilodaltons and it would be quite difficult to prepare its mutants by traditional side-directed mutagenesis. We overcame this problem and employed BRR2 that is expressed from bacterial artificial chromosome and that is tagged with GFP. We prepared both mutants by Bach recombinering technique. Using of Bach provides additional advantages. It preserves endogenous promoter and other regulatory sequences, exon intrastructure and our protein is expressed at near physiological level. We were also able to knock down specifically endogenous BRR2 using a CRNA designed against the sequence close to the stop codon where GFP type is attached. Wild type and both mutants were stably expressed in helicels. They both reveal a similar speckled distribution pattern and they both colloquialized with SRSF2 which is a marker of nuclear speckles. As David told, retinitis pigmentosa linked mutations of splicing factor compromise trisnerp assembly. We tested incorporation of BRR2 mutants into snrps by immunoprecipitation using antibody and we observed that both mutants were properly incorporated in snrps as you can see for example on this RNA gel. To test the role of BRR2 mutants on splicing, we studied alternative splicing of some endogenous genes and gene reporters based on genes that are abundantly expressed in the retina and there was no difference between wild type and mutants. But then we observed that BRR2 mutants increase efficiency of constitutive splicing. So we decided to have a look on how precisely do BRR2 mutants their job. We employed beta-globin based reporters containing cryptic splice site. Cryptic splice site is much more used than the normal splice site is mutated. We studied splicing of beta-globin reporters after knockdown of endogenous BRR2. In Hela cells this resulted in less efficient splicing of wild type beta-globin reporter and enhanced splicing of mutated beta-globin reporter. Expression of either BRR2 mutant did not reduce splicing efficiency of mutated beta-globin reporter. Spicing efficiency was similar as in BRR2 depleted cells. It is pigmentosa linked mutations, vegan proof reading function of BRR2 and this could be a serious problem for metabolically highly active cells such as photoreceptors. I would like to thank you for your attention. The whole story was recently published in Journal of Human Mutation and if you are interested you can read it there and I wish you good reading. Thank you.


Hi, and welcome to Bright Minds from Tick-Mill. I'm your host, Patrick Munnily, and in this series, we're setting out to answer some of the most commonly asked questions around investment and trading through entertaining and insightful conversations with seasoned insiders. As traders, we know that our motivations and incentives are driven by our emotions. From fear and greed to excitement and joy, the choices we make in our trading lives are, to one degree or another, dictated by our emotional reactions to market movements and our anticipation of good or bad outcomes. We also know that acting impulsively and reactively can be disruptive to our long-term investment strategies. A CASS Business School study suggests that the need to feel emotionally comfortable in our investment decisions can cost around 1.2% a year in loss returns, and a recent Dullbar survey suggested that number is actually nearer to 3-4%. However you view it, it is clear that avoiding short-term anxiety in your investments comes at a very real long-term cost. So what if you could harness, control, and use your emotional reactions to the market as a positive contributor to increase your returns? Rather than allowing your feelings to negatively impact performance, if by examining your emotional life outside of trading, you could correct or any potential negative impacts on your portfolio performance. Today we're speaking with Dr Andrew Minnaker. Andrew is a licensed clinical psychologist and performance coach working with high achievers. He's an experienced trader and has previously worked as a crisis management and threat assessment consultant for the US military and law enforcement. After moving into the financial world in the 90s, Andrew quickly identified a link between his previous work with the military and the world of investment psychology. He combines his experience in situational awareness and threat management with the latest neuroscience research to develop strategies and provide practical advice to improve performance. Andrew, thanks for joining us today. Could you get things started by telling us a little bit more about your career so far and your interest in the world of finance in particular? Sure, Patrick. Well, the first thing is a confession. I've never actually had a class in economics or finance. I found my way into this field partly by accident. I wasn't expecting to do it, but my first real job doing consulting with the Defense Department around threat assessment and some behavioral profiling led me to working with traders at Wells Fargo Bank here in the Bay Area. It was kind of a funny story. Well, it's not funny. It was a very serious situation. I was working at the Alameda Naval Air Base, which is no longer in existence. It's an island here in the Bay Area, Alameda. And one day, there was an employee that showed up making threats. He had called the local media, television crews were there, and the commander of the base actually asked me to come and see if I could resolve the situation. It was very stressful. I had no training in this particular situation at all. So long story short, the situation resolved itself. I was able to get this person's trust and everything ended peacefully. The event got into the newspaper and the media. Wells Fargo had heard about it. They were interested in my working with their traders and asked me to come in. And that's basically how it started. I told them I had no experience in markets, but I quickly did. And I got bit by the bug as soon as I got involved in working with traders and began trading myself. This has sort of been the dot-com boom in the 90s. I was very interested in trading after that. Wow, that's certainly an interesting path into the business, not one I've come across before. Andrew, could you briefly describe the field of neuroeconomics and what its aims are? Psychology and science is ever-evolving. The latest constructs, the latest theories, the latest research around decision-making, around conditions of uncertainty, risk and opportunity says that it's more than just psychology. The idea of how our brain is reacting, the biology aspect. So neuroscience and neuroeconomics is really the latest iteration around how we look at, how we can understand decision-making under conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity. But it involves a lot of the body, not just the brain. From your perspective, what's going on in our brains when we are in the position of having to make high-pressure decisions? The field of neuroeconomics says that the brain is a prediction machine, basically. So in that moment of, I call it the heat of the moment, should I get into the trade? Should I stay in? Should I get out? At those moments, the brain is trying to predict what's about to happen. And as a result, there's a whole host of biological functions occurring in the body and in the brain. And I'll just finally say that emotion is both a body state and a brain state together at the same time. Interesting. And I mean, obviously, in the world of investing in trading, the principle, I guess, challenge that people ultimately recognize is that you're operating in a totally ambiguous environment, regardless of your subconscious pattern recognition or, like you say, the brain's desire to put a predictive overlay to any market condition. What do you think is the main difference between uncertainty and risk? That's a great question. So under conditions of uncertainty and risk, what they have in common is the brain is generating anxiety. That's the brain's job. Under conditions of uncertainty, there's also a lot of ambiguity. There's mixed signals. We see some things that suggest that it's going to go on our favor and other things that suggest it may not. Plus, there's our history, our background, our personal experience. And all of that essentially serves to influence the, or actually constructs, generates the emotional experience that we're going to have. And so uncertainty is ever present. Anyone who suggests or thinks that there's a way to eliminate uncertainty in trading or investment decisions is unfortunately misguided. It's one of those realities that we have to learn to deal with. Same thing with risk. I'll just say this. When I work with a trader, a client, one of the things I'm doing initially is trying to get a sense of what is this person's default mode around risk? Do they tend to be more risk averse or more risk seeking in moments of high pressure? It's usually not always one or the other, but there usually is a tendency. And that's a good place to start with someone. Our lives outside of the world of trading can ultimately impact our operations or our market operations in the market. Oh, certainly. There's so many things outside of trading. I'll say this. In that heat of the moment, it's not simply about what we're seeing on the screen. It's our P&L, our account, how we feel about ourselves, how we feel that other people see us in terms of our degree of success in life. Those are some examples of things outside of the trade that affect the trade. Another big one, Patrick, I think you're probably aware of this, is it goes back to that biology piece, the amount of sleep we've had the previous night. That has a huge influence over how we perceive and tolerate risk. So these are all examples, and there's many others, things that are beyond the trade, beyond the screen, beyond the chart that influences what we see and ultimately what we do. Do retail and professional investors or traders encounter the same barriers to success, or are there different concerns for different levels of traders? I mean, I think back to my early days in the market, I would go through periods of hitting a certain level in terms of P&L, and it would almost be like a glass ceiling that I would hit that same level and then I would go through a drawdown that would take me back and I'd have to recalibrate, refocus, start again. But then as soon as once again, I drew close to that level of P&L again, something in my psyche kicked in and it was almost like self-sabotage to a degree. Very common pattern, Patrick. I've seen this over many, many years, over thousands of traders, is the ability to make money over days, usually a few weeks, a week to three weeks. And then, like you said, that ceiling, we hit that glass ceiling. We have the drawdown, we give the money back. There's a lot of different things happening in that cycle. One of them, of course, is perhaps we're not adapting to changes in the market. That's an easy one to suggest. Another possibility is that, do we feel as though we deserve the success? How do we feel about having that increased level of success, having that increased amount of money? Most people think consciously that they want it, but there's also other factors going on subconsciously around worthiness, self-worth, and many other psychological concepts that kind of come to bear right at that point at the end of that cycle. One of the things I struggled with in the early days was the idea that you had to have a trading plan rigidly adhere to that, almost in a robotic fashion. And what I started to realize over time was that there was a degree to which there was, the more time you spent in front of the charts, there was a degree to which you built up a subconscious pattern recognition. And it was like, I'm not talking about trading on gut feel, although I know people who do that pretty successfully. It doesn't work for everyone, but for me, it was understanding how to incorporate that in intuition aspects into my trading plan to understand that there were times when my mind would obviously see a pattern that I'd witnessed many, many times before and how to act on that in almost a planned fashion, if that makes sense. Yeah, what you just said, Patrick, is so important for people to hear. When someone is just starting off as a trader, maybe a year or two under their belt, the idea of having a plan is actually more important when we don't have that experience. The more experienced trader has, the more ability we have to recognize that there's a change in the market that we may have to adapt or alter our plan in the moment. For newer traders, I believe personally, it's much more effective and less damaging for them financially if they really have a concrete plan in the beginning. As they gain some experience, they will start to recognize that there are times when they need to alter that. But in the beginning, in other words, being more of a discretionary trader is dangerous with a lack of experience. The more experience you have, the greater possibility that you have of making better discretionary decisions. Yeah, and I guess moving on from that, the idea of subconscious pattern recognition, which I guess people can conceptually come to terms with, the idea of intuition in trading is a little bit more tricky. Concepts are nailed down. How would you define the term, Andrew? Yeah, it's a great question, Patrick. So first of all, it's actually a very important part of trading. The word intuition, the concept itself gets a bad rap in trading because most traders feel as though they think they are using their intuition when in fact they're actually responding to a fear, a hope or a fantasy. Very successful traders who have a lot of experience, professional traders managing money who I've worked with actually use their intuition a lot. They don't talk about it publicly, but what intuition is, it's an accumulation of implicit pattern recognition over time. Over time is the important part of that concept. It requires a lot of experience. So someone who's relatively new to trading, I would caution them from thinking that they are using their intuition. And even someone who has a lot of years of experience, you have to really learn how to differentiate emotion from intuitive feelings and thoughts. Very different. That's a lot of what my work is about with more experienced professional traders. Excellent, excellent insights. And talking about insight, could you give us some idea about some of the cutting edge research in the field of newer economics that's happening right now? Well, one of them is a somatic marker hypothesis which essentially says that emotion is not just a brain state, but it's a body state. And very often our body experiences the emotion before our mind, before cognitively, we recognize that we are in an emotional state. A rapid heart rate could be anxiety, could also be excitement, depends on how the brain's gonna interpret it. So a lot of the current research, the latest research is showing that in order to improve performance and trading and investment decisions, heart rate variability is increasingly becoming an important area for performance and trading and investing. It's an area that I've done a lot of work in over the years. And I believe that it is one of the more direct way of changing one's experience around uncertainty and risk. Yeah, I mean, that's a great practical tip. In addition to that, what are some of the other practical ways in which our listeners can use the findings of your economic research to improve their trading or investment performance? Another very important area is to understand that our emotional experience is information. And instead of trying to eliminate or suppress our emotions or view our emotions as a weakness, to accept that we are emotional creatures. As humans, we are emotional creatures. We need emotions. So that means if we can learn how to use our emotional experience as information, that's gonna be very helpful. And one of the practical ways of doing that is something that I teach is called live drill down writing, which is when you're in the heat of the moment, you're interacting with the market, is to be writing about on paper, what am I feeling? What's going on with my body? What are my thoughts? Why am I having these feelings? When is the last time I had these feelings? And what did I do? How does that work out? Should I be following this feeling or not? Engaging with your emotions, engaging with, I would say self-awareness, a practice of self-awareness on an emotional level is very, very impactful around performance in environments of uncertainty and risk. Excellent, yeah. I mean, some of the, again, going back to some of the early days for me, it was trying to build up an understanding of what was an impulsive response to the market as opposed to an intuitive or subconscious pattern recognition response, because the two can be disguised almost as the same thing. But if you actually, like you say, if you have that journaling aspect and you're able to go back and analyze and assess those behaviors and which then turned out to be not necessarily positive outcomes, but outcomes that are more in line with the plan or your trading practice, they are, that's extremely valuable information. Exactly, and I'll just build on what you were saying, Patrick, there's not just patterns in the chart that we're looking for, but it's patterns within ourselves, really is what was, I think, what you were alluding to. And that's really important part of performance, improvement for a trader. It's not simply understanding and paying attention to patterns on the screen, but keeping track of paying attention to and understanding our own personal patterns of thought and emotional experience, very important. And there's a lot of different ways to do that. Yeah, Andrew, to picking up on that point about understanding an emotional state and recognizing your emotional state and your emotional responses, I guess one of the key aspects for me in terms of development was developing a meditation practice and incorporating that into my daily routine as a trader. And that was invaluable to me. Is that something that you encourage clients to do or have had experience of yourself? Yes and yes, I had direct experience myself and it's something I do encourage my clients to engage in regularly, primarily because the idea of mindfulness, which is what meditation creates for us, a sense of being able to observe ourselves, hopefully in a non-judgmental fashion, when you're able to do that and you practice that on a regular basis, it's essentially what you're doing is you're building what I call your self-awareness muscle and the stronger your self-awareness is, the faster you're gonna catch yourself and notice a certain emotional state and you'll also be able to understand in terms of what the potential behavior is that you may engage in and also get a sense in the moment, is this something I wanna do or not? Excellent, really great. Andrew, thank you so much for joining us today. Is there anywhere our listeners can go to to follow you online or access your work? Follow me on Twitter, Andrew Menaker on Twitter as well as my website, andrewmenaker.com where I have a blog and some white papers that many people have given me incredible positive feedback on that have really helped people over the years. Thanks, Andrew. And those comments around meditation and mindfulness are particularly pertinent as we'll be exploring that topic in an upcoming episode. Thanks again for your time and thanks for listening to Bright Minds from Tick Mill. If you found these conversations useful, you can find us at youtube.com slash at Tick Mill Global. Let us know any questions or comments below the video or get in touch directly at podcasts at tickmill.com.


Welkom back and we're still talking about if Kenya, ingeza kwa na prezumunye ako below 35 years, what are some of the different things in the kwa, and I'd like us to go back to what we were talking about. For example, I remember in the previous session, there's one who mentioned President Jomal Kenyatta brought out a lot of good things that were actually being taken over by other presidents. He also added those Moa Kibaki. He was very instrumental as well in terms of leadership and borrowing from a young leader perspective. What are some of the good memories you have of our presidents in regards to even wild presidents day? Thank you so much. When Kenya got the independence, Jomal Kenyatta was very specific on what he needed in Kenya because he said that our enemies were poverty, ignorance and disease. And from the very beginning you could see it in every project that he launched, everything he did. But later of course we know there will be some divisive politics, they will divide with Oginga Odinga and of course then Jomal Kenyatta would later pass on. Then we had President Moa come in. When you go down in history you look at the earlier days of Moa and Kenya did very well. We had a lot of around 1970 we had the kofi boom and our economy was doing perfectly well. Of course later in around 1990 there were the multi-particles and everything and our economy was on the downturn but later we will have Kibaki and when Kibaki came in, Kibaki did a lot of economic reforms. He introduced the free primary education that we are enjoying till now and of course I know Kenyans are very much appreciative of that. When Kibaki left power he left our debt at 1.8 trillion. Of course we had the slightly below. Yeah slightly below. When Huru Kenyatta came in and William Ruto they took that debt from 1.8 trillion to about 8.4 trillion and that is the current situation that we are in. So we give Kibaki a lot of credits for how he rein our economy and of course we we could criticize the former government for just trying to mess around the economy especially on the issue of the debt and I think that is something that the current president William Ruto is trying to solve because just the other day they were introducing the budget policy statement in parliament and you can see that he is trying to reduce our deficit from about 900 billion to around 600 billion so the 300 billion there I think he is doing well currently. All right yeah good sentiments right there. Yes activists. So first I want to appreciate this the late president Muay Kibaki because when he came to power in 2002 the Kenyan GDP was a let me say below one one percent but he increased it to around eight around eight percent so he really performed is the one that introduced these these are constituency development funds it has really helped the it has really helped the citizens it has really helped students for example a good example is myself here when I went to high school my parents could not afford that school fees so nili kwa na apply is basa Riza MPs nandiyo zili kwa zinan li piya school fees so I really appreciate him for the good work he did to this nation and I can't say that the remaining presidents did not perform but there's something they did not do for this nation to remain stable. All right yeah. All right uh let's switch gears I love the fact that this guy and Afanya TikTok like we really can relate to him in so many avenues I remember Juzya mekutana na netwadze uu tiktoka Prisila do you feel like in a letey of vibrancy and currency of like inclusivity of young people especially when it comes to young people who are included in matters leadership as well even you who is still our campus as a leader do you see yourself even in the near future holding such positions due to like we have people like Zakadja you mentioned as well. Thank you so much and uh just before I get to that allow me just correct something but activists said something about the GDP being 1% and again 8% I think it's not right to say that we cannot say that the GDP is 1% I think it was the economic growth he came in when it was around 1.6% then when it was leaving it was around 8% when he was leaving so the growth was a little bit higher uh back to what Sakuwa has asked about the vibrancy of the leadership I think Zakadja is doing pretty well currently because he is so much famous with the youth and the same we can credit to people like Babu and of course recently we had the CS David Ossian he always has some Walimo Chronicles on Facebook right and people are able to relate with him and he makes fun and people are able to understand what the government is doing and I think Zakadja is doing well when he got to TikTok I think he got around more than 300k followers just in a day right so I think and there is an advice to many politicians out there get into the spaces where the youth are and get to talk to them get to relate with them yeah I'd like to also hear your feedback on about Toto ame kwa kipata contravashu remarks Juzyl ko engaged was he proposed to ame engaged I don't know which one happened and then ah kola kula kula mitu kwa say ma aata angelia kido ga angelia she was too serious but then they're like live her alone she's just young ame kujitu into leadership Juzy do you feel like even young people sometimes when you're on aspire kwa get into these positions they're not even prepared for some of the things that they will meet in the ...agama baya kaya yaon uroba kwa, yaon baya kwa mprili nisha. Kwa kama entia mpเดchani, uroba kwa kutupireti. Yaon baya kwa mpoi kwa mpoi kwa hokunaizubu uroba... ...adade krubu hama afawe vahu na, hama yao yaon... ...uroba kwa kapa na mprili nisha. I believe that she is one of the youngest women in this nation. Yes, she is. So when she got into power, she was young and she was not informed of what happens in that leadership position. She did not have any experience. But at least she is trying to inspire more Kenyans, more young people that they can also lead her together with the MP for MIAS, Peter Salazar. These people are really trying to come up with, they are really trying to hold the hands of the young Kenyans. Ana Peter Salazar is always with the youth, he is promoting football clubs in MIAS. Anafanya is taking children to school, same as to the one you mentioned, Sakaja. I saw the other day Sakaja sitting with a Swiss child in his office. I think he is doing pretty well. The other day he was in Busea and Lleona. There was a child that was unable to join the secondary school. He took him since he had passed well his exams. So these young Kenyans are really working. We as young Kenyans who are still the youth, we need to come up like them. We should be empowered by what they are doing. Now let's get back to you for where you come from. You said you are an activist and I would like you to share what you talk about a lot in your activism work. What are some of the things you talk about before we get ahead? In my activism, I am a very vocal and vibrant person but you cannot just know because I am always very polite. I am very polite, but my deeds are always very vocal. So what are you vocal about? Also in school I am the University of Nairobi and I am still in secondary school. I am advocating for the rights of comrades. I am an advocate for young people. So when I see that a person is being oppressed, I don't keep quiet. And that's why I like talking. In fact, in Afikanga at some point I say it is better I die but I must fight for the rights of this person. And I am being empowered by those activists that fought for the rights of people such as Patrice Lumumba. You see Malema is performing well in South Africa. Those are the people I follow. In fact, when you visit my TikTok account, I have a TikTok account with 14,000 followers. I normally post there those people, the likes of Babu Owenu. When it comes to fighting for the rights of those people who are oppressed up of snanga jokes. Snanga jokes can be said. But do you see yourself in Galva in future? You know, you start like that. For me, I believe that leadership comes from God. I don't sell the false promises to people. And that's the challenge you are having as Kenyans. Kenyans need to be told what they want to hear and not what it is right for them. So I don't go to people telling them that I will do this. I cannot promise a cow by the time I can only offer a chicken. So that's the challenge with Kenyans. I believe that when we change the way of politics, I can be one of the best leaders. Because I speak the truth, I don't promise what I cannot give. I only promise what is in my capacity. So when we change our ways of politics towards manifesto based politics, then I can be one of the best leaders. But if you can learn, you can say, I won't go. But I will give you this, I will give you job. I will give you stock, but yeah. Then I see something not right. I wanted to actually know if you are to be the president of this country tomorrow, what are some of the things that you would change that have been there for a very long time from a young people's perspective? Of course, the question is at least 35 years. Let's imagine you're in that age bracket and you want to be the president. What are you changing first in the country? Like we can hear Papi Metoka. When I'm given the opportunity to be the president of this country, the first thing I will do is to do away with the... You know, in this Kenya, young people have been neglected. Wa maachile wa iwiwa. So they don't have space and the main thing that leads into this is unemployment. You see, we have very many unemployed youths and they are being taken advantage of. Tsunana ata monasasa kitambia. Inumali use this vijana as goons. So I will really do something to ensure that these people are employed, the young people who are going to school. I will really empower the youths. This money, there is a lot of money just circulating in the government. I cannot keep on watching someone earning 2 million, 4 million in a month and escape paying tax. And you get a young person who is struggling to stand up to get a tax. We want a tax, we want a tax. We want to escape taxes. I would really advocate for the young people to have voices and to take these leadership positions. You know, I use my ministry. The party of vijana have vijana dogo. So that they also put there young people. Got you. I love your passion. Yes, Peter. As we are preparing ourselves, and I love the fact both of you have a leadership position at your universities, if you guys were to actually take over and be leaders in this country tomorrow, what are some of the positive reforms that you guys are going to embrace? Thank you so much, Brian. If I was supposed to be president, then I would not only be a youth president, but I will be a president of the country. Let me take you back to the 2004 Democratic National Convention at the United States of America. And Obama is there vying for senator in Illinois and he's delivering a speech. And that speech is known as the speech that made Obama president. And as part of the speech, you hear Obama saying that we are not a black America or a white America or a Latin America. We are the United States of America. So it's not just about being youth or being a lady or being old, it's about being a Kenyan. And I think we need to get that very, very clear. When you talk about the president being 35 years or below, we need to look it in terms of experience and in terms of the nationhood. So I think the first thing that I would love to actually address is the kind of divisiveness that is currently in our country where some people feel that they are part of government, they are not part of government, they are Luya, they are Kalinjin. We need to be Kenya. And I think that is what the current government is not getting right, especially because of the sentiments that you had yesterday. So I think the first thing is to unite the country. We need to unite this country. Of course the second thing that would help the youth is the government internship programs that the government has been talking about but I think there is a problem with the implementation because you get that some interns are not being paid and of course there is also lack of fairness in giving the internships. I think we need to get somewhere as a country where we have graduates getting out of the university, they get absorbed perhaps not on a full employment but let's say a one-year internship program. The same way we see the medicine students. So I think that is something that I would love to do. Okay. Alright, on the other side, on the flip side as well, we talk about mentorship and like you said, experience is the best teacher and what actually disqualifies a lot of young people from a lot of opportunities because they're looking for someone who has five years experience duly graduate which year but still you can't still fall into that age bracket or those qualifications as well. When it comes to mentorship, you could prepare young people to get to this leadership spot. Do you feel like we have enough forums in our country that nurture talent, nurture leadership skills as compared to like even outside countries? Of course, a kid will grow up in a president's family, of course they'll end up automatically becoming a deputy president or whatever. Even when you look at the history of the previous leadership systems in the world, it has always been like it's inherited, it goes from father to son to mother, same to wealth, father inherited, grand children, etc. Thank you so much, Bran, for that question. I'm an avid reader of the Obama books and again I would like to refer to what he said sometimes back and he says no one cares about how you are upbringing was. No one cares where you come from and no one cares what you've gone through or who are your parents or such. So I think one of the things that our youth should be able to know is that nobody is going to give you nobody is going to serve you food. You have to work to get there. Our government is doing well in trying to create opportunities for the youth. Of course we know that there are some areas that they need to do better but I think one responsibility that the youths have have been able to deal with the students there at the university and at times you get a company requesting CVS and perhaps some documents so that they can be employed or so and at times the qualities of the CVS that you get from students are worrying and I think those are some of the things we need to address. This world is not going to bend because of who you are. You need to make sure that you prepare yourself to that level. So there are places where our government can do better but there are some places where they are doing well and I think our students they need just to make sure that they prepare themselves well. I think we'll have to end it there.  Thank you so much. Like I said my name is Peter Nguka. I'm currently the main campus governor at University of Nairobi. First of all to my comrades watching me here today. Let me say thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to serve you. I'll be exiting in one month and I'm really very much appreciative for the opportunity. To the next governor who is coming on board make sure that you do your best serve the comrades. Make sure the comrades interest is fast and continue with what we had started. Thank you. Right activist. Thank you for this moment again. I really appreciate for but before I do that allow me to argue allow me to disagree with my brother Nguka. In less than a minute please. My brother Nguka is saying that we need to look at this experience. You know we are misusing we are misusing this proverb in Asema that you must have an experience. No. Because you see for me to be employed in an industry even in this KBC. What do they need? They need an experience. A three-year experience. Where will I get this experience and since there is no one willing to employ me in a party experience we need to work on that. Okay. And then finally you can find me in all social media platforms I'm in Facebook, Tik Tok you can just type the word activist Otiyano I'm a well-known person there at Naza Patana and for the comrades of the University of Nairobi I'm sincerely I'm sincerely the incoming the incoming governor of the University of Nairobi me in campus and I want to promise you that when I will succeed Nguka, the governor the current governor I want to appreciate you for what you have done and I can't really judge kama wu me performa ma not but for me I'm determined I'm coming there for comrades and I'm coming to work with the comrades Okay. Ntaka sirikali kotu ya comrade Dadotaki mambu ningi Ima mba ya comrade kwenama Ima mba ya comrade I've heard that sayi with a missing mark you cannot continue the next semester Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Gentlemen, thank you so much for your time. Let me just sample quick your feedback. On Facebook it Kitchenia bihila rike Good morning. I think that's it regarding to our question Doorkas Marshall saying good morning Good morning to you. Matou kikuyu gatuunha You're saying watching Thank you We have Cinta you are saying good morning Amazing discussion Indeed, what will happen? There will be changes Surely tuning from Naivasha and shout out to you Cinta and then lastly we have Emma Jimms when I say my Kenyans youth fresh from colleges uza mwazilewaru kwa hajti mozhikia uzayi ni, kwa hajti skillunia, kwa hающi huli na uza na hendinia kwa hendinia. Wah! Okay. Ntyeh to ni kufu ya wajibu kwa mwa. Thank you so much. Kupu na waji wajibu na wajibu na wajibu na wajibu na wajibu na ntiya. Iziha tomo na uza na hendinia kwa wajibu ntiya. My name is Brian Sakawa. Have a fantastic Monday.


Last time the number one crazy one. I'm told me don't change nothing leave it like that. I said, okay I'm gonna leave it like that But man, we got Melvin for man. I told them off in the building Hey man today is a hey, this is day that the Lord has made our rejoice and be glad in it I like to start off like that man. We got two a steam guests here today, man These guys man, they really don't need no introduction. They've been here before man They actually pushed my numbers up a lot when they was here last time the number one crazy one I'm told me don't change nothing leave it like that. I said, okay. I'm gonna leave it like that My man, we got Melvin for man. I told them off in the building Man, you know man, you know when we did that last interview so when you think about The character versus the the the individual far as the way the mother Bring this child to her image when she's dealing with it.     My whole interview man. I said we both been do it Leave it alone when you put it out. It's gonna do better. Huh? I felt that uh, that was real reality TV That it should have been shown how it was and they take the contents It was really, you know, you hear people say Like I heard the person say oh Snoop was disrespectful Cripp walking at the thing but by the same token What happened there was just an aberration But it did bring awareness and Open created opportunities for everybody involved, right because when we came together We didn't nobody knew that that was gonna happen Some people might have had a feeling but we came with genuine hearts hoping that we could all we could all come together To resolve something that was the main purpose for that meeting Well at the end of the day when you really think about it just the fact that you know, man You Melvin keeps saying I hear him campaigning everywhere be like I told you either come to me first I'd be like man, I just don't feel like this dude was not was gonna you know what I mean I'll be at some point this conversation was not gonna be something where people gonna just talk I didn't feel that way. What did you think?  You feel I'm saying so I just wanted to clear that with you You know I'm saying you understand why I'm coming. No We'll chop it up because he walked over there and you said something to him you remember that yeah And when you said that he was like we're just talking about it on thing and it was like At that point. I'm like, well, this is kind of wild You know, I saw his vibe changed. Yeah. Yeah at that point So but at the end of the day, do you feel like it accomplished anything and I go to you first With with y'all doing the interview here with Chas. Yeah, it accomplished a lot, but it really showed Where a person's heart was like I told another brother that Dude is not a person that is Any position or has any desire to debate he likes to dictate So he has no podcast He ever did that he dealt with somebody that had a counterpoint to what he says He's so used to running his mouth and saying what he say and letting it go Mob James could not talk Cash Jones Black 100 could not talk him, but he brought some people that really was Intellectually way over the top of him. He wouldn't go happen. Wow you When you spoke Melvin for everybody but you seen Carlos Miller came over here the other day He say I'm gonna I'm gonna say this it ain't gonna be no rebuttal, you know He was he was he you can tell he watched that over and over again, and he like he's like I'm gonna come in there like that old nigga deal when he come I talked to you in Vegas, and I checked you, you know First of all Don't nobody Nipsy That was Everything it's a one and nobody came up with shirts that have all of that That we in fact we're starting to market there be no big debates a top I don't drink shirts They're doing it be no debates because as you see as we go further along in Our endeavors on social media, whatever whether it be art or video or print a lot of times This really isn't no debate because we're stating facts as opposed to a lie and those two Conversations can never coexist a lie and the truth. So a lot of people thinking Cuz after you remember I said I wasn't even getting up there to survive. Yeah, y'all pull me up. Yeah Open it up and this ain't just be happened more remember went against the Chronicle We had to tell them how to open it up with one line We always tell somebody because you can't know what our life is So we appoint you in the right direction like when we did against the Chronicle They couldn't figure out. I just start off say take us back to 1971 any shows we do You'll see with something where we don't script it to open it up to get it to where we go So a lot of people had that interpretation of feelings that uh, we was coming there to you got to remember Men him was still friends at that right. Yeah. Yeah Still talking at that time. Well, that's the way I even met you was through Charleston way I tell people that all the time they like how you It was a narrative being thrown like I just brought y'all down here to sit something up And it wasn't even like that but people we had already met in LA But people don't realize I put Charleston white in the game and brought him breath from 2018 when he was a fan to come meet me Charleston never was gangbanging you think Charleston could come to a trade park and say he from rolling 60 to me No, I'm much immediately. I'm gonna say yeah, you called him, but that's for us.  Why we got to go through that we paid our dues. Yeah