Pran Arora 🌺

Founder -Kubik Kapital .Ex- Sumitomo / Monsanto

[Pran Arora 🌺 @PranArora9]

We have a worst case scenario for Gold -3500$/Oz .

Best case is that it settles somewhere between 3850-3900.
Double whammy for Indians - rupee is appreciating and gold is falling in dollars

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Always imagine and believe the best case scenario because it is possible.

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Talent is built in the calm and character is built during a storm.

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What’s typical behavior of an average investor ?

They sell when it is time buy .

And they buy when it is time to sell .

Gold is at the end of its correction phase and people are selling .

It is the time to buy if someone has 3-5 years horizon .

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You can’t skip the messy part.

The messy part is where you grow.

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Worrying is the worst way to use your imagination.

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Learn maths as it is the language of the God.

Nvidia understood the maths & now it is a $ 5 trillion company .

And Jane Street earns $40 billion per annum with only 3500 employees.

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“𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.”

“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘳, 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳.”

— 𝘍𝘺𝘰𝘥𝘰𝘳 𝘋𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘦𝘷𝘴𝘬𝘺

[Pran Arora 🌺 @PranArora9]

A very much required step .

After 75 years of infiltration, India is waking up .

Salute @AmitShah ji 🙏

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

THIS IS BIG.
For the first time, Bharat is fiercely, systematically, and through policy fighting back in the 1,000-year demographic war being waged against it.
Amit Shah will be remembered as one of the greatest HMs India ever had.

[Pran Arora 🌺 @PranArora9]

@kshayjogani Major problem in this world is so-called- successful people in a specific field (by luck or by skill or due to low IQ of their audience).

They tend to feel they are expert in every other field. Eg - sports /cinema celebrities & journalists to a large extent.

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Marketing by most of the luxury & not-so-useful products is an effort to make money by collapsing the distance between stimulus and response.

Modern world is designed to erase the gap.

Buy Now , Limited Stock , Free Gift offers are few examples.

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“Like so many other animals, we have an often-frantic need to conform, belong, and obey.

Such conformity can be markedly maladaptive, as we forgo better solutions in the name of the foolishness of the crowd.”

― Robert M. Sapolsky

[नम्रता @_Namrataa]

Never marry in a family that has top lawyers/Judge/IAS/IPS etc if you don’t come from similar family. God forbid, if something goes wrong in the marriage, you would never get justice in India.

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The dumbest person somewhere in the world is being told by AI that he’s right in his assumptions.

Sadly as on date AI is not trained to push back as a normal person .

It is being trained as an amicable , friendly & a yes-man type of research-assistant.

#AI #Gemini #Claude

[Pran Arora 🌺 @PranArora9]

A high agency person just wants a challenge that’s just at the edge of his capability.

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This is interesting.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Stanford neuroscientist published a paper a few years ago that quietly answered one of the oldest questions in human history, and almost nobody outside his field has heard of it.

The question is why we dream. Not what dreams mean. Why they exist at all. Why your brain spends a third of its sleep hallucinating images instead of just resting like every other organ in your body.

His name is David Eagleman.

He runs a lab at Stanford. The paper is called "The Defensive Activation Theory", and the moment you read it the explanation collapses every other theory you have ever been taught about dreams.

Freud said dreams were repressed desires. He was guessing. He had no brain scans. He had no electrodes. He had a couch and a notebook and a century of credibility that nobody has been able to fully scrub off the subject since.

Modern neuroscience replaced him with the memory "consolidation theory". The idea that dreams are your brain sorting through the day, filing things away, deciding what to keep. That story is partially true. Sleep does consolidate memory. But it does not explain the single strangest thing about dreams, which is that they are almost entirely visual.

You do not dream in pure sound. You do not dream in taste. You do not dream in smell. You dream in pictures. Vivid, detailed, often impossible pictures that activate the back of your brain so hard a scientist scanning you would think your eyes were wide open.

Eagleman started from one fact almost nobody outside neuroscience knows. The brain is territorial. Every region holds its turf through constant electrical activity. The moment a region goes quiet, its neighbors start invading. They take the silent territory and reassign it to themselves.

This is called "cortical takeover", and it is not slow. It is not a long process measured in years. In experiments where adults are blindfolded, the visual cortex starts processing touch and sound within an hour. One hour of darkness, and the territory is already being annexed.

In congenitally blind people, the visual cortex is fully repurposed. It runs language. It runs hearing. It runs touch. The hardware never went unused. It was just reassigned to whoever showed up first.

Now sit with the implication of that for a second.

Every night, when you close your eyes and fall asleep, the sun has set. The planet has rotated. The visual cortex, which takes up roughly a third of your entire cortex, is suddenly receiving zero input. For eight hours. Every single night. For your entire life. And evolution has shaped your brain inside a planet that has been spinning into darkness for billions of years.

If cortical takeover happens in an hour, the visual cortex should have been lost a long time ago. Stolen by hearing. Stolen by touch. Reassigned by morning. Humans should have evolved into a species whose vision works fine during the day and then degrades every time the sun goes down because the territory keeps getting renegotiated overnight.

But that did not happen. Vision works the moment you open your eyes. Which means something is defending the territory while you sleep.

Eagleman's claim is that dreams are that defense.

Every 90 minutes through the night, a precise burst of activity fires from the brainstem into the visual cortex. Pontine-geniculate-occipital waves. PGO for short. They are anatomically aimed. They are not general arousal.

They are a targeted volley of signal launched directly at the back of the brain where vision lives. The cortex lights up as if it is receiving real images, and you experience that artificial activation as a dream. The bizarre narrative your conscious mind invents around it later is just your brain trying to make sense of the noise.

The dream is not the point. The dream is the side effect. The point is keeping the territory occupied.

The evidence for this is the part that should haunt you.

Newborns spend roughly 50% of their sleep in REM. Adults spend twenty. Old adults spend fifteen. The amount of dreaming you do tracks almost perfectly with how plastic your brain is. Newborns have the most plastic brains on earth. Their visual cortex is in the highest danger of being overrun by neighboring senses while it develops.

So evolution gave them an enormous defense budget. As you age, your brain becomes less plastic, the takeover risk drops, and the defense system scales down accordingly.

Eagleman and his co-author ran the same correlation across twenty-five primate species. The more plastic a species' brain, the higher the proportion of REM sleep. The relationship held across the entire primate family tree. Plasticity and dreaming move together. They are two halves of the same evolutionary equation.

A species that ranks higher on flexibility and learning also dreams more. A species that is born ready to walk and survive dreams less. Plasticity is the asset. Dreaming is the insurance premium.

And the prediction the theory makes is the one that quietly closes the case.

Of all your senses, only one is disadvantaged by darkness. You can still hear in the dark. You can still feel in the dark. You can still smelll and taste in the dark. The only sense that depends on light is vision. Which is exactly the sense your dreams are made of. The defense system is targeted at the only territory that is actually vulnerable while you sleep.

Memory consolidation is real. Emotional processing is real. Your brain does do those things at night. But Eagleman's argument is that those functions piggyback on a much older system whose original job was simpler and more brutal. Keep the lights on inside the visual cortex while the planet is dark, or lose it.

For thousands of years, people have asked what dreams mean. Prophets wrote about them. Poets wrote about them. Freud built a discipline on them. None of them had access to the actual answer, which is that dreams may not mean anything in the symbolic sense at all.

They may be the visible flicker of a defense system running in the background, the way a screen saver protects a monitor by keeping the pixels moving even when nobody is looking.

The strangest thing about the theory is how cleanly it explains why dreams feel so real. Your visual cortex cannot tell the difference between a PGO wave and an actual photon. It is the same hardware lighting up the same way. The cortex does its job. It builds an image. Your conscious mind, half-awake, wraps a story around it and calls it a dream.

You are not seeing your subconscious tonight. You are watching your brain defend a piece of itself from being stolen.

Every animal that has ever closed its eyes on this planet has done the same thing.

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Beating the competition is relatively easy.

Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.

~ShoeDog

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“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us.”ShoeDog