You don’t want “be calm” — you want to “be a calm man”. “Be calm” has wrong connotation in our culture. We make virtue out of staying calm when we’re provoked. We remind ourselves to “be calm” when we’re already LOSING our calm. This already presupposes LOSING one’s calm. Why do you even …
Category: Lifestyle
Live Two or Three Lives
You live one life and then you die. That’s what makes it so valuable. You go on vacations for a week and then you return to your old boring reality. Monday you are on vacations and next Monday you are back at work. Your vacations are even more boring than your work. But it’s …
THE GRAND THEORY OF CONCENTRATED ENERGY
Energy is as potent as it is CONCENTRATED. If you have energy pulling in all directions — then you’re going nowhere. You have some energy pulling you right and some energy pulling you left and as a result you move a little left and then you move a little right again, and ultimately, you …
Love Your Life and Revile Your Plans
The contrived notion is that you should hustle so hard that you hate your life, then critically look in the mirror and still not be satisfied “no pain no gain” , “tough love”, etc But that your wonderful future, and your wonderful purpose, and your wonderful drive make it all sweet! That you feel SO …
PLAYFULNESS IS TINKERING (is life)
-PLAYFULNESS, PLAY, is just trying out new things = TINKERING -TINKERING is how you solve problems too -Life is but solving problems -Therefore life is fun Life is fun It’s not fun because you say it’s not fun. It’s not fun because you have expectations, you are entitled. You want things to be your …
Energy Just Is: Find More Energy
Energy just is Energy just is I don’t know how much energy is available to a single human. What if it’s unlimited? A single human could grab a lot of fucking solar panels and batteries and hoard fucking energy, Sun just is and it fucking soaks us in energy. What if it’s the same …
Solvable and Unsolvable Problems, Overcoming
There are problems you solve — and there are problems you consistently fail to solve. What characterises problems you consistently fail to solve? -Too big and complex for you to even get going. Barrier of entry, barrier to even starting to make a change is too steep -“Simple but not easy”: hidden layers of …
OVERTHINKING and OVERACTING
There’s overthinking and overacting. There’s a balance to find. The QUICKER you can test and tinker and iterate — the less you have to think. Why bother thinking — if problem naturally solves itself anyway. If the problem is NOT solving itself however — is when you obviously should stop and STRATEGISE. Repeating …
Cycle Of Delusion, Pessimism, Enlightenment
It’s a cycle: -delusion, ignorance, denial -acceptance, pessimism, desperation -growth, enlightenment Examples? –Dunning-Kruger effect –Gartner’s hype cycle –Four stages of competence -and most people you know Let’s explain the cycle: DELUSION, IGNORANCE, DENIAL -Anything you’re not knowledgeable about, don’t have significant experience at — you’re basically ignorant about -Since you’re ignorant — …
Ability to Listen vs Ability to Understand
There’s ability to listen and there’s ability to understand. Ability to listen is how well you listen. Ability to understand is how much you understand. Most people have MEDIOCRE ability to listen. “OK” is good. “GREAT” ability to listen is someone who wants to hear you EVEN if he doesn’t understand. “GREAT” ability …