Progress is increment while results are exponential.

You might see nothing happened for 99 days and everything happens on the hundredth day.

You have to keep grinding the whole time.

Keep track of your progress to not let it go to waste.

Death brings suffering and misery only to those who haven't yet died.

The one experiencing death is going through the most beautiful and blissful thing that you can ever experience. The ultimate liberation.

At least, at the very least, you should admit that you don't know.

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Are you open to the truth about death?

Best time saver: Stop doing stupid shit.

Best energy saver: Stop injecting your mind & body with stupid shit.

Simple way to have more time & energy in your life.

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Most are content with knowledge because it provides an illusion of knowing.

Having played Chess early on, is a huge advantage when it comes to decisiveness, later in life.

It teaches you to take ACTION immediately after you THINK.

THINK & ACT.

All action of yours must be preceded with well thought out and clearly reasoned motivations. You need a thinking system that you could use to take action even if the position you are in offers you only incomplete information.

Every move must accomplish something or push for some agenda. Else you are letting the enemy take the drivers seat and his agenda to be in the forefront.

If you take too much time to think on one move, you lose on time. You have a very limited time in life as in chess. So when the time is up, you must make a move no matter what.

The best thing you learn from chess is to balance thought and action. You can't be biased towards one.

Dismiss the "take action bro"
and the "analysis paralysis" guy. Both come short to ruthless action preceded by a concentrated and calm thought process.

Big and long plans have more points of failure since they have to accommodate for ambiguity about the future.

Have short and quick plans that deliver instant results, however small they may be. It might not appear like a big result to anyone else around you. No one made one big stroke of genius and got successful.

Make small plans, act on it and deliver micro-results. Accumulate it over a decade and voila you have a virtuoso.

What is it that never fails to motivate you?

Something so simple yet so profound.

For me, it's a starry night.

A clear night sky is enough to lift me up from whatever I am struggling with. It just fills me to the brim with awe and astonishment.

Such is what I call a "source motivation".

The trick to never ending motivation is to find such things and link it with your daily life/work. This is quite tricky because you also need to take care of your finances and these two are not always mutually cohesive. So be strategic about it. In real life, you should do what is necessary, not what motivates you.

People like Leonardo Da vinci could produce genius level art because he has an infinite level of motivation and drive. He was always connected with his source motivation.

Contemplate and go back to your childhood memories to find your source-motivation(s). Just find one or two of them.

You must be so driven that reality itself is the biggest motivation for you. That is the goal.

There is no such thing as over preparation or over communication.

You can never do either of them enough.

More often than not, you are under prepared.
More often than not, you under communicate.

Do it effectively. Do it more.

Sadness and misery is the root of all addictions.

Whenever you are about to start a new endeavor, the first few ideas you have about the field are going to be trash.

You have to perfect your ideas only with action. Action trains the model.

I think during the early years of childhood the mother is more important than the father, and during teenage years the father is more important than the mother.

A cold, calculated, strategic swiftly, but calmly executed action is more valuable than Grind all day type action. I call this as the blind action because it is severely lacking in vision.

Remember that the results of your actions are pareto distributed. 20% of your actions are responsible for 80% of the results.

The only exception when you need not take calculated action is when you are stuck in a rut of your own mind. A constant overthinking loop can be broken only with action, whether it be calculated or blind action.

When you are stuck in a rut, take blind action. Don't waste your time in needless calculations. Your mind is too confused to engage in strategic and nuanced thinking. Get out of the action less rut, first.

Characteristics of flow states:

1) Heightened and intense perception of reality.

2) Perception of time slows down or fastens up
(Usually slows down)

3) People spending time in flow states are generally more happy and do productive invaluable work.

4) OVERLOAD your mind with *lots* of *small* directly acheiveable tasks.

If the size of the tasks are too big, you will give up. Also have lots of such small tasks. Go as small as you possibly can.

Do not rush the process beyond your capabilities. Although you need to have a vitality to complete the task as reasonably fast as possible.

Slow and getting the work done is better than going fast and crashing.

4) How to achieve a flow state?

Observation. Curiosity of a child. Fascination.

Over thinking is the number one flow state inhibitor.

Think using reality/perception itself as directly as possible.

Feels like the work is doing itself for you, instead of you doing the work.

Block out a fixed unit of time (at least 90 min) before you sit down to work. No distractions.

Distractions kill flow state like overthinking, worrying while you are engaged in your work.

Your interpretations of reality severely augments and distorts the perception of objective reality.

Everything would instantly fall into place if you lived life at high intensity.

Literally nothing could be in between you and what you want. The problem is that you lack the intensity of life.

Live life at high intensity.

For most people, including yourself, high intensity takes the form of pressure and desperation. It's sad that it has become this way, but it is the way it is.

If you are genuinely under high pressure that is a notch or two above your comfort zone, then this is your opportunity to turn up the intensity of life.

Ignoring and postponing this opportunity will cost your growth dearly.

The biggest thing I learned this year is to do extremely difficult things in extremely difficult situations.

ie Stress Tolerance.

I knew this was important, but I thought that the fact that it's stressful is due to lack of preparation or knowledge. This is never the case since you can't prepare enough and you always work with partial knowledge. It's the rule, not the exception.

Stress can hamper the quality of work. Usually for tasks that require high IQ, elite decisions making and other skills, you can't let stress hamper the quality of your decisions.

But for most of life, people do not obsess about the quality of work, so stress hampering the quality of work is something you can get away with fairly often.

But always make it your goal to create something brand new, a version the world has never seen before.

Do highly difficult work in high pressure situations.

Difficult work = making decisions at the moment.

High pressure = have a long term objective to meet.

To decrease pressure, forget the long term consequences. Don't attempt to decrease pressure right from the beginning. The pressure is a reminder of the things you have left to do. Do the work and let the pressure automatically subside.

Do it so much that you forget the long term consequences.

You learn more from "unexpected results" than from getting things right the first time

Mastery is a function of innate talent intensified with extreme effort.

In order to be master of any craft:

- You need to have the talent for it
- You need to be practicing it with intense effort.