A rich country is not the one in which the rich people drive around in super cars.

A rich country is one in which even the rich people choose to use public transportation.

Nothing grows you more than almost dying and coming back to tell the tale.

The more I grow old, the more I make peace with how everything is perfect the way it is.

As society gets more and more advanced, the bigger penalty you pay for being a fool.

To not aggressively go out of your way to study the principles of life is to live in 20% efficacy of your true potential.

With each new principle you learn, your efficacy exponentially improves since each principle can cut through the bullshit of your own deceptions for that is the source of all your inefficacy.

Bullshit is like an inhibitor while Truth is like a catalyst.

Life is effectively war. How can you win it without knowing the principles?

Integration happens when you are truly at peace with yourself. when you are in a loving environment. That when you decompress and compress the thoughts in your brain.

This is the diffused mode of thinking vs the focused mode of thinking. The most important thing to take note of is when you are in a diffused more, do not distract yourself with social media and other bullshit.

Social media junk is an inhibitor to integration of your own psyche. This is why doomscrolling is such a creativity killer.

Being Outcome Independent and Goal Oriented.

You will keep working irrespective of whether it would generate results or not. You have to treat work sort of like a lottery ticket.

Taking the ticket is like putting in the work. At the same time, there is no guarantee to get results, although your goal is to get results.

This approach helps you to weed out burn out and stress. Burn out and stress never comes from the work itself that you are doing. It is always about things outside of work, that are loosely connected to your work.

You are worried, if you are working correctly, or that it would produce the results as you need it. That's all bullshit since relevant results can be accumulated over a period of time.

Outcome independence frees you from having to generate outcomes in the immediate moment.
This way you can prioritize long term results, which is what actually matters.

Goal Oriented.

Excerpt from my personal writings: Life is a Game.

Do not get serious about any aspect of life:

Do not get too serious about job, money, status. Do not put too much importance on anything. All these are merely the periphery of life and nothing more. You cannot let the periphery consume the space for the center stage.

These are all just a part of the game. These are side quests. And it should be treated as such.

Life is ultimately play and you are doing nothing but exploring all parts of life.

Life is a game. Money is a mind game. Job is a mind game. Philosophy is also a mind game. Suffering is also a mind game.

Since it is just a game, nothing is fundamentally different from the other.

If you want to play the game, well you have to stay detached from it.
Treat it as a game. Play it artfully.

Study how the game is played and understand its mechanics. Learn the principles, patterns and meta-patterns within the game. Like you learn to play chess. Use your intelligence to figure that out.

You will grow confidence and avoid a lot of Suffering by treating life just like a game. Philosophy is the study of the game.

You would hate the game only if you do not know how to play it yet. Life is the ultimate game.
Life become playful and enjoyable when you have mastered the game, the mind, of all its self deceptions and bullshit.

Be aware that you are indeed playing the game and do not deny it. Cults, religion, science and politics are the biggest games that people play. Observe when people play games.

You love playing the game and is addicted to suffering. If you got everything you wanted out of life, it would cease to be a game. This is why you need to play for the things you think you deserve and not be handed that out on a plate.

You need to play games in the mind to play games in reality. And mind games are all that there is in reality.

Treat the game itself seriously. Life becomes shitty when you have not mastered the game and you bumble through it. You have to game the system.

Selflessness/Love is the biggest abstraction.

Selfishness is the biggest distraction.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

You have not hit the rock bottom if you can feel bad and have enough time and energy to sympathize with yourself.

You would be standing on a nail to figure out a solution to get out the situations asap.

The noblest of joys is that of understanding something.

All corrupt systems will collapse over time. But people tend to underestimate the time they need to collapse and it is a surprise that it can stay corrupt for that long.

The fundamental crux of the issue is that corruption is not some universal bad thing that should take itself out. Mankind is responsible for administering justice to itself.

Authoritarian states convince people that justice is done by pure propaganda alone. By the sheer quantity of it.

Combine that with some form or wealth and you can choose how long you want to remain corrupt as.

People have been predicting the death of Russia and North Korea for decades. Both suffer from rampant corruption and authoritarian regimes. But they are still going on and show no sign of immediate collapse. Western media reporting of the Ukraine war made it seem like Russia was on the verge of losing within a month or two.

None of that really happened.

Adopt a process that suits your unique personality, strength and proclivities.

No two people are the same. Given that you have to keep working for some amount of time, you want to make the process as easier for you so that you can sustain it for long.

Focusing on the negative aspects of the life of others is inversely proportional to the amount of responsibility you take in your own life.

Mankind is it's own self correcting mechanism.

Unless we make it our responsibility to enforce orders, chaos is the default state.

We are more likely to evaluate the risk of doing something, than the risk of not doing anything at all, even when the latter is more risky.

"Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form."

- Da Vinci

An infinitely long game need not have a concept of Justice.

Justice: Whoever wronged you in the present will be punished in the future.

As long as future is yet to come, there is hope for Justice, even though it can be prolonged for infinity. This is the Universal Justice.

As far as mortal being are concerned, there is no Justice for them, because they cannot yet grasp the notion of Universal Justice. For them, Justice delayed is Justice denied.

Delaying Justice is the trick the universe plays on you to let time heal your wounds on it's own.

This is all as far as the victim is concerned.

As far as the oppressor is concerned, Punishment is served immediately in the form of suffering. It is handing over your soul to the devil to torture it and happiness will elude you.

The objective of external methods of punishments is only to aggravate this suffering and not let them do this to more people. People with Trauma tend to traumatize other people.

Mankind is not yet sensitive to the suffering it causes itself and that is a huge problem.

As long as you fail to secure a strong internal locus of control, even the tiniest of external disturbances will knock you off your track.

It is best to ask yourself who you are and what your values are if you find yourself being dissuaded from your goal.

You can act in corrupt and immature ways, and you can still get away with stuff. But life will catch up with you in the long term. (Also known as the Matrix).

Anyone with two brain cells should be ahead of life and not wait long enough to let life teach you to behave. You should know better.