Universal Insights 🧠

Do not copy wise minds. Seek what they sought.

Executing bullshit fast only gives bullshit results. I would rather execute a better plan substantially faster,once I have developed the confidence that it will indeed work.

Society doesn't progress by people changing their minds, adopting better ideas & letting old ideas die. Society eliminates old ideas by letting people who hold such ideas, die. A new age of affluence will come only after these scummy boomers rest in their grave. Give time. Only a few people are open minded enough to ditch their old beliefs and adopt new ones. For most people they look at the past, see what worked, and do it again mindlessly. There is little to no thinking or using the brain here.

Why compare yourself to others when you are too busy building the life that you want. The only reason to look into what others are doing is to expand your own possibilities and not to engage in self sabotaging comparisons.

The "Ego Death" as it is phrased is a misnomer. The ego never existed in the first place for it to ever die. Ego is merely a construct much like numbers and alphabets. It never dies. You grow up to realize they were never real in the first place. This buys you freedom from the mental cage you were trapped in. This is the freedom from all the bullshit spun by the ego mind. The more bullshit you hold in your mind, the more shit you feel like and the more you need distractions and copes to, well, cope up with the web of bullshit that you maintain in your head. This explains why all radicals behave the way they do. It's all a cope.

God is not on "your side". And that is okay. God does not take sides & he is not required to. You can be an absolute unit even if God is against you. God has granted you all the freedom to go against him if that is what you wanted. That is what it means to be all loving.

Doing a seeemingly menial task that makes you the vaguely uncomfortable emotionally, holds the biggest value for growth. The moment you come across such tasks is how you know you need to drill it down hard.

The root cause of the most dysfunctional behaviour in your life suffering. The more you suffer the most shitty copes that you have to come up with to get some relief from the suffering. You are more vulnerable to make shitty decisions, develop addictions, get into more trouble and perform less than at your peak when there is a backdrop of constant suffering throughout your life. This is what I call the baseline suffering. This affects the general quality of your life. The fundamental cause of this suffering is the survival concerns of the ego. This suffering is meaningless and petty. But that is the role of the ego. Ego does not have the self awareness to understand that the suffering it causes will only take you back. The baseline suffering is mostly frivilous and concerned with some short term matters that you might not even remember the next day. But you keep thinking about them at the detriment to the quality of your life. Only self awarenss, and understanding of the mechanisms of the ego can tone down the baseline level of suffering in your life.

To succeed and sustain that success, you need to device a system that is well in alignment with your abilities, personality, values and even the circumstances. The times when one size fits all works are long gone. For me personally, I have not met so many people that I resonate with. So there is a good chance that that my values/ablilities and strengths do not align with yours. In which case take the good parts from mine and use it to your advantage.

The best thing that you can buy with your money is time. The best use case of money is so that you can lead a life where you do not need to think about money at all.

You have to establish a certain level of peace and equanimity in your surroundings to tap into elevated realms of consciousness. Without this it is impossible to attain and sustain such experiences. Not having your environment work in your favour is swimming against the flow and you will eventually have too give up. A more based approach is to simply not try to reach higher levels of consciousness if the environment is too unforgiving.

One of the most difficult problems we face is in predicting future and solving the future problems in the present. Imagine the scenarios and prepare for it in advacne. Preemptively solve the problem. It is good to be prepared for something even if it has only a small chance of actualizing. You walk differently when the future is sorted and safe.

"There are three kinds of people: Those who see, those who see when shown, and those who do not see." - Da Vinci

Truth itself is never bitter. It is nice and smooth. But when you are in falsehood, you will have false perceptions of Truth. Your current state of falsehood itself is what creates the resistance, pain and suffering which is the last ditch attempt to maintain itself. When you are in falsehood, you will also have false notions of Truth. Hence the suffering you experience before getting to the Truth. "Truth will set you free, but it will piss you off at first" IF can understand this one idea, then it will make the pursuit of Truth much faster.

There is a time for taking action and there is a time for reflection. For me time taken for reflection is as important as action itself, for you need to understand what you are doing to do it in perfection. Reflection is when you are finding the inspiration for work. People who are in the reflective state often beat themselves up for not producing results. Our society does not practice a concept of reflection at all. The reflective stage is what fuels the execution stage. It is when you set the right expectations to milk the most results of your actions.

Work has many jigsaw puzzle elements. As long as you do not have one piece missing you always fall short. It is a strict binary and deterministic in nature. You do it or not. Either you have it or not. Simply can't afford to miss them. These are what I call as Objects of a problem. Solution is merely about reaching a certain configurations with these objects.

You can have the highest IQ and the highest stress tolerance, but if you do not have the correct system in place, with the correct process and relevant information to make correct decisions on you are Ngmi. Never forget the external aspects of your work since are make or break factors. Your talents and hard work will go down the drain if you do not have a proper assessment of external environment. Only when you know the arena you are playing in can you strategically allocate your precious resources to your maximum advantage.

If you can make it look insignificant, you can make it look effortless. The best way to make it insignificant is to put it in its place with re-contextualization. You are going to struggle when you regard small things with too much importance. Most often these are stuff that don't even matter much. It is much better to be serious about your approach or frame or order. Such things remain under your control and do not change over time. The things that change are insignificant and see them for what it is and do not attach too much importance to it.

The universe is most probably deterministic and to live a noble life is to live in resonance with the laws of the universe. The best way to strike a balance with the frequency is to tune into a sort of pure unadulterated joy you get when you are living right.

The extend to which you can escape the survival mode is the extend to which you have gathered resources for long term thinking and free from short term constraints. We can do great things only when we are assured to some level of safety. Else stress and anxiety will get the better of us.