Universal Insights 🧠

Actual self improvement is this: You used to worry about something. Now you no longer do. This is actual self improvement. If you are worried about the same thing over and over again you haven't improved.

Speed is usually a byproduct of good design. This is why it does not make sense to try to go faster. What you should do is to eliminate the bottlenecks that are in your way. Then you will become faster as a consequence. A good car on a good road will travel at good speed. There is not point trying to burn extra fuel on a crappy road with a crappy engine. Those are the bottlenecks hampering your speed. See speed as a healthy indicator. And a lack of pace should be a negative indicator of critical design flaws in your system.

Genius is virtually indistinguishable from magic. All that magicians do is to trick their viewers into *not seeing* a small insignificant aspect which they themselves found after hours of playing around and exploration. The real magic is in the contrast the magician has spend time in exploration and learning, which led him to uncover a secret which he pulls as a trick on the viewer. Now a genius has also spend a lot of time playing around, and found stuff that are not accessible to the average person. What makes the genius is essentially hidden from the normie. The genius is in hiding all that they learned from the access of the normie. This is why once they reveal the trick, you feel disillusioned and even silly. How did I not see it? The whole trick was to hide it after all. You hide things from yourself only for the pleasure and joy of finding it our later yourself. This is all that you do in life. Exploration and Forgetting in a never ending cycle.

The *state of mind* is the cruicial determinant to how you gauge your performance, well being or consciousness. The state of mind is the enabler or inhibitor. If you want to do things smoothly find the state of mind that lets you do things smoothly. It will differ a lot from person to person, contingent on your emotions, ambitiousness, openness, genetic makeup etc. The state of mind that helps you be a great boxer is not the same state that allows you to be a good student or a musician. Once you find your ideal state of mind and learn to seamlessly switch to it on demand, then everything else that you need to do to excel in the said domain would become a lot more easier.

Research Paper on Stress, Hierarchy & Status.

Life will pass you by as you are making grand plans for it. Take action right now. It is better to die in honor having run it course rather than as flower that never really bloomed.

All the answers to life can be found while contemplating in isolation. It is specific to the individual and you do not appreciate how specific life feels to you different from other people. Which is why answers from other people can only take you so far. You have to find it all alone, in an independent journey of self exploration.

No matter how smart or wise you think you are, you always need God's guidance and luck to move forward in life. Stay humble and classy. The point is to stay humble and classy within. Whatever mockery you choose to display outward is up to you. But what you choose to show outside eventually tend to become your actual personality.

Intelligence is a curse as much as it is a blessing. With above average intelligence, you are sort of burdened with huge responsibility of epic proportions. If things work out, you will lead a spectacular life, and if things go south, there will no bottom to the levels of suffering you will endure.

The false dichotomy of emotions and logic. Emotions are condensed logic. Logic is precipitated emotions. Emotions and logic are like hot and cold. They are essentially the same thing occurring at varying levels of intensity. Logic is low level and low capable of addressing low quantity of information. Emotions are capable of holding such a level of information in a smaller volume. Which is why you stories of great scientists and writers getting great epiphanies which inspires them to go back to their room and jolt down 1000 page essays/novels or great scientific discoveries. A simple emotion was able to capture such a complicated thing as gravity or relativity or Archimedes principle in such a short span of time that they could not even hold that information in their mind any longer. That is what you call an insight. And insight come in the form of sharp emotions. It requires even more self awareness and cognizance to decipher it further, which is what we refer to as intuition, a skill in itself. We normally attribute higher intelligence to people who are able to effortlessly juggle logic, but those people still use emotions to power their work under the hood while no one is watching them. Higher capacity for logic extends to higher capacity for emotions. Which is why talking about IQ or EQ as if they indicate polar opposite skill sets is such a normie mistake to do. The most striking example that comes to mind is that of dogs and cats. Dogs are more intelligent and hence more loving and social. It is able to empathize with the human emotions, precisely because they are more intelligent unlike cats which has zero regard to their human masters even though their survival hinges on their master. It is not the fault of the cat at all. They simply do not possess the means to process the empathy require to bond with humans at a higher level. High IQ psychopaths are often emotionally dysfunctional, meaning they cannot process emotions at all like normal people. Yet they are able to charm and bond with people simply because their elevated IQ privileges them with the computations required to act as if they had emotions. Empathy is computable and hence functionally equivalent to logic and/or emotions. Emotions are analog in nature and to deduce logic from emotions you have to round them close to an arbitrary threshold. Which is why I referred to logic as precipitated emotions. They are an approximation function applied on emotions. On the other hand, if you have lots of logic which is intricately interconnected with each other, you can condense them into one thing which essentially becomes one thing, or one emotions. An emotion act as an abstract cover for a lot of logic which stay securely underneath them. A single drop of tear can hold an ocean of stories behind it.

The Buddhist school of teachings have infected people mind for the worse that "no mind" has become a thing. That idea that desire is the root cause of suffering and that only if you silence your mind, you will reach nirvana is not realistically a practical way to do philosophy for vast majority of the people. Which is why I think this bullshit should die. The fault with western style of thought is that they identify too much with the mind while the eastern school of thought tries to dis-identify from the mind. In this case, a more balanced approach to dealing with the mind is desirable. This mind is an aspect of the being like anything else. You can use the mind just like anything else. Just do not make a huge deal out of it lmao. And crafting philosophies based on no mind or identification with the mind leads to people with crippled and dysfunctional ways of being. The mind is indeed and incredibly sophisticated tool. Which is why people are inclined to knit ideologies and philosophies to control the mind somehow and tame it to act like a dumb tool they have envisioned in their own mind lol. These attempts to cage the mind will only backfire, unless to operating philosophy is more complicated than the mind itself.

The best place to hide secrets is in plain sight. The moment three people know something, it will cease to be a secret. It is only a matter of time. You would normally need more than three people to help carry out the things for you anyway. The best strategy to manage secrets realistically is to hide it in plain sight. Then have a bunch of well designed sophisticated decoys, preferably a couple of them. In this way, the enemy has to use his own mind going to get information about your moves. This is the hardest encryption of all, although not impossible to break. Any mind complex enough to break this would see and appreciate the equivalent mind at play on the other side and refrain from sabotaging the secret to the masses.

The default state of existence is total bliss and eternal love. Perfection is the default state, beyond which you cannot get better. God is one. Devils are many. To create varying shades of experience, you need to demote yourself to varying states of shittyness. The more shitty it gets, the more intense you to the default state of existence, but in the opposite direction. God is cold. There is a limit to how cold it can get. Hell is hot burning sh*thole. Which is why there is no limit to how hot it can get. Life can keep getting shittier and shittier. This life you live right now has a shitty index. All the improvement you do in this life is to make it a little less shitty. A little closer to God. A little closer to perfection. You really cannot not get closer to perfection because there God in you who is trying to find its way back to its authentic self.

The two fundamental requirements to getting anything done at all: 1. Capacity. 2. Will.

I am going through a phase of intellectual purification where I have choose to not expose my intellect to any outside influence for a while. I will choose to not open any social media and let random junk infect my philosophy. So I will refrain from being active on my socials although I have mechanisms in place where I could still post content. Thanks for reading and sharing my content, to all those who found it valuable. You truly are amazing and thanks for letting my influence your mind, even for a short snippet of text that made you think and reflect.

The things that get scheduled are the things that get done. The things that are not scheduled will not get done.

When you take agency and search for information, you are likely to find high quality information. But when information comes in search of you, there are likely to be traps somewhere in the hiding. Be wary of information that comes in search of you.

There is more than enough time in the day for doing all the things you want to do. There is not enough time in the day to waste or to give away to others for not return. There is enough time in the life to waste and still make it. Life is long enough for you to do all the things you want to do, including wasting your time.

Life makes a lot of sense when you realize that humans evolved from chimps. Sometimes I forget that.

If there is one thing you could do to improve the quality of your life, then work on living in sync with your emotions. Your emotions dictate the quality of your life. Everything you do is, more of less, to appease the emotional weasel inside you. If you can get your emotions to work for you, then you have won at life. Managing your external circumstances is equally important, since your emotions feel like it needs a safe and secure surrounding to be happy else it will torment you with endless shit.