Friday reflections.

Rapid fire lessons from my failures.

A thread. If you read books without applying the knowledge, you will just become a book shelf.

“The most successful people manage themselves.”

— Peter Drucker

How to succeed.

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How to find your strengths?

Write down your vision of the future.

Check in a year later to compare the reality with your expectations.

This feedback analysis show you what you’re actually good at,

Rather than what you thought you were good at.

How to live a good life.

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Enjoy whatever that happens.

Detach from the results.

Strive for excellence.

Do your best.

Accept.

How to be the thrive in this chaotic world.

Only the paranoid survive.

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Listen.

Keep your ears opened to:
- Self-evaluation
- Constructive feedback
- Market players’ chatters

Be harsh on yourself.

You’ll know what to improve.

Don’t just survive.

How to adapt and thrive.

5 rules.

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Victory begins with you.

Hardships and opponents may beat you.

But you must never beat yourself up.

Laugh in the face of uncertainties.

Push your limit.
Lean into your edge.

Adapt to the situation and win the game.

Victory belongs to the man who’s driven,

All the time.

5 Steps to reclaim your freedom.

How to break free.

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Lose your desire to please.

You don’t live for anyone’s approval.

When you’re pleasing someone,

You give up on your own purpose.

Realise you don’t need permission to live your dreams.

Then you’re free to do anything.

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How to be more productive.

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Administrative work is a necessary pain.

Set aside time for paper work.

Don’t let it disrupt your deep work.

Aspire for power.

Get anything you want in life.

But nothing is free.

Understand the 5 costs to power.

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Visibility.

The more powerful you become,

The bigger a target you’ll be.

You’ll spend enormous energy to maintain an invulnerable image.

Your every action will be placed under scrutiny.

Not everyone is strong enough to handle this.

8 Axioms of strategies and tactics.

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Be realistic.

Measure and manage your resources.

Adjust your goals accordingly.

Have ambitions.

But don’t be in delusion.

How to thrive in a world of chaos.

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Be water.

Change with the change.

Take control.

Decide what form that change will take.

What a father should teach his kids.

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Integrity.

The world is chaotic.

You need to have integrity to stand for your ideas and your people.

If you don’t have a strong backbone,

You’re always bowing.

Nothing is worth selling your soul for.

How to win the battle of life?

Tools to fight your resistance.

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The daily battle:

Your potential Vs. Your resistance.

Each trying to impose its will on another.

Neither gets a complete win, no matter how hard you try.

The key is to lean in to your potential and manifest your best self.

Every. Day.

Use your power of imagination to succeed.

If you can conceive it, you can achieve it.

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Imagination is your ability to create visual images using your sensory information.

Imagination is what separates us form animals.

The fittest imagineers passed on their ideas for further evolution.

How to strategise everything you do to win in this chaotic world.

Plan well or be defeated.

Life is war.

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Victory belongs to the person who defines what’s a win.

Your role as the leader of your plan is to never compromise in achieving your victory.

Fine-tune and calibrate each step of your execution to progress towards the definition.

Never stall.

How to survive and thrive in this brutal world?

Hunt or be hunted.

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Nobody cares about your self-pity.

Increase your competence and take what you deserve.

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”

– Niccolo Machiavelli

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Understand power.

It’s the intentional influence over people’s beliefs, emotions and behaviour.

Wage war against mediocrity.

7 keys to level up your life.

A thread. 1st Key: Purpose

Your purpose is why you live.

You must find it.

Everything that you do must be in service of your purpose.

This is what drives you to be the best you can.

Without a purpose, you live an empty life.

5 chains are holding you back.

Break free.

Reclaim your freedom.

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Lose your desire to please.

You don’t live for anyone’s approval.

When you’re pleasing someone,

You give up on your own purpose.

Realise you don’t need permission to live your dreams.

Then you’re free to do anything.

How to be the best at your work.

Lessons from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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If you want the truth,

You’ve to question traditional standards and societal practices.

Master the art of persuasion.

Learn to get what you want from anyone.

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Simplicity

Humans have a profound desire for simplicity.

When something is simple, people associate it with safety.

Apple sells millions of iPhones because “it just works.”

Use this to your advantage in negotiation.

Don’t complicate things.

Look around you,
I see excess and addictions.

I see zombies walking the streets,
Waiting to die.

What’s wrong with the modern men?

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Mediocrity is accepted and celebrated.

The majority wants you to stay average so they don’t have to work hard.

Everyone is fine to be “good enough”.

Only few have the will to strive for greatness.

I say, screw the middle ground.

Go for 100 or remain as a zero.