The Real 10x Rule

Source: https://datavizcatalogue.com/methods/stream_graph.html

Believing something as “useless”. I’ve been reading a book Tools of Titans(no endorsement, advertisers don’t give a shit to my blog) since last year without telling someone, for I was surrounded with dumb people who were disinterested. Criticize me, “yea you have no idea of what’s right or wrong people can tell you where you’re wrong”, someone from disinterested crowd would say; now someone who’s from a backward family and from a High School will be grieved by this. They will start reasoning like, “Hey you’re just a computer programmer/artist/[whatever specialization other people believe you have] how can you do that? you took computer science as your subject it’s no way that can happen”. The point is to stop digging yourself when you find yourself in a hole. Well I’ve seem someone who was in Army as a cadet from a very backward family, and this guy became a mechanical engineer and I’m not knowledgeable about him, he did an MBA which is a combination and guess what he did the whole thing silently, he studied for MBA alone and would come to here Rawalpindi, Pakistan while living in Karachi and he would come here take the exam and just go back without anyone’s permission. In other words, he’d gone ahead and he just hustled. So what other people label as useless, be careful. I know one thing, when everyone is going right and they’re not getting any results, if you go left and all I know is that going left doesn’t costs much, like it could be taking a 3-month or 6-month mini-retirement or simply recording videos on YouTube that stuff doesn’t cost much but can have 10x to 100x ROI. Be careful when you label something as right or wrong. Black and white view is dangerous.

For Example for years I thought getting in shape is bad, weight-lifting makes you short because of shared beliefs from my circle. Gym is for dandy kind of people. I had “disbeliefs” about myself. Although getting in shape doesn’t always take going to gym, it just takes a little bit of discipline. I realize I was just putting excuses staying in the prison.

Useful resources:

1 — Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles Munger(there’s a free ebook about online be sure to look up this one totally worth it)

2 — The 4-Hour Chef(there’s also a free audiobook from a website bon bon [dot] com, search 4 hour chef free audiobook on Google)