King Leonidas Strategy

King Leonidas is by far the bravest king and also my favourite. I'll explain later why. But first consider this: We label things as difficult or easy just by ALONE looking at them. We do not consider other factors. What is really true according to my striking observation is that something is difficult in proportion to how many people are trying to do it. That's it. Do what no one else is doing, the 180 degree turn, from whatever masses are listening to. In ancient Persian times, there was no such word as "Democracy". But the greeks, namely Athens under the command of Themistokles who was convinced that the only way to make them apart and then unite them as one nation( The Greeks) was to chase their asses around this relatively new idea known as Democracy. For example, it's a common practice to use words like Glutes and Running as a synonym towards exercise. This is where they all get it wrong. Because now everyone knows one popular idea, it becomes difficult. Tis the man who hands rather a dish or a luxurious branch of protein rich foods: fish, without any guidelines as to how to maintain and next time, how to acquire it for YOURSELF. They can't accept the idea that they can ever teach "trade secrets" in a small, or seemingly small business as fishing. Studies show that competition is good in a STABLE society. Automation applied to an inefficient takes increases inefficiency. Education and resources applied to an unstable society only make it even more unstable. Like the more fitness experts talk about their narrow trade, the more unstable their industry becomes. Competition and exit points increase. What no one dares to ask is that: was that the result of lack of competency or rather, given the level of competition among individuals and workers, a result of set of un-ordered and nebulous beliefs? This is the fundamental question every great industry or even religion asks. This is the first question you ask yourself when you accept Islam, that Was your past self really a result of incompetence or that your brain lacked ordered beliefs and habits/routines?. You come to think that knowledge defeats pre-conceptions. And as we move forward and set systems in place for gathering intelligent information, we learn that it was not our naked mind that was wrong, but what we've been told to believe since we were born. We know Information resolves uncertainty, or that's the idea. In times of difficulty, the question is not "Is it going to happen?" but rather "Who is going to make it happen?". Experience taught us that often, a trauma leads to a renewed self. As they call it Post-traumatic growth. It means there are no single chapters that lead to questions or answers to all different aspects of life. Your life may be stuck in a chapter, but it is after looking at the future, when you realize X person from history did this (or whatever) to overcome such difficult situation, then you are confident that a man's life consists of series of chapter. No one phase answers the questions related to the other. It is only after looking at the lives of those who'd made it, those who did this and that to become who they are now.In other words, it's a meditation practice. You place youd heart and soul into a time of history to absorb as much as you can. Then you arrange your knowledge. And next thing we know, you are King Leonidas in your own life. You exposed yourself to diverse experiences and you said to yourself, "If I had to think about imitating X person from history, by reading books and getting mental models from people of all ages from all the basic disciplines, how would I practice it so much that it becomes as easy as meditation? or in other words, If I had to meditate by reading books about person X from history and if I had to re-create those events in my personal life, how would I do it?". That's the question to ask. Leonidas had a beautiful wife (well, I'm judging from movie, of course I have no idea of how she looked like in real life) I would say she lived a life synonomous to the life of King himself, but only with more diverse and multidisciplinary experiences.

The Steve Aoki Manifesto

The way to become superhuman is to actually study "the" superhumans in history. For Example, a training tip from some person world class at some sports.

Lemon is just an example. If you take Eggs as breakfast, then if you're like me, you may want to add a little bit of citrus acid, mostly in form of bacteria for example fermented foods.

Every good assisstant reflects the processes of his master. Like Cogmam from Transformers: The Last Knight. He is keen to imitate his master in emotional regulation. The opposite is also true. A master helps his "Cogman" even overcome the most innate fear: Fear of unknown.

It's a matter of doubling down on your strengths. Even if I am pretty straight in school, doesn't mean I'm poised to do similar to what teacher is an expert at: fear based lectures. I would rather get good grades and then build habits around my strengths. The goal of professional education is to get upfront cash for later developing an exquisite Cash Flow. Through the use of multiple revenue streams, I would build an empire which would bear name Aaliyan. Steve Aoki as a kid was bullied in high school. But he didn't let that kill his strengths. Rather, they used to have a rock band. They played and started with just 5 people, the 5 narrow and true fans. At a critical point in life, the only way he overcame circumstances was by developing habits around his strengths. That's what every good assistant does. He learns from his master and then doesn't remain in his shadow for so long. It's important to not forget this rule: remember your goal is to develop habits and routines around strengths. Whether you are in school, college or otherwise, there will be an outlet for creative expression. That's how I see Steve Aoki. That guy is phenomenal. I want to imitate this guy. His principles and then I would make them my own, depending on my unique circumstances.

Protien and fat rich Demi Lovato

In 21st Century, Many people believe it's possible for men and women to compete or as Gal Gadot would say, "to be 50/50", which is men and women get to do stuff equally. I'm happy and cautious to the fact that women still have come far, like women are getting into boxing, MMA and martial arts but still in the end a women has to think about selling herself. We've come far but still we have our ancient primitive traits in us. Our habits change but our nature is parallel to ancient beings. You know one needs to figure out his invisible selling machine. And what does that mean? well, that means basically everyone's gotta figure out his own principles and write them down since it all involves getting your thoughts and mental scarecrows on paper and actually dealing with them. I think when we say how and why Justin Bieber was able to create such an empire, well I think he cleared the path for hell a lot of people through his poetry. One of the things I've learned from these artists is to let go. Meaning when you honestly put out what's in your heart, you speak your values and you somehow get your winning principles or winning formula. That formula conjures the invisible selling machine.

Demi Lovato eats eggs, actually egg white pancake and then after 5 hours she eats Turkey lettuce wrap with sweet potato, sounds like a Ketogenic Diet and after 3 hours she eats chicken stir-fry with brown rice and SPINACH and then 4 hours later she eats Pork tenderloin with green beans. The point is I am Muslim and personally we are not allowed to eat Pork, so I would personally stick to Eggs and protein bars and some protien shakes and a baked pizza on Saturdays, which are cheat days for me.

Well, if we go to whiteboard, here is the pattern:

Pancake egg taken -> followed up with oatmeal and applesauce and fruit -> protien and fat taken at small intervals throughout the day -> Some veges added -> some bacteria added -> alternated with beans -> exercise/workout started -> Burpees and other things added -> Jiujitsu practiced -> Good Butt maintained -> The result is Demi we see on T.V.

Well, for me the above process or chart is called P.E.R.T. and it's actually a bit meta, meaning we ask this question what would a rich/[any nebulous term] man do or say? and we put an event like say "Person exercised" which is like Noun + Verb/Acitivity... you get it. Ask yourself this question after every event, "What happened just before this" and then follow up with the cycle. You know, no process is difficult to be not deconstructed. Ask question, sequence things, select, assign and eliminate failure points. Then put stakes and you're good to go. To me this is how you attract photons or sub-atomic particles like Quanta from the other part of the world by deliberately asking specific questions and trying to deconstruct habits/routines of rich people. This is how we create the invisible selling machine and multiply it within the economy as more and more people use it. So our original question that women can compete with men? yes both have Genes and bacterial ratios different and both has fibrosis in muscles or whatever in different ratios but both complement each other. Let's get our own invisible selling machine and be our own version of Demi Lovato. But remember whenever you find yourself away or asking, "How the hell does that guy do that?" then go to whiteboard and have good old, "What would [mentor name] do or say?" and write an event and work your way backwards from there by asking "What happened just before this?" between and after every successive event. Let's kick some ass. I really feel like fighting a SUMO. Let's call this session Whiteboard Kick-Up.

Mechanics of Beauty

The beauty that leads to most success is not characterized by stationarity. Whether stationarity of ideas, the body or the beauty itself. Beautiful people, if you will, have to have a lot of "moving" chemicals in order to maintain their beauty. Steve Jobs once was in India and after he came back to America, his skin was brownish so much that his parents had difficulty recognizing him on the Airport. To me this shows the mechanical beauty of Apple products. If you look back on the recent future, when radios were the big thing, when variable rewards and short-term action, which I'll explain later, were fueled and directed towards "tuning the radio", Apple stepped up and created "1000 Songs in the Pocket", for those who don't know, I mean the iPod. It's not that iPod doesn't have radio, which it has, but it stepped up and created a new category or more accurately an iGadget. This book with the name "Hooked" by Nir Eyal(it's not a made-up name; this book has 2000+ reviews on Amazon; all 4.5 Star +). The book states this model known as Hook model or Hook Cycle.

Trigger, Action, [Variable] Reward, Investment.
The mechanical beauty of Ford cars is their triggers. If you start the car and you don't have your seat-belt on, well then the car shows the sign and beeps. That beep is an external trigger. As soon as you've spent some time practicing that and after some days, you'd notice you automatically saddle up your electric horse as you step in. Then you may open your iPod and hit Play. The tape player may connect to iTunes or iPod automatically through God-knows Bluetooth, and ta da! Shakira baby! Then when you've used the product, you start investing, hence the use of iTunes. When you use iTunes, well now you subscribe and pay money for the songs. That is investment in the form of money. When the new ford comes and there's a software upgrade for your car, well then you invest your "time", if the upgrade is free. And for that variable reward, radio is unknown in a sense as you change frequencies, you get a channel that maybe you like and maybe you don't. But you stuck with what you like and slowly you start building habits around that. Then maybe you call them and that's another form of investment. Whatever the habit structure, you get the idea.