If you do something, make sure that you do it to be the best. It doesn't matter what you do. It doesn't matter what people say about it. If you do something with your best efforts and become the best in it, you'll know all knowledge about that specific thing to be some lame crap.
And that was my life for 10 years. I was a high-class hooker. Call me a courtesan, call girl, escort, whatever you want. But basically I was a hooker. Just very well paid.' She looks at her ring, an enormous pear-shaped diamond, and adjusts it. 'Very well paid.
Why? Did you think that this was impossible!!!?? Shame on you!
She earned £10,000 a night - at her peak £20,000, and £40,000 for a weekend. ('No one earns that money now,' she says. 'Prices have gone down in the last five years. Changing times.')
This is a 100% true story. This girl just did it right. So many hot girls get into prostitution and ruin their lives. Sure it's not the best job at all. It's not even the easiest. But what happens to the girl is her responsibility. The problem and the solution is the profession. Look at the lifestyle of the one's who made prostitution their solution.
What makes a £10,000-£20,000 girl? 'Looks and training. We were professionals. We'd need to be funny, a laugh, party all night. Or cool and clever, discreet and well-mannered. You could never be fazed by power or mega money - or what you were asked to do.' She says the top girls are 'healthy' - they go to the gym. 'They don't do drugs, smoke or drink. Sometimes you're up all night, you need to look after yourself.' The top 10 are 'champion racehorses'. Others are 'more hard-wearing'.
Did anybody thought of this as a possibility or an opportunity? I'm pretty sure that only few in a million did. The ones who went to the top doing their best in what they can perform well and excel others becomes the anomaly. The definition loses its ability to define what he/she is at a certain point. That when you conquer the filed. It doesn't matter what your field is. You can do this with anything if you have enough passion for it.
She's been to Barneys in New York and to Paris to shop. The first time she was bought clothes by a client, it was £7,000 dresses in Prada and four pairs of shoes. 'He kept saying, "Are you sure that's enough, don't you want anything else?"' She's also been given gadgets - the latest Mac, iPads, iPhones - and handbags ('a lot of handbags').
Cool, right...? But most of the prostitutes do't end up here. They just come to make a living. Some even degrades the profession. No matter what your profession is there is over 90% probability that there could be something better and even noble. But you why should you degrade your profession. If you don't like your job, ditch it! If you keep doing your job, give you maximum effort to it.
Maybe I'll marry a rich man,' she says. 'If not, I'll start my own business.' Does she think she'll ever fall in love? Have children? Have a normal life? 'Maybe. I hope.' She shrugs. 'It's hard to think about it. Right now, I just want to make money.
Have a clear definition of what you do. Love what you do or ditch what you do. Always perform at your best and be tactical. Don't let the definitions about your work/profession cloud your vision. When you do you best and become the best, those definitions won't mean a thing. They don't have any absolute value. So stop thinking and do it at your best and give all you got before expanding your own horizons.
Tell me what's risky. Going to school and learn well and going to college to get a good degree to get a good job and have a stable life with a proper income. This is the greatest risk you can ever take. But many thinks the opposite. That's a dumb delusion that happens due to ignorance. Let me tell you why. There is inflation and there are two types of people: the ones who keep getting richer and the ones who getting poorer. Or simply you can say the rich and the poor. It's a spiral. You get what you are accustomed to due to a complicated process.
I'll skip the complicated process since this isn't a book. Now let's look at the history. Check on the inflation and check on the increasing of salaries. See anything....? The increase of the salary is not in par with the inflation. The freedom of the budget is getting more and more restricted. The technological evolution gives the illusion of an increased comfort. But if you look at what's right in front of your very eyes you'll see that a stable job = getting poorer day by day.
You'll have to work harder on saving money and you'll get yourself into a conservation mood. When your body gets less food, it adapts by managing with less colorizes. This is what the people with a job are doing. They are survivors. They are the deer. They are the cattle. At best they are the dogs who are well fed and taken care of because someone is getting a great use out of his/her life. Don't be someone's bitch unless you are doing it for hobby. You can be a hunter. But there are better places. You can be a chief; a god; a legend.
First read this post. Now do the thinking. You have to let go of all paths. You have to create your own path in your own ways. That's because everyone has their own compatible ways. If you find something much similar to what you are compatible with; then learn form it. You don't have to do all the learning. There are many people who have gone through experiences on their own. Learn from their existing experiences. Turn to the legends. See the paths they have taken. Analyze them. Read their successes and read read their failures. Analyze them and bring out the great truths behind their marvelous achievements. Most importantly, find your own methods to add into the list.
You'll discover the rest of the story on your own. You should be able to do since only smart and wise people stay with slickr-flikr. So I'll go on with disillusioning and warnings. You always hear about the people who deviated from the "path" and ended up being homeless and etc. The society says that they sucked at their lives because they didn't stick with the so called non-risky path. That's BULLSHIT!!! It happens due to lack of tactics.
All the legends had a strategy. They had their tactics. They thought about the next few decades of their lives since they were small kids and sticked with the plan. Learn about criminology. First they abhor crime. When they stick with crime they become accustomed to it and become naturally and effortlessly good at it. They become duck to water in crime. When you stick with your decisions your reality adapts. All the things you desire will be naturally achieved. Remember what I said about morning decisions. You don't have to micromanage everything. Just give a single command and be cool. Everything else will be naturally taken care of.
The ones who doesn't have the tactics and other related stuff, f@<ks themselves up. They don't initiate anything and ends up being total failures. What you need is good strategies and tactics. I'm not talking about plans. I'm talking about the plan without a plan.
Don't aim at the middle class. Give it up. Stick to your intuition and tactics. If you don't stick to them you'll be f@<ked. If you utilize everything properly, your life will rock. You'll have the things that you dream of. you'll have your wish list completed. You wouldn't be really taking any risk if you have your tactics and flexibility. Don't trap yourself in a cell which keeps getting smaller and smaller. Get out of the cell and enjoy the prospers which are getting larger and larger. It's your time to give up the risky stability and skyrocket into awesomeness. Take your decision and live i awesomeness like a god.
Every morning you can decide how you
start the day. So what are you gonna do after getting out of the bed. I mean
things apart from brushing your teeth and etc. are you gonna plan your day? Why
are you gonna get your daily motivation? Are you gonna be ambitious? Why? Why
can’t you just chill out. It’s not a difficult thing to do, right? No….wrong.
simply being cool in the morning is one of the most difficult things to do in
the world as well as one of the greatest things to do as a human.
Every
morning people have plans. They have dreams to
achieve. So what? Do you need to constantly feed you conscious that you are
gonna be successful and live a happy life. If you constantly remind yourself
that you need to succeed and shake the world, it means you are not all that
successful or happy. If you are just calm and cool all 24/7, it’s a reminder for
you conscious that all is fine and everything is going totally awesome. Don’t
waste your time thinking about the things you need to achieve. This will
actually slow you down. Just chill. That’s all you’ve got to do.
If
you wanna live healthy don’t feed your brain some thoughts of a great immune
system and a healthy life. If you want success in your business, don’t go
tuning your brain to make it give you the best decisions and answers. It’s
retarded (from a relative POV). If you are calm and chilling all reality will
be calm and chilling. You don’t have to micromanage everything in your life. Think
you have a huge business empire. Now tell me what’s easier and more efficient:
is it handling everything about you empire and taking care of all the important
decisions or take this single decision of hiring a your empire a great CEO?
The
physical conditions can affect your psychological state if you let it. But you
can decide to take over and turn the tables. Your cool mindset will manage
everything. Your body’s functions will change to give you the best health and you
wouldn’t be putting any effort to make it happen. You don’t manage your heart
beat or breathing. But it all happens perfectly and effortlessly. That’s what
does gonna happen when you are just chilling. But I’m talking about really
being cool. I’m not talking about some bullshit like forcing yourself into
being cool and intentionally making yourself not interact with all the crap
around you. This effort
will ruin everything.
When
you get up in the morning don’t attach yourself into goals and ambitions. Just be
cool. Just relax and observe. You’ll see the context well and you’ll know the
best possible ways to do anything you want. All you have to do is cause the
effects after understanding the context. Don’t micromanage your life. Decide
it to be cool and relaxing and your body and consciousness will make it happen
with zero or minimum effort.
Then what is the plan…
it’s called you; sometimes you+ your partners. That’s the best plan and also
the easiest plan in application as a well as the rarest plan to be created. Making
you “the plan” takes a lot of psycho-engineering. It’s not something that
anyone can do. But the ones who can do it can reach the top with a lot of ease.
When you are the plan, no event can shake you. When you don’t have a rigid
plan/schedule to be followed, you’ll be planning everything on the spot on the
go. Thus the plan will be more and more contextual and will also save a lot of
time for you while making you ridiculously flexible.
“Being the plan” is
time consuming almost never ending process. “Being the plan” is bit like being
a strategy player. Think about StarCraft
or Civilization games. Try playing
something like DotA 2. If that is too much,
try some mini games from here. When
you keep playing the game you become extra good at it. Trying to memorize all the
tips and tricks and 200-300 page guides is a major pain and takes a lot of
effort. Sometimes you can’t even think of something to do. If you play the game
to learn and evolve from and through the game instead of playing like a
mechanical idiot, you’ll get a hang of the huge load of the stuff all over the
screen. The more you play the better you become.
If
I summarize the idea, all I have to say is play some strategy games for a
while. Observe and dissect that experience. Then use the same core principles
in everyday planning. Simply put: stop planning and get ready to handle anything
and out everything on your desired track. That’s all about it. This paragraph
is all you need. Btu I can give some more insight.
A plan is
preparing for something that isn’t even in the present. The universe is
enwrapped in variables. Sure you can set your alarm to wake you up at A.M. but
think about the number of things that could happen to your phone in the next 12
hours. What would you do then? Being the plan is like programing yourself to
get up at the desired time. Even if your plan (if you had one) get screwed, you
are totally fine. Think about all the time and effort this will save. You can
put all the effort of planning into some other thing. Your efficiency will go
above 100% cuz you are transcending the human ways and capacity for doing
certain things.
What
you need to know is how each element affects and interacts with each other. Everything
is connected. So be connected. Don’t get into a cell created in your mind and
spend all the time planning. Be like joker. Think about how he deals with
everything in Dark Knight. That’s what being the plan means. You get to stay
cool and you get to keep the upper hand over the rest of the society.
Be in the moment and learn
from very moment. Don’t get so serious about having a proper plan. You don’t need
a one. All you need is yourself with lots of templates. Think of LEGO pieces. When
you get into playing with them you get to know how they produce their effects. Then
you can make marvelous creations without any planning. You just start building
and after some time you have something totally awesome and avant-garde.
Get to know the little
parts. Keep the objective in mind. Start handling everything in small
contextual levels and engineer what you want like Nano-engineers. Nanotech
says: building the big thing sucks. Build the small ones to end up as the big
thing. Then you’ll get something perfectly refined.
So you are not living an
all happy life. So what should you do? Study hard and go to college and finally
find a good job so that you can afford to live a good life with a good house, a
good BMW/Benz and a fine husband/wife…??/ Now come on. Is that it? Why would
you work hard to accomplish your parent’s or loved one’s dream of you becoming
a good respected citizen like a lecturer, engineer, surgeon or a manager of
some company. That’s pathetic. Why?...just look forward and look far. See anything??
You’ll see yourself working hard
managing a business or doing surgeries. Think about a committed surgeon who
works hard even sleeplessly and earn a good respect and a good chunk of money. Now
think about the owner of the hospital who doesn’t do a single thing and earn
because of the hardworking surgeon. The world is for the smart ones; not for
the hardworking douchebag. Why would you work hard so that you would work hard
in your future to? As the greatest creation is a creator, the greatest effort
is the effort that ceases all efforts for all eternity.
Don’t
waste your time chasing the society’s goals and dumb ambitions. They will ruin
your potential awesomeness. Something is indeed better than nothing but loosing
greatness for just “something” is pure pathetic and idiotic. Don’t be an idiot.Find about the great personalities and super rich people. Many started at
places way below your standards. Some were just low class laborers pulling
weights before owning hundreds of millions. Most of them did it through their own effort. Most of them were not unique awesome minds like Tesla or Einstein. They
were just average people who had nothing left to do but to succeed. But you are
continuously clinging onto an obstacle called “the path to a happy life”. Working
for a hobby is happiness. But working for living is patheticness. Many people
ended up as millionaires because they happened to lose the grip of the path for
your happy life with a 50,000-100,000 dollar car and other stuff that goes along
the same patheticness and ended up with multimillion dollar cars and houses and
most importantly: a life that they don’t
have to work to live happily ever after.
Your limits and restrictions can end up
getting really useful if you start using them properly. You don’t have to
embrace the limits. It’s not a good thing to do. But you can’t always deal with
the limits you have. When you have those limits you can improve this thing
called maximum efficiency. When faced with restrictions, many scums try to deal
with what they’ve got and be satisfied with what they have. That’s pathetic.
Instead try to get what you want with the resources you have. You may not get
the exact awesome output you desire. But you’ll end up with something close to
what you desire. Most importantly you’ll know to get the best out of every
single thing and when you have enough resources, you’ll be doing hell a lot
more than what you should be able to accomplish.
Think
about Japanese CGI movies. Try Appleseed movies, Resident Evil movies and such. They are done with like
10% the budget of a Hollywood animated movie. Many times I feel those Japanese
movies to be a lot better than the Hollywood movies. If you carefully observe
some of those movies, you’ll notice what they have done. They are pretty nifty
tricks and they work like a charm when elevating the standards of the movie.
After that you’ll feel like many Hollywood movies are just showing off their
budget instead of using them properly.
When
you face restrictions re-do your plans. Focus on your efficiency. Find the best
ways to do things. I have improved a lot of skills by using a 512kbps net
connection. I’m more efficient than anybody I know when it comes to using
internet resources. When you face with you limits; don’t embrace them. Never even
think about managing with what you have and as something pragmatic. Wishing for
a miracle to happen is dumb and retarded. Being realistic is planning for a
miracle. f@<k
the stats. Let you work do all the f@<king. Always
look for ways to get what you want done with what you have got. That’s what
they did in the
Moonjob.
I tried doing some SPEEDRuns and kept ending up
with long articles. I just keep finding more and more to write. What would
happen if you keep reading something while thinking about it? You may discover
many things that aren’t even on the article. That’s why
you really need to bake your noodle about everything. I wrote this post on marketing after seeing a post on Seth’s
blog. The post just said “Marketing used to be what you say. But now
marketing is what you do.”
I
saw way beyond the meaning of those words. I felt that that tiny post isn’t a proper
insight about marketing. So I made this post. I made it up because I saw beyond
those 2 little sentences. If you look at everything in a visionary way you’ll
come up with great revelation just by seeing a simple sentence or even a word
or symbol. If you think about that Seth’s post, you may come up with a lot of
great insight. Understanding is not enough. First you have to comprehend, but
you also have to bake the noodle about what you understand.
I
do provide a lot of insight. But that’s not all of it. Sometimes I just write a
few words as a topic and end up with a 500++ words post effortlessly. All you
have to do is getting into the habit of thinking about what you get to realize.
That’s the main point about being visionary. You become visionary by thinking
about something. It’s about understanding a hell a lot more that what it
actually is. Sometimes you may know about an idea even better than the creators
of the idea. After that point, you own the idea. Bill Gates was the first to
come up with the tablet PC. But Steve Jobs is the one who really owned it. I started
the track; you keep going ahead. It’ll save me a lot of time and effort.
Theories are not really theories. They are
commentaries and interpretations. The real theories are quite simple. A teenager
can understand them. What’s necessary is wisdom. Intelligence can help. But it’s
a mere catalyst. IQ doesn’t count when you realize the truth. IQ only helps, it
never does the thing. Wisdom is seeing through appearances. Wisdom is seeing everything
in its fundamental level.
Intelligence
is like a commentary or an interpretation. It’s like dealing with everything as
chemicals, metals, molecules, energy, liquids, solids……… and etc. wisdom is
dealing with everything as quanta. Wisdom cannot me memorized or measured in
conventional ways. Wisdom cannot be even thought. But knowledge and intelligence
can be. That’s why those mere catalysts are so much revered. People talk much
about good stuff. But rarely pays any attention to great marvels. Just think
about how much people talk about some BMW or a Benz and how much they talk
about a limited edition like Lamborghini
Veneno Roadster.
THERE IS NO TEACHING IN PHYSICS
As I have grown older, I have come more and
more to the conclusion that there is no teaching
In physics, there is only inspiration to
learn. ... The teacher may stimulate the mind of the student...
But the journey to that goal must be made by
the student himself.
W. F. G. Swann, ‘‘The Teaching of Physics,’’
Am. J. Phys. 19~3!, 182–187 ~1951!
Think what would happen if the schooling system
was based on this. True there are so many wired equations and stuff in Quantum
Mechanics. But those things are just commentaries. Yep, that’s what they are. Each
one of those complex equations and stuff are either instruments (tools for
calculation) or some commentary. When I learn QM many times I feel like they
are trying to prove and axiom or over-complicating something because some guys
can’t digest simplicity.
[W]e cannot think of any object
apart from the
possibility of its connection with
other things.
Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 2.0121.
If everything that we call
‘‘being’’ and ‘‘nonbeing’’
only to track down, so far as it
is possible, relations
between the manifold aspects of
our experience.
Bohr2
I. WHAT QUANTUM MECHANICS IS
TRYING TO
TELL US
I would like to describe an attitude toward
quantum mechanics
which, whether or not it clarifies the
interpretational
problems that continue to plague the subject,
at least sets
them in a rather different perspective. This
point of view
alters somewhat the language used to address
these issues—a
glossary is provided in Appendix C—and it may
offer a less
perplexing basis for teaching quantum
mechanics or explaining
it to nonspecialists. It is based on one
fundamental insight,
perhaps best introduced by an analogy.
My complete answer to the late 19th century
question
‘‘what is electrodynamics trying to tell us’’
would simply be
this:
Fields in empty space have
physical reality; the
medium that supports them does
not.
Having thus removed the mystery from
electrodynamics, let
me immediately do the same for quantum
mechanics:
Correlations have physical
reality; that which
they correlate does not.
The first proposition probably sounded as
bizarre to most late
19th century physicists as the second sounds
to us today; I
expect that the second will sound as boringly
obvious to late
21st century physicists as the first sounds to
us today.
And that’s all there is to it. The rest is
commentary.
If you like you can read the commentary fromhere. But the commentary is not really necessary. Commentary is just a mode of
communication. It’s like words. Knowing all the equations is like knowing the
word and grammar. It helps but to compulsory to be enlightened. Don’t ditch the
equations. But understand that they are just some guy’s explanation. I
developed a theory which I called “Perception Theory” at that time, all on my
own while I was just 15. It say quite the same thing what Quantum Information
Theory says. Actually QIT only grasps about 60% of what my theory grasped at
that time. I didn’t even use a single equation in developing the theory (which
made it loose the calculation aspects of it). Now the thing is almost no one
would get a single thing (even a wise one) if I don’t personally coach him/her
for an hour or two at least.
Trust
me, those equations and crappy interpretations worth a lot; but not for your
personal understanding. You can live even without knowing a single word. But
knowing words can help you a real lot. Don’t get hooked up in to the so called
theories. They are not theories most of the time. They are just different
peoples interpretations. The only proper way to teach something is by being
heuristic. You’ll have to re-interpret everything for yourself. Having a PhD
or not is none of the concerns. Most of the PhD holders are just a bunch of
parrots. Most of them (or their entitlements) don’t worth a shit.
Just walk your own path. Not knowing your way
around someone else’s interpretation or commentary doesn’t prove your
inability. Knowing your way around them certainly proves your ability. But that
ability is just a bonus for yourself; it’s not something compulsory for your transcendence.
Why would your spirit get broken? Go to the fundamental level
and figure out the answer. Anyone can come up with many reasons. But all those
reasons are just the wrapper of the real answer. The reason your spirit get
broken is that you have a one in the first place. The problem is not the
outside stuff that comes. The real problem is your spirit. This is why I always
say that the problem itself is the answer.
If
you don’t want your spirit to get broken ever in your life all you have to do
is transcend spirit; not guarding it. You protect something because you can lose
it. The act of protection defines your belonging as something that can be taken
away from you. The source of your problem is that you try to protect your
spirit. When there is no spirit, what would you protect? You can’t just stop
trying to protect. Holding on to spirit itself is a protection of spirit. As long
as you have this spirit, it can be broken at some point.
Sure
you can strengthen your spirit so that it wouldn’t break. But there is no
eternal guarantee that it is impossible to be broken. If you don’t have a
spirit you can know for sure that it is absolutely impossible to break you
down. Then how do you give up this annoying problematic spirit of yours? Just
forget it and be cool. Spirit is associated with ego. Spirit is strength. Spirit
is diamond and diamond is breakable.
Osho
said nothing kills ego like playfulness. That’s just his way. But your spirit
wouldn’t exist while you are happy and cool. Being cool is being like wind. You
can be the void if you want. Void is the ultimate. But first try wind. Just don’t
take anything into head. Whether it’s praise or a disgrace, a profit or a loss,
prosperity or misery just don’t take it into head. Just watch it as if you are
watching a movie. You don’t have to respond or interact. Just don’t care. You wouldn’t
care about what you see in a movie or a game. You just enjoy it, learn from it
and be cool about it. That’s all you've got to do.
You
are wasting your effort if you put your high spirit into action. Spirit is hazardous.
Don’t waste your time telling yourself I’ll somehow get over all these things
and…….you know all that motivational crap. Don’t go for it. Just be like okay I
got f@<ked and now I’ll take care of this or I’ll start a company and make
it worth 100 million bucks in in 10 years and stop it there. Consider these
statements as saying I’ll take my breakfast from the KFC.
Don’t be some idiot with high
spirit. Just put away your spirit. It’ll save you lots of time and effort.
Batman is one of the worst superhero models for you. Be a Randian hero. Not some martyr.
Batman is awesome to watch (especially when handled by Nolan. Dark Knight is one
of my favorite franchises ever) but the one of the worst lives to live as. Give
up your spirit and just be cool. It will save you a lot of trouble and you’ll
never have to even think about a spirit of yours getting broken.
I just saw this pic and started typing. Being in
a good mood is a decision. Good job if you have already figured that out. If you
have, most likely you have already taken that decision. Most people don’t take
this kind of a decision because they feel like they have to pay something to
get something. Equivalent exchange is one of the most wicked creations and craziest
delusions of human kind (Human 1.0 to be precise).
There
is no price for anything other than what it replaces. The only
price you will ever pay for anything is a negative one. But you need to
know to extract what you need. It’s simple. But you have trained your life to
make sure you avoid it at all cost. That’s how pathetic this Human 1.0 is. You
can decide yourself to feel anything. It doesn’t matter whether is happiness or
some other thing you want to feel. You can feel it at your will. But many
people search for outside influences to take decisions. When generally taken,
human existence is a mere phenomenon just as an ameba.
Take
over your consciousness. Actually you already have control and you are using
that control to make sure that you are controlled by outside forces. This article by Osho will help a lot to deal with
all this. Ignorance is the source of all problems and also the only fundamental
source. When you are fully enlightened, you don’t perceive any problems. If there
is anything that someone would see as a problem, you’ll be seeing
the answer in the very problem.
Human
kind is plagued in psycho-illnesses. I’m not talking about the stuff that you think
that needs to be shown to a psychiatrist. I’m just saying if you can find or
even imagine anything that is more ecstatic and free than your current state,
you are ill. Many names have been used to describe this total cure such as
enlightenment or nirvana. Total cure is all about letting
go. When you let go of everything that can be defined, you transcend
everything.
All
you have to do is give up that delusion that you have to pay a price. You simply
decide to be felt awesome. You can decide your way into anything. Check some of
my previous tips
& tricks if you are new. Read more about Psycho-Engineering.
It’s something it’s my re-invention of self-designing which means to be your
own personal god. You don’t have to give a f@<k about the world. Just be god
for yourself.
Reality
is a subjective experience. Try some hardcore Buddhism or Quantum Mechanics (try this
first). You’ll figure out a lot on your own. Actually that is what’s necessary.
Telling the truth doesn’t consume
much time, but convincing it does. I found a 30 page pdf and as
described by the writer, he has 10 words of truth. The rest is just some
commentary. You feel what you decide to feel. That’s 7 words and that’s enough to make your life 100%
ecstatic. You’ll live happy and awesome up to a point that the whole society
around you will be shaken and distressed. This is a firsthand experience.
There
is no path to happiness or anything. You simply be awesome. It’s a decision. You
don’t have to ask the society like the OS of the computer you are using. You
simply decide your way into awesomeness. Realize this simple fact. It’s over
your very eyes. But you won’t see it if you are looking for some path. You only
need to realize the things you can just simply see. Be happy. Be cool and never
try to live a happy life.
Ideas…those are just
thoughts: But way more remarkable than average thoughts. Thoughts are called
ideas/concepts/philosophies when they are really great and remarkable. After doing
my first SPEEDRun I discovered this thing called an idea wave. Remember those
idea overloads
and idea sprints
I’ve talked about. This is the combined version of it with some catalysts. You can
actually make every single thought that comes to your mind an idea. Not just an
average one, but a really good one. It might not always be the most avant-garde
idea. But it’s always extremely good.
Idea wave
is not something you do or initiate. It’s a state of mind such as happiness or sorrow.
When you get into the state, ideas comes in waves like the waves in the sea. It
doesn’t stop. You can go on for hours. Last night I spent about an hour
sleeplessly due to the after effects of the endless idea waves. I could
actually create at least 250% faster. If you are already good at idea overloads
and sprints, you should know how much this 250% is. The general population
should find piles of evidence to scientifically (!?!) prove the impossibility of
such an occurrence as Galileo would have proved the impossibility of nuclear energy
as in “The Profiles of Future” by Arthur C. Clerk.
First of all why would you need
to do the action of coming up with an idea. Thoughts are endless. There is no
stopping of thoughts. Try if you can spend a moment without a thought. Thoughts
have a strong association with the non-staticness of the mind. When you rest
your mind and take control which means deciding what to do and standing by that
decision, your intentions become the reality. There is no process of coming up
with great ideas. Just be your own god and decide what happens to you. Thoughts
come up endlessly and without a break. Decide those thoughts to be totally awesome
and avant-garde as well as useful.
The
rest is about mastering and getting a good grip on this. On YouTube, I saw Seth
Godin saying that he write multiple posts a day and post like 1 out of 4-5
which he finds to be good enough. Check his blog.
Some of those posts are tiny simple stuff. All of them are good, but I felt
sorry for the guy. He has got it all wrong. You never try to come up with something
good enough. You just sit down>> pick a topic>> start typing with
the subject on your mind. If you think about anything other than the subject,
you are f@<ked. When the only thing that your conscious know is your decision
to write something great, that’s what happens: Simple as that. When you click the
Microsoft Word icon you get Word and nothing else. When you click on Bioshock
icon, you get to play Bioshock.
Simply decide yourself
to come up with great ideas and you’ll get it all. Just stick with the
decision. You are who you think you are. Be your god and take the decisions. Thoughts
come endlessly. Decide what thoughts you should perceive. Don’t decide to have
worthless random thoughts. When you can look at anything turn your head towards
the direction that has the best visuals. It’s all about self-conquest.
Note: You might want to get
familiar with sprints and
overloads.
It’s not compulsory. But many will need to evolve in multiple steps instead of
a single shift in the state of mind.
You might hit a roadblock once in a while when you are
engaged in creative work. It might get difficult to have a good flaw and
progress. You might not be able to come up with the required level of ideas.
You might end up frustrated. Even idea
overloads and idea
sprints might look like it takes too much time if you are not a skilled
think tank. That’s when you can learn something from torrents.
I
happen to notice the similarity between the way I create and the way torrents
are downloaded. When things are slow torrents become a great blessing. Torrents
are fast because they don’t go from the beginning to the end. When your work is
vast it’s unwise to go from the start to the finish. Idea sprints
and overloads
were founded while creating ideas; not creating a specific idea. Those techniques
can drench you in a tsunami of ideas which is sometimes too much to handle. But
every idea doesn’t fir where you are.
If you construct a
500 page novel from 25-30 places at once, it’s easy for you to come up with an
idea that fits your slot cuz you have a 30 of them instead of just one. You’ll
come up with a new idea while living your daily life and you’ll be able to incorporate
that idea into your work. Sometimes your 500 pages might end up getting close
to 1000. I’ve started short stories which couldn’t even finish 10% of the story
even after 50 pages.
Another
advantage is that you know where you are going. You won’t be like: okay I did
this part and now what?!! You one huge task will be broken into several
micro-tasks. It’s always easier to connect 2 nearby dots. You’ll have a good
roadmap. Things will also have a good flow. Think about an advertising campaign.
If you are creating both the first phase and final phase simultaneously, there
will be a great connection between them. A long set of campaigns will feel like
a one big event. Nothing in your creation will seem isolated. There are many
awesome Marvel super heroes. But none of the movies were as successful as
Avengers. You should notice the flow of everything in the movie.
If
you are stuck with your work, the reason may be your idiocy of forcing your
creativity on one thing. Learn from the torrents you download regularly. Start from
multiple places at once and start filling the gaps. This is the best way to
create massive works of sheer awesomeness unless you can’t handle being too
awesome. If you can’t handle a good cognitive load, this might not be the thing
for you. If you don’t like getting more than you intended to create, this isn’t
for you. But if you are the person who wants to break your own standards of creativity
and awesomeness, this is the path if you haven’t already taken it.
Still there are some
idiots who think marketing is about what you say. Effective marketing does
happen from what you do. But the perfect marketing is the marketing that is
more than 100% efficient. Marketing is about what you plant. It’s about the
chain reactions you initiate. Simply put, it means making your customers do the
marketing.
Look
at Facebook, Google, EA and such companies. Facebook created a good fan base of
few millions. Those few million had their fun and those people asked and insisted
people they know to join Facebook. People used to use Google search and started
to call it Googling instead of searching. This gave a lot of promotion to
Google search. One kid comes to the school with a Pokémon trading card pack and
now everybody in the class needs a one. Think about Lamborghini, Ferrari and
etc. they give their customers something to brag about. They give them very
exclusive designs, high prices and other trivia to talk about. So the customers
go showing off the Ferrari’s products everywhere. Just think about the things a
person would do after buying a 0.5 million dollar car.
This
is the sort of things you have to do. You just have to give your customers
something to brag about. When the iPhone and iPad came out, the customers could
go and show off their gadgets to everyone. It was a refreshing experience.
Apple Inc. doesn’t put much of money for their advertising campaigns because
fans of Apple do a lot of promoting. You don’t have to be world famous to pull
this off. There was a restaurant which became highly popular because it was
built over an old cemetery. It’s a fascinating experience for the customers.
Many people go to Wal-Mart
or Wal-Mart equivalents because they know everything is cheaper there. Everyone
tells about it to the people they know and everyone becomes subscribers. Not many
people leave Windows and move to a different OS. When kids are taught to use
PCs they are taught to use Microsoft Office. Just think why???
Marketing
is about affecting the mentality of people. First you have to approach
them in a way that you can enter deep into their minds. Then you conquer their
minds by giving them what they would enjoy. Remember this to be a partnership.
You are creating a pact with your customers. Make them a part of your work. Give
them all you can to talk about and they will talk about you. That’s all there
is to marketing. That’s how games like Dark Souls became
popular. CoD and Halo was marketed by people who loved its multiplayer and
wanted to play it with friends.
Instead of showing people how
much you care about them, give them something to talk about. Have your specific
targets. Mass marketing is a total waste. Always work with a mindset which
thinks of your customers as business partners. You give them what they love
plus all new refreshing experiences and they start a promotion campaign for
you. Many of your customers may not do a lot. But remember, ocean is just a multitude
of small drops of water collected at a single place.
Be
the chief.
Don’t make it happen by yourself. Plant some good seeds. Take care of your
customers. Everybody talks about visiting Disneyland because they enjoy the
experience. Make your campaign involve your customers. Think a bit about how
much you were connected to those 4th wall breaking games and movies.
Break the barriers between you and you targets. Sex and relationships are at
its best when it’s approached as a team play.
Forget
all the overcomplicated bullshit taught about marketing. Marketing is about
communication and you don’t have to learn anything about communications just
like you don’t have to learn to f@<k. think about something that made you
talk hyped up and talk with your friends. Analyze and know what made you act in
such a way. Then go and create it. Initiate a chain reaction. Marketing is not
just your job; but also the job of the customers who use your
products/services.
Promoting something is
not about: this is awesome. Come get it. Thank you.
It’s all about: come, see
and enjoy. Let your friends know about us too. If you come again you’ll have a
good time. That’s what happen in Disneyland and the whole world is your Disneyland.