I have been learning about investments, stock market and human behaviour lately. For anyone who is interested in growing their wealth there are a lot of videos on YouTube nowadays. In Fact it is filled with financial advice that you might find it hard to stick to one strategy. Good luck with that! But as a general advice I would say don't forget basics when you learn advanced mathematics of financial models. When you learn Sharpe’s ratios and variances and Betas you might forget that the values are not in the stock or in business but in human minds. If you forget this you might just become a number man and be fooled by the system at some point. If you know this, at least you will know why you were fooled at some point, by these financial advisers. But here is an interesting fact. Let's look at sharpe’s ratio to understand life. Sharpe's ratio definition Sharpe’s ratio is a mathematical model used to describe the risk adjusted return for an investment. This is a fundamental concept. Any return is associated with a risk. When you have two investments with the same return for a period of time, the pathway they have taken can be markedly different on a plot. Consider the following two graphs. To select the good investment we need to quantify the return to the fluctuations as a ratio. As these fluctuations show how risky the return is. More fluctuations will have less sharpe’s ratio. If you understand the concept upto this point it's good. I will give the formula for sharpe’s ratio below for the completeness of the article. Here’s the graph showing two stocks with equal final returns but different Sharpe ratios: Stock A (High Sharpe Ratio) : Has a smoother, more stable growth curve due to lower volatility. Stock B (Low Sharpe Ratio) : Shows a choppier, more volatile path to the same end value. Sharpe's ratio formula From sharpe's ratio to Anxiety But it made me realise why we behave as we are in society. Consider my article on riding waves of life . Here I discussed how people fluctuate differently although it is the same wave. Consider two people and above graphs show how they behave to external stimuli. Some show a steady response. They hardly change their course of life to external factors. They appear like good investments. Others behave like Apple stock! They fluctuate to stimuli. Their values skyrocket during the day and dip down at night. One day feels good to be alive and the other day is Anxiety prone. But when you consider a period of time the outcome may appear the same. The average return may be equal or even higher than the steady risk free ride. Sharpe's ratio to careers We can expand this idea to individual careers. Consider an actor to a clerk in a private company. The sharpe’s ratio for an Acting career is going to be higher. It's risky. You are going to have parties and shit that makes you feel high, like Mike Posner sang. Next day you might wake up and commit suicide due to stress and boredom without knowing what to do, like his friend Avicci. So for some of the folk who act, risk adjusted return (Sharpe's ratio) can even be less than a clerk!. But it varies depending on individual characteristics. We can consider happiness, fulfillment or containment as the return of life, anxiety and stress the risk we take. An engineer on the other hand has a better chance of having good returns for the risk than a clerk. That is why everyone wants to be an engineer rather than a clerk.  Optimal Sharpe’s ratio for life. But as you can see the optimal sharpe’s ratio doesn't come when we do the work with the highest return. It depends also on our internal characteristics of how much we fluctuate to external stimuli. Or the Anxiety component or the risk. As you can see it's variable with time also. When you progress in your career you might take more responsibilities to make a higher return. You might get promoted in your job. From the outset this might feel like the right thing to do. But it might limit your freedom and increase Anxiety to a level that risk adjusted return is far less than the previous. Nowonder why people are stressed when they become CEO's. Unlimited life. How to achieve Limitless happiness? Now let's look at an interesting phenomenon. Consider a life with zero risk. You do not take any risk. Sometimes we meet these people, in corners of PUBs, rural villages, in churches and In libraries. What do you think about their sharps ratio? When the risk is near zero, the sharpe’s ratio can be very high. Which means proportionately the happiness they feel can be overwhelming. Even having lunch can generate more relative happiness than getting a seven or eight figure bonus. Because the risk adjusted return is better for someone who takes minimal risk. I am sure you had a great deal of thinking and ideas by this time. Why don't you comment on a few and we can have a discussion for aiming a quality life with better sharpe’s ratios and less anxiety?

Why Life is a tragedy when close up but comedy in long shot? This is a famous quote by Charlie Chaplin. Who is the greatest comedian of the era, where the world had been in chaos battered by wars. It is not difficult to understand the thoughts which lead to above conclusion. Which are the tragedies surrounded his life and prevailed during that time. Disease and death were very common. So yes, life is a tragedy in close up. But why comedy in a long shot? What was he trying to say. To understand you must watch a Charlie Chaplin movie. https://unsplash.com/@hulkiokantabak Yes, those Black and white still movies capture the normal life of a commoner. He does find it hilarious to work in an assembly line of a factory . Doing the same task everyday hours and hours. So, he shows what will happen if the production line speeds up. He would struggle to keep up wrenching the nuts 😢 he supposed to do. It's both tragic and hilarious at the same time. To me when i look at his quote with a philosophical eye, I do understand that this is a good way to look at life. Maybe there are more examples to near and far views of life. Let's take another mindful journey. Let's look at a divorce Let's look at a divorce. I am sure if you have lived long enough in the world you may have experienced divorce in a different capacity. You may have divorced yourself. Or one of your friends. Or in a drama, or you are a divorce lawyer. Now that is tragedy, right? Heated arguments mental trauma, separation of kids and financial loses. Anyone would avoid a divorce if they can live happily ever after like a fairy tale. So, life is tragedy for a divorcing couple. But where is the comedy in it? To see that we need to follow the intuition of Charlie Chaplin. You can do it while on your couch and it is similar to a Charlie Chaplin movie. Let's expand the lifeline of a divorcing couple few years either side. In the past they married vowing each other in front of a gathering to be happy forever to forgive each other without any remorse in mistakes. To help and respect and on this day, they did feel that they are the happiest as each of them possessed that one thing that they craved for so long, that is their partner. However , that after years apart we find that this is not true. Things did change and they must be laughing at each other that they were wrong about their partner. And I am sure if we move forward time some years into the future after the divorce. Same thing would happen. They will yet again have another new opinion about their partner without knowing the absurdity of it . Life is a comedy after all in long shot. https://unsplash.com/@aleknewton But what about comedy? There is a hidden message inside of it. Although life is a comedy in a long shot. Isn't it absurd that life is a comedy after all. Isn't it stupid to succumb to cancer, after making trouble to earn a million dollars. The comedy of life is not visible when you are just focused on just a small piece of life. This is the exact point I have illustrated in the previous article about Weak dictators of our century . So, if someone told that he is the most powerful person on earth, I would say, yes, true and not true at the same time. Nothing seems sustainable. Yet it seems so, at this moment. What a better place to start, Life story of Charlie Chaplin himself. For the information of the article, I had to read about the life story of the Charlie Chaplin. And it surprised me, behind that comedian He had not been good at his family life and treating others. Ironically, he had many divorces in his life, one after the other. And after all it is hilarious to think about the same person, who read the above quote seems to be referring to himself. Teenage wives, multiple divorces a sadistic Tyrant? And it seems we are glad to be him being a comedian and not a dictator. https://unsplash.com/@bostonpubliclibrary Let's look back at our lives, when time allows, to make a mindful note of the comedy in it. After all life is a tragedy in close up but a comedy in long shot.

We talk about being successful, healthy and productive in life. We think about progress, and growth will bring about the happiness that we seek. All these assumptions seem to be true and false at the same time. Why and how they become a relative truth is written previously in articles about truth. Often there is a grossly ignored path and an approach we can take in life. I can summarise it as follows. Sometimes in life being present is enough. Because the best feeling you can have is what you are having now. This is hard to prove. Yet the closer you are, to the end of your life the more you will understand the relative truth in this statement becomes bigger. Let's try to understand it with a few examples. Life Consider myself, sitting on the couch, on a Sunday, typing out these thoughts. I don't use fancy stuff, like a notepad or a fountain pen. I do not have fun doing it, it's not rewarding like watching another motivational video, or even an episode of the day of the Jackal. But when I look at the experience I know, this has to be the best experience I should expect from life, from now. Only problem that I have is, there is no problem with it. Life seems to flow without any problem at this exact moment. But the mind often fails to understand this fact. The mind compares this tranquil experience I am having now with either past or future. Mind projects a vision of a future, which doesn't exist. And which will never exist. When I relax and type, the mind brings out the memories of the last vacation I went to. I spent a decent amount of time in the east coast of the country, sunbathing and having a swim, just a week ago. And now the mind values this over the experience I am having now. And I can see this is a totally absurd process of mind. I think we already know what it means. These are two different experiences in two different places of the single function called life. Just like apple stock on a good day and an average day having two different values. Why does the mind try to tie them together? It just creates a less value to the current experience, yet when I know there is only one experience available for me to access and that is just happening now, it makes me think, maybe just being present is enough in life. Listen to Mr Warren Buffet. Mr Buffet I watched the Great advice given by the great teachers of investment, Mr Warren buffet himself told, we should ignore the daily fluctuations of the values of stocks that we have invested. Trusting the universe to work for us in the long run. In his case trusting the market. As long as you are aware of the process, there is no need to react every up and down which happens each second in time. I think this perspective is a win-win situation not only for the investor but also for the mindfulness enthusiast. It seems every path that is created in nature is not straight!  Sometimes being present is enough, in life. Now let's look at our mindfulness practice. Let's hope you feel something now. Maybe happiness. Maybe sadness, maybe confusion, maybe anger. There is no point in trying to get rid of this feeling. There is no point hoping you will be happy in the future, when you are sad now. Sadness is what you have now and you have to work with it. That is the best feeling you will get as long as you are aware of it. Once you are aware of this and ignore the fact that your value is at an all time low, you will notice that it will not remain  low as you pictured in the past. It will slowly rise, sometimes it can rebound and recover the values you have lost, leaving you eleated for a day. But still you should be humble, and observe as that is there all we can do in life. Just to be passive observers while maintaining our ethical grounds.

Picking up dollar bills on your way home Imagine you are walking towards your home after tiring day of working. A wet Monday hard work at office and you curse the society that you're living which made you this kind of a person, yet on your way home you see a hundred-dollar bill for that matter even one dollar bill just lying on the pavement, ah ha someone has dropped a valuable dollar. Depending on your budget in this case of course with a limited low-income budget, imagine yourself what would you do. A sunset There will be a temptation to pick it up once you know the value of the dollar bill, it may be different reasons sometimes you will use it to buy something for yourself sometimes you will use it to give it to a beggar, or even to a charity, sometimes you will invest it for your future to make it grow into a thousand dollars by next year, but the moment you pick it up I would say almost all the people who have a consciousness about the actions would know that is not the right thing to do. The dollar bill or the hundred-dollar bill is dropped by someone who owned it, and who knew the value of it as it is. Of course, the owner will never come to pick it up, he might even not notice that he has dropped this ever. But the problem is, what is the alternative to pick it up? It is just to ignore it and walk away. Just to ignore it and walk away like you have not seen the value of it. Because every action that we do, everyone knows it is right or wrong, the God doesn't have to be there to judge you. Some people would say they don't feel at all, whether it's right or wrong but again I would say they are just lying, from the morning till night, we are monitoring ourselves. Our own consciousness monitors what we do all the time, and with each choice we know it is right or wrong good or bad. Now with this new wisdom you can look at life and understand the process of mindfulness. Imagine you are there to walk at the beach in the afternoon, you see the beautiful sunset making golden clouds and the reflecting sea, it's music to your ears, refreshing for your eyes and cozy and fresh to your skin. Just like a dollar bill what do you do? would you pick it up and try to enjoy it? or would you just leave it alone? It is a choice that you have to make. It is very subtle how we get attached even to a valueless thing like a sunset, like a dollar bill, which can buy you just valueless sunsets. A dollar bill How to free the consciousness. Are you brave enough not to get attached to this feeling or this moment? I think if you do get attached, then your consciousness will feel guilty and if you do not, then your consciousness will be free. I'm not telling you to try to get detached from things. It is impossible to do. But if you understand the guilty is not what you see, but in what you do, after you see. Just do not serve a cup of tea, to the people who are just passing by. Which I'm doing, by writing this all down for you. I'm creating some values which is the world's way of doing things. If you destroy the values, and understand the valuelessness of the things, then that would be the way of a seeker who is searching for the meaning of life or simply truth. thank you for reading.

Imagine a party where everyone is invited, including you and all of your gang. And it is a very big party. Everyone is there, your bosses, your friends, celebrities, unknown guests. And the party is like one of the parties given by great Gatsby. But imagine you are unable to attend this party. At the last moment, something just came up. Now you are unable to attend. Let's say it's not you who is unable to attend. Maybe it's your friend who is the biggest star of the group. Now he is not coming. Can you imagine such a situation? Remember the Great Gatsby ? He threw all his parties yet did not see the presence of everyone but the absence of Daisy. What do you think would happen then? Party It is likely most of them would carry on without even realizing that you are not there. But for the people who matter in your life, they will feel the presence of your absence. They might even talk about it. When you are absent, especially if you are the chief guest, everyone will miss you. But it made me realize sometimes the absence makes more presence than the presence in life. Now imagine the party you are having is the ability for you to enjoy the life. And the members are your eyes ears nose and the tongue. Why absence make more sense than presence? Imagine you have no eyes, what would the world be like? If you can't imagine, of course I have written a whole article about it, which is called a blind man's word . Imagine that you don't have a yes, what is a world without any sound . Can you imagine that? Then you know sometimes it is nice to think about the absence. As we are so much used to the presence that we take it granted, what we should cherish. Imagine having no arms. Can you imagine that? I bet you cannot. I also could not until I met a boy who lost all his limbs . So, when you feel that the life is unfair, the life gives you hard, difficult and unexpected things which you cannot even think about solving. Think twice, you are already at the party, you are just complaining about Beer. When you have this attitude about life, sometimes you don't need anything to enjoy which I would say the biggest advantage. Party You can just walk on the road like a beggar and still watch the party going on in your mind without getting drunk with beer. So, let's be mindful for a day, let's be mindful for a minute. And remember the absence makes more sense than the presence. I can give you 100 examples to prove the sentence, but the best would be leave everything and say nothing. As that would be the best example from the lot. Maybe it is nothing for after all. But we need something to hang on until our minds get wiser with information. I just realized why when Passenger sang about Letting her go, it became an instant hit as he was talking about the presence of absence. If you can't remember look at the lyrics. Well, you only need the light when it's burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow Only know you love her when you let her go Thank you for reading.

I am going to tell you about a little bit of a scary story today and I can be 100% guarantee you this is an actual situation which I encountered. Maybe it was good five years ago. I met a young man who was in his mid-twenties, got electrocuted while he was at a funeral. So, he has attended a funeral with his father far away from home and as a tradition in our country we hoist white flags when there is a funeral. And this young boy with his friends was there hoisting flags and suddenly the iron bar he was holding with the flag has touched the electric wire. And then he got electrocuted while holding this bar. Fortunately, he did not die but unfortunately when I met him, he already had his right leg amputated below his knee and left hand amputated at the level of the wrist. Electricity He was transferred from a local hospital because he had refused to amputate his remaining arm and leg. And when saw him, he was in his tears, and he did not want to talk to anyone regarding amputating. I felt so moved and unable to help him, yet I had to explain him the reality that unless we amputate his remaining limb, which was infected and dying and the hand, which was just a charred, putrefied, dead part, we are unable to save his life. It was essential to get rid of all the dead tissue. And I did I sat with him for half an hour talked about life, shared his sorrow and got him consented for the amputation and he went to theatre, came back with his remaining arm and leg also chopped over. Now there is this young beautiful boy who was well, riding motorcycles, helping his father, ambitious to live a good life with his fiancé. But now unable to walk, even to feed himself he needed his father's help, while he was supposed to help his father when he is old. So, the life is a strange affair, I wonder what we are searching for in life when we meet such people. I am not saying everyone in our society is going to live in such tragic endings. But there is always a risk in life. Before moving further, I would like to know what you think about the incident. At the time of this incident, I did think about it much either. I was more focused on getting him healed and make him walk again on his prosthetic limbs. Unfortunately, there was no support for him to have functional prosthetic hands. They were a poor family. He spent one month in the hospital and after that, I have never seen him again. Yet at various times, when I see or hear a person with electrocution, it almost always reminds me of him. Just like the man who walked on a train and got electrocuted and dropped dead, in India. Someone would say it's tragic, agree that it is tragic. Life Then, it's just a couple of months ago, I have written about Paul Alexander , who is also a victim of such a tragedy at young age but lived up to a full potential of a happy life, with only available resources being a movable and thinkable head. Maybe it's a matter of looking at the life in a different angle. Maybe there is even hope of the successful life, even after such a tragedy. As long as you live, we have to carry our lives to burden of our life. Are you out of dangers of electrocution? I have been electrocuted once when I was a kid, I made fascinating circuit to light up a series of bulbs. It was really nice feeling to build something, as a kid, and I wanted to test it. I put the plug in and got electrocuted the moment I turned on the switch. As I kept the electric circuit on my bare hand, forgetting that it just exposed all the conducting parts directly on my hand. I was a student, but I was fortunate not to get electrocuted with a mega voltage. But am I away from the risk? not at all, we are never away from the risk of life as long as we are living. Negative It raises so many questions when I put the stories like this, just like any newspaper article nowadays. Any news on the TV as it shows so many negative aspects about the life, but there is a different approach all together. And this blog is dedicated entirely for that, which is called Mindfulness approach to life, without thinking about the tragic of life. I can choose to focus my consciousness about this process of moment, where I am apparently away from dangers, resting comfortably in my chair. And having a monologue about life with you, and I realize there is no risk to life at this point. In this exact moment, even better. I could ask the question, what is life and what is the existence anyway. Hope I didn't scare you too much, but the idea is simple. As long as you are not having dementia, where you cannot think about yourself, there is always means to persist life until it comes to its natural conclusions about itself. Just focusing on now will make the tragic of life disappear, no matter what it is.

Last year November. In Autumn I visited my aunt, In Austin To meet Her tombstone Who walked among us And gave warm hugs I couldn't bear the sight She was just a cold marble Just a number with her name Just two numbers and a name How unfair is life? Living among dead If you would like to know about life, Spend some time in Cemetery walking. Seriously, everyone who cares about life, and want to succeed in life, should take a walk among dead in a cemetery. And feel what it is like to end up in where we belong after all the success. You can just do it today, and it will be a strange experience to visit there when there is no funeral. Just to meet some tombstones, which are carved with names and dates. Few words to remind a memory of a dead person to the living. And If you walk, you would see fresh stones, standing proud, while the old ones hide the engravings with moss and mold. It is a place where we are scared to walk at night. Often pictured in movies and popular culture as scary. The same people we loved and wished never left us now trying to haunt, living with totally strangers in the cemetery. Rich and poor, old and young, good and bad, criminals and doctors living a dead life. How scary is that for a dream. Do I want to spend time dead, buried alongside my enemies? Should I write my last will to change the title of my Tombstone and the place where it should be built? Should I make a gigantic pyramid to make it last a thousand years into the future? Pyramids Then there is the problem, how can I know that my will be executed when I am dead? Who is going to supervise that my friends and family would not rob me the will. Will I come back as a ghost, if I value my will too much? There are no definite answers to these questions. Not with evidence, for real reasons. Once we know the reality as we see is just another illusion, afterlife and death would make no sense. But first we have to know who is living and who is dying. I see the problem. Stuck within my own prison, I cannot testify about you. You are out of my league anyway. Are you living? Are you dead? there is no method exist for me to tell for sure. But what about me? Am I living? Who am I anyway? Isn't it important to know myself before I start making a successful career? Shouldn't they teach us, about ourselves before we were taught about "What to do in life?". You may think I am a crazy philosopher asking stupid questions. Let's talk about stocks and investments instead. Real things that matter in life. Which stocks did you invest in? If you are in America (majority of my visitors are from USA) and reasonably wealthy you may have invested in stocks. How about some tesla Stocks? You believe what Elon Musk is doing right. Listen to what he has to say about above questions about life. He think, that human consciousness is not advanced enough to answer such questions. So, he takes a different path to make it multiplanetary until we are able to figure out life. The question is do we have to believe him? On which grounds he has come to that conclusion? After trying all his life? No, maybe he spent a couple of years of youth to figure out life and was distracted by the moon instead. The real reason, I was taking about Elon is if you have invested in his stocks, basically which means you are investing indirectly to answer the question "What is life". Is there a better way to do it? Would you trust yourself or Elon Musk in matters of life? Life of numbers Stocks that matters I think wise way to do it is, think about it myself, as it matters to me. That I figure out myself before I am dead and become a tombstone beside unknown people. I refuse to wait until I am sick, I get a cancer or unable to walk. I refuse to everyone who says, success comes first. The truth is no big success matters unless you figure out who you are. A billion dollar question of life. Humans have remarkable ability to replicate nature. Somehow they have figured out ways to persist and overcome death, by keeping records of themselves. Just like DNA, how nature did it millions of years ago. But still trapped. Let's battle individually and discuss together, so we have better chances of winning this stupid game nature has created for us.

Yes. This article contains everything you need to know about happiness. No, you don't need to look anywhere else for definitions, or thousand ways to create happiness. This is it, everything! It's easy and simple. We can start by answering the question "what is happiness" What is happiness? Happiness is a feeling you get. What is a feeling? A feeling is a mental object which your mind recognizes. Just like anger, jealousy and sadness, and thousands more emotions, happiness is just one. Why is it important to objectify happiness like this? It's because once we know characteristics of a mental object, we would know how it originated, how it persists and how it is destroyed. Then the mystery of happiness everyone seeks would no longer be there, and you my friend will be able to create your own happiness. Happy Study of mental objects. We do not have to look far away when it comes to the study of mental objects. There is a great deal of written and spoken information about this subject, and it is called mindfulness. Unfortunately there is abundant miss information as well. That mindfulness is a meditation, used for its benefits to create a calm mind. But I consider mindfulness an experiment, about self. Study of mental objects in your own mind. Watching how they arise, persist and destroy. Origin of a mental object. Birth of a mental object happens when a consciousness meets a replica of the world. Imagine you see a large body of water. This picture you see is not the real thing. It is a replica of the world created by your mind's eye. Combined with past memories you would instantly recognise this as the "sea". And with this recognition a whole lot of arena develops. No longer you will be interacting with a real object, but the altered one your mind creates. By the time you see the waves, the sea is already gone. Now you would be thinking about the waves and sound of the waves. As you can see, mental objects persist when you feed it with your memory. And they are destroyed when a new one takes its place in your consciousness. By this way, during so called living, we would be alternating our consciousness between various mental objects. But there are some objects which are entirely mental. And those are called emotions. Happiness Intelligence Everything about happiness - Emotional intelligence. The fascinating thing about emotions is although they are entirely mental they affect physically as well. Consider sadness and happiness, which is capable of forming tears. We can see that emotions are our judgements to those temporary mental objects associated with the environment. Imagine you feel the breeze while on the beach tossing your hair. And first this would only be a thing. But mind doesn't allow this to happen. And it takes a mental ride, and think "ah, such a bliss, the breeze" and there a value is created which is positive. And this creates another mental object called happiness. Yes, happiness as you see is an illusion. But did you see the problem? The problem is there is nothing outside this process. The problems of life and the solutions we seek are entirely within this process. You can call it subjectivity, but I call it life. Once this is understood, nothing will change. You can go back to whatever stupid thing you have been doing all your life to continue its existence. But with a better chance of creating happiness. As now you know there is nothing fancy about happiness or sadness and it certainly doesn't depend on a pile of money!

I had hard time sticking to habits. Just like you. Yes, I have read those famous hundred books about habits. From BJ Fogg's tiniest habits to Brain Tracy's eating frogs. It still feels yucky to eat my frogs. Whenever I find something new, the mind would say, this is the thing. This is the answer I was looking for. This could potentially solve all my problems. Such as atomic habits. Bloom's taxonomy . Or champion mentality They really did work to extent. But the mind is not consistent. It is by nature fluctuant. And forever changing like the sky. The sky No 56483 Mind changes, moment to moment. This is one of the most important lessons I have learnt from mindfulness. The mind is fluctuating, chaotic at times and calm at other times. What seemed enthusiastic and empowering yesterday is not anymore. Sometimes it's even dull. And sadly there is no explanation to it. I am sure there are thousands of so-called "success gurus" out there who would oppose me when I say this, that the rules or ten steps they give are not going to work. But I think it's because of the lies they preach everyday. They just need followers and believers. The ones who shatter their beliefs and system of lies are basically enemies. Why do they want to make the believers is, only because the believers are the ones who add value to their own ideas. Not the ideas themselves generated are the great, or the ultimate truth. Anyone who follows these visions other than ones which come directly from inside by mindfully observing oneself should be prepared to be perplexed and surprised when life chose to hit with a storm. Money or human values are going to be lost in space like stardust. In this way the mind is remarkably similar to the sky. Can you see the remarkable similarity with the sky? I have written about the sky many times in the past. With good reason. Think about it. Have you ever seen a sky which is similar twice ever? It cannot happen. We can artificially categorize days as sunny, windy, cloudy and gloomy with occasional storms. Yet it is markedly dynamic. From second to second. A millisecond to millisecond,  the sky changes. Sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, yet no sky is ever going to last any duration more than the time you take to observe it.  The sky No 32456 Why You cannot stick to a habit? Compare this to your mind. It's dynamic. Like the sky is. To make progress, and all the advice from gurus to work, there should be some consistency. I am not sure how many people have seen and understood that. Inconsistency is the inherent nature of the mind. Yet we see some progress, success and positive thinking works. People have really become wealthy and successful spiritually by the metrics of society. But would you believe that it is sustainable? The success and apparent positivity we see in life, is due to our own illusionary vision. Just like we see four seasons in a year, we see consistencies in our mind. Just like we see this summer is like last year summer, we see the motivated and shined mind last whenever we meet our guru. Or in January. But when we look carefully we can see it is not the same motivation. It's just motivation number 342165 which has different reasons than the one before. So can we even call it motivation? When is it a new one each time? Just like the sky and the summer. Now I think I have given enough information for you to forgive yourself when you fail, your next big objective. Or even when you are successful to be humble. It's just the sky. A new sky. And hopefully this insight will make you be on the ground till you horizontalize from the weakness of old age.

Why should we think about After success? The human mind has a remarkable ability to imagine things that even are not there at this moment. And success is one of them. Imagine every human being, everyone who is in college, from kindergarten to the university, has been dreaming of a successful life. But when it comes to the end of life, if you go and ask our elderly generation, what are the implications of success at the point of their life journey? They will have different stories. Some would say it is not about doing a perfect job, earning a lot of money, not even traveling, not even ruling the world with power and wealth. Sometimes at this point in life, success can even mean getting out of bed in the morning without any back pain. Or having a day without a Urinary tract infection. So, everyone who is dreaming of success should ultimately think about what if I become successful, what is there after success? Imagine you are doing your own 3-5 job. Does that mean success comes when you retire, when you get an increment at the end of the year or bonus? Does that mean that you are in a flow with your work, that you don't feel the time passing? Abstract painting But even if that is true, time is going to stop for all of us. Let's say you are Pablo Picasso and you are drawing the life that you dreamed of on a piece of canvas. And you are very happy doing it. Plenty of people admire you. You are loving every second you live on earth. And that is successful. Yet at the end of the day, does this mean that you are able to carry this until you are dead? and after death? It makes enormous sense for me to think about after success rather than the success itself. Let's say there is nothing after success which I should be bothered about, that there is empty space, like a hospice or a retirement home. Then I should ask the question: why success? Why should I tire myself to achieve things that are not even lasting till I close my eyes in 50 years? Once you know the answers to these questions and if you know the answers to these questions now, you are ready to be successful. As now there is a purpose, or no purpose, now there is a target, or no target. Now there is a vision, or no vision. Otherwise, you are guaranteed to fail. Only if you make the utmost priority to solve the equation of life before everything else that you would be a successful person.  Inpatient answer- why after success? For the ones who are inpatient. Like everyone in their twenties, I have a different answer for what we should think about after success. And with good reasons. Consider you want to be wealthy and successful. Every kid dreams of it as that is the picture given to us from society. A happy healthy doctors, lawyers, engineers and pilots. Maybe things will change when we consider a developed society where they would teach children to be happy as well. But, after becoming the dream, the struggle would not end, you will have to struggle to keep the dream alive. Nobody wants to be an Engineer for a day, we need engineers working for us their entire lifetime. Nobody wants a pilot for one day, we need a pilot for each and every flight. We do not need to be a Billionaire for one day, we need to maintain our status for lifetime. Otherwise we would still be failures in life. Consider what it means, because answers to your problems can be there. A good example as follows. Lottery Imagine a random person winning a billion dollar lottery. Do you think he will remain a billionaire in five years? Chances are minimal. But imagine you already are a successful millionaire and you get a lottery and now, you know exactly what you are going to do with this newly achieved wealth. It is not the wealth that matters, it is what you do to keep that wealth or even grow from there. There is plenty of philosophical advice in my blog if you are willing to make a skyscraper or start to sell values . But like I said earlier, this is just a tunnel vision for newbies who cannot think about life beyond wealth and success. Because I cannot help but notice all the millionaires, doctors and engineers of the 1800’s are not there today. Let’s be mindful about life.

The definition. Sometimes you have to risk failure in a game, to win the championship at the end. Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward faster. Sometimes you have to lose the battle if you need to win the war. A champion What is champion Mentality? Champion mentality is not a new concept. If you ask Napoleon he would say, it is wise to lose some battles strategically, to win the war, eventually. If you do not take action and risk faliure, you will never succeed in anything. Look at a toddler who takes the first steps to her mom. Every one of us were such champion's in our lives. We risked a fall from a bicycle, a wrong math, or a wrong grammar when we started to speak. Next obvious question someone should ask is why? Why should we fail in order to win? Why Champion Mentality? Simply put, it's about information. You really don't have to lose, rarely someone can be extremely be lucky to win every game that they start to play. But the more likely scenario in life is that we won't win every game that we play initially. At Least we refine our process, tactics, and mentality in each iteration cycle. With each success and each failure you would have more and more information to make the success more likely. This is what was meant by the iteration cycle, the wise words of entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Practice makes you perfect right? Most important thing we should understand while doing this is that these experiments do not have to be serial. You can run ten different experiments in parallel, and gain more information in 1/10th of the time. How do we apply this 🤔  Example of champion Mentality Imagine you are going to do a business. You can find a capital, and start a business, and run it for 10 years to see whether you succeed or fail. Or you can start ten small businesses and divide your resources into each. And run them one year and see which one has potential and which ones are useless. And more importantly, by the time in 10 years you could have done it 10 times. Which is 100 startups against one. By all means it may not be practical for anyone to do it. But the concept is solid, and lessons that we learn from failure are far more important than success, unless you analyse. Which leads to the famous quote of mine. "I would rather fail in life and know why, than succeed in life and not know how." -magicalmindfulliving  I  am a bit of an extremist, and a mindfulness enthusiast. So let's apply the championship mentality to a monk! Solo Seeker Consider a monk. He has no possession in life. No wealth, no family, no friends. Robes that they wear are not owned by them. In every religion and society we see such individuals. They appear poor, and failures in life. What are they even doing, doing nothing valuable in life? Did you see the similarity? These lonely philosophers deliberately fail in life. To gain more information about life itself. About themselves, about society. They play the game of success in champion mentality. And I bet, when it comes to real things which make us shiver in life, nobody can rob their happiness. Consider disease, old age and death, and the fact that happiest person in the world is a monk. I am sure 😌 answers to these problems, are out of our reach only because we are not champions like them. How about you? What are you going to do with this wisdom of championship mentality?

Mark Zukerburg, Bill Gates and Matt Damon are harvard dropouts. I am not sure there is any person outside congo jungle, republic of china or North korea, who haven't heard the name of one of the above people. They are so famous, and insanely rich, that combined wealth of the former two tech giants would be more than the budget of most of the countries in the world. Consider the following list of people who are college dropouts. You must be reading this article, only because of things they started developing. Microsoft List of famous college Dropouts Steve Jobs  – Dropped out of Reed College Co-founder of Apple Inc. Revolutionized personal computing, smartphones, and digital media. Bill Gates  – Dropped out of Harvard University Co-founder of Microsoft Consistently ranked among the world’s richest individuals. Mark Zuckerberg  – Dropped out of Harvard University Co-founder and CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook) Youngest self-made billionaire in history at one point. Larry Ellison  – Dropped out of the University of Illinois and University of Chicago Co-founder of Oracle Corporation Billionaire tech mogul known for enterprise software. Michael Dell  – Dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin Founder of Dell Technologies Built one of the largest tech companies in the world. Evan Williams  – Dropped out of the University of Nebraska Co-founder of Twitter and Blogger Played a key role in shaping social media. Jan Koum  – Dropped out of San Jose State University Co-founder of WhatsApp Sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion. Travis Kalanick  – Dropped out of UCLA Co-founder of Uber Changed the transportation and gig economy landscape. David Karp  – Dropped out of high school (not just college) Founder of Tumblr Sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Richard Branson  – Dropped out of high school Founder of the Virgin Group Built a global brand in music, airlines, and space travel. Is it a trend that so many dropouts, have become successful in life? Or is it just a random thing which we do not know the true scale? There may be more criminals who are dropouts of colleges and universities than billioneirs. But still, I would say there is some fascinating philosophy behind what we observe from these dropouts. Criminals and Billioneirs. I am not arguing latter group of rare individuals are invariably associated with former group. I just observe the pattern, that a dropout from a college is unlikely going to be a normal individual. By means, normal doesn't mean good. More like a person who has less regard for the formal education, and system of rules of the society. What does this mean? If you excellence in your acedemics, one day you might end up being a professional. Mind you this will take more than half of your life. And you will end up doing a respectable job. It can be from a scientist to a pilot. And you can confine yourself to this frame you have created for yourself framed by others and once you built this wall, there would be no "outside". The tunnel vision will make you see the world in a specific way that you will die without even understanding the true potential of a human consiciousness. But, if you are wise there is another path. And that path is mostly seeked by college dropouts. The fundemental to this path is to understand, that it is just a "Game", like the president Trump once said. The rules of this game were set, by other humans. The punishments of breaking the law are real, they might even make you sit on an electric chair. But even said that, you should understand, it is not real. How can we make rules for a life, which we even did not know how to come by. We just believe in them. When you know this as a fact and know it by first hand, you will realise there is nothing to lose in life. Nothing is a faliure. When you realise the zero of life , nothing is a faliure . Consider what it means.. Having a cancer is not a faliure Having kids, or no kids doesn't matter Having a billion dollers doesn't mean anything, same as having a billion in debt. Being able to travel, or just stuck in a wheelchair doesn't make a restriction. What happened yesterday doesn't make sense, same as tomorrow. It doesn't matter rain, sun or a storm. And you are out of the circle of life, where at peace, freedom from everything which are created by the words of the illusionary mind. And here at this place you can do whatever you like, guided by your own ethical principles. So, no wonder "A college dropout" is a faliure to majority of us in the society while it did not matter to long list of individuals in the above list. However, I suggest what you do with knowledge to be something ethical, and wise, not to end up in a prison like Elezabeth Holmes at Theranos( Another college Dropout).