I am sure you have heard about the 80/20 rule or Peretto principle which states that 80% of the outcome is achieved by 20% of actions. However, there is more to this simple rule and more and more context which it is applied. You might be a student and say 80% of your exam results are due to only 20% of your work. If you are an entrepreneur 80% of your profit is gained by 20% of your operations. Obvious question one would then ask is AM I WASTING MY TIME? Am I wasting my time? It appears so. Imagine what it means by numbers. If only 20% of your actions made 80% of your results it means 80% of your actions were not productive actions but only contributed to 20% of your results. Can you cut off that 80% of your wasted time? Can you just replicate 20% of your action which was productive and spread it all 100% and then achieve an outcome of 400%? (20%->80%, 20x5 -> 100% -> 80x 5 ->400%) Or does this mean, that you can double your 20% of actual work get 160% result and enjoy 60% of the remaining time surfing YouTube or surfing waves in Hawaii? There seems something wrong when we think about in this way. Pareto Principle : Unsplash Myths About the Pareto Principle It is true, there are math equations supporting this principle. However, when you consider a productive activity, this is almost impractical. It is just an observation about past actions and past results. Imagine the 80% of your wasted time as information. Or "FALIURES". As I mentioned earlier, tolerating failure and moving on is one factor necessary for the success in any field. If you treat your 80% as wasted time, that is just making a blame on yourself. Maybe the 20% of your work is the result of 80% of your wasted time. On the other hand, you might not be able to pinpoint the exact 20% of your actions which made 80% of results. More importantly what about diffuse mode of thinking? What if the 80% of your wasted time is where your mind wandered surfing YouTube but created strange connections between ideas and came as creative revelations while you are working at your desk 20% of your time? Pereto principle makes us believe we can be more productive by cutting off 80% of your workload without a reduction of significant outcome. As you can see this is not true. The 80% wasted time matters in your work, and principle itself says it matters for 20% of your results. We need better framework just to apply this principle. Following may be helpful. How to apply Pareto Principle If you need to priorities your work like the principle suggests, you can use Eisenhower principle instead. It gives you a simple framework to engage in activities with delayed reward, as a part of your system. If you need an optimal functioning system with self-iterate, you might need to build it from scratch considering all the factors. Mandala technique would be a good way to do just that. If your work is lacking creativity, novelty and authenticity, the best way is to collect ideas throughout your day. Yes! you need a way to collect all those 20% of your thoughts so that is not added to the pile of wasted 80%. Either act on it immediately or make a physical note. Learning about Pereto principle doesn't make one suddenly a genius at their own line of work. I have learned about it15-20 years ago. However, I did not feel productive, at least most of my adult years. Feeling of productivity needs more ingredients than a simple principle. I would say it needs a very personalized knowledge, about yourself which cannot be gained by reading a single book. But knowing 1000 Peretto principles can make your life slightly better. A personal philosophy, learning about values, and identifying your own talents would help. Being in a field which makes you replicate your 20% productive time, 3 times per day would help. So, I guess there is no easy way to productivity and living a lazy life. A good quote from Mark Manson would summaries it here. "Life is a suffering, once you know it, chose your suffering, which you are willing to endure the rest of your life"

Why do social Hierarchy exist? Social hierarchy is something exist for the natural purpose of command. It is not just a structure which occurs in human interaction. If you look at any group of animals, you will notice a hierarchy. A group of elephants, a pack of wolves, a family of rabbits. Generally, the ones who are more powerful, and more capable of survival with unique advantage are at the top. In the case of elephants, that would be the mature elephant with a lot of memory. And you can see the similarity between the social hierarchy of humans. Imagine an army without a hierarchy of command. There would be utter chaos when they try to perform a simple command. Everyone will run around everywhere and argue with everyone about whom the actual work should perform. This doesn't happen in armies as there is a command. Social Hierarchy: AI image What comes with status is power. What comes with money is leverage. What comes with status is power. More you have people under your command more you will have power. The money, the power and leverage they have amazing nature of working as a positive feedback loop. Where there is more power that is where more money tends to accumulate. Hence your boss will be paid more as many are working under his name. Owners are paid most as they have leverage with capital, and human resources. This is very good structure which can produce "Miracles" for the capitalist society. However, when it comes to ethical and more futuristic society this would no longer be valid as there are problems. Social Hierarchy creates problems of abuse. When someone is under someone else's command there would be a rule saying "Follow orders". As these orders are in line of the ethical standards this is fine. But what happens naturally is the greed of the people will take over when they climb the ladder of hierarchy. At least some of them will try to abuse the power. They would command to do things to be done which only benefit their personal gains, let it be money, more social gains. The employees would be unable to refuse their commands, unless they are willing to rebel against the system. Most likely they will be treated as outlaws by the system when they do that. So, the ethics where the hierarchy of command exist matters. As a person with certain amount of power in any social construct, we should ask ourselves, am I abusing power? How can I best treat some other person under my command? The best way to treat someone is like a colleague. When you consider this the best way seems to treat the other person as your colleague. This is true for both the boss and the employee. From the perspective of the boss, if you do not treat employees under your command as colleagues, you restrict their behavior. You might blunt their creativity and ability to come up with solutions. You might accumulate a power and status which you might abuse along the way, even without knowing. It might feel good for a decade, but not very good when you lose that power, which inevitably would happen to you. As every system replace their players from time to time. From the perspective of the employee, if you cannot treat your boss like a colleague, you would be giving an unnecessary power over yourself to them. And even if you do not know this will restrict your personal growth as a person. You will forget to realize when unclothed everyone is only a slightly advantaged Monkey. And by design there is no difference between you and anyone who has climbed the social hierarchical ladder. Maybe you should become a boss one day and learn to treat your team members as collogues which is the best way to treat someone without jeopardizing your or their dignity. How about starting from the family?

Creativity comes in bursts. If you work in a creative field, you may have noticed that. Creativity has this special character; it comes in bursts. Lately it made me wonder why? Sometimes it is really annoying when a creative outburst happens when I am in the middle of a serious project working together with my Boss. What am I supposed to do? Stop everything I am doing and start writing poems during a cooperate meeting? Why doesn't creativity occur when I want it? Like during the afternoon, when I am bored and wanting to watch NETFLIX? What else in life have this character of coming in Bursts? What else in life comes in bursts? Of course, troubles come in bursts. Sometimes so pathetic we wonder where we got that unlucky gene from? Is it from father? Or mother? Forest Fires comes in bursts, if you ask a firefighter, they will tell you why it is important to let controlled small fires burn parts of the forest from time to time, as it would prevent an uncontrollable fire happening. Bull Markets happen in bursts. Suddenly everyone wants to buy, and stock market gives you ridiculous prices. This not only happens in stock market, any auction market, from time to time have this tendency to sell for stupidly higher prices. Compounding happens in bursts, and you can learn a lot from nature. Growth of a bamboo happen in bursts, and even growth of a human comes in bursts One at mother's womb and one at puberty. Creativity: https://unsplash.com/@jakobokai What underlies all these bursts. Closest I have come up with is the "Power Law" Which I have written an article previously. It seems creativity also stems from some underlying power law, although I cannot see the entire process from outside. So, what can I do to enhance this process and really what should I do when it happens when I am in a middle of nowhere? Things you can do to increase and capture your creative outbursts. If compounding is the underlying mathematic behind creative outburst, and creativity matters in your life, I suggest you start doing all the tiny things which doesn't mean much today, but have the potential to push your creative work in a positive direction day after day. Maybe a tiny practise you do after your lunch. Maybe a line of code you write, a half an hour of self study. A brief moment of awareness. A walk in the nature in the afternoon, contemplating your thoughts. Turning pages of a dictionary. As long as you have a system of habits, you will have those creative outbursts. More importantly you should have a method to capture your creativity when it happens. There should be a book with empty pages, a voice recorder, a note app, a canvass, a camera or any tool depending on your creative activity. Pre prepared and ready just to capture your thought in the moment. As you can see inspiration is perishable, and if you do not capture that you would loose the ideas. This is not just my idea, Jean Micheal Basquest, the famous painter in 80s in NYC happened to be exactly knowing what a creative outburst is. He would run away from whatever he was doing, in the middle of a conversation or during a meeting, just to be in his studio and start creating something just popped up in his mind. Someone needs to be very aware of their own thoughts just to do that in real time. No wonder, many people nowadays are not creative, as their attention is eaten by moths.

Impressionist movement. Impressionism was a movement created by a group of artists in modern Paris, where they were trying to break free from traditions. In traditional art, during bygone era, people appreciated paintings which closely resembled what they saw in real life. In a time where photography was not an art this really makes sense as perhaps the drawing was the only way of creating what eyes could see. However, artists including Cloude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camillie Passerio, did broke free from traditions by painting what they could see instead of drawing what their minds wanted them to see. By doing the former they achieved the latter goal anyway. So, impressionism was closer to a meditation than painful replication of reality in academic painting and realism. A sunset: AI generated How impressionism art is created. It is really interesting to watch an impressionist artist at work. Imagine you are trying to paint a tree. If you are an artist of the past, you would try to replicate the tree, like a photograph by creating each individual leaf closely resembling the actual tree. So there would be only greens and browns in your painting. But impressionist would approach it differently. They would ask questions like, what am I seeing? Do I see a tree or light and dark areas, with little bit of green + violet+ yellow and white areas? Do I see some orange on the trunk of the tree? How does orange changes to light green of the background? They asked what does this moment and piece of bark of the tree look like Instead asking What is this object look like as a whole" There is a subtle change in these two questions. In the first case we paint our observation, without giving a name to the object we see. Instead of a Ballerinas, in the case of Edgar Degas or lotus in the pond in the case of Coude Monet they created light and dark shadows. And this is clearly visible as when you look very closer to these paintings, they make no sense as there are only thick brushstrokes with different colors. Only when you observe them from a distance that you would see a Ballerina or lotus in a pond. Instead mixing colors yellow and blue on the palate they would paint these colors alternatively on the canvass and use Optical Mixing which happens in the eye of the observer, to create a shade of green. Just like in a way the modern LCD screen works. The art of disappearing This is the name of the book by Ajan Brahmavanso, a Buddhist monk from Australia. He describes how observing the nature is like an art and how mindfulness would make oneself understand their own nature, like an impressionist artist understand the object they are painting. Not just by looking at it as a whole but by carefully considering what things are composed of, we would see, in mindfulness, the ordinary observations become less meaningful but just a work of the brushstrokes of an artist who is living behind our eyes and between our ears. Ultimately describing how to dissolve ourselves in the experience of the now moment. English cottage Now consider the quote "one must know how to lose oneself in order to find oneself". This quote attributed to Edgar Degar captures the essence of the impressionist art as well as mindfulness practice. I could not stop seeing the remarkable resemblance of this quote to "The art of disappearing" by the mindfulness teacher. Really speaking, in impressionist art we are losing ourselves in color, light and dark shadows, in order to rediscover a tree, a ballerina or a man sitting in a boat. But in that moment of each brush stroke the artist does not see such an object but just tiny part of it with specific interaction of color which she replicated on the canvass. In mindfulness we live with the experience moment to moment without making stories out of it. Without crying when you dropped your favorite meal on the ground, you observe your greed which made you buy it in the first place, you observe the pieces of food on the floor, once which looked tasty now looking disgusting when mixed with dirt. You see the attachment which turned into dislike in a matter of seconds due to composition of the experience. You observe the reaction of the observer to whole situation, and the grief. Once done move onto the next experience of cleaning out the mess. In this sense, everyone could be a possible impressionist artist and master the art of disappearing into the experience. Would you try that?

Luck is just an oversized corn in a cornfield. Luck is not without reasons. This is something which we forget whenever we see a lucky person. Imagine your neighbor wins the lottery, and he became a millionaire overnight. You will think, why not me? I am always unlucky. But you forget the fact that you didn't buy a ticket. Anyone could buy a ticket, right? Anyone could go to a casino and win a jackpot, become lucky, if they are willing to bet a horse. As you can see luck doesn't happen automatically. There are series of things happen before luck, and this article is about them. What happens after luck? Imagine you win a lottery same time your neighbor wins a million. He buys some fancy car and a house by the beach and lives a lavish life for a while like Millers on the street. I bet his luck would run out after a while. To keep on living his dream, either he has to gamble away or steal. Compare this with you. You have only got 100000 dollars, and this is not enough for you to expend lavishly. So, you just ignore this, divide the sum into 20000 dollars and invest in 5 firms. Life just carries on normally. But each and every day you follow up your investments and see one is doing remarkably well, so you invest more of your money in it. After a decade suddenly the company you invest become a second "Apple company" and you would be named as this incredibly "Lucky" person who invested in the greatest company of 21st century. Nobody would be able to replicate your luck. But you know that was not entirely the story. Luck: Unsplash Luck is a retrospective label Life we live make sense only in retrospect. Connecting the dots and making a meaning out of it happens only at the end of it. There are plenty of small actions you can take every day, to change the course of your life in tiny amounts without worrying about goals and outcomes or even luck. You can call this the secret of success. And this is not a secret at all, in every culture, there is a concept about living life day by day. In Japan it is called Kisen, in Indian culture, it is written in Bhagavat Geeta, in modern world Mr. Beast talks about it in his Channel. So, how exactly are you able to create luck? What are the steps? Cornfield analogy. A cornfield is an empty opportunity. After each and every harvest, it will be just ground exposed. There is no luck of a harvest as there is nothing planted anymore. But if you start digging up the ground and there will be a lucky rain for you to start sawing some corn seeds. If you work every day and protect your garden these corn plants will grow and will blossom one day. And if you keep on caring for it, field will survive until they develop corn, and you might be lucky enough to witness the biggest corn you have ever seen in your life. When it does, your neighbor will say you have been lucky. But you will smile to yourself as it wasn't about luck. You just followed a lucky formula in a power law field, consistently. So, what is this synthetic luck formula? Formula for synthetic luck You get exposed to experience -> You are being aware and present to see opportunity -> Your mind interprets this as an opportunity -> You take necessary action -> You consistently take action without thinking about outcome -> Something Lucky happens. If we think about it, everyone gets lucky every day. Just some choose to doom scroll, and others try to improve their skills or enjoy a sunset instead.

Folk tale of seven Merchants. Once upon a time there were seven merchants. They were carrying goods from place to place on their backs. They lived in seven villages nearby. One day they were on a quest, and tired of walking all day they met at an abandoned house by the road. As they knew each other, all were happy to see everyone else, and they were hungry. M1 : "Hmmm... what shall we cook today?" M2: "We can make a porridge for supper." M3: "We shouldn't cook separately, as we all know each other, we can cook in a one pot today." M4: "Yes, that is a good idea. That's easier and faster and more rational." So, they started cooking. And while the water was boiling, each one was supposed to put a handful of rice from their bags into the water. First merchant: "Ok I go first. This is my handful of rice." He put his hand into his bag and pretended to take a handful of rice and drop it in the pot. "This is my handful" he said it loud and clear. Second merchant: "This is my handful of rice." And did the same. Third Merchant: "This is mine!" went the third one, and everyone else followed. All of them one after the other shouted in the dark, making an empty fist and pretending they are putting rice into the pot. As you can see, this didn't work very well. Although each and every one tried to fool the other, there was no single handful of rice in the pot to cook. So, they all were ashamed of the end of it and went back to cook their own meals. Co-operation AI image Game Theory and Accountability: The essential component of co-operation Perhaps this is the oldest story about game theory. In game theory, the best outcomes arise when everyone is cooperative. However, in actual life, this is far from the truth. Not everyone cooperates with everyone else. Instead, they try to trick one another in cooking a porridge pot. They do not play a NICE game; instead, they try to cheat and win. To overcome this, you need to play a different tactic, or Tit for Tat game. You can be a nice player as long as the other party plays it nice, and there needs to be punishment for trying to cheat. And if they started playing nice again, you forget the grudge and play nice, so you both can have great outcomes again. Apart from the best strategy to play the game of life, this story tells us what glues a cooperation together, and it is TRUST. When there are circumstances where there is no transparency, trust will be broken. Transparency is the way to create trust. Most of the time, transparency is created inside a cooperation by law. When people do not adhere to them for their personal gains, that will generally start a cycle of doom. If there is no trust that a cooperation would meet your expectations, everyone will sell their shares and leave for a better place to start over. In life, it is always better to work with a few trustworthy people or do it alone than trying to build something with a thousand liars. And if people do understand the benefits, they would cooperate more. Especially if you're a CEO, your greatest asset would be your accountability built over the years, the essential component which holds the co-operation together. Trust if broken it is hard to gain back, like a broken glass. Maybe you should start doing something else than wasting time rebuilding it!

Knowledge curve Imagine development of human communication. About 5000 years ago there were barely literate people. Very limited documentation, in the form of cave paintings, and clay plates. Even carvings on stone. It took few more millennia for humans to develop a system of written communication. Printing press was made 1450. But newspapers became into circulation in 1600s, Radio 1920, Television 1940 Internet 1980s Smartphone 2000. And communication is one of the fast-growing knowledge areas in human history. Can you see its growth is somewhat exponential by just looking at products we use to communicate we can see that. AI generated image of the knowledge curve Every field is advancing faster and faster. It is not smartphone; everything seems to be getting faster and faster. Every knowledgebase seems to be advancing faster simultaneously. Consider mathematics, consider chemistry, consider art and literature. There are more labs, more calculus classes and more artists than 20 years ago today. And they are vastly interconnected by smartphones, sharing knowledge, which have become a positive loop to drive the speed of the knowledge like a propelling rocket just out of atmosphere. Have you ever wondered how this is going to end? Is there unlimited knowledge? Will there be an ultimate answer to our all problems? Perhaps a M theory. Where do we stand today? Edge of the knowledge. Where we currently stand on this exponential knowledge curve is our edge. We can call this the edge of the knowledge. This is true for any domain. More and more scientists, artists and humans are working at the edge of the knowledge trying to expand it in a positive direction, every day. And it seems they are remarkably successful, in keeping the momentum. Like a group of hunting dogs, looking for new territories, they do discover something new every day. Co-operation is their tool, and paradoxes are their enemy. Limits of the knowledge and nothingness Paradoxes uncertainty principle and probability of truth. These are some of the hard problems that we have encountered along the way. Perhaps they make us humble to look at our knowledge base holistically. Will us ever reach the limit of our knowledge? Is there any meaning at this point? Consider the probability of truth. It is conventional wisdom that any truth is just a probability, quantum or not. So, there seems a limit for us to find 100% truth. As a species we can make more effort to reach higher speeds of knowledge by scientific method. But if we really want to jump into the asymptote of the knowledge we need entirely different approach. Perhaps the key is mindful awareness of the now function, which gives momentum to all these. There we might find "nothingness"

Productivity is not what you think. Productivity is not when you work hard to produce lot of things valued by your boss. Productivity doesn't mean writing more articles, if you're a writer, or doing more paintings if you are an artist. It doesn't mean finding solutions to difficult math problem if you're a mathematician. All these things make sense in a real world to earn credit, recognition and many other things and they do push you towards positive outcomes and brief happiness. However, you will soon be back to your desk just to start another "Productive" task, unless you figure out what productivity means, you will burn your years being "productive". Being productive is a myth that we were taught to believe in. Pre-requisites for productivity. Even if you liked or not, even if you knew or did not, at the heart of productivity there is a belief, that life itself is some positive game, where you reach some, imaginary random number. So, we measure our productivity by a positive number. We evaluate lives of Charles Darvin, Leanardo da Vinci and Sir Issac Newton and call them productive lives. It is true what they did greatly changed the course of modern's civilization. However, where are all these productive people now? They all stopped being productive after being dead. From our perspective their lives are productive for "US". From their perspective, their lives stopped being productive after being dead. We can call this phenomena ground Zero of life, or contemplation on death. So productivity seems to be an illusion when we consider the finite nature of the life, from the perspective of the person. On the other hand, even if we agree there is value of life when one is not dead, the time he or she spend may be productive according to mental value they give to whatever the task they are doing. As human values are human made and only occur in specific human minds at specific times when they are brought into memory, we can give arbitrary values to anything we do. Being productive : AI image You can choose to be productive taking a sh..t early in the morning, humming your favorite song, if you give a mental value to it. If you chose to give less mental value to money, you could live a productive day just watching birds looking for worms in your backyard. You can be productive just sweeping the floors, while at home, looking at dust rising off the ground, being illuminated by the golden sunlight. You can be productive thinking about all the books you have read last year, and even reading the newspaper. As you can see, it is very easy to spend a productive day, as long as you choose to be just aware of what you are doing. Children do this all the time. Their days are full of productivity all day along! Being productive is a myth. Instead, be present. In life, there are no destinations to reach. It will stop just the way it started, without asking the owner whether it is right time. So, you have no choice on your birth or death. In between these two extremes, there will be a chaotic flow. Can you really call this productive? Whatever imaginary problem you try to solve day in and out I just see this a futile affair. Only productivity, if you really need a label to put somewhere, I will invite you to be aware. That's all we can do to live a happy, fulfilled day. In this sense following are productive lives. A driver is productive, if he is aware throughout his driving journey of the day. A fisherman is productive, if he is aware during his fishing trip, without wondering about the land. A trader is productive, if he is aware of his body and mind, during a day of trading. A student is productive, if he is watching films all day but knows what he is doing each and every moment during that time, and does it with a choice. A grandfather is productive if the stays home due to his painful knee, but just has a brief walk in the garden listening the sound of crickets. There is no rush, As there is no winner in this life, so walk in your own pace from zero to zero in any route of your choice is "PRODUCTIVE"

Homework It was a rainy day. The sky was pouring down like it was sad for something, all afternoon. Lily White was watching the raindrops through her window all morning. And she started her homework in the afternoon. She was doing English homework. And she was filling a table of things and places, persons and animals. She had to choose which goes in which box. It was easy, could you do that if you were given? A tree: https://unsplash.com/@jmacca88 This is just a part of her list. Ant -> animal Uncle -> person School -> place bird -> animal chair -> thing monkey -> animal Rose -> thing Tree ? "Well, that is strange. I do not know whether a tree is a thing or a place?" So, she asked her father. "I see, it is easy Lily. A tree is a thing !" Father said. "But father, an ant lives their whole life on a tree, birds nest on a tree, I have seen some monkeys just having a nap the other day on top of the tree! It is a place for them, and it is my favourite place to be in the garden too." "hmmmm.. I cannot disagree, Perhaps it is both?" "So, which box should I put it in? the Thing box or Place box?" "Put it in the thing box" "But, that is wrong. If I put it in the thing box, I should also put it in the Place box" "Why this is so hard" "Ah poor Lily, don't think about it too much. Sometimes there are no correct answers to some questions. We just have to select one which seems right." "Why is that?" "Its because.. " "Its because..." "hmmm... They are just imaginary!" Hmmmm... Lily was thinking. "What did he mean by its imaginary?" She finished her work and thought about everything imaginary during all afternoon. And before bed, she put a note in her book. Lily White's diary -Imaginary things and places. Today I learned things can be places. If I imagine myself an ant, a tree will be a place. If I imagine myself a giant, our house will become a thing. Like my father said, it is all imaginary. Guess I am really good at imagining things and places. So, a tree is a thing just because I chose it to be.

Morgue I have been to the morgue once or twice in my life. If that experience has taught me anything, it is not to visit it another time. So, I wouldn't do that voluntarily. The morgue is full of formalin and smelly corpses. People who owned these corpses while living may have led very successful lives, average lives, or poor-quality lives. However, now they all are dead, and the pile of carbon and oxygen atoms that they accumulated and recycled over the years is now struggling with the forces of nature to go back to their atomic form. Which they would just do if we did not interrupt the process with funeral arrangements. What do we not do to our corpses before they are given back to nature? We cut them open, remove everything inside, and keep the empty shell (just like we do when we are living). We dip them in formalin and cover all the intimate parts with new dresses (just to make them look like living). We spray substances to mask the fragrance, put them inside coffins of various sizes and shapes, decorate with flowers, and make them appear in neat positions of our preference before displaying. And once displayed, we get emotional over now dead lifeless piles of atoms and start crying over them. Some even start touching, hugging, and kissing corpses. (Well, I have seen that in movies perhaps.) But is this all necessary? Would you cry in front of a fallen tree? In a fundamental form, a dead body is a fallen tree. They need burial or even to be left alone to decompose. Humans are strange! Why magical? I used this metaphor to explain some facts to you. It is absolutely not regarding funerals, or that you should avoid embalming your loved ones, even yourself. That is up to you. I like cultural gatherings anyway, especially funerals as they provide a lot of emotional ventilation to the living crowd. However, I would say you have a lot of corpses, dead bodies in front and around your life, some partially decomposed and making your life stink. Do you have any regrets related to your past lately? Perhaps a traumatic childhood, a crime that you committed, or a deed that you omitted, which keeps coming back as insomnia at night. How about a dead relationship that you are trying to cling onto as you're afraid of a separation? What about an unsatisfying job that is eating your hours daily? Perhaps the boring city which doesn't inspire you to creativity is the problem. Have you ever thought about it? Where you live and how much effect it has on your current and future trajectory of your life? Everything about you will change if you just change the city you live in, like a paradigm shift. Dead bodies :https://unsplash.com/@supardisign How to live with corpses is by burying them. Even if you do not do anything the corpses would decompose naturally. It will be stinky for a few days and weeks, but if you neglect them, and pay attention to everything else happening in your life, they surely will decompose. What not to do is to EMBALM them, and trying to preserve them by mummifying, mourn over them for years. Dead is dead. A dead relationship is dead, there are no lessons, you just need to close that chapter and move on. A broken trust is broken; there is no need to fix the pieces of trust with super glue of tiny gifts until you become exhausted in the process drain all your time and energy. Yesterday is done and gone, even if it has not been so perfect as you wished, there is no need to dwell on it and re-live the experience. If you start doing that, you will miss the opportunity today, and might add another dead corpse to your pile of stinky corpses. Technically this is the hard part, burying the corpses. But I would say it is rather easy. YOU JUST STOP WORKING ON THEM ANYMORE. It is simple as that. And soon you will see that how much stinky pile of corpse you have been decorating daily and spraying scent on. Once you stop and ignore, initially it will be really nasty, and smelly but over time it will decompose faster. Better would be just focus on your gardens, where you plant your fruits and vegetables, and take care of them. Forgetting the failures accepting them as failures and moving on would be a life skill that we have to learn as professionals, CEOs, mothers and even children. Would you ever think any child would ever walk unless they accept the risk of falls and stopped crying about it, and try again? You have been that courageous child once in your life, who was excited about the future than your failures. I am sure you can do it again. So what are the corpses you have been embalming lately?

I donated to world food program. I was just writing an article about how to live a virtuous life. And it was apparent to me this can only be done when I live my life for others. Not even the ones which are in close circle of mine. I can actually do this just now, with my computer. I can donate some of my hard-earned money to the world food program. So, I made a onetime donation of 18 USD. I know it virtually looks nothing. Yet I am feeling enormously happy than all the rest of the money I spend on myself. Impact of 18 USD. It says the 18 USD I provided is enough to provide 36 emergency meals. Isn't that wonderful? Someone somewhere in the world, gets a meal. Some water and a smile when they see the packet of food. I know it doesn't virtually transform into a meal and immediately handed over to a person, and I won't be there to see that. WFP is an enormous program with a big budget. They have provided 121 million people all around the world in 2025. They do have Supply chains, warehouses to store food and transport logistics and paid people working for them. My money is in the pool of 6 billion dollars, where they operate with. But ultimately will provide food to those who need. As I cannot reach a person in need physically and provide a meal, I am glad they have the system established. Singer's famine relief argument. If you do not know, there is a good reason that we should stick to a minimalist lifestyle and spend the savings on relief efforts such as world food program. Imagine a person dying of malnutrition in somewhere around the world. Am I not responsible for that death? Maybe not, because I do not think I am killing some people when I buy a car. However, it is really possible to save such lives when I am aware that there is a possibility for me to save money and spend it on saving lives instead. What better way is there other than providing food? Battle against poverty WFP is not a battle against poverty. That needs policy makers of each country to deal in a humanistic manner. WFP just feeds hungry lives which are immediately in danger. Worlds create enough food for everyone if distributed properly, nobody should go hungry. So, it reaches were food normally scarce. What can you do? Whenever you are spending, save some dollars. Put them in a jar, which reminds you of all the hungry children malnourished with pot bellies crying for food from their mothers who hadn't eaten for days. And do not even think twice when you feel like donating. Just do it. It doesn't matter there is a heaven or hell where we go. It's not about creating a equally good return. It is by all means not a good investment. But it will be the best investment of your life years and years after you have done it. The dollar you donate today when you are poor has more value to your life than a dollar you spend when you are rich. If you have a job, a roof and a shelter there is no reason you shouldn't donate. World food program - LINK

Today, Man The man woke up early morning, without feeling tired. He jumped out of the bed, as he could not stay there for a one minute. There was the piano waiting for him to play. Blank pages were ready on the table asking for him to compose. And he knew exactly what he was going to compose today, as it was already planned and written on a piece of paper. There was a Jug of water for him to drink, and an apple on his table to munch while working. All around was silence triggering his thoughts than any other. His mind could wonder into deep crevices of the brain to pick up memories and feelings he even did not know exist. Memories worth of decades about to be lost forever, he could recover and put on paper. He did not feel sleepy, as he had already slept a good deal. He had a sound sleep without any disturbances in a dimly lighted room. There were no phones and no screens, but few books he wanted to read, were already there with bookmarks. Books were specifically picked up to spark his creativity by the Yesterday Man. When he felt a little tired, and sleepy, he got up and walked. Planned his day, this time on paper. By the time when the neighborhood woke up, he was already getting ready to go to work in the cold autumn day. His blood was warm, heart was fresh, as inside he was feeling triumphed like an already winner. He knew not to expect any change of course of his life in immediate future. He did not even want that, as today was a totally perfect day thanks to yesterday, Man. Planning tomorrow today. :Unsplash Yesterday, Man Imagine that imaginary man was you. You may think, nah.. that is not me. It is not even possible. I have tried the trick you're talking about 1000 times in the past and failed. I agree if you told me you struggle with your dreams, and manifestations. There is not one single reason. But I bet ironically, there were 1000 reasons why you failed today. Demotivated, Depressed and too tired to feel and even move your butt out of your couch which had rooted onto the ground after years and years of wasted time. My advice is giving up today. Consider it already failed, before even it ends. Yet you can focus on tomorrow. In the above example, the man who woke up did not start his day from scratch. It was already planned, and half done. Everything, from his morning tea to exercise and snack, were no decisions for him to make. What he should compose was already written, by himself, during the previous day. He felt well rested, as he was granted with a good sleep by himself by going to bed early to have enough sleep. His bed was neat and ready, as he himself prepared the bed beforehand. As you can see, there really was an invisible man. But the invisible man was only "Yesterday himself". Won't you agree it is easier to wake up to a half-painted dream, so you can just carry on without any resistance? The fact is you can be your own invisible man today. Although we agreed today is a failure, at some point you need to turn your odds into success. Why not focus on tomorrow? How to be a tomorrow, Man Imagine yourself as three men. Your main goal for today is to anticipate every problem you are going to encounter tomorrow and make plans to overcome them. Not one, not two, but 1000 tiny plans that you make for 1000 obstacles. So, your routines are not to focus on today, but to let tomorrow flows smoothly. When it becomes tomorrow, which I am sure will happen, you would feel the presence of the invisible "Yesterday Man" by half done work for you. You just have to follow his paths and instructions. There is no room for self-doubts or hiccups of normal life, as these were already planned. There is no chance that you'd fail as yesterday man already failed and made today success possible. Once started, and finished your today's assignments, you can just be a tomorrow man. And repeat all those tiny things you have done to make it successful tomorrow. This would be far easier to do this time around as you know it is going to be a fantastic day tomorrow. Evident by today. Finally, you'd be able to break the cycle of modern man's doom, and step away from the clutter to craft your own future. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. — Albert Einstein Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow. — L. Ron Hubbard Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. — Epicurus