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         Happy Islands Fix yourself in possession of a few names: rational, equanimity, magnanimity Abide by them as if you are living in islands of happy If you are unable to - then take ships of - Simplicity, Freedom, Modesty to pursue these Islands This is the work of Man !!! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

           Names When you have assumed these names - Good,modest, true, rational, a man of equanimity magnanimous - take care that you don't change these names Rational - discriminating attention to everything and freedom from negligence Equanimity - Voluntary acceptance of things which are assigned to you by common nature Magnanimity - Elevation of the intelligent part above pleasure or pain and above that poor thing called Fame If then you maintain thyself in possession of these names without deserving to be called those name by others you will be another person and will enter another Life! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

           Pure Spring If a man stands by a pure spring the spring that never ceases sending potable water If he should cast clay into it - or filth it will speedily disperse them or wash them out and will not be at all polluted How then shall you possess a perpetual fountain by forming yourself hourly to freedom, conjoined with contentment, simplicity, and modesty Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  Nature has circumscribed herself where everything that appears to decay, grows old - useless- changes into herself and again makes other new things from the very same so that she requires neither substance nor space Nature is content then with her own space, own matter, own art so be You! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  First appearance report Say nothing more to yourself than your first appearance report -(FAR😄) suppose that it is reported that, a certain person speaks ill of you this has been reported; but that you have been injured - that has not been reported; I hear a person spoke well of me; but that I am elated - I do not report; Thus always abide by first appearances - and add nothing yourself from within! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  Posthumous fame See that you secure this present time to yourself for those who rather pursue posthumous fame do consider that people of after time will exactly be such as these whom you cannot bear now And what is it in any way to you if these men of after time utter this or that sound, or have this or that opinion about you Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  What am I composed of? I am composed of : a little body a little breath and a little rational faculty (Chitta) Body: I need to take care every day: at least 30 minutes of - walk/jog/Run Breathe: 30 minutes of Meditation/ Pranayama rational faculty: Take care of my Faculty of thought - Chitta in Yoga Philosophy Body/Breathe: is not in within my will Intelligence: is within my will: let me cultivate it Authors Mukund Marcus Aurelius       

  Call it whatever! pg.72 : Meditations : Book 12 : Marcus Aurelius Either its a fatal necessity or an Invincible order or a kind of providence or confusion without a purpose and without a director If its invincible order, why do you resist? If its kind providence, make yourself worthy of the help of the divinity if there is a confusion without a governor, Be content that in such a tempest, you have in yourself - a specific ruling intelligence and even if the storm can carry you away Let it take the - Poor flesh and Poor breath! but let it not carry away the ruling faculty! My notes: Who am I? A little breath A little Body A little ruling faculty! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  Opinion of Others pg.71 : Marcus Aurelius: Book 12: Meditations I have often wondered how it is every man loves himself more than the rest of all But yet sets lesser value on his own opinion than on the idea of others If then a God or a wise teacher should present himself to a man, and bid him think or design nothing which he would not express as soon as he conceived it He could not endure it even for a single day! So much respect have we to what our neighbors shall think rather than to what we shall think of ourselves! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  What is yours? pg.71: Book 12 : Meditations: Marcus Aurelius You are composed of A little Body A little Breath A little Intelligence Body, Breathe - Take care of them - Its your duty But the third alone is appropriately yours - Intelligence! therefore if you shall separate from yourself Whatever others do or say- Whatever in future - Things that may happen or trouble you Whatever in the body or breathe envelopes you remember that they are independent of your will! (Your body is given to You! - you are a tenant!) Whatever the external circumfluent vortex may whirl around Ensure that the intellectual power is exempt from things of fate by : Doing what is Just Accepting what happens Telling the Truth ( i need to read the meditations again and again - for deeper meaning of life - as I may miss with superficial reading!) Authors Marcus Aurelius       

            Impressions of the sense book 12: Pg.71: Mediations If you will separate from this ruling faculty (Chitta in Yoga) -> Things which are attached to it by the impressions of the senses -> Things of time to come and Time that is past -> Use the ruling faculty to make yourself all round - (without sharp edges) Then you will be able to pass that portion of life that remains free from pertubrations Living nobly and obedient to thy own spirit (the god within you - Advaita Philiosphy) (My notes) Impressions of the senses: I need to practice on this : prints that result in the generation of chemicals in the brain Eyes - Objects Ears -Music Nose -Aroma Touch- Feel Tongue -Taste Authors Marcus Aurelius       

           Contemplate pg.72: Book 12: Marcus Aurelius Contemplate the formative principles of things bare of their coverings -Purpose of Actions -What Pain is -What Pleasure is -Death and Fame -Who is to himself the cause of uneasiness -How no man is hindered by another -That everything is Opinion! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  What nobody told you about financial freedom Matt Hasig : Reasons to stay alone The world is increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness is not very good for the economy! "If we were happy with what we have Why would we need more? If we don't need more, Who will buy the anti-aging cream? Who will buy the new watch model? Who will watch the new TV soap opera? Who shall buy the new smartphone? The trick the marketeer plays is on happiness- or precisely the lack of it They all stuff to make us happy! Fraudsters! As if our lives depended on them And if we don't buy we would end in despair We are led to make financial plans for 20-30 years ahead But are not made aware of simple truths Simplicity, frugality, and patience Life is exactly this - everything outside of stuff and advertising Focus on enough- Money, Food and Possessions That itself is financial freedom!

  How to avoid miscognition Charlie Munger Have a system, follow the system, REfine the system Communication : Who has to do what, When, Where, and Why? Decision Making: Use the decision trees approach for decision making Problem Solving: Use the inversion approach heavily! Create Checklists: Authors Charlie Munger       

How to be alive? Maria Popova Blog It's not familiarity, but the comparison that breeds contempt; So don't compare! You think that I have a right to receive; No - don't feel that Be grateful - and wonder about Becoming worthy to receive them! Be Alive! - In this life - A brief interlude of consciousness Between Chaos and Chaos A life gifted by exquisite precision and punctuated by Chance The recognition of this unbidden miracle of chance is the Fundamental matter of meaning And to awaken this miraculousness - and Constantly reminding us of the meaning - This Is the great creative challenge of Life! Authors Maria Popova       

           Mindset @ Work “Your work is to Sit and Think” .. .Warren Buffet! Start with Symptoms: For every project: Start/Identify symptoms that create Pain / PLeasure Identify possible causes / of the Gap/Gain through the Thinking Time What is happening that should not happen? What is not happening that should happen? Identify the most probable causes of the symptom - Pleasure /Pain Write the assumptions Find the solution Write the second order consequence of implementing the solution Create plan Execute Plan Measure the outcomes As I do this, I am taking out emotion out of the equation and am able to focus on resolution through reasoning! Authors Keith J Cunningham       

  Keane Angel - LinkedIn Understand what it is you are visualizing Sketch it out on paper with basic shapes first get your basic design down Edit for beautiful, simple, scannable and directional Authors Keane Angel       

  A man superior in character! Marcus Aurelius - Meditations - pg.42 How do you know if Telagues was not superior in character to Socrates? For its not enough if Socrates died a more noble death or if he debated more skillfully or passed the cold night with more endurance or he refused the King's orders deeming it nobler or he walked with a swagger on the streets! None of them make Socrates Superior! rather we ought to enquire what kind of soul that Socrates possessed if he was able to be content with Just towards others and pious towards Gods not feeling idle or vexed not making him a slave to others' ignorance! refusing a strange anything that fell to his share out of the universal nor enduring it as intolerable nor falling into effects of miserable flesh! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

Wipe out your imaginations Marcus Aurelius: pg.46: Book 8 Wipe out your imaginations by often saying to thyself,  it is in my power to let no badness be in this soul! neitherr desire  nor perturbation at all! but look at all the things I see what is their Nature and I use each according to the value remember this power which you have from Nature! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  Marcus Aurelius : pg.46 : Book 8 : Meditations It is your duty to order your life in every single act and if every act does its duty, as far as possible Be Content and nobody shall hinder you so that each act shall not do its Duty but something external will stand in the way nothing will stand in the way of you acting justly, soberly, and considerately but perhaps some other power may hinder you but by acquiescing the hindrance -  and by being content  to transfer the efforts to that which is allowed another opportunity is put before you in place of that which was hindered! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  Do not disturb your life! Marcus Aurelius - Book 8: pg.47 Do not disturb yourself by thinking the whole of your life let not your thoughts embrace all the troubles that you may expect to befall you But on every occasion - ask yourself- what is there in this - which is intolerable? for you will be ashamed to confess! next,        remember that neither past nor the future - pains you but only the present but this is reduced to very little if you circumscribe it and chide your mind, if it's unable to hold out against this! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  On Pain pg.47: meditations: Book 8 : Stoic 6 Pack If you take away thy opinion that which appears to give you pain you will stand in perfect security Do it through the power of Reason But you are saying -"I am not reason" Hmmm... Let then the reason itself not trouble itself but if any other part of you - suffers- let it not have an opinion about itself! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  Impressions: Label them: This is smell - good / bad This is Taste : good / bad This is Sound : melody /noise This is vision : good / bad This is Touch  : good / bad analyze the impressions and then label them Then Judge/Opine Then Act Authors mukund       

           Dont be surprised! pg.45 : stoic 6 pack : Marcus Aurelius Whomsoever you meet - immediately ask yourself what opinions has this person about good and bad - with respect to pleasure and pain and causes of each - with respect to fame and ignominy -and with respect to life and death SHE HAS SUCH AND SUCH OPINIONS then it will be neither wonderful or strange to you if they do such and such things and I shall bear in mind that she is compelled to do so! remember that - it is a shame to be surprised! if the fig tree produces figs Universe produces wonder or physician to be surprised if a man has a fever or helmsman to be surprised if the wind is unfavorable! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  pg.45 : stoic 6 pack Marcus Aurelius Constantly and if possible, on the occasion of every impression on the soul apply to it - the principles of Physic, of Ethic , Dialectic and Stoic, Yogic, Vedic and Upanishadic Principles Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  Wants @coldwriter "if you don't know what you want you'll end with a lot you don't" My notes: Use the principle of inversion : if you don't know what you want start eliminating - what you don't want Make some room! Authors @coldwriter

Moral Character pg.42 : Book seven : marcus Aurelius the perfection of moral character consists in this: In passing everyday as the last in being neither violently excited nor lethargic nor playing the hypocrite when you have done a good act and another received it why do you look for a third thing  besides these - as fools do- either to have reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return? Authors Marcus Aurelius       

Dealing with Pain pg.42 Marcus Aurelius - Meditations In every pain, let this thought be present there is no dishonor in it; nor does it make the governing intelligence worse! for it does not damage rational intelligence! As Epicurus said: Pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting Pain has its limits as long as you add nothing to it by your own imagination! pain is something you can compare to: excessive drowsiness, scorching heat, or having no appetite! Remember the above: as you are about to yield to Pain! Authors Epicurus Marcus Aurelius

  Be not perturbed! pg.44 Stoic 6 pack - Marcus Aurelius - Meditations be not perturbed! for all things are according to Nature - of Universe and in a bit of time - you will be nobody and nowhere! Like Hadrian and Augustus Next time around having fixed eyes steadily on your business also remember that its your duty to be a good man which is to be Just, temperate, courageous, and Free! and speak as it seems to you! with good disposition, modesty, and without hypocrisy Authors Marcus Aurelius       

Common Nature pg.44 Book Eight - meditations We are all part of Nature just as the Nature of the leaf is part of the Nature of the Plant The nature of Man is part of the whole nature of Intelligence and like a leaf of the plant we are given portions -according to to- Worth, times, substance, cause, Activity So examine not to compare anything with any other but by taking all parts together of one thing and comparing all parts together of another! Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  No time to read! Book 8 : Marcus Aurelius : Meditations you may not have leisure or ability to read but you have leisure or ability to check arrogance you have leisure to be superior to pleasure or pain you have leisure to be superior to love of fame and not be vexed at people let no man any longer - find fault with life -  Others or their own!     

  The Thing and Pleasure Stoic 6 Pack - pg,44 - Book 8 No such man would repent having refused any sensual pleasure Pleasure is neither good nor useful Ask then yourself ! this thing that raises the sensual pleasure in me what is it in itself? in its own constitution what is its substance and material? and what is its causal nature? and what is it doing in the World? and how long does it subsist? Authors Marcus Aurelius       

  @Tim Urban the last stars will die out 120 trillion years from now followed by 10^106 years of just black-holes condense that - its like universe - life - 1 secs of stars and then followed by a billion, billion, billion, billion, billion,billion years of just black holes stars are basically immediate after-effects of Big-bang 1 second of the sizzle of brightness before settling into eternal darkness we live in that one bright second ! @KunalShah: After repeated attempts by NASA to make us believe we are insignificant, most people retain the ability to think they’re the centre of the universe. Authors Tim Urban @waitbutwhy        @kunalshah

1. focus on customers - obsess 2. be afraid of your customers 3. plant seeds and wait 4. Think long-term 5. Think exponential 6. Work Long, Hard, Smart 7. Hire the best 8. Pay to Quit 9. Make the right decisions - 1-way door - be deliberate 2-way door - be quick 10. failure is feedback 11. Problem over results 12. Cash is King 13. be Day 1 company! Authors Jeff Bezos