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Given a some level of omniscent entity or computer, future and past can be revealed at some level of probability.

Do any of these apply to you:

• I find it hard to accept praise.
• I tend to focus on the things I am not good at, rather than my strenghts.
• I think that people over rate me and worry one day they will find out that I am not as good as they think I am.
• I often succeed despite being convinced I will fail before I begin.
•  I often think that those around me are better.
• I hate asking for feedback on my performance.

 

www.jessstuart.co.nz/imposter-syndrome

 

Impostor syndrome is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud”, against all evidence.

 

70% of people suffer from some level of imposter syndrome.

 

Those experiencing this phenomenon remain convinced that they are frauds, and do not deserve all they have achieved.

 

Individuals with impostorism incorrectly attribute their success to luck, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent than they perceive themselves to be.

 

What can you do about it:
www.jessstuart.co.nz/blog/2018/05/6-hacks-handle-imposter-syndrome

• Don’t over complicate things.
• Own your successes.
• Give it your all and know it’s enough.
• Don’t let your doubt and fear stop you.
• Remember: your thoughts are not common knowledge.
• Acknowledge it and know it’s not just you.
• Stop comparing yourself to others.

 

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

 

Democracy is only as effective as the education system that surrounds it.

www.bbc.com/future/story/20190709-would-humans-evolve-again-if-we-rewound-time
 
American palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould proposed : What would happen if the hands of time were turned back to an arbitrary point in our evolutionary history and we restarted the clock?
 
Gould reckoned that humanity’s evolution was so rare that we could replay the tape of life a million times and we wouldn’t see anything like Homo sapiens arise again. His reasoning was that chance events play a huge role in evolution.
Put simply, evolution is the product of random mutation.
 
Experimental evolutionary biologists do have the means to test some of Gould’s theories on a microscale with bacteria.
 
Many bacterial evolution studies have found, perhaps surprisingly, that evolution often follows very predictable paths over the short term, with the same traits and genetic solutions frequently cropping up. There are evolutionary forces that keep evolving organisms on the straight and narrow. Natural selection is the “guiding hand” of evolution, reigning in the chaos of random mutations and abetting beneficial mutations. This means many genetic changes will fade from existence over time, with only the best enduring. This can also lead to the same solutions of survival being realized in completely unrelated species.
 
What about the underlying physical laws (ie: gravity) – do they favour predictable evolution? At very large scales, it appears so.
 
This means that the broad “rules” for evolution would remain the same no matter how many times we replayed the tape. There would always be an evolutionary advantage for organisms that harvest solar power. There would always be opportunity for those that make use of the abundant gases in the atmosphere. And from these adaptations, we may predictably see the emergence of familiar ecosystems. But ultimately, randomness, which is built into many evolutionary processes, will remove our ability to “see into the future” with complete certainty.

It’s normal.

Usually we don’t hate people.
We hate what they do to us or how they make us feel (or how we make ourselves feel after hearing something they said/ experiencing something they did).

We hate the limitations they impose on us.

We hate the fact that they want to control our lives,

We hate the fact that their negative attitude (mindset, set of beliefs) wreaks havoc with our own lives.

We hate the fact that they don’t respect / appreciate us, or that they ridicule our efforts/ make fun of us, etc.

So usually there is nothing intrinsically bad (or wrong) with “hating someone”. We don’t hate them, we hate this situation/ how our lives are being affected.

Usually, when we say “I hate her” it means

I don’t like the fact that she…/ I feel bad when this happens to me/ It hurts when…/ I think I am right and she is wrong/ I don’t understand her.

That’s also what children mean when they say to their parents “I hate you”.

I mean, is it possible that a regular 9-year-old (not a child soldier/ guerrilla fighter somewhere in Africa, or elsewhere, with a screwed up psyche) is really capable of hating the other person for no reason?

Clearly there is always some reason why a 9-year-old (or 15-year-old) would say that to his/ her parent or teacher. What other reason he/she has to “hate this person”? It’s always because he/she doesn’t like something about this situation he/she is in.

Those are rare individuals who truly hate other people, when the sole reason for hating this person is her sheer existence. People they have zero connection to. People they never met before. People they didn’t even know existed before they met them for the first time.

When there is connection/ some kind of ongoing relationship, people know each other and interact, there always is a reason. It’s never that they truly hate this person for no reason – when such reason is ‘because’.

Figure out in what way your life is being affected. What you don’t like. Change that.

Go to the root of it. Don’t dwell in that feeling. Focus on what you don’t like about the situation and try to change it. Even if it means moving out of this house or cutting yourself off entirely.

Remember the chances are huge it’s not your family member you hate. It’s the situation.

Usually we can change the situation we’re in.

 

https://medium.com/@shahmm/building-a-great-business-and-the-art-of-war-strategy-part-01-b8e4db611d4f

https://tweakyourbiz.com/global/the-art-of-war

 

https://www.fastcompany.com/3021122/fighting-your-business-battles-6-lasting-lessons-from-sun-tzus-art-of-war

 

– Being prepared at what you do can be the difference between success and failure when things go wrong

 

– Your king is your own customers. If you care for them, they will care for your project. Anticipate their needs, desires, wants and fulfill them with an unbiased mind.

 

– Understand and respect the scope, ownerships and accountabilities of the project you work on.

 

– Be subtle and diplomatic. You can only learn when you listen. But always be prepared to answer and follow up.

 

– Share efforts with other people in the project by offering free help, as that will come back as an investement.

 

– Focus on key elements of a production which are the least organized or efficient.

 

– Validate and qualify your resources before taking on a plan.

 

– Invest into a plan only if you are sure it can be completed successfully.

 

– Value a project’s requirements and its users’ experience before the technology development itself.

 

– Motivate your teams by the gains in specific production investments.

 

– Organize tasks and teams based on their strenghts and self efficiency.

 

– Analyze the project’s requirements and resources. Then prioritize them accordingly.

 

– Observe and resolve bottlenecks, opportunities and users’ needs

 

– Detail a plan B as soon as you striclty commit to a detailed plan A.

 

– Dedicate some time and small teams to research efficient alternatives.

 

– Build only and always on top of stable and known cycles.

 

– Focus on the big items if they can resolve a lot of small ones.

 

– If something worked before is still worth to think out of the box.

 

– Combine all your team strengths into a unified collaborative effort.

 

http://io9.gizmodo.com/11-of-the-weirdest-solutions-to-the-fermi-paradox-456850746

From the Nebula Award-nominated short story, “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson:

“They’re made out of meat.”

“Meat?”

“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”

“Meat?”

“There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.”

“That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?”

“They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don’t come from them. The signals come from machines.”

“So who made the machines? That’s who we want to contact.”

“They made the machines. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”

“That’s ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat.”

“I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they’re made out of meat.”

A little while later:

“They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”

“Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”

“I thought you just told me they used radio.”

“They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”

“Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?”

“Officially or unofficially?”

“Both.”

“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing.”

“I was hoping you would say that.”

“It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?”

“I agree one hundred percent. What’s there to say? ‘Hello, meat. How’s it going?’

www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/valter-longo-2

www.l-nutra.com/fasting-mimicking-diet-2/

prolonfmd.com/what-is-fasting-mimicking/

https://www.superfoodly.com/niagen-nicotinamide-riboside-side-effects-nad-benefits/

A way for the brain to abstract basic sense and analysis cycles.

edition.cnn.com/2019/01/03/perspectives/apple-china-warning/index.html

China’s economic vulnerability is based on its very unbalanced growth model. In other advanced economies such as the United States, spending by consumers contributes as much as two-thirds or more of overall GDP. In China, consumption has risen from 35% 10 years ago, but it is still not near 60% of GDP, indicating an unbalanced economy that places emphasis on exports and investment, both of which, in the long run, are not sustainable.

Investment in infrastructure and heavy construction (around the world) turbo-boosted China’s economy in 2008 and for the next five years, but it issued a tremendous amount of debt to support such growth. Currently, the debt-to-GDP ratio for China stands at an alarming 250% of GDP, an unsustainable number and one that presents formidable challenge to China’s economic policymakers.

In the months ahead, be prepared to witness continued deterioration of the Chinese economy. This will be reflected in declining asset values such as real estate and equity markets, distressed corporate balance sheets and corporate assets, increased capital flight as a result of a declining Yuan relative to the US dollar, and growing stress within China’s financial sector as non-performing loans accelerate within the banking sector.

edition.cnn.com/2018/11/12/entertainment/stan-lee-obit/index.html

www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-46186552

https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/stan-lee-art-tributes/

200,000 years to reach 1 billion.
200 years to reach 7 billions.
The global population has nearly tripled since 1950, from 2.6 billion people to 7.6 billion.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/11/08/health/global-burden-disease-fertility-study/index.html?no-st=1542440193

The world is trying to tell you who you are.
You yourself are trying to tell you who you are.
At some there has to be some reconciliation.