• FOCUS

    Focus is the outcome of clarity. A clear mind makes focusing effortless. Focus means saying no to a million distractions and pursuing the one or two things that truly matter to you. Distractions are everything else that is not what you want. Actively rejecting everything else is exhausting, so clarity about your deepest desires is

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  • THE DETOX

    My neurochemical balance has been completely restored thanks to a sugar and dopamine detox. For eight long years, I’ve battled insomnia, rarely getting a consistent six hours of sleep at night. But over the past 10-15 days, everything’s shifted: I’m falling asleep early, waking up refreshed, and even my fragmented three-hour slumbers have stretched into

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  • TRUST

    Trust is the fundamental foundation of all relationships. If I trust you, then I don’t have to analyze how complicated you are—because you are horribly complicated, like a monkey full of snakes. But if you break my trust, I have to see you in an entirely different way. I need to reconstruct your image in

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  • MonoDesire

    You can work all the time; you don’t need breaks from hard work. The human brain doesn’t get tired like physical muscles—it doesn’t need rest except during sleep. So the natural question is: why do we feel tired after cognitive work? The answer lies in how the brain handles opportunity cost. The moment you start

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  • People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. – Steve Jobs  When Mike Markkula joined Apple in the early days, he shared three powerful ideas with Steve Jobs: Empathy, Focus and Impute.  Empathy is understanding customers’ needs and desires.  Focus is the ruthless prioritization of what’s important.  Impute is the idea

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  • Real Artists Simplify

    “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs

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  • Writing is Thinking

    In life all these things are happening to you; you barely stop to see what they are. Your mind is processing them and picking up half-processed patterns that shape your worldview. You live your life and interpret things based on this worldview. But here is the catch: this worldview of yours is flawed. It’s not

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  • Written at 4:00 AM by a broken, burning version of you Dear 18-year-old Siddhant, I know you had wild dreams.You wanted to read hundreds of books. Build things that mattered. Start a company. Transform the world with your mind. Sculpt a physique that made you feel powerful. Master the guitar and play from the soul.

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  • When cure cancer becomes dangerous order:

    No matter what goal you have in life, there are a few things you need to get right if you want to achieve those goals. Your main goal is known as a terminal goal, and the subgoals are called instrumental goals. These instrumental goals are not taught—they emerge naturally because they are often the most efficient way

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  • Intelligence is the ability to accomplish complex goals. These goals could be anything—from growing toward sunlight to coding websites. These goals may emerge through evolution, be programmed, or arise spontaneously. What matters is that the entity behaves in a way that moves toward achieving them.  The three fundamental building blocks of intelligence are computation, memory,

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