It's certainly been a while since I actually write a proper blog. There were things that I had to complete, there were issues that I had to deal with, but yesterday I was playing pickle ball for more than 2 hours and it taught me quite a lot of things. I am going to go over what it taught me and the fire it gave me in my belly. I have also been containing really well in terms of the emotions that I get. Moreover, I do not react I have started responding with more groundedness. So well, lets start talking about yesterday. Yesterday what happened is that initially I lost a couple of games and then when we actually got going, I won a couple of games and the 4th game I lost. It was sad that I lost the 4th one, but well, I forgot giving the ball to someone else in that moment. But as those things were heated, I decided to step back a little bit and do not respond as things went by. I have realized that when dogs keep barking let them bark.
Now what happened next is I made sure all of my aggression comes out on my field. The next 2 games were really tight and with some good opponents. As I played both of those games, I won, not just through technique but sheer presence. I could see my aggression come through and that's the only burning fire that I needed in order to carry out the game well enough. So well, aggression came in the form of pure concentration. I was looking at the ball like anything. The focus was so intense that it was quite unbelievable in my mind. I was working through those difficult moments and went ahead with the game. But well, that's about it. The focus was intense and I kept going through those intense moments of focus and won both games back to back and through. I was not dominating the entire game because it was a tight game overall, both the sides were good but somehow, I managed and dominated the game. There were some real crunch situations out there, for an example, it was something like 8-9 and they got the serve, every point out there was hard fought. Now that's exactly the type of game we really wanted.
Alright, so we got to speak more what we learned. I have learned that aggression is quite an important part of the game. Full focus is what we need when we're looking at the ball. But that focus only comes when we are focusing on the ball. Not the people around, nothing else around. But just the ball. That's why I say we keep on focusing on the right things and let the other things in nature take care of itself. Once we are obsessed with the process, there's very little things in the world that can help. But now, that I think about, sports is not deliberate. Intense focus is deliberate. We got to find time for intense amount of focus on whatever it is that we are doing. Being silent does not help all the time, but it does help some time. In the sense that you're completeting and accomplishing important work when others are distracted in instagram, watching sports or something like that. Then today I watched sports too, again one bad decision made by me. As I am seeing people on instagram, I thought they're not living our lives, we're not living their lives so why compare. It seems fun and all of that but we need to find more experiences in our lives.
There are quite a lot of things that needs to be learnt as we go. We got to be aggressive in our game and make sure we go for the kill and finish the game.
Structure
Somehow we need more structure. The essential question is how do we build more and more structure in our lives. Do we have to wake up at a specific time, workout at a specific time, read at a specific time, what do we do? There are thousands of books all of them telling you something different. For an example, I was reading shoe dog the other day, then I was reading something else, then something else, but Cal Newport's books has taught me the most about structure. For me, structure is how you genuinely grow. Whether you want to learn a little bit about socialization, whether you want to learn a little bit about how to be generous, or whether you want to be a good person and be giving. You want more depth and more depth. That is always, not once, but always built on structure. If you increase the structure in your life, you will increase almost everything else in your life too. You will have less negative thoughts, you will have more structured positive thoughts.
Aggression
I was talking to you about aggression and how my aggression became concentration. I am wondering today how can I channel my aggression into the right sort of stuff in my life. It's quite an important question to ask right? I know we can drift by watching sports, I know we can drift by something else, playing sports is important to me because its important to me, aggression needs to be channeled in a way that for example, if you're reading, read with such great aggression that nothing really stops you. Keep learning more stuff. Learn about how can you create better claude skills. Learn about some other skills like Piano. Its not that difficult to find a piano class nearby.
Shop
Like I said, we need to be improving our own setup with work right. So lets try and get everything that's required for our work. For example, we need a mike, lets get a mike for us to setup youtube properly. We need a wire for HDMI. Let's get that too. It should not take too much time but it will save a hell lot of time for us. So another thing that we need to be doing for the community is maintain decorum.
What's your life about?
A lot of times, we would feel an emptiness to understand what our life is about. We would drift and watch sports. Sometimes sitting and wondering what is it that we really want out of our lives? I'm sure there might be many things and thoughts at play. But we need to be very particular about certain important things in our lives where we need to complete some important tasks after all. I know that I have been working really hard. I need to be promoted. I think that I can serve the world a little better if I keep on increasing your skills. If I have a clear enough why, I will have a clear enough how. So serving the world is your goal. Serve it through everything you have.
Walks
It's also quite important to go out for walks. I feel like walking does increase creativity and it's quite an important thing that we go out on walks. If we go out on walks, we should think of how to produce more value overall in the world. Sometimes silently sitting and listening is valuable something something else is more valuable. If we choose the right thing more often than not, we are winning not once but all the time. Have a look at Srk, he does not really go out there on instagram showing himself. Rather he just chooses what the right post is and then posts as a celebrity. It's important to know what your life is about. I say that again.
Structure and more thought on it
Have you thought about how a building is built so tall. It starts with laying out a structure. The roots of a building. Similarly, there are quite a lot of things in the world that can help you begin laying out a structure. For an example, you might start learning a lot about finance not by the applications but through the basics. You might learn more about computer science not just by applications but by the roots of it. I love the fact that roots and basics come first. There's also a plan that's clearly laid out when designing a building, We want to plan the roots and the foundation first and then go about creating the building. The building will be good when the plan is good. If you have a plan where you write paint first and then create the structure, well the structure might just erase the paint right. Paint and make up and beautify is usually the last part. The idea is that structure should be solid enough. It should withstand the pressure and weight of the earth by itself. Well all of that is physics, but that's what is the most important.
I'm going to go on a podcast walk now, where I am going to listen to a podcast and only listen to a podcast. It really helps me when I listen to a podcast that's wonderful. Moreover, I think that there's less need of validation out here. I mean there's some thought to it, but validation needs to be internal and I have said that many a times.
Creating the right environment
I believe for any type of success in life, you need to be in the right environment. If not the right environment, you need to be creating the right environment. For an example, I need to now move out of this house and move into a different house. It's quite important that I start planning about it so that there's something new that I can look forward too. Moreover, creating the right type of environment needs us to design our space in a way that supports our growth automatically. Not just through one or 2 bad days or good days, we need to be designing in such a way that influences not just one person but everyone around that person. Let's start learning finances in our lives so that we can support our people a little better. I know, I know that there's so much more depth to this part. There's so much more we need to learn on the finance side. But one step and one thing at a time for a long time is what we need.
Reduce doing too much at once
Sometimes its quite natural to do too much all at once. We do not want to go there, we need to learn everything in different intervals of time. We need to be doing projects for finance. We need to be learning more and more financial skills. We need to learn negotiation skills. All of them will help us improve a lot in life. That's what I would say let's keep increasing our thought process about where we can go. We can go to infinity and back. But you need to again understand this one thing, that the less number of things we do, the better we can do them. So one project at a time. But do them brilliantly.
Impact should be around millions and billions
As I write this, its quite easy to think about impacting one or two people in our community. But the reality is impact should always go to millions and billions of people. If we are not impacting more than a million people there's something wrong with our way of creation. Currently, as I write this, I know that there are going to be parts of this that are not useful for everyone. Moreover, its a thought dump. We need more of a place where we can have at least more than 100s of readers. If by some way I can increase those numbers it would be great. Moreover we need to have a good output out there. The content should be great that's what matters the most.
Thoughtfulness
I also think that our team is very thoughtful in terms of what we can accomplish as a team. I have stopped reading and that can be really dangerous for us. So what we want to do is keep reading as much as we possibly can. That will increase our horizons. We should also go out as much as we can. We should also get in touch with the successful people around the world. Conferences. Learning different skills are an essential in today's day and age. If we are able to complete most of the work, we will be able to complete the essential's and more. One thing about noise, don't go towards noise. Go towards learning and making things better in the company. That's where growth really happens.
Output:
Video demo. Live presentation. Written material all of them are quite important as an output to have. If we keep doing that well enough we will be able to contribute to everyone a little more.
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