1-The 4 practice and 4 philosophy

The four practice and philosophy I want my sons to know.
The four practice:

Karate builds your character and confidence. With karate you can confront any problem.



I have played chess, go, philosophy, enlightenment,
psychology, poetry, karate, bridge, computational fluid dynamics, quantum theory, xbox, hacking, game programming, women, all of them are roughly the same if you look deep enough. Oracle is the best toy because it is quite inexhaustable, only need a laptop, and you can make lots of money playing it.


Poker no limit holdem contains the essence of all human interactions. Know poker know people.
And emotion is always started by other people, then know poker know emotion.
Know also game theory.And you have to a 40% bad guy to survive in this world. Watch Chronicles of Riddick.

Mindfulness for many years is still the most effective stress buster.





The four philosophy:

Probably the most important system:
1. Break big task down into smaller ones. Do it with anything: difficult job, difficult people.
2. Schedule your fun time.
3. Pretend that the big task is easy or is a normal day to day activity


No shame because in this deterministic universe controlled by conditions arising, you have absolutely no choice in what you do. Intrinsically linked to Learned Optimism.



Research found out that people that are resilient believe these things:
1. The bad situation is not your fault.
2. The bad situation is temporary.
3. The bad situation only affect a



You have to control your material world first in order to be happy. There is no other way.

The world demand people that are good. To be good at anything you must put in 10,000 hours.