Knowledge Crystal 11 Aug 12 Experience

Karate, thick black theory, game theory, poker, sun tzu

Fight bullies and Work hard

Hara, Vit B, Backnobber

Fight bullies

Always fight bullies

-If you don’t fight bullies, you will suicide or go mass shooting, all mass shooting people are bullied before.

-Your work will suffer because you are emotionally affected, so you must be half farmer for hard work, and half warrior to fight bullies.

Karate, thick black theory, game theory, poker,  sun tzu, life are the same

-Their principles can interchange with each other, this is due to fractal theory of the universe.

-You learn either one you will know one thing on how to fight bullies.

Attack is the best defense

-In karate, poker, chess, if you only defend and don’t attack or fight bullies, you will always lose, life is the same.

-If you only defend, the enemy will keep on attacking because he is comfortable, but if you attack and hurt him, he will stop his action immediately. Can be shown in karate, poker, game theory.

-Game theory shows that if you attack back bullies, his benefit will go from positive to negative and he will stop his actions.

-Bullies 99% will only pick on easy target. Be a difficult target they will avoid you.
-Karate and poker also shows that the enemy will soften and become blur after you hit him.

Be aggressive and unpredictable

-In poker it is calle aggro, and it is the best playing method. So is karate.

-Be like a gangster, be a bit crazy, be feared is better than to be loved.

Take hits and risk of hits, allow injury to yourself

-But fighting bullies involves risk to your self, you might loose something also, this cause you to be afraid and reluctant to fight bullies, and end up you don’t attack the enemy.

-The solution is to allow yourself to be hit like Goju Ryu Karate or muay thai, you keep on fighting, you will discover that after injury, you still can keep on fighting and survive successfully.

-You have to visualize you are a goju ryu karateka taking hits during a fight and winning the enemy later, or watch goju ryu documentary in youtube, or best is take up goju ryu and get the being hit training.

-This is the essence of being thick skin in thick black theory, you allow injuries or shame to yourself and you keep on fighting.

-You must face death and laugh at it like a crazy evil.                           

-Read Liu Pei story in Thick Black Theory.

-Kung Fu practitioners usually last only 20 seconds in a muay thai ring. Yeah sure they have all the fancy moves. But they never got hit so hard and so many times in their life. They cannot bear the pain. – A muay thai organizer

Pretend the injury is like a mosquito peck

-So you wont be so emotional about being hit and can still maintain your mental energy for the real fight.

-Being more macho also make the enemy respect you and avoid you, because  you are not afraid of losing and have the capacity to attack, lowering the enemy benefit, per game theory.

Put your attention in the hara

-This is balance your brain and hara energy and reduce your fear and anxiety.

-Use by karate all the time during combat.

Be half evil

-If you are good, you loose the will to attack, you become weak, only evil have the will to attack and to injure.

-But you cannot be evil all the time because nobody will cooperate with you, so you need to be evil half of the time.

-If you are not half evil and show  it to people, even good little girls and sheep will come and bully you, because human beings need place to vent their steam and injuries, nobody is immune to this.

-You half to be half gangster, half asshole even to good people.

-If you don’t know how to gain evil energy, visualize yourself injuring and torturing the other person, or read manga Baki showing that good people need to be half evil also, good and evil need to coexist inside a person in order for him to be strong.  Or watch the movies and manga in list below.

-This is the black heart in thick black theory.

-Read Cao Cao story in thick black theory.

Trash talk

-Bullies usually use insults to attack you because punching is illegal, you cannot attack back the bully with punching back also, so you insult back with trash talking or joking or teasing or clowning.

-You have to practice trash talking and gain this very important skill even in a professional work place.

-Visualize trash talk as punch in a karate sparring.

Bluffing

-Insult always need to lie about the reality, this is call bluffing in poker, when you insult the enemy you need to say something that is blatantly untrue. The enemy is hard to turn back to truth, because this take time, and gets emotional and defensive, when he bcome emotional his speed will slow down and he will soften.

-When the enemy bluff, you blatantly bluff him back just like poker or feigning in karate.

Unbalance the enemy emotion

Disconnect yourself from emotion or use gangster emotion

-The goal in insulting enemy is to unbalance his emotion with anger, fear and shame. So the unpleasantness will slow him down, make him avoid you, and now you become the bully.

-Do not let the enemy affect your emotion, because it will slow down your attacks.

-Disconnect from your emotion when you are fighting, or use gangster emotion to keep emotion light and do not inferfere with your attacks, your body and mind must be relaxed like karate sparring.

-Make the enemy dealing with you frustrating and angry, even good people you have anger them sometimes for them to respect you, gain respect from people not love.

-You have to act, don’t be real.

-This is like karate sparring, or poker.

Win even when weak with sun tzu

-Sun tzu teaches attacking enemy weak point, bluffing, and guerilla warfare.

- This will reduce your fear if you have a strategy.

-Sun tzu and karate and poker and thick black theory and game theory is linked.

Only at first war is hard

-You will get use to it and it become easy as talking.

Make peace with your shit

Then you will not be affected by trash talk.

And you will not attack yourself.

Aim to gain people respect, not love

How to remember all of the above, how to deal with people?

By remembering only the goal of gaining their respect.

This can only be done by hitting them occasionally.

Entangle with people like Brazilian jujitsu

Never avoid them, wrestle with them, hold them, manipulate them, overcome them, then only you gain high social status.

The only way to be happy is to gain high social status, this is wired in your brain.

In Outliers book, there are three group of genius studied for 20 years, the successful ones know how to deal with people, the unsuccessful ones, the one without jobs, are from poor families who don’t know entitlement and how to deal with people.

Learn to be a pimp

Don't stress and be uptight. You have to act like you are in control even if you are not. A pimp never sweats it.9

To be a pimp, you must always think ahead. When you are hanging out, come up with something to say to every person in the vicinity. Be ready to 'clown' someone if they question your pimpitude. Always use like or as during the 'diss'. Only bring someone's moms in to the insult if you are ready to throw hands.10

The key to being a pimp, is knowing that you are a pimp. When you question your pimpnicity, others will too.                                                                                                                                   – Wikihow

      

Karate

If you remember only one thing, it is karate.

WORK HARD

The only way to be happy

Study hard and get a skill few people can do like programming or law or engineering. 
So you wont become a janitor, fight for scraps of food with low class people for the rest of your life.

You are wired to be happy only if you have high social status, this can only be gained by hard work and fight bullies, there is no other way to be happy.

  

The dip by Seth Godin 
All field of work have a gate that can block other people from getting the money. 
To pass through the gate need lots of hard work and frustration, most people cant do it, this gives you opportunity.

Just spend time 
Just spend time with a complicated subject, no need to be smart. Then you can become a expert. 
Deliberate practice. Keep on practicing the area you are weak at.

You need 10,000 hours to be master in anything.
M knows 100,000 chess patterns, IM  10,000, layman 1000. 

Reward yourself after work

Reward yourself after work. Plan your reward first. 
This train your brain.  Read the book Doing It Now. 


Break big task into smaller easy ones. 
Then do the easy parts one at a time. 


Do it slowly at first
This is the correct way for brain to completely wire itself to be better than others later. 

It is better to do than to do well

Make some mistakes first so you will learn.

This is much better than not starting.

Passion in your work
Live with subject. Stay with the subjec. Love the subject.
Split the people away from the subject so you can maintain your love. 

MISC

Vit B

Vit B stabilizes your mind from fear and anger. Good in fighting bullies. 
But dont eat it everyday because it gives shoulder pain, ulcer and insomnia.
Eat it alternately every 2 or 3 days. 

Backnobber
When you have back pain, use Backnobber to press into the painful spot for 1 minute.
Muscle knots will relax under strong pressure. 


Life after death. 
Soul is quantum entanglement. Watch near death experience in youtube. 
You can contact evidential mediums in the USA if love one dies.
Google up Laurie Campbell, Mollie Morning Star, Allison Dubois. Read Soul Shift. 

Brainfitness Pro

Use this software to make you smarter than other people.

Pain make your stronger
All power and money must come from pain. 
Seals hell training, karate, Initiation ceremony make one immune to pain and gain power.  

Read Baki the Son of Ogre manga in youtube.  Hanayama vs Speck.


No religion or spirituality

When people wanna rape your girlfriend, you don’t meditate.

Read the sex scandals of spiritual gurus in Stripping the Gurus book.


Tumo meditation don’t need to eat for months

STUDY TECHNIQUE

Find good beginner books by reading the reviews in Amazon.com. 
Get an overview first. Scan the book first. Understand the subject goal before going into the details.
Note down your questions to refer back later. 

Read other books if you cant understand a book.
Do sample exam questions.
Do it slowly first. 


Visualize for memorization 
To memorize something, visualize without looking at the book. 
Can visualize means already memorized. 


Read good beginners books
Always read good beginners book first to builds intuitive understanding.
Dont read reference books first, it will kill your passion. 

Internet For Research

Use google search type "best books calculus”. 
Internet amazon.com, search for 4 stars books and read the amazon comments.


Know how to research to solve problems. 
Use internet search engine like Google or Yahoo. 
Ask questions about life in internet forums like Oracle forum or Low Yatt forum.

Use Amazon.com search engine and type in the book related to your problems.
Read the reviews in Amazon, it has a lot of details about the book.

Use Singapore library search engine to find the good book in Amazon. Reserve the book.
Search the rapidshare or bit torrent for free copy of the book.



BOOKS

(books)

The 50th Law by Robert Greene
Thick Black Theory by Zhao An Xin
The Fighter’s Mind by Sam Sheridan
Game theory at work by James Miller
The Concise 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene

The dip by Seth Godin
Outliers by Malcome Gladwell
Talent is Over Rated by Geoff Govin
The now habit by Neil Fiore

(movies)
Crows Zero II, Pitch Black, Black Swan, 300

(manga)
Baki the son of Ogre, Karate Shoukoushi Kohinata Minoru, Shamo.


(Misc)
http://artofmanliness.com
Top Dog Bottom Dog by Robert Karen

Deep Survival by Laurance Gonzales

The art of the strategist by William Cohen 
Mind Warrior by Haha Lung
The Survivor personality by Al Siebert.
The art of always being right by Schopenhauer, Arthur
How to be a pimp article. In our portable drive.
Get anyone to do anything by David Lieberman

Winning: The Psychology of competition by Walker Stuart
Soul shift by Mark Ireland
Stripping the gurus by Geoffrey D. Falk
The Day I Died by BBC, documentary in youtube
Lights out by TS Wiley

Nerve by Taylor Clark

 (Top intuitive technology books)

Head First C#

Digital Signal Processing 101: Everything you need to know to get started by Michael Parker
Differential Equations - by Paul Blanchard available in Singapore library.
Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus, by H. M Schey
Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure by Lex Tokyo, Yo Sakakibara, and Alan Gleason
What is Quantum Mechanics? A Physics Adventure - Second Edition by Transnational College of LEX
C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
Head first SQL by Head First SQL by Lynn Beighley
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

(To get Oracle certification)
Get a practice exam to get an overview, like Transcender or Selftestsoftware.
Find beginner intuitive books by googgling "Best Oracle books" or "Best beginner PLSQL book". 
Read reviews in Amazon for the books.
Try to get free books by googling "(book title) free book"
Reading a good beginner book is extremely important.


QUOTES

"Create a Threatening Presence: Deterrence Strategies.[1] Make people think they will lose, bluff if needed. People want an easy victory and will not attack if they think they will lose.
Reverse Intimidation. 1) Make bold manoeuvres and bluff wisely, 2) be a threat, make sudden moves, imply aggression, 3) move irrationally, create unpredictability, act crazy, 4) Feed your opponent's paranoia by indicating capabilities that they are afraid of, 5) maintain a bad reputation, mean, nasty and non-negotiable."
-33 Strategies of War book Wiki

"By giving into the bully, Billy taught Ryan that his intimidating behaviour was okay. Standing up to him early, even if it meant being beaten up, would have been better than spending a whole year in pain. Almost all bullies pick on people who wont fight back. They use intimidation and are rarely interested in real conflict."
– The Survivor Personality book

"When you submit to an aggressors or to an unjust and impossible situation. You do not buy yourself any real peace. You encourage people to go further, to take more from you, to use you for their own purposes. They sense your lack of self respect and they feel justified in mistreating you. You must develop the opposite – a fighting stance that comes from deep within and cannot be shaken. You force some respect. This comes from your attitude - fearless and always prepared to fight. It radiates outward and can be read in you’re a manner without you having to speak a word. By a paradoxical law of human nature, trying to please people less will make them ore likely in the long run to respect and treat you better. The is inner strength, however, does not come naturally. What is required is some experience. This means that in your daily life you must assert yourself more than usual.
– The 50th Law book.

"Survivors puzzled me at first. They are serious and humours, hard working and lazy, self confident and self critical. They are not one way or the other, they are both one way and the other. Sensitive-tough, strong-gentle, cowardly-courageous, mature-playful, humorous- serious, distant-friendly, self confident-self critical, trusting-cautious, dependent- independent, impulsive-well organized, happy-discontent, cooperative-rebellious, proud -humble, selfish-unselfish, lazy-hardworking, involved-detached, logical-creative, calm-emotional, shy-bold, loving-angry, consistent-unpredictable, messy-neat, optimistic- pessimistic"
- The Survivor Personality book

"karate spirit is of great importance. No matter who wins or loses, dies or stays alive, - most important is training, process, fight and the "Way" itself. When you are free from idea of winning and losing, you are immersed in the spirit of Budo and enjoy every moment of the Way, irrespective of winning or losing. Hear these words and you will become great karateka."
-Anon

"If competence is attained, Winning will follow.
There is no reason to disparage the desirability of winning. What is necessary, however, is to recognize that although winning is the object of the game, it is not the object of playing the game. page 39
The more the competitor enjoys and attributes significance to the play itself, the more likely he is to win. The essence of winning behaviour is relaxed enjoyment, playing the game. page 40
A number of balances must be struck: between aggressiveness and passivity, between greed and complacency, between impulsivity and intellectualization. most races, and all series demand these balances, demand equanimity, but there are times and places for marked variation from the happy medium. page 119"
-Winning: The Psychology Of Competition book

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty." - Karate Master Ahmad Mehanna.
"If you dont work, what will you do? If he can do it, why cant you do it?"-Anon
"Practice, practice, practice" - A samurai
"Cry in the dojo, laugh in the battlefield" - Samurai
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.- Mark Twain
"No matter what, fight"-Bubul

“In japan the important thing is to continue, no matter how bad you are, or how bad you feel you are, you continue. 
In kendo, if you get hurt, it is not so much your body get hurt, its your ego. 
If you want to overcome others, you must first overcome yourself, your own weakness. 
Kendo and zen basically have the purpose, is that it destroys the ego. “
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIyp93JjpmM&feature=related

“There is this feeling of exhilaration in striving forward despite the overwhelming obstacles and pain, even definite loss. This is the defiance God loves.” – Bubul

“Maturity is a big part of success in fighting, because it means you understand the game - That losing is part of the game. It doesn’t mean to let yourself get conquered, but to know that you can win again, at the right time you can be great. The key to doing well in competition is to accept.
Accept you can lose, you can not perform. Take this big bag of rocks out of your backpack, take the pressure off, and you'll do better. Once you understand that, man, you can do welll. - Ricardo Liborio.

Everyone has stuff they get nervous about, their personal shit, and if you hang around long enough they'll volunteer. 
But Phil hasn't made peace with it. When I goof on him, he'll get mad. 
In one press conference, Phil was almost in tears, I get what Frank is about. He's not picking on Phil out of nowhere, he's not just an asshole. Mental toughness is on the table. 
Now he is not in a peaceful mind, ready to fight. Now he is somewhere else, some other issue from when he was a kid. He's not focused on the task or the goal. 
I talk to people during fights the whole time. - Frank Shamrock on his shit talking. 

Greg is a diehard advocate of learning to function under duress. The idea is to develop resistance to 
the pain affecting your mental and physical abilities. You do workouts to get tougher, you 
have hard sparring to get tougher. So when it happens in a fight t's not this foreign, 
unfamiliar thing. -Greg Jackson

In boxing, hurt is what people do to each other, an intimate social act, a pessimistically stripped 
to the bone rendition of life as it is lived outside the ring. - Carlo Rotella “ -From the Fighter's Mind: Inside the Mental Game by Sam Sheridan

“1. Be willing to fail...a lot 2. Fail on a survivable scale 3. Spot a failure and fix it early” 
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure by Tim Harford

“1.Chunk it up 2.Chunk it down 3. Do it slowly “- The Talent Code book

“Work like an ant, fight like a badger, no pain no gain “-Bubul

"A man in the latter stages of ordeal starts to realize that his manhood and deep inner satisfaction comes from finding purpose, not pleasure. He realizes that manhood does not consist in avoiding pain. He sees that the pleasures that he strived for no longer have meaning. Addictions have lost their allure. He realizes there is no 'right' woman that will make life bearable. There are only fantasies of women. 
When I talked in the last chapter of the death of the ego I was talking of the movement of the initiate into a space where he is not in control, and his ego is frustrated. During initiation his ego needs for pleasure and his ego needs for status and power are ignored. The adolescent, by moving into the wilderness and away from the marketplace, assume a very lowly position. The elder has purposely put the boy in a space where he is ritually humiliated. He has done this to teach him humility. 
In ancient initiation, a boy is purposely and ritually humiliated. His healthy adolescent boisterousness and cockiness is confronted. He is shown that the world does not revolve around his pleasure needs, as in the maternal world, or his power needs as in the paternal world. He is shown that his true power and identity resides beyond his own ego control and needs. His natural ego development is pushed to the next level. 
-http://www.christoscenter.com/archives.html Toward Manhood 

"18. All warfare is based on deception. 19. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. 
1 Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State. # 
2 It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. 
22 If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. 
23 If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. # 
If his forces are united, separate them. # 
1 Sun Tzu said: The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. # 2 To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. # 
5 In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. # 
6 Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more. # 
7 You can be sure of succeeding in your attacks if you only attack places which are undefended. # 
9 O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; # 
12 If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way. # 
If the enemy's dispositions are visible, we can make for him in one body; whereas, our own dispositions being kept secret, the enemy will be obliged to divide his forces in order to guard against attack from every quarter." 
17 For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak. 
30 So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. #Like water, taking the line of least resistance. 
12 If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way. 
# There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: (1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;(4) a delicacy of honor which is sensitive to shame;(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble. 
Keep your army continually on the move, and devise unfathomable plans. # " 
-Sun Tzu 

"To play a game is great . 
To win a game is greater.
To love the game is the greatest." – Unknown


“Why is it good to be half mean:
The power of the prisoners’ dilemma paradigm extends even to evolutionary
biology. When humans play games, we usually assume that we rationally choose whatever strategy maximizes our payoff. Biologists sometimes apply game theory to animals and assume that the animals’ genes dictate how they play their games.17 Imagine that some creatures are repeatedly playing the prisoners’ dilemma game in Figure 44. A creature’s genes will tell it to play either nice or mean. The creatures receive food as their payoff. The more food a creature has, the more offspring it produces, and the more its genes will spread. The genes that are best for playing the game will survive while those that receive consistently poor scores will become extinct.

Imagine that there are two colonies of creatures separated by some considerable distance. In one colony all the creatures have genes telling them to play nice, while in the other, the genes dictate that the creatures be mean. The offspring in both of these colonies would always have the same genes as their parents. The creatures in both colonies repeatedly play the prisoners’ dilemma game in Figure 44.
The nice colony would appear to have an advantage. Because everyone in this colony is always nice to each other, everyone gets a payoff of 5 foods each round. In the mean colony everyone always gets a payoff of only one food. The nice colony should expand relative to the mean colony. The colony of the creatures with mean genes, however, has one critical advantage over their nicer rivals. Consider what happens when the nice colony expands to the edge of the means and competes directly against them. The mean creatures will do very well in this game, and the nice creatures will die. When the nice colony creatures play only against each other, they beat the mean colony. When they play against the mean creatures, however, the mean creatures dominate. This contest between nice and mean shows that nice guys finish
first only when they don’t have to compete against mean people. 

Why is good to be crazy sometimes:

In the classic game of chicken, shown in Figure 24, two cars drive straight toward each other. The first driver who turns loses. Of course,if neither car swerves then both drivers lose even more. The best outcome for a player results when he goes straight and his opponent turns. In this situation the winning driver will be known as macho while the other driver will be considered wimpy. The worst outcome for either player manifests when an accident is caused by both drivers going straight. Consequently, a rational player will turn if he believes that his opponent is going to drive straight.

In a chicken game, therefore, you win by convincing your rival that you will never turn.6 Consequently, perception is reality in the game of chicken. Chicken is not just a game about who is more macho, but also about who more exudes an air of machismo. Each player wants the other to believe that he is so macho that he would rather die than give in. If you can convince your opponent that you are indeed macho, you will win the game and thus be proven macho.

Insane players have a massive edge in the classic chicken game, for would you ever want to prove that you are more willing to risk death than a crazy person is? What if you suffer from the handicap of being considered sensible, however?”
- Game Theory At Work by James Miller


“Last year, more tl1an forty-two thousand people graduated from law school in the United States. And thirty-seven of them were awarded Supreme Court clerkships. Those thirty-seven people are essentially guaranteed a job for life after they finish their year with the Court. Top law firms routinely pay a signing bonus of $200,000 or more to any clerk they are able to hire. Clerks go on to become partners, judges, and senators. There are two things worth noting here. The first is that Hannah Smith isn't lucky at all. She's smart and focused and incredibly hardworking. And the second thing? That anyone of the forty-two thousand people who graduated from law school last year could have had Hannah's job. Except they didn't. Not because they weren't smart enough or because they came from the wrong family. No, the reason that most of them didn't have a chance is that somewhere along the way they quit. They didn't quit high school or college or law school. Instead, they quit in their quest to be the best in the world because the cost just seemed too high.

The Reason Number One Matters 
People don't have a lot of time and don't want to take a lot of risks. If you've been diagnosed with cancer of the navel, you're not going to mess around by going to a lot of doctors. You're going to head straight for the "top guy," the person who's ranked the best in the world. Why screw around ifyou get only one chance?

Being at the top matters because there's room at the top for only a few. Scarcity I makes being ot the top worth srmletbing. There are hundreds of brands of bottled water, and they're all mostly the same. So we don't shop around for bottled water. There is no top for bottled water. Champagne is a different story. Dam Perignon is at or near the top, so we pay extra for it.

Where does the scarcity Come from? It comes from the hurdles that the markets and our society set up. It comes from the fact that most competitors quit long before they've created something that makes it to the op. That's the way it's supposed to be. The system depends on it.

With limited time or opportunity to experiment, we intentionally narrow our choices to those at the top. You're not the only person who looks for the best choice. Everyone does. As a result, the rewards for being first are enormous. It's not a linear scale. It's not a matter of getting a little more after giving a little more. It's a curve, and a steep one.

The Dip is the long slog between starting and mastery. A long slog that's actually a shortcut, because it gets you where you want to go faster than any other path. The Dip is the combination of bureaucracy and busywork you must deal with in order to get certified in scuba diving. The Dip is the difference between the easy "beginner" technique and the mare useful "ex-pert" approach in skiing or fashion design.
If you took organic chemistry in college, you've e),-perienced the Dip. Academia doesn't want too many unmotivated people to attempt medical school, so they set up a screen. Organic chemistry is the killer class, the screen that separates the doctors from the psychologists. If you can't handle organic chemistry, well, then, you can't go to med school”

- The Dip by Seth Godin


"When I was young I had no sense of myself. All I was, was a product of all the fear and humiliation I suffered. Fear of my parents. The humiliation of teachers calling me “garbage can” and telling me I’d be mowing lawns for a living. And the very real terror of my fellow students. I was threatened and beaten up for the color of my skin and my size. 

It wasn’t until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain.

The Iron had taught me how to live. Life is capable of driving you out of your mind. The way it all comes down these days, it’s some kind of miracle if you’re not insane. People have become separated from their bodies. They are no longer whole.

I see them move from their offices to their cars and on to their suburban homes. They stress out constantly, they lose sleep, they eat badly. And they behave badly. Their egos run wild; they become motivated by that which will eventually give them a massive stroke. They need the Iron Mind.

Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts. Time spent away from the Iron makes my mind degenerate. I wallow in a thick depression. My body shuts down my mind.

The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver."

-Iron and the soul by Henry Rollins


I didn’t find out just because I was dumb. I searched so hard for years, and didn’t care about anything except finding it. Once, when I was thinking about the three kingdoms, I suddenly realized – all the heroes in history have nothing more than Thick Face and Black Heart.

Amongst the heroes during the three kingdoms, the first is CaoCao. His personality was all black heart. He killed Lu Boshe, killed Kong Rong, killed Yang Xiu, Killed Dong Chengfuwan. Then he killed the queen and the prince. He dared to do anything. He even said “I’d rather betray everyone in the world instead of others betraying me.” His heart was so black that nobody could ever reach it. That’s why he became a hero on top at that time.

The second one should be Liu Bei. It was all about thick face in his personality. He depended on
Cao Cao, depended on Lu Bu, depended on Liu Biao, depending on Cun Qan, depended on Yuan Shao. He went to so many places, lived in other peoples houses – and didn’t feel ashamed about it.And he liked crying all throughout his life. In the stories of the three kingdoms it was portrayed so vividly.He cried to everyone when he met problems he couldn’t solve.Then, the failure became an achievement. So people said “Liu Bei cried his kingdom up”. It’s also an ability.

Cao Cao and he were absolutely on the top of thick and black.They were talking about heroes while boiling wine. One had the most black heart, one had the thickest face – but they both couldn’t help it. We can see all the people around them. They all were not thick and black enough. That’s why Cao Cao said to Liu Bei, “There are only two heroes in the world. Me and you.”

Xiang Yu was a hero who could lift a mountain, and who could cover the sky. Thousands of people died when he shouted, but why did he die in the east city and get laughed at by the world? The reason why he failed – it’s like what Han Xin said,“Women’s kindness and men’s braveness”.It included everything. Women are kind because they can’t take the cruel things around. As his heart wasn’t black.Men are brave because they can’t take other people’s insult, as his face was not thick.

In the story of the Hongmen feast, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were sitting together. Xiang Yu already took the sword out. What he needed to do was just push it into Liu Bang – then he could be emperor right away. But he hesitated and didn’t do anything and allowed Liu Bang to escape.In the story of the failure in Gaixia, if he could go over Wujiang river, and did things right from the beginning, he could have been the winner.But he said, “Eight thousand people of this land went over the river to the west. Nobody came back today but this land and the people love me and treet me so well – how can I sit here and not feel guilt about it?” All these talks were so wrong! He said he couldn’t lose his face. He said he was guilty for what he had done.

-Thick Black Theory

After 22 years of searching the secret in every corner, under every leaf. I finally find it. Not from the faithful and kind, the Brahmins. But from the people who are familiar with darkness, the Kshatriyas:
Karate, Game Theory, Sun Tzu, Thick Black Theory, The Dip
Today is my birth day of the dawn. -Bubul

There are two ways of fighting, one by law, and one by force.

When princes have paid more attention to the refinements of life than to war,they have lost their positions of power.

Any man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in every department of conduct
msut inevitably come to ruin among so many men who are not good. Therefore a ruler who 
wishes to preserve must be able to learn to be not good. –Machiavelli

Warriors are the true explorer because they go where few people dare to venture. -   Bubul

Blind Prisoner: You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak. 
Bruce Wayne: Why? 
Blind Prisoner: How can you move faster than possible, fight longer than possible without the most powerful impulse of the spirit: the fear of death. 
Bruce Wayne: I do fear death. I fear dying in here, while my city burns, and there's no one there to save it. 
Blind Prisoner: Then make the climb. 
Bruce Wayne: How? 
Blind Prisoner: As the child did. Without the rope. Then fear will find you again. 

-The Dark Knight Rises

Throughout history, cultures have often placed the king at the center of the universe. From him radiated all of existence. If you look at how ancient civilizations laid out their cities, we often see that the dwelling place of the king or leader sat at the center.

In addition to serving as the geographic center of his realm, the ancient king also represented its spiritual center as well. He was the intermediary between heaven and earth. Through his divine powers, the king brought order to the universe by reconciling opposite forces. Myths abound of kings battling evil demonic creatures and establishing order in chaos.

When a man is living the King archetype in its fullness, he feels that same centering power within himself. Not that he believes the world revolves around him, but rather that his confidence, purpose, and well-being give him a supreme sense of balance. Even when the world around him becomes chaotic, he remains cool, calm, and collected. He acts, rather than reacts. He’s the rock in crisis. A man fully engaged with positive King energy is completely present as a man. Because of his position at the center of things, he can survey everything that is going on, soak it all in, and then take a broad view of things. This overarching perspective allows him to remain immovable in the face of the passing and superficial.

-The art of manliness.

Much as something like Zen advocates the 'non abiding mind' etc., masters like Dogen and Hakuin both knew the importance of developing the hara. A 'floating' or 'sinking' mind upsets practice, the unstable 'ki' causing bodily and mental illness, exhaustion, or drowsiness. Paradoxically, the best way to bring the mind to rest - predisposing it to return to its natural, 'non-abiding' state - is to first 'fix' it in the hara.
Even if this is thought of 'physically' - at the outset, it will eventually yield its higher, psycho-physical process, merging with the cosmic breath, leaving the mind to mirror events,with-
out sticking to them.

The man who gains Hara enters into a new relation with the world which makes both independent of it and yet connected with it in a n unforced way. The man without hara is dependent on the world precisely because he lacks real connection with it, a man with Hara is constantly connected with it because is independent of it.

It is astonishing thing to see how such tensions can be wiped out at one stroke if the sufferer simply dares to let himself drop down into his vital abdominal center and to yield to it.

Don't stress and be uptight. You have to act like you are in control even if you are not. A pimp never sweats it.9

To be a pimp, you must always think ahead. When you are hanging out, come up with something to say to every person in the vicinity. Be ready to 'clown' someone if they question your pimpitude. Always use like or as during the 'diss'. Only bring someone's moms in to the insult if you are ready to throw hands.10

The key to being a pimp, is knowing that you are a pimp. When you question your pimpnicity, others will too.                                                                                       – Wikihow