Take pain like a man

I think nowadays there are no more rites of manhood, and young men become like sissies, I am one.

In west Africa, young boys are whipped across the chest cutting the flesh, and have to smile to show they can handle pain like a man. The boys who cannot smile are considered weak and will not get girlfriends. The ability to handle pain and suffering is important in order to lead the tribe through hardships, as a man.

I have to be reeducated to be a man also; I joined a more traditional style karate school, the sensei holds a 5 feet stick and shout at the students to do horse stance until unbearable pain. If the student stood up, he will whack the student with the stick and shouts constant humiliation. For the more senior student, he will punch them on the chest and stomach, a karate punch with about 5% power is enough to knock out a layman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MciLrVWcP8w

I was whacked on the butt countless times, and experienced excruciating pain punched on the solar plexus. But after that, hell, it was being hardened psychologically with steel. You got a problem ah? Come loh. Pain and suffering ah? Come loh! Things that bothered me before lessened a great deal.

More about the peyton quinn book

The book is based on Quinn's actual experiences as a high school math teacher, bouncer in a biker bar and creator of a successful software development firm. He is internationally recognized in the self-defense trainer and security industries for his research into the affects of adrenal stress conditioning. 

Biker, bouncer, math, software development = i like.


Whether dealing with a street thug or an overbearing boss at work, you're facing a bully. Your body and your mind will react to the threat. Unfortunately, many people involuntarily send the message that they are safe to attack. Learn how this process works so you can take control of this process and instead of signaling that you are a good victim, send messages that prevents conflict.

Freedom from Fear: Taking Back Control of Your Life and Dissolving Depression by Peyton Quinn

Maybe a extremely important book. Order it 2 days shipping from Amazon today. Could solve 99 percent of life problems.

The other very important book is The Dip.

Deliberate practice

http://www.hooversbiz.com/2009/03/04/deliberate-practice-in-a-nutshell/


Sean, Ryan, to make your life happy, just do the following most important things in order of priority, the rest of the treasure chest is minor details:

1. Karate : Super confidence and dominance. A must.
2. Deliberate practice: Read The Dip book, the market wants the best. Another must.
3. Poker: Game theory. Chronicals of Riddick. Thick skin, black heart.
4. Oracle : The biggest toy.



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The dip as experienced by cool Malaysians

Folks,

You can get drown in a lake of average depth of 3 inches. The average might be 3 inches but where you stand might be 10 feet deep.

It is VERY SIMPLE. If you want to make a lot of money, do not be AVERAGE. You need to be SPECIAL in some way and fashion. You need to have HIGHLY VALUABLE skill and capability.

Now, remember, there are competition out there. So, if you make a lot of money, a lot of people want your job too. So, you probably need to have

A) TALENT

You can learn and do easily compare to others

B) Great effort

Work very hard to keep up your skill and capability

C) Exposure

For certain area, you need to be in right environment to pick up those skills.

This is the same as running a business too. You need to have COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.

So, think of yourself as a business of selling hours for money.

Dreamer


http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/908181/+460

Five star concept building book: Computer Networking First-Step by Wendell Odom

Few books are as perfect than this book. Except maybe Headfirst sql, or Who Is Fourier, or that partial differential equation I forgot the name book.

Accept about 20 percent of suffering

Accept a little bit suffering to get more fun.

Watch taboo series in Okto about fight club.There is a tribe in africa where they hit eachother with whips, but the recepient must smile and not show pain then only he can be a man and have the strength to face difficulty in the future.

Karate is about touching the chaos of violence but simultaneously maintaining extreme control.

Visualize what you study to burn into your memory

After you study something, say Oracle function, close the book, and then try to visualize what you study, if you can visualize that means what you study has been burn into your memory, your eprom.

possible to play with Oracle database with you are 13

Instead of playing with c++ or game programming. Because database is fun too!

First play with making a table and inserting data into it.

Then learn plsql a little bit.

Then play lots of sql tuning, like tuning a car model.

If i have time i will teach you sean and ryan how to play when you are 7.

Accept suffering

If I accept suffering, all my mental talk cease, i become less stress.

I have avoided legitimate suffering, but i suffered ten times more suffering as a result.

So, study hard, put in the hard work, make yourself top in your field, maybe Oracle, accept legitimate suffering, so you will have more happiness as a result.

Half fight suffering, half accept legitimate suffering.

The perfect stress therapy.

Always use the internet forums for help in all sectors

In your technological life, you will face a lot of technical difficulty. And internet forums is a very useful way to solve your difficulty. Usually in working life your colleagues would not want to teach you. The IT forums are most helpful, that why i recommend you to go into Oracle for this world market.

Even for other life questions like karate and strategy you can ask the internet forums.

There is a paid forum which is very good if the ordinary forums cannot help you with tough questions like GPRS or wavecom programming: http://www.experts-exchange.com/. I use it to bail out my very tough technical difficulties few people in the world can solve. The payment is only about S$20 a month.

How to make goals

1. Small goals
2. Reachable within 1 year
3. specific and concrete

Goals 2010

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Famous SQL tuning blog March 15
Labview SQL Metocean software April 15
KL rental house Sept 15

Run, dont walk - A linux guru

Get excited about life. Feel the excitement of rushing. Forget about your regrets and hurts. Make mistake, stumble, take risk.

The awareness as true self system

Usually use by hindus, saying that awareness is true self. This statement is a assertion and is philosophically unsound, i can say that my thumb is my true self using the same philosophical argument. Instead, the assertion is more like a method to detached from the many self in a person, and is a method that works.

Another way is to pretend you are another self A and prentend the self B that is causing the problem is not really yourself.

Philosophy is all about pretend. It is a game. Described by Wittenstein.

The half half system

Half awareness identity, half ego identity
Half attachment, half detachment
Half good, half bad
Half faith, half fear
Half goal, half process

I am trying to find this one method one principle

Now I got a cocktail of principles. I am searching for that one principle.

Faith not fear

Being too scientific and logical brings fear and nihilism. Nihilism is the ultimate end of scientific reasoning. I live in fear because I am a extremely logical person. I think to avoid death and thus live in fear of death.

I need faith I need art.

Faith not fear

Being too scientific and logical brings fear and nihilism. Nihilism is the ultimate end of scientific reasoning. I live in fear because I am a extremely logical person.

I need faith I need art.

It is very important to have a thick skin

You can do much more things in life. To have a thick skin remember you are not the center of the universe.