Principle of Inversion.
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Little bambini had a problem. She was bright as ever smiling out of the bed in the lovely morning, but had trouble changing cloths. No matter how hard she tried she could not put her cloths on the correct side! This time the shirt and trouser both are in wrong side. So, instead of trying to correct the shirt, she wanted to fixed her head to the other side. And it seems to be having the same effect as changing her cloths. Aha! what a brilliant idea.

Above is just a small example of how principle of inversion, is used in real life. But, if you looked carefully around the world there are many more. Consider the race to success, instead of trying to work hard and move to success faster, you can consider it as a game where you try to stop getting bankruptcy and broke. It doesn't matter who wins the race or who, reach a trillion dollars faster. If you are not broke by your retirement, we can consider it as a success. You know who else had little bambini wisdom? Its Warren Buffet! the investor.
Yes, he had this concept of trying to invert the thinking when answers are not clear. It may be an old version of red hat black hat thinking. Let's look at some practical examples where you can incoperate this principle to your life. Imagine you want to be happy today. You do right?
How to spend happy today? with principle of inversion.
I wonder who keeps pondering your happiness till it dissapear? Maybe it's your bad habits. Instead of trying to be happy focuss on trying not to get sad. But now you will see a lot of potential. Maybe wasting too much time on televsion, worrying about what is going to happen tomorrow, sorrowing over people who are out of your reach, even lonelyness which dissapears when you step out of your house, keeps you away from happiness you are trying to reach. Someone might call it the stoic way of reaching happiness by inderectly focussing on kindness and silence. But you can also call it Bambini method. As you have worn a good shirt on the wrong side.

Think about it for a moment. Today is fine. It's a little raining, and gloomy. You haven't seen a glimpse of the Autumn sun so far. Cold a day. But, is that a reason for you to be grumpy, Like an old man in Christmas Carol? Maybe you can change yourself instead. You may be able to see the good side of your old parents and nasty children. You will see silver linings of the clouds, that indirectly point to sunlight if you looked carefully at the gloomy sky. You will see squirrels collecting nuts, in the park, for the winter ahead. You will know what to do with few dollars in your bank account to make a smile on another persons face. Instead using it for your lavish expenditure. Maybe you hold the power to make your day a happy one.
This is not the only way you can use the principle of inversion. That is what is wonderful about principles. You can learn it once and use it everywhere.
If you want to climb a mountain, make sure and do everything to not to slip and fall.
If you want to pass an exam, make sure you do not fail, due to stupid reasons.
If you want to be healthy, try and wipe out all the unhealthy grabage from your life.
If you want to be rich, make sure you do not lose what you have already gained.
If you are playing hunger games, try to survive instead killing others.







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