Last year November. In Autumn I visited my aunt, In Austin To meet Her tombstone Who walked among us And gave warm hugs I couldn't bear the sight She was just a cold marble Just a number with her name Just two numbers and a name How unfair is life? Living among dead If you would like to know about life, Spend some time in Cemetery walking. Seriously, everyone who cares about life, and want to succeed in life, should take a walk among dead in a cemetery. And feel what it is like to end up in where we belong after all the success. You can just do it today, and it will be a strange experience to visit there when there is no funeral. Just to meet some tombstones, which are carved with names and dates. Few words to remind a memory of a dead person to the living. And If you walk, you would see fresh stones, standing proud, while the old ones hide the engravings with moss and mold. It is a place where we are scared to walk at night. Often pictured in movies and popular culture as scary. The same people we loved and wished never left us now trying to haunt, living with totally strangers in the cemetery. Rich and poor, old and young, good and bad, criminals and doctors living a dead life. How scary is that for a dream. Do I want to spend time dead, buried alongside my enemies? Should I write my last will to change the title of my Tombstone and the place where it should be built? Should I make a gigantic pyramid to make it last a thousand years into the future? Pyramids Then there is the problem, how can I know that my will be executed when I am dead? Who is going to supervise that my friends and family would not rob me the will. Will I come back as a ghost, if I value my will too much? There are no definite answers to these questions. Not with evidence, for real reasons. Once we know the reality as we see is just another illusion, afterlife and death would make no sense. But first we have to know who is living and who is dying. I see the problem. Stuck within my own prison, I cannot testify about you. You are out of my league anyway. Are you living? Are you dead? there is no method exist for me to tell for sure. But what about me? Am I living? Who am I anyway? Isn't it important to know myself before I start making a successful career? Shouldn't they teach us, about ourselves before we were taught about "What to do in life?". You may think I am a crazy philosopher asking stupid questions. Let's talk about stocks and investments instead. Real things that matter in life. Which stocks did you invest in? If you are in America (majority of my visitors are from USA) and reasonably wealthy you may have invested in stocks. How about some tesla Stocks? You believe what Elon Musk is doing right. Listen to what he has to say about above questions about life. He think, that human consciousness is not advanced enough to answer such questions. So, he takes a different path to make it multiplanetary until we are able to figure out life. The question is do we have to believe him? On which grounds he has come to that conclusion? After trying all his life? No, maybe he spent a couple of years of youth to figure out life and was distracted by the moon instead. The real reason, I was taking about Elon is if you have invested in his stocks, basically which means you are investing indirectly to answer the question "What is life". Is there a better way to do it? Would you trust yourself or Elon Musk in matters of life? Life of numbers Stocks that matters I think wise way to do it is, think about it myself, as it matters to me. That I figure out myself before I am dead and become a tombstone beside unknown people. I refuse to wait until I am sick, I get a cancer or unable to walk. I refuse to everyone who says, success comes first. The truth is no big success matters unless you figure out who you are. A billion dollar question of life. Humans have remarkable ability to replicate nature. Somehow they have figured out ways to persist and overcome death, by keeping records of themselves. Just like DNA, how nature did it millions of years ago. But still trapped. Let's battle individually and discuss together, so we have better chances of winning this stupid game nature has created for us.

Yes. This article contains everything you need to know about happiness. No, you don't need to look anywhere else for definitions, or thousand ways to create happiness. This is it, everything! It's easy and simple. We can start by answering the question "what is happiness" What is happiness? Happiness is a feeling you get. What is a feeling? A feeling is a mental object which your mind recognizes. Just like anger, jealousy and sadness, and thousands more emotions, happiness is just one. Why is it important to objectify happiness like this? It's because once we know characteristics of a mental object, we would know how it originated, how it persists and how it is destroyed. Then the mystery of happiness everyone seeks would no longer be there, and you my friend will be able to create your own happiness. Happy Study of mental objects. We do not have to look far away when it comes to the study of mental objects. There is a great deal of written and spoken information about this subject, and it is called mindfulness. Unfortunately there is abundant miss information as well. That mindfulness is a meditation, used for its benefits to create a calm mind. But I consider mindfulness an experiment, about self. Study of mental objects in your own mind. Watching how they arise, persist and destroy. Origin of a mental object. Birth of a mental object happens when a consciousness meets a replica of the world. Imagine you see a large body of water. This picture you see is not the real thing. It is a replica of the world created by your mind's eye. Combined with past memories you would instantly recognise this as the "sea". And with this recognition a whole lot of arena develops. No longer you will be interacting with a real object, but the altered one your mind creates. By the time you see the waves, the sea is already gone. Now you would be thinking about the waves and sound of the waves. As you can see, mental objects persist when you feed it with your memory. And they are destroyed when a new one takes its place in your consciousness. By this way, during so called living, we would be alternating our consciousness between various mental objects. But there are some objects which are entirely mental. And those are called emotions. Happiness Intelligence Everything about happiness - Emotional intelligence. The fascinating thing about emotions is although they are entirely mental they affect physically as well. Consider sadness and happiness, which is capable of forming tears. We can see that emotions are our judgements to those temporary mental objects associated with the environment. Imagine you feel the breeze while on the beach tossing your hair. And first this would only be a thing. But mind doesn't allow this to happen. And it takes a mental ride, and think "ah, such a bliss, the breeze" and there a value is created which is positive. And this creates another mental object called happiness. Yes, happiness as you see is an illusion. But did you see the problem? The problem is there is nothing outside this process. The problems of life and the solutions we seek are entirely within this process. You can call it subjectivity, but I call it life. Once this is understood, nothing will change. You can go back to whatever stupid thing you have been doing all your life to continue its existence. But with a better chance of creating happiness. As now you know there is nothing fancy about happiness or sadness and it certainly doesn't depend on a pile of money!

I had hard time sticking to habits. Just like you. Yes, I have read those famous hundred books about habits. From BJ Fogg's tiniest habits to Brain Tracy's eating frogs. It still feels yucky to eat my frogs. Whenever I find something new, the mind would say, this is the thing. This is the answer I was looking for. This could potentially solve all my problems. Such as atomic habits. Bloom's taxonomy . Or champion mentality They really did work to extent. But the mind is not consistent. It is by nature fluctuant. And forever changing like the sky. The sky No 56483 Mind changes, moment to moment. This is one of the most important lessons I have learnt from mindfulness. The mind is fluctuating, chaotic at times and calm at other times. What seemed enthusiastic and empowering yesterday is not anymore. Sometimes it's even dull. And sadly there is no explanation to it. I am sure there are thousands of so-called "success gurus" out there who would oppose me when I say this, that the rules or ten steps they give are not going to work. But I think it's because of the lies they preach everyday. They just need followers and believers. The ones who shatter their beliefs and system of lies are basically enemies. Why do they want to make the believers is, only because the believers are the ones who add value to their own ideas. Not the ideas themselves generated are the great, or the ultimate truth. Anyone who follows these visions other than ones which come directly from inside by mindfully observing oneself should be prepared to be perplexed and surprised when life chose to hit with a storm. Money or human values are going to be lost in space like stardust. In this way the mind is remarkably similar to the sky. Can you see the remarkable similarity with the sky? I have written about the sky many times in the past. With good reason. Think about it. Have you ever seen a sky which is similar twice ever? It cannot happen. We can artificially categorize days as sunny, windy, cloudy and gloomy with occasional storms. Yet it is markedly dynamic. From second to second. A millisecond to millisecond,  the sky changes. Sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, yet no sky is ever going to last any duration more than the time you take to observe it.  The sky No 32456 Why You cannot stick to a habit? Compare this to your mind. It's dynamic. Like the sky is. To make progress, and all the advice from gurus to work, there should be some consistency. I am not sure how many people have seen and understood that. Inconsistency is the inherent nature of the mind. Yet we see some progress, success and positive thinking works. People have really become wealthy and successful spiritually by the metrics of society. But would you believe that it is sustainable? The success and apparent positivity we see in life, is due to our own illusionary vision. Just like we see four seasons in a year, we see consistencies in our mind. Just like we see this summer is like last year summer, we see the motivated and shined mind last whenever we meet our guru. Or in January. But when we look carefully we can see it is not the same motivation. It's just motivation number 342165 which has different reasons than the one before. So can we even call it motivation? When is it a new one each time? Just like the sky and the summer. Now I think I have given enough information for you to forgive yourself when you fail, your next big objective. Or even when you are successful to be humble. It's just the sky. A new sky. And hopefully this insight will make you be on the ground till you horizontalize from the weakness of old age.

Why should we think about After success? The human mind has a remarkable ability to imagine things that even are not there at this moment. And success is one of them. Imagine every human being, everyone who is in college, from kindergarten to the university, has been dreaming of a successful life. But when it comes to the end of life, if you go and ask our elderly generation, what are the implications of success at the point of their life journey? They will have different stories. Some would say it is not about doing a perfect job, earning a lot of money, not even traveling, not even ruling the world with power and wealth. Sometimes at this point in life, success can even mean getting out of bed in the morning without any back pain. Or having a day without a Urinary tract infection. So, everyone who is dreaming of success should ultimately think about what if I become successful, what is there after success? Imagine you are doing your own 3-5 job. Does that mean success comes when you retire, when you get an increment at the end of the year or bonus? Does that mean that you are in a flow with your work, that you don't feel the time passing? Abstract painting But even if that is true, time is going to stop for all of us. Let's say you are Pablo Picasso and you are drawing the life that you dreamed of on a piece of canvas. And you are very happy doing it. Plenty of people admire you. You are loving every second you live on earth. And that is successful. Yet at the end of the day, does this mean that you are able to carry this until you are dead? and after death? It makes enormous sense for me to think about after success rather than the success itself. Let's say there is nothing after success which I should be bothered about, that there is empty space, like a hospice or a retirement home. Then I should ask the question: why success? Why should I tire myself to achieve things that are not even lasting till I close my eyes in 50 years? Once you know the answers to these questions and if you know the answers to these questions now, you are ready to be successful. As now there is a purpose, or no purpose, now there is a target, or no target. Now there is a vision, or no vision. Otherwise, you are guaranteed to fail. Only if you make the utmost priority to solve the equation of life before everything else that you would be a successful person.  Inpatient answer- why after success? For the ones who are inpatient. Like everyone in their twenties, I have a different answer for what we should think about after success. And with good reasons. Consider you want to be wealthy and successful. Every kid dreams of it as that is the picture given to us from society. A happy healthy doctors, lawyers, engineers and pilots. Maybe things will change when we consider a developed society where they would teach children to be happy as well. But, after becoming the dream, the struggle would not end, you will have to struggle to keep the dream alive. Nobody wants to be an Engineer for a day, we need engineers working for us their entire lifetime. Nobody wants a pilot for one day, we need a pilot for each and every flight. We do not need to be a Billionaire for one day, we need to maintain our status for lifetime. Otherwise we would still be failures in life. Consider what it means, because answers to your problems can be there. A good example as follows. Lottery Imagine a random person winning a billion dollar lottery. Do you think he will remain a billionaire in five years? Chances are minimal. But imagine you already are a successful millionaire and you get a lottery and now, you know exactly what you are going to do with this newly achieved wealth. It is not the wealth that matters, it is what you do to keep that wealth or even grow from there. There is plenty of philosophical advice in my blog if you are willing to make a skyscraper or start to sell values . But like I said earlier, this is just a tunnel vision for newbies who cannot think about life beyond wealth and success. Because I cannot help but notice all the millionaires, doctors and engineers of the 1800’s are not there today. Let’s be mindful about life.

The definition. Sometimes you have to risk failure in a game, to win the championship at the end. Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward faster. Sometimes you have to lose the battle if you need to win the war. A champion What is champion Mentality? Champion mentality is not a new concept. If you ask Napoleon he would say, it is wise to lose some battles strategically, to win the war, eventually. If you do not take action and risk faliure, you will never succeed in anything. Look at a toddler who takes the first steps to her mom. Every one of us were such champion's in our lives. We risked a fall from a bicycle, a wrong math, or a wrong grammar when we started to speak. Next obvious question someone should ask is why? Why should we fail in order to win? Why Champion Mentality? Simply put, it's about information. You really don't have to lose, rarely someone can be extremely be lucky to win every game that they start to play. But the more likely scenario in life is that we won't win every game that we play initially. At Least we refine our process, tactics, and mentality in each iteration cycle. With each success and each failure you would have more and more information to make the success more likely. This is what was meant by the iteration cycle, the wise words of entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Practice makes you perfect right? Most important thing we should understand while doing this is that these experiments do not have to be serial. You can run ten different experiments in parallel, and gain more information in 1/10th of the time. How do we apply this 🤔  Example of champion Mentality Imagine you are going to do a business. You can find a capital, and start a business, and run it for 10 years to see whether you succeed or fail. Or you can start ten small businesses and divide your resources into each. And run them one year and see which one has potential and which ones are useless. And more importantly, by the time in 10 years you could have done it 10 times. Which is 100 startups against one. By all means it may not be practical for anyone to do it. But the concept is solid, and lessons that we learn from failure are far more important than success, unless you analyse. Which leads to the famous quote of mine. "I would rather fail in life and know why, than succeed in life and not know how." -magicalmindfulliving  I  am a bit of an extremist, and a mindfulness enthusiast. So let's apply the championship mentality to a monk! Solo Seeker Consider a monk. He has no possession in life. No wealth, no family, no friends. Robes that they wear are not owned by them. In every religion and society we see such individuals. They appear poor, and failures in life. What are they even doing, doing nothing valuable in life? Did you see the similarity? These lonely philosophers deliberately fail in life. To gain more information about life itself. About themselves, about society. They play the game of success in champion mentality. And I bet, when it comes to real things which make us shiver in life, nobody can rob their happiness. Consider disease, old age and death, and the fact that happiest person in the world is a monk. I am sure 😌 answers to these problems, are out of our reach only because we are not champions like them. How about you? What are you going to do with this wisdom of championship mentality?

Mark Zukerburg, Bill Gates and Matt Damon are harvard dropouts. I am not sure there is any person outside congo jungle, republic of china or North korea, who haven't heard the name of one of the above people. They are so famous, and insanely rich, that combined wealth of the former two tech giants would be more than the budget of most of the countries in the world. Consider the following list of people who are college dropouts. You must be reading this article, only because of things they started developing. Microsoft List of famous college Dropouts Steve Jobs  – Dropped out of Reed College Co-founder of Apple Inc. Revolutionized personal computing, smartphones, and digital media. Bill Gates  – Dropped out of Harvard University Co-founder of Microsoft Consistently ranked among the world’s richest individuals. Mark Zuckerberg  – Dropped out of Harvard University Co-founder and CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook) Youngest self-made billionaire in history at one point. Larry Ellison  – Dropped out of the University of Illinois and University of Chicago Co-founder of Oracle Corporation Billionaire tech mogul known for enterprise software. Michael Dell  – Dropped out of the University of Texas at Austin Founder of Dell Technologies Built one of the largest tech companies in the world. Evan Williams  – Dropped out of the University of Nebraska Co-founder of Twitter and Blogger Played a key role in shaping social media. Jan Koum  – Dropped out of San Jose State University Co-founder of WhatsApp Sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion. Travis Kalanick  – Dropped out of UCLA Co-founder of Uber Changed the transportation and gig economy landscape. David Karp  – Dropped out of high school (not just college) Founder of Tumblr Sold Tumblr to Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Richard Branson  – Dropped out of high school Founder of the Virgin Group Built a global brand in music, airlines, and space travel. Is it a trend that so many dropouts, have become successful in life? Or is it just a random thing which we do not know the true scale? There may be more criminals who are dropouts of colleges and universities than billioneirs. But still, I would say there is some fascinating philosophy behind what we observe from these dropouts. Criminals and Billioneirs. I am not arguing latter group of rare individuals are invariably associated with former group. I just observe the pattern, that a dropout from a college is unlikely going to be a normal individual. By means, normal doesn't mean good. More like a person who has less regard for the formal education, and system of rules of the society. What does this mean? If you excellence in your acedemics, one day you might end up being a professional. Mind you this will take more than half of your life. And you will end up doing a respectable job. It can be from a scientist to a pilot. And you can confine yourself to this frame you have created for yourself framed by others and once you built this wall, there would be no "outside". The tunnel vision will make you see the world in a specific way that you will die without even understanding the true potential of a human consiciousness. But, if you are wise there is another path. And that path is mostly seeked by college dropouts. The fundemental to this path is to understand, that it is just a "Game", like the president Trump once said. The rules of this game were set, by other humans. The punishments of breaking the law are real, they might even make you sit on an electric chair. But even said that, you should understand, it is not real. How can we make rules for a life, which we even did not know how to come by. We just believe in them. When you know this as a fact and know it by first hand, you will realise there is nothing to lose in life. Nothing is a faliure. When you realise the zero of life , nothing is a faliure . Consider what it means.. Having a cancer is not a faliure Having kids, or no kids doesn't matter Having a billion dollers doesn't mean anything, same as having a billion in debt. Being able to travel, or just stuck in a wheelchair doesn't make a restriction. What happened yesterday doesn't make sense, same as tomorrow. It doesn't matter rain, sun or a storm. And you are out of the circle of life, where at peace, freedom from everything which are created by the words of the illusionary mind. And here at this place you can do whatever you like, guided by your own ethical principles. So, no wonder "A college dropout" is a faliure to majority of us in the society while it did not matter to long list of individuals in the above list. However, I suggest what you do with knowledge to be something ethical, and wise, not to end up in a prison like Elezabeth Holmes at Theranos( Another college Dropout).

Dragonflies Oh come on, did you really think I am a criminal? Maybe I was once, when I was a kid. So here I am confessing to a crime.  Dragonfly I see this little dragonfly in front of me. Landed on a leaf of grass, like a little copter on a Helipad. Wings shut down, head down yet on super alert mode. Moment he senses some danger it is going to fly away super fast, steered from its tail. I am sure engineers designed helicopters after them as the similarity is remarkable. Have you ever thought about it?  Would you be surprised if I told you you can still catch one of them, with bare hands? Not without a net. I have done it many times when I was a kid and I would not ask you to do it. There is nothing to learn by doing it, nothing to gain. Just a  shameful memory of a crime. The best thing you can do to nature is to leave it as it is. If you do not know why, read my article on sin cycle. There is nowhere beyond I have to look to understand life, than the dragonfly. It's gone now in search of food, to persist its short existence for a few days. Does it even entertain itself? Listening to a song? Watching some documentaries? Reading a poem. How pathetic is the life of a dragonfly without entertainment. Just fear and hunger drives everything like a cockroach which ran across my body the other day. How foolish I am if I think that the dragonfly, a butterfly or a bee exist for the purpose of my entertainment, to provide us honey and for me to catch and pin on a museum, like I saw last year. The stuffed animals and pinned butterflies remind me that the perspective of the world from their eyes is different from what I see. Can I get insights about my existence if I think about the life of a bee? Bee Bees I can remember the painful sting I had when I was a kid, by a bee. Apart from being painful for me it was disastrous for the bee. The bee broke its back, leaving deadly wounded as its entire interior was ripped off as the sting separated from its body. So much so for a defence of its tribe. I consider this as a samurai sacrifice. Bravery is not determined by the will, it seems determined by the nature. So when I see a similar sacrifice by humans should ask, what purpose does it has on the individual? Or is It determined by nature, a couple of havoc hormones? If it's the latter what is the bravery in this? This made me realise no animal is more selfish than a human being. At Least bees fundamentally have no idea that they sacrifice their life for their colony. Humans on the other hand sacrifice themselves for the country, ethnicity and even a belief, that they did not have when they were born.  War Confession to a crime It was just a few hundred years ago, we have seen the majority of people come out of their jungles to become colonised, globalised and united. Now we are concerned about humanitarian grounds in the Middle East. Yet a few hundred years ago, brutality which prevailed in abundance in the world was unimaginable. Even today we are just a few days away from a mega scale catastrophe which can break the illusion of honesty and push the majority of human minds to survival mode in Global scale. Until then, yes we can sing songs of freedom that our ancestors brought us after rivers of blood baths, which might be enough to give life to the dead Sea, if collected. Unless we realise that we are just seaweed drifting in currents, nature's forces that do not cease to stop, there would be no escape. So the crime is not only suppressing the weak, but also not acknowledging the potential of  a criminal does not vanish just overnight.

A Replica of Natural world I have been a couch potato for a long time Until recently, that I started the silent observer blog. During this period of gross inactivity, I dreamed of travelling to places, like a butterfly with broken wings. The google earth sounds perfect, for someone who like to do the traveling without any risks. It is a replica of the natural world. It doesn't need for you to take a bus, to see the Niagra falls, and take an aeroplane, to see Hindu Kush mountains. Not at all risky like flying in the sky. At the tip of your finger you have the Eiffel tower from every angle possible. Even if you are there in Paris, you would never see and collect so much information in your brain about the tower. Not at all possible to keep them over the years. Satellite Image In this sense, whoever made the google earth is a genious. I am sure that started as a pet project of google, to make an artificial "earth" like the one we live in. I am sure there were a lot of objections, to the project early on. Like "Who is going to travel to all these places? and take photos, and use their spare time to upload this?". How are we going to make the money we invest? We are not "Selling" anything? These questions sound perfect objections and legitimate at the time of the early years of google earth. However, if you have read my article about a Shop , you would realise, google now owns a gigantic "Shop" called google Earth. Where everyone saves their values in the form of pictures, and videos, and locations. And there are enough people surfing around this artificial globle, who dream of travelling, judging the photos. Google Street and Satellite Imagery Consider how much they have expanded. My street is on the google earth. So called Google "Truck" has travelled in front of my house and now, I can show anyone exactly what it looks like. When I go somewhere, I check whether Google has been there, to see if the roads are "Good enough" for my car to go on. I can go back to the past, and see how everything looked like, 10 15 years ago, from satellite imaging. And even scientists use these images to study climate changes, animal migrations and even, for terrorists to plan their attacks and armies to defend their countries. Everyone finds a use for themselves in this gigantic database called google earth, and I am sure there are thousands of articles like these circling around and some people make a living out of it. Consider number of Youtube Channels showing google earth Photos. Ah, the google earth is so big that it has come to my attention that it harbours the essential components of creating values out of nothing. Consider the fact, that there is no true "earth" in google earth. But there is one at the same time, at your fingertips, where you are able to move and "See" even spend hours and hours travelling and making Memories. If you would like to know more about this concept, follow my article on creating values . Our Earth Take home Message It is absurd, to think how imagination of humans go, even to replicate nature, in 3D world. So, what are you going to do about it? What is the lesson The Google Earth have proven to us over the years? If I try to put it into words I would say, to create human values you need to find a way to preserve human consciousness, in whatever form that you are familier with. Write down our thoughts in that everything book, make it a habit to keep a dictaphone where you go and save your thoughts, or take photographs, videos or start making collections, do not worry if it doesn't look like a shop. You do not believe Me? That's fine, as " Facts do not cease to exist, because they are ignored " :-) Atlease you have read the article if you are here now!

Is there any philosophy to a shop? I would say there are many. Consider the fact humans started as "Hunter Gatherers". It's obvious they were hunters, like any other apex predators. But more peculiarly they were gatherers. More than agile thumbs, I think "Gathering" has made us advance in society. What were they gathering and why? Does this mean that ancient cavemen also had shops in front of their caves? to sell what they Gathered? Vegetables To understand what is happening we need to look at the process of the human mind. When humans see an object, they give it a value in their mind. Mind you they are damn good at this. For this they use all their past experience combined with future use. And if the value is big enough they will carry this object to their place of residence (so Gatherers). Initially values determined survival in the jungle. So men collected edible items, clothing items and anything related to these. Naturally they knew what can be kept for future use, and what will rot fast. Some collections were entirely in the elders' minds. Such as water sources in the jungle. But the physical collections could be transferred to some other human being over time. For mental collections they use language, to pass the message. Later the " Printing Press " As you can see a collection is a word which recurs often in the passage. Can we consider a shop as a collection of things? Hunter Gatherers to Shop owners. - Philosophy of a Shop That is exactly what I was going to point to you. A shop is a collection of material and objects on display, for other human beings to value. Which means "Shopping" is the process of giving a value to an item in someone elses collection. It is bizarre and fascinating to think about the process of shopping from a philosophical standpoint. But it has great use as we all have been buyers and sellers at various times in our past.  If you want to become a seller you need to understand this fundamental process of a collection. You can spend your money to physically acquire a book collection and start a bookshop. Next you need to put them on display in a place where visitors come. Consider bookshops in London streets. Sometimes books are being sold at double the price anywhere else. The visitors value the books more as mostly they are used as a memorable items rather than a book. It's not always about the cost of production which determines the end price.  Foods Marketing and Brands. Where we can discuss the role of marketing and branding. They explore and exploit the human ability or I would call the weakness of giving something a value. And it is easy! Sometimes you just have to show them. From this sense, smartphones are notorious. Think about it, you spend your own money to buy a device which can instantly show adverts to you wherever you are, and make you an urge to buy, or give it a value. And of course you pay for your own data! No wonder Facebook, Twitter and Google are billion dollar industries.  Let's get back to our shop, the collection of things. People do not understand how an online shop is similar to a physical shop. In the smartphone era, we do not have to put up a store on the street. You can just hire a wearhouse in a dark alley and start an online store instead. Instantly showing 3D pictures of your collection to a global audience. If the one who sees your item judges its value positive, you are going to make a sale. Of course I made it sound easy but it's difficult. Even if you do know what you are doing it can be difficult. That's why I give my book for free " What is time? " book although contain lifetime of wisdom, I cannot convince someone to value it, yet. Valuing a Collection or "Shopping" A shop of "People" There is at least one other way. Instead of collecting items which are valuable, you can collect people. And often we see this happening as "subscribers" "VIP" members Gold Platinum. And the previous article discusses How to build a skyscraper using such a group. I can tell you that classic old "cults" work in the same way. Within this group feeling you can quickly sell something, Which might mean a "Pyramid scheme". And if you wonder why philosophers such as myself 😉 and Friedrich Nietzsche are lonely, it's because we refuse to be on such agendas of this society. A necessary consequence of understanding the mindwork. Now I have said enough about shops. Once you start your online store or form your elite group of subscribers, try coming back for more philosophy. Remember that philosophy is not for fools, but we all play fools, sometimes.

What travels faster than a bullet train? I was watching the bullet train in Japan. As the name suggests, they travel at incredible speeds, making a long distance journey a short affair. It wasn't a century ago that people still used carts to move themselves such distances with great difficulty. Transportation in the modern world has revolutionised the entire human interaction arena. As an example, when I buy a watch from amazon, surprisingly it will come to me tomorrow if I wanted, as it was pre shipped! Weeks before I bought it, they anticipated me buying it. So shipping is not slow either when we consider a bullet train. But let's take a deeper dive into things which are faster and faster till the fastest. Bullet Train Electromagnatic spectrum How about a wave? Anything from the electromagnetic spectrum. I skipped jets, sound waves and any animal or human to the electromagnetic as it is considered one of the fastest. Light as we call it is also a part of this electromagnetic spectrum. So far we haven't seen anything faster than the speed of light. It Is used to measure distances in cosmic scale. Have you ever thought about it before?  A simple Google search will teach you that what can travel at the speed of light is something with a zero mass. In this sense, the photons which are particles of light, travel at the speed of light have no mass. Anything faster than this obviously means time travel. Tachyons which are hypothesised particles although proposed have not been proven. But I would say though we assume nothing moves faster than light, I would say everything moves faster than speed of light through time. By being faster doesn't mean there is greater movement. Consider a blooming flower.  Blooming Flower What moves faster than Light? A sunflower once bloomed, it will follow the path of the sun. From east to west, it will cover a journey of a few centimeters per day. But consider what it means. During these 12 hours the flower had moved. During each second it covered some distance although we could not see. And this process has been happening and happening even now. According to Richard Fernmen. If it wasn't for these giggling particles, the macroscopic movement that we see would not be possible.  From this point onwards it's all imaginary. Studying arrow paradox and time would help for the discussion. As time is a continuum, without any measurable instances, the movement that we see is happening in everything that happens at every moment. So obviously there is nothing stationary in the universe, not even a dot, a chair or a planet. And this is the side effect of time. I am not sure how much you understand from this crap, but if you do, I am going to answer your next question. What does existence mean? If everything is in motion. Train station. Why everything is in motion? I can show you your existence from the bullet train example above. Consider you are on the platform and the bullet train just passed the station at 300km per hour. And you turn to your friend and say the train is here. But fundamentally the train was never there, it never stopped. It was just passing, like it had been doing for the past hour. But we all agree to the illusion that the train was at the station at a specific time.  Yet if we look deeply and closely, the train, the platform, and the matter in you never stopped for a fraction of a second the entire duration. This imaginary stationary layer above what we observe is the existence . As you can understand, it's nothing but imaginary. One day you are gonna understand this little truth about yourself and it's gonna hit you hard. You will start to see motion in everything stationary and see how people try to grasp meaning out of nothing. And if you do and when you do, come back here and give us a comment as, I really would like to know your thoughts.

How to be a good barber? Recently I had an encounter with a barber. Not the regular one I am used to. So, as expected he didn't do a good job. When I asked to keep hair long, he made it short, and one more unhappy customer added it to his list. Have you ever played these games, where you are expected to satisfy customers? You play the role of the barber, Hairdresser or a farmer, and your expected role is to satisfy the customers. It is really hard, in a game and even more in real life. Each customer expects different things, and sometimes for the seller this can be overwhelming. But to satisfy a customer you have to provide what they expect. And this is exactly how to win an argument, a relationship or friendship. If you wanna keep a dialogue going with your partner or friend, you have to provide what they need. Not what you need, forced on them, just like the bad example from the barber. Hairdress How to influence people ? Lessons from fortune tellers. I have seen a group of people who are just capable of doing this. The fortune tellers. Last time we went on a pilgrimage we met these fortune tellers, who almost scammed us. They will grab your hand and start telling things you like to hear. Even Though you know it's a scam you cannot take your hand out, as they keep pounding words after words of sweet future and a past which is exactly what you wanna hear. Sometimes it feels like they even know you from childhood. They might tell you things even your partner do not know about you. How is this possible. And my theory is as following, and you are welcome to comment. I think they byheart, about 10 fortunes. Pre-written ones, and they choose one according to the appearance and conduct of you. Let's say you are a number 4 character person, and they started with number 6. And while talking they see your reactions and slowly change their story to number 5 and then number 4. Voilà, from this point onwards you are hooked to their nonsense, as they perfectly match your future vision against their blueprint.  I can remember a long time ago, I read somewhere that everyone has a story. And all of them are searching for someone to tell their story. If you are a good listener, and encourage them with a little question about their life with genuine interest, they are gonna start talking. Until you hear everything. I am not sure if that is empathy or cunningness. But it really works and you can put a lasting impression on someone as you are allowed to see the depths of their hearts. Fortune I haven't read the book, "How to influence people". I never wanted to until recently as I did not know the values of people, and where they are coming from. But as an introvert I can tell you that you won't make it until you convert yourself into a people person. Or at least appear as such. According to great "runaway" singer Aurora, coming out to interact with people is like "shitting in front of a crowd on stage". Yet it is necessary to do so as introverts die in millions with their talents never being unearthed, as they seek solitary confinements for their comfort. If you feel like one then this is my advice for you.  How to satisfy a customer? Think you are a barber and the person who is interacting with you is your customer. Give him short hair if he wants it short. And give him long hair if he wants long. Do not try to give him the best haircut possible, unless you are "The barber" who cuts the hair of  Justin Beiber. Because its going to make him unhappy and make you regret. And no haircut is superior to another, its just part of the illusion of life anyway.

Orange Juice story - mindfulness and philosophy We were making orange juice. March is madly sunny in tropics as the sun is directly above our head, even the cloths doesn't need drying after a wash. So, orange juice with some ice was an escape for the harsh reality of tropical weather. While me and my daughter were at it, she was keen on participating in the process of making, more than drinking it. And she wanted to try mixing sugar. Mixing "A sugar" particularly and from there we had a discussion on countable and uncountable variables. Now, it didn't stop as everything we mixed in our juice were uncountable. Some water, some orange juice and some salt, not a salt or salts. It made me realize the demarcation is not clear after all. Making Orange Juice Is it really uncountable? Although salt and sugar were uncountable, when we consider it in grams or kilograms it becomes countable. Infact everything uncountable we have made them countable when we consider slandered units. Someone can say it's just artificial. You cannot count sugar like you count apples. But can we? Let's say a gram of sugar is given to a scientist and he would count the heap with a microscope and tell how many sugar grains are there. Or he might calculate how many sugar molecules are there to the nearest micro mol. How many carbon atoms. So, sugar is both countable and uncountable it seems. Nothing seems to be uncountable naturally, only as we consensus them as uncountable in the context of the language. It's even wrong in science and physics. And now we can move to the apple. Is it really countable? The apple Apple is invariably countable, right? Wrong. There are no two apples equal on the planet earth. 100% equal two apples never existed. So, when we count what we count is the platonic forms of the apple. Imaginary equal apples that are present in our minds. If you are into mathematics, you would learn this as set theory, where we compare the set of physical apples with our set of imaginary numbers . The fact is none of the real countable things have ever been equal and never will be. Even 100 cars, or balls come freshly out of the factory, although made by the same frame still are different from each other. Even identical twins are not identical. I am not going to give you a "take home message" or anything of that sort here. Neither I am attempting to challenge or argue with anyone. But to show you that when we challenge our own believes enough, we can see they are built on nothing. There is no strong base to hold any belief you carry, it is just an artificial lattice, or a net formed by our own thoughts which holds the things together. Anyone seeking a truth in life will have to follow this and identify for themselves. Maybe they will Identify one strand in the net and follow this to realize it's just a no Knot. Conclusions about countable and uncountable variables. Philosophy and mindfulness don't matter to make and drink a glass of fresh orange juice. We already have our taste buds and fully functional arms. But it interests me to see how my own mind creates countable and uncountable according to the situation. It's subtle but although we do not see this same process has created the countable and uncountable "living beings", "death", "happiness" and "sadness" Hopefully this will trigger you to search for a truth in your Apple Juice or the Beer next time.