[{"content":"I went to the AA place in Frankton after breakfast to start my license overseas conversion. I reached only to find that I\u0026rsquo;ve forgotten my passport. Fortunately, I was assigned am appointment 2 hours from then, in which I went back home and got my passport, and went to KiwiBank Frankton to get my EFTPOS card. Here everyone applies a 2% surcharge on Visa debit cards for IRL transactions, so most use EFTPOS for that. Debit cards are mostly meant for online transaction here. After that I got a $33 mouthguard from doctor shock gel max from Rebel Sports. I went to The Warehouse (yes, that\u0026rsquo;s a brand, like DMart) to get sewing kit. Immediate confusion. I called my mom and grandma, but they did not pick up. I assumed they were sleeping. I heard Gujarati behind me. I asked if they were Indian, and they said yes, and I asked them to make my purchasing decision. They said to buy the small BS kit, I asked if those thin needles would break. On further thought, I was asked to buy threads and needles separately, for more quality, and that is all I need really. I will sew my MTB shorts and gloves tomorrow. I reached back home late, so rescheduled neck brace stuff for later in the day which I got late for, again.\nI cooked, ate and did garbage stuff together. Time saving 100.\nBut my fridge was a mess, and after cleaning it for 30 mins, I decided to finish it after my ride. I gave the Neck Brace back to the owner, did one run of Wynyard DH, during which I made so many mistakes, and rode so shit. I thought about giving up because I\u0026rsquo;m so far behind. And then I thought \u0026lsquo;and do what?\u0026rsquo;. I reminded myself to shut the fuck and accumulate volume. I was thinking about this on the climb to the trail:\nHow long did you chase Roof?\n4 years.\nHow long you\u0026rsquo;ve been riding in QT?\n2 months.\nIs this how easily you give up? You can chase her for half a decade, but not your purpose for even half that time?\nAnd that was the end of that.\nI went to my friend to collect the neck brace, where I got lost for a bit, and showed up late again, but he was cool with it. He gave my the neck brace. More importantly: When I came near his house, He was standing near the door. \u0026ldquo;Cool garage\u0026rdquo; I thought.\nUpon entering, I realised its his house. And few lights were on. It was small. Messy. His bike room was a mess as well, but his bikes were by far the most expensive things he owned. But his living arrangement was shit. There was little space, all of his house was filled. He was living with his SO. It was small. Cramped. Dull. Monochrome. Sofas and prams take up all of the hall. 3 bikes and accessories take up all of the storage. It felt hollow as I stood on the flooring.\nThat showed my what my state would be if I did not send it. If I did not give it my all. If I do not sacrifice everything. Becuase the current vehicle I am in, a employee at a tourist organisation, not much leverage. Shit pay, in the grand scheme of things, if I am not a bachelor. Actually, even as a bachelor.\nThat visual is so powerful because I thought of meeting my woman 10 years down the line. Inviting her into this house. The shame.\n\u0026ldquo;What about going pro?\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;I stopped.\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;Why?\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026hellip;\n\u0026ldquo;It was too difficult.\u0026rdquo;\nFuck that bro.\nI always thought that it does not take much to satisfy me, that I am not a materialist. I now realise that is because my bar for materialism is high. I was brought up in a bungalow, in Mumbai. I had a backyard AND a porch, in a city where the lack of balconies is memed. I am materialistic. I am just okay not having stuff while on the climb up. But if I am old enough to have a wife, a kids? You best believe they well have the best things and comforts so 100% can go into their purpose. I have always thought of 30, 40 year old Ilyaas as rich. Never poor.\nThis gave me something to run away from, as Jordan Peterson would say. An anti-vision as Dan Koe would say.\nThat if I do not suck myself dry, that is where I\u0026rsquo;ll end up. That if I do not revere the pain, that is where I\u0026rsquo;ll be. That if I run from discomfort, I will murdered into mediocrity. By my own self.\nIt is similar to my dating scene - not now, I am on the climb up. But when I have climbed, when I have leverage, my ideal iteration of me, has his wife, that is part of his unit. Not having that now is A-OK. I don\u0026rsquo;t have space for that, but eventually, I will.\nIt is so powerful because that dull version of a house was never in my imagination. Even the slums in India, the chawls were brightly lit and coloured.\nI thought about this the whole way up the climb, and it why I did not stop at 1 run, despite a lot of climbing to both deliver and pickup neck braces.\nThis was my story worthy moment from today.\nThe second run was much better. It gave me confidence. \u0026ldquo;This is just a volume game.\u0026rdquo; I told myself. This was also a story worthy moment.\nAfter coming back, I saw my Strava time and realised that I had shaved a whole minute off my 5:41 run yesterday.\nIt is now 4:51 I believe. This was mainly due to watching my first run for mistakes and better times.\nAlso, I can climb now. I did roughly 500m of vertical :) The 50 tooth dinner plate in the back is great. Mastering mountain bike skills is great.\nTomorrow, I will session sections along with dialling braking points, then full runs.\nMy friends neck brace is much better for neck movement, but still limiting. It gives me faith that an appropriately sized neck brace will be even better.\nI was unable to edit today, but I\u0026rsquo;ll do kal.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll publish this and then sleep. Bye now.\nThis is what kal looks like:\nI will likely move to substack for ease of use and better discoverability.\nPS. search for suspension model recommended settings and follow that. I did that post ride today.\nI am grateful for hamza, my mother and seth bike hacks\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/i-cannot-stop/","summary":"I went to the AA place in Frankton after breakfast to start my license overseas conversion. I reached only to find that I\u0026rsquo;ve forgotten my passport. Fortunately, I was assigned am appointment 2 hours from then, in which I went back home and got my passport, and went to KiwiBank Frankton to get my EFTPOS card. Here everyone applies a 2% surcharge on Visa debit cards for IRL transactions, so most use EFTPOS for that.","title":"I Cannot Stop"},{"content":"11th September 2023: I\u0026rsquo;m Slipping Up Hard\nToday I almost procrastinated a ride. That is what it has come to.\nI have spent most of my day on my phone watching MTB YouTube. Its almost porn. I am not there yet. I am not the one floating over rocks, but I see others and get happy. No Longer.\nI have been eating too much, I can see the accumulation of fat arounf my waste.\nLower carbs. that looks like: Max 2 bowls of oats in the morning. Lunch - right now, 1 can baked beans and 100g rice. Dinner: A lot of meat and greens, only a fistful of carbs.\nThis is my simple meal plan for the day ahead.\nI am also hard dopamine detoxing again - no videos, only podcasts. Phone usage way down. Learning to be bored again.\nRoutine: Ride 2x a day - I am thinking 2 laps of Wynyard DH before breakfast and then 2 round after lunch again. I will do 2 laps after lunch tomorrow, as I have to go the DMV equivalent to book an test appointment for NZ learners license. Editing - Finish the Indian videos, which is last 2 ride and coming to QT vid, if there is enough footie to make that. Regular documentation - Daily blog or unfiltered video.\nSo main things: Ride and edit. work when shift is available. 30 mins a day license theory practice and 30 mins of writing for blog.\nI will put strava in the blog for proof.\nI also want to wake at 5. I will work my way up.\nI have also figured out that because I was not having lunch, I was being a layman. I found 10 cans of baked beans for free, which will roughly equate to a week worth of food. So that is sort.\nI tried a neck brace I found on marketplace, did not work. I could not look ahead while wearing that thing. I have messaged a friend that is selling his old neck brace as well and will pick it up tomorrow, and test it out.\nTo do for tomorrow: Buy MouthGuard Fill license conversion form Cook Lunch 400g rice 4 baked beans Kiwi bank eftpos 2 laps wynyard DH EP 12 Edit\nI also took 5 mins 41 secs to do 1 run of Wynyard DH. Too slow. Pros could do that in 1. I have to get 6 times faster. I want to finish in 3 minutes by the end of the year.\nI was starting to get complacent because of my progress on Mini Dream. Being shit at descending has taken it away. I am letting Mini Dream go because of the rains. The jumps are slow right now.\nI also went over my Wynyard run, and my line choice was shit, found some better lines pausing and reviewing footage. I just have to remember them now.\nI also realise that work at the job I found may not be as plentiful as I\u0026rsquo;d like. I seem to be like a backup type person, where they only notify me if shifts are available, rather than, these shifts are available for this week, when are you available? It is more of a \u0026lsquo;we need you at X place at X time. Are you available?\u0026rsquo;\nI also need to drink more water. I am filling up my bottles now.\nBottles have been filled. that is it for today I think.\nI am grateful for Oliver for finding out where I can buy mouthguard, for mom her emo and financial support, my father\u0026rsquo;s funding, and all the influencers that made me, and Vivek and siddha, for always inspiring to getting me back to writing/journalling. I have reached a point where I do not need to journal regularly, but it always helps.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/i-slipped-up/","summary":"11th September 2023: I\u0026rsquo;m Slipping Up Hard\nToday I almost procrastinated a ride. That is what it has come to.\nI have spent most of my day on my phone watching MTB YouTube. Its almost porn. I am not there yet. I am not the one floating over rocks, but I see others and get happy. No Longer.\nI have been eating too much, I can see the accumulation of fat arounf my waste.","title":"I Slipped Up"},{"content":"I live the dream.\nTo race world cups professionally.\nSpecicfaccly, I\u0026rsquo;m in Queenstown at QRC. I am here becasue access to world class lift-assissted trails.\nI am here to learn to float over rocks and rail berms. I am here to become speed incarnate. I am here to sacrifice it all for my 8 year old self. I am here to sacrifice it all my 80 year old self.\nI am here to become the wind, to become the ghost.\nI am here to win, to get sponsored and then to win internationally.\nI think I can do it.\nWith pros praciticing here, and constantly being able to chase someone faster than me, I can do it.\nI can outlearn these people. I was born in adversity. Pain is an old friend.\nI will give it my all because the alternative is not worth living.\nI am here to springboard into the world cup circiut.\nI know, that when the race results come, the sponsors will as well.\nI am here to become a professional downhill mountain biker.\nI will do this by riding more, listening to Piyush to on the bike technique, training at the gym in the winter.\nI will document it on YouTube or here or twitter for short form, my progress.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/why-ive-come-to-nz/","summary":"I live the dream.\nTo race world cups professionally.\nSpecicfaccly, I\u0026rsquo;m in Queenstown at QRC. I am here becasue access to world class lift-assissted trails.\nI am here to learn to float over rocks and rail berms. I am here to become speed incarnate. I am here to sacrifice it all for my 8 year old self. I am here to sacrifice it all my 80 year old self.\nI am here to become the wind, to become the ghost.","title":"Why Ve Come to Nz"},{"content":"My Business Communication just penalized us for using ChatGPT.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll laugh in 5 years when they realize it\u0026rsquo;s like asking students not to use Google. This is ridiculous.\nThe academic world and the business world are actually so different :).\nBack to me. I woke up at 5 AM for only 1/5 days. I think this is a result of my sleeping late, which is a consequence of time-wasting.\nI have lost my ability to sit still as I eat or to be bored in general. I developed this ability at the start of this year when I lost my phone. I may need to simulate that again.\nPiyush has made me go back to the Transition line to correct my technique.\nI am riding the bike more now, becoming a part of the bike rather than being a slave to its movement.\nI am pushing more into the lip and letting it do the work, rather than exploding and pulling too hard, ending up as a dead sailor in the air.\nPiyush also put me in contact with Shauna from Remarkable People, where I am getting a job for 24.5 NZD, pre-tax, or 19.6 post-tax, as a general worker in a casual role. I get to choose the shifts I please.\nI will likely work 80 hours in the next 3 weeks to pay for my PMBIA level 1 certification and some other MTB protection that totals around 1500 NZD or so. I realized that I could work during my scheduled breaks. But now that I potentially have an income source, I need to employ more discipline to cut back on unnecessary desires. I want to maximize my bike time and not get caught up in the rat race of working more hours for more money to then manage a less fulfilling life. I want to work just enough to sustain my MTB and nothing more. I do not want to work to make money and outsource parts of my life. Time is more valuable than money. I need time to ride and edit my MTB videos.\nAlso, my current schedule leaves little time for studying for exams, which means I am just barely passing. This may prove problematic if I want to further my studies, and possibly finish and get a degree at ICMS Australia. But I am done preparing for contingencies, always putting other stuff first because MTB might not work out, and prioritizing other work or studying so I can get to places where I can improve my MTB skills. I\u0026rsquo;d rather get there based on my MTB skills like Piyush did with the British Downhill Series. I may email and set an appointment with an immigration agency when I have extra cash to figure out if I can get a skilled migrant visa or if I have to have an AEWV visa.\nMy sister may have a lethal illness, and I don\u0026rsquo;t seem to be emotionally affected. If she were to die tomorrow, it would not impact my life, other than the occasional Google Photos memory. It\u0026rsquo;s interesting how I seem to turn off my emotions often; being emotion-free seems to be my default state.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s also like most things I read are now mental masturbation because I could have been taking action instead of reading that particular thing.\nI\u0026rsquo;m glad I can learn from Piyush, who, every 2/3 days, gives me a mini coaching lesson for 15 minutes and provides feedback as he watches me ride. But I have to be aware that I do not want to have his life. His knowledge and contacts are of great value, but his mindset and way of life are not. Piyush\u0026rsquo;s circle, people, and life are not the end-all-be-all; I want to use them as a springboard to greater heights.\nVideo calling Kashish reminded me why I don\u0026rsquo;t speak to him anymore - because of his lack of direction and inaction. He is genuinely happy for me, and I appreciate him for that. I will help him as much as I can, but I will not spend a lot of time with him because I do not want to fall to his level.\nIt is also interesting as I integrate more here and get more familiar with people. I no longer feel like an outsider or that people around me are outside my tribe. This has resulted in physical attraction, something I have become very skilled at ignoring because emotional attraction does not exist, and there is no opportunity to build it.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/found-a-job/","summary":"My Business Communication just penalized us for using ChatGPT.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll laugh in 5 years when they realize it\u0026rsquo;s like asking students not to use Google. This is ridiculous.\nThe academic world and the business world are actually so different :).\nBack to me. I woke up at 5 AM for only 1/5 days. I think this is a result of my sleeping late, which is a consequence of time-wasting.\nI have lost my ability to sit still as I eat or to be bored in general.","title":"I Found a Job"},{"content":"Goal for this week:\nWake at 5AM every day - I have been back to waking at 7. I want to wake at 5 for the following week and will keep it that way, instead of waking at 4, for recovery purposes.\nFinish Mini Dream - The inside small line. I am confident that I can do 2 more jumps and change one jump line to a bigger one, but including the weekend, I should finish mini dream small line this week, and move on to the bigger line next week.\nFinish InfoTech Ad And Niche Market Presentation - These are less goals, more things to get done, so I can move on to editing my last Indian rides.\nBrush twice a day every day - There is a cavity developing around my wisdom tooth, which is getting loose, and I do not want it to continue.\nLife update:\nIt is becoming summer, so I am wearing fewer layers, and sunlight is extending longer. I will keep MTB first and let editing go until I get a job, at which point I will do more editing, because I won\u0026rsquo;t have to do homework, and/or outsource editing.\nIn the last 2 days, I did 3 jumps of Mini Dream. This is up from practicing the transition line for 2 weeks straight. Exponential progress. Thanks to Piyush, I am getting the technique dialed, which feels like a cheat code, I have unlocked every jump on Mini Dream, I just have to have the balls and familiarity/ speed judgment to do them.\nHaving Piyush give feedback is like trying to form sentences with words, instead of letters. It becomes about stringing techniques together, instead of trying to figure out what the technique is or what to do in the first place. I am grateful.\nI am grateful to be around much better jumpers, and soon when the Skyline bike park opens in 3 weeks, much faster riders. I observe them and then get towed in by them, which makes my progress so much faster. Today I was towed in by a grandfather, with a 10-year-old retro ass bike with an external air chamber for the shock :). Absolute legend. I also found a dude called Logan. He is 13, but fast. Something about him makes me like him.\nI also realized that I can summarise the difference between JBCN and QRC as: JBCN instills an owner\u0026rsquo;s mindset and QRC instills an employee\u0026rsquo;s mindset. Less agency, more rule-following.\nAs for the people, JBCN kids were driving for something. Here many more are NPCs - partying, having fun, that sort of thing. Makes me appreciate my Indian friends a lot more. But that is likely an outcome of my course, which tends to attract a certain kind of \u0026lsquo;chill\u0026rsquo; person. I, of course, am using this as my ticket to a Western country. That may have proved an unwise decision, due to the lack of an open post-study work visa, but let\u0026rsquo;s see what I\u0026rsquo;ll make of it.\nToday I spoke to Zulf, who asked me if I was hitting on any girls. Piyush asked me \u0026lsquo;chhorri ko pataya\u0026rsquo; as well. This is likely due to my lack of enthusiasm or interaction in class, but I haven\u0026rsquo;t found a chick with a similar lifestyle and ambition. I have not found the whole package - there are gym girls, but I know for a fact that they don\u0026rsquo;t read. I am using that as a proxy for intelligence/hunger for improvement or great professional aspirations. I am not worried, because I\u0026rsquo;ve set up my life that way. I probably do not come off as ambitious or extraordinary to them either. A chick has shown interest, but I\u0026rsquo;ve ignored it. There are bigger fish to fry. Overall it makes me more grateful for Roof, for showing what was possible, both in terms of emotions and person quality. However that brings its own issues of comparison and sometimes, longing. But as I work on it, it reduces.\nYakheem, if that is his spelling, complimented me on my rate of progress. If Piyush continues to teach me techniques, I think it is only a matter of time before I start winning races. because I will do the volume necessary to get there. And, to my surprise, I am willing to sacrifice YouTube for it as well.\nI am reading more as well. But again, it is mental masturbation. There are other books I should read that will be more helpful. I also realised that for some things, like parenting, looking at the data is useless, because I and my children will not have the life circumstances of most, for I will change them.\nI also realized that I will expect my wife to become a full-time mother, despite her ambitions. I will also be a full-time father, despite my ambitions, because as long as I fit my wife, children, and work in the day - considering 4h for each, that is a good day. A lack of social life may be a common theme in my life.\nPeople are surprised by the fact that I don\u0026rsquo;t have friends, but I have been this way for quite a while. I don\u0026rsquo;t \u0026lsquo;hang out\u0026rsquo;. We study/ride together. Sometimes we sort emotions out together, but I\u0026rsquo;ve never been one for just timepass, except for Boisar. Even with Vihaan and Arya - there has been studying and editing/studying respectively.\nI find Modern Wisdom By Chris Williamson informative.\nThis blog may have been mimetic desire because Siddha and Vivek are blogging, but this one has been inspired by Siddha\u0026rsquo;s blog post, and it has been good to dump shit on paper. Clears brain space.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/progress-and-realisations/","summary":"Goal for this week:\nWake at 5AM every day - I have been back to waking at 7. I want to wake at 5 for the following week and will keep it that way, instead of waking at 4, for recovery purposes.\nFinish Mini Dream - The inside small line. I am confident that I can do 2 more jumps and change one jump line to a bigger one, but including the weekend, I should finish mini dream small line this week, and move on to the bigger line next week.","title":"Progress and Realisations"},{"content":"I finished 3/6 tasks today. There is a certain frustration that comes with saying in my room the whole day that I\u0026rsquo;ve discovered.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with being interrupted.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with not riding.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with doing boring/shallow work like sorting files.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with having to do chores.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with staying in school, studying, knowing it will not make me a faster mountain biker.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with the footie lacking story, with telling bad stories.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with a lack of action.\nAll of these seem like mindset problems.\nI feel like I have pent up bhadaas, and therefore, I am writing.\nBack to tasks.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/bhadaas/","summary":"I finished 3/6 tasks today. There is a certain frustration that comes with saying in my room the whole day that I\u0026rsquo;ve discovered.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with being interrupted.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with not riding.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with doing boring/shallow work like sorting files.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with having to do chores.\nThere is a certain frustration that comes with staying in school, studying, knowing it will not make me a faster mountain biker.","title":"Bhadaas"},{"content":"For the past 4-5 days, I have been a jeffrey.\nFucking my sleep time, gong to bed at 12.\nFucking my wake time, waking u at 7.\nFucking my attention, binging Shadow and Bones S2, reading BestOfReddtiorUpdates, watching YouTube.\nNo longer.\nWhen I crave dopamine, I will read Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday or write.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/no-longer/","summary":"For the past 4-5 days, I have been a jeffrey.\nFucking my sleep time, gong to bed at 12.\nFucking my wake time, waking u at 7.\nFucking my attention, binging Shadow and Bones S2, reading BestOfReddtiorUpdates, watching YouTube.\nNo longer.\nWhen I crave dopamine, I will read Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday or write.","title":"No Longer"},{"content":"1. Self-Image: You are productive. You do work on your own schedule.\nI have this ability. I have always done shit on my own.\nImagine yourself as the person you want to become.\nSam ovens' \u0026ldquo;Who are you becoming?\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;Who do you want to become?\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;What do you want to deserve?\u0026rdquo;\nHamza - \u0026ldquo;I am the 1%\u0026rdquo;\nHamza says to learn from Sam Ovens and Alex Becker.\n2. Visualize This see a movie of you winning, of whatever success is to you every day.\nThis positively reinforces your new identity.\n3. Foresee Your Potential Failure Visualize the obstacles that could come up.\nThink of specific things that could happen.\nIt could be as simple as searching for a YouTuber. Now visualize yourself closing that tab as soon as you realize what has happened.\nJournal: What obstacles could I face? and then solve them. Prevent them. Most people don\u0026rsquo;t do this. And this is how you win.\nFor me, this is knowing I can fall off jumps and riding with full body armor(elbow, chest, shoulder, back) and kneepads, and getting the best helmet I can. I will get a mouthguard and neck brace soon.\nGoal Setting  Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s law: the task will swell up to fit till the deadline.\nThis means a 2-hour essay will take a week if the deadline is Friday.\nSolution: Set the deadline earlier. I personally set deadlines for my work at least 3 days before the deadline. With MTB, I have goals - sections of trails/jumps I want to nail by the end of the week.\nI have not been doing this for my videos. Now: max 2 weeks a video but the best I can make it. 100X effort. 10 times the time. Journal and figure out how to make the story better. Iterate.\nLong-term goals: 12 months short term goals - monthly milestones\nWhat is a reasonably unreasonable achievement for that amount of time?\nFor me, the short run monthly is to nail mini ream by the 23rd of September (when Skyline opens). Nail all trails by 31st December, and win local races by the end of the season. Winning local races is a 9-month, relatively long-term goal.\nIt has to be reasonable, you must respect the process. Not a million next year, not the world cup next year. Buy local races next year, then national, then world cups.\nThe key: success compounds\nit is exponential. You won\u0026rsquo;t get 100 subs every month to get to a thousand. It\u0026rsquo;ll be a whole lot of nothing, then it will shoot up. Rich get richer. Your audience compounds.\nThis means: you may not see results for 6 months. Keep going.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t cash in right now. long term success is the key. Delay gratification. If the long-term goal is 10K subs, you can clickbait now to get 1K right now, but that would reduce goodwill and you would have less to cash in later. That means 100 subs across the next 6 months.\nAnd those tactics take you away from the long-term goal. They take time and attention away from what would be needed to set things up such that you get 10K the next year.\nNow set weekly goals - but these will be action-oriented - ex. I will make 1 video or I will spend 10 hours making this video, or I will do 100 runs of the transition line this week.\nTo figure out what to do to get the goal exactly:\n4. 80/20 rule: What tasks should you do?\nThe tasks that cause most of your results.\nFor me, this would be: making videos(editing), studying, and riding. Over the 3 sections of my life that matter most.\nThis note/blog is not part of the essential few.\nHere: Ask yourself, \u0026ldquo;What would you do if you could only work for 2 hours a week?\u0026rdquo;\nIf it was my whole life, then it would be to ride. because that is one thing I cannot forgo. I of course would be going to school, and concentrating in class would be enough to pass.\nIf you spend most of your time only riding, and then rest and digest and think about riding and how to ride better, you defeat everyone else making social media posts and all.\nI am doing this. I am doing the blog, Twitter, and the hamza ahmed podcast. But so is Alex. Business, youtube, and writing.\nI am: MTB School YT Blog/Twitter/skool - but all of this comes together and is a result of my learning. It is just me learning. But I am spending time making the writing better to release it. maybe that time can be used for studying, and editing videos, and such. Maybe I should stop doing this until I have reached success and can outsource this elsewhere.\nHamza Ahmed Podcast is something I will have to figure out and do to make money.\nHamza contradicts here with the mindset of working all day. The diminishing value is what ultimately skyrockets, but again, it will be better when you can outsource shit. As he said, he has a team of people. SO solution: don\u0026rsquo;t do bullshit until you can hire the people to do the bullshit for you.\nYeah, he says this after. Outsource everything else. So the game plan is to do the main thing until you have the means to \u0026lsquo;do\u0026rsquo; bullshit but it is being outsourced - done by someone else.\nNow set your weekly goal according to this: for me: sort anki and CulInt presentation Sort mini dream end finish Slade\u0026rsquo;s wedding and make it a masterpiece.\nFocus on this during work hours.\n5. Make a Habit Tracker Stick it up on your wall. For extra accountability, put it on your doors where others can see\nLEft date, with columns for affirmations, visualizations, 20% tasks\nNow think of yourself getting the outcome you want. 10 seconds. go do it. I\u0026rsquo;m waiting.\nnow tick off visualizations.\nWhen you are unable to tick a task, that feels like shit and that is what matters.\nNever tear up the habit tracker. Keep the accountability. Feel like shit when you do not do it. That is what will incentivize you to do it.\n6. Fast from Food This is the fastest boost.\nIntermittent fasting, for me, I wake up early 4 to 5am, and I don\u0026rsquo;t eat until seven, so that is 2 to 3 hours of fasted work, mainly editing. And that works for me, however, by 7am I get hungry and tired, and personally, as an athlete with good insulin response, carbs don\u0026rsquo;t tire me.\nSo experiment with this.\nHamza has the first 5 hours of his days fasted at the time of recording his course and has currently moved on to a full carnivore one meal-a-day diet. So no carbs at all.\nTakeaway: don\u0026rsquo;t eat before you do your 20% tasks.\nYes, this will impact muscle protein synthesis and your gym gains negatively. Decide what is the priority and proceed accordingly.\nIt will not however fuck your muscles, eat later during the day, that is still 2 to 3 MPS windows, and as long as you get enough protein in, that should be good enough.\nAdd fast column to the habit tracker.\n7. Sleep properly Better sleep, better brain, so prioritize this.\n2 big things:\n  Allocate more time in bed. Time in bed=sleep time. you will sleep less than your bedtime. 80% is good sleep efficiency. So aim for 10 hours in bed. For me, I will sleep at 8 and wake up at 5 regardless. 7:30 max.\n  routine vs sleep. If you go out and fuck up bedtime for the day, take that loss and keep your routine. Keep your routine.\n  Add wake-up time and bedtime to your habit tracker.\n8. Optimize your diet What to eat?\nEat clean. No definition. Just eat what is clean to you, and that is good enough.\nEat cleaner every day. You know this inherently.\nChange your self-image to someone who eats healthy. You are the weird person who eats cleanly all the time.\n9. Prioritize Your Mental Health Your mental health determines your productivity.\nThe depressed millionaire is an outlier. And you are not him, if you were, you\u0026rsquo;d already be him.\nIt takes 2 weeks to significantly increase your mental health.\nGet the NHS mood assessment. Write down your depression and anxiety.\nNow: Daily meditation, gratitude journaling, and sunlight.\nFor sunlight, specifically, be outside and look towards the sky. 10-20 mins, and you\u0026rsquo;ll be sorted. Stack all of them together for extra efficiency.\nAdd these to your habit tracker.\n10. Exercise Like This do HIIT/Tabata for 2 to 4 mins. That is it.\nAnd then work.\nThis will help facilitate getting into the focus state easier, and mitigate the friction.\nHamza recommends shadowboxing.\n11. Turn OFF Notifications I have done this.\nOnly email is kept because those are important, I\u0026rsquo;ve missed exams because of this and it has cost me.\nPut your phone on do not disturb. Certain contacts can be kept as emergency, so when they call/text it will go through. Set that up.\nDisable the tap to wake and wake when picked up features.\nDisable notifications on the lock screen as well.\nNo notifications on desktop as well.\nHamza loses respect for the people who have notifications enabled and honestly, I do too.\n12. Don\u0026rsquo;t Switch Tasks Do not multitask.\nWhen most people hit a wall that would take between a minute and 5 to get over, they just task switch to something stimulating. Do not do this. This will result in 25 minutes worth of focus, gone. Why? Task switching residue. Your brain takes time to switch contexts fully.\nStay in that difficult frictionful state, where you are unable to progress. If you are thinking of video ideas and do not get more, stay with that boredom and feeling, you will break through. This is what your competitor is unwilling to do and this is why you will win.\n13. What About Your Family?   Accept that with a level of stoicism, accept and work despite it. Imagine how much better you\u0026rsquo;ll be when you finally can get to a peaceful place.\n  When they start seeing your focus and wake up early and go for a ride, they will develop this respect for you and over time automatically become quiet when you\u0026rsquo;re working.\n  But until they develop that respect, you respond with love and gratitude. Be grateful. You\u0026rsquo;d be fucked if they weren\u0026rsquo;t around if they were dead. Be grateful.\n  this is my way - escape it. Set up your workplace at a friend\u0026rsquo;s house. Or stay before or after school at school and work there. I am writing this at school. no one is in this class. focus max environment.\n  14. Make Your Timetable Make it on google calendar. Turn your day into a habit. Have a long-term routine. Before sleeping, before the night routine, plan the next day in google calendar.\nWhat is the optimum day for you? Schedule everything, including social. To not make your timetable a prison, make it a day you\u0026rsquo;d be happy to live on repeat.\nThis will allow for experiments and optimizations over time specific to you. You will save a lot of time, and it will compound. Your efficiency will increase.\nFocus on the weekly milestone tasks here.\n15. Your 2-Week Plan put your habit tracker in your face.\ndo them.\nTrack the number of deep work hours, and gamify it.\nOver time use leverage and outsource shallow tasks, and transition to working on the business instead of in the business, making decisions and letting others execute.\n16. What Work Should I do? Come up with solutions to a pain you have. Fulfill a need. Market it. Make money.\nWhat problem do you want to solve? What pain do you relate to? Solve it.\nChase the problem you want to solve, not the benefit you want to have.\n17. How To Increase Deep Work Hours  Fast before work (already covered) Once you do say 3 hours of deep work recording, you can take a break and switch the task whether that be reading, scripting, editing and the like.  Over time, you will increase your Deep Work hours a day. 4 hours of Deep work is a limiting belief, your whole day can be deep work, as long as you switch tasks after a couple of hours, and keep practicing the craft.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/adonis-productivity/","summary":"1. Self-Image: You are productive. You do work on your own schedule.\nI have this ability. I have always done shit on my own.\nImagine yourself as the person you want to become.\nSam ovens' \u0026ldquo;Who are you becoming?\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;Who do you want to become?\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;What do you want to deserve?\u0026rdquo;\nHamza - \u0026ldquo;I am the 1%\u0026rdquo;\nHamza says to learn from Sam Ovens and Alex Becker.\n2. Visualize This see a movie of you winning, of whatever success is to you every day.","title":"Lessons I Learnt From Adonis School's Productivity Course"},{"content":"Your thoughts are your philosophy for life. They form the basis of your actions. Your actions are the basis for your life. This is why they matter.\nVideo 1: Theory Of Constraints In one’s life, a bottleneck exists, one of three things that are constricting their growth, becoming a bottleneck:\n Skills Traits Beliefs  Traits and beliefs are both trainable. Everything on that list can be controlled.\nFor me, a limiting belief was, \u0026ldquo;I may not be rich before finishing college.\u0026rdquo;\nHamza says that most people\u0026rsquo;s current constraint is either a belief or trait. Another word for belief is mindset.\nVideo 2: Work All Day You will not make money doing nothing. Value must be provided.\nAll income is active; the question is, \u0026ldquo;how active is it?\u0026rdquo;\nHamza lived a life where he only had to work 4 hours a week. It was depressing. Anyone on school vacation with nothing to do will relate to this. Hard work is fulfilling.\nWhat can you do all day? Do that. Make that your active income.\nActive income is the way to go. Working for active income forms the \u0026lsquo;good old days\u0026rsquo;.\nVideo 3: Change Your Identity You must become someone new to succeed.\nChange your identity. This works. I became the \u0026lsquo;social guy\u0026rsquo;. This made it easy to be social at school. I was identified as such as well. Positive flywheel.\nOne can think of the people they want to model and ask themselves what they would do.\nThat is, \u0026ldquo;What would Hamza do?\u0026rdquo;\nDo what they\u0026rsquo;d do.\nAs an athlete: what would Michael Jordan do?\nVideo 4: Don\u0026rsquo;t Fry Your Dopamine Receptors: If you get too much dopamine from one source, then there\u0026rsquo;s less incentive to get it from elsewhere. Especially if you\u0026rsquo;re getting it with little effort.\nCheap dopamine lowers your dopamine baseline, making your normal existence shittier.\nSo, only effortful dopamine sources will lead to childlike happiness all the time.\nWe can use the brainpoints concept here as well:\nIf you spend your dopamine points, you have less for elsewhere.\nRefuse to sacrifice your dopamine points for bullshit. Save them for your dreams.\nVideo 5: 10k A Month Is Not A Lot Of Money $10K is not a lot. Believe you can get there. What amount seems too much? That will be your glass ceiling.\nIf Hamza can, someone who started addicted to weed, you can as well.\nVideo 6: Likes Ain\u0026rsquo;t Cash Money \u0026gt; fame. Fame constricts freedom in most ways. Money does the opposite.\nLikes are not valuable. A core audience that loves you is.\nYou gotta amass an audience, and then make a product to sell to your audience.\nThe best metric to judge an audience is goodwill. The value you provided in excess of charge.\nYour monthly income is a better metric than likes, but the number of people that think they owe you is an even greater metric.\nVideo 7: Penetrate Your Fears You will stay stagnant because you lie to yourself that this is as far as you can go. You are not living up to your potential because of fear.\nWhat are you afraid of?\nI am afraid of people who know me shitting on me for selling out or for overcharging (currency difference). But I have to remind myself that they are not the target audience and that they don\u0026rsquo;t really give a shit.\nVideo 8: Lifelong Student This is something I have done well; it is almost my superpower. I outlearn everyone. The more I learn, the more I earn. If I know how to do something better than you, I will defeat you. The more I know, the better I get. Watching YouTube from an early age helped me with this.\nI will learn forever. I will go to shift placements and learn everything I can.\nTop-tier employees learn more and get better. Most employees learn for the first month and then work on autopilot. The best employees ask and learn constantly.\nMore volume, more feedback, better skill. Volume x Skill x Time wins.\nVideo 9: Money Is The Score, Business The Game Play the game you want to play. Do not rig the game or make it shitty/unpleasant to get a higher score.\nPlay the game you like. The highest score without messing with the experience. Hacking a video game takes all the fun out of it, and so does it with business. Money is a progress indicator, not the absolute.\nBecome addicted to the game of business.\nThe chase of the mission, the work preceding the outcome is the fulfillment. It is even better than achieving the goal.\nSet that big goal and chase it, and then it becomes fun. Survival is not fun, progression is.\nVideo 10: Invest in yourself Put your money and time back into yourself. Your returns will compound and skyrocket.\nBefore a million in the bank, put your money back into education.\nPut money into the stocks of yourself. Bet on yourself.\nThe stocks and shares of Ilyaas Kapadia.\nInvesting protects your money from inflation.\nYou keep your money with investment and make money with business.\nInvest in your company, your success. Will you bet on someone else\u0026rsquo;s success rather than your own? What kind of man is that?\nEvery course you buy is one module of your entrepreneurship degree. Each course will not produce a return, but overall the return will be greater than 10% a year, no question.\nIt is unsexy. Buy $500 worth of books. Read them over a year. Implement them and 10x your income.\nHamza\u0026rsquo;s promise: up until you have $100K in your bank account, you shut the fuck up and keep investing in yourself.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/adonis-mindset/","summary":"Your thoughts are your philosophy for life. They form the basis of your actions. Your actions are the basis for your life. This is why they matter.\nVideo 1: Theory Of Constraints In one’s life, a bottleneck exists, one of three things that are constricting their growth, becoming a bottleneck:\n Skills Traits Beliefs  Traits and beliefs are both trainable. Everything on that list can be controlled.\nFor me, a limiting belief was, \u0026ldquo;I may not be rich before finishing college.","title":"What I've Learnt: Adonis School's Mindset Course"},{"content":"Here I am, editing a vlog at 6:30 am in my room. My roommate is asleep. The sun is down. It is pitch black outside. In the video, I am talking about how I am going to be poor when I go to Queenstown. I am in Queenstown now. It hits me. This is a limiting belief. I am sabotaging my growth because I do not believe that I will be rich until I finish college.\nI think back to yesterday, I was sitting in class. Everyone left for home. Even my teachers had left. I’d recently purchased Adonis School. There I was, sitting and taking notes from Hamza’s “$1K Online In 30 Days (and Beyond)\u0026quot; course’s Mindset module.\nHe said, “Your beliefs and traits are your limits. You have the skill to upload, to write, but you are not doing it.\nClearly, my traits are not my current constraint. I am waking up early. I am waiting back after school. It has to be my belief.\nThat’s it. A belief shattered. I can get rich. Watch me get rich. Watch me amass wealth and leverage it to fulfill my dreams.\nThis is from one module from one course in Adonis School. Here is what I learned from the entire Mindset module of the \u0026ldquo;$1K Online In 30 Days (and Beyond)\u0026rdquo; course.\nVideo 2: Find the Jeffrey Ask yourself, “What is slowing me down in my pursuit?”\nFor me, this would be:\nWhat is slowing me down in MTB? School - it takes most of my day. My Lodge’s breakfast timings. I miss more time to ride because my lodge serves breakfast after sunrise. If I could have food before sunrise, I would get more time to ride before school. I could just get yogurt and leave?\nThis transitions to my second constraint - a lack of time. I could ‘cheat code’ this by spending money on MTB coaching and increasing the return on my current time spent practicing, however, this would need money. Therefore, I have started this endeavor.\nWhat is slowing me down on YouTube? With YouTube, I don’t know how to edit to craft a story better. I edit, and then I do not know what to do. But this constraint is slowly coming off, as I read ‘Storyworthy’ by Matthew Dicks and as I learn about the story, emotion, and rhythm triangle to make cuts. I also stumbled upon a YouTube coach from the Synthesizers community.\nWho is the Jeffrey in your life? What is the one thing slowing you down, just like how almost always, it is one factor that slows down the pack from moving faster?\nWho is the Jeffrey, slowing down the whole pack because we cannot split up and go past him?\nVideo 3: Brain Points If you send messages, check emails, or have food before you get to work, you lose brain points that you could have otherwise spent on pursuing your dreams.\nWhat are brain points? It is brainpower quantified. This is subjective and estimated, not hard science.\nThis would mean: doing THE THING first thing in the morning - for me - sleeping at 8 pm and waking up at 4 am, and that is 3 hours of deep work - that would be editing.\nSave your brain points for the things that matter. Save your brain points for your dreams.\nFor me, I should check my phone only after 7:30 am. For this, I would probably have to get an alarm or just toss the phone on my bed, out of sight, after switching off the alarm. I will try the latter out.\nAsk yourself, “Where are your brain points going?”\nDraw the essentialism graph for yourself. How many arrows and to what do you have? Don’t stop making arrows in 30 minutes. Keep asking yourself this with brutal honesty for a week straight, and then eliminate everything until you have a maximum of four.\nWhere do your thoughts go, on which topic?\nWhat will you sacrifice for your dreams? Fitness - I am already doing this. Carbs make you stupid because they take a lot of energy to process. This is good for bulking but not for work. My carbs are delayed for dinner and lunch. I am sacrificing muscle for better work.\nHamza eats one meal a day carnivore style - goat cheese, 2 to 3 steaks, 8 to 10 eggs, and butter.\nHow to save brain points:   Use Google Calendar. Plan tomorrow today. Absolute key. Have a timetable for the next day and a rough long-term routine, a long-term outline of what your days look like. That is, wake up and sleep at X time, eat X things at X time, and wear X things every day.\n  Turn your notifications off for everything. Personally, I still have them on for my personal email. My email has been cleaned up to only notify me of important things like my visas, etc.\n  Ensure your phone does not automatically turn on when you pick it up. I had already done this.\n  Switch your phone to grayscale as well. This may not seem like much at first, but after 7 days, if you switch back to color, you will realize how they use color to entice you to spend more time on your phone.\n  Hamza says to put your phone on \u0026ldquo;Do Not Disturb,\u0026rdquo; but I have not done that because, in New Zealand, I have only 4 contacts. So when someone calls, it is urgent (and this has not happened yet).\n  While working, put your phone out of sight and never check it. Hamza puts it under his bedsheet. I put my phone in a cupboard as well.\n  Do not check your phone, even if it is a 10-second text. Task-switching penalty will slow you down for the next 25 minutes.\n  Right now, do not bulk. This goes back to carbs and training. Do not train hard. Do more cardio and HIIT. Hard resistance training will affect your Central Nervous System for the day and result in brain fog.\n  Hamza says the current META (Most Effective Tactic Available) may be to increase income and then get the perfect trainer, chef, and supplements to almost cheat code your fitness journey.\nAnd if you are going to a gym, you will have fake desires, mimetic desires, and desires that are not your true desires, and following them will not lead to the achievement of your true and ultimate goals. I made this mistake. I switched to bodybuilding-style training for 2 months, when in reality, it did not help me become a faster mountain biker but just made me feel better about myself.\nIncreasing brain points:   Exercise every day. That is Zone 2 cardio for around 30 minutes a day. Zone 2 cardio is when you are walking and can still talk to your friends. Think of an easy hike.\n  Meditation. Sit for 5 minutes and think about nothing.\n  Sleep for 8 hours a day in a cold, dark room, and don’t watch screens for 2 hours before bed.\n  Low carbs, high protein, high fat. No sugar, no processed foods. Eat clean.\n  (Optional) Get a Whoop/Oura and track HRV. The better your HRV, the more brain points you have. 45 is a bad day for Hamza, and 70 is a good day.\n  Carbs and weightlifting decrease HRV.\nVideo 4: Eat The Frog Do the thing that matters: the hard, game-changing, high-leverage deep work task, first thing in the day.\nHigh leverage means whatever generates the most output, whatever generates the most of the outcome you desire.\nFor me, this is video editing, and then riding before school. Currently, I edit at 5 am, but I am in the process of changing this to sleeping at 8 pm and waking up at 4 am. This means breakfast at 6:45 am, leaving at 7:30 am, and riding for an hour before school.\nMy Frog tasks are to edit and ride. School is a frog task only on the weekends. I usually do schoolwork after school.\n\u0026ldquo;Days are made of mornings. Life is made of days. Master mornings, master life.\u0026rdquo; - Hamza Ahmed\nYou do this by using Alex Hormozi\u0026rsquo;s two biggest productivity tactics: Wake up early. Work straight after waking up.\nHamza does two 3-hour deep work tasks a day. That is 6 hours a day. The first one is at 5 am and the second one is at 8:45 am. He does self-improvement habits in the middle. Then reduce noise in the later half of the day, so you wake up the next day with more brain points.\n\u0026ldquo;Eat the frog\u0026rdquo; will result in volume. This is what matters most. Eating the frog every day conquers your days.\nVideo 5: Limiting Inputs Limit the information you take in. Too much processing. Too much intake. Too much information is influencing you. Then you don\u0026rsquo;t know where to go because everyone contradicts each other. Just choose one thing and do it. Let the compounding skyrocket you.\nIf you only get Adonis as input, you will win. If you allow Tate Shorts and other YouTube videos as input, you will lose.\nJust listen to the winners. For me, this is Alex Hormozi and Adonis School/Hamza. And for MTB - I just practice/ride with people faster than me and literally follow; I ride behind them and learn from how they ride.\nOnly take advice from people who have dreams bigger than yours and have achieved what you want.\nMaximize the learning from one big source. Listen to 1 person and squeeze the knowledge out of them. Just like a relationship - grow with one high-quality partner or keep engaging with multiple partners to find the best, and end up alone and degenerate.\nThis is the Alex Hormozi story of \u0026lsquo;how easy it would be if you closed all your other businesses and focused on this one?\u0026rsquo; \u0026ldquo;A piece of cake.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Then do that.\u0026rdquo;\nChoose a business and keep climbing. Long-term, exponential. Let it compound. Let yourself get better and enjoy the fruits of volume.\nLess input is like having blinders on, you can\u0026rsquo;t even see the shiny objects and the girls in red dresses.\nFor me, don\u0026rsquo;t let your videos be MrBeastified - tell your story at your own pace, unfiltered and all. Be the authentic you.\nHow do you limit input?  Go on a dopamine detox Block YouTube Have a focused mindset. \u0026ldquo;I do not listen to bullshit.\u0026rdquo; Read \u0026ldquo;Discipline is Destiny.\u0026quot;  Video 6: Fat Man\u0026rsquo;s Gym Summarized: Just start. Shut the fuck up and do it. Volume.\nYou are the fat man at the gym but in the realm of business. Start. Alex Hormozi\u0026rsquo;s Rule 100. Shut down your brain, do 100 minutes of work, and then open your eyes. Stop coping.\nYou will do volume, have questions, AND get them answered. Then you\u0026rsquo;ll ask better questions. Repeat.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/adonis-1kin30mindset/","summary":"Here I am, editing a vlog at 6:30 am in my room. My roommate is asleep. The sun is down. It is pitch black outside. In the video, I am talking about how I am going to be poor when I go to Queenstown. I am in Queenstown now. It hits me. This is a limiting belief. I am sabotaging my growth because I do not believe that I will be rich until I finish college.","title":"How Hamza Shattered My Limiting Belief"},{"content":"everybody can get straight As.\nBecame more himself when he got out of school.\nSleeping on the floor is not glorious.\nBest way to learn is to seek out experts.\nthis chick had to break up with her boyfriend to start her business because he was so opposed to it.\n\u0026ldquo;The hardest decisions in life are giving up the good for the great.\u0026rdquo; - Alex\nBecause your good is someone else\u0026rsquo;s great. You have to break out of others' influence. Trading up dreams for bigger and bigger dreams.\nYou will fail. They will tell you \u0026ldquo;see\u0026rdquo;. But you only need to be right once to sort your life.\nMeasure outcomes in decades.\nNo one made a billion in a year. In 10? Anyone can do it.\nHe is an optimistic nihilist.\nThings don\u0026rsquo;t have inherent meaning. I choose meaning. I give it meaning.\n6 months after I die no one will give me a thought. No one gives a shit.\nEverthing we do is stimulus for us to stay busy because all our needs are taken care of.\nHe got lucky. Learnt facebook ads in 2013.\nPlan B - strip and drive uber - $250K/year.\nThe ability to persuade is the skill everyone should learn.\n\u0026ldquo;People are either contributing to your goal or taking away from it.\u0026rdquo;\nIs this person going help me achieve my desired outcome?\nShe did not try to change him. No i\u0026rsquo;ll do this today but we\u0026rsquo;ll do your thing on the weekend.\nfirst 6 months of dating - I\u0026rsquo;m gonna work all day. You can work next to me if you want. And she worked with him.\nMade candid conversations easy as both had low expectations. One day he said \u0026ldquo;You\u0026rsquo;re cold. For this to work I\u0026rsquo;m gonna need you to be less cold.\u0026rdquo; Then she changed.\nHe does not like being called stupid even if it s a joke.\nFor him, if his girl was not inbusiness with him. He would not see her and would be strangers. Ultimately, he wouldn\u0026rsquo;t care about that, he would keep doing his thing.\nrespect: the first person he respected professionally. Not a romantic connection. They just did stuff together, because they preferred to doing it alone.\nmarry your business partner. not the other way round.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t try to change somebody.\nShe has complimentary skillsets. Mission value and lifestyle must bevalued. differnet skills. He markets and she operates.\nequal power is needed. power play is difficult to sustain.\nIt is okay to leave money on the table. Leave it. Get the big money and leave the small money.\n\u0026ldquo;Just do right by everyone and you will be able to get out of this.\u0026rdquo;\nHe hired an attention coach. Untangle loose attention.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t take the short money. You will contrinute less than you take, they will resent you and it will not work.\n\u0026ldquo;Where is your attention?\u0026rdquo;\nRemove everything and put back a few things that matter.\nThe Podcast Alex Hormozi\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/alex-hormozi-young-and-profiting-podcast-notes/","summary":"everybody can get straight As.\nBecame more himself when he got out of school.\nSleeping on the floor is not glorious.\nBest way to learn is to seek out experts.\nthis chick had to break up with her boyfriend to start her business because he was so opposed to it.\n\u0026ldquo;The hardest decisions in life are giving up the good for the great.\u0026rdquo; - Alex\nBecause your good is someone else\u0026rsquo;s great.","title":"Alex Hormozi Young and Profiting Podcast Notes"},{"content":"Brake before berms not in them. Get your brakes sorted. Already in the pipeline. Section bits of trail to get faster. Ride with intention of mastering particular things - brake free/learn sharkfin/berms, etc. Sleep more. Make MTB effecient. No point in waking up at 7 and starting riding at 11:30. Wake up at 10 instead. Or ride early. Get your phone serviced when you have water damage. Power it down asap. Only Rs.300 for servicing. Use Xirify Shopping app to get 10% off, and rs.50 off on first 3 orders at Durga.\nSlade dropped wisdom: He intentionally withheld from dating despite many offers until he found someone he knew he could be with permanently. His criteria for that was adventure-loving. He knew over time most would ask him to sacrifice his speed addiction. So he waited for one that wouldn\u0026rsquo;t. Shreya rides. Thus ties with Naval\u0026rsquo;s if you wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be with them for a lifetime, don\u0026rsquo;t be with them for a day. He also withheld - made it easy. No little dabbling. He formed an identity/firm boundaries that made it easier for him. Her brother also chased him with the intention of physical assault when he found out about them. He played the brain game, the long game instead. Choosing get financially and location-wise sorted before initiating marriage.\nFuck comfort braking - slowly get rid of it. Choose braking points and then don\u0026rsquo;t brake except them. Braking causes you to lose traction - Berm line.\nPashan has a temporary USP of great trails. This will not be the case in 6 months when Pimplas is much more developed. Then the USP will be Viru, Abhi, Kapil, Pranay - the bois essentially, the community. Have to find a way to get them to Kalyan or build a community in Kalyan.\nVirendra built 2 berms in 30 mins. Effeciency. Learn.\nSlade tip: clear out the whole trail then start building.\nalso, to lure people in to build: you get to build your own line. Anything goes. We all will help you. we will not say anything.\nslade had to wake up at 4 to build and sleep at 9. learn. 13 consecutive days of building and one day of riding.\nSlade also told me I should stop sessioning when I am not making progress, as I will reinforce mistakes. He recommended I take a break and do other trails and come back to the step-up.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/lessons-learnt-on-the-december-pashan-trip-with-slade/","summary":"Brake before berms not in them. Get your brakes sorted. Already in the pipeline. Section bits of trail to get faster. Ride with intention of mastering particular things - brake free/learn sharkfin/berms, etc. Sleep more. Make MTB effecient. No point in waking up at 7 and starting riding at 11:30. Wake up at 10 instead. Or ride early. Get your phone serviced when you have water damage. Power it down asap.","title":"Lessons Learnt on the December Pashan Trip With Slade Gomes"},{"content":"\u0026ldquo;I am going to be working all day. You can work next to me if you want.\u0026rdquo;\nBoth were interested. Effortless to speak to each other.\n2nd message to get off bumble and get on call. \u0026ldquo;We should get off the app. We should get on the phone.\u0026rdquo;\nEat over the sink. Same utensils. One wipe. Repeat for next meal.\nI\u0026rsquo;m either the predator or the prey.\nLeila never tried to change me. Don\u0026rsquo;t less than or a different version of yourself to make the relationship work. No compromises.\nSomeone to go to war with - to build your empire with, not sit there and look pretty.\nDivorce rates for couples who started a business and made a dollar together is 10%. Leverage that. Shared mission.\nIf you want to stay in the relationship - there have to be more reasons to stay with the person vs not.\nIf you have to worry about the exit, you shouldn\u0026rsquo;t be with them.\nThe life you want is on the other side of a few hard conversations.\nLeila came through when he needed her. She did not wilt.\nLuck is being in a situation with better odds of a better outcome.\nSingle greatest decison is partner.\nCo-workers matter more than friends - you will spend more time with them\nThe relationship you have with your SO has a 0.71 correlation with your overall subjective well-being.\nmission - where do you want to go? values - how you get there interest - you do along the way\nyou can create chemistry - space.\nphysical space, being able to switch hats. For example - at home: feminine and playful and funny. At work no.\nWith roof - your man pushing vs loving. Again work vs home.\nAt home very funny and light hearted and playful and fuck with each other.\nIf you don\u0026rsquo;t agree, don\u0026rsquo;t move forward. No vetos. Keep solving for it. Both us are aligned in the mission. Just difference in how to get there. That helps with disagreements.\nAvoid discussion when there is emotional charge.\nMuch better at text communication. Type it out.\nWhen he is angry she just puts the relationship hat on - more fun and feminine and he can\u0026rsquo;t help but smile.\nJust hug her. You can feel this way. I will stay with you and hold you until whenever you need me to. It is totally dine and normal.\nAlex knows 11 months and six days later after the first date. Yeah. That.\nInvolve your wife only if she is the best person for the job. Merit first.\nThey did not even think about splitting up.\nHe asked her to sign a prenup. She said yes. It was effortless. He threw it away. Use that as a test.\nIf only chemisty and not rational, don\u0026rsquo;t sdo it. I don\u0026rsquo;t need emo drama distracting me from going pro.\nThey went to courses and workshops for divorced and at risk marriages. They learned a lot. Do this.\nLearn how men and women are different. Treat them how they want to be treated. Learn their coping mechanism. Learn to take the walls down with them.\nLearn to communicate. Probably miscommunication. Did you intend to mean this when you said that? When you say that this is what I hear.\nHow do you she is the one? Look at your stats. Is your business growing? MTB? Physique? mental health? Are you a better Ilyaas because you are with her? Hold her to a higher standard, don\u0026rsquo;t cause your partner to be complacent.\nIt has to be a voluntary relationship. You have to choose her despite your better options over time and vice versa.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t be her friend because they want to fuck you. Would hang out if she is married. You know the answer to this. If not, you want her. End it if she does not feel the same way. Don\u0026rsquo;t be a beta male orbiter.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t be a guy friend. Here are my intentions with you. They are not pure in nature. I want to be with you. \u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t see you that way.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Cool. Not tryna be friends.\u0026rdquo; Not friend material.\nWhen they get married, all relationship noise dissappeared. They got their attention back.\n\u0026ldquo;If you don\u0026rsquo;t have values you lead your life by, you need rules\u0026rdquo; - Leila Hormozi. This applies to smartphone and social media.\nIf you agree on something, as insane as it may sound to others, it is okay. As long as you are on the same page. As long as there is no discrepency.\nAre you free rn. Sure Are you free rn? I am writing this book chapter. Will need another 4 hours. Cool just going for a walk.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t compare you relationships with others. Very different people. Don\u0026rsquo;t compare to other people.\n\u0026ldquo;That\u0026rsquo;s so unhealthy\u0026rdquo; Yeah okay, sure.\nAbsolutely not comparing to others. You are not married to me. She is.\nYou don\u0026rsquo;t complete each other. You should be good at being alone. 2 wholes together with sum that is greater. Not 2 halves to form one whole.\nInter-dependent not co-dependent. Choose to depend.\nRead awaken the giant within. do the relationship exercise.\nOne character trait you could choose in a partner - low expectations.\nLow expectations and shared values leading to true north of mission.\nIf you don\u0026rsquo;t need her, it gives you space to experiment.\nnot fix the relationship, manage the things, tweak it.\nconversation - disagreement:\npresent conjecture/idea\nhere is why I don\u0026rsquo;t support the idea\nspace\nplay on repeat. If the shit is irreconcilable, don\u0026rsquo;t do it.\nstrategy is how you allocate limited resources in unlimited options.\nthe question you ask yourself everyday changes your worldview. Your self measuting stick.\nI would like to die with nothing left to give.\n25 to 50 thousand per hour. Bro. Reach that.\nQuality of a model - predicts outcome and works in multiple areas, again and again.\nWake up without an alarm. Try that. No alarm wake ups.\nOnly speak on stages where you are willing to be associated with the other speakers and the brand of the event. Accept only if it builds your brands.\nAI replace content creators?\nThings take longer to happen than you think and faster than you can imagine.\n3 distortions of reality that lead to unhappiness:\ncircumstance/universe - my circumstance must change other people - they must comply with my request avoidance - not being accountable for your actions\nYou don\u0026rsquo;t deserve it. You prefer it. You don\u0026rsquo;t deserve anything. You just are. Period.\nPodcast on Youtube is here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/hormozis-on-the-iced-coffee-hour/","summary":"\u0026ldquo;I am going to be working all day. You can work next to me if you want.\u0026rdquo;\nBoth were interested. Effortless to speak to each other.\n2nd message to get off bumble and get on call. \u0026ldquo;We should get off the app. We should get on the phone.\u0026rdquo;\nEat over the sink. Same utensils. One wipe. Repeat for next meal.\nI\u0026rsquo;m either the predator or the prey.\nLeila never tried to change me.","title":"Hormozis on Graham Stephan's Podcast Notes"},{"content":"Behind The Brand Alex Hormozi Podcast\nYou only get one name. Act accordingly.\nI can die to myself or die to my father. - I can die to myself or die to the masses.\nMemento Mori - use when making big decisions - reorients to a selfish thing - removes society from the decision.\nYou are going to die. There is no legacy. Everyone will forget you within 10 generations guaranteed. Agreed. Legacy for me is within my lifetime - the people coming to me and thanking me for the positive influence hamza type.\nWhatever I will do is easier than what your father did. I speak English. I stand on his shoulders.\nIn our 20s we care about what others think about us. In our 40s we start to not care about what others think about us. In our 60s we realize no one was thinking about us, to begin with.\nWhat are the things I hate? Change those things. What are the things I love - probably the inverse of the things you hate. Try those.\nHe happens to love business more than fitness.\nChoose the right market - it should be scalable.\nKept finding father figures. Chose to go without partners to learn not to find father figures in his partners.\nWhen going into a partnership, lay out the terms. Everything explicit.\nOne thing. Focus.\nLeverage - low Marginal Cost - code and media best opportunities.\nIf partnering - different and complementary skills and the same strong values\nLearning comes in retrospect - reverse engineering like learning accounts from the mark scheme.\nA relationship should be given and take - you must give AND you must take - 8/10 giver.\ngive vs donate? is it giving or donating when expecting reciprocity?\nGive, give, give, get - or ask, not take.\n8/10 giver is when you know what you\u0026rsquo;re willing to give and not willing to give and then do not budge.\nTest/frame to choose people in your life:\nWill this guy give his life for me? Do I trust this guy with my wife for a long time? Can I give him a huge sum of money and be back later and not have it vanish? Will this guy let me in his house to hide during the holocaust?\nUse this frame. Assume hardship, Assume war.\nIf we both don\u0026rsquo;t agree, we don\u0026rsquo;t do it. Unanimous agreement.\nComplete trust- joint bank accounts, give her TOTP and Bitwarden pass - Ilyaas - extend trust and people step up.\nThey are more extremely themselves because the other person exists - polarity.\nCompetitive advantage - have more information. You know how to do it. Information arbitrage - buyer and seller.\nopportunity - how many can I sell? how much profit - margin. How many good players - lower is better. You want all 3 in a business opportunity.\nOpportunity is basically leverage.\nWhat do my top 20% of customers have in common? Now sell to only those people.\nacquisition.com - $400K marketing.com $5.6M the fastest road to financial freedom - know thyself - for MTB and going pro in addition to documenting - YT and blog. 2. Skills - develop them, by doing.\nWarren has 150B in cash. So Alex is loaded as well. Maa and I also have mostly cash. Let\u0026rsquo;s see where this goes.\nWhere does the opportunity exist? Look at the businesses that have survived the longest - they survived because they make tons of money - JP Morgan for example.\nMake the most money: Exon - oil. Facebook - eyeballs cost basically nothing.\nTo guaranteed become a millionaire in a decade, you have to be willing to resist becoming a millionaire in 90 days. Resist the woman in the red dress.\nLearn to sell.\nWork to learn or earn. in the beginning, work to learn.\nBrand = reputation. Reputation is what people say when you are not around.\nUnimpeachable character, sincere candor, and competitive greatness.\nbro\u0026rsquo;s goal is to get his girl onto the Forbes 100 self-made richest women. because it would be cool. Be like Alex.\nwanting something is reason enough.\nBranding is higher ROI in the long run, compared to paid ads, so be patient and keep uploading.\nLink to the podcast\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/alex-hormozi-behind-the-brand-podcast-notes/","summary":"Behind The Brand Alex Hormozi Podcast\nYou only get one name. Act accordingly.\nI can die to myself or die to my father. - I can die to myself or die to the masses.\nMemento Mori - use when making big decisions - reorients to a selfish thing - removes society from the decision.\nYou are going to die. There is no legacy. Everyone will forget you within 10 generations guaranteed.","title":"Alex Hormozi Behind the Brand Podcast Notes"},{"content":"After getting only 6 hours of sleep, 2 hour train journey, and 1.5h of waiting, Hitesh and Sri arrived. Only tell me that we have no mattock because his father misplaced ours and no shop are open right now.\nAfter a small argument, Kashish and I hopped on his scooter and went to Bhiwandi. THere, Kashish picked up his new 10 speed chain and a mattock.\nAfter we reached back, we spoke about Kashish\u0026rsquo;s PC plans and Sri was giving him advice on video editing. Hitesh and Sri left shortly after. They did ~8 runs while we were gone. Now we were left alone to build.\nTo be fair, Kashish and I did scout the hill while waiting for them. This has tree shade like Pashan, and has potential for trail building from scratch - paving a path where there is none, not adding features to natural trails. With a spot for Kalyan\u0026rsquo;s very own death drop, Vishal Gap and Snake Line, it seems like this going to be the mail Kalyan riding spot for a while. I plan on building only for the next 6 months, getting my MTB to test features.\nWatching Mark Mathews and seeing Kashish\u0026rsquo;s determination leads me to believe that this hill is an opportunity waiting to be capitalized on. Smal hill, great tree cover, and supportive forest officer - the only rule is to not die. After home trails where I have to remain cautious of encountering forest authority, this permission is a breath of fresh air.\nWe rebuilt the old table. The top soil had withered away, leaving only the base of rocks. As usual, I did the digging.Kashish collected the soil and put it on top of the jump, with a little something called ghamela. I don\u0026rsquo;t know what it is called in english. We made renewed it. We may have to lengthen the landing and make the take-off steeper. But I doubt it. The speed into the jump is more than enough; I usually overshoot the landing.\n\nAfter what must be 2 hours of building, some cursing at the others for not joining the build, some future plan discussions, we ended the day. By the end, I just got onto my laptop. I was sitting there on the side of the trail with my laptop configuring a PC build. It was a sight to see.\nI later went to Kashish\u0026rsquo;s place to refill my bottle and show him arya\u0026rsquo;s film. He liked it. I explained to him that we have many recources, that knowledge is abundant, we just have to seek it out. The main reason I went to his place is because I did not get my bicycle with me, and sharing rickshaw to station costs rs40 from his place.\nBig thanks to him for the pick up and drop. I don\u0026rsquo;t get the bike because of this one asshole at Dadar station. He is always there. Always catches me for not getting the luggage ticker for my MTB. Fucker has caught me thrice, consecutively. That costs 200, so 40 rupees is much better.\nI realize that I have learnt to thrive in Mumbai\u0026rsquo;s lawlessness and corruption. I reckon I will miss it.\nHere\u0026rsquo;s Mumbai\u0026rsquo;s very own Pashan.\nTo keep up with the Pimplas building journey, subscribe by email.\nflying kisses\nInstagram Post here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/26-nov-2022/","summary":"After getting only 6 hours of sleep, 2 hour train journey, and 1.5h of waiting, Hitesh and Sri arrived. Only tell me that we have no mattock because his father misplaced ours and no shop are open right now.\nAfter a small argument, Kashish and I hopped on his scooter and went to Bhiwandi. THere, Kashish picked up his new 10 speed chain and a mattock.\nAfter we reached back, we spoke about Kashish\u0026rsquo;s PC plans and Sri was giving him advice on video editing.","title":"New Hill: SO MUCH POTENTIAL"},{"content":"It is 11pm as I write this. I have been unable to sleep early for the past week. I went to Pashan last week and slept in the car 12, hit the bed at 5am and woke up at 12pm. I have been waking and sleeping late for the rest of the week. This is bullshit.\nI need to get tired during the day. Tomorrow, I will wake up at 7:30 and straight go for a ride.No breakfast. One run. Flow trail to temple trail, to get myself tired so I can sleep early.\nI also binge on reading/youtube at night. This has become a problem. Two solutions. I will see how riding impacts this. I reckon riding in the morning will be enough pleasure for me to not binge at night. If that does not work, I will go back to old routine where I do deep school work for 3 hours, shallow work for 1, write for 90 mins and read for 90 mins. Right now, I just do school work the whole day. I don\u0026rsquo;t write. I feel like that is me making my day a prison, so I want to extend my waking hours at night for some dopamine. Yeah.\nEssentially, I need to get back on routine. I will kal. Do both.\nI am doing school work the whole day because I have A2 exams in 2.5 months and I was doing AS up until now - retests. I should be done with Accounting syllabus by the end of next week. Then I have 2 months for 2 subjects syllabus and all subjects revision/past papers. This is going to be a grind. Since my current method does not seem to be effective, I will switch back to my more effective old one.\nI will blog kal (tomorrow) or parso (day after) and let you know how it works.\nflying kisses\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/getting-back-on-routine/","summary":"It is 11pm as I write this. I have been unable to sleep early for the past week. I went to Pashan last week and slept in the car 12, hit the bed at 5am and woke up at 12pm. I have been waking and sleeping late for the rest of the week. This is bullshit.\nI need to get tired during the day. Tomorrow, I will wake up at 7:30 and straight go for a ride.","title":"Getting Back on Routine"},{"content":"Upon realizing that Ambernath cannot be a long-term thing as they break our features. We planned on going to Pune monthly and decided to go on the 12th of November. As the week progressed, Siddha said he wanted to do a 2-day trip instead of a day trip to Pune. Kashish said he\u0026rsquo;d join both days. I remained adamant on one day due to a board exam, which is kal (tomorrow) btw, and said I would leave by train and to get my MTB by car. They agreed.\nFast forward to Friday. Siddha told me to come over at night to figure the car rack out so we could leave early in the morning. I declined because of comfort and night routine. He told me to be there at 5. I set my alarm for 3am. Kashish went there the night before. I was packing till like 11am at night, which is my fault completely, as I started late - at 9:30 or so. My packing was quite quick. I realize I live quite light for the day. If I want to stay the night is when I get really heavy in terms of luggage. The main thing was carrying tiffins - 5 of them worth one day\u0026rsquo;s food. It is quite the mountain. But as someone who has been berated by Abhijeet for carrying 3 duffel bags for Temghar trips, and 2 bags for a day trip (one of them being MTB guards and water). that is quite good.\nUpon waking up, I checked my phone to see if there are any changes or complications in the plan. And there it is, Siddha telling me to come over at 5:30 instead, so put an alarm and slept for 30 mins, or that was the intention. Pashan excitement + phone blue light = little and shit sleep. I \u0026ldquo;woke up\u0026rdquo; at 3:30, and left the house at 4:30. I reached Siddha\u0026rsquo;s at 5:30 because there was a climb that slowed me down on the way to his place. Not as bad as Kashish would later make it out to be, but something that slowed me down. At six I reached and waited at Siddha\u0026rsquo;s for half an hour because neither of them was ready. Someone was busy figuring out the car rack till 3AM. That is ridiculous considering how Siddha is on his way to becoming a mechanical engineer. We must have spent an hour loading up the car with bikes and luggage. We were then on our way to Pashan. I am glad I brought my laptop because I was able to put that time to good use - I took notes on like 4 videos. That was good. Something that made Kashish and I laugh - upon seeing Hamza in his bathrobe, Siddha\u0026rsquo;s brother, Harsh, exclaimed \u0026ldquo;Jesus!\u0026rdquo; That was fuckin A. Hamza as Jesus. Made us crack up.\nI took notes all the way there minus 20km. At this point we realized Harsh did not have any protection. Fortunately, we had just passed Decathlon Wakad and it was a short detour. As we were on our way to the checkout, Harsh pointed out a sticker that said \u0026ldquo;Rs 699\u0026rdquo; and exclaimed \u0026ldquo;See 69. 69 is a bad number.\u0026rdquo; Shocked this 9-year-old knew about the sex position, I asked him what it mean, and explained to me that he can\u0026rsquo;t say such things and to ask Siddha. insert Tai Lopez knowledge meme I love that kids know about this. The internet is fucking great. Opportunity 100.\n ! We must have reached Pashan at 12. I had oats at Durga, that I couldn\u0026rsquo;t have in the car as Siddha\u0026rsquo;s father was fasting. I also drank cold coffee with crushed chocolate. Kashish and Siddha asked me if I would during the drive. I said yes. It is because it helps me ride better - caffeine as a Performance enhancing drug because I don\u0026rsquo;t drink it the rest of the year. However, I can feel the pull to order one more when I have it. Man, it is crazy how addictive sugar is. Spent the next hour meeting the Pune gang, sorting my MTB bag, and unloading bikes. We left for the hill by roughly 2pm. My plan was to leave at sunset for home, so I was in a hurry to ride and reached the top 15 to 30 mins before everyone else. I did 3 to 4 whoop runs. Then started on to the Snake line. I couldn\u0026rsquo;t find a lot of the previous trails I had ridden, and that frustrated me, I was also distracted. I was unable to nail the berms like I was able to in 2019. That frustrated me as well. Then the crowd came. I joined one whoop line trail and headed one. There was a drop at the end of the trail that was completely doable. I was scared of hitting it. I imagined myself crashing on it and got scared. That I can say only in hindsight and also only because I eyed another feature, a step down before the snake line step-up. I eyed that. I got scared. Then I say Viru pop off it and directly into the step-up like he was meant to fly. I saw it was doable. I was also\u0026hellip; jealous? No. I don\u0026rsquo;t think that is the case. I saw it could be done and then challenged myself to try. The strategy - volume, incremental progression. I did 3 to 5 dry runs and hit it in the fifth one. meaning, I landed flat. That was the worst thing that could happen. I did not crash and break my bones. My suspension took most of it. It was just like riding the rock gardens at the Temple trail. The feeling was familiar. Now, it was to increase speed and pop. But that was scary as well. But Kashish told me something that I kept saying to myself for the 10 runs after when I was trying to increase my speed and pop. that was \u0026ldquo;Darr ke aage jeet hai.\u0026rdquo; I kept saying to myself that because the speed and length needed to clear was more than I was comfortable with, and that was scary. I knew I was going to keep doing it, but it was easy to get complacent; To not progress, to not push the speed, to not pop as much as I could have. That was easy.\nThis is interesting, despite that being easy, that was not my way. I knew for sure that I would keep pushing myself, but I still pushed myself to push. How interesting is that? I knew I would do it. I needed the self-talk, the push I gave, to do it regardless. It is my nature. As I pushed myself, I started to jump farther and farther. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is positive reinforcement. I was hooked. a flow state soon followed, not in the complete I am losing myself and track of time way that I experienced in Pashan Fest 2019, but in a way that I would keep going up and doing it, without thinking about it. Instinct, that is what it was. I overcame fear until I saw results. I acted until it echoed. The positive feedback loop was in place, and momentum was generated. The iterations were the easy part now. I kept doing it.\nSide tangent: Harsh was also riding. He did the snake line a bit, and one time, this G just straight up just jumped from his bike because it was directed to the tree. He just baled and left his bike to take the impact. Smart move, but a hilarious one. One showing utter indifference to his bike\u0026rsquo;s condition, which I loved, kinda like abhijeet\u0026rsquo;s crash her Virendra told me I did it 38 times. I am certain that is an exaggeration. It was a grind though. I was unable to make the landing like I wanted to. I was 2 feet short. I\u0026rsquo;d been 2 feet for about 10 runs now. I was hungry. Viru said I needed more pop. I was trying. I got hungry, and everyone else got irritated. That\u0026rsquo;s fine. I took their shit and still continued. But 2 - 3 runs later, now time was little. The sun was about to set. I plateaued. I decided to stop because I plateaued. The plan was to go to Berm line. That would help me not lose speed on the pre-lip berm. so I stopped. Viru however, told us that by the time we got to that side of the hill, sunlight would have been exhausted. He suggested one snake line run and then Full-Sus line to the bottom of the hill. So we did that.\nI gave my GoPro to Kapil from Ragewheels to record. The Full Sus line was unfamiliar and I was following Viru. I tried to keep up but he vanished 20 seconds into the trail. I was riding a trail I did not know at an uncomfortable speed. In Manori, this story ended in a broken toe and a rickshaw ride home. This time it ended in a plain ol' crash. Lucky me. Kapil, who was following me, helped me get my bars back in alignment, and off we went.\nPost 2 lunch tiffins at Durga, we went to hotel eminent. I started howling on the way, usual Ilyaas is hungry/tired shit. (Arya and Yasir know.) I howled when we reached. A guy beside us looked at me and asked me not to do it. He was the hotel manager. He later denied us rooms. He said it is because they were all booked. Kashish and I think it is because of me howling. Siddha and his father sat in the car for an hour trying to find a hotel.to our chagrin, Harsh was sleeping in the passenger seat and we couldn\u0026rsquo;t sit in the AC. We proceeded to sit on the footpath for an hour minimum, about to pass out - due to exhaustion. Mistake made. The both of us should\u0026rsquo;ve looked for hotels as well. I was being useless, operational drag. I will next time. I did not try to learn the car rack. same thing. I don\u0026rsquo;t try to learn Marathi when they speak it. I will, henceforth. Being useful, at all times.\nAt one point Siddha said, a cheap hotel 10km away or a mehenga (expensive) hotel 3km away. I said, \u0026ldquo;Mumbai. Let\u0026rsquo;s go home.\u0026rdquo; He said, \u0026ldquo;cool. We\u0026rsquo;ll do whatever you want\u0026rdquo;. He said this sincerely. In that moment, I saw the disappointment in his eyes, held his hand, and told him we\u0026rsquo;ll stay and find a hotel. They were able to find a hotel 4k away. Even prepaid for it. When we showed up there, half the apartments' drainage was not working. That was 6k stuck for 7 days. After 30 mins of calling OYO for a refund and waiting in the car, listening to hold music, we went back to Durga. Neelam is one more restaurant owned by the same guy. We ate there. I tried to find milk, but all shops were closed. I asked Durga and he was willing to give but would charge for a whole liter. I eventually gave in. Upon seeing my tiffin he said, he\u0026rsquo;ll give me a glass for free. After all, feeding dogs is a charitable act. I started laughing and told him it is my food - milk, roti, and peanut butter. He started apologizing profusely, it reminded me of Manav and Vihaan and I laughed hard. then ate slowly at Neelam, being the last one to finish my food. During the meal, Kashish called 3 hotels and all of them were booked.\nWe then gave up and started loading our luggage and bikes into the car. Around 30 mins in I sat on the footpath, with my head on my bag in front of me, and just..slept. Siddha or Kashish woke me, but I was so sleepy, I couldn\u0026rsquo;t keep my eyes open. Eventually, they finished and I was told to sleep in the car. I did. Harsh slept on Kashish\u0026rsquo;s lap. Oh, I gave Harsh \u0026ldquo;The Way of the Warrior Kid\u0026rdquo; by Jocko Willink just before I went to sleep and he seemed to like it. Even completed 20% of the book. I will give it to him next time as well.\nWe did have the option to ride 10km to the hotel. I should have sucked it up - told the rest to load the bikes and I should\u0026rsquo;ve taken Siddha\u0026rsquo;s bike and ridden the 10km so Kashish and Siddha could\u0026rsquo;ve ridden Pashan the next day. They really wanted to. Taken one for the tribe. I will next time.\nat the time of writing, I figured out a way to go to Pune every weekend for a day trip. Now I just have to figure out if that is 1. Possible and 2. sustainable. I am excited. It only took 2 days of problem-solving. I had a long-held belief it was out of the realm. Impossible to do that. I broke that belief and in 2 days I figured it out. I look forward to more limiting beliefs I can break.\nWe reached SIdhha\u0026rsquo;s at 5am. I immediately went to his bedroom, took my eyemask, and slept. Sometime later, I heard someone making unintelligible noises and I woke up and shouted maa ki chut. Siddha told me it is just Kashish sleep-talking. I went to sleep immediately after. Apparently, both of them laughed a lot about it.\nI woke up at 12, and I was asked about food. I declined and expressed keen interest to take my bike and just go home. I think Siddha\u0026rsquo;s parents took offense at that or were incredibly shocked someone would decline their food. Almost an insult.\nAbout food - I did not want to stay in Pashan one more day partly due to my diet and not being able to follow it. That is now limiting. As an athlete, my bottleneck is not fitness, it is a skill. To acquire it, I must go places I will be unable to maintain my strict food intake. The same goes for sleep. I should\u0026rsquo;ve gone to Siddha\u0026rsquo;s at night. This would\u0026rsquo;ve saved an hour in the morning. Same unwillingness. My routine is comfortable. I experience discomfort in straying from it. But, comfort is the killer of man. It is not limiting instead boosting productivity. As such, I will look out for when it is limiting, and stray from it when necessary.\nI left at 2, and the rest of the day was just a blur. I slept late though. So was Monday. I don\u0026rsquo;t remember why it was, but it won\u0026rsquo;t happen again. I am slowly going back to waking up early and kal tak (till tomorrow), I should be back to waking up at 6.\nflying kisses\nPashan Trailpark: ride location\nInstagram Post - see videos here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/12-nov-2022/","summary":"Upon realizing that Ambernath cannot be a long-term thing as they break our features. We planned on going to Pune monthly and decided to go on the 12th of November. As the week progressed, Siddha said he wanted to do a 2-day trip instead of a day trip to Pune. Kashish said he\u0026rsquo;d join both days. I remained adamant on one day due to a board exam, which is kal (tomorrow) btw, and said I would leave by train and to get my MTB by car.","title":"First Pashan Trip After COVID-19"},{"content":"I woke up at 5 am, one hour earlier than I would ride at this spot because Kashish, who spent the night at Siddha\u0026rsquo;s, was coming to ride along with Siddha. I reached the meeting spot at 7:15. Prajwal reached at 7:30, despite leaving from Kurla at 7. He drove at 80kmph to reach on time. Kashish and Siddha reached 8. This was one hour late. This made me curse Siddha and hurry on the way up, where we found many runners going down the hill. I reached the top only to find a group of elderly trekkers having tea. I was initially concerned, thinking it was a jhund of forest officers. However, I soon realized that they were civilians having a good time. We spoke to them. In time, Kashish reached up, due to his unfamiliarity with the price that one has to pay to ride DH in Mumbai: Long Climbs.\nAfter wearing all our gear, we started our ride down the hill. I stopped many times to clear out rocks on the trail. This broke the flow, which is the main USP of the trail we were riding - it is called \u0026ldquo;Flow Trail\u0026rdquo;. This resulted in Kashish later telling me he thought that the first trail we rode was a waste of time. We did ride the ending section of the trail that we usually do not in fear of forest authorities, but it was completely empty, and pumping the trail resulted in 60kmph. It was refreshing. I know to ride that section often, and there hasn\u0026rsquo;t been anyone there to date.\nOn the way up, I cleared a lot of the trail. A bunch of plants and branches resulted in scars on our arms or plain going off-track due to greenery covering the trail. On the way down the Temple Trail, I stopped a lot to wait for Kashish and Prajwal, who were considerably slower, mainly by virtue of riding hardtails - the trail is gnarly. I am talking BIG boulders we have to meander our way through. Siddha went slower and showed Kashish and Prajwal the good lines. For that, I am grateful to him. He is like Slade in the manner that he loves social riding - I only do if I have people around me that I can learn from and do not slow me down. Usually, if I have people riding with me, they\u0026rsquo;re new to MTB and therefore operational drag. But that is something I\u0026rsquo;m willing to deal with due to the long-run return of having like-minded people around me, and how that enables bigger projects in terms of trail building and MTB trips - shared costs and bigger features.\nPost ride, Siddha went home, and so did Prajwal, and Kashish went to a store he wanted to visit. I found myself craving the social interaction that usually comes post-ride. That was interesting. That is it. I am writing this after more than a week and have forgotten a lot of what happened on the ride. Lesson learned - write about the ride before you go to the next ride.\nInstagram Post Here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/6-nov-2022/","summary":"I woke up at 5 am, one hour earlier than I would ride at this spot because Kashish, who spent the night at Siddha\u0026rsquo;s, was coming to ride along with Siddha. I reached the meeting spot at 7:15. Prajwal reached at 7:30, despite leaving from Kurla at 7. He drove at 80kmph to reach on time. Kashish and Siddha reached 8. This was one hour late. This made me curse Siddha and hurry on the way up, where we found many runners going down the hill.","title":"Kashish comes to Mumbai Mainland"},{"content":"meaning captivity book\nshared goals shared value respect for each other\nwe\u0026rsquo;re in it together vs cheerleader and quarterback\nwhen you say I want to be happy you say there is a defecit between your current reality and happiness which will always remain outside of yourself\ndefecits occur when we speak desires\ndesire is a contract we make with ourselves to be happy with what we want\nWhy do you need to be happy, why do you need meaning? Why do you want Roof?\nthat is creating an expectation of life whereas, if that is not done, life is just is - pure acceptance\ni do this period - the goals have to disappear - no extrinsic motivation\nyou just are - don\u0026rsquo;t think about it\nworthiness doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter - liberation in meaninglessness - like I do - no one is watching/reading so I can post whatever I want\ngaryvee - I\u0026rsquo;m gonna die and nothing matters\nwhy should we process trauma? We choose our trauma - adler psychology - only perspective matters how you chose to get over B\nWe question our beliefs except the one we truly believe. Those we never question\ngreater leverage - lower marginal cost - you want goods to be non rival\n2nd pod:\nconvergent thinking vs divergent thinking - one answer vs multiple correct answers. We need divergent thinking\nI don\u0026rsquo;t want to be the product for news. Their intention is not to educate me\nAnti-information diet. No phone at home. Change your number often? Don\u0026rsquo;t consume - Eliminate it. Figure out desktop versions of social media. No consume meaning no following. Goal: get valuable enough to have someone else (Executive assistant) plan out your days out.\nAirplane - get 2 aisle seats to be next to each other.\nSystemize your decision making. Then outsource a my micro-decisions. All of this to focus on the highest leverage vehicles.\nHave a go-to-bed alarm, not a wake-up alarm.\nDeep work start to the day. for like 8 hours. Then shallow work, then train, and then sleep\nwhen most people do something - oh that is a great path to mediocrity\n1st podcast here 2nd podcast here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/alex-graham-podcast-notes/","summary":"meaning captivity book\nshared goals shared value respect for each other\nwe\u0026rsquo;re in it together vs cheerleader and quarterback\nwhen you say I want to be happy you say there is a defecit between your current reality and happiness which will always remain outside of yourself\ndefecits occur when we speak desires\ndesire is a contract we make with ourselves to be happy with what we want\nWhy do you need to be happy, why do you need meaning?","title":"Alex Hormozi and Graham Stephan Podcast Notes"},{"content":"How Alex Hormozi grew a 1.2M following:\n Use twitter as brain dump - try this. Create YT from the best performing tweets. Add call to action - if you liked this, share to a friend. Record 30 and sprinke them throughout your content Contextualise to the platform you\u0026rsquo;re shipping on Increase volume  10x in content is not 10x followers, it is 10x followers. Volume.\nMore output, more results - upload to blog everyday. Upload to youtube everyday.\ntalk about shit you have done. You have to answer \u0026ldquo;why should I listen to you?\u0026rdquo;\nhave the authority by doing the shit you talk about - become GOAT first and then tel people how to do it. Don\u0026rsquo;t become Hamza - share your journey - change the way your speak.\n\u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t know. This is what worked for me this time. I hope it serves you.\u0026rdquo;\nI stand here truthfully unafraid. Not because of the path that lies before me, but because of the path that lies behind me.\nGive away the secrets, and sell the implementation. Coaching, for example - personal attention is the value add\nWhat if I give away all my shit and everyone now knows it. flipside: What you put out shit and everyone consumes it. Which one do you think will make you more money?\nPersuasive power - reciprocity. Get them drunk on the value you provide and they provide value back.\nPrivde magnitudes more value than you\u0026rsquo;re charging - that is how you create a raving customer.\nMake your free stuff better than their pad stuff - put out skillshare course on youtube - Hamza did this\nleverage is the ratio between inputs to outputs in a system. It costs you the same whether 1 person watches the video or 1 million. But you are one. You will recieve all the goodwill from them. This is how you amass significant wealth.\nMake more money - higher multiplier effect on your time and other resource.\nMaster time to master money.\nDefault time period to get something dine - 1 week new default - 1 day. extrapolate this speed to a decade and you\u0026rsquo;re wealthy.\nThis is efficiency.\nmacro aspect: effectiveness - are these activities in alignment with my goals\nDo they compound over a decade? Are they directionally aligned, over decades?\n\u0026ldquo;most people\u0026rsquo;s plans, when you add time, get worse\u0026rdquo; - speak to Roof and Arya bout this\nwealthy people talk in decades, not days\nIt is unreasonable that id I did this for 10 years, I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be significantly wealthier than now - YT and MTB\nThe ultra successful:\n Have a superiority complex - think they are better than others Massive inscurity and fear of failure Impulse control - focus  live delayed gratification - live on 30k for the next 5 years. Then a million a year. Learn skills tabhi.\nsacrifices are trade-offs - they are prices you must pay if you want to get there.\nwhat is the price-tag of your dreams?\nfor sales, spend more time on the problems of your customer than understanding the product.\nwatch video: I was once weak\nThe point of the sale is to decide. Polarization - ties in to pick up.\non a scale of a one to a 10. where are you? X. what would it take me to get you to a 10? Then do that. Why are you not a 1? Then they sell you on it\nif X weren\u0026rsquo;t the issue would you say yes? What would it look like to not have X?\nVideo here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/how-alex-gew-a-1.2m-audience-notes/","summary":"How Alex Hormozi grew a 1.2M following:\n Use twitter as brain dump - try this. Create YT from the best performing tweets. Add call to action - if you liked this, share to a friend. Record 30 and sprinke them throughout your content Contextualise to the platform you\u0026rsquo;re shipping on Increase volume  10x in content is not 10x followers, it is 10x followers. Volume.\nMore output, more results - upload to blog everyday.","title":"How Alex Hormozi Grew a 1.2M Audience Notes"},{"content":"Constraints theoruy - a system will only grow until it\u0026rsquo;s is allowed. It is bottlenecked by its weakest link. Attack the constraints - for me MTB wise, this is riding and not fitness. For YT and media - it is volume\n2 common constraints:\n \u0026ldquo;I am \u0026hellip; high enxiety/neurotic/all or nothing\u0026rdquo;  Does that belief serve you. something I am implementing\u0026gt; Believe it then make it come true. I will be the GOAT then work towards it. I will date my ideal woman, then make it happen. Don\u0026rsquo;t worry about historical accuracy, choose beliefs that serve you and then make them come true.\nInorder to grow, your identity must be whatever is required to grow. Period. Otherwise you don\u0026rsquo;t.\nI have a tendency is still better.\n\u0026ldquo;will saying this help me accomplish the goals that I have?\u0026rdquo; If not, then stop saying it.\nCrutches and superstition is dangerous. By extension routines are as well. For me this is food. I am so concerned with eating right that I sacrifice MTB trip - the thing I eat right for,while knowing riding skill is my constraint, not fitness.  Becoming dependent on a routine makes you weaker - Why hamza was a jeffrey in Thailand, why Vihaan and I find it difficult to be productive if we begin the day wrong.\n\u0026ldquo;I have to\u0026rdquo;. \u0026ldquo;I must\u0026rdquo;, \u0026ldquo;I need to\u0026rdquo;\npeople did not have blue light blocking glasses, they did just fine - they did not produce at my rate either. I understand how my phone is a crutch, and I am working on eliminating it. My Night routine and journalling for example, is a \u0026ldquo;crutch\u0026rdquo; I am okay keeping.\nis journalling my new default now? do I feel shittier without it. Yes, but I feel like that is because I have reacher a better, more present new normal. But I don\u0026rsquo;t how to test that theory.\nVideo here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/alex-why-daily-routines-keep-you-fragile-and-poor-notes/","summary":"Constraints theoruy - a system will only grow until it\u0026rsquo;s is allowed. It is bottlenecked by its weakest link. Attack the constraints - for me MTB wise, this is riding and not fitness. For YT and media - it is volume\n2 common constraints:\n \u0026ldquo;I am \u0026hellip; high enxiety/neurotic/all or nothing\u0026rdquo;  Does that belief serve you. something I am implementing\u0026gt; Believe it then make it come true. I will be the GOAT then work towards it.","title":"Alex Hormozi's Why Daily Routines Keep You Fragile and Poor Notes"},{"content":"Video here\nShed them.The problem - they keep retelling the old narrative. Probably why I don\u0026rsquo;t have desire to meet Boisar anymore. Arya and Vihaan do a great job of keeping up to date with my growth and not retelling the old untruths.\nIf you are not willing to sacrifice to keep the relationship, how much do you love them?\nYour behavior is punished or re-inforced. that is it - keep this is mind with parenting. Ties in with Dan Bilzerian\u0026rsquo;s don\u0026rsquo;t reward bad behavior with attention. and Hamza\u0026rsquo;s \u0026ldquo;manipulation tactic\u0026rdquo; - don\u0026rsquo;t respond to bad behavior/ take attention away - positive intermittent reinforcement\nThey/boisar will be better served when I leave and they have space for people more like them. Instead of the mood off when I leave when they have alcohol, they can enjoy alcohol, even have someone encourage that behavior.\nYou want your friends to encourage you to get to where you want to go - essentially, live in the future, not retell the same old stories of when you fucked up. New ones where you\u0026rsquo;re more of what you want to be.\n\u0026ldquo;I am no longer this way\u0026rdquo;. \u0026ldquo;I am no longer the quiet awkward kid\u0026rdquo;. \u0026ldquo;I am no longer your little brother. I am a viable sexual candidate. I will lay claim to those lips\u0026rdquo;\nDon\u0026rsquo;t give more than you\u0026rsquo;re willing to give. This ties in Jordan Peterson\u0026rsquo;s concept of don\u0026rsquo;t tolerate the intolerable.\nBe selfish, be bad.\nIf you want to fizzle a relationship, slowly reduce conversation and it will fizzle out over time. Be kind by telling the truth. Tell her the things you say behind her back or want to say behind her back. \u0026ldquo;You\u0026rsquo;re drinking/partying/chilling way too much. I don\u0026rsquo;t know if I want to associate with that right now.\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;Hey, you work a lot.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;You don\u0026rsquo;t\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;You don\u0026rsquo;t drink/vape/smoke\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;You do\u0026rdquo;\nto make friends, join communities - MTB worked well. Now try hamza\u0026rsquo;s cult and SI India discord for meetups\n\u0026ldquo;volume is the answer and time is the ingredient\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;to live a rare life I have to be surrounded by rare people\u0026rdquo;\nHow much of my mission will I sacrifice to maintain my relationship with X?\nwatch: why I don\u0026rsquo;t go home for the holidays\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/alex-why-old-friends-keep-you-poor-notes/","summary":"Video here\nShed them.The problem - they keep retelling the old narrative. Probably why I don\u0026rsquo;t have desire to meet Boisar anymore. Arya and Vihaan do a great job of keeping up to date with my growth and not retelling the old untruths.\nIf you are not willing to sacrifice to keep the relationship, how much do you love them?\nYour behavior is punished or re-inforced. that is it - keep this is mind with parenting.","title":"Alex Hormozi's Why Old Friends Keep You Poor Notes"},{"content":"Video here\nImagine you\u0026rsquo;re in bed with multiple girls before responding to a girl if she is being weirdly disrespectful - when replying to Roof\u0026rsquo;s text.\nMystery - do you want this? - he says I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t do exactly what I\u0026rsquo;m striving for. Try this - ties in with the previous point\n\u0026ldquo;What have you done today\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Lots.\u0026rdquo;\nwhen she is obsessed with you, she is thinking a lot about you.\nMake her feel all the emotions possible - low to high - this ties in to Jordan Peterson\u0026rsquo;s be a monster - and a certain number of negative emotions to positive emotions - not bliss, but someone to contend with. Not in a manipulative way - make her feel like shit, but in candor - the truth without sugar coating it - lay it bare even if it is hurful.\ncry, scared, excited, happy, disgust, angry\nDon\u0026rsquo;t stay in the middle. Don\u0026rsquo;t stay safe - don\u0026rsquo;t be boring. Take her through all of it - Roof and how enzo has \u0026ldquo;stefan\u0026rsquo;s goodness and damon\u0026rsquo;s recklessness too\u0026rdquo; - full spectrum of emotions.\nScare her. It is okay. Feel free to hurt her, to dissapoint her. practice it, go through the bell curve.\nSpike her emotions. She wants to feel - it is her feminine energy inside of her\nBe masculine - and make her be femenine. BE masculine.\nBe disciplined - don\u0026rsquo;t be swayed by your emotions. For me, showcase your masculine. I am very femenine when I am with my tribe.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t spend all the time with her - play and sex. One hour of presence is better than tolerating 3 - and resenting her later for it.\nWork for 2-3 hours. Then go kiss her, make out, play fight with her - the top-up of masculine energy she needs.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/hamza-make-women-obsessed-notes/","summary":"Video here\nImagine you\u0026rsquo;re in bed with multiple girls before responding to a girl if she is being weirdly disrespectful - when replying to Roof\u0026rsquo;s text.\nMystery - do you want this? - he says I shouldn\u0026rsquo;t do exactly what I\u0026rsquo;m striving for. Try this - ties in with the previous point\n\u0026ldquo;What have you done today\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Lots.\u0026rdquo;\nwhen she is obsessed with you, she is thinking a lot about you.","title":"Hamza's Make Women Obsessed With You Notes"},{"content":"Podcast here\n100K - just sell something to someone 1M - 100K but consistent - over time 1 - 3M - increase output of that main thing (more videos) and build the core team\nproduct market fit means someone wants your product - your are satisfying a need\nbusiness is when you are employing other people\npersonal interest mein find specific knowledge - MTB, linux, SI, productivity, studying, Islam?\nstart, business can be changed later\nservice businesses less risky\nto start, do what others are doing - fix their holes - do it better - start a business for education instead of income\nsolve a specific problem and money will flow\nif you are good at something and people ask you about it - for me video, writing, tech, mtb/fitness, it is an indication of things you can charge for later\nmake service free for first 10 clients or for charity to collect testimonials. transition from free service to paid service. If they don\u0026rsquo;t want to pay you: you suck or they suck or ask them for referrals\ngain employment to learn - offer to work for free and pay down ignorance debt as fast as possible\n\u0026lsquo;it is costing me a billion dollars a year not knowing how to make a billion dollars a year\u0026rsquo;\nfuck the S\u0026amp;P 500. invest in SME 500. e for education\nthe rick and wealthy can earn - they don\u0026rsquo;t save their way to riches (MJ Demarco echoes)\nFUCK FUCK FUCK\n$200K student loan - but $4000/month rental property- that is it game over. A guy he knows did this\nis there a better return on education elsewhere? do that. book and mastermind - on selling, ads, making courses, etc.\nwhen investing - take the 4% inflation into account. Inflation adjusted returns are not very fun\nidea: 2 day certification - $500 - draw blood person - lobotomist - earning capacity - $7 (minimum wage) to $25 an hour. work 8 weeks - get cert - 3x income borrow money from parents - pay next week with earning - 7 weeks saved OR invest $500 in the S\u0026amp;P 500 - $2.5/year\nINSANE - income explosion is first priority. You have an income problem\nrisk mitigation for business - strip at night and drive ubers - $150k a year If you learn to sell - sell cars, make $400K a year\nback to the girl - lobotomist - 50k a year - live with parents - 30 k a year - any sub 10M/year skill can be learned for under $30,000\n4AM to PM apprentice, then train - have this work ethic\ngo to a small business to learn the whole thing, in big corporate firsm you are a small cog and won\u0026rsquo;t learn overall business\nlong pre-sale to collect cash when you\u0026rsquo;re launching a product\nchallenge - $300 charge - if you don\u0026rsquo;t lose 20 punds in 6 weeks - your money back - you can do this for speed as MTB coach. then once they hit it - you have this good habit, why stop when you have momentum - I\u0026rsquo;ll deduct 300 off your yearly membership. Boom. Sale. How do I translate this to MTB?\nhook them with specific outcome in specific timeline - charge 3-4x more on a onetime expense than a recurring basis that allows you to pay fixed costs easily.\nyou can learn everything on youtube, what you pay for in a course is speed/time saving. \u0026ldquo;It\u0026rsquo;s america, everyone sells their time. Just tell me what the price is\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t want to learn ads, I want to learn how he would think through running my ads\u0026rdquo;. this also increases baseline\nmaeke gym ads - 20K a mont make gym ads and get customers - 100K a month\nskills multiply\n\u0026ldquo;I would die before I let my father have a I told you so moment\u0026rdquo;\nWhen you hate your job - I will die to him (boss) or die to myself\nHe moved halfway across the country to tell his father, and I am moving halfway across the world to pursue my shit. Fucking hell. Makes me smile.\nIf you\u0026rsquo;re so good at gyms you should be selling how to fill up gyms, not filling them up - Hamza can do this, Ali Abdaal and Captain Sinbad are already doing this.\nOne consistent theme is that he goes to masterminds and workshops to learn\nturn key - he would get gyms customers, collect all the money from his program. give them the recurring revenue\nwealth ladder: don\u0026rsquo;t have to worry about basic needs don\u0026rsquo;t have to worry about discretionary spending luxury wealth - 100K a month\nalex spends a lot of money on information\nbehenchod - $350K an hour to learn from an expert\nhe live on 10% of what he makes max, prolly 5%\nvalue time - you spent more money sitting here than what the dinner cost - stop splitting money during dinners\ngoal: \u0026ldquo;while we have waited in line, I have made more money than what this lunch costs, let me cover lunch, I don\u0026rsquo;t care\u0026rdquo;\nhe carries a lot of cash so he can go on offence whenever he wants to - does not care about money losing value - I already make a ton of money, what will I get the return for?\nif he didn\u0026rsquo;t have leila, he would invest in dividend ETFs - appreciate and dividend, make it a game to make the dividend cheques as high as possible. This is my goal. A power couple. A woman made from steel. Partners.\nmedia ROI - cost a dollar a year per subscriber and he makes more in just adsense - so ROI is insane\ndude, this guy is mega capitalist - buy an accounting firm to provide accounting to his entire portfolio of companies at cost.\nhis goal is to get to 10 billion. I need to watch more of this guy. mission is to make real business knowledge available for everyone\nwhy do that? \u0026ldquo;it set me free.\u0026rdquo; I want to become like this guy, massive buff, beard, money, and a boss ass partner - his demeanor is attractive as well\nno kids rn but he has the options to have kids and that is what matters. Michael Jordan deal - business is what makes him wake up in the morning. Fuck me as well. I wake up at 6, despite wanting to sleep, MTB wins. MTB WINS BRO . Let me repeat that, MTB WINS AGAINST SLEEP do you realize how significant that is. He wants to bring his all for every program because it is the only program someone attends and is hoping to change their life and he wants to honor that.\n5am to 1pm is alex time to do Alex work - read: Deep Work 1 to 4:30 PM is meetings time go to the gym, eat then day is over\nThis fucking asshole does deep work for 8 hours\n\u0026ldquo;just start and the path illuminates as you walk\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;you can cover a hell of a lot in 60 seconds if you know what you\u0026rsquo;re saying\u0026rdquo;\nplaybook: hire the best vendor - pay whatever hire an inhouse person to interface between you and them double the volume when inhouse vendor starts doing more than outside, fire them\ngaryvee model - all platforms, as big as possible, as much content as possible\nphases of plan: start YT get on all platforms - he is here now maximize all platforms bring all of it in house run paid ads affiliates/addons more showishcontent\nBig dick statement/world view - \u0026ldquo;I believe, because our belief shapes our world, you can make content for the beginner as well as the advanced\u0026rdquo; ex. make sales persuasion now eveyone will watch\nhe chooses beliefs - he chooses to believe he can go deep and wide, and then works to make his belief accurate. Think: Does that belief serve you?\u0026quot;\nAli: \u0026ldquo;if you could start the content thing again, what would you do different\u0026mdash;-\u0026rdquo; Alex: \u0026ldquo;would\u0026rsquo;ve started 5 years ago.\u0026rdquo; fuck instant answer. I need to start asap. Schedule videos kal.\nhas had 6 pack abs since the age of 16\nlack of knowledge or motivation for 6 pack abs? motivation\nthen he justs lets it go. fuck, he just lets it go - that\u0026rsquo;s okay - \u0026ldquo;if you don\u0026rsquo;t want it enough, it doesn\u0026rsquo;t matter, then it\u0026rsquo;s just accepting you don\u0026rsquo;t want to pay the price and therefore won\u0026rsquo;t get it. \u0026ldquo;fuck. what a big dick energy dude - ultimate outcome independence\nthe issue is not a knowledge gap, it is an accountability gap, with gyms and personal coaching\n\u0026ldquo;hack short term pain for long term gain, and you hack success\u0026rdquo;\ndo you even want a six pack - it is unpacking your reasons and stories justifying that reasons, that is it\nhe will live a shorter life because of how much muscle mass he carries. long live - eat less and walk\n\u0026ldquo;figure out what you want, find out what the price is, and pay that price\u0026rdquo;\nto get a six pack, or any such pursuit - it costs one dollar out of 16 waking dollars - is it worth it? It is a big price. Depends on what you are solving for.\nWhat are you solving for Ilyaas? Right now, getting to NZ and padhai. Post 6 march, YT and MTB. Meanwhile, I am also solving for a better man, partner social skills and personality wise. I am solving for being the man Roof deserves/pines for.\npassive income body - your body has spent a lot of resources creating the muscle, so it wants so to keep it. Just give it stimulation on a weekly basis, eat enough calories and protein.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/alex-and-ali-podcast-notes/","summary":"Podcast here\n100K - just sell something to someone 1M - 100K but consistent - over time 1 - 3M - increase output of that main thing (more videos) and build the core team\nproduct market fit means someone wants your product - your are satisfying a need\nbusiness is when you are employing other people\npersonal interest mein find specific knowledge - MTB, linux, SI, productivity, studying, Islam?\nstart, business can be changed later","title":"Alex Hormozi and Ali Abdaal Podcast Notes"},{"content":"My brother\u0026rsquo;s screen time amounts to 8h a day on average, that is a full time job. He scored 92% in IGCSE. I have another friend who spends 3.5h a day on instagram. One more school friend had his screen time in the 12-13h range during the Diwali vacation. This friend is on self-improvement and lapsed in the vacation. Point being, our smartphones are blackholes in terms of time.\nMy screen time hovers around 90 mins to 2 hours when excluding video calls which are intentional, and to me productive social interaction. This is still insane to me. 2 hours. That is almost 10% of my day. I have noticed the top 3 apps used are Newpipe, Vanadium (my web browser) and Whatsapp. I\u0026rsquo;ve deleted all social media and the normal youtube app already. I haven\u0026rsquo;t played mobile video games in over a year. So the application selection I\u0026rsquo;ve already sorted.\nI intend to get around this problem by having a specific time I check messages every day - Dinner time. While I eat. Apart from this, video calls will either be scheduled or around meal times.\nIn addition, I have an old phone - the OG galaxy note GT-N7000. I have put alarms on it to remind myself of my schedule and stick to routine. And switch off my phone. If that does not work for whatever reason, I will put in on airplane mode. If that fails in terms of missing something important or other such time sensitive things, which have happened to me in the past, I will let it be - disconnect is from WiFi and let it sit in my bedroom as opposed to my workspace.\nThis is the solution I\u0026rsquo;ve come up with.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/reducing-screentime/","summary":"My brother\u0026rsquo;s screen time amounts to 8h a day on average, that is a full time job. He scored 92% in IGCSE. I have another friend who spends 3.5h a day on instagram. One more school friend had his screen time in the 12-13h range during the Diwali vacation. This friend is on self-improvement and lapsed in the vacation. Point being, our smartphones are blackholes in terms of time.\nMy screen time hovers around 90 mins to 2 hours when excluding video calls which are intentional, and to me productive social interaction.","title":"Reducing Screentime"},{"content":"To: The Prince of Salunkhe Travel Services\nThis is in honor of Siddha. The only Mainland Mumbai bro who I ride with. The only mountain biker I know who comes close to being emotionally vulnerable with me. I value how you\u0026rsquo;re the only MTBer I can convey gratitude to and receive it back, who does not get uncomfortable as soon as I convey emotions, who can handle my very emotional out there self. I value how you read consistently, and return my books in good condition. How you read mostly smut and I shit on you for it. I love how uncomfortable my sexuality makes you feel, and how you handle my flirts. It is a pleasure to flirt with you. Your discomfort is so absolutely entertaining. Here is to hoping both of us ride the Mumbai trail daily. It amazes me how fast you\u0026rsquo;ve gotten in what must be less than 6 months of riding. I hope you get into IIT and win nationals soon. I hope you figure out a way to visit Pashan as often as you want to. That was a dream of mine, and I would be so happy if you got to live that lifestyle.\nYour next birthday will be celebrated without me. I look forward to the speed that one more year of riding would bring.\nHappy birthday, brother.\nBohot Pyaar, Ilyaas\n1st Nov 2022:\nMet Siddha at 7. and eyed his new car,. The only difference I saw was black seats, but that only goes to show my ignorance when it comes to cars.\nWe climbed up the trail only for Siddha to tell me that it was his birthday, and he came on a weekday, which is a change in routine for him, for a birthday ride. Makes sense.\nWe ride the Flow Trail and Temple Trail after a long time, stopping consistently mid-trail to clear rocks. Once, I stopped to remove a rock, and black ants laid claim to my legs. That was scary, and getting them off was time-consuming.\nThey\u0026rsquo;ve put a bunch of branches at the start of the ending, a stretch where, when pumped properly will result in speeds of 60kmph, and temporary, but extreme euphoria. Siddha was hesitant to ride this segment due to the sheer number of obstacles they put up to prevent from entering. I convinced him otherwise and it paid off. I swear, by 2025 this trail will have vanished if we extend the current rate of construction. However, I doubt that would happen. That way of thinking is a fallacy. Unfortunately, the Uttan trail is basically not a trail anymore, the owners decided to turn it into a kaccha road.\nI climbed much faster than Siddha, and shit my pants in the middle when I thought I saw police on the trail. Upon pumping our tires for the temple trail we realized I run my tires at 10 psi. I like it that way. Magic Mary is too strong for more air. Regardless, I pumped it up to 20 psi, and off we went. Did I say we? I meant Siddha. I think it was my extra stiff suspension and air in my tires slowing me down but fuck, this asshole was wildin'. I had to get off-line to let him pass and pass he did. Fast as fuck. The last time he rode this trail, he had to walk most of it. I will adjust my suspension and be back for it bitch.\nI started the day only for Siddha to tell me that it was his birthday. I checked my phone in the evening only for Siddha to tell me that it had been the best birthday of his life.\nI fucked up the rest of the day. I procrastinated on schoolwork, which I had not touched for a week at that point, for like 3 hours, and then I did it. Major L. I learn from it though. Aaj, I attacked schoolwork. Half of it I\u0026rsquo;ve done. It is 12:30 and I\u0026rsquo;ve finished 75% percent of the work to be done today, after riding DH in the morning. Love the new routine. Love how Deep Work frees up so much of my time so I can do things I like, riding in the mornings and writing this for example. This routine is resulting in a re-calibration of my expectations of what can be achieved in a day and I am all for it.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t want school to re-open, not because I\u0026rsquo;ll have to do work, but because getting ready for school and commuting is such a waste of time. Fortunately, the 12th syllabus will be completed in 2 weeks max, and then I can just not go except to ask for doubts. I have a nice setup at home as well, where I can study peacefully and mostly not be disturbed.\nInstagram Post here\nflying kisses\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/siddhas-birthday/","summary":"To: The Prince of Salunkhe Travel Services\nThis is in honor of Siddha. The only Mainland Mumbai bro who I ride with. The only mountain biker I know who comes close to being emotionally vulnerable with me. I value how you\u0026rsquo;re the only MTBer I can convey gratitude to and receive it back, who does not get uncomfortable as soon as I convey emotions, who can handle my very emotional out there self.","title":"Siddha's Happy Birthday Ride"},{"content":"30th October 2022:\nI Met Savio at Ambernath station only for him to tell me he was hungry, then Hitesh joined as well. Street Mendu wada was destroyed. RIP Mendyu Wada and both Savio\u0026rsquo;s and Hitesh\u0026rsquo;s digestive systems.\nWe reached the trail to find out that the jump was broken:\nThis was not a satisfaction of curiosity. It was an intentional destruction of the jump. On Thursday, Sri sent us a picture with only one goni removed from the structure. That was curiosity or at least passed as a curiosity. Upon seeing that I calmly and rationally, gave up on this location for MTB as the gradient is not steep enough to be a natural trail. We took out stuff and left. We went to Hitesh\u0026rsquo;s place. Not having his parent\u0026rsquo;s home is rare and we leveraged that. The last time we spent time at McD was not worth the time, so I decided to experiment today. It was conscious. Once in a long while kinda thing.\nWe discussed various economic systems, and how Hitesh will go on about NZ and Canada\u0026rsquo;s economy but he wants to go to a country that can\u0026rsquo;t seem to keep a president and suffers from high inflation. We also discussed SB dunks Why so sad and the sneaker flipping business, which Hitesh and I are now partnering in. Hopefully, Hitesh\u0026rsquo;s card works this time, and hopefully, we don\u0026rsquo;t lose money.\nWe reached his house to know despite how much ever he shits on me for being privileged yet acting broke (I am), the asshole lives in a big house. His MTB has a whole room to itself. Match that. There we discussed KC\u0026rsquo;s competence (or lack thereof), and how the Kalyan DH MTB community is fragmented now, this year\u0026rsquo;s Rayate Race. We also find out that both Savio and I type at around 40wpm - the average, but Hitesh types at roughly 80 wpm, putting him in the top 5 percentile globally. He was glad to finally find something he\u0026rsquo;s better than me at - his words, not mine. I think Hitesh was disappointed I don\u0026rsquo;t take dates to Carter Road for a long romantic walk. But its safe to say he realizes reading poems to each other is more romantic,\nBoth Hitesh and I praised kindles and how shitty smartphones are for reading. Gave my kindle to Savio then, and throughout the train back home. Safe to say, he is a convert as well. Hitesh demands one more emotional paragraph. I will give you one line.\nThey asked me if I loved her to death. I said, \u0026ldquo;Speak of her over my grave and watch me come back to life.\u0026rdquo;\nThat\u0026rsquo;s all you get brother ;)\nWe left his place at 3. And had to get off the train back home and go back to Ulhasnagar station to get my laptop and cable that I then forgot at Hitesh\u0026rsquo;s. I amended some blog articles and spruced up the theme (link in bio). Tool the metro from Ghatkopar to Andheri. This must have saved me 15 mins due to the long lines for the ticket. Next time I will stick to using the train due to the greater amount of downtime in which I can work or read, despite the longer total time traveling. Also, the metro train has Bisleri and LIC, and vivo in front of the station names. That was surprising. Capitalism 100. Savio also told me people have missed their stops for all the corporate pre-fixes thinking their destination is different. That was interesting.\nOverall, going to Hitesh\u0026rsquo;s place was not an experience or decision I regret, I would however know that ultimately, I value getting the extra sleep I get when I come home at 4 instead of 7, more than non-on-trail-socializing. As the Ambernath trail is basically no more for me, we\u0026rsquo;ve decided on riding at our old spot in Mainland Mumbai. It is close to me so that is great. We will also alternate to Kharghar, Panvel (@ and @ let us know), and monthly Pashan trips. Or at least, that is the plan. We go to Pashan on 13th Nov for a day trip. Anyone who wants to join, let us know.\nflying kisses\nPS Instagram Post here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/30-oct-2022/","summary":"30th October 2022:\nI Met Savio at Ambernath station only for him to tell me he was hungry, then Hitesh joined as well. Street Mendu wada was destroyed. RIP Mendyu Wada and both Savio\u0026rsquo;s and Hitesh\u0026rsquo;s digestive systems.\nWe reached the trail to find out that the jump was broken:\nThis was not a satisfaction of curiosity. It was an intentional destruction of the jump. On Thursday, Sri sent us a picture with only one goni removed from the structure.","title":"The End of Ambernath"},{"content":"23rd October 2022:\nVideo called Nida on my way to Dadar station - roughly 6am to 7am. I met Siddha there. I read Efficiency by Wallstreet Playboys on our way to Ambernath Station. Savio , Siddha , and I took a rickshaw to Sri \u0026rsquo;s shared location. This was for Prajwal , at the trailhead. After lots of confusion, we navigated our way to the place we borrow our tools from ever since they got stolen. This made for exhausting, but in hindsight, entertaining calls to Prajwal and his father. We initially asked him to come to the village, and just as he was about to leave the trailhead, a wild Sri appeared and said his location is correct - That location being given to him was intentional.\nAfter all of us gathered on the trail, we found the jump broken. Not completely, but undid quite some work and LOTS of compacting. It seemed like authorities were curious as to the contents of this mound of soil and the sacks inside. We came to this conclusion also because they hadn\u0026rsquo;t destroyed the berms. Once they figured it was just that - a mound of soil. This was extremely demoralizing. Savio decided to rebuild it and hope for the best, hoping that their curiosity has been satisfied.\nSavio refilled 2 sacks, then it was mud on top of the sacks. As usual, I dug and Savio \u0026ldquo;engineered\u0026rdquo; the jump - he decided the shape of the lip and landing and laid soil accordingly. Siddha, Sri, and Prajwal were dialing the S berm transition. In the process of digging, my mattock cracked. Because we were using borrowed tools, and I have a technique that uses few but powerful reps of digging that many deem inefficient, I stopped using it. We moved on to this tool, I don\u0026rsquo;t know what to call it. I hated it. I legit sat down on the soil and dug like that because standing and digging was\u0026hellip; useless? My work rate reduced dramatically but so did the need for soil and I was comfortable sitting and digging.\nBy the time we were done, so was the transition. I did not try that out. But both Siddha and Prajwal thought it was sorted. The jump resembled our very first jump in Manori. The lip is not curved and does not throw you up. It forces you to learn to bunnyhop or learn the correct jumping technique. I don\u0026rsquo;t particularly enjoy it, but it will teach the tribe to jump, and we can move to bigger and better things soon. Delayed Gratification. Speaking of, bigger things. Next week, step down. This one will mostly be focused on height. I don\u0026rsquo;t know actually, haven\u0026rsquo;t built a step down before. advise in the comments. We are using an existing rock and downslope, smart work bete.\nTo note, Savio does not like songs playing when building. Cue Savio comparing the building process to meditation. He actually hasn\u0026rsquo;t said that, but I imagine he may. We walked to give the tools back. We mentioned to the owner that a mattock has a crack. He seemed to not be bothered by it because he mostly does not have a lot of digging to do so asked us to bring a new rod if we\u0026rsquo;ll need it next week or not worry about it. Then Hitesh called - he had a late work night and couldn\u0026rsquo;t join us in the morning. Kashish was busy with ghar ka Diwali preparation.\nHe asked if we wanted to go to McDonalds. We thought the building would take the whole day and were surprised to have finished it early and so obliged. This was a mistake, on my part. The McD trip did not have a significant value add. It was not worth the hour or 90 mins we spent there. No significant entertainment bonding or memories. Should\u0026rsquo;ve been to the station directly. Also, neither Savio nor Siddha knows how much honey to put on pancakes. Siddha got them. Bhai, ready-made mix? Come on. I did give Hitesh \u0026lsquo;The Choice\u0026rsquo; which is a Holocaust survivor\u0026rsquo;s autobiography.\nOn our way back, they chose to go to the second class coach and me to the first class. As soon as it started moving, I remembered the asshole at Dadar station. He has caught me twice for not having a ticket. I got off at the next station and asked Siddha to \u0026ldquo;come out\u0026rdquo;. That was the wrong verbiage, I should have asked him to lean out so I can join them. Both of them thought I was caught and just got off the train. Cue 30 mins of waiting for the next one because there was too much gardi on the train that came next.\nSiddha and I took a slow train from Andheri because a certain special snowflake needed to be dropped. I don\u0026rsquo;t blame though, this was his first time using the train independently. I understand his predicament. Savio helped me when I was ignorant. He is a big reason I am competent enough to cheat the railway system, and for that, for him, I am grateful.\nRaat ko, my father smoked in the main bedroom, which did not clear despite waiting for 30 mins. When the other room\u0026rsquo;s AC did not work, I felt extremely frustrated. I was also feeling sad because it was finally hitting me that I won\u0026rsquo;t see people I value for a long time when I leave for further study, among other more intimate things. This was at 8:30pm.\nSo I took ghar ka chaavi from Mother and went to Arya \u0026rsquo;s. He welcomed me. The asshole knew something was up as soon I asked him if I can sleep at his. We spoke and cried. I journaled a lot and cried a lot. Enough to make Arya cry, which I consider an achievement. My journalling then and today (I write this on Monday, the day after) has been weirdly productive in changing my perspective from sadness-inducing to forward-looking optimism. Arya is precious. Best bhai. Bohot pyaar \u0026lt;3. I must have slept at 10. I woke up at 8/8:30 am aaj. Kya sexy neend. The fact that I can actually have good sleep at his house shows just how much of a second house Arya\u0026rsquo;s place is for me. Bhai khaali application ka kaam karle bas.\nVihaan, you have competition. Actually no, he surpassed you in the second house thing a long time ago. I am grateful to both of you.\nflying kisses\nInstagram Post Here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/23-oct-2022/","summary":"23rd October 2022:\nVideo called Nida on my way to Dadar station - roughly 6am to 7am. I met Siddha there. I read Efficiency by Wallstreet Playboys on our way to Ambernath Station. Savio , Siddha , and I took a rickshaw to Sri \u0026rsquo;s shared location. This was for Prajwal , at the trailhead. After lots of confusion, we navigated our way to the place we borrow our tools from ever since they got stolen.","title":"They Broke Our Jump"},{"content":"Video here\n be normal - no peacocking, not flamboyant. Normal clothes Well built Masculine - lead Hold a conversation Earn well Don\u0026rsquo;t be a wierdo - social calibration Normal but suitable haircut Level headed Down-to-earth, not the cocky idiot All of this only if you\u0026rsquo;re above 18.  Male version of normal attractive girl next door. Not Kim Kardashian.\nNo gimmicks.\nNormal is safe and therefore will attract most women.\nWould you want to date a girl with blue hair, piercings all over, plastic features, and tattoos all over or naturally beautiful - beautiful when she wants to typa gal?\nScale it back. Look classier, simpler, less is more - Don\u0026rsquo;t be a rich creep.\nColours:\n forest green navy blue black white  not chaos, order, stability. Tick the boxes.\nshe should be able to take you to her parents and not be embarassed\nNo \u0026ldquo;fam\u0026rdquo; or \u0026ldquo;my g\u0026rdquo; all the time.\nTry this - lose the fedora - nice short hair\nExperiment: t-shirt - that fits and jeans vs formals.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/attractive-to-most-women-notes/","summary":"Video here\n be normal - no peacocking, not flamboyant. Normal clothes Well built Masculine - lead Hold a conversation Earn well Don\u0026rsquo;t be a wierdo - social calibration Normal but suitable haircut Level headed Down-to-earth, not the cocky idiot All of this only if you\u0026rsquo;re above 18.  Male version of normal attractive girl next door. Not Kim Kardashian.\nNo gimmicks.\nNormal is safe and therefore will attract most women.","title":"1STMAN's How To Be Attractive to Most Women Video Notes"},{"content":"Video here\nAchieve exploding income:\nControl - not YT. Need total control. - Odysee/streaming platform Entry - great barriers to entry - mid level for YT great for pro MTB Is there a need for this?- for SI, yes. For MTB DOc, over time, as I get better people want to know how, Product should be great. Scale - you should be able to have 200K customers, for example\nmoney should be decoupled from time\nKinetic action - The grind Action\u0026gt;answers - just work, get your product out. Short feedback loop - the lean startup\nAct - grab your phone and record 50 videos Access - see if demand exists - for YT, views Adjust - make more videos on what gets hits\nRemember, this is to optimize money, not morality\nNo balance - obsession. Extreme. 3 years, one thing, it will be achieved. - for me, YT and MTB. Balance is a lie.\nBe immune to comparisons - eliminate them. Compete with people running the same race. Dopamine detox. Practice, like a meditation practice. Purposed saving - emergency fund, save for tax Limit lifestyle inflation - conscious 20 percent mine 80 percent reinvest Consequential thought - risk management - second order consequences by sam ovens\nWhat would you do if you won billions of dollars?   Retire Family\n  Retire SO\n  Sick tech setup\n  Buy luxuries - things that would enhance my life not detract from it\n  outsource all things - food, clean, all maintenance etc\n  outsource all things I don\u0026rsquo;t like\n  Ride a lot of MTB\n  Blog and YT - documenting MTB and SI\n  Spend a lot of time reading and sleeping.\n  a lot of Linux\n  I would race professionally, since money is no object I can hire editors, video person, mechanic, etc.\n  I may start experimenting - how a bodybuilder type frame impacts MTB - use occam\u0026rsquo;s protocol\n  Travel? probably not - a lot of MTB travel most likely\n  Squeeze out of myself - coach, psychologist, sleep coach, etc.\n  Sleep at 7 and wake up at 5 - or something like that\n  not go to school\n  climb mount Everest\n  learn salsa insane and guitar instrument insane - but this would be post MTB.\n  Things I imagine would be fun to do but not important\n  Minimize efficiency with SO - insane dates\n  Fatherhood would be massive when I have kids - full time job to raise Adonis.\n  Subject to change over time\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/hamzas-unscripted-video-notes/","summary":"Video here\nAchieve exploding income:\nControl - not YT. Need total control. - Odysee/streaming platform Entry - great barriers to entry - mid level for YT great for pro MTB Is there a need for this?- for SI, yes. For MTB DOc, over time, as I get better people want to know how, Product should be great. Scale - you should be able to have 200K customers, for example\nmoney should be decoupled from time","title":"Hamza's Unscripted Video Notes"},{"content":"Video here\nWhat stage of the Maslow\u0026rsquo;s hierarchy of needs do I need to fulfill? Love/Sex/Romance, I believe.\nWho is in my tribe? Immediate tribe - Mother, siblings, Arya, Vihaan, ROok/SO. Inner - JBCN brotherhood, MTB bros Outer - SI people, other MTBers - global youtube audience\nWhat is some work I can do that will help my tribe? Share what I\u0026rsquo;ve learnt: Youtube and blog. Document my journey to greatness - help future generations learn.\nWhat do I want my life to be like in 10 years time? I want to have a trad wife, who I am building an empire with.\nI am at the top of Downhill MTB. SO travels with me to the races. I have a chef, a mas sues, physiotherapist, a cook, a gym, a personal trainer, a therapist that travel with me.\nI have retired my SO. I have retired my family. SO works on her projects out of pure interest. The only man she submits to is me. The main thing she works in is our business. My manager, in a way, almost.\nI am the GOAT. I have well surpassed the 32 or so wins required. I have leveraged my position as the GOAT and the income have my own media agency/content machine. I earn double of my MTB stuff from that. MTB brings $2m a year. Media brings $2m a year in profit.\nI have published a book on how to go pro - how to become a professional mountain biker.\nI create content related to Self improvement, efficiency, MTB and athleticism on YouTube.\nMultiple citizenships, due to marriage.\nI am 80kg lean - 10% BF. I lift 2x body-weight squats, dead-lifts. My bench is 1.5x and shoulder press is 1x.\nArya and I meet for a week and make an edit every year, in the off season. Whenever he is free - he makes too many Hollywood films.\nI have 1m youtube subs. My blog get 100K weekly views.\nMy book has sold a million copies.\nI wake up early and train 3x a day. I do deep work in the middle. 2h session 3x a day. SO and I go on weekly dates on my rest days (in the morning of course).\nI have a sleep coach.\nWhat is another sacrifice I can make to make more progress towards my goals?\nWake up early and sleep early - switch off my phone by 6:30 pm and sleep by 8. This will increase my deep work hours, while keeping my sleep in check AND daily MTB rides. A keystone habit.\nsubject to change over time\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/hamzas-masculinity-journal-prompts/","summary":"Video here\nWhat stage of the Maslow\u0026rsquo;s hierarchy of needs do I need to fulfill? Love/Sex/Romance, I believe.\nWho is in my tribe? Immediate tribe - Mother, siblings, Arya, Vihaan, ROok/SO. Inner - JBCN brotherhood, MTB bros Outer - SI people, other MTBers - global youtube audience\nWhat is some work I can do that will help my tribe? Share what I\u0026rsquo;ve learnt: Youtube and blog. Document my journey to greatness - help future generations learn.","title":"Hamza's Masculinity Journal Prompts"},{"content":"This blog for some time was something available on the internet for people to find, but I did not advertise it.\nThis is because of my fear of judgement and rejection. But that I overcame, with little mental pushing.\nMy main fear has been the consequences of it. Of talking about the people I interact with daily and how they may have problems with what I write about them, of my family reading this and the massive negative consequences when my father and grandparents find out how I have female friends, how I don\u0026rsquo;t believe in Islam, among other things. My mom is not an issue thought, she allows me the space to be myself.\nMy friend, one I have mentioned in some of my book notes got sad regarding the context in which I wrote about her. That was the anchor to me fear. We have since sorted it out because the equation we share is fucking magical. And I have since realized that I can change names to maintain privacy. I have blocked all family members on Instagram - the only place I promoted this blog on.\nI have not yet promoted this blog on youtube or released the now 14 Hamza Unfiltered type videos I have in my phone because of backlash from my parents. I will post these as soon as I am in NZ. Then, impact radius will have been minimized.\nI have also realized that I hesitate to write as authentically as I did because I imagine an audience, not future me reading this. That is something I have decided to take on as a challenge, as a mental exercise. Imagining my younger/future self on the other side will help me with Youtube as well.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/why-no-advertise-blog/","summary":"This blog for some time was something available on the internet for people to find, but I did not advertise it.\nThis is because of my fear of judgement and rejection. But that I overcame, with little mental pushing.\nMy main fear has been the consequences of it. Of talking about the people I interact with daily and how they may have problems with what I write about them, of my family reading this and the massive negative consequences when my father and grandparents find out how I have female friends, how I don\u0026rsquo;t believe in Islam, among other things.","title":"Why I Found Promoting This Blog Difficult"},{"content":"I have been recently trying to value my time more, in terms of spending money to save time. However, I have little income right now. The actual value of my hour must be somewhere around Rs 200 an hour if we went according to my Jersey Business, however, it is a niche product, and demand is not enough to justify traveling expenses despite then saving time.\nS right now, I am focusing on optimizing for minimal time wasted. On bullshit. Social media, YouTube, bullshit tasks, etc. Commuting. Commuting has been a big one. I don\u0026rsquo;t go to school right now because of the Diwali break and it saves so much time. When I do have to go to school, I ride so that comes in as training time. Additionally, I use it as diffused thinking time, so half of the time, I am holding my phone to my mouth to voice record my ideas, and I am riding hands-free. I love that I have that habit now and that I am over time, turning into a creator rather than a consumer. So many ideas and voice notes.\nOne more predicament is WhatsApp. There is just so much bullshit on WhatsApp, from school groups to MTB groups to friend groups. Most of the texts are noise, but I will stay for the important ones, mainly because they will be useful - school stuff is useful communication - updates. I will have to sell my MTB when I leave, so I will need the groups then. Friend groups are used to plan meetups.\nMy solution to this is once I have exhausted their usefulness, which will be once I sell my MTB - that is the last useful thing on WhatsApp, I will delete it and switch to Signal. People who matter - the ones I want to text regularly, will switch to Signal. In fact, only one person is remaining to switch to Signal. I will ask them to once I delete Whatsapp. Having them switch to Signal will be no issue. Apart from that friend I don\u0026rsquo;t mind not being able to contact others. They will switch to Signal if I matter.\nI may have to get back on WhatsApp there to connect with people. I will try Signal only. In case I have to be back, no BS WhatsApp groups anymore. Only Signal. I don\u0026rsquo;t mind Discord - it is great for video calling, something I plan to do a lot of.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/valuing-my-time/","summary":"I have been recently trying to value my time more, in terms of spending money to save time. However, I have little income right now. The actual value of my hour must be somewhere around Rs 200 an hour if we went according to my Jersey Business, however, it is a niche product, and demand is not enough to justify traveling expenses despite then saving time.\nS right now, I am focusing on optimizing for minimal time wasted.","title":"Valuing My Time"},{"content":"Welcome back to ilyaas at the shitter.\nSo I want to date this girl. I\u0026rsquo;ve liked her on and off for a long time now.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t like her right now, but mainly because I don\u0026rsquo;t allow myself to. I can easily. Either, I\u0026rsquo;ve gotten to the point where I\u0026rsquo;m used to the feeling, or it has faded.\nLet me rephrase. I like her. I am not infatuated with her. Everything is not rosy because I like her. I like her in the most \u0026ldquo;She\u0026rsquo;d be a good partner\u0026rdquo; typa way. I have been infatuated with her, but that ended soon after I asked her out and she said no.\nShe is my one-itis. I have asked her out and she has declined. We\u0026rsquo;ve maintained our friendship. We\u0026rsquo;re really close friends.\nI still want to date her. I\u0026rsquo;d be happy to do so due to the emotional connection we have, due to our conversations - the amount of unfiltered the both of us get. Also, she pretty.\nNow let me be clear, I am well aware of her flaws. And the possible frictions that would arise when we date. I do put her on a pedestal. They\u0026rsquo;re something she\u0026rsquo;s working on. In addition, we\u0026rsquo;ll work on them when we\u0026rsquo;re dating.\nAnd it\u0026rsquo;s not that I obsess over her 24/7. I am open to dating others, as long as they meet my (extremely) high standards, as long as there is potential for a long-term relationship; To put it bluntly, if she has the potential to be the mother of my children. I have insane ambitions and little time to waste.\nNow, she has declined in the past. She was also not single. She is now. She knows that I look forward to dating her and that dating her is now part of my ambition.\nFor some time I thought she was quite masculine, especially because of her work and competence.\nFor those who are unaware\nA masculine person is one who focuses on their work, their mission, and search for freedom, above all else. A feminine person is one who values love and feeling it above all else. This is according to The Way Of The Superior Man by David Deida\nBut I\u0026rsquo;ve seen her with her ex. Let\u0026rsquo;s just say, she can be VERY feminine, and that is incredibly attractive.\nHere is my predicament: There are some standards she does not meet. There are some things I\u0026rsquo;m iffy about. I still want to date her. I wouldn\u0026rsquo;t want to date her if I\u0026rsquo;d met her recently. So do I truly like her for her? or because she rejected me and there is ambition there, merely a \u0026ldquo;trophy'?\nNo, I think I know.\nAs I typed this I realized that I AM open to dating others. I\u0026rsquo;d be open to dating her as well. It\u0026rsquo;s just the then depth of the emotional connection would be difficult to develop in a short time. But I think the emotional connection makes up for it. They\u0026rsquo;re things we can openly talk about. The both of us can discuss my concerns before committing long-term.\nI\u0026rsquo;ll make sure of it. I know myself. I am not very worried about making the wrong decision here. I journal way too much to do so. Both of us speak the raw truth way too much.\nAnd the worst-case scenario is that I date her, and realize that there isn\u0026rsquo;t long-term potential there. Or I get to NZ and realize that there are others that I\u0026rsquo;d like to date instead.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s 1stman\u0026rsquo;s male advantage in my head as well. As I level up, I will have access to better and better women. So a rational man would eventually have to call it quits because of the quality of women available after a year or 2 or further self-improvement.\nI know the both of us will speak about it and come to a conclusion before we commit.\nOh also, in case you\u0026rsquo;re reading this:\nGood evening m\u0026rsquo;lady\nGood day to you (the reader) as well bro.\nNow, I just have to become man enough to incite her femininity. To be a viable sexual partner. It is all on me. That drives me. It really does.\nFuck, I did not intend on writing this when I sat on the shitter, but here we are. I hope you\u0026rsquo;re having a lovely time.\nflying kisses\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/my-oneitis/","summary":"Welcome back to ilyaas at the shitter.\nSo I want to date this girl. I\u0026rsquo;ve liked her on and off for a long time now.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t like her right now, but mainly because I don\u0026rsquo;t allow myself to. I can easily. Either, I\u0026rsquo;ve gotten to the point where I\u0026rsquo;m used to the feeling, or it has faded.\nLet me rephrase. I like her. I am not infatuated with her. Everything is not rosy because I like her.","title":"My One-itis"},{"content":"On Friday, I reached home at 10 PM, after working at Arya\u0026rsquo;s for a while and then visiting Vihaan\u0026rsquo;s mother to wish her a belated birthday.\nOn reaching home, I asked Hitesh if meeting at 10 AM at Ambernath station was fine, so I could sleep and he happily said yes.\nSavio and I, yes he\u0026rsquo;s back, although the reason for his arrival is sad and I now wish he wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be back, he is here and I\u0026rsquo;m happy he is - I have my trail engineer back.\nIn the morning, I realized I forgot my spoon (something I need to have to eat) and I usually have breakfast on the train on my way to the trail to save time. Additionally, if I ate at home, I\u0026rsquo;d be hungry by the time we\u0026rsquo;d start building. We then stopped at a bunch of shops to buy spoons. Gonis as well, which we forgot to take from Kashish. Little did I know, finding someone willing to sell something other than a small wooden ice cream spoon, that would turn eating into torture, took longer than buying gonis from MULTIPLE shops, might I add.\nGoni means sack. Ambuja cement aur chawal wala.\nWhen we reached the trail,\nwhere we found our tools were stolen, only because of our incompetence. SOMEONE (Hitesh or Satish ) thought it was a safe idea to leave the tools near the trails despite them being stolen at Rayate hitherto.\nWe walked for a long time to borrow tools from the locals which was tiring. One of the two fawdas (shovels) was made out of bamboo. It was light and solid. It is a pleasure building with that.\nWe then started building the 1st jump - a 1-bike-length tabletop. We got tired midway due to the morning walk. Only putting the mud on top of the goni-structure was left. Hitesh left to help out his friend plan a surprise, we (not really) missed his moral support. Oh also, at the time of writing this, we recently found out his shoulder has a minor fracture. A month after the crack he went to the doctor. What a chut. We toiled through the rest of the build. I was exhausted enough to set 15 min intervals and 5 min breaks to focus on the act of building and focus due to the deadline an interval gives. Parkinson\u0026rsquo;s law in action.\nDuring this, there was a lot of Hitesh whining, Uni discussion with Hitesh loving my email ID, reading my CV, and me reading his Essay and Personal statement.\nWe then discussed again my CV and how it is a 2 pager. He provided valuable feedback (thanks babe). The conversation then turned to expensive rich kid schools and how the curriculum is different there and the kinds of opportunities privilege provides.\nI was also\\u2026 teased? about my last paragraph in my previous post asking my friends to linger at the doorstep and forget their scarf in my life, and how \u0026ldquo;bhai aise bolega toh bandi aaraam se pategi''. Bhai log, mature thhoda emotionally, bandi ki tension nahi hogi fir. Become formidable and you will have more pussy than you know what to do with.\nI was tired enough and now have enough crash experience to know I was not in a state to attempt the jump on a bike I am unfamiliar with. So I did not, we then proceeded to the base of the hill and around the same time when Hitesh got back. Ooh, Hitesh spent 20 mins being indecisive about when to leave for surprise planning. That was entertaining\nHitesh, Savio, Sri, his bike, and I went to Sri\u0026rsquo;s place. There he showed us his audio engineering projects at Hitesh\\u2019s request.\nWe proceeded to watch VR porn. Turns out most of the stuff is paid. We had 2 90 sec samples. Their experiences have been captured for your vicarious pleasure. Unfortunately, no one recorded my reaction :(\nRegardless, it is not as immersive as I thought it would be. This is most likely due to the disconnect of watching what would presumably be my body fucking this chick but feeling nothing, not hip thrusting. But that is a problem that can be extended to all kinds of porn. Overall, meh experience. Also, I have realized I no longer enjoy porn, of any kind. The Hamza and the romantic in me won\u0026rsquo;t allow me to, even if I did. Hitesh subsequently left.\nThen he showed us his blender projects, more song stuff, and video projects. That took a long while. We then played for roughly 15 mins each of a VR game called The Lab for. The Bow and Arrow sub-game was fun. However, I will now restrict myself to a boxing/ping pong game for the experience and won\u0026rsquo;t continue, for long-term dopamine detox purposes. It fucks with my ability to do difficult things, due to the hedonic treadmill.\nWe left by 9pm. I write this on the train at 10 (editing on 19th Oct 2022) as I sit in first class coach. Meanwhile, Savio sits in second because he is an imaandaar man.\nKal Sunday ko no ride, mujhe sona hai. We have to thicken the top layer of soil next week, 1.5BL jump, and a pair of berms. I have realized my schoolmates read this as well. For you: berms are banked turns. Riding them correctly enables one to maintain speed in a corner. This is fun, and a skill, which is why we build them.\nI feel like I write the best when I\u0026rsquo;m hungry and tired - no inhibitions.\nA lot of struggle, and a lot of work to come in the years ahead. Savio and I spoke about that while walking to Ambernath station.\nflying kisses\nPS Hitesh hug karle bhai, khaa nahi jaaunga tujhe. Jitna bhi ride cancel karega, tere bina apna rides, apna events same nahi. Bohot pyaar \u0026lt;3\nInstagram Post Here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/15-oct-2022/","summary":"On Friday, I reached home at 10 PM, after working at Arya\u0026rsquo;s for a while and then visiting Vihaan\u0026rsquo;s mother to wish her a belated birthday.\nOn reaching home, I asked Hitesh if meeting at 10 AM at Ambernath station was fine, so I could sleep and he happily said yes.\nSavio and I, yes he\u0026rsquo;s back, although the reason for his arrival is sad and I now wish he wouldn\u0026rsquo;t be back, he is here and I\u0026rsquo;m happy he is - I have my trail engineer back.","title":"They Stole Our Tools"},{"content":"A mutual acquaintance reached out to me. I now have a 700-page custom pdf of philosophical works and a friend who resonates with what I write and who enjoys reading - more sophisticated texts yet in the same domain as I do. This is what I\u0026rsquo;d call a high-value relationship. The fucking power of the globalized world we live in. Opportunities are everywhere. Use social media to produce, not consume. Deliver value. I love this.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/power-of-social-media/","summary":"A mutual acquaintance reached out to me. I now have a 700-page custom pdf of philosophical works and a friend who resonates with what I write and who enjoys reading - more sophisticated texts yet in the same domain as I do. This is what I\u0026rsquo;d call a high-value relationship. The fucking power of the globalized world we live in. Opportunities are everywhere. Use social media to produce, not consume. Deliver value.","title":"The Power of Social Media"},{"content":"I told a friend that I got accepted into college and would be leaving soon. She teared up. I did not think we were close enough to warrant that reaction. It was a pleasant surprise. It is surprising how much actually listening matters to people.\nIt is testament to how much better I\u0026rsquo;ve become social skills wise.\n6 months, several books and way too many youtube videos later, I have become good enough to make close friends over time.\nAnd there is SO MUCH space to improve. Looking at someone like Hamza and his relationship with his significant other is so inspiring. That is where one can reach, provided he creates enough value.\nI would like to end this one in classic Hamza fashion, as a salute to him.\nDo the hard work, especially when you don\u0026rsquo;t feel like it.\nEdit:\nI spoke to her and I realized it was mainly listening. It surprises me how if you can learn to listen and actually listen - ask questions and empathize with the other person, give sound advice when asked for it, how rare that is. And how much of a relationship you develop based on listening.\nBRO, she now draws boundaries. My advice helped. I HAVE POSITIVELY INFLUENCED A LIFE, and in the long run. I helped cultivate a skill she will use for the rest of her life. I helped her learn to fish. Now she will be fishing for the rest of her life, ceteris paribus, which I know is a risky assumption to make.\nRegardless, that excites me greatly. I am useful to others now. I am so happy, proud even, that I am.\nThe goal is to become a connector and deliver insane value. Hamza spoke about this.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/social-skills-progression/","summary":"I told a friend that I got accepted into college and would be leaving soon. She teared up. I did not think we were close enough to warrant that reaction. It was a pleasant surprise. It is surprising how much actually listening matters to people.\nIt is testament to how much better I\u0026rsquo;ve become social skills wise.\n6 months, several books and way too many youtube videos later, I have become good enough to make close friends over time.","title":"Social Skills Progression"},{"content":"A cheat code to life.\nAs Louis Rossman explained:\nWhat if using calculators was allowed in exams? What is using textbooks was allowed in exams?\nSomeone has solved a problem you\u0026rsquo;re having, and has written a book about it. You figure out what is took that person 30 to 300 hours to learn for $10 in books and 4 hours of reading. Insane ROI.\nI am the black sheep in my family because books expanded my perspective. My friend Satish who is also the black sheep in his family, concurs.\nReading is the vehicle through which you can solve all your problems.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/on-reading/","summary":"A cheat code to life.\nAs Louis Rossman explained:\nWhat if using calculators was allowed in exams? What is using textbooks was allowed in exams?\nSomeone has solved a problem you\u0026rsquo;re having, and has written a book about it. You figure out what is took that person 30 to 300 hours to learn for $10 in books and 4 hours of reading. Insane ROI.\nI am the black sheep in my family because books expanded my perspective.","title":"On Reading"},{"content":"I try not to have meaningless flings/hook-ups/make-outs. Not because of a moral high ground. But because brain chemistry:\nIf I get intimate with someone without romantic attachment, it is essentially instant gratification - not free dopamine, but my social value has increased enough in school for it to not be difficult. In fact, I now have to reject such offers. This is something I only dreamed of a year ago.\nAccess to an easy dopamine source would make it and does make it more difficult for me to do harder things thanks to the hedonic treadmill. I don\u0026rsquo;t want that because I may devolve to more of a degenerate lifestyle than I\u0026rsquo;d like.\nWhy no degeneracy? All of this comes back to my ambitions and dreams - they require hard work and focus - no distractions. I am staying away so I don\u0026rsquo;t open Pandora\u0026rsquo;s box, so to speak. Resisting a FWB, not booty calling them requires will power. fear that will power to resist would rise if I engage once - It is easier to form an identity of \u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t hook up or engage in flings\u0026rdquo; that way, and Atomic Habits has enlightened all of us to how easy actions are when they are in line with your identity.\nThis also ties in with the concept of second-order consequences. Fucking once will make it more likely for me to do it again.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/on-hookups/","summary":"I try not to have meaningless flings/hook-ups/make-outs. Not because of a moral high ground. But because brain chemistry:\nIf I get intimate with someone without romantic attachment, it is essentially instant gratification - not free dopamine, but my social value has increased enough in school for it to not be difficult. In fact, I now have to reject such offers. This is something I only dreamed of a year ago.","title":"On Hookups"},{"content":"I use Standard Notes.\n It is an open-source application. It offers encrypted backups. It stores our notes in an encrypted format. It also syncs between different devices and platforms. It has a search bar.  That is all I need. I have found notion has an upfront time investment that I\u0026rsquo;m not willing to make. Plus just searching shit just works. Keyboard\u0026gt;mouse. Much simpler, works offline, and the app does not take as much time to load as Notion. All I need.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/why-i-dont-use-notion/","summary":"I use Standard Notes.\n It is an open-source application. It offers encrypted backups. It stores our notes in an encrypted format. It also syncs between different devices and platforms. It has a search bar.  That is all I need. I have found notion has an upfront time investment that I\u0026rsquo;m not willing to make. Plus just searching shit just works. Keyboard\u0026gt;mouse. Much simpler, works offline, and the app does not take as much time to load as Notion.","title":"Why I Don't Use Notion"},{"content":"On my way to the Kalyan Railway Station, I walked to find trucks with speakers and a jhund (group) of Muslims dancing around the trucks.\nThis is wrong because:\n Birthdays, even if the Prophet\u0026rsquo;s are not to be celebrated. This is wrong bhai (brother). Music is haram. Dancing is questionable.  RTFM - the manual being the Quran. Stop your tribalism. Challenge your scholars. Read. Reading is so important.\nWhat is the point of this celebration? Dopamine? Sure. What does this achieve? I don\u0026rsquo;t know. I\u0026rsquo;ve stopped asking such questions when it comes to religion because computation or thinking is effortful and time-consuming and I have limited resources. I\u0026rsquo;d rather spend them riding, reading, and writing (but more imp topics).\nAll I know is that it is annoying. At least they were doing it during the day. Raat ko navratri is just painful. Let me fucking sleep. Tum bhi so jao. (Go to sleep as well.) Ride early and grind.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/eid-and-tribalism/","summary":"On my way to the Kalyan Railway Station, I walked to find trucks with speakers and a jhund (group) of Muslims dancing around the trucks.\nThis is wrong because:\n Birthdays, even if the Prophet\u0026rsquo;s are not to be celebrated. This is wrong bhai (brother). Music is haram. Dancing is questionable.  RTFM - the manual being the Quran. Stop your tribalism. Challenge your scholars. Read. Reading is so important.","title":"Eid and Tribalism"},{"content":"Stare at your wall and think Seriously. It\u0026rsquo;s great.\nThis is my second time writing on the shitter. Silence works wonders. No social media. Only books and writing. Silence spurred production for me.\nI am also less tired at the end of my work day. Less processing, less tired. Less processing, more important shit rises to the surface for you to process. Ties in with Naval Ravikant\u0026rsquo;s medition practice.\nShit with a notebook. Eat with a book. Journal everyday.\nGoes for music as well. Stop the BS music. In Mumbai, the traffic is prolific. I put on my earphones so I can block some of the noise. Allows me to think or relax better. Silence is one of those forgotten things we don\u0026rsquo;t have in modern life anymore, so the re-introduction of it feels signicant in terms of quality-of-life improvement.\nEven for me to work deeply. I work so much faster in silence. Evolutionarily we are designed to function with a LOT of downtime.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/silence/","summary":"Stare at your wall and think Seriously. It\u0026rsquo;s great.\nThis is my second time writing on the shitter. Silence works wonders. No social media. Only books and writing. Silence spurred production for me.\nI am also less tired at the end of my work day. Less processing, less tired. Less processing, more important shit rises to the surface for you to process. Ties in with Naval Ravikant\u0026rsquo;s medition practice.\nShit with a notebook.","title":"Silence"},{"content":"I go to a school that is a proper rich kid school. - one of the top 5 schools in Mumbai and it has a library.\nI came here, in first grade, not knowing English. I came here naive. I leave being a voracious reader, and a writer, and I \u0026ldquo;speak English like a foreigner\u0026rdquo; as my mother puts it. The school planted the seeds of the growth mindset, and all the self-improvement books I\u0026rsquo;ve read watered that seed.\nI am so grateful for that. The fact that I read 40 books a year in my childhood allows for greater information processing capacity now. I can now consume any English content with 100% comprehension.\nI don\u0026rsquo;t watch BS vlogs or entertainment. I watch good quality informative/infotainment stuff. I attribute this to reading and English. My school, essentially.\nAs I edit this, I also realize that an important part of this was also using the school bus. I was the last one to leave and did not have many friends. If I remember correctly, I was bullied. I read to pass time.\nThere is a teacher in school who was my physics and chemistry teacher from 5th to 10th grade. He inspired me to ask, and to be curious. My thought process is based on questioning and experimenting to prove myself wrong. So that the ideas I have are resilient. The scientific method essentially. I attribute all this to him.\nMy school has changed the course of my life for the better, by orders of magnitude. My parents put me in the best school they could. Literally. Not much money is left over for leisure. One of the best decisions my 10th fail and 12th pass parents made. I do not say that lightly.\nSomething that could compare would be giving me unfettered access to the internet in grade 2. My English was my only bottleneck, along with the processing power of my 2-inch thick laptop. A risky move that paid off. But that is a topic for another post.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/school-library/","summary":"I go to a school that is a proper rich kid school. - one of the top 5 schools in Mumbai and it has a library.\nI came here, in first grade, not knowing English. I came here naive. I leave being a voracious reader, and a writer, and I \u0026ldquo;speak English like a foreigner\u0026rdquo; as my mother puts it. The school planted the seeds of the growth mindset, and all the self-improvement books I\u0026rsquo;ve read watered that seed.","title":"School Library"},{"content":"I want to produce now, and consume only the best content available - books and some OGs I like but that is it. I want my screen time to be limited to production and video calls with friends as most of them live outside my country. Video calls are a boon. I\u0026rsquo;m grateful for their existence.\nThis blog is production. A lot of it, except for book notes or video notes, are produced in standard notes on my phone. I write this as I shit. Literally. Content matters not production quality. This ties in well with the concept of web authenticity\nI have 8 unfiltered videos I am waiting to post when my circumstances change 6 to 9 months from now. That\u0026rsquo;s production. Waiting for my exams to get over, so I can edit the MTB content - production.\nPost on insta about riding - production.\nRead and produce.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/produce/","summary":"I want to produce now, and consume only the best content available - books and some OGs I like but that is it. I want my screen time to be limited to production and video calls with friends as most of them live outside my country. Video calls are a boon. I\u0026rsquo;m grateful for their existence.\nThis blog is production. A lot of it, except for book notes or video notes, are produced in standard notes on my phone.","title":"Produce"},{"content":"Desire\nI desire a domain name. I will only buy one if I post for 6 months, aka until my A2 (12th) gets over. Posting has started\nI desire a keyboard, but my laptop -a Dell XPS 13 2018 9370\u0026rsquo;s keyboard is good enough. If I really want to use a good one, just go to Arya\u0026rsquo;s.\nI desire to leave the countrey and live my dream. Process initiated.\nI desire this girl. I asked her out and she said no. Now become the man she can\u0026rsquo;t say no to. Process initiated.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/desire/","summary":"Desire\nI desire a domain name. I will only buy one if I post for 6 months, aka until my A2 (12th) gets over. Posting has started\nI desire a keyboard, but my laptop -a Dell XPS 13 2018 9370\u0026rsquo;s keyboard is good enough. If I really want to use a good one, just go to Arya\u0026rsquo;s.\nI desire to leave the countrey and live my dream. Process initiated.\nI desire this girl.","title":"Desire"},{"content":"My phone\u0026rsquo;s alarm rang at 4:30 AM and I switched it off, but lay in bed debating whether to go or not. Got woken up again at 4:40 AM by another alarm. cue morning routine\nRead 60 pages of The Gentlemen In Moscow on my way while on the first-class train without a ticket. The last time I did this I had my tribe with me and we were going to the Rayate Race.\nHitesh picked me up at 7:30 we went to the trail in Ambernath.\nThese berms existed.\nAfter some testing,   We built. Turned the first berm into an S, may further extend this into another S   Then a lot of baatein. Mainly about our dating scene.\nThen trail planning, one more pair of S berms, then a sequence of 1 bike length tabletop to 1.5 BL Gap Jump to 2 BL Gap Jump to 2.5BL Gap Jump then a right-hander berm. That is it, there\u0026rsquo;s natural tech after that.\nEnjoyed a conversation about the importance of reading and high quality social cirle with Hitesh in his car. Grateful for going to a proper rich kid school because:\n English Library High(er) Quality people  Then stopped at Sri\u0026rsquo;s place after going on Kashish\u0026rsquo;s scooter to buy idli. The vendor gave us extra because \u0026ldquo;Sabka upwaas hai aur kuch bik nahi raha.\u0026rdquo; and asked Hitesh to call her daughter to confirm payment and to tell her to eat chocolate (was it chocolate?). I laughed hysterically at that request causing all of us to laugh. Unfortunately, the daughter did not pick up. Imagine a random grown-ass dude saying \u0026ldquo;Maa ne bola hai khana khaalo\u0026rdquo; then abruptly cutting the call.\nAt Sri\u0026rsquo;s we appreciated his man cave. When I say that I meant more like staring in awe. A 49\u0026quot; monitor, Ryzen 7 3700x, 128G ram, 3070ti, and 4.4TB storage. Aur kya chahiye? AND a VR headset. Played some games, only enough to experience a 49\u0026quot; monitor and high-end graphics. Sri is a video editor so it makes sense.\nKashish and I took turns playing a shooting game in VR. I requested porn. As someone who practices NoFap proudly, I will gladly watch VR porn once just for the experience. At this point, I only watch porn to learn/understand new terms the internet exposes me to. Sri, being the bro he is, said he\u0026rsquo;ll arrange some next week. He also said that at 17, I am 90\\u2105 penis, a fair statement to make and one I concur with in principle.\nTMI aside, we reluctantly left at 4, got Arya\u0026rsquo;s gimble from Satish\u0026rsquo;s, and left for the station. Thanks Kashish for dropping me at the station. Traffic due to Eid \u0026ldquo;celebration\u0026rdquo; but just noise pollution. It is sad to see a religion that prides itself on worshipping a deity without statues on the principle that we haven\u0026rsquo;t seen god, play songs and dance like a fucking baraat or Ganpati stuff. The shittiest part is the shit music. Bring on Nashik Dhol and as a Mumbaikar, I cannot help but move with it, but that music was plain unpleasant.\nOn the way home in the train, I was\u0026quot; staring at my wall\u0026quot; so to speak. I did not read a lot due to exhaustion and in that space for boredom and processing, a lot of ideas came to me - mainly to write this and a bunch more for my website.\nUpdates:\nReduced my followers to 32. Only the people I am in regular contact with AND significant shit.\nDownloaded Instagram after at least 6 months and uninstalled it in 48 hours. Did not like it. Now just install, post, and delete.\nI am going to be relatively quiet for some time (or loud because I haven\u0026rsquo;t been posting at all) but after I figure some shit I will get much louder - on YT, my blog, and here ( a version of my blog).\nI miss my friends as well. You\u0026rsquo;re reading this. You know exactly who you are. Call me more often. Linger at the doorstep. Leave your scarf as an excuse to come back.\nHave down on music a lot. At this point, I just want to focus on production instead of consumption, and in a big way. The space, the silence allows for ideas and information processing - \u0026ldquo;diffused thinking\u0026rdquo;.\nInstagram post here\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/9-oct-2022/","summary":"My phone\u0026rsquo;s alarm rang at 4:30 AM and I switched it off, but lay in bed debating whether to go or not. Got woken up again at 4:40 AM by another alarm. cue morning routine\nRead 60 pages of The Gentlemen In Moscow on my way while on the first-class train without a ticket. The last time I did this I had my tribe with me and we were going to the Rayate Race.","title":"Trail Building In Kalyan After 3 Months"},{"content":"The Video\nLevel up social skills to get better friends. You don\u0026rsquo;t have the friends you want because you don\u0026rsquo;t have the skills you need.\nHe uploaded a skillshare course - do that.\nbreak the touch barrier but not too much just a fistbump or a handshake will do. smile - think of something that will genuinely make you smile Body language - think of yourself highly - do the work and the body language will come. achieve goals and it will come 0 to 1 - open or close? body language Eye contact - look away when thinking is fine. Be interested in them. Discover them. Curiosity. basic convos with random strangers: Light-hearted - copy stand-up jokes delivered Authentic Fast - leave convo when you leave - don\u0026rsquo;t stay around - average fallacy rule\nDeeper conversation Personal topics Private - private place, not many around Presence - full focus, mindfulness- don\u0026rsquo;t hang out with people when you\u0026rsquo;re distracted. Total presence only. I want to present for this interaction. End convo on a high note\nRejected - we\u0026rsquo;re simply not compatible. The rejection number is your trophy.\nOnline friends: Online - 1 to 1 video calls Tell them stuff - be vulnerable to enable them to be vulnerable\nGym friends: When someone does something for you they like you better Nod to people, if they are receptive you can then go speak to them\nSchool friends: What\u0026rsquo;s up did you do the homework? Just get into a lot more basic conversations. More acquaintances allow for more friends.\nParty friends you don\u0026rsquo;t want.\nBe the initiator. You should be the host. Hiring club for this gym you can come with us this Friday\nCharisma: Presence - meditate Warmth - open body languages, like the person - the old man who smiles at you - eye contact and warmth Power - competence - the initiator\nStorytelling: they have to see your story. Tell more stories to get a better Think about your audience - interesting break the law - tell the chain\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/hamza-social-skills-guide-notes/","summary":"The Video\nLevel up social skills to get better friends. You don\u0026rsquo;t have the friends you want because you don\u0026rsquo;t have the skills you need.\nHe uploaded a skillshare course - do that.\nbreak the touch barrier but not too much just a fistbump or a handshake will do. smile - think of something that will genuinely make you smile Body language - think of yourself highly - do the work and the body language will come.","title":"Notes on Hamza Social Skills Guide"},{"content":"The video\nPiece of paper:\nPurpose (present tense)\nI am….\nAlpha goals - identity - frame: Beta goals - 2022 - motivational - should excite: Lead measures - weeky -habits - produce/hrs of deep work:\nDont use your phone till you finish your deep work session - 90 mins - data collect to optimise routine. Use parkinson’s time\n10 mins\nNext block\nThen check phone\nDeep work right after waking up\nOr newest hamza routine is 3x a day but 3 session with like an hour to 3 of shallow work in the middle\nShutdown ritual - for life, night routine.\nMake sure plan next day is part of it\nFor me, getting home/out of library\nPublish this\nEnvironment:\nDisable notifications Do not disturb/airplane On PC as well\nIdea; Pure morning - like a prison until work is done - no distractions. Qrc lodge will be distractions 100\nRemove/reduce obligations - atleast post deep work\nScoreboard of accountability - hrs of deepwork - send to discord server - your server - use instagram like this. 0 followers - Try this.\nUse rewards: no don’t do this - intrinsic motivation and routine.\nMindset:\nTime - hace a scarcity mindset\nDo only deepwork - today the whole day as shallow work\nNew - shallow work = instant gratification\nMore shallow work, more tired, less rest, shittier deep work the next day.\nBe okay with shit things happening because you don’t do shallow work anymore - friends now angry - turn to signal.\nOutsource shallow work - multi-task with shallow work - batching - do with whatsapp?\nGrand gesture - do something so big you will work - hire work, hire a person, massive commitment - this would be like buying a bike park/great bike/nutritionist/coach but I don’t need this with MTB.\nRoughly capped at 4 hours a day. May be extended a little bit if deep work is for different activities.\nThis is a skill.\nPositive reinforcement - more hours, better skill, praise yourself\nShallow work budget - do this for instant gratification as well.\nAlso hard stop at work time - not any benefit mindset - 5pm for example.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/hamza-deep-work-guide-notes/","summary":"The video\nPiece of paper:\nPurpose (present tense)\nI am….\nAlpha goals - identity - frame: Beta goals - 2022 - motivational - should excite: Lead measures - weeky -habits - produce/hrs of deep work:\nDont use your phone till you finish your deep work session - 90 mins - data collect to optimise routine. Use parkinson’s time\n10 mins\nNext block\nThen check phone\nDeep work right after waking up","title":"Notes on Hamza's Deep Work Guide"},{"content":"I am in A2 now. We have a uniform but most don\u0026rsquo;t wear it.\nI started wearing a flower in my ear. My teachers fond it amusing. Other teachers who did not know me found it annuying. They asked me to remove it, I asked for a reason and they said \u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t like it\u0026rdquo; , I told them that I\u0026rsquo;m okay with that. They complained to authorty. This is the first time a teacher pussied out like that/\nI was called into a authority\u0026rsquo;s cabin and asked to not wear it. I did not after that. But the logic did not make sense to me, and acting in misalignment with my values was bothering me, so after talking to Vihaan, I decided to follow protocol and present my argument to the school the right way.\nHere\u0026rsquo;s the argument:\nPremise: Vihaan is arguing against me, as JBCN, to strengthen my argument when I present it to you.\nI have now decided to share the conversation with you, editing to make the argument more coherent and more formal.\nVihaan: You cannot wear that flower in school. We have a uniform and that flower-wearing goes against our rules.\nIlyaas Kapadia: Your rules include tattoos, phones, and hair color. Why is the flower an issue? You compliment me when I wear formal. Blue color. Black. White. You don\u0026rsquo;t ask me to wear the uniform. You ask me to wear the uniform when I come in a t-shirt and tracks. Your enforcement is subjective.\nVihaan: Tattoos and hair color cannot be removed. Fundamentally, we can\u0026rsquo;t change aspects of you that bleed into your life outside this school. The flower is very much something you can remove. You can choose not to wear it, which you aren\u0026rsquo;t doing, even though we request it.\nIlyaas: Untrue. This is the case for A levels. 10th grade is strictly not allowed hair color regardless of life outside school.\nVihaan: So what? We have different rules for younger grades because we believe they aren\u0026rsquo;t mature enough to make decisions for themselves. We allow you certain luxuries, but we\u0026rsquo;re perfectly at liberty to draw boundaries on them or revoke them when we feel the need.\nIlyaas: So a decision to damage my hair or skin is okay with you? But wearing a flower is not? Why is it not okay? Why not allow this luxury?\nVihaan: Honestly, we\u0026rsquo;re not okay with it. But there\u0026rsquo;s no logical reason for us to complain about it once it\u0026rsquo;s done. The changes are permanent and cannot be removed. Even if we keep going on about it, there\u0026rsquo;s nothing to be achieved. Plus, we\u0026rsquo;ve noticed that a lot of children wear hair colors and get tattoos. Were exposed to it enough to be desensitized to it. It\u0026rsquo;s normal now and even if it\u0026rsquo;s against the rules, it\u0026rsquo;s easier to ignore. The flower is unusual. It attracts our attention and influences younger students too. So it needs to go because we aren\u0026rsquo;t yet used to it.\nIlyaas: You won\u0026rsquo;t allow it on the last day of the 10th. You will allow it on the first day of AS. What miracles occur in the 1 month in between?\nVihaan: We do so because we have to standardize. Nothing changes in a day, but contractually, the 10th grade isn\u0026rsquo;t AS levels.\nIlyaas: My whole argument is that it is not problematic at all. Does not impact my ability to score at all. This is why it is not problematic if the 10th grade does it.\nVihaan: You could keep using the same argument 365 times to argue a 9th grader should have the same privileges as an 11th grader.\nIlyaas: They should. Grade does not matter. Misuse of privileges does. Which can be made very transparent. You’re allowed to bring your phone tomorrow onwards - if you are caught gaming, you will not be allowed to bring it for the next week. Give incentives. They work.\nVihaan: Schools have good reason to maintain uniformity. We have students of all income groups, and we live in a country with a wide socioeconomic disparity. We want all our students to look the same because if we don\u0026rsquo;t enforce that, their class gaps might become extremely apparent. How would a 5th grader react if he saw another of his classmates wearing a gold chain, while he doesn\u0026rsquo;t even have the money for fresh books? It causes division. Maybe even bullying. Which is a problem rampant in American \u0026ldquo;liberal\u0026rdquo; school systems.\nIlyaas: Was this the case when you allowed normal clothes and phones during the pandemic? If yes, what consequences? Phones were confiscated due to misuse, but I heard nothing of class-based discrimination, partly due to your great success in teaching children to not discriminate against them. Additionally, American schools are publicly funded - they’re free. Private schools, like JBCN, don’t seem to have this issue.\nVihaan (with respect to this argument): First of all, we assume you have a good reason for doing so. Maybe a function or a formal event in school. We can\u0026rsquo;t really tell.\nIlyaas: You know for a fact there isn\u0026rsquo;t an event. I wear them every day.\nVihaan: We\u0026rsquo;re okay with them. You look good, you look formal and presentable. It\u0026rsquo;s a net positive change in a person we\u0026rsquo;ve only ever known to flout rules and look like a gangster.\nIlyaas: So, what I hear is, since you sell the A Levels school hoodie now, that is more acceptable than me wearing a flower?\nVihaan: Yes. At the end of the day, we don\u0026rsquo;t need to justify anything to you. We have our rules. You choose to come to this school voluntarily, having agreed to follow its rules and you need to follow them. We can set up our boundaries where we see fit. One deviation does not equal another.\nIlyaas: Fair enough. I lost. You hold great leverage over me. Ultimately, if you threaten to take my exam seat away, I will comply. I won\u0026rsquo;t wear the flower if that is the consequence. I do come here voluntarily. You have taught me to question everything. It was a poster near one of the labs for 2 years. This is something I am questioning because it does not make sense to me. My peers and even didis love my flower. Some teachers find it irritating, while some like it. I see cognitive dissonance in your rules and staff and I have pointed it out to you. I have thought from first principles and laid out my argument. Socrates was once imprisoned for \u0026ldquo;corrupting the youth\u0026rdquo;. All I ask is you give genuine thought to what I have said to you. I only hope you do not disregard it because it has come from me, whatever negative qualities I may be perceived to have, or how unfamiliar my argument may seem. I am only doing what you have taught me to do: question everything. I rest my case here and will take your word as final. I would be more than happy to wait for a verdict, so you can think it over. Till then, I won’t wear it with respect to your previous requests.\nIt did not work. 3 weeks and no answer. I am glad I did this, but it is full rebel now onwards.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/flower-argument/","summary":"I am in A2 now. We have a uniform but most don\u0026rsquo;t wear it.\nI started wearing a flower in my ear. My teachers fond it amusing. Other teachers who did not know me found it annuying. They asked me to remove it, I asked for a reason and they said \u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t like it\u0026rdquo; , I told them that I\u0026rsquo;m okay with that. They complained to authorty. This is the first time a teacher pussied out like that/","title":"Flower Argument"},{"content":"A compilation of texts I sent to my friends while watching it (on 2x or 2.5x speed of course (I forgot))\nWatched 2/3rds of social dilemma. It is sad this is not common knowledge. I see why it is recommended so often, but personally the only thing that was interesting is the graph they showed of processor ability increasing exponentially, it accounted for time. Sometimes, it surprises how much people don\u0026rsquo;t know.\nAlso the comparison that there aren\u0026rsquo;t engineers split testing 60000 colours to get you to use the photoshop more puts in perspective that social media can be non-addictive, more tool-like. This is an opportunity for open source.\nUseful mental model: A tool will sit there until you use it. It won\u0026rsquo;t pull you towards it (notifications).\nThank fuck they\u0026rsquo;re like economic incentives drive this. The narrative that Zuck, or Elon are evil is so rampant in the OSS world. It is surprising how people that advocate independence and privacy fall for an emotional argument.\nIt\u0026rsquo;s just money bro, they don\u0026rsquo;t set out to ruin the world.\nAction: Don\u0026rsquo;t use social media. Leave whatsapp groups - they enable positive random enforcement.Disable notifications. I may move to Signal when moving to NZ, a fresh slate.\nAvoid using phone - keep it powered off. Or airplane mode so alarms work.\nNo internet at home in NZ? Either way I won\u0026rsquo;t be able to afford mobile data for a bit. Jio has spoiled me and my fellow Indians, but I\u0026rsquo;m grateful for it. The internet raised me,and Iam so glad it did.\nPirate/Download it here\nSee ya next time :)\nflying kisses\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/the-social-dilemma/","summary":"A compilation of texts I sent to my friends while watching it (on 2x or 2.5x speed of course (I forgot))\nWatched 2/3rds of social dilemma. It is sad this is not common knowledge. I see why it is recommended so often, but personally the only thing that was interesting is the graph they showed of processor ability increasing exponentially, it accounted for time. Sometimes, it surprises how much people don\u0026rsquo;t know.","title":"Commentary on The Social Dilemma"},{"content":"Websites I Download Ebooks from for free These are ones I use.\n https://1lib.in/ https://3lib.net/ https://pdfdrive.com/ https://libgen.is/  Search \u0026ldquo;zlibrary\u0026rdquo; for more.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/ebook-piracy/","summary":"Websites I Download Ebooks from for free These are ones I use.\n https://1lib.in/ https://3lib.net/ https://pdfdrive.com/ https://libgen.is/  Search \u0026ldquo;zlibrary\u0026rdquo; for more.","title":"Websites for Ebook Piracy"},{"content":"The Setup by Dan Bilzerian Setup your lifestyle to achieve your goals\nPreselection works - we are herd animals\nYour environment should induce desirable behavior - keep a book in the table or live near the bike park\nLet her chase you. Being less invested, less needy is attractive. do not compromise on your principles for pussy.\nDo not reward bad behavior with affection\nActually talk to the girl.\nto be continued.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/the-setup/","summary":"The Setup by Dan Bilzerian Setup your lifestyle to achieve your goals\nPreselection works - we are herd animals\nYour environment should induce desirable behavior - keep a book in the table or live near the bike park\nLet her chase you. Being less invested, less needy is attractive. do not compromise on your principles for pussy.\nDo not reward bad behavior with affection\nActually talk to the girl.\nto be continued.","title":"The Setup: My Takeaways"},{"content":"The Rudest Book Every by Shwetabh Gangwar You are a nation - foreign policy should be to not hand over authority to other people/nations\nPeople are weird - they are phenomenons\nJudge based on data, not feelings, impressions or narratives.\nBe rational\nLearn to think for yourself by solving your own problems - Hamza\u0026rsquo;s idea of stare at your wall and think.\nYou don\u0026rsquo;t know more than you know. Everyone is therefore stupid.\nAdmire people, don\u0026rsquo;t follow them. They are humans, not heroes. Do not idealize people.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/rudest-book-ever/","summary":"The Rudest Book Every by Shwetabh Gangwar You are a nation - foreign policy should be to not hand over authority to other people/nations\nPeople are weird - they are phenomenons\nJudge based on data, not feelings, impressions or narratives.\nBe rational\nLearn to think for yourself by solving your own problems - Hamza\u0026rsquo;s idea of stare at your wall and think.\nYou don\u0026rsquo;t know more than you know. Everyone is therefore stupid.","title":"The Rudest Book Ever: My Takeaways"},{"content":"The Science Of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love by Ty Tashiro Choose the right partner in the first place\nLove comprises Liking and Lust. Liking comprises fair, kind and loyal.\nLiking declines at 3% a year and lust declines at 8% a year. Lust declines so don\u0026rsquo;t focus on it\nIdea: you have 3 wishes after which you mathematically don\u0026rsquo;t find a person lke that who exists. But fuck that, self improvement high value male\u0026rsquo;s sampling bias is the top 1% pussy.\nStudies suggest partners have similar attractiveness and education level - raise both to find a better mate\nChildren at wealthy homes can be stressed due to pressure to achieve and isolation from parents - initate good habits from the beginning such achieving becomes easy and full time father.\nThe more you earn, the lower the divorce rate\nAppreciate, don\u0026rsquo;t tolerate. Go to the movies because it makes her happy, and be happy with that\nDo not let resentment build - talk about what you\u0026rsquo;re feeling with your partner.\nAlso, secure attachment style\nMarriage or kids do not change people. Remember that. What you see is what you get\nSee personality - you want high in openness, low in neuroticism, high conscientiousness, high agreeableness. Pay attention to friends scores, they have proven to be more accurate than lovers'.\nHigh openness and low conscientiousness will fuck you. so will high neuroticism. High agreeableness people fuck better.\nIn-laws matter.\nanxious feel more, avoidant feel less - both positive and negative. Avoidants divorce more.\nOne can be secure despite shitty childhood. Avoidants: don\u0026rsquo;t run and anxious: don\u0026rsquo;t panic.\nAtleast 5 positive interactions to one negative interaction.\nYou want a partner who does not always attribute behavior to you.\nAvoid demanding withdrawing pattern. When you are asking for something or being asked for something, there should not be blame or pressure attached. Giving in to such demands will cause an addiction by the random positive reinforcement mechanism.\nCapitalization: meet your partners enthusiasm when sharing good news. Do not be passive. Be active and constructive.\nOptimize for your ultimate goal. ex. less novelty seeking - no band guys, no sleeping on first date.\nFor you: go bald and stop wearing flashy clothes. Don\u0026rsquo;t arrange dates at night.\nTo be continued.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/science-of-happily-ever-after/","summary":"The Science Of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love by Ty Tashiro Choose the right partner in the first place\nLove comprises Liking and Lust. Liking comprises fair, kind and loyal.\nLiking declines at 3% a year and lust declines at 8% a year. Lust declines so don\u0026rsquo;t focus on it\nIdea: you have 3 wishes after which you mathematically don\u0026rsquo;t find a person lke that who exists.","title":"The Science of Happily Ever After: My Takeaways"},{"content":"Attached: The Science of Adult Attachment by Amir Levine \u0026ldquo;Most people are only as needy as their unmet needs\u0026rdquo;.\nYou are dependent on each other, biologically\nDate secure people. I am secure. Roof claims avoidance. Phool is avoidant. Mother is anxious. Father is avoidant. I had anxious tendencies. I don\u0026rsquo;t anymore, and I attribute that to Vihaan.\nIf youre dating anxious: respond to their calls and cries for help, reassure them, calm them down , tell them you\u0026rsquo;ll be back in some time.\nUse effective communication: \u0026ldquo;I love you very much; I need to know that you are there for me all the time. I know I can talk to you everyday and not just when it is convenient for you. I don\u0026rsquo;t want to have to cover up my wish to spend time with you for fear of driving you away.\u0026rdquo;\nIn a relationship, the other person well being becomes your responsibility, meeting their needs does as well.\nAvoidant: 1. dont date, if you do - talk when they are distracted by another task - ability to repress decreases, true feelings can surface. You can use this in general - walking, cooking, closing eyes for example, even cuddling.\nThese people will have a phantom ex they will always compare you to.\nEffective communication: \u0026ldquo;I understand that you\u0026rsquo;re frightened and there might be some comfort for you if I feel frightened too, but if you\u0026rsquo;re trying to encourage me to be more efficient at work - which you often do - this isn\u0026rsquo;t the best way to do it.\u0026rdquo;\nSECURE PEOPLE DONT PLAY GAMES. LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE BACK. Stop the red pill game playing BS. Authenticity 100\nThey are: great conflict busters, mentally flexible, effective communicators, not game players, comfortable with closeness and unconcerned about boundaries, quick to forgive, inclined to view sex and emotional intimacy, treat their partners as royalty, secure in their power to improve the relationship, responsible for their partner\u0026rsquo;s well-being.\nTo become secure: be available, don\u0026rsquo;t interfere, encourage\nwhen to consider breaking up or that you\u0026rsquo;re with the wrong person or they need to change their behaviour: you feel agitated, worried or jealous (anxious traits) or you think twice before expressing your feelings or you become less trusting or start playing games (avoidant traits)\nPrime security - remind each other of security-enhancing experiences often\nDo relationship inventory - page 122 kidle or 174 paperback\nAnxious partner - message when getting or late or shit - even a thinking of you goes a long way\nIndifference does not connote security\nMake your house a place you and your spouse want to come to after a long day of work, instead of a battlefield\nNever take shit behaviour, they have to get better, don\u0026rsquo;t let shit become the norm.\nAvoidants use sex to distance themselves. May even only focus on PiV with rules like no kissing. An avoidant\u0026rsquo;s inner circle is also treated like shit - if you are ashamed to tell others how you are treated and are surprised when people tell you how sweet, nice, or considerate your mate is.\nNaisha brought out the anxious in me. Is Roof also doing so?\nWhen broken up. heat yourself, eat good food, exercise and cuddle with a friend or be pet by them.\nWhen you have good memories, remind yourself of the bad ones or ask your friend to.\nRemember: No break up sex.\nUse Effective communication:\nYou want the partner to: get to the bottom of your concerns respond to the issue at hand and not dodge you take your concerns seriously and not belittle you find ways to make you feel better and not be busy acting defensive be in tune with your emotional well-being, not only factually or court-of-law\nhow to communicate effectively: wear your heart on your sleeve focus on your needs be specific don\u0026rsquo;t blame be assertive and non-apologetic\nfollow script at kindle page 170\nfor conflict: express your fears, don\u0026rsquo;t repress them You are not to blame for your SO\u0026rsquo;s behaviour your partner does not know what you are thinking. Tell them. Don\u0026rsquo;t assume you know what partner means - ask - repeat what you understand to them\nTo end: Be your authentic self your attachment needs are legitimate you will depend on the person you are closest to - it is a part of your genetic makeup a relationship should make you feel more self-confident and give you peace of mind, not the other way around. Is it the other way around with Roof. I think so, there is an emotional turmoil there that I do not feel with Arya.\nBooks: attachment in adulthood attachment theory and close relationships Healing together\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/attached/","summary":"Attached: The Science of Adult Attachment by Amir Levine \u0026ldquo;Most people are only as needy as their unmet needs\u0026rdquo;.\nYou are dependent on each other, biologically\nDate secure people. I am secure. Roof claims avoidance. Phool is avoidant. Mother is anxious. Father is avoidant. I had anxious tendencies. I don\u0026rsquo;t anymore, and I attribute that to Vihaan.\nIf youre dating anxious: respond to their calls and cries for help, reassure them, calm them down , tell them you\u0026rsquo;ll be back in some time.","title":"Attached: My Takeaways"},{"content":"The Magic Of Thinking Big by David Schwartz By David Schwartz\n\u0026ldquo;Why be only half alive?\u0026rdquo;\nClasp hand. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m glad to know you.\u0026rdquo;\nWear you best clothes - spend twice as much and buy half as much.\nIntroduce yourself to everyone. Smile. Stand up straight.\nThink progressively - eat more good mind food (mind food is media consumption)\nAsk yourself \u0026ldquo;what can I do to improve?\u0026rdquo; Answers will come to you.\nTake interest in the other person. Listen. Put yourself in their shoes and then make a decision as a leader.\nYou will reach where you aim.\nThink I can and you will - excuses are only a mind game.\nAction cures fear - do.\n\u0026ldquo;underneath he is probably a very nice guy. Most people are.\u0026rdquo;\nYou can placebo yourself into feeling better. Do it.\n\u0026ldquo;Big people monopolize listening.\u0026rdquo; Listen.\nTo get ideas, stimulate your brain - books and people are stimulation.\n\u0026ldquo;Am I worthy of being imitated in every way?\u0026rdquo;\nManipulate your environment for success.\nSeek advice from the right people, people who have achieved what you want to do.\nDo not fucking gossip.\nGrow the service-first attitude. Provide excellence and money will follow.\nRemember names. Don\u0026rsquo;t judge. Be humble and equanimous. Praise everytime you can. Show genuine interest\nLearn from your failures. Better your systems.\nSet goals and form a plan, then follow it. To the T.\nHandle thigs the human, the kind way.\nSpend time in solitude, to think. You can meditate, you can use a pen and paper.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/magic-of-thinking-big/","summary":"The Magic Of Thinking Big by David Schwartz By David Schwartz\n\u0026ldquo;Why be only half alive?\u0026rdquo;\nClasp hand. \u0026ldquo;I\u0026rsquo;m glad to know you.\u0026rdquo;\nWear you best clothes - spend twice as much and buy half as much.\nIntroduce yourself to everyone. Smile. Stand up straight.\nThink progressively - eat more good mind food (mind food is media consumption)\nAsk yourself \u0026ldquo;what can I do to improve?\u0026rdquo; Answers will come to you.","title":"The Magic of Thinking Big: My Takeaways"},{"content":"#Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely\nDon\u0026rsquo;t fall for the decoy effect.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t fall for the anchoring effect - ifyou do, anchor yoursekf un a way that rationally benefits you.\nDn\u0026rsquo;t fall for the self-herding or arbitrary coherence effect - think each decision through. Don\u0026rsquo;t substitute a difficlt problem for an easy one.\nUse your appearance and body language to anchor your social value\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/predictably-irrational/","summary":"#Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely\nDon\u0026rsquo;t fall for the decoy effect.\nDon\u0026rsquo;t fall for the anchoring effect - ifyou do, anchor yoursekf un a way that rationally benefits you.\nDn\u0026rsquo;t fall for the self-herding or arbitrary coherence effect - think each decision through. Don\u0026rsquo;t substitute a difficlt problem for an easy one.\nUse your appearance and body language to anchor your social value","title":"Predictably Irrational: My Takeaways"},{"content":"How To Not Die Alone by Logan Ury Romanticizer: 8\nMaximizer: 17\nHesitater: 9\nI am a maximizer.\nExperential \u0026gt; checklist\nDon\u0026rsquo;t ghost\nBe explicit - avoid false consensus effect\ndecide, don\u0026rsquo;t slide\nTo be rewritten.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/how-to-not-die-alone/","summary":"How To Not Die Alone by Logan Ury Romanticizer: 8\nMaximizer: 17\nHesitater: 9\nI am a maximizer.\nExperential \u0026gt; checklist\nDon\u0026rsquo;t ghost\nBe explicit - avoid false consensus effect\ndecide, don\u0026rsquo;t slide\nTo be rewritten.","title":"How to Not Die Alone: My Takeaways"},{"content":"Do Epic Shit by Ankur Warikoo Plan out day ahead\nShare calendar with loved one\nWork clothes only when working, even if remote.\nMental model for tough decisions: What is the worst outcome in this scenario? Will I be okay? How do I bounce back\nI have \u0026gt; I could have - risk \u0026gt; regret.\n\u0026ldquo;What would most people do\u0026rdquo;. Look at alternatives. \u0026ldquo;What would Adonis/Micheal Jordan/ best me do?\u0026rdquo;\nShow one how he is wrong. Don\u0026rsquo;t instruct.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/do-epic-shit/","summary":"Do Epic Shit by Ankur Warikoo Plan out day ahead\nShare calendar with loved one\nWork clothes only when working, even if remote.\nMental model for tough decisions: What is the worst outcome in this scenario? Will I be okay? How do I bounce back\nI have \u0026gt; I could have - risk \u0026gt; regret.\n\u0026ldquo;What would most people do\u0026rdquo;. Look at alternatives. \u0026ldquo;What would Adonis/Micheal Jordan/ best me do?\u0026rdquo;","title":"Do Epic Shit: My Takeaways"},{"content":"Homo Deus - A Brief History Of Tomorrow Author: Yuval Noah Harari Fiction?: Non-Fiction Format: Paperback Genres: Sci-Fi, Technology\n  Chapter 1: The New Human Agenda\nChina is now free from famine\n90% of American natives died as a result of diseases brought by the Europeans\nPreviously, pandemics were impossible due to the small human populations, only epidemics existed.\n\u0026ldquo;Between action and reaction, there is space. In that space lies freedom.\u0026rdquo; don\u0026rsquo;t let empty terrorist threats provoke you.\nHumanity\u0026rsquo;s ambition is non-satiable.\nThe journey is what makes us happy, not the goal. Flirting and foreplay are more exciting than having an orgasm.\nEternal bliss would stop reproduction altogether.\nImmoderate pursuit of pleasure is likely to make you miserable rather than happy.\nBiologically speaking, happiness is pleasure.\nHumans are organic algorithms.\nBuy an EEG device someday.\nOur wildest dreams are a product of organic chemistry.\nUpgrading humans to gods is a matter scale, not omnipotence.\nThe Old Testament does not promise haven, instead it promises crop and wine.\nRig the evolutionary lottery: fertilize multiple eggs and choose the most genetically favorable one.\n3 parent babies are now possible thanks to in vitro tech. The 3rd parent contibutes Mitochondrial DNA.\nYou cannot resist tech to healing. Upgrading\u0026rsquo;s proposition is irresistible.\nThe more we know, the less we can predict. Everybody exploits the knowledge, outdating it. Eg. Karl Marx predicting fall of capitalism ensured its survival.\nKnowledge that cannot be acted upon is useless. Knowledge that does chage behavoir is quickly rendered obsolete.\nThe pasted is studied not to perpetuate it, but rather to be liberated from it.\n\u0026ldquo;The relationship between humans and animals may beth ebest model we have for future relations between humans and superhumans.\u0026rdquo; What about white masters and colored slaves?\n  Chapter 2: The Anthropocene\nEve means female snake.\nSnakes are not our enemies but our ancestors. - the Eve Myth\nThe Bible was a by-product of the agricultural revolutions, where new animal-human relations emerged.\nToday more than 90% of all large mammals are domesticated.\nDomesticated species pay for their unparalleled collective success with unprecedented individual suffering\nCreatured in the modern day have inherited traits from their encestors that are redundant now. Humans - love for sugar, cattle, poultry - emotional needs.\nEmotions are biochemical algorithms, which are common to all mammals.\nHabits are algorithms on autopilot\nSensations and emotions are desires\nSexual attraction is an algorithm that ensures successful offspring.\nAll mammals share the mother-infant bond. It is vital for offspring\u0026rsquo;s survival.\nMamma is Latin for breast.\nCater to your children\u0026rsquo;s emotional needs.\nThe meat and dairy industries break the most fundamental mammal bond, the mother-infant bond.\nFarmers justified exploitation of domesticated animals by inventing new theist religions.\nThe agricultural deal: God will supply rain, crop and wine in return for sacrifices. This silenced all non human entities, crushing Animism.\n  Chapter 3: The Human Spark\nEvolution is incapable of producing everlasting entities such as souls.\nThe mind is a flow of subjective expriences, such as love anger and pain.\nThe better we understand neurobiology, the more difficult it become to explain concious feelings.\nExperience of pain is a tangible reality\nProbablistically, we are living in a simulation.\nBY humanising animals we undermine their unique abilities, and intelligence.\nSpecies-wide intelligence = flexibility/compromise + large-scale cooperation\nBonobos use sex to cement social bonds. We could learn something from them.\nHumans are irrational economic agents.\nInter-subjective realities enable large scale cooperation generating supreme species\nTurbans and beards are a way of saying, \u0026lsquo;you can trust me, I believe the same story as you.\u0026rsquo;\nReligion is inter-subjective, a self-perpetuating loop.\nA lack of imagination disables animals to stand up to the human bourgeoisie\nWhat differ North Korea and south Korea are their different fictions.\n  Part 2: Homo Sapiens Gives Meaning to the World\n  Chapter 4: The Storytellers\nTriple-layered reality: objective, subjective, inter-subjective\nGods were inter-subjective entities that gained power, wealth and properties, just like corporations.\nWriting and money enable mass taxation.\nThe essence of bureaucracy is each person being a small cog in a huge gearbox - specialization\nInaccurate descriptions produce rebellions, so holy scriptures have gotten more precise over time. Until, the religion gets too powerful and begin to bend reality to its descriptions.\nSchool shifted from true understanding to marks.\nTrue Entity \u0026ldquo;Can it suffer?\u0026rdquo; If not, not true entity.\n  Chapter 5: The Odd Couple\n\u0026ldquo;God helps those who help themselves\u0026rdquo; Meaning: God does not exist, the placebo only inspires people - it helps.\nYou don\u0026rsquo;t derive your values from your religion.\nReligion is created by humans, not gods. \u0026ldquo;Religion is not measures by deities, but its social function. An all -encompassing story that confers superhuman legitimacy on human laws, norms and values.\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;Science always needs religious assistance in order to create viable human institutions.\u0026rdquo; Myth is too powerful.\nEthical Judgement - Humans ought to obey God\u0026rsquo;s commands\nFactual Judgement - About 3,000 years ago God commanded humans to avoid homosexual activites\nPractical guidelines - amalgamation - People should avoid homosexual activities.\nAccording to our best knowledge, the scriptures reflect only the biases of priests and rabbis.\nSam Harris - No ethical dispute - only factual disagreements between people of different religions.\nMordern history: humanism vs science\n  Chapter 6: The Modern Covenant\n\u0026ldquo;humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;We constrained by nothing except our own ignorance\u0026rdquo;\nScientific progress has a direct relationship with the economy\n\u0026ldquo;Credit is the economic manifestation of trust.\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;As long as humankind multiplies, economic growth is needed merely to stay where we are.\u0026rdquo;\nWealth is not a zero sum game, status is.\nOne commandment of capitalism: \u0026ldquo;thou shalt invest thy profits in increasing growth\u0026rdquo;\nKnowledge is a growing resource, the more you use, the more you have.\n\u0026ldquo;Th egreatest scientific discovery was the discovery of our own ignorance.\u0026rdquo;\nThe Hedonic Treadmill: Yesterday\u0026rsquo;s luxuries become today\u0026rsquo;s necessities.\nHumanism: The Modern Religion\n  Chapter 7: The Humanist revolution\n\u0026ldquo;It is impossible to sustain order without meaning.\u0026rdquo;\n\u0026ldquo;Humanism expects human to give meaning to the cosmos.\u0026rdquo;\nThe Bible: Knowledge =Scriptures x Logic; Scientific Revolution: Knowledge = Empirical Data x Mathematics; Humanism: Knowledge = Experiences x Sensitivity\n\u0026ldquo;Every scientific yang contains within it a humanist yin\u0026rdquo;\nSocialism —\u0026gt; Group identity. This is dangerous.\nSocialist Politics: Party knows best. Socialist Economics: Trade union knows best.\nCredit for defeating Nazism goes to Communism\nGod is dead - it is just taking a while to get rid of the body.\n  Part 3: Homo Sapiens Loses Control\n  Chapter 8: The Time Bomb In The Laboratory\nMen don\u0026rsquo;t choose their desires, only feel them\nPeak-End Rule. Small Peak. Easy End.\nMost decisions are a result of a tug of war between different and often conflicting inner entities.\nThe Sunken Cost fallacy is a flaw of the experiencing self.\n\u0026ldquo;Humans are master of cognitive dissonance.\u0026rdquo;\n  Chapter 9: The Great Decoupling\nOrganisms are algorithms - machines can gauge your emotions with the same accuracy as recognizing your tumors.\nArt is organic algorithm recognizing mathematical patterns.\nThe crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.\nHumans are \u0026lsquo;dividuals\u0026rsquo;\nAlgorithms won\u0026rsquo;t enslave us, rather they will be so good, it will be madness not to follow their advice.\n21st century medicine is aimed at upgrading the healthy.\n  Chapter 10: The Ocean Of Consciousness\n  Chapter 11: The Data Religion\n\u0026ldquo;Pointing out that exactly the same mathematical laws apply to both biochemical and electronic algorithms. Dataism thereby collapse the barrier between animals and machines, and expects electronic algorithms to eventually decipher and outperform biochemical algorithms.\u0026rdquo;\nFree-market capitalism and controlled communism aren\u0026rsquo;t competing ideologies, theyre competing data-processing systems.\nDecentralized data processing system is the future. Distributed data processing is capitalism\u0026rsquo;s silver bullet.\nGovernment manages the country, no longer leads it.\nHistory: More Data processors, more variety of processors, more bandwidth between data processors, Free flowing data between processors.\n\u0026ldquo;What is death, if not a state where information does not flow?\u0026rdquo;\nDataism: Human experiences are not intrinsically valuable. The neuromodulators are?\n  Glossary\nenvisaged:\nimperceptibly:\nsuperfluous:\neponymous:\nveracity:\nhallowed:\nprimatologist:\nstultified:\nobfuscating:\nshroud:\npilfering:\nAvarice:\nassuaged:\nschism:\nobscurantist:\ncul-de-sac:\nbereft:\nunassailable:\n  Books Mentioned\nAll Quiet on the Western Front\nPlatoon\nBlack Hawk Down\nMein Kampf\nMeditations by Marcus Arelius\nOn the Origin Of Species\nThe History Of Sexuality\nA Cyborg Manifesto\nThe Future Of Emploment\nThe Singularity is Near\n  ","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/homo-deus/","summary":"Homo Deus - A Brief History Of Tomorrow Author: Yuval Noah Harari Fiction?: Non-Fiction Format: Paperback Genres: Sci-Fi, Technology\n  Chapter 1: The New Human Agenda\nChina is now free from famine\n90% of American natives died as a result of diseases brought by the Europeans\nPreviously, pandemics were impossible due to the small human populations, only epidemics existed.\n\u0026ldquo;Between action and reaction, there is space. In that space lies freedom.","title":"Homo Deus: My Notes"},{"content":"Sapiens - A Brief History Of Humankind Author: Yuval Noah Harari Fiction?: Non-Fiction Format: Paperback Genres: History\nHome sapiens - Man Wise\nMultiple species of humans inhabited earth contemporaneously at different locations.\nThe singularity of Homo Sapiens is peculiar.\nNeanderthals had bigger brains than us, why are they extinct now?\nA culture is a collection of behavior patter caused by (regional) imagined realities.\n Replacement theory - Sapiens replaced all other human populations. This is the the adopted currently as it is more politically correct (The left cannot admit actual differences between the races) But modern human populations DNA contains DNA of Neanderthals and Denisovans.  Compensation for larger, more energy hungry brains are more hunting and atrophied muscles.\nHuman kind started to walk upright, paid for unparalleled vision and insane dexterity with backaches and stiff necks. Women suffered furthermore, walking upright called for narrower hips, constricting the birth canal, just when heads were getting bigger. As a result, they started giving birth, earlier when heads were smaller (natural selection).\n\u0026ldquo;It takes a tribe to raise a human\u0026rdquo;\nThe domestication of fire helped enabled us to stumble upon cooking, allowing Sapiens and Neanderthals to shorten their intestines, decreases the Thermic Effect Of Food (TEF), allowing for more fuel to reach our massive brain more efficiently.\nChapter 2\nTheory: Accidental Genetic mutations caused Sapiens' enhanced cognitive ability.\nLanguage decreased the bandwidth limitation from \u0026ldquo;Careful!Lion!\u0026rdquo; to gossiping in extraordinary detail. Which contributes to enhanced large scale cooperation. Language was likely mainly used and is to this day used for gossiping.\nOur language is unique in its ability to convey abstraction and fiction.\nONLY NOTES I HAVE TAKEN IN PENCIL:\nA company is a legal entity, so is Peugot\nLuck/chance + Natural selection = Slow evolution\nGoodc climate + constant food = settle down\nHas the industrial revolution slowed evolution down by enabling the spread of unremarkable genes?\nForager economy had people doing more interesting work than agriculture. Less fulfilment for more pleasure? no, multi-factorial, eg, comfort\nEfficiency comes at the cost of fragility.\nWhy dont people move? 1.Comfort 2. Sunken Cost Fallacy\nForager times - More =ve, more -ve, less baseline\nWas pre-historic infanticide common?\nDuring the hunter-gatherer era polygamy reigned supreme.\nLearn to connect dots.\nAnimism (from \u0026ldquo;anima\u0026rdquo;, or \u0026lsquo;soul\u0026rsquo; or \u0026lsquo;spirit\u0026rsquo; in Latin) is he belief taht almost every place, every animal, every plant and every natural phenomenon has awareness and feeling and can communicate directly with humans. So literal personification?\nAre hindus animist towards oak trees?\nModern day foragers (uncontacted tribes) can be matched for/ extrapolated from their ancient counterparts. Multiple variables (modern day authorities preventing large scale battles) come into play.\nPre-history may have been filled with comtemporary wars and peace at different locations on earth.\nHumanity\u0026rsquo;s ability to manipulate our environment and think in the future sets us apart. take advantage of this. Manipulate your environment to form desirable habits.\nSapiens\u0026rsquo;skill to build and steer boats enabled them to migrate to Australia. Develop skills, they will compound and pay off, eventually.\nPehle: Top of food chain\nAbhi: Top of dominance heirarchy\nMammoths bred slowly (long pregnancies and few offspring) and were unable to develop a fear of human beings (we don\u0026rsquo;t look deadly) and thus were hunted to extinction. We also changed their climate. Attacked them from multiple angles. Be a silent killer, with multiple strategies. The underdog, so to speak.\nWhy did humans venture to a freezing Siberia? From what we know: Animal protein, which could even be frozen for later consumption.\nWe have trashed several ecosystems and killed many species to extinction. Will we do the same with the Earth?\n  First Wave (of extinction)\nHumans went to America. Fucked it up: hunter almost everything out of existence. Borke food chain. Then went to Australia, then New Zealand and did the same.\n  Madagascar and Galepegos faced simiar destinies - Cognitive Revolution\nSecond Wave (of extinction) : Farming\nThrid Wave (of extinction): industrialization, pollution. This time, killing sea creatures.\nWe might one day drive planetary extinction.\nWe rose to the top of the food chain by changing our environment or adapting to it. We can impact our surroundings massively. Use that ability:\n Kill silently Learn skills Manipulate your environment for the best outcomes  Part Two:\nIQ is largely genetic and unchanging, even today.\nThe avg farmer worked harder than the avg forager and recieved a worse diet in return. Wheat and roce have domesticated us, not the other way around.\nWe are programmed to be a part of a group.\nWheat enabled humans to produce more food per unit of territory and thus, grow exponentially.\nHumans observed what occured by chance and replicated what produced favourable outcomes. Eg. Selective breeding: Exploiting natural selection for favourable outcomes\nChild Mortality, a snapshot of country\u0026rsquo;s degree of development (factufulness) was lower in farmer than in foragers.\nDo something, analyze, dont dwell.\nWrite deliberate detailed messages with options/instructions for an answer to save time.\nThe shit people do for faith. Insane. Paradoxically, I understand going against rational odds.\nChicken won evolution but sacrificed quality of life. Happiness\u0026gt;Evolutionary success\nPower of faith and belief systems is underestimated.\nAgriculture is the embodiment of sacrificing the present for the future.\ntake advantage of massive events, you cunning capitalist.\nThe 3 Cs of friendship: Communication, Cooperation, Copulation\nImagined order and myths are intersubjective, they on work when multiple people believe them.\nRomanticism, encourages variety goes will with consumerism. Thus is born the tourism industry, which sells experiences.\n\u0026ldquo;A single priest does the work of a 100 soldiers far more cheaply and effectively\u0026rdquo;\ncooperation is not always voluntary.\nthe ability to look into the future was a curse for farmer because they could do something about it.\nagricultural revolution made us selfish, our territory to my house.\nchapter 7:\nUse a second brain - Notion, some kind of organizational system\nDocument ehat is happening\nHuman brains come eqipped with a large database of nature - river, fruits, vegetables etc, difficult to replicat in AI. This is an issue in the robotics world.\nWriting is a data-processing system furst invented by Sumerians.\nMake data input intantaneous - Neralink\nBrain —\u0026gt;Free associations\nBureaucracy - rigid file cabinet system\nMath - the language of computers\nAnimals have laws and function in heirarchies coded into the genome.\nProblem with brain: Limited capacity, Only remembers survival related data, Transfer bandwidth too low. Brain is a compression decompression device - Elon Musk\ndecriminalisation is not equal to legalization\n\u0026ldquo;Biology enables, culture forbids\u0026rdquo;\nCulture is a group of artificial instincts cuased by regional imagined orders.\nA culture\u0026rsquo;s values are constantly changing\nevery man-made order is packed with internal contradictions.\nA culture tries to amend its contradictions and chnages itself in doing so.\nPehle: christianity vs chivalry. Now: liberty vs equality\nContradictory beliefs are called cognitive dissonance\nMultiple small cultures merge into more complex giant ones.\nThere are no influence free cultures left on earth.\nIn the first century AD 3 things brought us together\n Money King/imperial order/law Religion    Chapter 10: The Scent Of Money\nPehle: Favours and obligation\nThen: barley - biological value, but difficult to store and transport\nthen: silver - no value - pure imagned value, but had to be wieghed\nthen: silver coins - all good - mutual trust - value of silver/gold in more regions when trade occurs. Equal weight and stampage reinforces its value\n90% world the world\u0026rsquo;s money is 1s and 0s - bits in banks\n  Chapter 11: Imperial Visions\n\u0026ldquo;An Empire that cannot sustain a blow and remain stamding is not really an empire.\u0026rdquo;\nEmpire qualifications: 1. Rule 3 to 30 nations. 2. Non-concrete bodies 3. Hunger for expansion\nBigger the empire, more similar the culture - some degree of ethnic cleansing;standardisation\nIt will take 2500 years to form a truly global empire.\nIf empire falls, order falls, chaos ensues. New empire emerges eg. Hindustan\nKings not only funded armies but art too, eg. Mozart\u0026rsquo;s commissions\nKings generally look after their subject\u0026rsquo;s welfare\nMore imperialism, bigger the cultural meting pot.\nWe are a product of previous empires, eg, English, chai\nNext empire: global, more people are rejecting nationalism and adopting humanity.\n  Chapter 12: The Law Of Religion\nThe rise of monotheism raised the value of Gods and Humankind and crushed Animism.\nPolytheism: The Omnipotent God is devoid of interests and biases. Therefore men can only deal with partial gods who have biases and interests, such as Ganesha, Laxmi and Saraswati.\nThe potential for evil in the world is more noticeable than evil itself.\nSyncretism: Believing in the Monotheist God, Dualist Devil, Polytheist Saints, Animist ghosts.\nStoicism is a religion.\nSuperhuman (Theory of Relativity) is not equal to Supernatural (Vampires). Religion is a part of both.\n  Chapter 13: The Secret Of Success\nThe Hindsight Fallacy: (Like Duning Kruger Effect) The more you know a historical period the harder it is to explain events and their consequence. The more superficial your knowledge the easir it is to explain it becuase your rely on hindsight heavily. don\u0026rsquo;t fall for this.\nA predictable revolution never erupts.\nWe study history not to make accurate predictions of the future, but to recognize the width of possible outcomes.\nMemes are cultural information units\nCultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.\nMore competition, higher the skill for the same rank\n\u0026ldquo;People who make history take unexpected turns.\u0026rdquo;\nWhy? : Causation\nHow? : Process or journey to outcome\nOutcomes of history, eg, liberalism are a coincidence as far as we can tell.\n  Part 4: The Scientific Revolution\n  Chapter 14: The Discovery Of Ignorance\nPower, Resources and research form a feedback loop, the Scientific Revolution\u0026rsquo;s feedback loop.\nScientific Revolution is the revolution of ignorance\nSociopolitical order is largely non scientific: Declaring a Contrarian scientific practice/theory the final and absolute truth (Communism or Nazism) or Living in accordance with a non- scientific truth (Liberal Humanism the the belief in the unique worth and rights of human beings)\\\nSet aside money for research - in athletics - training, recovery, nutrition.\nTry New Shit: unpowder was an accident, and was used for fireworks for 600 years therafter before being adopted for cannons.\nMajor leaps in 100 years:\n Population - 14x Product - 240x Energy - 115x  Math enabled invention of statistics which then enabled insurance.\nResearch is funded due to non-scientific interests such as profit or politics\nBible: Poverty is part of society\nModernity: Eradicating Biological Poverty\nGoal of doctors/healthcare industry = immortality.\n  Chapter 15: The Marriage of Science and Empire\nScience is fuelled by economics\nSuperpowers can be defeated if the local struggle becomes a global cause. Make your struggle a global cause. Show your work. Claim your ignorance.\nCapitalism —\u0026gt; Inperialism —\u0026gt; Science\nBe careful of invaders\nPersian and sanskrit evolved from the same language, What we noe call \u0026ldquo;The Indo-European language\u0026rdquo;\nWhy Europe? Asia lacked the imagined realities and sociopolitical order of Europe.\n  Chapter 16: The Capitalist Creed\nCapitalism created trust in growth, in a better future, giving rise to credit\nFree market can result in, interalia, slavery opium addiction\nEarly history - No credit - economy was frozenand remained so until credit became popular.\nFeedback loop: More Credit —\u0026gt;More business —\u0026gt; More profit —\u0026gt; more lending\nBusinesses create jobs\nBANKS ARE GENIUS\nI earn, i pay you, you buy my product, I earn - feedback loop\nMore invention, more tech, more economic growth, higher standard of living.\nGive loans, don\u0026rsquo;t take them.\nGovernment\u0026rsquo;s job is to ensure fairness in the market\nMonopoly causes death of competition and unfair wealth distribution.\n  Chaper 17: The Wheels of Industry\nJumping pot lids silently showed humanity the power on converting energy. Humans did not realize this for a long time\n\u0026ldquo;The only limit is set by our ignorance\u0026rdquo;\nIndustrial Revolution = Second Agricultural Revolution? Agriculture was largely mechanised. fertiliser was invented, poultry and cattle farming came into picture.\nKilling imperfect chicken is fuelled by indifference not hatred. I feel like indifference is the opposite of love.\nChildren need an emotional bond.\nMore energy used, more innovation to harvest energy, more energy available, feedback loop.\nPehle: Sun —\u0026gt; Plant —\u0026gt; Muscle\nWe consume 90 mins of energy sun gives to the Earth\u0026rsquo;s surface. Better Energy harvesting protocols needed.\nPehle 90% farms, now 2%\nObesity is good for the economy: buy food AND diet products\n  Chapter 18: A Permanent Revolution\nPublic tranportation was crucial in the mass adoption of Precise timetables.\nPreviously, family was the most important unit. Thus, welfare systems did not exist.\nMost Empires were little more than protection rackets.\nEmpires broke the forces of family and community via individualism. Cannot refuse individualism.\nIndividualism has now rendered women not the property of their family\nIndividuals may be exploited by markets, or prosecute them, yet individualism stands too compelling.\nIndividualism and our deep need of tribal bonds have given rise to Imagined communities: A community in which members do not know each but think they do. Usually have a common interest that unites them, eg, MTBers.\nReal peace is not the mere absence of war. Real peace is the implausibility of war.\nNulclear weapons have turned war into collective suicide, killing domination by force of arms. War is no longer profitable.\nIndustrial revolution enabled specialization and division of labour\nEconomy of favours to free market\n  Chapter 19: They Lived Happily Ever After\nExpect nothing, appreciate everything, have a good marriage = happiness formula\nHappiness is looking back at a meaningful life.\n\u0026ldquo;If you have a why, can bear almost any how\u0026rdquo;\nBuddhism —\u0026gt; Stop craving Pleasure —\u0026gt; Happiness (In line with my food habits)\nHappy hormones —\u0026gt;oxytocin (wifi hormone), dopamine, serotonin\nPleasure is not equal to happiness\nmore choice results in lower commitment\nexpectation is MASSIVe in serotonin release\nNatiral selection uses happy hormones to get us to reproduce.\nBliss is not equal to happiness\nBiologically, life is meaningless\nAny meaning associated to evolution is meaningless.\nHappiness is mutating, society\u0026rsquo;s delusion is my delusion.\n  Chapter 20: The End Of Homo Sapiens\nPehle: Natural selection\nNow: Intelligent design\nShit (E. coli) can now be genetically engineered to produce biofuel or insulin\nGeneteic engineering may turn Homo Sapiens to something else altogether - A Second Cognitive Revolution?\nPatents on DNA Sequences?\nEmotional singularity - Nirvana?\nThe real question facing us is not \u0026ldquo;what do we want to become?\u0026rdquo;, but \u0026quot; What do we want to want?\u0026quot;\n  Glossary:\ncoalesce :come together to form one mass or whole; gather\ninclement: (of the weather) unpleasantly cold or wet.\nsalient: most noticeable or important\nvociferously: in a loud and forceful manner.\nchimeras: A chimera is essentially a single organism that\u0026rsquo;s made up of cells from two or more \u0026ldquo;individuals\u0026rdquo;—that is, it contains two sets of DNA, with the code to make two separate organisms. One way that chimeras can happen naturally in humans is that a fetus can absorb its twin.\n  Books Mentioned\nThe Siege Of Numantia\nDas Kapital\nMein Kampf\nThe New Instrument\nThe Wealth Of Nations\nBrave New World\nFrankenstein\n  ","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/posts/sapiens/","summary":"Sapiens - A Brief History Of Humankind Author: Yuval Noah Harari Fiction?: Non-Fiction Format: Paperback Genres: History\nHome sapiens - Man Wise\nMultiple species of humans inhabited earth contemporaneously at different locations.\nThe singularity of Homo Sapiens is peculiar.\nNeanderthals had bigger brains than us, why are they extinct now?\nA culture is a collection of behavior patter caused by (regional) imagined realities.\n Replacement theory - Sapiens replaced all other human populations.","title":"Sapiens: My Notes"},{"content":"","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/read/","summary":"","title":""},{"content":"Thank you for reading my blog!\nSign up for my email newsletter or use this RSS feed to get notified of new blog posts.\n","permalink":"https://ilyaas.netlify.app/subscribe/","summary":"Thank you for reading my blog!\nSign up for my email newsletter or use this RSS feed to get notified of new blog posts.","title":""}]