This hilarious conversation between a smart kid and a doctor is no doubt hilarious.
The key thing to notice here is how both are able to give completely different explanations to the same situation/ reality and all attempts to counter the logic fails.
Sometimes, we are in the kids domain and we perceive the world in a way. Maybe, there is an alternate explanation to things.
We need to be on the lookout and not oppose their logics without understanding keenly and questioning our assumptions.
This month, China has overtaken USA as the No.1 Technology king with 3 announcements in different fields of Technology:
1. Deepseek outperforming OpenAI alternatives
2. Chinese Quantum Computers beats Google benchmarks
3. BYD unveils 5 min EV charging
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/byd-unveils-battery-system-that-charges-evs-in-5-minutes
RIP USA! Our condolences!
"What to do in my city?"
This question is in the mind of thousands of any city dweller who wants to go out of office and out of home to relax, enjoy, get out of the daily scene every weekend to enjoy life.
Fortunately, Hyderabad has grown into a cosmopolitan city with multiple cultures imbibed to give you a refreshing taste of multiple ways to perceive, understand and learn things.
Here is a list of things to do:
One of life's simple pleasures is music.
Unfortunately, we do not spend time to discover new types of music which can bring us peace or uplifting spirits or make us curious. Also, when we hear some amazing music, rarely do we find out the song and the artist, store it and go home and add them to our playlist. Even, sharing of good songs has got limited in today's individualistic society.
Over the last 1 year or so, I have discovered and got into 3 music cycles.
These music cycles are "current" list of liked songs which I hear frequently keeps changing every 6 months or some based on some new discoveries and mood.
A year ago, I was in love this this artist and song and kept hearing it again and again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWOrd50HYa4
Here are a few amazing library of songs from Hamidshax on Amazon Music:
Crazy, Lose Control, In my life, With me, Together, Let it be, Wait for me, Dreams and many more
Here are a few uplifting songs with fantastic beats:
https://youtu.be/d4u_N7NU6LA?si=cup4IEZ1vB0ewI_K
https://youtu.be/6r9slZ3wKgI?si=iDxPEjUoLjvcpTAJ
https://youtu.be/tqUdnXaMPI4?si=e5YmtPvNcZBJoIo-
Sometime over the last few months, I heard a podcast which said the following:
If the challenge is greater than the capability, it is demotivating.
If the challenge is less than the capability, it is boring.
To be motivated, the challenge should be slightly more than the capability. This leads to figuring it out, learning and growing.
In the book, 12 rules for life, Jordan Peterson talks about order and chaos in the form of the famous yin and yang Chinese symbol.
One side is order and the other is chaos.
Too much order and nothing grows.
Too much chaos and it is overwhelming and no growth.
The middle curved line is the balance between order and chaos which leads to growth.
2 different ways to understand and express how to achieve growth.
We should be planning our goals, tasks, to be on this middle line in multiple aspects of life.
Over the last 20 years, there has been multiple disquiets about the de-dollarisation.
1. It has been stated that USA went to war with Iraq overthrowing Saddam Hussain and Libya overthrowing Gadaffi as these oil producers were exploring selling oil in currencies other than dollars, thereby removing USD hegemony.
2. Wars - The USA didn't do any favours for itself by constantly raising it's debt levels and printing more dollars and starting wars around the world directly like Iraq, Afghanistan or indirectly in Ukraine by expanding NATO countries continuously and then funding Ukraine. Also, funding Israel for it's war in Gaza.
3. BRICS - Over the last 10 years, the formation of the BRICS currency gained ground which would compete with the US dollar globally and almost all nations in the world trade with one or more of the BRICS countries.
The inter trade itself among BRICS countries itself is huge. Plus, the potential of Saudi Arabia, being the world's largest oil producer, joining this alliance adds weight to the the new currency and more transactions.
4. Crypto currencies - The other counter weight underdog which has been waiting in the wings is crypto currencies. These have certain features of non-manipulation which is necessary to avoid the manipulation of countries and bring accountability to the countries.
The call of the imminent fall of the dollar is increasingly going up. The following are evidences.
5. Big US based investors/ companies have accumulated crypto currencies. The current US administration of declaring to having a strategic crypto currency reserve. This means that it is moving away from Gold reserves to this.
6. The open talk by the current US administration of auditing fort Knox to check if the US gold is really there. This further highlights that maybe there is no actual gold there and it is a bogus trust. Adding Crypto currencies is a countermeasure to add value and trust.
7. Maybe, this in consonance with the tariff wars will bring down the value of the dollar and make it competitive enough to start manufacturing again. But, can the USA citizens afford the high cost of imports once the dollar goes down?
This would degrade the lifestyles and would become a true developing class nation which got hidden as a developed country just because of printing own money and having it's value just because it was a reserve currency and everyone traded in it.
I have been watching these signs over the years and for the last 2 years came to the conclusion that the USD would fall substantially over the next 5-10 years.
My prediction gets more substantiated when a famous investor like Ray Dalio starts ads on instagram on a book on the fall of nations indirectly or directly talks about the USA.
There is a very old fantastic song called "You have lost that loving feeling" by Righteous Brothers.
The lyrics clearly state the situation and requests the girl to love him back again.
A heartbreak of a situation, more of a slow death actually.
What if we lose that loving feeling of something or someone that interested us much but lately, you have started losing that loving feeling? Not because you found a better love, but because the other thing/person disrespected you again and again despite you putting all the efforts and the love for it.
The feelings are depressing and sad with a pinch of anger (not sure about the other or towards self for loving and doing so much so far along).
The thoughts slow down, the body feels weak with the weight of the negative emotions including missing a few good things and simultaneously lightness of the burden of responsibility which is going to come down.
Put effort to pull or push someone up in life
or
To leave people where they are.
The Dilemma occurs when you really want someone to succeed and want to push them to achieve things but they are not that serious about it and you are left wondering is it worth the time and effort to do this.
For a first generation entrepreneur, not being in the right circles, it is difficult to find mentors.
I have almost lost a decade without the mentors for which I regret.
But, the interesting part I have recently discovered and explored is that you can make certain popular people your mentors and follow their fantastic advice to advance in all aspects of life.
A few people I consider my mentors today and follow them rigourously:
Naval Ravikant - Philosophy, leverage (https://www.instagram.com/naval/?hl=en)
Hormozi - Productivity and leveling up (https://www.instagram.com/hormozi/?hl=en)
Dan Koe - The future skills, writing, creativity (https://www.instagram.com/thedankoe/?hl=en)
Benjamin Hardy - The future you (https://www.instagram.com/drbenjaminhardy/?hl=en)
Jesse Itzler - Living life to the fullest (https://www.instagram.com/jesseitzler/?hl=en)
Vusi Thembekwayo - Entrepreneurship, Business marketing and sales (https://www.instagram.com/vusithembekwayo/?hl=en)
A year ago, I considered the following as my mentors:
Patrick Bet David - Entrepreneurship, Strategy (https://www.instagram.com/patrickbetdavid/?hl=en)
Elon Musk - For his hard working ethics.
John Wick - for fire fighting insane number of problems as an entrepreneur.
As I now realise, the today's mentors I follow are more relevant to learn from and the previous mentors are more inspirational than anything particular to learn from.
Finding the right mentors and changing them as part of our evolution of changing needs is progress.
