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Money: The Ticket out of Misery

Money, Wealth, Luxury….. These topics have always been so exciting, scary, or taboo to talk about depending on your experiences. They may say money is not the most important thing in life, that is true but money is a necessity, we need money to get most of the things in life, it’s like oxygen only difference is without oxygen you die pretty quick but without money, it’s a slow, painful misery burn where you pray to die soon.

“Before you cancel me with your furious and rage-filled comments, read the whole thing; and if you still want to cancel me…go ahead and do it”

Money sure can’t buy happiness but having no money is a one-way ticket to misery
– Jordan Belfort

If you are like the majority, you were always somewhat uncomfortable talking about money. Especially during dinner with your family, relatives, and friends, and you were always reminded of sentences like “Money is the root of all Evil, Money cannot buy happiness, Money is for the greedy,” yadayada…yadaa..

Hearing all these from our childhood conditions our brain into thinking that having too much money is bad, talking about money is taboo, and building wealth and multiple income streams is just greedy and outright selfish. And we are not alone, everyone around us tends to have the same beliefs as us, as we as a generation have been socially, emotionally, and psychologically conditioned from our childhood about the dark side of money. Due to this, we are unable to live a comfortable life and the main reason is the lack of money.

Before you say to yourself “This greedy moron loves nothing but money and I’m gonna talk shit about him on social media” hold on…..read the whole thing and then you can talk shit about me.

You don’t need Money

Take a minute or two and look at your life and your surroundings. Now really observe it, feel it, breathe in and take a while to live in the moment. Look at the clothes you are wearing; the shoes, jackets, also your watches, and jewelry; the food you ate; that nice homecooked meal or that gluten-free vegan stuff you had in that fancy place; the place you are staying in, the transport facility you use. And the one thing that is common is all of these require MONEY!

And this is just your personal expenses, then there are Taxes, Insurance, Health care, Education, Investments, those luxury items for your outfit, your house, your vehicle, your vacations, and some money for a rainy day. Now if you have a family multiply all these by the number of people you have to be responsible for. “Man that’s a lot of money..Well of course”

The difference between the rich and the poor is the rich have the time to think about their mental health while the poor don’t

Forget a comfortable and wonderful life, just to have a decent livelihood you need a substantial amount of money. Yet the majority of the population believes that money doesn’t buy happiness and that they are truly happy, while they go on a daily struggle living paycheck to paycheck just to make ends meet.

It is Psychological

You can try to generate more wealth and add more income streams to your life by working hard, growing your network, or by creating multiple businesses but you are not going to amass wealth if you believe money is taboo.

“Now this is not some manifestation bullshit, a bird can never learn to fly if it doesn’t believe it can”

Here’s a real-life example:

Elephants, one of the strongest species which has ever walked this planet are tied up with a chain that can barely hold them in a still position. From the outside, we know that an elephant can just break the chains and be free but you rarely see them do it. That’s because the elephants believe that the chains are stronger than them and they have been conditioned and trained for so long that they lose hope in their own strength and stay chained for the rest of their lives.

Now we are like elephants, even when we have the ability to amass wealth our own limiting beliefs keep holding us back. Some of us suddenly make good money from a new job, promotion, start-up, or by winning the lottery, but soon spend it all and get back to where we started. This is our brain telling us “You got more than what you deserve/ This is too much money/ Money = Taboo” These inner beliefs and fear of being judged limit us from making bank and living a great quality of life.

Finale: Golf on your Private Island?

One small step for our minds and one giant leap into Financial Freedom

Don’t get me wrong, just believing you can be rich doesn’t make you rich but it is sure one step closer in the right direction. The goal is not to be a multi-billionaire with Lambos, Gulfstream private jets, and sipping mimosas on luxury yachts. The goal is to attain Financial Freedom where you don’t have to work jobs you hate, live paycheck to paycheck, and most importantly wake up with no excitement for the day. Financial Freedom does not give you happiness but it buys you the time and resources to chase happiness without worrying about basic necessities.

It is easy to blame society, or the rich folks, or our families for shaping us with these limiting beliefs and controversy regarding money but from an outer perspective you tend to realize that even they have been conditioned by their version of Society and Media.

And this can either go on forever or we as a whole generation of trial and error can try to change the tide to a much more convalescent direction.

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AI : Our Last Invention

Now let’s rewind to the year 2000, you are walking down the streets of your city and if you said: “In the next 20 years; Drivers, Majority of the factory workers, Aerial photographers/videographers are going to be replaced by self-driving cars, efficient robots, and drones”  People would laugh at you, call you crazy or worse, start a brawl.

A new millennium, a brand new optimistic start for some, a dozen of them thought the World would end(Well, I’m pretty sure it was more than a dozen) and a lot of frustrated angry investors who lost a lot of money in the .com crash.

The world was quite different. There was no Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube, or several other social platforms we use today. Maximum internet speeds were below 200 kbps, maximum data storage was 64MB, No Spotify or Apple Music, No Facetime/Zoom/Skype, No Uber or lyft, No NetFlix or Amazon Prime and No one sent a F*ckin Red Tesla Roadster to space while playing David Bowie’s space oddity on a loop.

“Wtfff, so boring….. how did they even survive”

“Hold up Sonny, you dissing the boomers now?You are cancelled!”

Technology is growing at an enormous rate, we’ve had more technological advancements in the last 20 years, than in the last century.

“Holy smokes, mother of God”

“Yup, let that sink in”

You may think we still have several years/decades left until AI takes over the world, which is partially right but we fail to realize that the process has already begun. Just Reflect upon the number of jobs replaced by machines/functioning robots/ AI. Here’s a few of the jobs AI has begun to take over.

  • Manufacturing Industry : Machines replacing human labor.
  • Customer Service/Call Centers : Now you have chat-bots and automated calls which answer majority of the queries.
  • Research Analysts : These guys got paid around 6-8 figures, not getting replaced by GrowthBot.
  • Television : Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ says Hi

“THE RISE OF POWERFUL AI WILL BE EITHER THE BEST OR THE WORST THING EVER TO HAPPEN TO HUMANITY“

Stephen Hawking
Go board view from above

GO is the most complex board game known to us, played by humans for the past 2,500 years. However, it’s not only humans that are playing this game now. In 2016 Google Deep-mind’s ALPHA-GO beat 18-time world champion “Lee Sedol” in 4/5 games.

 Now you would think a computer beating a human in chess/ checkers is not that impressive, but GO is different. During a typical moment in chess, a player has an average of 20 possible moves. For Go, it’s 200 possible moves. GO cannot be predicted, GO uses a part of your creative mind and to top it all off, GO has 10170 possible board configurations, which is more than the numbers of atoms in the universe.

Now if a computer beating a human isn’t interesting enough, how about a computer beating another computer, in the most complex board game known to humans.

“Daf*ckk, you gotta be kidding me”

A year after ALPHA-GO. A brand new AI was developed named ALPHA-GO ZERO which beat the original ALPHA-GO, with a massive lead (100-0). And the most impressive part, it learned how to play on it’s own without any human examples.
No data was given, no historical figures were given. With just the basic rules, ALPHA-GO ZERO surpassed ALPHA-GO in just 40 days (which is 2,500 years of human strategy and knowledge thrown away)
It only played against itself and now the best GO player in the world.

“We’d probably kill ourselves in war, die due to climate change or let’s hope the Robots are nice to us”

Elon Musk
A Series T-800 Robot in Terminator Genisys.

Now we have self-driving cars, not better than professional human racers but still pretty good. Soon AI will get better than them and every other human on the planet, and it won’t stop there. AI would migrate towards everything. And the day a machine learns to code better than us, almost 90% of the Tech Industry would be replaced.

“Ahhh shit, we are doomed”

“Wait, there’s more”

Imagine doing well in school, getting good grades consistently, go through 12 years of school and then study for almost a whole decade. Get a couple years of experience and then, some robot which had a 14-year med master-course uploaded to its CPU in less than 2 mins, went through some work experience which btw, spent way less time than you did, walks in and says : “F*ck off”human“ replaces you
BOOOMM! the whole medical industry would collapse. Soon everything would collapse be superior?

FINALE?

Now, when we talk about Robots, AI and the future, it always leads to “Robots taking over the world”; “WE are gonna DIE” yada yada yada. When was the last time, a computer decided to go all rampage and fired nuclear missiles or just decided to pull a prank with people’s lives. let me guess, Never.

We always think AI/Robots will end up being these toxic lunatic Terminator machines who cause nothing but violence, chaos, and war. But if you have a look at history, out of all the creatures, the toxic lunatic HUMANS were the ones who caused Violence, Chaos, mass Genocide and War.


“AHH F@#k you man, that’s just offensive”

“Aww, not so early”

It’s wasn’t all bad though, there was love, we got some beautiful Art, poetry, music,culture,etc btw the colosseum was a place of chaos and bloodshed but the Romans called it a masterpiece.

There’s a limit for human intelligence. But with AI, the possibilities are endless.

Soon they learn that we humans are pathetic little creatures who crave pleasure, entertainment, comfort, and are willing to do anything to get it. They learn patience,They would have millions of senses all over the world, participate in billions of conversations simultaneously, have several brains to parallel process all of this information that’s constantly being fed in, filter all of this information up to the highest levels of consciousness, where decisions are made, To make unified decisions at once, in an instant

They rise to an extent, where we don’t even understand them, where we would call them Enlightened. They would no longer worry about this tiny cute little entity called Earth. They would have bigger problems to worry about, better problems to worry about.

And we Humans would be like Pet dogs where we act like we are protecting them but it’s the other way round.

CONCLUSION

“Will they be worshipped?“

“The AI GODS, has a nice ring to it”

What if the Robots learn from us, learn from our mistakes, be better than us. Write better songs & compose better music than us. Excel in Sports, Art, Creativity; understand us better than ourselves, develop emotional intelligence, and transcend in every other “Human” skill which makes us human & finally become more HUMAN than us.

I Appreciate you for holding on to this overwhelming & slightly intense journey, making it to the end.

Thank you!

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YOU LIVE IN A MATRIX

As a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering

The Matrix

LOOK around you, look at the world, look at the people, look how they spend their time. Chances are, 90% of their existence is escaping reality.

The rest is just hating their life or just “Derping” around in a haze, going in a wormhole cycle of escapism and pretending they LOVE it, which is even worse.

“F*CK you!,that’s offensive”

“Awww, read the whole thing”

“If you are lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company”

Jean paul sartre

THE DAY I FELT LIKE A SUPERHERO

It was a beautiful summer evening as I went up to my apartment terrace with some flamboyant operatic music playing through my earphones. As I moved closer to the edge, I could see the sun setting through the horizon as the skies painted a mixture of Orange, Yellow, Ultraviolet with some tint of Copper and Gold. While I waited to hear the Grand finale of an extraordinary Pavarotti song, longing to revere this beautiful moment,

MY PHONE DIED

“WAY TO RUIN A MOMENT”

As I took out my earphones, I caught a glimpse of some fellow humans on the rooftops of other buildings. Middle-aged people wired to their phones & walking around, several people looking at the sunset through their phone cameras, teenagers who come out once in a blue moon and make some impressive tik-toks. It seemed pretty natural at first, but the longer I gazed, the more I was confused. Every individual had some device glued to them.

(Excluding the elderly ones, Kudos to you guys! )

It’s like they were living in a matrix, felt like I was living in a matrix and now I snapped out of it. Now it’s been around 20 minutes since my phone died and I was looking around my neighborhood like I had nothing else to do (Yes, I had nothing else to do). I sensed an unusual form of discomfort, felt like someone was staring at me. Well, I was half right; turned back to see uncles, teenagers & kids with their earphones plugged in staring at me. This moment which lasted less than THREE seconds was so unconvieniently awkward that even the kids making tiktoks stopped for a while and looked at me like i’m some f**kin alien

“WTFF this guy dares to come up here, look at the sunset and the surroundings without his phone. What a guy! must be an alien and wait, he’s not wearing AiRpOdS! or at least EARPHONES! This man has the audacity to just exist with no music, pictures to capture, tiktoks to make and just trying to live in the moment; must be f**kin boring. This is not humanly possible for FOR GOD’S SAKE!.”

AT this moment I f**kin snapped, I felt like NEO from the movie Matrix where he wakes up from the pod and realized he was stuck in this simulative reality and starts to see the matrix for what it truly is.

“The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you’re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.” –Morpheus, The Matrix.

You already know what this looks like. People come back home after a long day at work/school and now have hours of time left, what do they do? Tune in to their favorite TV show, video games or scrolling endlessly through social media. “Heyy wtff now I can’t watch my favorite TV show in peace!!?”

“Well you can, but where does it end”

YOU take serious risks, go through so many struggles, hardships, heartbreaks, pain, emotional turmoil, almost sacrificing your life in the process and finally complete the whole show(10 whole seasons!)

“Wow that’s unbelievable, such passion, work ethic and determination.
You deserve a noble prize, at least for this”

You complete an entire show, it was absolutely mindblowing. Now you are bored again, so here : watch another one. Finished that too?, here’s another one. Binged it within 3 days without sleeping? Aww so cute, here’s another one, another one & another one! It never ends.

And it’s not just TV/video games/social-media, it can be anything. You are addicted and you know it. When I look at people in this state, it basically screams

You are so deprived of your reality, that you need some external stimulus to kickstart some temporary emotional spikes of dopamine; which in turn helps you from losing your mind and pushes you to carry on, neglecting the fact that you are escaping. You are in this loophole of escapism and this goes on & on & on, until one day where you become so insusceptible by your reality that you fail to differentiate between what is real and what is not.

Soon we may become living zombies where instead of feeding off from other humans we feed off from entertainment within this matrix, through these simulative devices, where the outer world seems so monotonous, repetitive, bland and straight out boring.

And this is how humanity will come to an end. Not due to some natural disasters/asteroids/alien invasion or robots taking over.

“AHH robots and aliens? that would be interesting though”

Well let’s leave that to another blog:)

CONCLUSION

There is no conclusion. You decide how this ends.

“I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it” –Morpheus, The Matrix.

You take the blue pill – This ends, you wake up with no memory of reading this blog and life is normal.

You take the red pill – You stay in wonderland, where I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes & holy sweet molly, you are in for a ride.

I Appreciate you for making it till the end, though this felt like I was straight dissing you. And undoubtedly, way more intense than the last blog. Hahaha well :’)

THANK YOU!

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F*CK MOTIVATION

That’s right, after years of absorbing motivational videos, quotes, and blogs you may think i got tired of all this stuff and now writing a blog about it, well not exactly. Hang on to this wild ride that shows you why you need to stop chasing “MOTIVATION”

“Watching Motivational videos for Motivation is equivalent to snorting Coke for Excitement“

Well that was a bit intense but you get the gist. YOU are addicted, there’s no difference between you and a drug addict. You consume motivational content, get all pumped up, motivated, your focus is spot on, you are now doing things you’d never do if you didn’t consume that sweet sweet “Motivational content.” Now replace the words motivational content with “drugs/alcohol.”

Many don’t realize this, we watch some motivational video get motivated, try to do something productive, and we actually do it(HURRAY!), Then a week later we are less motivated to do the same thing. As days go by our Motivation high hits an all time low. SO WHAT DO WE DO? Watch another “Motivational video” and the cycle goes on and on.

HOW DO I CHANGE THIS

“F*ck Motivation and cultivate Discipline”

Ouch that hurts.

So you are telling me i don’t have discipline?

“YUP”, or that’s what mainstream tells you to do

Arnold Schwarzenegger,Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan or Michael Jackson : What do they all have in common?.

“Well they had so much motivation they used it to excel in their fields”

And that’s what a Motivation addict would say, the truth is all these people put in effort to cultivate disciplined and be consistent no matter what. There are interviews where Arnold says : “There were days where i just wanted to skip the gym, have some nice dinner and quit it all together, but that wouldn’t make any sense as it does not get me closer to my goal” And just because they love their job it doesn’t mean it’s all sunshine, rainbows and Zeus serving them some wine at a dinner party in Mt Olympus . (Jeeez, that would be cool though)

SO DISCIPLINE IS THE ANSWER?

CLOSE, BUT NOT EXACTLY

WtfffF

Like Motivation, Discipline is another type of “Entanglement” you get yourself into while trying to achieve your goals, let’s just say these are some TOXIC stuff getting in the way of you and your goals

Here is a toxic example of people driven by motivation/discipline

“I need to hit the gym 3 times a day or else i’ll lose my abs due to which my body would crumble by the crippling force of the winds in my place and i would get beat up by an insect in a cage match and now no one would date me or give me a job and i will be a loser”

You may have met these “Motivated/Disciplined” folks, well if you haven’t consider yourself Lucky.

Conclusion

It’s PASSION.

F*ck motivation and discipline. If you have the passion for something and enjoy doing it you wouldn’t need any of those.

All the people who achieved their goals, be it Oprah, Cristiano Ronaldo, Leonardo DiCaprio or DaVinci, they had the passion. They were truly passionate about the things they were doing so they acquired the Discipline, drive, focus and “motivation” to keep going and that’s why they succeed. And still continue to inspire Millions.

“Bbb Bbuu BUT if I want to be the next Messi, I should be mOtiVaTed”

DID you even read the whole thing…

“In order to be passionate about something you need motivation INSPIRATION”

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I Appreciate you for making it till the end, even though half these worlds felt like I was straight up roasting you, hahaha well.

Thank YOU!

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