There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

<ul>
<li>Vertical thinking is the traditional type of thinking where one moves forward by sequential steps and where each step must be justified.</li>
<li>Lateral thinking is the process of generating new ideas. It teaches you how to look at a problem from a different angle and challenge your thinking patterns to produce better ways of solving a problem.</li>
<li>Vertical thinking is very useful for analysing facts, numbers and data. Lateral thinking is useful to solve unique problems that require innovative thinking.</li>
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Vertical thinking vs lateral thinking

In the past, there was an exclusive emphasis on vertical thinking (logic or mathematics). Vertical thinking is linear, logical and produce the final solution from a series of accurate statements.  Vertical thinking is useful, but sometimes we need to think outside the box. When vertical thinking is not getting you anywhere, you should switch to lateral thinking. Lateral thinking is important when constructing strategies or challenging old ways of dealing with a problem.

The need for lateral thinking

<ul>
<li>Create alternatives: More choices create better solutions.</li>
<li>Question your assumptions.</li>
<li>Quotas: Generate ten ideas a day. The more you do this, the better you will become at it.</li>
<li>Analogies: Make connections between the current situation and a similar situation.</li>
<li>Fractionation: Break something down into its components, then rebuild it.</li>
<li>Random stimulation: Put yourself into new environments outside your comfort zone, such as a conversation with someone with different views or going to unfamiliar locations.</li>
<li>Identify the main point of a book, conversation, video.</li>
<li>Brainstorm.</li>
<li>Entertain unattractive ideas.</li>
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Train your lateral thinking

Brainstorming is very effective to solve a problem creatively. Sharing ideas in a constructive environment will likely lead to an innovative solution. <ul><li>Share ideas in a non-judgmental manner.</li><li>Highlight the dominating ideas and explore them further.</li></ul> Another method is the reversal technique. It's based on the idea that you can change your perspective when you change the order of the words or the question. For example, "the parents are educating their kids' or "the kids need to be educated by their parents".

Brainstorming and the reversal method

These hacks help you face a situation that “everybody knows” how to solve

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Think Outside The Box

Using lateral thinking for solving problems creatively

The first practical explanation of how creativity works, this results-oriented bestseller trains listeners to move beyond a "vertical" mode of thought to tap the potential of lateral thinking.

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“This could be a very useful book for teachers and non-teachers alike. Dr. DeBono does not claim to be able to turn us all into Miltons, Davincis, and Einsteins…but his techniques provide an alternative to just sitting around waiting for the Muse to appear. The Muse never appears to most of us—hence the value of this book.”— David Cohen, Times Educational SupplementThe first practical explanation of how creativity works, this results-oriented bestseller trains listeners to move beyond a “vertical” mode of thought to tap the potential of lateral thinking“The underlying argument of the book is that there are two kinds of thinking—vertical and lateral. Most of us are educated to think vertically, to go from one logical step to the next, moving all the time towards the one correct solution of our problem. We are not usually educated to be creative, to generate idea after idea….“Dr. DeBono argues that the function of vertical, logical thinking is to argue what is wrong. It is a very useful way of thinking, but it is not the only useful way. To claim it is, is the sort of intellectual arrogance that makes creative thinking unlikely….

Edward De Bono is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Edward De Bono has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Edward De Bono's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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Lateral Thinking

If you have to beg someone to treat you like a decent human being, leave.

Self Respect 

When someone shows who they are with actions, not words, believe them. Words mean nothing, action mean everything.

True Colors

Most won’t find it, and if you do, show patience the person will show you different. The one you love the most can inflict the most damage.

Love

Don’t willingly give it away. Make a person gain your trust, be selective on who you give it to. Most aren’t worthy of it.

Trust

If a partner shows you time and time again, you are a mere object, not a priority, believe them, leave.

Priority 

Treat the body with love, or you will suffer the consequences.

Health 

You most likely won’t be remembered by many, and a distant memory to some. Make a lasting impression.

100 years from now 

We aren’t born with it. We develop it with life lessons. Pay careful attention. Without it, you will suffer immensely

Self Awareness 

If you don’t deal with it, it has a way of dealing with itself. You will find the most abusive toxic assholes. You will meet the very person to relive all that unhealed trauma you knew nothing about, in the same abusive way, maybe worse.

Childhood Trau

Is rarely sought out, because it isn’t easily found. Take care of yourself, don’t look to others for your self worth. Know you are enough, period. Don’t settle.

Self Care

Dark truths discovered in life

All said and done, we are born alone and will die alone. There are seven important axioms of belief to shield yourself while going through life, and protecting yourself in dealing with expectations, disappointments, and judgements imposed by those around.

Man Is, After All, An Island

A natural extension to being born alone and dying alone is the understanding that nothing you do, or don't do, has any meaningful significance in the grand scheme of things. Trying to find meaning in life has a high probability of leading to a path of depression and disillusionment.

We Are Insignificant

Our lives are a garland of serendipitous events. We are not part of a grand plan, no matter how much math, faith or philosophy we deploy to justify it. We are a dot is a random chain of events having bigger brains than most animals, and we consume ourselves trying to make sense of our roles in the universe. There is no elaborate cause-effect that has led us to where we are where we are, individually.

There Is No Grand Plan

No matter how much someone advises to try and try till you succeed, don't! Unless you are paid for it! There is only futility and an opportunity cost leakage in trying and achieving sub-optimal outcomes. Pick the battles that can be won. Fighting battles and trying to achieve a better outcome over and over is generally a recipe for a life wasted!

Don't Try To Fail

Every one of us is wired different - fingerprint to genetic coding. So nothing you do will escape judgement from those who are in the audience. Be to others who they want you to be at a superficial level. Most people cannot tell fake from genuine anyways. Be yourself only when in the shower or on a boat by yourself. It limits the number of expectation conflicts you will have to encounter.

Being Who You Are Is Not A Virtue

Not everything is about you. Every person gets the right to decide their own faith and make their own choices. So preaching and enforcing your choices on another person is selfish and you will be resented. Choose your faith and actions based on your own moral and physical compass as long as they do not impact the way your brethren choose to believe and act. And be ready to own and suffer the consequences in their entirety.

Make Your Own Faith And Choices

Everyone has an opinion. Listen to every opinion; at the very least the dispenser feels heard. But do not live by what someone else says is the right answers. A natural corollary of making your own choices is that there are no moral absolutes. You have to first put your own mask on before helping others. You first because without you nothing else will have any existence relative to you.

Listen, Absorb, Be You

It's good to hope as long as you have a plan B. Everyone is dealt a random hand of cards and there isn't a perfect hand. So plan for losses and do not bet on winning as a matter of hope. Because 9 / 10 times the unexpected will happen

Plan For Contingency

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Contented Living

<ul><li>The time spent in this world is short. Every breath is a step closer to death</li><li>The time we're held in our graves is long</li><li>Happiness is only achieved by going against your lusts and desires.</li><li>Allah is the source of All Help</li></ul>

Don't follow your lusts and desires, Time is limited. 

<ol><li>See the sky how perfectly it is laid out. See your own body, how perfectly it is made.</li><li>Understand that every created thing has a creator, every construction has a maker.</li><li>Contemplate on the proofs of the truthfulness of the Prophet Muhammed ﷺ</li><li>Once you understand the above, Submit to the sacred law. Be a believer in Allah and fulfil your obligatory and voluntary deeds towards him. Be a Muslim.</li></ol>

Understand the Existence of Allah and follow sacred law

<ul><li>As a six-year-old, his intellect was much higher than that of older men.</li><li>He used to play less on roads and used to attend gatherings in the masjid.</li><li>He'd memorize Ahadeeth's (texts) from Prophet Muhammed's ﷺ life.</li><li>He was inspired to abandon the vanities of the world and began constant fasting and reduced his food intake to very little.</li><li>Due to his persistence and hunger in seeking knowledge, Allah blessed him and protected his honour and granted him the ability to write and memorize quickly.</li></ul>

Ibn Al Qayyim (R)'s Childhood life

<ul><li>Water your tree while there's still some moisture left in it. Seek forgiveness for the time that you've wasted in the past. Perform good deeds for the future.</li><li>Try to enact every single virtuous deed and cry out for missing a single one as our righteous salaf (predecessors) used to do.</li><li>Days consists of hours and hours are made up of breaths you take. Every Breath is a treasure chest. Don't let any breath go wasted without doing a beneficial deed. You don't want to find any empty treasure on the day of Judgement.</li></ul>

Regret the past, Work on the future

Rabia Al Adawiyyah, One of the righteous salaf used to stay up the whole night worshipping Allah and when dawn came, she'd lay down for a bit and then get up frightened, saying to herself"Sleep in the grave is long"

Sleep in the grave is long

<ol><li>Paradise and Hellfire = Eternal</li><li>Day of judgement = 50,000 Years long</li><li>Time spent in the grave = Very long</li><li>Time spent in this world = Say 60 years out of which about 30 hours is spent in sleep, 15 or so is spent in childhood and remaining is spent chasing after desires, food and money.</li></ol>Is this the price of eternal life? What is for you to buy with it?

The Price of Eternal Life?

<ul><li>Wake up for Fajr reciting Dhikr</li><li>Don't Converse about worldly matters</li><li>Pray Fajr Sunnah</li><li>Stand for Fajr Prayer right side of the Imam</li><li>Remain Seated and Recite Adhkaar after Salah</li><li>Pray Salat Al Awwabeen or Salat Al Dhuha after Sunrise.</li><li>Seeking sincere Knowledge is Better than Voluntary prayers and reciting Quran, but need to maintain a balance.</li><li>Practice Isolation and avoid bad companionship</li></ul>

Morning Routine of a Muslim

<ul><li>Spread Knowledge, Dont expect anything from people. Live Honorably</li><li>3 Things a student of Knowledge needs - Long life, Free Hands (Doesn't busy himself with work and is content with little) and Intelligence.</li><li>When Fear of Allah is REAL, You shall see all good. Store Good deeds as much as you can. Remember Story or Yunus Ra, Story of Firawn and Story of 3 People Stuck in Cave</li></ul>

Spread knowledge, Fear Allah

<ul><li>There are very few who combine complete knowledge with complete action. Aim to be PERFECT.</li><li>According to Ibn Al Qayyim, Sa'd ibn Al Musayyib, Hasan Al Basri, Sufyan At Thawri, and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (Ra) were the most perfect of the Tabi's in implementing their knowledge.</li></ul>

Combining Complete Knowledge + Complete Action

Key points from the book of Imam Ibn Al Qayyim Al Jawzi Rahimahullah who provides sincere counsel to the seekers of sacred knowledge, while advising his son Abul Qasim.

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Sincere Counsel to the Students of Sacred Knowledge

Robots don’t have personalities, ideas, thoughts, or desires. Any human-like qualities we could attribute to a machine or its output are merely reflections of ourselves or its programmers.That doesn’t sit well with the mainstream perceptions of AI. Thousands of articles promise a near-future where human creators are either displaced or forced to work in tandem with machines.

Robots Are What We Make Them

Most of what AI does is prestidigitation. That’s because there’s only a handful of things a typical deep learning system can actually do. Much like a real-world magician, developers create incredible programs out of some fairly basic algorithmic foundations.The only difference between a disappearing coin trick and what David Copperfield does is scale. There is no more or less “real magic” involved in the former’s illusions and the latter’s.

The Perception Of AI

A few years back, a former Microsoft intern named Nabil Hossain and a pair of Microsoft AI researchers developed a machine learning system to generate humorous headlines from existing news articles.The big idea was that the AI would make microedits by changing a single word in a serious headline to make it a funny one.

Making AI Funny

The AI picks a noun or verb from a headline and replaces it with a word that can be objectively quantified as humorous.So here’s the simple answer to the question of whether AI can be funny or not: If you get to define what is and isn’t funny, sure. AI can be just as funny as you decide it is or isn’t.

The Machine Workings Of Humor

Jokes can be reduced to formulas. Just about anything can be reduced to a formula, but “funny” isn’t a thing. It’s a perception. Just like you can’t hand me an ounce of satisfaction or purchase a mile’s worth of courage, you can’t quantitatively produce funniness in a lab.

Funny is a Perception

AI can’t be funny. Funny as interpreted by the recipient of a joke is subjective. And funny as an intended construct requires intent.Just like fashion, being funny is as complex as the people you surround yourself with. What a group of AI devs might find funny or fashionable will likely differ from the tastes at Fashion Week in a Comedy Central writer’s room. And both the individual and public perception of what’s humorous is constantly changing and evolving.

The Bottomline

Can an AI be funny? What does funny mean? Who gets to decide? Luckily for all of us, Microsoft went ahead and answered these questions on our behalf.

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Codifying humanity: Can humor be reduced to an algorithm?

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result"

New York Times Bestseller Over 2.5 million copies sold For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America. In this curse-word-free edition of Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.

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New York Times Bestseller Over 2.5 million copies sold For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare - poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him The Fittest (Real) Man in America. In this curse-word-free edition of Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.

David Goggins is an American ultramarathon runner, ultra-distance cyclist, triathlete, public speaker, and author. He is a retired United States Navy SEAL member who served in the Iraq War.

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Can't Hurt Me

<ul><li>Jagatguru shankaracharya Swami bharati krishna tirtha wrote a shloka, which is literally in the sense of praising bhagwan Krishna.</li><li>This shloka does not only praises the god also has deep inner and scientific meaning too. </li><li>In sanskrit there is a protocol called Katapayadi Sankhya it translates the text into numeric code.</li></ul>

Encripted Value Of Pi hidden In Shri Krishna Prayer

<ul><li>It is Numerical technique accredited in ancient India to depict letters to numerals to easy remembrance of number as words or verses </li></ul>Mechanisms of system -<ol><li>all stand-alone vowels (like अ,आ,ई etc) Repset zero</li><li>The consonant group have numerals assigned as per the table</li><li>In a conjunct consonant, the last of the consonants alone will count</li><li>A consonant Without a vowel is to be ignored</li></ol>

Ka Ta Pa Ya Di Number (कटपयादि संख्या)  System :

गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रात-शृङ्गिशोदधिसन्धिग । खलजीवितखाताव गलहालारसंधर ॥( gopi bhagya madhu vrata-srngiso dadhiSandhiga, khala jivita khatava gala hala rasandhara )The fortune of the gopis, the destroyer of the demon madhu,protector of the cows,The one who ventured into the ocean depths, destroyer of evil doers,One with plough on the shoulder and the bearer of nectars,Please protect us .

The Shloka :

gopi bhagya madhu vrata - 3 1 4 1 5 9 2 6srngiso dadhiSandhiga - 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3khala jivita khatava - 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 4gala hala rasandhara - 3 3 8 3 2 7 9 2<ul><li>The shloka above is translated from its devnagari version ( hindi script ) using the Katapayadi Sankhya</li></ul>The Katapayadi Sankhya will give - 3 . 1 4 1 5 9 2 6 5 3 5 8 9 7 9 3 2 3 8 4 6 2 6 43 3 8 3 2 7 9 2 ; which results in the exact value of pi (π) to 31 dicemal of Places. हरे कृष्ण ।।

Calculation :

In the adventure of ancient Indian encryption technique, bhagwan Krishna is being prayed by a poem. The indian ancient saints used to write sanskrit slokas to encrypt unique formulas, theories and many more informations in their poems because remembering the loads of numbers in the poetic form is easier,than original numeric form💛

Students from ONKARESHWAR Saraswati Vidya Mandir Kanpur visted Sopan Ashram  for Science Education Tour. As part of the tour, H C Verma gave an interactive talk on Katpayadi codes.

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Interaction with school students on  KATPAYADI Numbers

Ancient Indian encryption : KATPAYADI Numbers 

“Observe due measure; moderation is best in all things.” It’s a wisdom that finds support across all ages, stages, and aspects of life."

Moderation

Locke adopted a “fair usage” view of property. He argued that one can hold any property that meets the following criteria:<ol><li>It can be used before it spoils (e.g., we don’t have huge stores of food that just rots).</li><li>It leaves “good and enough” for everyone else (e.g., one person cannot own all the land in a country).</li><li>The property must come from your own work and effort or what he calls “mixing your labor” with that thing (e.g., if you farm a field, the field and its produce become yours).</li></ol>But, there’s a lot of ambiguity in these rules, and money rather changes things.

John Locke Idea on Fair Usage

The idea that greed is an essential part of being human (or at least an animal) goes back at least to Plato and has a rich philosophical history from there."It’s when we think of little else than increasing our experiences and material possessions. This is the point at which greed has come to dominate your life." Richard Dawkins on The Selfish Gene

Too Much Greed

It’s when we are loath to spend our money and devote all of our waking lives to determinedly accumulating more and more at the expense of our relationships. It’s when we think of little else than increasing our experiences and material possessions. This is the point at which greed has come to dominate your life.But it’s also when greed replaces our common sense of compassion. It’s when property and wealth become virtues greater than charity, kindness, and solidarity with others.

When Success Morphs Into Greed

We should all check ourselves from time to time to see if some aspects of our life that are at least tainted by greed

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Greed and the philosophy of wealth

Don't get freaked out with the failure,setbacks, disappointments and so many disheartening events in your life. Always remember that failures precedes the success. Just keep going every day regardless of the results. Even when you win, keep pushing. Remember that the reward you get for overcoming a challenge is the next challenge ahead. Stay safe fam. ♥️

Your Time Is Certainly Coming.

Don't get worried, depressed over your current ordeals, with time is gonna all work out for your good. 

Don't give up despite the disappointments, turn-offs and failures. Keep pushing and it's gonna be soft and all good one day.

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"TRUE LOVE NEVER HAS A HAPPY ENDING, BECAUSE THERE IS NO ENDING IN TRUE LOVE."~ALEXANDER THE GREAT#divinelove

Do you ever feel lonely and lost in your spiritual practice? These 11 revelations of divine love will help you recognize that the divine is everywhere.

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