<ul><li class="ql-align-justify"> making money is not a thing you do, it’s a skill you learn</li><li class="ql-align-justify">getting rich is about knowing what to do, who to do with, and when to do it</li><li class="ql-align-justify">you should not grind at a lot of hard work until you figure out what you should be working on</li></ul>

Wealth

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">money is how we transfer wealth</li><li class="ql-align-justify">money is social credit, having the ability to have credits or debits of other people’s time</li><li class="ql-align-justify">wealth is assets that earn while you sleep</li><li class="ql-align-justify">wealth is the factory, the robots, cranking out things</li><li class="ql-align-justify">wealth is the computer program that’s running at night, serving other customers</li><li class="ql-align-justify">wealth is money in the bank that is being reinvested into other assets, and into other businesses</li></ul>

Wealth vs Money

Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">the challenge to make money is to figure out what product or service society wants but does not yet know how to deliver it at scale</li><li class="ql-align-justify">without ownership, you are being paid renting out your time</li><li class="ql-align-justify">when sleeping, on vacation, or retired, you’re not earning</li><li class="ql-align-justify">work up to a point where you can own equity in a business</li></ul>

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">labor</li><li class="ql-align-justify">money</li><li class="ql-align-justify">product with no marginal cost of replication</li></ol>

classes of leverage

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">other human working for you</li><li class="ql-align-justify">require leadership skills</li></ul>

Labor leverage

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">dominant form of leverage for the last century</li><li class="ql-align-justify">capital is trickier form of leverage</li><li class="ql-align-justify">banker, politician</li></ul>

Money leverage

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">media, movies, and code</li><li class="ql-align-justify">code is permissionless leverage, which means they don’t require somebody else’s permission for you to use them or succeed</li></ul>

Product with no marginal cost of replication leverage

<ul><li>optimize for independence rather than pay</li><li>if you have independence and you’re accountable on your output, as opposed to your input - that’s the dream</li><li>what you want in life is to be in control of your time</li></ul>

Prioritize independence

more accountability has more leverage, and more risk, and needs more specific knowledge<ul><li>labor to repair house: low accountability, low risk, low payment, least leverage</li><li>contractor: mid accountability, average risk, average payment</li><li class="ql-align-justify">real estate developer: high accountability, high risk, high leverage</li></ul>

Accountability

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">spend more time making big decisions:</li></ol><ul><li class="ql-align-justify ql-indent-1"> where you live</li><li class="ql-align-justify">who you’re with</li><li class="ql-align-justify">what you do</li></ul><ol><li class="ql-align-justify">figure out what you’re good at</li><li class="ql-align-justify">start helping other people with it</li><li class="ql-align-justify">give it away. pay it forward</li><li class="ql-align-justify">long enough time scale. you will attract what you project</li></ol>

most important things to do for younger people

when you stop sacrificing today for an imaginary tomorrow. when today is complete, in and of itself, you’re retired

Definition of retirement

<ol><li class="ql-align-justify">have so much money saved that your passive income covers your burn rate</li><li class="ql-align-justify">drive your burn rate down to zero → become a monk</li><li class="ql-align-justify">do something you love and enjoy it so much that it’s not about the money</li></ol>

how do you retire

1) blind luck<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">something completely out of their control happened, which include fortune, fate, etc.</li></ul>2) luck through persistence, hard work, hustle, and motion<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">you running around creating opportunities</li><li class="ql-align-justify">you generate enough force, hustle and energy for luck to find you</li></ul>3) you become very good at spotting luck<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">if you’re very good in a field, you will notice when a lucky break happens in your field</li></ul>4) weirdest, hardest kind of luck<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">you build a unique character, unique brand, unique mindset, which causes luck to find you</li></ul>

Four kinds of luck in getting rich

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">making effective decisions boils down to dealing with reality</li><li class="ql-align-justify">the number one thing clouding us from being able to see reality is we have preconceived notions of the way it should be</li><li class="ql-align-justify">when you’re in pain, it is the moment of truth, where you are forced to embrace reality the way it actually is</li><li class="ql-align-justify">to see the truth, you have to get your ego out of the way because your ego doesn’t want to face the truth</li></ul>

How to think clearly 

the three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse

you can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else

anger is its own punishment. An angry person trying to push your head below water is drowning at the same time

Enjoy reading the book as it breaks down his way of thinking and how he makes decisions in life. Hope my posts helps. 

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Getting rich is not just about luck; happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirations may seem out of reach, but building wealth and being happy are skills we can learn. So what are these skills, and how do we learn them? What are the principles that should guide our efforts? What does progress really look like? Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor who has captivated the world with his principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval's wisdom and experience from the last ten years, shared as a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections. This isn't a how-to book, or a step-by-step gimmick. Instead, through Naval's own words, you will learn how to walk your own unique path toward a happier, wealthier life.

Eric Jorgenson is an entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is on the founding team of Zaarly, and has been publishing online since 2014. His blog has educated and entertained over a million readers.Eric is on a quest to create (and eat) the perfect sandwich. He tweets at @ericjorgenson and publishes new pieces and projects on ejorgenson.com/blog

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ALMANACK OF NAVAL RAVIKANT

<ol><li>Start with a general idea of what we want to do</li><li>Get instruction from teacher, coach or book</li><li>Practice until we reach acceptable level</li><li>Let it become automatic</li><li>We stopped improving</li></ol>

Usual Approach To Practice 

<ul><li>Has well-defined, specific goals</li><li>All about putting a bunch of baby steps together to reach a longer-term goal</li><li>Purposeful practice are focused</li><li>Purposeful practice involve feedback</li><li>Purposeful practice require getting out of one comfort zone</li></ul>

Purposeful Practice 

Potential is an expandable vessel, shaped by various thing we do throughout our live

<ul><li>People often misunderstand this because they assume that the continued driving or tennis playing or pie baking is a form of practice and that if they keep doing it they are bound to get better at it, slowly perhaps, but better nonetheless</li><li>But when we don't get out of our comfort zone, the action will become automatic, and there will be no further improvement.</li><li>Getting out of your comfort zone means trying to do something that you couldn’t do before</li></ul>

Misconception About Practice 

Get outside your comfort zone but do it in a focused way, with clear goals, a plan for reaching those goals, and a way to monitor your progress. Oh, and figure out a way to maintain your motivation.

Purposeful Practice In A Nutshell 

<ul><li>Scientists know much less about how the brain changes in response to mental challenges. One major difference between the body and the brain is that the cells in the adult brain do not generally divide and form new brain cells. There are a few exceptions, such as in the hippocampus, where new neurons can grow</li><li>Instead, the brain rewires those network by strengthening or weakening the various connections between neurons and also by adding new connections or getting rid of old ones. There can also be an increase in the amount of myelin, which allows nerve signals to travel more quickly</li></ul>

Changes To Brain When Challenged

The traditional approach is not designed to challenge homeostasis (comfort zone). It assumes, consciously or not, that learning is all about fulfilling your innate potential and that you can develop a particular skill or ability without getting too far out of your comfort zone

Difference Between Traditional Practice And Deliberate Practice 

With deliberate practice, however, the goal is not just to reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before. This requires challenging homeostasis—getting out of your comfort zone—and forcing your brain or your body to adapt. But once you do this, learning is no longer just a way of fulfilling some genetic destiny; it becomes a way of taking control of your destiny and shaping your potential in ways that you choose.

<ul><li>A mental representation is a mental structure that corresponds to an object, an idea, a collection of information, or anything else, concrete or abstract, that the brain is thinking about</li><li>A simple example is a visual image. Mention the Mona Lisa, for instance, and many people will immediately “see” an image of the painting in their minds; that image is their mental representation of the Mona Lisa.</li><li>The key change that occurs in our adaptable brains in response to deliberate practice is the development of better mental representations, which in turn improve performance.</li></ul>

Mental Representation 

Deliberate practice develops skills that other people have already figured out how to do and for which effective training techniques have been established. The practice regimen should be designed and overseen by a teacher or coach who is familiar with the abilities of expert performers and with how those abilities can best be developed.

Deliberate Practice Traits

Deliberate practice takes place outside one’s comfort zone and requires a student to constantly try things that are just beyond his or her current abilities. Thus it demands near-maximal effort, which is generally not enjoyable.

Deliberate practice involves well-defined, specific goals and often involves improving some aspect of the target performance; it is not aimed at some vague overall improvement. Once an overall goal has been set, a teacher or coach will develop a plan for making a series of small changes that will add up to the desired larger change. Improving some aspect of the target performance allows a performer to see that his or her performances have been improved by the training.

Deliberate practice is deliberate, that is, it requires a person’s full attention and conscious actions. It isn’t enough to simply follow a teacher’s or coach’s directions. The student must concentrate on the specific goal for his or her practice activity so that adjustments can be made to control practice.

Deliberate practice involves feedback and modification of efforts in response to that feedback. Early in the training process much of the feedback will come from the teacher or coach, who will monitor progress, point out problems, and offer ways to address those problems. With time and experience students must learn to monitor themselves, spot mistakes, and adjust accordingly. Such self-monitoring requires effective mental representations.

Deliberate practice both produces and depends on effective mental representations. Improving performance goes hand in hand with improving mental representations; as one’s performance improves, the representations become more detailed and effective, in turn making it possible to improve even more. Mental representations make it possible to monitor how one is doing, both in practice and in actual performance. They show the right way to do something and allow one to notice when doing something wrong and to correct it.

Deliberate practice nearly always involves building or modifying previously acquired skills by focusing on particular aspects of those skills and working to improve them specifically; over time this step-by-step improvement will eventually lead to expert performance. Because of the way that new skills are built on top of existing skills, it is important for teachers to provide beginners with the correct fundamental skills in order to minimize the chances that the student will have to relearn those fundamental skills later when at a more advanced level.

The book summarizes the findings of Ericsson's 30-year research into the general nature and acquisition of expertise. 

“This book is a breakthrough, a lyrical, powerful, science-based narrative that actually shows us how to get better (much better) at the things we care about.”—Seth Godin, author of Linchpin “Anyone who wants to get better at anything should read [Peak]. Rest assured that the book is not mere theory. Ericsson’s research focuses on the real world, and he explains in detail, with examples, how all of us can apply the principles of great performance in our work or in any other part of our lives.”—Fortune Anders Ericsson has made a career studying chess champions, violin virtuosos, star athletes, and memory mavens. Peak distills three decades of myth-shattering research into a powerful learning strategy that is fundamentally different from the way people traditionally think about acquiring new abilities. Whether you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals, Ericsson’s revolutionary methods will show you how to improve at almost any skill that matters to you.   “The science of excellence can be divided into two eras: before Ericsson and after Ericsson. His groundbreaking work, captured in this brilliantly useful book, provides us with a blueprint for achieving the most important and life-changing work possible: to become a little bit better each day.”—Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code   “Ericsson’s research has revolutionized how we think about human achievement. If everyone would take the lessons of this book to heart, it could truly change the world.”—Joshua Foer, author of Moonwalking with Einstein

Anders Ericsson

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Peak

Focus on the 20% of activities or efforts that yield 80% of your desired outcomes. Identify high-impact tasks and prioritize them.

Pareto Principle 80/20 Rule)

Break down complex problems into their fundamental components. This helps you understand the underlying principles and find innovative solutions.

First Principles Thinking 

Strive for small, incremental improvements in your work and life. Over time, these accumulate into significant progress.

Kaizen

Instead of focusing on how to achieve success, consider what could lead to failure and avoid those pitfalls.

Inversion 

Visualize decisions and potential outcomes, considering various branches and probabilities to make more informed choices.

Decision Tree

Embrace challenges and setbacks as opportunities for growth. Believe in your ability to develop skills through effort and learning.

Growth Mindset 

When faced with multiple explanations or solutions, choose the simplest one. Complex solutions can introduce unnecessary complications.

Occam's Razor 

Identify what you are deeply passionate about, what you can be the best at, and what drives your economic engine. The intersection of these three elements is your path to success.

Hedgehog Concept 

Work expands to fill the time available. Set clear deadlines to increase productivity and efficiency.

Parkinson's Law

Develop the ability to bounce back from setbacks and maintain focus on your long-term goals, even in the face of challenges.

Mental Resilience 

Consistent, small efforts over time can lead to significant results. Invest in your skills, relationships, and goals consistently.

Power Of Compounding 

Believe that positive thoughts and intentions can attract positive outcomes. Maintain a positive mindset and visualize your success.

Law Of Attraction 

Continuously seek feedback on your performance and use it to make necessary adjustments and improvements.

Feedback Loop

Recognize that every choice you make involves trade-offs. Evaluate the potential benefits and drawbacks of different options before deciding.

Opportunity Cost

Assess the risks and potential rewards of your decisions and actions. Make informed choices that align with your risk tolerance and objectives.

Risk Rewards Analysis 

Help me choose which model can effectively solve problems I encountered 

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Mental models for success 

<ul><li>75 years old male, married with 3 children. 70% of us earn 80% or more of our household's income </li><li>About 20% is retired. 66% who are working are self employed.</li><li>Self employed people make up less than 20% of workers in America but account for 66% of millionaire</li><li>75% self employed consider themselves entrepreneurs</li><li>Business we are in could be classified dullnormal. (Welding contractors, auctioneers, rice farmers, owners of mobile-home parks, pest controllers, coin and stamp dealers, and paving contractors)</li><li>About 50% wives don't work outside home. Most wives who do work are teacher</li></ul>

Portrait Of A Millionaire 

<ul><li>Taxable income is $131,000, while average income is $247,000.</li><li>Note that those who have incomes in $500,000 to $999,999 (8%) and more than $1 mil (5%) skew average upward</li><li>Average household net worth $3.7 mil</li><li>6% have over $10 mil which skew average upward</li><li>Typical millionaire household has a net worth of $1.6 mil.</li><li>We live in less than 7% of our wealth</li><li>97% are homeowners. Live in home value average $320,000. 50% occupied same home more than 20years</li><li>80% are first generation affluent </li></ul>

<ul><li>20% are not college graduates</li><li>18% have master's degree</li><li>6% Ph.D</li><li>8% law degree</li><li>6% medical degree </li></ul>

<ul><li>17% of us or our spouses attended private school but 55% of our children currently attending one</li><li>66% works between 45-55 hours per week</li><li>Invested nearly 20% household realized income yearly</li><li>79% have at least one account with brokerage company but make our own investment decisions</li><li>20% household's wealth in transaction securities such as publicly traded stocks and mutual funds</li><li>21% household's wealth is in private business</li><li>Recommended accounting and law to our children </li></ul>

<ul><li>Most wealthy household have a MasterCard and Visa</li><li>Millionaire household is 4 times more likely to hold a Sears card (43%) than a Brooks Brothers card (10%)</li><li>Both Sears and Penney's cards are significantly more popular among the wealthy than the cards if status retailers</li><li>21% holds Neiman Marcus</li><li>25% Saks fifth avenue</li><li>25% Lord & Taylor</li><li>8.1% Wddie Bauer</li><li>6.2% American Express Platinum card</li><li>3.4% Diners Club</li><li>0.9% Carte Blanche</li></ul>

Millionaire On Credit Card 

<ol><li>Does your household operate on an annual budget?</li><li>Do you know how much your family spend each year on food, clothing, and shelter?</li><li>Do you have a clearly defined set of daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and lifetime goals?</li><li>Do you spend a lot of time planning your financial future?</li></ol> all four questions should be "yes"

Ask Yourself 

"Why aren't I as wealthy as I should be?" Many people ask this question of themselves all the time. Often they are hard-working, well educated middle- to high-income people. Why, then, are so few affluent. For nearly two decades the answer has been found in the bestselling The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy, reissued with a new foreword for the twenty-first century by Dr. Thomas J. Stanley. According to the authors, most people have it all wrong about how you become wealthy in America. Wealth in America is more often the result of hard work, diligent savings, and living below your means than it is about inheritance, advance degrees, and even intelligence. The Millionaire Next Door identifies seven common traits that show up again and again among those who have accumulated wealth. You will learn, for example, that millionaires bargain shop for used cars, pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in income tax, raise children who are often unaware of their family's wealth until they are adults, and, above all, reject the big-spending lifestyles most of us associate with rich people. In fact, you will learn that the flashy millionaires glamorized in the media represent only a tiny minority of America's rich. Most of the truly wealthy in this country don't live in Beverly Hills or on Park Avenue-they live next door.

Thomas J. Stanley

William D. Danko

The Millionaire Next Door

Ideologues are people who pretend they know how to "make the world a better place" before they've taken care of their own chaos within

Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer

Dreams shed light on the dim places where reason itself has yet to voyage

<ul><li>No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted</li><li>Eat a fat and protein heavy breakfast as soon as possible after awaken (no carbohydrates, no sugars, as they are digested too rapidly, and produce a blood-sugar spike and rapid dip</li><li> Anxious and depressed people are already stressed, their body therefore primed to hypersecrete insulin if they engage in any demanding activity </li><li> Excess insulin will mop up all their blood sugar</li><li> They become hypoglycemic and psycho-physiologically unstable </li></ul>

Rule #1 Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulder Back

If you're number 1, highest level of status<ul><li>If you're male, you have preferential access to the best places to live and the highest quality food. People compete to do you favours. You have limitless opportunity for romantic and sexual contact. You are a successful lobster, and the most desirable females line up and vie for your attention</li><li>If you're female, you have access to many high quality suitors: tall, strong, and symmetrical; creative, reliable, honest and generous. And like your dominant male counterparts, you will complete ferociously to maintain your position.</li></ul>

Rule #1 (continue)

<ul><li> Ancient part of your brain watches how you are treated by other people</li><li>It renders determination of your value and assign you a status</li><li>If you judge as little value, your brain restrict serotonin availability</li><li>Makes you reactive to any circumstances that might produce emotion</li><li>You need that reactivity, emergencies are common at the bottom, and you must ready to survive.</li></ul>

If You Let Yourself Treated Badly By Others 

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you</li><li class="ql-align-justify">He whose life has a why can bear almost anyhow </li></ul>

Rule #2: Treat Yourself As Someone You Are Responsible Helping

Violence is the default. It’s easy. It’s peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

<ul><li>When people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don’t believe that they deserve any better—so they don’t go looking for it</li><li>People create their worlds with the tools they have directly at hand. Faulty tools produce faulty results. Repeated use of the same faulty tools produces the same faulty results. It is in this manner that those who fail to learn from the past doom themselves to repeat it</li></ul>

Rule #3: Make Friends With People Who Want The Best For You

<ul><li>“It is only right to see the best in people. The highest virtue is the desire to help.” But not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it</li><li>Before you help someone, you should find out why that person is in trouble. You shouldn’t merely assume that he or she is a noble victim of unjust circumstances and exploitation</li><li>If you have a friend whose friendship you wouldn’t recommend to your sister, or your father, or your son, why would you have such a friend for yourself?</li></ul>

<ul><li>It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.</li><li>If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness</li><li>But mostly they are dragging you down because your new improvements cast their faults in an even dimmer light.</li></ul>

When you dare aspire upward, you reveal the inadequacy of the present and the promise of the future. Then you disturb others, in the depths of their souls, where they understand that their cynicism and immobility are unjustifiable. You play Abel to their Cain. You remind them that they ceased caring not because of life’s horrors, which are undeniable, but because they do not want to lift the world up on to their shoulders, where it belongs.

A book on 12 rules to live better life, and create order from chaos

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.

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Mental Health

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER  #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research. Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street. What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.

Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian psychologist, author, and media commentator. He began to receive widespread attention in the late 2010s for his views on cultural and political issues, often described as conservative. Peterson has described himself as a classic British liberal and a traditionalist.

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12 Rules for Life

<ul><li>Connective tissue storing fat in form of triglycerides.</li></ul>

What Is Adipose Tissue 

fat loss occurs when fats are liberated from adipocytes into circulation to supply needed energy (Porter et al., 2009)

main types of adipose tissue - white adipose tissue (waist, thighs) - brown adipose tissue (neck)

The best way to help the body activate fat burning abilities is to eat thermogenic foods, drink plenty of water, and exercise regularly (paul, 2009)

Men tend to store more visceral fat, leading to obesity around middle of their abdomen, which are called belly fat (Cannon et al., 2018)

Women tend to store subcutaneous fat within the buttocks and thighs (Brown et al. 2017)

White adipose tissue has three function: <ul><li>heat insulation</li><li>mechanical cushion</li><li>source of energy </li></ul>(Alligier et al. 2011)

Summary of how fat is burnt supported by scientifical report 

Adipose tissue is a type of connective tissue composed of adipocytes. Recently, this tissue has been recognized as a major endocrine organ. The physiological process of fat loss occurs when fats are liberated from adipocytes into circulation to supply the needed energy. Nutrition supplements that increase fat metabolism, impair fat absorption, increase weight loss, and increase fat oxidation during exercise are known as fat burners. A good fat burner must burn the stored fats, break down the fat cells, and increase the metabolic rate. Eating thermogenic foods helps burn fats. Fat flush diet comes to repair the damage that resulted from ingested and environmental toxins stored in adipocytes. This review will focus on the recent advances in fat burning supplements, fat burning foods, and fat flash diet. The human body can act as a fat-burning machine by depending on low-calorie foods instead of high-calorie foods in addition to doing regular exercise, avoiding toxins and processed food, and applying any fat flush dietary program under the approval of a professional doctor. What’s new in this review is that it may orient our attention to the importance of using natural fat burners in the fat burning process in an attempt to avoid medications that have many side effects by targeting other organs and it also gives an idea of the importance of increasing the brown adipose tissue content because its activation could be linked to a feeling of being full. We need further studies in this context.

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Physiological process of fat loss - Bulletin of the National Research Centre

<ul><li>The knowledge of what is mine and what is not mine, what I can and cannot do</li><li>I must die. But must I die bawling? </li><li>I must be put in chains – but moaning and groaning too? </li><li>I must be exiled; but is there anything to keep me from going with a smile, calm and self-composed?</li></ul>

Concerning what is in our power and what is not (1)

<ul><li>Man, the rational animal, can put up with anything except what seems to him irrational; whatever is rational is tolerable</li><li>Physical hardships are not intolerable by nature. The Spartans, for instance, gladly submit to being whipped because they are taught that it is done for good reason</li><li>But what about being hanged – isn’t that intolerable? Well, people frequently go and hang themselves, whenever they judge that it is a reasonable course of action.</li></ul>

Concerning what is in our power and what is not (2)

<ul><li>Why should I worry about what happens if I am armed with the virtue of fortitude? Nothing can trouble or upset me, or even seem annoying</li><li>Bring on whatever difficulties you like, Zeus; I have resources and a constitution that you gave me by means of which I can do myself credit whatever happens.</li></ul>

On Providence 

<ul><li>Whenever we do something wrong, then, from now on we will not blame anything except the opinion on which it’s based; and we will try to root out wrong opinions with more determination than we remove tumours or infections from the body</li><li>By the same token, we will acknowledge opinion as the source of our good behaviour too</li><li>And we, not externals, are the masters of our judgements</li></ul>

We are master of our own judgement

<ul><li>Philosophy does not claim to secure for us anything outside our control. Otherwise it would be taking on matters that do not concern it. For as wood is the material of the carpenter, and marble that of the sculptor, so the subject matter of the art of life is the life of the self.</li><li>Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. </li></ul>

What philosophy professes

Selected writings of philosopher Epictetus 

Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion 'I must die. But must I die bawling?' Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in harmony with god and nature. In this personal, practical guide to the ethics of Stoicism and moral self-improvement, Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, illness and fear, family, friendship and love. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by Robert Dobbin

Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion 'I must die. But must I die bawling?' Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive exactly what is in our power to change and what is not, and in embracing our fate to live in harmony with god and nature. In this personal, practical guide to the ethics of Stoicism and moral self-improvement, Epictetus tackles questions of freedom and imprisonment, illness and fear, family, friendship and love. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by Robert Dobbin

Epictetus

Discourses and Selected Writings

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.

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Personal Development

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D., was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy.His book Man's Search for Meaning (first published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism. Originally published in 1946 as Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. He was one of the key figures in existential therapy.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search For Meaning

In the 1860s and 1870s, the American economy went through perhaps the greatest transformation in its history (when rail road built and wall street emerge). <ul><li>If you were born in the late 1840s you missed it. You were too young to take advantage of that moment</li><li>If you were born in the 1820s you were too old: your mind-set was shaped by the pre-Civil War paradigm.</li><li>But there was a particular, narrow nine year window (1830s) that was just perfect for seeing the potential that the future held.</li></ul>

The Year You Are Born In Matter

<ul><li>John D. Rockefeller, 1839</li><li>Andrew Carnegie, 1835</li><li>Frederick Weyerhaeuser, 1834</li><li>Jay Gould, 1836</li><li>Marshall Field, 1834</li><li>George F. Baker, 1840</li><li>Hetty Green, 1834</li><li>James G. Fair, 1831</li><li>Henry H. Rogers, 1840</li><li>J. P . Morgan, 1837</li><li>Oliver H. Payne, 1839</li><li>George Pullman, 1831</li><li>Peter Arrell Brown Widener, 1834</li><li>Philip Danforth Armour, 1832</li></ul>

Successful People Who Born In 1830s

Below is a list of people who born in the 1950s, the best year to be born as they will be in their 20s when the computer and internet start booming (1970s)

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Bill Gates: October 28, 1955</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Paul Allen: January 21, 1953</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Steve Ballmer: March 24, 1956</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Steve Jobs: February 24, 1955</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Eric Schmidt: April 27, 1955</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Bill Joy: November 8, 1954</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Scott McNealy: November 13, 1954</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Vinod Khosla: January 28, 1955</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Andy Bechtolsheim: September 30, 1955</li></ul>

Successful People Who Born In 1950s

<ul><li>This doesn't means that every software tycoon in Silicon Valley was born in 1955, or every business titan in United States was born in mid 1830s</li><li>But there are very clear patterns and what's striking is how little we seem to want to acknowledge them. We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit.</li><li>They are the people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of society</li></ul>

The other interesting thing about that ten thousand 
hours, of course, is that ten thousand hours is an enormous amount of time. It's all but impossible to reach that number all by yourself by the time you're a young adult. You have to have parents who encourage and support you. You can't be poor, because if you have to hold down a part-time job on the side to help make ends meet, there won't be time left in the day to practice enough. In fact, most people can reach that number only if they get into some kind of special program-like a hockey all-star squad.

From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever. Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined. He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique. 'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' Guardian 'Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Observer 'He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' The Times

From the bestselling author of Blink and The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers: The Story of Success overturns conventional wisdom about genius to show us what makes an ordinary person an extreme overachiever. Why do some people achieve so much more than others? Can they lie so far out of the ordinary? In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell looks at everyone from rock stars to professional athletes, software billionaires to scientific geniuses, to show that the story of success is far more surprising, and far more fascinating, than we could ever have imagined. He reveals that it's as much about where we're from and what we do, as who we are - and that no one, not even a genius, ever makes it alone. Outliers will change the way you think about your own life story, and about what makes us all unique. 'Gladwell is not only a brilliant storyteller; he can see what those stories tell us, the lessons they contain' Guardian 'Malcolm Gladwell is a global phenomenon ... he has a genius for making everything he writes seem like an impossible adventure' Observer 'He is the best kind of writer - the kind who makes you feel like you're a genius, rather than he's a genius' The Times

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