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Weak points

Your greatest vulnerabilities are in things that you need, that you are earnestly looking for.

If you are searching hard for a cure to a disease, it will be easier to fool you with fake medicines.
If you are looking for answers to bigger questions in life, you are an ideal prey for all the religious agendas.

So stay watchful in every step of life, small or big, about what is it that you are looking for at any particular moment. And constantly remind yourself of your vulnerability to anything in that field.

Death justifies everything.

Funny as we are busy looking for the justification of death, when death itself is the justification of everything else.

General Formula for Success

These are some of the most generally applicable techniques and strategies to succeed:

1. Start early. Earlier than most others. In most things where any sort of competition is involved, starting early gives you an unfair advantage.

2. Show persistence. Repetitive trial. If you can't do something in one shot, try it gradually, each time improving the quality a little bit.

3. Be courageous and self confident. It's usually relatively better to overestimate yourself than underestimating.

4. Maintain excellent physique.

Tension

It's hard to progress during a war. It's only harder other times.

How to write a good book

These are the key points you need to keep in mind:

1. Appropriateness of words

2. Each sentence is tightly logically following from the previous set of sentences. (Make it increasingly harder for the reader to disagree with each successive statement )

3. Minimize context switch (only when the next sentence I need to write can’t be derived from previous one.)

4. Concreteness. Minimize ambiguity without losing reach/breadth of expression

5. Shorter without sacrificing lucidity

6. Novelty/ Originality. Each paragraph should have a clear original contribution.

Sand Castle

You can't base something eternal like your soul on things that are subject to change any time - that is your subjective experience or qualia.