On the shortness of life 1

No one is found who is willing to distribute his money,yet how many does each one of us distribute his life! In guarding their fortune men are often closefisted, yet when it comes to matter of wasting time,in the case of one thing in which it is right to be miserly, they show themselves most prodigal.
How many have been robbed you of life when you were not aware of what you were losing,how much was taken up in useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire,in the allurements of the society,you will perceive that you are dying before your season.
You live as if you are destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed.
You squander time as if you drew from a full abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals.
Are you not ashamed to reserve for yourself only the remnant of life, and to set apart for wisdom only that time which cannot be devoted to business?
Life will follow the path it started upon and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on: it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it started on the first day, so will it run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay.

Thoughts

Thought will lead to action, action will develop methods,methods will develop friends, and friends will bring about circumstances and finally materialization will have been accomplished.

Visualization and work

Visualization is the process of making mental images/model which will serve as a pattern from which your future will emerge.
Make the pattern clear and clean cut; do not be afraid.
Make it grand; remember that no limitation can be placed con you by anyone but yourself.
You can be what "you will to be".
But unfortunately,reading about it will not bring any result which you may have in mind. It will not even help form the mental images much less bring it to manifestation.
Work is necessary - labor,hard mental effort,the kind of effort which so few are willing to put forth.

A mind for numbers

•We develop a passion for what we are good at. "The mistake is thinking that we aren't good at something, we do not have and can never develop a passion for it".
•Be patient with yourself - as your ease with the material grow, you'll find yourself enjoying it more and more. And the payoff is well worth the effort.
•Learning doesn't progress logically so that each day just adds on additional neat packet to your knowledge shelf. Sometimes you hit a wall in constructing your understanding. Things that made sense before can suddenly seem confusing.
This type of 'knowledge collapse' seems to occur when your mind is restructuring its understanding - building a more solid foundation.
Remember - it takes time to assimilate new knowledge. You will go through some periods when you seen to take an exasperating step backward in your understanding. This is a natural phenomenon that means your mind is wrestling deeply with the material.
You'll find that when you emerge from these periods of temporary frustration, your knowledge base will take a suprising step forward.
•It's important to transform distant headlines into daily ones; attack them bit by bit. Big tasks need to be translated into smaller ones that show up on daily task list.
The only way to walk a journey of a thousand miles is to take one step at a time.

The Renaissance

A cultural movement for which the ideal was the Universal Man - a person who has managed to connect all branches of knowledge and approximate the intellectual reach of the creator. The mind grows closer to the reality of nature itself and see secret that are invisible to most people.
An ideal example - Leonardo Da Vinci

Mastery

In business, the natural tendency is to look at what is already out there in the marketplace and to think of how we can make it better or cheaper.
The real trick is to focus our attention on some need that is not currently being met,on what is absent.
One interesting way to begin such a thought process is to look at new and available technology in the world and to imagine how it could be applied in a much different way, meeting a need that we sense exists but is not overly apparent.
We have to learn have to imagine more possibilities than we generally consider, being as loose and radical with the process as we can.

On creativity

Understand: the greatest impediment to creativity is your impatience, the almost inevitable desire to hung up the process, express something and make a splash. What happens in such a case is that you do not master the basics,you have no real vocabulary at your disposal. What you mistaken for being creative and distinctive is more likely an imitation of other people's style.
The best route is to love learning for its own sake.

Vision for Bkockchain

Blockchain is a new digital infrastructure. What the internet did for information, blockchain is doing for property and value. Think back to the time when cars and roads are disrupting horses and dirt roads.
Initially,cars were not superior because they had to drive on an infrastructure that was designed for horses.
The cars got stuck and horsemen were laughing at the 'idiots' in their motorized vehicles. However over time, a new infrastructure was developed and the superiority of cars became evident,and importantly, the horses still function on the new infrastructure as well.
We are at that moment,where we are transitioning infrastructure for many financial services or other services which requires the transfer of asset ownership.
 "Blockchain is the road,coins or applications are the cars, and ethereum is an infrastructure company".
Very few people deny that the blockchain technology has the potential to completely rewrite the way we transact value. Blockchain can be an enabler for identification,collaboration and asset ownership. It can create decentralized social networks, an unowned version or Uber and a decentralized competitor to Airbnb.
This is the vision of blockchain, and while every disruption creates winners and losers,we cannot stop it,and should not fear it.

Thinking - a spiritual process

The only way in which spiritual force can manifest itself is through the process of thinking. Thinking is the only activity the spirit possess, and thought is the product of thinking.
Reasoning is a spiritual process; ideas are spiritual conceptions; questions are spiritual searchlights and logic,argument and philosophy is spiritual machinery.

The Ultimate Reality

Let us start with a simple,undeniable fact: some 4 billion years ago,life began on this planet in the shape of simple cells. These cells,perhaps one cell in particular, were the common ancestors to all life forms that followed. From that single source,various branches of life emerged. Some 1.2 billion years ago,there appeared the first multicellular creatures; 600 million years ago there emerged perhaps the greatest development of all- organisms with a central nervous system,the starting point that eventually led to the brains we now possess. From the Cambrian explosion of life some 500 million years ago came the first simple animals,followed by the first vertebrates. Some 360 million years ago we see the first traces on land of amphibious creatures, and 120 years ago we see the first mammals. Branching off in a new mammalian direction about 60 million years ago,and 4 million years later our most recent ancestor, Homo erectus. And just 200,000 years ago the anatomically modern human emerged,with more or less the same brain size that we now possess.
        Since all life forms are descended from this common beginning, they are all interconnected in some way, and we humans are implicated in this network. This is undeniable.
Let us call this interrelatedness of life the 'ultimate reality'