The Art of Focus

People accept everything at face value. Bodies are getting softer. Minds are getting weaker. And some pockets are getting filled while others are being drained.

If you have a feeling that you are going to end up like everyone else and you know that there is something more but aren't sure what, where, how, why then this book is for you. This book is a map to getting paid for doing what you love. A map to mental peace, meaningful pursuits, and fulfilling relationships.

If you choose to walk on the path laid out by this book, you will be criticized, mocked, and cut off. If you want to lead a life that has not been lived, you cannot follow the default path that is laid in front of your headboard. The sooner you realize this, the sooner you can wrestle with the fear of doing what you want and win.

You have to take tactical stress. It is the conscious decision to break out of your daily routine and put yourself into a do-or-die situation. And you realize that the only thing that is stopping you from reaching the next level is your fear.

This book will help you join the new rich and the new rich are not the ones who are rich actually but the ones who do not care about.

The new rich is about having autonomy, leaving a fulfilled, happy life with overwhelming amount of energy.

There does not seem to be a more worthwhile endeavor to dedicate your life to than to see what you are capable of.

A World of Distractions

The modern life is full of distractions, both physical and mental. The modern world today is designed not by men, but by years of evolution to keep you in chains. To keep you a slave to the system.

You cannot understand freedom if you do not understand what made you a slave in the first place.

Focus

Focus is attention with intention. It is the start of all the good things. Focus is what separates action from distraction. It is what separates meaning from meaningless.

Intelligent Imitation

Intelligent imitation is the easiest way to learn something. If you want to move your life in the direction of your goal, you have to make a conscious change in the people, environments, and information that you are exposed to.

The Three Pillars

Focus is a catalyst to the good life. Focus is a muscle and success is reserved to those who train it. The compounding nature of focus will give you a good life.

• Focus
  • Focus is a great metric to know if you are on the meaningful path to life. Your life's work will require an ever-increasing level of challenge. And a challenge can never be solved by a distracted mind.
• Energy
  • Energy flows where focus goes. If you don't know what you have to focus on, you will be chosen one. Create a hierarchy of goals to invest your mental energy in, or you will be assigned one.**
• Experience
  • Anything you feel and experience out of the present is not experience. It's the experience of experience. It leads to overthinking, anxiety, and overanalysis. You have two options in this life. Create something bigger than yourself and impact the world, or regress into your animalistic nature of reaction, viciousness, and lack of reason.

The Universe

Human beings are a part of something bigger than themselves. Like life purpose, a community, or the universe itself. And when we become disconnected from any of these things, we notice a drastic in the quality of our life.

The Self

The modern survival is not about physical survival. It's more about mindset. When something doesn't fit our narrow worldview, we lash out with negative emotions rather than opening our mind to the unknown.

When our identity, and beliefs are threatened, we have a physical stress response.

To live a meaningful life, a life with purpose, you identify the problems in your life and solve them. But most people want to solve problems of the world before they solve their own. This is a recipe for disaster.

The Game

Treat life like a game. Life is a series of challenges you need to take on. The skills you acquire determines the challenges you take on.

Set goals. Create a plan. A plan creates clarity, and clarity creates action.

You need a challenging end goal you want to achieve, clarity on how to get there, and a simplified steps to reduce the friction of getting started.

If you don't focus your mind on what you want, it will be focused on what others want from you.

Anti-Vision For the Day

Purpose Path Priority

Purpose is a meaningful goal. It is the most pressing problem in your life at this very moment. Spend your time writing out yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily goals that will actualize purpose.

If you are lost, the answer is education. If you are educated, the answer is execution. If you are executing, the answer is consistency. There's always a next step forward.

Build specific knowledge

Career Creation

85% of the jobs of 2030 are not invented yet. The labor intensive jobs will be replaced.

The future demands that we earn with our mind, not our time.

Creator is someone who becomes fountainhead of value through personal development, shares that value in public, and makes creative income doing so.

Understanding the Internet

You can reach almost anybody in the world with internet. Code is the back end of the Internet. It's the programming path. Media is the front end. It's the Creator path. Writing, speaking, & visuals that distribute a valuable message is media.

The goal of media is to leverage human psychology to capture attention, hold attention , and deliver value on the attention.

The internet is a public resume, school, job board

Fill Empty Use

To make the maximum mental output, creativity, and life enjoyment, you need to consider these 3 things:

• How you fill your mind(Self-education aligned with purpose)
  • Create a habit of conscious study and education
  • No mindless consumption
  • Information consumption should be aligned with your vision
  • Don't study to learn the material. Study through the lens of goal, vision, or the problem you are trying to solve
• How you empty your mind
  • Restful activities
  • Walking, training, etc.
• How you use your mind
  • Hyper focused on the priority task with no distraction
  • Lever-moving tasks that generate results
  • More distractions = More Procrastination

Skill Stack

• The Message
  • A way to communicate that is relatable, understandable, or actionable
• The Medium
  • Distribution equals freedom
  • Its a process of sending and receiving value
  • Social media is means of distribution
  • Writing and Speaking are the medium
• Result-oriented Skills

Know what you want. If you don't someone else will tell you what you want, and you will believe it.

Become a Builder

You balance theory and practice by being a builder. Have a project to build in alignment with the theory you are learning about. Don't go into tutorial hell.

Problems are best solved with a personal project and self-experimentation. Take your personal projects public.

To you want to generate a creative income, you need to sell a valuable product. You can create a valuable product by starting with a personal project that solves a burning problem people encounter.

If you don't sell your own product, you'll be forced to sell someone else's.

There's always a better problem to solve.

Learn a skill, teach the skill, sell the skill.